Somethings weird
Aja dumped herself onto her bed. She sighed as she sprawled out.
"I thought you wanted to go exploring." Krel said as he rummaged through the various items mother had added to the Aja's room.
"Aren't you the one who hasn't renewed his transduction yet?" Aja retorted. She sat upright and crossed her legs. She pointed at Krel. His bright blue skin and hair looked out of place in Aja's more modern looking bedroom.
"Because someone hasn't decided if we're actually gonna go out and look around!" He told his sister, crossing his bottom set of arms. His other arms were still scraping around the shelves. He held his head up high for a second, trying to look angry, but quickly got distracted by the items he was holding. "What's this?" He held up 2 wooden blocks with numbers on them.
Aja jumped up from her bed to examen the blocks. She ooed and ahh'd at the blocks. She grabbed them from Krel's hands. "So many numbers, with so many combinations!" She giggled and twisted her hands around to see every side of the blocks. "Lively. Why would these be in my room though?"
"I found them in them in this weird wood thing with two squares and a month on it." He pointed to the part of the shelf where he had found the blocks. There, a wooden calendar where you switch out the blocks sat. "It says, Apreail.." Krel read the text on it.
"Oh! It must be one of those weird earth planners!" Aja clapped, the blocks making noise instead of her hands. She dropped them onto the floor and giggled a bit. Krel rolled his eyes.
"Now can we go?" Krel asked, one set of hands on his hips. "We've got to go now if we don't want Vex to catch us."
"If you really wanted to go out exploring, you would have renewed your transduction." Aja laughed and stuck her tongue out at Krel. Her brother stuck his tongue out at her. He scoffed and began to walk out of the room.
"Start getting ready while I do that." He told Aja as he walked out. She nodded.
- - - -
"You seriously think that Steve is cute?" Krel asked as he and Aja walked down a street corner.
"Of course I do! His hair is like a baby Gravmok's fur, and his eyes are like pools of Valtrink water." She described, her eyes fluttering at the thought of her blonde oaf.
"Didn't you almost get eaten by a Gravmonk during the summer parade like 3 years ago?" Krel asked, disgust slightly tainting his voice. He had not like Steve too much. Not just because he punched him, but also because he didn't like the idea of 'StAja' or love in general.
"Well, little brother, the day you find someone, I'll be the one teasing you!" Aja said as the two turned a street corner.
"Pfft. You act as if I'm looking around for that stuff." Krel rolled his eyes. He scrolled through his phone.
"I never asked for Steve, but now I have him and I love him." Aja explained. She peeked over at Krel's phone. "What is that?" She asked.
"I'm trying to hack into the cameras around town." He typed a few things on his phone. "If we have access, we can make sure the cameras can't get footage of things." Krel explained. "Annnddd...Done! Now we have access to the cameras."
"Great! Now we ca-"
"The cameras on this specific block!"
Aja paused in the middle of the sidewalk. "Only this part of town!?"
"Hey! The Wi-Fi isn't the best here and it's hard to do this while walking in public!" Krel crossed his arms. The twins gave each other funny looks before a loud crash echoed in the distance.
"What was that!?" Aja asked, pulling out her serator. A car alarm went off and a cat screeched.
"I don't know." Krel followed in pulling out his serrator.
"Do you think it's a bounty hunter?" Aja asked, her blaster ready. She and Krel slowly stepped over to the noise.
"No, they would've directly attacked by now. This is something else." Krel peered past the street corner. The lights above the siblings flickered for a few second before completely turning off. The two held onto each other as Aja also look over at the street they had just passed.
"What is that?" Aja pointed to a weird pink creature. It was a slimy creature, but somehow on fire. Pink. The flames were pink. Krel and Aja looked at the creature, looking for words to describe it.
"Looks like a dead Spulpin." Krel said.
Blue flashed through the street. The creature jumped around and spat out some fire, nearly identical to the kind that covered it.
"You think it's those troll hunter things we saw at the "teen center"?" Aja wondered, remembering the images that had played on the screens and how Jim and the others explained it some sort of show.
"No. Maybe." Krel peeked over to the street more. A boy, who he could really only see the silhouette of, shooted radiant blue light towards the creature. The creature backed away from the boy and closer to the area where the twins were. The two quickly tucked themselves back behind the street corner, though their eyes were still peaking at the fight.
