The CANONICALS

The Ritual.

A boy with scraggly black hair tossed and turned on his bed as an alarm beeped next to him on his nightstand. He groaned, slamming down on the off button. He lazily looked at the time.

Five AM.

"Oh shit."

He shot up and rushed towards the door, stumbling over his messy floor. He swiped a purplish-gray staff from next to the door, pushing it wide open. He rushed out the door, breathing heavily.

In the room across from his, two yellow eyes glared out the window, watching him as he rushed around the corner outside.

"JADE!" the boy shouted, having thrown his staff around his back.

"Jesus Christ, Jeremiah, took you long enough!" a girl with long, split purple and black hair exclaimed, slipping her phone into her pocket. "We're late!"

"Yeah, I know!" He was still breathing heavily. He kneeled over to catch his breath as Jade rushed to the large metal door leading into the bunker. He inserted a key into the doorknob and twisted it.

Jeremiah finally caught his breath, quickly jogging over to Jade as she opened the metal door.

"Turn on the magnetic lock, I'll set up the candles," Jade stated. Jeremiah quickly turned to the right as he entered the door, typing a code into a keypad. An electrical whirring became present in the bunker. He quickly caught up again.

"Why are you always so ready?" Jeremiah questioned, breathing heavily. "I can't even get up on time..."

"It's only five," Jade stated. She moved another candle into a circle in front of a silver-lined mirror. "Also I'm an insomniac."

"We were supposed to get here at twelve..." Jeremiah muttered.

"Whatever," Jade stated, moving another candle. "He can get mad all he wants. We can stop talking to him whenever we want. And I honestly don't get why we haven't already."

"He promises to give me good luck," Jeremiah muttered.

"Boohoo, the unlucky magic boy," Jade teased. She smirked. "Alright, that's good." She stepped away from the mirror, looking at the five maroon candles on the ground. Jade stepped back next to Jeremiah as two golden glowing eyes stared through the window into the bunker.

"Turn the lights off," Jeremiah stated. "I'll start the ritual..."

Jade walked over to the lights and flipped them off. And then a man with fur covering his arms and dark brown hair appeared in front of Jeremiah as the lights flashed off.

"DEAR GOD!" Jeremiah shouted, leaping backwards. And then he examined the man, his golden eyes peering through a gray porcelain mask. "David."

Jade looked over as the lights went off, "Jeremiah, didn't I tell you to turn on the magnetic lock?"

"I did!" Jeremiah swore. He then turned back to David. "Get out."

"Why?" David asked, looking around the room. "I wanna know why I keep waking up here. Also, it was really easy to get down here... this place really needs some better security."

Jade thought about it as she walked back over, "Maybe something to do with magnetism or some shit... dunno, don't care, get out."

"No," David replied.

Jade put her hand up, causing the lock to the bunker to unlatch. David began to float and flew out the door before the door slammed shut and locked again.

"Thank god for telekinesis," Jeremiah stated.

"Thank god for me," Jade added.

And then David was back, "You suck."