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Title: The Eight Animorph So...grammar mistakes in the title? This does not bode well.
Author: felixgirl
Name: Maiara
Species: human
Hair: No info
Eyes: No info
Canon Connections: She moves to Aniville and instantly integrates into their lives.
Special Abilities: Unless you count speaking in both fangirl British and Japanese...no.
Origin: Moves around because her "mum" can't hold a job. Father left when she was a year old (couldn't handle the knowledge that he'd fathered a Sue, I suspect). Goes to the same school as the Animorphs.
Our story opens with an incomprehensible paragraph.
He was the bully. I was the new kid. Destiny you may say. Sod’s Law I say. The big jerk picked me out as though I had a large neon sign hanging around my neck screaming ‘NEW KID’ to the entire world. I’m Maiara by the way, nice to meet you. I am a permanent new kid because my mum changes job so often. This is because she appears to be incompetent at EVERYTHING. Chef, wheelie-bin person, traffic warden, you name it, my mum can’t do it. I don’t know about my dad as I never knew my dad. He died when I was a year old apparently. I say apparently because I do have some idea of how divorcees behave. You know, the whole ‘bunny boiler’ thing.
She quickly starts to establish her Sue Cred.
I hate school more than I could ever say, even though I always get really good grades. No, really? I’m one of those people who isn’t weird enough to be in the nerd group, depressed enough to be in the Goth group, pierced enough to be in the punk group or popular enough to be in the ‘in’ group. Because I'm sooo special. Woe.
Sue gets in a fight with the resident bully, who shall henceforth be known as "Gorila" (no connection to Marco). This is an excellent opportunity to show off her incredible vocabulary.
“That is exactly what I am saying,” I said slowly but quietly. “I may be the new kid, but I am not obtuse, unlike you, my hominid fried.”
He blinked stupidly at me, but a few of the smart kids had worked it out and were laughing. I smiled coldly; it is always good to have the bully looking stupid. Especially if they are. But unfortunately, Gorilla boy had back up in the form of the type of bully I like to call a snake: treacherous, unpredictable, and deadly. Also very smart. Smart enough to understand my comments. Anyone else having a "Mean Girls" flashback? Uh oh. I’m in BIG trouble now. Sweat began to bead on my forehead. Don’t you just love new schools?
This newcomer was, as it happened, a girl, with blonde hair below her waist. Her eyes were blue and there was no mercy in them.
“You are,” she said, “as it happens, correct about the brainpower of my companion. But maybe I should explain to him what you just said. Then you’d get your comeuppance.” In what has become my mantra for this fic: "Who talks like that?
Our darling, put upon Sue proceeds to get physically attacked by Gorilla. Finally, an Animorph enters the scene. Jake rescues her.
“Thanks,” I muttered.
“Don’t mention it,” he said.
I brushed myself down Oooo, sexy. and picked my bag up from where I had dropped it and grinned.
“I’m Maiara,” I said, offering my hand for him to shake this time. He took it.
“My name’s Jake.”
The first time I ever heard his name, although I have heard it many times since. That's a fraction sentence, Sue, and it doesn't even make sense. Jake. Such an ordinary name. Not an ordinary guy. Oh no. Please tell me that there aren't any Jake/Sue vibes. Please. No one interferes in Jake and Marco's Cassie's true love.
Cut for general boring, but Maiara get's invited to (dun-dun-duhhhhhh) a meeting of the Sharing. I want to share this tidbit: Mum wasn’t there, but I left a note to tell her where I was going, even though she had said that she wouldn’t be back before midnight. I didn’t want her to pop home and find I wasn’t there. Then I watched television and ate a poor excuse for a sandwich that Mum had left. Our poor, poor Sue. Mummy has to work so late trying to provide for you and can't even leave some decent food. My heart bleeds purple peanut butter.
Maiara goes to the Sharing. She meets Tom and asks him to give a message to her One Twu Lurve Jake. She also meets the guy who invited her.
