I Now Realize

Chapter 16: Stage Two; One By One (part 2 out of 9)

With Connor and Eira.
"Mom! Mom! Mom!" A little boy with brown hair and blue eyes happily jumped on the ceiling, since he inherited the Dark-Blood genetic from Connor.
"Jazra!" Eira scolded at her son, looking at him on the ceiling. "Stop camouflaging and please get down from there! You know you can't play camouflage in the kitchen!"
Jazra, the son, made half of his body turn back to human and pouted at his mother. "But mooooom!"
A little girl, who was completely in Dark-Blood form; poked Jazra on his forehead. "Found you! Found you!"
Eira couldn't help but smile at them as she shook her head. 'That's what a human mother gets for having hybrid kids. But I love them.'
"Nikita," Jazra whined. "I'll get you for that."
"Kids," Eira tapped her foot and smiled at them, but her eyes showed that she was scolding them. "The camouflage game can wait until you two have dinner."
"Ok, mom." Both kids detached themselves from the ceiling and landed. They quickly went to their seats; waiting for food to be served.
"I made your favorites." Eira gave a macaroni and steak plate to Nikita, and a ramen soup mixed with sour cream. (Don't judge, readers. Those are two of my FAVORITE foods. ;p )
The facial expressions on the children brightened so much, they immediately gobbled on the food.
Eira giggled at their reaction and glanced at Connor.
"Hi, dad!" Nikita waved as she widely grinned and her green and blue eye twinkled.
"Hey, sweetie." Connor smiled and kissed Nikita and Jazra on the foreheads. He cleared his throat; putting his attention on Eira. "Your mom and I have to talk, ok?"
Jazra and Nikita communicated through facial looks and glanced at their father.
"Um...ok." Jazra blinked in curiosity.
"It's nothing bad. We're just very busy." Eira smiled at her kids and went with Connor in their room.

"What's going on with Blackraven, Isaya, and Alue?" Eira sat crisscrossed on the bed, waiting for a answer.
"Blackraven gave me the news that Two of his spies and Alue captured two Blooders." Connor sat next to Eira and twiddled his thumbs.
"I can see why Alue did that. But what do we do with Astoroth's base members?" Eira seemed concerned, observing his facial expressions.
Connor looked back at her and shrugged. "An anti-ally is wanting to join with Alue."
Eira dropped her mouth in shock. "But that's sounds..."
"Insane. I know," Connor agreed. "But this guy may lead us to Astoroth's main plan. That corruptive man won't stop until he destroys everything."
Eira thought about it. "But can we accept him is the question."
"From what Jake and Alue told me. He seems sincere and willing to join us." Connor shrugged.
"I suggest we keep our guard up and slowly accept him as an ally." Eira recommended.
"Well said." Connor nodded in agreement and carried on with their business...

With Xaver's base...
"Hey, have you heard about the strange things going on?" A woman asked to her group of friends.
"Yeah. There hasn't been much people who are infected by the chemical." A man shrugged.
"But how is that possible?" A fifteen year old boy shrugged. "There has to be someone preventing this besides our anti-allies."
"It's usually the quiet ones that we hardly notice..." A sixteen year old girl answered.
"And what do you know about that, redhead?" The boy asked. "Are you one of those quiet types?"
The redhead girl smirked. "No. But it's not someone who's behind the prevention. I think it's a group of people."
"But we are trying to change." The boy scoffed in arrogance.
"As savages?" The redhead crossed her arms, still smirking as she heard his friends 'oohing'.
"Savages," the boy sneered at the redhead. "Do nothing but take."
The redhead raised an eyebrow, amused how ridiculous the boy made himself look. "You made an excellent point there, because that's what we have been doing so far."
"That is not true." The boy glared at the redhead.
"Really? Because the real savages are usually disguised in civilized skins." The redhead smirked.
"Oh, she got you good, kid." The man snickered.
"Shut up." The boy blushed in embarrassment.
"Plus, if I were you, I would stay quiet when it comes to a real conversation. You don't know how ridiculous you made yourself look..." Just when the redhead was about to walk away, she was grabbed by the wrist.
"Not so fast, red." The boy insisted on talking to her.
"I think we just had a useless conversation, don't you think?" The redhead remained calm.
"I think so, Ina." A taller guy with dark skin wearing camo pants and leather jacket approached behind the boy, tapping his foot. The boy glared at him and gulped in intimidation.
"I suggest you let her go." The guy crossed his arms and glared at the boy in defense, tapping his boot impatiently.
"Right..." The boy let the redhead go, and she went beside the guy.
Both glanced at the group and walked away...
"Did you get his device, Ina?" The guy murmured.
The redhead smirked and showed it to him. "I got it while him and the others were distracted by your presence."
"Good," The guy smiled. "Now we have the upper hand in this base..."