Chapter 43

Food Fight

I was surprised when Shadow and Nova came back, both faces tear streaked but now dry.

I instantly searched Shadow's mind to see what was wrong. I was relieved when I found out that no one was hurt or something like that, well, physically that is.

'You do realize I can hear your thought, right?' Shadow pointed out causing me to blush furiously.

'Her cheeks are as red as this tomato.' Nova thought, tossing a tomato into the air. Once he had caught it he threw it at Iggy and smirked.

Shadow saw it coming and pushed Iggy out of the way, she caught it and threw it back at Nova. It splattered in his face and all over us even though we were all several paces away.

All that went down in exactly a millisecond, but Gazzy realized what had happened and yelled, "FOOD FIGHT!" as he threw a plate of mashed potato's.

She glared at him and flung all of her food at him, plate and all.

Shadow weaved in and out, catching things that were meant for both her and Iggy, and throwing them at Nova.

It was Gazzy and Nova, me and Nudge, Iggy and Shadow. Total disapeared the moment Nova had thrown the potato.

Nudge was the first to surrender, I quickly followed. The battle with Gazzy and Nova, Shadow and Iggy lasted for about another hour, the food kept regenerating, but eventually Gazzy gave up, claiming he would perish from all of Shadow's tickling if he did not.

Now it was just between Shadow and Iggy, and Nova. It was starting to look more like a war than a food fight.

After a while of that nonsense Shadow nearly passed out on her feet with hunger and exhaustion.

Iggy and Nova were to preoccupied to notice, so I took her back to camp after she had gratefully eaten something. Though it wasn't her usual amount, I was glad it was something.

She was asleep before she was able to get in her sleeping bag, but I got her in it quick enough.

I made a fire after I felt how cold Shadow was. I nearly fell into the fire when I heard a loud crashing noise.

"Star? What was that?" Nudge asked as her Gazzy and Total ran into the clearing.

"I- I don't know, but I think I should find out." I said heading towards where the sound came from.

It wasn't far from the food clearing. I sighed as I came into view of the, well, it wasn't a food fight anymore, it was a full on fist fight.

"Nova! Iggy! Stop!" I screamed, running in between them. I could tell they were both determined to win, but Nova's definition of winning was Iggy's death.

"STAR WATCH OUT!" I heard Gazzy yell.

I turned around right in time to see a blinding white light of an attack that was meant to hit Iggy. It would never hit it's target.

(end of chapter 43)