Ella Snowy Owl

chapter 10

Quick little notice: so you know a lil more about Ella. Or should I say Ariella. Whos happy about ben? Yeah I am to. Well we have one more in this chapter. Enjoy.

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(Ariella's point of view)

Stupid Ben! Stupid Jack! Ugh! Why are they so infuriating! Calm down Ella. Just calm down. You can't lose it. You can't. Not now.

I start taking my anger out on a near by tree. I'm punching, kicking, and banging my head against the tree. I'm throwing elbows and kneeing it. I don't stop, even though my hands and feet are bleeding. I don't need to stop. I'm perfectly fine.

"Now what did the tree ever do to you?" A voice asked from behind the trees.

I spin around looking for the source of it. "Come out and show yourself!" I yell.

A boy steps from behind the trees. He looks to be around seventeen or so. Thats only a year older than me. Thecnicaly. He's wearing a brown jacket with blue hood. The brown is in various shade stripes along the arms. He's wearing plain jeans and black converse. A black and gray mouth piece and orange lensed goggles cover most of his face. He takes his hood down to reveal his short shaggy brown hair. He takes his goggles off and rests them on his head showing his brilliant sea green eyes. He removes his mouth piece, and now I can see his face better. He's so pale. But not pale white like me. He's like a very pale....gray.

He looks to my hands and feet. "Oh damn." He says, "your bleeding."

"So what." I say.

"Hi, I'm Ticci Toby! But you can just call me Toby." He says. He begins to twitch. Just a little.

I just noticed his hatchets and I tense up. He twitches again and drops the newer of the two hatchets. It has an orange metal handle and a blade like new. The other is an old rusted one with a wooden handle. He curses under his breath and picks it up to put it in his hatchet belt around his waist with the other one. I start to ease up but not much.

"Oh don't worry I won't hurt you." He says.

"Oh?" I say, "well what if I want to hurt you?"

He laughs like it was some kind of joke.

"Ahahahahaha!!! You cant hurt me darling. Try if you wish but it won't happen." He says.

Oh this guy has to be crazy! Does he know who he's talking to?! "Challange accepted." I say as I get into a fighting position.

He throws his hatchet belt on the ground. I gave him a slightly puzzled look.

"Fair fight." He says.

"Don't take it easy on me just because I'm an injured girl." I snap "I can handle myself just fine."

"But you don't have a weapon." He says.

Is this guy serious?! He could easily chop me to pieces! Or at least he could try.

"Oh yes I do." I say. Boy is he in for a surprise. "I have many weapons." I manifest my bow and arrow. "Did i mention I'm a witch by trade?" I say.

A small smile appears on his face. Its actually kind of cute. Wait, what? I'm about to get in a VERY physical fight with him, and I think he's cute? Yeah. Yeah I do. He's really cute.

"Well," he says, "that would be fun, but lets just stick with hand-to-hand combat for now."

"You mean....your not gonna...kill me?" I ask.

"Why would I do that? I just met you, and besides I didn't really want to fight in the first place because of your hands and feet." He says.

"But you challanged me. And I NEVER lose a challange." I say.

"You would've lost this one sweet heart. I'll show you." He says.

He picks up his hatchet and he....he....slashes his own arm! He...he didn't even flinch. He's still smileing?!

"I can't feel pain." He says.

"I can see that." I say. I'm a little shocked actually.

"Here," he says as he walks towards me, "Let me bandage your hands."

He pulls a first aid kit out of a bag that I hadn't noticed before. He grabs my hand and I wince slightly. I don't take my eyes off him. Just in case he tries anything shady.

"Relax, I said I won't hurt you and I meant it." He flashed me a sweet smile. "Now let me see your hands."

I don't know what it is about him. He's just so......Inviting. I feel safe with him. What? No. No no no no. Nope. Just a whole lot a nope right there. Would you like some nope with that nope? Nope. I can't let my gaurd down. Terrible things happen when I do.

"So," he says as he wraps bandages around my hand, "whats your name?"

"Why do you need to know?" I ask.

He looks up from my hand and says, "well somebody is moody today. What happened that made you abuse an innocent tree?"

I giggle slightly. Sh-should I tell him? I don't know. I don't have to tell him everything I guess.

"M-my brother was fighting with a friend of mine. Things got out of hand, and I slapped my friend. I came out here to cool off." I explain.

"Damn. What made you slap him?" He asks.

I pause. I really don't like to think about it.

"H-he....he brought up the past. Something that I'd rather not think about."

"Oh," he says some what sympathetic, "I'm sorry. Well if you ever want to talk I'll be here for you. I know that sounds weird since I just met you and all." He laughs and twitches slightly "I don't even know your name. But I won't push you. So don't worry about that."  He finishes wrapping my left hand and moves over to the right one. "I'm seventeen, how old are you?" He asks.

Wow. That was random. Ok? "Um.....technicaly sixteen."

He looks at me a bit puzzled. "What do you mean technicaly?"

Damn it! I did it again. Why does he make me want to tell him things? Ugh!
"Well....um....you see....I'm really like....342....if you think about it."

He chuckled and twitched slightly. Man he twitches a lot.

"Whats so funny?" I ask.

"I was just thinking....your the hottest 342 year old I've ever met."

My face must've turned 30 different shades of red. Did he seriously just say that?

"Oh, sorry." He says "guess I got a little carried away. That stuff dosen't bother me, so your cool."

"Your not a normal human are you?" I ask.

His face grew dark for a moment, but quickly went back to normal. "Uh....no I guess not. Everyone I live with stopped ageing a while ago. Technicaly I'm like 23, I guess you could say I'm the baby of the family. Even though sally is only 8." He says.

I can't even believe I'm about to do this.

"Ariella." I say.

"What?" He asks.

"My name is Ariella, but you can call me Ella."

He stands up and leans me against the tree, and whispers to me,

"I think I like Ariella better."
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I hope you enjoyed. Who liked toby? I kno i did. Anyway next chapter will be up tomorrow.

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Talk to ypu guys later. TTFN ta ta for now.

Scarlet out.