Chapter 1: Friends
AN: Alright this one is a long one due to the characters introduced and the backstories. I hope you enjoy.
Bold= Author
Italics= Thoughts
Regular= Speaking
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my OCs and the story behind this fic everything else belongs to their respective creators and companies.
3rd person
Julio began to drive away from his house to where his sister was which was thankfully not far. He had plans to meet up with some friends later today so he wanted to hurry up and drop her off. He soon reached a red light and while he was waiting for it to turn green his phone rang. He quickly put it on the speaker setting so he can drive and not wreck due the light turning green a little after.
"Hello." He said.
"Hey Julio." A bubbly voice.
"Hey Jen." He answered a smile forming on his face. "What's up?"
"Just want to call ya and see what your up to." She answered.
"Oh nothing much just picking my sister up from her friends house." He said.
"Is it the one who has a crush on you." Jen said teasingly.
"Yep." He sighed.
"Oh come on she's only a year younger and she's actually pretty cute." She teased.
"Well, yeah she is but I don't know her at all and you know I'm not interested in dating anyone." He said chuckling.
"I know that but you never know. You could end up meeting a girl you really like." She said.
"If it happens I'll be sure to let you know first, Jen." He promised her.
"I'll hold you to that." She giggled.
"So all of us still going to meet up at the arcade later?" He asked changing the subject.
"Yep then we're heading to the movies." She said excited.
"What are we watching again?"
"Guardians of the Galaxy Volume Two." She answered.
"Oh yeah. Man I'm excited to see that movie," He said being a avid fan of superhero movies.
"Me too!"
"Let me guess… you really like little Groot don't you?" He said smirking.
"Can you blame me? He's so small and cute and I love him!" She squealed in happiness.
"Okay calm down. Oh I'm almost there see you later." He said seeing the house.
"Okay bye." She sang.
"Bye." He said hanging up before pulling up and parking the car.
Julio's POV
I quickly texted my sister telling her I was outside and got out of my car and walked to the door. I knocked and it was answered within a couple of seconds by a girl my age. She was very pretty with dark red hair pulled into a ponytail that went to her waist and amber eyes with pale skin and stood at about 5'3. She had on a maroon long sleeve and black shorts with white socks that went up to her knees.
"Oh hey Julio here for your sister?" She asked. This is Charlotte she's one of the most popular girls in my school and unlike the stereotype she's actually really nice to people and one of the few people willing to help without reward. We weren't exactly friends since we don't talk outside of our families but when our families do something together like dinner we typically hang out.
"Yeah." I said walking in. At that moment my sister and a girl very similar to Charlotte came in only a bit shorter and had lighter hair came down as well and immediately blushed upon seeing me. She was wearing a bright green t-shirt and blue shorts. My sister resembled my mother in the fact she was beautiful and fair skin but had hair like mine and bright green eyes like my father. She wore her favorite red hoodie and denim shorts with brown knee high boots.
"Hey sis. Hey Val." I said hiding my discomfort at Val's blushing. She gave a small hello causing my sister to giggle at her best friend's shyness.
"Hey big bro." My sister said. Her name is actually Michelle in case you're wondering. "I'm ready to go."
"Cool. See you two Saturday for that whole game night thing." I said to Charlotte and Val. "Let's go"
"Bye Julio and Michelle." Charlotte said.
"Bye." Val said still red.
We walked towards the car and got in and slipping on our seatbelts we took off heading home.
"So Val looked pretty cute blushing." Michelle said smirking.
"Shut up." I muttered.
"What? You have to at least agree to that." She said causing me to sigh.
"Fine she was cute but like I've told you a million times I'm not interested." I said not taking my eyes off the road.
"Oh c'mon. Do you like Charlotte or something?" She said. She was the town matchmaker and had constant success when figuring out who liked who but she was frustrated she couldn't find someone I liked.
"Nope. Like I told you I don't like no one besides Charlotte's dating Scott remember?" I pointed out causing her to pout.
"What about Jen?"
"She likes Ben remember?" I pointed out.
"Grrr…I'll find someone." She promised.
"Listen I'm thankful you want to help me find someone but can you stop for now? I'll find it on my own and if I need help I'll come to you." I said as we stopped at a red light.
"Have you heard from dad?" She asked.
"No. Don't worry this isn't the first time he hasn't called in awhile you know." I pointed out.
