Sallie Williams, 16 You're Not a Bad Person Oddworld

You're Not a Bad Person

Chapter 19

Urgent Turn

"There you go, Sapphire. Your pants look good as new." Billy smirked, rubbing his forehead with the back of his feathered-hand. Sapphire and Billy was outside the Inn the next morning. The hot Oddworld sun blazed its boiling rays down New Yolk City. Many Clakker children watched in fascination as Billy placed his screw driver back in his box. Sapphire checked herself out. Her pants looked no difference. Billy grinned. "Try running now."

Sapphire walked at a fast pace at first, but then her speed grew and she was running as fast as a Steef itself. She smirked as she turned back from the other side of town and returned to Billy.

"Wow Billy. These pants are SO much lighter. I can run as fast as I want now." Sapphire grinned. Billy smiled proudly.

"I told yea' I can make them better. Can you swim?" Sapphire nodded. "Oh, that's great, because now, you can swim with them too. They are much lighter then before, and so, you'll swim with them on like a duck." Sapphire giggled. Billy and Sapphire followed back to the Mongo Wilds.

Sapphire took a deep breath as she looked down by the Docking bay.

Sapphire jumped.

The water was warm. The sun was warmer and the river was peaceful.

Sapphire then surfaced and swam her way back to Billy. Her pants were easier to move in and she paddled without any pain or struggle. Sapphire got out and there was a group of Clakker children, who were playing at the water's edge; they saw Sapphire and burst out laughter.

"What's so funny?" Sapphire asked, mock-serious, hands on hips. The children shrieked with laughter again, and ran. Billy chuckled.

"You will work better with those now." Billy grinned. Sapphire giggled. They were even more flexible.

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Half an hour later, she was in dry clothes. Rose made Sapphire some clothing, and indeed they looked perfect. She made her a sleeveless black t-shirt, just like her blue one and she made a dark green short-sleeved t-shirt. She told Sapphire that she needed more then one pair. Sapphire tried out the black shirt and it fitted her perfectly. She smiled.

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Thin amber clouds curled across the sky, rolling lazily along. Sapphire was back at the Mongo Wilds. She loved the nature of it, it was soothing and pleasant. The best place to cool her temper down. No one was around, and so she practice doing physical attacks. One day, she's going to run out of ammunition and she'll need to defend herself. Since her pants were better, she started trying out side kicks and high kicks, which worked perfectly. She trained all day, aching but ignoring the pain. She wanted to kick some good arse. She wanted to prove to Bart that she was a strong woman, and not just sharp with her tongue. She was ready for anything….or was she?

A small Clakker rushed towards Sapphire.

"Sapphire, Doc. Vykker is back! He's expecting you."

"Finally!" Sapphire rolled her eyes and followed the Clakker child.

For half an hour, Sapphire spoke to Doc. Vykker about the Slig antidote. Sapphire took all three bottles off the Doc and smiled. Finally, she can get out of here…even if she was having fun. But nothing could stop her going…Nothing?

Sapphire came back to the Inn and told Rose everything. She was indeed pleased. Sapphire said that she was going to go to Vykker's Labs to return the antidote and come back.

Suddenly, her PDA bleeped. Sapphire's heart stopped as she slowly grabbed it and answered it.

Then, everything went silent and urgent…

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Sapphire can now do kicks! Huzzah! Plus, she finally has those bloody Slig Antidotes. Well, something bad is happening, I wonder…

Disclaimer:

In all respect to Lorne Lanning and his world of Odd, I do NOT own anything in this, I only own my OCs:

Sapphire the Big Sis Slig, Rose the Landlady Clakker, Billy the Landlord Clakker, Dave the 'Multitasking' Slig and Furlong the big bro Slig, Danni the Vykker and Ruby the Slig, Corey and Joey the Big bro Slig.

OCs owned by friends who allowed me to put them on this:

Bart the Big Bro Slig © My Good Friend Jason. :D

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