Team Jome: The Begining

"This is it" Jade said to herself, standing on the launch pad overlooking the forest "I crawled my way out of signal, and got this far, it's time to prove yourself and get a team" Jade looked to her sides, checking out the possible candidates. Man! she wanted a team with some other girls, she had gone through signal with pretty much no friends, it wasn't her fault, the other girls just didn't really talk to her, and so she was stuck alone occasionally being hit on by some douche. But now was the time for that to all change, all she had to do was make eye contact with one of the 7 other girls and her next 3 years would be ones of joy. Before Jade could day dream any further, her train of thought was cut off by the tall boy beside her being launched, she crouched and readied her weapon, in a second she was launched into the air towards the forest below, she drew her whip behind her head and cracked it at the biggest tree in range. Once on the ground she began to head upwards and to the left, if she had remember correctly a particularly relaxed looking girl had been launched this way. Jade came up to a clearing and saw a boy with a hood and scarf standing there looking upwards, she quickly turned the other way "No chance in hell am I being stuck with some guy who doesn't even show his face" As she kept walking she saw another person upon further inspection she found it was a girl, luck was finally hers. As she began to approach the girl she heard a growling beside her, quickly jumping to the side and drawing her weapon she face an Ursa, pretty big too, she cracked her whip and struck it in eye, the Ursa countered with a swipe but Jade dodged and whipped its paw, attaching on with the grapple. The Ursa swung again and Jade swung with it, flinging herself behind the creature, she then whipped its neck and swung around its throat landing on its back, attempting to strangle it. The Ursa fell backwards and Jade jumped off, now that it was taken care of she had to find that girl. She looked around frantically trying to re-locate her soon to be teammate, suddenly she felt a pain to her side and she went flying into a tree, "uhg, why do they never stay down" she mumbled to herself slowly picking herself up. The Ursa pounced at her leaving almost no time to dodge as it smashed into the tree wear she was laying half a second ago. Jade went to swing her whip but the plow to her side crippled her half way, the Ursa was going to strike her, it went to swing, it seemed to last a long time Jade remarked, as she prepared for the blow, only after a few seconds realizing it taking a long time, suddenly the beast groaned and collapsed without thinking she eyed the person on top of the newly deceased Ursa and found she was looking at the eyes of hood-boy. Jade sat there a few seconds letting her aura heal the damage and letting the fact sink in that she had blew it. "You okay grill?" the boy asked "Yeah, this girl is doing fine" she said bitterly. The boy gave her a look then introduced himself "Well I guess we're partners now, the name's Obi, and you?" "Jade." she said sighing her only chance was that that they'd at least end up with some nice girls as the other 2. She took the time to examine her new teammate's weapon it appeared to be some sort of knife with a pistol attached? No. The barrel was too wide to be a simple pistol, oh well it didn't matter. Obi looked at his partner, she wasn't bad for the eyes but it could never happen. "We should head for the temple, I saw some people heading over that way" he pointed where jade had seen the girl. He continued "We should try looking over there" Jade mumbled something but started going in the indicated direction so he figure that was a yes. They continued going occasionally spotting the other groups Jade took note of some of them, there was that girl from earlier and she was with an armored guy "I would be okay with that group" she thought to herself, there was another pair of 2 girls, one carried a bow and wore trench coat the other wore a battle skirt and had some sort of Katana, she couldn't tell because it was on fire. There were 2 guys one had a shield and spear and wore a fuzzy hoody, the other wore a a full body suit with some sort of theater mask and no noticeable weapon, she suddenly felt better about being stuck with this Obi guy, the last pair she saw was a skinny pale guy wearing Jeans and a shirt fooling around with his advance looking gun and beside him a rather well shaped faunas with some sort of hybrid between an axe and a shotgun, Jade also noticed that this was the pair Obi was looking at the most, although she figured it was for perverted reasons soon they came to a stop in front a stone tower. "It's gotta be up there" Jade said to Obi "Probs" he replied "I'll go up and check it out" they both said in sync. They looked at each other and Jade started explaining that she could just swing up "Right, well I meet at the door then" Obi said, probably grinning "Whatever you say." Jade said then whipped her grappled at the top and pressed a button the handle to start scaling the tower, she shot up in seconds and found her partner sitting there waiting, "You could say I can go pretty fast" he said stretching his legs, Jade rolled her eyes and look at the totems around the roof. "They're signs" Obi said in a confused manner "Zodiac signs" Jade added, "Zodiac? sweet lets take