"Welcome to my house twerp!!!" Scipes shouted at my face.

I blinked at the amount of saliva she spat on me. I was chained to the chair but my right arm and left arm were free.

"Here!!! Have some hot chocolate!!!" She said.

She slammed a mug on the table in front of me. Then she rapidly poured how water in my glad splattering me every now and then. She ripped open the chocate packet and shook it violently into the cup. I coughed and spluttered at the chocolate cloud covering me.

"Stir..." She said menacingly. She grabbed a spoon and stirred violently. It splashed me

"There!!! There's your chocolate!!!" She said.

I took the cup blowing on it gently.

It sort-of tasted good. In a weird way. My tongue burned because it was really hot but the taste made me ignore it.

"Good huh?" She said. She wasn't in her armor anymore.

She was wearing a dark green T-shirt that showed her bellybutton, black jeans, brown boots. More casual but she still scared the heck outta me.

"You ain't the only one who had a liking for hot chocolate." She said sitting on a chair beside me.

"What... D-do you... Mean?..." I asked gently placing he cup in the table.

"Geez, Stop stammering and speak up and talk properly!!!" She told me slamming her fist on the table.

"YES MA'AM!!! I SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" I shouted at her. Hey, she asked for it!

"Good! Speak up got it? You know, I have a bestie who loves hot cocoa and tea." She said. "Sadly, we don't get to see each other much seeing as she has to work for Geist Heda."

"Who is Geist Heda?" I asked her.

"Pssh. They're the smartest people in the Hearth. Geist is a scientist. And my bestie is an engineer. A chemical engineer." She said.

Suddenly she looked impatient.

"Wait a minute-" She violently shoved her chair to the wall and it smashed into pieces.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"Do you have Pepper's phone number?!" She said.

"Yeah. I do." I told her.

"Gimme it!!! She's late!!!" She said.

I quickly pulled out my phone and dialed Pepper's phone number.

"Hello? Pepper? Sci-"

"Yes, yes Heather! I'm getting ready for my meeting with Scipes!!! I don't know what you'll tell me but tell me later!!!" She said hurriedly. There were several crashes and muffled shouts in the background.

"But Pepper that's-"

"Later ok?! See ya!!!" She shouted into the phone.

"Wait!!!"

CLICK!!!

"She knows, she's on her way." I told her putting my phone back in my pocket.

"Right, trust Pepper to be late." She grumbled.

"Why do you need her actually?" I asked.

"She thinks I know about fashion but I teach her fighting. She can be pretty naive at times but she is very confident. Also responsible and persuasive." She said.

"Huh." I said. I rocked the chair back and forth.

"You know, your name is somewhat a kind of anagram." She said.

"What kind?" I asked her.

"The old way of spelling Hearth. In my preschool days we called it Hearthe." She said. "You know, Heather. H-e-a-t-h-e-r. Hearthe. H-e-a-r-t-h-e."

"I never thought about that." I told her.

"I'm here!!!" A voice shouted from behind the door. The voice rapidly knocked as if she wanted to bang it down.

"I'm coming!!!" Scipes said.

"Hey!!! Nice to see you again Scipes." She said squealing happily. "Oh! Hi!!! Heather you're here."

She ran to me then had this puzzled look on her face.

"Huh?"

I looked down. Oh... My chains...

"Um... Scipes... What's with the chains?" Pepper asked.

"Oh! The keys are on the fridge." Scipes said getting something from a room.

"I'll get them for you ok?" She went to the fridge and fiddled with the top.

She came back with a small metal key. She unlocked my chains.

"Thanks Pep." I told her.

"Don't mention it... Now that you think about it..." She said tapping her chin.

"What is it? Should I go?"

"I know!!!" She held both my hands. Her eyes were shining and we're as large as saucers. "You should train with me and Scipes!!!"

"What???!!!"

"Definitely!!!" She said. "You could learn a thing or two!!!"

"But I-"

"Come on!!!" She said.

She dragged me to a large room which had bars in some places. Mostly the the sides of the room and the high ceiling. There were, mannequins, and clothing and jewelry.

"Watch this!!!" She gushed.

She ran like a cheetah to one of the bars hanging from the ceiling.

She jumped and swung from it to the other bar like a trapeze artist and grabbed a scar from a hanger and held the end with one of her hands and swung off the bar doing flips with the scarf.

Then, she threw at the mannequin like a lasso and tied it around the neck perfectly in a sweet fashion.

She landed on a button on the ground and smoke appeared from behind her. Then, she grabbed the scarf and the mannequin came down.

Weird. It involves clothes alright. In lasso and whiplash training?! This wasn't fashion at all. But I was impressed though. I don't think I could do that.

"Whaddya think?" She asked me.

"Um... Great!"

"Ugh, you have to know it took me weeks to learn that little trick." She told me.

"I guess, that was a wrap!" I told her.

"Ugh! Per-lease!!! This is about fashion statements!!! Not puns!!!" She told me.

I laughed. I mean, trust Pepper to be such a drama queen.

"The dramatic exit took me a long time to perfect." She told me.

"OK."

"Wait till Scipes gets here!!! You'll learn so much!!!"

***

"So, she is going to join our class today?" Scipes asked Pepper. Her arms were crossed. Not a good sign.

"Come on, she'll learn so much!!! Besides, it will be a challenge!!!" Pepper said.

"Fine! I love and will accept the challenge!!!" She said. She grabbed her sword. "Let's start!"

We were told to block. But this was an unusual way of blocking. We were using glowing red fans. The were kind of like her sword. Glowing but surely had different uses.

