Chapter 7

Magic

The three met up again directly after class, as to have more time to play. Yumi was progressing nicely, and Ulrich was getting over his tense, boy-like stance to get into the rhythm of the game. It had a four-four beat, so you passed it on a beat. You could hold the fan for four beats at the most, each time it was passed to you, doing whatever you wanted with it, from spins to dips to complicated combos. Adain even taught Yumi and Ulrich how to do back flips and rolls while the fan was in the air. They all got quite a few bruises, but they were having fun.

Until they saw Sissy.

Her big head was sticking out from behind a bush as Ulrich did a flip that moved his eyes so he could see her. He stuck the landing and called stop. He walked up to the bush and grabbed Sissy by the hair.

"You really need to work on the art of stealth." He said, basically dragging her by the hair over to where the girls had sat down to rest.

All three of them were sweating. Fan Toss was like gymnastics, only prettier. Ulrich lay down next to the girls and looked at Sissy as if he was waiting for something. He was. He wanted an explanation for why she was hiding in the bushes watching them play. She could've just come and sat down, they wouldn't've noticed.

When she stayed silent, wondering why exactly Ulrich was staring at her, thinking it was because she was "adorable", Ulrich sighed.

"If you aren't going to say anything, Miss Stupidity, then we would thank you for leaving."

Sissy turned to Adain, "That was very pretty. Did you make that up?"

"In a sense, yes. I had some help." She smiled sweetly at the person who Ulrich had named, very well, Miss Stupidity, hoping that the prissy brat would go away.

"From who?"

From the calm look on her face, no one would have known that she absolutely despised the girl in front of her.

"Yumi and Ulrich."

In Adain's time, the smiling, and wide eyes she was giving Sissy were flashing red lights saying: GO AWAY, YOU NASTY TWIT!!!

And then the ground beneath Sissy split, and Adain's eyes and hands were glowing a faint silver. Yumi reacted first, grabbing Sissy's hand before she fell into the endless pit below her. Not that Yumi wanted to save her life, the nitwit had tried to steal Ulrich away from her more than once, but it was instinct.

Sissy's scream pulled Adain out of her phase, causing the hole to close with Sissy still in it. As Adain passed out, Ulrich and Yumi pulled a still screaming Sissy out of the fast shutting hole. Sissy stared at the hole for a minute before running of screaming. Ulrich and Yumi turned to see Adain, completely unconscious, glowing silver.

Yumi called Jeremy. "Adain passed out and is glowing silver. Do you think it's XANA?"

"No. XANA's color is red."

"Then what could it be?"

"Where are you? I want to see this for myself."

"We're in the park, by the tunnel."

"Ok. I'll be right there."