Love Bites
As Isaac woke up, he realised his pulse was racing and his mouth and throat were dry. He was nervous, that was the problem. Isaac wiped his sweaty brow on his pyjama sleeve and groggily got out of bed, trying to recall why he was nervous on this fine morning. Opening the curtains revealed to Isaac that it was not such a fine morning after all, the sky was clouded over and it looked like it was going to rain.
Then Isaac remembered that the Adept War was beginning today and his spirits sank considerably lower. He sat back down on his bed and put his head in his hands, wishing very much that he could go to sleep and forget all about it, but then Team Vale might be out to get him. He would rather not find out what happened if he got Felix, Jenna AND Garet mad, he valued his life above most things after all.
"Why me?" Isaac wailed, falling back onto the bed and yelling at the ceiling as if it was the ceiling to blame for all that was happening to him. "I must be cursed or something!" At the rate things were going, he might as well find Dullahan alive and lurking in his closet and then be sent on a quest to save the world all by himself with a hundred Deadbeards standing in his way.
A paper plane sailed through the door, did two neat loops through Isaac's room and then landed square on his forehead. Isaac blinked a few times, figured out that there was paper on his head, sat up so that it fell onto his lap and he picked it up, unfolding it to reveal another note from Mia.
'Good to see you're awake, Isaac! Remember to eat a good breakfast, we'll need plenty of energy for the war! Who knows what we'll be doing? Hopefully we're not going to do anything too violent, that wouldn't be very nice would it? Cheer up, think of it as a fun game, it's not like a real war. I hope I won't have to see one, but since we did unleash Alchemy, who knows? I hope that your mom isn't going to make pancakes this morning!'
Isaac chuckled at Mia's humorous note, feeling considerably lighter than he had a moment ago, and he placed it on his dresser before going to his closet to get his clothes. Luckily, Dullahan was not hiding in the closet so Isaac could safely get dressed and try not to worry too much about the Adept War as he did so.
Garet was in a mad rush, performing his chores at what he hoped was the speed of light. He lazily ran around the kitchen with mop in hand, shook the dishes around under the tap and beat them up with the dishcloths before throwing them in the cupboard, kicked various objects under his bed, sloppily rushing through things. He did not wish to delay the Adept War because of his stupid chores, he wanted to get it over and done with as soon as possible.
'The quicker I get rid of that midget, the better!' Garet thought eagerly to himself, throwing the cutlery into the cutlery drawer with a loud clatter and slamming the drawer shut with a loud bang. 'I don't care if I haven't done a perfect job, I need to start plotting the ultimate revenge on Ivan! Hah hah!'
At last, Garet finished his chores in his own special way and he collapsed on the couch with a heavy sigh. Doing chores was quite exhausting and the bad thing was that he still had three days left now. But at least it was stopping Kay from telling Felix that Garet wanted to ask Jenna to marry him. Garet was pretty sure that Felix would try to kill him if he found out and that was so scary, it made Garet curl up into a ball and whimper.
Felix was scared too as he woke up that morning, awakening to the harmonious sound of Picard muttering in his sleep. Something about conspiracies, which Felix really did not wish to know about. He was scared of two things. He was scared because he had to lead a team in a war today and he was not used to wars, even if he was such a good leader in his own opinion. The other reason Felix was scared was because a purple haired lunatic by the name of Feizhi was running around. What if she tried to join in or something? That thought was just too scary.
'Maybe we can scare her off,' Felix hoped desperately, clutching his duvet tightly on his hands. 'Maybe we'll go and throw powerful Psynergy all over the place...' His hopes faded as he realised what a stupid idea it was, they would only end up blowing Vale to smithereens and risk hurting innocent bystanders, even if they were all Adepts too.
'Why do I have to lead the team anyway?' Felix sighed, sitting up in bed and anxiously running his hands through his hair as he liked to do so often. 'Just because I'm the oldest... besides, it wasn't my idea, it was Isaac's... He said Adept War, not me... he really knows how to start things off doesn't he?' Felix still had not completely forgiven Isaac for the cottage thing. 'Oh well, sitting here and moping isn't going to change anything...' He thought mournfully, throwing back the duvet and proceeding to pick up his clothes, wondering who that was yelling and screaming.
