A/N: Wow, 3 reviews, over a 100 views and 2 favs. I feel like this is a great start. Be sure to send in your reviews. I will gladly answer any questions you may have. If I really like them, I'll gladly put them up in the A/N. this chapter is a little different. Its a look into one of my OC'S lives. I plan on doing one for each at different time. This time it's Felix.
Lord Demon: Your idea for a hero is a good one, but I find he just wont work with my stories for 1 reason. He is far too powerful. At TheDragonSaver's request, I'm not using any hero that is considered god level, and a Kratos based hero falls into this category.
Chapter 4: Not a bad day.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*
Felix opens his eyes, looking over at his alarm clock groaning, "Still too early." He reaches over to try and slap the snooze button.
*CRASH* In his attempt to silence the alarm, he accidently slaps it to floor, the clock breaking into little bits.
Felix sits up in his bed, rubbing his eyes. "Typical" Felix says as he gets out of bed, being careful not to step on the broken clock. He walks over to his closet to gab the broom he keeps in there to clean up the clock. After sweeping up the tiny bits and dumping the into his waste bin, he returns the broom back to the closet and then leans down to a box on the floor, opening it.
Looking in into the box, Felix silently thanks Chip and is coat as he stares at large assortment on alarm clocks in the box. He grabs one and plugs it in next to his bed side table. After setting it, he grabs a towel and heads off to the shower. A short time he comes back to his room, drying his fur. As he starts to get dressed, he looks around his room. There is bed, in need of making up, something he got into the habit of doing, as well as keeping his room neat, so his mother did have to bother to remind him. On the other side of the room there are his dresser and desk. There's not much on them, just a few books and his homework on the desk, and an action figure of "The Bat" on the dresser.
Felix shrugs his shoulders, looking around the sparse room, wishing he had some posters of Spider-Woman, but money had been tight lately, so he had been unable to buy one. Sure, he could ask Chip to help him get one out of his coat, but that just seems wrong to Felix, like stealing.
As Felix pulls on his shirt, he catches I glimpse of the ring on his paw and shakes his head. "why did I put this thing on?" he asks himself for the umpteenth time. He stares down the ring. It's made of some strange metal, is color a deep black, deeper than his fur, but it's not shiny, but dull, like it's pulling in the light around it. On top, there is a shape of a owl head with two small red stones in its eyes. As he looks at it, he feels like its staring back at him.
Finished getting dressed, Felix heads out to the kitchen of the small two-bedroom apartment. On his way past, he peeks into his mom's room, seeing her sound asleep. With a small smile, he quietly shuts the door and heads onto the kitchen to start breakfast. He puts on the coffee and starts to cook some pancakes. A short time later, he hears his mom start to get up, no doubt thanks to the coffee. As she walks into the kitchen, Felix places a short stack of warm pancakes on the counter, smiling. "Only dropped one today, a new record." He thinks. His mother walks over to the coffee machine and fills he mug with the warm brew and heads over to counter. She sees the pancakes and smiles at Felix.
"Good morning" She says with a groggy smile.
"Good morning mom" Says Felix says. "rough night?"
"Yes" his mom says with a grin. "these new hours at the office are rough, but it is worth it. With them I could quit my other job at the café. The pay is much better and I can spend more time with you."
"I have an idea, let's do something this weekend. Anything you want." His mom said looking at her son.
"I would like to catch the new Pirates of the Carrabin movie" Felix said quietly, not wanting to sound greedy.
"that's a great idea, and we can go out for lunch after. I've wanted to see that movie too. That Captain Jack Sparrow is kind of cute." She said with grin.
"don't be weird mom" Felix said with chuckle as he finished last pancake. As he got up to clean his plate, his mom said, "Leave it and go brush your teeth. I don't want you to late to the bus. And you don't want to keep Willow waiting" she said with a smirk.
"don't start with me mom, we are just friends." Felix said with a bit of a blush.
"Sure, I believe that." His mom said taking a sip of coffee. "Go on, get going." She waves him on. "I'll clean up when I'm done"
Felix heads off to the bathroom and brushes his teeth then goes to his room to pack. He packs up his homework into his bookbag and heads out the door saying, "bye mom, I'll see you later".
"Before sun down" She says back, reminding him of their agreement.
Felix heads down the stairs and out the front door, walking down block to the corner to catch the bus to Lionheart High School. As he gets closer he sees Willow is already there, waiting for the bus. She is wearing a beautiful yellow sun dress, Felix notices. She looks over and sees Felix walking up and waves at him.
