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Chapter 8 - Who Eats First

As the five kids giggle walking over to their lunch tables. The cafeteria doors open revealing Outis and Vatu with bandages over his wounds, whole arm, and some of his face.

"Awww kids don't be like that cause we walked in" Outis says.

"Ehh of course not sister Outis! right everyone" Koil looks behind at the other boys and Soyo. The guys wear a solemn face as Soyo keeps her wicked grin, Quillo is ecstatic seeing them walk in, her face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning. Holding herself down to the bench swinging her legs back and forth blushing.

"soo... Are you and Vatu gonna sit with us" Koil ask them.

Outis smiles gently at them " I will in a little bit" she looks down at Vatu.

"Go on, be with your brothers and sisters' ' then puts her hand on Vatu's back gently nudging him towards the table.

"Okay children I'll be back"

She heads into the kitchen, Vatu slowly walks towards them with his head down thinking he's already a failure and outcast when Quilo jumps down from her seats and runs towards Vatu and stopping far enough to perfectly slide across the floor and stopping right in front of him. Not too much shorter than him both around 4 feet, she leans in close to his face, hands behind her back and begins to stare at Vatu with wide eyes.

"My name's Quilo, You're Vatu right"

Flustered and pulling his head back but not moving Vatu say's.

"Ehheh yes that's my name"

As he Says that Quilo's eyes get bigger and she holds a little girl scream in her mouth.

"huh I got it right yea, I love all my brothers and family, yea you're new come sit next to me oh yeaaaa come meet the Koil, Soyo, Reyna, and Brosac. HEY Brother's sister's It's Vatu!" she yells at the top of lungs then laughs.

"Come on Brother Vatu sit next to me"

Quilo grabs Vatu's arm and pulls him towards the table then locking their arms she leads him to the table.

Dragging his feet he's terribly afraid to meet with his new family. Having trouble looking at them but behind the embarrassment before he knows it he's already in front of the table being stared down by all the kids. Vatu stands outside of the table sweating in bullets seeing the four kids look at him in silence, Quilo let's go of Vatu's arm and steps up to the seat of the bench the falling down with her feet inside the table she pauses with a dumbfounded look on her face not understanding everyone's silence but decides to stay quiet with them.

Facing the table Vatu looks straight ahead petrified, To the left of him Soyo sits on the table head tilted and smiling at him. To the right Koil stands next to Quilo and looks down at him, arms crossed. Behind them on the other side of the table sit Reyna and Brosac to the left Brosac looks at him with indifference while holding up his head with his right hand, Reyna stairs at Vatu like he's trying very hard to intimidate him.

"Vatu come sit down?" Quilo asks

Vatu stands there still, when suddenly he feels a hand touching his hair.

"Wow your hair, It's so soft and fluffy, Woe" Soyo feels Vatu's hair, Running her left hand deeper and deeper through his hair. Vatu stands there quite as his hair is tussled.

"Hmph Soyo let go of the kid" Koil drops his expression and sits down back to the table exhaling as he crosses his legs.

"KOIL! move your arm" He doesn't notice he rested his arm on top of Quilo.

"Whoops Quilo I'm sowwy come here" he moved his arm behind her neck pulling her close.

"KOILLLLL!" shouted into his arm pit.

"Let me go I wanna sit with brother vatu"

By the time this was said Soyo had her whole face pressed into Vatu's hair, feeling her nose shuffle around his head. pulling back and forth with every sniff.

"Here my hair is soft too" She grabs a handful of her hair shoving the ends into his face twirling it around.

"See my hair soft too" As Soyo breathes deeply with her face immersed in hair.

Vatu is flushed and too embarrassed to move, All he can do is hold back his laughter and smell her hair.

"Okay, Okay that's enough Soyo" Koil swats Soyo off of Vatu.

"Ahh I wasn't finished, Dumbass"

Pulled back from Vatu's hair, she crossed her arms and looked away. At the same time Quilo grabs his right hand pulling Vatu to the bench. Vatu's back against the table facing outside he looks to Quilo on his right side who is staring at him with sparkly eyes.

"How old are you? Guess what age I am, I'm "

"I think he said 11 back in class" Koil responds

"Hey! I was talking" Quilo looks up at Koil with her cheeks puffed up. Soyo puts her face right next to vatu sniffing like a loving dog.

"AND Soyo knock it off" She stands on the seat, reaching over Vatu pushes Soyo's face back with both hands but struggles To beat Soyo when she resists, Her tiny body pressed against Vatu As he blushes harder.

"Bruuuaaah? come on Quilo I'm just being nice" Soyo says muffled

"No, leave... him...alone" Quilo using all her strength to hold her off.

Bang!

"ENOUGH" Reyna slams his hand on the table putting his leg up on the table stretching really close to Vatu.

"Hey get this NOW NEW KID! I'm the boss around the oldest and strongest and smartest" shouting at the kid as he points his thumb at himself.

"And the loudest" Brosac says

"THE BEST!"

"Dumbest" Soyo says

"THE GREATEST" Reyna says with his teeth grinding

"No dumbest, most obnoxiously loud, right," Koil says.

"Riiiight" Soyo says

"Mhmmm" Everyone but Vatu and Reyna Slowly nod their heads

Reyna with a shocked sagging face is speechless. Brosac looks at Vatu "So kid talk to me"

"Ahhh what do you mean?" Quilo and Soyo are still fighting above and over him, But far more aggressively.

"Where did you come from?" Brosac looks at him seriously.

And with that the girls freeze and look at Brosac. Koil Tilts his head back Looking seriously at Brosac, Reyna sits back down with both his feet on the seat and calmly looks at Vatu then glares at him looking him down as if studying his face and features.

