Post by Flare on Apr 7, 2017 18:00:57 GMT -5
Thread PL: 315,470
“Hey hey, break it up!”
The echo of the large dojo carried with it several sounds of grunts, slaps, and slides as several young students were all sparring each other simultaneously in a royale of sorts. Each pair of students were to duel then move on to the next open student. Two troublemakers of the bunch had been disputing over the validity of their victor though and proceeded to wail on each other. Scion-sensei was there now, putting himself firmly between the two with palms against each of their chests as he knelt near them to get on eye level. One child was furious; Red beady eyes under now messy red hair spewing a light glow as her held back fist produced a tiny amount of smoke. The other, a slightly older child with a bit of weight on him, had a scrape mark on his cheek a was close to being in tears.
“Sensei! Sensei! She tried burning me!”
The boy stared pointing a finger at the redhead child, puffing his own cheek out for more effect. The feisty one just growled back at him and lit a bit of his hair on fire for the trouble. He wasn’t quite smart enough to know if that was already like that or if she had done it to him just then, so he shrieked and tried patting it down quick.
“That’s not true sensei! I won! He kept hurting me!”
Both of the brats cried at each other a bit more after that. Annoyed, Scion eventually sighed and moved his hands to their shoulders to bring them down to a knee.
“Silence, the both of you. Sit out with your parents and think on what you’ve done.”
Enough with being soft on the two the master offered them this much and would wait there for ages if he had to. It didn’t take but a few moments for the naive kids to both, respectively, bow their heads at each other and start rambling the generic ‘sorry’ for this and that. Content he decided to release them and pat them in the direction of the crowd of parents offset from the small inside tourney going on. Both of them went on with the direction and found whomever they were with. The fatter child almost immediately got scolded at for the disrespect and whining he had done. The other, well, a woman somewhere around her fifties also stood off to the side and received the disqualified student with a stern voice.
“Jackie! What did I tell you about your lyin’ and fightin’ with that boy?”
She was quick with her assessment and took a rather fierce hold of the girl’s arm and started on out rather abruptly. “Young miss, we’re going home and we’ll talk about what chore you’ll be doing! Come along!”
“Auntie please, I said sorry an’ everything! Sorry!”
Flare was being dragged away in a fit now just to be stopped by a classmate of hers. Sani, a young brenchian with teal complexion, started tugging at the older woman’s dress. She had stepped away from her own fight to do this and sure enough it got her attention right in front of the doors out.
“Missus Tabitha! I can help, I can! After, okay Jackie?!"
Enthusiasm filled the young one’s voice as she basically just regurgitated what they were going to do anyways; hang out after the matches took place. “Is that okay, yeah? We asked!” Tabitha laughed down at the other child, seemingly over her short burst or anger. Or was it a face…? Bah, the younger flame couldn’t really tell as she looked between her aunt and her friend.
“Yes, yes dear. I’ll talk to your mom after her punishment. Deal?”
“Deal! Deal!”
Sani cheered at the idea and almost immediately came back to her match to nearly knock the opposing girl out of the match in a single blow.
The young brenchian had won the last two junior tournaments held here in Scion’s dojo while she was sick.
It would come out that she was the victor, no surprise to hear that. Flare was sweeping the floors her own maids had already went over when she heard news of it and was only a bit ways done with her chore when she got to hear it from Sani’s mom.
“I’m proud of my little girl! That’d make it her third one, and she’s still taking on her elders! Isn’t that right dear? Sani? Oh, come now!”
The mother spoke between her adoptive parents, Auntie, and even Mister James Duff himself as they had all gathered in the room and decided to chat it up a bit while she dropped Sani off. The little girl in question popped out from behind the closed door to come on in and rushed the redhead as she was on her knees cleaning under a chair. Her mother seemed to allow it and went on to continue chatting with the other adults. Auntie, Seeing the two come together like that, excused herself from the group for the moment and looked between the two of them as she approached.
