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Chapter 10
"It's A."
"It's C."
"Listen, you nimrod, I know what I'm doing, and the answer is A."
"I'm not a nimrod, you cheesehead. And the answer's C."
"A."
"C."
"Would you both shut up!? And for your information, the answer's D."
Michael and Maria turned around in their seats to glare Tess. Tess simply rolled her eyes, annoyed with their behavior; Michael and Maria had spent the last ten minutes arguing over the answer to a physics question, and they were quickly pissing her off.
"Who the hell was talking to you?" Michael asked rudely.
"Well if you didn't want me to interfere, you should have kept your voices low. Some of us are trying to finish our own work," Tess replied haughtily.
"Yeah, I can see how hard-working Kyle is being," Maria said sarcastically, pointing to the sleeping boy next to Tess.
"Wake up!" Tess exclaimed, hitting Kyle over the head with her notebook.
"Wha—what?" Kyle exclaimed as he tried to shake off his tiredness. "What the hell did you hit me for?" he asked Tess angrily.
"In case you forgot, we're in class," Tess said, pointing to the students all around her. "And we have to finish this assignment before the bell rings, so stop sleeping and start helping or I'll make sure Mrs. Jackson knows that you didn't help whatsoever," she said with a glare.
"Fine, geez, you don't have to be so cranky about it," Kyle mumbled.
"What was that, Valenti?" Tess asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing, nothing," Kyle replied quickly.
"Good one, Kyle," Michael said sarcastically.
"Oh, shut up, at least he tries to cooperate, unlike some people I know," Maria said, looking pointedly at Michael.
"Maybe I'd cooperate if I had a partner who didn't feel the need to comment on every little thing I did," Michael bit back.
"Well maybe—"
"Oh, for the love of God, would you two please shut up!" Tess exclaimed. "I seriously don't understand you two," she muttered, unable to understand the weird relationship of her sister and Michael.
Just two days ago, she had come home on Saturday night to see Maria talking to Michael on the phone with a goofy smile on her face. After Maria hung up with Michael, she had made Tess, Isabel, and Liz sit in her room for almost an hour as she reiterated her entire conversation with Michael to them. But now, only two days later, she and Michael were back to bickering and arguing like five year olds.
"I don't think anyone will ever fully understand Michael and Maria," Kyle said with a smile.
"Shut up," Michael muttered.
"Yeah," Maria added. After a slight pause she added, "Besides, no one needs to understand us, we understand each other, right spaceboy?" she asked with an infectious smile.
"Right, Blondie," Michael replied with a small smile of his own.
"And now they're friends," Kyle said. "How long do you think it'll be before they're enemies again?" he asked Tess sarcastically.
"I give them ten minutes, tops," Tess replied with a laugh.
"I seriously hate the both of you so much right now," Maria said with a roll of her eyes.
"Ditto," Michael added.
"And we love you too," Tess said with a large smile. "Now be quiet so that we can finish this assignment before the bell rings," she added before turning her attention back to her notebook.
Kyle, seeing that Tess had everything under control, laid his head back on the table, hoping to get a nap with the twenty minutes he had left of class. However, his head barely made it to the table before Tess's notebook got reacquainted with the back of it.
"I'm telling you right now, Valenti, wake up and get to work, or I swear I'll zap you with my death ray eyes!" she whispered.
"Death ray eyes!" Kyle exclaimed in a loud whisper. "You can't really do that, can you?" he asked. Seeing Tess dark glare, he turned his attention to Maria. "She can't really do that, can she?" he asked her nervously.
"If you do your work, you won't have to find out," Maria replied with an amused smile before turning in her seat to work with Michael.
"You heard her," Tess said. "Start answering those questions before I get mad!"
"This is you when you're not mad?" Kyle asked incredulously.
"Just shut up and start working," Tess said before getting back to work.
Later that Night at the Crashdown...
"Hey, Max, did you figure out the answer to that math question, yet?" Liz asked.
"No, not yet," Max replied as he fixed himself a drink behind the counter.
"I don't get this problem!" Liz exclaimed in aggravation. "I've been working on it for twenty minutes and I just don't get it!"
"Let me see it," Alex said as he took Liz's book and looked at the problem. After a minute, he gave the book back to Liz.
"It's 45," he said nonchalantly before making his way back to his stool by the counter.
"Showoff," Liz muttered. "Just because you have super genius powers...." Alex laughed at Liz's comment before going back to his own homework assignment.
"Valenti! Hurry up and get out here, we've got homework to finish," Tess yelled from her booth.
"I'm coming, I'm coming, don't get your panties in a twist," Kyle muttered as he walked in from the back room.
"It's hard not to when you're around—you just do it for me, Valenti," Tess replied with a wink. She got just the reaction she was expecting when she saw Kyle blush five shades of red.
"I gotta say, Kyle, the tomato look really suits you," Michael said before laughing harder at Kyle's embarrassed expression.
