Things that were running through Lyon's mind were 'how did he know?'
'I made sure to act like I'm cool, so, how did he know and how is he going to help me?"
Lyon has been acting cool in front of Bully and his group. He doesn't want to look like a new babe in Nate's group, so he made sure that he was calm and behaves maturely in front of them, but what he felled to notice was that Mark has been keeping a close eye on him, and had noticed few things that the others failed to notice.
"I know you might be asking how did I get to know about this, but trust me, I'm different from the others. Before this apocalypse broke out, I studied many things, including human behaviour, animal behaviour, and so on."
"I can assure you that I might be able to help you out on this"
It was as if he was pleading with Lyon or perhaps he was taking permission from Lyon.
Lyon looked at him from hair to toe as if he was scanning to see if Mark was joking or something of that sort.
However, he later agreed.
"Then show me how to do it then"
Mark brought out a white blank sheet of paper and also brought out a pencil from his pants pocket and hand it over to Lyon.
"I want you to sketch down one of your alter forms on this paper," Mark said while handing over the paper to Lyon.
Lyon facial expression frowned upon seeing this and he doubtfully raised his eyebrows as he doubtfully looks, at Mark.
"And how is this going to help me out?" Lyon asked, he was having doubts about the thing Mark was suggesting.
"Just trust me, if this does not work, then just hold me for that"
Lyon looked deeply into Mark's eye, even his eye was glowing slightly in red light while emitting diode pressure that was sent deep into his eye. However, this was no use because Mark did not even flinch nor could one see a single atom of fear in his eye.
"Fine, but the problem is that I'm not good at drowning" Lyon agreed at last but the problem now is that he does
not know how to draw he can even dearly write with good handwriting.
"That will be a bit problem in the future but let me see what I can do about it," Mark said as he took out another paper while taking a few steps back.
"Try altering yourself for a moment," he said as he was ready to draw down.
Lyon did not question this and started to think about the saddest thing in his life. While he was doing this, his body was turning as usual and some spikes were coming out from his back.
Mark hasn't seen Lyon in this transformation before, so for the next few seconds, he was dazed at the transformation but soon snaps out of it as he asked Lyon a few questions while he was drawing the creature before him.
It was his former home pet porcupine that he transformed into.
"How many alter do you have?" He asked.
Lyon started to count it in his mind for a few moments...
"Rabbit, Rat, Porcupine..."
Lyon ended up counting six of them. Rat, Rabbit, Porcupine, Praying mantis, Lizard, and now the Ghoul.
"Six?" Mark was shocked as he pulled the medicated eyeglass on his eye down to his nose and stole a glance at Mark.
"What? Why are you looking at me, to me, that's not much," Lyon said.
"Are you crazy, do you even know what you are talking about, that ghoul alone is a strong being and you now have five more to add to it, don't you think you are gradually becoming a monster?" Mark said as he paused in his drawing while thinking if it was a good idea to help Lyon get stronger and was also wondering how Nate will be able to maintain such a person in his gang in the future.
The truth is that Nate was also worried about how Lyon getting, but he now has a solution to that is any day comes when Lyon will feel like he was on top and no one can stop him.
All it will take for Nate to get rid of him was just to detonate the atomic mark on him and that's all, though he also prays that such a day should not come because Lyon was also a great help to him right now.
This was what Mark does not know. Meanwhile, Lyon noticed that Mark had paused and he said. "Do you know something has to be used for me to keep up with this transformation, so don't waste them?" Lyon said snapping Mark out of his daze.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about something," Mark said as he resumes what he was doing.
Soon, the drawing was done, but Mark wasn't done yet. Mark was quite fast at drawing so it did not take much time for him to get a full drawing of Lyon.
He drew the front side of the porcupine, its top, back, and both sides. After this was all done, Lyon transformed back into his human form. He was breathing hard while exhaling and inhaling fast.
"I'm not done yet," Mark said which caused Lyon to shout out.
"What!"
"Maybe you should stop adding more to your form and start training on how to last longer, you might meet an opponent way stronger or maybe at the same level of power as you, with this type of opponent only time is needed for you to defeat this type of opponent, the time it's all it will take and you do not have that during your transform period.
Lyon knows that Mark was making sense. If Lyon transforms, the amount of energy will not be too much, but whenever he was in the two-states transformation, the speed at which his energy goes down was too much and he knows about this too much, it's just that he finishes the battle a lot faster in his mix alter.
" I will find a way to do that, maybe Nate will have some good idea" lyon replied as he closed his eyes and started to think about the saddest things that have happened to him throughout his life.
Soon, his body was back to its altered state, ****but this time wasn't any of his pets, instead, it was the praying mantis in full.
'I just wonder why I have not turned into a mixed alter,' Lyon thought as he posed for Jim to draw.
"This one might be hard" muttered Mark as he once again got himself busy.
Soon, another hour passed and Mark was now through with his drawing and gave it to Lyon.
"Picture those in your mind while you transform, they are a great chance that you might end up with them," Mark said as he took a few steps back away from Lyon.
Meanwhile, Lyon looked at the paper for some time as he tried picturing the image sketched out on the paper.
Soon, he closed his eye as if he was meditating. He was now in his human form as thought about the bad things that had happened to him. Just then his mind started to react to this and his body started to turn into the porcupine animal.
"It works... It worked!" Lyon yelled joyfully