“Oh, Tabby! Tabby! Can Jackie come play now?!”
She actually hadn’t been working on sweeping for that long and only gave a cackle at the suggestion. The young flame already knew her aunt wasn’t going to just let her slide off with that. To her surprise though Tabitha’s features softened and she just tried shooing them off after thinking about it for a few seconds.
“Shoo. Go have fun you two, but I do expect ya to finish sweeping after. Got it young miss?”
The two kids blinked between themselves and just cheerily nodded at their elder before darting off and out of the front door.
Once outside and on the estate the two found themselves in one of their favorite spots outside; A special little corner of the garden they called their own. The pair collectively were allowed to plant whatever they wanted there and of course the parents’ deeper than usual wallets accomedied the two as they spent time out there. Aside from her own bedroom littered with game titles and movies this was a close second to being where they spent a lot of their time at. They could spend hours out there just talking, admiring their little collection. and looking around for random critters and other encounters near their corner.
“Ey, Sani. Think I can snatch that one?”
Jackie spoke up as she took notice of a pretty butterfly, having taken residence on a leaf to one of her plants, flapped its wings to get ready to take off. It was one of the most stunning butterflies the pair had seen and in the excitement the young flame just had to reach out at it. Without much more thought put to it the fiery one snatched it and cupped it hard in her small hands. The brenchian girl beside her gasped and grabbed at her hand a bit too late to stop her.
“Jackie, let it go! You’re hurting it like that. Dontcha know Butterflies are delicate?”
Not having known the error of her ways beforehand the elemi released the butterfly for it to only slowly descend to the ground. The two kinda look between it and each other, Jackie shrugging with a smirk painted across her face.
“It’s just a bug! Next time I’ll just try to be more careful catching it, okay?”
Sani just shook her head hard and tapped at the other’s hand softly, like they were trying to imitate a stern mother but couldn’t bring themselves to it.
“Don’t catch the cute bugs, let them be! We don’t get to see a butterfly like that just stay around you know! We have to save it!”
When it became clear that she wasn’t even on board with keeping the critter alive for them to look at closer the smirk dropped and the young flame patted her hand back before leaning against the hedges.
“I’m sorry. Okay? Can we just… forget it?”
And so the two did, letting some time go by in silence before the night sky started encroaching on their privacy. Starlight pierced the moon lit sky for the two to enjoy a bit longer. Both of them could hear the exit chatter of both Sani’s parents and Jackie’s but they also knew they’d still stand there for ten minutes or so conversing.
“Sani, do you think we can stay like this forever?”
The brenchian perked up and glanced away from the stars to approach this one. Jackie just sat back and kept looking on like she was in deep thought.
“Like what? Staring at the sky?”
Jackie just started belly laughing at that, rolling onto her side and eventually sunk into the hedge she had to pick herself out of. Sani just scowled a bit and crossed her arms at the bit of foolery.
“No, noooo… Heheh, being here. As friends. Maybe not in the garden, but somewhere, yeah?”
The two sat on that question for a long while more. Even to the point where the young elemi started fidgeting and scowled back at the brenchian’s silence. By the time she perked up Sani’s parents started calling for her however.
“... Yes. We’ll be friends, forever. As long as we live, okay!”
They both got up and started their way back to the mansion doors where they had their last hug goodbye for the day and would surely see her again tomorrow in the dojo. They may have made the promise long ago but the two would soon find it hard to keep.
The buzz and commotion of what was around her stirred Flare out of her deep and well deserved slumber with a pained groan. Most everyone else was already ready to be off, unlike herself. Worn and broken the young flame carried on and hurried to gather her own seldom belongings and get out as soon a she could. Much unlike her to just walk out without bad mouthing or being snide with someone. She was just tired, beaten. Guilty that history had repeated itself.
WC: 1733
Would like Zeni pls, and the intermediate of muh school.
