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A/N: Apparently our administrator can't decide if he wants to block this site or not. It's been blocked one week and the not the next. I don't get it. Anyway, as it has been blocked again, I will be restricting myself to weekend updates once again. I wish my administrator would make up his damn mind about whether or not to keep it blocked or keep it unblocked. Also, I decided to go ahead and combine the board meeting and the JV/Varsity showdown because so many people wanted to get to the stalkers.

Showdown with the Ducks

Riley was elated to find out that the board was having a meeting to throw to ducks out of school. To be honest, I was kind of relieved as well. I didn't have a problem with the Ducks and I really like Julie, but if she has to go back to Maine , she will be safe from my stalker, at least for now. We stood on one side of the conference room and the ducks stood on the other. Dean Buckley controlled the meeting and he was the one to call it to order. "This board meeting is now called to order. The first matter of business is the scholarships of the Eden Hall Freshman. The decision has been made to take away their scholarships. Do I have a motion for reconsideration?" No one moved and the room was dead silent.

Dean Buckley turned to Orion. "I'm sorry Coach, but unless there is a motion from a board member and a second the decision must stand."

"Then you leave us no choice but to bring in our attorney."

Riley and Cole looked confused. I just smiled as the attorney walked in. He looked vaguely familiar. It took me a moment to realize who it was, the ducks former coach.

"Dean Buckley comes the board. As council for Coach Orion," he stopped in front of the ducks, "and the freshmen hockey team, I'm here today to set fourth your legal options so that you can make the best possible decision for all parties concerned."

"Mr. Bombay, this isn't a legal proceeding." Dean Buckley protested.

"Not Yet. But I can assure you that it will be." I smiled as I watched him hand his briefcase to the dean. "Do you mind?" He pulled out one of the ducks' signed scholarships and started pacing the room. "These scholarships, an offer, became the binding contract upon the signature of the recipients. In acceptance, by the Ducks, they can not be void except for cause, which I guarantee you, you have none. Should you decide to peruse their cancellation, I will slap you with an injunction, I will tie this matter up in court for years, until long after these kids have gone on to college. I will collect damages. I will win, because I am very, very good." He is good. "You know why I'm so good. I had a good education. You gave it to me, and you're gonna give it to these kids."

"Now some of you may be snobbish enough to believe that these ducks don't belong at Eden Hall." I was completely embarrassed as I watched Riley and Cole stick their noses in the air as if they were better then the Ducks. Jerks. "But let me tell you, you are dead wrong. These are remarkable young people. you give them their full shotand I promise you they will succeed not only on the ice, but in the classrooms as well. These people are my friends and I know what they can do. Accordingly, I demand that you reinstate their scholarships for their benefit and for your own." He concluded as he shook Orion's hand.

The board began chatting amongst themselves and I was smiling ear to ear. I knew what was about to happen. Cole however, was confused. Big surprise, right? "What's going on?" I head him ask Riley.

Finally I heard the red haired lady speak. "I move that the scholarships be, reinstated." She didn't sound happy about it.

"Is there a second?" Buckley asked and the man sitting next to the red haired lady raised his hand. "All in favor?"

"We have no choice." The same man answered as one by one the board members were forced to raise their hands. Tom Riley was the last and he did so reluctantly. His son was no longer smiling and neither was Cole.

"Scholarships reinstated."

We filed out into the hallway and Riley couldn't resist stopping to terrorize the Ducks. "Congratulations, on destroying our school." I couldn't help but roll my eyes at him.

"Hey look, it's our school too." Kenny fought back. It was the first time he had fought anything since he took those swings at Iggy during the Goodwill games.

"It's everyone's school you stupid jock."

"No, it will never be your school." Riley fought back. Can't he just give it a rest for once? "Don't you get it? You were our own little affirmative action, brought in for color to entertain us, but you couldn't even do that. Your fancy lawyer kept you in on a technicality, but you'll never belong."

I sighed as Cole took over for him. "You'll never be anything more then a bunch of rejects here on a free ride." I shook my head at his comments. That's when I noticed the flirting that was going on between Mindy and that Luis. I smiled as I watched him blow kisses her way and she would just smile back at him. What I wouldn't give for the duck to take Riley's girlfriend away.

"Free ride? Look at you rich boy. Mommy and Daddy gave you everything huh?" The voice brought me away from Mindy and the flirting duck and back on the situation at hand. I glanced at Julie. She was evilly staring us down and seamed to be intent on the conversation.

"Hey JV/Varsity game is this Friday and we'll show everybody what a joke you really are. Then maybe you'll leave on your own. It'll be the only…" he put his hand up to Charlie and Conway slapped it away. "Honorable thing to do."

"You know we're gonna hurt you." Cole added. I shook my head at him once more. I had a feeling that the upcoming game was going to be a lot different then the last one.

"Listen, you had an unfair advantage last time. You had one of us, Banksie." I couldn't help but smile and be proud of myself when I saw Adam smile at the comment and stick his nose in the air. He was one of the Ducks again, and I was happy for him.

"Oh, well keep him. He never had the heart of a warrior anyway."

