Chapter 4: Fight Club

"Students of Bayville High, to day's lunch will be..." The principal said over the intercom in the nurse's office. The nurse walked over to the small box and switched off the volume button. "Here," She said handing a square piece of gauze to Selene. "Put it on your cheek. The cut on your face will need this. Careful, there's some hydrogen peroxide on it." She instructs. Selene sucked air through her gritted teeth as she felt the burn seep into the purpling wound on her cheek.

"Once again guys, I'm really sorry." She apologized to all the people sitting around her. Some people murmur a hushed, "it's alright" through swelled lips, or cheeks. Selene sighed still feeling sorry about the events of that morning and slowly she retraced the episode in her head...

"And you know she was right. I do look good in a beret." Maris said and Selene, Nissa, Gharlotte, and herself started to laugh hysterically (No one else did because they hadn't seen Mystery Science 3000 the movie, and that's where it's from). Suddenly, Pietro came up beside Gharlotte. "Hey Relwarc," he greeted her smoothly with his arm propped up on her shoulder, not even acknowledging Selene was standing near him. "I want to ask you." He began, but she pulled her shoulder sharply from under his.

They all stopped glaring at him. "Back off me, Pietro." Gharlotte warned, flexing her fingers. "What cha gonna do?" He asked her sarcastically. "Even if you could catch me," He said and suddenly disappeared leaving a trail of wind behind and then appeared again with an ice cream cone licking it happily till it's gone in under three seconds.

"Which you probably can't, What could you really do with a couple of strings" He asked grinning nastily. Gharlotte suddenly brought both hands out and the silky stands flew at him. Un-surprisingly however Pietro dashed out of sight before the threads came near him. He appeared again beside a tree that Ghorlotte's threads had wrapped themselves around. Since her strings were wrapped tightly around the trunk she was forced to pull, and the tree came crashing down.

"Gharlotte... I like you. Do you really want to start something? I mean, that involves them, and probably some blood shed?" He asked smirking cockily. "I can think of something that involves blood shed." Coavin growled under his breath. Selene rested a hand on his arm, and shook her head. "If worst comes to worst, I'll handle it. I'll at least knock him out if I sing low enough. What you want to do will kill him." Selene warned. Coavin looked at Pietro un-balling, and balling his fists.

"Pietro, just, please leave." Selene pleaded. Pietro laughed. "Hey! It's my weak little usee!" Pietro shouted. Selene gripped Coavin's arm for a moment-as she heard him grit his teeth, and then stepped forward, and up to him. "Pietro...leave. Gharlotte's not interested in you, and because you've been rejected you wanna feel big again by taking it out on us, and on top of it you didn't hurt me. So move on because nothing lies here for you." She said calmly.

Pietro chuckled, "I knew you guys were just a bunch of softies." He says. Selene glared. "I'm not soft." She said flatly with anger. "A really strong person would fight." He says. "Come on, Selene. That's bull. He's just trying to coax you into-" Nissa tried. "Oh! Come on then, Piatty." Selene stopped listening and walked toward Pietro. She challenged him sounding playful and poking him in the chest with a sparking fingertip. "Hey!" He complained loudly as he felt the sparks shock him. "Bring it. Or...would you like re-enforcements first?" She asked, backing into her line of friends, curling a finger in a 'Come here' motion.

The bell rang echoing over the parking lot, but all stayed still.

"Lance! Toad! Blob! Come here, it seems we have a fight on our hands!" He called over his shoulder. They eagerly pranced over. Everyone exchanged glares, and immediately jump into it. Blob pulled up a large piece of asphalt and chucks it at them. It heads toward Nissa but she sprang up into the air on tip toes, and stayed there floating in the air as black angel wings explode from the back of her shirt.

Gharlotte grabs the rock with her webbing and swings it at Pietro. He quickly sprints out of the way. The chunk of pavement is now heading toward Lance, but he lifts his hands up in the air. Quakes vibrate through the air, and ground, and the assault dissolves into smaller-less dangerous- pieces which clack on the ground...

Kitty gasps inside her social studies class, her glittery pink pen-that has a ball of feather's on the other end-falls on her desk. "Lance." She whispers when she looks out at the parking lot and sees The Brotherhood, and Lady Spies dueling using their powers-well most of them were. Gharlotte was pounding the crap out of Fred's face while perched on his shoulders. "H- HEY HEELP!" Fred screams helplessly. Toad flicks his tongue and wraps it around Gharlotte's stomach. Kitty gets up and starts to run from her class. "Kitty. Kitty! Where are you going?" the teacher asks, but Kitty disappears through the door-literally-without reply...

Toad tries his beast to plant Gharlotte on the ground, but as he pulls her down off blob she brings her feet on his face, and does a flip where she lands-two yards away from him on her feet. Blob holds his eyes which were practically swollen shut. Pietro sneaks up behind Selene, and holds her by the stomach. The next thing Selene knows it that her back her cheek are slammed, and pressed against a tree's bark. Pietro presses the back of her arms into the bark till she fells them bleed.

