"I'm not lieing! I'm not delirious! Jesus! It's right there damn it!" Chase
pointed frantically forward.
"I see it...I SEE IT!!!" Zippy said, squinting to try and make out the road beyond that Chase was pointing out. Zippy could finally walk on her own again and seemed happy and rested, as she would jump around more often now, and she made sure everyone knew how much stronger her legs were by running around everyone now and then.
"YES!!!! We're almost there!" Magnetic cried, quickening her pace.
"Finally, now I'm closer to getting home where I don't have to listen to Magnetic's annoying voice!" Magnet said with a grin.
Squid's heart fell. He hadn't really thought of what would happen when he got home, but now he realized he would never see Chase, or any of the other D tent members, again, and he would be stuck at home with an alcoholic mother. Was being stuck out her in the middle of a desert really that bad? He'd have to tell Chase how he felt about her soon, before it was too late. He even considered grabbing her at that moment and confessing his love to her in front of everyone else, but thought against it as Chase had started hurrying towards the road.
It took about twenty minutes for all of D tent to reach the useless and barren dirt road.
"Wow," Armpit said, his eyes following the road until it disappeared in the haze beyond. "Looks like no body's used this road for years and years!"
"We won't be finding any buses for miles and miles," Chase said sadly.
"Well so much for the burst of happiness I just experienced for weeks!" Magnetic huffed.
Magnet snickered.
"Come on guys, we've got a long ways to go yet," Chase said, nodding in the direction they would be following the road.
Two hours later they all stopped and took a break. But there resting time was little as everyone was too anxious to get home. So after a meal of onions, beans, and dirty water all fourteen of them were back on there feet again and slumping down the road. Another two hours had passed and the sun was setting as everyone took another break to rest their sore legs and stretch their aching backs.
"My arms, back, AND legs hurt soooo bad!" Magnetic complained.
"Thanks for sharing," Chase grumbled.
"So stretch 'em out!" Lei said, she was now bending over backwards to stretch her back.
Magnetic, wanting to show she could do anything better than Lei smirked. "Fine then," she said. "I'll do cartwheels and back-bends and stuff."
"Cartwheels?" Fidget asked in surprise.
"And back-bends?" Static added. "Magnetic don't you think you're too tired to do stuff like that?"
"No!" Magnetic said with a laugh as if this were obvious. "I used to be the top in my gymnastics class; this will all be easy!"
"She was in gymnastics when she was nine though," Zippy whispered to Zero.
Zero smiled, holding back a laugh.
Everyone watched as Magnetic prepared herself to do a cartwheel. She raised her tired arms up over her head and pointed her right foot out before her. Then she began to flip over, first putting weight on her right foot, then her right hand, then her left hand. Normally she would have continued passing her weight to her left foot and then to both feet as she finished the cartwheel but this time was different. When she moved her weight to her very sore left hand she lost control over her perfect cartwheel; her left wrist bent, she wobbled in the air for a second, and then came crashing down on her back, her wrist still bent under the weight of her body.
Magnet couldn't help laughing loudly and clapping his hands with glee--well maybe he could.
"Are you alright?" Lei said, hurrying to help Magnetic up.
But Magnetic just shoved Lei out of the way, jumped to her feet, and angrily started down the road again, everyone else hurrying to catch up.
So onward they all went, Magnet still laughing and making sure to remind everyone of Magnetic's 'clumsy cartwheel' (even though everyone pretty much ignored him).
The next day as everyone walked through the mid-day sun, sweat trickling from there foreheads, they came across a fork in the road. It was an empty quiet scene; a long weathered post in the ground that had once been a street sign, a cold and sinister feel as the small breeze whispered as it whipped sand into there faces. The crossroads seemed almost blank and ghostly; the golden sand and dirt that flooded it (though appearing to be exactly like the sand and dirt D tent had trodden on just hours before) seemed lighter, as if it had never been touched by a human limb.
As Chase moved closer to the two roads it reminded her of the burrial grounds where wooden crosses had been posted; the wooden crosses that had been used to support people, people who would be tortured for years and eventually killed. Chase had read about all this before in a book she had been assigned to read in school. Just reading about it had made her feel sick to her stomache, and even now as she stepped into the middle of the two roads she felt a shiver run up her spine.
