Chapter 1: The Mine
The cool air of the cave caressed his skin as Marx Ganesley, a 20-year old Selbinite ran his hand along the wall of the mine he was in with his group. Marx's hair was a bit messy and colored a lilac purple as well as his eyes, and his ears were pointed which weren't natural on any human being. Anyone having purple hair and eyes either dyed their hair or wore a wig, and for the eyes had to be wearing colored contacts. The ears a fake cosplay prop.
But this was natural/organic on him since Marx was an alien born on another planet(named Selbine[pronounced sell-bean]), and had a multitude of abilities he was still growing into such as mind reading and other psychological powers of the mind. His teachers gave him hell about his appearance as they believed that Marx's hair was dyed, he wore contacts despite him having 20/20 vision and his ears were fake even though they were real/biological. Some kids playfully called the Earthling-raised alien an elf because of his ears, though they knew when to back off as to avoid hurting his feelings. He wore a red sleeveless plaid hoodie vest over a white shirt, blue jeans, black gloves and boots. Two pendants, one with a sun and moon and an individual sun accesorized his neck respectively.
The second of the group was one of Marx's biological cousins was Galia Hiraumi-Mirona. She was a year older than him and like Marx, had pointed ears as well as their cousin Risa. Unlike her however, Galia and Marx came to Earth as babies/toddlers.
And at the last dying breath of their parents (in the case of Marx's mother Jenalie and Galia's father Makiel who were siblings), the current families who took them in were related to each other, raised the two as their own and the cousins have grown close ever since. The Selbinites were not aware of their origins until their deceased parents showed up in a series of dreams and told them about it. Marx was somewhat shocked at the lifespan(being outrageously long as Selbinites lived ten times longer than humans) but remained calm so did Galia.
Galia was an albino Selbinite having snow white hair, red eyes and skin so pale to the point it almost looked sickly. She had on a pink and black shirt with the black part sewn over the pink half, detached sleeves, black shorts, and brown boots with a garnet necklace hanging around her neck. She grabbed a diamond and handed it to her brother Kirby.
Kirby was the youngest member at nineteen, who could be goofball and an idiot at times, thus earning him a smack upside the head by Marx or his sister Galia stomping on his foot if he said or did something so ridiculously stupid in front of them. Other times, Kirby would be a sweetheart and try to lighten up the mood to keep the tension down so people wouldn't fight, as he hated it when the people he cared about fought or argued in front of him. It would hurt him badly and break his heart.
Kirby was a half-Spanish boy who had blonde hair that he tries to dye red but the dye always turns his hair pink(lol bad hair dye), eyes as blue as the ocean, blue long sleeved shirt with a matching vest, gray sweatpants and blue converse. He took the mineral and put it in the leather sack that they brought with them, which was surprisingly strong and durable as the amount of the diamonds they collected so far didn't damage the sack.
"This is a pretty strong sack. I'm surprised there isn't a hole in it yet."
"Did you want one in there?" Kevin asked him as he bent down dusted his pants of any stray dirt that landed on them.
The blonde shook his head fiercely at the question, "Uh no, Kev. I was just admiring how durable this thing was is all."
Kevin Higurashi was the second oldest despite being the same age as Galia. He was a half-Japanese boy with short red hair, chocolate brown eyes, wore a green shirt under a black vest, black jeans, matching converse and gloves with a platinum pendant. He, like Marx were brotherly as both had siblings younger than them, but in the latter's case who had older siblings. As much as he couldn't bring himself to admit it, Kevin had a tiny but secret crush on Galia due to how pretty she was. Apparently both Selbinites knew as they read Kevin's mind but decided to pretend that they didn't know so they wouldn't spoil his feelings for the albino.
Kevin shot Kirby a glance then went to do his own work in the mine.
And lastly of the group of five was Marx and Galia's cousin Risa Lagansen(affectionately nicknamed Ri/Ria by Marx and Galia). She was the oldest being a few years older than her younger relatives thus placing her at 23 and a Selbinite like them. Risa's hair was a beautiful silver color and her eyes were sky blue. She wore a yellow tank top under a gray jacket, black skirt with white leggings and black lace up boots. Both of her ears were pierced with aquamarine earrings and her neck was decorated by a silver triangle pendant.
Risa had Galia's sisterly traits despite having no siblings but treated her cousins as if they were. She, like her relatives had the same abilities as their ears were extremely sensitive to sounds above a certain amount of decibels. If the amount of decibels were exceeded, all three pairs of the hearing organ would ring painfully and bleed. A headsplitting migraine from the noise would be added to the list of pains.
As the group continued to walk, something shiny in the distance caught the silverette's eye. Seeing his cousin move ahead of everyone else, the lilac haired youth soon caught up with her.
"What's up, Ri?" he asked her. "You see something out of the ordinary?"