“Sorry about that,” he said, taking my hand to help me up. “But you’re late!”
“Well, due to the fact that I have no sense of direction and the lack of a map, compass or directions, I went astray,” I explained in a posh voice. Again: Who talks like this?
“Translation?”
“I got lost.”
He laughed again and led me down the sand. I, of course, tripped and fell, pulling him with me so that we rolled down the hill and landed in a heap on the actual beach.
“Gomen, gomen,” I groaned. “I mean, sorry, sorry.” ARG! Fangirl Japanese irritates me when Japanese characters speak it. It's completely inapropriate for our faux brit!Sue.
There are some uselsess paragraphs where Sue falls down a lot, and then: The water retreated as I held up what I had found to the light. Sure enough, it flashed as brightly as a flashlight. It was, as I said, about the size of a grape and a similar shape too. It was as smooth as glass and reminded me forcefully of a diamond, except that it was tinted faintly with blue. I assumed that it was blue glass, smoothed by the action of the water, and that I should throw it back. However, I pocketed it, sort of as a souvenir of my stay in the town. After all, I wanted to have something to remember Jake with; Jake, one of the only people ever to be kind to me. ::gag:: So I kept it. I should have known that it was a stupid idea.
We switch to Jake's POV. There's the usual angst (my brother is a controller, woe), and Tom mentions he saw Maiara at the Sharing. I walked away and picked up the phone, dialling Marco’s number.
“Marco, the new girl’s joined The Sharing.”
“What new girl? The one from school? Or the pornstar who moved in next door? What can we do about it?” Marco asked, giving me no time to answer any of the questions.
“We should keep an eye on her,” I replied. “After all, if she becomes a Controller, we could use her as a lead. Any know Controllers are useful, after all.” Obviously, Jake knows Maiara is a Sue, and therefore expendable.
Maiara goes to school the next day, wanting to show off her new toy. She meets Marco (who hits on her, of course) and says:
Talking about Jake,” Maiara said, “have you seen him today?”
I shook my head.
“Why?” I asked.
“I wanted to show him something. Do you want to take a look?” she offered.
“Sure,” I replied, interested and slightly nervous. Last time a new kid had shown me something on their first day, it had heralded a complete disaster. Maiara pulled her hand out of her pocket and showed me something that heralded a complete disaster. It was the Pemalite crystal.
Jake looses his mind and comes up with a plan to get the crystal back.“Oh yeah, the plan. Rachel, Marco, Tobias, you three invade her house and steal the crystal,” Jake said simply.
“Oh yeah, and that worked so well with David,” I snorted.::raises hand:: Um, I agree with Marco? “This is insane!”
“What a surprise, Marco says that this is insane,” Rachel teased.
“Ah, but this time, you’ll be bats,” Jake said, as though it made all the difference. Good Lord. I have more respect for Jake than this. Bats? Yeah, perfect. Good plan, Fearless leader.
Of course, there are Problems. But I'll let Maiara tell you what happened.I threw a pillow case at the bat with the crystal and it fell on top of it, entangling it completely. The other bat swooped down and began fluttering around my face, squeaking at me. I ignored it and covered the entangled bat with the second pillow case, imprisoning it inside. For some reason, I decided to try reasoning with it.
“Hey, mister bat, calm down. I’m not going to hurt you,” I said.
To my surprise, it seemed to work. The bat stopped struggling.
“Now mister bat, if you drop the crystal, I’ll let you go. Deal?”
I felt a weight accumulate at the bottom of my makeshift bag. I wrapped my hand around the stone and released the open end of the pillow case. The bat flew out and circled my room a few times before it and its companion disappeared out of my window.
“Okay, that was weird,” I muttered to myself.
Sigh. She's so smart, she knows exactly how to handle a bat invasion. I'll leave off with this last little tidbit: "I can’t believe how badly that went!" I exclaimed. "She caught me in a bloody pillow case!" Oh no! The Britspeak is catching!