"how are you doing today?" She asks Felix.
"Not too bad. I only dropped one pancake today" Felix replied with a smile.
"Hey, that's a new record, right?" Willow asks with a grin.
"yup" Felix says. "Hey, Willow?"
"yes, Felix?" Willow says looking down at Felix.
"I was thinking about something Spider-Woman said to me yesterday, and I want to talk to you and the guys about it. Can you let the guys know I want to meet up at the rink to discuss it with them?" he asked.
"Sure, but remember the rest of us have after school plans today. I got my judo club, Dan is working on something with the art club, Chip has science club And Frances has shift at Mystic Springs" She said, counting on her hooves.
"that's ok. I'll kill time till everyone is done. I'll find something" Felix said as the bus pulled up.
Later, at LHMS, Willow and Felix get off the bus just in time to see Dan pull up in his beat-up truck with Frances in the passenger seat and Chip get out of his dad's car waving good bye to him.
"I'll catch you guys later, I got to go turn in this assignment before class" Felix calls out to his friends as they start to gather in front of the school. He runs inside and gets down a few hallways before he trips and falls. "damn curse" Felix thinks before hearing the laughter. He turns around seeing Ronald Pawson, a Tiber wolf, laughing at him with his hind paw sticking out.
"You shouldn't be running in the hall with you luck, Jinx" he said with a sneer. "You never know what can happen. "
"And I'm sure you had nothing to do with this" Felix said picking himself up.
"You want to start something?", Ronald snarled, poking Felix in the chest and forcing him back.
"I'm not going to fight you Ronald" Felix said staring back.
"thought so." Ronald said, laughing "A jinx and a coward"
Ronald turned to walk away and ran straight into Vice-Principal George Heartwood, a large stag, spilling his coffee all over his shirt and pants.
"RONALD PAWSON!" Mr. Heartwood yelled, "MY OFFICE NOW!"
Felix turned away, a smile on his face and if he would have looked at his ring, the owl seemed to smile with mischief as well.
The rest of the day went well, except for lunch. Once again someone spilled food on him, but he was prepared for this. He had a spare shirt in his locker as this happened quite often.
After school, Felix walked down the steps thinking how he would kill a few hours till his friends were done with their activity's. Normally, when they wanted to meet up at the rink, Willow, Felix and Frances would take the city bus while Dan Would take Chip in his truck.
Seeing as it was nice day, Felix decided to take a walk. He got onto a bus headed to the city center. A few minutes later, Felix found himself at large park a few blocks away from the ZPD main building.
He started to stroll along the paths crossing the park just looking around seeing everyone going about their businesses and activities. Over on the grass nearby he saw a group of mammals doing yoga lead by a rhino. "huh" Felix thought, "I've never seen a rhino that flexible, wonder where he learned to bend that way"
A little later, Felix came upon a group of children playing. It seemed to be a game of tag, but it seemed a little different. "Aha" Felix realized, "they are playing heroes and villains. It's been a long time since I played that."
As he started to walk away, Felix hear what sounded like a sob. He turned around and saw on swing set a small bunny crying all alone. Felix walked over to find out what was wrong and as he got closer he realized something.
She was wearing a homemade costume of Spider-woman with the mask off.
"What's wrong?" Felix asked her as he sat down next to her.
"Donald won't let me the hero in heroes and villains" She sobbed pointing over to a small racoon running around in a red cape trying to tag the other kids. Felix looks over and hears him shout out "You can't escape me" as he roughly tags a small sheep.
"And why can't you be hero?" Felix asks, eyebrows raised.
"Because he said Spider-woman isn't a real hero because she's a girl, and girls can't be real heroes." She said with a big sniff trying to stop crying.
"Says who?" said Felix, eyes wide. He can't believe what he just heard. He looked the young doe right in her eyes and says, "that's just dumb. I think she is a great hero."
"really?" said the bunny.
"Sure. She even saved me once." Felix said with smile.
"Oh my gosh! What happened?" the bunny asked, no sign of tears on her face now.
"It happened a while ago. I was walking downtown, just minding my own business, when a huge grizzly bursts out of jewelry store with a bag full of jewels. I could not get out way and he tripped over me, dropping his bag and spilling his stolen goods all over the ground. He got up and looked at me and growled, 'you made spill all my jewels, I'm going to get you'. Just as he was getting ready hit me with his massive claws, you will never guess what happened." Felix said, getting into his story.
