As the jeep got closer the two people on the tower saw Jade and opened the gates. As the jeep drove inside they could see a tall blue building that looked like of like a motel a bit. There was a one building that looked like the mess hall, another building that was likely storage, and a lot filled with jeeps and trucks. Past the buildings were cages, likely filled with animals. Jade turned the jeep and parked in the lot, the mail truck stopped next to a building. The hero's got out of the jeep and went to the mail truck to get their luggage. The truck driver waved to Eric and spoke;
"Hey Eric, you got package from home!" The man started walking to the back of the truck.
"I bet mom sent some snicker doddles!" Eric ran over excitedly to get the box.
He quickly grabbed the box, passing by Marcus to get to it. Marcus swore he saw an "a" at the end of Eric but he shook it off. After they grabbed their luggage Jade spoke;
"I'll take you to your rooms; you do have roommates by the way." Jade instructed.
Jade led them to the blue building; each of the doors had numbers on them like a hotel. They headed up the stairs and to the 2nd floor and Jade stopped in front of room 15.
"Marcus, Manny, this is your room. You two have two roommates. I think you two get the bunk beds farthest from the door. Here are your keys." She handed the two boys separate keys, each on leather string like a necklace.
"Frida you are in room 20, it's right on the end. You have two roommates, I do believe that you get one of the bunks closet to the door. Here's your key. If any of you need me, my room is 30 though I likely won't be there." Jade spoke fast and then left.
"Well, I guess I will see you two later…" Frida said reluctantly. She was sort of expecting to be a little closer to her friends, so she was a bit reluctant to leave them. But off she went to meet her roommates. Marcus was about to unlock the door, but the knob turned an opened, startling the other two. A tall young Chinese man was on the other side; he had pink eyes and long straight black hair. He had a silver medallion around his neck that had a cat's paw print craved in it. He was a little older than Jade, but not by much.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I take it you two are our new roommates?" The man tilted his head slightly; his hair had a purple shine to it.
"Um yeah, I'm Manny, and this is Marcus." Manny tried to recompose himself.
"Well it's nice to meet you, I'm Bingwen." Bingwen smiled and let the two in.
The room was bigger than most motels, and it looked a lot like a hotel room mixed with a cabin; the walls were simple wood and there was a simple hanging lamp. Next to the front door there was a bathroom. There was a table in the middle of the room with 4 chairs. In one chair sat a Polynesian boy, about their age. He had purple hair in a man bun, his eyes were bright yellow. He had a yellow and green gantlet on his right wrist. It had a purple dragonfly craved into it. He tilted his head at Manny and Marcus curiously. There were Uno cards sprawled out on the table.
"I'll be right back; I have to go check something." Bingwen quickly left, closing the door behind him.
Manny and Marcus were left there, it was a little awkward. The boy decided to speak up;
"Umm, hi, I'm Eloni…." The boy smiled shyly.
"I'm Marcus." Marcus smiled awkwardly.
"and I'm Manny"
"Bing forgot if he wrote down something about the big cat's vitamins today." Eloni added.
There was another awkward silence before Marcus spoke up abruptly;
"I call the top bunk." The black haired boy stated abruptly.
"What?! No, you can't just call that! We weren't even talking about it!" Manny turned quickly with an amazed/annoyed expression on his face.
"Yeah, I can."
"No you can't!"
"Just did." Marcus smirked.
Eloni chuckled at the two's bickering.
"Want to play some Uno?" He asked happily.
Marcus and Manny stopped their arguing and turned their attention to Eloni. The two shared a glance of agreement and nodded before walking over to the table.
Back with Frida.
Frida turned the door knob and opened the door. Inside she was greeted with the same room as her two friends. Inside a Chinese girl with short straight white and black stripped hair was dancing. The girl was about Frida's age. The girl stopped and looked at Frida abruptly. The girl had black eye shadow encircling her eyes, like a panda, it looked like there was a thin coat of gold glitter eye gel over the black. She wore a head band that resembled panda ears and a white tank top with a panda logo on it, pink shorts with black combat boots. She also had light pink lip gloss, and her right shoulder to her elbow was covered in tattoos of cute things like pandas and pink roses. She seemed like she didn't belong somewhat.
"Are you our new roommate?" The girl spoke in a friendly tone, she had an elegant voice.
"Uhh yeah, I'm Frida…" Frida snapped out of her daze of the strange girl.
"I'm Chen." The girl introduced herself and shook Frida's hand.
"And this is Samaira." Chen pointed towards the upper left bunk, where a girl appeared to be sleeping.
Frida didn't even notice the girl on the bunk at first, it startled her a little bit. The girl was Indian and had long bubblegum pink straight hair, and she was wearing shorts with a pink t-shirt.
"Is she sleeping?" Frida asked quietly.
"No, she's just too tired to sit up while she meditates. That isn't even her bed, but she spilled water on her's earlier, so she's lying on mine until her mattress dry's." Chen explained.
"oh..." Frida mouthed.
Sama spoke but didn't open her eyes.;
"Welcome Frida, it is nice to meet you." She had a smooth and calm voice.
"Nice to meet you too!" Frida smiled.
"So you got any powers?" Chen asked as she sat at the little table.
"Nope, but a baseball bat. What about you?" Frida responded.
"Just my fists and my ability to wink in the face of danger." Chen smiled proudly and chuckled.
"So…what can we do until dinner?"
"Well, I can teach you a few dance moves, or I can show you the animals on site?" Chen offered.
"Dance for now, it looks like it might ran and I don't want to get caught in a down pour." Frida responded.
"All right then, let's see what you got!" Chen grabbed her radio and turned it on, but not so loud that the neighbors could hear.
With Jade in the Lion enclosure;
"Jade, he isn't doing well...and nether is Feather..." An African lady in blue told the Lion girl.
"If that bastard hadn't shot him, then they would be...I'll get that son of bitch if i have to search the end of the world..." Jade growled.
The woman hugged Jade and patted her back in a comforting manner.
In Eric's room;
Eric pulled a dress out of the box and held it up, a very apparent look of discomfort on his face. It was a short pretty lacy dress with short sleeves, it was such a light pink it was almost white. He put it back in the box and laid back on his bed, he held a pillow over his face and groaned loudly in frustration.
