Fairy Mi:(typing ferociously)

Flammera: "Are you done yet?"(looks over Fairy Mi's shoulder)

Fairy Mi: . "What did I say about rushing me?!?"(smacks Flammera with an oversized history book-falls from chair from weight of book)O.O"ACK!"

Flammera:(snickers) "Serves you right…"

Fairy Mi: "Shut it…."(gets up and resumes typing)

Chapter 2 Survival Test

Shalem woke up at the crack of dawn and silently got out of bed, changed clothes and peeked out of her bedroom. Ben wasn't up yet and so she walked into the living room and opened up her weapons chest which creaked a little.

Shalem winced and looked back towards Ben's room, listening. She sighed a breath of relief when she didn't hear anything and turned back to the chest, grabbing her knapsack from it and filling it with various weapons and items.

When she was satisfied with what she had but in the bag, she carefully closed the lid of the chest and snuck out of the house, snatching up Ben's worn hover board.

Shalem felt a twinge of guilt, Ben hated when she borrowed his things without permission, but she headed away from the house "Sorry Ben, but I have to do this. You're not going to be happy that I went out on my own, but you'll get over it once I finish the mission. I'm taking them down today and your not going to interfere this time" she smiled from the excitement of the thought and jumped on the hover board keeping one paw tight on her knapsack as she speed off towards the base once more.

Meanwhile back at the base…

Flammera stuffed her head under her pillow as sunlight crept into the room, morning only meant one thing…"training, without powers…" she gritted her teeth and hoped that Takeru would oversleep so that she could sleep just a little longer.

"Morning sleepyhead, rise and shine." Takeru said sitting on the edge of Flammera's bed.

Flammera sighed, hopes crushed "What is with you and getting up so early? Don't you ever just sleep in?"

"Nope, I still have a lot to teach you, now get up." Takeru poked her, wrong move.

Flammera smacked him with her pillow and he tumbled to the floor "Go play sensei with someone else today." Takeru blinked "Yeash, grumpy…" "Why shouldn't I be? You've been training me to the point beyond exhaustion, if someone were to come and try to kill me right now, I probably wouldn't have the strength to defend myself." she rolled over pulling the covers over her head.

Takeru thought about making a smart comment back but decided against it, Flammera wasn't a morning person as it was "Well, today's your lucky day. You can have the day off." Flammera peeked out from under the covers "Really? Thanks!" she snatched up her pillow and immediately went back to sleep.

Takeru shook his head and walked off to his workshop in the basement "Well, this gives me a chance to work on some of my projects I've been neglecting." He sat to work on one of the vehicles, flipping on the workshops sound system, way too loud as usual. Meanwhile, a certain snow leopard was working on getting into the base undetected…

Outside the base, Shalem was digging through her knapsack "Where did I put it? I know I brought it." She finally pulled out a flat disk that was covered in a series of buttons and dials. "Aha! Found it!"- She placed it over the scanner on the bases door, hit a few buttons and waited.

A few moments later, the door slid open and Shalem held her breath, no alarms went off and she quickly slid through the doorway and quietly closed the door behind her, grabbing the strange disk and replacing it in her bag. "Now for the hard part."

She snuck off down the hallway, while a silent alarm was activated, waking a very grumpy Flammera up "What now? Is Takeru trying to piss me off today or what. Could this be his idea of a training test?" she jumped out of bed, quickly throwing on a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt and then walked out of her bedroom and down the hall, watching for any traps or surprises that she assumed Takeru would have set up "If it is he is sooooo dead".

Shalem heard Flammera coming down the hall and ducked behind a piece of equipment, a few minutes later Flammera drew close to Shalem's hiding place and pause "C'mon Takeru enough with the games, you said I could have the day off!"

Shalem smiled, she had the advantage and thought to herself "Now's my chance" Shalem jumped from her hiding spot, tackling Flammera to the ground "Take that!" Flammera threw Shalem off "Who the hell do you think you are?!" she then threw a wave of fire at Shalem, who dodged, avoiding it only by inches.

"No way, only dragons can control fire…" "Well you thought wrong didn't you?" Flammera threw more fire at Shalem who dodged again, thinking to herself "I gotta get out of here, Ben was right I'm in over my head."

Flammera saw that Shalem was distracted and took the chance to throw a slew of slow-burning shrunken at her with difficulty, her energy had already been low and now Flammera was fighting just to stay conscious.

Shalem managed to dodge a few of them but most of them sunk deep into her arms and side, she winced but got out a couple of kunai rushing at Flammera, she slashed with the first kunai to knock Flammera off-balance and backing her into a corner and then stabbed the second deep into her stomach.

Flammera yelped and slid down the walland to the floor, unable to do anything as Shalem rushed back down the hall and out of the base. Flammera looked down at the kunai knife lodged into her stomach "This is bad. I can't move and if I don't get this fixed up quick I'll..." she looked around, the hall was empty and Takeru wasn't anywhere in sight.

Flammera called out his name, desperately tears falling from her face but he was down in the workshop and had the music up too loud, as usual and therefore unable to hear Flammera's cries getting softer and slowly fading away as she sat bleeding, finally loosing conciseness and falling into the pool of her own blood.

End Chapter 2

Fairy Mi: "How's that for a chapter huh?"

Michiru: (shakes head) "She's nice to you for once and you gotta kill her off don't you?"

Fairy Mi: "I never wrote that, you gotta love the cliff-hanger though! So will she pass or fail the survivor test? Is she even alive? After all, the story CAN go on without her…MUHAHAHAH!"

Michiru: "Well, it is keeping the story going."

Fairy Mi: "Well, then lets find out shall we? On to chapter 3!" (flies around room excitedly)

Michiru:(smiles maliciously and smacks her with oversized history book)

Fairy Mi: "ouchies…"(is squashed on floor)