"Its OK." Lash whispered in my ear. "I don't know why you were fighting with that your little sister but I am sure that you guys can work things out."

I sniffed and moved out of his hug. Maybe Lash wasn't so bad after all. "Correta I need to tell you something about me."

"What?" I said.

"Have you ever heard of Royal Pain?"

"Yeah she was in this Super Hero magazine my dad gets. She was the one that took over our school. Didn't she turn every one into babies?"

Lash looked very uncomfretable."Yeah she did. Listen. I know that you don't like me because you think that I am trouble. Well I am. Last year I was one of the people that helped Royal Pain."

I looked at him totally shocked. "I thought that all her helpers were sent to jail along with her."

"I did go to jail, but I was let out this year to finsh school and stuff like that. So is Speed. Only he isn't all that repented about what we did, but I am. I know that I am bad, but I want to change!" His face was all messed up like I had never seen it before. He looked to helpless. I knew that if I had any common sense I would run from what would be a villain, but at least he didn't want to be one.

"Does Beccah know?" That was the only thing that came to mind as I thought about Lash. I did not want him to hurt her at all.

"Yes she deos, but she wanted me to tell you." He smiled. "Thats one of the reasons I like her so much.She knows me and loves for who I am. Kind of like you and Warren."

"What do you mean?"

"You know whith Warren's dad being a super villlain most people stay a way from him. Will Stonghold didn't and nether do you so he must not be like his dad at all."

I felt light headed. Warren's dad was a villian? Know wonder he looked so hurt when I had asked him about his dad the other day. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I think that I should go inside now. I need to cook."

"Umm. Correta?"

"What?"

"Thanks for understanding."

"Hey Rie girl." Mom said as I came in. "Who were you talking to outside. "

"Oh that was Lash." I said as I put down my dress on the coach. "he wanted to talk to me about something."

"Oh think I know what you mean. he came over today to talk to your father."

"Really?" I started to move toward the kicten to make dinner with mom. "What about?"

"It was so sweet but he wanted to tell him that he liked Baccah and he told us about himself."

"Did he tell you about Royal Pain?" I took out a big pan to boil water in.

"Yes he did." Mom started to help to make the spagetti. "I thought at first that I would never let him near my daughter but I got to thinking. I don't think that I would have the guts to come up to a lady that I had never met and tell her about my questionable past. So he must really like Beccah I think. And I know that Beccah likes him to for she and I talked about him yesterday."

"Thats good." I said as I put noodles in the boiling water. "Hey I forgot to ask you, but when school started I had to have that flyingStronghold. Do you know them?"

"Yeah I do. Josie and I were really good friends during high school. Do they live near here?"

"I think so." I said as I took off the noodles to drain them. "Maybe we should have them over for dinner some time."

"I would like that a lot." Mom said smiling.

Dinner that night went ok. Noelle didn't talk much but the food was very good. Elaine told us all about how she was going to follow me to school one day as a little bird. There was a lot of laughing as she told us how she was going to do it.

After lunch , in the garage Noelle told us that Annalee and Eric were coming home tommorow. "When is the dance again?"

"In three days." I said as I opened A box to see if I had left anything out. "SO when are you guys coming to set up this stuff?"

"Umm Lets work that out with mom and dad. first. I think I am going to bed."

When Beccah and I went into our room, I told her about my incounter with Lash. "I am glad that you at least like him now." Beccah said as she snuggled down into her bed.

"Hey I did not say anything about liking him liking you at all. Your still to young to date."

"Yeah, I know but if he is willing to wait a little bit of time for me than I could not be happier."

"Than I an happy for you."

The next morning we headed off to school in our own sepreate directions. I got there fist of course and sat down in the nice fall leaves. I picked up the breeze a bit to make the leaves scatter and dance on the wind. I was so absorbed in playing with the leaves that I didn't notice when Warren came up behind me.

"Hey," he said as he sat down beside me.

I jumped and stopped what I was doing. All the leaves fluttered to the ground.

"Don't stop," Warren said ruffly.

I immidietly started the beeze that blew them in around. I concentrated really hard and tryed to make the leaves go into the shape of a tree. It took a while because I had to keep the leaves moving, but eventually a moving, living tree could be seen.

"Wow," Layla said walking up.

Warren shushed her gruffly.

"Don't make her loose her concentration."

I then tryed to make a bird. I through of Elaine and how she looked when flying. The bird looked exactly like her-- except a much bigger robin with all it's feathers having to rearrange it self constantly.

"It's like your own form of art," Layla said with awe.

"Oh, this is nothing," Beccah said," My mom and her sometimes dance on the wind together. That is one of the most beautiful things ever."

