Chapter 2: Complications arise in many forms
A/N: Not a half hour after I uploaded the first chapter, I start the second. Jeez, I am really bored!
Disclaimer: I own only Marissa, Eliza, Melinda, Marianna and Salina. All others belong to Tamora Pierce. The songs belong to their respected owners.
Marissa's POV
When I opened my eyes, I thought, This is why I hate roller coasters. I looked around. We were in a woods, obviously, and the explosion (there must have been one) had knocked me the nearby woods. Except something was odd.
I could not hear cars.
The woods by the school were fairly small, and it was about noon, and yet no cars. Something was very wrong.
Eliza! I forgot about her, and Melinda and Marianna. I didn't care about Salina, she could be dead for all I care. Eliza was on a small tree, with only minor bruises. She was waking up. Mariana fell on a bunch of dead leaves, and Melinda was winded, having fallen on a branch. I looked up to see a sight that was so funny I couldn't help cracking up. Saline's short, tight skirt was caught on a branch up near the top of a tree, and her bright green underwear was showing.
"I didn't know lighthouse beacons were green!" I called up.
"SHUT UP YOU." She then called me names I know she didn't learn at church.
"Temper, Temper," I mock-chided.
"Just get me down!" She said angrily.
"Now why would I do that?" I teased. I sighed. "Fine." I climbed up, glad that I was wearing jeans and a long-sleeved top. I carefully put my black sweater on top of a bush, shivering with cold. I wondered why on earth people would wear that sort of clothing in December. I climbed up slowly, grateful for the low branches and the small pond she was directly over. I got to the branch and slowly snapped it in half. She tumbled into the pond with a satisfying THWACK! on her (deleted) I quickly climbed down to survey the damage. Her skirt was now semi sheer in the front, and muddy on the back. Her turquoise sandals were lumpy and brown. There was nothing like the satisfaction of a job REALLY well done.
It was a half hour later. I sighed. "What are we going to do?" We had been waiting there in the clearing. I had crackers, so we nibbled on those. I double checked what we had. Our school shoulder bags, which we were required to have at all times, and my violin case.
"How 'bout we sing?" Salina suggested. I grinned.
"Yeah, Melinda is an EXCELLENT singer," I said cheerfully. Mel sighed, used to my "annoying" complements, and my "stubbornness", to which I say, THAT'S HER, NOT ME!
"What song?" She asked.
"Do you know 'Its About Time'?" Marianna asked.
"I hate you,
I love you,"
"Do you know 'Stacey's Mom'?" Salina asked when she finished. When I groaned, she started to sing, and all living things got out of earshot. I grabbed my violin.
"Do you guys know 'Not the Doctor'? Now, behave, it took a month to complete it without mistakes!" I love that song, it is fast and slow at once at parts, and difficult to play, since it was meant for guitars. I checked that the midnight blue velvet interior was intact. I had been saving for a really good violin to replace my dad's beat up old one since I turned nine. I had nine hundred sixty dollars, and refused to spend a cent of it. I had to be able to be broke, because the one I wanted was two thousand dollars. I was lucky, I got three hundred a year total, without including various gifts of money.
Eliza's POV
While Marissa was playing, I thought I heard someone walking behind me. I ignored it. All of a sudden, people walked into the clearing. Then I knew that Salina's "experiment" went really, really wrong.
A/N: Cliffhanger? Yup. How long will it take for the next chapter? Two weeks, but every review makes it one day less. This will give me time to get more chapters done. Also, I will get chapter three or four done when The Amber Spyglass gets back to my library next week (Monday/Tuesday, It's been three weeks about then.). I go every day to look for it. See ya!
PS- Was I too mean to Salina? TELL ME! Or I'll kill one of the characters
A/N: Not a half hour after I uploaded the first chapter, I start the second. Jeez, I am really bored!
Disclaimer: I own only Marissa, Eliza, Melinda, Marianna and Salina. All others belong to Tamora Pierce. The songs belong to their respected owners.
Marissa's POV
When I opened my eyes, I thought, This is why I hate roller coasters. I looked around. We were in a woods, obviously, and the explosion (there must have been one) had knocked me the nearby woods. Except something was odd.
I could not hear cars.
The woods by the school were fairly small, and it was about noon, and yet no cars. Something was very wrong.
Eliza! I forgot about her, and Melinda and Marianna. I didn't care about Salina, she could be dead for all I care. Eliza was on a small tree, with only minor bruises. She was waking up. Mariana fell on a bunch of dead leaves, and Melinda was winded, having fallen on a branch. I looked up to see a sight that was so funny I couldn't help cracking up. Saline's short, tight skirt was caught on a branch up near the top of a tree, and her bright green underwear was showing.
"I didn't know lighthouse beacons were green!" I called up.
"SHUT UP YOU." She then called me names I know she didn't learn at church.
"Temper, Temper," I mock-chided.
"Just get me down!" She said angrily.
"Now why would I do that?" I teased. I sighed. "Fine." I climbed up, glad that I was wearing jeans and a long-sleeved top. I carefully put my black sweater on top of a bush, shivering with cold. I wondered why on earth people would wear that sort of clothing in December. I climbed up slowly, grateful for the low branches and the small pond she was directly over. I got to the branch and slowly snapped it in half. She tumbled into the pond with a satisfying THWACK! on her (deleted) I quickly climbed down to survey the damage. Her skirt was now semi sheer in the front, and muddy on the back. Her turquoise sandals were lumpy and brown. There was nothing like the satisfaction of a job REALLY well done.
It was a half hour later. I sighed. "What are we going to do?" We had been waiting there in the clearing. I had crackers, so we nibbled on those. I double checked what we had. Our school shoulder bags, which we were required to have at all times, and my violin case.
"How 'bout we sing?" Salina suggested. I grinned.
"Yeah, Melinda is an EXCELLENT singer," I said cheerfully. Mel sighed, used to my "annoying" complements, and my "stubbornness", to which I say, THAT'S HER, NOT ME!
"What song?" She asked.
"Do you know 'Its About Time'?" Marianna asked.
"I hate you,
I love you,"
"Do you know 'Stacey's Mom'?" Salina asked when she finished. When I groaned, she started to sing, and all living things got out of earshot. I grabbed my violin.
"Do you guys know 'Not the Doctor'? Now, behave, it took a month to complete it without mistakes!" I love that song, it is fast and slow at once at parts, and difficult to play, since it was meant for guitars. I checked that the midnight blue velvet interior was intact. I had been saving for a really good violin to replace my dad's beat up old one since I turned nine. I had nine hundred sixty dollars, and refused to spend a cent of it. I had to be able to be broke, because the one I wanted was two thousand dollars. I was lucky, I got three hundred a year total, without including various gifts of money.
Eliza's POV
While Marissa was playing, I thought I heard someone walking behind me. I ignored it. All of a sudden, people walked into the clearing. Then I knew that Salina's "experiment" went really, really wrong.
A/N: Cliffhanger? Yup. How long will it take for the next chapter? Two weeks, but every review makes it one day less. This will give me time to get more chapters done. Also, I will get chapter three or four done when The Amber Spyglass gets back to my library next week (Monday/Tuesday, It's been three weeks about then.). I go every day to look for it. See ya!
PS- Was I too mean to Salina? TELL ME! Or I'll kill one of the characters