Chapter 6
"So Alex, How long have you had these animals?" Chiro asked while pretending not to be nervous but without any luck.
"We've had these animals for a really long time now, ever since we were little kids," she said casually. "They're all really friendly though, once they get to know you."
"Isn't it unwise for you to keep such a dangerous creature?" Antauri asked with a look of concern.
"Well to you guys yes but to me, not at all but it's probably because I've never had any problems with Midnight," Alex said. "Come to think of it, none of us had any problems with any of our pets."
"Oh," Chiro said.
"Anyway what do you guys do anyway?" Alex asked.
"Well we mainly protect Shuggazoom from our enemy the Skeleton King," Chiro explained to her. "Have you ever heard of him?"
"No not to my knowledge, but then again I've made tons of enemies when I was once a famous police detective," Alex explained.
"So you've had some fighting experiences," Antauri said curiously.
"Yeah you bet'cha I have; as a matter of fact, I actually beat up a grown-up when I was eight years old and he only had a bat as a weapon," Alex said while giggling a bit before realizing what she just said was a mistake so lied a little about it. "But he was really quite stupid anyway so it was easy for me to beat him up".
"There's just one more question I need to ask you; why were you so curious when I was talking about the two girls?" Antauri asked.
"Well...it's just that, I was born in Transylvania and I don't recall anybody who went missing from there," Alex said. Apart from some of the villagers because of the vampires hunting in the night, she thought to herself.
"Well that was a while ago, plus one of them was a part vampire and another was a witch," he then said.
"What!?" Alex and Chiro shouted, looking a bit shocked.
"Wait a minute, there is no such thing as vampires!" Alex said while lying through her teeth.
"So you don't believe in things like vampires, witches, wizards or werewolves?" Antauri asked.
"No! What do you think I am; a superstitious person!" Alex said, looking annoyed.
"I was only trying to...," Antauri started saying until he was interrupted by her.
"Just forget it alright! Were here to get the animals not to know about ourselves," she said while going in front of them looking angry.
While she was walking in front of them, Antauri noticed a birthmark of a dragon on the inside of her right hand and realized what that was since he seen it before but a long time ago. He was about to ask her about it but decided it was best to ask about it later since he already made her mad.
"Hey Antauri," Chiro whispered to him so that Alex couldn't hear their conversation. What they didn't know was that she could hear everything whether it was a whisper or a conversation in a room next door thanks to her powers but Chiro and Antauri didn't know that. "Do you think we could trust her?"
"I don't sense any evil in her but I think it is best if we find out more about her before we trust her, for I sense that she is hiding the truth about something," he whispered back.
Dam! They know I'm hiding the truth about myself but I can't tell them what I am or else they probably won't trust me or my other friends, not to mention asking me about these twins or if I knew them, Alex thought nervously to herself. She was still pondering over it until she heard Eddie through her walkie talkie wristwatch, making herself stop walking to answer it.
"Hey Alex you there?" Eddie asked, sounding quite scared.
"Yeah Eddie I'm here, I can tell that your now awake; hey Eddie what's up you sound a bit scared?"Alex asked when she noticed that he sounded scared.
"Umm... well can you help us here for a minute cause there's a talking monkey trying to explain what happened to us and I'm not sure if it's being friendly with us or tricking us into becoming breakfast, lunch or dinner," Eddie said, making Alex roll her eyes as if to say 'Oh brother!'.
"Which one of the monkeys were you talking to?" Alex asked.
"The one that's...hey wait a minute, you know these monkeys?" Eddie asked sounding shocked.
"Well while you guys were still unconscious and in another room, we were talking to them and asking where you guys were and stuff," Alex explained before going into Latin so Chiro and Antauri couldn't understand. "Just make sure you tell the others to not tell these guys that we're part-vampires."
"Right...why not?" Eddie asked in Latin, sounding confused.
"Because if they find out what we are they might not trust us," Alex explained in Latin.
"Alright we gotcha!" Eddie said in Latin again. "But we should tell these guys sometime today before they find out themselves and start hating us."
"I know but for now I think it's best not to think about it right now because the animals are loose and I think they're pretty angry," Alex explained in Latin.
"Well do you need any help?"Eddie asked in Latin.
"Well that would be kind of useful, just ask those robot monkeys where the kitchen is becasue one robot monkey called Sprx went by himself and I think he might need some help," Alex said in Latin.
"Robot monkeys?" Eddie asked in English, sounding confused.
"Well it's slightly obvious that they're robot monkeys because they have some metal parts on them," Alex explained to Eddie.
