One of Them

Chapter 6

Burst went back into her room, an amused smile still on her face from kicking Ivory down the stairs. She sat down at her desk and fired up her laptop. She opened up FireFox and searched for a story to read. Then one story caught her eye:

"Winter Star"

She saw that it had been posted earlier today, but already had over ten thousand reads.

Wow, she thought as she opened it. It's almost as popular as the Specter Gang stories.

Then she realized why as she read.

"StarBurst never really did fit in with normal humans. Even as a small child, when she was brought to an orphanage after her parents mysteriously disappeared. The other girls tormented her because they were jealous of her stunning beauty, and one day, she finally snapped. She attacked with lightning fast speed and incredible power, but she didn't realize that her abilities were better than that of any normal human. That is, until she met a boy wearing a grey cloth over his eyes in a snowstorm. He brought her to his mansion, and StarBurst became the first girl in the Specter Gang."

Burst's mouth was hanging open, how had the writer found out about her so quickly? Unless...

Unless one of the other Specters wrote these stories.

Suddenly, something rammed into her door. Burst closed her laptop and ran over to the door. She opened it to see Venom rubbing his head, he had smashed into the door.

"Oh, hi Burst!" Venom said, grinning up at her. "Wanna join the party?"

Then Burst realized that the air was extremely cold, and the floor was covered in ice. The boys were sliding through the halls and crashing into things.

"C'mon!" Venom said, grabbing Burst's hand. "Let's go have some fun!"

He and Burst slid down the hall and crashed into the wall, then Burst jumped up and slid down the stairs, which had turned into a steep hill of ice. Ivory came down head first after her, then the rest of the boys tried going all at once and ended up tumbling down the stairs and landed in a pile at the bottom. Then they jumped up and everyone began sliding around the first floor. Burst slid under a table and hit her head when she tried to stand up, making Venom laugh again. Sprite accidentally skated through the door, and came back covered in snow. Everyone burst out laughing.

"Hey Sprite?" Venom managed to ask. "Is it... Is it cold outside?"

Sprite grabbed a chunk of snow out of his hair and threw it at Venom, hitting him in the face.

Ivory grinned. "Snowball war!" He shouted. "Silvers versus Brunettes versus Pic and Burst!"

Three small walls of snow formed in the middle of the room in a triangular formation. Grimm and Ivory ran to one of them, Sprite and Venom ran to the one next to them, and Pic and Burst ran to the one between them. A pile of snowballs was by each snow fort.

"Ready?" Ivory asked, snowball raised. "GO!"

Pic threw snowballs at Venom and Sprite while Burst pelted Grimm and Ivory. Grimm was nailed in the face, Venom got hit in the chest, Burst was hit by Venom, Pic dodged Grimm's attacks and Sprite was nailed by Ivory. Pic and Burst kept going until they had only four snowballs left, one for each person.

"I've got an idea." Pic whispered shyly. "I could use my flute to... Um, nail Sprite and Venom while you run behind Ivory and Grimm and hit them."

Burst smiled. "Good plan," she said, grabbing two snowballs. "Ready?"

Pic grabbed his flute. "Ready!" He shouted.

Burst raced out of the fort and went behind Ivory and Grimm, she nailed both of them in the back of the head and ran back to the fort just as Pic played the tune on his silver flute. It was a simple tune of three notes, two high and one low. The snowballs shot towards Sprite and Venom and smashed them in the face.

Ivory stood up, brushing the snow off of his shirt. "Well," he said. "I guess we all know who won this time."

Grimm smiled a little bit. "But you guys won't be so lucky next time!" He said.

Burst grinned. "We'll see about that." She said as she high-fived Pic. Ivory snapped his fingers, the snow and ice disappeared and it was warm in the mansion once again.

Burst yawned, she was pretty tired from all the fights that had taken place during the day.

"I'm gonna go to my room." She said, walking upstairs. She walked into her room and flopped onto her bed, falling asleep almost instantly.