"Straight up punches in the face"
"Seriously? That's not enough to make even me collapse. You already know for me and the boss. So Alvin deals with the explosives. He can make bombs out of anything near him. Zoe has all qualities of a giant including spider. Richard's a scorpion_"
"Scorpion? So humans too have animal demons in them"
"Gina focus. Kelvin is a lion, Fiona's a snake. Lily deals with plants and healings. Donald.. well he's just another George in the group"
"Then what are you?"
"Me? Well I don't know yet. But soon enough. Let's get you to the field. If you succeed in battling all of us, you'd be a full senior. Sounds great right?"
"Yeah. I can't wait to rub my badges all over you and Drex's faces"
"In your dreams Ivy"
"Ivy. Why are you doing this?"
"Walking with Albert? I have the right to do this Sarah"
"Not that. Why are you battling us?"
"Us? You're not in the group"
"I'm there. Head and representative of the Health department"
"I'll be over there" Albert said and left
"Ow. Don't worry I'll be fine don't worry"
"If I had known I wouldn't have accepted"
"I said I'll be fine. And please don't go easy on me" Ivy said and stood at the gate waiting for the compere to start
"Are you sure you want to do this Ivy?"
"Ofcourse"
"George don't pity her. She asked for it and besides you looked forward to battling her. So focus on that" Donald said and pulled George to the line
Compere : Okay people are you ready for some action?!
Crowd : Yeah!!!
Compere : Okay! Today, we are very honoured to have the entire junior army representatives with us. A young, beautiful and courageous girl challenged all of them to a battle. So. Let's welcome Ivy Da Vinci!!
Crowd : Whoa!!!
"Nanny nanny look at Ivy. See Ivy?"
"Yes I see her Jonathan"
Compere : So Ivy, how do you feel about it? You're about to battle a group whose entire life in school is all about battling. Don't you feel nervous?
Ivy : Why should I? They're not that different from every opponent I met
Compere : Wow. We wish you the best then. Here comes our champions!!
Crowd : Champions champions champions champions...
Compere : Places, let the fight begin
George and the others moved to each corner of the field while Ivy moved to the center and ties her arms with a cloth
"Alvin and Lily attack. Donald and I will deal with the blocking" George commanded and Alvin immediately starts making bombs.
He claps twice and ten flamming balls appear in a circle. Lily drew a small circle with her leg on the ground and a big catalog appeared. Then the flamming balls joined and formed one bomb. He placed it on the catalog and launched at Ivy.
"Ivy behind you!"
Ivy quickly turned around and caught it with her hands. But the force pushed her behind hitting the wall. She didn't mind. She opened the timer for the bomb and it was left with just one minute. Since she didn't know which wire to cut she just lasers all and quickly shot back at Alvin who shot it in the air where it immediately exploded.
Ivy shoots something under Alvin's feet. When he looked down, it was a sticker with the word SUCKER on it
"Sucker? What is this?" he picked it and it exploded and he fell holding his burnt arm
"Ha! Don't play with explosives. Didn't anyone teach you that? Who's next?" Ivy said and started jugging on one spot
"All attack" George said and helped move Alvin to a corner
"Sorry Boss"
"It's okay. We just underestimated her capabilities. Rest let Lily attend to you"
Ivy still jugging, felt something grab her legs and she couldn't move. She looked around to see who was missing
"Gosh that scorpion guy" she said and tried pulling her legs up
"Nithe nithe" she kept saying but couldn't enter the ground
Then Zoe attacked her. She placed her hands infront of her face as Zoe kept hitting her causing her to push backward till she hit the wall. But she still couldn't move her leg. She grabbed Zoe's hand and used her head to hit Zoe's head.
"Ouchy" Zoe stepped back rubbing her head
"Come on" she kept trying to pull her leg seeing that Albert was preparing to attack with his bow and arrow
"Weapons?" Ivy spotted Donald and pulled him with her hair and used him to take the first arrow then pushed him at a corner
"Are you crazy or what? You could have killed me" Donald complained and pulled the arrow out of his shoulder
"Relax you're immortal" George said and signals Kelvin to move quickly.
Kelvin moved towards her like he was going to meet a friend. Ivy looked at him waiting to see what he will do. He moved his hand towards her neck. She held his hand but Donald wrapped his chains around her tying her hands. She kept resisting but it was useless. Kelvin touched her neck with his fingers and smiled
"Does it hurt?" Ivy felt her throat on fire.
She started coughing out blood then felt her body getting weaker. But instead of giving up, which they all thought she would, she started whispering some words
"Come on Ivy. Don't give up they're not better than you"
Slowly, her head dropped down and Kelvin moved away.
"This one really drained down my energy" Kelvin said and sat down
Donald removed his chains around her and Richard let go of her legs and came out of the ground then her body fell to the ground.
The entire stadium was now quiet. Sarah turned around to stop herself from crying
"Hey Ivy wake up" Albert said and lowered his bow and arrow
"I told you not to battle but you never listen"
"Hey Albert. I'm sorry for your loss" Donald said
"Shut up idiot. She's not dead"
Compere : Uhm...Ivy..the champions...
Suddenly, the supposed 'dead' girl started laughing
"Who said I'm dead? No one declares me dead, unless I tell them to. Because you made my throat and blood boil doesn't mean that will kill me." Ivy said and continued laughing
Compere : Whoa! Our champions have got a strong opponent there people
People immediately started cheering and chanting Ivy's name.
"Okay. Let's try that again shall we" she stood up and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand. This time, her right eye was red with a little bit of black, the red stripes on her hair increase and she had a certain mark on her neck.
She scanned Richard, and sand moved round her right index finger until it attached to her nail and formed a scorpion tale like Richard's. Richard in confusion looked at his finger and hers