Jesse was eating a piece of toast (not very original, but she had the holy grail of all things to spread on bread and stuff on it - Nutella - and this made it much better) when Ivor came in, discussing something very rapidly with Ellegaard and Harper.

"Oh, g'morning," and Jesse's lower arms waved a bit as she looked up from her toast. "Something up?"

Ellegaard yawned, covering her mouth with one hand. It was pretty obvious that the redstone engineer was NOT a morning person (also evidenced by the fact that one time Jesse had poked her in the morning to wake her up and the redstone engineer had thrown six redstone torches and a tissue at her in a hot panic). "Good morning, Jesse. Yes, we were..." cue yawn.

Ivor picked up from where Ellegaard had left off. "We were going to examine Ebony and Nariko to see if there were any... you know... oddities."

"Oh, and Aiden and the Blaze Rods."

"Yes, them too."

"And also give Steve and Alex what is commonly referred to as a 'checkup'," Harper added, her lips quirking up in a small smile, "just to check over them and make sure nothing's wrong with them. Did you want to join?"

Jesse kept munching away at her toast, but bobbed her head in a nod. "Sure, that sounds fine."

Ebony stood in a mostly white room. Jesse, Ivor, Ellegaard, Harper, Steve, Alex, and Nariko all stood behind a large table that was lying on its side, in case something exploded or something. The Blaze Rods were sitting behind the table behind the others, all shifting awkwardly as they watched.

"Okay, Ebony," Jesse called, reading off of Harper's clipboard while Ivor fiddled with the blood samples he'd taken from the two of them, Harper doing a quick checkup with Steve and Alex in the corner, "can you... uhh... breathe fire?"

Ebony stood still, before raising her shoulders in a shrug, face serenely blank. "I mean, I can try...?" she trailed off questioningly at the end, before taking a deep breath and exhaling sharply, like one would upon sighing loudly.

Nothing noticeable.

Ebony tried again a few more times, before shrugging and shaking her head. "Sorry- I don't think soooooo-" She'd started walking forwards, but her foot caught on one of the floorboards, her eyes widened, and she stabbed her hands out to prepare to catch herself.

FWOOM! A blast of purple fire shot from her hand and ignited the table they were all hiding behind. Ivor looked over his shoulder at Jesse's loud yelp as she recoiled and jumped straight into Ellegaard, who yelped in her own turn and fell over, before chucking a bottle of water at the fire and dousing it.

Ebony blinked from where she was now kneeling on all fours. "... apparently I can, never mind."

"Do you have wings?"

Jesse had barely even finished the sentence when she looked up and saw a pair of huge black wings unfurling rapidly from her back, the wingspan about 16 feet in total. Ebony blinked up at her wings, still serenely blank. "... I suppose so."

"Okay," Jesse checked the clipboard, accidentally elbowing Ellegaard to see said clipboard, "can you fly?"

Ebony hopped into the air a little bit and gave her wings a good hard experimental flap.

She proceeded to accidentally launch herself into the air with a huge gust of wind and slam her back into the ceiling, yelp, and land flat on her face back on the floor.

Ebony then proceeded to inform the group exactly how many swears the Ender Dragon hybrid actually knew.

"Uhh, okay, do these things mean anything to you?"

Jesse waved one of the Ender Crystals in the air. Ebony's eyes followed them, and she stepped forward, automatically reaching out to hold it, Jesse setting the crystal in her hand. Ebony stared for several moments, eyes glowing faintly, before the bruise that had started forming on her forehead from dropping from the ceiling to the floor was fading, fading... gone.

Jesse's eyebrow went up, and she glanced at Ellegaard to make sure that the redstone engineer had seen what she'd seen.

Except, well, said redstone engineer was a sleep.

Man, she really was not a morning person.

"Alright, Nariko, we're going to try a couple tests!" Jesse called, waving to the Witherstorm hybrid.

"... okay." And that was all they were going to get out of her.

"Ummm..." Jesse checked the clipboard, "how much do you eat?"

Aiden answered this question, sounding both amused and tired. "She ate three bagels, seven slices of toast, two apples, and a whole carton of milk this morning. Oh, and some yogurt."

"... I was hungry..." Nariko mumbled in answer to everyone's stares.

"Nariko, can you summon tentacles?"

"... what?"

"Tentacles. Like, big, black... tentacles," Jesse finished.

Gill applauded. "Wow. Best description ever," he joked.

Jesse smacked him.

Nariko tried for a good three minutes, her face going red as she concentrated until she looked like she was about to pop, but to no avail; nothing happened.

Hm, maybe it's a reaction? Jesse climbed out over the table and got into a fighting position. "Okay, Nariko..."

"Yes?"

"I'm going to try to fight you a little bit, just... do your best."

"Wha?"

Jesse didn't let Nariko finish, lunging at her-

She yelped as a heavy black tentacle slammed her into the floor. Ellegaard had flinched, Harper had jumped and bumped into Alex, and the three Blaze Rods were now in a small pile on the floor.

"Sorry! Sorry sorry!" Nariko looked panicked as she ran back over, the huge black tentacle that had formed snaking back out of existence, "that was not on purpose! Sorry!"

"Heard you the first time," Jesse joked, rubbing her back and suppressing a loud groan. Man, that hurt.

"Can you hover?"

Ellegaard had asked this, looking a bit more perked up now that Ivor had handed her an energy drink.

Nariko crossed her arms and stared at the ceiling thoughtfully, her feet slowly rising off the ground so that she was hovering in the air about three feet off the floor. "Mmm, well, I don't know... why do..." she trailed off upon seeing everyone's stares. "Why is everyone staring at me?"

Maya wordlessly pointed. Nariko looked down.

"Oh."

Nariko also apparently had a tractor beam. However, she did not know how to control it, and so for five minutes everything went quite odd as random items (including Aiden, Jesse, the table, and the clipboard) went flying around the room as Nariko accidentally started dragging them closer, realized this, panicked, and then the tractor beam would flicker out and drop them back to the floor.

Ebony watched all of this from her perch on the seat, tapping her fingers anxiously together. "Is this normal?" she asked Ellegaard.

"I don't know, we've never done this sort of thing before."

"... oh."

A/N: Lol xD

Blaze Rods are next chapter!

RQTC: Have you ever forgotten your phone/device and realized that you needed it? Because I will die without reading fanfiction or working on my friend's gift today... (cries)

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NoItsBecky: Yes, but I did say that action has a slow start. When I said 'a slow start', I did mean 'a slow start' xD

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