Chapter 2

Kisses, Loathe, and Bad Asses

'11:55,' Shem thought, 'this school blows. I need lunch, now!'

'Cool your horses.' Kronos said. 'We'll eat don't worry. Now, if Laney asks us to sit by us, you're definetly doing that.' The history teacher was giving a boring speech on some hero. His name was Mr. Knight.

'Your not the one that's feeling the stomach pains, tard.' Shem said. 'Do you always act like that or could you have something else on your mind.'

'Nope, always three things on my mind, fighting, girls, and eating.' Kronos said. Shem was completely oblivious to whatever Mr. Knight was teaching. He was having a better time talking to Kronos in his mind.

"So class, who can tell me the number one hero nowadays?" Mr. Knight asked. Up went Will Stronghold boy who could do anything.

"The Commander, right?" He said.

"Yes, your father is the greatest right now." Mr. Knight said.

'Spare me.' Kronos said. Shem looked up and saw the dullest teacher he had ever heard monologue on and on. Then the bell rang.

"Hey, Will." Shem said. The boy in red, white and blue turned around as they were getting out of thier desks. "When do we start lunch?"

"Right now." Will said. He took off, Will was usually suseptable to meeting new people but his life was going fast right now. He looked around and met Layla. He gave her kiss and locked her hand with his and started towards the cafeteria. Shem walked towards his locker. 12-17-29. He was off by two numbers but the lock opened. He pulled out his two books and put in two others. He stuffed them in his book bag and then walked to the cafeteria. Shem walked into the cafeteria the white walls were shamefully dull, he hated this school. But he hated Ballas just as much so there wasn't much difference to him. He walked down the median of the tables and then saw just a blur of pink as he hit the girl in front of him. "Oh, I'm so sorry." He said.

"Oh, it was my fault." The girl said, she had dark blue eyes and blond hair. She was like an amazing model. She looked oddly familair. Her braces were on and she had pink galore. Pink backpack, pink purse and so on. "I never pay attention. I always am looking for my friends especailly on the first day. I can't seem to find any of them."

"I would like to say, I know how you feel but I don't." Shem said. "This is my first day at Sky High."

"Freshman?" She asked.

"No, sophmore." Shem answered. "What about you?"

"Oh, I'm a sophmore also." The girl said. She was a bit of a contrast to Laney. Laney had brunette hair and brown eyes.

'Wow, this girl is so hot.' Shem said.

'Hey, Romeo, you think this girl is hot, but you don't consider that other piece of fine jewelery in the classroom pretty? I'll never understand you Shem.' Kronos said.

"Well we haven't formaly been introduced. My name's Shem." He held his hand out. She grasped it.

"I'm Mandi. Mandi Powers. You want to sit with my friends when I find them?" She asked.

"Sure, I need a table to sit at." He said. Then it clicked that's the girl from the photograph he saw. He followed her, she found her friends. They sat down at a dull blue table with seats on opposite sides.

"Hey, everyone, this is Shem, this is his first day here." Mandi said.

"Hi." Shem said. "I'm from Ballas Hi-"

"Don't say that high school name around us." The kid in the red said.

"Nice to meet you too." Shem smirked.

"My name is Matt." The kid said. He had a dark tint to his skin. The young person was about 5'9" and pretty broad for a sophmore.

"So, Shem what's your power?" Mandi asked. She gazed at him. Shem was attractive, he was about 5'7" he still had some growing to do, though.

"Yea." Another boy, obviously jealous of him stated.

"I have super reflexes, healing and mastery of unarmed combat." Shem said. He neglected one again. It was like he didn't want them to know that he had an alter-ego.

"Wow, that's alot. You got any other powers hiding under there?" She asked. Shem squirmed he didn't want to let know that at night times Kronos came out.

"I got to get some food, I'm starving." Shem said. He got up and went through the lunch line. On his way out he ran into a tall kid with dark black hair and a red stripe going down it. "Oh, I'm sorry, I keep in running into people." The kid just glared at him. "Hey, your Warren Peace. Nice to meet you, I'm Shem Spieler." He held out his hand. Warren didn't shake it but kept walking towards his table. 'He's sitting with Will?' Shem asked himself. 'Well, he was rude.'

'I like the way he acted, kinda reminds me of myself.' Kronos laughed. 'I would have acted the same way if you bumped into me. Good for him.' Shem rolled his eyes as he walked back to the table he was seated at.

"Hey, I can't believe you actually tried to talk to Peace, man." Matt said. "I start to stutter around him. He is so wierd."

"Besides," a girl said, "he's a total jerk. My name's Cindy." She shook his hand.

"What's your power?" Shem asked back.

"Freezing." Cindy said.

"What about the rest of you?" He asked. They had got his powers but he didn't have there's.

"Mine is like my mother's. It's comets." Mandi said.

"I have molecular dispersion." Matt said. Shem just stared and laughed.

"In English." Shem said.

"I can make body shape into whatever it needs to to fit through or into something." Matt said.

The boy jealous of Shem then spoke out. "I control anything that is an animal, I'm like the aguaman of the land." He said. "By the way, my name is Jacob."

"Nice to meet you." Shem said. 'Well, Kronos, this is cool, I met some people.'

'Yea, these guy's are boring and that Jake guy he totally hates you.' Kronos said.

'Well let's see how many friends you make.' Shem challenged.

'Okay, it's just hard only coming out at night.'

Mandi looked up at Shem. "There's a party at Henry's house. Do you want to go?" She asked.

"Yea, I'll go."

"It's at 8:00." She said.

"I'll be there." Shem said. 'Here's your chance. Don't make us look like idiots. And don't punch the principal's daughter.' Shem said.

