S2 EP6: The Wraith Beckons

It all started in my apartment building. Inside, the owner of the whole building walked up to a particular door and knocked on it.

Owner: "Leviticus, open up! You're about 6 months late on rent!" After a few seconds, the door swung open, revealing a man. He was very skinny and looked like he hadn't slept or eaten in weeks. He had short hair and looked like he was about to pass out.

Leviticus: "If you know what's good for you, y-you'd leave. This is no place for weak minds." The owner raised an eyebrow at him.

Owner: "I've had enough of your voodoo nonsense, man. Here are the facts; you're 6 months late on rent, your apartment always smells like smoke, and every pet on the floor has gone missing and I'm pretty sure you have something to do with it. All of that adds up to you needing to get out of my building." Leviticus looked back into his apartment, then back at the building owner. He looked worried.

Leviticus: "I'm telling you to leave. It's for your own safety." The owner rolled his eyes.

Owner: "That's it!" He grabbed Leviticus by his shirt and pulled him out of the apartment, "I've had enough of your weirdo shit! You will not step foot in that apartment again until I can have someone come and throw out your things, understood?"

Leviticus didn't say a word. Instead, he got up off the floor and started walking down the hallway. He looked back at the owner.

Leviticus: "You brought this on yourself. The beckoning of the Wraith is now this building's problem." With that, he walked off.

Owner: "Nutjobs, I swear." He walked off but what he didn't see was a dark mist surrounding the apartment.


With me. I was in my Calculus class with Lola, CoCo and Kyrie. It was toward the end of class so we were all just chilling. Today I'm wearing brown cargo shorts and a white and red baseball jersey.

I looked up from my notes and looked at Ky and CC.

Trey: "You guys understand this bullshit at all? Because I'm totally lost." School has never been the thing I was super awesome at. Sure, I can just use some of my genius alien DNA to get all A's, but that'd be cheating. Plus it would potentially blow my cover.

CoCo: "Yeah, just multiply the exponents by the numerator."

Kyrie: "Then divide that answer by the square root of the first equation. Simple." Lola and I looked at each other, then looked back at them.

Lola: "Putas personas inteligentes. That may seem easy for you, but not all of us are that gifted." CoCo playfully glared at her.

CoCo: "Now you know how I feel when our Sociology teacher goes on and on about how you're favorite student." We all chuckled as Lola rolled her eyes.

Math professor: "Alright guys, have a good rest of the day." We all stood up and left after packing our stuff up.

Kyrie: "So what are you guys doing later on? It's Friday." I shrugged, I actually had plans but they didn't know that.

Trey: "I'm not doing much, dude. Relaxing at the crib, as usual." I felt Lola glance at me for a second but I ignored her.

CoCo: "You must really love that house of yours, hero boy. You're always there." I smiled to myself.

Trey: "It's more about the company I keep." CoCo and Kyrie smirked at Lola.

Kyrie: "Oh really? Spill, Lola, you spend most of your time at Trey's place, don't you?" I raised an eyebrow at Lola, amusement evident on my face. Lola shook her head.

Lola: "Nope, the only company he keeps is himself." I smiled to myself, thinking about Ellie. She's the reason I'm chilling at home tonight, as we had made plans to hang out when she woke up. Kyrie looked at me.

Kyrie: "That's some high level narcissism, dude." We all laughed. Lola looked at her phone and squealed.

Lola: "Oh my gosh, Mr. Poreno posted the casting list for the play." I raised an eyebrow.

Trey: "You act? How come you never told me?" She shrugged.

Lola: "It's no es gran cosa, Trey. Just something I've always been doing. I wanted to go the performing arts school but my mother didn't think that was very practical, so here I am." I nodded, feeling bad for her.

Kyrie: "What's the play about, anyway?"

Lola: "We don't know yet. Apparently, the most important part of collegiate theater is being able to adapt any role on the spot." I chuckled.

Trey: "That sounds like bullshit." Lola nodded.

Lola: "Oh yeah, totally. Anyway, CoCo and I are going to the drama building to see the list." CC nodded.

CoCo: "Yep. I'd rather do that than watch Ky play video games all day." She kissed him on the cheek and walked off with Lola. Kyrie turned to me.

