Summary: Lee and Donna try to help Casey enjoy a normal day with a new friend.
Casey, Lee, and Donna sat in the hot tub with millions of bubbles surrounding them as they relaxed inside the luxury spa room at the Hidden City. Lee and Donna wore black one-piece swimsuits while Casey wore his black swim trucks.
"Is this great or what?" Casey asked with a smile.
"Oh, definitely." Donna replied with a relaxed sigh. She then held up a garlic shrimp rice bowl in her hands. "Especially the food this place provided us."
"You know, Casey, no disrespect or anything. But we could go to a normal spa if you want." Lee said to Casey.
"Yeah, I know, but I already embrace myself as a mystical superstition magnet." Casey said with a grin. "I mean, who needs normal anyway."
"Ain't that the truth." Donna said in a muffled voice.
Then, a female spa owner came walking inside the room with three gift bags in her hands. She has ghostly pale skin, violet hair pulled back into a high ponytail, and bright icy blue eyes. She wore a hot pink rose-print qipao dress and black flats.
"Thanks, Caline." Lee said as she handed her card to the spa owner. "That'll be all for now."
"For giving my spa resort five stars, here's the spa treatments you three can use at home." Caline said as she placed the gift bags next to Donna. "You three are officially my favorite customers."
Caline took Lee's card and walked out of the spa room.
"Oh, these spa baths never gets old." Donna commented.
"We're better get to class." Casey said. "I don't wanna be late like the last time when we went to the on the subway."
Casey, Lee, and Donna stepped out of the hot tub. They grabbed white towels and dried themselves as they walked out of the room and into the main room to meet Caline.
"Thank you." Caline said as she handed Lee her card with a friendly smile. "Come again soon."
Casey, Donna, and Lee arrived just in time for class before the school bell rang. They went over to their desk inside their chemistry class.
"Everyone, make sure you have a partner for the chemical solution lesson." The male teacher spoke.
"Oh snap!" Casey groaned. "I don't have a partner!"
"Well, lucky for you, Mr. Jones, you can partner up with our new student." The teacher said.
Casey looked up and stared at the new student, who was being surrounding by heart-eyed girls.
The new student has a tall, well-built body with pale skin, medium-length black hair that includes dyed teal blue tips, and navy blue eyes. He wore a short-sleeves black shirt with violet skull on the chest, blue jeans, and white sneakers with black laces and a logo of a black star in a circle on the sides. He also wore a black upside-down pyramid with an eye on the front that has a ring on top to be worn around his neck by a golden chain.
"Whoa." Lee whispered to Donna. "One word: cute."
"I thought you have your sight set on Leo." Donna reminded. "You did soultouched him after all."
"I can't help it if I know a handsome guy when I see one." Lee said.
"Sup." The new student greeted as he stood next to Casey. "I'm Salem."
"I'm Casey." Casey greeted back.
"Now, everyone, open your books to page 115 before we get started on the lab." The teacher told the class.
Casey opened his textbooks until he looked down at Salem's sneakers.
"Hey, wicked shoes." Casey said with a grin.
"Thanks." Salem grinned back. "You know, we should hang out sometime."
"You just read my mind." Casey smiled. "Let's exchange numbers."
Later that night, Casey was sitting on the edge of the building rooftop while texting Salem on his phone. Lee and Donna suddenly popped on either side of Casey from the puffs of misty black smoke with their smoke bomb.
"Hey, Case, Ellie invented some invisible paint back at the fortress." Lee said. "You gotta check it out."
"As much as I would love to, but I can't." Casey said. "Salem wants to hang out today."
"So, you're having a normal day with the new boy." Donna said.
"Oh please. Since when I'm ever normal?" Casey questioned.
[Flashback]
Casey unleashed black seeker-missiles that followed the Shadow Quartet from his high-tech hockey stick.
Casey was driving the Sonicruiser with black cool-looking sunglasses in accelerating speed.
Casey hollered excitedly and sailed down to the Niagara Falls in his swim trucks.
[Flashback Ends]
"Okay, you've made your point." Donna admitted.
"Look, just because I'm a normal human doesn't mean I don't want any crazy out of this world phenomenon in my life." Casey said. "But fine. I'll have a nice, normal day with Salem. Only to show you girls that I don't need a non-crazy life. I'm out."
Casey jumped down and landed his feet on the sidewalk as he began walking away with causal whistles.
"I assume we're gonna follow him and see how his normal day works out?" Donna asked Lee.
"Oh yeah." Lee replied with a grin.
At the urban park, Casey and Salem were taking selfies together. Donna and Lee sat on the bench with their soda cans. Donna wore a short-sleeved purple plaid shirt with black stripes, light blue jeans, violet sneakers, and a dark purple-rimmed sunglasses on her face. Lee wore a blue long-sleeved jacket over a white shirt, white jean capris with a belt that has diamond-shaped studs, navy blue dress shoes, and a dark blue-rimmed sunglasses on her face.
"These sunglasses are cute, but how does it help us spy on Casey's bro time with Salem?" Lee asked.
