Mike

After singing about chocolate macadamia nut cookies I sang about the ugly-chicken-woman and using words my mother would not of been happy to hear. Thinking of my mom, what was I going to tell her about yesterday and today. I'm sure she'll hear about how I've been running around like a maniac. I could be training for a marathon, I thought. I dismissed that thought quickly, running around like a maniac wasn't justifiable marathon training. I put down my guitar and decided to check my email. I had a couple of notifications from music websites and a message from my friend. It read:

Mikey! Check this out! It's called parkour! It's freaking awesome!

It had a link on the end and I clicked it. After watching for minute I knew that parkour was going to be my excuse. It was perfect! Plus, perfect training for later. Later? How did I know that I was going to have more chicken-women after me? It seemed pretty ludicrious but then wasn't a chicken-women pretty weird too? Plus, she'd already attacked me twice. I got the feeling that she wasn't going away and that there was the possibility of there being worse things than her. I sighed. Why was this happening to me? I shook my head, no use in worrying over questions I couldn't answer. I watched the rest of the parkour video and a few tutorials afterwards. I decided I'd try this new sport. I headed outside and decided to start in an alleyway. I had watched this one guy do a flip by running towards the wall, stepping on the wall, and propelling himself into a flip. It didn't look that hard so I tried it. It worked. The feeling of not touching anything for a few milliseconds was exhilarating. I landed on my feet and stumbled a little bit, but all in all, I had done it. I whooped in triumph and tried it again. This time I didn't step high enough and nearly landed on my neck but was able to rotate enough to land on my knees. I winced at the pain in my knees and examined the damage. Both knees were pretty scraped up and it was definitely going to be sore for a couple of days. I brushed myself off and looked up when I heard someone else enter the alley from the opposite end. It was Eli, and she was running for her life.

"Run," she panted as she passed me. I ran after her and soon heard the ugly-chicken-woman behind us. Again, man this creature was persistent! Eli and I weaved through different alleys but the ugly-chicken-woman was having none of it. She followed our every move and I got several new scratches on my shoulder from her attempts to grab me.

"Should we try to get to the sewer?" I gasped. Eli shook her head and replied, "Too far. Don't feel any entrances nearby." I cursed. What could we do? We had found our way to my school. It was a two story building with a wall of about seven feet surrounding the perimeter. It was pretty intimidating and I hated it. Looking at the high walls, I suddenly got an idea.

"I have an idea," I panted. I grabbed Eli to stop her and yelled, "Hey ugly! Yeah you, do you ever clean your feathers? They're disgusting!" Elis whispered a, "What are you doing!?" but I had achieved what I wanted. The ugly-chicken-woman's full attention was on me and naturally I started running. I ran straight towards the wall. I stepped on the wall and propelled myself backwards. This time, I got it perfectly and my plan worked. The ugly-chicken-woman had been focused on my and hadn't realized the height of the wall. She smacked into the wall with a screech and disintegrated into dust. I scrambled away from the falling dust and ran back to Eli.

"That was," she started looking stunned, "wicked!" Her face broke into a smile and I couldn't help smiling back.

"Thanks, just learned that today," I said. I felt pretty proud that I had pulled it off so well. I small part of me was glad Eli was blind so she didn't see my scraped knees.

"Is that why you fell in the alleyway?" she asked. Guess she could sense them.

"Yeah, I was trying it for a second time but I didn't step high enough," I explained. Eli nodded, still looking impressed.

"Ok, so now that we've met for the second time today, I get the feeling we should stick together," I suggested. Eli looked like she was about to protest but then nodded.

"Yeah I guess that would probably be safest," she turned to look at me.

"Thanks, you know for saving me," she smiled. I smiled in return and said, "Your welcome! Would you like to come back to my house and play some video games?"

"We should probably stay away from your house just in case some creature comes in through the window and destroys where you live," she said.

"Oh, right. Good idea," I couldn't help but be a little disappointed she'd rejected my offer. I was about to ask her where we should go when she gasped.

"What?" I asked. She was staring in the direction behind me and I turned to see what she was looking at. Standing behind us was a lion. I know, a lion? But seriously, a lion.

"Are you seeing what I'm sensing?" Eli whispered. I nodded and gulped. I took a step back and the lion roared. Great, we get rid of one hideous creature, and we meet another one. How weird could my life get?