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Of Dragons and Wyverns Too
"Hey, have you guys wondered why we haven't seen Jack at any Showdowns lately?" Dojo mentioned as they flew back to the monastery from the latest Shen Gon Wu.
They traded looks. "I think we've all noticed it, but it's not that big a thing really." Kimiko finally said. "Between Wuya, Chase, and Hannibal he's pretty much guaranteed to get killed. It was only a matter of time until he stopped showing up."
"I do not believe that is the case, Kimiko!" Omi nodded. "Jack Spicer is too stubborn an opponent to take out even when he is most assuredly twisted."
"Too stubborn to give in even when he's screwed," Raimundo corrected idly.
"That too."
"I don't know, I think he probably decided to lay back for a while until he sees an opportunity he can take. Right now he has one advantage over the other Heylin, and that's his brains. Jack's an idiot but he calls himself 'Evil Boy Genius' for a reason. His robots have gotten harder to beat over the years and if he's laying low he's probably working on something big." Raimundo thought out loud.
"I think Kimiko's right." Dojo shrugged.
"I know a way to check." She butted in before Rai could comment again. "AirMusica and him play on different Minecraft servers every day, I've ran into them a lot. They don't outright grief me as much as the first time but they still mess with me." She huffed. "I can just ask him what he's up to."
FireKimi is now online
"Hey, there's Kimiko." Jack nudged Enny as he mashed a few buttons on his controller.
"Meh…" Enny sniffed.
AirMusica At~FireKimi: Go away Fire-Bright, I don't wanna deal with you today…
"What's been up with you lately?" Jack looked at him worriedly. "You've been acting weird."
"I dunno." He shrugged. "I think I'm sick or something…"
FireKimi At~SwirleeGuggles: Tell Musica I don't care. Jack, where have you been lately? You haven't showed up to ANY showdowns.
FireKimi At~SwirleeGuggles: Even when there's been some pretty big Wu.
Jack stared at the chat box. "Do they seriously not know?!" He tossed his controller angrily.
AirMusica At~FireKimi: Did you guys not even notice what happened at the last showdown he was in?!
FireKimi At~AirMusica and SwirleeGuggles: Um… What are you talking about?
NJ seemed to puff up angrily. "They never even noticed?!"
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: CLAY CRUSHED MY FRICKIN FOOT
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: IT WAS BLEEDING AND HURT LIKE ****
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: I HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL AND GET SURGERY
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: RAIMUNDO EVEN LAUGHED AT ME
Enny carefully pried the control away from Jack before he could type any more since he was more than likely about to start cussing them out in full.
AirMusica At~FireKimi: Jack is currently in a wheelchair. He's getting out of it and into crutches tomorrow, but will be in those for a month and a half depending on how it goes.
AirMusica At~FireKimi: The fact that you did not think of that is indicator of how idiotic you all are.
AirMusica is now offline
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: Took my controller back now that I calmed down a bit.
SwirleeGuggles At~FireKimi: And he's right. You losers actually SAW me get hurt! You guys SUCK.
SwirleeGuggles is now offline
Jack sat with his hoverchair parked at the kitchen table, various packages of cookies and sweets sitting in front of him. He ate slowly with a grouchy frown. Enny sat next to him in a normal chair sipping on some tea.
"Are you better?" The kid asked with a slightly worried expression. "My mom usually feels better after sweets…"
"No." Jack said dully. "They didn't. Even. Notice." He gave up eating and hit his forehead on the table.
"I-" Enny stopped and got a weird look on his face.
"What is it?" Jack looked at him.
The weird look changed to one of alarm. Before Jack could do anything Enny practically flew out of his chair and whipped around just in time.
"ACHOO!" Jack stared in amazement as the sneeze blasted the wyvern over the table and into the wall, wind stirring around idly as he slumped in embarrassment. "Fraggit, I hate it when that happens…"
"That. Was. Awesome." Jack laughed. "Dude, does that happen every time you sneeze?!"