Kyrie: "She's crazy, video games are awesome." I nodded in agreement, "You wanna come over and play?"

I shook my head.

Trey: "Sorry, homie, I can't. I just remembered I had to meet with my professor about something." He nodded.

Kyrie: "I get you, bro. Professors love keeping us after school." We fist bumped and walked off in opposite directions. I made sure nobody was looking and turned into an alleyway, then quickly grew Biohazard wings and took off into the air.


Meanwhile, the building owner had just finished moving all the stuff out of Leviticus' apartment. He walked in as some hired movers moved the couch out.

Owner: "Just dump the couch out on the curb, boys! Let that weirdo figure out how to move it." He walked back into the bedroom and stopped when he noticed a wooden box on the floor. It was painted black and had a note attached to it. He picked it up and read it.

Owner: "Whoever shall open this box will unleash the world's nightmares." He looked down at the box and scoffed, "Another one of Leviticus' freaky trinkets, huh? I'll admit, he's got my curiosity."

He picked up the box and opened it. At first, nothing happened.

Owner: "Some nightmare this i-" He was cut off by a huge black shadow erupting from the box, flinging the owner back. The box landed on the floor as the owner flew back into a corner. Shadows continued to flood out of the box and the room started to shake. After a while, the shadows formed into a figure that was really tall, had snow white and wrinkly skin, claws, really long arms, and a wide grin. He looked at the owner.

Owner: "Please...please don't hurt me. I'm just trying to make ends meet, please!" The figure walked slowly over to him and leaned over so his face was inches away from the owner'.

Figure: "First...host." He suddenly turned into shadows and slithered down the owner's throat. A few seconds later, the owner's eyes turned pitch black and he stood up.

Owner: "The reckoning of the Wraith is upon us. This whole world will be a sacrifice." The Wraith help up his hands and huge shadows came out, flying out the windows and covering the whole apartment building. A dark force field covered the building, making it fly into the air and hover there.

Wraith: "Excellent. Now to enact the next stage of my reckoning." He walked off with an evil grin on his face.

...

Later that night, I had gotten my three hours of sleep and was on the couch, waiting for Ellie to wake up. I was wearing pajama pants with red Ultimatrix symbols on them, along with an over-sized red hoodie. I was also wearing a black beanie loosely on my head. As I waited, I flipped through channels on TV.

News lady: "Our next story...Arsenal; man or woman?" I rolled my eyes.

Trey: "Nope." I changed the channel.

Business guy: "...meaning Stocks for NexCorp have gone up one-hundred percent." I shook my head.

Trey: "Na-da." I changed it again. As I kept flipping, I heard Ellie's door open and a few seconds later, she walked out. Her hair was down like usual and she was wearing one of my hoodies. It was too big for her so it hung down to below her knees. She wasn't wearing shoes and she was carrying one of her blood bags.

She headed toward the kitchen but stopped when she spotted me on the couch. I waved at her.

Ellie: "You're actually here? Waiting for me?" I nodded, raising an eyebrow in confusion.

Trey: "Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be?" She shrugged her shoulders shyly, looking at the floor. I couldn't help but notice how cute she looked.

Ellie: "You'd have no reason not to be, I guess. It's just that...I haven't had the best track record when it comes to hanging around other people. I've been stood up a couple times." I shook my head.

Trey: "Well there's no way I could ever stand you up, you live in my house." She laughed at that and I smiled, happy that I managed to cheer her up. I glanced at her, seeing subtle changes from when I first met her. She started taking showers since she moved in so her hair was much cleaner and so was her skin. We still hadn't gotten her any clothes of her own but she was happy to wear mine.

I was snapped out of staring at Ellie by her coming and sitting next to me on the couch, automatically scooting really close to me. She glanced at me before ripping open her blood bag.

Ellie: "You don't mind if I feed here, right? I could go somewhere else, really quick." I shook my head, letting her know it was okay. She nodded and placed the blood bag up to her lips, starting to down the blood. As she drank, I saw her eyes turn into cat ones and I also made out her fangs poking out. She finished up the blood and looked at me. I tried my best to stifle a laugh.