"Alright, well we'll talk later then," Eddie said.
"Hey Eddie you didn't answer my question about which monkey you were talking to," Alex said just as Eddie was about to hang up.
"Oh yeah it was this blue monkey who kept talking scientifically, I didn't really understood him but luckily Riley and Amber did," Eddie said.
"I believe that was Mr. Hal Gibson you were talking to but he prefers to be called Gibson," Alex said.
"Really? More like Mr. Hal Brain-strain if you ask me," Eddie joked making Alex laugh.
"Hey be nice to him Eddie or else I'll give you more than just a black eye!" Amber shouted at him.
"Why, you have a crush on him?" Eddie asked while joking and teasing her at the same time.
"That's it, you're going down!" Amber said in a threatening tone.
"Hey Amber how you feeling?" Alex asked quickly before Amber did anything to Eddie.
"My head still hurts by I pretty much alright," Amber said casually.
Though before Alex could talk to then some more or ask them anymore questions, she felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned she saw that it was Chiro who tapped her on the shoulder.
"Yeah?" Alex asked.
"Can we get going now to the training room to get your pet because we're just standing here doing nothing while you're talking to your friends," Chiro said, looking pretty bored.
"Oh right sorry, hey I've gotta go now guys so talk to y'all later then," Alex said to her friends.
"Alright Alex, bye!" they all shouted through the walkie talkie before hanging up.
"Alright well let's get going then," Alex said while gesturing Chiro and Antauri to go first. Once they were in front of her, she followed them while thinking about how Raven was handling this yellow monkey called Nova.
Meanwhile, with Raven and Nova heading towards the control room,
"So tell me what you guys do again?" Raven asked Nova while walking to the control room.
"Well we protect Shuggazoom from the Skeleton King who wants to rule the universe, though right now we're in the middle of a battle with him and his army of the undead and his formless," Nova explained.
"Formless?" Raven asked, looking really confused.
"Yeah it's these black and white creatures which serve Skeleton King; he uses this disgusting black ooze to make them in his fortress," Nova then explained.
"But that's so confusing, they do have a form don't they or else they can't fight you guys unless they ooze you guys and make just one nasty mess," Raven said with a look of disgust.
"No silly, the reason we call them formless is because they start life without any form," Nova explained while giving out a slight giggle.
"Oh, well it's a good thing because I wouldn't want to have a formless slobbering all over me," Raven said while grimacing at the thought. "Not to mention going all over my clothes which I designed and made by myself."
"You make your own clothes?" Nova asked with interest.
"Yeah I was once the greatest fashion designer in the world a few months back but I quit my job," Raven explained while boasting about her talent.
"Why did you hate it?" Nova asked.
"Well...when I first entered the job I did hate it because I was more like a maid or a servant over there than anything else, but when I became head of the fashion company I loved it to bits," Raven said it with a dreamy expression. "Plus the business was getting better and it became the most famous clothes design in the whole wide world."
"So why did you quit?" Nova asked since she didn't understand why Raven would quit a job that she loved.
"Well...I-I though it was best to explore around the world a bit," Raven lied about it which made Nova a bit suspicious. "But I wasn't the only one that quit my job, the others quit theirs as well and they loved theirs as well."
"Really, who else?" Nova asked with interest.
"Well there's Alex who was once a world-famous police detective, Eddie was once a very popular rapper, Riley and Amber were once super-genius scientists, Katelyn was once a professional biologist, and Kyle, my little annoying brother, was once a well-known mathematician," Raven said.
"But you all quit because you wanted to explore the world," Nova guessed though she didn't really believe what Raven had said.
"Well...yeah!" Raven said to Nova which wasn't a complete lie. "As a matter of fact we were just leaving San Francisco when this weird portal came in front of us, sucked us and brought here."
"Where's San Francisco?" Nova asked with a questioned look.
"That's in Earth, have you ever to Earth?" Raven asked hopefully.
"I have seen it but that was when we were stopping Skeleton King from destroying it and that's in another dimension," Nova explained.
"WHAT!! You've gotta be kidding me!" Raven screamed which was so loud that Nova had to cover her ears up until Raven stopped screaming. "Oops, sorry Nova."
"That's okay," Nova said while rubbing her ears. "I would be also in shock to if I came to a different world."
"Yeah well anyway, let's go get the animals then shall we?" Raven asked.
While they were still walking to the control room, Raven (who was still embarrassed for screaming at Nova) was also thinking how her best friend Alex was handling with Chiro and Antauri.