Pepper was first, she was confident. She held the fans with dignity.

Scipes started swinging her sword creating smaller swords that were rapidly being shot at Pepper.

She didn't look the least bit scared. She blocked them with the fans and reflected some back. Sometimes, she dodged most of them. The ones that ricochetted back at Scipes, were dodged.

They were both fast and well-trained. Pepper isn't a run of the old mill. Scipes was sweating a lot, so was Pepper they probably put a lot of energy.

Pepper swung her fans high and brought them down to the ground which sent a ton of red light bolts at Scipes.

Scipes easily breezed her way through them dodging and reflecting.

Pepper spun around surrounding herself with light bolts suddenly the red hurricane disappeared. Scipes stood there, completely silent suddenly, she opened her eyes and spun around reflected a fan from hitting her.

"Let's call it quits. For awhile. Good job there Pepper. Fashionable end." She said.

"Thanks..." Pepper said.

"Nice one." I handed her a glass of water from the cooler on the side.

"Thanks. " She took a long drink. Then she breathes out. "Aahhhh... That's how we train here at Scipes'. Fashionably."

Hardly any fashion sense there. Except for the fact that she looks good doing it.

"When we're done, it's your turn." She said taking another drink from the cooler. "By the way... Do you have a weapon?"

"Oh, I don't. Aside from my skateboard I'm all out." I told her.

"Hmmmm... We could have Scipes give you one. She designed many but I chose these fans because, why not?" She told me. She gave her fans a soft swish and fanned herself.

"Won't you get zapped?" I asked her.

"Oh! They only work if I swing violently." She told me.

She even demonstrated by jumping high into the air and raising them high then swinging them down creating a large blast from the fans giving her a boost upward.

She then created another hurricane and teleported behind me.

"What the-"

She gave me a shove and I fell down.

"Ow." I landed on my knees which still hurt.

"Hehe. Oh my gosh!!! Are you OK? Your knees are scraped!" She told me.

She rolled up my pants higher revealing my burns.

"My, my, you should have told me. I know healing magic." She told me.

She knelt down and mumbled something. A cool sensation wrapped my legs and the pain subsides.

"Thanks Pep." I told her.

"Hey, friends do that."

***

"OK noob, your turn. Pepper tells me you don't even have a weapon. So take your pick." She showed me a storeroom with different types of weapons.

I fingered them. I absolutely fell in love with this cool sword. The handle was covered in a soft material and the end was a flat blade with engravings. It wasn't glowing though, just metal.

"Could I have this one?" I asked Scipes.

"Great choice punk. Come on, let's make it glow." She told me.

She showed me a box in the storeroom filled with gems.

"Take your pick."

My amulet started glowing. I had the urge to check if there was a similar jewel in the box. A glow emanated from the bottom of the box. I pulled out the jewel.

It was like a diamond but when caught by light, it glowed in rainbow colors depending on the amount of light shone on it. In the dark, it was a light and very pale pink.

Scipes took the jewel from me and the sword and brought me to a smaller room above the storeroom.

She placed them on top of a book and chanted something I could actually understand even if it wasn't in English.

The sword and the gem both gew and surrounded the whole room in a bright white light.

When the light stopped flashing and my eyes were open Scipes held a glowing sword in front of me.

"I think this is yours kid." She told me.

I held it in my hands it was heavy but I felt as if I had held a sword before faded memories flashed through my head.

"Fencing... Now!!!"

***

"Heather is first place!!!"

"Congrats girl!!!"

"Honey, we're so proud of you!"

"Sis, you rock!"

"Hello? Heather?! You snapped out of it yet twerp?!"

I snapped back.

"Thank you. It's so cool."

"Heh, course it is!!!" She said proudly. "I made it!!!"

We went to the battlefield.

"Go girl!!! Nice sword you got there!!! You can do it!!!" Pepper shouted out.

I took a stance, I held the sword up. The feels of holding a sword were familiar to me the grip and confidence and the adrenaline that ran through my veins before a sword fight were very... Familiar. That's all I can say at the moment.

She clenched her fists and grabbed her sword as well.

"Let's go!" She swung her sword and sent a ton of bolts at me.

I ended up dodging more and blocking or reflecting less.

I raised my own sword high it glowed a bright light and so did the amulet. And suddenly, the adrenalin that rushed through my veins rushed faster.

I dashed and leapt for a bar using my sword blasts as a boost like Pepper's technique.

I grabbed the bar with one hand while swinging from bar to bar to avoid the flurry of bolts being shot at me.

I swung off and the adrenaline rushed even faster and I felt even faster and I felt a pain running through my veins that was endurable.

I dashed at a superspeed and my sword and amulet glew simultaneously. I dodged the bolts and reflected most of them back at Scipes.

She had a look of fear in her face but kept firing.

I swung my sword and the glow brightened and let out a light rainbow blast which was aimed at Scipes.

No...

"No!!!" I shouted.

The blast lessened. It didn't hit Scipes. I stopped and brought my sword down.

Scipes was there, standing, shaking. Scared.

I looked at Pepper who was staring at me in horror.

I had become a monster... I had almost killed Scipes... What have I done?...

~~~

I'm sure someone figured out that by now, Scipes is an anagram for Pisces and Heather the old spelling of Hearthe.

I love the amount of action I put in for this one. I told you guys...

She would be possessed by her power sooner or later.

What will she do? How will she counter? Stay tuned!!!

(P. S. I may accidentally start posting everyday or a lot seeing as summer had brought me a lot of time to make another write-up. "