The Blaxkbird-X was built after the destruction after the original. It holds all teh same eminities as the former model but with a few extra bells and whisteles.
Waya brought everyone into the jet. Allowing their shadows to disperse she told Rhydian "We should get in the air."
"Right."
Rhydian nodded, jumping into the co-pilot's seat. He fired up the engines and engaged the cloaking device. "Just in case they notice he's gone."
Eliza waved at Rhydian and Waya as they appeared int the cockpit "Nice of you to join us. Or maybe you didn't see the portal Antimony made?"
"Guess not."
the twins smirked.
Antimony herself waited patiently for everyone to step through, then closed the portal behind her. "Let's just hightail it out of here, huh?" She said, strapping in. She wondered briefly if she could make a portal from here to New York.
"I was rather busy keeping an eye on thsoe guards. Or didn't you notice that a nurse was about to come into the room."
Waya said sliding into the pilot's seat.
Kale grinned, "You would think an alarm wou-" His tentacles flickered faintly, "Nevermind."
"It would have sounded earlier, if I hadn't tricked the sensors into thinking he was still there."
Rhydian pointed out as the thrusters angled and they begant he verticle assent. "Hope everybody is strapped in, cuz we're aiming for a quick escape here."
Veronica buckled herself in beside Kale, looking at him with a gentle smile on her face. "Ready to be knocked out agian or will you be alright this time?"
"Please dont knock the healer out"
Jeremy groaned from the back, bracing himself as best he could against the bench.
Eliza buckled herself in and sighed with relief, at least they were in and out before the alarm had sounded.
Kale's back hit the back of the chair quickly. He hated to admit it, but instead, he snatched up Veronica's hand and yanked it to his armrest, gripping it tighty to calm his nerves. He really didn't care who's hand he was clutching, but Veronica's was the closest.
Veronica felt herself blush and gently squeezed Kale's hand. "Do you want a nice little distraction, surfer-boy?" She asked him, batting her eyelashes
"There are beds in hte med-section."
Waya said as the plain lifted from the roof. "Someone help Jeremy back there."
"SHH!!"
Kale hissed at Veronica, shutting his eyes tightly. He didn't mean it at all in a mean way, he just REALLY hated flying.
"I'm good back here"
Jeremy said, smiling slightly and clutching his stomach with one hand "Smoothest ride I've had in a long time."
Veronica grinned. "I'm on it Waya," she answered, a grin upon her face. She unbuckled herself and split into 8. They looked at each other and winked. Four of them walked over to Jeremy, holding out their hands. "We'll take you back to the med-section. Trust us, if you think this is comfortable, you've got no idea what you're missing." The other four sat around Kale, two of them chose to sit on his lap while the others took the seats beside him. "Come on surfer-boy, I'm sure we can help you through the flight." They each reached forward and ran their slender fingers through his hair.
"How exactly do you plan on doing that?"
Kale asked smugly, as if he wasn't phased at all.
"Well...we were thinking sort of like this." the four
Veronicas replied, one of them leaning in and kissing him fully on the lips, tangling her fingers into his hair
Kale's eyes widened and his eyebrows curled in a very confused way. One was simply arched while the other was the opposite.
The other three
Veronicas grinned mischievously as their other kissed him
Entirely uninterested in seeing any of this,
Antimony stood and, with a fluid motion, dissapeared into a portal to where 8 was taking Jeremy. She closed it quickly behind her. Portals in moving vehicles were tricky, and her heart raced quietly in her chest from the effort. She sat on a bench and crossed her legs, leaning back and sighing. She flicked open the other end to the portal at home, checking it nervously, and flicked it closed.
Kale pushed Veronica off of him, "Jeez! What the hell was that for?!"
The twins had both fallen asleep in their seats.
The
Veronicas grinned. "It was distracting wasn't it, Kale?" They batted their eyelashes at him
Kale wiped off his lips, "That was completely unnecessary, man!"
"Man???" The
4 asked in unison. "Are you on crack, surfer-boy?!"
"You don't just go around kissing random people at random times like that, V!"
Kale came back. He figured she knew that the 'man' was just the slang he used.
The
4 looked up at him, hurt slightly. "You're not a random person to us, Kale...we were just trying to help......"
