Aryssa's eyes shot open as she felt herself falling. Pain shot up her side, when she hit the ground.
Groaning, she picked herself up, glancing around at her surroundings. She realized that she was in the scanner room. In the abandoned building on the edge of the school grounds.
She nearly ran to the ladder, excited to actually know where she was.
She caught the after math of Arianna's conversation. "I don't know what happened to her!" she was saying.
"Well, figure it out!" Blake's voice came from the computer.
"I can't!" Arianna sounded panicked. "She's completely disappeared from the line of sight I have! She's not showing up on the computer at all!"
"Well she just couldn't have disappeared!" Meggie was shrieking. "People don't just vanish into thin air!"
"Oh, that would've been so awesome!" Aryssa half groaned, half laughed, as she walked over, clapping her hands a couple times. "I sort of wished that would've happened just to see what it would be like!"
Arianna jumped and looked around at Aryssa. "Ryss!" she cried, hopping out of the chair, and running up to her. "You're all right!"
"Sadly." Aryssa sighed, sarcastically. "I was hoping for something awesome to happen when you lost all your life points. Instead, I just showed up in the scanner room."
"Well, that's good to know." Arianna smirked, before turning back to the computer. "You hear that, guys?"
"Crystal clear, boss!" Chris yelled.
"Great. Now, I want all of you to get yourselves killed!"
"What?" Lori cried. "Why? We can take them!"
"No! Listen to me! You have to!"
"Fine…." Lori groaned.
Bradley came climbing up the ladder right after Lori had answered.
"That was quick." Aryssa raised her eyebrows over at the quiet boy.
"I was already low on life points." he muttered as if it were no big deal.
"Ah…." she turned back to Arianna. "Who's next?"
Arianna shook her head, "I really have no clue. Meggie's points were the lowest at first, but Chris is doing a good job of lowering his."
"What do you mean?" Aryssa asked, leaning over.
Bradley chuckled, as he came up to stand next to the two girls. "So it seems that Lori's having a bit too much fun."
"What do you mean?" Aryssa repeated, this time to Bradley, then she turned back to Arianna. "Tell me!"
"Lori took pleasure in killing me."
Aryssa jumped at the sound of Chris's voice from behind her. She turned to see him standing with a smirking Leorra.
"You have a crazy best friend." he muttered, smacking Lori on the back.
"Oh, she knows that!" Lori chuckled, waving her hand. "We covered that I was crazy long ago!"
"So that just leaves our two black haired friends." Bradley muttered, causing everyone to turn back to the computer.
"How're they doing?" Chris asked.
"Meggie just needs one more hit. Blake is having a hard time putting down his defenses." Arianna's voice lowered to a growl. "Apparently he doesn't understand the orders."
Aryssa moved behind her. "How many points does he have left?"
"Almost all of them. Meggie keeps taking a few here and there, trying to stay safe so she can get him… devitalized first, but she can't hold out much longer."
Aryssa watched as Meggie took another ten life points from Blake. But he still had over fifty left. At this rate, she'd never get him killed before herself.
"Meggie!" Chris suddenly cried, "Put yourself in the line of danger!"
"What?" Meggie cried, "That's a suicide mission!"
"Precisely!" Chris yelled back. "Blake's protective mode will kick in, and if we're lucky, he'll lose a good life points defending you, before you die!"
"You're kidding." Arianna gasped, turning towards him.
Chris shook his head, "You don't know Blake as well as I do. Of course, it would work better if it were someone else," he and everyone else smirked as if they knew who he was talking about. Aryssa half glared half pouted since she had no clue. "but, since she's not there, right now, we're just going to have to settle with Meggie."
"I take that as an insult!"
Everyone turned to see the black haired girl standing at the top of the ladder, with her arms crossed and a glare set on her face. Eyes widening, everyone turned back towards the computer.
"10 life points left." Arianna breathed. "Damn, Chris. Your plan worked.
"You sound surprised." Chris smirked.
"And you sound smug." Blake's voice came from the computer. "I heard your entire conversation and I'm gonna kill you as soon as I get out of here!"
"Well, the only way to be able to keep that promise is to get yourself killed."
Blake sighed, "How many more times do I have to get hit?"
"Just once." Arianna answered.
"Great. Distract me, that's the only way that this'll happen."
"How do we do that?" Meggie asked.
Chris turned to Aryssa and smiled. "This is where you come in, fair maiden." he bowed deeply.
Aryssa glared over at him. "Why me?"
"Because you distract him better than anyone else."
Aryssa rolled her eyes. "I don't know how to take that."
"Great." Chris smirked. "Now, go."
Aryssa turned to the computer, and sighed. "Hey Pervert." she smirked softly.
"Hey princess." Blake answered.
"So, how am I supposed to distract you?"
"Strip."
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"What?"