"Josephine, where are you?" my older brother, Theodore, yelled.
"I'm right here, Teddy." I ran down the stairs carrying a backpack and my equipment.
"You need to get out of the house!" Theodore put his hands on my shoulder as he stared me in the eye.
"But I want to help!" I complained.
"You can't!" he emphasized.
"Why? Why can't I help? I've been in this business as long as you have! I deserve to help you!" I shouted at him.
"Josie, please don't be difficult." he said.
"I deserve to help." But I couldn't get the last word out before a loud roaring sound came.
"Ted, I've found the bomb, and it's almost done!" my brother's friend, Jacob, called.
"I'm sorry about this Josie." Theodore ran towards a closet and placed me inside with my stuff and my cat before locking the door.
"Teddy! Teddy, let me out!" I cried yanking on the door.
I needed to get out. I needed to help them take down whatever it is they were taking down. I hated feeling like a damsel in distress and feeling useless. He knew I was like this, so why did he lock me in a closet?
That's when it happened. A loudboomrang out, and I clenched my cat before everything went dark and black.
"Josephine, wake up!" my aunt, Katelyn, shook my shoulder as she tried to wake me up.
"Five more minutes." I groaned wrapping my arms around my pillow hugging it to me.
"I can't have you on your first day be a mole like you normally are." Katelyn shook my shoulder.
"I said FIVE MORE MINUTES!" I raised my voice.
"Get out of bed!" Katelyn pulled on my arm.
"But the bed is so comfy." I whined.
"I need your help getting the house ready for tonight." Katelyn said.
I didn't want to get out of bed, and I knew Katelyn knew it, but she was stubborn: something she had acquired from my grandmother. I groaned as I finally lifted my head to meet my aunt's eyes and I glared at her.
"Get to work now." she ruffled my hair playfully before leaving.
She had always treated me in a teasing manner ever since I started working as a Hunter when I was eight. She was my mom's older sister by two minutes, and she was my favorite aunt of all time. The down side to living in her house was that it was big, but it had no one but us living there.
She told me she bought this when she was dating a guy a year ago, but he left her when he found out about her work. That's why when I am eligible to date, I will be the lone bird without anyone. Katelyn was having the neighbors come over for Sunday dinner, and it would be the first time, I was introduced to anyone.
I spent the day cleaning, cooking, vacuuming, polishing and waxing the floors, and making the house look appealing. There was no doubt that my family was extremely wealthy, and now since my mother and father were MIA, my aunt got the money. I spent from four o'clock to six in my bedroom with my door cracked open, my music blaring, a book in my hand, and a pile next to me.
I heard the doorbell ring from downstairs and Aunt Katelyn's footsteps as she walked calmly to the door.
"Sandy, hello. Welcome, welcome. Come on in." Aunt Katelyn's voice carried above towards the stairs.
"Hello, Katelyn. I brought my niece with me today if that's okay for you." a woman, Sandy, told my aunt.
"We have enough food to last months." Katelyn told her. "Josie, our guests are here."
I groaned before walking down the stairs to meet the family. There were two adults and two kids: a boy and a girl. The boy had brown hair and green eyes while the girl had strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.
"This is Josephine, but she goes by Joe." Katelyn introduced me.
"Hello, I'm Sandra, but you can call me Sandy. This is my husband, Carl, our son, Ben, and my neice, Gwen." the woman, Sandra, introduced themselves.
"Hello." I replied.
"Make yourselves comfortable. Dinner will be ready in twenty minutes." my aunt said.
I didn't want to stay in a room where I knew no one in there, so I went to the kitchen to help my aunt get dinner on the table. We busied ourselves getting serving utensils, plates, silverware, etc. and putting them in there respected places. Now, the hard part came with moving all if the food into the dining room.
"Can we get a hand or two in here?" Katelyn wondered.
"Ben go help them." I heard Sandy order her son.
"Yes, mom." Ben's voice replied.
Ben walked into the kitchen as I went to grab the turkey on its platter. I was having trouble when he took it from me. The three of us got the dinner platters on the table with help from Gwen who came in to help. I sat in the center next to Gwen and my Aunt on the head.
