Hey I'm back! I'm sorry for the vagueness of the last chapter as it was more of a brainstorm and building block chapter rolled into one. In this chapter I plan on fully introducing the main character and some details. Again I try my best with spelling and grammar, and please use constructive criticism. – TNB

BZZT BZZT BZZT *SMACK*

I groan as I roll over and think angry thoughts at my alarm clock after waking me up from a pleasant dream for a change, thinking back to last night I wonder about the sudden shift In that repetitive dream. I mean usually it ends with me being strangled by black tentacles, wow brain if you want to confuse me go ahead, but really! Turning me into a horse!? That is quite the stretch…

Finally I decide to roll out of bed after a few minutes before I realize that it is a Saturday, I groan thinking of all the extra sleep I could have had if I had turned my alarm off, but hey may as well go do something. As I walked by the tall mirror in my room and stopped to stare. It wasn't that there was anything different today as opposed to yesterday still the same tall (6'4") dude staring back at me with his blue eyes, short brown hair and heavy build, but it was still a shock to my system to see that I had a tail and it's reassuring to see that I was just dreaming. I get snapped out of dreamland when my sister yells "JAY! Wake up I want pancakes for breakfast!" I sigh and smile to myself god forbid I sleep in or something and start trudging down the stairs.

My sister Isabel or Izzi (iz for short) who is eight with short brown hair (for a girl at least) and her hazel eyes is playing in the living room with the TV blaring in the background. When she hears me enter she looks up and smiles "Hey your up," she says I grunt in return attempting to keep up the façade that I was still sleeping, but it quickly falls under her beaming smile and happy attitude. I sigh and say "I guess I have to make you some food now," with a small grin I walk off into the kitchen and start gathering the supplies I need, while I do this I kind of reflect on life so far if you can even call it one. I'm 16 with almost no life, no car, and parents that are always so busy that I hardly ever see them. The only thing that keeps me going is Izzi she is the bright light in my life and I am her mentor, the big bro that is always there to comfort and support her while pushing her to try harder. It is fun to be that but the sad truth is I am not much outside of that. I am quiet and reserved which makes it hard to talk to new people, while my size makes it really hard to pick on me, it also scares people off I mean I'm not overly fat or out of shape but at the same time I'm not in shape either. At the same time it's not all bad as the two things that shelter me are what entertains me the most the first being video games *shudders* mmm videogames, the second being books.

As I stir the batter up and heat up the pan it hits me how much I have read I could pass for an online database if I wanted to, I smile a little as I think of the things I have discovered between two pieces of paper, all the crazy things you learn and get addicted to that tickle of new knowledge getting in yo' brain. As I flip the last pancake I call" Iz! Pancakes are ready!" a few seconds of silence pass before she comes racing into the kitchen shouting "PANCAKES!" I grin thinking and say "This time don't eat them all before I even get a plate out yeesh." She frowns at me and sticks her tongue out, sure enough as I turn around to get plates from the cabinet I hear smacking noises and spin back around to find all but one of the pancakes missing and her scampering out of the kitchen giggling. I sigh to myself "The thing I do to be an awesome brother."

I eat the last pancake out of the six I made and start making plans for the day.

Later-

"You will be careful right?" I say as we walk towards the park down the street from our house, "Of course I will," she replies "It's not like I'm a crazed 4th grader who isn't busy on her Saturday or something." She says with a smile before running off to play on the playground equipment. I smile to myself and take a seat on a nearby bench and watch her race through the maze of passages before taking out my phone and starting to read a book. I look up every now and then to check that she is ok and it seems she has made a couple friends to play with so I go back to my book

Some time passes…

It wasn't the sound of screaming children that alerted me to the fact that something was wrong, but instead the absence of it. My head snaps up and I see a group of 5 teens has gathered around my sister and her friends, I immediately spring to my feet and start to rush over there, as soon as I start moving across the 50 feet that separates me from the play area I see the leader of the group, a tallish scrawny teen with greasy black hair, draw back his hand and slap Iz full across the face. She drops to the ground holding her cheek tears forming in her eyes and this is what gets my blood boiling, I no longer want to chase these punks off and away from the kids I want to hurt them.

When I get within 10 feet now running full bore I yell "Hey Dipshit!" this snapped the leader's head around just in time for my right cross to smash into his jaw instantly starting a nose bleed and dropping him like a sack of rocks. I turn to the right facing his tall brute of a friend ready for a punch that never came, the big teen is too surprised to react to the sudden felling of his buddy, so I capitalize on this by planting my right foot and delivering a roundhouse kick straight to his stomach doubling him over like a piece of paper; I finish him off with and elbow to the back of the neck and spin to meet the next buddy that wants to take me on. The kid to the left has now gotten over his surprise and is coming at me with a long right cross, which, to his surprise I knock out of the way and send a snap kick straight to his groin and knock him out cold. I get set ready for the next assailant but the remaining two are fleeing from this terrifying huge ninja that beat their friends down with ease, I frown on the inside I little disappointed that I didn't get to teach them a lesson to.

Once sure, I was done fighting Izzi immediately starts blabbing "Thank you so much I was so worri-""Stop." I say making her flinch, I take a deep breath… and let it out… "Ok what happened?" I say after calming the heat of battle inside me. She takes a breath "Well I was playing with Cat and Lauren, but then those kids came over wanted to play too but we didn't want to let them because they were so big and dirty-" she stops to gasp in air and I keep her from starting again " So why did he slap you?" She smiles meekly "I told him he couldn't play so he got really angry and said 'Rude people don't deserve to play on our playground' and then his buddies came in surround us and I think you saw the rest." She finishes. I sigh and turn to the leader who is slowly coming to after that thundering punch that I gave him, I grab him by his black skull T-shirt and raise him up to my eye level and shake him so he wakes up faster "Your lucky I don't call the police you stupid punk!" I shout in anger. Izzi yells "Jay stop it you already injured him enough!" I sigh and drop him now shaking to the floor "Get out of my sight." I say with resentment clear in my voice. He jumps to his feet and flees pulling his groggy friends with him, I sigh and turn to the two girls flanking Isabel and ask "Are you two alright?" the pale-skinned one with blond hair and red highlights, Cat, simply shakes her head yes as a reply similar to Lauren the African American girl with blue highlights who just says "Yes thanks for saving us." I simply smile in return as they scamper off but not before I hear her say to Cat "I told you he is the one."

I stare after her in shock before I shake my head convinced that it was just a coincidence and start to walk Iz, now tightly wrapped around my arm, home.