Relatives, Hostile Takeovers, Soul Mates, and a Whole Lot of Other Crud
A sudden outbreak of a Higher Being virus breaks out and infects nearly every Higher Being on the planet. A deranged Higher Being thinks Lilly is his soul mate. That and Lilly's brother and cousin come to visit!? This can't be good. Originally going to be something else, but it turned into this based on requests from Lilliyati-Tomo (did I spell it right?). ON with the show!
Firrz, devourer of humans? Gorgon's getting out of the EMP ball? Cedric JUST NOW revealing that he could "talk" to "ghosts". Come on, it all pointed to some higher force at work here. Everything in her mind was telling her "humans can't talk to ghosts", and "this isn't possible". The events of the past 2 weeks, that kidnapper, that boy was a mystery to her...
Speaking of which, Cedric was sneaking up behind her. She could hear him, smell him, but unlike her other lower beings, she couldn't sense him. It struck her as odd. She ignored the knowing sniggers of the others and tried to rationalize just why she could detect Cedric with all of her other senses and not her higher one-
"YAH!"
Cedric laughed as he pushed the humanoid Higher Being into the smoothie machine. "Switch it on, Do-Wah! Switch it on!"
Do-Wah laughed and pulled down the smoothie lever, switching on the machine. "Ha ha huh huh huh hey! Hey, Lil, strawberry jacuzzi!"
B-Bop clapped happily. "It's just like Good Burger!"
The lower beings laughed, 2-T nearly choking on a piece of cheeseburger he had forgotten to swallow. Do-Wah flinched as Lilly threw some alien expletives at him.
"Oo! Potty mouth!" he guffawed.
"You're way too uptight, Lilly!" Cedric giggled. "Loosen up!"
Lilly punched open the smoothie machine, letting Cedric rest on top of the metal lid. "YOU need to get some kind of idea of self CONTROL! Geez, you remind m- oops."
Mike suddenly snapped into attention. "Oops?"
Lilly disappeared, letting Cedric slam down onto the smoothie machine with a loud BANG and an "OW!"
"Wait, Lil, who does Cedric remind you of?" B-Bop asked, following an invisible form from one side of the room to the other. Lilly appeared hovering above Mike's head.
"How'd you know where I was?" she asked questioningly.
"Who does Cedric remind you of?" B-Bop repeated, becoming noticeably frustrated. "I want to know!"
"Just a relative." Lilly twirled her hair, shrugging off the question but still mentally wearing the burden. "A distant relative."
KABOOM!
"AAH!"
The humans huddled into a corner while the Martians took up a defensive stance in front of them. Lilly floated into the air, her nose twitching; she was smelling for the enemy. Just a few seconds later-
There was a loud thumping sound from the outside of the Quantum Burger door.
"Someone's trying to break in!" Angela whimpered, clutching her limp arm in fear. Her mind made the connection of criminals to guns, and she was not about to take another bullet.
"We'll hold 'em off," 2-T said as he readied his gauntlet. "Don't worry."
"LILLY!"
And they froze. Whoever was on the other side was calling Lilly. The six heroes immediately turned their gaze to her. Lilly was pale as a polar bear and (somehow) getting whiter.
"Who are they?" B-Bop whispered.
"Just be quiet, and maybe they'll leave," Lilly hushed him.
"LILLY OTHALLY AMADUES! YOU LET US IN!"
"That sounds familiar," Mike mused.
Cedric shook his shoulder and whispered into Mike's ear. "That's Lilly's old name! You know, from when we first met her?"
Angela raised an eyebrow. "It is?"
Cedric couldn't answer; Lilly had began shoving them out of the back door. "Everybody back to Zapz, now!"
***
Lilly slammed herself against Zapz's front door, smashing it shut. "WATASHI NO BAKA DESU!" She shouted at herself. "Soy tal idiota! Je suis un tel idiot! I! AM! SUCH! AN! IDIOT!"
"What's wrong?" Mike asked, sitting himself on a sofa. "Who was that?"