"I managed to design these sunglasses to spy on and map out areas with ease that way we'll gather intel to monitor Casey and Salem." Donna replied.
"Thanks for showing me around, Casey." Salem said. "I never thought the streets and the places will be amazing."
"You should've been up at the Empire State Building when we were fighting Crimson Dazzler during the fashion show!" Casey said with a laugh.
"Huh?" Salem asked with a confuse eyebrow.
"Uh, I mean, dazzling one of my friend's crimson dresses collection." Casey said quickly as he realized what he just said.
"Whoa, he almost blew that one." Donna said.
"Oh, sick logo." Lee said as she then stared at Salem's sneakers. "Gonna ask him where he get those shoes."
"Hey, what's that?" Salem asked.
Casey looked at the empty ice cream cart.
"Wait, you never had ice cream before?" Casey asked.
"No." Salem replied with a shrug. "I don't get out much."
"Well, in that case, let's go!" Casey smiled.
Casey and Salem walked over to the ice cream cart as they were unaware of Shadow Recruit and Nova are disguised as the ice cream sellers.
"Get ready. Our target is heading this way." Nova told Shadow Recruit.
Donna and Lee watched Casey and Salem chatting together until they turned to see Nova and Shadow Recruit at the ice cream cart.
"Oh snap! It's the Shadow!" Lee exclaimed.
"No doubt they're here to ambush the boys!" Donna cried. "Quick, you handle the bad guys! I'll take care of the boys!"
Lee moved her sunglasses on her head and engulfed Nova and Shadow Recruit in blue telekinetic energy before tossing them away to the bushes. As Lee charged into the bushes, Donna immediately hopped over the ice cream cart and moved her index finger in a circle to point her magic at the ice creams as she was magically scooping up ice cream using various flavors and set them on the cart. Donna then ducked down as Casey and Salem approached in front of the cart and took few licks of their ice creams.
"Wow, this ice cream is good." Salem said in awe. "Never taste anything like it."
"If you think ice cream's good, let's go get pizza." Casey grinned.
"I'm down." Salem grinned back.
Casey and Salem began running out of the park. Donna stood up from the ice cream cart and then turned her attention to watch a large blue psychic energy blasted Nova and Shadow Recruit out of the sky.
"Nailed it!" Lee cheered as she stood up from the bushes.
Casey and Salem are sitting inside Lopardo's Lou Mikey Toney Tony Pizza near the statue outside.
"What can I get you today, boys?" The waitress asked as she stood in front of the boys' table.
"An order of two cheese pizzas!" Casey responded.
Outside, Lee and Donna sat on the statue to view the boys through binoculars.
"Looks like this boy's night out is going great so far." Donna said with a smile.
"Uh, yeah, I wouldn't bet on it." Lee said.
Lee pointed her finger to Shadow Recruit and Nova, who were preparing their mystical weapons behind the statue below the mystic kunoichis.
"First the park and now this? What the heck is their problem?" Lee said frustratingly.
"Come on, let's get this over with." Donna sighed with a shrug.
Donna and Lee jumped into Shadow Recruit and Nova, causing all of them to engage each other into a brutal fight.
"And we'll take two sodas." Casey said.
Donna launched purple bolts of psychic energy at Nova one by one, but Nova swung her mystical tessen to destroy the bolts with swift speed. Shadow Recruit wrapped Lee with his yoyos and slammed her face into the window. Lee telekinetically released herself and began firing blue waves of psychic energy in fast succession that hit Shadow Recruit away.
But Casey and Salem were not aware of what's happening outside.
"Oh, I wonder what desserts they got." Salem smiled as he was staring at the menu.
Lee and Donna got kicked into a brick wall as they slid to the ground. Before Nova and Shadow Recruit could step close to the window, Lee waved her hand back to bring it forward and Donna moved her index finger in a circle as they pointed their magic to fry them with powerful surges of blue and purple electricity that knocked Shadow Recruit and Nova away to the sky.
Casey and Salem finished eating their pizza slices and ice creams when Donna and Lee leaped in the air out of sight.
"Hey, Casey, I heard there's so many fun entertainments around this city. Do you happen to know one?" Salem asked.
"Oh, I know just the place." Casey grinned.
Casey and Salem arrived inside the Hocaser, where the entire place was set with bright neon lights everywhere. They went playing electric circuit hockey rink that was set with bright neon rainbow lights. They looked at their opponents that were wearing red uniforms while the boys were wearing their blue uniforms.
"Now this is what I call fun!" Salem cheered. "Great idea, Casey!"
"Welcome!" Casey grinned. "Now, let's do this!"
Casey skated forward and avoided three charging players in his sight, leaving Salem to swing the electric yellow puck into the goal. Salem then joined Casey, who stood behind him while rotating his hockey stick.
Then suddenly, a large puff of black smoke came out of nowhere at the rink that revealed to be Nova and Shadow Recruit.
"Oh, come on! Really?! Again?!" Salem groaned in frustration. "I'm really getting tired of you guys!"
