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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.
