16th October: Thursday
Today, in Xephos' opinion, was a very good day. School ended an hour earlier than usual and he had no classes with Ridge, who was now acting very strange all of a sudden. Xephos was heading for the door, when he realised that his father was dressed in normal clothing, not like the suit he usually wore.
"Dad…is there somewhere you're going?" Pyrion looked up from the newspaper he was reading.
"I need to see someone about work. You can take my car too school if you need to." Xephos had driven away from his house and headed towards the school. Pyrion waited until he saw Ridge leave his house and start going to school. He headed for the house and knocked on the big wooden door.
"Hello Mrs Vox, is Bebop here? I need to talk to him about something." Mrs Vox led Pyrion to the lounge room. Bebop was sitting on a black, two-person, couch. The light that shone on Bebop, was almost the same size and in a position right above the couch.
"Ahh! My good friend Pyrion. Have a seat, what's up?" Pyrion sat on the couch next to the muscular man. Bebop is a type of person who looks as if he is half cybernetic. It might be because he lost his arm in the battle of 1985, and built himself a cybernetic arm.
"Israphel is back." The great big smile from Bebop's face was wiped away and he grabbed the remote from the coffee table and turned it over. He pressed a button that was hidden inside the battery case, and the big light came down on top of them. The floor was sucked into the ground and the two men were sitting on the couch, looking into a room filled with computers and machines that are building and writing items. Bebop stood up from the couch and walked over to one of the computers and pushed away one of the machines that was typing up some code. He punched in some numbers, which brought up a picture of a white man wearing a suit. The image had red eyes and an upturned smile for a mouth.
"That mutated Albino-Creeper-man was supposed to be killed in the 1985 battle. How do you know he is back?" Pyrion looked really embarrassed that his 'partner in crime' had taken him to a secret room, before he explained how he had been given a hint of the appearance of Israphel.
"Well…it was kind of in a dream. I saw his bright red eyes and piercing white skin. But I also saw another creature. I saw his bright and empty, white eyes. But I could hear Israphel quietly asking the other being question, and he gave his answers in a typed form, like the letters were being typed into my brain" The two men continued to talk about the evil Israphel and White-eyed man
Xephos was now entering form, to see that most of the students were hanging around Sjin. Sjin was telling everyone about a dream he had the night before.
"I saw these two bright lights that looked like eyes, and a voice calling out to me to 'Join him'." Comments were now flying in all directions. It was Ridge who quieted everyone.
"I am now sending all of you the camping details" All at once, every ones phones went off. Xephos took out his phone, surprised that his phone hadn't gone off. Just as he was going to put it back into his pocket, his phone announced that he got a new text. 'The Vox Beach, just out side of the city. Bring food for everyone to share and bring 'drinks' for everyone. Hope you have fun. Xoxx.' Xoxx. What is Ridge trying to tell me?
Wood works with Sjin was great, as they both got their chairs done on time, and were both now heading towards the canteen, when they saw students running away, with Creepers and enders following behind.
"Looks like Rythian and Minty are having some fun." Xephos turned to Sjin and saw that his eyes were glowing a piercing white and his moustache was starting to moult from his face. Xephos grabbed Sjin's shoulders. Sjin turned his face towards Xephos and his face started to flicker from Sjin to a man that Xephos had never seen before. Sjin began to talk in a horse-echoic voice
"You will join us soon, Xephos" Xephos dropped Sjin to the floor and began to run away. But the Monster inside of Sjin was faster. Small purple particles surrounded Sjin, who was now face to face with Xephos. Sjin shook his head, and opened his eyes, to show Sjin's dark brown irises. The two students said nothing as they headed to the canteen
Back in Bebop's secret room, Pyrion was now clicking away at a computer, as Bebop was tinkering with something that looked a lot like a leg. Pyrion turned his chair and walked over to the worktable. He picked up one of the blue prints. As he began to read it, Bebop put down his welding torch and looked right into Pyrion's eyes
"My god-like powers don't keep me safe, I am only a demi god, just like my wife and my son, but my human DNA allows me to become prone to damage. This machine will become fused into my skin, and my leg will become invincible." Bebop picked up the metal leg and opened it to reveal that it was just a shell. He stuck his leg into the device and punched in a bunch of numbers. Clicking and clanging noises came out of the machine as it started to melt into Bebop's skin. When it was finished fusing, his leg became a pale grey colour, much like the metal he used to make the device.