"Not like this isn't beautiful," Magenta said with a bit of sarcasim to it, just to keep up apearances.

The bell rang for class and I let the leaves go. We all watched as the blew across the school yard and headed out towards the clouds surounding Sky High.

"We should get to class," I said standing up.

"We all turned to go inside.

"Hey, guys," Beccah said,"What should be the name of our team?"

"What?" Ethen asked.

"We're a team, right? Yesterday, during the fight in the cafteria, proved it. So what do we want to be called?" she explained.

We all looked at each other. Then we all looked at Will our leader.

"Don't look at me? I don't know what we should be called." he said.

"Lets give ourselves time to think about it." I suggested.

"Why don't we go over to my house after school and disscuse it more then?" Will said glad he didn't have to make a descion right there and then.

"Every body think about what you want to be called," Layla said as she headed to her first class.

I headed to English. I was the only one in class to have read the assignment and so I was the only one to get on the good side of the teacher that day, but I really don't like all the other students not liking me.

Next was Mad Science. I meet up with Warren as we walked into the class room. I followed him in. We sat down, but didn't say anything all during class. As we got up to leave for lunch, Speed dashed past and knocked Warrens bag to floor. Papers and books flew every where with a little help from Speed. As he speed out of the room laughing, Warren, myself, and Lash knelt down to pick everything up. At first Warren didn't notice, but as soon as he did...

"What do you think you are doing!"

"I'm helping you." Lash said barly flinching.

"It's okay, Warren," I said soothingly.

Warren looked at me like I had grown a second head.

"What do mean it's okay? This is Lash the guy who teazed your sister, yesterday and caused a fight in the cafteria," He said.

"I know, but I also know that if he didn't stop to help pick up your books that he would be in big trouble later," I said calmly.

"With whom?" Warren wanted to know.

"Me," I said as I put the last book in his bag,"Lets go eat lunch. I'm starved. Do you want to eat lunch with us, Lash?"

"Sure," he said hesitently looking at Warren.

Warren looked frustrated and bewildered, but he followed us.

Every one was but Beccah was surprized when Lash joined. She just squealed with delight,"Yeah, you finally decided to join us. Oh, I have a question for you about my home work."

She and Lash bent over her home work and every one looked at me to explain.

"So?" Magenta said raising one eyebrow.

"Lash has been tutoring her in school and he hasn't been so bad since," was all I said for explination.

After lunch I started to head to the gym, but Warren dragged me aside by pulling me by my elbow.

"Why didn't you tell me or any of us this before?" he wanted to know.

"It wasn't my place to tell. If Beccah wants to tell you that than okay, but she didn't and so I didn't."

"Do your parents know about this?"

"Yes."

"And you telling me that Eagle Eye and WhirlWind are letting him date their daughter?"

I sighed. This was where it got complicated.

"No, we Pride girls aren't aloud to date," I said.

"What, I don't get it?" Warren said.

"Lash and Beccah are just friends for know. Do you really think that my dad would let Beccah be involved with any one whom he didn't aprove? He met Lash and checked him out. He knew about Lashes shady past before I did and you want to know how he found out. Lash told him, voluntarily. So I'm really not worried at this point about Lash. If he ever does do anything to her I make sure that he will never do the same to any other girl,"I said hoping that he would calm down.

"You cool?" I asked him after letting him work through the information I had just given him.

"Yeah," he said still concerned.

"We're late for gym," I said speeding down the halls.

We were late for gym, but that was okay because we were playing a game called obsticale. Basicly we had to make our way down and out of an impossible obstical course. At first we had to get though it by ourselves. Only five kids made it out. Stronghold, Speed, Lash, Beccah, and the kid that could trasport.

Warren and few of the others were frustrated about not making it.

"Alright peoples," Coach Boom shouted,"Form your selves into groups and see if the team can make it out in five minutes."

We all looked at each other. Layla, Beccah, Zack and Magenta were on a team we decided and Will, Warren, Ethen, Lash, and I were on a team.

"The entire team must make it out or it doesn't count," Coach Boom shouted as the first team, Beccah and Layla's, got ready to go.

Surpisingly enough, they made it through. Magenta shape shifted into her ginea pig and Layla carried her. Layla protected Zach with her plants and Beccah played defense as she made a path for her team mates through the different obticales.

"Well, done. Next!" Boomer shouted.

"We'll go next," Speed said aragantly.

His team didn't make it.

My team had to go next.

"Get ready, get set, GOOO!" Coach Boom shouted.