"It's the Adept War today!" Jenna yelled, positively springing out of bed and hitting the floor with a loud thud. She jumped up and down on the floor whooping eagerly. "Team Vale's going to win today! Sheba's going to be such a loser!" Jenna threw her head back and laughed.
"Somebody's on a sugar high," Sheba murmured sleepily, trying to ignore Jenna's direct insult, which was her way of insulting Sheba without talking directly to her. "I do wish she would shut up..."
"It's the Adept War today! Adept War!" Jenna was already getting dressed, a crazy grin on her face. She really was looking forwards to kicking Ivan and Sheba's backsides, they deserved it after all they had done to her and Garet after all.
"Ugh..." Sheba winced, pulling her duvet over her head and praying for sleep to take her back, she really could not handle Jenna's insane screaming this morning. She was excited about the war, but not as much as Jenna was. Jenna was so excited, she was completely crazy.
Little did Felix know that his dream was going to come truer than he thought, and he wasn't even doing anything about it at the moment, just getting dressed and cursing his bad luck. No, Garet had not decided he would not propose to Jenna. No, the Adept War had not been called off and neither had Isaac decided he would be the leader instead of Felix.
The purple haired lunatic, Feizhi, was even more of a lunatic than he could have guessed. The bad thing about Feizhi was that she liked to get up quite early. She had a very strict regime. Early night, wake up exactly eight hours later although how she could time eight hours when watches were not invented yet was anybody's guess, spend some time working out and beating up anybody who happened to be nearby (in this case it happened to be the escorts) and then she would go for a walk.
That was what Feizhi was doing as Vale awoke, cursing the sun for coming up and awakening most of them, before most of them just pulled the duvet over their heads and went back to sleep. Feizhi was walking through the village, wondering what the excited screams coming from a certain house were all about. Little did she know that she was coming too close to a certain roofless cottage. A cottage that could only spell out doom.
Kraden was grumpy, he had the nagging feeling that due to the consistency of clouds in the sky, it would surely become too much and it would rain heavily. Since he was without a roof, his precious books would risk getting wet and the rain might spoil his chemicals. What would he do then? His whole life's work coud be spoilt. Kraden was sitting on his doorstep being grumpy, then he realised that he felt like talking, and joy of joys, somebody was coming towards him.
"Good morning," Kraden jumped to his feet. "It is that time at which the sun has escalated to glimpse upon our world and the night has departed. I am quite fond of this time of the day, it is when we possess the illumination we long for by night even though we do get that by Sol glancing off Luna as I believe is so, and you may call it moonlight yet funnily enough it is sunlight rebounding off the moon, do you not think that strange? Since I wish to confabulate with a fellow philanthropic, you will have to do, and I speculate that it is quite fascinating to espy an avian creature, which I do assume is a biological organism known as a sparrow, soaring into the firmament at precisely 10.34213409942394000 mph!"
Feizhi could not speak, she was rooted to the spot by the power of Kraden's vocal cords vibrating and making a sound... sorry, Kraden talking. Her eyes were as wide as saucers and her mouth was hanging open as she stared at Kraden with a horrified expression. As Kraden continued to natter on and on about things which really did not matter, she trembled then her emergency nervous system kicked into action and commanded Feizhi to get out of there.
"AAAARRRRRRGH!!!" Feizhi screamed at the top of her voice, turning and fleeing through Vale at what was somewhat closer to the speed of light. She came to a screeching halt in the plaza and ran into the inn to alert her badly bruised escorts of a terrible danger lurking in the village. Who could have known that Vale possessed the most lethal weapon in the whole of Weyard?
The escorts proceeded to ask more questions, mostly about why she had beaten them up and not some poor innocent Valean, and why she was screaming at the top of her lungs like that. Feizhi as usual brushed off their questions and proceeded to drag them all out of Vale, desperate to get as far away from the overly talkative old man as quickly as possible.