"It certainly does," Maria concurred with a smile.
"Aww, did I embarrass you, Kyle," Tess asked in an innocent tone, unable to stop herself from smiling.
"I thought you said we had a lot of homework to do," Kyle said, wanting to take the attention away from himself.
"Yeah, I said that like an hour ago," Tess replied. "Geez, does it really take that long to close up a restaurant?" she asked in annoyance.
"It does when no one helps," Kyle replied while glaring at Alex who was also supposed to help him close up tonight.
"Don't look at me like that," Alex said. "My shift ended and hour before closing; I didn't have close," he persisted.
"You could have helped. It's not like you were doing anything else besides annoying Isabel," Kyle replied before taking a seat across form Tess.
"Ain't that the truth," Isabel muttered.
"You and I both know that you enjoy my company, Isabel, "Alex said with a goofy smile. "You just like to use sarcasm to hide your real feelings."
"And what would those real feelings be?" Isabel asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Those feelings would be the unconditional, unyielding love and passion that you have for me," he said as he put his arms around her shoulders.
"You wish, Whitman," Isabel said with a roll of her eyes before she shrugged Alex's hand off of her and walked over to Tess and Kyle's booth.
"Oh, yeah, she wants me," Alex said to Maria and Michael who were sitting at a table right behind him.
"Yeah, I see what you're talking about," Maria replied sarcastically before giggling at Alex's goofy expression.
"You're really sad, Alex, you know that right?" Max said as he took a seat beside Alex.
"This coming from the guy who spends all of his time gawking at Liz when he thinks no one is looking?" Alex said quietly, not want Maria to hear him.
"I do not gawk," Max protested. "I simply—"
"You simply gawk, Maxwell—accept it," Alex interrupted with a confident smile.
"Whatever," Max mumbled.
"What was that, Max," Alex asked in a taunting tone.
"Shut up," Max murmured before letting himself and Alex get back to their homework.
"This sucks!" Kyle exclaimed almost an hour later.
"What is it now?"
"We're eight, young teenagers, and instead of enjoying our time away from school, we're spending our night in an empty restaurant doing homework. We should be doing something fun, exhilarating; we need excitement!"
"We're eight aliens training for a war with an alien tyrant—how much more excitement could you possibly need?" Michael said.
"I'm talking about fun excitement—not the type of excitement where you know you could die at any moment," Kyle replied easily, not even realizing that he had just accepted his possible, maybe inevitable, death.
"All right, Kyle, what do you propose we do?" Liz asked as she closed her book, happy to have a break from her homework.
"Well, I don't know, but I'm sure I'll think of something," Kyle replied sheepishly.
"You guys could tell us about your powers," Maria suggested. "Aside from Michael, I don't really know how the rest of you did on Saturday in the desert," she said.
"That's a good idea," Isabel agreed.
"Good, then it's settled," Maria said. "Kyle, why don't you start, since you wanted to do something different," she suggested.
"Fine by me," Kyle said as he prepared blast a saltshaker on the counter near Alex. Before he could even raise his hand, a knock at the door stopped him.
"Who the hell could that be?" Alex asked.
"Who knows?" Kyle said with a shrug before he began to make his way over to the front door. He opened the door to see a young blonde female standing in front of him. "Can I help you?" he asked the girl.
"Hi, I'm actually lost and my cell phone has low battery. I was hoping you'd allow me to just make a quick phone call to my friend so she can give me directions," the girl replied with a smile.
"Yeah, sure," Kyle said as he let the girl in. "I'm Kyle, and that's Alex, Max, Michael, Maria, Liz, Tess, and Isabel," he said as he pointed to everyone in the restaurant.
"Hi, I'm Courtney," the girl replied with a wave. She let her eyes linger on Michael and Maria before turning to greet everyone else in the room.
Maria looked at the girl quizzically, unable to figure out why she looked so familiar.
"What's wrong?" Michael asked in a whisper, seeing the perplexed look on Maria's face.
"I don't know, she just looks so familiar," Maria replied, unable to take her eyes off of Courtney as she talked to Kyle.
"I know what you mean," Michael replied.
"You've seen her before?" Maria asked.
"No, she doesn't even look remotely familiar to me," Michael said. "There's just something about her that rubs me the wrong way—it's like I knew instantly not to trust her."
"Yeah, same here," Maria replied. "I don't like these feelings I'm getting and I'm going to find out why I'm getting them."
"What are you going to do?" he asked. Maria ignored his question and turned her attention to Courtney.
"So, Courtney, where are you from?" she asked.
"I was born and raised in Arizona," Courtney replied with ease.
"So what are you doing in Roswell?" Michael asked, joining in on Maria's questioning.
"I'm visiting a few friends here; it's been a while since I've seen them so I decided to drop by" she replied.
"Interesting," Maria said quietly, still looking at Courtney warily.
