Chapter 2
"Um, uh, hi. Rex, I mean I'm Rex." he said, completely hypnotized by her striking eyes that faded from eton blue to light sky blue were framed by massive eyelashes, adorable freckles, flawlessly sculpted red lips, and anime-like hair blacker than the night.
Words poured out of Six's mouth faster than he could think, "Seven, I missed you so much, where have you been, I was so worried about you, did you know we were here, how did you know about Providence?"
Seven grinned a stunning smile revealing a perfect set of dimples, that Rex was instantly jealous of. "Don't worry about me Six, besides I can take care of myself." she replied stoically.
"I know, Junior." Six said cockily. The fabulous grin disappeared of Seven's face and was met by a ferocious glare.
"You say that one more time.." snarled Seven.
"I know, I know, I was just messing with you…Junior." Six said with a smirk.
Seven devised a look that would scare the crap out of the devil, before making a sharp right turn, slamming Six into the side of the car.
Rex bursted into laughter and Seven's arrogant smile returned. "Real mature Seven." Six said stoically, readjusting his sunglasses, " real mature."
As they drove through the jungle Rex got the nerve to ask, "Why doesn't Providence try to find us?"
"On this side of the island there are strange magnetic fields, and energy waves that mess with their instruments. Also, it'll be too misty to see where their going, all of that combined makes their vehicles malfunction." Seven stated without emotion.
"How about us?"
"Well, clearly not!" Seven replied, tossing a loose strand of long black hair from her eyes that Rex really wanted to touch.
They drove deeper into the jungle; sloshing through streams, powering through dense vegetation, and speeding through a deep tunnel in the rock. They emerged in a small valley with a massive banyan tree with an enormous canopy in the center. Beyond the tree line was a strip of white sand beach with cliffs on each side, and a small cove built out of stone. They pulled up to a small cobblestone fence. Seven pushed a few buttons on the car's panel and several booby traps revealed themselves. She drove up to the massive tree and stopped on a rock circle, re-set the traps, and it lowered into the ground like a elevator and came to a small anti-chamber. There were glass windows that showed the roots of the tree and a flowing river on the other side. also, all over the walls were massive monitors that were obviously security cameras and thermal view of the entire valley.
Six and Rex climbed out of the car and Seven pushed a few more buttons on the screen. Then the car de-built itself into a bracelet on Seven's wrist. Rex looked around the underground garage and marveled at all of the features. Then they followed her up a black lava rock staircase, that led them into to the basement on ground level which had several rooms and a patio/garden, there saw several flower and fruit trees around them and some exotic birds flew over them. Seven walked up to a wooden spiral staircase. From there they walked up to a cosy living room with an incredible view of the ocean and sunset. It had two halls on both sides of the living room.
Seven took a deep breath in before saying, "Home."
"Wow." Rex said, gazing around the lovely tree house.
"Six, how long do you want to stay?" asked Seven.
"I guess we could stay maybe a week or so." responded Six.
"A week! I could stay here forever!" shouted Rex.
"Alright, I have two extra bedrooms in the hall to your right, there is one full bathroom over there, and one on the left hall. I sleep in the bedroom up in the loft. The training room is downstairs and also in the basement, and there is a door that leads out to the beach. And when you finish choosing your rooms, I'd like you to meet someone. I'll be down on the beach."
Rex smiled, "You got it!" Then raced into one of the rooms, "Dibs on this one!"
Six shook his head, and walked over to one of the rooms,"Seven?"
"Hmm?"
"Thank you."
"Anytime."
"Oh and what'll we do about our clothing?"
I know someone that'll help us, they'll be here tomorrow." and with that, she opened the sliding doors and leapt off the balcony into the forest.
(five minutes later)
Rex and Six easily found the back door and walked down a small foot trail to the beach. They saw Seven doing the tree pose in yoga, with her arms down, her long black trench coat thrown aside along with her long thick black boots(I'll explain what they look like later). She had on black short cut offs, a tee shirt that hung of her her shoulders with sleeves that were loose that flowed to her fore arm, a black tank top, and her black hair in two french braids that trailed down to her knees.
"Uh, Seven," asked Rex. "Who did you want us to meet?"
"Alright, cover your ears." she said.
"Why?"
Seven made a ear-splitting high pitched whistle. Rex yelled in pain as he covered his ears, along with Six. Rex thought he was going to pass out when she whistled again. Then she stopped.
