Cole

Wasn't sure if I was just hearing things or not but the noise was so loud I could hear it from just outside our apartment.

We lived just across from the street from Elena naturally but usually it was so quite...

But now the very ground vibrated it seemed.

We knocked on her door and she opened it for us to realize that the noise was music, and it wasn't really all that loud...

The bass was just REALLY high.

"Hi guys." She greeted, still so shy and polite even though she was practically yelling at us. "Come on in the air is fine."

Her humor was significantly better than Zane's...I chuckled. "Are you sure the bass cannon won't drive us back?"

She shook her hands. "No you're safe."

We all entered and the music was playing at proper volume but the kick was enough to blow you eardrums...

I myself was somewhat desensitized to this because my dad was a musician and artist of nearly every kind and for a while he had me follow in his footsteps.

Now music was just a hobby and being a ninja cop was my full time job...

And don't laugh because it is a legitimate thing...

We sat down on her couches and looked about awkwardly.

"How are you faring with...Alice?" Zane asked his sister. "Is she tolerable?"

Elena smiled sweetly. "Yes. She is very nice. Before this place she didn't have a solid place to stay, so she is very gracious and courteous as well."

Lloyd grimaced with disbelief. "I would hardly call this courteous..."

"I agree!" Nya stated.

Just then, down the stairs came a young woman, about eighteen or so, rocking out to the music over the speakers.

She had blonde hair and slightly tanned skin and she was wearing some of Elena's less elegant clothing; an earthy greenish colored shirt paired with some skinnyish khakis that showed off her figure...

Which I was happy to admit I enjoyed.

Jay smiled like a dork, waving at her. "Hey Alice." He called.

She looked in his direction and grinned. "Sup' lightning rod?"

He shrugged. "Eh. Cop stuff."

She stuck out her tongue. "Yucky."

She turned off the music with a switch on one of the nearby walls and posed against it.

"So the whole crew is here, huh?" She glanced in Elena's direction. "You weren't kidding."

She chuckled sheepishly...actually it was more like a bashful giggle. "No, they're right across the street."

The supposedly named Alice walked up to Zane rather quickly, causing him to move backwards a couple of steps.

"Well hello there, snowy." She greeted. "Arrest any innocent people lately?"

Zane rubbed his neck awkwardly. "Ma'am I am very sorry about that. The um...the officers who had informed me of you and your situation were...cataclysmically under-trained...and based on their bad judgement I made a mistake..."

She rolled her eyes and laughed. "Jeez I was just joking with ya." She patted him on the chest. "We're cool, just don't do it again...and if you freeze me again I will have your head."

Zane laughed back at her; it was one of those awkward laughs that he makes when he was watching a romantic movie...loud...obnoxious...and completely serious. "Haha. Okay."

She turned to Kai next. "So you are the pyro, huh?" She looked him up and down. "It suits you...and your hair."

He snorted. "Thanks."

"Who's the chick?" She questioned next, eyeing Nya.

"That's my sister Nya..." Kai said. "She was the one to drag us all here to meet and greet."

Alice smirked. "Pretty sexy. I will probably have to get your number later."

"Oh gosh..." Was Nya's reply.

Jay gawked at Alice incredulously. "N-n...no! You will not be getting her number later, she is taken by me."

Nya chuckled. "Calm down, Jay, she was only kidding..."

He nodded. "Right...right...okay..."

Alice stepped up to Lloyd, who stared at her with an odd look on his face.

They actually looked very similar to each other.

"Looks like we have a pair of soul twins in our midst." I joked.

She shot me a look. "No. I don't have any siblings. That I know of." She approached me, poking my chest. "And you are the almighty Cole Hence? Royal Blacksmith?"

I shook my head, sort of a yes and a no. "Not really...dancing and all that is really just a side thing..."

She grinned at me. "Then that means you are out of practice...and that means I could show you up on a dance floor."

I laughed once. "Baby, no one can out-dance me. I'm fabulous."

She looked me up and down, smirking. "Not nearly fabulous enough. You're too masculine to attract any men."

I saw Kai and Jay cover their mouths with their hands to stifle their giggles and I laughed again. "Pfff. Pretty funny...but I can play that game too. Because you aren't butch enough to attract any gals."

She shrugged. "Or maybe I'm just butch enough?"

"Touché...touché..."

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A.N. - Man...this chapter sucked. XD Idk I'm really just not too great at introductions so ordinary...So sorry I tried to get it over with so I could get on to the story. *cries*