"What?" she asked, eyes wide, totally enraptured.
"Out of nowhere, in swings Spider-woman, kicking this grizzly right in the snout. She said, 'you're not going anywhere' to this mountain of bear as he got up. 'and who is going to stop me? You, tiny bunny?' the grizzly laughs and takes a swing at Spider-woman. Spider-woman just leaps over him and lands behind him. As soon as she lands, she shoots her webs at the bears legs and yanks back hard. The bears paws just fly out from under him and he lands on his face, hard. She then ties him up with her webs so he can't move. She then walks over to me and asks if I'm ok. I tell her 'I'm ok' and she says, 'that's good, I was worried for bit.'. we spent a few minutes picking up the jewels and just before the ZPD shows up, she waves at me and swings away." Felix said, finishing his story. He looks down and sees the young bunny's eyes full of joy from hearing his story.
"wow" She said.
"yup, and that's why she is my favorite hero." Felix said with smile.
"she's my favorite too. My mom made my costume, I think it's pretty great." Said the bunny.
"it is pretty great. It looks almost like the real one" Felix said truthfully.
The bunny looks down and says, "Donald still won't let me play"
"I'll play with you" Felix says with smile. "it's been a long time since I've played heroes and villains."
The bunny looks up, surprised a big kid will play with her, "Really?"
"sure" Felix says. "I'm Felix by the way" he said holding out his paw.
"Samantha, but everyone calls me Sam" she says shaking his paw.
"I think I'll call you Spider-woman" Felix says with a grin and jumping up. "and you can call me Doctor Midnight, and you will never stop me Spider-woman from robbing the bank" Felix says with a fake evil laugh.
"That's what you think, Doctor Midnight!", Sam shout jumping up from the swing to chase after Felix.
They play for about 2 hours till Samantha's mom calls out, "Samantha! It's time to go!"
Sam look at Felix sadly, "I got to go, my mom is calling me. Thanks for playing with me"
"Your welcome. I had a lot fun too. I hope we can play again." Felix said with a big smile.
"I hope so too." Sam said as she ran off towards her mom.
Felix picks himself up and checks his watch. He sees that its almost time to meet up with his friends, so he walks back to the bus and rides it back towards the hangout.
A little while later, Felix walks up to roller rink and puts in the passcode to front doors. He sees he the first one there so he turns on the light and heads over to lounge area to watch T.V. A little while later Dan and Chip show up.
"Hey guys" Felix say waving them over "How you guys doing?"
"We are doing great." Chips says. "Willow said there was something you wanted to talk to us about"
"Ya, but I want everyone here before I talk" Felix says, just before Willow walks in.
"Frances won't make it, He called me, and said Yax is making him clean the pool" Willow said
"That's ok." Says Felix "I'm pretty sure he will be on board with what I have to say"
"And what's that?" Dan said curious.
"I think we should try to be real heroes." Said Felix, surprising everyone.
"what are you talking about?" Willow said
"We all have gifts and we should try to use them to try to help others" Felix said standing up, "and even we don't use our gifts we can still help others. I learned that today. I'm not saying we should just put on costumes and track down villains tomorrow. But if we practice, I think we could a big help to the city."
"I'm in" shouts Chip, full of enthusiasm.
Willow looks at Felix with a small smile and says "ok, I'll help"
Dan looks to the side, presumably at Reginald and sighs, "ok, but only to shut you up Reginald. I'm not telling Frances though"
"I'll tell him next time we meet up" Felix said with a smile.
"Ok" said Dan as he got up. "Since I'm here, might as well get some training in, or ghost pants won't let me hear the end of it"
"I'm going to head home. Mom is getting off soon, and I want to meet her at home." Felix said as he walked to the door. "I'll see you all tomorrow"
"bye" everyone else said.
Felix walks thru the apartment door just as the sky started to turn orange. "Mom, you home?" Felix called out.
"Yes, honey, I'm in the kitchen, cooking dinner" his mom called back
"What are we having?" Felix said walking into the kitchen.
"Spaghetti" she answered.
"sound good, I'll get the plates out after I put my bookbag away." Felix said as he walked to his room.
Soon he and his mom were enjoying dinner, when she turned to Felix and asked, "How was your day?"
Felix thinks for a while and says, "The best I've in a while" with a big grin on his face.
Did anyone catch the South Park reference?
Next the Training begins. as always, let me know if you have ideas in the reviews.
until next time,
BE SAFE, BE TRUE. BE A HERO.