"You know these guys, Salem?" Casey asked with a confuse eyebrow.
"Long story." Salem replied.
Then, large puff of sparkling black smoke came out of nowhere that revealed Donna and Lee right in front of the boys.
"Lee? Donna?" Casey exclaimed. "What's going on? Who are these guys?"
"Long story short, these Shadow pinheads have been following you and Salem all night." Lee explained. "We don't know why, but it looks like your normal day has been officially ruined."
"Oh please. Normal is overrated." Casey said as he began twirling his hockey stick with one head. "I'm gonna help you beat these bozos. Think of it as part of our butt-kicking fun."
"Works for me." Donna smiled with a shrug.
Lee, Donna, and Casey started charging at Nova and Shadow Recruit before splitting away in different directions.
Casey unleashed black seeker-missiles that followed the Shadow Recruit in an explosion, but Shadow Recruit began spinning his kinetic energized yoyos to protect himself from the missiles in rapid speed. Lee jumped high in the air and formed a circular torrent of water from her psychic energies in front of her hands that created a powerful cyclone of water to attack Shadow Recruit. Donna telekinetically summoned numerous orbs of purple psychic energy to surround her and then launched them at Nova all together in a large explosion, but Nova protected herself from the attack with a glowing pink spherical protection field. Once Nova dropped her field, she suddenly released a stream of pink 'X' shaped blades from her tessen that knocked Donna into the ground. Before Nova could strike another attack, Salem formed a black ball of energy in his hand and then shot it at Nova that hit her all the way to the wall.
"Salem?" Donna gasped in shock. She let out a small smile on her face. "New boy got some fire."
Salem then jumped in the air and instantly disappeared out of sight. Seconds later, he reappeared behind Shadow Recruit and attacked him with a black energy beam from his hand. Nova jumped towards Salem to attack him with her tessen, but Donna and Lee quickly tackled her all the way into Shadow Recruit.
Then, Casey skated over to Salem.
"Are those mystics the same girls from school?" Salem asked Casey.
"Yep." Casey replied. "Look, Salem, you're awesome and all. Hanging out with you has been a real blast, but there's some crazy dangerous bad guys after you. We have to get you somewhere safe."
"No, I'm staying." Salem said. "They've been following me for a whole week and I'm gonna settle this once and for all."
Violet light suddenly started to burst from Salem's eyes that completely engulfed him, causing Casey to cover his eyes. As the light died down, Casey opened his eyes to look at Salem's body. Salem now has ghostly pale skin, medium-length purple hair, and bright icy blue eyes.
"What the?!" Casey gasped in shock. "Are you a mystic?"
"Well, half mystic half yokai, actually." Jace corrected. "Mystic from my dad and yokai from my mom."
"Your mom wouldn't happen to be that spa owner Caline by the chance?" Casey asked in recognition.
"Yup." Salem replied.
"But why would the Shadow Clan be after you?" Casey asked again.
"I don't know, but all I know is that they ruined my perfect normal day to hang out with you." Salem said. "That's why I shifted to my human form."
Casey and Salem turned over to see Nova and Shadow Recruit attacking Lee and Donna with their weapons as Donna and Lee kept dodging the attacks with fast speed.
"Hey, Salem, how do you feel about a ghoulish puck strike?" Casey asked with a sideway grin.
"Way ahead of you." Salem grinned back.
Salem rotated his right hand in a circle to create ten black arrows with a shadowy violet aura surrounding the tip. As Salem sent the arrows above him, Casey jumped in the air and began swinging the arrows one by one that sent them striking the ground in front of Shadow Recruit and Nova. Salem instantly appeared between Donna and Lee as he grabbed their waists and disappeared out of sight. The arrows then exploded Nova and Shadow Recruit in a burst of violet fire-like energy around them with full force.
Lee and Donna stared at the defeated Nova and Shadow Recruit with shock faces before looking at Casey and Salem.
"Uh, what just happened? And is that ghost boy Salem?" Lee asked Casey.
"Yeah." Casey replied.
Salem floated down to the ground next to Casey and magically altered back into his human form with a two finger salute.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! He's like Caline the spa lady." Lee said with a smile. "Cute but so wicked!"
"So, I guess you were right about being a mystical superstition magnet, Casey." Donna said knowingly.
"Told you. I don't need to be normal." Casey grinned. He wrapped his arm around Salem. "And I'm cool with that."
"I concur." Salem agreed. He touched his chain and realized that it wasn't there on his neck. "What the? What happened to my chain?"
At the dimly secret room, Nova was waving her mystical tessen fan to levitate Salem's black pyramid pendant above the visually luminous, fluid body. The pyramid pendant then turned into a small glittering golden yellow sphere enveloped in a hexagonal dipyramidal-shaped black transparent crystal.
"The resurrection spell is almost complete." Nova said.
Nova levitated the crystal inside the Heart Stone.
"We are one step closer to its dark power." Shadow Recruit grinned evilly.
A small sinister laughter was heard from the Heart Stone as the gemstone was pulsing in a slower rate.