"Yes, unfortunately." Enny stumbled up and grabbed a paper towel to wipe his nose. "I hate it, but you should see my dad. Remember that my winds are nowhere as strong as his." Jack stopped to think about that for a second and couldn't hold back a giggle.
"Wait… what about the other elements?"
"My aunt Kaine bursts on fire, but she has enough control that the fire is a type that won't burn. My uncle Abon causes minor earthquakes." NJ couldn't help but smirk at that for a second. "It's hilarious when he sneezes because he's nine foot eight inches in human form. As for my Aunt Arya, I've never seen her sneeze but my uncle Mike says every source of water within a mile trembles for 'no reason'."
Jack burst into laughter. "That's awesome!" He cackled.
"It's annoying." NJ mused. "But I suppose it's entertaining to those watching, especially considering Mia sneezes icicles and Ken sneezes snow." Jack leaned over and clutched at his gut, he was laughing so hard.
"Wait wait wait," He got control of himself, chuckling now and then. "Icicles? Snow?"
"Their mom is my aunt Arya, the Water Wyvern. They're what are called SubElements. Mia is Ice and Ken is Snow, though at first we thought he was Minor Water." At Jack's blankish look Enny sighed and decided to explain more. "They don't control the individual SubElements, they control them through the element they get from their Wyvern parent. Say Mia and Ken have always been able to use Water, but Mia was exceptionally strong and Ken was very weak. Eventually they found out it was because she was Ice, which can be controlled through Water, and he was Snow, which follows the same principal."
"I think I get it," Jack nodded. "So, if the original Elemental Wyvern are the strongest in the four elements they would be able to control subelements by default, but their kids would be the ones who actually do it best?"
"Exactly." Enny made a weird face again and placed his back against the wall. He scrunched up his nose, obviously trying very hard to not sneeze. Jack was about to ask why but realized that the table, and him, was in the spot he'd be sneezing at.
Jack quickly grabbed a box of cookies and zoomed his hoverchair away from the table.
"ACHOO!" Enny ended up sliding a few feet up the wall, the table blasting across the kitchen. "Fragging slagging-" NJ burst into a litany of curses that sounded like they were off a cartoon show.
"Woah." Jack stared at the mess the winds caused. "Dude, are you sick or something?"
"I think I might be… but I've never been sick before, I can't tell." Enny grabbed a fresh paper towel and sniffed.
"How-"
"We're a magical species with superior immune systems." Enny droned. "I have never been sick before. To be honest, I think it's only happened to the nonhumans in my family around three times."
"Are you going to be okay?" Jack maneuvered his hoverchair around the table.
"I think the proper question would be if your house is going to be okay." NJ eyed said table warily. "I should probably talk to my dad…" There was the trace of his usual reluctance when talking about family members in his voice.
"Really? Does this mean I finally get to meet your family?" Jack looked at him excitedly.
NJ gave a long, suffering sigh. "…Yes."
"YES! SWEET!"
"Only the Brithyr side of it, since we're the smaller and saner side."
"That's good enough for me! Let's get in the jet, what coordinates do I put in?"
"This is going to be a long day…"
Jack looked at the 'entrance' in confusion.
"Uh, dude. This is a cave." He frowned.
"Uh huh." Enny said in a monotone. "Hold still for a second." The kid paused and walked to the very lisp of it where his front half was covered in the shadow. "Eka Nock Brithyr Junior!" He said loudly.
Jack was about to ask the point of that when there was a very distinct 'bing!'.
"What?"
"Good, defenses deactivated. Let's go." Enny grabbed his hand and dragged him (via hoverchair) into the cave.
"Defenses? Dude, it's a cave!" Jack grabbed his goggles and pulled them over his eyes, tapping the sides to activate their night vision. "Holy…" His eyes widened as they scanned the interior of the cave and started to pick out piece after piece of technology hidden in rock.
"Uh huh. Keep going, they've probably noticed the defenses were deactivated. We've got only a short while before someone tries sneaking up on us to freak us out."
"AKA me."
"AKA you."