Trey: "Uh, you have blood all over your mouth." Her eyes got wide and she quickly zoomed over to the bathroom at vampire speed, wiped her mouth, and zoomed back.

Ellie: "Sorry." I shrugged.

Trey: "It's fine, I'd rather you have blood all over my bathroom than have you kill someone." I chuckled but Ellie frowned and her body tensed up. I looked at her.

Trey: "Bloodsucker, I was joking. I'm sorry." She nodded shyly before smiling and relaxing back into the couch.

Ellie: "So, what do you have planned for our little nighttime hangout? Oh, please tell me there's a pinata." I laughed.

Trey: "Nope. I didn't plan anything, actually, I just figured that we're both up all night so why not be up, together." When she didn't say anything, I looked back at her, "Is that..okay?"

She looked me right in the eyes, smiling.

Ellie: "Yeah, more than okay." I smiled back and we kept looking at each other before I stuck my tongue out and looked away. She shook her head and grabbed my arm, then pulled me back on the couch so I was right next to her, then laid her head on my shoulder.

A few minutes later, I was on my phone and Ellie was flipping through channels on the TV. I smirked.

Trey: "You wanna watch Twilight?" She glared back at me.

Ellie: "I will hurt you." I laughed until I noticed Ellie had stopped on the news channel. My eyes got wide when I saw what was on the screen.

Trey: "Ellie, isn't that our building?" She looked at the screen, then zoomed over to the window and looked down.

Ellie: "Yes." I got up and looked out the window too, seeing that we were levitating extremely high in the air and were trapped in a shadow bubble.

Trey: "What the hell? How did we not notice that?" I looked back at Ellie, who was watching the news broadcast. I was so distracted by Ellie that I didn't notice something was wrong. I couldn't help but smile, though. I think I'm falling for her. I know she's done some bad stuff over the years and that I don't fully understand her yet, but I can't deny that she's really awesome. I have no way of knowing how she feels, though. Do vampires even have relationships?

Ellie: "You might want to come see this, shape-shifter." I came back over to the couch and looked at the TV. Leviticus, the guy who lived three floors below me, was being interviewed.

Leviticus: "It's the beckoning of the Wraith, man." Ellie's expression changed to scared after he said that. "The poor souls in that building have just been doomed to a fate worse than death." He walked off after that.

News guy: "There are no reports of what is going on, up in that apartment building but we all speculate that it is something very...sinister." I turned my hand into a Web Head one and used a web line to grab the remote and turn the TV off. After that, I turned my hand back to normal and turned to Ellie.

Trey: "Ellie, what's up? Do you know something about this?" She shook her head and her body tensed up again. I sighed and stood up.

Trey: "Alright, I'm going to see what's going on. You can come if you want, you are part of the team." She smiled at me and nodded, quickly.

Ellie: "If I can help in any way, I want to." I nodded and we turned to leave. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

Ellie: "Expecting someone?" I raised an eyebrow and opened the door. It was Rudolph, the 6 year old boy who lives in the apartment next door to us. He looked scared.

Trey: "Rudolph, what's wrong?!"

Rudolph: "The mean building owner came and knocked my door down." My eyes got wide.

Trey: "What?!" I looked back at Ellie and she looked surprised.

Rudolph: "Uh-huh! He looked like a monster. He's attacking my mommy!" I pushed past Rudolph and ran next door to his apartment, Ellie following.

Woman's voice: "No! Stop! Get off me!"

Sinister voice: "But you have been chosen." I turned the corner and saw the building owner on top of Rudolph's mom. I quickly glowed blue and became Ultimate Hydro Tide, then turned one of my batons into an electric water whip and pulled the building owner off of her.

Ultimate Hydro Tide: "If this is how you ask for rent, I'll never be late with mine again." He got up and smiled, revealing no teeth. I shivered.

Demonic building owner: "You. Your soul is different from the others that are here. You shall certainly do fine." Ellie zoomed in and nailed him in the jaw, knocking him back into the wall.

Ellie: "He was really starting to creep me out." She zoomed over to me as he got up, "What's the move here, shape-shifter? I think I know what this is but we have to survive before I can explain."