She musters up some power in her wrists through the acute pain to shock Pietro enough to jolt, and let go. But the lights go out when she feels imprints of knuckles on her already injured cheek. Coavin looks over momentarily from looking at Lance-whose punches he's blocking-to see Selene slide down the tree trunk. Immediately his anger is ignited to the point where his vampire powers take full effect.

He gives Lance a shove so that he goes flying into Pietro's silver Viper, and dents it so badly that the door Lance is slammed into touches the window on the other side of the car! "My Car!" Pietro yells. He's on Pietro faster than even Pietro could move, his hand gripping Pietro's neck. "I think that car will literally be the last thing you're gonna worry about." Coavin says, his hazel eyes burning into Pietro's silverish blue eyes. He tosses Pietro backward, and Pietro slides across the pavement. Coavin is knelling down beside him again with the unimaginable speed he used seconds ago. He grabs Pietro's throat again, and pushes his head back. Pietro's eyes move to Coavin's mouth which has rows of glinting white teeth bearing down on one another, but the ones he notices the most is the long pointed fangs. And for the first time in a long time he is truly scared for his life.

Nissa lands hard punches to various places on Blob's body from her perch in mid-air, and surprisingly he cringes a bit with pain. "Fight me!" Gharlotte yells, pulling Toad back to her by the scruff of his dirty shirt by using her webbing. "No! I couldn't." Toad says. Gharlotte slings him again, and brings him back like a yo-yo. "Why?" She when his brown eyes are near her silvery ones.

Toad's lip quivers as if he were about to release a pent up secret he'd been dying to tell for the longest time. "Erg!" Gharlotte yells, and tosses him a final time into a bush, and releases him of her web. "Stop!" Kitty yells as she stops in the parking lot after dissolving through the door that leads out to the school grounds. She starts running toward them when she sees Lance lifelessly pinched between the front and back end of the car.

"Lance!" She squeals and runs to him. "Lance! Oh Please wake up! Please!" She cries. She wraps her hand around his jaw and strokes his cheek without delay. She runs her hands through his hair in the same manner whispering her pleads to him. She completely blocks out the scene behind her.

Hex disappears and lays almost flat on the ground behind Blob where she does a round kick causing him to trip, and -- fall down on her with his massive back resting on hers. Pietro begins to shake with silent sobs as Coavin watches the veins in his neck pulsate with vital juice which have gone cold with fear. Coavin feels the want, and bends down quickly-not nearly as quickly as his earlier movement were-toward Pietro's neck.

All is completely hushed and still except for Coavin's actions-as a quiet altoish voice sings... "So I lay my head back down...and I rest my hands, and pray." At that moment everyone-but Coavin's minds-even Lance's slow stirring mind-to a dreamish halt. All of them slump to a stand still on the parking lot pavement-even the quickly squirming Hex, who is now trapped under Blob's calves.

Coavin's fangs now touch Pietro's- who is sleeping-neck. Selene crawls slowly over to Coavin and places her hand under his jaw line, the other on his collar bone, and she lifts his face to her cheek. "Sing to me the song of my soul...It's the song that I've tried to write over, and over, and over again." She purrs in his ear till his eyelids fall and he slumps onto her lap...

"There's been a huge fight, nurse! Come quick!" Selene hollers as she enters the nurse's office. "Oh dear me!" The tall stick-like slender woman yells as she trots from the nurse's office to the parking lot where Selene directs her...

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF LITTLE RICHARD DO YOU THINK YOU KIDS WERE DOING!?!?" Miss Stannable booms when she steps into the nurse's office, and snaps Selene out of it. "Miss Stannable, now I know they were using their powers, and I know they were fighting with them, but they all are pretty banged up- ." The Nurse says wrapping a few lines of gauze around Blob's eyes. "That's exactly why they should recuperate at home outside of school FOR A MONTH!" Miss Stannable hastily punishes. "Especially that one there." She goes on waving a finger at Selene.

"Her? But she broke up the fight." the nurse aids. "And started it." Hex mutters quietly, but is silenced by a quick jab in the ribs from Maris. "Well fine. She'll get a month's worth of detentions instead." Miss Stannable instructs sternly. Selene snorts. "I'd rather spend a month at home then trapped after school with you." Selene mutters with the back of her head against the wall.

Everyone's mouth either drop or their eyes widen in shock at Selene pulling such a brazen stunt. "NOOOW YOUâERE DEFIANTLY SUSPENDED!" Miss Stannable utterly roars Selene sits forward with her head as close as she can et to Miss Stannable- who stands in the middle of the room-, and with mock bright cheerfulness. "Thank You." And eases back against the wall.....