As Squid approached the crossroads he acquired a feeling of emptiness and depression; it reminded him of his mom.
Zippy looked over the barren land that surrounded them with sorrowful eyes. "This place is kinda' creepy," she said quietly.
"Oh my god! Watch out Zippy! The Crossroad is coming after you!" Magnetic said in a phony voice you would normally hear in a horror flick.
"Shut up!" Zippy said.
"Come on guys," Chase said. "We better get a move on." Chase wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, as now rather then feeling completely hot and bothered she felt freezing cold and ill.
As the group continued on they came across more crossroads, as if this place had once been a city or something, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Five hours after coming across the first crossroad, as the group slumped along the side of the road (which had expanded into a wider road a few miles back) they heard a sound which they had not heard for weeks and weeks.
"CAR!" Twitch cried, Jumping up and staring forth with wide eyes.
"OH MY GOD!!! CAR!!!! DO YOU GUYS SEE THE CAR?!!!! WE'RE SAVED!!! WE'RE SAVED!!!!! IF I'M SEEING THINGS RIGHT NOW THEN THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!" Magnetic had started jumping up and down excitedly.
"You aren't seeing things!" Chase cried happily. She started jumping up and down, waving her arms around, hoping to catch the eye of the driver.
Squid, Xray, and Zigzag stuck their thumbs way out into the road like hitch- hikers, and Zippy almost ran out into the middle of the road-that is until she was stopped by Static.
But despite all their efforts the balding man with glasses in the drivers seat didn't even look their way as he zoomed past.
"FUCK YOU!!!!" Squid yelled, holding his middle finger high in the air.
"NO!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!" Chase screamed, running after the small blue car. But soon it was out of sight and all of D tent was left to slump back down the road, cursing and turning back to spit in the direction the car had gone.
"Well at least now we know that some cars drive down this road," Zippy said quietly.
"Yeah, only cars that are driven by fucking bastards," Chase spat, looking darkly back down the road.
"I'M GOING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!" Magnetic screamed suddenly, making everyone nearly jump out of their skin.
"Jesus Crist chika! Tone it down a little would you?" Magnet snapped, glaring at her.
Magnetic marched right over to Magnet and stopped him in his tracks. Though everyone had just been waiting for this to happen it came as a little surprise when Magnetic whacked Magnet across the side of the head.
"Don't talk to me," she said in a dark voice that was a little creepy.
Magnet looked taken aback and very pissed off, he had even begun to raise his hand a little to hit Magnetic back but came to his senses in time to put his hand back down.
Magnetic walked back to the place she'd been walking earlier (on the opposite side of the group) and continued walking as if nothing had happened.
Two hours later the members of D tent started jumping up and down again as in the distance they could see the faint outline and hear the low rumble of a car coming towards them. The boys stuck there thumbs out, the girls jumped and hollered, but again the heavy set man in the drivers seat just past them by (though he did look their way).
"Urgh! I am getting SO fed up with these freaking people!" Chase cried. "Can't they see we're just kids?!"
"I know," Zippy agreed angrily. "God, are they just heartless people or something?!"
"Apparently," X-Ray said, sitting down in the dirt. "Come on guys, the sun is setting and we need to get some sleep. Tomorrow we'll run into the road if that's what it takes to flag a car down."
"Yeah but with the size of these people's hearts they'll probably just run us all over!" Static grumbled, sitting down and resting her head against Zigzag's chest.
"Hey does anyone have a lighter?" Zigzag asked.
The next day as the sun rose high into the sky the members of D tent prepared themselves for another day of thirstation (if that were a word) and disappointment. They all dragged their feet across the ground, sheilding their eyes from the 'horrid sun' as Lei had started calling it. Chase pulled Squid's hat farther down on her forehead, blocking the sun from her veiw; she loved wearing it and smiled at Squid whenever he noticed her fidgeting with it.
"It's so hot," Zippy complained, but her complaint was dry and monotoned and the feeling didn't quite get across to everyone else.
"Dear God," Static prayed, clasping her hands together and closing her eyes as they walked. "Please let it rain today and rain HARD!" she gave a heartless laugh and opened her eyes. "Yeah right," she said sarcastically, shaking her head.