"...and that is why nowadays when people see a bovine creature with head appendages that happen to crinkle horizontally, they proceed to scream their heads off and decamp with excessive needfulness to the closest district they can discover for their security... now where did the philanthrophic with the purple hair who happened to be of the feminine gender I was conversing with happen to go? That was quite rude... and when am I going to get a new roof?" Kraden wondered huffily, while the author got a headache from overusing a thesaurus. The translation of what Kraden said is "That's why now when people see a cow with horns curling sideways, they scream and run for the nearest village for safety."
Felix felt strangely happy as he stepped out of his bedroom without knowing why he suddenly felt happy. The effect was somewhat spoilt as Jenna barged right past him, screaming excitedly about Adept Wars, and Felix proceeded to sail backwards into his bedroom, crashing into his bed. The sound of the impact woke Picard up and he started yelling a complaint. Felix hurriedly crawled out before Picard could see him and declare war on him- Felix smacked himself as he remembered they were already going to have a war today. With that, the bruised Venus Adept made his escape, unhappy that his first wound- even just a little bruise- had been caused by a member of his own team... not to mention it was his sister.
"I'm going to maim whoever woke me up!" Picard yelled, obviously not being a morning person on today of all days. "I am going to find out who roused me from my sleep and I am going to beat the stuffing out of them and make them pay for it, and I'll make them cry and beg forgiveness, and they will bow to me and be my slave, and I will make them polish my boots! It's a heinous crime! Nobody should dare to wake up I, the great Picard! It is a travesty because-"
"Picard, shut up," Sheba was at the door. She threw a sock at Picard who blanched at the rancid item of clothing and hurriedly tossed it back. Unfortunately, Sheba was already gone by the time the smelly sock reached the place where she had once stood. Picard sighed mournfully and got out of bed, ready to face the day and lead his team in the Adept War.
Now the Adept War was ready to begin, as all eight Adepts were arranged in their respective teams. First they just had to discuss what to do. They had not accounted for the problems that would arise due to the 'no talking to each other' rule Mia had so cleverly found a loophole in and what would happen if for instance Picard wanted a water balloon fight or Felix wanted a game similar to Tag except Psynergy was used. Only weak Psynergy of course. Hopefully.
"Whatever we're doing today," Ivan smiled confidently. "We're going to win it! Team Vale will be such losers!"
"Yes, and we have a good leader!" Mia added. She casually glanced away, caught Isaac's eye and winked, before looking away again. It would not do to be caught communicating in that way after all.
"Pow pow Picard!" said Sheba suddenly, dissolving into giggles. "Pow pow Picard!"
"Where did you come up with that?" Picard asked, raising an eyebrow, placing his hands on his hips.
"It just sounded good!" Sheba cackled. "Pow pow Picard! You're the leader, you need the proper enthusiasm, don't you?"
"Pow pow Picard!" Mia and Ivan took up the cry, and now all three were chanting it while Picard just stared at them helplessly, fazed by the onslaught of "Pow Pow Picard!" that he was suddenly dealing with.
"Do they really think that shouting stupid things is going to make them better?" Garet muttered sourly, glaring at Team Haze with a look that could kill. "I don't think so."
"Just ignore them, Garet," Jenna wrapped her arms around him and they kissed passionately, forgetting everything around them in an instant. Isaac and Felix looked at each other, rolling their eyes.
"Honestly, at this rate, they'll probably be married next week," Isaac joked. He froze as a distant memory came to him... oh, that's right... Garet was planning to propose to Jenna, Felix was worried Garet was considering it, Kay was blackmailing Garet into doing the chores by threatening to tell Felix... Oops. "Just kidding..."
"I hope so," Felix threw Isaac a baleful look, which made him quake in his boots. "This is getting nowhere fast."
"What?" Isaac stared at him in confusion. "The Adept War?" Felix nodded. "I can see what you mean. More than half of Team Haze is screaming "Pow Pow Picard" and we've got two team members who are too busy sucking each other's faces off. Can't you two just get a room?"
"This is sickening," Felix grumbled.
"The only real kiss I've had so far was from some crazy obsessed fangirl..." Isaac exhaled heavily.
"Fangirl?" Felix raised an eyebrow. "Come to think of it, where are Picard's fangirls?"
"Feizhi," Isaac winced. "And the worst thing was that Mia saw..." Felix shot a look at him and he flushed. "D-don't mention anything... I never said anything... honest..."
