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Chapter 5: The Results Aren't As Expected
Normal POV
Silence was the only thing that filled the room. Not a heartbeat could be heard. Even when it was full of warriors such as the ones sitting inside. The day hadn't turned out to be what they had expected at all. Many confusions brought on irritation and uncertainty to the table.
"Claire simply would not follow through with the rules." Liu Kang had huffed out, obviously unhappy with his new 'student'. He tried his best to put up with her attitude and he did - this did not mean he was not bothered by it though.
"Jennifer is in good shape but she has problems memorizing all of the moves thoroughly." When Kung Lao mentioned this Johnny only grinned widely.
"With a teacher like me, what student wouldn't get distracted?" All he received was silence of course, which had him rolling his eyes at the lack of humor from his fellow warriors. He was probably the only normal person in here - so to speak.
"Carmen was very attentive and memorized everything we taught her...it just doesn't seem that the fighting style we are teaching her is quite the one she can master." Ermac had quietly said, Smoke only nodding to show his approval of the critique.
"Charly may have had very good reflexes -"
"- but she definitely has no previous training nor experience in fighting whatsoever. Not to mention that she needs to build up much more strength if she wishes to even carry her own weight." Sub-Zero visibly glared at Scorpion for the rude interruption. The specter merely ignored him as he glared at a spot on the floor - it made you wonder; if he stared hard enough, would it be set on fire like he did with everything else? After that, everybody stayed silent, every head in the room trying to figure out what to do about the obviously intruding predicament.
"Well it's obvious that having two teachers at a time is the main problem." When every pair of eyes turned to look at Cage with looks of incredulity mostly, he explained further. "Well...we all have different ways of fighting. Imposing two different ones at the same time to girls that have never seen a single one is a bit harsh. Plus, some of us don't really make a great team." He muttered the last part as looked pointedly at Scorpion and Sub-Zero. "Who's bright idea was it to put Subs and Scorpion together anyways?" Unknown to the rest Kung Lao actually nodded his head at this, obviously knowing that the two ninjas clashed dangerously with each other.
"I think...maybe we should just let one of us train each - instead of two. The rest can go on to their normal duties unless called if anything happens. I mean, calling all of us at the same time is pretty exaggerated even with the upcoming tournament - we're all gonna fight anyways!" To say that surprise filled the room was an understatement. Nobody had really expected the first idea to come from the superstar.
"I believe...Cage does have a point." Sub-Zero carefully agreed, seeming slightly stiff for some reason.
"Yes, we agree that it is an adequate plan." Ermac said nodding his head. Soon everybody else had agreed to the plan.
"Okay...so now the hard part comes...who's gonna train who?" Johnny asked as he leaned back, looking at everybody. His job was done. Broke the ice. Gave the initiative. Now it was their turn to think.
"We should pair everyone up according to the necessity of each of the girls. Simple." Liu Kang offered, sitting still in the same position. What came next was a big debate about this. Seeing as some didn't want anything to do with the task and some were trying to impose themselves too greatly. They didn't notice, but three heads were poking through one of the doors in the hall that was close to the one they resided on.
"Charly, what are they saying?" Jennifer whispered hurriedly, only getting batted away by the girl at question.
"Shhh! I'm trying to hear! They're all talking at the same time!" She said as she strained her already keen ears to listen better. She had told the other three girls about the strange changes she had been going through - apparently she wasn't the only one.
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"Wait...let me get this straight: You are hearing abnormally well, smelling abnormally well and you're seeing strange uh...-"
"Lines. Well, I'm thinking they're more of like...scents - but materialized. You know like...being able to literally see a person's scent. Like a tracker." Carmen nodded, deep in thought.
"Okay...that's...a little weird."
"A little? Are you sure you're not just hallucinating or something?" Asked Claire from a corner in the room where she sat with her arms crossed.
"Hey, we're in a video game and you think seeing colorful lines is insane?" Charly defended herself. Jennifer had been oddly quiet during the entire ordeal in which Charly explained everything.
"I...I believe you Charly." Said girl turned, surprised to hear the older girl call her by her actual nickname and the fact that she was saying she indeed believed her.