We headed into the maze. The dragon at the beginning was no biggy. Warren just stood in the way of his fire and had us go while he let us get ahead and then he followed. The falling rocks were easy to avoid, but the Pirana infested waters with the randomly shooting arrows and rocks and stuff were a bit beyond us at first. We couldn't go over no room and no likey the arrows. We couldn't go under Piranas not my cup of tea. Will took Warren and I took Lash and we tryed making it across. Will and Warren made it, bit just barly. Lash and I weren't so lucky. I got hit by an arrow in my shoulder. I neerly dropped Lash. He streched us back to shore before the piranas got us. I grimaced in pain as he looked at my wound.

"It doesn't look to bad. You should live, but I don't think that you should carry me across," He said as we hid behind the rocks to avoid any more arrows and such.

"I have an idea," I said.

"What?" he asked.

"Wait here. If this doesn't work we're going to have quite a problem on our hands," I said as I headed back towards the dragon.

I threw a rock at it's head and got it to follow me. I had to really move as it followed me. As soon as we got to the part with arrows and piranas I knew that it would have enough room to spread it's wings and fly. I didn't know if I could fly faster than it with my hurt shoulder. I picked up Lash with out even stopping to explain what was going on. I ducked behind the rocks on the other side and as the dragon flew over us. I started to fly again with Lash using the Dragon as a shield.

We were almost across when the dragon noticed us he breathed his flame and would have scorched us had Warren not jumped in the way of the flame. Lash streched and caught Warren before he fell into the water. I crashed into the bank on the other side of the water. Will picked me up and started to carry me to the finish line. Warren ran beside us and Lash did flipped ahead of us.

We crossed two seconds before the buzzer sounded.

"Yeah!" Will said zooming around in a little circle.

Lash flipped right next to me.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah," I said weakly. I was starting to get a little dizzy and nauscious.

"Lets look at that shoulder," Lash said gently.

"What's wrong with her?" Warren said kneeling beside us.

"She got hit with an arrow," Lash explained.

"You let her get hit with an arrow!" was the last thing I heard before I fainted.

I woke up in the nurses office and my mom was talking to the nurse.

"She should be fine. You have one very tough young lady, there," she told mom.

I closed my eyes again and remembered everything that had happened. Was Lash okay? Did Warren hurt him and was Beccah ready to kill Warren? Or would she want to kill Lash for lettting me get hurt? Uhg, my aching head.

I opened my eyes again and say that I was alone. Mom and the nurse must have gone to work out the huge mess that must have unsued when I blacked out.

"What a time to faint," I chidded myself.

I got up and slowly made my way out into the hall. I was weak and slightly vurnable at the moment. This made all the sound around me come rushing in. I could hear Coach Boomer getting railed on by the nurse for letting "Children" do something so dangerious. I could also hear my mom calling my dad and telling him what had happened. Then from somewhere else I heard Warren shouting.

I walked toward where the sound, hoping I could stop anything drastic from happening. There was a room near Priciple Powers office. The door to it was all black compared to the detention rooms all white.

I tryed to open it. It was locked, but it said in a computer voice," Voice recognition required."

"Principle Powers," I said in perfect imiation of her voice.

The door opened and I saw Warren in a black room ragging like a mad bull.

"Are you done throwing your little temper tantrume or do you need a little bit more time," I asked.

He turned around startled.

"Your okay," he said relieved.

"Yeah, I'm okay," I said sarcasticly,"Why did they lock you in here? Something wrong with the detention room?"

He look at his surroundings and then he grabbed my elbow and ran out of the dark, spooky room. Out in the hall he relaxed a little and said,"That's where they put the really bad villians."

"So why were you in there?" I asked.

He looked at me with a look of almost hatred fear.

"Lash," was the one word answer.

"Your scared of Lash?" I asked.

"No!"

"Then why are you scared?" I challenged rubbing my still aching head.

"I didn't like being in that room... It reminded me too much of prison," Warren said.

"Okay," I said remembering that Warren's dad was a villian,"Come on they've relised that I'm missing and are starting to send out a search party."

"How do you know?" Warren asked.

"When I get weak like this some times I can't control sound, but I can hear everything near by really well. It's a defense mechanism that my body has I guess," I said as we headed to the gym where all the sound was coming from.

When I walked in it all went quite. Everybody was there. The nurse saw me and walked over to check on my shoulder and Will, Layla, Beccah, and the whole gang followed after her. My mom flew over and said,"Are you feeling better?"

"No, she's not," said the nurse after looking at me with her lazer vision."I don't know how your still walking around with that shoulder and your dislocated knee."

"My knee is dislocated?" I said looking down,"I thought that I had just scrapped it on my landing."

The nurse and Beccah rolled theirs eyes in unision.