Chapter 7

Jade scowled. This was boring. Not to mention annoying. She figured anybody who had to watch twins flirting with a guy nonstop would find it getting old. Oh goody. The cotton candy shop. She roughly pushed Shirley who was in her way. Seeing her miffed expression, Jade stared at her, causing her to shift her gaze. What? Jade reasoned with herself, she deserved that anyway.

Plunking a couple of dollar bills onto the countertop, she grabbed a bag of cotton candy and left. Pink cotton candy. Her favorite. Taking bits of it, she carefully placed it in her mouth, savoring its sweet and sugary goodness as it melted. Mmmm. She closed her eyes in delight. Cotton candy was the world's greatest invention.

"Hey, could I have some of that? It looks good." Someone said, interrupting her state of bliss. She stared him down, or tried to. She couldn't understand it, how could she not be able to stare him down! Who was it you ask? Wally West of course.

Seeing her staring at him, he took it upon himself, to decide whether or not she meant yes or no. He took the yes. He casually plucked the bag of cotton candy out of her hands, and began munching happily, offering some to Sharon and Shirley at the same time.

His mouth full of pink cotton candy, he asked Jade, "Do you want some?"

"Eeeeyah!" Some kind of primal screech answered him with a 'give me back my cotton candy' expression on her face. He laughed as he saw what seemed to be dark clouds gathering around Jade, and just to tick her off, he popped the last of the pinky goodness into his mouth. Glancing back at her, he noticed that the clouds crackled dangerously indicating lightning.

"Oh I'm sorry," he grinned, "Did you want this back?" He tossed an empty bag back to her, only a faint aroma indicating that there had once been cotton candy in it, five minutes ago. A sound of thunder came from the clouds that were surrounding Jade. Her eyes glowed, her power begging to be let loose. Her last sane thought was good thing she wore sunglasses that day.

And that was it. Jade was tearing down the path chasing Wally with only one goal: Get that idiot and bring him down.

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Gar doubled over laughing. Blackmail? They blackmailed her? That was genius! Absolutely genius!

When Gar began cracking up again, Kori decided it would take too long for him to stop laughing, and jumped in with a question. "Do you have any news of our friend? We painfully miss her."

"Tell me about how she slapped the bachelor!" Tara added excitedly; it must have been funny. (A/N: remember, the camera crew were kicking themselves for not getting her slapping him on film.)

"Wait, why did Wally give Jade a rose; she couldn't have gotten on his good side. It's impossible. She slapped him." Rachel wondered aloud.

"Yes, WHYYY!" Kori demanded. She loved all this drama; she began poking him, "Whyyy?" Poke, poke, poke.

Rubbing his arm, Gar began complaining, it was fun to draw out the story slowly, and make the audience wait. "Kori, my arm hurts too much. I can't talk right now, I need some sleep…"

"Or you could talk right now" Rachel said in a low, low tone.

"Yes, I agree." Tara said tossing some pebbles up and down in her hand menacingly. "These might really hurt." She looked at him pointedly, "If they were accidentally thrown at you."

"Guys, just…chillax. All right? I'll explain everything." Gar said casually. He winced, did that chillax really sound as lame as he thought it did?

"Chillax?" Tara echoed. She started laughing. "Maybe you shouldn't say that, you might save face."

"Maybe?" Rachel smirked. "Try never." Amidst her three friends, Kori looked around confusedly. What did chillax mean? She groaned. She missed out on something funny, again. Being from another planet, had its disadvantages.

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Wally West grinned so widely that even his eyes seemed to be laughing. He had no idea how fun this would be. Jade could never catch him. He was Kid Flash, the fastest guy alive, but she didn't know that, and that was what made it so fun. Occasionally, he would act as if he was tiring, and slow down until he was just out of her reach, and then speed up again, leaving her far behind. Her enraged shriek would make him laugh.

Whoops. There he went and tripped again. It was weird. He had been continuously tripping, and occasionally falling; that had never happened before. He looked down at his dirty jeans. He tended to fall in muddy places for some reason. Wally shrugged it off; it was probably because he was out of practice.

