Hidden Talent

Chapter: 02

It had been a week since the mirror incident and true to his word Jack had stopped going after the Shen-Gong-Wu (with great self-control and a slap from a Jack-Bot), but kept the one's he already had of-course and he started selling some of his low-grade weapons to the government. He'd kept the blue-prints seeing as he didn't want them to know how to build them and copy-rights; where's the profit if they only pay him once? He'd also started working on high-tech prosthetic-limbs and the cure for the common-cold in his spear time, just to balance it out; a little bad here, a little good there and Wah-Lah! You've become nether one or the other!

At the moment Jack was in his re-named Evil Lear; The laboratory, working on his Heli-Pack, trying to get it to work on sola-power, the song; 'Bring me to life' by Evanescence playing from his computer on full-blast in the background, after all; he may not be evil but he's still a Goth. But with him being so focused on his work and the noise from his welding and music, he didn't even notice a brown barn owl tapping on the small window to his lad/basement.

"Jackie, Jackie its time to get ready for the party!" Jack's mother voice yelled from the top of the stairs, moments later a middle-aged women with long blond hair and wearing a fancy light-blue dress came down the stairs into the basement. "Jackie! Jack!! JACK!" she screeched over the music finely getting the young-teen's attention.
Turning off the welder and pulling up his goggles from his eyes "Music OFF!" he yelled; making the music switch off immediately at the sound of his voice.

The albino Goth quickly turned to his mother and smiled "What's up, mom?" he asked, putting the welder down.

"I said 'Time to get ready for the party', it starts in an hour, so Get Ready! And don't even think about wearing that old tattered coat!" she ordered, scolding look on her face.

"Don't worry mom, I got rid of it last week; its in the attic" Jack told her with a dismissive wave and a sad smile, that had to be the hardest thing he'd had too do; giving up the 'evil' look. He'd had the coat ever since he first made it his mission to concur the world at the age of 8! "I'll go put on my suit" he added as he headed towards his room to change, leaving his mother standing there stunned.

"Got rid of it?" she asked to no-one in-particular. Still in shock she made her way back up the stairs.

While his mom left Jack washed the gel out of his hair and whipped away any make-up, then went to put on his suit, it was black, the shirt was crimson and the tie was also black. He combed his hair so he didn't look like he just got out of bed, but also so he didn't look like a geek.

Sighing tiredly the Goth looked up at his reflection in his new mirror and smiled; he didn't look like a freak or a weirdo, he looked like a normal albino teen who just happened to have red hair, which was NOT dyed, no matter what some believe. He had always wondered how he could be albino but have been born with red hair...but who cares! It looked cool! And it matched his eyes!

Jack was busy straitening his tie when heard a tapping sound coming from the window, confused by the sound, Jack peeked out of the bathroom door to look at the small basement window "W-what the hell?" he muttered; there, sitting outside the small glass screen was a large, brown, owl staring back at him with its large blue eyes, a letter held in its beak.

Carefully, the short Goth made his way over to the window and opened it. Once the window was open, the large bird wasted no time and shot-in making Jack jump back with a girly scream. The owl dropped the letter on one of Jack's work tables and flew back out the window without a moments notice. Jack just stood there, dumbly looking between the window and the letter. Shrugging, he made his way over to the letter; a random owl swooping into his lab wasn't the strangest thing that had ever happened to him. Anxiously, Jack picked up the discarded letter and examined it, the envelop was made of an yellowish old-fashioned paper and it had red inked writing that looked a bit like calligraphy, it read: