Chapter 9 Little people

While Raven was dealing with the Prince Devitt problem, Storm decided to explore every nook and cranny that she could. Stephanie had briefly given her some hu-man terms. The little room that held all the food was the kitchen and Storm found it held many treasures. Simple cookware fascinated her, the metal pots and pans that helped transform simple ingrediants into delicious food. Storm ran her fingers over all the other odd looking gadgets, she especially enjoyed what Stephanie had called a 'blender' A large looking cup with very shiny sharp blades at the bottom. Storm put several soft foods in the bottom and pressed the on button. Much to her delight the blender chopped up the food easily and effectively sprayed it all over the ceiling. For about twenty minutes she stuffed different foods inside the large cup, enjoying their demise and the different patterns the food made on the ceiling. Of course the only problem was getting the food down, Storm guessed thats where the knowledge of the Hu-mans came in, after all it was their gadget. After a while the blender stopped working and no matter how much she shouted or pushed the on button, it just refused to work.

Her second favourite Hu-man gadget, not counting the jug, was the oven. Stephanie hadn't had time to explain what the big hot box did, but Storm played with some knobs and found that the whole inside of the box lit up with snug warm air. She wasn't big enough to fit inside it, but she guessed that Raven would be. Stephanie had said that the climate changed on this planet, so perhaps during the cold months, this was how the Hu-mans kept warm. Not wanting to break it like she had broken the blender, she turned the oven off, excited to tell Raven what she had discovered. Storm explored every inch of the kitchen, not liking the freezer one bit, she stuck her hand in it, hoping for some memories of her cold icy home, the damn thing just wasn't cold enough. When she had finished in the kitchen, she went to what Stephanie had called the lounge. The soft couch that she planned on making her bed and an odd black box. Sitting on the top she found yet another square with buttons. Like she thought she pressed a couple of buttons, thinking it was the way to contact Hunter, the buttons did nothing and Storm just couldn't figure out what she was doing wrong.

"Oh Mallory! I will love you forever! Just hold on!"

Storm dropped the black buttons and pulled up her daggers, whipping around she found she was still alone. "Who's there? Identify yourself!"

"Oh Jesse! I love you but I can't hold on anymore, please raise our children right"

Storm put her daggers down and followed the sound of the voices, whoever they were they didn't seem to care that a fully trained and fully deadly Hunter was an inch away from slicing their heads off. She stopped in her tracks when she saw that the box had turned on, a very tall man with sandy hair and clear blue eyes, was holding onto a short woman with tubes coming out every which way. Storm waved her hand in front of the couple, ready to apologize that she had interrupted, they ignored her and went on speaking their off jibberish. Storm picked up the black buttons and pointed it at the couple, when she pressed it the couple vanished and giant beast roared loudly. Storm jumped behind the couch, ready to attack. She had no idea how to kill an Earth-beast but she would give it a shot. Storm peaked up from the couch, one of the skills she had learnt as a Hunter was everything had a weakness, all she had to do was find the Earth-beasts. Storm inched forward, something was falling on the beast, like a fine mist. People below the beast were yelling and screaming, the fine mist sticking to their skin, yet Storm didn't feel it, it seemed that only those near the giant beast could feel it. Storm kept getting closer, wanting to help as many people as she could but she couldn't let the beast know she was there, it seemed it's weakness was poor eyesight. Right before her eyes, a little girl fell to the ground, the beast a heartbeat away from trampling her, its large lizard-like head screeching feriously, rows upon rows of sharp pointy teeth gleaming in the misty light.

"I'll save you little Hu-man!" Storm jumped forward, her titianium-alloy dagger peircing straight through the beasts head. Instead of blood and bones, the black box fell backwards and started to whisp out defeated smoke. There was no sign of the little Hu-mans, she just couldn't understand this strange little planet no matter how hard she tried.

"Storm?" Stephanie called rushing through the front door, she heard the crash and thought that the young girl was hurt. Storm looked fine, she was standing over the tv with her weapons drawn.

Storm looked at her clearly panicked "I tried to save the little people from the beasty!"

"By killing the tv?"

"What's that?"

Stephanie pointed at the broken screen, several wires and plastic spread every which way. "Do you not have television on your planet?"