"You do?" Carmen, Claire and Charly all said at the same time, then looked at each other with confused expressions.
"Yeah...you see..." Jennifer started rubbing behind her neck, much like Charly did all of the time when she got nervous. "It's been happening to me too." Charley's eyes widened before she scooted closer to her.
"You have? Everything?" She asked, hope filling her jovial voice.
"Well, not exactly." Charly dropped her arms, which had been in front on her, in disappointment before Jennifer raised hers, "No, no! I mean, strange things have been happening to me too, just not what has been happening to you."
"Really? What then?" Charly scooted closer, eyes focuses completely on her. Jennifer gulped and fiddled with her hands.
"At night...this...purplish, blue smoke started covering me and the entire room. I freaked out and ran outside. When I did, outside...I destroyed a tree." Three pairs of eyes blinked at her explanation.
"Umm...I don't get it. You...blew it up or-?" Charly started, trying to get more information out of her.
"I touched it and it started shaking before it just disintegrated into nothing!" She yelled, getting fed up by everything that had happened.
"Wow...so you just...touched it? That's it?" Jennifer nodded sadly at Charly. Said girl could easily see what was bothering her. If she had managed to cause such a thing to a tree with just a touch, imagine what it would do to a human being. Then Charly did something nobody in the room had expected. She leaned forward and laid her hand on her shoulder. "Hey...don't worry, we'll figure something out." Jennifer looked up, though she didn't show it, her eyes spoke to Charly all of the thankful remarks she actually wanted to say.
"Wait a second...wouldn't that mean that if you touched a person-" Before Claire could continue by stating the obvious, Charly stood quickly.
"Okay! How about if we go outside and test out our...our...Carmen?" She turned to said girl, asking for help with the correct word.
"Uh...abilities?" She found the softest word she could find.
"Yeah! Our abilities! Come on Jenny!" Jennifer was led out by an ecstatic looking, young teenage girl - she just couldn't believe Charly had just called her by a nickname and was tugging her forwards like a little kid on Christmas morning.
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"- what are you doing?" The three heads shot up to see...
"It was her idea!" The three girls yelled at the same time, pointing at each other as Sonya stood there staring down at them. Charly pointed at Claire, Claire pointed at Jennifer, and Jennifer pointed at Charly. Sonya stared. They stared back.
Sigh. "What did you hear?" Sonya asked them as she put her hands to her hips.
"Nothing!" They all said hurriedly at the same time, Charly slipping and falling out of the room altogether.
"Hey!"
"Wasn't me." Jennifer quickly put her hands up in defense of herself. Charly glared at Claire from the floor before a boot stood before her. She grinned nervously and scrambled to stand up.
"So if you heard everything then you know already who you will be training with, am I right?" Three heads turned to Charly, who instantly felt flushed at the fact that she was the one with the better hearing, yet had gotten distracted and hadn't heard a thing.
"Um, no, not really, no." With that the four girls were brought to the room where now only four people remained. It seemed as if the entire household or wherever they were at had been drained of people in a matter of seconds. The ones standing before them were: Scorpion, Kenshi, Ermac and Sub-Zero. 'I don't like the looks of this.' Charly thought, eyebrows furrowing as she tried to decipher who would be with who. It was hard. The critics she heard were of no help to this either.
"Come with me." Kenshi motioned to Jennifer as he walked to another part of the house. Jennifer looked at the other three girls, unsure as to whether she should follow him or not. A nod from Charly was enough to encourage her as she made her way through a door and disappeared into a hall. The next one was Claire, who apparently would be training with Ermac - a bit of surprise made itself evident on the three remaining girls' faces. Charly seemed wary as she stared at the two remaining warriors. 'Why is it that I get the feeling that this won't end too well for me?' She thought, biting the inside of her left cheek.
When Sub-Zero motioned towards Carmen and walked off, Charly knew that her prediction had been more than correct. (1)'Ay mal rayo parta...' She thought as Scorpion merely glared at her small form before storming off through the front door.
Translations:
(1) It's just like a low level curse Hispanics like to say a lot *cough* I do it *cough*. Basically in a translated version into English it would be: 'May a lightning hit me!'.
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