He flew home. What she said hurt him so much, it was very sad that she thought no one else looked after her and on the other hand, he wanted to tell her that she was doing fine_of course, thanks to his selective muteness, he couldn't say anything. The trees looked dotted on the desert ground and patches of silver clouds encompassed the ant-sized houses. He had to stay above the clouds. He wondered why he was not getting immediate feedback back from his system about his position in the food chain (besides being human as Meg put it.) Besides that, he preferred being human to anything else, maybe a spider. Spiders were fun except for the murderous urge to eat a bug. Once, he tried to use his web to swing like a human being but the web just faltered under the breeze. Sometimes, the system required a lot of experimentation and he tried different animal fighting styles to develop his fighting style, it took a lot of focus and mental work to get the job done, and that was why he was able to
He inhaled and exhaled when his dad knocked. "Maks! Maksim Demetrius Anderson, you step outside, right now!" He banged on the door. "Open up!""Please, don't say that name out loud.""I have a spare key...I'm coming in on the count of three,_ one...two...three..." Maks stayed back ruddy-nosed and he held on to the door handle and clenched his hand on it. At this point, he was tone-deaf, there was no way chance in hell that he was going to tell his father that he was busy fighting and trying to keep them safe. The worst part of all was that the men who were trying to kill him now were masked [ Except the wolf but what did it matter? ]and he was NOT masked, so he could not trust anyone. His dad would take him seriously enough to ask him to see a therapist or laugh so hard that he would not dare talk about anything critical again. The world was full of bologna, that was what he would say.Knock* knock* knock* He knocked relentlessly. "Did I say flesh wound? I meant I have a fresh loop
He thought the reveal to Jess would be too dangerous. It was just as bad as keeping the Zaipei Dou in his room with her around. The Lees would never agree to that and now they were gone because Aaron gobbled them up."I drew a picture." She showed him the picture of them with their hands merged in big dots. "I can never get the hands right or the ears." "Why is my head bigger than my body?"She shrugged. "Because you have a big head.""That's not true." He said and his head sank. He was conscious of his appearance to an extent."What's this about a changeling? Do you still smoke, I'm telling dad_" "Shut the hell up." "For someone who's training to be a doctor, you're not very compassionate." She said defensively. Maks grinned and barred his teeth like a wolf. "I'll be leaving by tomorrow.""Good for you." She pattered up the stairs. Her hair bounced behind her.He rubbed his eyes. "East? Come 'ere, girl." He patted his knees.Meow. East crawled out from under the chair toward h
"You haven't paid me for all those scrapes I've gotten you out of Rex, my advice, is don't bite the hand that fed you." He patted Rex's cheek. Rex felt like he was trying to swallow a spoonful of sand and wearing an itchy sweater at the same time. He didn't want to get on his benefactor's son's bad side either. But he didn't want to see Horacio getting hurt every time he went near Dominic. "Are you coming?" Horacio said....Maks stuffed his bag with clothes and toiletries. He hung his backpack and his system glitched. "This time you really came prepared." He said. The room was big, there was a new table at the center and Melvin was doing a quality check on the new speakers and a VR Game. Jessica was excited and danced on her tip-toes. "I love you!""Me too." She hugged him and he blushed.[ Kill Cancer ] [ Right now? ] He was ruminating about if that was just a hoax.[ Do you accept this quest?] He tapped the answer and moved on, he was waiting for a bus because his dad took
"Now, it's personal." His forearm extended as an octopus's tentacle but his fist was intact but blue and orange and he he punched him towards the shoreline and Cancer pulled up when the hermit crabs crawled all over him in hundreds folds. "Ah!" Their pincers clicked voraciously. The army of hermit crabs clinched on Cancer's body and he yelped as his pain scale escalated from 'moderate' to 'worst pain possible', even though he could blow up any living organism into smithereens, he was in no condition to do it. He was getting buried in myriads of crabs and his first instinct was to dunk himself inside the water. Maks turned on the other assassins, he actually called for backup and he was absolutely rabid like a cornered rat, they came at him in tens, he chucked a head off his body, his hand turned orange and blue and he clutched another's arm paralyzing him with his poison dart frog toxins. The next tried to stab him with a katana, he grabbed the end and swatted the butt on against h
"He's going into anaphylactic shock." She said. "How do you know?""He just said so." He said with an edge of frustration. The crowd watching and screaming 'help him!' were only making the atmosphere and the situation worse. "Take 'im to a hospital!" Maks recalled the steroids he saw in his pockets. He saw that his hand was lagging at the can of pills in his pocket. Steroids. His mind was trying to make the connections again. 'a risk of cancer and autoimmune diseases increasing and the chances of the patient developing food allergies ranging from moderate to severe are second to none.' He checked his pocket and read the label of the can of pills quickly. They were Cortiso-steroids and she gave Rex the smallest dose as possible and he gasped. Meg was in pieces. She looked like she might go into shock as well. The crowd clapped while he recovered. Some of them were harried when he passed them quizzical looks. "Rex, are you okay?" She said. He was wheezing but he managed to nod. "T
Maks kept up with her, and she grinned. As they hiked to the river. "Why is Meg being probed?""That was over hours ago and Rex can't talk." "You two poisoned Rex Rodriguez?" She poked."It was an accident." He said. "Meg would never do that...unless of course, she knew and just forgot." Watching the river currents. The med park was scanty. "Artemis found her lip balm and put it on her lip. "You could use this." "No thanks." He muffled when she swabbed his chapped lips. He thought this was the equivalent of being judo-flipped. "What are we looking for?" "Nothing, I just presumed you should go out more." She said while screwing the cover shut. "We're going to have karaoke.""You mean karate?" He was stiff-necked now.Artemis laughed. "You're so funny, man." "I left my homework because of you." He said. She stared at Maks as though he were talking gibberish. She fiddled with her swiss army knife. She wore a jean jacket, a green tube dress, and red baseball boots."Okay, let
The isle was rocky with many impressive, She hopped down and Maks stepped up. He saw her grinning and frowned. "What?" "Nothing." She said and he plucked seaweed off his head. The water pushed against the sandy shore where their footprints were. There were no birds in the sky, the ones that passed by hardly lingered unless the load they were carrying were too heavy. He pulled out their gear and sized up the ropes. He wore a yellow jacket and refrained from using the torchlight to conserve the battery. He swallowed hard at the peak of the high cliff, a crevice beneath that looked like it could go on forever and ever. He could feel the cool breeze blowing out from the entrance. He climbed up the hill using his spider powers and he gazed at the plateau and the resilient plants breaking through the surface. He needed to get a bird's eye view of the entire island. It looked like a puma's head with its mouth open, trying to swallow a ball which was the second isle, little to no green