"Someone I don't want you to meet!" Lilly wiped a large amount of sweat from her forehead. "Every person who I introduce to- to- to HIM has- it's-"
She growled like a typical teenager would and slammed herself down on the floor, holding her head and moaning. "This is all a bad dream. He'll go away soon."
B-Bop stood in front of his friend, his interest peaked and his curiosity gnawing at him. "Lilly? Who was that?"
"Um..." The "Saturnian" nervously nibbled on the tip of her tail. "Uh... you know back when I said that you reminded me of a relat- GECK!"
The door suddenly crashed down on top of her, and a black and yellow flash rushed in and slammed in B-Bop, knocking him to the floor. He heard Angela and 2-T scream, but what he saw was...
Something that looked like... kind of... I dunno... a bat?
It was just about his height, at least. It had a rounded face with a nose and ears of a cat and the eyes and mouth of a human. The head and neck of the thing was covered in white fur, while from the chest down, it was black. Although the white fur on its head was short, the black fur was long and luxurious (like a Persian cat), and it obscured the thing's body type very well. It pinned B-Bop down with two pawed legs and a set of raccoon- esque hands, while a set of bat-wings sprouted out of its back. A stubby, triangular tail had its beginnings at the thing's hips and met its point not far past where his legs met. One thing about this... one thing was unmistaken; it had Lilly's lavender eyes.
"Woah!" B-Bop tried to shuffle away, but the bat-creature kept him down. His entire body wagged with the force of his wagging tail.
"Hello!"
B-Bop stopped struggling and stared at the creature which, come to think of it, exuded the friendly nature of a dog. He smiled weakly. "Hey."
The creature stuck out his hand. "I'm Christobe."
"Christobe" then got shot off of B-Bop by a photon beam.
"You get off of him!" 2-T shouted, still holding up his gauntlet.
"Akata!" 2-T was then tackled by another little animal thing; this one had the lower body of a kangaroo and the upper body of a little girl. Her facial features were delicate and soft, but her muscles were very large and pronounced. She did not have the hands of a human; she had two-fingered, toe-like digits. She wore a white t-shirt with some kind of unidentifiable blue-and-pink swirly designed decaled onto it. Both the furry lower half of her and the hair on her head was colored a frail gold.
2-T struggled to push the kangaroo child off of him, but she sat on him with all the weight of another Martian; odd, because she was half his size. "(grunt) What are you?"
"Oo cho!" she giggled.
Lilly wasted no time in grabbing the kangaroo girl in her arms and turning her upside down. The kangaroo child giggled happily, but also lost some of her energy in the process; she stopped squirming. "What are you doing here? Where's-" Lilly suddenly looked up and saw Christobe trying to shake hands with Mike. "NO!"
"Hi, I'm Christobe!" Christobe shook Mike's hand with enthusiasm, ignoring the human male's odd looks and his friends stifled giggles. Without warning, Lilly caught his wings in her tail and pulled him into her, placing him in a headlock.
"What are you doing here?" Lilly repeated. "I'm asking you politely!"
"Who are they?"
Lilly sighed and went to answer 2-T's question. "Remember when I said you reminded me of a relative?"
"You never told them about us, did you?" Christobe giggled. "Don't lie, I know you."
"Arrroone boo cho!" Kangaroo child spoke a different language entirely, but her tone of voice suggested that she was agreeing with Christobe. She had a funny way of holding out her 'R's, making in sound like she was purring or growling.
"What? Lil, how do they know you?" B-Bop was now feeling angry, cheated, and slightly offended. "Who are they?"
Lilly sighed again, lowered her head, and began. She bounced Kangaroo Child in her arm. "This is Zanna."
"Ajjin boh!" she squealed happily. Zanna swung her arms playfully towards Christobe.
"And this..." Lilly yanked on Christobe's wings, making him yelp in shock, "Is Christobe. He's mah babehbothah..."