Ben sat on the other side of Gwen, and Ben's parents sat on the opposite sides of us.
"So, what's for dinner?" Sandy asked.
"Baked Turkey, roast beef, mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, potatoes, macaroni and cheese, corn, and banana bread or peanut butter chocolate chip banana bread which ever one you choose." Katelyn stated as we sat down.
The adults started conversation as us teenagers started piling our plates with food before eating said dinner. I was almost done when Sandy asked me a question.
"So, Joe, how long are staying here in Bellwood?" she asked.
"As long as I need to. The agreement was until my parents were found." I explained.
"It's rather strange how when the bomb went off that it didn't affect the closet, but everything around it and for a one hundred yard radius." Sandy commented.
"Well, I've experienced weirder things." I countered.
"How weird?" Ben asked saying his first statement in the conversation.
"There's a ghost attack every week in Amity Park. The only ironic thing about it is that the sign in Amity Park said, 'The Nicest and Safest place on Earth."" I told them.
"Well, we seem to have an alien attack every other day. Who went after these ghost?" Sandy asked.
"This ghost boy named Danny Phantom. That's what he called himself." I explained.
I would not have given away Danny's secret identity. I just gave them a name, and I made them work off of that. I would never do that to Danny like he would never do that to me, and my two biggest secrets ever. One only he knows while the other all three of my best friends know.
That's when my bracelet started blinking signaling me from Madelyn that something had happened. I looked at Katelyn for approval before I rushed out of the dining room and to my room where I pressed the button.
"What is it, Mads?" I asked her as he hologram appeared.
"There's an attack near some place called Mr. Smoothy. It's a them problem, but a you solution if you catch my drift." Madelyn said before hanging up.
I quickly got into my outfit of a leather jacket, a red tank too, blue ripped jeans, a scarf over my mouth and nose, a beanie covering my blonde hair, and combat boots. I grabbed my equipment from my locker before using my jet-black to fly to Mr. Smoothy. I saw the burgzak appear as a normal brunette person with sandy, dust clamped together like clay surrounding them where their feet should be.
I groaned seeing the creature attack the innocent people down by the fast food place.This was easy as long as no one would just stand there and wait. I took my stunner before shooting it repeatedly until it was weakened. I was about to get my blasters, but I saw fire wiz past my head towards the burgzak.
It grew talons and stakes around itself covering it's arms and chest area. It was officially angry, and I had the fire wielding idiot to thank for that. I ducked behind some trashcan before seeing some sort of tree alien with red leaves on its back. I was extremely good at my job, but I hated when someone who had no business hunting this catastrophe.
I sighed seeing the alien keep throwing fire at it not knowing it's anger was increasing.I took my stunner and blasted the alien away before blasting the monster on repeat before all of the stakes went away. I took out my blaster and went to shoot it when the burgzak's Sandy clay morphed into tentacles, and it started to wrap itself around the tree alien.
"A little help here!"
I saw a blast of mana attack the creature, and nothing happened to the burgzak. I took my blaster cannon (it looks like a rocket launcher), and I hit the monster. When the blaster canon hit it, the burgzak exploded in sand before connecting together once more.
The burgzak roared with a fiery passion before flying away in a black cloud. This was the first time I had let a monster leave without getting captured and all I had to thank was that alien and that mana wielding person.
*
I had made it back to my aunt's house, and the adults were still talking, and I don't think they noticed I was gone. I picked at my food taking bites every so often. I noticed that Ben and Gwen were done with their dinner and my aunt and Sandy were talking to one another making plans for something.
"How about you two take her to the mall in a couple of days? You guys don't have anything planned that I know of." Sandy said.
"Okay, Aunt Sandy." Gwen said.
It was settled then. I would be spending tomorrow with a couple of people I hardly knew, and I had nothing I could do about it.
A/N: So that is thefirstchapter of Alienated. I hoped you like it. ShouldJosephinefind out about the omnitrix early on as they tell her, make her wait until later, or should she find out about theomnitrix, but Ben, Gwen, and Kevindoesn'tknow she knows?