Kale sighed and leaned back with his eyes shut. "I'm sorry." he forced out. He did feel a little bad for snapping at her, but he truly thought that her actions were reckless and uncalled for.
The
4 got up from the floor of the jet and went over to help the others of their 8. A resounding "Hmph." could be heard from all 8 of them.
Kale remained idle and gripped his arm rests tightly. His teeth grit and his eyes shut firmly. Kale was starting to get sweaty.
Jeremy stared up at the Veronica's as they sheparded into the back room, surprised to find Antimony in there and even more surprised when four more Veronica's turned up. He lay down on the bed sleepily, curling up in a ball "Please girls, one at at time." he chuckled.
Eliza thought for a second before nervously extending a hand, stretching it over to Kale's side. "It'll be ok" she said, taking his hand "Nothing will happen."
"Yea....if the engines don't give out, or we go through a storm, or a wing breaks off, not to mention teenagers are flying this thing."
Kale replied.
"The eingines are fine, this thing can handle a storm, if the wings break off now it's going to be a bit of a coincidence isn't it? I mean this is still in the same shape that it was with the adults..."
Eliza said, giving Kale's hand a soft squeeze.
The
8 grinned and patted Jeremy's cheek, one at a time. "Now you just relax. You won't find a more comfortable place to sleep in the whole jet." They grinned and then changed back into a single Veronica. "They call me 8, by the way. But my name is Veronica. V, Ver, or even Roni works also."
Jeremy smiled up at her and blinked his huge red eyes "Im Jeremy... Jeremy Marks. I dont know what my alias is going to be."
"Well...usuall
y your alias has something to do with your powers, cept for Rhydian up there." Veronica siad, pointing her thumb toward the pilot. "He just spelled his last name backwards, it's cool though. He goes by Kavon. What exactly can you do?"
"Thanks." Kale said, his eyes relaxing a little
Eliza smiled softly and gave his hand another squeeze "If you get nervous dont be afraid to grip my hand."
Jeremy thought about it for a moment and grinned "Geist then.." he said, looking at his long nails and at his even longer hair. "Will someone cut something?" he said, grabbing a lock and trying to saw it free with his nails.
Veronica walked over to a panel and opened it, pulling out scissors and finger nail clippers. She handed them to him and smiled. "Geist huh? What's that mean?"
Jeremy began to clip his nails as best he could, having to use the scissors instead of the nail clippers because his nails were so long. "My powers... my looks" he pulled at his green hair and stared at his greenish hands "Im definatley a geist..."
"Thanks...it's appreciated." Kale said, relaxing more.
"Okkkkk....but what is a geist?" Veronica asked him with a small giggle
Eliza smiled softly and turned back around, looking at the front of the ship as she held Kale's hand.
"Like a ghost... but more solid and slimy" Jeremy grinned, starting to cut his hair "All those boogey men and creatures behind cupboard doors."
If only Veronica was more...well, human like Eliza was. Perhaps if she didn't always flirt with everyone around her too, maybe then I would-... Kale stopped thinking and stared at the back of his eyelids.
The twins snored and made a little squeak as they slept.
"Oh. Cool." Veronica said, giving him a thumbs up. "Well I'm gonna go back to my seat, Geist." She smiled at him, "Don't cut yourself ok?"
Jeremy nodded and kept clipping away at his hair, his nails now laying on the floor in a small pile. He looked up at Antimony as he clipped away "Did you come to visit?"
Veronica walked back out to where they were all sitting and her eyes went wide as she saw Eliza's hand clutching Kale's. She gritted her teeth and clentched her fists. She couldn't believe how jealous she was getting!
Eliza looked around and blushed softly, though she didn't know why "Hey... is Jeremy ok?"
Kale ignored all around him, shutting himself off from the world to make it through this flight.
"He's fine. Cutting his hair right now." Veronica said sharply. Basically just dismissing talking to Eliza. She flopped down in the seat next to Kale and wrapped her arm around his.
Eliza let Kale's hand go, now Veronica was there "Good. Kale's terrified.."
"I'm NOT terrified." Kale said quickly, "I just hate this."
Veronica rested her head on Kale's shoulder. "I'm sorry about earlier Kale..." she whispered softly, hoping that Eliza couldn't hear her.
