Lexi 9

Lexi's POV

When we reached the balcony I hopped off ; Zak fell off and did a face plant in the balcony. I laughed and he growled at me. I stopped laughing, and put my hand over my mouth and quietly giggled. I like watching things get hurt out of they're own clumsiness.

"Lexi, it's good to have you back. What happened did the secret scientists succeed in finding you? Even once?"

"Nope, but they won't be bothering us for a while. I hired a guy to tell them I was hiding out somewhere in Peru."

"Well then." Doyle said. "What did you give him in return?"

"An apple tree."

"Okay. Weird."

"IS anyone hungry?"
"I am!" Zak nearly yelled.

I slid away from him and gave him a suspicious look.

"What?"

"Did you hear anything the sorcerer said?"

"Yeah, but- Oh… yeah."

"Yeah… yeah, that's right."

"What did the sorcerer say?" Doyle wondered.

"Something about the old kur eating his girlfriend for power."

"Nasty."

"It's one of the reasons it was so easy drive his spirit from the world, he was weakened and nearly killed by the girl kur and then ate her," Zak continued.

"He also said the girl kur is more powerful," I cut in.

"Yeah, but he also said the guy kur had more control." I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Ok kids sit down. Spaghetti for dinner."

"Mmmm…" Zak and I said at the same time.

"Hey!" we said at the same time again.

"Stop talking when I talk." We said in the same tone.

"No you stop," We continued.

"Okay this is getting creepy." We said at the same time turning to the cryptids sitting on either side of us. The whole family was watching us.

"Why don't we have a combat training session and see who wins?"

"Okay." We both said.

"Seriously/ Really this is getting annoying."

"I'm just gonna be quiet." We said.

"Good." We chorused.

"That was weird."

After dinner…

"Okay, prepare yourself and stretch."
"Okay," we said glaring at each other for daring to say the same thing.

I went to my side of the room and I did several stretches, starting small with hamstring stretches. Then I moved to spits and backbends, challenging Zak to be as flexible as I. I got into backbend position and then pushed up war with my legs and got into a handstand position. Then I brought my legs further around my head and over my back so I could stand regularly again. Doyle and Fisk clapped. Then all eyes were on Zak who tried but failed at his backbend.

He tried to do a split but couldn't. Poor Zak.

"Nice try mini-man." Doyle said aiming for comfort. Drew elbowed him. He grunted.

"Fine, I have my own method of stretching." His eyes started to glow and then mine did too. Instantly he was in my head. I put my hands to my ears as if it would block him out.

"Zak!"

"Whoa, you're really mad."

"Who do you think I'm mad at?" I managed to let a few words escape.

"Zak!" Drew warned him.

"Guess, I know how guy kur won."

I thought really hard, I was so angry with him for several reasons. Then I found some new emotion, some kid of dark painful feeling I shot up straight not knowing I was down in the first place and Zak was slammed against the wall. I looked at him angrily. This was a new side of me I had recently discovered.

"Guess I know how guy kur almost lost." I said releasing my invisible grip on him.
"Zak and Lexi! Stop! Both of you." I stopped immediately but Zak didn't.

I dropped to the floor, exhausted. Fisk helped me up and an overwhelming headache took over. I felt dizzy too.

Drew jumped off a small cantilever that was for viewing the fight. She ran over to her son and shook him out of it.

"Sorry, he grunted to everyone in the room.

"Kur instincts."

"Just going out on a limb here, but maybe a combat practice fight/ experiment wasn't such a good idea," I said with one hand on top of my head. Fisk herded me over to Zak and Drew. Doc joined us as well.

"It helped us learn a lot though, and hopefully what we learned tonight can help us subdue those angry uncontrollable parts of both of you." I know she really meant me, I had a lot more power to control, and so it was harder.

"Scomeonecsh shoing bu sleeeep wil tunigh." Fisk grumbled. (Someone's going to sleep well tonight)

"Yeah. G'night," I said.

"What? I spent while in Australia."

"Well, G'night to you too."

I walked through the door leading to the main building and walked up some stairs to the viewing platform. I'm really good at eavesdropping. I pressed my ear to the wall part and listened.

"Looks like you should go to bed too kiddo," Drew said.

"It's been a long day."

"Yeah, and I'm tired too."

"In celebration of you not being the only one with power glitches we have found a new trouble making cryptid you two can work on."

"Great! See ya tomorrow! Come on Komodo."

Fisk went out the door, Zak started on his way to his room and I hurried to my bed for a relaxing night of sleep and I was glad they didn't say anything bad about me. I enjoyed this family.\