Evans-Thompson Apartment.
"Guess what, crew?" Crona jumped onto the single couch, while Mako, Gray Star, and Hikari occupied the other couch.
"They finally made beef jerky flavored gum?!" Gray Star's face transitioned from a bored look to an excited expression. Crona looked confused. "Wh-what? No. Tonight, at Deathbucks, my band got a gig. And I'm going to be the lead singer along with lead guitarist." Crona leaned back.
"Woah! That's so cool!" Gray Star and Hikari said together in unison.
"So what song are you performing?" Mako reached over for some popcorn.
"Losing My Religion by REM." Crona nodded.
"Never heard of em; or the song." Mako shook his head.
Crona laughed. "Of course you haven't."
"Will there be a lot of people?" Hikari asked.
"Should be. It's some thing going on there." Crona replied.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Hikari turned to Gray Star.
"Great minds think alike." Gray Star reassured Hikari that they were on the same page.
More investigations.
The four arrived at Death Bucks, Luke, Kyle, and Chris rushed their way too Crona. "Great, we got to go back stage." They pulled him over.
"There's a back stage? This place is tiny." Mako raised his eyebrow.
"Oh, I'm sure they found a way." Hikari snickered.
Hikari sat down on the couch as Gray Star and Mako followed. Hikari spotted a familiar face..that was Jordan, the girl who was all against her for dating Paul. She just glared at Hikari.
Crona adujusted the microphone as Luke, Chris, and Kyle followed him on stage.
"YEAHHH! CRONA!" Gray Star stood up on the couch screaming. Hikari and Mako looked alarmed at her while everyone was staring. "What? I got excited." Gray Star sat back down.
"'Sup Death City! We are the Mistaken Shadows. We're going to play a song for you tonight!" Crona yelled through the microphone.
"You're so cute, Crona!" The ladies yelled.
"All you ladies out there are cute." Crona spoke.
"Ahhh!" All the girls fan-girled.
"Okay, while Crona does his thing, we gotta think of a plan." Gray Star whispered, as they found a place to sit.
"I've already written a detailed plan on this piece of paper." Mako took out his wallet and pulled out a folded pice of paper. "We just got here, how can you think of a plan?" Gray Star crossed her arms.
"I've got the brains, unlike you." Mako smirked back at her.
"Oh yeah? Well, I'm stronger than you." Gray Star flexed her biceps. She was overly confident in this situtation, with the "oh nothing could go wrong" attitude, but Mako had different ideas.
"Guys! Guys, now's not the time." Hikari aggressively whispered, she looked left to right observing the area, making sure no one heard what Gray Star and Mako were bickering on about.
Music started to play, as Crona was ready to show the world-er, at least the Cafè his skills. As the music was playing, Hikari, Gray Star, and Mako noticed Jordan was pointing into another room, as a boy and another girl nodded. They walked into a room that said "Employees Only." Except the suspicious fact about that was they were certain Jordan and her buddies weren't employees.
"Guys, are you thinking of what I'm thinking?" Mako's eyes followed the little groups whereabouts. Gray Star and Hikari's eyebrows narrowed, as Mako nodded and they followed the two.
They were about to enter the room. "Alright. I'll keep watch while you and Gray Star see what's going on." Hikari stood beside the door.
"How are we going to contact each other?" Gray Star asked, but Hikari is still smart, so she would have a plan to back this up. "Resonate with me, and I will give you guys instructions." Hikari used her talented resonation skills to her advantage.
"Alright. Take my hand." Gray Star fist bumped Hikari. "Soul Resonance." They said in a firm tone. Mako raised his eyebrow. He was a little bit jealous that Hikari and Gray Star already knew how to resonate, while him and Crona have been practicing, and still aren't skilled like those two. Probably because Hikari is already a Grim Reaper, and Gray Star is super strong.
"Ready, team?" Hikari asked Gray Star and Mako. They both nodded in confirmation. Mako and Gray Star tiptoed inside the room, which was actually a hallway.
"Damn it, how do we know which room they entered in?" Gray Star sounded agitated, but Mako's eyes were skimming around the room. "Maybe you can listen closely to each door?" Hikari's voice spoke into Gray Star's mind.
"Aha, we can climb in those air vents." Mako pointed to the ceiling, he noticed one of the tiles was crooked. "Hmm, we need to find a ladder." Mako was observing the atmosphere, as he was doing that, Gray Star sighed and said "Upsie daisy!" She took a hold of Mako's leg and thrusted him upwards to the vent. Mako stuck his head outside. "Or we could do that!"
"Ah, great, now I have no way to get up." Gray Star couldn't jump that high, and there was not anything in the hallway. "Here. Take hold." Mako transformed into a scythe as the blade was pierced into the edge of the vent. Gray Star climbed herself up. "Good work, Mak-wad." She nodded. Mako transformed back into human as the two crawled into an opening that led to the room. "There they are." Mako whispered. "Hikari, we spotted them." Gray Star spoke to her.
