!Warning!
Mild fight scene up ahead and some name calling.
you are forwarned dear reader so if you'd like feel free to skim down a few paragraphs to avoid the fight scene since this chapter is much longer than the others.
love,
-E
The Dolls Purpose
-Chapter 2-
"Uncalled for"
Have you ever felt that cold feeling in the pit of your stomach? You know... like when you've felt you have done something wrong and all you want to do is find a way to fix it? Well that's exactly how Layla felt right about now, but how could she not with all the nasty stares and comments that came from her fellow classmates.
Needless to say the majority of these hateful actions came from girls, girls who either had a thing for her new beau Warren, or from girls who had a thing for her ex Will.
"What a tramp, she dumps a perfectly great guy for HIM" Layla heard a girl with blond hair say as she was passing her in the hallway, it was clear to Layla that this girl wanted her to hear what she was saying.
"Yeah, I mean its like she only wanted to go out with Will because he was popular, But I guess she wanted to trade up for a bottom feeder" a brunette next to the blond snarled, now that made Layla mad so much that she stopped dead in her tracks her arms stiffed at her sides with her fists balled, she griped her knuckles so tightly that they began to turn white.
"Oh look! I think the hippie is mad" one of the girls giggled with a tinge of satisfaction in her voice, it was the blond.
"I wonder how angry she is" the brunette snickered and put her hands on her hips "Think she'll try to beat us up"
'Walk away' Layla thought 'Just walk away' and with that Layla slowly began to step away from the girls, she heard them scoff.
"Figures" she heard one of them say but ignored it, it was not in her nature to fight especially when it came to something these girls did not know about.
Layla then let out a deep sigh, her anger began to cease as much as it upset her arguing was not the way, but still she felt immense guilt for what she did to Will; after all he was her first love and her best friend.
She knew Will was definatley having a bad day as she was, they were a high profile couple at this school and of course people were going to act like the girls she had just encountered but she knew his were probably worse considering how many rivals he had, especially Flash Danyard and his many would be girlfriends The Chantal's.
She was sure that they were going to be in his face and it was just a question of when Will would explode and fist fight Flash, and that made her worry.
"I'm sorry" Layla said out loud.
"About what?" Layla heard a husky masculine voice ask her as a strong pair of arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders, she closed her eyes and smiled warmly.
"You already know Warren" Layla responded as she lifted her hand to touch his arm, her gentle grip was quickly touched by his gloved hand, those infamous biker gloves, she was growing found of them now.
"He'll be okay, Stronghold can handle them" Warren responded nonchalantly,Warren then looked down at Layla who had her eyes closed, with her bottom lip curled.
"I'm sorry, I didn't meant to..." he stopped and almost smacked himself in the head for sounding so insensitive, it's not like he meant it though...its just the way he was; he worried about Will too...not that he would admit that out loud though but he was a good friend now and friends do care macho or not.
"Its okay, I know you mean well" Layla told him and held his hand Warren then squeezed her hand tenderly making her smile a little, she still had a sad expression on her face which made Warren a little uneasy and was about to open his mouth to say something when the rudest comment came flying at him.
"Hey Warren! Why don't you and the hippie get a room we don't want to see her cheating butt here!" at this the entire hall erupted in laughter, both Layla and Warren turned around to face the person who said that it was an upperclassmen with red hair, he was a popular one his name was Jerry.
"What did you Say!" Warren shouted at Jerry who snickered at the crowd.
"You heard me that girl needs to be taken some where else maybe a hotel room!" He hollered out making the kids in the hallway break out with another round of laughs some of them even them even yelled out hurtful profanity at Layla who had her mouth open in shock her face turning bright red, her eyes began to mist with tears soon after,now this just pd Warren off.
No one makes her cry.
"Say that again" Warren said in a calm tone and stepped in front of Layla, his fists clenched tightly, he could feel himself tremble with anger, rage was hard to keep hidden so it showed on his face despite his tone of voice.
"What?" The red head looked surprised, as did the hallway full of students.
"Don't make me repeat myself" Warren glared angrily "Now say that again" he was provoking him and Jerry knew it, Jerry then made had motion at Warren that kind of said 'get a load of this guy' and laughed.
