The PulseTeam, Book One: Origins

Chapter Ten: The Unpleasant Visitor

Part One: Tempus Fugit (Time Flies)

Time really flies when you feel you don't have enough time in the year. We are in June and on summer vacation, and I am hating every second of it. Why? IT'S HOT!!!!!

After Wings (Gabriel) joins the team, Alitia makes me get up every morning at 8:00 and do "fun stuff" with her until 5:00 P.M.! Then she religiously uses my shower at six, and after she's done, I forget that she uses straight, scalding hot water, and as soon as I open the door, I pass out from the steam alone. Every time this happens, I wake up to Alitia in her bathtowel, and I get a nose bleed. Every single time. As if that's not enough, when this happens, in addition to the nose bleed, I instantly get ROCK HARD. And it lasts for 45 minutes!

But as soon as I take a trip to Antarctica and strip, well... nude, I instantly feel way better.

Then, when I get home, I turn the entire mansion into a winter wonderland. This really ticks Alitia off. Therefore, it only lasts for two minutes as her temper flares and melts the entire flurry.

We hash it out, but eventually we end up making out.

Part Two: There's Beauty In The Beast

Sometime later in our vacation time, we all take a camping trip deep into the forest. I am a scientist, so I see this is as an opportune time to do more hands-on research with microbiology. Everyone else doesn't see it that way. They say, "Loosen up; have some fun!"

When I tell them that I am having fun collecting samples, running tests, recording data, and doing research, they simply roll their eyes, walk away, and say, "He's a lost cause, people."

Then one night, we huddle, each with our respective partners, around the camp fire, but Gabriel looks so alone. Even for an ArchAngel.

Suddenly, Gabriel freezes and says carefully, "Nobody make any sudden movements. There is a wolf girl about to pounce on me, and I am going to let her. Everyone get up, very slowly."

We all do as he says, and he says, "In three, two, one-- gotcha!" as he turns around at the last possible moment to catch and restrain her as she lunges forth to kill him.

She is extremely feral in appearance, but it appears as though she's afraid of us, and only acting in what she sees as self-defense. He whispers something in her left ear, she calms down, reverts to a more human appearance, and passes out.

Part Three: Enter The Paw

I have never seen Gabriel act like this before. Sure, he's usually tender towards others, but not like this. He's being seriously careful, as though he was caring for Jesus Christ Himself! I think he's fallen in love with her. I mean, she's naked (and not bad looking, either: She looks like a child version of Meagan Good with all of the goods), but he's giving her the fabled "Angel's Touch". I've only read about it, I've never seen it.

The girl is a little lighter in skin tone than John, and has light cream-colored hair with dark brown bangs in the front. When her eyes were open, I saw that she has yellow eyes that glow.

He carries her, once she's covered up, into the girls' tent and says to them, "She's all yours, girls," when he comes out.

They get the first aid kit, and they go in. Soon they tell us to come in, and the wolf girl asks for the short boy. She won't talk to anyone else but Gabriel.

Gabriel enters the tent and says, "You wanted to speak with me?"

She responds, "Yes, I do. You were the one who turned me back to my more manageable form, so you are the only one with whom I am going to speak."

"Okay then, since you'll talk to me, what is your name?"

"Kaitlyn."

"Middle name? Last name?"

"Kaitlyn Alexandriya Thomas."

"Alright, Ms. Thomas, are you a mutant?"

"Yes, but... I don't feel comfortable talking about it."

"If it makes you feel any better, would you like to see my abnormality?"

She says, "Umm... okay."

His wing-shaped angelic back markings glow brightly, and through his shirt cuts his metallic wings. "Careful if you want to touch them," says he, "or else you might get cut."

He moves a wing toward her, and she touches it lightly. She inquires of him whether he can really fly or not. He tells her that he can, and very fast. He eventually asks her to enroll in our school, and she asks why. He tells her that she has swept him off his feet (literally), and he wants to be in a relationship with her. We all just stare in shock. He frankly tells her about his feelings for her, that he wants to help her, and that he is willing to do everything in his power to teach her how to control her mutation.

She accepts his offer.

Part Four: An Unwelcome Guest

We head home, and we decide that the team should all live in one place. Apparently, Kaitlyn has been developing feelings for Gabriel. I can tell because of the way her eyes nervously skirt his every time he looks at her. All of us have our own rooms, but sometimes in the middle of the night, she tiptoes to his room and asks him if she can stay the night with him. I know this because I can hear her doing all of this. Either she's really naive, or she feels really safe with him. Either way, I think it's nice.

One night, as I'm having a sublime dream about-- well, that's not important right now, Gabriel runs out into the hallway and shouts, "Everyone, get up!! There's an intruder in the PulseCave!!!" I know it's Gabriel because I recognize his voice.

We all get up immediately, we're extremely cranky, and we rush down to the Cave. When we get to the Cave, Gabriel asks, "Do you feel the presence of evil incarnate here?"

"I do," I say. "It's making me sick to my stomach!"

Then we hear a voice. It creepily echoes throughout the Cave, and (I don't know why, but) we assume battle positions surrounding Kaitlyn. The voice says, "Brother, Brother. It was incredibly stupid of you to take part in a shambles of a team whose base of operations lies UNDERGROUND."

Then we see him: he looks like a demon and gives off a black energy field. This is what he looks like: