Just for the record, I hate summer school. No... I'm not stupid. I just didn't go to school often... I missed... about... 83.5 days, and I have proof of that. Yeah, but my point is... I hate English class. My grammar was so much better pre-English class. Now I second guess everything and my writing goes all blegh! So, if anything is wrong with my grammar... PLEASE CORRECT ME! I BEG OF YOU.
Disclaimer: *Melody is looking over my summer school midterm mark*
Melody: How are you getting a 70%!
Me: Well, I took a zero for one thing because I don't do Tanka poems or presentations, and combine them together and I just sit out :D
Melody: But you could have been in the 90s!
Me: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah...
Melody: Tanka Poem = Stupid. Darkest Powers = Kelley Armstrong, not Jessica's.
Chloe's Point of View (10 weeks)
"I'm just saying that something isn't right." Derek said, pulling away from me once again.
I groaned and straightened myself up better on the bed and glared at him. One of the few times that we could actually be alone together, and he won't stop with his conspiracy theories.
"Derek, we confirmed their story, it's true. They can't do anything right now because her powers are unpredictable and Cruz is unable to move three feet out of bed he's so sick, and unless they're really good actors, they are not faking anything." I said.
Derek, like me, had also felt a protective urge toward Lilith, and he didn't like it because it was strong enough to make him dislike and not trust Cruz because he could possibly be dangerous towards her. Melody and Jaron had also mentioned feeling protective of her, and Melody feels protective of anyone that can be of help and seems harmless enough, but Jaron, not so much, and that was Derek's worry.
"But nobody is able to bring out a protective instinct in everyone else on first meeting. Nobody, not even babies, though the need to protect them would come out when they were in danger, but Lilith wasn't even in immediate danger when we met her." Derek said.
"Derek, once again, their story is true, we have confirmed this and know it for a fact, and you are ruining perfectly good alone time over this." I said.
We had. After we brought them back with us to the safehouse we called a meeting and got as many details as the two of them could both give us and Andrew checked it out. Everything, from the bodies to the timing checked out. Derek was obsessing over nothing, and while everyone had something whether it was training, shopping, playing, or taking care of someone, everyone was busy and nobody would be coming through the door for at least an hour. I want that hour.
"We checked out what time they left their places, got on buses, and who died, but that doesn't mean that it all happened the way they say it did." Derek said.
"They couldn't have cut a deal with the Edison Group, because Dr. Davidoff is dead and Tori's mother is injured, and it was only the two of them there and Tori's mother isn't exactly known for being kind and forgiving." I said.
"Just because they said that there was just Tori's mother and Dr. Davidoff, doesn't mean that that's true. Look at what happened. They had information on her. They knew that she was potentially dangerous. Wouldn't it have been smarter of them to have brought more people?"
"Yes, it would have, but Andrew also said that the Edison Group could have half-demons that can see the future on their side, and the future isn't certain, but it was probably certain that Lilith would use her powers and in her file it isn't specified how long it takes her power projections to regenerate so they just thought that once she used it on the guys attacking Cruz and herself that they were in the clear." I said.
"If they do have half-demons with the ability to see the future, why didn't they see the second power projection coming?" Derek asked.
"Because the power projections are unpredictable. It could take minutes or seconds to work again, or even two days. You've seen Lilith's training or attempts at training at least. She doesn't know how to get this power to work on command and she doesn't know when it will be able to work after she has used it once. So imagine a psychic trying to figure this out when even the person with the powers can't." I said.
"Okay, explain how Melody, Jaron, you, and me, are protective of her even if we just met her last week and even while I trust her about as far as I can't throw her." Derek said.
"I don't know. Maybe it's a part of her powers that aren't realized yet. Maybe it's just a natural thing about her. I don't know!" I said, getting fed up. I got up from the bed and started walking towards the bedroom door.
"Where are you going?" Derek asked.
"To go see Lilith and Cruz, because at the rate you're going they'll be out before the end of next week." I said, opening the door and leaving, slamming the door when I closed it.
I walked down the hall to the farthest door on the left side, the room was Cruz's and Lilith's to share. They preferred sharing a room and Cruz needed the extra help. Lilith had better control over her healing powers, but they still weren't too great and Alexa refused to help from the beginning and most especially after her 'fight' with Lilith. At the very least, Lilith can be trusted to have an amazing right hook and to help karma along a little.
***Flashback – Three days ago***
Cruz had been getting sick lately, the drugs finally getting out of his system and the withdrawals starting to get to him. Hot flashes, cold flashes, vomiting... etc. and Lilith was getting worried.
"Alexa, can't you heal him? You're a shaman right? Isn't the healing thing what we do?" Lilith asked.
"Yeah, I can heal him. Doesn't mean I will. He had this coming to him. He did drugs, he's dealing with the consequences of his stupid decisions."
Lilith glared at her, but otherwise didn't say anything and continued fussing over Cruz.
Alexa didn't know how to quit though, "And really? Don't ask me to heal him. Do it yourself. Just because everyone around here makes stupid decisions doesn't mean I have to support them and that's what I'd be doing if I healed every idiot around here that made a moronic choice."
"So what... you think that you're better than me? Better than Cruz? Better than everyone around here that did something that you wouldn't or didn't?" Lilith asked, getting upset as she walked over to Alexa.
"No. I know that I am better than you and Cruz, I think even Chloe is." Alexa said.
Lilith nodded in an almost sarcastic manner and punched the left side of Alexa's face as hard as she could with her right hand and Alexa fell to the floor.
Simon clapped from outside the hallway and I grinned like a clown, Alexa cussed at Lilith though.
"YOU BETTER HEAL ME! YOU DID THIS! YOU FIX IT!" Alexa shrieked.
"Sorry, I can, doesn't mean I will. You had that coming, deal with the consequences of your arrogant words." Lilith said, mocking Alexa's tone from earlier.
Simon and I started laughing, Alexa got up and pushed past Simon as she left the room.
***Flashback Over***
Yeah, no one wanted to mess with Lilith after that.
I knocked on the door and heard Lilith shout, "COME IN!"
"Hey, he okay?" I asked, looking at Cruz. I will admit that it was a stupid question, but it was the best that I could think up.
"No, his fever is a little lower so I guess that's something." Lilith said. Lilith was sitting on the left side of Cruz's bed while he slept on the right side. Lilith was just running her the fingers on her left hand through his hair and cleaning his face up with a towel in her right.
"He'll be okay. It would be much quicker if Alexa would help." I said.
"I don't think that she would have helped even if I hadn't hit her." Lilith said.
"Do you regret hitting her?" I asked.
"Nope. Someone had to." Lilith said.
"Ale—"
I was cut off by a sight that I had hoped I would never see again, multi-coloured blasts coming into existence, then the sight of at least thirty pixies.
Lilith's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. The blasts signalling the arrival of the pixies woke up Cruz who said, "Is it the fever or am I actually seeing fairies?"
"WE ARE NOT FAIRIES! PIXIES! GET IT RIGHT CHILD!" A pixie shouted in an angry voice belonging to a man, odd thing was, the pixie appeared female, long, curly, light blue hair, pink crystal coloured eyes, a black mini-dress, and black & green butterfly type wings. Well, long hair in proportion to the rest of her at least, I wasn't sure if her hair was considered short or not considering some of the male pixies had longer hair than she did.
"Um, sorry... uh... what's your name?" Cruz mumbled.
"Bubblez." The female-looking, male-sounding pixie responded.
"Can we hurry this up?" Another pixie asked, this one had long, wavy, dark pink hair that went past her feet, and was wearing a pink cupcake style dress, with, I would swear on my life, pink, pixie-sized converse, and pink rose petal shaped wings.
"Don't get your converse in a puddle, Tulette." A female pixie said, I practically jumped when I saw her, she didn't have skin, she had scales, shiny, orange and green scales where she should have had skin, instead of hair, water that was where her hair should be. For her clothes she wore what seemed to be flower petals sewn together. The pixie was knitting what appeared to be a flower using magic, not yarn, and not in a wool way, but actually creating a living flower.
"What's your name?" Lilith asked her.
"Hinewai, hun." Hinewai answered.
"Well, um... as you see, we are fine here... nothing insulting since you last saw us..." I said, trying to be calm.
"They were here before?" Lilith asked as Derek, Melody, and Jaron came into the room.
"The pixies are back." Jaron and Melody said.
"We are, and we would like to stay and help with the babies." A male pixie said.
"New life is an incredible thing that needs to be celebrated!" A young, almost child-like pixie said.
"Children are a blessing."
"Their power will be a rare occurrence."
How do you decline an offer to tiny pixies that have enough strength amongst themselves to destroy the rings around Saturn?
"That would be... uh... wonderful?" Melody said, making it sound more like a question.
Answer: You don't.
