Sup guys~ Seems you haven't seen the Gary sue thing yet. As far as I know it's not even really displayed much for a while, so I can see why. Though the main point I was trying to make was that they're crazy overpowered and have a ton of abilities... That doesn't mean I made them badly written characters. Every character of mine has gone through at least a hundred hours of late-night-can't-sleep brainstorming so they're all well developed. (in my opinion)
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Of Dragons and Wyverns Too Chap 4
The next day Jack woke up in his bed, oddly enough. It took him a moment to remember NJ helping him into bed the night before since his foot made moving his leg hurt like heck.
Pushing himself into a sitting position, Jack saw a strange goldenish shimmer to the air on one side of his room. It didn't extend anywhere near him and didn't even move. After a moment staring at it hard Jack realized it was moving; but slowly in and out to a breathing pattern. And judging by the pacing of it it belonged to someone who was asleep.
"Uh, Enny?" He questioned. The only person in the entire place that was probably responsible for this was him, since Jack knew he still didn't know squat about the wyvern.
The second he called out the shimmer trembled and then shrunk in on itself towards the floor. A minute later Enny poked his head up from the floor with tousled hair and a curious look.
"What is it?"
"Uh…" Jack stared. "I should probably get used to weird stuff, huh."
NJ gave him a confused look but then understanding bloomed on his face. "Oh, you're talking about the sleep shield. It's a completely natural defense and something we can't turn off unless we wake up. When we're asleep, anything inside the shield or touching it will immediately fall asleep. Any object being thrown into or poked into the shield will immediately lose all force and fall to the ground. Any machinery going inside it will either blow up if it's normal or short circuit if it's complex." He stretched with a cute yawn. "I wouldn't go near it unless you intend on having an unscheduled nap."
"Okay." Jack accepted that. "But why were you on my floor? I gave you your own room."
"Instincts." Enny muttered darkly.
"This is going to be a running theme, I can already feel it."
Eating breakfast in Jack's kitchen, Enny stared warily at the cereal in front of him. Taking his spoon he poked at it, watching the round, brown puff wobble in the milk.
"You do know what cereal is, right?" Jack questioned in amusement.
"Of course I do," NJ scowled. "…I'm just not…" His hands clenched, unsure of how to say something. "I don't like this… stuff. The processed foods that humans eat. I hate it." He poked at the cereal with his spoon again.
"They're Coco Puffs." Jack deadpanned.
"Processed chunk of wheat imitation with fake chocolate flavoring." NJ muttered rebelliously.
Jack looked at his own cereal, already a third of the way gone. "Huh… I don't think that's actually what it's made of."
"It's close enough."
"Look, can you at least try it?" Jack rolled his eyes exasperatedly.
"…" Enny poked at it again before taking a piece up on his spoon. Jack was pleased to see him eat it and actually try to taste it.
"Oh come on!" Jack gave up at the utterly disgusted look on his face. "Fine, but I'm not cooking anytime soon so you'll have to find some food you can eat for breakfast. Unless you can cook?"
"Don't put anyone in my family in front of an oven unless they're a Brisingr." NJ automatically stated. "As the Fire part they at least know how to make sure nothing's burnt… down."
Jack facepalmed. Wheeling his chair away from the table and to the cupboard filled with food he opened it up and looked around. "Okay, there's GOT to be some cereal in here you like. Frosted Flakes?"
Enny did an odd thing with his eyes where his pupils blew up and covered almost all the color in his eyes. Jack had discovered it the previous day while they were working. The guy literally had built in telescopes in his eyes! Apparently each of the four Elemental Wyvern had a different sense that was ridiculously powerful.
"Nope. Ground up wheat meal." Enny sniffed at it.
"What does that even mean?"
"No."
Jack rolled his eyes and grabbed another. "Okay, these things… Shredded Mini Wheats, they're baked. I remember hearing that from a commercial."
"How are these things mini?" NJ asked quizzically as he took one. He seemed to consider it as he looked at it, sniffed it slightly, and licked the frosting. He carefully bit off a corner and chewed carefully. The lit up look on his face made it hard for Jack to not go 'aw'. "This is actually not bad." NJ popped all of it in his mouth.
"Translation: 'this is good and I like something for once'." Jack snickered and wheeled back to the table. He grumbled as the wheels proved too bulky to turn right. He'd gotten the hang of maneuvering in a wheelchair down pretty fast, but it was still annoying.
"You know, we can probably make something better than that piece of junk…" Enny gave the chair a dangerous look. Jack resisted the urge to facepalm again. "Oh, and just so you know don't give crunchy foods to anyone in my family without asking them about it first. I'm the only one in the family whose secondary form has molars to chew with, so they can't stand it."
"Noted." Jack nodded. "And dude I need paper right now. SO many ideas just popped in my head."
NJ smirked slightly. "Well it'll have to wait. I'm enjoying my…" He looked at the box as he sat down again. "Shredded Mini Wheats. Seriously though, how are these things mini?" He shoved his bowl of Coco Puffs at Jack and poured himself a new bowl of the other cereal.
Jack couldn't help but find it utterly adorable that the kid had to sit on his knees so he was tall enough to eat at the table. Even for his human form looking around eight, he was really short.
"So Enny, I wanted to know…" Jack shifted awkwardly. "You said your family's more neutral, but you seem so…"
"Good? That's because even though we're neutral we fight against the bad guys a lot. Common thieves and thugs mostly, but every once in a while someone comes along who really threatens the world and we put a stop to them." Enny didn't even seemed bothered by the question.
