We sat infront of the lightly tinted window. We sat in the darkness watching as Alena went into her room with her pajamas. She climbed into her bed and turned off the light. Venus tapped my shoulder and motioned to leave. She left a clone we moved from the shadows.
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I looked at the hole in the building I pushed Venus in a while back, I frowned trying to repress the memory.
Clone put her hand in mine. "It isn't a big deal. I wasn't seriously hurt."
"That isn't the point. I hurt an innocent person."
"Everybody makes mistakes. No one's a perfect human." She put her hand on my face. "But right now we have to get to the bottom of this. We both know what we saw that night."
"Richie." I took a deep breath.
We went in through the garage and crept. We saw the green glow from the back of the boxes. We looked at a half naked Richie floating in some slime. He had a mask over his mouth and nose.
"This.... I don't think..." She almost touched the glass. I pulled her back and pointed to the trip wire.
"So the ooze is imitating Richie's look. No wonder I shot right through him."
She was staring at another light coming from behind a wall. We both stared at it. She pressed a button and it asked for a password. We both shot down the door.
We were face to face with a battered and scared Alena in a blue goop. Like Richie was. "Alena is a fake too?"
Clone shuddered. "The fake is on its way." She said.
"How do you know?"
"The clone I made is following her."
There was another light at the bottom of a stair well. Clone went down. I slowly followed but I was still staring at Alena. So all this time I've been hanging out with some goop. Hugging and kissing and telling my secrets?!
"Castello could you come down here?" Clone muttered.
There was a woman. Her hair dark magenta, she had green lines all over her orange skin. The woman opened her eyes and looked back at us. She pointed to a button in a different language
"The fake is almost at the door." Clone muttered.
I pressed the button and the woman dropped in exhaustion. Her eyes closed shut and she snored. I picked her up and attempted to escape.
"Where the HELL do you think you are going?
The fake stared at me. This thing had an eyes of Alena. "You found her...."
The woman twitched. "You think you. Can stop me?"
"What is your goal here?" Clone asked.
"4 Earth years ago that thing in your arm spreaded the 7 of the most power full stones in the universe. 2 landed on Earth. I've yet destroyed to all your comrades one by one all across the galaxy. I've only caught 3. I'm better and stronger than -"
As she was monologuing I was charging up. I shot her right in the forehead. I knew fake Richie was on his way. We'd have to save the real Alena and Richie another day. The three of us ran off.
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"Who the heck is this?!" Irene yelled looking at the stranger we brought back.
"She looks like she had information. The ooze bucket wanted her back ASAP" Clone said putting her on the bed.
"Don't put the alien where I sleep." Irene joke. The woman sat up and looked around. Her mouth opened but her words seemed come out jibberish.
Irene, Clone, and I exchanged glances. Irene pulled up Google translate. It ended up being translated to: Its fun to jump on the building.
The woman got up and pushed her lips into mine. I tried to move back but she held my head in place. She finally let me loose and I covered my mouth and jumped a few feet back.
"Sorry about that." The woman wiped her lip. "I needed to speak your language." She started growing little horns above her ears.
"What the hell." Irene asked. I was still in the corner quivering from the violation of my lips.
"You guys where so little when I last saw you." The lady got up.
"What do you mean?" Clone asked.
"Well for one I'm the one who gifted should your powers." She beamed.
"You put me in a coma for a week?"
"I'm glad you two are working together. Even when Airias tried to separate you two. She's been successful at breaking the bond of the other wielders."
"There's more of us?"
"3 more. There's Green, Yellow, Grey, Blue which is Zach, Purple which is Venus."
"You know our names?" I asked.
"I've been basically monitoring you since you were 13 and 12. I come from an isolated planet. Pretty far from here. My family passed down the job of the celestial stones. Then Airias and her army came to steal them. My defenses weren't enough so I spreaded them out through the galaxy."
"Who are you?"
"I'm called Eneas. I'm basically the one true wielder." She smiled. "I could take the power back. But you guys seem well off. As well as together. I can basically tell you what your powers can do." She beamed.
"What are the lines for?" I asked.
Venus hit my stomach. "You don't just ask someone about their body."
"It's perfectly fine." Eneas laughed. "As I get older the lines start to disappear. When they are fully gone. My soul has already reached the afterlife."
"About the powers. Is there more I don't know about me?" Venus asked.
Eneas's ears turned purple as she held her hand to Venus's face. She started laughing. "Oh honey. You only chipped the surface. You have so much more potential."
She looked at me and glared. "You don't even know you have gravitational powers. You don't just float. You can defy the one thing that holds this universe together. If your power was in the wrong hands they could destroy us all."
"Gravity?"
"Yes! Venus! You don't have a limit to your clones it's all in your head. You could probably double the population of the earth. Maybe triple." Eneas smiled excitedly. "My father told me he always wanted to wield the stones. But he knows we are just the guardians. I love seeing the powers through your eyes and minds."
"You read minds?" Irene and I asked in awe.
"Yes yes! Right now Venus is thinking about if she should go back to save Alena and Richie."
We looked at Clone who was looking at the floor shaking. "As much as I wanted to know about my powers..... We should have taken Richie and Alena. Alena looked tortured."
"If you go back Airias will surely take you and find me. The only reason she needs me is because I'm the only person who can find the stones, take the stones out of their vessel, and place them in another." Eneas said coldly.
"What happens if the stones leave our bodies?" I muttered.
"Since it's embedded into your DNA. You will at minimum you will sleep for 3 weeks."
"Maximum?"
"Death, I think. Since you humans, your life span is normally around age 90 then it's minimum death for you." She smiled sweetly.
"If you came from outer space where is the ship she came here with?"
"I was unconscious when she landed. But I know where it is around."
"It's 1 am. You have time." Irene said.
"No. She will have her 'army' waiting for us.... I say we kidnap her make sure she can't summon her pet."
"You two could easily destroy him." Eneas smiled.
"How? The other wielders have been destroyed trying."
"They tried to do it solo. Teamwork makes the dream work as you people say."
"So how exactly do we work together?"
She put our hands together and closed our eyes. "Concentrate."
"On what?"
"I don't know? Just do as I say." She snapped. "Now open them."
We both were covered in a feint light bluish purple mix. "Now let go before you destroy the building."
We both let go of each other and exchanged glances.
"You felt it too right?" She asked hugging herself. I nodded. "You just felt part of the galaxy flowing through your bodies."
"Why only part?"
"Like I said. The powers isn't a solo thing. You have to work together to become stronger."