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Chapter 3 - Chapter 2

Friday finally came and I told Mrs. White that there was an after school meeting about joining the student council and told her that I would be home super late. I stood waiting for the rest of the girls as Heath came up behind me, "So, you made it." I glare as a vine smacked his hand. "Yes, and I'm waiting for my friends." Heath smiled, "Well they're already waiting on us at our hideout." I look at him as he starts to fly; I follow him as the deep forest became more and more relevant. Heath beings to land while I follow him, the late summer sun shone on some metal on the ground.

There in the middle of the forest was a large seal on the ground. He twisted the lid open and motioned me to go first. I jump in and float down when I reach the floor Heath followed. It was oddly dark, but with glowing eyes, I could see just fine. "Alright lead the way." I motion him, as he smirks, "Alright, I will." After ten minutes of walking, I finally see a light at the end of the hall. Inside my friends are sitting on one side while on the other, it was Heath and his friends.

An older woman walks in, "Good evening First Creation; I'm Grace Kellie and I am the real creator of First Creation. My partner Dr. Flint Riverside wanted to make superhumans. For the good of humanity, but one day he told me that what I was doing was wrong and kept telling me, that we needed to stop testing on adults, and turn to where all the real superhumans were, children." I was shocked but kept listening, "Dr. Riverside and I fought for many weeks, but one day he came into work and showed me the proof of how my calculations were wrong and it was indeed working well with children."

I fixed my seating as she continued, "When I asked about the children he was using this on, he told me his niece and her classmates. I of course was horrified and called the police on him but it was already too late. You six could no longer return to human form. While he was in prison, he tried to create more Creation pills but failed without the rescores. Then when he was let out of prison he couldn't remember what went in it, and his family wouldn't allow him back in the house." I remember this: my grandparents got a call about him leaving prison and states that he was on his own.

The woman handed us each a file. "I have been studying all of you since the day you were all discovered. The only thing is; Flint is making as many Creation children; to bring you six back and he will want you to help him create more strong Creations." Yukii leans back, "So what, they aren't as powerful then why not stop them yourselves?" Dr. Kellie nods, "Yes that is true, but some are powerful, the problem is that these kids have been brainwashed like our little one in my testing room. She can't even tell you her name."

Vee looks back at the group, "So, you really just need the most powerful janitors, to clean up this mess your ex-partner did." she looked down, "Yes, but I will be paying you." I stop her, "Personally I don't need to be paid I just want my home safe." Dr. Grace clapped her hands, "Wonderful, you were the only one I was really worried about since you are his niece." Dr. Kellie clapped her hands, "Now that we're all co-working together. I would like it if we can test all your abilities." I stop her, "I understand that this is important, but I have many clubs and activities to do for school."

Dr. Kellie smiles, "Then you can leave, but your friends will be constantly getting better, while you can't protect yourself." I roll my eyes, "Then you're saying until training is finished ignore extracurricular activities?" She nods, "That's right Ms. Riverside, I know that you're a top student, and you're in classes because it's better than leaving your friends for your senior year or even college right?" I huff, "Fine, but the rest of the party here needs to try hard in their classes too." Heath looks over, "Alright, I bet I can have six A's on my grade card by the time winter breaks come around." I smirk I saw him sleeping in a class all week, "Fine if you don't, you will stop pursuing me." he nods, "Alright if I win, I can see us having a date for how many A's I do have." I roll my eyes, "Fine, just remember there are girls more your reach." I state as he spins in his chair. Dr. Kellie brought us, girls, into the back to better testing than what happened at the Doctor's office.

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Once the girls were in the back I lean back in my chair, "Heath, you're playing with fire." I look at Tucker looked over at me as he moves his blond hair from his face. "Yeah, and don't want to tap your counterpart either?" I ask him as he shrugs, "Well, at least mine isn't always on her phone, right Ryan?" Ryan was on his phone, "I got a picture of each, five dollars for gym class picture." He showed us his phone swiping across his screen showing each of the girls with sexy angles. "Ryan, delete those, no matter how great those shots are, if they see them on our phones we'll have no penis."

He grumbles and does as he's told. "Fine, but I'm keeping Violates' she likes a good picture." I notice that Lilia forgot her phone, it lights up as I grab it while Tucker and Ryan are already playing a game. I find a text from that Seth guy. I know that Lilia isn't dumb so I examine her phone for a tapping pattern, true enough I got it on my first try. I read over his text, 'Hey Lilia, I know that your grandparents are out of town for three months, so I was wondering if you'd to come to my house for dinner so you don't have to eat alone.'

