Fall From Grace | ENHYPEN

XXIV

"Before we get to this, I need to make sure one thing is clear. We lead this ... mission thingy, and you all do as we say. And when we come to a point where we don't want to continue this anymore, we will all stop and drop the mission at once. Do I make myself clear?" Yyan spoke in a leader-like tone which earned a few nods from the seven.

"I said, do I make myself clear?" He repeated.

"Yes!" The seven simultaneously spoke at the same time, not missing a beat.

"That's at least on the top five cringy things you've said" Tyrron teased him earning a middle finger from the older man.

"Good. Get a good rest, foods on the table. We'll start planning once Jethro is up again and moving" Yyan didn't bother to give a verbal response to Tyrron's teasing as he's already used to it.

When Yyan left again, but in a better mood, Ytriel can't help but to giggle in excitement.

"This is so cool! We're like Men in Black!" He excitedly shakes Jaxen. He imagines the cool things they will do, shooting guns, more fighting, oh he's so pumped.

"In case you're forgetting, this means more training for you uglies" Tyrron pointed out while munching on a junk food he got his hands on earlier, hanging around the boys since he had nothing else better to do than annoy the hell out of them.

"By the way, I've been wanting you to catch up on your marksmanship. You'll train with me again, kid" Tyrron pointed at Max with the chips he's holding. This made Max giddy, but he did a good job hiding it under a curt nod.

"Can I join?" Michaelis raised his hands, wanting to brush up on his skills as well. He may not be as good as Max, but he handles his pointers well.

Tyrron just shrugged, crumpling the now empty bag with his hands "Yeah sure. And you too. Yyan told me how you handled the situation on 10th road. With an m9, really?" Tyrron nodded at Jethro's way, remembering how Yyan told him the almost impossible shot the kid took during their run from the men following them.

Jethro just shrugged "Eh, it was a clear one. I used to shoot smaller birds who were faster" He replied nonchalantly, as if it wasn't the Tyrron Scorpius complimenting him.

"I want to learn how to shoot too!" Ytriel grumbled, not wanting to be left out.

"You can't even hoop a basket that's in front of you." Theon replied, not looking up from the interesting newspaper he's been reading since a few minutes ago.

It was from five years ago, when Brahm Ymarithe and Skai Winchester was captured and locked away.

"Why are these reports messed up? Who wrote this?" He furrowed his eyebrows, checking the papers but nothing written on it made sense to him.

"What are you talking about?" Hendryx asks, intrigued. He has seen the paper a thousand times already, but it's just an old plain newspaper to him. 

"The sentences don't make sense. I used to be a journalist back in school so I would know the basics of writing an article, and this is nowhere near an established one" Theon folded the paper back, still weirded out by the random words inserted in it to make a passable article.

"People don't even read them anymore, what's the point of fixing it? Those who still read them are just people who don't have social life" Cozen rolled his eyes, unbothered. He does have a point, who reads newspapers nowadays?

"Yeah, and it's also the perfect way to pass a message unhindered" Jaxen added, playing with the hem of his shirt as a pass time, not really sure what to do. He wanted to have a nice bath, a good sleep, and then more sleep. 

 This comment made Tyrron look at Hendryx, who's eyes were already on him.

"A... what, Jaxen?"  Hendryx asked again, making sure he heard the right thing.

Jaxen just shrugged. "People don't read them anyways, so what's the perfect phone to use when you don't own one?" He replies nonchalantly, not thinking about what he said. When it all came to him, he stopped and looked at the two men eyeing him expectantly.

"Oh no, did I say something bad?" He blinks nervously, snuggling closer to his twin, almost melting from the intense stare of both Tyrron and Hendryx.

Tyrron just smirked in reply. "You just said the smartest thing you could ever say kid." 

Max now took turn on reading the newspaper that Theon was reading a while ago, and looked over the part where he said was weird. "It's an anagram" Max said.

"What's that?" Cozen asks.

"A play of letters, where if you rearranged them, it would form a new meaning." Max explained, handing the newspaper to Tyrron who was now very curious to reread the whole damn thing.

When he got ahold of the paper, it all made sense to him and Hendryx.

"I can't believe I've been so stupid!" Hendryx exclaimed in annoyance.

"Don't beat yourself up. You're always stupid" Tyrron replied in ease.

"We would always play this game, me and Brahm. Rearranging random words to create new sentences. He said it would be handy in the future" Tyrron grabbed the paper and placed it on the floor, before standing up to look for a paper and pen, then stopping.

"Where the fuck did I put my glasses?" He asks. It's been long since he needs it again, he can barely remember where he placed it the last time.

"Your room near the expired instant coffee on your cupboard" Hendryx replied without looking up from the newspaper he's been looking at.

"Too far" Tyrron went back to his seat and handed the paper to Jethro.

"Read it out loud" He instructed the kid, making Jethro raise his eyebrows.

"Why can't he?" Jethro asks when Tyrron grabbed the paper from Hendryx just to make him read it. Is this a torture?

"Just read it!" Tyrron annoyingly said making Jethro scratch his head.

"Oh, it's okay. I can't really read so it would be quicker and easier to understand if you do it" Hendryx smiled sweetly at Jethro making Theon make a sound of surprised.

"You drive like an f1 racer, has the most accurate gut feelings, fight like a maniac and you can't read?" Theon covered his mouth the moment those words escaped from him. That sounded so bad when he said it out loud. This comment earned him an elbow on the gut from Cozen and a glare from Michaelis when he said it.

"-I mean, no judgment here bro. You do you." He added to the almost-insulting words he spat out from surprise.

"Hey, I learned how to survive the streets first before reading so," Hendryx just shrugged, not really taking what Theon said to his heart. He knew the kid didn't mean it; he was just surprised.