Milly Anderson The Mighty Ducks [Book 1]

The mall

"Milly, the cookies are ready" mum says to me from the kitchen "Mmm they smell delicious, thanks Mum" I pick up a cookie from the tray Mum had put on the bench. We always make food together, it's like a tradition. I take a bite from my cookie and its so good the flavour of the melted chocolate chips flood into my mouth. As I devour the rest of it, I can't help but take another one, cookies are always the best when they first come out of the oven and it fills the house with the warm delicious smell.

The phone rings once again, this seems to be becoming a regular thing "I'll get it" Mum says walking over to the phone and answering it. after a few seconds she takes the phone down from her ear and covers the bottom of it "It's for you" she smiles handing the phone to me "Hello?" I say "Milly!" I jump a bit at how loud the person on the other end just yelled "Fulton?" I asked "Yeah! Guess what!" Fulton continued before I could answer "Your coach offered me a spot on the team! Can you believe it" "Wow that's so great Fulton! Except" My tone changes "you cant skate right?" "yeah that's the thing your coach said he's gonna get all the team to come down to the mall and he'll teach me how to skate" Fulton answered "The mall? That doesn't sound like a great place to learn, but I guess I'll see you there then" I say "Bye" I hang up the phone. "Hey Mum Bombay offered Fulton a spot on our team and he said the team will be heading down to the mall so Bombay can teach him how to skate" I say "That's great honey, when are you guys leaving?" Mum asks "I don't know maybe me and Charlie can skate down and wait until the others get there" I suggest "Ok sounds good go grab your skates and take a couple cookies for Charlie too" Mum says "Ok" I go get my skates and grab a few cookies and put them in a paper bag on the way out the door.

"Hi Milly" Casey opens the door just as I take another bite of a cookie "Hey" I say my mouth full of cookie, I finish chewing "Sorry" I laugh a bit "It's ok they look good" she points to the cookies in my hand "yeah mum made em today we could bring some over later if you'd like, is Charlie here? We were going down to the mall to teach Fulton reed how to skate, he's joining our team" I explain "That's lovely" she turns her head back inside "Charlie!" She calls "yeah?" Comes the response "Come down here Milly's here" She calls. Charlie runs down the stairs "Hey Charlie grab your roller blades were going down to the mall to teach Fulton how to skate" I say through the doorway. He runs back up stairs and comes down seconds later with his skates he kisses his mum on the cheek and says bye "Thanks Casey bye" I wave.

"Oh I have some cookies here for you" I give Charlie the bag while we sit at a table waiting for the others "Thanks" he takes a bite of one of them "Mmm that's good" he says taking another bite "I know right mum make really good cookies" I say "I thought you made them with her" Charlie says "I guess so but she does most of the work" I shrug. "Those look good" a voice says, I turn around to see the team, Goldberg, who is the one that spoke, picked up one of the cookies and took a bite out of it "That's delicious" Goldberg says "Thanks Goldie but that was Charlie's" I say "Not anymore" He eats the rest of it "hey guys" Bombay pushes through the crowd "If you don't know this is Fulton he's going to be joining our team he just need to learn how to skate but trust me he will be a great addition" he pats Fulton on the back, he has heaps of padding on but I guess he'll need it if he's just learning how to skate "Good luck Fulton" I say "Thanks I'll defiantly need it" he laughs "lets skate!" Bombay yells. Charlie grabs my hand and pulls me to the group and we skate all through the mall cheering and laughing we turn around a corner and soon after I hear yelling I turn to see Fulton skating down the stairs awkwardly "I think he needs more than just luck" Jesse says we laugh "he must have something really special going for him if coach let him on the team skating like that" I say "I guess we will find out when we play the cardinals" Charlie says. We continue skating around having heaps of fun, Goldberg skates past a man eating cookies and he grabs the one the man is about to put in his mouth "hey!" the man yells "Goldberg! stop stealing everyone's cookies!" I yell at him, everyone laughs.

Bombay has called us in for a meeting a few hours before our game against the cardinals, We all sit in a room waiting for what Bombay has to tell us. "The ducks? We're the ducks?" Comes Jesse's response to the jersey Bombay just picked up. "Man, what brain-dead jerk came up with that name?" Peter asks "As a matter of fact I did" Bombay says "But I didn't have a choice. We're being sponsored" "By who Donald and daisy?" Averman laughs "Hey, you don't want to to be ducks? Rather be district five? Some stupid number?" Bombay says "Better than some stupid animal" Peter replies "Actually district five isn't stupid they produced the power for all of Panem" I say "What?" Everyone looks confused "It's not the hunger games Milly" Charlie laughs [I am aware the hunger games were not released at this moment] "Sorry" I say "I'll have you know Peter, that the duck is one of the most noble, agile and intelligent creatures of the animal kingdom" Bombay states "But they're wimpy" Connie says "They don't even have teeth" Guy adds "Neither do hockey players" we all laugh "Have you guys 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" Bombay walks back to where he started and whips off his coat revealing a ducks jersey underneath "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?" Bombay waits "I'll be a duck" Fulton stands up "So will I" I agree "Yeah. Me too" Charlie follows, soon everyone is up and picking up their jerseys and talking with each other "Now we're the ducks!" Bombay calls and we all cheer "The Mighty Ducks!" We cheer louder "What are we!?" "The Ducks!" we yell.