Gizmo Agino- A Past In Shadow
Chapter-3 Growing Up, And Finding Happiness
Okay, this is one of THE fluffiest cutest, yet funniest chapters! So…..yeah, be warned! Tee-Hee! ;) PS-I only just realized, I accidentally wrote chappie-2 in all bold……….Oh Well.
It was a Friday, in Jump City. And on the Hive's Campus, it wasn't just any Friday, well, for the Hive-7 that is.
As of now, it was a cold, cloudy day, least a foot or two of the five foot snow accumulations had finally melted. School had just let out for the week in Hive Academy, and hoards of anxious students were filing out into the snow capped grounds.
"Hey! Think fast!" Steffauri cried out as she forcefully chucked one of her ice balls See-More. It hit the back of his metallic green helmet, and dented it. He whirled around angrily.
"OH! It's been brought now, bitch!" See-More shouted as he tackled her and the two tumbled violently down a small hill. Meanwhile, the remaining few in the group laughed and walked away to their dorm home across the campus.
"Damn! Out of all of the close homes, they had to give us, ugh, dorm home sixteen! The last damn place on campus!" Private Hive grumbled angrily as he pushed the door open.
As the group, including now, Steffauri and See-More, finally got into the home, everyone set out to do their own thing.
But Jinx watched, knowing the fact that Gizmo was going to his room, again. Jinx slowly followed him, creeping slowly up the stairs as he silently shut his door, with nothing more than a tiny click, of the knob.
Jinx carefully pushed the door open a little, and peered inside, with a single pink, catlike eye.
There, on the floor, she spotted Gizmo, pulling something out from under his bed. It was an elegant old book. Slightly thick, with a light blue color to it, and a gold and red trimming. Several pages were falling out, and it looked as though it'd survived several fires. Judging by the black marks adorning it almost everywhere.
He began to read, almost inaudibly to himself, in some old, cryptic language, that the sorceress had never heard of.
Then as he turned the page, she noticed him frown, and force the book shut, clamping the red ribbon bookmark in the next page. Then, she saw him get down on the floor by his bedside. Placing his hands together, and bowing his head, as though- praying. And he was.
"It's me again. Please, help me find them! Help me find where I come from, and what my birth mom is like. But please, tell me, does she want me back? And if she does, let her know I'm Hive Academy, so she can find me. Amen." Gizmo finished in a meeker voice.
Jinx, now moved to uncontrollable tears by her little friend's gesture, was sobbing on the way to her room.
But she was snapped out of it, by Mammoth's loud voice from downstairs.
"HEY! JINX! WE'RE HUNGRY!" Mammoth cried out, as all of the boy's began to bang down on the poor table, shouting- 'We want food!' repeatedly.
Jinx wiped her reddened eyes and headed for the kitchen, silencing the impatient group.
Later That Night….. Jinx had prepared some delicious Alfredo Cheese pasta. And the group ate in relative silence, accept for a few giggles and jokes being passed around.
Jinx stared across the table, Gizmo was just sadly picking his food, with his chin propped up in his tiny left palm.
"Gizmo? You aren't eating much, are you alright?" Jinx asked in a concerned voice. Gizmo placed his arm back down and looked her. "Yeah, I'm okay. I just, don't feel so good." The small child replied.
"Well, you should eat something, and then go upstairs and rest. OH! And remember, Steff and I are having some people over!" Jinx replied as Gizmo took a few small bites of pasta and walked up to his room.
Jinx and Steffauri just looked to each other with a worried expression as they brought the dishes to the sink.
A few hours later, Jinx walked quietly upstairs in a fair of fuzzy pink slippers. She opened Gizmo's door silently, she found gizmo sitting on the floor, with the book propped open in his lap. Jinx smiled happily, as she marked the book's page, and picked Gizmo up.
As she put him in bed, and tucked him in, she noticed something- shiny around her friend's neck. She picked it up to examine it closer. It was a blue crescent moon with red and yellow flames bursting form it. She slowly turned it over, there on the back. Was a name, etched into it sloppily. It read- CHIHEO. Jinx simply placed it back down and raised an eyebrow.