Do-Wah didn't quite catch it; come to think of it, nobody did. "Huh?"
"Say it LOUD, Lilly!"
Lilly sighed AGAIN, took a deep breathe and slowly worded, "He's my baby brother!"
Christobe wrenched himself out of his sister's grasp and shouted. "Not a baby anymore! Not a baby anymore! I just turned 1000 yesterday!"
Christobe did some sort of weird twirling thing with his wings and bowed. "And now that I'm old enough, I get to visit you for Sister's Day! And I brought Zanna!"
"Ata!" Zanna wiggled to free herself as well, but Lilly squeezed her ankles and hissed a harsh "Be quiet".
Of course, the kids and Martians were completely in awe.
"No way!" 2-T shouted, a smile crossing his face.
"I never knew you had a brother!" Angela stated. She shook Christobe's open hand. "That's so cool!"
"What about your sister?" Mike asked.
"Zanna is not my sister," Lilly groaned, her entire body limp in defeat. "Zanna is my cousin. My distant cousin."
"But I love her like a sister!" Christobe hugged the upside-down Zanna. "And me and her decided to visit you 'cause it's Sister's Day on Melator and meet your lower beings 'cause we don't have any!"
Lilly made herself invisible. "Whoop-dee do."
***
"All of these hints and she still doesn't notice me? The only thing I know about her is her love of power, of control. There must be some way... mmm, but there are more powerful beings on that world, beings that could easily trounce any of my efforts to catch her attention. Hmm... of course! Why didn't I think of it before?"
***
"So, where are you from?" Mike asked Christobe. "Saturn?"
"I'm from Nateto," answered the anthro-bat. "Lilly was born on Saturn. Zanna was born on a Tamaranian cruiser, but she's got the body of a Qanateite."
"Uh..." Mike tried his best to hide his confusion. "Okay?"
"Okay, you two, we're going to the Easter parade a little later today." Lilly spoke to both her brother and her cousin, although she was looking at neither; she had her vision focused on a computer monitor. "Practice your human forms, and don't eat any sugar. I don't want people noticing that you're Higher beings."
"OKAY!" Christobe yelled over his shoulder. He snapped his fingers and turned into a black-haired human boy with baggy, white clothes.
"Matee coo rooko?" Zanna whined, hiding behind B-Bop for no discernable reason.
"Yes, Zanna, you have to," Lil growled.
"Humph." Zanna pushed herself into the Commander Martian's back and pouted. B-Bop gave her a vacant pat on the head.
"You're a little rough on them, aren't you?" Cedric asked Lilly, noticing Zanna's unhappy state. "I mean, they're kids."
"They need to be taught discipline, just like I did when I was a kid." Lilly rested herself on her tail, snapping her fingers and transforming into her University Of Arizona persona. "Besides, these two are completely insane, and I can't risk being found out AGAIN or I'll get another demerit on my Higher Being report slip!"
"Lilly tooseke nadta na," is what Zanna whispered into B-Bop's ear before switching to a little human girl in a jumpsuit. This was one of the few languages B-Bop didn't know, so there was no way to decipher what she was saying.
***
The mixed assembly of lower and Higher beings sat on top of a large building, watching the parade floats inch by as the crowd cheered. One float shaped like a volcano sprayed candy into the crowd and onto the rooftops of many other buildings (but not theirs; it was too far down the street). As Mike and the Martians cheered, Angela and Lilly concentrated on keeping the hyperactive Zanna and Christobe settled.
"OHMYGOSH, WE'REATAREALLIVEEARTHPARADEWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"MEEGATOOMAJEENABATAKOOTATAWEEEEEEEEE!"
"WE'REGONNACATCHSOMECANDYANDIT'SGONNABELIKEWEEEEEEEE!"
"MEEGATOOLAWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Hush it, Christobe! Zanna, stop encouraging him!" Lilly slammed her hand over the hyper kids' mouths. "We're gonna get found out!"
Mike sighed. "We're on top of a building! No one's gonna look for him!"
