Title: Antarian Traditions
Author: Aligewe
Email: aligewe(at)hotmail(dot)com
Rating: PG
Summary: They were all adopted. They have the Destiny Book, but is it real? Suddenly they are on Antar and find out things they would have never dreamt about. Don't like the summary, but I do like the story
Spoilers: none, this is an Alternate Universe Fic
Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than the idea in which the characters are put in
Author's Note: I didn't know how to write the parent scene so... I skipped ahead. So the parents all know about them being aliens and from Antar... everything. Hope you guys like it. Please Read and Review
Antarian Traditions
Chapter 2 – Are We Being Spied On?
August 21st, 2000 (they are about 17 years old) – Saturday Night at the CrashDown
Max, Isabel, and Xander arrived at the CrashDown and saw the sign. "Closed for Private Party. Well we are invited, aren't we?" Xander joked. Isabel just rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, come on, Zan, that is just too lame to laugh about," Isabel said with a smile on her face. "Really… Then why are you smiling?" Zan countered while Max opened the door to the CrashDown Café.
"Hi Maria," Xander said "I thought you said you had study group tonight." Maria was standing behind the counter washing the last couple of glasses that were still dirty from the dinner rush earlier.
"Yeah, we did but we decided to take one day off," Maria said with a smile.
"You should have seen her persuading them to take a day off. It was fun to watch" Kyle said teasingly.
"I can imagine" Xander said laughing.
"Kyle! I didn't have to persuade them. They had to persuade me!" Kyle walked behind the counter and took a couple glasses. Max and Isabel had followed Xander to the counter and were listening.
"Hey, you guys wanna drink something?" Maria asked. They all nodded their head and Maria and Kyle filled another three glasses with Cherry Coke. Max took his glass and walked over to Liz and gave her a quick kiss and then started helping her and Ava set up the booths with food, plates, forks, etc. Michael was looking through the CD stack.
Short after everything was set up and the music was turned on, Alex and Serena arrived as well. Alex walked over to Isabel kissed her and pulled her towards the dance floor they had made. Serena walked over to Xander kissed him and sat down on his lap. They ate; they talked; they danced; they talked some more.
"Hey do you know the new rumor about Pam Troy?" Serena asked. They all shook their head. "They say that she has a new worshipper club, but her 'at-the-moment-boyfriend' is not in it. Can you believe that?" They all looked at each other and bust out laughing.
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Liz was sitting in a booth talking to Kyle and Max. "Liz, come on, dance with us. Please?" Maria, Isabel, Serena and Ava were begging Liz. Ava was trying to pull Liz towards the dance floor to no avail. "I will later, ok?" "Promise!" Serena countered. "Fine, I promise."
Michael was just filling his glass with the usual cherry coke, when he saw somebody walk past the CrashDown's window. 'Mmm, that's weird, normally nobody walks by at this time.' It was already 10:30. 'Oh well, could be a tourist.' And with that it was out of his mind.
Ava was begging Liz again to dance with them.
"Fine." With that she stood up and passed Max who pulled her on his lap and kissed her filled with passion and then spun her off of his lap standing up next to her. Max waved his arm in the direction of the CD-Player and a slow song started and Max and Liz started dancing in each others arms.
"Hey! Mr. Romance, that's unfair. Change the music so she won't dance with us girls" Ava said pouting.
"Come on…" Kyle said with mock annoyance "they have that 'into-my-soul-look' again." He walked up to the stereo and changed the song to a fast song. Max and Liz didn't even notice the music change, they just kept dancing in their own little world.
"Oh man. I changed the music so they would stop, not continue" Kyle said pretending to be upset, but he knew that they wouldn't hear the change.
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A couple songs later every one was sitting except Liz and Max who were still totally lost in their own world.
Maria was looking at Max and Liz again to see if they were done but instead she let her eyes wander outside. She saw three men sitting on the bench next to the entrance door of the UFO museum which was across of the CrashDown. She turned back to the others and said, "Do you see the three men on the bench looking at us?"
"Which men? I don't see one" Was the most often used phrase, or similar ones.
The song changed again and Max and Liz 'woke up' from their trance. They heard the questions that were bombarded at Maria and came back to the booth and took a seat next to Maria. Liz sat down on Max's lap.
"What's going on?"
Michael answered their question "Maria asked if we saw three guys sitting on the bench across the street."
"And?"
"Nobody saw them." Maria just said, "You know what, forget it. I must have been dreaming, or so. So what are we gonna do now?"
"I have an idea, be right back" was all Liz said before jumping from Max's lap and running out the door to the backroom. When she came back she was holding something weird shaped. As she came nearer Ava recognized what it was a screamed, "UNO Attack, I love that game."
They all played that game for quite some time before Max went outside to get his sleeping bag as well as Isabel's and Xander's. They were all going to sleep over at the Parker's.When he unlocked the trunk, he saw a figure hush through the parking lot, but he put it off immediately when didn't see it again. Kyle and Maria had already put their things into their respective rooms. The girls were sleeping in Liz's room because it was bigger than Ava's, and the guys were sleeping in Michael's room. They had all changed into their pajamas, and met in Ava's room again where they would talk until they were sleepy enough to actually sleep.
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Monday night in Liz's room
"Liz? What's going on? Why did you call me?" Max asked near panicking while storming into Liz's room through the half open window. Liz didn't say anything; she just opened the window completely and ushered Max back out onto the roof-patio. Liz closed the window behind her and walked over to the meter high wall across the window and sat down on it. Max stayed in the middle of the roof.
