Chapter 30

Rex Pov

We waited next to Bens bed until he fell asleep a while, Caesar came back to the room and asked us what was taking us so long.

"He doesn't want me or Neo to leave."

"Oh"

Danny looked towards me and stared at me for a while before he started to talk again.

"Why don't you go and talk with his friends, it should be fine as long as one of us stays here."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure, just make it fast."

I stood up and followed Caesar out of the room. Once we go to the living room, I sat down back onto the armchair.

"Wheres Igris?"

"Cas didn't want to be alone so he stayed behind. But let's make this fast, I want to get back before he wakes up"

Kevin cut me and Noah off before we could continue our conversation.

"I've been meaning to ask you guys, why do you guys call Ben by Cas?"

"Well, it was Igris who gave us fake names when Noah and Caesar found us. He did it so he could protect our identities, but we told them our real names once we found out that Caesar is Neos older brother and Noah is his best friend. We decided to keep them to make a new identity. His cover name is Cassius Smith."

Kevin nodded his head in a way that shows he understands.

"Is that it? I want to go back to Cas and Igris."

"Actually hang on, your brother told me that if you guys wanted to leave, you guys would need a disguise."

Kevin reached into his bag that had appeared and pulled out 3 masks. They kinda look like those masks for the opera. The masks where one is sad and the other is happy. I eyed them suspiciously.

"And what are those?"

"They're ID masks, they're alien technology that allows the user to look however they want, for example."

Kevin put the mask on his face, after a small flash, a small, scrawny blond haired boy sat in his place. A complete 180 compared to his tall, black-haired and buff persona.

"Ho ho holy shit, that's amazing!"

Kevin took off the mask and grabbed two more from his bag so he can give it to me.

"Here, take this so you guys can hide from whoever is after you. "

"Oh my god, I don't know what to say, Kevin."

"Then don't say anything and just take them."

"I can't thank you enough."

I grabbed the masks from Kevin's hands and ran back to Bens room. When I got there, Ben was still asleep and Danny was dozing off.

"Igris, wake up for a minute."

"mmm, what is it?"

His voice was heavy with exhaustion. I shoved a mask into his hand.

"Here take a look at this, Kevin gave it to his, its a mask that can let us change how we look. This means we can go out into public safety."

"You're kidding me, are you serious?"

Danny put it on and after the flash of light was gone, there was a girl?

"...Why are you a girl?"

"Because I've always wanted to be a girl. Dork its because anyone who is looking for us is going to be looking for a group of three boys. Not for a group of three girls."

"That makes sense."

I put on my mask and looked into the mirror that was in the bathroom. I turned myself into a short girl with black hair and brown eyes. I made sure that the girl wasn't too attractive, just a regular old plain jane.

I walked back into the room to show Danny how I look. He started laughing.

"You had the chance to become the hottest girl around and you became a plain jane?"

"Hey, you said that we have to blend in, so we cant show how hot we really are."

"Who the fuck are you?"

We looked at Ben, who decided to wake up at the worst moment possible. We took off the masks and started to calm him down.

"Calm down Cas, it's just us, Kevin gave us these. Recognize them?"

I handed one to Ben and he grabbed it to examine it in his hands.

"Oh yeah! I remember these, I saw them a lot when I was fighting an old enemy of mine. But why did you two decided to disguise yourselves as girls?"

"We were getting in touch with our inner feminine side."

"Yeah right, now tell me what you and Neo were doing looking like a pair of girls."

"Ok, so we were thinking, if Providence is looking for a group of three boys, then they won't be looking for a group of three girls. Not all of us have to be girls. One or two of us could be girls, as long as we are not a group of three boys."

"Ahhhh, I see your logic, that's smart. But I don't think we should be that ugly, or they'll remember us."

"Come on Cas, I bet the ugliest person you know isn't any worse than the girl Neo transformed into."

"Wanna bet?"

"Yeah, I guarantee that there is no one uglier than the girl."

Ben just laughed and got out of his bed and put on the mask. After the light died down, an exact copy of Danny was standing where Ben was.

"Ooooh, shit Igris, you completely set yourself up for that."

"Whyy youuuu!"

Danny lunged for Ben, Ben barely managed to dodge before he ran out of the room laughing. Danny quickly recovered and chased after Ben. I heard yells of protest and worry as they passed the living room. The two of them ended up going outside into the yard. I stopped at the back door to watch the two of them chased each other throughout the yard. Caesars and the other stood at the door with me to watch them.

We looked at them as Danny lunged for Ben again, only to have Ben to jump up and use his hands to throw himself over him. Kinda like kids would do in leapfrog. As Ben ran away laughing, he started to tease Danny. Danny turned around with a smile on his face and started to chase him again. Danny used his ice powers to freeze the ground Ben was running on, thus making him slip. Danny used this opportunity to grab Ben and to give him a noogie.

"Hey, no fair!"

"Hahaha, all is fair in love and war little brother."

Behind me, I heard Kevin laughing.

"Hahaha, ahhhh, classic."

I turned around to see Kevin wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. Meanwhile, the others had a look of satisfaction.

"This is the first time I've heard the two of them laugh like that, they haven't laughed for this long since Noah found the three of you guys and brought them here."

"This is the first time I've heard them laugh like that since I've met them."

I finished my sentence with a smile as Ben and Danny started to give each other noogies.

"This reminds me a lot when Ben and I were younger."

We all fell silent as Ben and Danny started to walk back into the house, with the goofiest smiles on their faces and their arms over each other's shoulders.