7by THE Azureye
"Hey, Jennifer, come look at this."
Among a sea of shouts, clanking metal, and flying soccer balls, Jennifer turned to her friend, Anna, who was sitting on a rusty old swingset that was normally deserted during recess. She was peering intently over the fence that wrapped around the playground, apparently watching something out in the distance.
"What? I don't see anything," Jennifer asked as she walked up beside Anna, squinting at the green meadows beyond the playground which seemed so fascinating to Anna.
"Over there, in the grass," Anna replied, signaling toward two robins with her finger.
Jennifer watched them for a moment, studying them carefully. "Two males," she confirmed, "and do you see that other one over there, a bit to the left? It's a female."
Suddenly, both of the males rose into the air, slashing their minute talons at each other in midflight before dropping back to the ground.
"Neat! I suppose they're fighting over the female," Jennifer noted.
One of the males glared t the other and gave a contemptuous screech.
"I wonder what they're saying?" Anna asked to no one in particular.
Jennifer grinned. "Eh, they're probably just talkin' trash..."
"Yo mamma's so fat, when she sits around the nest, she sits AROUND the nest!" shouted scorch toward the other robin, Jet.
"Oh yeah?" Jet retorted. "Well, YOUR mamma's so fat she don't got no nest 'cause she needs a whole forest!"
"SHHHIIIRRRRRIK!" With a furious squall, Scorch dived toward Jet, beating his wings furiously as he lashed out with his talons. Jet gave a little yelp and turned around, flapping his wings frantically to try and escape Scorch's grasp.
"Scardey-cat!" taunted Scorch, slowing as Jet swerved to the side, grinning as he let Jet get away. It took Scorch a moment to notice that Jet was barreling straight for Lucy, the lovely maiden he was battling for.
"Oh, no you don't!" Scorch cried, surging back into action in a flurry of feathers, cutting Jet off sharply just as he was about to land beside Lucy.
Lucy glanced at both of them with disinterest.
Neither Jet nor Scorch seemed to notice, however, because they both went back into a string of trash talk.
"Yo mamma's so fat that the trees she lands in break in two!" Scorch hissed.
"Well, yo mamma's so fat she's..." Jet hesitated. "She's so fat that... uh... she's fat! Yeah!"
"Aha!" Scorch shouted triumphantly. "You couldn't throw a decent insult if your life depended on it!"
Lucy stared at them blankly. "Immature freaks," she muttered with disgust, spreading her wings to take off, when -
WHAM.
Scorch flew from nowhere tackled Lucy into the dirt to keep her from getting away, lightly adding, "Don't worry, my dear lady, this will be settled soon!" before diving back towards Jet, leaving a disgruntled Lucy to watch, helpless, muttering to herself indignantly.
After a vicious attack by Scorch, both birds fell to the ground about a yard apart from each other.
"Aha, I'm watching him but he doesn't know it," Scorch whispered to himself, smiling inwardly as he hid himself in a tall patch of grass, watching Jet's every move.
"Aha, I'm watching him but he doesn't know it," Jet whispered to himself, smiling inwardly as he hid himself in a tall patch of grass, watching Scorch's every move.
Both birds soared into the air and lunged at each other at the exact same moment and, in a clash of claws and feathers, almost immediately they both fell backwards, thudding against the ground, both dizzied by the other's ambush.
"Yo mamma," Jet hissed in Scorch's ear as soon as he recovered from the impact of the blow, flying back toward Lucy, and of course he was promptly cut off by Scorch.
Now this repeated over and over, with Lucy growing more and more contemptuous, yet Jet and Scorch kept on fighting and fighting. Jennifer and Anna almost lost interest (which is surprising, because they had unusually long attention spans compared to most of their classmates), until, right before the classes were called back inside, something different happened (much to Anna and Jennifer's joy).
Both Scorch and Jet were exhausted, panting as they glared at each other, and, in a sudden inspiration from desperation, Jet shouted, "Hey, whoever reaches Lucy first gets her!"
"All right!" Scorch shouted, swooping forward, somehow finding an energy reserved deep inside of him, grateful that this soon would be all over. Jet did the same, and both were a blur of feathers, speeding forward, faster, faster, and suddenly -
"Ricky!" Lucy shouted.
"Huh?" Scorch and Jet shouted in unison, almost bonking heads as they swerved to a stop in midair.
"Oh, Ricky, darling, I've just been standing here waiting for you..."
Suddenly, another (quite studly looking) robin swooped from the sky, and Lucy rose up to meet him, both darting promptly into a tree after a short, romantic reunion in midair.
Scorch stared, horrified. "She... already... had... a mate?" Scorch asked weakly.
Jet was too traumatized to speak, staring blankly at the ominous oak tree hovering above them both.
"You planned this!" Scorch shouted in accusation, desperate to blame the situation on someone. "Yo mamma's sooooo fat..."