Superhero Blues
Chapter 6: A Froggy Situation
Okay, here is chapter 6. So, you can see now how Kendra's superpowers get her in trouble, right? What about her friend? By the way, I have a new poll in my profile. It's about which super power you would have if you could have one. Vote now!
"Hey Kennie." Wilbur turned to Kendra in the bubble bus line to go home (people in Wilbur's year would take a bubble to go to specific places). Kendra stood with her new friend Zoey Shape, a shape shifter who used to go to Super School.
"Hi, Wil. Zo, you remember my brother, right?" Kendra asked Zoey.
"Yeah, I do. Hi, Wilbur." Zoey sort of hid her face in her blonde hair, the sun made her eyes twinkle. Wilbur smiled longingly. He just could not help but stare into Zoey's blue eyes. The sunlight was blocked with the clouds, and Zoey's eyes stopped sparkling. Zoey no longer looked nice, but looked concerned.
"Wilbur," Zoey told Wilbur. "I think I see something in your ear. It's white."
Wilbur shook his head. He touched his ear; it felt warm and weird. "Ew," Kendra flinched. "Wil, a bird dropped it's droppings on you!"
"What? Oh, oh my God!" Wilbur tried getting the white stuff out of his ear. He looked at Zoey, embarrassed that he didn't know that. Zoey still looked concerned, and Wilbur ran inside the school to the bathroom.
Zoey looked at Kendra. "That must be the fourth time Wilbur looked at me and didn't pay attention to anything. It's like he would be staring at me in the middle of the road, and not realize a car would be coming toward him. Weird."
Kendra agreed. She looked at the other bubbles picking people up. "Our bubble must be late. The wind direction probably changed."
By the time everyone was gone, the bubble still hadn't come. Wilbur must have been still getting his ear cleaned. Kendra became bored. Then she asked, "Zoey, you can shape shift into anything, right?"
"Yeah, I can."
"Can you turn into a frog for me?"
Zoey thought about that. "No. Why should I?"
"Because I hadn't seen you turn into anything in a while since you decided to be superhero-home schooled. I bet you would be a cute little frog for Wilbur. Maybe he would kiss you and then…" Kendra paused, giggling a little about how Wilbur and Zoey act to each other. Zoey became annoyed.
"Don't say that. And I'm still not turning in to a frog."
"It won't be that bad, ya know. I mean, if you don't want to, let's talk about how Wilbur is acting toward you and how maybe, just maybe, are meant for each other…"
Zoey clenched her own hands. She sighed. "Fine, I'll turn into a stupid frog!" It took about five seconds for Kendra to see her friend physically morph into a simple green frog. First, it took Zoey to decrease in size. Then she had her skin turn slimy green, then have the rest of her body to have webbed feet and buggy bulging eyes. The only thing Kendra noticed was that Zoey still had her circular pink flower stuck on one side of her tiny green head. That was one problem Zoey was born with when it comes to her shape shifting.
Zoey croaked. Kendra smiled. To her, seeing her friend morph into something did not seem disturbing. Kendra picked up Zoey's slimy body to her lap. "Aw, you're so cute!"
Zoey rolled her wet froggy eyes.
Kendra spotted her science teacher walking past her. He saw Kendra holding Zoey. A fly buzzed next to Zoey. Zoey caught it with her tongue. "Oh, hi, Kendra. That must be the frog that tried to escape the lab. Thank you for finding it. Maybe you could get extra credit on that science test you are going to have."
The teacher easily pulled Zoey's wet and slimy body out of Kendra's hands. Kendra tried to get her friend back, telling him, "No, that frog is not yours! It's—"
"The school's, I know that. Thank you for reminding me, Kendra." The teacher informed her. Zoey was squirming in the teacher's hairy hands. She could not turn back into herself, seeing how that could blow her superhero secret.
Kendra shrugged to Zoey. Kendra saw Zoey's webbed arm raised in the air, curled up into a green fist and waving back and forth. Kendra did not know that frogs like Zoey would look mad.
Wilbur rushed out of the school door. He told Kendra, "What did I miss? Where's Zoey? It's like she sees me here and then decides to disappear on me."
Kendra ignored Wilbur. She called to her teacher, "Hey, I don't think that it's the school's. It could be—" She saw a woman leap onto her teacher.
"Take your hands off that frog!"
Kendra was too surprised to see that her mom lunged out to her teacher. Franny and some other of her friends Kendra never knew held signs that probably was about "Anti-Frog Dissection" Franny's group crowded around into a circle where Zoey was still being held by the teacher.
"What's this about?" Wilbur asked Kendra. "And why is Mom attacking our science teacher with those 'Anti-Frog Dissection' signs?"
The science teacher screamed as he was being attacked. Franny grabbed Zoey out of his hands and held her up in victory. Her friends crowding around them cheered. "Hey, Mom." Wilbur ran up to his mom. He grabbed Zoey, and realized when he looked at her that the frog was Kendra's friend. He looked at Franny. "Mom, what's with this? Are you going on strike?"
"Yes." Franny replied. "And also saving frogs from labs. What, I didn't tell you?"
Kendra replied, "No."
"Oh." Franny looked at Kendra's science teacher, who already ran off. "Serves him right."
Kendra saw Zoey in Wilbur's arms. She seemed bored. "Mom, you know that frog was my friend."
"Really? I didn't know you have friends who were frogs!"
Kendra sighed. "No, I didn't mean that. I meant that the frog you saved was Zoey."
Franny observed the frog. She noticed the flower stuck on Zoey's frog head. Zoey decided to change back to herself. Wilbur found himself with Zoey in his arms. "Sorry, Wil." Zoey grinned to Wilbur. Wilbur could not even feel the pain under Zoey's weight. Wilbur stared back at her, looking like he was looking at fireworks. "Um, Wilbur, you can put me down now."
"What?" Wilbur seemed lost in Zoey's eyes. Suddenly, he shook his head. He immediately dropped Zoey to the ground.
"Ow!"
Wilbur shook out his dizziness. "Oh, sorry. I was distracted." He sounded embarrassed.
Zoey silently forgave Wilbur. She looked to Kendra. "Kendra?"
"Yeah?"
"Next time, let's not get into this froggy situation again."
Yeah, I know. Poor Zoey. :-)
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