"Max, since Friday there is a guy in the CrashDown throughout the whole day. He only orders coffee and always something different to eat. He sits in the same booth for about 3 hours leaves and comes back around 10 minutes later in different clothes but returns to the same booth he was sitting in before, unless somebody else occupied it while he was gone. I also saw him at school when I got out today. Maria noticed him as well."
"Does he know that you recognized him?"
"I don't think so."
"Good. I also noticed a guy near our house but I didn't think anything by it because of the playground across the street and there are always some children playing. But now…" Max trailed off
"We should call the others and tell them to meet us at the chamber at 10 o'clock. Are you off then? Michael and Maria, too?"
"Yeah, we close in about 10 minutes. It is already 9:20. You can use my phone to call them. I will tell Maria and Michael. Ava is over at Kyle's. You can pick up Isabel and Xander, I will get a ride with Maria and Michael will probably use his motorcycle. Can you call Alex, and Serena?"
"Sure." Liz stood up to go to the window but Max suddenly stepped in front of her and kissed her on the lips. It was a quick but passionate kiss that turned into a hug.
"We will be ok, Liz", was all that Max said before climbing down the ladder to his car. He called the others from his cell phone while driving home to pick up Isabel and Xander. He called the Whitman's, and the Valenti's and told them all to meet at ten in the chamber. They didn't ask questions. Max called Isabel to tell her and Xander to be ready when he got there.
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"Michael, after we close we have to go to the chamber", Liz whispered to Michael who was still standing at the grill doing the last order. Maria was just serving a young couple and left them quickly again when she saw Liz's worried face. She immediately walked over to Liz behind the counter.
"Maria after we close we have to go to the chamber. The others will be there by ten. Can you give me a ride?"
"Sure, chica. What is this meeting about?" Maria asked worried. Liz didn't say anything she just looked at the one customer in the corner as if making sure that nobody needed service but Maria understood the gesture.
15 minutes later they were ready to go; Michael on his motorcycle; Liz and Maria in the Jetta. When they arrived at the chamber they saw Max's Jeep, Kyle's Mustang, and Serena's Golf. Isabel and Xander had driven with their brother Max, Ava had driven with her boyfriend Kyle, and Alex had driven with his sister Serena. Michael and Maria parked next to the cars and walked up to the chamber that housed the ten pods. When they entered they just heard Max finish telling the others what was going on.
Liz had told Michael and Maria while closing and cleaning the CrashDown. They were all stunned into silence. Slowly they recovered.
"So what should we do now?" Serena asked.
"Serena, don't worry, the big tough guys will protect you and take care of everything else" was Kyle's sassy response. Serena just ignored it because she knew that that was how Kyle dealt with these kind of things.
"I don't know", Max said. "Did you guys see anybody suspicious?" They all seemed to be thinking.
Serena slowly stated, "There was one guy who once came to our house trying to cell a vacuum cleaner. Then later I saw him enter a small black car with tinted windows. And then a couple of times sitting on a bench. Each time he was wearing different clothes and looked slightly different so I didn't recognize him or think about it." Alex agreed with her.
"I think there was also a guy at our house doing the same thing. There was always a guy at the playground. Sometimes even if there were no children playing around", Isabel said in a voice fearful voice what was unusual for the ice-princess (She got the name in first grade from her class mates. Sometimes the 'Czechoslovakians' would also call her that).
Michael said that he saw a guy walk past the CrashDown on Saturday night when normally nobody is on the street anymore. Maria remembered seeing the three men on the bench.
"I want to know who they are and why they are after us" Ava wondered. They all agreed to her statement.
"Well maybe we are just making this whole thing up. Maybe this is all nothing more than coincidence. Who knows?" Serena tried to reason with herself and the others.
In their hearts they all knew that these men were after them. Suddenly the door slid open and in came Nasedo. They haven't seen him in 2 years. They didn't know where he went or why. They just knew that he wasn't there anymore. They were afraid of him. Some of the things he had said the last time they had seen him were frightening.
They all stepped together, the guys in the front protecting the girls behind them. The guys were holding up their hands ready to blast him or shield themselves if necessary. Nasedo didn't say anything he just walked towards them.
Michael, Max, Kyle, Xander, and Alex put their shields up. This shield blocked Nasedo from seeing what they were doing. The girls were holding each others hands and were pulling on the guys t-shirt signaling them to back up farther into the chamber until the girls were with their backs to the pods.
Maria, Liz, Ava, Isabel, and Serena had entered the chamber behind the pods quickly. Kyle and Alex were the first to join them. Short after that Xander and Michael joined them as well. Through the top pods Michael and Kyle joined Max with the shield again, so Max could climb threw. Max stood next to Liz in the front, Xander was standing next to Serena in the back left corner of the granolith. Ava was standing with Kyle, who had joined her in the back right corner. Isabel and Alex were standing between Xander and Serena in the back and Liz and Max in the front. Maria was standing in between Ava and Kyle in the back and Liz and Max in the front. They were standing in a 'V' formation. Michael let go of the shield and joined Maria reaching his hand out so she could take it.
They had all unconsciously joined hands and with Michael joining them, the granolith started humming and they all fell unconsciously to the ground simultaneously.