'Don't worry, I won't even be around your dorky friends.' Kronos insulted.

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Kronos walked up to the door step of the house. It was big, really big. The second story had three bedrooms while the first story had two. You would think Henry had siblings but he was the only child. Kronos started to walk up the stairs of the house after grabbing a beer. His mom warned him before he left that he shouldn't drink because it was bad for him. Shem wasn't a drinker. She also said that he doesn't heal like Shem. Kronos just laughed at her failed attempt and stated that Shem could heal in his time anyways. At that he took a swig of the beer.

Kronos started to walk up the stairs then he was hit in the shoulder. "Hey, it's cool to see you here." The girl said.

"Hey, Laney." She was wearing exactly the same thing that she was wearing at school. Not Kronos, with the different personality comes different clothes. He had a pair of black Lakai' and a Hurley t-shirt on.

"So, who invited you?" Laney asked.

"Mandi Powers, do you know her?"

"Yea, the preppy cheerleader, who doesn't." Laney laughed. Kronos thought Laney was amazing looking, she was different from all the girls at Ballas, so was Mandi, but Kronos didn't go for the preppy cheerleaders.

"Yea, she annoyed me." Kronos said. Laney was oblivious that Shem had a different personality then when she met him earlier. "So, I got to skip gym today maybe I'll have it tomorrow. I heard that your Save the Citizen is dominated by Will and Warren. I hope to beat them."

"Good luck." Laney laughed. "You should start by trying to beat me. If you can do that you might have a chance against Will."

"I don't think he's as good as everyone says. He's never faced a kid from Ballas high."

"You do think your a bad ass." Laney smirked.

"Maybe I am." Kronos laughed.

"You should be like this all the time. Your alot more braver outside of school." She smiled.

"I try." At that he was tapped on the shoulder. Kronos turned around and stared at the kid touching him.

"I heard your the bad ass from Ballas high." The kid was big. Bigger than most. "And already moving in on our meat."

"You shouldn't call women meat it's demeaning. Besides, I could kick your ass any day." Kronos laughed. The kid was big, but Kronos considered that meant he wasn't very smart. "What's your name?"

"Why does it matter?" The kid asked.

"Cause I like to know who I beat up." Shem smirked.

"It's Derek." The kid fumed. "Your going down, dawg." At that he swung at Kronos. Kronos laughed at him.

"I really don't feel like fighting tonite." Kronos said. "Oh, well." Kronos punched the kid sending him flying into the kitchen. A lot of people clapped for him.

"Nice going." Laney said.

"What are you checking me out?" Kronos turned it around on her.

"Uh, no." She said. "I, uh, was just mentioning, I thought you didn't have super strength?"

"Yea, well my powers change at night. I have advanced strength and stealth." Kronos stated. He left out one. Laney sat down at the table and so did Kronos. They talked about a million and one different things for about three hours. It was about twelve. They had talked about there lives, what there parents do, even though Kronos stayed away from the subject of his father for a while. Laney yawned.

"Tired?" She asked him.

"Nah, I don't really sleep." He said.

"Good, you can walk me home." She said. They got up and walked away from the party. Shem's avid healing made it so the alchohol didn't affect Kronos one bit. They walked on to her house. "So how do you not sleep?" She asked as she was stumbling everywhere. The alchohol affected her a little bit, though.

"It's one of my powers." He stated. Kronos nor Shem wanted to know that they were different personalities.

"Thanks for walking me home, Shem. I would have gotten my boyfriend to do it but he was somewhere else." Laney said.

"Oh, don't call me Shem call me Kronos. It's my middle name." He didn't catch the boyfriend part he was irratated at being called Shem.

"Okay, Kronos." She laughed.

"Wait! Boyfriend?" He asked.

"Yea, but he hasn't been around lately." Laney said. At that she kissed Kronos. His lips pressed up on his teeth. He moved his hand up to Laney's face and kissed her back. He held her head in place. Then they unlocked. "Good night, Kronos." She said. "Thanks for walking me home." Laney walked inside. Kronos started to walk back to the party. Might as well not miss out if you don't have to sleep. Kronos started to like this school every passing moment. He just got back to the party when he saw Will standing there.

"Where did you go with my cousin?" He asked.

"I just walked her home." Kronos said. Will had a couple in him, and obviously he was an angry drunk. There were two kinds of drinkers, one that got drunk and could careless. And others that were angry drunks that got angered easily from there usual nature. Well, there could be three if you count Shem and Kronos.

'Wow.' Shem said. 'I can't believe we got kissed first day.' Shem's mind was only on that.

"Hey, Will. I just walked her home. Chill out." Kronos said and at that he walked past him. Layla walked up to Will and he yelled at her too. He soon saw Layla walk across the backyard pissy. 'Good job, Will.' Kronos thought. Kronos kept on walking. He was getting tired of the party and then met up with Mandi. She was talking with her friends.

"Oh, Shem I didn't know you were here." Mandi said. She walked over to him and gave him a friendly hug.

"Yea, I showed up." He didn't stay long and soon left and ran into Warren again. "Oh, hey whats up Peace. Sorry about this morning. I was having a rough day."

"Oh, it's fine. I was having a rough morning. I have respect for a man who can apoligize."

'Oh, it figure's, he likes you. Jerks go together. That's why your never picked on by one guy. Takes a jerk to know one.' Shem said.

'He's alot cooler than Stronghold, I'll tell you that much. Wimp.' Kronos said to Shem. Kronos walked over to the backyard and he saw his worse dream come true. It was kids he hated from Ballas High School.

'Well, lets go home.' Kronos said.

'I agree!' Shem offered.

A/N: Sorry took so long to repost was working on Revenge of the Villains and school.