Chapter 10
Alex groaned slightly when she woke up and slowly opened her eyes to find herself in a med bed. She was confused at first to why she was even here until she felt a slight pain on her left-hand side and saw her shirt covered in blood. That was when she began to realize what had happened before. She slowly sat up and lifted up her shirt to find that the wound on her side was all bandaged up and her skin went back from a pale deathly-looking colour to their normal peachy colour.
"Man! How long was I out?" she asked herself.
"About two hours at the very least," a familiar voice said to her whom she knew too well and turned to her left to face that person.
"Hey Rae, how are you feeling?" Alex asked when she noticed her bandaged-up arm.
"Horrible! I've now got a cold for some reason," Raven answered while blowing her nose.
"Achoo! Yeah I think I've caught a cold as well!" Alex said after sneezing.
"Gibson thinks I might have caught it from those spikes which released some sort of poison since there was a small residue of black ooze," Raven explained while she was still blowing her nose. "He also said that you also might have caught that as well since there was some small residue of ooze on your shirt."
"Did any one of us tell the hyperforce that we were part-vampires?" Alex asked while getting a tissue and blowing her nose.
"Uh no, why?" Raven asked while looking confused.
"Cause I think it's time that we told them the truth about us," Alex explained while getting off the bed and slowly standing up.
"What! Are you crazy! What if they don't trust us!?" Raven asked, looking shocked.
"Who knows, they might or they might not, anyway, they wouldn't have helped us if they didn't trust us or else they would have left us to die or something like that," Alex said before giving out a small cough.
"Yeah I guess you're right, why don't we tell them together," Raven suggested while she also got out of the bed that she was in.
"Good idea, well let's tell them now before it's too late," Alex said while stretching herself up slowly.
Just then, the hyperforce and their friends came into the med bay just to check up on them.
"Hey you two, how are you feeling?" Chiro asked them, looking worried.
"We're fine, apart from this cold which is driving us insane," Raven explained while she and Alex were blowing their noses still. "How are the animals?"
"They're fine, they're all in the command room though they were all worried about you two," Gibson explained.
"Well as you guys can see we're perfectly alright," Alex said before giving out a sneeze. "Well, almost perfect."
"Well we're glad because we thought the poison that went into you two would do more damage, maybe even kill you," Chiro said.
"Well we don't need to worry about things like that since we've been through much worse than you guys," Alex said while blowing her nose. "As a matter of fact, we can't die from things like this no matter how serious it gets."
"What do you mean?" Otto asked while he and the other hyperforce were looking confused.
"Hey guys, I think it's time we told them what we are now," Alex said to her friends.
"Okay, that's fine with us," they said.
"Hey what are you guys talking about?" Nova asked.
"Antauri, remember when I said that I didn't believe in things like vampires, witches, werewolves and stuff," Alex said to Antauri while blowing her nose.
"Yes," said Antauri calmly.
"Well I actually lied about that; though this isn't the first time we've lied since this is what we always do whenever go somewhere new," she said apologetically.
"Why did you have to lie about that?" Nova asked.
"Because of what we are; we were afraid that if you knew then you guy wouldn't trust us," Raven explained to the hyperforce.
"Well what are you guys then?" Sprx asked.
"Well...we're part-vampires," Eddie said while he and the others had their fingers crossed.
"Yeah and part-witches and part-animals and part-humans," Katelyn said.
"Yes thank you Katelyn but we were hoping to take this explaining slowly and steadily," Amber explained to her while the others were groaning and giving their friend the 'now you've done it' look.
"Oh; sorry!" Katelyn apologized to her friends while the hyperforce (including Jinmay) were staring at them in shock.
"What!?" the hyperforce screamed.
"Impossible!" Antauri exclaimed, looking shocked.
"The last part-vampire that ever existed and that we ever knew of died many years ago!" Gibson explained, also looking shocked. "There are no more part-vampires left!"
"What do you mean no more part-vampires left!? Our grandmother was a part-vampire and she only died 48 years ago!" Amber explained while indicating Riley and Alex.
"And her sister, who was a witch died long before any of us were even born but not that long ago and she died of an old age!" Riley told them.
"Did you say your grandmother had a sister?" Antauri asked.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" Riley asked him while looking curious.
"If you guys are thinking that your two friends that are now dead are related to our grandmother and her sister; well I'm afraid you're mistaken about that because our grandmother was the fist part-vampire in the world and her sister was the first witch who then later on in her life became the greatest sorceress in the world!" Alex explained.
"Well I guess that Maria wasn't the only part-vampire left then," Otto suggested.
When Alex and the others heard that name, they gasped in shock.
"You knew Maria!?" Katelyn asked while the others were still in a state of shock.
"Yeah she was that part-vampire that we were talking about and that died along with her sister," Sprx explained.
"But that couldn't have been them!" Raven exclaimed.
"Why?" Chiro asked them.
"Because Maria was our grandmother," Alex explained while indicating her twin sisters.
"And Anna was our ancestor," Raven said while indicating her little brother Kyle.
"What!?" the hyperforce exclaimed.
"You can check that we're related to them if you like," Amber said.
"As long as it's not blood sample because I don't want another needle stuck into me again!" Alex complained.
"Well there is one thing we need to know, how can we be sure that you're telling us the truth?" Chiro asked Alex.
So without hesitation, Raven and Alex gently unwrapped their bandages to reveal their wounds which looked really discolored. Then in an instant, their wounds slowly started to heal themselves! The hyperforce watched in amazement as the two finished healing their wounds until it looked as if the wound wasn't even there.