Do-Wah clasped his hands happily. "Yeah! And we get all the candy the volcano thing spouts out that nobody else can catch! Alright!"
"CANDY!" 2-T cheered, punching the air with both hands.
"Candy!" Christobe wiggled out of Lilly's grip and began to chant. "Candycandycandycandycandycandycandycandy!"
"Candee!" Zanna clapped. "Catcheecandykayyotay!"
KABOOM!
"The volcano's getting closer, come on guys!"
All of the humans responded to Cedric's call and hurried forward, leaving Lilly alone with her two relatives. They stuck their tongues out at her and ran to their human friends, leaving her to curse them out mentally.
***
Jade eyes focused upon the vulnerable humans. Flesh and blood. Cartilage and bone. The scent of their breath raced through his nose, causing his mouth to ware. Flesh, blood, bone, but one smell caught his attentions more vividly. An empty, gaseous, hot aroma; the fragrance intangible, something only he could smell.
Higher Being energy.
His master appeared out of the corner of his eye. He was a slim humanoid with skin literally as black as obsidian. His silver eyes focused on a figure in the distance, completely ignoring the minion beside him. He was covered head to toe in a black cloak, which accentuated his cloud-white hair. The hair was long and luxurious, pulled back into a ponytail; it would have been very easy to forget that he was a male. His face was pointed and sharp, every single feature chiseled and precise.
A long, lanky, leather-bound hand reached out of the cloak and pointed to the humans. "Eat. Get any other Higher Beings out of the way."
***
"ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
"What the plickum?" B-Bop raised his head to the skies, his vision met by a red ribbon-ish thing flying in the sky. "Is that Miles?"
"Miles?" Zanna and Christobe looked upwards and shrieked in fear, hiding behind their confused sister. "AAAA! MILES ESCAPED!"
"What is he doing out in the open?" Cedric asked aloud.
"That has to be against the rules," Angela remarked.
"It is," Lilly whispered. She cupped her hands and shouted to her friend, "MILES! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE?!"
Miles responded by dive bombing into the ground, right in the middle of the Easter parade! Humans ran away as Miles the Long Dragon raised his head and let out a tortured roar. His fur was disheveled, his scales were dull, and his teeth were red with (gulp) blood.
Oh yeah, something had gone really, really wrong.
"Miles!" Lilly jumped down and as she did changed into her usually purple jumpsuit. She flew to Miles' eye level. "What are you doing? Where' Ann-"
And that's when she noticed; Miles' eyes were gone! They had been replaced by an empty socket from which an eerie green glow radiated. As Miles moved his head, the glow would fade in and out- it was a iridescent gas!
"WOAH!" Lilly flew backwards with shock. "That's not natural!"
***
Tall, juicy Higher Being, yes!
"NO!"
Miles hissed as his master shouted into his head. "Do not lay one claw on that girl! Get her brother and cousin!"
His head swiveled to the ground where the two Higher Beings and six lower ones were trying to run away.
"Hmm... on second thought, lead the lower beings to our spot in the desert. But go ahead and eat the little ones."
***
Miles was going after the kids!
B-Bop, 2-T, and Do-Wah turned around and began to fire at the dragon beast, but he flew right over them and started snapping at Zanna's tail.
"Christobe!" Zanna cried. "Tajata!"
"OH no!" Christobe picked up a rock and threw it at Miles, who barely even acknowledged it. However, it gave Zanna a chance to hop onto her cousin's back. He spread his wings and took off, leaving the human's behind.
Lilly formed an energy ball and shot it into Miles' non-eye. He snarled but kept going after Christobe and Zanna, who were much farther ahead. She hovered down to the ground, letting her lower beings flock around her.
"What the plickum happened to Miles?" 2-T near shrieked.
"I dunno!" Lilly rubbed her hands together nervously. "But he's after Christobe and Zanna and he's got no eyes and- wait. Uh oh."
Mike cringed. "Uh oh what?"