Leo!" Just then the Skinny guy and faunas walked up the stairs, Obi stopped looking so exited and started leaning against a wall pretending to be cool, Jade frowned, took the Leo piece and grabbed Obi by the sleeve, dragging him down the stairs of the tower, going down they passed the spear and shield guy and the creepy mask person, Jade noticed that the spear man didn't seem too off put by his partner and decided he was weird as well, once at the bottom they saw the fire sword and bow girls walking into the clearing "Maybe we should stay here and go back with the other groups" Obi suggested, looking up at the tower trying to catch a glimpse of the faunas. Jade was about to declined his request until she thought about going back with the other girls as well "Alright fine, I guess it would be safer" they waited for a few minutes before there was a sudden siren coming from the top of the tower, soon afterwards the ground started shaking "I don't think this is an earthquake" Obi said, weapons at the ready. The rest of the teams rushed out of the tower the bow girl stammering something about an alarm after taking the last piece. Then from both sides of the clearing 2 Ekores came from within the forest, The Ekores, walking on 2 legs and towering above a person average height armored in all places but under the chin and behind the feet, which were guarded by its projectile shooting tail. The Ekore on the left attacked first launching it's harpoon sized needle at the kids, they all were able to dodge it but the old tower came crumbling down after the impact, the battle fields were now slit in 2 each group of 4 getting one with a divider in the middle. Jade looked at the 2 people, great, it was mask boy and upon closer inspection wolf pelt hoody guy, the group backed up and Jade looked over at the other team. They had already started their attack on the monster, the armored man and the lost opportunity girl ran around the back, the Ekore swung its tail the man, but he grappled it with his arms and wrestled to hold it place and the girl began climbing it to get to it's back, she pulled a sickle from her back swung it into the armored back helping her stay in place. from the front bow girl began shooting it's exposed chin, the Ekore took a swing at her with it's long arm but was stopped by katana wielder and recoiled from the flames of the sword, the sickle wielder had reached it's head then and shoved her sickle into one of it's eyes, making it thrash about,shooting it's needles in panic the Armored man bent it's tail making it point at it's own back, soon the Ekore had pierced it's own armor and began to collapse, the team began to hurry back into the forest without a single look at Jade's team, which was still being backed up by their own problem. "I can get behind it and cut it's heels!" Obi said, "But I need someone to distract it so that it doesn't get me with it's tail!" The masked man stepped forward "If you can go and make it bleed, then I'll be the distraction that you need" Jade sat dumb found as the weaponless guy walked up to the Ekore, The masked man put his hands out infront him then swiped them outwards, suddenly 2 copies of him appeared on each side, the Ekore swung at the middle one, making it disappear in a flash of light, it then was replace another, the Ekore continued attacking as Obi circled around it stopping at it's heel and slashing it, then pointing his barrel and shooting a scatter shot at the other, making it fall to its knees, the copies of the masked man disappeared as the spear and shield wielder ran up in front of it kneeling down and pointing his spear upwards at the Ekore's chin, "Pull his head down!" he yelled at Jade, she ran up and grappled it's head with her whip, then pulled pressing the retract button and pulling down at the same time. Everything went quiet, the only sound to be heard was the panting of the children and the sound of a spear being pulled from the Ekore's skull, the four walked up to each other, "Well fought guys" the spear wielder said, "My name's Ergang, and this is Myre" he said pointing at the masked man, "I'm mostly a spear and shield user, but I'm also a trained berserker!" "Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of being a berserker if you're trained? Obi asked before getting elbowed by Jade. "And what was that you were using Myre?" Jade asked "You'll find that the ability to bend light can be useful in a fight" Jade sat there for a second head tilted "You can subdue you enemy into confusion, with the use of illusion" Myre elaborated "Do you always talk funny?" Obi asked mouth half open, everyone just kind of ignored him, "Well i think it's about time we get back" Jade said finally.

The four new friends stood on the stage in front of the crowd of people. The director announced "Jade Orwell, Obi Tig, Myre Fuji and Ergang Hamask form... Team Jome, lead by... Jade Orwell. Jade's eyes widened at the announcement, Obi punched her lightly on the shoulder, Ergang cheered and Myre clapped as Jade sat in confusion of why she was leading this team of boys... this team of... "SHIT." Jade said to herself, she was going to be stuck with boys for the next 3 years of her life. She looked at her new team Obi's eyes showed he was smiling wide, Ergang continued cheering by howling like a wolf and Myre was facing her so that the smiley side of the mask showed, well... maybe it wouldn't be too bad.