There are only three chapters so far, but I'm waiting to see what happens.
Author: felixgirl
Name: Maiara
Species: human
Hair: No info
Eyes: No info
Canon Connections: She moves to Aniville and instantly integrates into their lives.
Special Abilities: Unless you count speaking in both fangirl British and Japanese...no.
Origin: Moves around because her "mum" can't hold a job. Father left when she was a year old (couldn't handle the knowledge that he'd fathered a Sue, I suspect). Goes to the same school as the Animorphs.
Our story opens with an incomprehensible paragraph.
He was the bully. I was the new kid. Destiny you may say. Sod’s Law I say. The big jerk picked me out as though I had a large neon sign hanging around my neck screaming ‘NEW KID’ to the entire world. I’m Maiara by the way, nice to meet you. I am a permanent new kid because my mum changes job so often. This is because she appears to be incompetent at EVERYTHING. Chef, wheelie-bin person, traffic warden, you name it, my mum can’t do it. I don’t know about my dad as I never knew my dad. He died when I was a year old apparently. I say apparently because I do have some idea of how divorcees behave. You know, the whole ‘bunny boiler’ thing.
She quickly starts to establish her Sue Cred.
I hate school more than I could ever say, even though I always get really good grades. No, really? I’m one of those people who isn’t weird enough to be in the nerd group, depressed enough to be in the Goth group, pierced enough to be in the punk group or popular enough to be in the ‘in’ group. Because I'm sooo special. Woe.
Sue gets in a fight with the resident bully, who shall henceforth be known as "Gorila" (no connection to Marco). This is an excellent opportunity to show off her incredible vocabulary.
“That is exactly what I am saying,” I said slowly but quietly. “I may be the new kid, but I am not obtuse, unlike you, my hominid fried.”
He blinked stupidly at me, but a few of the smart kids had worked it out and were laughing. I smiled coldly; it is always good to have the bully looking stupid. Especially if they are. But unfortunately, Gorilla boy had back up in the form of the type of bully I like to call a snake: treacherous, unpredictable, and deadly. Also very smart. Smart enough to understand my comments. Anyone else having a "Mean Girls" flashback? Uh oh. I’m in BIG trouble now. Sweat began to bead on my forehead. Don’t you just love new schools?
This newcomer was, as it happened, a girl, with blonde hair below her waist. Her eyes were blue and there was no mercy in them.
“You are,” she said, “as it happens, correct about the brainpower of my companion. But maybe I should explain to him what you just said. Then you’d get your comeuppance.” In what has become my mantra for this fic: "Who talks like that?
Our darling, put upon Sue proceeds to get physically attacked by Gorilla. Finally, an Animorph enters the scene. Jake rescues her.
“Thanks,” I muttered.
“Don’t mention it,” he said.
I brushed myself down Oooo, sexy. and picked my bag up from where I had dropped it and grinned.
“I’m Maiara,” I said, offering my hand for him to shake this time. He took it.
“My name’s Jake.”
The first time I ever heard his name, although I have heard it many times since. That's a fraction sentence, Sue, and it doesn't even make sense. Jake. Such an ordinary name. Not an ordinary guy. Oh no. Please tell me that there aren't any Jake/Sue vibes. Please. No one interferes in Jake and Marco's Cassie's true love.
Cut for general boring, but Maiara get's invited to (dun-dun-duhhhhhh) a meeting of the Sharing. I want to share this tidbit: Mum wasn’t there, but I left a note to tell her where I was going, even though she had said that she wouldn’t be back before midnight. I didn’t want her to pop home and find I wasn’t there. Then I watched television and ate a poor excuse for a sandwich that Mum had left. Our poor, poor Sue. Mummy has to work so late trying to provide for you and can't even leave some decent food. My heart bleeds purple peanut butter.
Maiara goes to the Sharing. She meets Tom and asks him to give a message to her One Twu Lurve Jake. She also meets the guy who invited her.
“Sorry about that,” he said, taking my hand to help me up. “But you’re late!”
