Alright so before I get review saying why is Gotham (which I don't own by the way or batman or robin) in Texas. It just is. Deal with it. I needed it where I was and I already said Jamie was from Texas in the first chapter so that's how it's gonna be. Deal with it quietly. This is fan fiction my friends, things don't have to make sense.

I also don't own airblades. That is bandshoppe's baby.

Chapter 7

A few weeks later the guard was on a big yellow school bus on our way to the Gotham Guard Competition, or the GGC for short. This was one of the biggest competitions we had during the year. For weeks we had practiced for four hours every day, plus whatever we did on our own. So basically I practiced for about six hours every day. My lunch period had turned into practice periods with a quick snack mixed in. I would go to our library and practice in the back where there aren't any book shelves. The ceilings are as high as a two story building so throwing big tosses wasn't a problem.

Anyways, we were on the bus and I was doing everyone's hair. We were all required to have our hair in sock buns and apparently I am the only one capable of doing 25 girls hair. And thus I became the Sock Bun Nazi. Wa-hoo (It's hard to type sarcasm). I was working on Jade's hair when the bus driver called back to us that we were entering the Gotham City Limit. We all crowded against our window to see the legendary city. The city that swarmed with crime and the streets crawled with the scum of the underworld, But mostly the city that was protected by the Batman. We had all heard stories of the things that Batman and Robin did. How they swooped in and saved the day over and over again.

That got me thinking, a lot of other super heroes had powers, not Batman or Robin but they don't need them, they're Batman and Robin. I needed to talk to them. In whatever way I could, I had to talk to them. My train of thought was disrupted by Jade clearing her throat.

"Huh? What?"

"Wake up Jamie. You still have bobby pins sticking out of your mouth."

"Oh right, sorry. Let me finish your hair real quick."

"That would be good."

I finished her hair and moved on to the next girls. I let my mind wonder again, thinking about how I could get to talk to the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. But all I could come up with was something illegal. And considering who I wanted to talk to, the whole illegal thing might not be a good idea.

"Entering Gotham city limits," the bus driver called back to all of us.

We crowded up against the windows of the bus and stared at the city we had all heard so much about. The towering buildings gave way to dark allies that hide who knows what, drug lords and gang members walked along the streets.

We pulled up to a tall, ivy covered building with steep steps leading up to the front door. Gotham High school.

"Officers get the flag bags and everybody else go and wait for them at the front door," Castelli told us. We all got off the bus and I headed to the back of the bus to get the flag bags. We finally managed to get up the steep steps and meet up with the rest of the guard.

"Ya'll know the rules; we go in and get checked in and go drop off our stuff in our waiting area and we do not become that guard."

We all nodded and said yes ma'am. We knew what she was referring to when she said that guard. Last year the guard that was sitting next to us while we waited to go warm up was being obnoxious and singing In the Jungle at the top of their lungs. People that were working the competition were complaining about them and complimenting us on our civility. We got cupcakes for not being that guard.

After check in we went to the waiting area and set all of our stuff down. It was only 12:00 and we didn't have to go to warm up till 12:45 so we had some time to kill. I headed for the bathroom to check my hair and makeup before the performance. As I was walking down the hall way I heard the pitter patter of slippered feet behind me. I turned around and saw a guard girl from another school walking behind me. I smiled at her and turned back around. There's no need to be rude, right? We Texans have a reputation to uphold.

I tuned into the bathroom and walked up to the sinks and mirrors and checked my hair and makeup. When I was done I turned around and saw the girl that had been behind me in the hallway. She was short, about up to my chin and had black hair that billowed around her pale face and down her back. She wore a simple but elegant white dress that had white lace coming up from the bottom hem and a black belt with an empty loop on her left hip around her waist. She stared at me with unnerving blue eyes. The outer parts of her irises were a pale blue and the closer you got to her pupil the darker it got. It was so dark that you couldn't tell where here iris stopped and where her pupil started. She stepped closer to me and I tried to step backwards but I was backed against the sink and couldn't go anywhere.

Crap, I'm trapped, Ithought as I stared back at the girl. "Can I help you?"

She stood up on her tip toes and leaned I even closer, she smiled a demented smile and quietly sung "you're gonna be in trouble."

I lifted my scared hand up to push her away from me but she turned around and ran out the door before I could. I ran out after her just to see where she went but when I got out of the bathroom she was gone. I even peeked around the corners but I couldn't hind hide or hair of her.

A little shaken I walked back to the waiting area. Apparently I was looking a little pale because Jade came over and asked me if I was ok.

"Just some weird girl came and creeped me out," I said. I told her what the girl looked like and what she did. Jade got a troubled look on her face but when I asked her what was wrong she just waved me off like it was nothing. But telling by the look on her face she knew more than she was letting on. I let it go for the moment but was still shaken up a bit. I absent mindedly rubbed the scares on my arms, tracing the lines and ridges, just thinking.

After a while it was our turn for warm up. We gathered our equipment and filed out into the hall way. We walked single file and silent down to the warm-up room. We went over our show and all the parts we had been struggling with. I worked on my solo and on my tosses. Even though flag is the most basic piece of equipment it's my favorite. You can do so much more with flag than with rifle sabre or airblade. I've had a flag solo every year in winter guard and I absolutely love every one, I get to learn weird new tosses that are considered advanced like the one that I have ended up flipping in when I tried to show Jade. It's awesome.

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After our performance (which we were amazing at by the way) Castelli let us all run to the rest room and get out all of our nervous pee (it's a guard thing). The bathroom was filled with guard girls from other school all getting ready for their show. I looked at all the different uniforms trying to figure out what school the mysterious girl was from, but no one else had on the kind of dress she was wearing. Oh well.

As I was about to leave the restroom I heard a blood curdling scream outside the bathroom. I ran out of the bathroom to see who it was. The girl in the white dress from before and a boy that looked a lot like her who had on a white button down shirt and black slacks on, were dragging a girl from another school between the two of them. It was the girl being dragged that was screaming. Someone came busting out of the door behind me knocking me out of the way and when running after them before I could see who they were. I went back to where I knew Castelli was waiting for all of the guard girls and told her what happened.

"Tell everyone to find there partner and to come back here."

At the beginning of the year we were assigned a partner in case of an emergency. We stay with our partner at all costs. And that way we know if anyone is missing. I ran back out into the hallway and told every one of my guard girls I saw, they all ran to find their buddies. I went back to the bathroom to find Jade, my partner, since that is where I saw her last. Crap, she's not here anymore.

"Have you seen Jade?" I asked Becca and Natalie, who were on their way back to Castelli.

"I saw her running down the hall way a minute ago," Natalie told me with a worried look on her face.

I went running in the direction she had pointed. As I was rounding the corner to where I had seen the boy and girl run a few minutes ago, the fire alarms started going off. I knew I should get out of the building but I had to find Jade. Ah, screw it. I ran toward the main gym and started smelling smoke.

I pushed through the doors and saw the bleachers on one side of the gym were on fire. The flames licked at the banners hanging on the wall and lit those on fire as well. As I looked around and saw a girl with black hair and a grey uniform flying toward the girl in the white dress who was now wielding a sabre, that looked suspiciously like the same kind of sabre that we use I guard. The girl in white took a swing at the girl flying towards her and judging by the cuts on the other girl's body, there was nothing fake about the sword. The boy from before was tying up the girl they had kidnapped with guard tape. I could see the fear in her eyes, she was to terrified to even struggle against him.

"Ghost, stop playing around and just finish her," he yelled to the girl with the sabre.

The girl who was apparently named Ghost lept forward to stab the girl in grey, "Good bye, Tempest," she said as she closed the distance between the two of them.

Tempest ducked and rolled out of the way, she came up on one knee and shot flames out of her hands.

The hem of Ghost's dress caught on fire, "Ghost help!" she called to the boy. Well that's not confusing. Both the boy and the girl were named Ghost.

I don't know how I had gone unnoticed this long but I had to do something. I looked around and decided that I could get to the tied up girl. I ran back behind the bleachers where they couldn't see me and changed into a black rat.

Sorry to end it at a cliff hanger but I've got so save something for next week. I created Ghost, Ghost (it will all make sense in time, just hang in there.)and Tempest and all the other characters except of course Batman and Robin. Seeing as this chapter is over 2,000 words and is 4 pages long I will make ya'll suffer through another week until you find out what happens. I don't know why I worried about not getting this done. I finished on Wednesday. Yup I just impressed myself.

For you non guard people out there, guard tape is electrical tape, we spin sabres (white "swords" with black hilts), rifles (wooden guns with either black or silver bolds [plastic piece on top] and black or white straps on the bottom. In order to make this easier on yourself, just google it.