"I'll take that as a yes." Esmae moved closer to the tree course. It definitely looked fun. As if her body moved on it's own, she began to climb. It was more wobbly than she expected. After she got to the top she took off running down the course.
Sparrow smiled at Esmaes movement. She was quick, that was for sure. Hopefully she was also slow enough to see where there was and wasnt a path. Looking around at the other 3 kids, she smiled and studied each of their movements.
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"So are we?" Cyrus asked, leaning closer to Sparrow, "Official, that is? Are we telling people?"
He smiled just a little as he watched Esmae move up.
Sparrow pretended to think about it "hmm, we technically adopted these kids so I guess, yes, we are official." She said smiling at him
(Excuse me while I die of laughter because this is just all too familiar.)
Cyrus looked at the ground, then back at her.
"Well, I guess you're right. That seems pretty official to me."
(Lmao)
"Now then, can we go back to getting slight revenge on these kids for hurting yo" she said, muffling a laugh. Although this was a fun training course, it had it's own surprises. Certain levers raised or lowered platforms and Sparrow intended on pushing these newly hatched baby assassins to the test.
"I suppose this is the only appropriate type of revenge to get on a child," Cyrus laughed, "but they seem to be enjoying themselves, at least for now."
Sparrow laughed, faking an evil one and she gestured to the many buttons and levers "not for long." She grinned
(I feel like I ruined Sparrow, XD)
(It's honestly kind of amusing to see her idea of a good time, since she's usually a lot more serious. I'm personally loving this.)
Cyrus' eyes widened.
"Oh! Well, where should we start?"
He shuffled closer to the rows of levers and examined them.
Katya kept moving as the course shifted around. She felt familiar with the change and continued going with her path jumping from one platform to the next.
Esmae ran through the course easily, slowly catching up to the other.she stepped into what seemed to be a tower. Having too much fun she didn't realize she stepped on a platform to launch arrows. It was only until one caught her shoulder that she snapped out of fum mode and was in assassin mode. Many more shot from the sides but luckily she dodged all but the first one. Did the other kids know? "Guys!" She shouted but stopped herself. This is the moment to show their skills to the adults, and Esmae wasn't about to ruin that chance for them.
Nathan looked over at Esmae's voice and shouted back "yeah? I'm on the tree at your 6 o'clock!"
Sparrow grinned and closed her eyes "it doesnt matter!" She said gleefully, pulling up a lever and a few pltform started moving up and down.
Esmae lost balance and fell. All of the sudden the platform started to move, and move quickly. Her thinking she could catch up was slowly slipping away. "No, not happening." Standing, she quickly ran and jumped before she lost balance again. The nearest thing was a branch, thank goodness it was a thicker one. The only thing was now that there was no platform near her. Esmae know she had to think of something quick, although she was strong, she wouldn't be able to hold on forever. "Damn!" She hated the idea of asking for help, but if she fell she would definitely get hurt. "Hey, guys! A little help please."
Nathan looked over and jumped from a tree. He landed on a platform and jumped off again, grabbing a tree with his gloves and shimmying over to her "grab on!" He yelled
Katya looked over to where Esmae was. She may not like that, but she wasn't going to leave her hanging. Katya started to make her way over climbing up onto a tree and moving to the next one, "I'm coming over!"
Nathan saw Katya coming and waved with one hand then reached back down to her "I can help you gain momentum to jump up here!" He saod
Esmae grabbed Nathan's hand but still held on to the tree with the other. "Are you sure? I'm like two times your weight." If he did this, it would hurt. The she saw Katya, she may be able to help a bit more the Nathan.
Katya made it over and offered a hand down to Esmae, "There's two of us now. We can do it."
Esmae let go of the tree and swung her other hand to grab Katya. "Alright I'm ready." She looked down and saw the Sparrow and Cyrus were pulling some levers. So they're the ones doing this.
Sparrow did a two finger salute when she saw Esmae looking at them and pressed anothe button. Small water balloons started launching themselves everywhere.
Nathan crunched onto a branch and looked at the balloons "it's like a war zone down there!" He said in awe
Katya pulled Esmae up onto the branch. She looked over at Cyrus and Sparrow dodging the water balloons. She looked over at Esmae, "Should we go for them or for the end zone?"
"I'm not sure." Esme also dogged the balloons. "If we go for them we need a plan. Going after professional assassins with a plan is a bad idea." When the cost was clear she ran and jumped of the branch onto a moving platform. "Come on, we need to find somewhere where there are no traps."
Nathan looked and frowned "the only, "safe"place u see, are the trees." He muttered
Katya nodded and followed after swinging from the branch to another one near Esmae, "I mean we don't have to, but it would be fun to do."
"Taking down professional assassins is more my style, rather than running around some tree house trying to get to the end." She ran across the wood floor hanging about forty feet from the ground. Nathan is right the trees were the only safe place, but they need to find the perfect tree.