Sorry for not updating for a loooooong time. Well some people might not think fifteen days isn't a long time. But I do. I've been busy. I was also thinking of making a new fic. I already have the plot and have replayed the story over and over in my head. But it's a wrestling fic. If anyone wants to read it I will have it the first chapter up in two weeks from Sunday or Saturday. Enough with news let's just get to the reading!

Disclaimer: I do not own ANY SSX characters or the game itself. I only own an SSX 3 game that doesn't work on my PS2! Darn IT!

Oh one more note! When the characters are at the lodge it will usually focus on either Zoe, Allegra, or Kaori. Last chapter was Allegra. It will focus on Psymon, Mac, and Moby in the wilderness.

At the lodge

Zoe was alone in her room. Every boarder had their own room. Zoe simply designed it black. She liked it like that. She really didn't care what other people thought of her. She thought she had good taste.

What she was doing, she hadn't done since she was ten years old. She was crying. Sobs of sadness was dripping on her black bed sheets.

A tear went down her soft, silky, white skin. She wiped it away. She never liked crying. Her father always said that crying was a sign of weakness. Zoe always acted strong on the outside. But on the inside she was still that scared six year old girl.

Scared of the silliest things. / I have to act strong! But.... But... what has happened to Moby.... and... Psymon. Those two.... They're so dear to my heart. They have to be safe! /

Zoe stopped crying, but she remained huddled. Scared and frightened.

She heard a knock. A soft knock on her wooden door. She slowly got off her bed. She walked towards the wooden the door and turned the metal knob gently. JP was standing there. Zoe was shocked of all people it was JP. /What does he want? / "I'm sure your asking yourself why mean old JP is standing here. Well I got to confess, I'm worried about you" Zoe was even more shocked. /Did I hear that right he's concerned about me /

"You're actually worried about me?" Zoe looked perplexed. "Yes... You know you and me are kind of alike. We hide our emotions inside us and act different than we truly are. Everyone always thinks that I'm always mean and awful"

Zoe seemed to understand what he meant. "Zoe... are you wondering what happened to Moby?" Zoe sniffed. She try not to cry but it all came out and she cried. She put her head on his shoulder.

"But.... but not just him. It's also Psymon, but why? Why do I feel some sort of attraction to him? I've never felt like this. Not even towards Moby." JP sighed and knew what was happening. "Zoey you're falling for him. I leave you alone to think... okay? Bye"

Zoe was shocked at what JP said. / I can't! I can't be falling for him! What about Moby?! I remember when I first met Moby...."

Flashback "SSX snowboarding league! Sounds cool to me! So Zoey you going to try it?" Zoe brother, Kevin said. "Of course! All kick all their butts!" "What Zoey Royal Payne says she does! You're a great snowboarder Zoey! I can't wait to see you tryout"

Her brother always supported her dream to become one of the best snowboarders. Her however, didn't. They always wanted Zoe to become a lawyer. Note: Picture Zoe as a lawyer!

There was no way that Zoe would be a lawyer!

The next day was the tryouts. She saw her brother sit in the stands waving his hands at her, grinned, and gave her a peace sign. Her brother was quite different than Zoe. He always had loved colorful colors. He seemed to want to get along with everybody. There was one thing different about the two. What Kevin was in the inside he was on the outside. Unlike Zoe, who kept her feeling bottle up inside her.

The she was in line and was last. A few hours later there were only three competitors left.

It was her, a weird kid, and a British guy.

While the other guy left to participate dark skinned man approached her. "Hello mate, nice to meet you!" Zoe's legs started shaking and she almost fell. "Hi..."

They stood in an awkward silence. "Oh, my name's Moby. Moby Jones" Zoe smiled. "My name's Zoey Payne. Call me Zoe for short" She rubbed her arm with her hand. She blushed deeply when Moby was looking her over.

Unknowingly to her, her brother was watching. Kevin was had a huge grin plastered onto his face. /Sis is going to have a new boyfriend! Hehe/

Zoe really wasn't feeling like herself. She was embarrassed. "Moby Jones!" An official said. "See you!" Zoe gave him a small smile and waved. She sighed softly, and saw Moby getting ready.

He started snowboarding. To her he seemed like a knight in shining armor. She loved every bit of him. She watched him riding on the snow.

He jumped over a tree and did a back flip. He almost fell but he didn't, he kept going. He sped up and jumped off a cliff, doing numerous tricks. Zoe hoped he wouldn't crash and he didn't. He just kept riding on the snow. He jumped over a few gray rocks. He made it to finish line and yelled out yes.

Zoe felt he was going to make it to SSX, now it was her turn. She got on her snowboard. She suddenly felt sick. Like she couldn't do it. She had butterflies in her stomach. She clutched and groaned. She never was nervous to snowboard, until now.

/What if I don't make it? What if I fall!? If that happens I won't be able to see Moby. He probably made it. Now it's my turn/

She was afraid. She went to the starting gate and she went. She jumped over a small rocl first. She started speeding up and did a nice 540-degree front flip

She kept going all the time avoiding gray rocks and brown logs. A tree fell and she was taken by surprise. Her snowboard hit the brown tree and the bark peeled off. She almost fell flat on her face but put her hand in front of her to stop herself from falling. She looked at her snowboard and found a small dent in it.

/Oh well/ she sighed and kept going on.

She saw a cave and wondered if she should take it. It was dark brown cave and their wasn't much light in it. She decided to go in. When she did she hardly could see and she hit a rock and it cut her face. She touched her face gingerly. Blood was oozing out of the cut slowly.

She groaned in pain but she didn't 't stop. She just kept going.