"How so?" Courtney asked.
"Well, it's just surprising that someone would just travel out of state in the middle of the school year just to visit a few friends," Maria replied.
"Yeah, well I'm full of surprises," Courtney said with a cold smile. Maria gasped a Courtney's smile and grabbed onto Michael's hand. Suddenly she was thrown into a flashback
*Flashback*
Rayana blinked rapidly before finally opening her eyes completely. She had a massive headache and she had no idea what happened to her. She looked around her, hoping to find something that looked even remotely familiar to her. Noticing that she was in one of the living rooms of the Royal Palace, she let out a relieved breath.
"At least I'm on safe territory," she said to herself as she rose from her position on the floor.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that," a voice said coldly. Rayana quickly turned her head in the direction of the voice and immediately groaned.
"And my massive headache just got worse," she muttered to herself. "What the hell are you doing here Ceiana?" she asked irritably.
"So nice to see you too, Rayana," Ceiana replied with a glare.
"How the hell did you get in here?" Rayana asked.
"Do you hear that, Rayana?" Ceiana asked. "It's bombs going off all around the palace. It's not hard to get in when thousands of your so- called soldiers and bodyguards are out there fighting instead of protecting the palace," she said smugly.
"You set them up?!" Rayana asked incredulously. "How the hell did set up an entire battle on your own?"
"It's actually quite easy...when you've got the right connections," Ceiana replied.
"You mean you actually found someone dumb enough to work with you?" Rayana asked with a roll of her eyes.
"Now, I would hardly call Khivar dumb, Rayana," Ceiana replied coldly.
"Khi—Khivar?" Rayana asked in a shaken voice. "You're working with Khivar?"
"Yes, I am, and let me tell you, it's the most fun I've ever had. I really don't understand why so many people hate him," she replied.
"Maybe it's because he's killed thousands of people without a second thought," Rayana replied sarcastically.
"Oh well, they probably all deserved it," Ceiana replied with a shrug.
"Why are you here, Ceiana?" Rayana asked exhaustingly.
"To kill you, of course," she replied.
"Kill me?" Rayana asked with a laugh. "How many times have you come to 'kill' me and failed tremendously? You've kidnapped me, tortured me, hell you've even come really close to killing me, but you've never been able to succeed, have you?" she asked.
"Yeah, well things are going to change now," Ceiana replied confidently. "I've put up with you stealing Rath from me for too long; it stops now."
"Excuse me? I 'stole' Rath from you? Newsflash, Ceiana, Rath was never yours to begin with. That was just some sad fantasy of yours that never came true," she said uninterestedly.
"You're wrong! Rath and I would have been together if you weren't in the picture!"
"You keep telling yourself that," Rayana replied as she unconsciously began to look at all the possible exits for her escape—a habit that Rath had taught her when they were kids and were trying to escape the boring confines of the palace. Turning back to Ceiana, she saw that she was still glaring at her.
"You're not going to get away this time, Rayana," Ceiana said. "I'm going to finally get rid of you and then Rath will be all mine," she said confidently.
"Whatever," Rayana said with a roll of her eyes. "Look if you don't mind, I'd like to go find my family. Hopefully, I won't see you anytime soon," she said as she turned around and began to walk away. Before she could get far, Ceiana raised her hand and knocked Rayana halfway across the room with a blast of energy.
"Not so strong now, are you?" Ceiana asked with a small smile as she saw Rayana struggle to get back up.
"Wow, Ceiana," Rayana started as she finally rose. "You're going for low blows now—I'm surprised."
"Yeah, well I'm full of surprises," Ceiana replied with an icy smile before she was hit with a large energy blast that brought her to her knees.
"So am I," Rath said as he lowered his hand an approached Rayana. "You okay, babe?" he asked.
"Yeah, I've just got a huge headache," Rayana replied. "I think she knocked me out," she said, pointing to Ceiana.
"She must have gotten to you while we were trying to protect the palace," Rath said as he bent down and looked at Ceiana. "You made a big mistake by coming here, Ceiana," he said harshly.
"Rath, please, listen to me," Ceiana said nervously.
"Listen to you? You, the girl who's tried to kill my wife numerous times, want me to listen to you? Sorry, not going to happen, Ceiana. You had your chance to leave us alone; you had more than one chance to just stay away from us, but you didn't learn. Well I'm done giving you chances to live—this ends now," he said as he raised his hand and prepared to kill her.
"Don't do this, Rath," Ceiana said. "You'll regret it," she insisted.
"Highly unlikely," Rayana said with a roll of her eyes.
"Khivar will get you for this. I'm one of his most trusted soldiers, he come after you," Ceiana insisted.
"He's already coming after us, Ceiana," Rath said. "We might as well get something out of this godforsaken war," he added with a smirk as he produced an energy ball.
"You'll both regret this, I'll see to it," Ceiana threatened. And before she could say anything else, Rayana blasted her, killing her instantly.
