1 Center of the ring, more like BAIT!

"Oh, come on! I'm not a little kid! I'm fine!" I whine to my team who were complaining non-stop about the fall. It hadn't hurt. "I just fell! Just leave me alone!" I shout to them. Skull shrugs it off.

Mask just looks away from me but Army's gaze locked on me for a while longer. I looked back at him, feeling his gaze. "Focus! All of you! They're moving in!" Skull snaps at us. "If he says he's fine, then, he's fine."

I silently thanked Skull with a thankful gaze, he just nods before turning away, looking for the enemy team's sniper. I brushed myself off and grabbed my gun. 'Where did they go?' I thought, turning around the endless turns on this map. It was a new one. It's called, "The Twisty Waterpark". Trust me, it lives up to the name, water was everywhere, you can get splashed by it or even get pounds of water dunked on you, it's not preferable. I glanced around and heard familiar footsteps approach me. "What is it, Army?" I ask, turning around.

"You were limping."

I turn to him. "Are we still on that? I told you, I'm fine," I urge him. I don't need this! You're distracting! He points his gun at me.

"Duck." He says, shooting, I get down quickly and he hits a girl behind me. I slowly stand back up. "You should've heard that. You're not playing well today." He points out. "Then, in your distractions, you fell."

"There is water! EVERYWHERE!" I snap at him. "I did NOT fall, I slipped!" I whine to him, turning around and storming off. He followed me, no duh. 'Why is he following me? Why am I nervous? Why do I want to run? What the hell is wrong with me? UGH, stop, Aloha! So, uncool! Do NOT lose your cool! Calm down- HE'S GETTING CLOSER. Eep, no calm down.' I pushed the thoughts away in a rush and took a few deep breaths. Trying to calm down.

"Are you okay?" Army asks, I didn't hear him approach, I jumped back from him.

"Eep!" I shout, pointing my gun at him. He stares in shock at me then, much to my surprise, snickers..."Pfft- Aloha!" He starts laughing quietly, I felt my face heat up. "T-That's not funny!" I snap at him, crossing my arms stubbornly. "Why're you following me?" I ask.

Army composes himself then smiles at me saying, "Mask told me to follow you just incase you 'slip' again. He doesn't want you getting hurt before our rematch with Team Emperor. It's a special case, because, Emperor left the team to Prinz so this is the only match we'll get to fight against Emperor's old team. Emperor, N-Pacer, Eging, and Prinz." Army states matter-of-factly. I sigh. 'He's always like this...not that I don't mind...Wait. Where did that thought even come from!?' I try to stop thinking about that and focus on our game.

"GET THEM!" A female's voice screams from behind us. I turned but not quickly enough. Army got hit. "Ack!" He yelps. I aim my sights at the two. I missed them twice before hitting one of them and having to run to cover because of the second one. I peeked a look out. "Boo!" She screams from beside me. I jumped and shot her, in pure fear, she burst out laughing even though she got hit. I sighed in relief as Army walks back up to me.

"You got them both?" He asks. I nod slightly. "Good job...Aloha...are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost." He points out. I shake my head, shaking all the fear from me.

"Yup!" I flash a smile at him. "She just scared me, that's all." I give him a thumbs-up. He nods, cocking an eyebrow at me before smiling just slightly. Just enough for me to notice. I beam at him and we continue painting the stage. It was quiet...too quiet.

Then, the announcer yells, "SKULL HAS BEEN HIT! MASK IS DOWN TOO!" I look around in pure confusion and shock.

"What?" I ask, "They've been hit?"

"I guess so..." Army's voice trailed off. "Oh, no."

"Oh no, is right!" I yell. I turn to him.

"RETREAT!" Skull yells from across the map. Army and I exchange a look before trying to head back to where Skull and Mask were. We couldn't go back, though, because of a girl on the enemy's team. Their team, Team Jumpscare, was supposed to be a Halloween themed team who took pride in scaring people. It was not fun! They found it hilarious. So...I'll use it against them. When she jumped out, it didn't scare me but I pretended it did, I jumped back and squeaked, "Eep!". She burst out laughing and I shot her. "HIT!"

Army looks at me. "Did you just fake her out?" He asks. I shrug. "Sure, I mean, they want to scare you, so let them, then shoot them, right?" I say, walking around the corner where Mask and Skull were. "Oh, hey." I greet, waving. Skull turns to us for a second, nods, then turns back around. Mask just glances our way and turns back, muttering.

