tadkun11 asked: Hi! Me again. I haven't seen much Frank Zhang arts ever. Can you draw some for me pretty please? You're pretty too! 😘 ありがとう！ (Sorry, I'm not really fluent with Japanese. I don't know any kanji yet. Hehe)
Mr. Terminus sits on the referee chair high above the gym arena, stopwatch and clipboard in hand. “You have three minutes to immobilize your opponents and save the citizen! Ready?”
Hazel adjusts the armored padding on her shoulders and looks across the floor–across the flashing metal teeth of the death trap in the center of the arena and the lifesize doll suspended from a rope just above, only a few feet from possible dismemberment and shredding–and stares down her opponents. Michael and Nathan are two of the biggest guys in their year and make it a point to intimidate everybody they come across in the hallways. Hazel’s never felt particularly afraid of them; they’re big, but Hazel knows that she’s a force of nature.
Besides: her friends, who are never too far away, are downright scary when they want to be.
“Set!”
She glances to her right. Frank, her partner, doesn’t look as confident. He shifts his padding across his chest, adjusts his gloves, and shrugs his shoulders up and down. When he catches Hazel’s gaze, he gives her a half-hearted smile. It widens, brightens his eyes, when she jogs the distance between them and holds her fist out for him to bump his against.
“Give them hell?” she says.
He laughs, and, yes, finally, the fight lights up his face. “You got it.”
The buzzer rings, and Mr. Terminus cries, “Battle!” And they’re off. Frank shifts quick as anything into a leopard, sleek and fierce and rushing forward; Hazel plays the long game, summoning the Mist and wrapping it around herself, pushing it forward across the arena floor, thick as fog and choking, dizzying. She glances up at the clock and can’t suppress her grin–three minutes? They’ll only need one.
HAZEL GOES TO DISNEYLAND WITH PIPER JUST FOR A FUN DAY
HAZEL RIDES THE RIDE FRANK WORKS ON
HAZEL’S SEATBELT JAMS AND FRANK HAS TO COME AND TRY TO GET HER OUT AND SHE’S JUST SITTING THERE FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES GOING “WOW HE’S KINDA CUTE” AND FRANKS JUST THINKING “OH MY GOSH SHE’S REALLY PRETTY AND THOSE MOUSE EARS LOOK REALLY NICE ON HER”
SOMEONE HELP ME I’M GOING TO DROWN IN DISNEYLAND AUs