"What about me?"
"You?" He raised an eyebrow. "No offense, but as you are you're not exactly much of a threat to anyone. But even if you were capable of taking over the world, well… You'd be the ruler of everyone but you wouldn't be a tyrant. You might be evil but you don't have the capacity for raw malice and cruelty. It also has to do with the fact that no one in my family could actually kill you…"
"What? The bond hasn't formed yet has it?" Jack looked at him in confusion.
"No." Enny snorted. "It's complicated and twisted beyond belief, but the basics of it is that we can't kill anyone who is good. You qualify enough that my family wouldn't be able to kill you. Therefore, you would not be someone we would need to defeat."
"You guys have some weird morals, you know that?" Jack shook his head. "Seriously, even Omi isn't as weird as you guys." He stopped and blinked. "Huh, I feel like I know about your family already and I haven't even met them."
"That tends to happen a lot," NJ mused curiously. "I wonder why?"
"Hold that right there," Jack ordered as he grabbed a screwdriver from the small table they'd attached to his wheelchair for this purpose. The only problem was remembering to put the tool back on the table instead of leaving it around the lab.
Leaning back with a pleased grin he looked over the masterpiece. It had only taken him one day to design, and building it the next had proved to go even faster. Having Enny there to bounce ideas off of (even if he didn't always understand it) helped a lot. The wyvern had also commented that helping his dad build was one of their few bonding times, so he'd grown to ignore his dislike of his intelligence when he was helping and not the one actively in charge of building.
"It looks cool." NJ said dully. Monotone was his natural speaking mode, but according to him Jack somehow made him act weird. "Needs some color."
"Yeah, I can see that." Jack mused. "Some red and black, definitely." He looked at NJ out the side of his vision. "Maybe a bit of green?"
"Please stop obsessing over my eyes." Enny droned slightly annoyed.
"Come on! Green eyes are cool enough, your eyes are creamy! That doesn't exist in the color spectrum!" Jack exclaimed. "Cream green eye color doesn't even exist in the animal kingdom!"
Enny huffed quietly. "My dad's eyes are neon." That shut Jack up.
"That's it, I want to meet your folks sometime."
"Please don't," He whined slightly.
Jack grinned. "I'm going to have to meet them sometime, you know. I'm your Soul Guarded, remember?"
"Please don't remind me." NJ growled. "You do realize that I could bribe you out of evil right now just by giving you full access to my dad's labs?"
"What?"
"The few other smart people who've seen my dad's labs have literally drooled walking in the door and one kept fainting in happiness." Enny told him with a perfectly passive face.
"If you were anyone else I'd ask if you were joking, but you don't joke." Jack gave him a look. "Let's get back to work though. The red paint's over there, black's right next to it." As Jack picked up a tablet and started scrolling through something Enny went over to where he'd pointed.
"You better not be looking at green paint colors."
"Oh come on!"
"You're kidding right?"
"It's not that weird."
"Dude, yes it is!" Jack pushed him slightly. "You've never played an Xbox before and your dad's supposedly this brilliant inventor!"
"Why does that indicate that I should have played a video game?" Enny gave him the look. Jack thought that look was hilarious. It was a slightly condescending look mixed with a large amount of 'I'm better than to do something like that' but on the face of an eight year old (secretly five) it looked absolutely hysterical.
Jack snickered, ignoring the scowl he got because Enny knew he liked to make fun of his human form's age. "Just come over here already." He pat the couch that he was sitting on, a footstool holding his bandaged foot up. NJ obediently sat down and accepted the controller he was handed.
"I don't want to play." He said slightly defiantly as he gave the TV an angry glare.
"Well too bad, you've never played a video game before and I'm making you."
A while later Jack quickly learned that NJ did NOT like fighting games, thank you very much. In his own words he'd 'had enough fighting in five years from his family to destroy the planet'. Jack wasn't sure whether he was exaggerating or not, which kind of scared him.
Halo was surprisingly on the 'it's not as bad as the rest' list and none of the others could even get a good point. Jack tried hard, but none of the (lots of) games he had didn't have any fighting or anything. It was kind of the point of most video games lately.
And then Enny discovered Minecraft.
Jack wasn't quite sure what he'd unleashed on the world and pondered if Enny could be bothered to be convinced to help him take over said world via Minecraft negotiating.
"Ah hah! DIAMONDS!" NJ squealed happily.
It was also really scary that Enny was acting completely his age while playing.
"No no no, NOOOO! I HATE YOU LAVA! I HATE YOOOOU!"
Jack just watched in a fit of giggles as NJ proceeded to curse the game out using a weird language.
"Why are you laughing?! The lava is eviiiiil!" Enny whined pitifully with a full on pout.
Jack gave up holding it in and cackled hysterically.
"STOP LAUGHING!"
Enny's reactions to playing Minecraft are entirely based off of my own, I have no problems with admitting it. Watching me play Minecraft is hilarious if my sister's giggles are anything to go off of. (She's a moderator and the person who bugged me into playing in the first place.)
NJ hates the fact that he's got the mind of an adult and the utterly adorable body of a little kid. Everyone else just can't stop 'awww'ing. Bonding time for NJ and Jack! Jack is just confused most of the time but he's learning to deal with the strangeness.
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