I nodded and glowed red, transforming into UltraTreez, then glowed blue. I grew to about 8 feet tall as my skin got bulkier and turned white and blue. My head morphed into a star shape and the evolved symbol was on my chest.

Ultimate UltraTreez: "This should be high enough on the smackdown radar to do some damage. Ellie, hit hard, we're trying the direct approach."

Ellie: "Whatever you say." We both charged at the building owner as his arms grew into large shadow tendrils. He slashed at us but Ellie turned into bats and flew off, while I leaped over his attack and punched him in the jaw with all my strength, denting his face and sending him flying straight into the fridge. He recovered and launched shadow goop at me, but Ellie zoomed in and slashed it away with her claws, then pounced toward him. She nailed him twice in the jaw with her hardest punches, then backed up and spartan kicked him. He and the fridge flew through the wall and landed in the apartment next door. I walked up to Ellie.

Ultimate UltraTreez: "You think anybody's home insurance covers aliens and vampires?" She shrugged.

Ellie: "Good question. Maybe for people with really good credit." Suddenly, the room started spinning and Ellie and I dropped to the floor, clutching our heads.

Ultimate UltraTreez: "Okay, serious hangover happening, right now." The building owner walked in calmly and grinned.

Demonic building owner: "Part of my horrifying abilities, creature. Intense Vertigo." He walked over and picked Ellie up by the neck.

Demonic building owner: "Vampire. You are of the monster realm as well, so you must know the stories about me. Tell your friend that his attempts at rebellion are hopeless. Souls will be mine, this night." He dropped Ellie and walked out the door. After he left, the Vertigo wore off and I reverted to normal UltraTreez, then reverted to normal. I got up, shaking my head and walked over to Ellie, who was also getting up.

Trey: "You all good, bloodsucker?" She nodded and hugged me.

Ellie: "I'm good. You?" I hugged back.

Trey: "All good. Now, what the fuck was that thing? And what was it talking about? What's the monster realm?" Before she could answer, Rudolph and his mom crawled out from behind the broken couch.

Rudolph's mom: "Um excuse me, Trey from next door and...demon girl, our house is destroyed. Where are we supposed to go?" I glanced down and noticed the building keys. I picked them up and tossed them to her.

Trey: "Take your pick." She smiled at me and walked out the door with Rudolph, who waved at me. I turned back to Ellie, "Let's go back home and change. You can fill me in."

She nodded and we walked out.

...

A few minutes later, Ellie and I were sitting in my room. I was wearing blue jeans, a black T shirt, and that custom windbreaker that Gwen got me for my birthday. Ellie had on my black sweatsuit.

Ellie: "Okay so the monster realm is exactly what it sounds like. It is a realm on this planet that houses monsters." I nodded, taking in what she had said.

Trey: "So, actual monsters. Vampires, Demons, the works." She nodded.

Ellie: "Exactly. More than ninety percent of the monster population lives in the monster realm."

Trey: "So, why weren't you there?" Ellie tensed up.

Ellie: "My uncle moved Paris and I out of the monster realm, a long time ago. The realm promotes good behavior, for the most part, and my uncle was anything but good." I scooted closer to her and put my arm around her.

Trey: "I'm sorry for bringing him up. I know he's a sore subject." She shrugged.

Ellie: "Old wounds, vigilante. Anyway, about that thing we just fought." I nodded.

Trey: "Yeah. So that thing was a monster, too?" She nodded.

Ellie: "Very much so. Although, I never believed he was real. You see, there was a rumor around the monster realm that a creature known as the Wraith was the most powerful monster in recent memory. Monsters are incredibly strong beings so image how strong a single monster would have to be to scare us." My eyes widened.

Trey: "Holy shit. So if the monster realm promotes peace, why let the Wraith just roam free?"

Ellie: "They didn't. The Wraith was supposedly locked away in Pandora's Box, a long time ago. A keeper of the box was appointed to make sure that the box would never be opened. It's not even supposed be able to be opened by anybody except the box keeper."

Trey: "But the building owner obviously opened the box. That's how the Wraith got into his body." I thought about it, then stood up. "Got it. We may know little to nothing about the Wraith but you know who knows a whole lot?"

Ellie thought about it, then smiled at me. I nodded.

