Casper: I'm back with chapter two!
Dan: Its about time!
Runo: Be quiet Dan and let her talk!
Casper: Thank you Runo!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Bakugan only the OCs.
Inside Marucho's house…
Adel looked up and around as they walked through Marucho's huge house.
"Wow!" Devina said spinning slightly.
"Everyone has that reaction the first time." Mira laughed, "I know I did." She smiled.
Devina smiled back and looked up again.
…
When they got to the living room Adel herself had to stop and stare. "Huge!" Adel said without thinking, "It's a hell of a lot bigger that the bridge we were sleeping under last night." She laughed a little.
"What! You were sleeping under a bridge?" Alice asked walking into the room.
Adel jumped a little, "Ok, Just by your sent I know you are at least trustworthy!" Adel said standing upright.
Devina laughed, "First time I have ever heard you say that you would trust a human!" Devina teased Adel who bit on her finger, "Ouch!" Devina said when she got her finger back.
"Ha!" Adel laughed in triumph.
Most of the others laughed, except people like Shun, Keith and Gus who just smiled in amusement.
"I can tell you two are related." Julie giggled.
Devina shrugged, "You should see what Adel dose when she is around our other sisters! Noelle and Adel got into this huge argument once over something and the next thing I knew they were having a mud ball fight…and this was about three weeks ago!" Devina laughed at Adel blushing as she turned her back to everyone.
"You were going to tell them about you and your accident Devina." Adel muttered.
"Oh right." Devina said.
She recalled that day about ten or so years ago. " I was about 8." She said and told the story, "I was playing a game with Adel and Noelle, Alera was still a little girl then. We were playing kick ball and Adel had accidently kicked the ball off into the road. I told her not to run onto the road because she might get hurt so I went instead. I checked to make sure no cars were coming and I went to get it. I remember picking up the ball and waving at my sister. Then a screech and blood."
Adel continued for Devina, "Noelle and I freaked out when that happened. Noelle ran inside to get mom and dad. I ran over to help you. The driver had gotten out of the car and just looked down at us, like we were nothing but useless trash. He and said to me, "Next time make sure to clear the roads you little brats" and he got back into the car and drove around us." She muttered the last part and little, "I felt like nothing, like I should have been the one to get hit."
"Oh my god." Keith said.
Devina looked up at him, "So that is what you sound like!" she laughed.
Everyone else laughed as well.
Keith shrugged.
"Anyway. What did you want to know…uh?" Devina muttered looking at Marucho, "hats your name?" she asked.
"Marucho." He smiled.
"Right!" Devina grinned.
"Well, if you could come with me to my lab I could…" Marucho was cut off by Adel snarling. He realised what he had said, "Oh no I don't mean to do any tests I mean because." He couldn't finish the sentence.
"I trust them." Devina said with an even voice.
"What?" Adel snapped not looking away from Marucho.
"Please Adel. I know we can trust them, my instincts are telling me to trust them" Devina smiled at her sister and she calmed down.
"Um. Devina right? I hope you don't mind if I come to, I have some questions of my own." Keith said to her surprise.
Devina nodded and said, "Go ahead."
"I take it Gus will be going to." Ace snickered a little.
Gus frowned at Ace.
Adel looked at Gus and walked over, pinching his cheeks, "Smile would ya it's creeping me out." She said pushing his mouth upwards to make him smile.
Dan laughed at Gus who swatted away Adel's hands, "Leave me alone." He said.
"Lighten up Gus." Keith said smiling.
"But master Spectra." Gus went to protest.
"What the heck is a Spectra?" Devina blurted out.
"That's what my brother Keith goes by when he brawls." Mira said.
"Oh!" Devina raised her eye brows at Keith.
"Yes and Gus I told you to just call me Keith when I'm not wearing my mask ok." He smiled a little.
"Ok." Gus said shifting on the spot.
"Well, now that that's all settled, can we get going Miss Devina?" Marucho smiled.
"Miss Devina? Why the heck are you calling me a Miss?" Devina laughed a little.
At the lab…
Devina sat down in one of those swirly chairs, she spun around and around until she got so dizzy she started to fall off.
Keith managed at catch her and help he back up, "Be careful." He muttered helping her sit down again.
"Sorry! I just never get many chances to sit in those types of chairs and I just can't contain myself!" Devina laughed grabbing her head to stop the room spinning.
"That would be understandable." Marucho said siting down now. Keith sat down as well.
"Now what did you want to know?" Devina asked when she wasn't dizzy any more.
"First off, how do you change to wolf and human?" Marucho asked with a pen in one hand and paper in the other.
"Well, when you first learn to change, usually at the age of five or six, it is pretty painful. But over the weeks you begin to get used to it. Your bones change and your muscles change, but when you reach the age of about 10, the pain disappears all together, but come's back when you are I think at least 297." She smiled.
