I decided to re-do this chapter. Its taken soooo long because I've redone it about 30 million times and then I decided to scrap it and rewrite this whole thing, sooo. Yeahh that and I'm a lazy good for nothing teen
Chapter Seven: DDRing my Way into a Lot of Trouble
"Whatever you do, I'll do it too / Show me everything and tell me how / It all means something / And yet nothing to me / I can see there's so much to learn / It's all so close and yet so far / I see myself as people see me/ Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there."
I could see the beginnings of the sun on my horizon as I brushed my teeth. I hadn't had any strange dreams that night and, so far, things were going great. I put on my school uniform and watched it settle around my body. It reminded me of a Japanese school girl uniform; the skirt was plaid and pleaded and the top was white with a plaid tie. I chose to wear my hair down and I quickly refreshed my eyeliner before grabbing a piece of fruit for breakfast. I guess everything was ready...
I had just slipped on my shoes when I heard a knocking at the door. I picked up my bag and walked over to answer it.
"Hi." I greeted. Sora, Riku, and Kairi were at the door in their uniforms.
"Ready to go?" Kairi chirped. I nodded and closed the door behind me.
"We're not districted for buses, right?" I asked. They responded with looks of confusion.
"Buses?" Sora asked.
"Like a school bus?" I offered. Confused looks. Okkaay…
We were walking down the street and I was ending my explanation of school buses.
"Pretty much every school in Maryland had them even though they're huge, slow, and have no seatbelts." I finished.
"Wow." Kairi said. I shrugged.
"We're here!" Sora piped. I looked at the school building. It looked similar to any high school on Earth, but some of the architecture was a bit off. The roof was a little different then any of the schools I had been to (that was the most noticeable difference). The doors were huge and the steps were stone, as usual. I guessed that behind the building was the field.
It was just like any other school. Being here so long had allowed me to absorb more details and compare this world to Earth. I often wondered why each world was so similar to the other. Sure, they each had distinct qualities, but…….. Maybe it was because of the link they used to share?
"You coming?" Sora asked, pulling me along.
"Uh, yeah. Sorry I was thinking." I muttered.
"Sora wouldn't know what that feels like." Riku loudly whispered to me. Obviously Sora heard.
"Hey! I do think!" He exclaimed.
"Sometimes." Kairi piped. I smiled. Thank goodness I befriended nice kids...
First class: Science. Or something like it. Their logic was a little 'less advanced' than on Earth. But, in some ways, it was more advanced. They covered basic laws of energy (from what I read in the text book) and various other theories that were similar to ones on Earth. But, much like other worlds, they had what set them a little farther ahead then on Earth; the basic principle of magic. They weren't too advanced in mechanics though, I noticed. Harnessing electricity was still a problem for them.
The school educating system was a bit like High School on Earth; you'd have classes with people of all ages depending on your learning level.
"Finding everything okay, Passion?" I snapped my head up from the text book I had been staring at.
"Yeah." I nodded. The teacher put down her piece of chalk and erased the board. My mind told me that we still had a while left in class. Maybe we're going to do a lab? Or maybe she's doing a presentation………?
"Would you like to tell us a little about Earths science?" Oh crap. "We're all very interested." Oh, man... Sure I was good at Science back on Earth, but I'm no teacher... I could feel a bit of the blood in my face leave.
The teacher probably noticed my look of dismay, so she quickly added, "Or anything about your world. We're all very interested." Phew, that was better. Now all I had to think of was something interesting that wouldn't reveal too much information.
"Sure. Um, how about a popular game played on Earth?" I think that would work. It's not against the rules, right? I mean, it's just a game, how much could that affect the other worlds? Wait, when did I care? "And then you can ask questions based off of that."
"Oh, sounds interesting." she cooed. "By all means." The teacher gestured for me to come to the front.
I walked to the front of the room and looked at everyone. "Well, on Earth there is a very addictive game called DDR. DDR stands for Dance Dance Revolution." A hand immediately went up. It belonged to some dirty blonde chick (eh, I think her name was Noakai) in the back left of the room. "Um, yes?" I asked, wondering who could possibly have thought of a question already.