CLIFFHANGER! I don't think there are any notes.
A sudden outbreak of a Higher Being virus breaks out and infects nearly every Higher Being on the planet. A deranged Higher Being thinks Lilly is his soul mate. That and Lilly's brother and cousin come to visit!? This can't be good. Originally going to be something else, but it turned into this based on requests from Lilliyati-Tomo (did I spell it right?). ON with the show!
Firrz, devourer of humans? Gorgon's getting out of the EMP ball? Cedric JUST NOW revealing that he could "talk" to "ghosts". Come on, it all pointed to some higher force at work here. Everything in her mind was telling her "humans can't talk to ghosts", and "this isn't possible". The events of the past 2 weeks, that kidnapper, that boy was a mystery to her...
Speaking of which, Cedric was sneaking up behind her. She could hear him, smell him, but unlike her other lower beings, she couldn't sense him. It struck her as odd. She ignored the knowing sniggers of the others and tried to rationalize just why she could detect Cedric with all of her other senses and not her higher one-
"YAH!"
Cedric laughed as he pushed the humanoid Higher Being into the smoothie machine. "Switch it on, Do-Wah! Switch it on!"
Do-Wah laughed and pulled down the smoothie lever, switching on the machine. "Ha ha huh huh huh hey! Hey, Lil, strawberry jacuzzi!"
B-Bop clapped happily. "It's just like Good Burger!"
The lower beings laughed, 2-T nearly choking on a piece of cheeseburger he had forgotten to swallow. Do-Wah flinched as Lilly threw some alien expletives at him.
"Oo! Potty mouth!" he guffawed.
"You're way too uptight, Lilly!" Cedric giggled. "Loosen up!"
Lilly punched open the smoothie machine, letting Cedric rest on top of the metal lid. "YOU need to get some kind of idea of self CONTROL! Geez, you remind m- oops."
Mike suddenly snapped into attention. "Oops?"
Lilly disappeared, letting Cedric slam down onto the smoothie machine with a loud BANG and an "OW!"
"Wait, Lil, who does Cedric remind you of?" B-Bop asked, following an invisible form from one side of the room to the other. Lilly appeared hovering above Mike's head.
"How'd you know where I was?" she asked questioningly.
"Who does Cedric remind you of?" B-Bop repeated, becoming noticeably frustrated. "I want to know!"
"Just a relative." Lilly twirled her hair, shrugging off the question but still mentally wearing the burden. "A distant relative."
KABOOM!
"AAH!"
The humans huddled into a corner while the Martians took up a defensive stance in front of them. Lilly floated into the air, her nose twitching; she was smelling for the enemy. Just a few seconds later-
There was a loud thumping sound from the outside of the Quantum Burger door.
"Someone's trying to break in!" Angela whimpered, clutching her limp arm in fear. Her mind made the connection of criminals to guns, and she was not about to take another bullet.
"We'll hold 'em off," 2-T said as he readied his gauntlet. "Don't worry."
"LILLY!"
And they froze. Whoever was on the other side was calling Lilly. The six heroes immediately turned their gaze to her. Lilly was pale as a polar bear and (somehow) getting whiter.
"Who are they?" B-Bop whispered.
"Just be quiet, and maybe they'll leave," Lilly hushed him.
"LILLY OTHALLY AMADUES! YOU LET US IN!"
"That sounds familiar," Mike mused.
Cedric shook his shoulder and whispered into Mike's ear. "That's Lilly's old name! You know, from when we first met her?"
Angela raised an eyebrow. "It is?"
Cedric couldn't answer; Lilly had began shoving them out of the back door. "Everybody back to Zapz, now!"
***
Lilly slammed herself against Zapz's front door, smashing it shut. "WATASHI NO BAKA DESU!" She shouted at herself. "Soy tal idiota! Je suis un tel idiot! I! AM! SUCH! AN! IDIOT!"
"What's wrong?" Mike asked, sitting himself on a sofa. "Who was that?"