"You care that Mia saw," Felix smirked. "So why aren't you with her yet then?"
"Ssh!" Isaac hissed. "Let's just discuss what we're doing today! Sheesh... I can't even say anything without people picking at my thoughts... and anyway we're not allowed to talk to each other because of this stupid war."
"Hmm..." Jenna finally let go of Garet, looking pensive. "We should just do what Adepts are good at."
"Well, it's not speed in my case," Garet chuckled sourly. "What do you mean?"
"Psynergy," Jenna shot him a withering look. "Silly Garet..." She knocked on his head with a fist. "Hello? Anybody home?"
"Ha ha..." Garet snorted. "I think I'm at home, but I'll get back to you on that."
"Use Psynergy?" A slow smile spread on Isaac's face. "Hey... haven't you noticed that here on Team Vale, we're only weakest to each other's Psynergy, same on Team Haze? So nobody could get too badly hurt, right?"
"I'm all for it," Felix spoke dreamily. "Blasting Picard into the air with a big Grand Gaia sounds just fine to me. That will teach him to quit nagging me about girls."
"We should use our Psynergy, " Ivan picked up on Team Vale's idea and he decided he might as well use this little loophole in the rule. "Run around throwing Psynergy everywhere!"
"POW POW PICARD!" Mia and Sheba shouted at the top of their voices, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Yes, I like that idea," Picard agreed wearily. "Mia, Sheba?" The girls promptly stopped shouting and nodded eagerly. "Well, it's decided for Team Haze. I wonder about Team Vale."
"Psynergy it is then!" Felix declared. "And we're going to win this one! It could be like Psynergy Tag, and we'll run around the village trying to hit each other with Psynergy... but we have to be careful not to hit innocent villagers." Everybody nodded... even Team Haze. It seems that listening to Felix got to be a bit of a habit considering he led them all on the quest.
And so, Team Haze and Team Vale set off in different directions, ready to begin. Basically, they would just run around the village hitting each other with their Psynergy. The team with the most points, points gained from hitting opposition with Psynergy, would be the winning team.
As Isaac woke up, he realised his pulse was racing and his mouth and throat were dry. He was nervous, that was the problem. Isaac wiped his sweaty brow on his pyjama sleeve and groggily got out of bed, trying to recall why he was nervous on this fine morning. Opening the curtains revealed to Isaac that it was not such a fine morning after all, the sky was clouded over and it looked like it was going to rain.
Then Isaac remembered that the Adept War was beginning today and his spirits sank considerably lower. He sat back down on his bed and put his head in his hands, wishing very much that he could go to sleep and forget all about it, but then Team Vale might be out to get him. He would rather not find out what happened if he got Felix, Jenna AND Garet mad, he valued his life above most things after all.
"Why me?" Isaac wailed, falling back onto the bed and yelling at the ceiling as if it was the ceiling to blame for all that was happening to him. "I must be cursed or something!" At the rate things were going, he might as well find Dullahan alive and lurking in his closet and then be sent on a quest to save the world all by himself with a hundred Deadbeards standing in his way.
A paper plane sailed through the door, did two neat loops through Isaac's room and then landed square on his forehead. Isaac blinked a few times, figured out that there was paper on his head, sat up so that it fell onto his lap and he picked it up, unfolding it to reveal another note from Mia.
'Good to see you're awake, Isaac! Remember to eat a good breakfast, we'll need plenty of energy for the war! Who knows what we'll be doing? Hopefully we're not going to do anything too violent, that wouldn't be very nice would it? Cheer up, think of it as a fun game, it's not like a real war. I hope I won't have to see one, but since we did unleash Alchemy, who knows? I hope that your mom isn't going to make pancakes this morning!'
Isaac chuckled at Mia's humorous note, feeling considerably lighter than he had a moment ago, and he placed it on his dresser before going to his closet to get his clothes. Luckily, Dullahan was not hiding in the closet so Isaac could safely get dressed and try not to worry too much about the Adept War as he did so.