"Why is dance repeated twice?"
"I guess because it sounds cool." I shrugged. Note to myself: Find out if there's a reason as to why dance is repeated twice.
"Oh." she responded, nodding her head. "Go on."
"DDR is played by using a dance mat with four arrows." I drew a diagram of a dance mat on the board. "After you insert the game disk, you select what player you want to be and various other options. After you've chosen what music and level, you begin. On the screen, arrows fly by and you step on the mat according to arrow." I drew a picture of what the screen looked liked. "You can play it by yourself or with friends." The teacher stood up and excused herself from the class, saying that she needed to give some textbook to some other teacher and that I'd be able to handle this. Oh gee, great. Let me do your job for you. I don't mind. ;-;
As soon as the teacher left, another hand went up. However, this time it was that girl, um Abysia I think? I nodded my head toward her. With her left hand, she twirled her straight strawberry blonde hair and then rolled her perfect green eyes. "I don't see what's so fun about this. It sounds utterly boring and pointless." Her comment stung and immediately I thought up something to say back to her about her 'utterly boring and pointless' life. Instead, I just shrugged.
"It's actually quite challenging because it requires a huge amount of coordination and concentration. It takes a lot of practice and is great exercise." I held out my right hand, palm faced down. I had chosen to wear my hologram ring today incase something like this happened. I could feel the silver base of the ring become warm as streams of greenish light etched their way up the sides and into the light emerald gem that was cradled in the ring. "Hologramorph 90987," I commanded it. Small dots of green light gathered around the top of the gem and formed a flat display 'ground'. Then, a picture was formed of a stick figure DDRing on heavy. "This is what it looks like when someone DDR-s." I had purposely put it in heavy to make it look harder. Everyone watched the object as it jumped and moved across the dance pad.
Just as the teacher entered the room, the bell rang. I turned off my screen and got my stuff as we were dismissed to our next class.
"That was some presentation." Riku said as we walked out of the classroom.
"I hate being unprepared for things like that." I shook my head. "It puts me into such a panic."
"You didn't seem panicked though. Good job." He smiled at me and I couldn't help but smile back.
"Thanks."
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The next few classes went by in a blur. It was "Earth this" and "Earth that" constantly. It became routine to answer their questions because they were usually repeated. I had a class like PE next with Sora, Kairi and Riku. This I worried about. I was fine in sports back on Earth, but the rules here just seemed so complicated. Sora and Riku made an attempt to explain what they were currently playing in gym. It was a game called, um, Bliss Ball or something. They said for now we were playing it dry which I didn't get at all.
Crap I'm screwed. I thought to myself as Kairi and I walked into the girl's locker room. We walked to an area with benches and lockers. I opened the one I had been assigned to and took the clothing out. There were like, seven different articles of clothing
"We're wearing these two today." Kairi said with a smile. They were the blue pair of shorts and white T shirt.
"Thanks. Gah, I'm so lost." I said while pulling my school shirt off and slipping the other shirt on.
"Don't worry. You'll get used to being here in a few days." She pulled her shorts up and folded her skirt. We put our stuff into our lockers and headed out of the locker room.
In the gym, most of the kids were seated toward the front in a half circle. Kairi and I found Riku and Sora who were already seated in the half-circle. We sat next to them.
"I'm so excited." Sora said as soon as we were seated. "I've been practicing so hard, so I think I'm ready to Blitz."
"Coach'll probably notice this time. I'm sure he'll give you game time next class." Riku replied.
"I hope he doesn't give me any." Kairi muttered. "Sports just aren't my thing. I'll probably get beamed in the face again."
"That was so funny last time." Sora laughed and Kairi hit him in the back of the head, which caused us all to laugh. Well, except for Sora. Then, a bulky man stepped into the center of the half circle and called the class to attention.