"Someone I don't want you to meet!" Lilly wiped a large amount of sweat from her forehead. "Every person who I introduce to- to- to HIM has- it's-"
She growled like a typical teenager would and slammed herself down on the floor, holding her head and moaning. "This is all a bad dream. He'll go away soon."
B-Bop stood in front of his friend, his interest peaked and his curiosity gnawing at him. "Lilly? Who was that?"
"Um..." The "Saturnian" nervously nibbled on the tip of her tail. "Uh... you know back when I said that you reminded me of a relat- GECK!"
The door suddenly crashed down on top of her, and a black and yellow flash rushed in and slammed in B-Bop, knocking him to the floor. He heard Angela and 2-T scream, but what he saw was...
Something that looked like... kind of... I dunno... a bat?
It was just about his height, at least. It had a rounded face with a nose and ears of a cat and the eyes and mouth of a human. The head and neck of the thing was covered in white fur, while from the chest down, it was black. Although the white fur on its head was short, the black fur was long and luxurious (like a Persian cat), and it obscured the thing's body type very well. It pinned B-Bop down with two pawed legs and a set of raccoon- esque hands, while a set of bat-wings sprouted out of its back. A stubby, triangular tail had its beginnings at the thing's hips and met its point not far past where his legs met. One thing about this... one thing was unmistaken; it had Lilly's lavender eyes.
"Woah!" B-Bop tried to shuffle away, but the bat-creature kept him down. His entire body wagged with the force of his wagging tail.
"Hello!"
B-Bop stopped struggling and stared at the creature which, come to think of it, exuded the friendly nature of a dog. He smiled weakly. "Hey."
The creature stuck out his hand. "I'm Christobe."
"Christobe" then got shot off of B-Bop by a photon beam.
"You get off of him!" 2-T shouted, still holding up his gauntlet.
"Akata!" 2-T was then tackled by another little animal thing; this one had the lower body of a kangaroo and the upper body of a little girl. Her facial features were delicate and soft, but her muscles were very large and pronounced. She did not have the hands of a human; she had two-fingered, toe-like digits. She wore a white t-shirt with some kind of unidentifiable blue-and-pink swirly designed decaled onto it. Both the furry lower half of her and the hair on her head was colored a frail gold.
2-T struggled to push the kangaroo child off of him, but she sat on him with all the weight of another Martian; odd, because she was half his size. "(grunt) What are you?"
"Oo cho!" she giggled.
Lilly wasted no time in grabbing the kangaroo girl in her arms and turning her upside down. The kangaroo child giggled happily, but also lost some of her energy in the process; she stopped squirming. "What are you doing here? Where's-" Lilly suddenly looked up and saw Christobe trying to shake hands with Mike. "NO!"
"Hi, I'm Christobe!" Christobe shook Mike's hand with enthusiasm, ignoring the human male's odd looks and his friends stifled giggles. Without warning, Lilly caught his wings in her tail and pulled him into her, placing him in a headlock.
"What are you doing here?" Lilly repeated. "I'm asking you politely!"
"Who are they?"
Lilly sighed and went to answer 2-T's question. "Remember when I said you reminded me of a relative?"
"You never told them about us, did you?" Christobe giggled. "Don't lie, I know you."
"Arrroone boo cho!" Kangaroo child spoke a different language entirely, but her tone of voice suggested that she was agreeing with Christobe. She had a funny way of holding out her 'R's, making in sound like she was purring or growling.
"What? Lil, how do they know you?" B-Bop was now feeling angry, cheated, and slightly offended. "Who are they?"
Lilly sighed again, lowered her head, and began. She bounced Kangaroo Child in her arm. "This is Zanna."
"Ajjin boh!" she squealed happily. Zanna swung her arms playfully towards Christobe.
"And this..." Lilly yanked on Christobe's wings, making him yelp in shock, "Is Christobe. He's mah babehbothah..."
Do-Wah didn't quite catch it; come to think of it, nobody did. "Huh?"