"Seriously? Why didn't you warn us?" asked Rex.
"I tried." she replied then took two steps toward the forest and closed her eyes as if listening intently. Her eyes flew open as glistening, muscular, colossal yet slender, black horse galloped out of the jungle. It reared and whinnied vigorously. Then bolted up to Seven. She stroked it's Arabian-like muzzle. It nuzzled her back.
She muttered quietly to it in Latin, "Heus, facile puer. Ibi meus equus. Sum hic."( Hey, easy boy. There, there, my horse. I'm here)The horse responded by giving her a deep guttural nicker. "Rex, this is Sable, my horse. Six you remember Sable right?"
"Of course, how could I forget the horse that tried to kill me." Six said stoically.
"SIX!" Seven cried angrily. They horse snorted and flattened it's ears against it's head, then seemed to glare at Six.
"Cool. Nice to meet you Sable." Rex replied. Sable raised his head and nickered and took a step towards Rex. "Sable, says hello." translated Seven. "Sable turned EVO a few weeks ago."
"Really, how can you tell?"asked Rex.
"Two reasons, during the night Sable began to scream, I raced down to see him and he had to bird wings sprouting from his back and he start to…"
"I can talk now!" shouted the horse eagerly.
"Sable, I was going to tell them."
"Yeah well, I beat you too it!"
"No way," Rex said spellbound.
"This is so awkward." said Six.
"I guess you could say that." said the horse.
"Can we see you fly?" asked Rex.
"Um, I okay, just don't laugh, Seven..? he said.
"Coming." Seven answered.
Two black pegasus like wings grew from Sable's black each wing about ten feet long. Seven threw a leg around Sable's back in front of the wings. The two galloped towards the ocean, wings extended, they began to flap elegantly before they soared into the air. They climbed high, circled, and dived. Sable fluttered back down in a couple of minutes landing with poise and grace.
"Wadya think?" asked Sable as Seven slipped down off his back and his wings retreated.
"Incredible." Six crossed his arms and Rex nodded.
"Uh huh, sure, you're just saying that because Seven is right here." snorted the horse.
Seven slapped the horse on the neck,"Stop it you."
Whatever, I'm gonna be on the cliffs if you need me."
"Yes, you do that," Seven scratched Sable's ear before he trotted off.
Rex waited before Sable was out of hearing range before talking, "He's really cool y'know. How long have you known each other?"
"For as long as I can remember, we know each other better than we know anyone else in the world."
"That's awesome, I wish I had someone like that." Rex said sadly.
"I'm going to go back to the house, leave you two here, alone." Six said turning.
They watched him leave before Seven sat down on the sand.
"What are your hobbies here?" asked Rex.
"Well, I do a lot of things actually. I like to ride Sable around the coast, I do a lot of surfing, I paint daily, and I practice my fighting and powers all of the time. I'm assuming Six told you about my powers."
"Yeah, he did…. I hear you're the best fighter around."
"I'm okay."
"Please, you're number Seven, you're like the Seventh best killer ever!"
"Yeah so."
"Come on. Stop being so humble. Let's see what you got."
"Alright, but I don't want to hurt you." Seven said standing up.
Rex stood, "I'll be fine. Now Seven… Thrill me."
"Powers or no powers?"
"Definitely powers, it's all I got." Rex said.
"How 'bout this, you get your powers and I need mine I'll use them. Let me get my weapons."
Seven used her super speed to grab her stuff. In a flash she was back with her knee high fold over boots on. There was a bow over her chest and quiver of arrows on her back. A katana hung at her waist and she had a the disc Six had described in her hand.
"I'll start on the defensive, you come at me with all you got, nothing less."
Rex smiled cockily before forming his smack hands throwing a punch at Seven. She moved lightning fast, easily side stepping as Rex stumbled past her. Rex spun on his heel reforming his hands into his fun chucks. He swung them at her spinning one around in mid air. She effortlessly avoided them with grace. Rex smashed one onto the ground missing her greatly. She flipped into the air landed with one hand on the ground, standing up straight, delivering a precise kick to Rex's nose. She then nimbly flexed into a one handed round off and landed in a half split.
From there Seven swung her extended leg in a circular motion making Rex fall over backwards, his machines braking apart. He rose slowly and painfully wiping the blood from his nose, then realized he didn't see Seven. He felt a jab in a specific place on his back before collapsing to his knees. Seven was back to back with him, she gripped him as he fell, her arm around Rex's neck backwards and squeezed. Her arm choked Rex and his body went limp, he started coughing while everything went dark. When Rex opened his eyes he saw Seven on top of him pinning him down with a sword to his throat.