I want to text him back, but instead, I try to fool with him, I open the camera and take a not so cute picture with her phone. Tucker looks up, and so does Ryan and they watch me snap a dick pic. "What are you doing?" "That Seth guy is texting Lilia after getting her number from someone, so, I'm making him believe that this is the wrong number." Tucker and Ryan both glance at her phone, "Dude, she'll figure out you did this." I finally get a good one and send it to him posting how he's really thirsty and how it's the wrong number. "No she won't," I state and delete the whole message and then delete my lovely pictures. "I have all access to her phone; do you two want the other's numbers?"

They glance, "Fine only, their numbers." I type my number into her phone, and send it to me, and erase it from her phone. "There now, we can make moves while..." I stop and read a message from Lilia and a number read Mr. Blackwater. I open the messages, 'Miss Riverside, it seems your application for our foreign exchange program was accepted. This summer you'll be studying in Tokyo Japan, all the paperwork will be sent to you in three weeks. Have a wonderful day.' I see she really is smart; I open up all her apps and make her friend me.

I set her phone back down as they walk back in. "Alright; we're done today, come back every Saturday morning four through six you'll be practicing your powers here where no one can see." The girls nod as the red heels Lilia wore today click with every step she took. I thought my insides were going to riot without jumping on her. "We can see ourselves out, see you tomorrow." They said in unison and flew off. Dr. Kellie comes over to the table, "You boys return to your home I set up for you. Get to the forest before the girls, you know very well that the biggest problem we're having is finding the Second Generation that has been disguising himself as a student." We nod as I start my music, as we walk to the exit.

I wonder if Lilia likes jocks, or if she really only likes smarts guys; I want to impress my counterpart where we can be equal to one another. I climb out and fly back to the school as the dark sky sends chills down our spine, once at home I skipped pigging out with the rest of them and scrolled through my phone and found a picture of Lilia's parents. I read the date, "Man they're still missing, well her mother is I guess." Tucker asked, "Who?" I look over and grab an apple, "Lilia's parents." I bite into the apple as they continue to eat." I go to my room and look at the pile of homework in front of me.

They only thing getting me to do this classwork, is so that I can have a date with Lilia. I finish it by midnight and hit the hay; only to wake up and suffer from the lack of sleep. I groan and put training wear on and head to the door, I look at Tucker and Ryan who passed out of the couch. "Wake up, guys it about time to leave." They groan as I glare at them. "Do you want me to set your pants on fire." They shot up faster than a kid on Christmas. "Alright, we're up!" They said as I roll my eyes I open the door as they hurry to follow me. "Geez, how long were you guys up last night?" I ask them as they yawn. "I think one this morning." "Idiots, you knew we had practiced this morning." Once to the forest, we stand by for ten minutes until we watch the girls fly over. We wave them down; Lilia had dark circles under her eyes.

They wore tight clothes and oversized jackets, "Let's go." I said as we all fly back to the compound. I open the door as everyone is still half asleep. "Go, someone," I push Tucker down as his screams alarm the rest. I yell down at him, "You okay?" he starts to yell at us, "I think he's okay." I said as Yukii and Vee jump down then Ryan does. "Ladies first," I motion to Lilia as she jumped down I climb in and close the door then fall down. Tucker stands up and glares at me, "I swear I'll kill you." I smiled at Tucker, "Glad you're okay." We walk down the hall, as Dr. Kellie was drinking coffee. "Good morning! I'm glad you all made it, so who ready to fight?" Lilia grabs Dr. Kellie with her vines. "You have the gull to make me wake up before seven-thirty on Saturday and you think I can just get started?"

We all watched her practically kill her, Yukii pulls Lilia away; "She's never been a morning person. Lilia wakes herself up, one time we tried waking her up before her alarm and was nearly killed." Dr. Kellie dusted herself off and cleared her throat. "Right, how about we have something to get us going this morning." She brought some fruit in and more coffee. "Eat something." Finally, at 4:05 her alarm went off and she perked up and was ready for the morning. "Alright, I ready now." Her friends were unfazed as I was shocked, at least I know now.

Dr. Kellie leads us all to the training room, "I'll be teaming you up with everyone to see who you are the most compatible with." I stand back as I wait for my name, "Heath, you'll be training with Yukii first." Yukii was smaller in overall height and tended to show less emotion. She hit her fist into her hand, "Alright let do this." Dr. Kellie set us up in the 'safety' first room. "Now your goal is to work together to cross the room." She pushed a button and the room had sudden odd obstacles come from nowhere. Yukii looked at the first one, "Well I'm sure the floor will fall from under us if we step on the wrong panel." She walked forward and the floor fell under her as she jumped back.