"You think she meant what she said," Rath asked Rayana as he waved his hand over the dust that was once Ceiana.
"Normally, I wouldn't think so, but she was working with Khivar. Ceiana, although very annoying, can be very dangerous when she wants to be. With Khivar on her side, who knows what the hell those two could do together," she replied.
"It doesn't matter anyway," Rath said as he took Rayana's hand in his. "Come on, we've got to get back out there and fight, our soldiers are barely surviving," he said before walking out of the room, Rayana following not too far behind.
*End Flashback*
Maria jumped out of her chair, knocking it over in the process. She let go of Michael's hands and looked in his eyes. The look on his face was enough to let her know that he had experienced the flashback with her. Turning back to Courtney, she saw her looking at Michael and herself with barely concealed anger. Before anyone could say anything Maria raised her hand blasted Courtney across the restaurant.
"Maria!" Kyle exclaimed, already heading over to help Courtney up.
"Kyle, don't touch her!" Michael yelled as he rose from his seat and stood beside Maria.
"Wow," Courtney said as she rose from her position of the floor. "I must say, Rayana, your blasts have gotten weaker. I guess Earth changed you more than I thought," she said before raising her hand and blasting Maria across the room, shocking everyone in the room except Michael. "Fortunately for me, my powers are just as powerful," she added.
"And unfortunately for you, your intelligence has also remained the same," Maria said, raising from the floor and walking towards Courtney. "I would have thought that you would have learned not to go against me in a fight, Ceiana," she said.
"Well, I couldn't just leave without a proper goodbye," Courtney said with a sick smile. "After all, I never got a chance to on Antar," she said coldly, turning to Michael as she added the last part.
"Yeah, you were too busy trying to kill her," Michael replied with a glare. "But luckily for us, your own stupidity was your downfall," he added.
"Excuse me?" Courtney asked indignantly, turning all of her attention to Michael.
"You heard me," Michael said. "You always did like to gloat, Ceiana. Didn't Khivar ever teach you? You should never relax until the job is done—apparently you didn't get the memo. Your stupidity in not killing Maria the first chance you got is what caused your death," he said.
"Well, things are going to be different this time around," Courtney said self-assuredly. "Especially since word around town is that you aren't as strong as you used to be, Rath; the same goes for the rest of you," she said with a smile as she looked around the entire restaurant.
"Care to test that theory?" Maria asked with a glare.
"Maria, what the hell is going on!?" Isabel asked angrily.
"Oh, Lonnie always the impatient one, aren't you?" Courtney taunted.
"Don't call me that," Isabel said instinctively, unsure why the nickname bothered her so much.
"Oh, that's right, you don't remember," Courtney said with a smug smile. "Khivar used to call you that all the time—you used to love it."
"Don't listen to her, Izzy," Maria said. "She's lying."
"All right, so maybe I am," Courtney said with a shrug. "But I scared you for a second, didn't I?" she asked Isabel with a sadistic smile.
"As fun as this is, I'm afraid we're going to have to cut this short," Maria said as she raised her hand. "I commend you on having the guts to come after us again, Ceiana, but once again you've failed."
"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about that," Courtney said before surprising everyone in the room by throwing an energy blast at Michael instead of Maria.
Before Maria could blast Courtney, Michael had already produced an energy ball and threw it at Courtney, brining her to her knees. Maria joined in by throwing another blast at Courtney, making her fall completely on the ground. Without waiting, Maria rushed over to Michael and helped him up. Together, they quickly made their way to a dying Courtney.
"It's kind of like déjà vu, isn't it?" Maria asked with a small smile.
"Maybe," Courtney said weakly. "But this time, I may have won," she said with a smile of her own.
"How so?" Michael asked with a raised eyebrow. "You're the only one left for dead," he said.
"No, I'm not," Courtney said as she coughed harshly. "I may not have hurt you physically, but I did hurt you. I'll let Khivar finish you off."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Maria asked, afraid of the certainty she saw in Courtney's eyes.
"You'll find out soon enough," Courtney said before closing her eyes for the final time. A few seconds later, she was nothing but dust.
"What the hell was that!?" Alex exclaimed after Courtney's body disappeared.
"And what the hell was she talking about? How the hell did she hurt you if she's the one that's dying?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know," Michael said in a confused tone. He stood there, trying to figure out what Courtney's words meant.
"She's not the only one," Maria said quietly as recognition dawned on her. Turning to Michael with wide eyes, she saw that he came to the same conclusion as her.
"She's not the only one dying," Michael said quietly, almost afraid that something would happen if he said the words any louder.
"Amy!"
"Jim!"
And before anyone could say anything, Michael and Maria were running out of the restaurant and to their respected cars. Less than five seconds later, their six friends were following them, each rushing to make sure Courtney really was the only one left for dead.
TBC...
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Chapter 10
"It's A."
"It's C."
"Listen, you nimrod, I know what I'm doing, and the answer is A."
"I'm not a nimrod, you cheesehead. And the answer's C."
"A."
"C."
"Would you both shut up!? And for your information, the answer's D."
Michael and Maria turned around in their seats to glare Tess. Tess simply rolled her eyes, annoyed with their behavior; Michael and Maria had spent the last ten minutes arguing over the answer to a physics question, and they were quickly pissing her off.
"Who the hell was talking to you?" Michael asked rudely.
"Well if you didn't want me to interfere, you should have kept your voices low. Some of us are trying to finish our own work," Tess replied haughtily.
"Yeah, I can see how hard-working Kyle is being," Maria said sarcastically, pointing to the sleeping boy next to Tess.
"Wake up!" Tess exclaimed, hitting Kyle over the head with her notebook.
"Wha—what?" Kyle exclaimed as he tried to shake off his tiredness. "What the hell did you hit me for?" he asked Tess angrily.
"In case you forgot, we're in class," Tess said, pointing to the students all around her. "And we have to finish this assignment before the bell rings, so stop sleeping and start helping or I'll make sure Mrs. Jackson knows that you didn't help whatsoever," she said with a glare.
"Fine, geez, you don't have to be so cranky about it," Kyle mumbled.
"What was that, Valenti?" Tess asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing, nothing," Kyle replied quickly.
"Good one, Kyle," Michael said sarcastically.
"Oh, shut up, at least he tries to cooperate, unlike some people I know," Maria said, looking pointedly at Michael.
"Maybe I'd cooperate if I had a partner who didn't feel the need to comment on every little thing I did," Michael bit back.
"Well maybe—"
"Oh, for the love of God, would you two please shut up!" Tess exclaimed. "I seriously don't understand you two," she muttered, unable to understand the weird relationship of her sister and Michael.
Just two days ago, she had come home on Saturday night to see Maria talking to Michael on the phone with a goofy smile on her face. After Maria hung up with Michael, she had made Tess, Isabel, and Liz sit in her room for almost an hour as she reiterated her entire conversation with Michael to them. But now, only two days later, she and Michael were back to bickering and arguing like five year olds.
"I don't think anyone will ever fully understand Michael and Maria," Kyle said with a smile.
"Shut up," Michael muttered.
"Yeah," Maria added. After a slight pause she added, "Besides, no one needs to understand us, we understand each other, right spaceboy?" she asked with an infectious smile.
"Right, Blondie," Michael replied with a small smile of his own.
"And now they're friends," Kyle said. "How long do you think it'll be before they're enemies again?" he asked Tess sarcastically.
"I give them ten minutes, tops," Tess replied with a laugh.
"I seriously hate the both of you so much right now," Maria said with a roll of her eyes.
"Ditto," Michael added.
"And we love you too," Tess said with a large smile. "Now be quiet so that we can finish this assignment before the bell rings," she added before turning her attention back to her notebook.
Kyle, seeing that Tess had everything under control, laid his head back on the table, hoping to get a nap with the twenty minutes he had left of class. However, his head barely made it to the table before Tess's notebook got reacquainted with the back of it.
"I'm telling you right now, Valenti, wake up and get to work, or I swear I'll zap you with my death ray eyes!" she whispered.
"Death ray eyes!" Kyle exclaimed in a loud whisper. "You can't really do that, can you?" he asked. Seeing Tess dark glare, he turned his attention to Maria. "She can't really do that, can she?" he asked her nervously.
"If you do your work, you won't have to find out," Maria replied with an amused smile before turning in her seat to work with Michael.
"You heard her," Tess said. "Start answering those questions before I get mad!"
"This is you when you're not mad?" Kyle asked incredulously.
"Just shut up and start working," Tess said before getting back to work.
Later that Night at the Crashdown...
"Hey, Max, did you figure out the answer to that math question, yet?" Liz asked.
"No, not yet," Max replied as he fixed himself a drink behind the counter.
"I don't get this problem!" Liz exclaimed in aggravation. "I've been working on it for twenty minutes and I just don't get it!"
"Let me see it," Alex said as he took Liz's book and looked at the problem. After a minute, he gave the book back to Liz.
"It's 45," he said nonchalantly before making his way back to his stool by the counter.
"Showoff," Liz muttered. "Just because you have super genius powers...." Alex laughed at Liz's comment before going back to his own homework assignment.
"Valenti! Hurry up and get out here, we've got homework to finish," Tess yelled from her booth.
"I'm coming, I'm coming, don't get your panties in a twist," Kyle muttered as he walked in from the back room.
"It's hard not to when you're around—you just do it for me, Valenti," Tess replied with a wink. She got just the reaction she was expecting when she saw Kyle blush five shades of red.
"I gotta say, Kyle, the tomato look really suits you," Michael said before laughing harder at Kyle's embarrassed expression.
"It certainly does," Maria concurred with a smile.
"Aww, did I embarrass you, Kyle," Tess asked in an innocent tone, unable to stop herself from smiling.
"I thought you said we had a lot of homework to do," Kyle said, wanting to take the attention away from himself.
"Yeah, I said that like an hour ago," Tess replied. "Geez, does it really take that long to close up a restaurant?" she asked in annoyance.
"It does when no one helps," Kyle replied while glaring at Alex who was also supposed to help him close up tonight.
"Don't look at me like that," Alex said. "My shift ended and hour before closing; I didn't have close," he persisted.
"You could have helped. It's not like you were doing anything else besides annoying Isabel," Kyle replied before taking a seat across form Tess.
"Ain't that the truth," Isabel muttered.
"You and I both know that you enjoy my company, Isabel, "Alex said with a goofy smile. "You just like to use sarcasm to hide your real feelings."
"And what would those real feelings be?" Isabel asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Those feelings would be the unconditional, unyielding love and passion that you have for me," he said as he put his arms around her shoulders.
"You wish, Whitman," Isabel said with a roll of her eyes before she shrugged Alex's hand off of her and walked over to Tess and Kyle's booth.
"Oh, yeah, she wants me," Alex said to Maria and Michael who were sitting at a table right behind him.
"Yeah, I see what you're talking about," Maria replied sarcastically before giggling at Alex's goofy expression.
"You're really sad, Alex, you know that right?" Max said as he took a seat beside Alex.
"This coming from the guy who spends all of his time gawking at Liz when he thinks no one is looking?" Alex said quietly, not want Maria to hear him.
"I do not gawk," Max protested. "I simply—"
"You simply gawk, Maxwell—accept it," Alex interrupted with a confident smile.
"Whatever," Max mumbled.
"What was that, Max," Alex asked in a taunting tone.
"Shut up," Max murmured before letting himself and Alex get back to their homework.
"This sucks!" Kyle exclaimed almost an hour later.
"What is it now?"
"We're eight, young teenagers, and instead of enjoying our time away from school, we're spending our night in an empty restaurant doing homework. We should be doing something fun, exhilarating; we need excitement!"
"We're eight aliens training for a war with an alien tyrant—how much more excitement could you possibly need?" Michael said.
"I'm talking about fun excitement—not the type of excitement where you know you could die at any moment," Kyle replied easily, not even realizing that he had just accepted his possible, maybe inevitable, death.
"All right, Kyle, what do you propose we do?" Liz asked as she closed her book, happy to have a break from her homework.
"Well, I don't know, but I'm sure I'll think of something," Kyle replied sheepishly.
"You guys could tell us about your powers," Maria suggested. "Aside from Michael, I don't really know how the rest of you did on Saturday in the desert," she said.
"That's a good idea," Isabel agreed.
"Good, then it's settled," Maria said. "Kyle, why don't you start, since you wanted to do something different," she suggested.
"Fine by me," Kyle said as he prepared blast a saltshaker on the counter near Alex. Before he could even raise his hand, a knock at the door stopped him.
"Who the hell could that be?" Alex asked.
"Who knows?" Kyle said with a shrug before he began to make his way over to the front door. He opened the door to see a young blonde female standing in front of him. "Can I help you?" he asked the girl.
"Hi, I'm actually lost and my cell phone has low battery. I was hoping you'd allow me to just make a quick phone call to my friend so she can give me directions," the girl replied with a smile.
"Yeah, sure," Kyle said as he let the girl in. "I'm Kyle, and that's Alex, Max, Michael, Maria, Liz, Tess, and Isabel," he said as he pointed to everyone in the restaurant.
"Hi, I'm Courtney," the girl replied with a wave. She let her eyes linger on Michael and Maria before turning to greet everyone else in the room.
Maria looked at the girl quizzically, unable to figure out why she looked so familiar.
"What's wrong?" Michael asked in a whisper, seeing the perplexed look on Maria's face.
"I don't know, she just looks so familiar," Maria replied, unable to take her eyes off of Courtney as she talked to Kyle.
"I know what you mean," Michael replied.
"You've seen her before?" Maria asked.
"No, she doesn't even look remotely familiar to me," Michael said. "There's just something about her that rubs me the wrong way—it's like I knew instantly not to trust her."
"Yeah, same here," Maria replied. "I don't like these feelings I'm getting and I'm going to find out why I'm getting them."
"What are you going to do?" he asked. Maria ignored his question and turned her attention to Courtney.
"So, Courtney, where are you from?" she asked.
"I was born and raised in Arizona," Courtney replied with ease.
"So what are you doing in Roswell?" Michael asked, joining in on Maria's questioning.
"I'm visiting a few friends here; it's been a while since I've seen them so I decided to drop by" she replied.
"Interesting," Maria said quietly, still looking at Courtney warily.
"How so?" Courtney asked.
"Well, it's just surprising that someone would just travel out of state in the middle of the school year just to visit a few friends," Maria replied.
"Yeah, well I'm full of surprises," Courtney said with a cold smile. Maria gasped a Courtney's smile and grabbed onto Michael's hand. Suddenly she was thrown into a flashback
*Flashback*
Rayana blinked rapidly before finally opening her eyes completely. She had a massive headache and she had no idea what happened to her. She looked around her, hoping to find something that looked even remotely familiar to her. Noticing that she was in one of the living rooms of the Royal Palace, she let out a relieved breath.
"At least I'm on safe territory," she said to herself as she rose from her position on the floor.
"I wouldn't be too sure about that," a voice said coldly. Rayana quickly turned her head in the direction of the voice and immediately groaned.
"And my massive headache just got worse," she muttered to herself. "What the hell are you doing here Ceiana?" she asked irritably.
"So nice to see you too, Rayana," Ceiana replied with a glare.
"How the hell did you get in here?" Rayana asked.
"Do you hear that, Rayana?" Ceiana asked. "It's bombs going off all around the palace. It's not hard to get in when thousands of your so- called soldiers and bodyguards are out there fighting instead of protecting the palace," she said smugly.
"You set them up?!" Rayana asked incredulously. "How the hell did set up an entire battle on your own?"
"It's actually quite easy...when you've got the right connections," Ceiana replied.
"You mean you actually found someone dumb enough to work with you?" Rayana asked with a roll of her eyes.
"Now, I would hardly call Khivar dumb, Rayana," Ceiana replied coldly.
"Khi—Khivar?" Rayana asked in a shaken voice. "You're working with Khivar?"
"Yes, I am, and let me tell you, it's the most fun I've ever had. I really don't understand why so many people hate him," she replied.
"Maybe it's because he's killed thousands of people without a second thought," Rayana replied sarcastically.
"Oh well, they probably all deserved it," Ceiana replied with a shrug.
"Why are you here, Ceiana?" Rayana asked exhaustingly.
"To kill you, of course," she replied.
"Kill me?" Rayana asked with a laugh. "How many times have you come to 'kill' me and failed tremendously? You've kidnapped me, tortured me, hell you've even come really close to killing me, but you've never been able to succeed, have you?" she asked.
"Yeah, well things are going to change now," Ceiana replied confidently. "I've put up with you stealing Rath from me for too long; it stops now."
"Excuse me? I 'stole' Rath from you? Newsflash, Ceiana, Rath was never yours to begin with. That was just some sad fantasy of yours that never came true," she said uninterestedly.
"You're wrong! Rath and I would have been together if you weren't in the picture!"
"You keep telling yourself that," Rayana replied as she unconsciously began to look at all the possible exits for her escape—a habit that Rath had taught her when they were kids and were trying to escape the boring confines of the palace. Turning back to Ceiana, she saw that she was still glaring at her.
"You're not going to get away this time, Rayana," Ceiana said. "I'm going to finally get rid of you and then Rath will be all mine," she said confidently.
"Whatever," Rayana said with a roll of her eyes. "Look if you don't mind, I'd like to go find my family. Hopefully, I won't see you anytime soon," she said as she turned around and began to walk away. Before she could get far, Ceiana raised her hand and knocked Rayana halfway across the room with a blast of energy.
"Not so strong now, are you?" Ceiana asked with a small smile as she saw Rayana struggle to get back up.
"Wow, Ceiana," Rayana started as she finally rose. "You're going for low blows now—I'm surprised."
"Yeah, well I'm full of surprises," Ceiana replied with an icy smile before she was hit with a large energy blast that brought her to her knees.
"So am I," Rath said as he lowered his hand an approached Rayana. "You okay, babe?" he asked.
"Yeah, I've just got a huge headache," Rayana replied. "I think she knocked me out," she said, pointing to Ceiana.
"She must have gotten to you while we were trying to protect the palace," Rath said as he bent down and looked at Ceiana. "You made a big mistake by coming here, Ceiana," he said harshly.
"Rath, please, listen to me," Ceiana said nervously.
"Listen to you? You, the girl who's tried to kill my wife numerous times, want me to listen to you? Sorry, not going to happen, Ceiana. You had your chance to leave us alone; you had more than one chance to just stay away from us, but you didn't learn. Well I'm done giving you chances to live—this ends now," he said as he raised his hand and prepared to kill her.
"Don't do this, Rath," Ceiana said. "You'll regret it," she insisted.
"Highly unlikely," Rayana said with a roll of her eyes.
"Khivar will get you for this. I'm one of his most trusted soldiers, he come after you," Ceiana insisted.
"He's already coming after us, Ceiana," Rath said. "We might as well get something out of this godforsaken war," he added with a smirk as he produced an energy ball.
"You'll both regret this, I'll see to it," Ceiana threatened. And before she could say anything else, Rayana blasted her, killing her instantly.
"You think she meant what she said," Rath asked Rayana as he waved his hand over the dust that was once Ceiana.
"Normally, I wouldn't think so, but she was working with Khivar. Ceiana, although very annoying, can be very dangerous when she wants to be. With Khivar on her side, who knows what the hell those two could do together," she replied.
"It doesn't matter anyway," Rath said as he took Rayana's hand in his. "Come on, we've got to get back out there and fight, our soldiers are barely surviving," he said before walking out of the room, Rayana following not too far behind.
*End Flashback*
Maria jumped out of her chair, knocking it over in the process. She let go of Michael's hands and looked in his eyes. The look on his face was enough to let her know that he had experienced the flashback with her. Turning back to Courtney, she saw her looking at Michael and herself with barely concealed anger. Before anyone could say anything Maria raised her hand blasted Courtney across the restaurant.
"Maria!" Kyle exclaimed, already heading over to help Courtney up.
"Kyle, don't touch her!" Michael yelled as he rose from his seat and stood beside Maria.
"Wow," Courtney said as she rose from her position of the floor. "I must say, Rayana, your blasts have gotten weaker. I guess Earth changed you more than I thought," she said before raising her hand and blasting Maria across the room, shocking everyone in the room except Michael. "Fortunately for me, my powers are just as powerful," she added.
"And unfortunately for you, your intelligence has also remained the same," Maria said, raising from the floor and walking towards Courtney. "I would have thought that you would have learned not to go against me in a fight, Ceiana," she said.
"Well, I couldn't just leave without a proper goodbye," Courtney said with a sick smile. "After all, I never got a chance to on Antar," she said coldly, turning to Michael as she added the last part.
"Yeah, you were too busy trying to kill her," Michael replied with a glare. "But luckily for us, your own stupidity was your downfall," he added.
"Excuse me?" Courtney asked indignantly, turning all of her attention to Michael.
"You heard me," Michael said. "You always did like to gloat, Ceiana. Didn't Khivar ever teach you? You should never relax until the job is done—apparently you didn't get the memo. Your stupidity in not killing Maria the first chance you got is what caused your death," he said.
"Well, things are going to be different this time around," Courtney said self-assuredly. "Especially since word around town is that you aren't as strong as you used to be, Rath; the same goes for the rest of you," she said with a smile as she looked around the entire restaurant.
"Care to test that theory?" Maria asked with a glare.
"Maria, what the hell is going on!?" Isabel asked angrily.
"Oh, Lonnie always the impatient one, aren't you?" Courtney taunted.
"Don't call me that," Isabel said instinctively, unsure why the nickname bothered her so much.
"Oh, that's right, you don't remember," Courtney said with a smug smile. "Khivar used to call you that all the time—you used to love it."
"Don't listen to her, Izzy," Maria said. "She's lying."
"All right, so maybe I am," Courtney said with a shrug. "But I scared you for a second, didn't I?" she asked Isabel with a sadistic smile.
"As fun as this is, I'm afraid we're going to have to cut this short," Maria said as she raised her hand. "I commend you on having the guts to come after us again, Ceiana, but once again you've failed."
"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about that," Courtney said before surprising everyone in the room by throwing an energy blast at Michael instead of Maria.
Before Maria could blast Courtney, Michael had already produced an energy ball and threw it at Courtney, brining her to her knees. Maria joined in by throwing another blast at Courtney, making her fall completely on the ground. Without waiting, Maria rushed over to Michael and helped him up. Together, they quickly made their way to a dying Courtney.
"It's kind of like déjà vu, isn't it?" Maria asked with a small smile.
"Maybe," Courtney said weakly. "But this time, I may have won," she said with a smile of her own.
"How so?" Michael asked with a raised eyebrow. "You're the only one left for dead," he said.
"No, I'm not," Courtney said as she coughed harshly. "I may not have hurt you physically, but I did hurt you. I'll let Khivar finish you off."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Maria asked, afraid of the certainty she saw in Courtney's eyes.
"You'll find out soon enough," Courtney said before closing her eyes for the final time. A few seconds later, she was nothing but dust.
"What the hell was that!?" Alex exclaimed after Courtney's body disappeared.
"And what the hell was she talking about? How the hell did she hurt you if she's the one that's dying?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know," Michael said in a confused tone. He stood there, trying to figure out what Courtney's words meant.
"She's not the only one," Maria said quietly as recognition dawned on her. Turning to Michael with wide eyes, she saw that he came to the same conclusion as her.
"She's not the only one dying," Michael said quietly, almost afraid that something would happen if he said the words any louder.
"Amy!"
"Jim!"
And before anyone could say anything, Michael and Maria were running out of the restaurant and to their respected cars. Less than five seconds later, their six friends were following them, each rushing to make sure Courtney really was the only one left for dead.
TBC...
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