𝙸𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 [𝐿𝐸𝒮𝒯𝐸𝑅 𝒜𝒱𝐸𝑅𝑀𝒜𝒩]

Ch. 5 - DUCKS?

Jesse and I were playing 1v1 street hockey when all of a sudden we heard.

"Hey, Guys! Bombay is taking us to buy new hockey gear so we could be like the cool guys!", Charlie screamed.

"Are you guys coming or what?", Averman said after him.

"Ugh, calm down guys...", I said, "Of course we're coming!!!"

"Dude we get actual gear!",  Jesse said running behind me.

(Time skip brought to you by angsty Charlie in D3)

We went into the shop and erupted in cheers.

Jesse, Terry, Aves, and I all put on gloves and started fighting each other. After a while, I got tired and decided to let the boys do their own thing. Guy and I started talking while trying to pick out a good stick. Then Bombay came over to us.

He pointed over to Fulton Reed. "Who is that kid?"

Guy replied to him, "Fulton Reed. He's in one of my classes."

"How come he's not on the team."

I just rolled my eyes and said, "He only plays football. Some preppie school gave him a scholarship as long as he doesn't play hockey. They don't want him getting hurt-"

"I heard it was colleges. He's already been accepted to four of 'em.", Guy interrupted me.

"Yeah, but I heard he's gotta repeat the sixth grade," Goldie added.

"Oh, shut up.", I said as I pushed him away.

I walked over to talk to Peter but we stopped talking whenever we saw what was on the wall.

"Gordan Bombay?", I said confused.

"Bombay was a hawk.", Peter said dumbfounded.

After that, Coach rang up and paid for the items, wow he really was a cake eater! Then, he decided to practice at a rink. What's wrong with the pond? Eh, whatever.

The team was making a ruckus about the skaters on the ice.

"Anybody knows who they are?"

Terry replied, "That's Tommy Duncan. He's in my science class. And that's his sister Tammy."

"Somebody got a crush~", I teased him.

"Shut up!"

Then we went on practicing.

"Back to the basics. Skating!"

He had us skate back and forth between cones with a puck and stick.

After, He pulled out a bunch of eggs.

"Soft hands. You don't shoot the puck to your teammate. You sail it to them. Karp!"

He passed it to Karp and Karp stopped it but it broke and got in his eye. An echo of Ews was heard across the rink.

"You don't stop the pass. You accept it. Cradle it."

We got into a semi-circle and Averman tried to sail it but just ended up smashing the egg.

"Again, Averman. Concentration, not strength."

It sounds like the Karate Kid.

Averman replied, "Like the Karate Kid, right? 'Wax on! Wax off!' Oh-"

"Just shut up and try it, Averman!", Connie said angrily.

"Calm down there, Connie. It was just a joke.", I replied. I will go all mother bear on her. Nobody hurts my little Muffin's feelings.

Averman sent it back and it didn't break. I punched his shoulder, "Good job, don't let them tell you to shut up. I was thinking the same thing."

He chuckled and gave a discrete side hug.

After that drill Coach tied Goldie to the goal.

"My mother would not approve of this, Coach. She'd like me to live to be bar mitzvah'd."

Then we all rapid fired at him and he just started laughing. Why did we give him gear again? I want the old Goldberg back.

A few days later the team went out to go teach Fulton how to skate. I wanted to come but I felt sick but they don't need to know that. I just told Aves that I had a lot of Homework.

Apparently, we were getting jerseys today and I didn't know about it. so I quickly put on a scarf, a bandana, and my rollerblades and skated to the rink.

Bombay held up a Jersey.

"The Ducks? We're the Ducks?"

Peter said, "What Brain-dead jerk came up with that name?"

Coach replied, "As a matter of fact, I did. But I didn't have a choice. We're being sponsored."

Averman said from beside me, "By who? Donald and Daisy?"

I started cracking up.

"Hey, you don't want to be Ducks? You'd rather be District Five? Some stupid number?"

I replied, "Better than some stupid animal."

"I'll have you know, McKay, that the duck is one of the noblest, agile and intelligent creatures of the animal kingdom."

Connie and Guy said, "But they're Wimpy." "They don't even have teeth."

"Neither do hockey players. Have you ever seen a flock of ducks flying in perfect formation? It's beautiful, Pretty awesome the way they all stick together. Ducks never say die. Ever seen a duck fight? No way. Why? Because the other animals are afraid. They know that if they mess with one duck, they gotta deal with the whole flock.", He took off his jacket reveal a jersey, "I'm proud to be a duck. And I'd be proud to fly with any one of you. So how bout it? Who's a Duck?"

"I'll be a Duck.", Fulton said.

"Yeah, Me too.", I said going to grab my jersey.

Soon everybody got up.