"And there's more! Hey Eddie, throw a fire ball at us will you?" Raven asked him.
Eddie then created a massive fire ball with his own bare hands and immediately threw it at them without any warning! Before it made any contact with Raven and Alex, they extended their right hands, releasing a green shield that surrounded them, causing the fire to hit the shield, vanishing it in the process.
"Whoa! How did you two do that!?" Otto asked with awe.
"Simple, we both have this special power called the 'Dragon Power' which we inherited from Maria and Anna; you can probably tell by our birthmark if you've seen theirs," Alex explained to them while showing them her mark on her right palm.
On her right palm was a birthmark in a dragon shape but the unusual thing about it was that instead of a black or brown birthmark it was instead green! Behind the dragon was a cross.
"I thought that's what it was when I first saw it when we were heading towards the training room," Antauri said to her after carefully looked at the mark. "I was going to ask you but you became too upset after I asked you too many questions."
"Yeah, sorry that I shouted at you guys; I just didn't want you to know what I was at that moment," Alex explained, looking really apologetic.
"Your apology is accepted," Antauri said while smiling at her for which Alex smiled back.
"Well now that's all sorted out, are there anymore questions?" Amber asked.
"There is just one; what was with those staffs that you were just using in battle and where are they now?" Gibson asked them.
"Oh that's simple, we have these special necklaces which give us these staff when we want them and they vanish when we don't want them," Katelyn explained while showing them her necklace.
"Wow! That's beautiful!" Nova said in awe.
"You always like crystals don't you," Sprx said in his flirting accent but all he received was hit on the head with her tail. "Are you telling me that you like me?"
"Why I'm gonna...," Nova started saying while cracking her knuckles.
"Temper Nova," Antauri warned her in a calm but firm way.
"Hey she's a bit like you Raven," Kyle said since he noticed their similarities.
"Yeah I guess you're right but I'm mostly like that when you annoy me," Raven said to her brother.
"Only because you're so easy to manipulate and that your feet stink," Kyle said while teasing her in the process.
"You know what? I'm gonna put MY FOOT ALL UP IN YOUR...," Raven started saying while rolling up her sleeves.
"Okay, that's enough you two!" Alex said while separating them before they started a sibling fight.
"Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm feeling a bit hungry," Eddie said while rubbing his stomach.
"You're always hungry Eddie," Riley said.
"Oh by the way, where are all our stuff exactly?" Amber asked the hyperforce.
"There in the storage room and your ship is in the mechanic room; Otto will take you over there if you like," Chiro said.
"Thanks; oh by the way, are you gonna introduce your friend over there?" Alex asked them while indicating to Jinmay.
"Well this is Jinmay, she's an honorary member of the team; your friends know who she is but you were unconscious when I introduced her to them," Chiro explained to her.
"Well nice to meet you Jinmay," she then said politely to Jinmay while shaking her hand.
"Nice to meet you too; thanks for saving Chiro back their and I'm sorry that you got injured," Jinmay said while thanking her.
"It was nothing really; I'm just thankful that I'm a psychic and that he's okay that's all," Alex explained though sounded all stuffed up.
"Hey Alex, wanna help us get the stuff?" Raven asked her friend while she and the others (with Otto waiting to take them) waiting to see if she wanted to come.
"Yeah sure!" she replied while following them.
Once they left, the rest of the hyperforce began talking about them.
"So what should we do about them exactly?" Sprx asked the others.
"Knowing that Skeleton King will attack and possibly capture them, they should stay with us for their own safety," Antauri said to the team.
"Are you sure, I mean we've only known them for about five hours and for all we know they could still be holding more secrets about themselves," Nova explained.
"And what if they don't trust us?" Gibson then asked.
"Well I don't know you guys, I mean if they didn't trust us then Alex wouldn't have saved me from the formless," Chiro explained.
"Well I guess we could give them a chance," Nova said.
"Though the question is where are they going to sleep?" Gibson asked.
"We'll discuss about that with them later, for now, after they get their stuff, we can see what level they are on fighting," Antauri said.
"Are you sure you wanna do it now I mean come on, those two girls have been injured already!" Sprx explained.
"I understand but its best to see what fighting levels they are on now, that way we see who the strongest of them lot and would be more valuable to Skeleton King," Antauri explained.
"You don't seriously think that he's gonna try and use them against us are you!?" Sprx asked while he and the others were looking shocked.
"It's possible," Antauri gravely replied.
"Oh well, I guess we're gonna have to prepare the training room for them then," Sprx then said while he, Chiro and Nova walked out of the med bay towards the training room one by one until Gibson and Antauri were the only ones left in the med bay.
"Well might as well help them out as well," Gibson said while he too began walking out towards the training room.
"You know what Alex sort of reminds me of," Antauri then said to Gibson who turned around to face Antauri.
"Who?"
"Maria."
"Yes well she does have familiar stubbornness, anger and also a bit of secrecy like Maria," Gibson remarked.
"But she also has that same protectiveness, courage and strength like Maria," Antauri said.
"Well yes, that too; same with Raven since she looks exactly like Anna and had the same anger problems," Gibson said, now realizing it. "I can't believe why I didn't realize the strange similarities beforehand!"
"That's not all that puzzles me, why didn't Maria or Anna never returned to tell us that they were alright?" Antauri wondered.
"Maybe they know why," Gibson said while walking out and leaving Antauri alone in the med bay. A few minutes later, Antauri followed though was still thinking about the question.