"Shenetsen, Kazhek Marxaine(Look, Cousin Marx)," she nodded and pointed to what appeared to be a barrier of some kind that blocked off a deeper part of the cave. Translating what she said in his mind in English, Marx inspected the barrier before calling everyone else over to their area.
"Yo peeps, come check this out with us."
Right on cue, Galia, Kirby and Kevin came running up to the two and were surprised by what they saw as well.
"What do you think it is?" Kevin asked the male Earth raised Selbinite while rubbing his chin in thought.
"I don't know but I'm getting some sort of vibe from this," Marx replied then shrugged. "I can't tell if it's good or bad but it doesn't seem that way for some reason."
"Think we might get zapped if we touch it?" Kirby intriguely inquired, curious for the result if one of them actually touched the barrier.
The albino ruffled her brother's hair, "That's a very good question, Kirbs. Something like that could happen if Marx isn't careful."
As if testing the waters, Marx slowly but cautiously put his hand to the seal to feel a slight jolt. Instead his whole hand went through, shocking everyone including himself.
"Okay...? Not what I expected but not harmful either."
He continued to move his arm through until his body went to the other side. The others seeing that the lilac haired man didn't get hurt or suffer from any after effects, followed suit and joined him soon afterwards. A chill ran down the albino's spine as she had never felt something like that before.
"That was weird."
"Tell me about it, fam that was freaky."
The five adults continued on their way until they happened upon a very large blue crystal. Inside the crystal was a woman who looked as though she had been asleep for so long. Somewhere near the middle were five slots as if to hold something had been filled with gems of some kind. Each had a ruby, sapphire, pink/rose quartz, emerald and topaz respectively. There was also an inscription on the wall next to it.
"There's something written over here but I can't read it," the half Japanese boy said as he walked over to examine the writing then ran his hand over it. "Must be really old, don't know how old though. Yo, Marx you think you, Gal, or Risa can read this?"
"What makes you think we can if you can't?" Marx rebutted.
Kevin shrugged, "Dunno let's just say The Mummy came to mind."
Marx snorted then rolled his eyes at his friend's answer. "Uh huh sure, Kev."
"I'm being for real though, bro. Remember when Evie started getting flashbacks and was able to read Egyptian hieroglyphs? That's because Nefertiri was reincarnated as her and going to Egypt must've stirred up some old memories of her past life. I'm just saying that maybe you guys could read whatever's carved on the wall minus the whole reincarnation thing that is. And yes it's cause you're aliens no offense."
"None taken but I don't know if I can read this though, Kevin. I mean if you couldn't read it, I wouldn't get a different result myself. But I'll try though."
The purple haired Selbinite strolled over next to Kevin and proceeded to try his luck. Even though he couldn't read the text, the words were speaking to Marx in his mind in the form of a riddle.
"To open the way for the sealed one, five beings must offer a hand of pure."
"So you CAN read it."
"Nah not really, the words were kinda talking to me in my head. Don't ask why or how, I don't know either."
Kevin raised an eyebrow but didn't press the matter further. He was still wondering about the riddle as last part threw him and everyone else for a loop.
"What did it mean by 'five beings must offer a hand of pure'?"
"Offer as in sacrifice?" Kirby gulped, thinking that the inscription meant severing off one of their hands and giving it up.
"Nah, Kirby I think it might have something to do with these," Galia said as she reached her hand out and grabbed the pink/rose quartz from its resting place. "I mean there are five of these things and there are five of us right? So I'm guessing we each grab one."
"You might be right, cousin," Risa agreed then took the topaz.
Soon the boys went afterwards with Marx grabbing the ruby, Kirby the sapphire and Kevin with the emerald. After the group obtained a gem that was the same color of at least one article of clothing on their bodies, the crystal cracked then shattered releasing whoever was housed within it. The teenagers felt a faint tingly sensation afterwards but didn't notice it.
Quickly pocketing the emerald and acting on instinct, Kevin ran up and caught the woman before she hit the ground and set gently her against the wall. Her gray eyes fluttered open to take in her surroundings then looked to see a group of adults around the age range of 20-24. The woman tried to stand on her own but stumbled as she hadn't used her legs in a while since the last time she was awake.
"Careful there, miss or you might take a face full of dirt and rocks," Kevin gently warned, voice somewhat concerned.
"How long has it been since I have been asleep?"
A/N: I'm just going to leave it at that and pick it up in chapter 2 since I don't want a chapter to drag on for too long and would end up having to constantly add more then try to end it. I'm running out of ideas again lol. Every time when relatives of Marx and Galia's native race like their deceased parents or cousin Risa would vocally speak in their mother language, I'll automatically translate the word or phrase in brackets so I don't have to constantly put the translation in the author's note all the time. Welp it's late and almost 5 in the morning so good morning. Also I revised the ages of the characters to make them somewhat older since I'm going to add possibly Marx in another story sometime in the future.