Chapter 7
Bastion leaned against the brick of Duel Academy as he waited for Meg who had to get some of her books out of her locker. Bastion sighed as he wished that she would hurry up so they could begin strategizing their revenge on their families. As soon as he looked over his shoulder to see if she was there yet, he saw her frustrated and hurrying out of the school. I wonder what she's upset about he thought.
"What are you waiting for?" Meg demanded bitterly.
"Nothing," said Bastion shaking his head as the two began walking towards his dormitory since he wasn't allowed in the girl's dorm. They didn't speak on the way there because her amount of a negative vibe was almost suffocating.
Meg looked around Bastion's room in awe at all the formulas and equations. She pondered on what he could be possibly working on. It's probably for a deck or how to beat someone in a duel rationalized Meg. Meg said while Bastion pulled out some paper and picked up a pencil that had been lying on the floor, "So what are these formulas for? It looks like they took you awhile to work on them."
"Oh those are for the perfect deck, but I need one card with that many attack points to make it flawless," Bastion answered. Meg looked at the number of attack points the card needed to be, but how was any card supposed to be that strong? "Well," Bastion said breaking the silence, "how about we work on this plan?"
Meg nodded in agreement and looked at the paper. Why must it always be so hard to start from nothing? Can this be any more impossible? Meg wondered astounded that she had no idea how to even get started.
"Let's think of people in our family who have caused us pain," said Bastion writing down names of some of his family members and put large gaps between each person's names. He said to himself I will not even think about putting down my little sister's name or my real father. They have done nothing wrong whatsoever.
Mother-
Stepfather (John)-
Wesley (Hippie Brother)-
Raoul (actor brother)-
Meg coughed and grabbed the piece of paper and pulled out her blue ink pen and wrote down her sisters' names without even thinking about them. She closed her eyes and inquired, "What do we do now?"
"Let's think methodically, let's put down their weaknesses and what annoys them," Bastion suggested wisely.
Mother-Overly religious and fails to see reality. Takes pride in her children and freaks out whenever they do anything that can be considered sinful. She also has anger problems.
Stepfather (John)-He has all brawn and no brain. Easily fooled, does whatever mother wishes of him. He too is a bit too religious for my taste.
Wesley (hippie brother)-He is usually drugged on something. Enough is said about him. He is easily crept out by sex because of health class when he was a freshman in high school.
Raoul (actor brother) - Mother's boy, proud, over dramatic, not even good at his job. He also has a superiority complex.
Meg laughed when she read Bastion's list. There had to be more to the family story than Bastion was letting on, but his mother sounded like a real bitch. "Is that all about your family, Misawa?" she asked while writing down the same thing for all of her sisters. Their weakness was they fit the amazonness mold, were too predictable, obsessed with men, and didn't know much of outside their clan which was falling apart.
"There's more," Bastion replied laughing, "What about your family? That can't be too awful?" Meg rolled her eyes trying to hide a small smirk.
"Well, they are like bratty high school girls that could physically rip me to shreds, and trust me, they would do that," replied Meg. Bastion tried to imagine Taniya wearing a miniskirt talking about the latest gossip while beating up somebody who called her fat. He continued laughing as he moved over towards Meg's seat on the floor.
"Do you have any brothers?" Bastion asked curiously as he watched Meg lay down on the wooden floor.
"I don't know. If I did, I never was able to meet them," The auburn-headed girl replied
Bastion remembered that the Amazon clans were comprised of women only; men were kept in cages for pleasure or for offspring purposes. That must suck for whoever fell in love with the Amazonian women.
"I'm sorry," said Bastion hoping he didn't bring up a touchy subject. Meg nodded as she looked at the list and she grabbed her companion's arm eagerly. I have an idea her mind yelled.
"What if you…" asked Meg whispering the rest of the sentence in his ear. His eyes grew wide and his face turned a bright shade of red.
"You can't be serious," said Bastion quickly.
"It's called acting," Meg interrupted quickly. "Like you would actually do that." Bastion sighed and rested his head against the bed and thought Maybe I should listen to her. That could work.
"That will be plan B," said Bastion, "We need something else to not give every one else at this school the wrong idea." He wracked his brain for some sort of idea that could possibly help them. He gave Meg a devious look and thought that's perfect. She's the key to the solution.
Mew Kazurinu: Sorry for the cliffhanger, but you'll see what I have planned. Doesn't it make you wish I would stop writing?