The Supernaturalists 2 Chapter 2: The spot of something new

Chapter 2: The spot of something new

Gabby awoke to a new household and a new smell and surrounding. She felt no pain and no injuries. The smell she smelt was tempting and definitely fast food, it was the smell of pazzas cooking in a 70-bit digital heat oven. Smelling this she quickly tried to get out of bed, she was so hungry now that any kind of food would do but a pazza wasn't just any kind of food. She quickly started to get up from bed when a pain shook her body, the pain was so traumatic it was almost deadly; she could feel every part of her body cringing as if it was trying to get away from itself. The pain was so immense she found herself unable to move a single part o her body for around five minutes. The pain would have lasted longer if not for the multiple sedative pads that were strapped on different parts of her body, checking again Gabby noticed she was hooked up to a medical table all with different types of equipment and one of the liquids that she could recognize from her multiple times in the hospital, anesthesia, it was apparent that she would be going to sleep very soon. Oh well she concluded. Slowly but surely Gabby began to turn her head to her left of the bed. Each slight movement was torture. In her mind she was hoping for a scenic view, perhaps she had escaped Satellite City but no one ever escaped the "Big Pig" she was greeted with a large Pig Iron door. The door was not completely bare however. On the wall was a single mirror. She was thankful to be able to see her reflection. Luckily she didn't look as bad as she felt, as a matter a fact she didn't look bad at all, literally she was one hundred percent unharmed. This surprised her a lot. Didn't she just nearly die? Wasn't she unable to move her body? What were the effects of her attack then? She could see nothing wrong with her, she was still the same "street beauty" everyone knew her as; blond long hair, a slender and delicate young face with gray eyes fierce like the color of the moon. In all the study of her body she did notice something at first she thought it was minor, it was simply that her body looked taller. But then she looked at her self really long and noticed just what had happened, her breast were larger and fuller, her hair was longer than it had been before, her face more adult like and other features of her were simply heightened. She understood now she had aged, by 2 years or so she looked to be about 16 and she knew that she was only of 14 years of age. She finally understood it was that thing that had done this to her, that blue creature with the big eyes four arms and three fingers on each hand. It had drained the life out of her. She started to feel woozy. What was that creature? How could it do this, what was going on? Before any of these questions could be answered Gabby was forced into a sound sleep until further notice.

While Gabby was wrestling with the impossibility of her appearance (and sleep) the Supernaturalist had a more serious problem on their hands. They were all sitting at the kitchen table. A few major questions were going to be answered in the best they could tonight. What happened to Stefan's body? What attacked the new kid and why did they have problems seeing it? And finally was the new kid a spotter, and if so why could she see what they, spotters could not? Still minor questions lied on the supernaturalists minds such as what did Mona think of Cosmo now? Did Cosmo honestly mean to say what I thought he was going to say to me today? And finally, When will this beer stop tasting so good? Of course the more important question were to be answered first and the one on top of both the priority and emotions list was perhaps the most important, what had happened to Stefan's body? When the topic was aroused Mona's face instantly changed from seriousness to concern but no tears she was beyond that a while ago. "It was enough to lose his life his presence his persistence and his talent as leader but to also lose his body? That was the only thing we had left of him." Now she was upset Cosmo could tell simply by her face, the once beautiful calm Spanish girl was now enraged. "This is ridiculous" she said slamming her fist on the table "how could you let this happen Ditto?" Cosmo knew Mona really hadn't thought about what she said as a matter a fact Mona herself knew it wasn't his fault but in her rage it had just seemed to slip out. It was obvious now ditto was going to be upset.

"My fault?" Ditto asked "oh now of a sudden this is all my fault? How the hell did you come to that conclusion? You and Cosmo are just as much to blame. If you two hadn't been on your little date you could have saved him too."

"¡Estupido!" Mona yelled "it wasn't a date Ditto!"

"It wasn't a date Ditto." Ditto mocked sounding almost exactly like Mona. The DNA tattoo on Mona's forehead cringed. "Damned Bartolli Baby…"

"OK!" Cosmo yelled "stop the bickering!"

Immediately all attention was turned to Cosmo, except that of Gabby who was soundly asleep. Cosmo could see the pain and hurt in their eyes this was a rough topic to touch like tampering with burnt skin. Cosmo thought to himself try to be more like Stefan, think what would Stefan do? He remembered the time Mona and Ditto had, had the parasite argument. "Apologize" he said, a simple conclusion.

"Sorry"

"Sorry"

"Now" Cosmo started trying to sound like Stefan "I believe it is more important to concentrate on the cause of Stefan's death it is obvious that this is no one's fault." Now the matter seemed almost finished. "Ok, Ditto please share with Mona the logical conclusion we came up with."

Ditto still a bit upset pulled out the newest UMPC. The quality was stunning. "Ok" Ditto said "apparently there's a reason Stefan got this place for so cheap. Directly under this house there is a small fault line, the crafters built a few supports which will last us several more years, but we buried Stefan over a thin layer of earth it was only a mater a time until something like that happened."

"Thanks Ditto now…" Cosmo started "but that still doesn't explain this" Ditto cut him off placing the tombstone on the table. People still used tombstones in the future it just seemed to cultural to use something else. On the tombstone read the eerie words Here lied Stefan Bashkir. Mona seemed somewhat frightened that or disturbed. "I more accurately conclude that this was the work of the ghost of Stefan Bashkir."

"That's illogical" Cosmo said thinking back to his education in school. "Hah" Ditto laughed "just as logical as spotters right? They don't teach you about parasites in school do they kid?" Ditto did have a point there but still something in Cosmo seemed to speak out against it, it just didn't seem right. "I guess only time will tell" Cosmo concluded. The other two questions were still left out there as well.

"You think the new kid's a spotter?" Mona asked. "It's possible" Cosmo said "but I don't think she sees what we see. Something else hurt her I think, something. I couldn't see it clearly and after a while I couldn't see it at all I just shot at where I thought it was, luckily I hit it."

"Damn it" Ditto swore, "we got nothing accomplished today all we got to do was describe our differences and in the end it only hurt us." Mona looked hurt, under the table Cosmo felt her grab his hand.

"I just wish though" Cosmo said "that we could know what that kid saw, what attacked her?" All of a sudden his answer was met with a pained voice, it was low and hoarse like a torture patient.

"Big ugly blue monster, goldenly drunk off of life-force" Gabby could barely speak "then, then they were" Cosmo stuttered "parasites."