Storm just looked at her blankly. Stephanie couldn't help but laugh, she had told Hunter that the girls would need a little more help than what he gave them, Hunter clearly didn't understand the concept of 'new to the planet' Raven and Storm had never been to Earth, everything was new and even something basic like television was whole new ball game to them.

"Do you have entertainment on your planet?"

"Our planet has a name Stephanie, I learned the name of your planet" Storm folded her arms, still upset that she couldn't save the tiny people, and tiny people need the most help, at least those ones did, the beast was way too big for them to take on.

"De-zol-is?" "Am I sayin that right?"

"Yes"

"Ok, so on Dezolis, did you have fun things to do?"

"You mean like the penguin walk of Zosa?" Storm asked her face brightening, finally getting some of the foreign lingo down.

"You had penguins?"

"Giant penguins and yes, you paid twenty meseta and a giant fluffy penguin followed you around the town"

Stephanie had more questions but she thought it would be best if she moved on, "Well we don't have giant penguins, we have television"

"That doesn't help me cause I don't know what that is"

Stephanie struggled for the words but somehow she managed to explain that all the images she saw were different television shows trying to provide entertainment to different people. They were acting and no one was in trouble, especially the little people. Storm breathed a sigh of relief, she got the concept somewhat, but as a Hunter, she was just glad that the giant beasty hadn't trampled the little people to death. Stephanie texted Hunter, with Storm looking over her shoulder excitedly, Steph was getting them another tv and Storm found it amazing that Steph didn't even have to be in the same room as Hunter to talk to him. When her phone beeped Storm jumped up and down with excitement, Hunter had replied so fast it was as good as tele-communication. Which still wasn't working.

"Hunter said he would drop one off tomorrow night"

"May I look at your gadget? It's amazing!"

Stephanie wisely put the phone-book lock on it, Storm could explore every inch of her phone and press every button she wanted, she just couldn't send any messages or make any calls. Storm didn't care, her favourite thing about the phone so far was the cute little picture of three smiling girls staring at back at her, they looked so happy. Storm swiped left and found a whole another world of things to press. Of course her attention was taken when Raven slammed through the front door.

"Is Prince Devitt dead?"

"No. But I did rip an arm off and he has agreed to leave us be, but then again who knows with his kind"

"Prince Devitt?" Stephanie asked, her face going pale. She was well aware that Finn Balor used wrestle under that name when he was younger, but surely it couldn't be the same person.

"Yes" Raven said simply, "Do you know him?"

"I have a guy working for me who used to go by that name, but it can't be the same person can it?"

Raven placed her hands on either side of Stephanie's skull and projected the image of Prince Devitt into her mind, "Was that him?"

"Yes! Is he like you?"

Raven's eyes went livid, insulted that her great clan was being compared to those things. Storm stood in front of Steph protectively, Raven wasn't one to let her temped get the better of her but this was the thing that had killed her beloved Rune and now the Hu-man was being compared to it, it just wasn't a smart move. Raven took a breath, willing herself to relax, it wasn't Stephanies fault, she knew nothing about their history.

"No he isn't like us Stephanie. He's a Warrior. It's like the opposite of a Hunter, Hunter's are the light and Warriors are the dark"

"So Prince Devitt has said he would leave us be?"

"That's what he said but who knows with his kind" Raven shrugged "Hey Steph you're a Hu-man, maybe you can explain somethin to me"

"Sure, if I can"

"When I was in the woods with Prince Devitt, he did somethin odd and I'm hopin it wasn't some kind of ancient magic"

"Well Raven what did he do?" Stephanie asked, wondering what he could've done that made Raven so confused. Raven lent forward and placed her lips on Stephanie's just like Prince Devitt had done to her, only there was no spark.

"Did you just kiss me!?"

Raven shrugged, "I don't know, is that what he did to me?"

"Yes. And please don't do that to me again"

"Will do. So if thats all it was why did I feel the electricity?"

"You mean like a little spark?"

Raven nodded as Stephanie's face lit up with red joy, "He likes you! And the little sparks was your body tellin you, that you like him!"

Raven let out the most offended gasp, "I have never been so insulted!" Before she slammed the Hu-man through the wall she stalked upstairs.

"What did I say?"

"Prince Devitt killed her beloved Rune. She's still upset about it" Storm said softly, "I'll go and see if she's ok"