A/N: hey everyone, sorry this took a little while. My mom went into the hospital yesterday. Don't worry everything is fine. I've just been visiting with her. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Remember to tell me if I wander too far from your character.
"Are you sure that's him?" Abigail asked the woman who was pushing her way through the crowd. She followed the oldest halfa through the crowd. The teen was slightly worried with the unsteady way Catalina was walking.
"Of course, I'm sure. Thalan Ishimaru," Catalina said nodded her head.
"Why don't I get him? I'm faster," Alex said. Catalina looked at the black haired teen and gave him a nod.
Alex took off darting through the crowd. He kept his sights on the other teen's black buzz cut. He didn't know why he was doing this for the woman, but he thought back to their brief battle with Dan. Catalina put herself between them and the evil ghost; his aunt wouldn't have done that even for him, nevertheless for two teens she barely met.
Alex shook his head deciding he could figure it out later. For now, he was going to catch up to the slightly taller teen. He was slowly gaining on him. Thalen looked over his shoulder, his dark blue eyes locking with Alex's black ones.
Thalen darted to the left vaulting over a fence as if it was nothing. Alex stopped at the same structure and watched as the other teen climbed up the walls of a nearby building. Thalen landed on the building's balcony before jumping to the next building's balcony.
Alex climbed the fence slowly. He was slightly impressed by the way the other halfa bounded across the buildings with ease without his ghost abilities. Once over the fence, Alex followed on foot.
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Thalen looked back to see the black-haired teen still following him. He frowned. Thalen climbed higher feeling perfectly at ease scrambling through the city's buildings.
He ducked and weaved through the buildings effortlessly. He looked down once more to see that the teen that was following him was no longer there. He smirked to himself. "Guess he couldn't handle it," Thalen mumbled to himself. The teen climbed down slowly; he could always float down using his ghost half, but he enjoyed using any nearby structures as his jungle gym.
Thalen's shoes hit the ground softly. "Thalen," a female voice called out. The teen turned to face the woman with the black and white hair. He debated whether to run or not. "I'm not mad about the wallet. I just want to talk," she said clearly out of breath. The question came up again: run or not run? The woman didn't look like one of those scientists. The teen gave her a fake quizzical look; the woman would probably explain herself. "Oh right, you might not speak English." She held up her hand in the universal signal to wait. Thalen suppressed the urge to roll his eyes; of course the ditz thought he only spoke Chinese. She opened her purse and pulled out a book. "Okay, I know how to do this," she said to herself. Thalen watched as she flipped through page by page. " Let's see….Wǒ.." The woman flipped through more pages. " méi….. shēngqì. Wǒ… zhǐ… xūyào… hé …nǐ.. tán tán." The woman stumbled through the foreign words with difficulty. Thalen knew Chinese fairly well, but he wasn't going to give the woman the satisfaction of knowing that he understood her.
Thalen kept himself from grinning and shrugged at the woman. "I must have said that wrong," the woman said to herself obviously very flustered. The teen couldn't help but enjoy the discomfort in the other.
The woman tried again flipping through page after page to say another broken sentence in Chinese. The woman's brow began to furrow in frustration. Thalen acted as though he didn't understand the woman. At this point, the black-haired teen appeared along with a girl with a purple ponytail. The girl had a pair of large metal gloves in her hands.
"Here, one of you see if you can talk to him," the woman said holding out the book.
"I'll try, Catalina," the girl said handing the gloves to the boy and grabbing the book. The purple-haired teen flipped through the book quickly. She read off a couple of words. Thalen shook his head.
"Maybe he doesn't speak Chinese," the black-haired teen added.
"Well, what language would he speak, Alex?" Catalina asked.
"How about English?" Thalen asked with an arrogant tone. "You're definitely not the brightest bulb in the pack are you, Chòu yòu?"
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you," Catalina said with a smile. The girl flipped through the Chinese dictionary looking for what Thalen had said. She paused and her blue eyes widened. Thalen smirked at the response figuring the girl found out what the words meant. "I just wanted to catch you to tell you that you're not alone. You're not the only half ghost in existence."
"So you're also crazy. That's great. Well, Lady. You're not getting your wallet back, so you can run along and enjoy your vacation," Thalen said. He pushed past the woman which wasn't hard given his height advantage.
"I just wanted you to know that you're not alone. And you don't have to be alone. We have a place for you," Catalina called out to the teen. Thalen rolled his eyes.
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Catalina watched as the taller teen walked off. She normally would run after him and irritated him until she got him to actually talk to her, but her little altercation with Dan left her feeling drained. "Okay, you two. We'll find him tomorrow. I don't know about you two, but I'm exhausted."
"Um, Catalina," Abigail spoke up, "Do you know what he called you?"
"No, why?" Catalina asked not seeing what the issue was. Abigail handed the book over to Catalina who read the page. "Skunk," she read out loud before tugging at the white strands of her bangs. Catalina saw herself as a patient person, but she was a woman which means she was very sensitive about her hair. The woman snarled and her eyes glowed red. "That little," the rest of the sentence was lost into grumbles as Catalina sprinted after the teen dropping the dictionary on the ground.
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Thalen walked out of the store with bags of food. He was very lucky that the crazy woman had plenty of cash in the wallet. He munched on a candy bar as he walked through the crowded streets. The teen walked to an old abandoned building. After going through one of the poorly boarded up windows, he set his food down. "Hey guys, I've just saved your sorry hides from starvation again," he called out to the seemingly empty building.
With this call, several shadows moved. People of various shapes came into view. Old and young. These people in rags came forward to see what Thalen had brought. "Hey, Daquan. Look at what I got for you," the teen called out to a small boy who walked up to him. The teen reached into his pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar.
The child's face lit up at the simple gift. "Thank you, Thalen," the child said as he received the candy. Thalen gave the kid a smile before turning to leave. A loud scream caused Thalen to look back around. The crowd of people were scattering as something floated down from the ceiling.
The ghostly being was a female with blue skin and red eyes. She landed on the ground in front of Thalen and grabbed the front of his purple over shirt grasping at the black shirt that was underneath it as well. "You're going to apologize right now," the ghost hissed showing off her fangs.
A/N: Just a note. That the nickname that Thalen gave Catalina is purely based on her black and white hair color. Also I'm not an artist, so if anyone wants to draw a cover page or even the characters themselves that would be awesome.