"Well Warren I said that you need to take that girl to a hote-" Jerry did not finish.
BAASH!
Warren had charged Jerry and punched him square in the jaw which made Jerry stumble back and then fall flat on his rear end, Layla and the other students in the hall way gasped in shock.
Jerry looked up at Warren his eye's burned with embarrassment "YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!" he roared as he himself tackled Warren and slammed him against a locker, the sound of Warren's back crashing into the locker caused an echo in the hall a sickening one.
"Warren!" Layla cried out and was about to run towards the fighting boys but was pushed back by a gathering crowd that chanted 'fight!' making her only watch the fight in horror.
"Your going down" Warren said with gritted teeth and kicked Jerry off of him, and suddenly before everyones eye's his arms were ablaze everyone in the hall went wild at the sight, they all knew they were for a treat until...
CRASH!
"AAAAAAAAHH!"
The sound and sight of Jerry flying over the crowd and and into a trash caught face firsts suddenly took the attention away from Warren's flaming arms, and towards the direction where Jerry stood before...and there in Jerry's place stood none other than Will stronghold...
"Will..." a stunned Warren said above a whisper, the kids in the hall were all surprised to see Will helping Warren out; with what Warren had did you'd think THEY would be the ones fighting.
"Hi Warren" Said Will in a shaky tone you could tell he was a little uncomfortable he then turned away from Warren and glared angrily at the crowd "You guys better leave Layla alone,what happened is none of your business!" Will shouted and than grabbed his back pack and began to walk down the hall in the direction of his next class, despite the sea of students a path was cleared for him, interestingly enough Layla was in that path, catching Will's eyes.
"See you around ok" Will quietly said to Layla, Layla gave him a weepy smile and nodded, Will then continued on his way as Layla ran over to Warren and embraced him, it was an odd scene and people knew it so the crowd began to disperse.
"HEY!" a muffled sound cried out "get me out of here it stinks!" it was Jerry still stuck in a trash can...hmm better to leave him there don't you think?.
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'What a day' Thought Will sighed and looked to his side, that girl Sara was following him still he promised to show her around a bit and as it so happened they had a class together P.H.T, Sara was a nice girl so far so he did not mind that she was hanging around him; but he did feel a little strange now that she had seen him step into a fight, something he did not show off earlier when he and Flash had squared off.
"That was impressive" Sara spoke up.
"Thanks...i guess" Will replied he warmed up a little "Sorry you had to see that it's just those two are..friends of mine" to any other person in school that comment would have come as a shock, but not to the new girl she had no idea about Layla and their relationship; it was good to talk to someone who would not bring up the break up.
"I could tell" She smiled "And I think that is very noble of you, I can tell your going to grow up to be a great super hero" she finished, Will smiled, and who wouldn't! that was one heck of compliment!.
"Aw, your just saying that" Will said with a laugh, Sara quickly shook her head.
"No I mean it" Sara put a hand on his should "It's really great to see people stand up for their friends, even if their is a bit of conflict involved" Will looked at her with surprise.
"What?"
"Well first off please forgive me for being so dilligent, I can't really say anything for sure but...it looks like you and your friends are in a bit of a falling out" Will was impressed she was pretty observant.
"Is it that obvious?" said Will.
"Yes, just a little" Sara nodded "The way you and the pyrokinetic talked it kind of led me to think that"
"His name is Warren and yeah we aren't speaking much these days" Will bit his tongue to hold of from telling his sob story, he was trying to avoid this with Sara.
"I'm sorry, I should have kept it to myself" Sara quickly added her blue eyes looking into his apologetically, Will could tell she was being sincere and noticed something about her...she had a sort of innocence to her, Will wondered about it for a second and only a second before brushing that off.
"It's cool, lets just hurry up and get to class come on its this way" Will sounded a little more upbeat now and the two headed into the direction of the P.H.T gym,Physical Hero Training, the nightmare.
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Sara and Will separated moments later when he had told her she had to go to the girls locker room that was conveniently across from the boys locker room, she and Will said their momentary good byes and went in. But nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing could have prepared her for what was install for her.