Garet was in a mad rush, performing his chores at what he hoped was the speed of light. He lazily ran around the kitchen with mop in hand, shook the dishes around under the tap and beat them up with the dishcloths before throwing them in the cupboard, kicked various objects under his bed, sloppily rushing through things. He did not wish to delay the Adept War because of his stupid chores, he wanted to get it over and done with as soon as possible.
'The quicker I get rid of that midget, the better!' Garet thought eagerly to himself, throwing the cutlery into the cutlery drawer with a loud clatter and slamming the drawer shut with a loud bang. 'I don't care if I haven't done a perfect job, I need to start plotting the ultimate revenge on Ivan! Hah hah!'
At last, Garet finished his chores in his own special way and he collapsed on the couch with a heavy sigh. Doing chores was quite exhausting and the bad thing was that he still had three days left now. But at least it was stopping Kay from telling Felix that Garet wanted to ask Jenna to marry him. Garet was pretty sure that Felix would try to kill him if he found out and that was so scary, it made Garet curl up into a ball and whimper.
Felix was scared too as he woke up that morning, awakening to the harmonious sound of Picard muttering in his sleep. Something about conspiracies, which Felix really did not wish to know about. He was scared of two things. He was scared because he had to lead a team in a war today and he was not used to wars, even if he was such a good leader in his own opinion. The other reason Felix was scared was because a purple haired lunatic by the name of Feizhi was running around. What if she tried to join in or something? That thought was just too scary.
'Maybe we can scare her off,' Felix hoped desperately, clutching his duvet tightly on his hands. 'Maybe we'll go and throw powerful Psynergy all over the place...' His hopes faded as he realised what a stupid idea it was, they would only end up blowing Vale to smithereens and risk hurting innocent bystanders, even if they were all Adepts too.
'Why do I have to lead the team anyway?' Felix sighed, sitting up in bed and anxiously running his hands through his hair as he liked to do so often. 'Just because I'm the oldest... besides, it wasn't my idea, it was Isaac's... He said Adept War, not me... he really knows how to start things off doesn't he?' Felix still had not completely forgiven Isaac for the cottage thing. 'Oh well, sitting here and moping isn't going to change anything...' He thought mournfully, throwing back the duvet and proceeding to pick up his clothes, wondering who that was yelling and screaming.
"It's the Adept War today!" Jenna yelled, positively springing out of bed and hitting the floor with a loud thud. She jumped up and down on the floor whooping eagerly. "Team Vale's going to win today! Sheba's going to be such a loser!" Jenna threw her head back and laughed.
"Somebody's on a sugar high," Sheba murmured sleepily, trying to ignore Jenna's direct insult, which was her way of insulting Sheba without talking directly to her. "I do wish she would shut up..."
"It's the Adept War today! Adept War!" Jenna was already getting dressed, a crazy grin on her face. She really was looking forwards to kicking Ivan and Sheba's backsides, they deserved it after all they had done to her and Garet after all.
"Ugh..." Sheba winced, pulling her duvet over her head and praying for sleep to take her back, she really could not handle Jenna's insane screaming this morning. She was excited about the war, but not as much as Jenna was. Jenna was so excited, she was completely crazy.
Little did Felix know that his dream was going to come truer than he thought, and he wasn't even doing anything about it at the moment, just getting dressed and cursing his bad luck. No, Garet had not decided he would not propose to Jenna. No, the Adept War had not been called off and neither had Isaac decided he would be the leader instead of Felix.
The purple haired lunatic, Feizhi, was even more of a lunatic than he could have guessed. The bad thing about Feizhi was that she liked to get up quite early. She had a very strict regime. Early night, wake up exactly eight hours later although how she could time eight hours when watches were not invented yet was anybody's guess, spend some time working out and beating up anybody who happened to be nearby (in this case it happened to be the escorts) and then she would go for a walk.
That was what Feizhi was doing as Vale awoke, cursing the sun for coming up and awakening most of them, before most of them just pulled the duvet over their heads and went back to sleep. Feizhi was walking through the village, wondering what the excited screams coming from a certain house were all about. Little did she know that she was coming too close to a certain roofless cottage. A cottage that could only spell out doom.