"Yeah. Must be hard being a leading scientist." She sighed. What she means is that my dad was one of the most brilliant minds around. He had built many things ranging all the way to worldwide. He had built various things that help people ranging from vehicles, robots, and most famously an exo suit. He never built any sort of weaponry for the army because he wanted to help people not hurt them. "But he probably doesn't care as long as he helps people.
"Yeah." We drove in silence the rest of the way and when we arrived and went inside I was surprised to see a friend of mine sitting on the couch watching TV. He was about 5'11 with brown hair and dark skin with bright blue eyes. He was very muscular and could probably kick my ass. He was wearing a brown jacket with a white undershirt and blue jeans and simple white sneakers. This is Jase a close friend and the best football player at our school along with being captain.
"Jase." I grinned as we walked toward each other and fist bumped. "What are you doing here?"
"Figured we'd hang out for a bit till we head to the arcade." He replied. "Hey Michelle."
"Hey Jase." She said before heading upstairs to her room.
"So what do we do till then?" He asked.
"Zombies?"
"Zombies."
One hour later
"Come on dude! NO!" Jase yelled as I died.
"Damn it! We had a horrible start." I sighed.
"Yeah me dieing early didn't help." He sighed as he pulled out his phone. "Shit dude we have to go."
"Oh yeah. Let's go." I said getting up and grabbing my jacket. "Mom I'm heading out."
"Okay be safe." She said from her room.
"You walked right?" I asked Jase and he nodded. "We take my car then."
"Cool. I love your car." He said as we walked outside and got into the passenger side while I took the driver seat.
"Yeah you make it quite clear when you begged to drive it a couple of weeks ago." I said dryily.
"I didn't beg."
"You were on your knees saying "please senpai" hell Kia recorded it."
"She what!?"
"Yeah she recorded it."
"I know she's evil but damn!"
"That's what you love about her."
"Yeah true."
"So Jen still trying to hook you up?"
"Yep and my sister."
"Hey you'll find the right girl eventually."
"That's what I'm trying to tell them."
"Well Jen is your best friend, hell I'm honestly surprised you two didn't end up dating."
"We did, remember for like two months?"
"Oh yeah."
"Yeah both of us figured we're better off as best friends."
"Yeah it was pretty weird now that I think about it."
"Yeah she's like a sister to be honest." I said shrugging. "Eh well she likes Ben now and he's a good guy so I'm happy for her."
"Yeah she needs to make a move before someone else does." He said before he noticed something. "Oh we're here."
I parked in the parking lot and spotted our friends waiting outside an arcade. There was two girls and one guy and they waved us over.
"Bout time." A girl with dark blue uneven hair. She was pretty (but don't tell her I said that) with dark eyes, ghostly pale skin and stood around 5'6. She had on a black jacket with a dark blue tank top and ripped black jeans with black boots. This is Kia our friend who is known to be a very evil and terrifying person though she can be caring if she considers you a friend. She is also Jase's girlfriend.
"Hey they are right on time." The other girl said. She had jet black hair that fell to mid back pulled into twintails, dark blue eyes, pale skin and stood at about 5'3. She had on a sky blue pullover sweater with a white skirt that went to her knees along with socks that went to her knees as well and white sneakers. This is Jen my best friend since kindergarden. She's a very sweet person that can get along with anyone, hell her best female friend is Kia which says something.
"I know but they are usually the first people here remember?" Kia pointed out which was true we are normally the first to arrive and wait for the others.
"Hey they can't be early every time." The guy said. He had blonde hair that was carefully combed and brown eyes that screamed intelligence and wore black framed glasses over them with tan skin and was my height. He wore a blue vest over a black long sleeve and khaki pants with polo shoes. This is Ben, Jen's crush and the smart one in our group not that we're dumb or anything like that it's just that he's REALLY smart.
"So everyone here?" I asked as Kia and Jase hugged while Jen hugged me and planted a kiss on my cheek. She does that as a friendly gesture by the way not anything past that.
"No we're waiting for Tea." Ben said.
"Oh so she decided to come?" Jase asked as he wrapped an arm around Kia's waist.
"Yep she said she's almost here." Jen said.
"And I'm here." A voice said behind me causing me to jump. "Ha ha got you."
