Death's Trials (An Original Superhero Story)

2•Meeting the Callahans•2

•Dani•

After that phone call we had been silent, none of us spoke a word. Bandit quietly said he had to go before hanging up.

Even though I'd never say it to his face, I consider Bandit my best friend, he's family. In the past four years we had only seen each other twice. Once when we met up on that rooftop, and once during 'The Great Heist', but that's a story for another time.

So the fact that my lifelong best friend, my only friend, the one who knows how I truly am, might be living in the same place as me.... That was something big.

The days past and soon it was Monday again. I way lying in my bed- otherwise known as my hammock -while closing my eyes.

In truth I had woken up an hour ago, once I wake up I can't got back to sleep. But I wasn't going to get up at 6 AM if I didn't have to.

A tug on my sleeve made me remove the arm from over my eyes.

"What is it, Ness?" I rolled over to see the German Shepherd nudging her head at the clock. "Ugh, already?" I groaned.

Ness yipped and tugged again.

"Alright, alright." I huffed, slowly getting up. Since I had a very limited wardrobe, I didn't bother changing my clothes. They hadn't gotten any dirt on them after all, plus I had showered, so I didn't see a problem with it.

Throwing on a black hoodie, I brushed my hair behind my ears.

"You hungry, girl?" I asked Ness. She shook her head and gestured to her filled to the brim bowl.

"Okay, I won't be gone long. You know where the biscuits are." I crouched down, doing our special handshake. "See ya' on the other side."

Before I left, I grabbed an apple and my bag, then teleported to the alley behind school.

Running around the corner, I kicked open the doors.

"Shit.." I muttered, noticing the halls were empty. I was late, that meant I was in trouble.

Not with the teachers, mind you. I got along pretty well with the teachers. It was the students I had to worry about.

My shoes were silent against the linoleum floor, but that didn't help my situation.

Now, I wasn't scared. After years of ridicule I refused to let some high-school idiot scare me. But, after years of ridicule you don't exactly want to get found by those high-school idiots either.

Not bothering to get a late slip, I turned the corner.

"Well, well, well," I froze.

Great.

I turned to see Marv and Louvin, the two people who bothered me the most.

Now, I'll be nice for once. Lou never really did anything to me in particular. He was more of a spectator, flinching for every hit I got but never interfering. So at least he has some empathy. He was a tall guy with broad shoulders, though the rest of him was pretty skinny. His black hair was curly and short while he wore slacks and a collared shirt on.

Funny enough, Louvin was the smartest kid in school and he just happened to wear glasses. He made me feel stupid at times; correcting me when I answered a question, asking me things I obviously didn't know during a presentation, but he did that to everybody. Lou also never laid a finger on me, so I respected him for that.

Marv, however, was a different story.

The two of them were cousins, but they looked like complete opposites. Marv was a short one, with mousy hair and fair, vanilla skin. Contrasting Lou's chocolate tone immensely. Marv had the stereotypical 'bad kid' look. Complete with a leather jacket, boots made to stomp on people, a white tank top and black jeans.