She saw some light at the end of the tunnel and that relieved her. She wouldn't have to ride the whole time in the dark . But what happened next she was completely unaware of. She was about to reach the tunnel and she jumped. She saw the sunlight and it felt good on her skin. But she thought it was a small jump.

She didn't realize it and she fell on the snow. It was a huge hill. She was screaming in pain as she kept falling down. Breaking bones. The snow turned red. She kept falling downhill. Her back hit a tree and she was only half conscious. Her bones and ached.

Her body couldn't take it anymore. All the pain and suffering. All for the SSX. She barley was able to stand up. Even after all that she still kept going.

She wouldn't quit. She wasn't the type of girl that was scared of getting hurt. She didn't care if she broke a bone or two. She didn't care about her nails. She just wouldn't quit. All she cared about was winning. She wanted to accomplish her goal. She wanted to be in the SSX.

She seemed to gain a sort of confidence. An amazing power. Nothing would stand in front of Zoey Royal Payne's way. Nothing!

She got back on her snowboard and kept going.

She saw the final jump to the finish line. She sped up to make the most spectacular trick in the SSX. She landed it and finished. Her brother was right there and he ran up to her and hugged her. Zoe hugged him back but then moaned in pain. He saw she was hurt and stopped.

She grinned at him and they both laughed. Moby approached her. Kevin grinned and walked away.

"You were great. I'm sure you going to make it to the SSX" He embraced her but not to hard. She sighed at his warm touch and felt his body. He didn't notice but when got off Zoe mentally pouted.

The officials shouted Moby's name. He was going to the SSX. She knew she wouldn't. She knew how the officials saw her fall. They probably deducted that from her score.

"Zoey Payne!"

Zoey was shocked. Her brother came out of now where and hugged her.

She didn't care if she was hurt. She was just happy, happy that she was going to the SSX. "What Zoey Royal Payne says she does!!" Zoe yelled out in the air.

She walked over to a judge. "Why did you pick me? Didn't fall a lot?" "Yes that's true but this is more like an endurance test. You were so hurt and you still made it to the finish line. That takes a lot of courage. Some people didn't even make it to the finish line"

She grinned. "That's fine with me!"

End of flashback

"Moby..." Zoe said.

Wilderness

"Ughhhhh" Mac got up groaning. Moby was still asleep. Mac smelled himself and he was discusted. "Oh sick!" He decided to wake Moby up. "Moby wake up" Mac said weakly. Moby stayed their. Unmoving. Mac said it louder. Moby was still sleeping. Mac decided to yell. "MOBY GET UP!!" "Mom!"

Mac looked at Moby strangely. Moby chuckled nervously. "Moby why did you scream, mom" Moby blushed. "Because my Mom always used to say that. I usually fell off the bed after that."

"Ummmm... Hey Moby were is Psymon?" Mac suddenly realized that Psymon was gone. Moby looked around the cave but didn't see him anywhere.

"Uhhhhh... He probably went to get something!" Moby said. But he didn't sound to sure. "Yah.... Probably!"

An hour passed, Moby and Mac got more nervous by the second. Mac couldn't take it anymore.

"That's it! We're going to look for Psymon!" "I agree!"

Mac and Moby still felt a little queasy from yesterday but they would look for Psymon. There was no way they would abandon him. No way.

Back To Psymon

The voice seemed to have brainwashed Psymon.

He had agreed to try and take Zoe away. "You have to get it you way once. Just once." "Okay.... I guess"

The voice instantly perished. He sat there. He waited for someone to come. For anyone to come so he could leave.

He couldn't walk or even crawl, he was just to weak. /Mac and Moby better find me sooner or later. Hopfully it will be sooner. Or else the squirrels will attack me! I hate those evil demons! /

Psymon decided to rest. He should at regain some more energy

Back To Mac and Moby

"Do you think we should split up?" Mac asked Moby. "Nah that would be a bad idea! We could get lost. I assume that's the same way Psymon got lost.

"Yah I guess so"

Mac and Moby ventured deeper into the woods. They heard mosquitoes buzzing and a bad odor coming from the right.

"Whew! What a smell! It reeks!" Mac held his nose together. "I think I'm going to doing to die" Moby seemed to be gagging. "This how it smells when Psymon uses the bathroom! He lets a big one erupt!"

"Wait that's it! Psymon probably had to go poop!" "But where did he poop?" Mac pointed to rocks that were in a circle. "Ohhhh!!"

"We've got to be near by!" Mac and Moby headed west and looked for any clues for Psymon.

Moby saw a dark yellow snow. Moby was disgusted. "Mac, look over here!" Mac walked towards Moby. When he saw the dark yellow snow Mac sweatdroped. "He probably had to pee to!" "Poor guy" The duo shook their head disapprovingly. Mac and and Moby kept heading west and they noticed that the snow was getting red.

"What happened here?" Mac said. He seemed to be nervous. He knew something bad happened to him. "I, I don't know mate" The two crouched down to examine the snow.

"Do you think this is really blood?" Moby nodded. "Yah it probably is. I just hope that Psymon is okay. I don't want to stumble is across his dead body! Do you?"

"What kind of question is that Moby? Of course I don't!" Mac and Moby followed the blood trail and it leaded to Psymon.

Psymon was sleeping but Mac didn't notice. He thought Psymon was dead.

"is he dead!? Speak to me Psymon are you dead!? He's not answering! He's dead! Why did he have to die! He was a great friend! Well actually when I think about it I hated his guts!"

"Mate calm down he's sleeping okay!"
Mac blushed "Oh, I knew that!"

Whew I finished. It's not a really long chapter but it's still pretty good. Review please!