Kraden was grumpy, he had the nagging feeling that due to the consistency of clouds in the sky, it would surely become too much and it would rain heavily. Since he was without a roof, his precious books would risk getting wet and the rain might spoil his chemicals. What would he do then? His whole life's work coud be spoilt. Kraden was sitting on his doorstep being grumpy, then he realised that he felt like talking, and joy of joys, somebody was coming towards him.
"Good morning," Kraden jumped to his feet. "It is that time at which the sun has escalated to glimpse upon our world and the night has departed. I am quite fond of this time of the day, it is when we possess the illumination we long for by night even though we do get that by Sol glancing off Luna as I believe is so, and you may call it moonlight yet funnily enough it is sunlight rebounding off the moon, do you not think that strange? Since I wish to confabulate with a fellow philanthropic, you will have to do, and I speculate that it is quite fascinating to espy an avian creature, which I do assume is a biological organism known as a sparrow, soaring into the firmament at precisely 10.34213409942394000 mph!"
Feizhi could not speak, she was rooted to the spot by the power of Kraden's vocal cords vibrating and making a sound... sorry, Kraden talking. Her eyes were as wide as saucers and her mouth was hanging open as she stared at Kraden with a horrified expression. As Kraden continued to natter on and on about things which really did not matter, she trembled then her emergency nervous system kicked into action and commanded Feizhi to get out of there.
"AAAARRRRRRGH!!!" Feizhi screamed at the top of her voice, turning and fleeing through Vale at what was somewhat closer to the speed of light. She came to a screeching halt in the plaza and ran into the inn to alert her badly bruised escorts of a terrible danger lurking in the village. Who could have known that Vale possessed the most lethal weapon in the whole of Weyard?
The escorts proceeded to ask more questions, mostly about why she had beaten them up and not some poor innocent Valean, and why she was screaming at the top of her lungs like that. Feizhi as usual brushed off their questions and proceeded to drag them all out of Vale, desperate to get as far away from the overly talkative old man as quickly as possible.
"...and that is why nowadays when people see a bovine creature with head appendages that happen to crinkle horizontally, they proceed to scream their heads off and decamp with excessive needfulness to the closest district they can discover for their security... now where did the philanthrophic with the purple hair who happened to be of the feminine gender I was conversing with happen to go? That was quite rude... and when am I going to get a new roof?" Kraden wondered huffily, while the author got a headache from overusing a thesaurus. The translation of what Kraden said is "That's why now when people see a cow with horns curling sideways, they scream and run for the nearest village for safety."
Felix felt strangely happy as he stepped out of his bedroom without knowing why he suddenly felt happy. The effect was somewhat spoilt as Jenna barged right past him, screaming excitedly about Adept Wars, and Felix proceeded to sail backwards into his bedroom, crashing into his bed. The sound of the impact woke Picard up and he started yelling a complaint. Felix hurriedly crawled out before Picard could see him and declare war on him- Felix smacked himself as he remembered they were already going to have a war today. With that, the bruised Venus Adept made his escape, unhappy that his first wound- even just a little bruise- had been caused by a member of his own team... not to mention it was his sister.
"I'm going to maim whoever woke me up!" Picard yelled, obviously not being a morning person on today of all days. "I am going to find out who roused me from my sleep and I am going to beat the stuffing out of them and make them pay for it, and I'll make them cry and beg forgiveness, and they will bow to me and be my slave, and I will make them polish my boots! It's a heinous crime! Nobody should dare to wake up I, the great Picard! It is a travesty because-"
"Picard, shut up," Sheba was at the door. She threw a sock at Picard who blanched at the rancid item of clothing and hurriedly tossed it back. Unfortunately, Sheba was already gone by the time the smelly sock reached the place where she had once stood. Picard sighed mournfully and got out of bed, ready to face the day and lead his team in the Adept War.
Now the Adept War was ready to begin, as all eight Adepts were arranged in their respective teams. First they just had to discuss what to do. They had not accounted for the problems that would arise due to the 'no talking to each other' rule Mia had so cleverly found a loophole in and what would happen if for instance Picard wanted a water balloon fight or Felix wanted a game similar to Tag except Psynergy was used. Only weak Psynergy of course. Hopefully.
"Whatever we're doing today," Ivan smiled confidently. "We're going to win it! Team Vale will be such losers!"