Cresting the top of a hill, he stopped and turned around. He hadn't heard a single rude comment from Jade since…well, a long time. Using his hand to shield his eyes from the sun, he squinted to see if he could find a head of pink hair in the crowd of people. After all, they were at the amusement park. There were bound to be a lot of people on a day like this. Sharon and Shirley! His mind froze. He had completely forgotten about…oh wait, there's Jade! He now focused on this new discovery, conveniently forgetting about the twins. Again.

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There he was, standing there so full of himself. Jade glared at him while she took a breather. Gulping air, she leaned against a tree for support. She wasn't so keen on catching him anymore, she was just so exhausted. How did the guy keep running? She smiled wryly, although, he did manage to fall a couple times. I wonder why…Jade allowed herself a satisfied smile, which quickly faded.

What was she supposed to do now. She instinctively knew she couldn't catch him. He was just naturally faster she supposed, with a whole lot more endurance. She groaned aloud. What did she have to do to beat him? An idea bubble quickly rose in her head, which she just as quickly popped. No, she couldn't "accidentally" melt his shoes to the ground so he couldn't move. That would be too much bad luck. People would start questioning, and eventually trace it back to her, somehow. It was better to lay low.

"Hey!" she shouted to the redheaded boy on the hill. "Would it kill you to buy me some cotton candy?"

Before she fully realized it, Wally appeared in front of her. Seeing her unbelieving eyes of ' I cannot believe he got here so fast ' he decided to answer her unspoken question like a gentlemen.

"You could say I'm a track star." Wally smirked. "Oh, and yeah it might." At that Jade grabbed the front of his shirt, to threaten him, only to realize she was holding air. Huh? She grabbed for him again, only to miss. Smoke came out of her ears. He had fast reflexes too? This was not fair. More of Jade's grabbing, punching, and kicking resulted in hitting nothing. Zilch.

Looking up at his laughing blue eyes, her temper went unchecked. Jade grabbed the nearest object next to her, a WATCH OUT - YOU MIGHT SLIP! sign, and slammed it on his head.

Wally went down like a rock. Uh oh. Jade looked worriedly around as people began whispering. Hoisting him onto a conveniently located wheelbarrow, she rolled him over to where she had seen Sharon and Shirley last. They would know what to do.

After a full ten minutes of wheeling around Wally, she finally spied the twins. She yelled at them to come help her, which she soon regretted. Upon meeting the twins, Jade was immediately greeted with accusations.

"What did you do to poor Wally?"

"You better not have hurt him." Sharon glared at her forcefully, "Come on Shirley, let's go find the park infirmary."

The two snobbishly walked away from her while carting the limp, unconscious Wally. Beginning to feel bad, Jade followed them through the amusement park.

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Wally woke up feeling very tired, with a dull throbbing coming from the back of his head. When he started to get up, he couldn't, he was weighted down by two objects. Sharon and Shirley to be exact. They had fallen asleep clutching to one of his arms. He smiled as he gently shook them, waking them up.

"Wally!" The two simultaneously launched themselves at him and hugged the bachelor as if they wouldn't ever get another chance. Looking at Jade over the top of their heads, he looked at her meaningfully.

She was leaning against the doorframe of the room uncomfortably. Seeing his glance, she figured she should apologize, and mumbled one. She was never big on apologies.

"What?" He cocked his head as if he was bad of hearing. "I couldn't hear you."

"Sorry." Jade snapped and left abruptly, leaving an awkward silence in her wake.

"She's such a rude little thing isn't she?" Looking down to his left, he saw Shirley eye him. "I would be so much better for you."

"What!" His head snapped to the right facing Sharon. "I would be much better for you than my ugly little sister."

"Ugly? I'm your twin!"

"Ladies, ladies…" Wally interrupted the two smoothly, preventing another fight. When the three finally made it outside the infirmary they spotted Jade waiting for them, finishing a bag of pink cotton candy.

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