Ellie: "The box keeper. But how are we supposed to find him? We don't even know who he is." I thought about it for a second, then smirked and became Ghostfreak. I phased through the floor and came back a few seconds later with a black wooden box.

Ghostfreak: "I'm assuming this is Pandora's Box." I went Mewtwo and my hands glowed with purple energy.

Ellie: "What are you doing?"

Mewtwo: "Merging my brain waves with those of this box. That should allow me to find the box keeper so we can drag his ass back here."

Ellie: "And I thought my powers were weird." I stuck my tongue out at her and kept working on the box. I connected our brainwaves and my eyes turned snow white as I saw Leviticus. He was in the basement, looking for something. I also noticed something lurking behind him. I quickly disconnected myself from the box and looked at Ellie.

Mewtwo: "Leviticus is the box keeper! He got back in the building somehow and is down the basement. And I think he's in trouble." Ellie nodded.

Ellie: "Well, let's get a move on, shape-shifter." She stuck her tongue out and zoomed off at vampire speed. I rolled my eyes and went Sonic, then zoomed after her.

Down in the basement, Leviticus was looking through a pile of old trinkets.

Leviticus: "It has to be here, somewhere. Damn it, where is it?!" What he didn't see was the Wraith, still possessing the building owner, sneaking up on him. Right before the Wraith got him, Leviticus rolled out of the way.

Leviticus: "What do you want from me, Wraith? Our...relationship was supposed to be over after you were freed from Pandora's Box." The Wraith chuckled.

Wraith: "You aren't fooling me, human. I know you are looking for the spare box, it is the only thing that could contain me again. Unfortunately, I can't let you find it. It is almost time for my beckoning." He walked toward Leviticus, who started to move back.

Leviticus: "I thought I could let you sacrifice these people, but I can't. Your beckoning can wait."

Wraith: "Afraid not, human." He grinned and charged at him, but I zoomed in, grabbed Leviticus, and zoomed over to the other side of the basement, where Ellie was. I put him down.

Sonic: "Thank you for choosing Arsenal for all your day-saving needs. Please come again." The Wraith turned to us and snarled.

Wraith: "The Vampire. I warned you to stay away, girl. Why disobey?"

Ellie: "Because I'm not going to let you sacrifice these people, creep!" I raised an eyebrow.

Sonic: "Sacrifice?!"

Leviticus: "Yes, every 20 years, Pandora's Box loosens up, giving anyone the chance to free the Wraith. Once free, the Wraith chooses a few poor souls to sacrifice in order to achieve his full power. Then, there'll be no way of stopping him." I nodded and looked at the Wraith.

Sonic: "Sorry, tall, pale and creepy, that's not happening." I charged at him and went Ironheart, then fired repulsor beams at his face. He stumbled back and I tried to follow up with a punch, but he easily dodged it and kneed me in the stomach. I flew upward and he shot out shadow tendrils to pull me back down and slam me to the ground. I became Goop and melted out of his grasp, then became Paller-Bear and covered my hand with snow, forming a snow cannon around it. I fired spiked snow balls at him, sticking them to his head. As soon as they stuck, snow started to cover his whole body. Ellie leaped off the wall and slashed at the Wraith with her claws, knocking the snow off him and sending him spiraling toward me. I became AmpFibian and blasted him back with electricity. He slammed into a wall, but recovered charged at me, but Ellie flew in and nailed him with a pipe, stopping him in his tracks. I jumped up and went Biohazard, then slammed into him with my smack hands on, only for them to get stuck in his chest. He laughed but I became KaBoom and blew myself free, then started shooting explosive hands at him. He dodged each one, giving Ellie an opportunity to slash him across the chest. The wound healed instantly and the Wraith snarled.

Wraith: "I've had more than enough of this, creature." The building owner's mouth opened and the Wraith oozed out in his true form, "You will all be destroyed, now."

I smirked.

KaBoom: "Creepy man got ugly! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ellie raised her eyebrow at me.

Leviticus: "You must get Pandora's spare box! It is the only thing that can contain the Wraith!"

Wraith: "You have a big mouth, human." I became Chromastone and charged at him, nailing him in the face.

