Hey everyone this is the 9th chapter so make sure you read chapter 8 before reading (im saying this because I posted some chapters at the same time) this chapter will pick off exactly where the last one ended~ Cookie ;-;
(In a room with James, Chris, Mark, and Sean.)
"Hey guys I don't think I want Bloom to be going into training till she's… well at least 13 or something, I mean she's just a kid, and so are your siblings." James confesses
"I agree, they should have a childhood" Chris says
"What?! You can't be serious." Mark looks at them in disbelief "They have to defend themselves, what if the Templars come, then what? They are useless and it doesn't help our next generation killers plan, we need them, they are like our only hope of defeating them."
"Don't you see we are putting too much pressure on kids that just got potty trained, its going from dippers to knife in just a few years." Chris explains his reasoning
"Don't you see, they have to in order to survive you think they can make it without being trained? Also think about it, being trained by assassins and hackers, what's more bad ass? Nothing, I think they would want too if you asked them." Sean states
"But how do we know they would even survive the training what if the trainers are too harsh?" James questions
"Dude, their like 5, what trainer goes army style hard on a 5 year old, we're bad ass not cruel." Mark points out
James sighs "Well I don't know I just don't think it's necessary" He says
(Back in the living space w/ Bloom)
"Do you want me to pick something out for you Bloom?" Marry asks and walks over to the closet
"Why are you wearing black and blue?" The red head asked still in a towel and hair wet
"Because we are going to a competition and blue is our color, but we also have to blend in so we have to wear black and blue."
"Oh, can I go too?" Bloom asked hoping she could
"Of course, it is your birthday" Marry said and picked out blue tight fitting crop top with a black jacket, black sweat pants, blue vans and blue knuckle gloves. Bloom got changed and Marry helped her with the blue paint, she put designs on her stomach, back legs, arms and face, then put the same blue in her hair then braided it in two French trail braids.
"Who are we going against?" Bloom asked
"People like us, just a different location" Marry answered while finishing the second braid they got up and walked out of the living space to see everyone out there wearing the same black and blue and getting ready to leave when Bloom found her friends, they were all wearing black and blue running wear.
"Bloom! I like your clothes" Colleen said and ran and gave her a hug
"Thanks, I like yours too" Bloom hugged back. Colleen was wearing black spandex and a t shirt and hair in a high pony tail with a blue bow on top with blue bracelet hair dye and paint. Marina was wearing black leggings with blue stripes on the side and a black jacket with a black tank top underneath, blue paint and hair dye, hair was in two loose braids and blue nail polish. Kyle, Lukas, and Max where all wearing loose fitting black tank tops and athletic shorts with lines of blue on the side, they had the same hair gel and paint on as the rest. They started talking about where they were going and what they were going to do when James walked up.
"Hey guys when we get there remember not to step out of the safety zone ok?" They all nod "and trust no one, not even the police, unless you know them or if they're part of our group stay away from them." They all nod but Bloom
"Why" the confused red, now partly blue haired girl asked
"They could be bad people, people that want us gone." He explained.
"Oh" Bloom said, unsure of why but didn't want to ask
"Ok let's head out" He said with an uplifting smile. They started walking to the exit until Bloom remembered something important.
"Oh wait." She said running over to the coach and grabbing her dagger sheath that had her dagger and case in it already. She ran back. "Ok ready" she says and puts it around her waist. Everyone had made it out to the front and got on their bikes, and cars, Bloom noticed that they all had weapons with them, some had knife some had guns. Bloom looked closely and saw everyone has the same metal pole with a grip in the middle as Marry. Bloom looked over at her friends and noticed they are the only ones without weapons or small pole yet, but her thoughts came to an end when Marry pulled her over to her bike and helped her with her helmet. They started driving and it felt like 5 minutes to get there. They surprisingly didn't hit any red lights. (Get it?... no well for those of you that do get it …. Yeahhhh, and if you don't, all will be revealed on time.) They got there in no time, but Bloom wasn't exactly sure where 'there' was but once they stepped off the bike all she saw for miles where tall buildings.
"Hit the lights hackers" Someone with in their group shouted and half of the people from their group took out their phones and started pressing buttons and soon all the lights in the abandoned city were on, Christmas lights, street light, and building lights all turned on, it was a beautiful sight. Soon music also started playing, there were speakers everywhere in bushes, on buildings and on the roofs. They started walking till they came to the center of the city, where they met another large group of people wearing black and red. The two joined together to create an opening in the center, one blue member, James and one red member stepped in and shook hands then turned to face the general area their group was in.
(A/N hey srry for interrupting but I just wanted to vent…I had a game today… we lot because our team was really ouy of it…. I also have a swollen eye…. xD yeah… 5/28/15)
"First rule" James shouted "If anyone loses their footing, no matter what team, you have to do what you can to get them back. We may be opponents here but against the real enemy we are brothers, and we must stick to that."
"Secondly!" The man in red yelled out after a brief silence to get everyone's attention "You are allowed to have your weapons with you, but you are not allowed to use them on any of your brothers. The only acceptable time is against harm, like James said, we are only opponents at the moment but when the time comes we are all one"
"Thirdly, the safe zone is off limits, you can go by it but never in it, we have to keep the little ones safe." James says with a stern tone
"Fourth rule, If any threat comes of attack us, the games off, meaning we fight together and stick together no one is left behind. GOT IT" The red leader yelled the last part "Ok now to go over game play" He looks at James
"Welcome to Free Running Capture the Flag!" He says with a smug smile "Everyone here have their emergency pole?" (sounds weird xD) People nod others respond with a simple yes "Ok if anyone falls I expect you to use it, we will be on the roofs red on the north side, blue on the south side" He explains
"Both teams will hide their flag on their side on one of the buildings, it must be in visible sight" Red continues
"On the start both teams will make their way a crossed the roofs to the other side and try to capture the flag, hence the name"
"You have the option to be an attacker or defender, that's your decision." The two leaders take turns explaining
"Both teams start on their side, when you hear the starting horn you will attack or defend, like Ryan said, that is your decision, Attackers will go after the others teams flag defenders can guard their own flag from attackers, but once you cross your side to your opponents side, which is marked with a white line that separates the two sides, you are able to get pinned to the ground by the opposite team."
"If that happens you will be taken as prisoner and go to the jail. Blue jail is located on the southwest side, red jail is located northeast side. You are able to get out of jail only if one of your teammates runs over and makes it to the jail and choses you to take them back to their side."
"You can only win once you find the flag, take it and run back to your tallest point of the city, scale it and hook the flag and do a warrior cry to let everyone know the game is over, however once you have the flag anyone can tag you anywhere… because well what's the fun in letting you run freely. There will be 3 rounds winner gets bragging rights" Ryan says with a devilish smile
"And finally, anyone under 15 must have some sort of neon green on them. If you don't, don't be surprised if you get hurt." A couple of people walk by with green paint and put it on some kids in the crowd and one walks by and slathers some on the back and arms of Bloom and her friends. The rules were done so the two teams walk their separate ways till they end up where they started, then people started climbing buildings and headed to too roofs. Bloom had no idea what to do but she followed her friends who found a white ladder and started climbing all the way up to one of the roofs of a tall building. Bloom didn't like it, she was scared, scared of falling, scared of dying, but she kept going she didn't want people to see her scared she didn't like it. (this is also why I made her birthday may 31 well 1 cuz its also mine 2 she's a Gemini and Gemini's are known to always act happy and hide their emotions from people because they know it can affect people, if you haven't heard of the zodiac signs look them up its really cool) The feeling didn't change when they got to the top.
"C'mon Bloom lefts get to the safe zone so they can start." With that Max runs and jumps to the next building heading to the center of the playing 'field', the rest of her friends follow. Bloom swallowed hard and looked up at Marry who was standing right beside her.
"Awe, you scared hunny?" Mary bends down so she was about as tall as the frighten little girl. Bloom looks down and nods. "How about, I stay with you for this round and watch with you" Bloom still had her head down embarrassed but nodded. Mary gave her a sad smile. "Ok c'mon" she runs and jumps to the next building and stops to wait for Bloom. The gap wasn't the largest between buildings in the city but it was little less than 3 feet, but Marry was still confident Bloom could jump it, and Bloom didn't want to disappoint her. She took a deep breath and went up to the roof edge. She could hear the people behind her mingling not even noticing the young girl about to jump from one building to another. Bloom looked at Mary her arms out and ready to catch Bloom, then she looked forward to where they are going. A white striped that separated the north and south that stretched too far to see, and beside it a box made from lines labeled 'safe zone' in the center of it. Bloom looked back to Mary and took a deep shaky breath, and jumped off two feet trying to go as far forward as possible, but her 'far as possible' wasn't far enough she missed by a few inches and grabbed the ledge to keep from falling but that wasn't what was holding her up, there were a pairs of hands under her arms but not pulling her up. Bloom looked up and saw Mary, smiling, almost laughing, and seeing her so calm made Bloom less tense, and started to giggle as she hung there.
"C'mon you can pull yourself up" Mary says but does not remove her arms, Bloom didn't argue, she tried pulling herself up and with Mary's help she was able to. They both sit there for a while, Bloom was no longer scared, she didn't understand why, she was just hanging on a ledge of a building hundreds of feet in the air but she wasn't afraid. They got up and Bloom watched as Mary ran a crossed the building and tucked and rolled onto the next building. Bloom followed suit and went to the edge of the roof but this time she got a running start and jumped to the next building. She landed on the roof with a thud and fell to the ground but got up with only a few scratches on her knees. "ohh, hmm maybe tomorrow I'll show you to tuck and roll" Mary says. Once they reached the safe zone the lights started to dim out until it was completely dark out. Lukas, Max and Kyle stood at the very edge of the safe zone ready to cheer their team on while Colleen, and Marina where sitting with next to them. There where about 6 more kids in the safe zone who looked friendly enough to talk to but where to busy waiting to the game to start. Bloom stood next to Mary and held her hand. Moments later a horn was sounded through air covering the music for a brief second and from both sides a herd of people wearing either blue or red where running and jumping from one roof to another. Some stopped at the line and others stayed farther behind, while a few kept running to the other side. The small few that ran to the other side ran fast and swiftly, they were to distracted the opponent, aka the bate, and they took it. The bate where the fast ones and it took two to three people to try to capture them which gave the people at the line a chance to run though the defense of the opponent and search for the flag.
About 20 minutes of people running back and forwards between sides a blue person with 6-7 people chasing him runs by with an orange object in his hands, soon more people start chasing him as he runs to the tallest point on the blue side and starts to climb it. Bloom doesn't realize who it is at first until Mary jumps up and down cheering James's name along with the other and soon Bloom joined with them. James reached the point of the tower and blows an air horn that signals the round is over. People start cheering and heading back to their side to start the next round. Mary lets go of Blooms hand and joins the blue team. Bloom walks over to where her friends where standing and sit next to them for the next two rounds.
Again weird place to stop but the next chapter will be posted soon and again sorry if it sounds pointless but yeah xD ~Cookie;-;