Silence befalls the whole room but from the kitchen clacking can be heard and then.

"FOOOODS REAAAADY!!!!! Every Body Move Yar ASSES!" Helga says

"Yes kids, today is very special so I helped Sister cook ;)" Outis wears an apron and white chef hat tilted on her head. Helga quickly lines up the trays with Steaming bowl of stew, Bread to the side with some butter smeared on top, And above the stew is three purple steaming Mysterious Dumplings. Outis slows down time and pops in front of the counter accentuating the bowls "It's Mysterious Because were witches' and because it's true". No one hears or sees the random infomercial cutaway Outis stars in.

Brosac doesn't break eye contact with Vatu nor does Reyna, Koil looks back and forth at everyone and as the frightened Vatu begins moving his lips Soyo pushes Quilo onto Koil.

"Come on guys Sister hates it when food gets cold '' Standing on the seat she walks off landing his right foot to the ground, She looks back at everyone. "We can't let our sister's hard work go unthanked can we, everyone" she says softly. Quilo pushes herself up using Koil's face as a springboard and jumps to the floor pulling vatu up by his hand and then running towards the counter. "Come on Brother Vatu lets Thank sister Outis' ' She looks back at Vatu smiling, When Soyo turns her head straight shockingly fast and her eyes shine with determination. "Huh you think you can eat my share Quilo" Soyo bends her knees squatting arms limp and blasts off from where she was standing running at the two.

Quilo moving with all her might dragging the confused Vatu looking at the lightning fast Soyo sprinting at them while wearing a demonic eerie smile that sends a chill down Vatu's back.

"Ehh come... on.... Vaaatu" Quilo Struggles to pull Vatu when she feels lighter her right arm lifting up, She looks over her shoulder seeing Vatu running faster and faster as he takes the lead Quilo grabs his hand tighter Vatu shifting to interlock with her hand he stops feeling scared and time seems to slow down almost to a stop Vatu turns to Quilo eyes wide breathing hard. With out even thinking he squeezers harder feeling her soft small hands holding on with every fiber of her being. "Running? What are we doing" Vatu thinks looking at her squinting face eyes shut

"I just don't"

Connection, No human exist without making connections but this was far beyond any ordinary bond most people could feel. The auras of Quilo and vatu flickered like ripples of water and eerily settling to smooth glass their auras completely still, Relaxed, Clear. Their hands tingling they feel energy vibrating between their palms pushing and pulling Quilo opens her eyes turning to Vatu with a shocked face as something amazing happens they both slowly look at each other not understanding a thing The energy within them whips fiercely around each other like a hurricane and the eye is their looked hand. Warm and deep, Black, Endless but inviting and embracing with a tint of Dark purple this is how you would describe Vatu's soul, His aura and being. Blinding Light that shines more that the light of day absorbed by a light icy blue, Ecstatic and cold, Refreshing to the soul Her aura chasing Vatu's spiraling energy its stops and clench to each others body Vatu's Aura Splattered against her silhouette like paint but alive and Seething it quickly moves into Quillo's body like a virus crawling more and more around her body. Vatu's black Silhouette holds the pieces of Quillo's aura similar to glass sticking out of mud it pulls in the shining shards of blue light covering more and more of his body.

Their eyes locked looking at each other, they see the shape and color of their aura infecting each other, their faces mixed and matched covered in repeating patterns they smile at each other. With no time to savor this heartwarming moment between family they notice Soyo is inches away leaning over their heads seeing her face shocking the kids surprised by her very outrageous expression, Her eyelids flipping out and a weirdly long and winding tongue whips about her far disturbingly stretched smile. Time begins to move normally as the two scream in horror and run as fast as they can barely keeping ahead of Soyo all of them sprinting towards the counter but of course with all the screaming and laughing they all forget their way to close and can't stop themselves from hitting the counter.

"AHHHHHHHHH" Vatu grabs hold of Quilo picking her up, Spinning around and breaking with both feet. "CKAHAHAHAAHAAA" Soyo madly laughs with her eyes rolled back into her head face contorted does not notice the closing wall she's gonna crash into when nothing happens no crash just this odd feeling encasing their whole bodies gently holding them in the air.

"Tch Tch children I know you're excited but don't ever waste food especially food made by the ones who worked so hard just because they love you" Outis leans over the counter her eyes, lips, eyeshadow and face tattoo all glow a sinister light green the kids float surrounded by green wavy aura.

Vatu's eyes opened, shocked that they were unharmed. "Hehee thanks mom, ahh I mean Sister" Soyo says in the air upside down, grabbing her feet.

(CRASH!!!)

they all fall to the floor Soyo's face in the face ass up back arched and vatu lying on his back with Quilo on top of him lying sideways. "AHHHH vatu you saved me" She burst up flipping around to sit on Vatu and grab him by the face. "Come on let's eat" she says with an energized almost insane smile on her face she gets up helping Vatu as well.

"Ahh Family I'm still here" Soyo says muffled, Face against the floor. "huh who's that?" Soyo feels a hand grab her waist band and pull her up off the floor.

"come on sister stop fucking around" Brosac lifts her by the waste all way so her eyes meet his. "Stand up and eat already" he says with a passing look on his face.

He lets go and we hear bare feet hit the floor, She composes herself upright. "Phew, Thanks Bro '' she smiles when Reyna walks past not saying or acknowledging anything of Soyo when she feels a hand flip her hair over her eye. Soyo blows some of it up to see Koil smiling at her "Good job sis" Soyo's hair parted enough for one eye to see everyone circling around the counter.

"Okay everyone eat up the day is just beginning"