Marina POV:

Me? ME? Fight? I feel a bit queasy.

Eight teleports to my side. "Marina, do you want to spar with me?"

I look into his soft brown eyes and suddenly I feel more confident. "Okay."

Ella whoops, "Go, Marina!"

Six grins at me and gives me the thumbs up. I'm happy that my friends are so encouraging so I decide to do it.

I smile, "Let's do this!"

Eight laughs and teleports to the middle of the room. I slip a paintball gun into my holster and hold the blade in my palm. It feels cool to the touch and I've never ever used a blade before. Except to cut veggie and raw meat for dinner nearly everyday of my life.

As I step facing Eight, I can't help but feel nervous. I can feel my knees shaking as I take my position.

John grins, "Ella, do you want to be referee?"

Ella's face glows pink with pleasure. "Yeah!"

I smile at her and she grins back at me.

"Go, Marina!"I can hear Six cheering for me.

"A-www, what about me?" asks Eight, "Don't I have any cheering fans?"

I just laugh.

Ella starts off. "3 - 2 - 1 - BEGIN!"

I do the only thing which comes to my mind. I slash at him. He just teleports somewhere else and my blade just slashes harmlessly through the cloud of blue vapor he left in his wake.

Instinctively, I turn around and see his dagger coming straight at me. I lift my blade but I don't hold it strong enough. Upon impact, it drops off my hand and skittles across the floor. Oops.

I dive wildly for it but Eight uses TK to hold me back.

Suddenly, I hear Ella's voice in my head. "Use your telekinesis to get your blade back, Marina."

I glimpse at her for a split second. Her mouth isn't moving but she is gazing intently at me. Her legacy is at work.

Quickly, I make the dagger zip back into my hand as Eight teleports beside me and swings his dagger. As I'm lying on the ground, I grip my dagger as hard as I can and lift it straight up.

ZING! A spark flew as his dagger hit mine. I nearly drop the dagger in shock. He tries to bowl me over with TK but I fight back.

However, I am too weak and I fall down backward. "OOOF!"

I feel the cool edge of Eight's dagger pressed against my neck and he suddenly grips my hand and I feel myself thin out. As in, it feels like I'm made of vapor.

I am holding Eight's hand and we're floating all around the room in vapor form. I peer into his soft brown eyes. "Am I being teleported?"

"Yes."

"Why does it take so long?"

"Because this is special. I can stay in the process of teleportation for a maximum of 5 minutes. During this time, I don't exist. WE don't exist."

"What do you mean?"

"To everyone's eyes, we are just gone."

"Oh."

Eight too, gazes deep into my eyes. "I've been planning to do this for ages. I've always been wondering who would be the first person to take this ride with me. It's you, Marina. I love you."

I'm suddenly feeling very romantic. And suddenly, our faces are just pressed into each other's and our lips touch in a blazing kiss.

(I would love to describe this scene more, i.e, the feel of his tongue, the sweetness of his breath, etc. But I shall leave it to your imaginations, they are way better at describing what I'm planning to describe…)

John's POV:

Eight won, as expected. POOF! They both teleport somewhere. I wait for them to appear again somewhere else but they don't. I can see the confusion written on everyone else's faces as well as mine.

Nine asked, "Did you just see what I saw?"

We all look a little bewildered just as Sarah and Sam walk into the room after their long nap. Marina and I have fixed up their scrapes and they both look way better than I last saw them.

"Hi, guys! Hey... Where's Eight and Marina?"

I just shrug. "I have no idea. Must've teleported somewhere. But one thing's for sure, we know Eight can't teleport too far away from here."

Sarah shrugs too. "Oh well. I brought you guys some drinks." She brandishes a box full of milo cartons.

We slurp them up greedily. Within ten seconds, Nine's carton is empty and he gazes longingly at Eight and Marina's cartons. "Oh well, I guess they're having fun somewhere."

And before anyone could stop him, he jammed both straws into his mouth and gulped them down.

"Hey!" says Sam, "Those were the last two left. There are no more in the larder."

Nine just crushes the two empty cartons in his fist. "Oh well, sucks to be them. The two lovebirds won't miss a thing." He says, nudging Six and winking.

Six just swats his arm away. Just at that moment, Marina and Eight appear right between Six and Nine, startling both of them.

"Missed us?" asked Eight, his hand still around Marina's.

Marina's face is flushed and she seems a little jittery.

"Where the HELL were you guys?" asked Nine.

Marina POV:

Whoops. While Eight and I were, um, 'hanging out', we forgot to think of an excuse for our disappearance.

I stutter, "Um, we were, em, doing ... stuff ... If you get what I mean, as in, stuff..."

I just slap my forehead. I am so bad at making excuses. I can hear Ella laugh in my head.

She says, "I think everyone knows what you and Eight were doing."

"What?", I ask back in my mind.

"I'll give you a hint." replies Ella's voice, and she makes smooching sounds in my head.

But, accidentally, she lets one smooch out the wrong way. As in, it came out of her mouth.

Everyone looks at her.

Six laughs, ruffling Ella's hair, "You're really cheeky, aren't you?"

Eight laughs back, "It's true, we were spending a bit of, well, private time together. Just the two of us, if you get my drift."

Nine looks at Six dreamily, "If only I had the teleporting legacy..."

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