Hey guys. If you read this before I updated then this chapters going to seem familiar. That's because chapter 10 was really long so I split it up. Anyways, Enjoy!
Stormy's POV:
We walk into the training room at 9:00 to see all the boys running. Have they really been running since this morning? Matt runs to the trash can next to me and throws up in it. Eww, but that did answer my question. Four has the boys keep running while we line up against the wall. "We want to keep these fights fair, so Hemma, you are against me, and Stiff you are against Lola. I raise my hand. "Yes Stormy."
"Who am I going against?"
"We are trying to have a fair fight. until someone explains what is going on you won't be fighting because the people you would fight are running. If someone does explain, though, you will fight Jax."
"Yes ma'am... you wouldn't mind if I ran for a little bit would you?" I ask
"knock yourself out" she motions to the boys. "Hemma, come here. We are going to go first." She says as I start running. I catch up to Tabor and bring myself to his pace. It was slower than usual, but still quite impressive considering how long they have been running for. "Hi." I say
"What. Are. You. Doing?" He asks in between breaths.
"Running, what does it look like?" He stops and leans against the wall.
"You don't..have to run, you can..go fight.. with the ..other girls." He says taking deep breaths.
"Don't stop!" Four yells looking around. Tabor groans and starts his run again. I follow him.
"I am about six foot. They are trying to have fair fights. How do you think that turned out." I say
"Oh"
"It was either run or sit and watch. I am not watching my friends get beat up."
"Sounds like the right move."
"Why are you still running?"
"No one has told Four anything about what happened."
"What?!" I yell not meaning to be so loud.
"Jax isn't going to turn himself in. Neither are his friends. Then we have Asher and Me who are just doing what Rosie asked us to do."
"And what is that?"
"Don't tell anyone anything." He grips his stomach. "One second." He says running to the trash can. "And I'm back!" He says wiping his mouth. We run the rest of the time in silence. After a while I did throw up, but I don't want going to stop. Not while all my friends still suffered. Hemma lost her fight while I was running. Luckily, Six isn't as brutal as Eric and let her stop before she passed out. Now Lola and the Stiff are on the mat. I'm surprised by what I see as I run by. Some times the Stiff is winning while other times Lola's winning. This fight went on for maybe five or ten minutes. The stuff ended up winning in the end. After that all the boys were called to stop running. Mainly because who I believe is Sebastian passed out and Matt was on the verge of passing out. "Does anyone want to talk now?" Four asks when me and all the exhausted boys line up against the wall. Everyone stays silent. "Me." I say stepping forward. Tabor grabs my arm "what are you doing?" He asks. I pull away and walk up to four. "May I talk to you two privately?" I ask
"you may talk to me." Six says leading me to a corner.
"So, what happened."
"I was told that Someone attacked Rosie. And Hemma thought it was Jax so she tried to attack him, but Tabor and Asher stopped her. When I saw the cuts I thought Hemma knew who did it, so I went after Jax too. Tabor held me back and Jax Tackled Hemma Because she got away from him and was trying to basically kill Jax."
"Yes, but do you know who did this?"
"I think it was Jax."
"Do you have any evidence?"
"No, but-"
"We can't punnish someone based on a hunch. Please go back with the other initiates." I walk back and lean against the wall. "We are giving all of you an extra hour this morning before lunch." Four says "in this hour I recommend you shower and try to remember what happened this morning in the dorms." We all walk out of the room, take showers, and goof around before and during lunch. After lunch we go back to training. The Mats are still out. On the black board there are people's names written down.
Asher x Matt
Rosie X Hemma
Tabor X Sebastian
Stormy X Jax
"What?! I thought I fought this morning" Hemma complains
"Yes, but you fought an instructor, so that fight can't count towards your rankings." Six explains. Hemma groans. We all fight Asher won against Matt, Rosie won against Hemma, and, surprisingly, Sebastian won against Tabor. Now it was my turn. I am paired up with the person who almost killed my friend. We step up and walk on opposite sides of the mat. Instead of waiting for him I charge right at him. My anger from this morning building up. He stumbles back, but manages to find his balance. I punch him the closest place I can get, his face. It barely phases him when I do so. My body is pumped with adrenaline, but still sore from all the bruises on my torso. "Let's see." He says walking around the edge looking over my body. "If I remember correctly, this morning there was a bruise here." He kicks me in the side right where one of Bentley's paintballs hit me. I squeal and double Over when he does this. I can feel a smile on his face. "And here." He says punching my other side. The pain radiates down my legs and I fall to my knees. "And I can't forget here." He says kicking me in the stomach. I double over and he pushes me the rest of the way to the ground. "You can give up now and this will all end." He whispers in my ear. I can feel his warm breath as he does this. "Not. A. Chance." I say pushing him off of me. I push him onto his back and punch him right in the head, then the stomach, then anywhere I can hit. I can't stop. All the anger that was going through me this morning is coming back. I can see Rosie with her arms cut up. I can imagine her struggling against him as he did it. I can feel her pain. I stand up and kick him in the stomach. "That's enough." I hear Six say. I continue. "What do you not understand about Enough?" Four yells pulling me off of him. I calm down and finally look at what I had done. Jax is on the floor in a pool of his own blood. His lip is busted and his nose is gushing blood. What have I done? Yes this was Jax, but what did I do? I've become the thing I'm afraid of. "On that note, you are all dismissed." We all leave for dinner I scoff down some wings and a slice of cake before I leave. I head to the chasm. I just need to clear my mind of what happened. I can't become that person. I just can't. I sit with my legs in between the railing just looking down to the river below. Just one jump, and all my troubles will be gone. Just. One. Jump. What am I thinking?! "Hey." A voice says. It scares me and I turn to see Six. I stay quiet. I think she can tell I am hurting, because she sits next to me and puts a hand on my shoulder the way a friend would. "You know, just last year one of my friends jumped." She says looking at me. I don't know if she could tell I was considering it or not. "I was upset. I was mad. They gave him a heroic death though he took the cowardly way out."