Kale was too sleepy to respond. His head merely shifted and rested on Veronica's. He cracked a weak smile.
Veronica smiled softly and clentched Kale's hand softly.
"Mostly just to get away from the drama in the front row," Antimony admitted with a sheepish smile. "But I like your idea better. My name's Antimony Bennett," She offered her long-fingered hand to shake.
Jeremy smiled and shook Antimony's hand firmly, his grip firm yet boney "so, are we going back to the mansion?" he said, pulling his legs up onto the bed and sitting indian style.
"That's the plan," Antimony smiled, letting go of his hand. "Back to good old New York to our very own abandoned mansion."
"Abandoned?" Jeremy asked, confused "Did everyone leave?"
"Just about," Antimony sat back, folding her legs. "It's just us now. All the teachers left, but the facility is in perfect working order, which is kind of cool, still."
Jeremy sighed "Still, better than when I was out there alone..." he looked up at Antimony and cocked his head to the side "Would you like to see my powers Antimony? For some reason I feel like I can show you without you freaking."
Antimony trained all four eyes on him, amused, and flicked her tail. "You're more than welcome to," She replied. "You've seen mine, after all."
Jeremy nodded and lay down on the bed carefully "Just... dont expect it to be normal..." he said. He closed his eyes and let out a small breath before becoming very still.
One of the twins awoke. "Jaden." he told his brother, waking him up.
"We home yet?" the other asked to anyone who was willing to listen.
"Keeping in mind that my definition of 'normal' may be much, much different from yours," Antimony murmured, "Alright." She folded her fingers and leaned forward, watching him expectantly.
All Jeremy did was lie there. Just slumped against the back wall. He was increadibly still, his chest wasn't even moving up and down. All was silent for a moment before suddenly Antimony felt some strong force grab her backside.
Antimony yelped and portaled instinctively to the other side of the room. Hardly realizing it as a reflex, her tail thrashed indignantly as her eyes scanned the room, focusing and refocusing, hoping to catch something with her alien eyes. "Real mature, jackass," she spat, annoyed.
"Where did Antimony go?" Jaden asked.
"I...don't know." Jayden replied looking around the room.
Jeremy didn't move. Or atleast his body didn't move. Much. His hair was growing at an alarming rate, already a fourth of the way to where it was before and his nails were past his knees. There was a small flicker infront of Antimony and a white light flickered into life, a person sized shape of light floating in mid-air. It shrugged and kicked at the floor slightly, missing because he was a couple of inches off it. He couldn't speak like this, but he was trying to show he was sorry.
Antimony crossed her arms and looked at him reproachfully, still offended, and said, "You better not do it again!"
Jeremy's ghost approached her slowly and bowed his head infront of her, showing clearly that he was sorry. What he didn't know of course was that she could see a gash where his mouth should be, showing he was smiling widely.
The twins perked up when they heard Antimony shout. They instantly got up and ran to the back room.
Jaden went in front of Antimony with his arms stretched as if to protect her. Jayden grabbed Jeremy's collar and yanked it, "What did you do?!"
As soon as the twins had burst in the light Jeremy had dissapeared, making it look as if it was only Antimony and the effctivly dead Jeremy there. As Jayden grabbed the dead Jeremy's collar he collapsed over, the body not resisting against the pull.
"It's okay, Ja(y)den," Antimony said, referring to both of them. "He's a douchebag, but an out-of-body douchebag." She smiled a little at the twins' overprotectiveness.
"Shit!" Jayden let go of his collar, "You killed the guy already!"
"What?!" Jaden asked.
Jeremy's body slumped over, angled at an unnatural angle. His invisable spirit drifted around behind Antimony and watched, not smiling any more.
"He's not dead!" Antimony said, exasperated. "He's a poltergeist, that's his power. Just--don't hurt him!" She ran forward and set the body to rights again, so it wasn't so awkwardly positioned.
A pen and notepad lifted from the table and Jeremy began to scribble on the page Am dead, though will come back to life when I go back in.
Waya alled back from the cockpit "What the hell is going on back there?"
"Don't worry about it lovely one!" Jaden shouted to the front.
Jayden got quickly bored and turned to Antimony, "Do you know of a vet?" They both flexed, "Cause these pythons are sick, babe."
