AN: Whoohoo. New chapter. Oh, okay, there's something I need to get off of my chest right now.
THIS STORY (FROZEN HEARTS, AND THE ONE YOU ARE READING) WERE MADE AND WRITTEN BEFORE SSX: ON TOUR WAS ANNOUNCED. IF YOU LOOK BACK TO FIND THE FIRST PART OF THIS STORY, YOU WILL SEE IT CAME OUT ABOUT 6 MONTHS AFTER SSX 3. PLEASE STOP EMAILING ME AND TELLING ME IN REVIEWS ABOUT SSX: ON TOUR. THIS STORY CAME BEFORE THAT GAME WAS EVEN ANNOUNCED.
Now that that is out of the way. Not counting this chapter, there's only two more chapters left! Wheeehahahah!
Chapter 10: Nunya
"Wait!" Elise called out from behind Eddie, who was rampaging through the lobby, knocking over pictures, boards, and other items. Eddie was carving a warpath through the room.
Griff jumped up, "What the hell? Yo! Eddie, what's wr—WHOA!" Griff almost ducked, Eddie swung hard and almost took his head off. Eddie kept walking; he was heading to the front door.
Elise was following, her shirt was on backwards, and she was wearing Atomika's pants, which were obviously too big. "Eddie! Just wait!"
Eddie ignored her, opening the door and walking out in the snow flurry outside. A small crowd was forming around the two.
"EDDIE. JUST FUCKING HOLD ON!" Elise yelled, stopping. Eddie stopped and turned around. "Hold on? HOLD ON?" Eddie threw his goggles into the snow. "Hold on to what? Huh? When did you plan on telling ME about you and him, huh? I mean for fucks sake! We used to be close!"
Elise looked down. "Yeah, we used to be close…but not THAT close, Eddie, and you know it!" She snapped. "What I do with whom I choose is NONE of your business."
Eddie looked taken back, "None of MY business? Who stood with you when you realized you slept with J.P last year that one time you were drunk? ME. Who convinced you to come back last year even though I didn't get the call? ME. Who kept Marisol from pummeling you into the snow that one year on the Tricky Tour? ME." Eddie's voice grew louder as he talked.
Elise looked down, "Still! It's none of your goddamn business! You aren't my brother, or my FATHER."
Eddie walked up, almost getting in her face. "I didn't want to be your brother, or your father. I wanted to be something more than that, couldn't you tell? Why the hell do you think I came back this year? Besides HIM" he pointed to Atomika "calling me and asking me to return, I came back for YOU." He pointed to his chest. "I am back because I regretted not making the move I wanted to make during Tricky! I came back because I wanted to finally tell YOU how I felt. What happens when I get back? You are running around sleeping with Atomika, and trying to tag Nate at the same time!"
Nate looked up, and raised his eyebrow.
Atomika looked at Nate.
They both looked at Elise.
Elise looked at the both of them, then up at Eddie. "What I do is my business! I am not tied down to ANYONE here!" Elise turned around, stomping back into the lodge, her cheeks flushed red, and she almost ran right over Allegra.
"MOVE." Elise yelled, pushing her aside. Allegra just watched her as she passed. She had something more important to do, something she had to get off of her chest. As the crowd in the lobby began to thin out, she could see Eddie, Nate, and Atomika head off to the shuttle to Mercury City. She was looking for someone, and she had found him soon as she opened Viggo's door.
Brodi was sitting on Viggo's bed, Viggo still hadn't been checked out of the hospital, but it had been arranged that Brodi would stay in his room until he got back. Brodi was sitting with his legs folded, a clove of sage burning.
"Yes?" Brodi answered her before she could even talk, his eyes were closed.
"Um…Do you know when Viggo is going to…return?" Allegra whispered, not wanting to disturb him too much.
"Two days. May I ask why?" Brodi opened his eyes and looked at her. Allegra leaned against the door.
"I need to talk to him."
"About?"
"…I don't think that's any of your business."
"I understand. But I will have you know I am not here only to help Viggo. I will help anyone who is willing."
Allegra through about it, the leaned harder against the door, closing it. "I need closure."
Brodi looked at her with a look of confusion. "Closure? Why closure?"
Allegra sat on the floor across from him. "I can't take it, J.P…Viggo. I just can't take what's going on." She looked down at her Snow God medal. "This is all too much for me."
Brodi picked up his clove of sage and wafted it around. "It happens, especially with someone was fragile as yourself."
Allegra looked up at him, offended. "Fragile?"
Brodi chuckled, looking at her. "Yes, fragile. It's not as bad as you think."
A small silence fell between them.
"Are you sure you want to close this chapter in your life now?" Brodi spoke, bluntly.
Allegra just looked down, rethinking. Maybe closure isn't what she was really looking for?
"RAAAH!" Moby tumbled down the ramp, Griff shooting over his head, Kaori hard on Griff's tail. Nate grinding along a log, J.P rolling just behind him.
