Milly Anderson The Mighty Ducks [Book 1]

New stuff

"Hey Milly, coach called, he says he has something special for the team today and you're gonna meet at Han's sport shop" Mum calls up the stairs "So get dressed and lets go" "Ok!" I call back putting on my clothes for practice and going down stairs. "Were also taking Charlie, so can you run next door and grab him while I put the rest of your stuff in the car" Mum says "Yep" I ran over the freshly fallen snow, and knock on Charlies door, Casey opens it "You here to pick up Charlie?" She smiles "Yeah is he ready?" I reply "He should be, do you want go up to his room and check" She says letting me inside "Sure" I walk up the stairs and knock on Charlie's door "Oi, Mate! You ready!" I call [sorry my Aussie is showing] "One sec" Charlie calls back. He opens the door pulling his arm through his jacket and putting on a cap backwards "Give us your bag" I say picking up his hockey gear, leaving him to carry his stick and sliding down the railing of the stairs. I look back and Charlie is just walking down "You know, it's quicker when you slide" I say "Yeah it would be a new record when I fall back wards off the railing" We both laugh.

"Now I've seen the gear you guys wear and I'm not gonna lie, It sucks" Bombay tells us standing outside of the sport shop "Cause we can't afford new stuff" Jesse replies "Not anymore, Thanks to Mr Ducksworth we have enough money for everyone to get all the equipment you need" "Really!?" I ask "Yep" Bombay replies, we all look at each other excitedly "What are you waiting for? Go!" Bombay tells us and we all flood in and start trying on stuff and playing with everything "Woah I'm definitely getting these gloves look how cool they are" Connie says to me picking up a pair of gloves and putting them on "yes they look so cool, they're so new and shiny" I say admiring them "I'm going to go check out the sticks wanna come?" I ask Connie who has now moved on to looking at the hockey jerseys "Nah you go ahead" She replies so I walk over to a rack of sticks to see Charlie accidentally knocking them all onto the ground and then crossing his arms trying to play it cool "Smooth Charlie, real smooth" I laughed helping him put them back up and we quickly walked away hoping no one saw "This is so cool, we get heaps of new stuff and we don't even have to pay for it" I say to Charlie as we both admire all the equipment "You think about forgiving coach yet?" Charlie turns to me "Maybe... I guess so, but only because he's getting us all this stuff" I give in "Woah look at that sculpture" We walk over to a sculpture that looks like ice with hockey sticks stuck in it "look at this one" Charlie runs his hand along one of the sticks. I hear the door of the shop open and I turn to see Fulton walking in "Hey Fulton" I wave, he smiles in return and walks towards us "Hey could you help me get this stick out" Charlie asks him, and he steps forward and pulls it right out of the ice handing it to Charlie who thanks him "what are you guys doing here?" Fulton asked me "Our coach let us come here to get all the stuff we need for hockey cause we don't even have proper jerseys to wear and we don't have to pay for any of it!" I finish "Sounds like a pretty cool coach" He replies "Yeah well he wasn't at the beginning but he's alright now" I smile "That's good, well I think I better go now, see you later" He waves and walks out "bye" I say.
Once we got everything we needed, we paid and it came to 7242 dollars and 8 cents.

When we got to the rink we were eager to try out our new stuff but before we got changed for our scheduled practice we were admiring the people skating on the ice "They're pretty good skaters" Peter points out "Anybody know who they are?" Bombay asks so I reply "That's Tommy Duncan he's in my science class" "And that's his sister Tammy" Terry smirks "Think they'd want to play hockey with us?" Bombay asks and we all reply with yeses "Go get dressed I'll do the negotiating" Bombay tells us.

When we return I see coach talking to Tammy and Tommy then he walks over to us "got 'em coach?" I ask "got 'em" he confirms with a smile then grabs a couple of spare training jerseys and helps Tammy into one after Bombay leaves Tammy shoves Tommy down, I laugh and skate over to him helping him up "Your sister would make a good enforcer" "Tell me about it, I don't know how she doesn't see it" he replies.

"Back to basics! Skating!" Bombay has us lined up and told us to weave around the cones he has set up in front of us "Go, go, side to side shift your weight. Get comfortable on your edges. That's good, that's good. Keep your balance Karp trust your edges" I get to then end and look back to see Charlie on the ground in front of Goldberg I wince "That's ok Charlie" Bombay calls out and Charlie gets back up and continues skating.

Bombay wheels our a big crate full of boxes of eggs onto the ice in front of us "What's he doin' now?" I ask to no one in particular. Bombay picks up an egg "Soft hands" he tosses the egg up "You don't shoot the puck to your team mate you sail it to 'em. Karp on your feet" Bombay puts the egg on the ice and softly hits it to Karp who stops it very abruptly causing it to smash and some got in his face we all laughed "You don't stop the pass, you accept it, cradle it" Bombay demonstrates how to do it. He gets us to go in a semi circle around him to practice, telling us concentration not strength, then gets us to line up in two lines facing each other, with a bunch of eggs at our feet for us to pass back and forth with the person in front of us, but there wasn't much back and forth because everyone kept braking the eggs. Karp was the worst, he hadn't been able to keep an egg whole since we started. I wasn't very good in the beginning but eventually I was pretty good by the time Bombay called us over to the goals where Goldberg was tied. We all had heaps of pucks ready to shoot at him to show him it wouldn't hurt "District five! Ready!" Bombay said and we all hit our sticks on the ice ready to shoot "Aim!...Fire!" We all shoot at Goldberg as hard as we can he starts yelling and screaming but soon it turned into a laugh "This doesn't hurt, you wimps, give me your best shot!" Goldberg says excitedly and stops the pucks with his feet. We stop shooting and hit our sticks on the ice in time and chanting his name. 

After practice Bombay was hyping us up for how good we did, I hear yelling behind me and I look back to see Goldberg still tied up "See ya Goldie" I wave to him as he struggles to get to us dragging the goals with him "Hey Charlie! Look at this" I laugh "Should we untie him?" I ask "Nah the dude with the Zamboni can pick him up when he comes through" We both laugh.