Everything was on the floor. Shattered or burnt. Or torn apart.
The screens. The containment glass. It was out. I thought PK said there was nothing on Earth that could break it, but, i broke it without even trying. PK that...!
Calm down. Calm down.
The shelves. The walls.
Everything was broken. And cracked.
In my ear, i heard the trees cry. Their roots were uprooted, and those still standing were being engulfed by flames.
"Sorry." I apologized to them within my breath and undid the destruction I've caused whilst breaking into Lyska's head as i walked out of the broken down observation room.
As the safe house rebuilt itself and all cracks disappeared. But the dark thunder clouds were still there in the sky.
Half an hour later, everyone was in the garage, except Dylan and Ryan, the double trouble in Sue's team. They were reluctant to get back into the house that was reduced to rumble a few moments ago.
"Look guys, I dont wanna sound like a bitch, but I'm not going back in there." Dylan started stepping back away from the house.
"Why?"
"Do i need to explain?"
"Kind of."
"Okay, one, there's a judge in there. And a judge we all know he leaves a trail of bodies behind. Who's gonna say we aren't next?"
I looked down at Shay and she shook her shoulders, "about time you handled everything." She said in her head.
"Me."
"And who are you again?" Dylan asked as Ryan moved closer to us.
"I wanna hear this."
"I am the guarantor that he won't harm you in anyway."
"What can you do?"
"No, no, no, Dylan, that is a wrong question." Ryan interfeered. "The right question is what are you? The saint's high priest? A guardian? A keeper?"
"No, if i am to tell you anyway, where is the fun in that?" I asked as they pinned their red and silvery eyes on me.
"Oh its no fun but i think we need to know the truth."
"The deal was you guys figure it out, remember?"
"Yeah."
"But, the judge wasn't part of it."
"Really?" I asked as i recalled our deal. But instead of remembering the details of the meet, all i saw was Lyska exposing me in front of them. Guess he was going to ruin everything.
"Fine." I gave in and told them we should go inside to talk. Besides, American spy cams were slowly turning this way.
They relented and walked back inside were Sue was silently boiling. Like the japanese kittle, hissing silently but i doubted it was going to be something i would like.
A tea maybe.
"Hey." I greeted all of them awkwardly in the living room. All the twelve, thirteen, people looked at me awkwardly too. No, wrong word. They looked at me angrily with questions on their faces. I feel like im forgetting someone.
"Is it wrong to assume, just saying, that I'm in hot water?" I asked scratching my head. Sometimes i feel like a thousand people inside of me. "And i want to ask. Lucy, your face is red and your ears are steaming, are you by chance boiling tea in your hea..."
"You asshole!" She shouted at me as Dean threw a vase at me and i dodged it. Whatshisname grabbed Lucia before she could skin me alive and told her to calm down.
Geeze everyone is darm skippy ain't they? They can't take a joke.
"Sorry." I quickly apologized. "I tend to speak without thinking when I'm nervous. Which is to say, i promised Dylan and Ryan here that i would be forth coming. Which also means the bets are off."
"Is that the only thing youre thinking about? Money?"
"Hey, just so you know, the one who figured it out was going to get a favour."
"What favour?"
"Don't worry about it. No one is going to get it so..."
"It's funny." Oh oh. Suzy started and i scratched my ear. Here open the flood gates of heaven. Or how do the metaphors go? "How long has it been?"
She looked around. "Five years? Six? Seven?"
"Seven years." Ryan answered.
"You guys?" She asked the other team.
"Seven too." Whatshername answered.
"Okay." Sue smiled menacingly. "So which team is the oldest?"
"I don't know. probably all of the teams are the same age except months if not days apart."
"Here's the thing, James." Sue got up from her chair and aproached me. "I don't..."
What do they say again? When a woman speaks, listen? I think they meant about something else cause this wasn't it. I know i listened but aren't i old enough to escape nagging from a thirty year old?
I tried to listen. I really did. But i couldn't take it all in. Or i shut my ears. Who knows. All i head was all about the higher ups. And me being a tiresome, secretive fella. That's being nice. And something about me being grounded. Me? Grounded?
Ha ha. Like its possible.
"Look." I said as my ears neared exploding with her nagging. "I am not your boss, shay is. All i am is nothing but her right hand man."
"Do you do everything her right hand does?" Dylan asked leaning in closer to me. His trail of thoughts practically wrong. Her right hand?
I saw pictures of Shay naked and rubbing her privates while moaning and her face red, and... She clearly was enjoying masturbating, wasn't she?
Does Shay look like that? I wondered as i saw her face. Undeniably pale, heart shaped with tiny mouth and nose with rather definitive eyes that looked like they were from an anime. She looked cute with a touch of childishness and... perceptively like Nico Robin from One piece after the time skip.