"Alright, your turn big boy." She said I cringe at the wordplay, but I know my way of talking to Lilia is just as bad I take to the flooring and noticed that some were slightly blue. "Hey; Yukii stands on that tile over there." I point to one of the blue ones as it stays sturdy. "Wow! You really figured it out huh?" She states as I fly hop to another light blue one. "Some are these are differently colored!" I yell back at her, we finally make it to the end, but we were really slow.

I watched the others go through the run as Lilia goes; she really is graceful even when simply jumping. We are taken to the next room as Violate is my partner. Violate looks over at me, she smiles and takes to the puzzle, "Come on Heath you want to impress Lilia right? She's really good at all these puzzles." I watched her as I grab some more gears for the puzzle. We finally figure it out and turn the crank as the door opens. We go to the waiting room as we watch the other teams, "You only talk a lot to Lilia right?" Violate was now in my face, "Geez girl, personal space please!" She wags her finger in my face, "If you want to impress Lilia, show her you care not only about her but her friends too like; asking Yukii and me about our days too."

I give her an odd face I'm sure by her response. "You need to act more gentle, you act like you just rolled out of the cornfield from the neighboring town." She nags me as Yukii and Ryan enter, "Vee, you're going to kill his ears." Yukii sits near me, "Leave Lilia alone, she likes Seth we all know that." I glare over, "Hearts change." She scoffed at me, "Not Lilia she's loved Seth for six years now. You'll be lucky to even get a loving pat out of her. She's a stone-cold killer." Violate pops back up, "Yeah, she turned down every guy in school and all the guys at her special smart people classes."

I turn my head, "I'm sure she's liked, one other person." They shake their heads, "No way man you're lucky she talks to you." Yukii said as the doors open, "Alright let's head to the next room!" Dr. Kellie said as we walk over to it, but before I walk in I stop my friends, "Alright did she even talk to you?" they look at me knowing who I was talking about. "Well, kind of, but only a few words." Ryan said as Tucker nods, "Yeah, she leads and protects, but doesn't really converse with others." I look ahead of me, 'Dang it, Lilia you really are a stone-cold killer.' I thought as we enter the waiting room. Dr. Kellie walks over to me, "Alright Heath, you and Lilia can go."

We enter the room as Dr. Kellie lights up the room, "Alright, this is different from all the others; you are standing before your counterpart. You'll be fighting them, but not with your fist but with your powers. The first one to fall off their pedestal loses. You have one minute to make it happen if you are both standing at the end, it will prove a point to my research." She counts down as the walls change, behind Lilia came greenery, and behind me were candles and lava. The buzzer went off as I try to burn some of the plants behind her she stops me with a vine wall. "You must think of me as a fool, to think that I wouldn't plan that out first."

She states as the vine comes at me. I grab it and burn it, she was unfazed. I decide that this is the time to make light conversation, "So, you've like Seth, since you were in middle school? Why, from all I've gathered from him, he's never had an interest in you until earlier this week." I say as I burn another one of her tricky vines. She then grabs me with four at once as I burn through them. "Why should my love life matter? I told you that who I date is my right, not yours!" she was getting angry. I lick my lips, "Oh, so you're going to ignore the part of us being counterparts? Whether you like it or not, we were made for each other!" I have her pushed against the wall. "That means nothing!" she yells, "No, it means everything." I burn right through her vines when she had enough, and a tree comes out of the wall. "We only contradict each other that's why we're counterparts." She said as I burn the tree, "You're right about that, but that won't stop the fact when you look at us, we're nothing but country bumpkins!"

Lilia seems crossed with me now as a buzzer goes off, "Wow! You too really can fight." Dr. Kellie says as the floor lowers, "Go wait for the others to finish. Then you'll all clean up and we'll recap." We leave the room and sit waiting for our friend to leave. She crosses her leg and folds her arms. I poke her side, as she smacks my hand, "Don't touch." I see her blush a little, "Oh did that tickle?" she glares over, "No...it was only uncomfortable." I see she puts on a stone face to keep others out, but she's really soft. I scoot closer as she looks over, "Don't come closer you stink." I smile, "You too, we've all been working hard this morning so cut me some slack." She sighs, "Fine..." I move closer as she looks up at the screen. Yukii is fighting now, she's really good, but so is Tucker. "So, do you think they'll tie?"

I ask her as she closes her eyes, "I don't know, usually I would say Yukii, but if you three really are our counterparts then this could be a draw all the way through." I put my hand on hers, "I think so too." She didn't move, "Heath, this is too fast, I know very well you like me, but so far you've been a butt." She turns as I give her a cocky smile. "Yeah, I do that to keep your reputation high." She rolls her eyes at me, "You do that a lot; I hope your eyes don't get stuck." I state as she smacks my chest, "Well, you don't always say smart things now do you?"

The door opens as Yukii looks worn and so does Tucker. Tucker sits next to me, "Man why did you two look so composed up there?" "Probably: because we weren't using aggressive arm movements and more automatic reflexives." Lilia states as I lean over to her, "That's my girl tell them off?" she pushes me we return to the screen for Violate and Ryan's fight. Yukii points at them, "We'll be lucky if they can stand up there that long." We nod, Ryan was more...of the slower ones.

They both fell off because they couldn't hold their balance. Yukii laughs with Tucker, "Did you see that?" Yukii points at them, "Crap; look at those two, they can't even stand back up!" Tucker said through his wheezing. They finally got up and walked over to the door. I try to keep my composer, "Well, that was interesting." I state to Ryan as he holds his head in shame. Tucker couldn't hold back, "Dude you fell off because of your shoelace!" Violate was getting laughed at by Yukii as Lilia dealt with them.

Dr. Kellie walks in, "Alright everyone time to hit the showers." She leads us all to the locker like rooms. "Alright change and meet me at the entrance." We all enter the different rooms, as the taught of Lilia on the other side naked, turned me on. I was luckily in the shower already, I don't want them knowing how deep my head is in right now. Once I finished my friends were snapping towels at each other. "Really; guys: are you like twelve?" I ask them, as they turned, "Sorry man, we were just drying off." I grab my spare clothes when I heard voices on the other side. I quieted the guys down as we get close to hear their conversation.

At first, it was a light mumble then the whole conversation came to light. 'Oh my: gosh; Lilia! Make: Yukii stop!' Violate was their super stylish friend. 'You know I can't really stop her...Yukii stop touching my breast!' my heart was beating faster now, 'Then can I smack your fat butt?' 'No!' I really wanted in there now. I get dress and leave quickly before I have to go to the bathroom. At the front entrance, I sat reading trash on my phone. "Heath, I wanted to talk to you personally about your relationship with Lilia." I copied Lilia and her eye rolls. "You know just because you're each other's counterpart means nothing on your actual relationship."

I look at her, "Yeah, but that doesn't mean I haven't stopped liking her since we were both chosen by her uncle." We end there as others walk in. "Alright as my calculations were correct, you are well suited for your counterpart meaning from now on missions will be held with them. That however does not mean you have to do every mission with them, some missions will need you to work with your team. We have another hour before normal training is finished, so I want you all to know that over the winter break you'll be going to a special cabin I have set up. There you six will learn to get along without me here to make sure of it. Now some of you I don't have to worry." She said looking over at Violate and Ryan, "But, some of you I'm afraid to look at the cabin after a weekend."

I look at Lilia as the oversized hoodie is covering her legs as she sits in a ball-like form. I return my gaze to Dr. Kellie, "Also once we have all second and third creations in our labs you'll be free to return home without returning. Of course boys I'm your legal guardian, so you can finally focus on other things." We just listened to her ramble on for a while, until it was six. "Oh right before you leave." Dr. Kellie rushed over to a table, "I made these bracelets for you six. They will allow you to communicate with each other during missions or if something happens to you. I grab my red one and open it. Not bad, for a communicator.

We leave as the girls fly out before us. I shut the door as the sun slowly pokes over the horizon. Tucker and Ryan look at me, "Well I don't know about you, but I'm hungry." They look at each other and smile. "Sure man." Tucker said as Ryan turns, "Let's go!" I smile at them as we fly back to town. When we make it back, I told them I'd get breakfast so to head back to the apartment. I walk in the closest fast food joint. "Three number ones please," I state pulling out money as that weird Penelope girl from my English class hops on the register.

She smiled at me, "Hey there Heath, I didn't know you'd get up this early." I try to ignore her light conversation. Well, that is until she started asking me about Lilia. "So, do you and Lilia know each other, or is it something else?" I look at her, "Why should that matter?" she wiggles her finger, "I want to get some dirt on her for running for class president. You see I want to be president, but if Lilia really is as perfect as she is told to be then I can't win. "Personally, I just like her." I said as I pay for the food, "Have you had sex, or does she have a secret gross habit?" I take my food, "No, but if you ruin her reputation I'll kill you." Penelope yelled back, "That's a joke right?" I turn, "I don't joke about this."