"Maybe it's another troll hunter!" Aja whisper yelled. She retracted her serators blaster and marveled at the magic in front of her. She smiled, attempting to slip away to join the fight.
"No! We might get exposed or attacked!" Krel grabbed the back of her dress and pulled her back. Aja opened her mouth to argue, but a scream in the distance interrupted her. It sounded a little shrill, but somehow deep.
"Come on, you insisted we go out exploring and look, something to explore!" Aja successfully retorted. "And it's the right thing to-"
"AAAaaaaHHHHHHHHHHh!"
Krel rubbed his fingers on the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Ay yi yi....We can help, but from the side."
"Great! Because that person might be getting mauled right now." She readied her serator again and slid onto the street where the fight had been going on, Krel following. The two ducked behind a car. The fight had seemed to pause for second, silence ringing through the area till a posh voice spoke.
"I do hope you have an actual plan on how to defeat the Crouvaine."
"Of course I do!" The boy Krel had sort of saw said. Blue light from his bracelet aluminated his face.
"I swear I've seen that guy before.." Aja commented as she and her brother peeked at the two Brits.
"Well, you better hope he doesn't see us." He crawled behind a few cars and peeked through each till the Crouvaine was in his sights. Aja quickly followed behind.
"Okay. We blast the creature and get on with our day or- um, night." Aja decided. Krel formed his serator into a blaster. He squinted his eyes and aimed towards the pink thing. The two people fighting the creature were having some sort of conversation, or argument.
"You have to use water, remember??"
"I'm sorry but I'm too busy making money to study sometimes!" The boy blasted the creature.
"On the count of 3, we shoot." Aja looked at Krel and he nodded. The siblings aimed towards the weird looking creature. "1...2...3, fire!" Aja whisper yelled. The twins' pulled the triggers of their blasters, blue light crashing into the creature. The Crouvaine bursted into slime, coating the street and people around, barely touching the back of the car they were behind. The only thing the creature left behind was a single flame
"See, we did it." The boy confidently said. He wiped some pink slime off his clothes.
"Uh huh...." The other "person" narrowed their eyes, seemingly at the siblings. Not like the twins could see them. The two began to walk away.
"That was so lively!" Aja smiled.
Krel stood up and walked closer to the boy, still trying to keep hidden. Aja, sat behind a car, watched him with a confused look. "What are you doing?"
"This guy probably has some powerful tech." He pulled out his phone. Aja thought for a moment and realized what Krel was going on about.
"He could have what we need to fix the ship!" Aja realized. Krel quickly snapped a photo of boy. Luckily, he had stopped to look at his phone and talk to his friend. The boy quickly put his phone away and continued down the street, the conversation between the two friends fading into the distance. Aja quickly ran over to her brother to examen the photo.
"Hmm.." Aja scratched her head and looked at the photo. "I know I've seen that guy somewhere.."
"Well, you better figure out where you've seen him before so we can get some help." Krel looked closer at the photo. "Is that a cat?"
"Aw, he has a feline friend." Aja smiled.
"He was talking to something though. Maybe the cat?" Krel theorized.
"He could've been calling someone." Aja suggested.
"Yeah, but with that kind of tech that cat could be some sort of complex talking robot." Krel theorized.
"No matter what it is, we have to find out more about this guy." Aja concluded. Krel nodded. "We better get back before Varvatos realizes were gone."
- - - -
"Who blasted the Crouvaine though, that's my question." Archie flew throughout the bookstore.
"There's some wizards who work at hex tech, could've been them." Douxie suggested. He traced his hand over a few books along the shelf till he found the perfect one. "Though they wouldn't have hidden themselves from me."
"The people at hex tech don't go around every night to hunt monsters." Archie reminded his friend.
"You think it was Zoe?" Douxie jokingly said. He knew it wasn't her, if she really wanted to help him, she would've showed herself.
"She only ever does monster hunting because you pay for lunch." Archie rolled his eyes and hopped over to Douxie. "What's that?"
"One of Merlin's old books. I wanna see if I can track the user's magic." Douxie explained, flipping through the book's pages.
