Ender's Game 2

Chapter 7

Sending Hopes

I woke up from the tickling on my cheek. I open my eyes and saw a brown catterpillar as big as my arm crawling beside me. Out of panick and surprise I stood up and run back but my foot got tangled from a tree root so I fell. I don't have anything against butterflies but catterpillars are disgusting! And that caterpillar is insanely big!

I snatch my bag, took my knife, and scrambled out of the hole. I feel kind of sticky and dirty, what I need is a bath! It's been a long time since I had a decent bath with real water. I went to the creek from yesterday. I clicked the button on my suit and changed into a tube, cotton,white, bath dress.

I run my hand on my hair and felt that it's wet and sticky. I look at my palm that is drenched with the sticky thing on my hair. It's golden yellow... this is not animal pee right? But it looks so familiar like. Great! I think I know what this is. I am greatful though that this is not animal piss but I'm not happy that my hair is half covered in honey. It's super sticky and well sticky.

I rinsed it but it just got messier. I'm really having a hard time getting the thick honey off my hair. I tried combing it with my fingers, rubbing it, rinsing it with moving water, rubbing it with leaves, nothing is working! I give up, I really have to get moving. I gather my hair at the left side. It's hopeless.

I sighed heavily. I comb my hair with my fingers again and this time my fingers did not get stuck from the honey, it went through to the end of the strand. I hold my hair to my eye level and saw the honey dissolving on to my hair! Turning my hair brown.

Oh no, no, no, no, No, NO! I rinsed it again harder. Come on! I love my black raven hair. I have more important things to be worried about, I don't want another thing to be lined up in my problems.

I took out my stainless canteen and look at myself. My hair is completely brown with golden streaks. I don't even know how to react anymore. I'm so angry.

"Aaah!" I yell my heart out. Some birds flew away from the trees. Breathing exercise, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. I just have to get use to my hair, no problem. What am I thinking?! I love my black hair, I like tying my black hair.

What would Major Anderson say in my situation? She would remind me that bad things can/will happen to us some time or she's going to tell me to channel my anger to something else. I change back to my titan suit.

I'll go with option 2. I continue walking up the mountain until the trees got fewer and the wind is colder. The grass is now rocks, sharp, big, white, mountain rocks. Ting, the battery went up to the third line and is blinking green. "Nebula?"

"I am ready to send madame." Nebula informs. A metal bracelet that covered my whole wrist turnf into an egg like phone. It floatef infront of me, so Nebula is leaving me. "Take care and good luck madame." Then it flew away.

I stood there just looking at everything and running my head to what my little search took me. I'm going to kill Ender for what he did to my hair! It's basically his fault! A loud thunder woke me from my little terrain. I can hear the rainfall but it's not raining. Where is the rain?

Just then a rain pour down at a part of a forest then it started moving? It's like a twister, it hits on a specifical place then moves on the land. Not good, the moving rainfall is strong. The trees that it pass got flat on the dirt so if I got caught inside I will probably be flat like a pancake.

There are one, two, three, four, alot more! The wind is getting stronger where I am standing at. A maelstrom typhoon is going to my direction. I run down the mountain as fast as I can, my stomach is making this crazy flips. I can fight mutated wolves, run by butterfly ponies, and wake up cuddling with a giant catterpillar but the most dangerous thing that you have to fight is nature. Another maelstrom is coming from infront, I stop abruptly sinking my shoes in the dirt. I choose my left and run away from the storm but another one is coming from my right. I turn around and saw another one coming. I'm stuck in the middle of four maelstrom coming to all my direction to have a smackdown.

I have no where to run. My heart is racing, one maelstrom can flat a 10 foot tree? how about four? This would probably kill me. Maybe I can dig a hole- drops of rain started to hit my face, its extremely cold and it hits like needles. "Duck!" duck? Before I can ask, I got pinned on the dirt and darkness swallowed me. I can feel the breathing on my neck, my face is probably so flustered. The rain and thunder can be heard from the outside and it took all the sound.

After what seems like an hour the rain stopped, the thunder are no more. I can feel that I'm free to move, I can see that the forest is wet from the rain and the forest smells strongly of petrichor. "Um thanks." I mumbled without looking. "Who are you? what are you doing here?"

I look up, my heart stopped. He looks normal, wearing a dirty white T-shirt, khaki pants, shoes, and carrying something that looks like a huge turtle shell is no other than. "Ender."

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