Dom/Imago gazed at him for a moment, it did not care for his history with the host but the fact that he just referred to it as a despot would not go unanswered. ..."So, you think I'm a tyrant? Aye.""I guess you are. You can call me names, you can beat me up, but do not touch my sister!" He punched Dom and he fell over."I have no business with the child. More or less, your stupid feline.""Okay, Jess, go inside. I'll meet you there."He said and she limped inside the nursery with East. Peeping by the door."You don't stand a chance against me." Imago said. "Apologize now, evildoer before things get ugly.""Trust me, it will. I'm taking you on that fight." "It seems to me...Maks like you don't understand who exactly you are dealing with.""If that's what it takes to get you to take a hike! I don't owe you any apologies, because you've been bugging me for a long time now. You're the one who obviously needs fixing, I'm not afraid of you and if you want a brawl then you're getting on
"Yeah, sure, go ahead.""Can you fly without wings?""What?" He said in the heavy breeze. "Can you fly without wings? Like a sparrow or a hummingbird! That sort of stuff." He winced. "I never thought of that and I don't even plan on trying." He added sternly and she dropped her finger pouting."You're fun at parties." She muttered."Hey, the worst that can happen is a broken neck. Oh and my bills. Months of recovery. Which I don't have_time for.""Okay, just say when." She asserted and he mugged. They walked through the park where the dust storms plagued them the most. The trees were coated by dust and sunlight crept into their faces while they strolled. She marvelled at the webs covering the branches like canopies. "It's that time of the year yet? Nasty." A man grumpily swept patches of colorful latex on the floor by a cart while the officer wrote a ticket. They moved past a tree with porcupine quills embedded on it. Artemis kicked up a balloon with the back of her heel while s
"Venti? How dare you!? I am not a Venti!." Lightning crept through his veins and he held his breath when he struck again. Maks gazed at the maelstrom of dust, it looked like rushing dam water only dusty. He gulped and faced Tempest. "Technical question, is it the whole world? Or is it just one region?"His eyes blazed with electricity. "Because it seems to me like you can do a lot worse!" A gust of wind tossed, turned him, It dragged him in upside down. The hurricane beneath Tempest whipped like a helicopter as he spiralled around him."I assure you..." He read his library card. "Maks Anchorman."_and tossed it away. "That the world will know how truly DANGEROUS dust storms can be. Even the government won't recover from this.""Well la-di-da. This all sounds like some climate change propaganda."Tempest's eyes lit up. "You're not far from it my boy." Maks looked down and eyes rounded at the dusty tempest and the ghastly storm in the shape of horses leaping inside hungry for his do
He rubbed his head. "Nothing expensive, Vic."Victor blinked. "That's fine, it's nice to have a change of scenery though.""I guess." Maks reclined on the stairs. He turned edgy at Dom approaching. He tilted his head upwards with a smirk on his face. Maks's face twitched when he frowned."What's up, M*nnie Mouse?" He hollered and Maks stood up, Dom towered over him. "What do you want?""Whoa, watch your language, buddy, I just came here to apologize." He touched his chest. "I understand I haven't been very fair to you and I was kind of a jerk. But we can all look back someday and laugh."Maks looked unphased, there could be more of Imago's offspring living inside him for all he knew. "How's your head?""Fine." His ears turned pink. "Look." He raked his hair and Maks got a glimpse of the nasty scrapes on his temple. He had a bruise on his cheek and chin too. "I understand we haven't been on friendly terms a lot, so...I'm gonna leave you on a good note, I won't...bother you anymore."
Victor ducked and Artemis paled as quill grazed her arm. She tossed her seashell at one ready to fire again. They fled and turned to the flurry of quills that went flying back and forth. Beach-goers fled to their cars. Meanwhile, Maks floated on the surface of the water with his arms spread out in the distance closing his eyes and a sea turtled drifted around him underwater and zipped off. His eyes opened and he frowned at the swimmers moving past him. He watched the shoot-out agitated, ordinarily, there was no way porcupines could shoot quills like arrows. They were feral too. The real porcupines were in as much trouble as they were. Artemis tossed a rock, it rammed one over on its back and the others glanced at it shortly and reassembled hissing and gathering them like ants Victor saw a driver on a jet ski coming toward the shore at full speed and he drifted letting the jetstream of water blast them. The porpentines were repelled."Quick, how many of them are there?" She"Fift
He lurched at the sea urchin rolling away, a temperamental octopus blazed violently with colours and dragged by the rocks. Amid the rocks, the creature opened its eyes watching the strange silhouette meander. It crept out of its cavern going after him. He thought he heard a dolphin close by or an orca whale. He whirled around in the murky waters and caught its webbed hands in his grip. He grunted and it hissed trying to make minced meat out of his face with its razor-sharp teeth clattering like a piranha's. It had the face of an angler fish except it had no outgrowth, its eyes instead were two bulbs of glowing bacteria, it had the body of a woman, skin and a tail as coarse as a goliath grouper. It had arms. It made a piercingly loud sound like an alarm. More rose from the caverns. Maks stuffed its mouth with a rock and lanced it with its own fang, the others lunged at him and he spread out in the fashion of a Portuguese Man-of-War. They were hydrozoans. The groupies looked stunned
'We'll be glad to receive you, Maks as a volunteer.' His fingers trembled on the keyboard and he skimmed through the details, the place looked familiar, and he tapped more. Are you finished with your exams?Done and dusted.Sounds good, we will require 100-150 hours of the stipulated time. Do you have any summer jobs that will interfere with this routine? We are in serious need of hands.He swallowed. The agent typed for a minuteWe will give you time to think it over but you will increase your chances of getting an admission.Thanks. You are most welcome. He swivelled on his chair. "I'm gonna have to readjust my routine, like always." He was jittery and he hoped both jobs wouldn't clash."I'm gonna work two part-time jobs. Isn't that great?" He said holding East up away from his computer. She had gained some pounds, her fur was shinier and her eyes rounded and she had an elated look on her face. He doubted it had anything to do with what he said. "I presume." He was somewhat unh
It jumped out of the sewers in liquid form, he digressed from its path and gazed at the cars coming in haste. Horns tooted.The metal man ran on two legs with arms like skewers. He knew he was done for. There was a car rushing in urgently and he picked up speed and hightailed it behind the car to the other side. He prompted it to give it a try. A truck rammed the Death Metal out of his view and his eyebrows rose while the truck whizzed by, the bonnet was in Flames and the driver alighted running for his life. The engine overheated and detonated blasting him out of its radar. Maks scoffed watching it melt, twitching. The metal man was red hot. It tried to regenerate but its hands melted like goo. He backed away from the scene before things escalated again. He happened to be passing by the cabin and noticed the new trees planted with stilts to support them. Most of them were dying already. The land looked overturned and richer. He saw what he thought was a pile of dried leaves, he look