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Chapter 3: Life gives you lemons…
"Dude!" Viggo screamed happily as he read the memo from Rahzell's desk. Eddie woke up with a grunt and rubbed his eyes. Viggo poked his head in Eddie's room. "Rahzell is adding a skiing circuit to SSX! Dude I am SO all over this!" Eddie nodded and flopped back down onto his pillow. Viggo was beaming from ear to ear; He was always a much better skier than a snowboarder, and now was his time to shine. Rahzell had addressed in his memo that the addition was to breathe some new life into SSX, as their deteriorating roster was causing ratings to drop quickly. The ski league would bring in a bunch of fresh faces and a whole new kind of action, and Viggo was excited that his ship had finally come in.

"Skiing?" Elise said with a disgusted tone. Atomika slouched. "What the hell is Rahzell thinking? This is a snowboarding circuit, a circuit where I run the show!" Atomika nodded. "So what's going to happen, they're going to have a top boarder AND skier? So my television time will be getting cut in half?" Atomika couldn't get a word out. "I had BETTER not get a pay cut because of this, if I do then I walk!" Elise slammed down the memo on Atomika's desk and stormed out of the office. Next in line came in and sat at Atomika's desk.
"Skiing? Allegra questioned with a hint of attitude.

The SSX vets leaned against a steel railing as the buses came in."That them?" Mac asked with a thick bitterness. Nate nodded.
"Yup." The veteran boarders all stood together as the rookie boarders welcomed the new skiers, the only veteran to be seen in the mass was Viggo… loving every minute of it. Allegra went to Nate and he put his arm around her. They all stared at the skiers with disgust. These intruders were on their turf, and they weren't going to give it up easily. Psymon's cell phone rang. He pulled it from his pocket and flipped it open, still glaring at the skiers.
"You got him." Psymon greeted.
"Hey. You are one hard guy to get a hold of." Zoe's voice replied.
"How are ya?"
"I'm alright."
"Ya sure? You sounded kinda down on your second message." Zoe sighed.
"I guess."
"Things okay with Brody?"
"Yeah, things are good."
"But."
"But… ugh he's just TOO mellow you know? I mean that was cool when we were dating, but I swear there are times he's so 'at peace' that I think he's going into a coma." Psymon nodded to himself.
"Are you okay?" he asked sincerely.
"Yeah, I just need someone to vent to." Zoe sighed.
"Welcome to married life." Zoe was silent for a few seconds on the other end.
"That's not funny."
"Then why am I grinning?" Now Zoe chuckled.
"You're an asshole, you know that?"
"Guilty as charged." Zoe sighed again. "So ya sure you're alright?"
"Yeah I'm alright. So what's this I hear that SSX has started a skiing division?"
"Yup, actually I'm currently glaring hatefully at them as we speak." Zoe now laughed.
"Getting off to a good start are we?" Psymon smiled, he loved hearing Zoe's voice again.
"I don't know. Look I should get back to hating with the others, call me later?"
"Of course." Psymon hung up and pocketed his phone. Moments later a silver Buick pulled onto the property and made it's way to Griff's lodge.
"Looks like the kid's back." Nate said with a tone of excitement. They all ran to the car as the teen hobbled out with a pair of crutches. Everyone gave Griff a round of hugs and walked with him into his lodge. Griff was still very banged up, his leg was broken, his head was bandaged in a few places that still was wounded and he wore a soft brace on his left arm. He was led to a couch and laid down, he looked exhausted. Nate pushed his way forward.
"Who?" Nate said seriously. Griff sighed.
"I don't know, it happened real fast." Nate eased back.
"Just tell us what you remember." Psymon said, kneeling next to Nate.
"Well, I was just checking out a new path through the woods, and it led me to the gorge." Everyone listened closely. "I stopped and was looking down the canyon, then I was grabbed. Next thing I knew I was on my stomach in the snow getting booted. I reached for my M-Comm to call for help but it was kicked out of my hand."
"Did you see how many there were?" Nate asked, Griff shrugged.
"At the top there was just the one guy."
"What did he look like?" Nate prodded, Griff paused.
"He was really big, shaved head, pretty heavily tattooed. He had a skull and crossbones tattooed on his neck." Psymon raised an eyebrow.
"Really?" Nate and Griff looked at him. Psymon stood up. "Elise, who do we know who has a tattoo like that and happens to fit that description?" Elise nodded.
"Jurgan." Psymon nodded back.
"Who the hell's Jurgan?" Viggo asked.
"Jurgan was more or less the original bad boy of SSX." Elise started, crossing her arms as she leaned against the wall. "But when they announced that SSX would be holding semi-annual drug tests, everyone cleaned up fast, except Jurgan. He figured they were bluffing, they weren't, and he was booted out by the end of the first season."
"And now he rides for Moby's XCL." Psymon finished. Attention was turned back to Griff.
"Do you remember what the other guys in the canyon looked like?" Nate asked. Griff shook his head.
"I was pretty out of it by the time I was thrown down there. The bald guy put the boots to me pretty bad." Nate sneered.
"Big man, gang-beating a kid." He stood and walked for the door, Allegra went after him.
"Nate, what are you thinking?" Nate stopped and stared down at the ground.
"I'm going to find this guy and beat him within an inch of his life." Mac and Psymon also joined them now.
"Nate, you know we can't let you do that." Psymon said firmly, Nate looked defeated.
"Alone." Mac finished.


Hmm, Nate, Psymon and Mac with the intention of beating the hell out of someone... that could really ruin a guy's day. Read on.