Battle of Blood: I Am Human

Chapter 3

ISS 'Sauga

"My mind is fucking blown!" Kathleen says astonished making a 'my head just exploded' gesture with her hands. "You live here Gabriella? This house is fucking gigantic. It's not even a house, it's a castle!"

I laugh, it's not the first time someone has said that. "I actually don't live here alone. I live with Mr. Popular over here." I say pointing my thumb in Nathaniel's direction.

Kathleen's eyes go wide as saucers and has seem to have lost her jaw. "You two live together?" Both Nate and I nod in agreement. "And you two aren't in a relationship?" We purse our lips and shake our heads side to side. "How?" She whines.

Turning to Nate, the blond-haired boy and I give each other a knowing look. I turn back to look at the pouting girl. "I'll explain more inside. You should sit down for all the information we're about to dump onto you."

She puts her hand in mock surrender. "Okay, okay lead the way then. I'll end up getting lost in the front yard itself."

Nathaniel takes that as his cue to open the gates with a snap, electric blue sparks flying from the tips of his fingertips. The diamond-like gates grumble and swing inwards in the direction of the driveway, allowing Nate to pull in.

The three of us exit out of the expensive car and make our way to the supposed castle. There was a reason for our front yard being vast making the walk a little lengthy but I won't get into detail as of now.

As Nate opens the grand door like the gentleman he is, Kathleen's jaw drops even more (if that was possible), seeing the interior of our home. I step through the door behind her and Nate closes it behind me.

Before us is the foyer with high ceilings and two grand staircases on either side of the room. *describe room*

Standing next to the brown-eyed girl I use my finger to push her chin up to make her gaping mouth close.

"Close your mouth, you're going to catch flies."

She scoffs and rolls her eyes. "Just take me to wherever you want to explain to me what is happening."

I smile and do what she says. Leading Kathleen with Nate behind her, to one of the two secret doors under the stairs.

*describe the journey down*

*describe the room entered, ISSMC (Institute for Soul Saviours Mission Control)*

*transformation of Nate and Gabi back into their actual selves*

"Woah, that is sick!" Kathleen says in astonishment as her voice goes high pitched at the end of her statement.

"Yeah, I know pretty cool." I say giving her a small smile.

She continues to rake her eyes over our real appearances, lingering a little more on Nathaniel. However, she seems to realize what is actually happening right before and a thought come to mind.

"Wait, if you two changed your looks you must've changed your names too. If you're really not Gabriella Abington and you're not really Nathaniel Benson...who are you?"

I love how smart and logical she is to actual put the pieces together.

"My given name to me is Gabriella and I don't have a last name."

"I am Nathaniel. Nathaniel Baywater."

"Okay yeah you guys told me your names but that doesn't explain what you two are. I know you told me that you were soul saviours but can you elaborate on that please."

This is going to take a while to explain so I gave a look to Nate for him to start off with the simple facts.

"Okay, so I am a Soul Saviour and also a warlock. However, Gabi here is a little more complex. She has the blood of an angel, demon, warlock, vampire, werewolf, and fair folk. She and I are two separate individuals that have become one through the blood bond, also known as bloboupar, short for blood bound partners. *explains bloboupar* However, bloboupars cannot have any romantic involvement with each other due to the complications that can arise and lessen the number of bonds an SS can create."

Kathleen juts her bottom lip into a pout as she hears about bloboupar. "Why?" She whines. "You two got my hopes up. I was totally shipping you two together."

I roll my eyes. "Nothing I haven't heard before."

Nathan let's out a light laugh knowing the multiple times we have been told the same thing over the years.

"Anyways, like we mentioned earlier, we cast out what is bad in the world.

"If you would like, you can start today."

"Oh yes please!"

"Great! I'll get you your own SStablet and have you measured for your enwa and maba."

"Why do you have to measure me?"

"So it is more accustomed to your fit."

"Also what do I do with the tablet?"

"It has everything an SS could need. The "textbook" of the base knowledge for SSs is on there along with tutorials on how to draw the runes, using the enwa as a type of stylus, tracing in a way. The tablet also comes with a virtual library that has access to all information and books available right at your fingertips. Also, we are very sociable people and we have our own social networking sites. This is just much lighter, easier and efficient to use rather than having everything scattered in different places."

"How do you have access to all this technology?"

"Because we are advanced people. Don't worry you'll know once you read the basics."