"I'll find out." Junior said getting up from his set nd traveling to the back of the plane "What's going on?"
Jeremy floated over to infront of Junior, considered it for moment, and popped into sight infront of him.
"Oh hey woah!" Junior said "Ok..." He clled back to the cockpit "Astral projection Waya."
"tell them to stop it." Waya said as she and Rhydian mde the decent to the school
"She said stop it." Junior said "She's kind cold natured but you did just come out of a coma thing so you might want to take it easy till we get to the school."
Jeremy scribbled on the pad in his hands for a second before showing it to Junior. Now it said It's better me being outside, I dont feel the pains of my body.
The twins grinned wide. They walked over to the body, "So you can't feel...this?" One pinched his arm.
"Or...this?" the other twin gave him a snakebite.
"You are both rediculous," Antimony said, porting back into the cockpit of the plane. "Nice little gem you've picked up for us, Waya," She said sarcastically. "Real charmer, that one."
A little paper aeroplane landed next to Antimony's chair with Jeremy's handwriting on. It said I am sorry... my sense of humour's gone down the pan since I started to surprise half the nurses like that. And please stop the two attacking my body, I'll feel it when I go back in and Im hurting enough already.
Meanwhile, the twins had already stopped teasing Jeremy and had started attacking eachother. No one had gotten a punch in, they both were on the floor wrestling eachother.
"He feels better outside his body." unior called back to the cockpit.
"Whatever." Waya called back distantly
"Yeah, okay," Antimony relented, and ported back to the back of the plane. "Hey, hey, quit it!" She yelled at the twins, trying to wrench one from the other.
Jeremy floated over to the twin Antimony wasn't trying to pull off and grabbed hold of him, yanking at him hard to try and get them off each other.
Finally, the twins broke away from eachother. They were both panting heavily and sweating.
"What is with you guys?" Antimony demanded, angry and worried. She let go of the twin she was holding and stepped back, arms akimbo.
Shrugging Jeremy went back into his body. With a small ratteling cough he got up, turned to the scissors and began to clip his nails again as if nothing happened.
"He upset you, my lovely..." Jaden bowed to her.
"What?! LIAR!!" Jayden shouted, about to take another hit at him.
Rhydian looked back quickly. "Will you guys knock it off?! I'm trying to fly this damn thing!"
"BOTH of you are upsetting me NOW!" Antimony yelled at them, getting inbetween them and holding them out at arm's length. "Now quit it! What's gotten into you? You two are usually so amicable it disturbs people."
The two starred eachother down before both saying, "We don't want to share."
"Then neither of you get anything!" Antimony declared. She ported back to the front of the ship and, sitting down, strapped herself back in and fumed.
"But-" they both muttered, but it was too late. They both glared at eachother before both realizing that she was right. The twins had always shared together and there was rarely a problem. But...could they really share a woman together? Embarrassed, they walked back to their seats as well. One on each side of Antimony. They didn't say anything, the little display before was embarrassing enough.
Waya stood from her seat and sat next to Antimony. She whispered "I did kinda warn you." She said "But it's good you stood up to them."
Antimony smiled gratefully at Waya. Noticing the twins on either side of her, she only whispered back, "Yeah. Thanks." She didn't want to talk about them to Waya in front of their faces, that was just rude.
Waya looked at both the twins "Find someplce other than here." She said "Or I'll drop you both in the dhasow relm."
The twins had nothing to say to her. Waya's comment angered them, but they never could be angry at such a lovely girl. They both got up and walked to the back of the plane.
"Waya, we don't have any more stops to make do we?" Rhydian asked her,t rying to change the subject fromt he twins.
"No." Waya anwered "We shjould be about 5 minuets away from the school though.'
"They're both spoiled brats," Antimony spoke quietly to Waya. "And smug and conniving and womanizers, the both of them, but they can be so sweet when they want to, and they're so endearing." She sighed.
Meanwhile, the twins sat on the floor of the rear of the plane. Rather downhearted and annoyed, they started to arm wrestle with eachother.
Rhydian rolled his eyes at Antimony's flattery of the twins. He was still very aggitated by their constant flattery of Waya, especially considering the fact that he could rarely ever think up a compliment to tell her that they haven't already said...
