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Dark Angel
Chapter 1: Unnoticeable
Thirteen-year old Cody Martin cut a comical figure as he wobbled his way out of his classroom. His attitude and overly neat style repelled most of the good-looking girls as well as attracted many bullies. Some of which were eyeing him with disgust. They may as well been glaring at a wall as Cody remained oblivious to them and staggered past, being weighted down by the heavy books in his arms.
"Hey Cody, what's up?"
Cody looked up from his stride. Max was beside him, her green eyes glancing curiously at his books.
"Nothing much, delivering some textbooks before going home," he replied and shifted his hands slightly.
"Are you, um, going anywhere?" she asked, nervously scratching the back of her head.
Cody muffled a chuckle, "With my mom's paycheck, the only place we're going is school. Why do you ask, Max?" he saw her biting her lip with a distracted look on her face, "Max?"
"Um, it's nothing. Really." She replied, perhaps a bit too quickly.
Cody raised an eyebrow and gave her the infamous "I know you're hiding something" look.
"Um. This might sound weird," she started uncomfortably, "but I got this feeling that I'm not going to see you for a long time." She felt her face turn red and lowered her head.
"Oh, okay." Cody tried to eliminate any sounds of confusion in his voice.
"I'm sorry, that must've been really random." She replied.
"No, not at all. I…" but Max was already trotting down the hall, the conversation long forgotten.
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Cody burst through the door of their suite and collapsed on the floor, wheezing.
"Man, I can't believe we climbed twenty three flights of stairs – Oof!" he gasped as Zack tripped and fell on top of him.
"Hey, what's all the commotion?" Carey asked as the boys got up.
"Nothing at all." Zack replied breathlessly.
"Yeah, nothing except Zack tried to kill me with a protractor." Cody muttered quietly.
Carey's eyebrow rose but she quickly let it off. "Okay. Boys, do your homework and try not to start a war." She said and walked out of the room.
The twins did their homework in silence until Zack finally pondered upon a question aloud.
"...Equals three times the square root of… of…" he poked his forehead with his pen.
"6!" Cody burst out after several minutes of wild guessing.
"Yeah, thanks." Zack replied as he scribbled the number onto his paper, "Okay, done. Now I have to do science, English, history, geography, Spanish..."
Cody rolled his eyes as Zack trailed off. He got up and grabbed his skateboard and helmet, "Hey mom," he shouted over his shoulder; "I'm going to the mall since I'm finished with homework."
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The sky grew dark as thick black clouds washed over the usually calm blue night. Rain pelted downwards like bullets as lightning streaked across the cloudy sky.
"Just my luck," Cody muttered as he flipped on his hood, "How'm I supposed to be back for dinner in this?" he threw down his skateboard and charged into the stormy darkness.
"Man, if I wer –" Cody abruptly stopped as he swerved and missed a lamppost. But by doing so, he bumped into someone and lost his footing.
"Jeez! What's with people these days?" he wondered aloud.
He rode into an alleyway and hoped it would be a shortcut. Cody didn't see the trash and such littered about and tripped onto concrete steps, badly skinning his hands. "Why am I so clumsy, dammit!" he spat and took off his helmet.
"My, my, my. Such strong language coming from a young boy."
Cody spun around to see a man in probably his mid-thirties or early forties. This was peculiar since he had shoulder-length silvery gray hair.
"Who're you?"
"My name is of no importance." He said, reaching out his arm, "But if you really must know, my name is Ezekiel, Zeke for short."
Cody reached out and Zeke hefted him to his feet, "Thanks, uh, Zeke."
"You hate humans too, hmm?"
Cody was surprised, "What do you mean?"
Zeke merely ignored him, "I'm not surprised that you would. After all, you're one of us."
'Who of what?' he wondered, "I should be going now." He picked up his skateboard and turned around. He was about to ride off but a strong gush of wind knocked him into the brick walls. Cody held his arms up in defense and was jabbed forcefully in the stomach. He doubled over, the air knocked out of his lungs. Straining his neck, he looked up to see a pair of mischievous red eyes before his vision slowly faded into darkness.
This is probably in the middle of the second season. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to correct any grammar/spelling/punctuation mistakes & reviews are highly appreciated!
Trivia: (Ask Zack) if you look closely at Cole when he banged his head on the locker for the first time, his leg is hitting the locker the same time as his head.
