Suzanne woke up quite alarmed. She was feeling quite odd today. She freshened up and went downstairs to get her breakfast. She munched her cereal slowly. Why did it feel like she was forgetting something? Something important? Shane looked puzzled when he saw her downstairs. 'Um--' he started. But Suzanne continued slurping her cereal. 'Call me loser one more time and I promise to cut off your tongue!' she said to him. He scratched his hair.  'Actually that's not it. You know I always skip first period in class everyday, so I go late.'  He replied. 'So?' Suzanne asked, irritated. He was stating a fact she already knew. He smirked. 'So if I, a usual late goer am headed out by this time, what does that make you?' he asked cockily. Suzanne gasped and dashed into her room. 

Ryan stopped by a tree and crouched to assess his situation. The whereabouts of the gems were unknown and if he just started digging anyhow there was a 50% chance he could stumble on the Emerald or any other gem. It was too risky to gamble. He got out a blindfold. I'll just have to work with my other senses then. He'd seen the gems and felt them. While the other two were sort of rough-ish, the diamond was rhombus in shape.  He could use that. His eyes strayed towards were he'd left the others.  He hissed as he tied on his blindfold. Who needs those losers? As long as he doesn't trigger the alarm that'll sense he'd found any other gem than diamond he should be fine. He turned on his gadget and started blasting the ground making a hole emerge.  This would be quick.I'll find th

They all continued walking silently. 'Suzanne you--' Ethan started. She shook her head, suddenly looking serious.  'It's nothing, I just couldn't stand by while someone made our team helpless,' she replied.  'Team?' Ryan asked quietly. 'Yeah. Team,' Suzanne replied. Andrew was deep in thought with his hands stuffed in his pocket. That Suzanne! I guess I underestimated her;to think she'd be the one to save us out of that mess. He took a quick glance at her talking to Ethan.  Great timing! Right Dad? He stopped at the spot. 'This is it,' he announced to the others. 'So--who gets the diamond?' Ryan asked. Oh...yeah! That's right! Only one of them can pass. Suzanne looked down sadly. Ethan looked unsure. Ryan looked like he could kill just to get his hands on the pr

'I say we start with the punching bags to bring out our inner muscles,' Ethan suggested.  'I'm going to the laser point room,' Ryan told them. 'You don't get to say what we all do!' Ethan countered him. Ryan scoffed. 'Like I care what you think!' he bellowed back at Ethan. Ethan blew his top. 'How dare you?!' he said and advanced towards Ryan, whose arms were crossed on his chest. He merely glared at Ethan as one would an erring toddler who was about to get spanked for irrational behavior. Suzanne caught and twisted Ethan's ear. 'Ow ow ow!' he winced in pain. 'Shut up for once, Ethan!' She snapped at him. 'You talk too much!'  Andrew sighed. 'After careful consideration It's only logical that we head for the Archery Room. There we can train on how to be precise and accurate and we can also start noting down our weaknesses.' Ryan snorted. 'You seem to be for

"You've got to be kidding me!' Andrew rolled his eyes. Suzanne chuckled nervously. 'I'll get it right now....' she struggled with fitting the arrow on the bow string bending her arms in different awkward ways. An arrow Suzanne managed to shoot whizzed past Ethan's nose.  'Hey! Watch it!' he exclaimed. Ryan had hit his target with five different arrows each splitting the first right down the middle. He smirked and looked around. The situation wipped the smirk from his face. Suzanne's head and an arm were stuck in a bow and Ethan was trying to get her out. Andrew was pinned to a nearby tree by Suzanne's careless aim. Ryan face palmed himself. 'What in the world happened?!' he asked.  In the ten seconds that he had his back to them, Suzanne had managed to make everything a mumble jumble!&nb