Earth Protectors
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Artemis stretched out and layback, "I think it best we don't mention what just happened here to anyone or anything. It's freaky and unnatural."
"Well, unnatural is what I like," Terry said and Ashleigh and Selena nodded in agreement. Artemis looked at them for a moment, and then stared into the fire.
"I mean it's what unnatural would call unnatural. It's like we're wizards or something of the sort."
"Well, let's just be on with the day, and act normally, no need of talking about it," Alex said.
"But that's the thing, Alex. We need to talk about it, it's not like every person has this kind of thing happen to them all the time or that everyone experiences this. Puberty means you go through changes and strange experiences, but I don't think it includes this. This is rare," Artemis said as she started to poke the fire.
"If anyone found out about this, they'd take us in and study us," Selena said. "They'd put needles in us and probe our brains!" She and everyone else shuddered at the thought of needles being jabbed in their skin.
"Do you think that only you five only have these powers?" Terry asked.
"I dunno, maybe, you two try to say something you'd think you'd have for powers," Artemis said sitting up.
"I think I could control lightning. Like, make a bolt hit that big tree right there!" Terry pointed to a huge old oak tree and lightning struck. "Wow," was all anyone could muster.
"Lemme try," Ashleigh said as she took a deep breath. "Okay, I'd be able to move things telepathically. Like be able to lift that bucket of water over near Mr. White and dump it on…hm let me think here."
"Dump it on him!" Jenia said.
"Yeah! Dump it on Mr. White!" She concentrated and then the bucket lifted up and the contents, which actually stew fresh off the fire, and was pored on him.
"YARRRRGGHHH!!" Mr. White screamed and leapt up patting himself to looking for a bucket of water to cool himself off with. Rick was woken up by Mr. White's girlish high-pitched scream and he took a bucket of water and threw it at him, bucket and all. Mr. White was hit on the head and he fell over, drenched in water and stew.
"My gosh, all this time he had us eat inedible shit and he has stew and who knows what else for himself!" Katrina said angrily.
"The bastard," they all muttered and just turned back to the fire.
Two hours later they were all ready to go for their hike. The hunters and fishers lead them to the lake.
"And that is how you catch a fish. Does anyone have their own way to catch fish? No? Well, there's always spears and nets, but what I just showed you was the way to use a pole," the fisherman finished his lesson. Then the hunter stepped up.
"Hello, I am Mr. Faulkner. I am a hunter and I will show you how to shoot ducks. Does anyone have his or her own way to kill a duck?"
"My friends know a way!" Jenia said waving her hand. She pushed Artemis, Ashleigh and Alex forward.
"How is your way?" Mr. Faulkner asked.
"Well, we throw rock hard pastries at them," they said in unison and started to laugh nervously.
Mr. White went up to them, "did you kill ducks before hm? How would you know how to kill ducks that way if you didn't try it first? Admit it! You killed a duck!"
"Three actually…" Artemis mumbled.
"You murderer! You've got detention!"
"HEY! IT WAS HUNTING SEASON ANYWAY!! IT'S PERFECTLY LEGAL!!" Ashleigh yelled at him.
"Yeah, man, so shut-up and let's get this stupid thing over with," Terry said. Mr. White shutted up and just let the hunter continue.
"The way to hold is like this, tuck it in your shoulder, don't cock your head much, and keep both eyes open, keep the arm that holds up the barrel tucked in. Then line up your target," he demonstrated his instructions and aimed the rifle at a duck on the other end of the lake. "Then fire!"
BOOM!
The duck's eyes were shot through. Artemis ran over there and grabbed the duck and ran back.
"Your dinner! Can my friends and I have a go?" She asked. The hunter nodded and gave them some ammunition.
"This seems like a snipers rifle, not a hunting rifle. Why is that?" Selena asked.
"Well, my hunter's rifle is damaged and I was in the sniper's division in the Moroccan war [I made this war up remember it's an Alternate Universe] so that was the only rifle I had left. So that's why," Faulkner explained. Selena nodded. Artemis shot five ducks' heads off with all her five bullets. She handed it over to Katrina.
"Don't shoot until I get back, I'm going to get my kill," Artemis said then ran off.
"Don't do that! You'll scare away the ducks!" Katrina yelled. Artemis stopped turned around and ran back.
"You're right. But look, they're still there even after their comrades have died. It's not natural so I don't think me going over there is going to make much of a difference.
"Still, just wait, please?"
"Okay, just warn off any predator that goes near it, please."
