Chapter 11: The Third Activity
After an awkward talk with Aria, the girls went to go eat breakfast while Wind stayed at the cabin. This would normally be Wind's time to relax, but he was busy trying to decipher the book that Celestia gave him. "I don't understand!" Wind said in frustration as he closed the book.
"Something wrong Wind?" Wild asked as it drove up to him.
"Hey Wild, it's just that I'm trying to decipher this book that Principle Celestia gave me and I just can't seem to understand it," Wind said as he sighed.
"Let me take a look. I might not be the brightest of the group, but I can give it a look to see if I can figure it out," Wild said. In response, Wind opened the book and showed it to Wild. "Well, I can see what you mean by hard to decipher," Wild commented after a moment.
"I just don't get it, this book looks like an ancient language, but it seems like it's one that has not been seen before," Wind said as he put the book down.
"I'll say, while I might not be the brightest of the group, I know that doesn't seem like any language known to humans," Wild commented.
"Hey there you two what are you talking about?" Aria asked from behind Wind.
"Oh Aria, what are you doing here?" Wind responded as he closed the book.
"I didn't feel like staying over there, so I decided to come back before everyone else," Aria told Wind. Although Aria tried to hide it, Wind caught her slightly shaky voice and decided to ask her about it later.
"I'm just trying to decipher this really annoying book," Wind said as he showed her. Aria looked over the book and felt something click in the back of her mind.
"I feel like I've seen this language before, but I don't know the exact details," Aria said.
"The worst part is that I feel like I've see this language before as well, but I can't remember where," Wind said as he closed the book.
"Well, why don't you got ready for the activity and I'll see what I can do," Aria told Wind.
"Thanks, I appreciate it," Wind said as he got up from the desk and went upstairs. Aria took Winds place and got to work looking over the book.
After the rest of the girls got back to the cabin, everyone got ready for the activity and headed out for the camp center. After arriving and waiting, they got a quick rundown of today's activity.
"So, for today, all the teams will be assigned a list of three tasks they have to complete. The tasks will seem a little odd, but this activity is meant to get all of you to think creatively. Also, no team will have the same tasks. That's all I have to say, good luck campers."
After the councilor finished, the teams went back to their leaders and almost immediately went to go do their tasks. Team Sacred immediately split into teams after reading the tasks and went to do them in teams of two. Aria and Sunset were stopping to go over who was doing what tasks. "Ok, so the task that you and me took is to take a picture of a wild bear," Aria said.
"That seems dangerous but we should be able to do it," Sunset said as she held the camera that Wind gave her.
"I can agree with that," Aria said.
"Hey, do you know what the tasks the others are doing?" Sunset asked curiously.
"No, but I do know that Adagio is going with Trixie and Wind is with Sonata," Aria told Sunset as they walked to the forest. The two stayed silent for most of the way until Sunset broke the silence.
"Hey do you think that Sonata loves Wind?" Sunset asked curiously.
"Why would you ask that?" Aria asked sharply.
"Well, during yesterday's activity, she told that she may have a crush on him," Sunset told Aria.
"She told you, why would she tell you?" Aria asked.
"Well, she told me and Adagio, and she was going to tell you, but I imagine that she forgot," Sunset said. Aria was about to retort, but was stopped by the roar of a bear.
"I think that was a bear, and it doesn't sound happy," Aria said in a worried voice.
"We had better be careful," Sunset said as they got closer to the bear. Eventually, the two of them arrived where the roar had come from and they saw a very mad bear. "You know we could find another bear," Sunset suggested in a hushed voice.
"Or I could try to calm the bear down," Aria said as she was about to step into the clearing. Sunset immediately stopped her from walking forward.
"What are you doing?" Sunset asked in a panicked tone.
"I'm trying to win the challenge for us," Aria said in a calm tone.
"You're crazy, you are going to get yourself killed," Sunset said.
"Look, I don't want to hear much from you, I just want you to trust me on this," Aria told Sunset. Sunset stayed quiet for a few moments as she thought about that comment from Aria.
"Fine, just try not to do anything stupid," Sunset said handing Aria the camera. Aria took the camera and quietly walked out of their hiding place.
"Ok Aria, you're going to take a picture of the angry bear and leave, that's all you're going to do," Aria thought to herself as she slowly and cautiously walked toward the bear who was looking away from her. After she got close enough, she quickly brought the camera to where she could take a picture that had the bear in frame and took a picture. While she did get a good picture, there was a noticeable click that she and Sunset hear.
"Oh, that's bad," Aria said quietly. The bear turned around, saw Aria holding the camera, and immediately charged at her. While the bear was charging, Aria noticed something about the bear's eyes that intrigued her. That didn't stop her from dodging out of the way and quickly ran towards the direction that Sunset was hiding. "Let's get out of here!" Aria yelled as she ran past Sunset. Sunset said nothing as she ran after Aria with the bear chasing the both of them.
"Well, we got the picture, what do we do about the bear?" Sunset asked in a panicked voice. Aria looked around and noticed that the trees seemed to be getting thicker.
"I have an idea, when we get to a tree, run around it and keep running forward, we'll try to lose him that way," Aria told Sunset.
"What if we can't lose it?" Sunset asked. Aria thought about that and came up with a crazy idea. Before she could tell Sunset, they came up to a tree and ran around it. They then head the bear getting closer.
"Head back to camp, I'll try to lure it away," Aria told Sunset.
"Are you crazy?" Sunset said.
"Just trust me," Aria said. Sunset was silent before she took a right and headed back to the camp. Aria smiled and continued to lead the bear away from the camp.
After a few minutes of running, Sunset eventually reached the campgrounds. "Aria, I hope you're alright," Sunset thought as she panted.
"Sunset, are you alright?" she heard Wind call. Sunset looked up to see Wind and Sonata running towards her.
"Wind, Sonata, what are you two doing here?" Sunset asked as they arrived.
"We we're just finishing up with our task when we saw you enter the camp, what happened and where's Aria?" Wind told her in a worried voice.
"Did you call me?" the three heard from the forest line. They all turned to see Aria exiting the forest with her holding her arm which, along with part her torso, was bleeding from what looked like a claw slash.
"Aria!" Sonata yelled out of panic as she ran to her sister.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Aria said as she leaned against a tree.
"No, you're not fine, we need to get you back to the cabin," Sonata said as she took Aria in her shoulder.
"Do you want to explain what happened?" Wind asked Sunset.
"Hey Wind, here's our task," Aria said as he tossed him the camera which he caught. Wind looked at the pictures and saw a picture of a wild bear on it.
"You actually got it?" Wind asked out amazement.
"Well, Aria did and I will kindly say she is incredibly brave," Sunset said as Sonata and Aria left their sight.
"You have a crush on her don't you?" Wind asked. Sunset said nothing as a blush formed on her face.
"I do," Sunset admitted out of embarrassment.
"Well, then you better go help her. I'll be going to find Adagio and Trixie to explain the situation to them," Wind told Sunset as he turned to leave. Sunset nodded and went towards the direction Sonata and Aria went while Wind went to find Trixie and Adagio.