Jack watched in awe as his goggles kept pointing out more and more things throughout the cave as NJ pulled his hoverchair along. Eventually the large circumference of the cave shrunk down to around ten feet high and five feet wide, and then there was a door.
All things considered, it was a pretty impressive door. Just looking at it Jack could see that it was made of some strong metals and his goggles refused to scan anything past it meaning the door was probably incredibly thick.
Turning his head to look at NJ for the next step, Jack jumped when the green light of the night vision caused Enny's wide pupils to reflect like a cat's.
"…I'm not as surprised as I should be that your eye-telescopes have built in night vision too." He watched as Enny rolled his eyes and walked to the door.
With an annoyed look he knocked on the metal.
"Open up guys! I know you're in there and I know you know we know you're in there!"
Jack scratched his head and broke the sentence apart a bit until he understood it.
The door came open without a sound, causing Jack to marvel at the engineering that had to be involved, since a door that thick just had to weigh a heck of a lot! When Enny pulled him through his eyes widened further then they already were when he saw the door was around two and a half feet thick.
He yelped when the door slammed closed and his night vision flared. Pulling his goggles off and cursing he rubbed his eyes with a scowl.
"Ticky!" He heard Enny growl. As in, a serious growl. A growl that raised hairs on the back of Jack's neck.
"Sorry little bro, I claim the blame on that one." He heard an amused voice. "Wanted to see how your bae would react." There was clear teasing in the tone.
Jack cracked open his eyes to see spots and a teenager with brown and white hair. It wasn't like NJ's, where his hair was brown with white streaks. It was literally as if someone had splashed her hair repeatedly with both colors. It could have been brown in white, or white in brown.
"Hi there, I'm Ticera, NJ's older sister." She smiled kindly, scrunching up a pair of frighteningly bright green eyes. "Call me Ticky."
"How old are you?" Jack blurted before he could stop himself.
"Fifteen," She giggled. "But technically an adult, I'm sure NJ's told you all about how weird our ages work right?"
"Oh yeah, it's pretty weird. I'm Jack Spicer," He paused momentarily. "Usually I'd say Evil Boy Genius on the end of that but… I haven't really been feeling it lately."
Ticky chuckled. "No prob, we're pretty lax about that type of stuff as long as you're not trying to kill anyone."
Jack gagged as he was suddenly hugged and squeezed so hard he could barely breathe.
"Hi!" The woman hugging him pulled back to reveal black hair with colorful highlights and a pair of soft brown eyes. "I'm Kenzie, oh my gosh you're so much cooler than I thought you'd be!" He choked as she hugged him again.
"Mom!" Enny hissed lowly, obviously embarrassed but trying to not show it.
"Oh, sorry! Are you okay?" She released Jack and stood up a few steps back. "You're hurt aren't you? Oh I remember NJ mentioned that. Hey NJ, why didn't you tell me your Soul Guarded was a goth? That's something you should mention!" Jack almost felt self conscious until he realized Kenzie was dressed in a sort of moderate goth style herself. "Nice personal twist with the eyeliner by the way."
"Thanks." Jack grinned slightly, very few approved of his eye liner much less complemented his eye slash!
"I'm Yugiko, call me Yugi." Another man showed up behind Ticky. He had black hair with purple and gold highlights and colorful purple eyes.
"He's my mate." Ticera looked over her shoulder at him adoringly. "Or husband. You humans are picky about terms."
Kenzie suddenly whirled around. "Where is Nock?! Is he still in his lab?! I told him to get his tail out here!" She stalked out of the room with a scowl.
"…Jack?"
"Yeah Enny?" He asked amusedly as Ticky and Yugiko proceeded to give each other googoo eyes.
"…I hate my family so much…"
Heh heh... you finally get to meet NJ's family Jack. Pray for your sanity.
If anyone's interested, I set up a blog for the Elemental Wyvern on tumblr. Just get rid of the spaces: tumblr blog / the -wacky -wyvern
NJ isn't quite brought up yet but when he is this story will be mentioned.