*Pa!*
Harry snapped one of his nails with force with the clipper when he heard that. Thinking he heard something else he began laughing.
"Haha... I didn't know you had a cat Xander."
Xander just looked at him and thought, 'I wish it was a cat that knocked my door this morning.'
"I didn't say cat, Harry. Although a cat would be nice, I said my dad is back." He corrected, still looking at the ceiling.
"No way. Your dad. Handsome, tall dad that left you and your mom a note about going for business and not contacting you for a year. That dad?" Harris spoke, his tone filled with disbelief.
"Yeah, I thought he would never come back. And he said some weird things when he was explaining himself today."
Harry's brows became uneven with confusion, "You even let him talk?"
"He's still my dad Harry, whether I like it or not."
Harry stood up and then began walking back and forth in his room, "This is serious. Okay, okay. Um, Xander."
"Hm?" Xander looked towards him.
"What kind of weird things did he say?" Harry said, folding his arms across his chest.
"Buddy, you're gonna have to sit down for this one." Xander said, finally sitting up straight to look Harry in the eye.
...
G.CO, one of the biggest gaming companies in the world as well as the producers of League of Guardians situated in new York city.
In front of the seemingly endless floor sky scraper was a tall, large billboard advertising the game league of Guardians.
Inside the building, there was a receptionist there. A young woman with short black hair and blue eyes, with a beautiful face that complimented her body, Maria Sean.
She seem to be busy as she scrolled through the files on the screen before her.
At that moment, three people wearing black robes and black masks that covered the lower half of their face came in. Customers that were passing all looked back and began whispering in curiousity.
"Who are they?"
"Is G.CO doing a cosplay event?"
"They look like assasins."
The whispers kept on going on. Some people were scared of the weirdly dressed individuals and immediately left through the four sided glass door that spun to the side to let someone in.
"Hello."
Hearing a thick, hoarse voice Maria took her eyes away from the screen and raised her head to look at the owner of the voice.
Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the three men in ominous dressing. She immediately calmed down so that she wouldn't do anything rash, she just got promoted here so she can't lose her job now.
"Hello, my name is Maria. How can I help you?" She said with a professional smile.
The man in the middle then brought out a golden card and placed it on the table before saying, "Were here to see the boss."
Seeing the gold card with the symbol of a crescent moon, the symbol of the company, she was shocked; the golden card that she has only seen with the boss and his managers is in the hand of a stranger.
Still suspecting something she took the card and used a barcode scanner to scan it.
*Beep*
The scanner beeped confirming the originality of the card. She then handed the 'gentlemen' back the card.
"I'll call someone to escort you now." She said as she pressed a button from below her desk.
It didn't take one minute for a security personnel wearing black uniform with a baton on his waist to come by.
"These men are here to see the boss." She said immediately she saw the security man.
"Okay, right this way fellas." The man then led them to an elevator beside the reception.
"Now that was weird, I wonder who they are." Maria said before getting back to arranging the files on the virtual screen before her.
...
Back at Harry's house, Xander has just finished telling Harry his father's 'Explanation'.
"Terrox. Terrox... TERROX!"
"Calm down Harry." Xander said as his friend looked shock to hear that his best friend's father is part of a criminal group.
"I'm calming down... I'm calming down... My friend's father is a criminal." Harry put both his hands on his head and stood up, pacing around back and forth, he was panicking!
"Okay, okay. What about the talk about your super powers?" Harry asked.
Xander's brows became uneven in confusion as he looked at his friend in disbelief.
"Don't tell me you believe in that crap." Xander said, looking at Harry straight in the eye.
"I don't know Xander, do you? I like to keep an open mind, if your life is in danger, then I think you should let him help." Harry said after one minute of thinking.
"So you now support that bastard?!" Xander shouted.
It seems like Harry has forgotten that this man left them for one full year, letting him to go on without knowing whether his dad was alive or not.
"It's not that I support him. But why don't you give him a chance, I mean, he wanted to explain himself." Harry said with a small smile.
"I'm starting to think you're now on his side Harry. He left me and my mother to strive alone, left a note with two sentences and came back now to explain to me why!" Xander raged.
He is never going to forgive his father for anything. Not until he gets a proper BELIEVABLE explanation.
Xander's head then started throbbing with pain and his heart started racing, he felt his energy leave him and he fell to the floor.
"Xander!"
Harry rushed to his side to see Xander eyes wide open and his breathing heavy and fast.
"Are you okay?!" Harry asked, scared that his friend was going to die so soon.
"I'll live." Xander said and he got up from the floor.
This is the second time that something like this is happening to him and it doesn't seem right at all.
"Let's meet in League of Guardians tonight." Xander said, making Harry smile.
"You got it bro."
...
7:00 pm.
At G.CO headquarters, the beautiful receptionist Maria had just finished arranging the company's files.
"I wonder what Xander would want for his birthday tomorrow," she said as she fell into deep thought.
Indeed she was Xander's mom, or should I say 'stepmom'. She just got a promotion to work in G.CO as a receptionist from her old work at a bank.
She only agreed because the pay here was much more than what the bank offered; who wouldn't want more money, and besides, she needed it.
Tomorrow was her son's birthday and she has to give him something good to remember his eighteenth birthday.
*Ding*
The sound of the elevator reached her ears and she looked to see the same three masked individuals walking out.
She kept watching them; for some reason they were extremely suspicious.
How would they not be suspicious when they look like a masked Kirito? The main character of the anime 'Sword art online'.
The three guys stopped in front of the reception counter and looked at her at the same time, creeping Maria out.
"You're Maria Sean right?" One of the masked men asked.
When she was asked that question Maria's body shuddered a little in fear and she became nervous.
"Um... Yes." She answered.
"Good. Your husband is in town, he keeps interfering with our business so you're coming with us." The one in the middle said as he pointed Maria.
Confused that they mentioned her husband she fell into a daze and before she realised it, she was hit at the back of her head and she fell unconscious.
The men then carried her out of the place. Their destination... Unknown.