"Hey Biff, after we beat you, the warriors die and the ducks fly." The African American kid challenged.

"Hey, anything you say loser." Riley told them as we turned and walked away.

The week seemed to go on forever, but that was probably due to all of the extra practices we had to endure. Riley may not be taking this game seriously, but Coach Wilson sure did. By the time Friday rolled around I thought we were ready to once again beat the Ducks.

The first thing I noticed when I stepped on the ice was that there was a hug crowd. It looked like the crowd was going to be split down the middle. I wouldn't have been surprised if the Ducks had had more fans then us. I skated over to my net and immediately began to warm up. I could already hear that Josh guy ranting about the game.

"Fasten your seatbelts and hold on to your hats everyone. Oohh do we have a special showdown for you, David vs. Goliath in a titanic grudge match. The winner can truly say that he is the symbol of Eden Hall. Tonight the Eden Hall Varsity Warriors do battle with the Eden Hall freshman Ducks. That's right folks, look at those uniforms, the sign of the Ducks is here at Eden Hall, at least for on night."

I watched as the Ducks skated onto the ice. Orion had apparently given them their old uniforms back. I hated those uniforms. Why couldn't Orion have just burned them? Now I have to watch the Ducks play us in the same uniforms they beat my Iceland team in. I watched as they skated in a circle touching the ice. "It appears they are paying tribute to their departed friend and mentor Hans. The touching of the ice is a Norwegian symbol of respect."

Wilson called us over to the bench for his big pep talk. "They don't belong on our ice. They don't belong in our school. Now show 'em why." I disagreed with everything he had just said, but I sure as hell wasn't going to tell him that. "Let's go gentlemen." We skated off to our positions and that is when it started. Softly at first, but it soon grew louder and the entire crowd was doing it.

"Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack." I guess I was wrong about half the crowd being for us.

The chant stopped and the Ducks were lined up at their positions. I banged my stick against the post signifying that I was ready. Julie did the same and I could here her yell. "Bring it on."

I could here Riley trash talking to Adam. "You're gonna wish like hell you stuck with us."

Adam didn't want to hear it. "Save the trash talk."

"Ok boys sticks on the ice. Let's go." The ref told Riley and Adam before dropping the puck.

Riley easily won the face off, knocking Adam to the ice in the process. "Alright the puck is dropped and here we go. Ooh, Varsity comes out hard." Riley quickly took the puck up ice and got off a quick shot. "Ooh big save by Julie the cat. This rate it's gonna take a miracle for the ducks to hang on." Don't you think your over exaggerating there. It was just one shot.

Of course after that one shot, more came. It was half way through the period and I still hadn't seen a shot come at me. "Oh Goldberg spectacular toe save as the ducks are playing real defense." I had to admit, they were playing really well.

The puck had been held and yet another face off was coming. This time it was Riley against Conway . We all know that Riley couldn't resist making a comment. "Why'd you come back?"

"Unfinished business."

"We'll finish it for you." Riley commented as he once again won the face off but Conway slammed him to the ice. The puck wound up over in the corner and the bash brother went over to retrieve it. Three of our guys slammed into him and some of the ducks went over to his aide. Riley had a wide open shot, but couldn't take advantage of it. Conway got the rebound, but was slammed against the wall by Riley. The shots continued to b fired at the Ducks, but Julie held her ground. Great. She's playing the way she is capable of.

"Warriors are swarming, Gaffney comes up big again. Conway gets the rebound, and ices the puck. I don't know how much longer these ducks can hold on." I watched as Conway spoke with Julie. She was playing a great game and I had to admit, she was looking really cute in the goalie uniform.

We once again won the face off and swarmed Julie once more. The Ducks were playing great defense. "It's Goldberg, Germaine, and Averman. Everyone's getting into the act now. Their clearing out the front of the net. They aren't gonna allow any cheap goals tonight."

The Ducks finally grabbed a rebound and headed my way. It was Conway that finally took the shot on me. It came with a minute left in the period. "First shot on the Varsity. Save, ow he came up big." Wait, you call Julie by her name, but I'm just the Varsity goalie.

We were able to get off one last shot on Julie before the buzzer sounded ending the first period. Julie was able to save it and needles to say, we were all getting frustrated. Riley figured we would be way up on them by now, instead of tied. "Pick up the hitting NOW." Coach Wilson us. We didn't disappoint either. The Hitting continued harder then ever.

"Well if you can't beat 'em, beat 'em. That seams to be Wilson 's message as the Varsity is really nailing the Ducks." But no matter how hard we hit them, we still weren't able to get the goal we were looking for. Our best shot came after that Averman kid went down. The puck had gone astray and Julie had gone behind her net to retrieve it. Riley had pushed Conway down and Julie had tripped on him. Riley was able to get the puck and skate behind the ducks net, before coming around and getting the shot off at the open net.

Unfortunately for us, Riley hesitated on the shot and Julie was able to dive in front of the net just in time. "Huge save by Gaffney. She got caught out of the net, but she scrambled back, just in the nick of time. Nice save, Julie the Cat."