"Say it LOUD, Lilly!"
Lilly sighed AGAIN, took a deep breathe and slowly worded, "He's my baby brother!"
Christobe wrenched himself out of his sister's grasp and shouted. "Not a baby anymore! Not a baby anymore! I just turned 1000 yesterday!"
Christobe did some sort of weird twirling thing with his wings and bowed. "And now that I'm old enough, I get to visit you for Sister's Day! And I brought Zanna!"
"Ata!" Zanna wiggled to free herself as well, but Lilly squeezed her ankles and hissed a harsh "Be quiet".
Of course, the kids and Martians were completely in awe.
"No way!" 2-T shouted, a smile crossing his face.
"I never knew you had a brother!" Angela stated. She shook Christobe's open hand. "That's so cool!"
"What about your sister?" Mike asked.
"Zanna is not my sister," Lilly groaned, her entire body limp in defeat. "Zanna is my cousin. My distant cousin."
"But I love her like a sister!" Christobe hugged the upside-down Zanna. "And me and her decided to visit you 'cause it's Sister's Day on Melator and meet your lower beings 'cause we don't have any!"
Lilly made herself invisible. "Whoop-dee do."
***
"All of these hints and she still doesn't notice me? The only thing I know about her is her love of power, of control. There must be some way... mmm, but there are more powerful beings on that world, beings that could easily trounce any of my efforts to catch her attention. Hmm... of course! Why didn't I think of it before?"
***
"So, where are you from?" Mike asked Christobe. "Saturn?"
"I'm from Nateto," answered the anthro-bat. "Lilly was born on Saturn. Zanna was born on a Tamaranian cruiser, but she's got the body of a Qanateite."
"Uh..." Mike tried his best to hide his confusion. "Okay?"
"Okay, you two, we're going to the Easter parade a little later today." Lilly spoke to both her brother and her cousin, although she was looking at neither; she had her vision focused on a computer monitor. "Practice your human forms, and don't eat any sugar. I don't want people noticing that you're Higher beings."
"OKAY!" Christobe yelled over his shoulder. He snapped his fingers and turned into a black-haired human boy with baggy, white clothes.
"Matee coo rooko?" Zanna whined, hiding behind B-Bop for no discernable reason.
"Yes, Zanna, you have to," Lil growled.
"Humph." Zanna pushed herself into the Commander Martian's back and pouted. B-Bop gave her a vacant pat on the head.
"You're a little rough on them, aren't you?" Cedric asked Lilly, noticing Zanna's unhappy state. "I mean, they're kids."
"They need to be taught discipline, just like I did when I was a kid." Lilly rested herself on her tail, snapping her fingers and transforming into her University Of Arizona persona. "Besides, these two are completely insane, and I can't risk being found out AGAIN or I'll get another demerit on my Higher Being report slip!"
"Lilly tooseke nadta na," is what Zanna whispered into B-Bop's ear before switching to a little human girl in a jumpsuit. This was one of the few languages B-Bop didn't know, so there was no way to decipher what she was saying.
***
The mixed assembly of lower and Higher beings sat on top of a large building, watching the parade floats inch by as the crowd cheered. One float shaped like a volcano sprayed candy into the crowd and onto the rooftops of many other buildings (but not theirs; it was too far down the street). As Mike and the Martians cheered, Angela and Lilly concentrated on keeping the hyperactive Zanna and Christobe settled.
"OHMYGOSH, WE'REATAREALLIVEEARTHPARADEWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"MEEGATOOMAJEENABATAKOOTATAWEEEEEEEEE!"
"WE'REGONNACATCHSOMECANDYANDIT'SGONNABELIKEWEEEEEEEE!"
"MEEGATOOLAWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Hush it, Christobe! Zanna, stop encouraging him!" Lilly slammed her hand over the hyper kids' mouths. "We're gonna get found out!"
Mike sighed. "We're on top of a building! No one's gonna look for him!"