"You know, we really have to work on those combat skills." she said cockily.
"You didn't even give me a chance," Rex choked out.
"You asked me to give you it all, that's what I precisely did."Seven said releasing Rex from her iron grip. She helped him up.
"You are really good, why aren't you number one?" asked Rex.
"Two reasons, I have a nice personality, and One was an incredible fighter." Seven also added, " And I was also his favorite student."
"I challenge you to a rematch," Rex dared. Seven raised an eyebrow. "But go easy on me this time." Rex added.
"If you really want one, I'll gladly oblige. And Rex this time don't go easy on me because I'm a girl. I want you to beat the hell out of me if you can." Seven stated stoically.
"Sounds good to me." Rex said.
Rex built his boogie pack and flew high into the night sky. Seven pulled out her bow and aimed for the motor part of the mechanical wing. Rex shot a missile at Seven aiming carefully. She tilted her shoulder 90 degrees making the missile fly right pass her and she released her arrow making it fly straight into Rex's bladed motor. It backfired and exploded making Rex slightly loose altitude, from there Seven took out her disc threw it slicing the wing of Rex's boogie pack in half making him free fall about 30 feet. He reconstructed his feet into his sky slider( Rex's hover board) and descended easily. The disc flew back to Seven's hand and she re-aimed. Rex circled around and created his Bad axes. Seven put the disc on her thick white belt and took out her double sided katana. Rex landed at full sprint axes held at his sides. Rex charged up to her and she blocked his deadly throws. He brought them down above her and she baseball dove out of the way.
"Alright Rex, let me shed some light on the subject, literally." Seven said rolling up her sleeves to reveal an incredible glowing pattern that looked like curing lines on Rex that faded, only these ones didn't fade. They matched on both arms. Her mythical aqua glow lighted up the beach. Rex again charged her and instead of using her sword she deflected his blows with with streaks of light by just waving her arms in the air. Her eyes glowed and flickered with blue sparky energy. Blue streaks of light appeared in her hair weaving it's way through her braided hair. Rex then formed blast castor, and lashed out at her like a whip. It only managed to grab her ankle Rex sent blue lines of electricity down the whip but it didn't to seem to phase her. Seven grabbed hold of the whip and sent her own bolt of electricity up the cord. Rex screamed in pain as electricity surged through his limbs. She released the whip as it crumbled.
Rex finally stood again this time full of adrenaline. Rex formed his B.F.S. and created Rex Ride racing at Seven with newfound energy. As Rex got close to her she disappeared into nothing. Rex froze and listened for her trying to locate her. He felt a force slam him into a tree with raw power. Rex then felt and sharp bade at his throat again.
"I win, better luck next time," Seven said calmly, "But, you have some real potential. We'll start on balance first, can you surf?"
"Nope."
"I'll teach you tomorrow. Come on let's head back." Seven released Rex and he fell to the ground.
The two walked back to the tree house together. They entered the house to see Six observing pictures on a table with his back to them. Seven held a finger to her lips and walked silently over to Six. Her hand moved silently over to his neck. She pinched him in a well know pressure point. Six let out a small yelp jumping into the air. Rex burst into uncontrollable laughter as Six pinned Seven to the floor by sitting on top of her. Rex stared in awe as Six lets drop of saliva dangle from his mouth almost touching Seven's face while she screamed crazily. At the last moment he sucked it back up.
"JUNIOR! Never do that again or next time I won't be so easy on you!" Six growled.
"FINE! Get off of me!… Chicken!" Seven grumbled back.
"Devil child." Six remarked, "Sorry you had to see that Rex, Seven knows how to push my buttons."
"I thought it was hilarious! But I didn't expect to see you retaliate." Rex said with a smile.
"Well, I'm going to retire for the night, see you in the morning," Seven yawned, "feel free to help yourself to the fridge."
Seven walked away. As soon as she was out of range Six asked, "So what's you first impression on the Seventh most deadly person on the planet?"
"She's incredible, really, really, breathtaking." Rex said without hesitating.
"Try not to fall for her." Six said stoically.
"Trust me I won't."
Six nodded before walking off to his room.
But Rex wasn't so sure he could keep that promise.
Sorry for that corny last line. But really hoped you liked it. Thanks for reading