"Sure." Katrina killed five ducks, blowing off their heads and wings. Then Alex took his turn, then Selena, Ashleigh, Jenia and Terry was last, though she made it count. The rest of the group had gone to shoot little game like hares and rabbits. Only them and Faulkner were at the lake. Artemis saw Faulkner talking to something, maybe himself. She shrugged it off but she couldn't help but think of this being bad.
"How many bullets did you all get?"
"Ten," they all said.
"How much did you use?"
"Five."
"Good, we may need them. This Faulkner guy is acting strangely, I don't trust him."
"You get that feeling too huh?" Ashleigh said.
"I did too." Alex said, the others nodded meaning they had the same feeling too.
"I bet he's like an ex-criminal," Terry said.
"Yeah, but he said he was in the Moroccan War. That was a pretty big and bloody war. Many of its veterans were very traumatized. Most of them were into a mental health center or insane asylums. It's cruel what they did to them. Some were even thrown in jail for acting like a crazy in public," Selena explained.
"I don't think he's a veteran, if he is he should have some sort of metal right?" Alex asked.
"Think so," Artemis said. Alex approached the strange Faulkner who was talking silently.
"Um, sir?" Alex said. Faulkner jumped.
"Ah! Uh, What do you want?"' He asked rather rudely.
"I wanted to know if you have a medal for your services in Morocco."
"No now sawd off, I'm rather busy."
"With what?"
"With something that isn't your business you little runt now beat it!"
"Don't have to be so rude!" Alex walked back to the others.
"Well?" Artemis asked as she loaded her set of bullets
"He doesn't have one." Alex said. "What are you doing that for?"
"Oh, just in case he comes over and tries to rape one of us. And if he talks so rudely to anyone of my friends again," she then took out a handgun.
"MY RA! You had that this whole time?!" Katrina said.
"Yep, I'm not too fond of these teachers and counselors, especially Mr. White." She loaded the gun and handed it to Terry. "You seem good with guns. I have more in the camp."
"How much more?"
"A whole foot locker full more. I have many bags, most of them hold guns and weapons."
"Here I thought you just really liked clothes," Jenia said. "Can I have a gun?"
"You can have many guns."
They snuck off to the camp and then the rest of the group came back and the seven friends hid their guns and weapons. Artemis still having the sniper's rifle.
Mr. White got on his big rock. "Classes, tomorrow we leave. Unfortunately there is a huge storm coming this way that will last for weeks. I apologize to cut this trip so short. Start packing tonight, we leave early tomorrow morning. But since of this we have our feast tonight! So get packed and get ready for the feast!"
Artemis sniffed the air, "Strange, I don't smell a storm coming."
"How could you smell a storm coming?" Selena asked.
"Well when you live in the Desert for 80% of your young life you can smell a storm coming twenty miles away!" She said. I only lived here in the United Kingdom for two years, the rest were out in the Sahara or down in New Mexico and Arizona in the United States."
"So you think he's lying?" Jenia asked.
"It's that or the weather people are really screwed or my Storm sensing is going away."
"Well, we'll have to wait and see, until then let's pack," Ashleigh said. They started to pack.
During the feast Artemis, Ashleigh, Alex, Jenia, Katrina, Selena, and Terry left up to the lake talk about a few things.
"That thing that happened this morning, what do you think it could mean?" Artemis asked, tearing a blade of grass and throwing the pieces in the water.
"Maybe it was suppose to happen, like we are some sort of guardians of something," Selena said.
"No way, that only happens to special people like Spencer Tracy, you know, that actor in a guy named Joe," Artemis said as she started to skip rocks over the water. Katrina watched where the rock went and saw the ducks on the other side.
"Hey look, the ducks are still there, like they haven't even moved," she pointed out.
"Huh? That's strange, it's like they were frozen in place!" Artemis said. Then a counselor came up.
"Hey! You kid! Get back over to the feast! You could get lost out here!" The counselor said.
"Alright," They said and headed back to camp. They took their seats and drank their damson wine (non-alcoholic to let you know). The feast continued and they drank more damson wine until about midnight.
Then they went of to bed and slept. Unknown to the seven friends their drinks weren't the same as everyone else's.
The next morning they woke up to find that they were alone.
"Whoa! I slept good, but where is everybody?" Ashleigh asked. The other stirred and got up.
"Cripe!" Artemis yelled. "We must have slept in for hours and they already left!"
"No, they would have one of the buses wait for us or they would get us up early or something, wait a minute," Jenia said. "This isn't the forest we were in! This is a…a…. a rainforest!"
Artemis shot up, "Did you say rainforest?"
"Yes."
"Just like your…"
"My Dream."
"That means that…"
"We lost."
"No your not lost, you're here!" A loud deep voice said.
"Who said that?"
"I did."
A huge cougar stepped from the trees baring its long pointy sharp teeth.
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