Ches shrank into the cold side of the desk, trying to slip away. Chase had a strange look in his eyes. Lust? Power? Hunger? Superiority? She had no idea.
Chase made one quick fluid motion and Ches was flung over his shoulder like a bag. She struggled and kicked and beat him with her fists, but she might as well have been hitting a tree. Chase barely even noticed, and one of Ches's pink clips had fallen out of her jet black hair. Chase started walking, but broke into a run out the school's front door, and started taking long jumps, trying to quickly reach a location.
Ches finally stopped screaming and asked where she was being taken and why.
"I'll tell you when we get there." His voice held both annoyance and a bit of joy.
Before Ches could say anything else, she felt herself fading and she blacked out.
She groggily opened her pale green eyes, which shot open as she gawked around the giant room. It had several different levels, each only reachable by stairs, and waterfalls were placed around the walls. Large plants took up space as well. Chase stood ten feet away, facing her, with a tiger at his side.
"Where am I? Why am I here? What's going on?" With each word her voice rose, but Chase seemed unmoved.
"You are in my home, Ches." He sneered.
"But-"
"You are here for a certain reason. Have you ever heard of people having extraordinary abilities? Well, you have some of the strongest waves of power I have ever seen."
"What are you talking about you freak? I don't have any powers!" Ches screamed.
"Because they haven't been awakened yet. But they are very close. With my help you can control them and even elevate them."
Ches stared at him, dumbfounded. "Dude, what the heck are you on? You're insane." She stood up to leave. But another tiger moved in her way and growled at her.
"Join me Ches, and together we can rule the world!" He extended a hand to her.
"I don't want to rule the world!"
He was at her side before she could blink. "You don't have a choice."
She glared. It was all she could do.
He held his hand out again. "Well?"
She sighed heavily. "Fine."
A couple days after Ches arrived at Chase's cave-house-thing, her powers "awakened" and her eyes turned bright yellow. Her powers allowed her to create a huge ball of energy to throw, whips to attack and hold opponents, and great martial arts skills.
A week after that, she managed to defeat Chase in a fight. She began to tolerate him, and accept the fact that she would never go back to the way she was. She was actually able to have a normal conversation with him, entirely unrelated to her training.
"Chase? Did you want to be evil?" She asked one night.
He took a moment to answer, avoiding her gaze. "No. I wanted to stay on the side of good, but I also wanted power. When Hannibal Bean offered me the soup, I took it."
"Do you ever wish you had changed your mind and not taken it?"
"No. The Haylin side offers much more power."
Ches was quiet for a minute. "I wish I wasn't on the side of evil."
"Why is that?"
"I really don't like hurting people. It's not right, and it makes me feel horrible."
"You'll get used to it. Actually, if you drink the soup, you might like the side of evil better."
Ches gaped at him, horrified. "I wouldn't! I don't want to be evil!"
"So why haven't you left yet?" Those words hung in the air and Ches let them sink in. She could have left when she had beaten Chase, because he wouldn't have been able to stop her.
"Well?" He asked.
She didn't really want to leave. She like training and becoming stronger, she even enjoyed just talking with Chase.
"Well, it's pretty cool here, I guess, and I'm not hurting anyone so I don't have to leave. Though I could do without Wuya." She sighed.
As if on cue, Wuya ran into the room, her arms flailing. "There's a new Wu! The Wushu Helmet!"
Ches sighed again. Chase nodded, and they both took off running, Ches behind them, easily keeping pace.