They walked on in silence for a few minutes, all until Fidget started screaming "CAR! CAR!"
This time when everyone started sticking their thumbs out and waving their arms they progressed into the streets (not the entire street but just enough to make the car slow down).
And the car, driven by a scuffy looking man wearing a truckers hat, did slow down, but speeded right up again when it passed all of D tent.
"Why do we even try?" Zigzag asked as they all moved to the side of the road again.
Three hours later, when everyone had pretty much given up hope the low rumble of a car in the distance occurred again.
"Why bother?" Chase said depressivly.
"Because four is my favorite and luckiest number!" Zippy said, raising her thumb for the fourth time.
"No, put your thumb down," Magnetic said, moving closer to the road, Zippy slowly obeyed. "I know how to make this guy pull over," Magnetic grinned.
Chase raised her left eyebrow. Zippy shrugged and shook her head in return.
As the car got closer and more visible Magnetic moved farther out into the road, everyone else stayed put on the side of the road as Magnetic had told them.
"What's she doing now?" Magnet asked.
Zigzag shrugged.
The car rolled into perfect visibility and up went Magnetic's white shirt, revealing a pretty sheer bra--the kind that had all the fancy cut-outs and lacy trimmings. All the boys of D tent seemed blown away and VERY surprised; Magnet seemed like he was in Heaven. Magnetic kept her shirt up until suddenly she came running back to the group, her cheeks red, as the car gathered speed as it rolled past.
"Holy shit!" Magnetic cried with a laugh.
"What!?" Fidget asked urgently.
Magnetic started laughing. "THAT WAS AN OLD LADY!" she cried, as she clutched her stomache with laughter.
"Oh my God! Are you serious?!" Chase asked, beginning to laugh herself.
Magnetic nodded, appearing not able to speak. "She...even..flipped me off and sped up!" she cried, gasping for breath.
Zigzag started laughing also, pretending the shock of seeing Magnetic in her bra had worn off.
Magnet still stood in the same place, his eyes wide, a grin spreading across his face. "Well," he said. "That was unexpected!"
"Dude what are you talkin' about?!" Squid said with a laugh. "You've already seen her naked!"
Magnet blushed.
"I see it...I SEE IT!!!" Zippy said, squinting to try and make out the road beyond that Chase was pointing out. Zippy could finally walk on her own again and seemed happy and rested, as she would jump around more often now, and she made sure everyone knew how much stronger her legs were by running around everyone now and then.
"YES!!!! We're almost there!" Magnetic cried, quickening her pace.
"Finally, now I'm closer to getting home where I don't have to listen to Magnetic's annoying voice!" Magnet said with a grin.
Squid's heart fell. He hadn't really thought of what would happen when he got home, but now he realized he would never see Chase, or any of the other D tent members, again, and he would be stuck at home with an alcoholic mother. Was being stuck out her in the middle of a desert really that bad? He'd have to tell Chase how he felt about her soon, before it was too late. He even considered grabbing her at that moment and confessing his love to her in front of everyone else, but thought against it as Chase had started hurrying towards the road.
It took about twenty minutes for all of D tent to reach the useless and barren dirt road.
"Wow," Armpit said, his eyes following the road until it disappeared in the haze beyond. "Looks like no body's used this road for years and years!"
"We won't be finding any buses for miles and miles," Chase said sadly.
"Well so much for the burst of happiness I just experienced for weeks!" Magnetic huffed.
Magnet snickered.
"Come on guys, we've got a long ways to go yet," Chase said, nodding in the direction they would be following the road.
Two hours later they all stopped and took a break. But there resting time was little as everyone was too anxious to get home. So after a meal of onions, beans, and dirty water all fourteen of them were back on there feet again and slumping down the road. Another two hours had passed and the sun was setting as everyone took another break to rest their sore legs and stretch their aching backs.
"My arms, back, AND legs hurt soooo bad!" Magnetic complained.
"Thanks for sharing," Chase grumbled.
"So stretch 'em out!" Lei said, she was now bending over backwards to stretch her back.
Magnetic, wanting to show she could do anything better than Lei smirked. "Fine then," she said. "I'll do cartwheels and back-bends and stuff."
"Cartwheels?" Fidget asked in surprise.
