Not Quite Human (Krel x Reader) [Unfinished/Author Working on Other Projects]

Chapter 14: Lightning. In a bottle.

The creature on the screen roared, eyes glowing, sharp black claws slicing towards Jim, but the armour-clad boy dodges at the last second. 

Claire whips out some kind of staff, and creates a portal, which Toby jumps through, wielding a flaming, orange warhammer. 

So this was what they were hiding from you.

Krel stares intently at the screen.

"Uh..."

"Oh, no!"

Aja laughs and joins Krel.

"I so enjoy moving picture stories."

Jim starts slamming random buttons.

"No, no, no."

"Turn it off, Jimbo!"

It hurts a little to know you probably will never call him that again.

Toby panicks.

"I'm trying!"

"Try harder!"

The screen goes black, and the three relax slightly.

"Huh. Looks scary. What is it called?"

Krel asks, interested.

"Gun Robot."

Toby declares, at the same time as Jim and Claire say

"Trollhunters."

The short boy laughs nervously.

"I mean, Trollhunters."

Claire herds the twins away from the room, and down the hallway.

"Here's an idea."

"Who wants to see the house of Arcadia's very own councilwoman?"

"Yeah, we should go."

That was them.

Trollhunters.

Hmm.

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"Well, here we are. La casa Nuñez."

The brunette leads Aja and Krel into the kitchen, showing them random things. 

You follow behind the twins awkwardly.

"And this is where the leader of our town, Councilwoman Nuñez, makes enchiladas."

"How's it going?"

You can hear Claire yelling out the window.

Toby complains.

"This is never gonna work!"

Jim's voice echoes from somewhere high, like the roof.

"It has to! Unless you have a better way to capture lightning in a bottle."

Aja looks up suddenly, and steps out into the backyard, beckoning for you and Krel to follow.

"Did I hear you say you're trying to capture lightning in a bottle?"

Krel looks at her sceptically, but she whispers something to himthat you can't catch and he nods his head to her.

"Oh, we used to play that game as children."

"No, no. You don't understand."

"Lightning... like a thousand volts of electricity..." 

"in a jar."

"Actually, it's closer to several hundred million volts."

"And that's not the way you do it."

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The three watched in amazement as Aja hacked into the city's power grid.

"They're geniuses, Jimbo. Weirdo geniuses. That's the best kind!"