"There is one way we can defeat Israphel. Your son, my son and many other children at my school have powers. Some are more useful than others; some I know can strengthen their powers. Here, give this to your son." Pyrion handed Bebop an envelope saying 'Needed for all of 4-D'
As Xephos was walking away from lunch and towards his next class, he saw Ridge out of the corner of his eye. To his surprise, Ridge looked like he had been crying. Xephos walked over to the soccer player and nudge him on the shoulder. Ridge didn't respond, so Xephos tried something else
"Hey Ridge, is something wrong?" Closer up, Xephos could clearly see that Ridge had been crying
"Nothing, it's really nothing" Ridge answered as Xephos gave him a stern look. Xephos hadn't noticed that he and Ridge had entered the male bathroom until Ridge had turned around, dropping his books to the floor. He then grabbed Xephos by the shoulders, and pushed him against the wall, causing the tall boy to drop his books to the floor. Ridge began to move his lips close to Xephos, as Xephos was trying to stay standing, as his knees were bent, because of the height difference
Xephos saw Ridge edging closer to him, and he pushed him away, causing Xephos to loose his balance and fall. Ridge bent down, balancing on his feet as he grabbed Xephos' chin. Xephos slapped his hand away, red with envy.
"What the fuck are you doing? You tricked me into following you into the bathroom, just so that you could KISS me? I'm pretty sure that I don't like guys in that way. And it is considered sexual harassment." Xephos yelled straight into Ridge's face. Ridge's smirky smile disappeared as he sat down in between Xephos' legs.
"I…just thought you were kissing Lomadia to make me jealous. Oh my God, I just tried to kiss you," Ridge was now actually crying.
Xephos eyes widened and he leaned into Ridge and collided his lips with Ridge's. It was strange because the rush he got from kissing Ridge was the same as when his kissed Lomadia, even better. Xephos felt more alive as he gabbed Ridge's waist, and pulled him closer. Both boys were now cross-legged, Xephos' legs around Ridge, and hands leaning on Ridges chest. Ridge had taken it as a ticket to explore Xephos' mouth with his tongue. With all his might, Ridge lifted Xephos without breaking their kiss, and pushed Xephos back onto the wall. Xephos began to comb his hair, and was in a trance, almost thinking that Ridge was Lomadia. He woke from his daze and immediately pulled his lips off of Ridge.
Out of the corner of his eye, Xephos could just see Strippin leaving the bathroom. Xephos jumped to his feet and ran after Strippin. He caught Strippin and pushed him onto his chest and smashing Strippin to the wall. Small specks of dust and brick could be seen as Strippin's back collided with the wall.
"What the hell did you just do?!" Xephos yelled into Strippin's face, in a deeper voice than usual. Strippin looked befuddled at the change in Xephos' voice. Strippin gulped and looked down at Xephos.
"You know how I made Lalna kiss Rythian? It's not just because I was proving a point, but I wanted Rythian to be happy. I use my powers for people who are too shy to 'come out'. When I change someone's mind so that they do what I tell them to do, I also look at the victim, or the kisser in this context and I see if they actually want them to be kissed. I could have chosen anyone for Lalna to kiss, but I chose him to kiss Rythian because Rythian likes Lalna. And I just did that with you and Ridge, because I know he likes you." Xephos released Strippin and looked as if he were starting to reduce in size.
An alarm went off in the bunker as the two men started to discuss each student's powers and what they could do to stop Israphel. Pyrion and Bebop rolled their chairs over to a screen.
"Oh dear, this is bad!" Bebop looked over at Pyrion with a puzzled look on his face.
"When I found out that my son grew at a tremendous rate, I realised that he would have a very strong power. The power to stretch and shape shift. I put a micro chip into his skin, that would warn me if his power become to strong, and here is the alarm" Bebop was still quite puzzled at the situation.
"But how have you programed it to alarm at my computer? We haven't been down here since Nina left." Pyrion looked up at Bebop for mentioning his former wife, NinaSerina.
"The signal goes to the micro chip in my arm, and bounces to the closest device that can tell me the presence of my son. It went here probably because my phone died." The two men began to tap away at the keyboard writing notes and letters for the students of 4-D
Xephos got home to his father in the kitchen cooking some omelette. Xephos walked up to his room as quietly as he could. So Ridge does like me. Or maybe Strippin was fucking with both of us. Why don't I feel so bad for kissing Ridge? Pyrion knocked on Xephos' door and walked into his room, wearing a red apron.
"Is everything okay? Did something happen at school that you would like to talk about?" Pyrion sat onto the feet of Xephos' bed and started to untie his apron.
"Nah… I just need to get my head around something. Like for one, I don't think I'm going to go to the camping trip." Pyrion looked away from Xephos. (Pyrion) Shit! Got to make up an excuse for him to go.
"Well, I guess it is going to be really awkward for you when me and my date come home." Xephos eyes widened as his father mentioned the witch that his father had fallen for. There was no way he was going to be stuck in a house with that bitch.