"Today we will be playing Blitz Ball on the field. Everyone will be split into two teams. Playing time will vary from person to person. Got it? Now, get your equipment." Everyone stood up and got into a line. After we got ours, I examined the vest as we walked to the far side of the gym to put it on. It was shaped a lot like a harness, with 2 straps across the front which tightened everything. The main part of it was a dark blue and the straps were both black. I mimicked Kairi and pulled the vest over my head. I looked the straps, figuring that they would be the normal Velcro or snap ones. As I looked at the tips, I realized that they were neither. Each were located on my right side below my under arm. I couldn't figure out how they were supposed to be put on, so I turned to look at Kairi who had already arranged hers correctly and was putting on gloves. Sora had already put on one glove and was slipping on the second. Riku had just finished strapping up his last glove.
"Um, how do I put this on?" I asked, holding up both the straps. They just kind of looked at me (one of those 'What the hell? Can you say drugs?' looks). "I never used anything like this on Earth. We used Velcro instead." Riku turned toward me.
"Let me show you." He pointed to the strap on his right side. "This one connects across the front to the other side on a diagonal." I held up my right strap and pulled it toward my left hip.
"How?"
"Like this," He reached toward me and took the strap from my hand. Then, he attached it to a yellow button on an area near my hip bone by applying a small amount of pressure. "See? It's pretty easy."
"Do I do the same with the other strap?" I asked, noticing his was slightly different. Because both straps were located on the right side, I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to make an X in the center.
"No, here. Like this." He took hold of my second strap and pulled it right to left so it held just under my chest. Then, he wrapped it through a loop parallel to the line and pulled it into a diagonal pressing the end into another yellow button.
"Ooooh." I said, realizing why I looked like such an idiot. It was so simple. "Thank you so much."
"No problem." I quickly slipped my gloves on and strapped them up. "Let's go to the field now." he said, pointing to a door located on the bottom right side of the gym.
"Okay!" Kairi and I said in unison. We, along with several other kids in the gym, walked out of the door onto a field that was brightly lit by the sun. The field was mostly packed down sand with 2 large areas of square grass. The overall layout looked really nice and the turf looked like it would be good for doing sports. The coach stood in the middle of the field holding a blue and white ball that looked like it had warts. He blew his whistle to get everyone's attention.
"It's time to weed out the boys from the men. Spilt up! Ya'll over there, ya'll over here." In about five minutes, we were all divided into 2 teams. As far as I could tell, it was about 20-20. On my team there were Riku, Sora, Kairi, that chick from Science, Abysia, Tidus, a guy named Riyuno, a shy brunette named Sayo, some blonde guy who had introduced himself to me(I'm horrible at names), and about ten other people I didn't know. About half of our team was called up to play, the other 10 of us sat back and watched until second quarter. Sora, Tidus, Sayo, Kairi, the blonde dude (Reiyin? Maybe.), and a few of the kids I didn't know were playing. Sora was in goal and Kairi was in what looked like defense. The ball was thrown into the air and a mad scuffle was made to claim it.
"Do you get what's happening?" Riku asked. I opened my mouth to say no, but then I was interrupted.
"Of course she doesn't know what's happening." Abysia said, sliding to sit next to Riku in the bleachers. A mass of the girls on our team followed her. She leaned forward to look past Riku at me. "Is it hard being so clueless?"
"I'm not so much clueless as I am new." I said with a smile.
"Whatever." She rolled her eyes and did this annoying hair flip. "So Riku, what're you doing this weekend?" her eyes flirting with his. Who cares? I averted my attention to the field as Abysia droned on and on about herself.
Sora had just caught the ball and threw it back into the field and attempted to figure out the game. Sayo caught it and punted it to Tidus. I felt someone behind me tap my shoulder. It was Riyuno.
"Having trouble understanding what's going on in the game?" he said, getting up and sitting in the seat next to me.
"I don't really get the positions..." I halfway muttered, tilting my head as I gazed across the field. He pointed to the kid on the other team on the far left side of the field who had just caught the ball.
"He plays defensive and partners with Zel, the brunette guy in the front." Riyuno went on explaining what was the happening the whole game until the coach blew his whistle.
It was our turn. Oh Crap.
That's all for now. I'm currently working on redoing everything I have up until this point because I wanna change the way the story's going. Please read the earlier chapters because they will be drastically changed. Thank you!