"Yeah you did Amy." I chuckled as I turned to face a Asian girl with a wide grin on her face. She had dark black hair almost blue with matching eyes, yellow tinted skin and stood at about 4'11. She wore a bright pink long sleeve and white pants with pink and white sneakers. This is Amy but she also goes by Tea since she as an unhealthy love for it and is the overly excited, pink lover and gamer.
"So ya'll ready to go and play?" She asked.
"Yeah let's go." I said so we walked in and went our separate ways with Jase and Kia going together to lay a fighting game. Jen and Ben went to play a racing game while Amy went to play DDR. I decided to go play an arcade shooter and was playing for a good amount of time when I noticed something that infuriated me.
"Please stop and give me my toy!" A small girl pleaded as a couple of guys my age held a stuffed animal that was clearly won at the prize counter.
"Come on shorty. Come on." One guy cackled held it just out of her reach.
"You want it right? Then get it." The other said.
"Please. I won it." She said about to cry.
"Hey back off!" I said walking towards them.
"Oh and what are you gonna do about it?" The guy with the toy said and I recognized him as Daniel a local football star and of course bully. He was about 5'10 with brown hair, blue eyes and tan skin. He wore the high school letterman jacket our school gave the players and blue jeans with white sneakers. He's a total jerk and overly confident despite the fact Jase was clearly the better player.
"I'll make you." I growled. Things were clearly gonna break out into a fight when a familiar voice interrupted.
"Daniel." I turned to see Jase beside me and immediately Daniel scowled. "Give the girl the toy back or the couch will hear about this."
"Fine. This was getting boring anyway." He said giving the toy to the girl who looked happy and walked off with the other guy following.
"Thank you misters." The girl said before running off.
"Jeez I hate him." I growled.
"I know but don't be picking fights dude especially with him he has a very big grudge against you from when you insulted him." Jase said placing a hand on my shoulder. "And if you do get in a fight remember I got your back."
"Thanks it's just you know full well why I hate him."
"Dude don't go thinking about that. We're here to have a good time." He pointed out.
"Yeah you're right." I said smiling.
"Now come on racing time." He said and we went to go play a racing game.
Time skip 4 hours later
"That was really good." Amy said as we walked out of the movie theater. "Groot was so cute."
"I know!" Jen cried.
"That was pretty funny at times." Ben said.
"Yeah. Glad to see that it kept the comedy." I commented.
"If this was good can you imagine the Spider-Man movie." Jase said.
"Dude you know I'm gonna watch that." I said excited.
"Of course he's your favorite comic character of all time." He replied.
"You know it." I smirked.
"Oh my mom wants me back." Amy said. "Bye."
"Bye." We said and she went to her car.
"So you heading out with Kia right?" I asked Jase.
"Yep we're gonna go hang out for a bit before I head home." He responded.
"Alright see you later." I said heading to my car.
"See ya." He said as he and Kia went to her own car.
"See ya Julio." Jen called as she and Ben went to their respective cars.
"What time is it?" I thought to myself and saw it was eleven.
"I gotta get home!" I said as I pulled my seatbelt on and started the car. I began to drive back but I soon noticed someone trying to get a car to stop. It was a girl and looked like she needed help so I stopped and parked near her.
"Do you need help?" I asked.
"Yes I need a ride home my friends ditched me." She said and I felt sympathy for her.
"Alright. Do you live far?" I asked.
"Not very but it would take me awhile to get home." She responded and I decided I should help her. After all this wasn't the place to be out by yourself late at night.
"Alright hop in." I said unlocking the door.
"Thank you so much." She said as she got in. She was really pretty with soft features, white hair, blue eyes like spring water, creamy skin and about Jen's height and age. She was wearing a simple white shirt with a black jacket over it, jeans and white sneakers.
"No problem." I said. "Where to?"
"I'll point out where to turn and go." She said. "I'm Tiara by the way."
"Julio. I think I recognize you from school didn't you transfer around Thursday?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's been rough." She sighed. "I made friends with complete jerks."
"Sorry for that." I said.
"Take a right here." She said and so I did. "It's alright I just need to find the right friends."
"Yeah. Maybe I can introduce you to friends of mine." I suggested.
"Really?" She said brightening up.
"Yeah you seem nice from what I've seen." I said. "Plus it's hard not to get along with them so I have a feeling you'd fit in."
"Thank you." She said smiling. "Take a left."
After a few more minutes of driving, directions and a bit of small talk we arrived at her house.
