Hova's Duty
Chapter 6 Race Game
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Hova lead Lucas to a group of young ants. The group was divided into two separate teams. One group had parts of them dyed blue, while the other were red. Kreela and Fugax were with the group giving instructions to the game the group was fixing to play. Hova went over to Kreela and told them to let Lucas join in on the game.
"Lucas the human that was literally living inside your stomach?" Asked Kreela.
"That's him." Said Hova patting Lucas's shoulder.
"His an ant now?" Asked Fugax examining Lucas.
"He is and I brought him here to train." Said Hova.
"So how exactly did he get out of your body? Wait on second thought I don't want to know." Said Fugax looking a little disgusted.
"Alright fine he can join in. Lucas can be on the blue team." Said Kreela pointing to the ants with the blue dyed parts.
"Alright Lucas this is your first day of training. Now play nice with the others and have some fun." Said Hova to Lucas.
Lucas nodded and went over to the blue team. The little team welcomed the newcomer and a couple of the members rubbed Lucas with some blue dye making him part of the team. After the dye dried Kreela began to explain the rules of the game.
"Alright the objective of this game is to get through this little obstacle course behind me and retrieve a piece of sweet rock and to climb up a wall to present it to me. All members of a team must retrieve a piece of sweet rock and present it to me to obtain the win. This will be a team effort."
Kreela and Hova then went to the end of the obstacle course and another ant blew a horn signaling the game to begin. The two teams raced forward and came across their first obstacle, a wide open crack in the ground. The red and blue team began to stack up on each other's shoulders to form bridges to get over the gap. Lucas thought the gap didn't look that wide and instead of joining the rest of his team in forming a bridge, he would simply take a running leap to get to the other side. The young ant ran and leaped through the air about the same time the ant bridges went down. The bridges made it across the crack, but Lucas didn't. Lucas ended up hitting the wall and falling a little ways, before he managed to grab a root sticking out of the wall and just hung there. The rest of the blue team saw this and came to Lucas's aid by forming a ant chain that reached down and pulled Lucas up and out of the crack.
"Um...thanks." Said Lucas with a little embarrassment.
"No problem. Your not the first ant to try something like that." Said one of the blue team members.
The team moved on to the next obstacle, which was a small puddle with some plants sticking out of it. The red team had formed an ant chain and was using their combine length to go from one plant to another to get to the other side of the puddle. The red team had a good lead on the blue team. The blue team began to form an ant chain of their own and Lucas found himself in the middle of it. The chain began moving from plant to plant and Lucas let out a cry of surprises as the chain moved and he began to lose his grip on the ant above him, until he finally lost it and went flying through the air! Lucas flew past the still traveling red team and reached the other side of the puddle with a thud and a groan. Lucas stumbled to his feet a little dazed and was thankful for his exoskeleton taking the bunt of his little crash. He then saw some jellybeans nearby and realized that these must be the sweet rocks.
Back at the puddle the blue team had watched Lucas flown and reach the end of the puddle and decided to do the same. A few seconds later the rest of the blue team had shot themselves over to Lucas and were at the jellybeans. The blue team congratulated Lucas for his crazy stunt as they all grabbed a tiny chunk of the jellybeans and made their way to the wall to climb, to reach Kreela, and claim victory. Lucas was feeling proud of himself and Hova smiled down on him. The blue team easily stuck to the wall and scaled it, but when Lucas attempted this, he didn't stick to the wall and fell right on his back. Lucas blinked his eyes in confusion and he tried to climb the wall again only to meet with the same results. This made no sense to Lucas since he had the body of an ant and should be able to climb like the others. The blue team looked down at Lucas in confusion as the red team arrived on the scene and easily climbed the wall. A horn was blown.
"The red team wins!" Said Kreela.
The blue team helped Lucas up the wall and Hova looked at Lucas with concern as he just looked at the ground with a mix of sadness and anger.
To be continued.