“Well, due to the fact that I have no sense of direction and the lack of a map, compass or directions, I went astray,” I explained in a posh voice. Again: Who talks like this?
“Translation?”
“I got lost.”
He laughed again and led me down the sand. I, of course, tripped and fell, pulling him with me so that we rolled down the hill and landed in a heap on the actual beach.
“Gomen, gomen,” I groaned. “I mean, sorry, sorry.” ARG! Fangirl Japanese irritates me when Japanese characters speak it. It's completely inapropriate for our faux brit!Sue.
There are some uselsess paragraphs where Sue falls down a lot, and then: The water retreated as I held up what I had found to the light. Sure enough, it flashed as brightly as a flashlight. It was, as I said, about the size of a grape and a similar shape too. It was as smooth as glass and reminded me forcefully of a diamond, except that it was tinted faintly with blue. I assumed that it was blue glass, smoothed by the action of the water, and that I should throw it back. However, I pocketed it, sort of as a souvenir of my stay in the town. After all, I wanted to have something to remember Jake with; Jake, one of the only people ever to be kind to me. ::gag:: So I kept it. I should have known that it was a stupid idea.
We switch to Jake's POV. There's the usual angst (my brother is a controller, woe), and Tom mentions he saw Maiara at the Sharing. I walked away and picked up the phone, dialling Marco’s number.
“Marco, the new girl’s joined The Sharing.”
“What new girl? The one from school? Or the pornstar who moved in next door? What can we do about it?” Marco asked, giving me no time to answer any of the questions.
“We should keep an eye on her,” I replied. “After all, if she becomes a Controller, we could use her as a lead. Any know Controllers are useful, after all.” Obviously, Jake knows Maiara is a Sue, and therefore expendable.
Maiara goes to school the next day, wanting to show off her new toy. She meets Marco (who hits on her, of course) and says:
Talking about Jake,” Maiara said, “have you seen him today?”
I shook my head.
“Why?” I asked.
“I wanted to show him something. Do you want to take a look?” she offered.
“Sure,” I replied, interested and slightly nervous. Last time a new kid had shown me something on their first day, it had heralded a complete disaster. Maiara pulled her hand out of her pocket and showed me something that heralded a complete disaster. It was the Pemalite crystal.
Jake looses his mind and comes up with a plan to get the crystal back.“Oh yeah, the plan. Rachel, Marco, Tobias, you three invade her house and steal the crystal,” Jake said simply.
“Oh yeah, and that worked so well with David,” I snorted.::raises hand:: Um, I agree with Marco? “This is insane!”
“What a surprise, Marco says that this is insane,” Rachel teased.
“Ah, but this time, you’ll be bats,” Jake said, as though it made all the difference. Good Lord. I have more respect for Jake than this. Bats? Yeah, perfect. Good plan, Fearless leader.
Of course, there are Problems. But I'll let Maiara tell you what happened.I threw a pillow case at the bat with the crystal and it fell on top of it, entangling it completely. The other bat swooped down and began fluttering around my face, squeaking at me. I ignored it and covered the entangled bat with the second pillow case, imprisoning it inside. For some reason, I decided to try reasoning with it.
“Hey, mister bat, calm down. I’m not going to hurt you,” I said.
To my surprise, it seemed to work. The bat stopped struggling.
“Now mister bat, if you drop the crystal, I’ll let you go. Deal?”
I felt a weight accumulate at the bottom of my makeshift bag. I wrapped my hand around the stone and released the open end of the pillow case. The bat flew out and circled my room a few times before it and its companion disappeared out of my window.
“Okay, that was weird,” I muttered to myself.
Sigh. She's so smart, she knows exactly how to handle a bat invasion. I'll leave off with this last little tidbit: "I can’t believe how badly that went!" I exclaimed. "She caught me in a bloody pillow case!" Oh no! The Britspeak is catching!
There are only three chapters so far, but I'm waiting to see what happens.