Well, here's chapter 2 i guess. I hope that this will be just as good as chapter 1 could be, or even better. Well, enjoy!

As Nxhoj waited for Ellenaj and Htes, the neighborhood around the school was starting to become more awake and alive. There was even a silent breeze blowing through the cherry blossom patch, keeping Nxhoj cool from the rising morning sun. Nxhoj unfortunately, wasn't in such a good mood. Since Ellenaj pranked him to waking up early in the morning, he had to skip breakfast, and the longer he had to wait for both Ellenaj and Htes, the hungrier he would become. He was getting impatient, and finally said,

"Grrr, where the hell are those two!? It can't take THIS long to get ready, or is Ellenaj further punishing me?! DAMMIT! I REALLY WANT SOME FOOD NOW!"

Unknown to Nxhoj, there was a reason why the duo of Ellenaj and Htes weren't there yet. Around the street that the Notlem household was in, the surrounding neighborhood was wondering if there was an earthquake, but in reality, it was a very angry Ellenaj. You see, she also remembered that they haven't decided a place to fight at, and that Htes hung up on Nxhoj before Ellenaj could talk to him, so she was trying to beat up Htes. She was so angry at him, that she was tearing parts of the house down while just trying to catch him. Htes, even though he normally wouldn't worry about things, now worried if he would live. At the moment, he was trying to compromise with Ellenaj while dodging flying plates, vases, and cups. While using some of his reflexes to dodge the objects, he said,

"Ellenaj! Please calm down! You'll get another chance to speak with Nxhoj at school! Please calm down! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD STOP! WAHHHH!"

After Htes dodged the last plate, Ellenaj just stared at him with her evil eyes, in her form of pure evilness and yelled in her evil but loud voice,

"CALM DOWN!? CALM DOWN MY ASS! THAT WAS MY LITTLE BROTHER ON THE PHONE! YOU REALIZE WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO HIM IN THIS STATE OF NEVADA?! YOU BETTER SAY YOUR PRAYS, I'M UNLEASHING THE T.R. STYLE OF TIFA LOCKHART!!! HIYAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

She jumped at him, with her leg stretched, ready to kick Htes's butt. Htes's first reaction was leaping to the other way, but his foot was on top of a cup that had survived, and he slipped, fell back first and was temporarily paralyzed, and that was all that was needed for his beating to begin. The rest of the house shook, with each blow Ellenaj delivered to Htes, it was like hammers weighing a hundred pounds were all pounding the ground at the same time. It went on for a while, but Ellenaj was finally growing tired, but what remained of Htes couldn't be distinguished between a corpse filled with rats moving, or a person twitching from an incredible amount of pain. What had to be amazing was the fact that he could still talk, and the fact that his voice sounded normal too was weird also. Htes said,

"Why Ellenaj, why? How, how can, you explain, my, my, my end, to everyone? *cough* *cough*"

The only way Ellenaj reacted to that sentence was look at Htes coldly, and said in a menacing tone,

"Shut up Htes. Once you can move your legs, catch up to me, I'm going now, and don't forget Nxhoj's jacket, it's unusual that he forgot it, even if he is in a hurry."

She turned her back and walked to the door, but as she unlocked it, she said,

"Oh and Htes, if I find anything missing when I get back home, you'll be suffering a lot more later."

With that, she walked through the door. As she walked past her neighborhood towards the school, she was wondering how she would beat Nxhoj. The style of kung-fu Nxhoj used was wolf, using kicks, fist attacks, and fast movements to subdue his opponents, while Ellenaj's style is based off of one of her most favorite final fantasy characters, Tifa Lockhart, using fast, brute force with her fists and legs to subdue her opponents. While her form of kung fu can defeat just about anyone, Nxhoj's style was a bit too fast, even for her.

Speaking of fast, she just took a minute to check around where she was, and what should have been surprising to most people didn't surprise her. She was already at the second stoplight till she was at school. As she pushed the button to activate the crossing sign, she was wondering where Htes was, he isn't what Ellenaj would call slow, but she was very fast compared to him, and she didn't attack his legs so much that they could have become broken. Then, someone put their hand on Ellenaj's shoulder, and Ellenaj reacted with a very basic self defense move, the twister break. To do it, all you had to do is grab someone's hand, spin in a 180 turn while still holding the person's arm, and bring your free arm's fist down on person's arm. Back with Ellenaj, she was about to bring her fist down when she suddenly looked into the face of her supposed, "stalker".

It was the face of one of her friends, his name being Vaien, Vaien Zednanreh. It was one of her more, "special members" of Japanese Club, he had some training in fisticuffs, but had more experience in fencing. He was in his gothic outfit with his most unique accessories like fangs and feathers on a necklace and a few bracelets. Back to the scene, Vaien was in extreme pain from Ellenaj's twister break. When Ellenaj realized she was still holding his arm, she immediately let go.

While Vaien was shaking his hand to relieve some of the pain, he said,

"Oww! Sheesh Ellenaj, why did you have to go and do that for?! I only wanted to surprise you with a hug and a bit of food."

Vaien then lifted up his free hand that was spared from the pain that held a bag of breakfast sandwiches, but Ellenaj was looking at Vaien with a face both angry and embarrassed, and she replied,

"Well I'm so sorry for being careful! What do you expect me to do if some random person just suddenly touched your shoulder?! Just say hello and let them do as they please with you!? Yeah right! You should know me enough by now to know I'll do that if I defend myself, Vaien!"

Vaien was just about to reply, but a familiar voice was filling the air,

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY! ELLENAJ! I FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH YOU!"

Both Ellenaj and Vaien turned their heads to the direction that Ellenaj was walking up from, and they both saw Htes running down, with something flying in the air just behind him. There was something rather strange though for Ellenaj, all the wounds she inflicted on him earlier seemed to have healed, which was definitely unusual for her, since it took normally 3 days for anyone to recover from her T.R. style of Tifa, even her parents and Nxhoj. Back to the group, Htes was walking up to Vaien and Ellenaj, and said,

"Finally, I caught up with you! How do you walk so fast!?"

Ellenaj was just about to respond, but Vaien interrupted, saying,

"Hey guys shouldn't we cross right now? The counter is getting to close to 15 seconds already."

Both Htes and Ellenaj turned their heads towards the crosswalk sign, and their eyes shrunk in shock, it WAS at 15 seconds, and going lower. The both of them started running across the crosswalk, it wasn't like they could spare much time if they had to wait to cross again. When they got to the other side, they were out of breath, but noticed that something wasn't right. Finally, Htes said,

"Hey, where did Vaien go?"

Ellenaj looked back at the crosswalk, and to her shock, saw something fly towards them, something covered in red with tattered clothing. When the thing landed in front of them, it was to their greatest shock that it looked like a dead and bleeding corpse of Vaien! Both Htes and Ellenaj fell down in shock, pushing themselves away from the corpse, and both of them screamed. As they were screaming, Ellenaj noticed something about the corpse, the bits of blood stained on the shirt didn't smell like blood, more like paint.

When she realized this, she stopped screaming and suddenly heard a laugh from behind them. She turned, and there was Vaien, laughing on the ground while holding his stomach in pain. Ellenaj was in shock and getting angry as well. The first thing she needed to do was get Htes back into reality and tell him the corpse was just a dummy covered in paint. Just as she was about to raise her hand, she decided to try a more "gentler" approach, apposed to usual violence. She said in a gentle tone to Htes,

"Htes, can you please stop screaming, please? There's something you need to see. Please Htes?"

Still, he didn't stop. Ellenaj was still trying to get Htes to calm down, but was getting more frustrated as she was. She asked him, for about the tenth time,

"Htes, will you pretty please stop? Before I unleash all my fury on you, again, please stop?"

And yet, he still didn't stop. That was the last straw for her, and she lifted her hand up which turned from a slapping hand to a big fist. She pulled her arm back, and punched Htes right in the face! It ended Htes's screaming, but he replied very angrily,

"Oww! What the hell Ellenaj!? What have I done to make you angry this time?!"

Ellenaj replied,

"THAT WAS FOR NOT SHUTTING UP AND LISTENING TO ME! I WAS ALSO TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION TO TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUPPOSED "CORPSE" OF VAIEN!"

She grabbed Htes by the arm and practically dragged him to the dummy. Once they got there, Ellenaj pointed out the spots of blood was just paint, but Htes still wasn't convinced. Ellenaj decided to do show Htes the difference between the paint and real blood. She asked Htes for a tissue and bit her thumb, just enough for a drop of blood. She dabbed a part of the tissue in her blood and another part in the fake blood, held it up, and Htes then saw a difference between the two. After Ellenaj threw the tissue away, she asked Htes, "Now that I think about it, can't you hear Vaien's laughing, Htes?" Htes gave Ellenaj a wondering look, and he replied to Ellenaj,

"What? I can't hear you Ellenaj. Wait, hold on, I think I have something in my ear."

From his ear, he pulled out a piece of a plate, it seemed that Ellenaj's attack on him earlier seemed to still have an effect on him. Now, he heard Vaien, still laughing from the prank that he pulled on Ellenaj and Htes. Htes looked at Vaien and asked Ellenaj what he was laughing at and how he was still alive when his corpse was in front of them, and Ellenaj grunted in anger. She explained, from the beginning, that somehow Vaien was able to place a dummy in the road, get past them on the crosswalk, and now was laughing his heart out, and made Htes angrier than a bull seeing the color red. The both of them walked over to Vaien and crushed him, under their legs, and he suddenly cried out in pain, both from laughing too much and the duo's legs squashing him. As they were about to bring their fists upon him, Vaien said panicky,

"Hey, can't you guys take a joke!? Along with that, we should be heading to school now!"

Both Ellenaj and Htes stopped their fists, just before it would've broken Vaien's nose, took out and looked at their cell phones, and saw to their shock that it was 7:30 a.m. They however, grabbed the back of Vaien's shirt and ran as fast as they could to the school, though it seemed like Ellenaj was doing most of the work, as Htes and Vaien were both flying behind her as the boys were hanging on to Vaien's shirt. They in fact, were coming into Nxhoj's view from the cherry blossom tree he was under. Now that we come upon Nxhoj, he could see his sister running up towards the crossing light with Htes and Vaien flying behind her, but apparently they landed down on the ground after she started to slow down. He decided to walk to them, not to look lazy, and ask Ellenaj for the money to get some food.

Once the cross light said they could walk, Ellenaj, Htes, and Vaien walked over to Nxhoj. He walked up to Ellenaj and asked,

"Hello, dear older sister, so where is the money for breakfast?"

Ellenaj replied angrily since Nxhoj asked rudely,

"Well, dear little brother, I'm actually sorry to say that I actually forgot to bring some, but-

"WHAT!? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG I'VE WAITED HERE!?"

"Hey, I know you're hungry but don't you talk like that to me. And Vaien-

"YOU KNOW HOW ANGRY I CAN GET WHEN I'M HUNGRY! THAT DOES IT, TAKE THIS!"

Nxhoj ran at Ellenaj and swung a kick that could have broken a log in half, but Ellenaj somehow blocked it and jumped over him and landed in the parking lot behind her. She said to Nxhoj,

"You know I don't like to fight for no reason Nxhoj, and I know we said we'd fight after school, but if you insist on fighting now, it's your fault for your injuries."

Ellenaj then started to charge towards Nxhoj with her fist in front, but at the last second, Nxhoj dodged the punch and tried to counter with a chop. She dodged the chop and countered with a kick that was blocked with another kick from Nxhoj. As the two went on, Htes asked Vaien,

"Hey, shouldn't we try to stop them? And why are you eating a sandwich?"

Vaien replied with his mouth a bit full,

"Htes, don't you know good entertainment when you see it? It's rare to see a kung-fu fight between a boy and a girl, especially one with such delicate features, want a sandwich?"

Htes took the sandwich and decided to watch the ongoing fight between Nxhoj and Ellenaj, though it only lasted a few minutes when another of the group's friend came in. He got dropped off in the parking lot behind the crosswalk. After he said goodbye to his dad, grabbed his guitar from the car, he walked to the cross walk and pressed the button. As he was waiting, he was wondering where the annoying yells and screams that sounded angry were coming from, and looked in the direction it was coming from. He was surprised that he saw Ellenaj and Nxhoj fighting, and rushed over there as soon as the sign said he could. He was shocked at the fact that Vaien and Htes were only watching at them as they fought on. He rushed over to them and yelled,

"HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU TWO ARE DOING, LETTING THEM FIGHT ON LIKE THAT!?"

Vaien and Htes both turned their heads to see that it was Kire, Kire Zehcnas. He was a friend of the, Ellenaj, Vaien, and Nxhoj since they met, a master at guitar, was the father of the group usually, and one of the more mature people of the group. Back to the scene, Kire asked calmly,

"What's going on here!? Htes, I though you said that the fight was AFTER school, not before it!"

Htes choked a bit on his sandwich, and replied to Kire,

"Sorry dude, Nxhoj start-

"Hey wait, what fight are you two talking about, Kire?"

interrupted Vaien, and both Htes and Kire sighed at this interruption. They told Vaien, from the beginning, how Ellenaj made Nxhoj wake up too early to get to school, the bet Ellenaj and Nxhoj made, and about Ellenaj's attack on Htes, but Vaien asked,

"But how do you know about the fight Kire? I don't remember Htes calling anyone."

To that, Htes replied,

"Ah, you see Vaien, once I recovered from her attack, I called Kire on my cell and told him about the fight, that is one reason why I'm late, and that I had to get Nxhoj's jacket which was-

"Okay, okay! Enough! First off, we need to get Ellenaj and Nxhoj from beating each other up too much or there won't BE a fight to watch."

Interrupted Kire. Unfortunately, it was easier said then done, and the fact that Nxhoj and Ellenaj were masters at kung-fu. Vaien asked them to stop in a bit of a scared, but to this both of them replied while Nxhoj's hand was caught in Ellenaj's leg,

"YOU GUYS STAY OUT OF THIS! THIS IS STRICTLTY A SIBLING QUARRLE, NOT YOUR CONCERN!"

And the two continued to fight. Kire was tired of watching this fight, and told the two,

"Hey! Can't you two stop this!? If you don't, I going to resort to-

"AS WE SAID, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, SO BACK OFF!"

interrupted the two as Ellenaj's kick was blocked by Nxhoj's fist, but this made Kire furious. He got out his guitar, which was on his back this whole time and told Vaien and Htes to block their ears as tight as they could. Kire then tuned his guitar a bit, hooking it up to a mysterious little gadget on his guitar, and played a note, an extremely high note that is. What happened was, as soon as he played the note, everyone around him covered their ears in pain. Kire also had knowledge in how he could use his guitar as a kind of weapon, making sound waves that were extremely painful for most humans and animals ears. As soon he even heard Nxhoj and Ellenaj cry in mercy (miraculously) to stop the noise, he turned of his gadget, and everyone wanted to ask how Kire did that, but Vaien interrupted,

"Hey, isn't it about time for the bell for school to-

"BRING! BRING! BRING!"

went the bell as everyone gasped in shock. They were so into the fight that they completely forgot to check the time. But as they all rushed inside to get to class, they weren't aware of the shadows that were watching them from the alleyway. After the gang members went to take their separate showers, they went back to watch the fight to see how Nxhoj and Ellenaj fought, but many of them were discouraged to fight them after they witnessed how expert looking the siblings fought. Even the leader named Boss was discouraged, and then realized that weapons might not be enough to be the two Notlems. He called his grunts up and told them that they would cancel their planned ambush on them, but one of the grunts named Chain cried out,

"I can't believe you Boss! You're our leader, you can't back down!"

"Well what do you suppose we do, Chain?"

"I just recently received a box of a new drug and well, follow me. I don't want to say it in front of these guys."

All the other grunts, seven total, cried out in anger and wanted to beat up chain grunt, but Boss put up his hand, his way of saying shut up. He followed chain grunt down, where he explained how this drug could help them kill the Notlem siblings, and Boss liked the idea, he regained his confidence and told his other seven grunts of Chain's plan to take the Notlem siblings down, without pain and suffering at the end of their victory.

Well, that's chapter 2. i hope it was good enough. please read and review! unti the next chapter, joyous reading!

until Chapter 3: Exams, fights, and Ambushes, oh my!