Today was the last day of summer vacation, and it was also the Langley's first day in their new house. The two teens of the family were enjoying their last day of vacation by swimming in the large backyard pool that Tara Langley was only too happy to have in their new residence. Her brother Demitri Langley, the older of the two, was very grim about the end of summer.

"Come on Demitri! Cheer up!" Tara said as she swam across the pool in her black and green skull covered two piece. She looked at her brother who had just put earbuds in his ears to listen to his iPod which he blared on Nirvana, which was one of his most favorite bands.

"Why T?" He said calling his sister by the nickname he'd given her when she was little. "School starts tomorrow and I've got to repeat that stupid Mad Science class with crazy Medulla again."

Tara pulled out one of the earbuds so she could talk and said, "At least I'll get to go this year. And plus, you wouldn't have that problem if you hadn't slept through the class. Not to mention Cassidy's coming you know you've always had a huge crush on her. And guess what? Mom said she could stay over tonight so she'll be over at dinner."

Suddenly, there was a large flame that had appeared in the yard next door. The flame had shot up over the fence and captured Tara's attention immediately. Taking the opportunity, Demitri went back to listening to his music. Tara climbed out of the pool, grabbed her Nightmare Before Christmas towel, and walked over to the fence as she wrapped the towel around her waist. When she reached the fence, the flame was gone. Curious to what it was, she carefully shot up a small fireball of her own to see the result.

She heard someone move in the yard beside her and decided to grab a chair from their patio. She carried it to the edge of the fence and slowly stood up in it. As she began to peek over the fence she held her breath. As soon as she had her head over the fence, a pair of brown eyes coming from a boy her age were staring back at her.

"AH!" she screamed in shock and fell over from the chair, landing on her butt in her yard.

The boy next door snickered and then walked over to the door of the fence. He opened the door and walked over to Tara who was just starting to stand up. The boy was dressed in a red and black t-shirt with black pants. His hair was long, about down to his shoulders, and had two red streaks in it.

"Need help?" He said shortly as he held out a hand that had a fingerless black glove on it.

"Thanks." Tara said, taking his hand and standing up. When she stood, she noticed that he was about a half a head taller than she. "Name's Tara. We just moved in."

"Warren." the boy said. "And I know. I saw the moving van yesterday. So, what are you doing spying on your neighbors, kid?"

Tara looked up at him with a mixture of shock and anger, "First off. I am not a kid. I'm probly the same age as you are dude. And second, I wasn't spying."

"Then what exactly were you doing?" Warren said as he crossed his arms to wait for the answer, "Seeing if there was a welcoming committee?"

"You don't have to be rude about it you know." Tara said, getting defensive. "I just saw a flame come up and I wanted to see what it was."

"Why, you some kind of pyro?" he said back to her. "And I saw a flame from here too so how do you know it was from my house."

"I um," She started to say, "I did the one from here. I had a match and hairspray. I wanted to see how big the flame would be. And for your information yes I am a pyro and I'm damn proud of it."

"Didn't look like hairspray to me. Looked like a ball of fire." He said suspiciously, "Very small one but a fireball none the less."

"And what do you know about fire balls?" Tara asked as she glared at him, trying to read his mind at the same time. She ran into a wall as soon as she tried and looked shocked.

"Don't even try it girl." Warren said, "First thing my dad taught me when I got my powers was how to block a mind reader."

"But how did u?" she asked.

"I know when someone's trying to get in my head. And you were trying." He responded, "So I'm guessing you have powers too? Not too many of us live around here. You going to Sky High?"

Before Tara could answer, Warren suddenly fell down. He was knocked out cold. Demitri solidified right behind the boy.

"You almost told him!" Demitri said angrily at his sister.

"Demitri, you didn't have to do that." Tara said as she looked at her brother.

"Yeah?" he said matter-of-factly. "Do you have any idea who that is T?"

"Said his name was Warren." Tara said shrugging.

"Yeah, it is Warren. Warren Peace." Demitri said. "You remember when Dad went to defeat that guy named Baron Battle?"

"Yeah?" Tara said, "What about it."

"If The Commander hadn't shown up when he did, Dad would've been toast." Demitri explained. "Battle is Peace's Dad. His dad tried to kill our dad."

"What?" Tara said, "Seriously?"

"Yeah. He's in my grade, but you may have him in a few classes." Demitri said to his little sister. "T, I don't want you talking to him ok?"

"Ok. I won't. But what are we going to do? Just leave him passed out in our yard?" Tara asked looking down at the boy.

"No. I'll take him back." Demitri said as he disappeared and lifted up the unconscious Warren Peace.

Tara saw the fence open again and a few seconds later it re-closed and Demitri re-appeared.

"Come on. Dinner's ready." He said to her, "And Cassidy is here."

That Night…

"Tara! Stop spacing will ya?" Cassidy said as she threw a pillow at her best friend. "Have you even heard a word that I've said to you?"

"Huh?" Tara said as she caught the pillow. "Oh, sorry. I was thinking again. What did you say Cass?"

"I asked you if you were excited about tomorrow." Cassidy said as if the answer was obvious.

"Oh, yeah I am." Tara replied. "I've always wanted to go to Sky High ever since Mom and Dad told us about it."

"Me too. And guess what?" Cassidy said. "Mariette is going too! She finally got her powers over summer break and e-mailed me telling me how she just can't wait to go."

"Awesome!" Tara excitedly said. "We'll be the three musketeers again, just like middle school."

"Yep! And hopefully we'll have the same classes too." Cassidy said.

The rest of the night the two girls stayed up talking and laughing, watching movies and just goofing off. When it finally rolled around to midnight the girls finally drifted off to sleep.