"Yes, and we have a good leader!" Mia added. She casually glanced away, caught Isaac's eye and winked, before looking away again. It would not do to be caught communicating in that way after all.
"Pow pow Picard!" said Sheba suddenly, dissolving into giggles. "Pow pow Picard!"
"Where did you come up with that?" Picard asked, raising an eyebrow, placing his hands on his hips.
"It just sounded good!" Sheba cackled. "Pow pow Picard! You're the leader, you need the proper enthusiasm, don't you?"
"Pow pow Picard!" Mia and Ivan took up the cry, and now all three were chanting it while Picard just stared at them helplessly, fazed by the onslaught of "Pow Pow Picard!" that he was suddenly dealing with.
"Do they really think that shouting stupid things is going to make them better?" Garet muttered sourly, glaring at Team Haze with a look that could kill. "I don't think so."
"Just ignore them, Garet," Jenna wrapped her arms around him and they kissed passionately, forgetting everything around them in an instant. Isaac and Felix looked at each other, rolling their eyes.
"Honestly, at this rate, they'll probably be married next week," Isaac joked. He froze as a distant memory came to him... oh, that's right... Garet was planning to propose to Jenna, Felix was worried Garet was considering it, Kay was blackmailing Garet into doing the chores by threatening to tell Felix... Oops. "Just kidding..."
"I hope so," Felix threw Isaac a baleful look, which made him quake in his boots. "This is getting nowhere fast."
"What?" Isaac stared at him in confusion. "The Adept War?" Felix nodded. "I can see what you mean. More than half of Team Haze is screaming "Pow Pow Picard" and we've got two team members who are too busy sucking each other's faces off. Can't you two just get a room?"
"This is sickening," Felix grumbled.
"The only real kiss I've had so far was from some crazy obsessed fangirl..." Isaac exhaled heavily.
"Fangirl?" Felix raised an eyebrow. "Come to think of it, where are Picard's fangirls?"
"Feizhi," Isaac winced. "And the worst thing was that Mia saw..." Felix shot a look at him and he flushed. "D-don't mention anything... I never said anything... honest..."
"You care that Mia saw," Felix smirked. "So why aren't you with her yet then?"
"Ssh!" Isaac hissed. "Let's just discuss what we're doing today! Sheesh... I can't even say anything without people picking at my thoughts... and anyway we're not allowed to talk to each other because of this stupid war."
"Hmm..." Jenna finally let go of Garet, looking pensive. "We should just do what Adepts are good at."
"Well, it's not speed in my case," Garet chuckled sourly. "What do you mean?"
"Psynergy," Jenna shot him a withering look. "Silly Garet..." She knocked on his head with a fist. "Hello? Anybody home?"
"Ha ha..." Garet snorted. "I think I'm at home, but I'll get back to you on that."
"Use Psynergy?" A slow smile spread on Isaac's face. "Hey... haven't you noticed that here on Team Vale, we're only weakest to each other's Psynergy, same on Team Haze? So nobody could get too badly hurt, right?"
"I'm all for it," Felix spoke dreamily. "Blasting Picard into the air with a big Grand Gaia sounds just fine to me. That will teach him to quit nagging me about girls."
"We should use our Psynergy, " Ivan picked up on Team Vale's idea and he decided he might as well use this little loophole in the rule. "Run around throwing Psynergy everywhere!"
"POW POW PICARD!" Mia and Sheba shouted at the top of their voices, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Yes, I like that idea," Picard agreed wearily. "Mia, Sheba?" The girls promptly stopped shouting and nodded eagerly. "Well, it's decided for Team Haze. I wonder about Team Vale."
"Psynergy it is then!" Felix declared. "And we're going to win this one! It could be like Psynergy Tag, and we'll run around the village trying to hit each other with Psynergy... but we have to be careful not to hit innocent villagers." Everybody nodded... even Team Haze. It seems that listening to Felix got to be a bit of a habit considering he led them all on the quest.
And so, Team Haze and Team Vale set off in different directions, ready to begin. Basically, they would just run around the village hitting each other with their Psynergy. The team with the most points, points gained from hitting opposition with Psynergy, would be the winning team.