The minute Sara opened the door to the locker room an odd, almost putrid smell came flying towards her nostrils! it smelled like a mix of fruit, sweat and artificial products, she hated it immediately; what was that scent? goodness why hadn't her mother told her about this? it was starting to hurt her eyes and sense of smell and almost her taste buds, it was that strong an odor!.
'Ok...I have to go meet a teacher...but who is the teacher?" Sara thought curiously, she really wished her mother had told her what a teacher looks like, are they nice looking? or are they scary looking? despite being taught to look and act like a sophisticated teen age girl;she still was a little childlike and thought like one most of the time so to Sara almost every person she met looked the same.
Something that she hoped to take care of soon.
"Hey kid!" a rough sounding yet womanly voice called to Sara, Sara looked up and saw where the woman's voice came from the woman was tall and slim, but to be honest she looked kind of mean.
"H-hi?" was all Sara said as she walked up to her.
"Are you new here hon?" The woman asked and Sara nodded "Okay can i see your transfer files" Sara handed her the papers, the women quickly skimmed through them and by quickly she flipped every page in one second and finished the entire documents in only 5 seconds, she then gave them back to Sara.
"Wow" Sara breathed
"I know I'm a Freader, I read everything fast and I used to do some spy work for the government" she said proudly, Sara just looked on nervously, the teacher noticed this and cleared her throat "Anyway I'm Coach Crystal Perusal and today were just having regular hero exercises with the boys so I'll go get you a new uniform"
A uniform? what for? Gwen had told Sara that what she had on would be fine for school! Why was Coach Perusal going to give her something else to wear?
Coach Perusal waisted no time and brought back her uniform, it was a pair of light blue shorts with gold sideliners and a white t-shirt that had the name Sky High written in gold and blue trim cursive letters, it was kind of pretty.
"These will be your gym clothes and since I saw you wearing heels" Perusal made a face "I brought you a pair of sneakers you have to wear sneakers everyday at P.H.T or you lose points towards your new rank got it?"
Rank? what's a rank?.
Coach Perusal then quickly wrote something down on a piece of paper and gave it to Sara "its your locker and combination , keep your clothes in there and don't forget the code or else it stays in the locker" she than left a bewildered Sara to fend for herself.
Sara had no trouble finding her locker but she did have a tough time trying to get it open.
"Curses" Sara muttered, how did this locker thing work?
"Having trouble?" A girl who sat next to her asked, Sara looked at her and nodded, she also noticed how pretty she was; she had purple streaks in her hair (a color Sara loved) and a purple camouflage spaghetti strap with a matching fishnet shirt underneath, her tights were also purple but her boots and skirt were black.
"Everyone has a rough time getting these dumb lockers to open,here i'll show you a trick" The girl then pushed the locker door in and then pulled on the switched and miraculously the locker opened.
"Cool! how'd you do that?" Sara asked excitedly, the girl grinned
"These two lockers have something wrong with them" The girl pointed at her and Sara's lockers "I'm the only one who can do that but I can show you how"
"That would be great!" Sara smiled "I'm Sara Silvson"
"I'm Maj, but i just go by Magenta" she and Sara shook hands.
'Magenta...Her first friend...how ironic.'
Sara and Magenta quickly changed into their gym clothes and hurried off into the gym with the other girls, the boys came out of their locker rooms a couple of minutes later.
"The guys are always late" Magenta told Sara "I guess its because they like to do pigheaded things in there" she chuckled Sara could not help but to as well.
Sara then skimmed through the crowd and spotted Will, Will was chatting with someone Sara looked closely and saw a boy with round glasses, a smile spread on her lips.
'He must his friend' She thought, her mother had firmly said destroy any one who meant something to the target; and it was obvious they were close friends, she wondered how many more did he have?.
Sara then noticed the boy with the glasses he was waving in her direction, to her surprise Magenta waved back and the boy with the glasses and Will walked up to them.
'Magenta?' Sara looked to her side 'Not her...she-she cant be a friend of the targets!'
"Hey Ethan" Magenta said dryly, though she sounded rude you could tell she was happy to see him and Will, that was the confirmation Sara dreaded, they were friends.
"Hey Magenta!" the boy with the glasses greeted her and then looked up at Sara "Hi! I'm Ethan!"
