Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32745070-20190205222446/@comment-34572969-20190209210618

Katina

I paused for a bit, wondering what to do. Should I chase Jack? Should I confront him? Should I chase Jack then confront him? Should I report back to the other Guardians and tell them about what Jack's parents were talking about?

I sighed. What should I do?

"What do you think, Fla- AGH!" I exclaimed. Flame was right there, hovering next to me. I recomposed myself and tutted.

"What in Thor's name are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be back with the Guardians?" I questioned him. The dragon simply gave me the animal equivalent of a shrug and cheeky smirk as I simply gave up on trying to reason with him.

He pointed his snout in Jack's direction, where he was preparing to take off on his Skrill. I took that as an indication of what to do and ran forward to the boy.

"Hey!" I shouted out, trying to get his attention. "Jack! Don't act like you can't hear me, you pile of yak dung!"

Turns out, he couldn't hear me. He was already soaring off dramatically into the distance as I sighed in defeat.

"Oh well. Maybe next time."

Next day, and guess what we find out?

"AUD IS ALIIIIVE!" Rita gasped out, already jumping up and down with Kate in excitement as the boys, Vix and Aidan, simply watched from afar, amusion written into their smiles.

Oh yeah, Vix. Vix-Edgar. He was the newest Guardian at the time, the one Freygair introduced to replace Ar. I almost forgot to mention that.

Anyway, me and Isla almost immediately exchanged dumbfounded looks and ran up to join the celebration. Aud was alive after all!

Michael simply joined the rest of the boys in watching us jump around and looking at us as if we were lunatics. Well, it wasn't too far from the truth...

We were soon to infiltrate the base where Aud was being kept. The Harns', as I had learnt.

Me and Vix were assigned the task of getting the guards' attention and distracting them while the others... did some other stuff. I was too focused on the fact that we were getting Aud back to concentrate.

We split off, and I eventually found the guards keeping watch of the area around Aud's cell. I signalled, "Fire" to Flame and frantically waved my hands about in the air, as streams of fire came to grab their attention.

"HEY! IDIOTS! SOME GUARDS YOU ARE, YA'LL SUCK!" I shouted out. They looked my direction and immediately began to chase me. What a bunch of idiots...

I ran through the complicated maze of corridoors and hallways, still trying to receive the attention of all the guards nearby. They all fell for it. Some guards, huh?

We had managed to distract them for a while, and for that we were grateful, but our victory was short-lived as we heard more guards coming our way.

Vix helped me onto his dragon, Tumble, as we flew towards where everyone had regrouped. Aud was with them, although she was very badly injured and wrapped up in a blanket with Rita. Poor girl...

"We distracted them for now, but more are coming. We have to get out of here ASAP!" Vix exclaimed. We all nodded in agreement, mounted our dragons with Flame perched on my shoulder, and flew off.

Aud was soon placed into a hospital because of the numerous injuries she had obtained whilst being held in captivity. Isla and Rita were the forst to check up on her, with me back at our base. I wandered around aimlessly until I came up to my hut, which had a closed door despite me opening it up and forgetting to shut it earlier with Aud's announced survival.

I heard some shuffling and scampering around inside as well, and my curiosity only grew. Iknew it couldn't have been Devil again, since he was asleep for whatever reason. I moved forward and pulled the door open.

Guess who it was?

I paused. "Alright, alright, what in the name of Thor's green world do you want with me, ya muttonhead?" I asked Jack. He jumped at my comment and turned around, eyes wide as he saw me standing in the doorway. He sighed.

"Jeez, ever 'eard of knocking?" he deadpanned. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"Uh, no. Because it's MY hut, MY base, MY property. And- hey! That's private!" I exclaimed, seeing certain papers waving around in Jack's hand. He looked between me and them, smirking.

"What are they, then? 'From Nick'. Aww, talking to ya boyfriend? He teased. I pulled a face.

"Ew, Nick? No way, gross! He's my-" I paused. "...brother." The word didn't seem so foreign on my tongue.

I shook my head, quitel literally shaking the thought away. "Whatever. What the hell are you doing here, anyway? Again, MY hut, MY stuff."

Only then I realized how messy the place seemed. Drawings scattered everywhere, pillow thrown off of my bed, you name it.

"Why do you care what I do, anyway? Thought I was just some idiot to you," Jack stated. I marched forwards.

"Uh, because you've completely ransacked my room! What on earth are you doing?"

I eventually put two and two together and realized it had something to do with the 'plan' that Jack's parents were talking about the day before. If it did have anything to do with the Hidden World, it would make sense why he was at our base and... completely destroying my room.

"For Thor's sake, if this has absolutely anything to do with what your were parents talking to you about last night, forget about it. Don't worry your pretty little head about what we, or specifically what I, have to do with this," I stated. Jack paused, processing the information.

"...wait, did you just call me-"

"Shut it. Now leave my room and this base in peace."

He paused a little longer. "Wait, whaddaya mean? My parents talking to me last night..."

He seemed to inwardly cringe.

"So ya know about the plan now, Imma guess?" he ventured.

"Well, actually, no I didn't, but now that you've confirmed that information to me and didn't exactly seem to feel very good about mentioning it, that gives the impression that there is, in fact, a plan and it does involve the kind of stereotypically villain-y stuff that includes taking over our world. Am I correct?" I finished off. Not gonna lie, it felt good knowing that I was right after seeing Jack's utterly shocked and amazed face.

"How... how did you-"

"Unimportant. Now, my friend is in the hospital because of some crappy organisation that for whatever reason finds pleasure in other people's suffering," I said, gesturing to my open door. "Now begone, mere peasant, and don't let me see you here ever again." I put on a weird posh voice as well just for the sake of it. Jack frowned.

"Whatever. As if what you say even matters, I'll do what I want," he said, shoving past me and shutting the door forcefully closed again. I sighed.

"Well, time to visit Aud, I guess," I mumbled to Flame, who was resting on my desk as the entire ordeal went down.

"Let's go."