SARD

Part Nine

Ami's pov

"AMI WAKE UP! We need to go." I hear before my eyes open but it seems as if I'm not in charge of my own body. "Our teachers want us to be at the clearing by six." I must have finally opened up my eyes because I saw Nix shaking me trying to get me to wake up. "Alright I'm up I'm up, thank goodness we're at your house or else we would never be able to leave," I said jumping out of bed and trapping Morning Sun. "Agreed but we need to be careful or else we'll wake up Gēshēng." He told me while we were walking up the stairs after we had our gear. When we heard footsteps. We were going to be caught and there was nothing that we could do about it. Nix sent some hand signals my way trying to find out if we could backtrack which I had to respond no. The footsteps rounded the corner and then. "Nix, Ami, where are you going?" SHOOT we got caught I could feel my heart quicken at hearing another voice even though it seemed very familiar to me. " H-heey Amalia how ya doing," Nix said while trying to play it off leaning on the wall while I facepalmed at his antics. Amalia was rubbing her eyes and holding onto her stuffed panda. "You never answered my question where are you guys going." She said all the while seeming more and more awake we needed to go soon before she got the authorities. Nix could tell to so he said. "We're just about to go on our morning walk before we have to go to school." That was actually a pretty good one for him. "Oh, ok have fun." She said while turning and going to the kitchen. "Move. move. MOVE," I murmured trying to get him to go faster. "Here." He said while pulling me up and onto the window railing. We jumped off and rolled on the ground for a while before we came to a stop. "That was close." Nix said while we started running from the house, "Agreed. I think we need to take a right up here." I said when I saw a weirdly shaped stump. "Yep, Wonder what we're going to learn this time," Nix said while listing off things that we might learn. When what felt like an earthquake shook us. Although Nix seemed as if he was fine. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I woke up. And the ground was still shaking. "WHAT'S GOING ON?" Shawn yelled over the sound of engines and the ground shaking. "I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN EARTHQUAKE," I yelled back. Wondering if it might have actually been team PROGRES.

TEAM SARD TO THE LANDING PAD TEAM SARD TO THE LANDING PAD.

"Well looks like we know what that sound was," Ritsuko said while brushing her hair. How she did it the world may never know. "We should get going like the intercom said. Ami your the only one not ready to meet them." Declan said while going back to read his book. I should really ask him what he's reading. "I'm going, I'm going," I said while grabbing my huntress gear to change into. I had finished putting on my blue jeans and putting on a light sea blue tank top with a sunny yellow three-fourth jacket and my silver combat boots. I walked out of the bathroom while I was putting my hair into two braids. "Alright, everyone ready?" Shawn asked while putting courage into its sheath. Ritsuko gave an affirmative and put Oblivean Oath into its place on her back. Declan grabbed Aelfdene and put it into its leather pouch that was attached to his pants. I grabbed Morning Sun which was in carrying mode so it looked like a franny pack so I attached it to my waist when Shawn said "Well since we're all here remember no matter what happens we are a team and we need to help each other no madder what anyone else says. Right?" "Right." Ritsuko, Declan, and I said. "On four?" I asked. "Yep in order, ONE," Shawn said looking at me. "TWO." I looked at Ritsuko who sighed and said. "Three." She then rolled her eyes to look at Declan who rolled his eyes and sighed. "Four." "Emprós!" We all yelled together.

We had made it out of the elevator and had just passed the main hall when they found us. No not NEON or WATR or even a teacher, it wasn't PROGES either. But instead, we heard a dark laugh. "Well, well, well, look who it is. Team lump." Evan said while cackling along with the others in his little league of liegemen. "Of leave us alone Evan. We don't have time to deal with you lot right now." I said annoyed that we have to deal with this right now. "Aw, the delicate daffodil wants one last goodbye before she gets expelled. Along with the rest of her no-good team." He said I was about to make a reply when Declan beat me to it. "Well, then I'm sure you all know a lot about flowers don't you." I had to sniffle a laugh at their faces of pure confusion. "WHAT OF COURSE NOT WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT!" Evan yelled which caused Ritsuko to take a deep breath and without missing a beat said. "Oh, I think my bunny slippers just ran for cover." Shawn must have just gotten over his shock and saw the smock rising out of his ears because he said. "Guys we have more important things to do right now like meeting the team that just landed." "I guess." I let out a breath of air that I had been holding since they seemed too stunned to move. We quickly sprinted to the landing pad so that way they couldn't catch up to us. "That was insane! What came over you guys." Shawn yelled at us right as we were turning the corner that would allow us to enter the hanger. "Well, we kinda had enough of them bullying us." Ritsuko started out with, "Yeah I'm kinda fond of you all as well. AND I'm done with watching you all get thrown to the ground because of these guys." Declan said bashfully. Aw, I think that's the nicest thing he's ever said about Shawn and me. "Anyways we should probably go introduce ourselves," I said