Chromastone: "Funny, I'm used to people saying that to me." Ellie flew past us.

Ellie: "And it's just as true when they say it to you." She flew over to the pile of trinkets and started looking through them at vampire speed. The Wraith knocked me back but I went Goku, then launched an energy ball at him. He was unaffected by it and launched a shadow tendril out to grab my leg and pull me toward him.

Goku: "Anytime now, bloodsucker." I powered up a Kamehameha blast and waited until I was close to the Wraith's face before I fired it. It blasted him away from me for the moment.

Ellie: "Found it!" She help up a purple wooden box. Suddenly, we all fell to the floor again. The Wraith floated out and grabbed the box from Ellie.

Wraith: "Thank you so much for finding it, vampire. With the only thing capable of stopping me now in my grasp, my ultimate beckoning can commence." I managed to get to my feet and became Gravattack.

Gravattack: "Vertigo doesn't affect someone with control over gravity." I flew at him and punched him in the stomach, using my powers to levitate him in the air and holding him there.

Wraith: "Your power is intriguing, creature, I have never seen anybody change forms like that." I smirked.

Gravattack: "It's a gift, no-teeth. Oh and the name's Arsenal, by the way. Had to make sure to tell you before you went back in the box." The Wraith started laughing hard and sinister.

Wraith: "You really think you have beaten me, Arsenal? No, my beckoning has just gotten started." Suddenly, shadows shot out at me and started covering my body.

Gravattack: "No, get away!" I went Red Lightning and tried to vibrate out, but no luck. I went Makeshift and tried to phase out but same result. The shadows engulfed my body and left me in a shadow cocoon. There was a flash of red light as I reverted to normal.

Ellie: "TREY! NO!" She snarled and made her wings come out, then charged at the Wraith, only to be caught by a shadow too.

Wraith: "As I told you before, an attempt at rebellion is hopeless. Now you have learned, the hard way." Ellie dropped to the ground and landed next to my body. Tears formed in her eyes.

Ellie: "Stupid boy. Stupid, stupid boy."

Wraith: "Now...time for the beckoning!" He glowed with black energy and suddenly, shadows shot out of his body and covered the whole apartment building, inside and out.

Leviticus: "Oh, no. We have failed, it is happening." The walls started to crumble and a purple beam erupted from the Wraith and shot out into the sky. Hundreds of bright lights started flowing into his body.

Wraith: "The souls of everyone in this building are being transferred to me! I can just feel my power increasing." Leviticus shook his head as his soul left his body and transferred into the Wraith.

Down below, the civilians and news crew were all watching in terror.

News guy: "What we are now seeing can only be described as horrifying. The apartment building is being teared to shreds and we can only hope that everyone inside is okay." Lola pushed past the crowd and looked up at the building.

Lola: "Trey, I hope you find some way out of this." Worry was evident in her eyes.

Back in the building, Ellie was on her knees, clutching my body. I still hadn't moved.

Ellie: "No, shape-shifter. You are not allowed to leave me, too. I had just started getting used to you never shutting up." The building crumbled even more as the Wraith started to grow and transform, "Everybody leaves me, everything turns bad whenever I get near it. IT'S NOT FAIR!" She slammed the ground, causing a huge crater.

The Wraith smirked.

Wraith: "Still mourning over a dead man, girl? You should have known this would happen, as soon as he decided to oppose me. That only leads to death." He shot out a huge shadow that flew down and formed a large shadow dome around Ellie and I. She started crying and clutched my head harder.

Ellie: "Over 100 years, I have been stuck with this stupid fucking curse and finally, when I meet someone who gives me a little bit of hope...he dies on me. Damn it!" She looked down at my shadow-covered body and used her claw to rip the shadows off my face, revealing that I was out cold.

Ellie: "I never got to tell you this because I didn't know how you would react. But we're about do die now so better late than never, right?" As the Wraith grew more powerful and the shadow dome closed in on us, Ellie leaned down to my ear, "I really like you, Trey. Not just as friends or partners or whatever term we were using, but as someone who has intense feelings for you and has since you saved me from my uncle. I know you were probably in love with that human girl but I'm sorry that I never got the chance to tell you."