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask
"His death day is three weeks from now. I know how initiates get. Thinking they can't do it and giving up. I don't want anyone feeling the way I did when I saw his body pulled from the chasm. I want to tell you that. I know you are scared, but you can't do this. Not only is it one of the most selfish choices you will ever make it is also the most cowardly choice you will ever make." How did she know?
"How did you-"
"I can tell when someone's hurting." She says "go back to the Dining hall and enjoy the time you have with your friends. You don't know if you will see them tomorrow or not. Make the time you have now worth it." She gets up and helps pull me up. "Yes ma'am" I say walking towards the dining hall. When I get there the only person I recognized was Myst and Bentley. "Where'd everyone go?" I ask "they went to bed. Something about running for hours on end." Bentley says. "Thanks." I say hugging him. "What's this?" He asks "I mean I don't mind it, but why."
"Just thank you." I say pulling away. I go in to hug myst, but she holds a hand out. "No way I'm doing that." I laugh and walk out of the dining hall to the dorms. I look at the empty bunk under Hemma. I know he'll be fine, but i can believe I did that. I lay my head down on the pillow and fall asleep immediately.
Someone is shaking me awake "wake up!!!" I here Tabor yell. "Let me try something." He says. He kisses me on the lips and I kiss back. "Morning." I say.
"You two disgust me." Hemma says fake gagging.
"Shut up." I say. I look at the clock on the wall 2:00 AM why are we up this early?
"What's going on?"
"I don't know. We were told to change into workout clothes and meet Eric and Four on the platform in ten minutes." Luckily, I somehow fell asleep in my workout clothes. I jump up out of bed and run out the door. I run through the corridors to the platform with nine minutes to spare. "Hey! Stormy!" Uriah exclaims.
"Why are you out here?" I ask
"I wanted to be apart of this, heck, this was probably the only reason I wanted to be a instructor. I laugh.
"What are we doing?"
"It's a surprise! Lots of fun though!"
"That's enough talking with the initiates." Eric says
"Fine." Uriah groans we wait for everyone else to come. When the train arrives we all run next to it and get on. "Everyone get a gun." Four says pointing to Six who is next to a crate. Everyone takes a gun from Six and some paintballs. "We will be splitting up into two teams. Eric and I are your captains. Eric you may choose first."
"Umm Tabor."
"Rosie"
"Stormy." I walk over to his side of the car.
"Myst"
"Kaleb"
"The stiff." They go on and on until there is only one person left, Bentley.
"We have an odd number of players because one of the transfers is in the infirmary. Eric you can have the last one."
"Nuh uh! I am not taking Bentley!" He yells
"Fine then, I will take him." We get to the pier and they have us jump off first. "Follow me." Eric says walking into one of the empty buildings. We follow him and he pulls out a green flag. "This is what we have to hide. Any ideas?"
"What about there?" I point to the Ferris wheel outside the window.
"No, that's crazy."
"What if we hide it in that?" A boy points to the carousel. "We can put it in the mechanics box or something."
"Good job kaleb!" Eric says walking over in that direction. We all follow him. I notice that Tabor and me are the only transfers on the team. And everyone is around my size. Did Eric do this on purpose? When we get to the carousel Eric busts open the door in the middle and hides the flag under a computer. "Everyone surround the carousel." Eric says "Uriah will stay in here and watch the flag."
"What?!" Uriah exclaims.
"Take my spot." I whisper in his ear. He smiles at me and walks out with the rest of the group. I wait for someone to come. After maybe thirty minutes of just sitting and waiting someone finally comes in the door it was Bentley. I shoot him, push him out and close the door. "Ha!" Someone says behind me. I turn to see Myst holding the green luminescent flag. "I bet you didn't see that coming."
"What? How? When?" I stammer trying to figure out what was going on.
"We used Bentley as a distraction while I crawled in the room. To take the flag." She says smiling. "There's a lot you can do with some Erudites on your team." She says wrapping the flag around my hand. I walk out with my head hung. Myst walks out behind me cheering. "We got it!!! We got the flag!!!" She yells holding it up. "Oh come on!" I hear someone on my team say. "What the heck!" While walking. Back I was shoulder check a few times. We wait for the train to get back. All of fours team is celebrating. We run next to the train and jump in when it arrives. Most of us sleep on our way back to the compound, but some of us can't get over a loss! I swear someone almost pushed me out of the train. When we get back to the compound it is almost 3:00 AM. We sluggishly walk back to our dorms so we can go to bed. I can't believe we stayed out that late. I look over to Hemma's bunk bed to see a sleeping Jax in the bottom bed. I'm glad he is better, but I do wish he was still in the infirmary. Especially after what he did to Rosie, but right now him knowing I can beat him should be enough pay back. I change into my sleep wear and fall asleep again as soon as my head touches the pillow.
hope you liked it! I know I am doing things out of order, but I really wanted to do the paintball scene on Ch 10! Maybe in the next chapter or the chapter after that I will have them go on their field trip to the wall and have them bump into IDK the stiffs bother or something. Anyways, remember, stay awesome, stay lucky, and peace out!