Nine year old Sophie Foster was walking fast, making her way back home from school. Head down, hood up, earbuds plugged in with the music cranked up all the way. Ignoring the group of older kids that trailed after her, yelling criticism, calling her names . . . throwing stones at her. She just had to round the corner where they would leave her alone, they didn't want to get caught.

It was like this everyday after school. She would tell someone, but she feared that if Shadowflame got a word about this... there would be alot of blood, again.

Shadowflame had already been in enough fights within two years to be home schooled, she had just started homeschooling this year.

Sophie was so close to rounding the corner, when suddenly, a figure rounded it on a skateboard. The figure wasn't just anyone, but Shadowflame. The two brown eyed nonbiological sisters stared at each other in shock. When Shadowflame took in what was happening, her brown eyes that were originally rich as chocolate and soft as fur quickly became the rocks ships shattered against in a storm.

Shadowflame tucked her skateboard under her left arm and used the other to whip out her bokken that was strapped to her back. She walked up to the rowdy group of older kids who hadn't stopped throwing stones at Sophie. She pushed Sophie behind her "Get home, got it?" Sophie nodded weakly, this was exactly what she had been trying to avoid "Go, stay safe."

Sophie pretended to stroll up the pavement, but once she rounded the corner, she bolted. She practically tackled the main door to her home down and lunged for the home line. "Soybean, what's wrong?" her mother asked.

"Flame has gotten into another fight!" she yelled into the phone. By now every police officer knew who the Fosters were. Shadowflame had exceeded the record for the most fights within a year because of others either bullying her, other kids, or Sophie.

The policeman at the other end of the line just sighed "Again? Okay, just state the location and the amount of people involved excluding Shadowflame. I'll send an ambulance too."

Once everything was cleared up about the fight, it wasn't long for the Fosters, the ambulance and the police to arrive at the scene, where they found alot of blood. Shadowflame was bent over a crying large boy, hitting him in the face with her skateboard left and right. Her bokken was coated in blood.

It took three police officers to drag her off him and Sophie and Amy to get her to talk. They had came up with a theory that only the Fosters could get her to do anything, and Sophie seemed to be most effective.

They were brought to the police station where they took Shadowflame and Sophie into questioning while the bullies were sent to the hospital. They had no doubt in their minds that the local news would hear about this, again.

The next day, the headlines on the front cover of almost every newspaper was 'Asian-mugger-killing-girl beat up bullies double her size' or 'Eight-year-old-girl nearly kills people twice her size again'.