"Thank you again." She said before pulling out her phone. "Can I have your number?"
"Sure." I said and told her. She put it in and gave me hers. "I'll text you tomorrow and maybe we can hang out."
"I'd like that." She said before getting out and heading out the door. "Bye."
"Bye." I said and she shut the door, went to her door, opened it and went inside.
"Well today was a good day. Had fun, watched an awesome movie and made a potential new friend." I thought to myself before looking at the time seeing it was almost midnight. "Shit mom's gonna kill me."
10 minutes later
"Mom I'm home." I said and she walked out of the kitchen with a glass of water.
"Why are you late?" She said calmly.
"I would have been here but I had to help a girl who goes to my school get home." I answered truthfully and she sighed.
"You and always helping people. just like your father" She said. "Well you're not that late so I'll let it slide this time but try and be home sooner. Those gangs are getting worse."
"I know. I'll be home on time next time." I promised. It was true. Gang violence got more violent and shoot out with the gangs and police got worse due to turf wars. This wasn't even considering the powerful ones. "I'm getting to bed."
"Oh tomorrow I need you to head to your father's lab downtown early in the morning." She said before I went up the stairs.
"Why?"
"There is a package there for his personal lab there according to a worker there."
"Alright. I'll stop by." I said as I went upstairs and got ready for bed before gathered my sleeping clothes which consisted of a red t'shirt and black basketball shorts and heading to my bathroom in my room to shower before heading to bed.
I should probably explain the gangs. You see a lot of gangs have popped up lately most small but still dangerous and a huge one known as the Red Venom popped up and are known to kidnap people for ransom or messages to fear them. They were the most powerful gang and cops were afraid of losing several officers due to them having insane firepower. It's even being considered for the National Guard to intervene. Thankfully no one we knew were killed but it still didn't help the situation and fear the city has.
I turned off the shower and got dressed then began to brush my teeth before heading off into bed checking my phone to see a text from Tiara which surprised me. It said she was just confirming this was me and I quickly answered yes. She responded with a okay and a good night and I said the same minus the okay part. I plugged my phone on the charger and switched off my lights before getting under the covers and soon fell asleep.
3rd person downtown
"Understood." A familiar female voice said revealing it to be the woman from before. She was dressed in a black suit with a short skirt and heels. She was speaking to a security guard in the lobby of a building.
"Yeah I'll inform you anything arrives." He said.
"Good. I await your call." She said before walking out of the building to a parking lot where a black SUV with tinted windows was was waiting however before she could get in two men appeared and pinned her arms behind her back.
"Hey baby where you going'?" The man holding her questioned while the other had a gun to her head.
"Please leave me alone!" She pleaded scared. "Don't kill me!"
"We won't. We just want some fun then we'll let you go maybe not fine but alive."
"Oh god no." She said as they dragged her to an alley.
"God won't help you." He said as he began to laugh.
"You're right but I will." She said all fear gone and replaced by the coldness seen before and stamping her foot on his causing blood to flow and release her while yelling in pain. Before the one with the gun could react she had grabbed his arm twisting it and a snap was heard causing him to drop the gun while screaming in agony but before it hit the ground the woman caught it and pointed it at the men and saying in a dark cold voice. "Now die."
Two gunshots were heard and she walked out perfectly calm and fine with no emotion the gun in hand and soon tucked into her jacket. She pulled out a set of keys and unlocked the door and entered before pulling out her phone.
"I've informed the staff and security about the package." She said.
"Good." A male voice said revealing it to be the man from before. "Bring me the weapon as soon as you get it."
"Yes sir." She said before hanging up, turning on the car and driving away.
AN: Well this is the first real chapter and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I liked writing it. Now we introduced quite a bit of characters that will play a role one way or another whether it be this story or another one. And yes I'm doing a sequel.
Now romance is gonna be low maybe some fluff moments for Julio but no sort of dating will occur till the next story and the most you should expect is some blushing or little hints.
Now it's back to my other stories where I have decided to spend equal attention to my stories and update a chapter at a time for each of them. Maybe I'll do more than one depending on the length of the chapters but I plan to update them evenly if I do.
Also thank you Anom for your review I appreciate your review and compliments and I also hope you stay interested in this story because I promise I have plans for this story.
This is SSJC J and I will see you next time on Predator: Birth of a Hero.