Disclaimer: I do not own The Ducks, Coach Bombay, or anyone that you may know from the movie. Some of the other characters are from my Yahoo! Group, Andy is mine, 'Wings' Tyler is mine, Erin is my best friend's. Please don't take the characters w/o permission. Thanks! ~TSD

1 The Shadow Duck

The ice glistened under the fluorescent lights of the arena as 5 figures laced their skates. For one, the silence was so loud... too loud. She used to fly on the ice. She longed for the screaming and cheering of fans in the bleachers... but that would never happen for her again.

"Wings, you blow this game for me and you're history. I'll make sure you never play hockey again!" Coach Richter hissed into the young woman's ear.

"Yessir..." She skated out, the whistle blew, the puck dropped with 10 seconds left in the 3rd period, and the opposing team got the faceoff.

By a miscalculation in passing angles, a teammate passed her the puck.. The loudspeaker rang out: "And it's 'Wings' Tyler on a breakaway! No one can catch her now. It's all Tyler! ... Oh wait, what's this?! Number 93 Spike Raynor is closing in fast... Raynor is now IN FRONT of Tyler... Tyler shoots from the blue line... and takes a blow to the knee by Raynor's skate blade! Oh, that had to hurt! Tyler is down! She's not getting up from that one folks... And the Panthers lose for the first time in 10 years thanks to 18-year-old 'Wings' Tyler. She's gonna hate herself when she regains consciousness..."

The memory never faded, never got any better, and Wings would never forget. She sighed and followed the others out onto the ice for their midnight game.

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Andrea Knight walked through the front doors of Eden Hall Academy early one Monday morning, schedule in hand. She glanced over her two classes. "This sucks so much." she muttered under her breath. "I can't believe I'm here. again."

Erin Lawson hit her friend lightly in the arm and smiled. "Think of as a new beginning."

"Yeah, I guess." Andy folded the schedule back up and stuffed it into her pocket. She and Erin quickly found their lockers and threw their hockey gear in them. They knew Eden Hall was home to the world famous mighty Ducks, but they weren't on the team. The gear was just for an ice skating class. They needed the credits to graduate.

"Hey, I got new skates.." Erin tried to break Andy's trance. "Only cost me a hundred." She shut her locker.

"Sweet deal. You'll have to let me know where you got 'em. I really need a new pair." Andy slammed her locker as the bell rang. "Wonderful. Late on the first day."

Erin grinned. "Guess I'll see ya in 'skating' class." She slapped Andy a high-five and walked off to the left.

"Yeah, see ya."