"That's excellent." A pixie I never noticed before said. I noticed that the pixie that had just spoken was their queen, or at the very least, royalty. I didn't know how I managed not to notice her. The pixie was wearing a pale blue ballgown dress, a tiara adorned with pale pink, blue, and green diamonds, and her wings weren't even a physical shape, they were white and gray sparks shooting into a vague wing-shaped form. The pixie was very pale, with ruby red lips, and grayish-blue eyes. Somehow she seemed old to me, despite her young appearance.
"What is your name?" Lilith asked, apparently noticing that the pixie was royalty as well because she said it with some respect. Smart move. When you see royalty and are unfamiliar with the species, play nice until you know if they're good or bad.
"Queen Aeri." The pixie said, and there proved my royalty theory.
Queen Aeri said something in a language unknown to me, but I guess it had something to do with the male pixies because they all left in their colour blasts.
"Excuse me, um, Queen Aeri?" Melody asked.
"Yes, my darling?"
"What did you tell them?" Melody asked.
"We cannot ask you to provide our housing for us. We are moving our city closer to your residence and we will provide healthcare from our finest doctors." Queen Aeri said.
"How many pixies are in your city?" Derek asked.
"Two-hundred and thirty-two." Queen Aeri said.
"There are two-hundred and thirty-two pixies in the world?" Lilith asked.
"Hun, that is only in our city, and our city is considered the third smallest out of the seventy-nine all over the world." Hinewai said.
"Oh." Lilith said.
"What exactly do pixies do?" Jaron asked. Yeah, I was actually wondering that too.
"We control nature. The plants, animals, and weather. A tsunami happens, pixies are at war over territory. Plants die, and we're dying out or are unable to cover that ground. Animals become extinct for any reason not caused by man, and we're behind it." Queen Aeri said.
"So you're responsible for the destruction of the earth?" Melody asked.
All the pixies glared at her, with the exception of the Queen and Hinewai.
"I think they're just using the most radical examples so you can see the magnitude of their power. I'm guessing that they're also able to grow plants, create the weather necessary for survival of animals and humans, and if they didn't exist, no other creature would because they are what create the weather and the plants and tend to it all." Lilith said.
Everyone looked at her open-mouthed.
"What? So I see the flip side." Lilith said.
"Hun, you are absolutely correct." Hinewai said.
"WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON OUTSIDE!" I heard Andrew shout.
We all went down the stairs and out the door as fast as we could, with the exception of Cruz, and we joined everyone outside that was staring at the pixie city. The pixie city was separated into ten parts, three pink towers, three blue towers, three green towers, and one palace that was every colour of the rainbow. The male pixies had themselves divided into groups of ten and were bringing the parts inside the yard. The females were following with fabrics, glitter, and some dye bottles.
"Oh... WOW." Lilith said.
The pixie city was set with the palace in the middle and the nine towers in a pattern around the palace. They were set up high above the trees on top of golden and silver leaves that were in midair. Glitter rainbows joined the ten parts into one.
"Why do we have guests?" Andrew asked, turning to Melody and I in particular.
"We would like to offer our services in help with the babies." Queen Aeri said.
"Really?" Andrew asked. Andrew was more used to people saying that they didn't want to help or that they disapproved, so someone caring enough to move an entire city into our backyard was a stretch for him.
"Yes, we'll be starting with the relaxation treatment for Chloe and Lilith tomorrow."
"Me?" Lilith asked.
"Her?" I asked.
"Why her?" Melody asked.
Queen Aeri and Hinewai looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Lilith seems to require some attention too." Queen Aeri said.
"You're pregnant!" I shouted.
"NO! WOAH! NOT POSSIBLE. VIRGIN!" Lilith said.
"We are including her of our own accord, and not for the same reason you are being included in our care. Now if we may be excused, we have a city to attend to." Queen Aeri said.
The pixies not already up organizing the city, flew up and started helping out and shouting orders to the men. The way a society should work. The women are the brain and the men are the brawn.
"So... virgin eh?" Noah said.
"Not gonna happen." Lilith said, walking back inside.
"Yeah, you and Lilith. Not likely." Tori said, laughing at him.
I stared up at the city and saw all the female pixies shouting orders and putting dye on fading spots, fabrics in front of doors, and glitter on the windows and on each other in a glitter fight. The males were cleaning up and reattaching parts of buildings and fixing things up. They seemed, happy? Even the working ones.
I grinned up at them and went inside. Maybe their relaxation treatment wouldn't be too bad, but then again, these were the same pixies that found offence at my Pixies T-shirt. They didn't have a lot right in their minds.