"297!" Marucho's jaw dropped.
Devina nodded, "Werewolves can live up to the age of 355 usually. The oldest one I have ever met though was only 311" she shrugged.
"Incredible." Keith mouthed.
Marucho quickly jotted down what Devina had said, "Do you know where you get the ability to change in the first place?" Keith asked.
Devina looked at him, "I have no idea. There are many rumours but I know all to be fake. My mother once told me that wolves had been sent to earth from another world, to protect the forests, and when a man would enter the forest without the promotion of the wolves, they would throw him into the lonely shadows of the woods never to come out again. But one day, a man bargained with the wolves to let him and the other people out, and in doing so, they would protect the woods from any other intruders by turning themselves into wolves." She said, "Well, that is what I remember at least." She said.
Devina saw that Marucho had gotten down every word she had said.
Back in the living room…
Del sat in the corner, legs crossed as she glared at everyone.
"She is starting to creep me out!" Julie whispered to Runo and Mira.
"Yeah, she is really scary." Runo replied.
"Why does she seem so angry all of a sudden?" Mira asked.
"Maybe because when Marucho said the word 'lab' she got the wrong idea of us, so she doesn't trust us anymore." Ace said from the other side of the table.
Adel shifted to her wolf form, her blue eyes piercing through Ace's back; he turned to look at her and jumped when he saw a wolf glaring at him.
Shun stood against the wall, he looked over at Adel, who shot him another warning look, "You know, if you don't trust us at all then why are you still here?" Shun asked. He walked over to Adel when she barked. Adel snarled at Shun, he knelt down not too far from her and held out his hand, his palm facing her.
Adel's eyes widened a little she took a single step forward and let Shun pat her on the head.
"See, you do trust us." He smiled, getting on his knees to pat her. Adel's fur was soft and silky. She barked happily when Shun scratched her behind the ear.
Adel shifted to human form and jumped up turning away from Sun, totally embarrassed by the way she had just acted.
Shun laughed a little, "What's wrong?" he asked.
"N-nothing!" Adel snapped when Shun placed his hand on she shoulder.
"You are so embarrassed!" Julie squealed.
Adel hunched her shoulders, like it was cold, when it wasn't. She didn't turn around, but she did say, "I have just never had anyone pat me before." Her voice was almost a whisper but Shun hared her.
"What do you think she said?" Julie whispered to no one in particular.
"Who knows?" Barron shrugged.
Shun moved his hand from Adel's shoulder.
Accidently Adel let out a small whimper, she slapped her mouth straight away.
Back in the lab…
"I just have to ask this question, you are in a pack right?" Marucho asked.
"Yeah." Devina nodded, crossing her legs.
"Then you must have alphas?" Keith raised an eye brow.
Devina didn't answer, she just nodded.
"Who are you alphas of your pack then?" Marucho asked.
Devina's eyes were filled with sorrow though she didn't show it on her face or when she spoke, "I am the alpha female. We do not have an alpha male." She said coldly.
"But don't all packs have one?" Keith asked, "I have done a little research into animals here on earth myself." He said.
Devina nodded, "My parents were the alphas before my mother passed on and my father decided to abandon us, I am the eldest, though one is only ever considered to truly be alpha after their 19th birthday. One also MUST have a mate or they to be considered alpha. I always believed in love, not arranged marriages." Devina spat out the words 'arranged marriage'.
"Incredible. How old are you?" Marucho asked.
"I will be 19 in two days." She said sadly, "My father said when I turn 19 he would come to see if I had found a mate, and if not, he would pick one weather I lied it or not." She almost cried then.
"What? How could he do that?" Elfin jumped out of Marucho's pocket and went over to Devina.
Devina looked at Elfin, "A Bakugan?" she muttered.
"Yes. Do you brawl?" Marucho asked curious.
"I used to a little. "Devina smiled at Elfin.
"Really? Then would consider brawling with me?" Keith asked.
Devina's attention shot to Keith who smiled at her, "Ok." She said.
"On one condition." Keith raised his hand, "If I win, you let me help you with this while alpha thing." He smiled.
"How could you help me?" Devina asked.
Keith blushed a little when he said, "If you haven't found a mate by the 19th, I'll pretend for you to trick your father until you do." He said and stood up.
Devina looked up at Keith and smiled, "Deal!" she said shaking his hand, "Oh but first, I might need my Bakugan." She said.
Back in the lounge room…
Adel and Shun had finally sat down and Adel told the others about her two young sister Noelle and Alera, "Noelle is a little gothic and Alera can never sit still." She said, "They are both complete opposites and yet they get along so well." She laughed.
"Adel." Devina said as she walked in with Keith and Marucho, "Do you know were my Bakugan are?" she asked.
"What? Yeah, why?" she asked.
"Keith and I are going to brawl." She smiled a little half smile that made her look slightly mysterious.
End of chapter two...
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