"And back-bends?" Static added. "Magnetic don't you think you're too tired to do stuff like that?"
"No!" Magnetic said with a laugh as if this were obvious. "I used to be the top in my gymnastics class; this will all be easy!"
"She was in gymnastics when she was nine though," Zippy whispered to Zero.
Zero smiled, holding back a laugh.
Everyone watched as Magnetic prepared herself to do a cartwheel. She raised her tired arms up over her head and pointed her right foot out before her. Then she began to flip over, first putting weight on her right foot, then her right hand, then her left hand. Normally she would have continued passing her weight to her left foot and then to both feet as she finished the cartwheel but this time was different. When she moved her weight to her very sore left hand she lost control over her perfect cartwheel; her left wrist bent, she wobbled in the air for a second, and then came crashing down on her back, her wrist still bent under the weight of her body.
Magnet couldn't help laughing loudly and clapping his hands with glee--well maybe he could.
"Are you alright?" Lei said, hurrying to help Magnetic up.
But Magnetic just shoved Lei out of the way, jumped to her feet, and angrily started down the road again, everyone else hurrying to catch up.
So onward they all went, Magnet still laughing and making sure to remind everyone of Magnetic's 'clumsy cartwheel' (even though everyone pretty much ignored him).
The next day as everyone walked through the mid-day sun, sweat trickling from there foreheads, they came across a fork in the road. It was an empty quiet scene; a long weathered post in the ground that had once been a street sign, a cold and sinister feel as the small breeze whispered as it whipped sand into there faces. The crossroads seemed almost blank and ghostly; the golden sand and dirt that flooded it (though appearing to be exactly like the sand and dirt D tent had trodden on just hours before) seemed lighter, as if it had never been touched by a human limb.
As Chase moved closer to the two roads it reminded her of the burrial grounds where wooden crosses had been posted; the wooden crosses that had been used to support people, people who would be tortured for years and eventually killed. Chase had read about all this before in a book she had been assigned to read in school. Just reading about it had made her feel sick to her stomache, and even now as she stepped into the middle of the two roads she felt a shiver run up her spine.
As Squid approached the crossroads he acquired a feeling of emptiness and depression; it reminded him of his mom.
Zippy looked over the barren land that surrounded them with sorrowful eyes. "This place is kinda' creepy," she said quietly.
"Oh my god! Watch out Zippy! The Crossroad is coming after you!" Magnetic said in a phony voice you would normally hear in a horror flick.
"Shut up!" Zippy said.
"Come on guys," Chase said. "We better get a move on." Chase wanted to leave this place as soon as possible, as now rather then feeling completely hot and bothered she felt freezing cold and ill.
As the group continued on they came across more crossroads, as if this place had once been a city or something, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Five hours after coming across the first crossroad, as the group slumped along the side of the road (which had expanded into a wider road a few miles back) they heard a sound which they had not heard for weeks and weeks.
"CAR!" Twitch cried, Jumping up and staring forth with wide eyes.
"OH MY GOD!!! CAR!!!! DO YOU GUYS SEE THE CAR?!!!! WE'RE SAVED!!! WE'RE SAVED!!!!! IF I'M SEEING THINGS RIGHT NOW THEN THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!" Magnetic had started jumping up and down excitedly.
"You aren't seeing things!" Chase cried happily. She started jumping up and down, waving her arms around, hoping to catch the eye of the driver.
Squid, Xray, and Zigzag stuck their thumbs way out into the road like hitch- hikers, and Zippy almost ran out into the middle of the road-that is until she was stopped by Static.
But despite all their efforts the balding man with glasses in the drivers seat didn't even look their way as he zoomed past.
"FUCK YOU!!!!" Squid yelled, holding his middle finger high in the air.
"NO!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!" Chase screamed, running after the small blue car. But soon it was out of sight and all of D tent was left to slump back down the road, cursing and turning back to spit in the direction the car had gone.
"Well at least now we know that some cars drive down this road," Zippy said quietly.
"Yeah, only cars that are driven by fucking bastards," Chase spat, looking darkly back down the road.
"I'M GOING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!" Magnetic screamed suddenly, making everyone nearly jump out of their skin.
"Jesus Crist chika! Tone it down a little would you?" Magnet snapped, glaring at her.