"I don't like this team, they aren't scary but they still try so hard..." I give him a weird look and he shrugs. "Hyuk, I don't like them." I back away from him by a few steps. Army snickers before composing himself.

"You should not say such things about our opponent, Mask, if you got hit as well. Aloha is the only one who hasn't been hit yet...I wonder if they're going to go after him..." Everyone turns to me. I stare at them, "Oh no..." I mumble.

...I should've ran. I had all the enemy team on me with my team hidden away. I was darting all over the place. Jumping this way and that. I darted behind a wall, gasping for breath. 'I hate my team! I officially hate my team! I hate team S4!' I thought, then ran away as the enemy team closed in on me. They really just wanted to scare me or hit me!? I could see Army from the corner of my eye as he painted the stage, he paused and met my eyes. He looked sorry and mouthed to me, "Sorry about this."

I glared at him but ducked behind a wall, trying to catch my breath. "Go Aloha!!" I heard Straw yell, she was one of the squids watching the match, with the rest of my team. "You got this!" Octo cheers. "Show 'em the new one!" Diver encourages. I catch my breath and listen carefully. I could hear two of them coming closer the other two were farther away. Good, perfect. The "wall" wasn't really a wall more of like a box that was three times my size but my height. I pulled myself on top of it, then shot the front two, jumping in front of the back two, before jumping over them, to get behind them, I managed to shoot one of them and had to run.

There fourth teammate's name was Scarier. She was the best on their team. An A+ rank. Almost an S ranking. I was pulling some crazy tricks on her. My team cheering me on. I kept it up. She was not easy to get off my tail. "ONLY 5 MINUTES LEFT!!" The announcer yells, Scarier seemed to use that as her kill-him-now-mode turn on. I shot behind me. She was trying to corner me, to her team. I could hear them closing in. "ONLY 4 MINUTES!" I turned sharply, her team was moving on the other side of the wall to my left, they were really loud. Not a quiet team but they can be if they tried. I shot behind me once more, I barely missed. This threw Scarier off for a moment. I jumped over the wall and hit one of her teammates, the other two panicked, I jumped away back to Scarier.

"ONLY 3 MINUTES!" Scarier was leading me down the hallway, I could see her teammates. "ONLY 2 MINUTES!" I panicked, slow down, trip her up. Calm down, calm down, calm down. I took a breath, listening to the crowd, cheering everyone on. "A MINUTE! COUNT DOWN WITH ME, EVERYONE!" I could hear the countdown. 'A minute. Keep going, Aloha! You're team needs you!'

40...

She aimed at me.

30...

She shot at me, I dodged it just barely, she nearly splashed me.

20...

I picked up the pace, running past one of her teammates, who spun around, aiming at me.

10...

I dodged again in a panic.

9...8...7...

She grew angry and just started randomly shooting.

6...5...4...3...

She stomped her foot and shouted, "GET HIM!" I just kept running, Why...why...why do I have to be bait?? Are they done painting.

2...

Did she forget to paint the stage? I'm so confused...She shot.

1...

Her shot hit me, splashing paint all over my shirt, I fell backward. Well, now, I had a paint covered shirt and my face even had some paint on it. I tried to wipe away the paint on my face.

"GAME END!!!" The announcer yells.

"How did you do that, shit?" Pumpkin, the A- ranker on their team asks. I look up at her. The team's color was dark orange and black. She looked like a serious pumpkin.

"Do what?" I ask her.

"Run for so long? I was sure that Scarier would've caught you."

"I-...I was not going to get caught....Army was watching...Skull would've killed me....Mask would've laughed..." I reply to her. She stares at me blankly, then, laughs.

"Skull would kill you and Mask would laugh at you! Ha! Well, now I'm laughing at you! Why's Army so important?" She asks, interrogating me. I look up at her. I could feel the heat on my face.

"Why...? Why is Army important?" I ask. She nods. "He's my teammate, isn't he?" For once, I was glad my face was already flushed in a dark pink or she would've seen my blush creeping onto my face. I stood up finally. I'll see you later, if I do. Good game, but, make sure you paint the stage."

I point at the stage which was covered in our team's paint. "TEAM S4 WINS!!! BY A WHOLE 89.7%!! WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE GAME!!!!"

"See? It's turf wars, painting," I say, stating the obvious.

"Right, sure thing, Aloha." Pumpkin walks off, waving to me, "Maybe we just want to show people how to have fun. Cya." I wave back at her then turn to go find my team. I was going to kill them. What is with that team? They always lose unless the other team is just bad, bad...they just want to scare people more than paint a stage, what the heck are they doing here?