"And how do you plan to do that?" Archie asked, perching himself on Douxie's shoulder.
"Well, the user blasted the Crouvaine and it turned into goop" Douxie explained.
"And you think that the goo contains traces of magic you can track?" Archie raised the sort of eyebrow his cat face had.
"Precisely! You always remember those things." Douxie flipped through a few more pages before landing on the right page. He thumped his finger on the page. "Here it is!" He started walking over to a nearby chair, Archie flying ahead.
"You still got some of goo in your fur?" Douxie asked as Archie landed on the arm of the chair. He sat down and pointed to Archie's fur.
"Probably. Don't you have some on you still though?" Archie responded, laying down on the armrest.
"I need like a handful for this spell." Douxie showed Archie the page he was looking at.
"Hmm. Why do you want to find this mysterious spell caster anyway?" The feline asked.
"Because they helped us. And besides, there aren't too many wizards around nowadays, it would be nice to find out there's more." Douxie looked a little said. He got up from the chair. "Come on, we gotta hurry the process of all this, I've got to get some sleep so I can work tomorrow."
Archie quickly followed. "I guess you're going to pick through my fur till you get enough."
"Well, I've got some in my hair and on my pants, and some in uh-" Douxie cleared his throat. "Hard-to-reach places..." He looked away, a little embarrassed.
"I guess we'll do my fur first. I'll leave you to do your thing after that." Archie gave Douxie a slightly disgusted look at the end of his sentence.
"Time for some magic!" Douxie exclaimed. Archie hung his head and sighed a bit. "You wouldn't mind if I used one of those cat combs, would you?" He turned to Archie.
"Oh geez..." Archie shook his head in annoyance.
- - - -
"Ok, so all we know is that this guy has a talking robot cat and some sort of high tech serrator like weapon." Krel reviewed.
"Uh huh!" Aja nodded.
"Aaannndd.." Krel trailed off.
"And?" Aja asked.
"And that's all we know."
"Really?"
"Yeah, we have been over this."
"I know, but I figured with your hacking you could figure out more."
"Well, that's not exactly how it works. I'd need to know this boy's name and such. All we have is the side of his body and part of his back. That isn't exactly enough." Krel explained to his sister. "Besides, you said he looks familiar."
"Well, I don't exactly remember where I've saw him, but if we look around more, we might run into him." Aja suggested. The twins paused for a moment to think.
"Did you see his face?" Aja asked. She flicked her shoes off and undid the bun in her hair.
"For a few seconds. He had like blue hair and I think a jacket." Krel described. He hadn't focused too much on the boys' looks. Really only on the supposed alien stuff that was happening.
"Nothing else? You don't remember anything else about him?" Aja asked.
"No. Didn't you see him too?" Krel asked.
"I was kind of looking at the blob thing and not the boy." Aja admitted.
"Well, we have half of his face and whatever else I remember." Krel bright sided, though he sounded more smug than positive.
"We also know how he dressed." Aja added.
"Right!" Krel said. The door opened and Varvatos entered.
"Varvatos Vex would like to inform you that it is 'past your bedtime' " Their guardian informed them.
"Bedtime?" Aja asked with a confused look.
"Bedtime?" Krel repeated his sister, now in a more frustrated tone. "What the kleb is a bedtime?"
"Mother has informed Varvatos of this 'hooman tradition' where we assist you in going to your sleeping chambers." Varvatos explained. The twins looked at each other and then at Vex with confused looks.
"And you're just telling us this now?" Krel asked.
"Since we might be staying here a while, Mother wants us to learn more hooman activities, so we don't blow our cover." Vex peered over Krel's shoulder, seeing an image on his phone. "What is that?"
"Oh, um, we think we saw someone with advanced technology and think we can maybe get the tech to help fix the ship." Aja explained.
"We might be able to fix the Daxial Array!" Krel exclaimed.
Vex leaned in closer to the phone. "That looks like a regular human and a feline."
"We think it's a talking robot." Aja climbed onto Vex to look over at the phone.
"And he had some misty blue sort of tech." Krel told Vex, who was scratching his chin in thought.
"So, you believe this hooman is some sort of extra-terrestrial like us?" Vex asked, pointing a finger at the photo. "How can you be sure he isn't human?"