I leave the building as I return to our home. "I'm back guys." I walk in and find them asleep again. I look at them on the couch, "Right..." I clean up and change my clothes and I head into the town since after the incident I've lived in Dr. Kellie's care in the city. I noticed many places here haven't changed much, well maybe some new stores or 'changed' names. I notice Violet's family bakery is still the only one in town. I walk further down the road when I find the road that leads up to the Riverside Manson.

I approach the house and notice that the security is still from the '90s. I walk around her family home and find her window. The lights are on and I see her silhouette, I fly up and sit on the balcony. Her door was open but the curtains were closed, she was singing some random song in a different language. The sun was finally shining enough meaning it was almost seven. Her phone rings as she answers it, "Yes?" she carries a conversation with whomever they are on the other side. "Well, I mean it could have been a mix-up, Seth. That number really is my number..." Crap! She's talking to Seth.

She carries on, "You want to come over for dinner?" my heart drops; there is no way I'm allowing this relationship! I listen some more, "Well without my grandparents here, I don't think it would be allowed, but for you, I think I'll send Mrs. White home so we can have dinner alone. If that's what you want." He rambles on his side when she smiles, "Yes, I'll see you tonight at six then, okay; goodbye."

She squealed and danced around her room, "I can't believe I'm having dinner with Seth!" I finally make my move and cover her eyes. "Did you miss me?" I ask her in a sing-song voice. "Miss you? We just saw each other forty minutes ago! Plus you are trespassing on privet property!" I poke her side as she squirms around, "Really: you're going to say that to your counterpart?" she glares at me, "Yes, now why are you here?" I had no reason really just that I was bored. "I came to patrol over the forest since that was where the third creation came from." Her glare faded, "Fine; but leave soon, Mrs. White wakes up at seven-thirty sharp." She turned as I peek around her room.

Mostly: books on different cultures and languages, but there were a few odd little things from when we were kids, like toys or children's books. I go and grab a dusty old stuffed dog. "Wow! I didn't think you'd still have this." I show her to the toy, her face panicked. "Please put that back!" I pull it away, "Calm down, I was just looking." I place it back on the shelf and sit on her bed. "Well this is a nice place I have to say princess, but I'd think you'd like to see my place it's small and all, but my friends and I live a nice little life."

I let her smell swarm me as I try to rub off my smell on to her things. "I like my family home and I plan on living in Japan after high school, due to my future career choice." I flop down as she sits on the other side and leans over me, "You should leave..." I sigh: no use trying anymore today. I stand up and look over the forest when I see a mysterious person walking into the wood, "Hey, sweet cheeks do you have someone who works in the woods?" she looked at me, "No, we never did."

We both dash off and go over to the person. After a quick flyover, we find the person in a hoodie setting up cameras. Then walked over to a small building, they open the door as we get closer and peek inside.

We watch the person pulls some sort of lever on a small device, "What is that?" we both ask as a little white pill comes out, the person takes the pill and dry swallows it. The person turns to leave as we hide, "Should we follow him?" Lilia asked me as I nod. Once we could take off we followed him from the sky, when stops at the camera, and waves at it, then heads down the path to town. I stop Lilia, "That's the second creation. He might know we're following him." She was worried when suddenly, we were shot at; the hoodie guy shot a lazar gun at us.

I pull Lilia away from the person, "Hey you're going to kill us! This isn't your land, either never return!" I yell at him as he smiles; his voice was coded, "Stop sneaking around then, first creation, you know father wants you back home, why not just return with us?" Lilia was fuming now, "NEVER! She screamed at him as he pulled his gun back up, "Well father won't mind if you're wounded, much easier to control the others with." I pull us both into the sky as he shoots again.

I look at Lilia as she tries to break free. "Stop it, woman, don't you understand he could have killed you?" She stopped, "But he said wounded." "Yeah; but the other kid said dead." I remind her as we float back to her room. "Look we can't just fight them willy-nilly we need a plan and I won't let you fight if you're going to overreact all because you want your uncle back in prison! I'd rather have you locked in the compound with Dr. Kellie until she thinks you're ready, which for you is bad news because you'd be stuck doing whatever she wants you to do, and you'd be stuck with me all day not just at school or when I want to see you."

She was shocked as her face blushes a little. I might have gone a little too far; I rub the back of my neck and give her a hug. "Look I like, more than you might realize, and I am a very protective guy over the people who are important to me, so the fact that I'd even go out of my way and rescue you is a big deal." I feel like I practically confessed to her, which made her blush at me even more. I flew off before she could answer and returned home, "Guys get up!" I yell at them as they sat up shocked, "Let's play video games!" I yell as they perked up and grab their food as we played videogames the rest of the morning.