Prologue: Elements of Surprise
"AH!! GET IT OFF ME!! GET IT OFF ME!!" After a continuous good minute and a half of trying to catch their friend so that he'd calm down and they could get whatever he was screaming about off of him, Tethys could only roll her eyes and glare at Lee.
Lee grinned sheepishly as it was a small mechanical bird that had latched onto his head the previous minute and a half ago.
"Thanks for wasting a minute and a half of my life," Tethys muttered darkly as Colby examined the thing curiously. It moved just like a real bird, and looked like one too, except for the fact that the mechanical looking beak and beady black eyes kind of gave it away when you looked at the thing up close.
"Wonder who it came from?" Colby ignored the fact that Lee was nervously trying to hide behind him as he peered over Colby's shoulder at the same time.
"Should we really care?" Tethys drawled, uninterested. Truthfully she had a gnawing feeling in the pit of her stomach that whatever it was, they should leave it alone.
Lee just rolled his eyes. Being friends with an empath was no fun sometimes.
Colby poked it and the mechanical bird squawked in what seemed to be an annoyed type of way.
"This bird will now self destruct in 8 seconds. Have a swell day!" Said a very pleasant woman's voice, as if she was really wishing them a good day, and not counting down the time to blow them to dare I say, smitherines! Colby looked up, panicked completely.
"You idiot! Throw it away!" Tethys hissed, plucking the thing out of her friend's hands and chucking the bird into a near by man hole that just happened to be open for some odd reason.
"Come on!" Honestly! Sometimes I wondered if Tethys was actually the only smart one out of the bunch! She shoved the other two to pull them back to reality as they booked it across the street.
BOOM!!
However, this is hardly where the story starts.
Who knew that the people that I was trying to kill would actually become my friends? Oh, wait, never mind, I still try to kill them anyway… After all, they're the only ones who know my secret… And I intend for them to take that secret to the grave!