Not the tiny child i knew her to be. Besides, did she really have those boobs and hips? I thought she was flat. Like a tabletop. I even saw through her earlier and she wasn't at all... womanly?
"Dyl, if you thinking of Shay's sexual health, please deal with her or just give up, i dont wanna deal with another pedophile after Cyraon."
"I'm not a pedophile."
"Really? Have you looked at Shay? You know she is still fourteen years old, right? She still hasn't grown boobs."
I'm gonna kill you!
Sorry, shay.
"No she's not. She's..."
"Off track."
"Thank you, as i was saying, i am not anything related to oversight. I'm just... a link between all teams. And i am someone's reincarnate. I am a guardian, clearly not like Shay but almost out of this world."
"So you are not going to tell us?" sue asked looking at me.
"i jist said I am a guardian. And as of this moment I am a Khuvan. which means I am reponsible for recruiting and training, anyway its the first team's turn to turn into the medbay." I pointed back with my thumb.
exactly two seconds later, Shay shouted, "NEXT!" though Thoth could easily do it.
they looked at me and all i could really do or say was nothing.
"sit down and don't move." Suzy growled at me and went to the medbay. everyone looked at me as i sat down and started asking me a series of simple questions. But Dylan and Ryan kept their reputation with serious questions and became the highlight of the awkward wait in the living room.
"is it true guardians can see through clothing?" such were their questions and the questions bound to stem from that kind of question. "of the girls in here, who has the sexiest panties?"
"who has shaved? and how they shave?"
"who's tits look tempting and... can you tell who's horny here?"
but of course I'm a guardian and no self respecting guardian can give in to anything. Even temptation.
"oh," i smiled in a corner and pulled them closer. "i can tell you or i can show you, what would you like. My bet is on Lucia."
"she's old. thirty five." Ryan said taking out a golden teardrop necklace. "my bet is on the blonde."
My heart almost stopped as i saw the necklace. The original necklace. Not the fakes I've come across the past thousand years. As i saw it, i wanted to rip it out of his hands but i cant do that. Ryan probably didn't even know the value of that necklace.
"how do you know that?" i asked him. even i didn't know her age. but he ignored me.
"nah, too clean." Dylan took out his wrist computer and set it in front of us. "mine is on Ben's chick."
"okay. all bets in?"
"what are you betting?" they asked me and I produced a little scroll.
"Layouts of the Ben's craddle." worth close enough to the necklace, sentimentality aside.
"you are kidding."
"where did you get them."
"I have my ways. besides, I know you guys want a piece of the treasure even guardians cant get."
"okay, you got us."
"thirty thrty fourty?" Dylan asked and i didnt need to read his mind to know what he meant. but there was no way we were going to share my own treasure i spent thousands of years collecting.
"Ray, Dyl," I i hugged them all and turned to the whole room. For a second i let them see the whole room as it was. three groups here and there talking and after locating all three girls we've bet on, i lent them my eyes and let them see theough their clothing.
"gentlemen, feast your eyes." I showed them each girl they chose and everyone and they were just normal girls. beautiful young women with sexy bodies. They reacted the same way a boy would in front of a semi naked girl. Lust. but that was just lustrous. no charms in it.
Then their jaws dropped and started drooling as they saw Lucia's body.
"wow!" the twins slowly said as they saw what I've always seen in the dhampir. A half human vampire hybrid that was like her mother, more human than a vampire but with all the charms of one. The reason she wore her clothes heavy and never wore revealing clothes. Or she just wore them, and even sexier ones beneath, like her crotchless panties with pearls that just made her almost bed ready. like a guy could just grab her and make love to her. but i didn't show them thaf yet. i just showed them what she had beneath her addy dress. A mini skirt that was a second away from just flashing. "she looks godly."
"yeah, wanna see something even more erotic?" i asked and they looked at me briefly. i smiled as their thoughts met mine. "if there's anything that could surpass this, i wanna see it." was the gist of their thoughts.
i smiled and zoomed in. Her sexy lingerie was sexy. But this was going to blow their brains off.
As I showed them her real lingerie, beneath the miniskirt. the crotchless panties that just cupped her sweet lips and the landing strip that the that gave way to the pearls that were embrassed by the lips and swam in her lake. a river was forming from her lake and
"Now how about we call that place Shangri La?"
"eden"
"sweet paradise."
"the wettest of the wet lands." Dylan agreed as she arched her back and rubbed her legs together as she held back a moan.
they handed me the prices and rock paper scissored for her, but i didn't let them. i smiled and apologized to them and erased their memories regarding Lucia who turned and smiled at me. wickedly.
a thought. stray thought of me going into her from behind crossed my mind and i backed it off as she chuckled.
"Nice try." I whispered as she shook her shoulders.
"but it was worth it." she said and walked out of the room. damn i almost fell for it. i had to agree. but it was worth a while. i gave the twins the layout and apologised once more before i went to help Shay at the medbay.