Evelyn Nadeau

Then Dylan comes up on stage, red faced. “I apologize for his idiocy.”

His blush hair contrasts with his lemon-yellow sweater. “My name is Dylan Hanover. And I am an Archer. Yes, I know, creative name.” His cheeks are still pink, this time he holds up his left wrist and a glowing mint string hangs off of it. “All On-Pointers are left handed.” He smiles. All of them are so cute. Their muscles, hair, eyes. Everything about them.

He makes his string into a bow, with surprising speed, and shoots a fly out of the air. In the back of the gym. Hundreds of feet away, and he hits a fly. Then he speaks. “Hey, Evelyn, where are you?” He scans the front row until he finds me, “Oh there you are!” The girl next to me throws me over the rope again. Handsy. I walk back up onto the stage and Dylan hugs me.

“Edward!” He yells and Edward comes on with an apple. And then he turns it into a sword. “Stop that, you are scaring the girl.” He grabs me and cuddles me like a child.

“She’s a big kid. It’s fine.” Then it turns back into an apple, Edward comes up behind Dylan and grabs his waist.

“I will shoot you in the face, and this time I won’t fix you.” Edward puts his hands in the air. “Well, Vincent!” Dylan yells and Vincent comes on looking like a block of cheese. “Edward.” Everyone laughs.

Vincent comes over to me and hands me the apple. Then we teleport to the other side of the gym. “Ready!?” Dylan yells to us and Vincent gives him a thumbs up. Edward sneaks up behind Dylan and grabs his waist again, and then Edward gets shot in the foot. And then Dylan shoots the apple in my hand without looking. Then he turns around and pushes Edward over to the side, out of view.

Dylan sticks his head on stage out of the curtain, “Now introducing Alexandra Stewert.” Vincent grabs my hand and we teleport off stage.

“Hello, my name is Alexandra Stewert and I am a Brute.” I hear Alexandra.

“You’re going to have to go out there in a few minutes, might as well stay back here.” Vincent says, I look down to see Edward sitting on a chair and Dylan kneeling down messing with the arrow in his foot. “They actually do love each other, they j-” Dylan kicks his shin and he falls.

“I am going to kill you.” Dylan says. Charlotte comes up behind Dylan and asks if she can help, “No, I was stupi- Actually, hold up.” He rips it out. “We were close up so I couldn’t get decent power.”

“Thank god.” Edward says.

“Evelyn.” A woman with long burgundy hair tied into a ponytail comes over to me. I assume she is Alexandra. Her pink eyes glow.

“Sure.” I say and Alexandra leads me out onstage. On both of her wrists she has the strings, two of them. They're both pink.

“Okay, can you...”

Dylan Hanover

(An hour later.)

“Okay. Let’s have Edward and Dylan go.” Charlotte instructs. The gym is surrounded by children looking in on us from windows. It is very nerve wracking.

“Stop making me go up aga- Are you bribing her, are you trying to get close to me?” Edward says to me. “Cause if you are, that is not how you get it do-” I shoot him in the leg. “Well fuck you then.”

“I already fucked you and it was not that impressive.” I say and the children in the windows ‘oOoOoOo.’

“Honey, oh yes it was.” Edward says and I shoot him again.

“Shut up!” Alexandra yells, “We didn’t even say go yet-”

“GO!” I yell and pummel Edward with arrows, some fake, some not.

“That is not how this works.” Alexandra says.

“I legitimately don’t care.” I say and shoot Alexandra in the arm. Then I turn back to Edward. He is riddled with arrows, they’re not painful ones. They numb the skin so he doesn’t feel it and it isn’t lasting as soon as he touches them they disappear.

“Dude, can you stop?” Edward says, “Behind you!” He yells and I whip around, Alexandra is running at me, I do a backflip in the air while pulling the arrow back to shoot her.

“Don’t you da-” and I shoot her leg. “You dared.” She laughs. And then there are dozens of me, all around, copying my every movement. “Oh fuck.” She says.

“Having fun?” Edward comes up next to the real me, he is also mirrored.

“I could have handled this on my own.” I say and he laughs.

“I know that. But I wanted to join the fun.” I laugh, then I shoot Alexandra again.

“Are you done trying?” I ask Alexandra and she nods in defeat. The fake mes disappear and now it is just one, the real one. I shoot another point under my name.

“You don’t get that point. Edward helped.” Alexandra says.

“I do, I won against Edward and against you. Technically I should get two.” Alexandra groans. I look around, the entire group is all wearing the same thing- Well kind of.

The women are wearing skirts with a T-shirt. Each person has their color striped onto the shorts and their shirts are colored their own color as well. The only difference between the men’s and women’s uniform is that the men wear pants instead of the skirt. In battle though everybody wears the same thing.

“Okay. Well that is going to wrap it up.” Charlotte yells up to the windows. “I hope to see some of you in my class. And I believe the rest of them feel the same.” Then the lights switch off. And then someone comes up behind me.