"Hello" Sara said meekly "I'm Sara"
"Oh thats a nice name! it's nice to meet you by the way!" Ethan gave her a boyish smile and they shook hands, Sara noticed Will, funny he was taller now, it must have been because she took of her heels he was now the taller one.
"This is Sara" Will stepped up "Did you find coach Perusal?" he asked Sara.
"Uh-huh...well she kind of found me first" She smiled briefly Will returned it nervously, Magenta eyed them and gave Ethan one of her cocky grins, Ethan nudged Magenta, it was his way of telling her not to meddle with anything just yet, it would usually be returned with a hard punch to the arm but still, good ol Ethan.
"Hey guys come on we have to get ready for the drills!" Said Ethan who adjusted his glasses, he sounded a little to enthusiastic if you asked Sara but she did not mind it was kind of adorable, she quickly shook that off from her thought bubble; she had to remember she had to get rid of these people despite the fact she liked Magenta as a friend.
"Oh yay" Magenta groaned Ethan and Will laughed.
"What are the drills for?" Sara asked, the three friends looked at Sara with odd expressions on their faces until she noticed Will soften up.
"Sorry Sara,I forgot your from Plemit Vill you guys still go by hero and hero support" Will laughed Ethan and Magenta looked at each other gave one another an 'oh thats why look'
"You mean this school has a new system?"Said Sara, oh no!her mom had not told her about this! what was she going to do?
"Yeah, many students and parents stood up and said that the old category system was too biased so the council decided to make a new system" Ethan spoke up.
"They are called ranks, we are given a rank by how strong we are and by how our powers have developed" Magenta added "Its actually a tough system"
"Oh...how do you know what rank your at?" Sara asked.
"It's easy" Will began "Since we're sophomores ours only goes up to thirty-five,which is the A rank,so it goes down from there; twenty-nine to twenty-five is B Rank, Twenty-four to twenty is C Rank, and nineteen to fifteen is D anything below D rank is just plain awful"
"So what Ranks are you guys at?" Sara questioned.
"B" Said Will
"C" Magenta answered.
"I'm at C rank but that's expected" Ethan said to her.
"So what power do you have?" Asked Will.
"Um its a little complicated but I can show you" Sara replied and the three nodded, she put her hands together and before they knew it...she was gone!.
"What in the world!" Magenta was surprised "Your an Invisobeing!" Sara then reappeared and nodded, this was going to be interesting, Sara then wondered what rank she'd be at.
Hello readers, I'm sorry i made this chapter a little long, I wanted to develop the characters in this chapter so that i could move on to the good stuff in the next one,
plus i wanted to introduce Warren, Magenta and Ethan and the new system that they use for school.
okay now...
in response for chapter1 reviewers.
BLUERANGER1983-All you reviewers are just so sweet! I have never felt like a writer until now it means so much to me that you (and Seducing Reason) find my story to be creative and i hope to see you all review for this chapter.
Abuhin- This is so cool! I did not even know you read this story and its a great honor to hear it, I've seen you review so many other stories and I always hoped you'd review mine thank you!
Seducing Reason-Wow! I've never received a review like this, and quite frankly h'm honored! thank you so much for your compliments in all my time on ff net I have never been told how creative a story was! And I am glad you like Sara she is my most complex character to date and to be honest...my most favorite out of my O/C's
as for your questions, its simple Gwen is pretty much a technology genius and in order to help Sara mature, both phsically and mentally, she just simply exercised her cerebral activity with a new machine(I havent explained that yet in the story but it will come up later) she also tutored her to the point to where Sara could function in regular society and with hero's but there is one problem; A newborn cant learn everything at once so there are still MANY things Sara hasn't learn yet.
(hint hint, this is a setup for future situations in chapters :wink:)
sTaRfIrExrObIn- thank you! wow i just cant believe at how many flattering comments i've received! you and all my reviews are just so great!
melinda warren-you were the first to review and I dont know if you would like to be in the chapter! let me know okay? and also review soon!
Trivia:Sara has fake invisable powers and like many of the sky high kids her power is inspired by a famous marvel or dc comics character, can you guess which one? hint the super hero her powers are based on was played by an actress named Jessica in a recent movie adaption.
The movie was terrible though.
thanks for reading and feel free to suggest anything that will improve the story .
With much love,
Escebella