Starting In The Deep End Part IV

Previously:

Jasper's Rowers have arrived at Woodland Park/Dam. Humphrey is trying to get familiar with rowing terms and translations and Sweets noticed Lilly's injuries. The pack is then informed that the rules of their sport have been changed, how will the team deal with it now?

Lilly's P.O.V.

"... in other words, boys can fuck around with the girls on a boat." Scar sair and she was terrible at people-skills.

"Wow, that makes us girls, feel real comfortable around boys." Janice remarked sarcastically, earning annoyed groans from the guys.

"Whatever, double's that will be going on today: Sam and Princess take Banaqua, Kevin and Reba take Aphrodisiac because I know how much you wanna bang eachother." Scar said, making the two wolves blush. It's either this wolf is probably more in heat than I am or that's just her perverted personality.

"So I helped Kevin take the scull shell for nothing?" Humphrey asked in shock, Scar cocked a brow then turned to me.

'Aw shit, here we go again...' I thought, once I saw that devious smile she had on her face.

"Alright Humphrey, why don't you and Lilly take Aphrodisiac? It's the best shell we've got for couples like you." She suggested, making me mentally punch myself for being stuck with her as my coach.

'I fucking knew she was gonna say shit like this! She needs to get a boyfriend or something!" I thought.

"Kevin and Reba, you can take Venus. Garth and Kate take Padawan. Janice and Salty, you take Genesis. Link and Candice take Evangelion. Lyle and Serena, you two can take a more next-gen tyep of boat. Try using Still Wave." Craig finished the role call, it felt like the coaches were deliberately putting couples on boats just for the fun of it, fuck my life.

"Uh, Claw? We can't really go on without some basic knowledge and experience on water, we don't even have a teacher!" Humphrey stated, relieving me of my worries.

"Nah, don't worry, y'all can swim right? Ah nevermind you'll be okay either way." Scar said, not giving me a chance to answer the question.

After carrying the boat down to the docks, Humphrey and I put in the oars, after me fafailing miserably at fitting the oars into handle things that Humphrey called 'Oarlock'. This sorta made me wonder where he learned all this. I got in first and sat in front of the boat, Humphrey followed in second.

"You have to row a full lap around the dam and then we'll work on from there." Craig said as he kicked the boat away, gently. I gulped and looked around the dam and it was... big.

"What are you waiting for? ROW GODDAMNIT!" Craig shouted out to us. We had no choice but to comply. So we attempted the first strokes and the boat shook and tilted to the side a bit.

"I don't wanna die young Lilly. Try and keep pace that I can follow. You row first, get a feeling of the rythm, then I'll follow you. I will try and balance the shell while you row." Humphrey said, hearing Humphrey's voice always made me feel better.

I took the first stroke, second, third and then fourth. I started using the sliding seat and counted up to three within each tug I had. I felt the boat move quicker when Humphrey joined in.

"See? Now we got it!" Humphrey said, sounding enthusiastic. I smirked at the thought of him being a rowing coach.

We continued rowing around the dam and after 16 minutes we made it halfway and we saw Kevin and Reba catching up.

"You wanna wait for them so we could ask for some tips? I turned around and asked Humphrey. He just shook his head.

"If we could learn how to take basic strokes without a coach, we can learn a couple of new things along the way aswell." Humphrey replied, I didn't really agree with that but we continued rowing anyway.

We rowed the rest of the dam in silence. We past a couple of canoeists and waved at them, letting go of one of our oars, almost tipping the boat over in the process. They laughed at us for making that stupid mistake. After 4 minutes, we completed the full lap of the dam.

"So you didn't tip after all, good job." Scar congratulated us. She didn't even wish us good luck and now she says good job.

"Can we get out now?" I asked, desperately wanting to get out of the boat, my tail felt really uncomfortable in the boat.

"Only after completing 3 more laps." She responded, making Humphrey and I moan out in frustration.