Magnetic marched right over to Magnet and stopped him in his tracks. Though everyone had just been waiting for this to happen it came as a little surprise when Magnetic whacked Magnet across the side of the head.
"Don't talk to me," she said in a dark voice that was a little creepy.
Magnet looked taken aback and very pissed off, he had even begun to raise his hand a little to hit Magnetic back but came to his senses in time to put his hand back down.
Magnetic walked back to the place she'd been walking earlier (on the opposite side of the group) and continued walking as if nothing had happened.
Two hours later the members of D tent started jumping up and down again as in the distance they could see the faint outline and hear the low rumble of a car coming towards them. The boys stuck there thumbs out, the girls jumped and hollered, but again the heavy set man in the drivers seat just past them by (though he did look their way).
"Urgh! I am getting SO fed up with these freaking people!" Chase cried. "Can't they see we're just kids?!"
"I know," Zippy agreed angrily. "God, are they just heartless people or something?!"
"Apparently," X-Ray said, sitting down in the dirt. "Come on guys, the sun is setting and we need to get some sleep. Tomorrow we'll run into the road if that's what it takes to flag a car down."
"Yeah but with the size of these people's hearts they'll probably just run us all over!" Static grumbled, sitting down and resting her head against Zigzag's chest.
"Hey does anyone have a lighter?" Zigzag asked.
The next day as the sun rose high into the sky the members of D tent prepared themselves for another day of thirstation (if that were a word) and disappointment. They all dragged their feet across the ground, sheilding their eyes from the 'horrid sun' as Lei had started calling it. Chase pulled Squid's hat farther down on her forehead, blocking the sun from her veiw; she loved wearing it and smiled at Squid whenever he noticed her fidgeting with it.
"It's so hot," Zippy complained, but her complaint was dry and monotoned and the feeling didn't quite get across to everyone else.
"Dear God," Static prayed, clasping her hands together and closing her eyes as they walked. "Please let it rain today and rain HARD!" she gave a heartless laugh and opened her eyes. "Yeah right," she said sarcastically, shaking her head.
They walked on in silence for a few minutes, all until Fidget started screaming "CAR! CAR!"
This time when everyone started sticking their thumbs out and waving their arms they progressed into the streets (not the entire street but just enough to make the car slow down).
And the car, driven by a scuffy looking man wearing a truckers hat, did slow down, but speeded right up again when it passed all of D tent.
"Why do we even try?" Zigzag asked as they all moved to the side of the road again.
Three hours later, when everyone had pretty much given up hope the low rumble of a car in the distance occurred again.
"Why bother?" Chase said depressivly.
"Because four is my favorite and luckiest number!" Zippy said, raising her thumb for the fourth time.
"No, put your thumb down," Magnetic said, moving closer to the road, Zippy slowly obeyed. "I know how to make this guy pull over," Magnetic grinned.
Chase raised her left eyebrow. Zippy shrugged and shook her head in return.
As the car got closer and more visible Magnetic moved farther out into the road, everyone else stayed put on the side of the road as Magnetic had told them.
"What's she doing now?" Magnet asked.
Zigzag shrugged.
The car rolled into perfect visibility and up went Magnetic's white shirt, revealing a pretty sheer bra--the kind that had all the fancy cut-outs and lacy trimmings. All the boys of D tent seemed blown away and VERY surprised; Magnet seemed like he was in Heaven. Magnetic kept her shirt up until suddenly she came running back to the group, her cheeks red, as the car gathered speed as it rolled past.
"Holy shit!" Magnetic cried with a laugh.
"What!?" Fidget asked urgently.
Magnetic started laughing. "THAT WAS AN OLD LADY!" she cried, as she clutched her stomache with laughter.
"Oh my God! Are you serious?!" Chase asked, beginning to laugh herself.
Magnetic nodded, appearing not able to speak. "She...even..flipped me off and sped up!" she cried, gasping for breath.
Zigzag started laughing also, pretending the shock of seeing Magnetic in her bra had worn off.
Magnet still stood in the same place, his eyes wide, a grin spreading across his face. "Well," he said. "That was unexpected!"
"Dude what are you talkin' about?!" Squid said with a laugh. "You've already seen her naked!"
Magnet blushed.