"Guys" Jeremy hissed at the nearest people, the twins "Where do I put all this?" He held up a massive lock of hair and a nail that almost tapped along the ground.
"Uh...the trashcan?" the twins told him before they went back to arm wrestlings.
"Where's the trash can?" Jeremy asked, turning around and looking at the room.
"Cabinet." the twins said together, giving up with a stalemate.
Jeremy turned and shoved all the things into the trashcan, his ruse to get the twins into the room hadn't worked.
"So..." the twins started, making sure that no one from in front of the jet was listening. "What exactly did you do to our lovely flower petal?"
There was a clatter as Jeremy dropped a nail, almost slicing his foot open "I... uhhh... grabbed her." he muttered from behind the door.
The twins were calm as if the comment didn't phase them. They stood and cornered him around the cabinet, "Don't touch our darling and we won't hurt you." they smiled.
"Last person who I appeared infront of screamed and ran. If I grabbed her she'd be angry, not scared." Jeremy muttered, reaching down and pulling at a huge group of hair that was under Jayden's foot.
They both stepped back and placed their hands in their pockets, "You never touch a lady like that...ever. Unless of course, she asks for it."
"Yeeeaaaah, cause you dont seem like the kind to impose on a lady" Jeremy muttered to himself, throwing the hair into the trash that was getting rather full.
"We would never do anything of the sort." the twins smiled back, almost in an eerie way.
Jeremy glanced at them and sighed "It's either se could be scared of me or she could be angry at me, I'd rather she was angry at me."
"Don't do it again." the twins repeated.
"I wouldn't" Jeremy sighed. He turned to face them, looking them up and down "Are.... both of you going out with her?"
"It's unofficial." they both said at the same time, "Got a problem with it?"
"It's just you dont see many girls going out with two boys at the same time..." Jeremy said, staring idily at the twins.
"Well it's a good thing we are not boys and she isn't a girl then." the twins argued.
Jeremy blinked and smiled nervously at them "Uhhhh... sorry. Didn't know you two were girls..."
"Idiot...we aren't human. Neither is she." they explained.
Jeremy blinked, then nodded slowly "That... makes more sence" he said, blushing gently "But how was I supposed to guess that?"
"If you ever met our Mom. But it's that gene that makes our lovely Antimony perfect for us." the twins gloated.
After just finding another nail under the bed Jeremy was about to put it in the trash when the twins said the word mother. He stood absolutely still for a second before his wrist twitched so badly he dropped the nail and it almost pierced Jaden's leg.
"What the heck man?!" Jaden jumped back.
Jeremy stroked his head gently, staring at the floor and breathing heavily "S-s-s-s-sorry..."
As the jet touched lightly onto the ground, Kale snorted a little, waking up.
Eliza looked round at him and smiled reassuringly "See, nothing bad happened."
Veronica squeezed Kale's hand softly. "Safe and sound, surfer-boy." She whispered softly
The jet finaly made the slow decent threw basketball court and into the hangar. Rhydian performed the systems shutdown as Waya employed Junior and Antimony to help her take Jeremy to the school hospital wing. The twins, Kael, Vernica and Eliza where not given orders.
Eliza got up, looked around to see if anyone needed her and shrugged before exiting the jet.
The twins jumped out and wrapped an arm around Eliza's shoulder's, "What's wrong lovely?"
Kale walked out too, slowing his pace as he secretly waited for Veronica.
Eliza flushed slightly as the twins wrapped their arms around her "Just that Jeremy boy..." she muttered "reminds me of the things I used to think were hiding under my bed."
Veronica loosened the zipper on her top before walking down the ramp to join Kale.
"Don't worry, love. We'll protect you." the twins said in their English accent.
"What about Antimony? Who's protecting her right now?" Eliza asked, cracking a small smile.
The two looked at eachother before smileing back down at Eliza, "She is a strong woman."
"And you're saying Im not?" Eliza said, her voice laced with warning.
"Of course not, beautiful." they wooed with handsome smiles, "We just don't want to anger the lovely Waya is all."
Eliza gave a disgruntled snort before she left, going inside the manor.
Kale looked to Ver, "Let's go chill, babe." He went into the rec room to relax.
The twins followed Eliza.
Veronica giggled quietly and followed Kale to the rec room
Stumble!