"Good, report back to me when you're done. Coast is clear from here." Hikari answered back. Mako and Gray Star kept a close eye on the three people.
"Alright, which one of you boobs gave it away?" Jordan crossed her arms and sat down on a box.
"We swear it wasn't us." The boy waved his hands, showing a sign of innocence. "Yeah, Jordan, why would we sell it and not get profit from it." The other girl backed her friend up.
"Oh okay, so how am I supposed to believe we ran out without getting any of the cash?!" Jordan stepped closer to the girl and yelled right into her face.
"I-I don't know." They stammered, being intimidated by the girl. "What a wuss." Gray Star shook her head, as Mako turned his head to her. "You're not scared?"
"Nah, I can crush her skull or zap her to death with my piercing wavelength." Gray Star bit into a sandwich. Mako widened his eyes in disgust. "Ew, where did you even find that sandwich?"
"I found it on the way here, on some box, don't judge me!" Gray Star whacked the sandwich onto his face.
"Alright then, consider yourself out." Jordan raised her voice. She grabbed the two by the collar. "Don't be surprised if you two end up being the product." Jordan smirked and walked away.
"Did you hear that, 'Kari? Jordan says that they'll be the product, what does that mean?" Gray Star reported back to her.
"I-I don't know.." Hikari had a tone of fear in that last sentence. Her and Paul...she now knows that this girl could be a threat. By dating Paul, would Hikari be a victim?
"We gotta think fast. Shut down the computer." The girl gave the boy instructions as the rushed out of the room.
"This is our cue, let's go down there and check out that computer." Gray Star told Mako. "Wait, but don't we have to fir-"
"Yahoo!" Gray Star jumped down. Mako shook his head and tried coming down. "C'mon string bean, hurry up down here!" Gray Star placed his hands on his hips.
"Haha, yeah, just gotta get a foothold." Mako obviously was scared of jumping down. Gray Star transformed her arm into a pistol and shot his leg. "Ow!" Mako fell to the floor.
"Yeah, now computer geek, hack into the computer." Gray Star pointed. Mako wanted to snicker, but he didn't want Gray Star to kill him. "You can't just hack into it, it's not easy, I need to get a usb cable and attatch it to my hardware and then-"
"Yeah, yeah, quit blabbering." She threw the keyboard to him. "No, I can't do it!" Mako threw the keyboard back at her, however, he meant to hand it to her so she could catch it, but he threw it so quickly it whacked her right in the face. Gray Star closed her eyes while Mako quickly cupped his hands over his mouth.
"Evans.." She inhaled sharply. "Oh jeez.." Mako fiddled with his fingers as she took charge onto him. "Uncle! Uncle!" Mako yelled as she pulled his arm to his back.
"I hear noises!" Jordan yelled.
"Holy crap!" Mako whimpered as they saw the door knob moving. There was no place to hide and the two didn't know what to do. "We're going to be caught! Then we're going to be the product!" Mako was close to crying.
"This is quick thinking." Gray Star sat on Mako's stomach. "Gray..what are you doing?" Mako trailed off. "I'm going to regret this, actually, I want you to kill me afterwards." Gray Star looked like she was about to puke.
"People are in here!" Jordan opened the door, and Gray Star quickly slammed her lips onto Mako's lips. "Mmmmfmfmf!" Mako was shocked but he played along and kissed her back.
Gray Star continued to "make out" with Mako until Jordan said something. "Hey! Get a room!" Jordan yelled. "Oh, we're sorry, we are dating in secret, and this was the most secret place we could find." Gray Star pulled away from the kiss. Mako's face was beet red. "Uh, yeah, but please don't tell anyone. It'll be the end of me if I was caught dating erm uh Thompson!" Mako awkwardly chuckled. Jordan squinted, her facial expression was arguing whether to buy the act or not. The other two of Jordan's friends ran to see what happened.
Jordan frowned. "Alright then, well I hope you know this is employees only, so scram! Don't worry, I'll keep your secret." She smirked. "Thanks." Gray Star patted her shoulder as they both ran out the room.
Hikari didn't hear Gray Star report anything-did she cut the resonance? For what reason?
"I swear, if you tell a soul that I kissed you, I will fucking kill you, Evans." Gray Star grabbed him by the collar.
"I swear I won't tell anyone! I wouldn't want anyone to know either." Mako stuttered.
"You NEVER bring it up with me too, pretend like it never happened." Gray Star made it clear as the two headed back to Hikari. Hikari saw them walk outside. "You guys! Is everything alright, I heard a crash an-" Hikari was worried.
"We're fine. Jordan is a suspect along with her two friends." Gray Star reported everything that happened-well, except for the kiss, of course.
Crona ran down to Gray Star, Hikari, and Mako. "Wasn't that awesome?" He folded his arms, smirked, and looked quite impressed of himself.
"I loved it. Good job." Hikari smiled, but Mako and Gray Star couldn't hear it.