The Wraith glowed black and when it cleared, he was a hundred feet tall, had jet black skin, and really long arms. The building crumbled, making the shadow dome close in faster. Ellie didn't move, instead looking at me.

Wraith: "Humans, say goodbye to your world! My beckoning is complete!"

Ellie: "Come on, shape-shifter. Come back to me." At that moment, she leaned down and kissed me. She didn't use her cerebral telepathy power, it was a real kiss. After a few seconds, she pulled back. Suddenly, my body started emitting red energy as the shadow dome dispersed. The Wraith looked down in surprise. The ground started rumbling again and my eyes opened, glowing red. I smirked and glowed yellow. I became Reaper, a combination of Spykeback and Frightmare. I was my usual height, had light grey skin, and was wearing a red cloak and black pants. The symbol was on my chest. I turned to Ellie.

Reaper: "So, you like me, huh?" I smiled at her and she hugged me.

Ellie: "I thought I lost you, Trey." I hugged back and shook my head.

Reaper: "Dying by the hands of that loser? You should know me better than that, bloodsucker. Now if you'll excuse me for one second, I have to stop this." I shot a chain out and used it to pull myself up to the Wraith's face.

Reaper: "Sup, dude? You miss me?" The Wraith launched a tendril out at me, but I grew a spike out of my wrist and covered it with red chains, then slashed the tendril in half. The Wraith yelled in pain. I shot out spike balls at his chest and when they stuck to him, they expanded, releasing chains around his body. I charged at him to strike, but he easily broke out of the chains and punched me back. I recovered in mid-air.

Wraith: "You will not bring down my moment of ultimate power, Arsenal. This world shall perish." He formed shadow creatures and they pounced at me, but I swung my chain at them, knocking them all back, then leaped up and wrapped a spiked chain around the Wraith's neck. I pulled with all my strength and he came tumbling down. I grew two spikes out of my forearms and wrapped chains around them, then leaped up and plunged them into his back. He screamed in agony and blasted me off with a black beam, then pinned me to the wall with shadow goop. I cut myself out with my chain spikes, then launched myself upward and slashed at the Wraith's chest. He was unharmed and breathed shadows at me, sticking me to the ground. I became Jumpstart and shocked the shadows off me, then turned to Ellie.

Jumpstart: "This isn't working, he's too powerful for my standard forms. I doubt my heavy hitters could even keep up with him for long. We need a plan, right now." Ellie looked up at the Wraith and saw that his chest was exposed from when I slashed him. Looking closer, she saw Pandora's spare box.

Ellie: "Shape-shifter, the box! Remember, Leviticus said it was the only thing that can trap the Wraith." My eyes got wide and I nodded.

Jumpstart: "Bloodsucker, you're a genius! You think you can get the box while I distract him?" She nodded.

Ellie: "Definitely." Her eyes turned into cat eyes. I nodded and glowed red, transforming into Flame Wingman.

Flame Wingman: "I'm gonna hit him hard, make sure you find an opening to get the box." I took off into the air and launched a flamethrower at the Wraith from my dragon head hand. He stumbled back and I kept at him, transforming into Ultimate Super Saiyan Goku and sending a one-handed Super Kamehameha at him. It went straight through his face and he smirked. I gritted my teeth and warped behind him, then interlocked my fingers and slammed him on the back of the head, making him drop to the ground, face first. I flew down and became Ultimate Atomix and punched him in the side, causing a huge nuclear wave to explode into him, obliterating his body. He reformed and I kept attacking. I punched him in the jaw 5 times, then flew back and launched a nuclear energy ball into his chest, opening it up even more and revealing Pandora's spare box.

Wraith: "Your attacks are less calculating and more raw, creature. You must be really trying to stop me. Futile, but noble." I charged at him but instead of hitting him, I glowed blue and became Ultimate Astrodactyl, then quickly flew behind him and used one of my whips to restrain his neck.

Ultimate Astrodactyl: "Ellie, NOW!" Ellie turned into bats and flew up to the Wraith's exposed chest, then became normal and grabbed the box.

Wraith: "NO! I will not go back into that prison!" He grabbed my whip and flung me away. I crashed to the floor, but recovered quickly and became Wildvine, then shot vines out to restrain his hands and feet, I started to struggle.

Wildvine: "Not getting any older here, Ellie!"

Ellie: "Hold your horses, I'm coming." She flew down next to me and opened the box. A vortex came out of it and aimed toward the Wraith, starting to suck him in.

Wraith: "NO! NO! NO! My beckoning will not be ignored!" He started to resist the box's pull.

Wildvine: "Oh, yes it will." I jumped up and became Cannonbolt, then bounced off the wall and hit him in his back. He fell over, giving the box the opportunity to suck him into it. Ellie closed the box as soon as the Wraith was trapped. I rolled up in front of Ellie and reverted to normal. She immediately hugged me.

Ellie: "You did it." I smiled at her.

Trey: "Can't take all the credit, you seriously saved my ass, back there." She stopped hugging me but looked me in the eyes.

Ellie: "I meant what I said earlier, shape-shifter. I understand if you choose Lola over me, but I had to tell yo-" I cut her off by kissing her. We kissed for a good minute before pulling apart.

Trey: "Now who talks too much?" I smirked at her and she hit me on the arm. Suddenly, all the souls that the Wraith had stolen flew out of Pandora's box. They flew off in different directions, back to their rightful bodies. Leviticus' soul flew back into his body as our building reformed and floated back down to the ground, good as new. Ellie and I walked over to Leviticus, Ellie cuddled up to my arm. I helped him up and handed him the box.

Trey: "You should take better care of that thing, from now on. I don't know if you noticed, but it's kinda dangerous." Ellie giggled and Leviticus nodded.

Leviticus: "I will make sure that nobody opens this box, again. Thank you, Arsenal. Without you and the vampire, the human and monster realms would have been doomed." I shrugged and turned to Ellie.

Trey: "Told you, super awesome superhero." She playfully rolled her eyes.

Ellie: "And I thought your ego couldn't get any bigger." She yawned and I gave her a knowing look.

Trey: "Sun about to come up?" She nodded, sleepily. I laughed to myself at how cute she looked, "Okay, let's get back to the apartment. Leviticus, I'd appreciate it if you kept what you saw here a secret."

He nodded.

Leviticus: "I have been the box keeper for many years, I know how to keep a secret." Ellie and I looked at each other and shrugged, then I grew Godspeed legs and we both zoomed back to our apartment and into Ellie's room. She lied down on her bed and pulled me down with her so she was lying on top of me. She yawned again.

Ellie: "Don't leave, okay?" I rubbed her back.

Trey: "Wouldn't dream of it." I was actually pretty tired, too. Good thing it's the weekend, I could not have made it through class. As we both started to drift off to sleep, I closed my eyes.

Trey: "Ellie?" She didn't open her eyes.

Ellie: "Yeah?"

Trey: "Do you wanna be my girlfriend?" She was silent for a few seconds.

Ellie: "Of course, dummy." With that, we were both out cold.


That next day, Lola ran down the street toward my building. She pushed past adults and kids alike, trying to get there as fast as she could.

Lola: "Trey, please be alright." She got there and ran up the stairs to my floor, then burst into my apartment. "Trey?" No answer.

She looked all around my apartment until she glanced at the door to Ellie's room.

Lola: "No way." She opened the door to the window-less room, seeing Ellie and I asleep, with her still on top of me. Our hands had intertwined in our sleep. Lola looked heartbroken.

Lola: "Of course. These two are made for each other and I'm just a normal girl, how could I ever think anything else." With that, she walked out of Ellie's room and closed the door before leaving my apartment.

The end.


Holy shit, a new chapter so early?! Yep, I'm trying out this new thing called being productive. Anyway, there we have it. I really liked writing this chapter for a few reasons; I really like the chemistry that Trey and Ellie have and like them together, it introduces the monster realm which I like because it's one thing that makes Tetris Nova different from Earth, and I also generally enjoy writing chapters that are about Trey fighting different villains. Let me know what you guys think. Do you like the Trey/Ellie team ups and should I do more in the future? Oh and don't worry, Ellie isn't just around to be Trey's girlfriend. She will have her own story lines and develop on her own, as will Lola. That's it guys, see you later. Peace!