Disclaimer: I don't own the pilots. Only their kids.
Runaway
By: Raven Moonshadow
Chapter 6
Beep…beep…beep
Tamora groaned. No…her face buried it's self into the pillow as she mentally mumbled obscenities at the offending digital clock. It was only 5 o'clock in the evening and she was really starting to wish she hadn't set it before taking her nap. Even Oni, Byakko, and Ieisha looked annoyed with the caterwauling of the device.
The auburn haired teen reached around blindly and patted the nightstand next to her bed. Where is that damned thing?
Beep…beep…beep
Her hand finally landed on what felt like the edge of her clock. Aha! Her fist slammed down on the annoyance and suddenly the beeping was gone. Oni grunted and she could feel him shift on her bed as her arm made its way back under the pillow. She was so close to falling back to sleep.
If only it weren't for the cold, wet nose that suddenly pressed itself to her neck she probably would have.
With a startled yelp Tamora rolled away from the enemy and unfortunately right out of bed as well. Landing in an ungraceful heap it was definitely most likely that she would not get back to sleep. "Augh. Ah man…Oni…" She glared her sleep ridden eyes at the happily panting wolf pup.
Let's play. I've had enough sleeping, 'Mora. The pup jumped down from the bed. Byakko and Ieisha, now awake, followed after him purring.
Yes, Tamora. We should go play. Ieisha said rubbing against Tamora's side. The teen sighed.
"I guess we could go play in that nice gymnastics gym until dinner time." She pushed up off the floor with three prancing baby animals making figure eights around her legs.
A minute later, Tamora stumble out of her room in a pair of loose, burgundy colored cotton pants and a black tank top. Two tiger cubs and a wolf pup followed happily behind her. Morgan passed her, throwing her a glance, and Tamora, tiredly, flicked her wrist in a greeting without even stopping to say hello to her roommate.
Although her memory of the hallways was limited somehow her sleep hazed mind managed to lead her to the gym. No one was there. She thanked every Irish god and goddess for the solitude in the room and began on her way.
Ieisha and Byakko took up wrestling with each other.
Tamora sat down and stretched. She used basic moves to loosen her sleep laden muscles. She did a split and then rolled out of it and went up into a bridge, arching her back as much as possible, before she kicked her feet up and over and held a handstand. She held perfectly still and then, almost deftly, she arched her back at an impossible angle and placed her feet on her head, unaware of the startled watcher in the doorway.
"You would have made a wonderful performing contortionist with that ultra elasticity you have." A female voice rang out, sounding almost surprised. Tamora immediately took her feet from her shoulders and placed them on the floor in front of her face before pushing up in a standing position easily. She turned towards the door with narrowed eyes. Jasmine stood there, unaffected by the glare. "I'm sorry to intrude but I saw someone in here and went to investigate. You have ultra flexibility. You've either trained from as soon as you could walk, or you were born with it."
"I was born with it. My mom doesn't have it, thought, but she did do gymnastics. That's what prompted me to work on this."
"It's an interesting trait to have and it will probably be useful on missions, especially of stealth." Tamora nodded at her words and watched as Jasmines eyes went to the wrestling animal cubs. "They are still very small. I doubt they could be used for missions yet."
Tamora shrugged. "I expected that we would have a lot of training before we ever got a mission. By the time we actually start going out to fight, Ieisha, Byakko, and Oni will be much larger than they are now, that and they'll have been trained from their age now with me till that time comes."
Jasmine looked impressed. "You actually took the time to consider how long the training would be in relative with the age of the tigers and wolf. You surprise me for one so young."
Tamora let out a half smile. "I try my best to be unique." The teacher nodded.
"Well, continue on, dinner is in a half-an-hour." And then the teacher left. Tamora was actually slightly grateful for the privacy…that and the fact that it hadn't been a male like Derek that discovered her stretching.
~Owari
Raven: Yeah I know that it was incredibly short. But I need to get something up for the people who did review and say how much they like it. It's all pretty senseless; all it does is reveal Tamora's special physical ability, besides her animal linguistic ability. ~.^ I try to get something more meaningful up soon. And to the reviewer out there who asked if the gundam children are going to have problems with operating their gundams because of their inexperience…your right. Hehe.