As she tucked her friend in and walked back into her own room for the night, a strange feeling came to her, as she couldn't get that name out of her head.
"Chiheo? Why does it feel like, I've heard that name somewhere before?" Jinx thought to herself as she closed her door, and prepared for bed.
The Next Day….. Gizmo slowly opened his ominous black eyes, as he popped up and looked his clock, he was shocked to see that it was already 10:42. He normally never slept in later than nine or ten.
As he got dressed, he could hear people downstairs, familiar people that he'd not seen in a long time. It was Bumblebee, along with Mas and Menos. Now, Gizmo hadn't met Mas and Menos, yet, but that was why Bee had brought them along.
As Gizmo walked downstairs, Bumblebee and Jinx looked over to him. Smiling. Steffauri was over the sink, making pancakes the size of hubcaps, for God sakes, and Mas and Menos were watching a Spanish comedy channel on TV.
Bumblebee then got up from her seat and walked over to Gizmo.
"Well, if it isn't the little tech-boy himself. I missed ya, since Hive last year." She said, keeling down in front of him. "Yeah, I'm a member of titans East, Now. Leader too!" She bragged, getting up. "OH! And, there's some people I'd like you to meet." She said, grabbing his arm and pulling him into the attached Living- room.
"This, is Mas, and Menos." She said, as the two twin greeted him, Gizmo did the same. "Mas, Menos, this is Gizmo." She said, pointing down him. "Hola! Gizmo!" The two said. "Hi." Gizmo replied with much less enthusiasm.
Bee then left and walked back to the table.
"So, how old are Mas and Menos?" Steffauri asked. "Eleven, I think. How olds Gizmo?" Bee asked. "Well, he just turned ten about two or three days ago." Jinx said, sipping some of her coffee. "OH, that's cool." Bumble bee said, taking her own coffee mug.
Steffauri and Bee both turned to look Jinx, whom looked as though she was in a dreamy phase of happiness.
"Jinx! HE- LLO!" Steffauri cried out, snapping her friend out of it.
"What's got you so, overtly happy?" Bee asked eagerly, assuming it was a crush or something.
"Well, it's just, that Gizmo's growing up so fast. TOO fast for me, anyway." Jinx smirked. "Jinxie! You're making yourself sound TOO old! And you're talkin' like Gizzy's turning THIRTY!" Bee said, as she and Steff laughed.
"No! What I mean is, well, ever since I became his legal guardian seven years ago, there's been, such a change in him. Maturity and all. But, the point is, I've sheltered that child almost half of his life! And, I want him to grow up, but find happiness by himself. I mean, I love that boy to death, but I won't be around to do things like, pick out his girlfriends, and name his future children! Stuff like that." Jinx said, as the two girls looked her, forlornly.
"Yeah, I suppose I kinda should be thinkin' about double M that way." Bee said, as she looked to the three small boys.
"So you wanna go out back with the other guys?" Gizmo asked, holding open the back door. "Si." The two cried as they filed almost unnoticed out the door.
The back yard was the one place where there was almost no snow left, and mud was everywhere. The boys were just being…..themselves, in other words- fucking up the back yard and getting messy. (Tee-Hee! ;)
See-More was using his heat vision to harden the mud, as he was making various statues of the playboy girls. His favorites least.
"Hey! Think fast!" Private hive shouted Mammoth as he chucked an enormous mud ball the towering behemoth, whom dodged it, and it wound up splattering all over Mas, Menos, and Gizmo. Whom cried out "MUD FIGHT!" And dove in with the twins.
Meanwhile, as the girls talked away, they noticed the boys getting louder and then a large wad of mud splattered all over the kitchen window. Causing all of the girls to snap up and look to the soiled window.
"Oh God NO! They are NOT doing what I think they are, AGAIN! Are they?" Jinx cried out angrily as Bee looked confused.
"What are they doing?" She asked. "Mud wars, fun, but gets Jinx incredibly pissed." Steffauri replied, giggling as the three girls opened the door, the mud fight ceased.
"What- the- HELL, is going on here?" Jinx cried out, demanding an explanation.
Suddenly, her eyes wandered to three little subs, covered in mud from head to toe, sitting in the deep puddle.
"Oh- my- GOD!" Jinx shouted as she walked inside and snatched an old dish rag from a nearby drawer, sauntering disgustedly into the puddle. She pulled each one of the three out and wiped off their mud stained faces. Jinx looked crossly little Gizmo. "What? Private Hive started it! Ask Mas and Menos!" Gizmo piped up, as the twins nodded in agreement.
Jinx merely rolled her eyes and had her two friends pull the three up onto the porch.
"God, I wish Mimi was here! She'd straighten them out right!" Jinx whispered to herself. Mimi however, was away with some other Hive friends the mall for the day.
"You all! Go inside, one of you out, and shower off!" Jinx ordered, as Mammoth dashed past them to use the downstairs shower, Private Hive, upstairs, and unfortunately for See-More, he had to sneak over to the Hive's pool and use the outdoor- shower. (Sucks 4 him!)
"And you three, come with us!" Jinx stated as she, Steffauri and Bumblebee each picked up a child, and walked inside. Jinx ran up to the bathroom and grabbed towels. Then, she walked down to the small basement and grabbed a washtub, and one of those little inflatable baby pools. (Tee-Hee!)
"Okay, I'm ready." Jinx said, winded slightly as she carried the objects up the flight of stairs.
"Ques hora?" Mas asked as Jinx sat the washtub and pool down on the floor. "That's a washtub, and a pool, Mas." Gizmo smirked as Mas laughed a little.
"Yeah, Jinx had to wash our clothes there once 'cause the dorm's washing machine is a piece a crap and kept on breaking down." Gizmo said as the girls filled the two objects with warm bubbly water, and then Bee filled the largest side of the sink.
"Okay, you guys, go put you're clothes in that basket." Steffauri said, as the boys brought towels to go and change by the corner of the stairs.
Meanwhile, the girls remained talkative.
"So, seems like we have a lot of practice with this sorta thing, huh? "Bee smiled as the girls nodded. Just as the boys came back, wrapped in towels.
Bee took Mas and put him in the sink, Steffauri took Menos to the little pool, and Jinx took Gizmo to the washtub." Gizmo immediately began shivering. "It's f-f-free-zz-ing!" He exclaimed, holding his tiny shoulders. Jinx chuckled. "Wouldn't of happened if you hadn't joined the mud fight! AND, it would've been warmer if you'd hurried up changing." She said happily as she scrubbed most of them mud from Gizmo's head and dunked him under into water
"Yeah? Well, YOU try to change with like, fie pounds of mud all over you and you're clothes!" Gizmo retorted, as the three girls laughed. When See-More came back through the back porch's door.
"Hey, you ladies think I could have a shot in those tubs with you!" He joked as Jinx chucked her large muddy sponge him, as they all laughed.
As soon as their baths were over with, the three younger boys sat on the living room floors in nothing but towels, playing videogames. Waiting for their clothes to be done. Mas was winning by 21-points.
"Okay! Clothes are done!" Bee called as the boys stopped the game and went to get dressed.
"Oh, what a day! We'll be sure to check back in soon!" Bumblebee said as she took Mas and Menos out to her car. Jinx and the others waved goodbyes as their friends drove away.
As soon as they'd gotten back into the house, Gizmo let out a loud yawn.
"Aw, it's not even eight thirty yet, and you're already tired!" Jinx cooed contentedly as Gizmo looked her defiantly yet tired once more.
"I'm not tired! I could stay up for hours, days! WEEKS even!" Gizmo said through smaller yawns. But despite her little friend's- 'protest' she scooped him up and carried him to his room.
Mimi had just gotten home and gone to rest. As Jinx closed Gizmo's door, she looked to a shadow in the hallway nearby, for some odd reason, it resembled a sitting man for an instant. A frighteningly familiar silhouette of darkness.
However, she chose to ignore this and walk away. Unknowing to the fact, that it meant her little treasure, was in great danger…..
To Be Continued…..Bum Bum Bum!
PHEW! LOOOONNNG chapter! I hoped you like my little 'cutesy' chapter! Please keep on reading and reviewing! PS-ACCIDENT AND TWO SISTERS WILL BE FINSHED SOON:D