It was the next morning, and a race on The Terror, Peak Four's Backcountry was going on. Griff had a sizeable lead with Kaori trailing behind. Moby made it back to his feet before Nate and J.P could pass him up. Elise was originally in the race, but she had fallen so far behind that she was out of sight. The same fate happened to Allegra.
Allegra skidded along the ice, she was lost. She hated being lost. She picked herself off of the ice only to hear Elise slide by her on a higher route.
"Grrr…FUCK!"
Her voice rang off of the sides of the mountain, at that moment, Allegra knew what she had just done had NOT been a smart idea.
At the front of the pack, Griff stopped to catch his breath, his lead was far along enough to where he could afford to take a rest. Until he looked up and saw it.
An avalanche.
At the back of the pack, Elise and Allegra were neck and neck, not trying to beat each other, but trying to beat the avalanche behind them.
"SHIT! HOLY SHIT!" Elise yelled, jumping and grinding along a tree, Allegra jumped onto an adjacent tree, the both of them taking small glances back, they were going so face that they could see the back of Moby's head.
Moby turned around and leaned into an all out dive, diving down the side of the mountain into a jump, Kaori right above him as the avalanche raged on, the Elise and Allegra jumped off of a make shift ramp to avoid a chunk of ice.
"WAAH! WAAAH!" Kaori yelled, reaching out and grabbing a tree branch to hold onto so the large chunk of ice didn't hit her. The chunk of ice rolled towards Nate and J.P, who were the only two who were oblivious to the danger. J.P shoved Nate aside, in order to take second place, Nate got back up, and went to slam J.P…and he saw it.
Before J.P could even react, Nate dived onto him tackling him behind a tree as the chunk of ice flew over their head, snapping the tree right at the top, the both of them rolled to the side avoiding the timber.
Griff was ahead of the pack still, boarding for his life, with no finish line in sight, he had no where to go, he could feel the ice chunk slamming behind him.
"Fuck…fuck…fuck…fuck…fuck…SHIT!" Griff dived to the side, the nose of his board pressing hard against the cliff side of the mountain, he rode it the best he could as the chunk rode by, after it past he collapsed into the snow to catch his breath…only to see Elise soar over his head, followed by Nate, Allegra, Moby, and J.P. The finish line was only 30 feet away and it was a six way tie for first.
"Sssh…" Zoe whispered. Drum sat next to her as they are their breakfast in the kitchen. Drum had his hand on her thigh before Psymon strolled in, followed by Mac and Yuri.
Zoe and Drum tried a little too hard to not look at each other; it was probably the first thing to tip them off.
Psymon's face twisted into a sick sadistic smile.
"About damn time."
Zoe looked up from her pancakes, looking right at Psymon. "What?"
Mac looked at Psymon, then at the two of them, taking a seat. "Sitting next to each other, not making eye contact, eating the same thing, trying to act like you don't notice each other…"
Yuri walked by. "Oh, the fact that you are wearing Drum's goggles gives you away, too."
"…Shit." Drum coughed out, trying to cover it up.
"So, you two finally got stop sneaking around?" Mac blurted, no one else was in the Lodge, so no one else could hear them.
"Does it matter?" Zoe snapped back, picking up a piece of sausage.
"It's none of your business what we do. Why is everyone else around here so hung up on relationships? Shouldn't we be, you know? Snowboarding?"
She took a big bite out of the sausage. Psymon, Drum, and Mac all flinched.
"Speaking of racing, we have a race we need to get to. Me, you, Psymon, Yuri, Drum and Atomika." Mac read from his M-comm.
"What course?"
"Spiral Mile."
"Ugh. Hate that course." Zoe whispered.
"What is Spiral Mile?" Drum looked up.
"It's a downward spiral of a course, gets you dizzy easily. Pukin' yer guts out all over the place! Man, sliding through the puke on ice make it even FASTER! Round…and round…and round…and round…and round…and round." Psymon kept on like that, spinning in circles before he just fell over onto the kitchen floor.
"Um…is he okay?" Mac leaned over him.
"…I dunno, poke him with a stick?" Zoe said, and turned to Drum, giving him a nice kiss. Yuri poked Psymon in the ribs with a frozen sausage link.
Mac turned around just in time to see Zoe and Drum kiss. "Aw DAMN man. I didn't need to see that. You are gonna make ME puke!"
"Puke?" Psymon blurted, sitting up, and begin spinning again. "Round…and round…and round…and round…and round…and round."
"...I'm going to the Trolley." Yuri ran, Mac followed, Zoe and Drum ran after them.
They could hear Psymon barf in the next room.
Rahzel walked by the running group. "What the…?" he looked in the kitchen.
"STARK! GO GET A MOP….DAMN!"
AN: I decided to end a chapter with a little comedy for once.
I don't have much to say about this chapter. But I will repeat something.
I thought of this story concept, and story BEFORE SSX: On Tour was announced, so PLEASE do not waste me time telling me that there is already an SSX4 in a review. PLEASE.
Two more chapters left!
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