Random Short Stories (ON HOLD)

And who are you?

We were playing basket ball innocently, when an ominous call sounded in our brains.
Think.
Listen.
Look.
The 3 of us looked up, as one mind.
Time stilled as we turned.
Up ahead, on a lonely bench next to the road, back to us.
A girl.
I couldn't see her rune, but I could tell she was strong.
"Want to check her genetics?" I whispered to my buddies.
Frank, a Shifter rune, nodded.
Paul, a Encyclopedia rune, nodded.
Me, a Genetic Reader, (a Reader sub-branch) grinned.
Frank just stared at me.
Rubbing my hands together, I pushed my power in this mysterious girl's direction.
"CGATACGGAGTTTTA" I whispered to Frank, who had whipped out a notebook and was recording the letters.
I whistled.
Paul grinned and glanced at her.
I only whistled when there was something important.
"Dude! She's a short and curvy one, by the look of her DNA!"
Paul laughed and said "Let's go win her over then!"
Frank looked at me and Paul.
And rewarded us with a rare smile.
It's time.
Time for what?
What?
Paul stopped walking, and looked back at me.
"Are you okay dude?" Paul asked.
Frank shifted to a robin and flew over to greet the girl, and give her a look over.
"Yeah," I replied to Paul, even though I was clearly not.
Of course not, child.
"Paul, are you hearing that?" I asked.
Paul looked at me with a strange look on his face.
"No... Are you feeling ok?" He asked.
I grabbed a basketball and started dribbling, waiting for Frank.
I dodged Paul and jumped, slamming the ball into the basket with a clang.
Good job.
Now I was really spooked.
"Paul, what are the runes again?" I asked.
"Well, there's the Medicines, the Listeners, the Readers, the Encyclopedias, the Doubles-"
"I need to know about the Listeners, Mr. Encyclopedia."
"The Listener's listen to others brains-" Paul started.
"Can they talk back?" I asked quickly.
"Daniel, calm down. And stop interrupting me dude. Jeez. No they can't talk to you, that would be a double. The doubles are Listeners and Readers, Listeners and Communicators, Encyclopedias an-"
"That's it," I muttered, "that girl up there is a double. A LC."
"STOP INTERRUPTING ME!" Paul screamed.
He was one feisty Encyclopedia.
And Encyclopedias hate it when you interrupt them. However, if you don't, they could go on for hours. Who would want to listen to that?
Me.
Ok that's it!
Are you a double LC?
Wouldn't you like to know, weakling. But don't worry, your friend is about to find out.
Frank?
Frank the Robin came flying back in a hurry, chirping his beak off.
I scratched the rune scarred onto my neck, an intricate pattern of black and gold swirls for Readers.
Frank shifted again (with clothes on) and frantically ran over to us.
"She's not a Double! She's not a Single, she's not a Triple!" He screamed.
Hahahahahaha.
Shut up.
Never.
"Then what is she?" I asked Paul.
Paul scratched his stubble, thinking.
"I think....-"
"What do you think?!" I yelled.
"Let me finish you idiot!"
Deep breaths.
Be sure to do some yoga with that to, while your at it.
I looked at her.
The innocent looking girl across the street.
Pixie cut hair, dyed dark purple with streaks of light purple through it.
She caught me looking and turned around.
I shuddered.
Her eyes. They were brown!
What's wrong with brown?
Her face was so angular it hurt to look.
Then it hit me.
Figure it out yet, Mr. Daniel?
"Mars to Daniel! Mars to Daniel! Can you hear me?" Paul asked.
"I think I know what she is." I said quietly.
"I looked it up in my mind-pedia," Paul added.
"She's... She's" Paul swallowed.
I looked at Paul.
Paul looked at me.
Frank, eyes wide, looked at both of us.
"Is she... What I think she is?" Frank asked.
I nodded.
"Paul... Frank.... I think,"

"I think she's a human."