Here's chapter 3, finally i guess. I hate to say this, but i'm a terriblely slow writer. The updates i'm making are super slow, like every few months! i'm sorry that i take this long, i'm a newbie at this to be kinda honest. I'll try to avoid posting up the next chapter as late as i have with the last two. Well, here is chapter three, Exams, Fights, and Ambushes, oh my!
Once the bell of our character's school rung, many of the other students were now walking with their friends to their classes and were talking of the many various things that they were going to do over their vacation; some were going to other states to visit their relatives, while others were going to tropical islands or great, big, majestic amusement parks over their vacation, and how some where just going to stay in Nevada to hangout with their friends over the break.
However, our known characters couldn't exactly do what all the other students were doing for a good reason; their classes were far away from the parking lot they were at. There was a rule that students had to get to their classes within five minutes or they would get a tardy but it was even more urgent today since they had to take their exams today.
As the group dodged and rushed by the student crowd, Vaien divided all the remaining sandwiches to Ellenaj and Nxhoj since they didn't get the chance to eat breakfast. Once they passed by the office, they said goodbye and good luck to one another, and went their separate ways to get to class faster, though Htes went with Vaien since they had a class together, while Ellenaj and Kire ran the same direction to their separate classes, and Nxhoj went to class by himself.
Nxhoj was finishing one of his sandwiches as he ran down the hall to his class. Once he got to the hall where his classroom was, he slowed down and took a bit of a long drink at a nearby fountain. After he was done with his drink, someone tapped his shoulder.
Nxhoj turned around quickly and saw that it was Aloap. She was wearing long jeans with sneakers and a t-shirt with green and yellow patterns of various shapes. Nxhoj was turning red once he realized it was Aloap. He had a crush on her since he first met her in middle school. Back to the two, Nxhoj was asking, "Umm, hey Aloap, aren't you supposed to be in class-
"Nxhoj, you mean 'we', right? We both have the same first period class remember?"
Interrupted Aloap, and Nxhoj replied back respectfully,
"Yeah, I guess so, is there a reason why you wanted talk to me?"
Aloap then remembered about the gang's plan to beat up Nxhoj and his sister, and was just about to tell him when she was interrupted by the school's intercom, and it said,
"Attention all students, this is your one minute warning before class will start, and if you're not in class by then, you will not be able take the teacher's final test, and it's actually your 50 second warning now and counting, good luck now, and it's 45 seconds now and counting."
Nxhoj's and Aloap's faces were widening in shock. It took two minutes to get to their class from their current position, and running couldn't get them there in time. As Aloap was panicking, Nxhoj was thinking of a way to get to the classroom in time. He decided to use T.R., just this once to get to class in time. He grabbed Aloap's hand started to run in place, and like a rock pulled back on a slingshot, ran forward with the rage of tigers flowing through his legs.
Nxhoj was running very fast, but was it going to be enough to get to class in time? As they were running, or maybe just Nxhoj with Aloap flying behind him, Aloap was still trying to tell him about the gang's plan to ambush him, but he couldn't hear her since he was moving at such a fast speed. As Nxhoj approached the classroom, he saw something on the door and slowed down. The something that was on the door was a note, and it angered and shocked him at the same time. The note said,
"Attention all students of Ms. Yelof's class, your final exam has moved to room 024, please make sure to be on time and do your absolute best on your exam, and this was not done by Ms. Yelof in order to torture you, this decision was made by the school's office.
Nxhoj looked at his cell phone and saw that he had only 30 seconds to get to room 024, and it took normally 4 minutes to get there! The only way to get there would be to use T.R. again, and he was worried if Aloap could handle it again. He grabbed Aloap's hand again, and ran, but didn't hear her say,
"NXHOJ! PLEASE STOP! I NEED TO TELL YOU SOMETHIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!"
As he ran past the office again, Nxhoj swore he could hear a dinging noise. He turned his head around, and saw a teenaged hall monitor with a crazed face pedaling a bike very fast and ringing a bell on the bike. The monitor said to Nxhoj,
"HA! SO YOU THINK YOU COULD ESCAPE MY WATCHFUL EYE HUH NXHOJ NOTLEM, FRESHMAN, AND YOUNGER BROTHER OF ELLENAJ NOTLEM, AND ALOAP LANREB, FRESHMAN, AND ACCOMPALICE TO NXHOJ NOTLEM, HMMM!? WELL NOT TODAY! YOU'LL NOT ESCAPE ME AND MY, TARDY SLIPS! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA *cough, cough* ACK!"
Nxhoj just gave him a bored look, and he was still running to the class. The intercom came up again, and announced while the crazed monitor was still chasing after the duo, ready to give them tardy slips once the bell ring, and the intercom announced,
"Attention all students, this is your 15 second warning, please get to your classes and do not be tardy."
Nxhoj looked straight ahead and found that the room he was going to take his English exam was about 13 seconds away, he could still make it! The unfortunate part for Nxhoj, a small car pulled in front of him and Aloap, still holding on his hand, screamed,
"WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!!!"
Nxhoj replied to her,
"LIKE HELL WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT, HIYAAAAAAH!!!"
As he yelled the last part, he leapt up high while bringing Aloap to his chest and hugged her, to make sure she didn't fall of course though. As he soared through the air, he could hear the remaining numbers of the countdown in his head, as he was getting closer and closer to the door. 5, he was 18 inches away, 4, 12 inches, 3, 6 inches, 2, a few millimeters, 1….
BRING, BRING, BR (CRASH!)ING went the bell as the two crashed through the door, rolled into the classroom, and barely on time. As the two slowed down and eventually stopped, the two stared into each others eyes, Aloap on top of Nxhoj. The two stared for awhile, but their silence was interrupted by Nxhoj as he said,
"Well, I told you we *pant* would make it in *pant* time, Aloap *pant*."
Aloap merely smiled, but just as she about to talk, someone interrupted her, this being Ms. Yelof, saying,
"Whoa! Hey you two! No sexual conduct in the room!"
Everyone in the room was laughing except the teacher of course, when the two looked at themselves, they found themselves in a rather, awkward, position. As they quickly got up, the both of them were blushing a very deep crimson. As the two walked to a table, Nxhoj could still hear someone laughing. He looked in the direction the laughing was coming from, and found that it was from another one of Nxhoj's friends. As he walked towards the table, Aloap came up behind him to join him and their friend, he also knew Aloap.
The name of their friend was Yrneh, Yrneh Edlazil. He was wearing a white outfit like the character Grimmjow from the anime Bleach. He's a major fan of products that come from Japan, mainly anime and samurai related things though. The two knew him in middle school, and have been friends ever since.
Kingdom Hearts 2 Lazy afternoons
Back to the story, Nxhoj and Aloap walked over to the table Yrneh was sitting at and took a seat. As he stopped laughing, Yrneh said,
"HAHA! Man, that was funny you two, rolling in the room, and when you two were in that position-
"Ok Yrneh, that's enough. Now stop teasing the two or else, cosplayer." Interrupted Ms Yelof as the class roared even louder in laughter while Yrneh was getting angry. He looked at the duo and saw that they weren't laughing, which cooled him down a bit. As the laughter died down and everyone was focusing on her, Ms. Yelof gathered up the test papers and announced,
"Ok guys, last test of the year. I know, hooray, yay, yahoo, it's the end of the year, thank goodness! Ok, *ahem* I do hope all of you studied, I'm not letting you guys off so easily like the winter exam. So the usual rules, no talking until EVERYONE finishes their exam, no passing notes, and no cell phones. Ok guys, you can start once you get your test. Good luck!"
As she handed out the tests, everyone was taking advantage of talking until they received their test, especially our group of heroes; Nxhoj, Aloap, and Yrneh, were far away from where she was first passing out papers. At some point of the discussion, Nxhoj asked Aloap,
"Hey Aloap, wasn't there something you wanted to tell me in the halls?"
Aloap then remembered about the gang's plan, but as she was about to tell Nxhoj, Yrneh interrupted,
"What? You're going to break up with your boyfriend?"
Aloap was blushing a deep red, but replied to Yrneh's question, saying,
"NO, DAMMIT! I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALREADY DEALT WITH ALREADY!"
"It's ok Aloap, now what was it you-
"What Nxhoj? You know you have a crush on her, wouldn't you want that?"
Interrupted Yrneh, and made Nxhoj blush a deep red as well. As Yrneh was chuckling to himself, Nxhoj did a quick karate chop on his head, and the end result was Yrneh rubbing his head with an annoyed look. As he was doing this, Nxhoj asked Aloap,
"Okay Aloap, what was that question you wanted to ask me?"
Aloap stopped blushing red when Nxhoj asked her the question, but just as she was about to answer him, Ms. Yelof asked,
"Ok, who forgot to bring a pencil and needs one at this moment of time? Only time to get a pencil for you and your group if needed!"
Nxhoj knew this meant him, in the rush from before, he forgot to bring a pencil. He told Aloap to wait a bit more while he was getting the pencils. Aloap said in a surprised and angry tone,
"Wait! No! Nxhoj, WAIT! Grrr, DANGIT!"
She put her head down in frustration, considering the things that seemed to keep her from telling Nxhoj about the gang's plan. Once he got back, she tried once again to tell him about the gang's plan, but she heard a loud, THWOOMP, on the table. She looked in the direction she heard the noise come from, and found the tests complete with the answer sheets on top. She and the two guys looked up and saw Ms Yelof looking down, and she told the trio,
"Ok guys, I know you were using the time to talk to the fullest, but no more talking. Finish up your test."
Aloap was just frozen, thinking again of the things that stopped her from telling Nxhoj the planned ambush. She felt a tap on her shoulder, and looked at Nxhoj, mouthing,
"Need a pencil?"
She was turning red in frustration, but took the pencil from Nxhoj without any incidents. While some people were speeding along the test, either not bothering to try and rushing to finish, or were the ones who did study and were answering questions without second thought. As the time went on, some of the other students were taking up their test to the basket and sitting back down.
This however, didn't include Nxhoj, who was about to finish up his test, but had about two more short essay questions to do. Aloap and Yrneh were done with their tests completely already, and were waiting for Nxhoj to finish up. He was finishing up his first essay question and was about to start the other one. Aloap was tapping her fingers in impatience, knowing that there shouldn't be ANYTHING to stop her from telling Nxhoj. After he was done and putting his test away and sitting back down, Aloap said,
"Ok, Nxhoj, while I was walking here, I overheard a gan-
BRING! BRING! BRING! Went the bell, as is signaled the beginnings of a short lunch break. Aloap was just sitting there, twitching her eye as everyone was leaving the room to go to lunch. Nxhoj however, stayed to ask her what she wanted to tell him. As she snapped out of her trance, she realized that she could still tell him about the gang's ambush. Unfortunately, Ms Yelof walked up to the two, and told them,
"Ok you two, time to get out, go to lunch."
She pushed the two out of the classroom, and that is when another calamity happened to the two. The crowd outside forced the two apart, and Aloap was separated from Nxhoj and the two were pushed with the crowd to the cafeteria.
After Nxhoj arrived to the cafeteria with the rest of the crowd, he looked around for Aloap, but didn't find her for his unfortunate luck. As he wondered around the cafeteria a bit, he heard someone calling his name, when he turned his head to the direction it was coming from, he found his friends at a table, so he decided to go meet up with them.
Once he reached there, he saw two more people that he recognized as Ellenaj's friends, Anirak Zerreitug and Aeslehc Ardahb. He knew that they have been friends with Ellenaj since she first went here to school. He didn't know so much about the two, the reason why was that he didn't talk to them often. Anirak was wearing a gothic Lolita dress colored black and red while Aeslehc was wearing a black and blue jacket with a white t-shirt and pants colored purple.
Back with Nxhoj, he sat down and looked around. Ellenaj was still talking to Anirak and Aeslehc, Kire and Htes were talking to each other also, leaving Nxhoj with Vaien. He asked,
"So Vaien, how did your test go?"
Vaien looked up with a bit of a bored look, and he replied,
"Well, I guess it went ok, it was pretty simple really. For woodshop, we just had to make a something out of wood that would be worth a good grade. This is what I made."
He reached into a pocket and took out a photo that had him standing next to a wooden bench. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Htes showed up with his face grinning, and he said,
"Ha! Dude, a bench? That's sooo freshman year stuff! Hey Nxhoj, you wanna see what moi made?"
Nxhoj let out a sigh, but asked Htes for a look at his woodshop project.
Htes gave Nxhoj a photo, which had Htes showing off his body. Nxhoj threw it back at Htes and said,
"YOU IDIOT! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE!?"
Htes grabbed the picture off his face where it hit him, and he took a look at it, and replied back,
"Whoops! Sorry dude, wrong pic. Hold on, I have it in my pocket somewhere."
Htes was digging through his pockets, taking out a lot of other photos that had doing poses while still showing off his body. After a few minutes, he finally said,
"Hey! Here Nxhoj, my project for woodshop! OH YEAH!"
Nxhoj looked at the photo for awhile, and then he finally said,
"Htes are you trying to fool me? It looks like another picture within a picture of you showing off your body again!"
Vaien held his head up in interest, and asked Nxhoj,
"Hold on, what exactly do you mean Nxhoj? How can it be a pic within a pic?"
Nxhoj sighed, and gave the photo to Vaien, saying,
"Here, take a look for yourself."
Vaien took the photo, and widened his eyes in shock of what it was. He saw Htes standing next to a painter's stand complete with a carved picture of… well, a carved picture of very great and neat details, a picture, of him, flexing his muscles. Vaien stared in shock at it for a while, and then asked Htes,
"Hey Htes, how did you manage this? This is a really high level of technique in woodshop we haven't even been taught yet. How'd you manage to do this?"
Htes looked back at Vaien with a confident look on his face, and replied back,
"Dude, isn't the reason obvious? I'm just good like that."
While the two where now talking to each other, Nxhoj turned away and looked for anyone else to talk to. Kire and Ellenaj were talking to each other while Aeslehc was reading a book, and Nxhoj saw Anirak come up to him suddenly, and she asked him,
"So, Ellenaj told me about your fight after school today, so do you have an idea on how you'll beat her?"
Nxhoj replied,
"Well, not quite. Considering the fact that we just planned that today, I really don't know."
Anirak replied back with a smile,
"Well, you'll come with something with time. It's a shame that I won't be able to watch it."
Nxhoj replied,
"Err, why no-
"NXHOJ!!!!!!!"
Nxhoj looked up to see Aloap coming up to him, while pushing away others. As she got closer, Nxhoj could miraculously hear what she was trying to say, what she was trying to say was,
"NXHOJ! YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO ME! A GA-
BRING! BRING! BRING, went the bell as it signaled the end of lunch, and the crowd overpowered Aloap and dragged her away, screaming, from Nxhoj, which he and Anirak who saw this, sweatdroped at her bad luck. Before Nxhoj left the table, someone tapped his shoulder, and he saw that it was Ellenaj. She looked serious to him, and she told him,
"Okay Nxhoj, Htes found the perfect place for us to fight, the abandoned factory parking lot a street from here; we meet there after school. So you think you're ready to take me, brother dear?"
Nxhoj got angry at this comment, even if he didn't know what he was doing before, he was going to prove to Ellenaj that he wasn't a baby anymore, especially after a certain event that happened in his life.
He said,
"Alright Ellenaj, I understand. Let's see if I'll be able to beat you now."
They shook hands, and went off in their separate directions to their final exam. As Nxhoj was walking to his class for his algebra l test, he noticed a big dent in the wall next to the room where he took his English test at. He wondered where it came from. Nxhoj wondered about it for awhile, but was interrupted by the crowd, which suddenly appeared and carried him away from the area.
After a few minutes; Nxhoj was able to free himself from the overwhelming crowd and entered his algebra room, which was unexpectedly where the crowd took him. In the room, most of all his classmates where in, talking excitedly about their plans for summer. Nxhoj looked around and couldn't find Aloap, but he did see Yrneh at a nearby seat. He quickly took a seat next to him, and asked,
"Hey Yrneh, so what are you planning for vacation?"
Yrneh looked at Nxhoj with a bored look, and replied,
"Well dude, the basic things; hangout with friends, play videogames, and watch TV. What about you?"
He replied,
"Wow, just about everything you said. The only thing different would be that I'm also playing keyboard."
Yrneh expression changed suddenly, and he replied,
"Whoa, you can play piano?"
Nxhoj replied,
"Keyboard; there's a difference between the two you know. Oh yeah, think you co-
"NXHOJ!!!!!!"
Yrneh and Nxhoj turned their heads to where the scream came from, and they found Aloap coming into class, looking beat up and crazed. She ran to them and tripped when she was close to them, and the bell went,
BRING! BRING! BRING, once again, signaling the close end of the school year. As some of the students were still talking, the teacher signaled for them to stop, which was done almost immediately. The algebra teacher, Mr. Q, who prefers that over his actual name, said,
"Ok guys, this is it. The last day of school, (unfortunately) and the last class. I couldn't have had a better last class then this one. This will have the same rules as the last test you took, no talking and no electronic devices. My only advice I have for you, use everything I have taught you this year and you should do fine. With that said, you can start your test as soon as you get it, and good luck! Oh, and someone help Aloap up."
After he said that, he gathered up all his test papers, and started to hand them out, with no talking allowed.
At all. Nope. Not even a few words. Hmmm, considering that this is gonna be boring, let's check in on our other characters who might be doing better things than this. For our first check on, it'll be…
Vaien and Kire, who were doing their test for their music classes, both playing different instruments. While they were waiting for a girl to finish up playing her tuba, they were talking quietly, Kire saying,
"So Vaien, so what do you plan on doing this summer?"
Vaien replied,
"Well, I do want to try to outdo Htes's woodshop project. He shall not get the better of me. He's gonna regret showing me that picture of his project. And do the usual; hangout, anime, and games."
Kire widened his eyes in surprise, Vaien was competitive in just everything he did, but for Htes outdoing him in something was a first. Now Vaien asked him,
"So what do you plan on doing for summer Kire?"
Kire replied,
"Well, pretty much what you said too, but I'm gonna play my guitar instead of my working on a woodshop-
"Kire Zehcnas! Come on down, it's your turn now!"
"We'll talk later, Kire. I know what're you were saying, so don't worry about the rest."
Said Vaien. Kire nodded his head, and went up to do his playing test.
Hmm, should we stay here to listen? I don't know about you readers, but I'm not taking my chances to lose my hearing. If you are wondering what I'm talking about, check out chpt 2 around the end. Anyways, our next checkup will be… on two females,
Ellenaj and Anirak. The duo was in art, having to paint something for their finals. Unlike our previous two, they could talk without worry. As they were, painting, Anirak asked Ellenaj,
"So Ellenaj, how do you plan on beating your brother at the fight?"
Ellenaj replied,
"Well, I'm not really sure myself. We did just plan this out of nowhere, but I'm going to beat Nxhoj."
Anirak then said,
"Hmm, ok. So is there any real reason why Nxhoj challenged you in particular?"
Ellenaj opened her mouth, but then closed it. Now that she thought about it, what if there was another reason why Nxhoj challenged her? She thought about it for a bit, but she was interrupted when Anirak asked,
"So Ellenaj, what are you painting?"
She was snapped out of her thoughts, she replied,
"Well, I'd rather not talk about it at the moment, it's gonna be a surprise. What about you?"
Anirak smiled, and replied,
"Me? Why, the one thing I love more than anything, except my friends."
Anirak turned her painting to Ellenaj's direction. What she saw made her hungry a bit. Anirak painted all kinds of chocolates for her painting. The painter seemed pleased with herself. Then Ellenaj asked,
"Wow, you really love chocolate, don't you? By the way, why can't you come to the brawl?"
Anirak replied,
"Well, of course I do! And about seeing the fight, I have some things to do. I'm sorry that I can't make it. Show me a video of it when you can."
Ellenaj wondered what she had to do. She decided to forget about it and returned to her painting.
Hmm, wonder what Ellenaj is painting. I don't even know. Well, we should have one more group to check on, and they are the only other mixed group other than Nxhoj's, and this ought to be good. Our last checkup is on…
Htes and Aeslehc, who were partnered up in for their chemistry finals, As they were busy mixing up different chemicals for their project, which was to make a small fire hot enough to boil water, they were talking, both were wearing usual lab equipment at the time. Htes asking Aeslehc,
"Hey Aeslehc, do you have a spare camera I could borrow? I wanna record the showdown between Ellenaj and Nxhoj."
She replied,
"Hmm, I think so. Htes, could you hand me the magnesium?"
As he gave it to her, he asked,
"So you gonna be there to watch the fight Aeslehc?"
As she was pouring the powder onto a small cup, she replied,
"Hmm, I don't think so. I'm not the type that's into violence."
Htes chuckled a bit, putting his hand in some liquid and said,
"Heh, really? Well, maybe I shouldn't really be teasing about that. So we ready yet?"
As she poured the powder into a beaker that had some things in it, she replied,
"Thanks for not teasing me about it. I really wish that it was peaceful around here, and yep. It's ready."
Htes's faced seemed to brighten up, and he said in an excited tone,
"Alright! Let's do this and get our grade!"
As Htes excitedly lit a match, he brought it to the powder in the tray, and a fire flamed up with the water boiling already. As the class cheered for the duo's work, Aeslehc was thanking them when she smelled smoke. She asked, "Hey Htes, do you smell something burning?"
Htes replied back with a cocky tone,
"Aeslehc, don't you know that moi's hotness is enough to evaporate pools? It's obviously my body overwhelming with heat and burning up, heh."
As he said the last part, he flexed his arm up, which was on fire. Aeslehc gasped, and said,
"HTES! IT'S YOU! YOU'RE ON FIRE LITERALLY!"
Htes just chuckled, and replied,
"Aeslehc, I just told you that's it's just my super hot-
He was about to flex the arm that was on fire again, then he saw the flames. He stared into it for a bit, and after a few moments, finally yelled,
"AAAAAH! AAAAAAAH! HEEEEEELP! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As he was now commencing stop, drop, and roll, the fire was spreading from his arm, and everyone in the room was scattering to find a fire extinguisher. One of the students, trying to be a hero, got a big beaker filled with clear liquid he presumed was water, and tossed it on Htes. The result, he was now completely covered in flames, screaming in pain and agony. Aeslehc rushed over to the student and yelled,
"WHAT DID YOU THROW ON HIM!?"
She grabbed the beaker and looked for what it could've been. She finally found a label on it, and it said,
"Warning, pure alcohol, extremely flammable. Use only under close adult supervision."
Aeslehc widened her eyes in horror, and she also found a crack where there was leakage. She ran over to the intercom and called the office for help, with Htes being burned by the flames with each minute.
Umm, maybe we should leave. I don't feel like watching this horror anymore (even though it's hilarious) and we move on back to our only trio of freshman…
Nxhoj, Aloap, and Yrneh. As we were watching these events unfold, the trio had finished with their tests completely and was busy talking while the rest of the class was talking and playing games on the board. As they were talking, Nxhoj asked Aloap about what it was she needed to tell him. She looked back at him with a confused look, and she replied,
"Eh? Was there something I needed to tell you?"
Nxhoj replied back,
"Well, you seemed to bring it up each time we met today; in the halls, English, and even around lunch. Can't you remember? Something beginning with, gan?"
She replied back,
"To be honest, no. But I'm sure it'll come back to me."
Yrneh suddenly came into the conversation, saying,
"Gan? Nxhoj, you don't think she means gang, do you?"
Nxhoj thought about it for awhile and then he laughed for a bit, after that he replied,
"Ha-ha, that's a good one Yrneh. I doubt that, why would a gang want to attack me of all people?"
Yrneh replied with a worried look,
"Well, it's the best thing I think Aloap was trying to say."
Aloap said suddenly,
"Yrneh, if that was what I was going to tell Nxhoj, I would've told him. What? You'd think I would purposely put Nxhoj in danger?"
He replied,
"Don't forget who tripped and may have hit her head a bit, you could have amnesia."
Aloap replied,
"Hey! Just cause you fall to the floor head first doesn't mean you can get amnesia."
Yrneh was about to reply when he was interrupted by the intercom, it announcing,
"Attention all students, this is your 30 second call before the end of the year. You will have up to 15 minutes to leave school campus after school. We will begin the countdown at 10 seconds."
Many of the students cheered for this, the only exception being Nxhoj, who knew that it was getting closer to the showdown. At the mention of the thought, he remembered that he didn't tell his friends about it! He quickly got the two's attention and told them about the duel between himself and Ellenaj along with the location, but the replies he got back were not quite positive. Both said they were busy and had plans. He was a bit sad that neither could watch. Thinking of what Yrneh said about Aloap, he quickly went to Mr. Q to borrow a pencil and paper. As he walked to his desk, one of his classmates seemed to be staring at him with a cold look. He ignored him and continued to Mr. Q. After he wrote down what he needed, he gave the pencil back to Mr. Q and went back to where Yrneh and Aloap were sitting down. He gave the paper to Aloap and said to her in a strict tone,
"Aloap, if something does happen to me and we do happen to get ambushed by a gang, call this number and ask for the name of the person on it."
Aloap took the paper and told Nxhoj she'd use it if needed. As the event above happened, the countdown for the end of the school year began. Most of everyone in the room began counting along with the clock, and then the intercom went up again, it announcing,
"Attention all students and staff, we shall began the countdown at… 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
BRING! BRING! BRING, went the bell for the last time, and everyone rushed out with joy. Well, almost everyone. Nxhoj didn't exactly run out, but he couldn't believe it was almost time for the showdown. He walked down the halls slowly, looking for the others so they could get started. As he walked down, he saw that the group was in front of a locker area. As he got closer; he saw that it was Aeslehc's locker and that they had worried faces. Nxhoj asked,
"Hey, what's going on? What's with all these sad faces? And where is Htes?"
Almost immediately, Aeslehc said in a sad tone,
"Nxhoj, Htes was set on fire in chemistry. He has serious burn marks all over his body."
Nxhoj widened his eyes in surprise. He replied,
"WHAT!? ARE YOU SERIOUS!? WHAT HAPPENED!?"
Vaien spoke up, he said,
"Well, Htes apparently put his hand in some alcohol. Then he lit a match to ignite some chemicals for their chemistry final. That was when he caught fire, and then someone tried to dump some water on him when it turned out to be alcohol instead. That's the current situation."
Nxhoj was left speechless; he didn't think Htes would die by fire. As he joined the others in mourning Htes, someone tapped his shoulder and said,
"Hey Nxhoj, here's your jacket. I forgot to give it to you before school started."
Nxhoj turned around and found Htes standing behind him, holding his jacket. As he took it, he said,
"Oh, thank you Htes."
As Nxhoj took the jacket and put it on, he just realized something. He turned around again and he yelled,
"HTES! IT'S YOU! GUYS! HE'S ALRIGHT! HE'S ALRIGHT!"
Everyone turned their heads towards Htes, and they all reacted the same way as Nxhoj. As they celebrated his return, they asked the one main question, how are you alright? Htes replied,
"Guys, I'm just good like that. You really expected me to die from that? Ha-ha, that's a good one."
They all just laughed, relieved to know that Htes was alright. Ellenaj however, was wondering how he survived this and how his injuries from the fire healed so fast; like this morning when she beat him up. She decided to ignore it at the moment. The group walked over to the street corner, where Anirak and Aeslehc had to say to say goodbye. The others went to the old abandoned factory which was about a street away.
Hmm, considering that they seem kinda quiet; let's do some more checkups on our other characters. Our first vic-, I mean, character we'll checkup on is…
Aloap, who was sitting with her boyfriend, Enivri. They were under the same cherry blossom tree that Nxhoj sat under when he got to school. As she was relaxing, she couldn't help but feel like she was forgetting something, and Enivri asked her,
"Hey, is something wrong Aloap? You seem worried."
She replied back,
"Well, I can't shake this feeling that something bad is gonna happen. It feels like I know what it is, but then I don't."
Enivri just shrugged, and replied,
"Hmm, it's probably not important. Want to stop by the 7-11 for a drink?"
She said ok, and they got up and walked to the store. At some point, a car drove by very fast and ran over a small stone. The stone flew away from the tires and hit Aloap on the head. She fell down from the impact and fell down on her rump. As she was rubbing her head, she looked straight where she was now facing, and saw an alley. She felt as if she seen it before, and then it hit her. Images appeared in her mind, showing people in the alley, and then she saw herself hiding behind some trash. One of them said,
"Oooooh, it seems Nxhoj is going to be in a fight with his sister. This couldn't be better, now we can take care of that bastard and that bitch of a sister down."
That's when she remembered about the gang, their plan, and why one of her classmates in the classroom seemed familiar. She quickly got up and told Enivri that there was something she needed to do. After that she ran to the old factory, hoping to get to Nxhoj in time.
Hmm, looks like she remembers about the gang now. Okie dokie, our next checkup shall be on Ellenaj's two dear friends…
Aeslehc and Anirak. After the two left our gang, they walked to a nearby teahouse for a mid afternoon snack. As they were seated and served tea, the two were talking about the fight between Ellenaj and her brother, wondering who would win. Just as Anirak was about to grab her clay cup of tea, it cracked right before her eyes.
She stared at it for awhile, but Aeslehc interrupted her trance, asking,
"Is something wrong Anirak? You look like you've seen a ghost!"
Anirak replied with a worried tone,
"Well Aeslehc, I've actually seen something worse. In Japan, a tea cup breaking before you touch it usually means something bad is gonna happen."
Aeslehc replied,
"Well, bad luck or not, you can't drink from that cup anymore. I'll go ask for a replacement."
Aeslehc carefully held the cup and walked over to the counter to ask for another cup. As she was waiting, she unintentionally eavesdropped on two guys dressed in black hoods. One of the two was tall and a bit chubby while the other was a midget. One of the two said,
"So, did our spy get the location of the fight between the Notlem #$%%?"
Aeslehc drew her head up in interest. She decided to listen a bit more if this person was calling Nxhoj and Ellenaj a bad word.
At some point, the midget talked again, saying,
"Yep, he did. It's gonna be at the old factory that's close to the school. We already have others there ready to ambush them. And with our secret weapon, we'll be able to snuff them out with no worries."
The other guy seemed to be happy, and gave thanks to the midget. Then the two left the shop, and left Aeslehc with a shocked face. After the lady that owned the shop gave Aeslehc a new cup, she rushed back to Anirak. After taking her seat again, she told Anirak,
"Anirak! You won't believe what I just heard! This gang plans on killing Nxhoj and Ellenaj at their showdown today! We need to go warn them!"
Anirak's face became serious, a first for Aeslehc, and she replied,
"Hmm, so that tea cup cracking wasn't just an accident. Aeslehc, you go find help, I need to go do something."
Aeslehc replied with a face of worry and fear,
"What is so important that you can't even help out your friends!? They're in danger, what are you-
Anirak put a finger against Aeslehc's mouth, and told her,
"Don't worry, nothings gonna happen by my watch. They'll regret ever messing with them."
With that said, she left the shop and went into a nearby ally way. She took a rolled up piece of paper out of her pocket and then murmured something. After that, she disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Hmm, let's return to our group of characters now, shall we? The group had arrived to the factory and was getting ready for the rumble between the two. After he set up Aeslehc's camera, he went to Nxhoj and said,
"So Nxhoj, what is your strategy to beating Ellenaj?"
Nxhoj looked at Htes with a bored look, and he replied,
"Whatever comes naturally."
Htes thought this was a lie, but he accepted it. Vaien had gone somewhere and didn't come back yet. So it was only him and Kire watching the siblings fight. Kire had to go somewhere as well; he received a call from his dad that someone he knew wanted him to pick him up at the airport. He went to see who this person was. Back to the current scene, Nxhoj unbuttoned his jacket, and flung it up. He was now wearing a greenish blue shirt with gloves on his hands. Htes was getting the camera ready to record when he heard clicking. He turned his head to the direction it was coming from, and found Ellenaj in a completely new outfit. From her Japanese schoolgirl outfit she was wearing, now she was wearing a black trail coat, high heels, and black silk gloves. She went into a pose; one hand was raised across her chest while the other was laid down and asked Nxhoj,
"Ready brother dear?"
Nxhoj replied in a confident tone,
"Bring it."
Ellenaj said,
"Heh, let's go, Nxhoj!"
The two then rushed at each other with a bloodlust; with Ellenaj rushing at Nxhoj with her fist ready while Nxhoj was rushing to her with nothing prepared seemingly. As Ellenaj was about to punch Nxhoj, he swung around to deliver a kick powered from the spin he just did. The blows both hit each other, sending the two back from the impact. As the two were recovering from the blow, Ellenaj asked Nxhoj,
"Heh, tired already Nxhoj?"
He just grinned, and replied,
"Nope, just warming up, you?"
She replied,
"Same here, let's get back with a bang!"
At the moment, she was covered with light colored black and white, and yelled out,
"Tifa style! Double beating!"
She rushed back to Nxhoj, becoming a blur that just appeared out of nowhere, leaving no time for Nxhoj to counterattack. She yelled,
"Beat rush!"
She began pummeling Nxhoj with various punches, and then yelled,
"Somersault!"
She flipped over and sent Nxhoj sky high. The light from earlier faded, but it didn't seem to slow her down. She jumped high to where she sent Nxhoj, and began delivering kicks and punches like no tomorrow. After some time, she flipped Nxhoj over, and delivered a kick that sent him straight to the ground. At first, it seemed like it was the end, but Nxhoj was able to flip over and land on the ground safely. As Ellenaj landed back on the ground, Nxhoj asked,
"So, you're able to use the tiger's rage now, Ellenaj?"
She replied,
"Yep, let's see you try to outdo me now."
As Nxhoj got up, staggering a bit, he seemed to be snickering, and he said,
"Funny thing is, I've learned to do it also."
Ellenaj replied with her eyes widening in surprise,
"What!?"
She watched as Nxhoj was covered up in a blue and white light as he yelled,
"Wolf style! Wolf position! Let's go sister!"
He bent down; copying the way a wolf was and ran to her like a wolf. Ellenaj rushed at Nxhoj as well, but when they were about a few feet, Nxhoj seemed to disappear. Ellenaj stopped, looking confused as she was looking where he was. She looked almost everywhere around her, but at the last moment, she thought of the only place she didn't check, above. She looked up and saw Nxhoj, coming down and ready to unleash doomsday on her. He started a combo with his legs; unleashing scissor kicks, repeated kicks, and a somersault to finish it up. She was sent up to the air by the somersault, and Nxhoj jumped up and delivered a kick that sent her straight down on her back. As he landed back down on the ground, the dust from the impact cleared, and Ellenaj was shown standing up. She was panting, but it seemed she still had energy to spare. As the light surrounding Nxhoj faded, he asked Ellenaj,
"Heh, you still plan on fighting?"
She simply smiled, and she replied,
"You know I'm not the type to give up. You plan to?"
He said,
"Nope, let's get this fight back on track!"
As the two rushed to commence combat once again, something suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and blew up. It turned out to be a smoke bomb; it released a big black cloud that choked Nxhoj and Ellenaj.
As the smoke cleared a bit, two figures in the smoke were running towards Nxhoj and began to beat him up a bit, one holding his arms back. Nxhoj tried to throw him off, but he somehow felt weaker than when he first started the match against his sister. As soon as they just came out of nowhere, they were thrown off. Ellenaj appeared and helped Nxhoj get them off. As soon as they were off, Ellenaj asked,
"Nxhoj, are you-
She was interrupted by a rather wicked laugh. She looked in the direction that she heard it at. The two thugs that ambushed Nxhoj were fine, they didn't even have bruises to show were Ellenaj hit. She was wondering who those two thugs were, what are they doing here, and most importantly, what was their goal?
End.
Now wait until chapter4:
Revenge and Surprises, wtf!? (f= fudge)