A few moments later the game became Vicious as Germaine was slammed hard against the wall by Riley. He was really frustrated and was quickly becoming dangerous. "Oh now this is getting out of hand. Guy Germaine just took a vicious check into the boards. He's down and he's not getting up." He ended up being helped off the ice and was taken back to the locker room.

The rest of the period went just like the way the game had been going. We got a lot of shots off but still couldn't get one in the back of the net. The Ducks were able to get one last shot off before the period ended. " Conway on the breakaway. He's all alone." he took the shot at me and I easily saved it. "Ow, beat by the buzzer." How about the fact that it didn't go in? Moron .

By the time we made it back out to the ice after intermission, a new duck had shown up. The other bash brother was back and Cole was quickly on his case. I could see him running his mouth before the puck was dropped. We won the face off, but Cole immediately headed for the new bash brother. "Let's see what you got Bash Brother."

Cole sped towards the Bash Brother, who in turn hunched down and lifted Cole through the glass. "Oooh my what a hit." I'll say. I watched as Cole stood and fell down again. I didn't know who I felt worse for, Cole or the poor people he landed on.

The game was delayed while the glass was fixed. But once the game resumed, everything was different. "Ladies and gentlemen the bash brothers are here to stay. That's more like it, the ducks are finally starting to dish it out. Look at Portman Fulton and Goldberg. Oh my, the bash brothers are really going to town." He had a point; the Ducks were finally starting to hit us. They were even able to get some shots off on me. Most notably when, the Mendoza kid took the shot and crashed into the wall. I was standing my own. I really had become a great goalie over the last two years.

"Oooh no, not again."

We got our big break with two minutes left in the game. Portman was called for hooking and sent to the penalty box. We would have an advantage for the rest of the game. He argued the call the entire way to the box. He finally gave in and screamed at the crowd. What he did next, shocked even me, and I had seen his penalty box antics before.

I watched as he started stripping, tossing his uniform into the audience. I turned to the ducks who were only encouraging him to keep going. "This is insanity. Dean Portman is stripping in the penalty box. Oh he has really got this crowd, especially the ladies going." I didn't know what was funnier. Watching Portman strip or listening to Josh go crazy about it. On second thought, the part with Josh is just plain scary. I always knew there was something strange about that announcer.

It was then that the Ducks made another crucial mistake, by sending to many men out on the ice. My teammates caught it immediately and made sure the duck were whistled for it. Like I said, this was our big chance. It would be five on three and I figured there wasn't anyway they could hold on. I wasn't going to blow a second game against the ducks.

The ducks called time out and I was quite surprised when they came out of their time out and Goldberg stepped onto the ice. Of course, Julie stayed in the net and Conway and Adam joined Goldberg.

"Five on three for two minutes and here we go." We won the face off and couldn't have gotten luckier. Julie had left the net momentarily, leaving Riley with a wide open shot. He once again hesitated before shooting allowing Banks just enough time to jump in front of the net, keeping the puck out.

"Goldberg clears it out of the zone." Riley took the puck. "Conway and Riley, the two captains are one on one." For once, Conway got the better of Riley and took the puck away.

"Riley goes down." Goldberg had taken him out of the picture. " Conway has the puck with a chance to win it………here he comes, a breakaway………ten seconds left." I watched intently as Conway came towards me. "He beats two men. He's all alone" I dived to the ice, anticipating the puck coming my way, "he sco……he passes back to……Goldberg." Oh shit! I tried to make it to my feet in time, but it was too late. Goldberg slapped the puck just before being knocked to the ice. I could do nothing but watch as the puck sailed into the net, just over my glove. The Buzzer sounded and the Josh Kid confirmed what had just happened. "Ducks wiiiiiiiin." I knew that if my stalker was watching this was just going to make things worse. I had now blown two games against the ducks. Now, not only had I let their girl goalie stop my shot, I had also let their horrible goalie, whom my Iceland team scored 12 goals on, score on me.

I quickly moved away from where the Ducks were celebrating. I had it in mind to head back to the locker, but when I saw Julie heading my way, I just had to stop her. I grabbed her shoulder to stop her. Without asking, I took a chance. I bent down and kissed her softly on the cheek. "Great game Gaffney." I told her, giving her a genuine smile.

She blushed and smiled back at me. "Thanks Scooter." she told me before skating away. I was on thin air. I turned my head just in time to see the Mendoza kid kissing Mindy and Riley right in front of them. I watched as Mendoza said something to him. I couldn't help but laugh as Riley just shook his head and headed to the locker room. The last thing I saw before I headed back myself, was the sign proclaiming that we were now the Eden Hall Mighty Ducks. I turned and headed back to the locker room, where I knew all hell would break loose.

Please push the little blue button and leave a review! We're almost to the end. Next chapter, Scooter tells his true identity to Julie and of course, he gets another note from his stalkers.

A/N: I wrote these updates out throughout the week and meant to post them all on Friday. However, on my way home, I was in a car accident and broke my ankle. I'm only posting these now because they are already typed out. I probably won't get around to typing anything else out and posting for at least a week or two. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.