Game of Gods

Chapter 1: The Iron Knight

        A girl sat on a park bench with her brother, throwing a stick to their loving family dog. They came here every other day to the Skaia-City park, playing fetch with Becquerel was a simple joy in their lives and they always savored it. Their names are John Egbert and Jade Harley and they loved coming here.

John took the stick and threw it back to Bec. He leaned back, relaxed, and stared up at the skies, “Man I’m happy for school to be out!” School had gotten out about three days ago and both were extremely relieved.

“Well you’re lucky that you actually HAVE a summer to be happy about Slimer.” John have a big grin and stuck his tongue out at Jade. John was just as smart as his sister but he’s a pathological prankster like their father. He nearly had been given summer school after pulling off another grand prank involving green Ghostbusters-style slime. A straight “AB” report card can’t keep him safe for long.

“You loved that prank, I got your locker neighbor pretty good!” He chuckled like an idiot and smiled. “Besides, I remember how you said he was giving you a hard time for the furry art in your locker door. He was a jackass and shouldn’t be picking on my sister.”

“Oh.” Jade didn’t realize the connection until just now, “I didn’t realize… Thanks John.”

“Don’t worry about it, just be glad I talked Dave out of trying to beat him up. That guy wouldn’t stand a chance against Dave.”

“Hahaha! No one can, Dave’s too fast for them.” Jade glanced down at her watch, the time read 3:45. “Crap! I’m gonna be late, you can take Bec home right?” She stood up and hung her purse over her shoulder.

“Sure thing, go have fun with Rose and Roxy. Dad will probably have something made by the time he gets home. I hope it’s not another cake.” Dad is a baker at heart, which wouldn’t be bad if he doesn’t make about six cakes per day for a week after something noteworthy happens.

“Yeah, it’s so good but he makes too many. Well text me if it is, I’ll see ya later!”

 

“That was wonderful, don’t you guys think so?” Jade and her friends Rose and Roxy walked out of the mall and back onto the streets.

“You kidding me? THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME,” Roxy screamed into the air. “Too bad Janey couldn’t come along though, shitty cooking lessons..”

Rose walked along with them, “It is a shame, she would have loved those spatulas we looked at. Besides, she doesn’t really require lessons anyhow”

“Anyhow, Jade?” She spins around and starts walking backwards while looking at Jade. “Give me the low down, is your virtual but still not exactly related brother single?”

“Roxy! You don’t just say such a thing out of nowhere.”

Roxy shot a load of sarcasm at Rose, “Well sorry Ms. Proper, but John and I have been flirting for a while now and he hasn’t made a move.” She started doing a little dance, “I wanna know if he’s for real about getting some of my sexiness.”

Jade laughed as she danced, but afterwards she awkwardly looked off into space, “Err, well I didn’t really know that you were interested in him… I don’t really know, John is one of those guys who's really nice to everybody but I can say that he seems to have a liking for you.”

“That’s good enough for me,” She turned back forwards and walked with a kind of triumphant poise to her. “It’s not like Rosie here could tell me,” Roxy nodded at her, “I haven’t ever seen her even try to flirt with her.”