Chapter Twelve
Brett called out to Oscar,
"How much further?"
"E.T.A. 30 seconds" Oscar shouted back.
"Okay let's do this" Brett bent low and grabbed the front of his board and boasted strait forwards
"Grab on!" Rylee who had been waiting a few meters ahead chucked out a rope. He grabbed it with his left hand, propped his board onto his right and as he looped around Rylee he punched the Grimm on the nose. The force of the punch made it slam to the ground with a satisfactory thud.
"Hey is it dead," Oscar called out as Brett and Rylee went in for closer inspection.
"Pretty resilient isn't it," Brett said as he pulled his arm back and punched it again.
"Yea it just won't die," Rylee grunted as she slashed at it with her picks. The Grimm let out a howl as it tried to get back up.
"Oh no you don't," Ramona jumped in out of nowhere and kicked it back down onto the dirt. The Grimm faded to dust leaving only an imprint in the ground.
"Rylee you still got the egg?" Oscar asked. She pulled it out of her back pack,
"Sure do!" She held it aloft as she presented it to the group.
"So we sure this is the treasure?" Brett asked slowly
"Only one way to fine out" Ramona chucked as she gave the egg to Rylee and cupped her hands around her mouth. She took a deep breath and shouted
"YO GWYNN IS THIS EGG THE TREASURE!" There as a pause then a holographic screen burst into life in front of them as it lit up they saw Gwynn, Ruaridh and a blue haired teacher.
"Greetings Miss Teal, I see you have found yourself an egg-."
"It's the treasure, right?" She spluttered
"Ah well-." This time Ruaridh cut him off
"This is a test we can't tell you what to do."
"Well why the hell did you even show up," Brett moaned "Useless teachers."
"Look Mr Tawny there is nothing we can do about it" Gwynn replied bluntly.
"Yo Jet fighter" the blue haired teacher beckoned.
"You mean me?" Brett said pointing at himself.
"Yea you, do you know that saying about eggs?" She asked with a grin
"Lafayette quiet down!" Ruaridh barked.
"I was just giving him a-."
"Look out!" Gwynn shouted.
The team looked around just in time to see scarlet riding in on a Grimm squealing,
"YEEE HAAA!"
Brett and Oscar dived to the left, Ramona and Rylee to the right. While the Grimm charged strait forward.
"SORRY 'BOUT THAT!" Scarlet called out. Timothy, Richard and Mary ran along after it. The Grimm flailed as it tried to remove scarlet but she would not let go. As Brett and company were getting back up the Grimm had decided to come back round again.
"Guys use plan comet" scarlet called out from up high. Just like that Timothy started freezing water into icicles while Mary created a vacuum in her ball. One by one they were sucked into the ball forming a ball of icy spikes. Richard shouted
"Coming through" as he ran up to the floating spike ball and with a destructive punch sent it hurtling through the Grimm. It stood there for a second with a massive hole in its chest, as it fell to the ground it disintegrated leaving only ashes in the wind. Scarlet walked up to her team and high-fived them all.
"Good work guys, the combo was so cool," she was practically bouncing up and down as she said this.
"No worry scarlet" marry said in her cutesy voice as she gave her a little hug. Ramon tapped Brett on the shoulder,
"Hey how come we don't have battle plans?"
"Well um..." Rylee prodded him in the other shoulder,
"How come we don't have High-fives and group hugs?"
"About that um..." Oscar tapped him on the head.
"How come we don't have an egg?"
"What do you mean it's right- AHHHHH where's the egg!" He shouted as he flailed around wildly looking for it. Richard walked over to the now desperate Brett.
"What do you want?" Brett said agitatedly. He simply looked at his feet, Brett's eyes went from Richards face all the way down to his boots and then turned pale, his boots were covered in yellow goo. "Please don't tell me that's our egg."
"Sorry about that" Richard replied slowly. Brett grabbed Richard by the collar, his mouth making shapes but no real sounds coming out.
"Hey hands off." Scarlet said both pistols pointed at Brett.
"Guns down Cowgirl!" Rylee snapped flicking her transformed picks at her.
"Step down sister." Mary jeered with her ball spinning between her hands.
"Point that somewhere else" Ramona Barked as she kicked sending a blade whizzing past Mary's head.
"Bitch cool it" Timothy shouted as he pointed his water cannon at Ramona
"People please" Oscar called out, trying to be the voice of reasons, everyone's eyes darted from to one another's, time slowed down to a crawl. The silence was long, painful and dangerous.
"I think we came to the wrong picnic." Damian said as he came into view of the clusterfuck that was going on.
"Damian stop let's not get involved" Gagana beckoned as she tried to pull his arm the other way but it was too late, everyone's eyes were on him. He paused as he thought of a way to break the ice,
"So do you guys know where the treasure is?"
"Yea," Brett said as he glared at Richard "all over this guy's boots"
"Oh I see," Damian look confused, "so you guys don't mind if I take this" he bent down and picked a golden coin off the ground. The entire group asked what it was and Damian just shrugged and said, "The treasure I assume"
"We're did you find that?" Mary asked eyes almost knife like.
"Just over here," he pointed next to his shoe
"Wait that's where I stepped on the egg" Richard said with a confused face.
"Wait a second," Brett said as he let go of Richard, "are you saying the treasure was in the egg."
"Apparently." Damian said holding the coin aloft.
"We did think it might be." Scarlet said to nobody in particular.
"Hey Damian why did you run off." A voice called behind him. It was Nathan with Ryu running along behind him. "You won't believe we're we found the treasure- oh hi everyone" he said as he came into sight of the group, "Also not cool Damian, you were invited to the mid test party you should have told us too."
"Nathan this is more of a Vacuo standoff then a party" Gagana said rolling her eyes.
"Does that mean there are burritos?" He asked seriously
"No" Gagana said bluntly. He turned to Damian.
"What about Tacos?" He gave a resounding no. He whipped round to Ryu, "Nachos?" Ryu was taken aback but quickly recovered, "No. Nachos isn't even a question."
"Nathan you really don't know what a Vacuo standoff is do you?" Gagana asked seriously.
"Man you are stupid" Mary jeered. Nathan fell to his knees and cried out "I'm not stupid I'm just hungry" and began to shed fake tiers.
"Nathan was the treasure in an egg?" Damian asked changing the subject.
"Yea how'd you know,"
"Well we just found one on the ground that's why."
Splat
Mary threw her egg on the ground.
"Mary!" Scarlet shrieked as her legs got covered in egg goo. She raked through the goo and plucked out a little coin.
"Yea we got it" she squealed in excitement. Damian looked at Brett,
"Heads up." And chucked him his coin.
"So are we done now?" Rylee asked the group at large. Gwynn's face flickered into life again,
"Yes you are all done, and I believe congratulations are in order" he said with a warm smile. "Now walk over to the centre of the room and you will be transported back up to the entrance." The students let out a joint cheer, some jumped and others whistled.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" Nathan shouted as he bolted away from the group.
"Oh you're on!" Brett said as he jumped on his board and zoomed off.