I'm so sorry, I didn't mean for it to be this long of a break I've been so busy with a new house, then a new computer, and if that wasn't enough I got a new puppy too! So much is going on. I'm hosting a student again soon from Germany, so I might not have much time to write, but I hope you can enjoy this little chapter!
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"Bye Saru!" Goma called as she left her cousin.
Saru had caught up with a few of his friends from last year. They talked for a while and caught up, but something seemed different about his little group of friends, they didn't seem as happy. He looked to Danny. Danny was always making jokes but today he seemed more distant. All of his friends seemed out of it.
"Yo Danny, you feeling alright?" Saru asked his friend.
"You mean, you haven't heard?" Danny asked, his eyes looked distant.
"Heard what?" Saru asked.
"They're shutting down the school," his other friend, Rachael, answered.
"What? Why?" Saru exclaimed.
"To much competition with the public school," Danny shrugged.
"My mom said she's going to send me to a private school in East City," Anthony said. Anthony was the kind of kid who always looked at the brighter side of things. Even as he said that, a smile was on his face. "I'll get to meet a lot of new people!"
"My parents are sending me out to Satan City," Danny stated.
"I guess we're all going different ways. My folks are having me study abroad," Rachael said.
"Where are you going?" Anthony asked Saru.
"Probably to the public school. I'm not rich like the rest of you, so my parents can't afford for me to go anywhere else."
Suddenly the group heard an explosive go off in their school. Teachers and students ran out of the building, shoving each other to get out of the way. Saru tried to see through the dust, but only caught a glimpse of a figure flying away.
"Is everybody okay?" the principal asked, trying to gain control of the chaos.
A girl screamed from the entrance. Saru raced over to see what it was about. An outstretched hand was under a pile of rubble. Crimson blood was dripping down the fingers. Saru began to dig out the body as fast as he could, in hopes of saving the girl's life.
He had finally gotten to her, but was to late. In his arms was a corpse. As was looking down at the body, loose rubble fell from the building and buried him. Saru began to panic. He hated to be in small spaces. He froze in place, waiting for someone to get him out. He got into the fetal position and quietly rocked himself.
After what felt like hours, but was only a few minutes, Saru saw a light. It began to grow bigger and bigger. Soon he saw a face. Kastanie's face. She smiled at him and held out a hand.
"You could have been hurt!" She said, although both knew it would take a lot more than that to really hurt Saru.
Saru looked over to the pile of rubble with remorse in his eyes. Because of him a helpless girl had died. He couldn't save her and had been buried in the rubble himself. How could he be a hero like his dad or Grandfather if he could hardly save himself. "The...the girl..." He stuttered still gazing at the pile.
"It wasn't your fault Saru, trust me, I saw what happened. I'm more worried about how this happened," Kastanie said while standing up.
Saru stood up and looked toward where the figure had flown. He looked toward the crowd. They were all in a panic. Some were limping around on a broken foot. Others were yelling and screaming in fear that the attacker might come back. One of the stricter teachers tried to calm everyone down, but that was hard considering what had just happened.
"Shall we?" Kastanie asked floating a bit into the air.
"Don't bother, he's to far," Her twin brother, Kashtan said stepping toward us. "His ki is to far away for us to follow, did either of you even try to sense what his ki felt like?" He asked them angrily. The two dropped their heads in shame that they hadn't thought of it.
"Okay students!" the principal said, stepping into the middle of the crowd. "No one should be alarmed, but we can't seem to get the phones to work and it seems as though we can't get out of here."
Saru looked to Kashtan for some sign he was worried, but found none. Around him murmurs of the students began to get louder. Some tried to walk off the premises, while others complained of wanting their moms or dads. Apparently "Mommy" and "Daddy" could fix everything. Saru couldn't take it any longer.
"I'm gonna find a way out!" he proclaimed.
Kashtan stopped him. "I'm going too, come on Kastanie."
Kastanie gave a little pout, but followed her brother and friend toward the edge of the property. They tried walking, but an invisable force stopped them. They tried flying, but were stopped again. Saru found a deserted spot and tried to blast at it to see if he could bury underneath the force, but the blast wouldn't even leave a mark on the pavement.
"It's useless," Kashtan said in his emotionless voice. It was deep and soothing. Saru had never heard an ounce of concern in it.
"But... but we have to get out!" Saru argued, firing a blast in the air out of anger.
Kastanie came over to him and put her hand on his shoulder, "Sorry monkey-boy, we're stuck here. At least until someone can find us."
Saru brightened up, "I could call Goma!" he said grabbing his cell phone out of his pocket. He held it in the air and moved around trying to get a signal from the powerful "cell phone dance" but couldn't even get a single bar. "Dang," he said.
"Mine's not getting anything either," both twins said at the same time.
Saru looked over to the other students to see that none of their phones got a signal either. "The richies can't get anything either," Saru said pointing to the other children doing the same dance as he had.
Suddenly Kastanie started a frenzy of blasts at the force field, "OPEN DAMNIT!" She screamed. She continued for a while and then fell down to her knees in defeat, "open..." Tears rolled down her eyes. "I wanna go see Dad and Mom... and 18 and Gramps."
"Kastanie..."Saru said stepping closer to her. Kashtan stopped him.
"Don't, let her cry on her own. She'll have to get over it on her own."
Saru looked over to the girl he had always thought to be so strong. Looking at her now she seemed more like a small, helpless child. One would never think she was one of the bravest warriors in the universe.
Who would want them stuck in the school, and why? Were they trying to hold in all the rich snobs for ransom, or were they keeping Kashtan, Kastanie, and him from something? What ever the reason, their had to be a way out. Somewhere there was a weak point, or a door. Maybe even a secret underground tunnel.
As Saru was thinking, he began to wonder how long it had been. He took out his cell phone. It wasn't anything fancy, just a tracphone with a few minutes left. He opened and closed it to see the time show up on the front screen. It was already time to go home, Goma would probably wonder where he was.
"You Fell?" Goma asked Saru.
"Yeah, right onto a pile of nails,"He shrugged it off as if it were nothing. "The contractor must have been doing some work."
"That's weird," Goma said. "You're not usually that clumsy."
"Yeah well everyone messes up sometimes," He said, smiling at her.
"Are you trying out a new smile or something? You look funny!" She said smiling at her cousins antics.
"What, don't like it?"
"It's... interesting. Defiantly not the same Son Saru smile I know." She walked a little further ahead of him, he was going so slow today. "Wanna race Saru? It'll be great training for the tournament."
"Uh, I think I'll walk. You know, save my energy." Saru lied.
"Oh...yeah...sure. Does that mean no sparing?"Goma asked as she looked up to her cousin.
"No sparing."
After an hour of walking, they finally got home. Saru was really taking this saving energy thing seriously. He didn't want to fight, run, or fly the entire way home. He had taken steady, even steps from the city to their home in the suburbs. Goma had thought of running ahead of him, but didn't want to leave her cousin alone. He was acting strange though.
When the cousins walked into the door, a man was sitting there waiting for them.
"Saru, I have something I have to talk to you about," Goten said, looking his son straight in the eye.
Saru looked back at his dad. "Yes?"
"Who are you, and what have you done with my son?"
Thanks! I'm gonna use this to ask a small favor. Go out and read the book 'A Haunting in Hill House' Such a great book! Shirley Jackson is amazing! I love 'The Lottery' and 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' Silly Marrikat! So there's my rant, bye bye.