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Ben gave the four aliens a blank stare as he slowly processed what they had said. He shouldn't have been confused by the question, but the implication was very confusing to him.
"What do you mean 'where are you staying'? Don't you have a place to go?"
"Where would we go?" Lala asked, cocking her head curiously. Ben shrugged.
"I... I dunno, I just kind of assumed that you'd have a spaceship or something..."
They shook their heads.
"I have a spaceship", Yami said. Ben looked at her, hoping she'd offer to let them stay there.
"But it's in Lacospo's hands", she finished, making Ben wilt slightly. Ben sighed.
"I guess you could stay with me; but my parents probably won't be the best with handling this..."
As predicted, Ben's parents did not handle it as well as they could've. At first they were confused, then they got terrified, and acted angry, and then his sisters were alerted, and his newborn sister, Gabe, was awakened...
It was essentially a very big mess.
After they had calmed down- which required several hours of talking- Ben's father spoke.
"Okay", he said slowly, looking at the four cautiously. "Why are you here?"
Ben decided to answer for them.
"They were running from some kind of arranged marriage, and Yami here was being used to bring them back. I helped them, and Yami swore allegiance to me, and a few complications forced the other three into the marriage contract with me"
There was a long pause.
'So... polygamy"
"Yup!" Lala said cheerfully, finding nothing wrong with the idea in the least. Momo and Nana at least seemed a bit less naive about it, Momo replying with an awkward grin and Nana sending a withering glare at Ben while her face burned red. Ben's father, Steven, rubbed his face with a loud groan.
"Alright, you can stay until Ben figures out how to break off this marriage thing", he said. Ben replied with an affirmative nod, essentially agreeing. "You can stay in the guest bedroom. It's next door to Ben's room, in the basement. It only has one bed, but the bed is fairly large, so I'm sure you can figure something out."
Ben showed them to the bedroom, and they got settled in. Due to their lack of baggage, their settling in consisted of sitting on the bed and looking expectantly at Ben, as though he were supposed to do something.
"Ummm..." Ben started awkwardly, after a moment of silence. "Don't you have any luggage?"
"Nope", Momo shook her head. "We had to run pretty fast, so we didn't have time."
Ben sighed again, which seemed to be something he was going to be doing quite often.
"Alright, well then, I guess we'll need to get you some clothes at some point", he muttered, scratching his head as he tried to think of something. His brain was pulling blanks on what he was supposed to do here. He awkwardly edged to the door, giving them a weird smile.
"Well, I'll be in the living room down here, if you need me", he said, going for the door.
"What are you going to be doing there?" Yami asked dully. Ben shrugged, glancing around.
"Well... I guess I don't have anything to do in there... I'll be in my room then. It's just next door", he said, backing out of the room and escaping to his bedroom.
In his bedroom he simply paced back and forth, muttering under his breath.
"Alright, aliens. I'm engaged to three aliens, and I have an alien body guard shapeshifter"
He released a heavy breath and sat at his desk, which sat at the foot of his bed, trying to think of the next step he would have to take. Clearly he would have to do something about this, he was going to be a prime target for attacks. There'd also be the issue of the alien suitors, and he'd need to collect information on them to figure out how to beat them when it came to that. He could, of course, just cross that bridge when he got to it, but he'd rather not die. He also didn't want to do anything at that moment; he had just left the room with the four girls in it, it would be awkward if he came back so soon asking about this kind of thing. He tried playing video games, but he wasn't in the mood for that, and he wasn't going to do homework with his free time.
He got his excuse when he heard a loud thud from their room. He jumped to his feet, still a bit worried about them, and ran from his room into the hallway. He found the four standing in the hallway, blankly watching Lala as she fiddled with a small device on the door. Ben would have no problem with this except for a single factor.
It was his room.
"Hey, what're ya doing to Michael?!"
Lala gave him a confused look.
"Who?"
Ben pointed to the door knocker drilled to his door, made of a dark metal and shaped like a dragon growling, the ring in it's jaw.
"Michael", he said.
"You named the door knocker?" Yami asked, giving him a confused look. "But it's not alive"
Ben paused.
"Well I like it. Don't touch him"
"Okay!" Lala chirped cheerfully. She continued playing with the device.
"What's that?" Ben asked, looking at the device on his door. She tapped a few buttons, then snapped a cover over the keypad, leaving a small pink/white colored circular device about the size of a flip phone on Ben's door.
"What is it?" Ben asked again, as Lala hadn't answered.
"It's an invention I made! It expands the size of your room, while not making it take up any more space!"
Ben slammed his door open and blinked.
His room was roughly the size of a small apartment now, pretty open with five beds in it. There were curtains that you could pull around sections of the room, allowing for privacy if one wanted privacy. Ben shut the door again.
"Why are there five beds?"
"Because we're sleeping with you!"Lala chirped.
Ben gave her an odd look.
"What? No!" he exclaimed. Lala tilted her head.
"Why not?"
"Because! We're teenagers!"
"And?"
Ben gave her an incredulous look.
"I'm a boy"
"Yeah?"
"You're girls"
"And?"
"You don't just do that!"
"Why not?"
Lala's innocence and naivety was cute, but in some cases, such as now, it got frustrating. Ben pinched the bridge of his nose with a loud groan.
"This is just getting worse and worse", he muttered, going to walk to his room. He ran into the door, forgetting it was shut, and jabbed himself in the shoulder with Michael.
"Dammit", he cursed, standing up and opening it, storming into his room. He flopped onto his bed and stared at the ceiling, wondering how things had gotten this way.
There were numerous ways one could kill a human, and this specific woman knew nearly every one of them. Her heels clicked loudly in the silent night, and the only creature awake to hear it was a small black cat. She stopped in front of the small house, analyzing it. She held up a small remote, a single white circle with an insignia of a tree in the center and a single word beneath the tree. It bleeped after a moment, and she grinned.
"Gotcha", she muttered in satisfaction. She was about to put it away, when it bleeped once, then twice. She brought it back up and looked at it, then her eyes widened beneath the dark sunglasses she wore.
"Well shit", she breathed. She fumbled for a moment, shoving it onto a pocket in her skirt, patted herself down, then cursed a second time and pulled the device out again.
"Sir?" she asked shakily. There was a barking reply on the other end, making her wince.
"We found her"
She flinched as whoever it was on the other end started talking again, asking a question this time.
"Well, she isn't the only one there. There are two more"
There was more yelling.
"The boy is one, and it appears that Golden Darkness is there as well"
There was a long silence, then soft speaking. She nodded.
"Okay, will do, sir"
She put the device back into her pocket and quickly walked away, glancing back at the house every once in a while. On her third over the shoulder look, she could swear that she had seen something move, a dark, humanoid shape, limbs to long and thin, a jutting ribcage, and a stomach that was little more than a spine, but it was gone by the time she did a double take. She watched for a moment, then muttered.
"It was nothing"
She didn't believe that for a second, but this was unlike any normal situation. It was too dangerous to investigate, too many unknowns. So she left it alone.