"Sounds like moans of pleasure, hurry up and take your rounds." Scar said, I didn't even want to respond to that. I started rowing the boat and Humphrey followed. We watched as Scar waved goodbye, which definitely unsettled me.

We definitely made progress as we rowed up the dam's halfway mark. I decided that I needed to tell Humphrey something.

"Humphrey, I can't-" I was cut of by a sudden jerk of my blade knocking the boat of balance. Before I knew it, I felt my world turn sideways.

Everyone On Their Way Home In The Bus:

Humphrey's P.O.V.

Complete. Disaster. That basically sums up what happened in that damn dam. Everyone on the bus just won't stop laughing at how Lilly and I were soaking wet. Even Winston won't stop laughing every time he looks at me.

"So... you can't swim." I said, ignoring Call of Duty: Infinite Humor in the background. Lilly looked down when I said this.

"I'm sorry but I tried telling you." She said, fiddling with her tail innocently.

"I know but you could have told me before we got in the boat, what if I didn't jump back in to save you?" I asked her, emphasizing the point.

"Thanks but I feel hopeless in situations when I do things wrong." Lilly said. The laughing was continuing and this just ruins the mood. The bus stopped at tge traffic light and that's when the bus finally had less laughter.

Windlston looked to the side and stared at a black SUV. Lilly and I also looked at the car and it looked really shady.

Winston turned around whispered to the the coaches. All of a sudden, their faces tensed.

"Winston, are you sure? We can't do this in the bus!" Claw said out loud, this already gave Lilly and I, the clue that things were gonna get ugly. Winston whispered something else to their ears then Scar nodded for some reason. She then stood up in the middle of the bus.

"Okay rowers remain calm as I tell you this: There are carbine rifles... underneath your seats... I want you to pick them up... and wait for further instructions." Scar said as she paused throughout the sentence, hoping to bring the news slowly to the others.

For Kate, Garth, Shakey, Princess, Lilly and I, we are already familiar with scary situations like this, it's just a normal day of High School to us. The other wolves in the bus all murmured about this being ridiculous and how they wondered why they chose rowing as their sport.

We all had our guns ready, even though none of us knew how to use them. Winston, the coaches and I, all watched that SUV. Almost comically, the windows of the SUV were rolled halfway down, just enough for the AK-47 rifles to pop up in a mafia drive-by style. Then the traffic light turned green.

"FIRE!" Scar told us. We all started blasting at the vehicle beside the bus. Seeing that car after the 7 seconds we spent shooting at the vehicle will be enough evidence to put us all in jail for excessive murder. The car didn't move after the light went green., there was just bullet holes in the car and empty rounds lying in the street.

The irony is that police officers would think that this was gang violence but this was actually violence being done to a gang by a bus-load of teenagers.

"Did we kill them?" Mooch asked as he looked at the window, seeing the abused vehicle wih hundreds of bullet holes.

Everyone looked at Mooch with a 'No-Shit-Sherlock' Face. I turned around to face Shakey's seat but I knew he had the same thing on his mind.

"Marcus is behind this." He said, I nodded to that. It's the first time we actually took the fight to him and I can't believe that the whole rowing team was involved in this aswell. No one else at school has a clue about how badass this sport is.

"Crew, we're going back to the school's Ergo room to discuss something... bumps in rowing." Claw stated, earning various types of commentary from us.

"You call killing wolves in a SUV with rifles, a bump? We could all go to jail for that!" Lyle spoke out.

"Look, the only way to swim is to start off in the deep end. If you still can't swim... you're toast, so relax." Scar casually waved this off like nothing happened.

"Changing the subject to something less serious so Lilly, how was the swim with the fishes?" Princess asked out of nowhere, starting the enless cycle of laughter, how could they still laugh after murdering some wolves? I guess the only way to learn was really starting in the deep end.

A/N: I'll be taking a break from this fic for awhile because I'm gonna work on the next AO fanfic and Evangelion request.

Lilly can't swim and Scar is a crazy perverted wolf

ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD