Chapter 22: Hexes, Claws, and Boots
Alara crouched down and lunged forward onto Toad. Wanda began to hex things, including the extra large Fred, who took an especially large amount of energy to hex. Pietro and Lance tried backing up, but they ran into the wall. They watched as Wanda hexed Fred into oblivion. Toad yelped as Alara dug her claws into his arms. Suddenly, the ground began to rumble as Lance started to cause an earthquake. Alara roared and leapt off Toad when he slapped her furry face with his slimy tongue. She swiped at it with her paw and Toad ended up wrapping his tongue around her leg and pulling the giant ball of black fur and claws right on top of him.
Wanda began to hex random things around them as Lance shook the ground violently. Toad passed out on the ground and Alara stood over him growling, a piece of Toad's shirt in her fangs. She spat it out and lunged at Pietro, who stood petrified as Wanda aimed to hex him. Her hex missed and hit the door, cracking it, as Alara landed with her paws on Pietro's shoulders and tipped both of themselves over. He grabbed her paws so that she couldn't scratch him and tried to get off of her by rolling once over her, pinning the beast to the ground. Pietro's eyes widened as she morphed back into a human form on accident. He ended up straddling her waist and pinning her arms down, his face close to hers.
Pietro and Alara stared at each other for a minute, the earth quaking beneath them and hexes flying around their heads. Then, Pietro leaned forward towards Alara, his blue eyes locked with her green eyes. He came so close to kissing her that she could see the stripes in his irises and almost felt his lips on hers, when suddenly a black boot flew into the side of Pietro's head. Alara noticed that the ground had stopped rumbling and Lance held out a hand to help Alara up. Pietro flew off of Alara after the boot's impact. He rubbed his head and sat up.
"LANCE! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Pietro roared.
Alara took Lance's hand and stood up. Pietro stood and brushed himself off.
"You were going to take advantage of her! You had her pinned to the freakin' floor!"
Pietro growled.
"It wasn't as if I did it on purpose."
Alara looked around the house. Everything was trashed. She noticed Toad and Fred twitching on the ground. Wanda was spread out on the couch, visibly exhausted, trying to sleep. Alara yawned sleepily. Pietro noticed this and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Tired, huh?" he asked, faking a yawn. "Me too. All of this fighting has made me exhausted. Let's go up to my room, shall we?"
"WAIT JUST A MINUTE!" Lance hollered. "HOW COME SHE GETS TO SLEEP IN YOUR ROOM?"
Pietro smirked.
"Because you have your pretty Kitty."
Lance growled and raised his fist to punch Pietro in the face, who ducked. Wanda got up from the couch, her eyes drooping.
"I have an idea," Wanda offered, yawning.
Pietro smiled.
"What's that?"
Wanda smirked a tired smirk.
"How about, since Pietro's bed IS the biggest, Alara sleeps there, I sleep on the floor in there, Pietro sleeps on the couch and Lance sleeps in his room?"
Pietro and Lance scowled.
"I don't like that idea at all," Pietro grumbled.
Wanda's eyes burned in fury.
"I STILL HAVE ENOUGH ENERGY FOR ANOTHER HEX. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT IT? I HEARD THE LAST HEX A PERSON DOES IS THE STRONGEST."
Pietro blinked and smiled uneasily.
"On the other hand, sleeping on the couch does seem mighty fun."
"OR," Lance offered. "Pietro, Alara, Wanda, and I all sleep in the same room and Toad and Fred…. Well, they can just sleep on the floor. I don't think they'll be moving until morning."
Wanda glowered.
"I don't trust you two," she snarled.
"And I don't want you or Lance sleeping in my room," Pietro growled at Wanda.
As they argued, Alara made her way upstairs. Her eyes drooped and she yawned, stretching as she walked up the stairs. She turned into a long hallway, the arguing growing quieter as she left. She found a large room and walked in, flicking on the light. It was a fairly clean room. The bed was king-sized with a green silk bedspread and a dark velvet canopy draping down over it. There was a golden vanity across from that and a wooden dresser. She looked around and smiled.
"Pretty," she murmured.
She looked around. Scattered on the floor were boxers, papers, and a comb here and there. She looked in to a door connected to the bedroom and found a beautiful white marble bathroom.
"I didn't think that this place had a clean room anywhere," she thought aloud. "Not to mention this… perfect."
She smiled and walked back into the bedroom. She opened the top drawer of the dresser and found a bunch of boxers. She shuddered and closed it. Then she opened the next one, which contained a bunch of t-shirts. She grinned and grabbed the biggest one in there, which only went down to her mid-thigh when she held it up to her chest. She walked into the bathroom and changed into the t-shirt and, after turning off the lights, crawled into bed, snuggling under the covers.