Ch. 5: Hsi Wu's Secret
At the Palace Hotel, Colleen went undercover as a housekeeper. She contacted Captain Black via headphones as soon as she got into the penthouse suite where Serena was staying.
"I'm in the Penthouse Suite, Captain Black," Colleen said.
"Be careful, Colleen," he said with concern, "No telling if our songbird is still there or when she'll return."
Colleen got out the master key and put it through the slot of the door to her room. She opened it and walked right in. She looks around the room.
"Anything?" Captain Black asked.
"So far the room looks normal," Colleen replied.
She then sees her bed unmade and covered in feathers.
"Wait. I have something."
"What is it?"
"Her bed is covered in blue feathers. I better take one as a sample."
Colleen takes one of the feathers and puts it in a plastic bag. Then she sees a photo album. She looks into it, and to her horror, it had pictures and newspaper clippings of Hsi Wu. Some were about him when he first appeared in Fenway Park, while others were about the sighting of him since he became a J-Teen.
"Colleen, what's wrong?" Captain Black asked.
"She has a serious obsession for Hsi Wu," Colleen informed, "She has newspaper clipping from when he got out through his portal and recent events."
Colleen then hears screeching coming from outside. She puts the album down as it was, and looks out the window. Serena is in bird mode and flying back to her room. Colleen ran out fast and closed the door. She went back to Section 13 and gave its head scientist, Kepler, the feather to analyze. He put it under a microscope and began looking at it.
"Looks like Drago's beliefs about Serena are true," he stated, "Texture of the feather is of bird, but the cellular structure is human."
"I think it's time we ask our flighty friend how he knows this bird lady," Colleen said.
Colleen, Drago, and Cody went into Hsi Wu's room in Section 13, which has no bed because he hangs upside down to sleep. However, he does have a computer and a portable DVD. Hsi Wu was hiding behind his desk, shaking like a leaf.
"Alright, Hsi Wu, we want answers!" Colleen demanded, "We know Serena is a siren who's after you!"
"She wouldn't be that same Serena that Dad and the fam told me about is she?!" Drago said.
"No way!" Hsi Wu said frantically, "She's not gonna get me like she said she would!"
"Hsi Wu, she's out there looking for you, and she tried to endanger our lives as well as lives at the stadium in order to get to you. We want to know what's going on."
"Okay," he said while he gave in, "Centuries ago, I was in love with Serena, but I was a young demon at the time. I got tired of her, so I left her. She took the break-up hard enough to want to break me up. I tried to hide, but each place I go to, she's there, and she mesmerize the men before ordering them to destroy me. I wasn't safe until that day I was banished."
"So she's after you because over your womanizing ways!" Colleen shouted at him
"I consider what I do as a form of natural selection," Hsi Wu said his excuse.
"Tch. Too bad I can't naturally select family," Drago sneered.
"Well you are gonna help us repair the damage before she sends an army of men to riot," Colleen said.
"How're we gonna do that?" Cody asked.
"Remember what I said about Odysseus?" Colleen smirked.
"Good idea, Colleen," Drago said, "We just need to find a mast to tie him up on."
"Don't I get a say in it?!" Hsi Wu said frantically.
"NO!" they said in unison.