Do-Wah clasped his hands happily. "Yeah! And we get all the candy the volcano thing spouts out that nobody else can catch! Alright!"
"CANDY!" 2-T cheered, punching the air with both hands.
"Candy!" Christobe wiggled out of Lilly's grip and began to chant. "Candycandycandycandycandycandycandycandy!"
"Candee!" Zanna clapped. "Catcheecandykayyotay!"
KABOOM!
"The volcano's getting closer, come on guys!"
All of the humans responded to Cedric's call and hurried forward, leaving Lilly alone with her two relatives. They stuck their tongues out at her and ran to their human friends, leaving her to curse them out mentally.
***
Jade eyes focused upon the vulnerable humans. Flesh and blood. Cartilage and bone. The scent of their breath raced through his nose, causing his mouth to ware. Flesh, blood, bone, but one smell caught his attentions more vividly. An empty, gaseous, hot aroma; the fragrance intangible, something only he could smell.
Higher Being energy.
His master appeared out of the corner of his eye. He was a slim humanoid with skin literally as black as obsidian. His silver eyes focused on a figure in the distance, completely ignoring the minion beside him. He was covered head to toe in a black cloak, which accentuated his cloud-white hair. The hair was long and luxurious, pulled back into a ponytail; it would have been very easy to forget that he was a male. His face was pointed and sharp, every single feature chiseled and precise.
A long, lanky, leather-bound hand reached out of the cloak and pointed to the humans. "Eat. Get any other Higher Beings out of the way."
***
"ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
"What the plickum?" B-Bop raised his head to the skies, his vision met by a red ribbon-ish thing flying in the sky. "Is that Miles?"
"Miles?" Zanna and Christobe looked upwards and shrieked in fear, hiding behind their confused sister. "AAAA! MILES ESCAPED!"
"What is he doing out in the open?" Cedric asked aloud.
"That has to be against the rules," Angela remarked.
"It is," Lilly whispered. She cupped her hands and shouted to her friend, "MILES! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT HERE?!"
Miles responded by dive bombing into the ground, right in the middle of the Easter parade! Humans ran away as Miles the Long Dragon raised his head and let out a tortured roar. His fur was disheveled, his scales were dull, and his teeth were red with (gulp) blood.
Oh yeah, something had gone really, really wrong.
"Miles!" Lilly jumped down and as she did changed into her usually purple jumpsuit. She flew to Miles' eye level. "What are you doing? Where' Ann-"
And that's when she noticed; Miles' eyes were gone! They had been replaced by an empty socket from which an eerie green glow radiated. As Miles moved his head, the glow would fade in and out- it was a iridescent gas!
"WOAH!" Lilly flew backwards with shock. "That's not natural!"
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Tall, juicy Higher Being, yes!
"NO!"
Miles hissed as his master shouted into his head. "Do not lay one claw on that girl! Get her brother and cousin!"
His head swiveled to the ground where the two Higher Beings and six lower ones were trying to run away.
"Hmm... on second thought, lead the lower beings to our spot in the desert. But go ahead and eat the little ones."
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Miles was going after the kids!
B-Bop, 2-T, and Do-Wah turned around and began to fire at the dragon beast, but he flew right over them and started snapping at Zanna's tail.
"Christobe!" Zanna cried. "Tajata!"
"OH no!" Christobe picked up a rock and threw it at Miles, who barely even acknowledged it. However, it gave Zanna a chance to hop onto her cousin's back. He spread his wings and took off, leaving the human's behind.
Lilly formed an energy ball and shot it into Miles' non-eye. He snarled but kept going after Christobe and Zanna, who were much farther ahead. She hovered down to the ground, letting her lower beings flock around her.
"What the plickum happened to Miles?" 2-T near shrieked.
"I dunno!" Lilly rubbed her hands together nervously. "But he's after Christobe and Zanna and he's got no eyes and- wait. Uh oh."
Mike cringed. "Uh oh what?"
CLIFFHANGER! I don't think there are any notes.