We opened up the doors so we could get in and saw a dark-skinned male talking to a very pale lady whose hair I could have sworn was white. And another Male who looked like he had tan skin and brown hair who looked like he would rather be anywhere but here "Ah here they come now." The male who had been talking to the woman said. We walked closer until we were standing right next to them. "Hi sorry we're late we had an incident on our way over," Shawn said when there had been an awkward silence for about a minute. "It's fine." The woman said voice as hard as ice. "Oh give the kids a break Ritva. Sorry that the rest of the team isn't here right now they said that they wanted to go grab some breakfast while they were in Vale from some family-run restaurant that's only in Vale. Now come on and show us around it's been a while since we've been here." He said before he realized that we had no idea what to call them. "Oh yeah, we haven't done introductions yet. Silly me. I'm Gabriel, the other guy who's moping in the corner is Onacona, and the girl is Ritva. Who are you guys?" "Really Gabriel you forgot to read over the mission plan didn't you," Onacona said while rolling his eyes. "The one who broke the silence is Shawn he is the leader, the girl with braids is his partner Ami, The girl in the kimono's name is Ritsuko her partner, and the only one left is Declan. Correct." He said while pointing us out. "How?" I asked while Shawn just nodded to show that he was right. "That's our Onacona. Always reading ahead." Gabriel said while lightly chuckling at our faces. "Well now that we know each other's names. We can commence with the tour." Ritva said detached from the whole situation. "Oh yes of course. Right, this way." Shawn said rushed. Shawn took the lead and I fell in step with him, Gabriel was right behind us telling a story about one of their previous missions. Ritsuko was right beside him nodding along. Declan and Ritva were talking about some sort of rich people talk. Bringing up the rear was Onacona who seemed lost in thought. "Um hate to interrupt," I started, by interrupting Gabriel's story about how they defeated a Blind Worm. "But is he alright?" "Who Onacona? Yeah, he's normally like that." "Oh," I said, I kinda worry if he'll space out in the middle of a fight then. "Don't worry about him though he's the best person I know. Let me tell ya a story. About me and Onacona."

{We were in the middle of the Vacco desert when there was a noise "WHat was that!?!" Gabriel asked, "That sounded like a Dromedon and possibly a Ziraph." Onacona said while grasping Naabaahii which was in its gunstock war club form. There was a painfilled cry and when Onacona looked over towards Gabriel he saw that his left hand was only a stub and that there was also a Dromedon about fifty feet away. Onacona turned Naabaahii into a spear notched it into its atlatl and thew it. It hit the Dromedon square in its forehead which killed it. Onacona then called in the Harepan for a pickup. The Harepan was going to be a couple more minutes when the Ziraphs showed up. It was obvious that Gabriel wasn't going to be any help so Onacona started to run towards them grabbing Naabaahii on his way he turned it back into its gunstock war club form. And by the time the Harepan got here, there was a sand cloud covering the whole area. Pérak was barely able to land, the rest of the team ran out to help Gabriel, and when they looked over towards Onacona because Gabriel gave them a clue as to where he was the dust had settled and he stood victorious alone.}

"And that's why I trust that he's fine he would let us know if he wasn't." "That's crazy," Ritsuko murmured. "We're here," I said standing in front of their door. "Thanks, we would probably have never found this without you all thank you." "Your welcome." Shawn and I said.

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Did you know: that the Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. You may be wondering Scarlett what does that have to do with anything? Simple my friend, in two days from when I publish this on April 5that event occurs