"Well, we gotta investigate first to make sure he is one, and that his tech will be useful." Krel explained to Vex.
"And how exactly do you plan on doing that?" Vex asked.
"Simple, we find him and watch him till we find what we need." Aja said.
"What?" Vex and Krel both exclaimed.
"What? I thought that was what we were going to do." Aja shrugged. Krel looked to the side to think for a moment. "You said we should try to stay inconspicuous. If we watch this guy from afar we should be fine."
Krel, still in thought, went over the possibilities out loud. "Well, if we don't investigate, we could be stuck on earth longer, but if we do, we could be exposed..."
"But we could also find a friend who will help us." Aja suggested. She climbed off Varvatos and landed in front of him. "Think about it, a new companion who is also from another planet who can help us!"
"We already have Stuart." Krel reminded his sister.
"Besides, all we have to do is kidnap this 'hooman' and torture till he gives us answers!" Varvatos cheered.
"Vex! You did that with Stuart, we've got to be nicer." Aja told Vex, who was laughing at his idea. "Look, we can do this ourselves, if we need your help we'll ask." She tried to shove Vex out of the room.
"But Varvatos Vex wishes to show this feeble boy to obey House Tarron!" Varvatos reasoned.
"Yeah, yeah, we'll do that too." Aja pushed Vex out of the room. Varvatos opened his mouth to say something, but Aja closed the door before he could.
"You seriously think we should be friends with this mysterious guy?" Krel asked his sister. Aja sighed, her back to the door.
"Of course I do little brother. We need more people to trust, and this guy could give us some tech." Aja reminded Krel.
Krel zoomed the photo in and out, trying to pick up on as many details as possible. He thought on what Aja had just said. Tech. He repeated the word in his head a few times.
"That's it!" Krel exclaimed. "Tech. I can hack into that streets cameras and use the footage from other streets to find things out!"
"Great!" Aja hugged her brother. "We can piece it all together!"
- - - -
"That goo certainly got everywhere..." Archie scowled. Douxie laughed at his comment, dumping all the goo they could gather into a bowl.
"Now let's see..." Douxie took another look at the page in the spellbook. "Two dashes of Drityan spit, and a pinch of grounded Sqip horns..." He read.
Archie put his paws over his eyes and sighed. "Please tell me you know what you are doing.."
"Oh, come on, ya just gotta trust me on this," Douxie assured his friend "Now keep quiet so I can cast the spell." He held the book in one hand a waved the other over the bowl. "Wrintas, Cinceruis, Maliption!"
Douxie thrusted his hand towards the bowl, blue fluttering around the room, forming into thin flames. The flames swirled around each other, moving like water. The flames began drawing a picture, like wood burning. Lines curved around till they finished.
"What are those? Who are they?" Archie asked, approaching the illusion.
"I don't know, but I'm not sure that they're any magic creature I've seen or read about." Douxie marveled at the drawing in front of him.
"How can you be so sure?" Archie questioned.
"Look." Douxie gestured towards the illusion of sorts. It flickered and glitched. "If they were magic the spell would hold up right, but since the spell isn't working properly, that means they aren't magic."
"Which means..?"
"They're something else. Something foreign." Douxie waved his hand through the illusion. It flickered once more, and for a brief moment, showed two human looking figures. Archie's eyes widened, Douxie may not have seen it, but he did, the cat knew more than it should, or at least it may have.
"So, what could they be? Trolls? Wizards?" Archie asked his friend. "You don't see two sets of arms or bright blue hair every day."
"What if it's neither. Something new." Douxie suggested. He pulled his phone out and took a photo of the illusion.
"Well, if it is something we haven't seen before, I suggest you perform the actual tracking part of the spell before the image disappears. Those only last for a day or so."
"Right! I'll be right on it!" Douxie finger gunned at his friend and prepared to finish the spell. "I guess we look for anyone with brightly colored hair and skin." He concluded, turning his attention away from the image. Archie flew onto his shoulder as Douxie looked at the page of his book. "Now we have to add one more thing and say the words again.." He walked away a bit. Behind him, the image flickered into two humans. A blonde girl and Latin boy.