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The universe is a very mysterious place, who knew that two people from different planets could end up falling for each other, well let me tell a story of two runaways who meet in non other than Arcadia Oaks

An alien race, billions of lightyears away from across the universe, that are advanced in technology and transportation through the universe, where royalty existed in the planet called Akiridion-V. There, the royal family of Akiridion-V, King Fialkov of House Tarron, Queen Coranda of House Tarron and stood the Tarron Children, Aja the first born daughter of House Tarron and Krel the youngest of House Tarron.

Aja was very loving to her family and especially to Krel who had his interest on making technology that he would spend his free time in the lab.

"Hello, little brother" Greeted Aja from Krel's room door.

"Hello to you too, Aja" Krel greeted back to her while tinkering on his next project.

"What are you building this time?"

"Just something I have been thinking of building.."

Aja leaned in to get a closer look on Krel's project. It was a small orb that had the components of a bomb like device that Aja didn't understand.

"Okay then, I'm just here to let you know that Mama and Papa are ready for our next lesson" Aja leaned back to face Krel in the eyes.

"Alright then" Krel put down his project on his desk and followed Aja through there "study room" (don't mind the quotations I just don't know that room where they study)

The lesson goes on for a couple of horvaths or two with King Fialkov blabbering on and on about the god who created Akiridion-V from light or whatever it was, to the kids it felt like it's been going on for keltons. "And with the mighty clash between Gods it then create-" King Fialkov was cut off by the sound of snoring. "Ahem" he caught his children's attention by waking them up.

"I'm awake I'm awake!" Krel exclaimed followed by Aja yawning and stretching, Krel yawning as well

King Fialkov sighed to this "When will you children learn to become mature" he pointed to each of the children "Aja you are the oldest child and yet you are still running away from you're problems as future queen of Akiridion-V" Aja didn't respond to him except with a meer eye roll "Krel we have been talking about this for too long, you can not just put aside you're destiny as future king of Akiridion-V to become a mechanic" Krel only gave him a glare.

"Fialkov dear, you are pushing them too far" Queen Coranda said to ease the fumes of her husband "Alright then children this lesson is over now" as she commanded them, they left the room.

"What does he know about becoming a mechanic then!" Krel angerly exclaims to this with Aja on his bed "Just because I want to be a mechanic doesn't mean that it would downfall my life as future king of Akiridion-V"

"Well we may not know if he was a mechanic before or not little brother" Aja said behind him with Luug on her lower arms "And it's not like he fully disapproves your choice in life, he is just being...him" she puts a hand on his shoulder to ease Krel.

Krel fully knows that his father has fully disapproved his life choice but he doesn't want Aja to ease him more, he took a deep inhale and for a sektons he exhales. "Thank you Aja" He held on the hand that was placed on his shoulder with a warm smile that reassured his sister's expression.

"Well then I should be going to my room now" Aja said walking out of her brother room "good night little brother" she bid good night to him and leaves without hearing a response from her brother.

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This nonsense goes on for a wardon or two and with the nonsense I speak of I mean; Lectures of them thinking about there life choices, King Fialkov blabbering about the klebbing God who created Akiridion-V, Telling Aja and Krel to stop being a child and become a true future queen and king of Akiridion-V.

Krel was about to leave falling behind Aja out of the room when he overheard his parents talking about something, muffling voices can be heard between the doors but Krel can only make out a few sentences. He can hear his father's voice muffling along with his mother's voice.

"Krel must know where his place is, he may like it or not he is still the future king" his father's voice overheard from the other side. "He must not focus on those 'toys' of his and think about his responsibilities"

"Fialkov dearest, you too were the same" Queen Coranda voice soothing and relaxed "he is just a boy, let them have their youthful adventures today".

"But Coranda beloved, I once was arrogant and stubborn but I soon was guided by my fathers advice" Fialkov's voice more quieter and calm "I may have thought I could do the same for Aja and Krel, to guide them from their foolish choices and tactics"

The voices fall quiet as Krel bursted right through the door that made Aja look back with darted eyes, anger rising the blood (or any liquids are inside of them) of Krel which resulted with an expression he had kept for so long... rage.

"The choices I have chosen are not just foolish tactics!" Krel angerly exclaims to his father with his eyes full of anger in his ringed eyes "If only you could see how my tech can do if you just..." His four hands curled into a ball "stop being so stubborn!" Krel stormed out off to his room and started throwing all his things out of the floor of his room.

Krel tried to calm himself down and then he heard a knock on the door with his sister's voice at the other side of the door.

"The door is open" Krel called out to signal Aja to come in, and what Aja saw as she walked inside was all of her brother's things was thrown out of the bedroom floor.

"Krel, what was all that about earlier?" She looked to her brother's face. "Were you...keeping it out of me knowing?"

Krel slumped to sit down at the side of his bed, with a hand on his forehead, "I...don't know what came over me all of a sudden" Krel weary said still looking down "But for some reason... it felt so wrong that I could not control it, I'm sorry you had to see the side of me that you had to see" he looked back at Aja, "I thought I hid it quiet"

Aja sat down beside him with four of her arms tightly holding him "Well, remember this little brother... I will always be here if you want to talk about this feeling you kept secretive" Aja's voice soothe her brother making him leaned in on her core.

For a few horvaths, Aja left her brother's room for him to "give him some place" which was what she wanted for him but Krel had other things to do, like clean up his mess and a plan...

To runaway

He planned this for a delson, so here was the plan... he would have to hijack an Akiridion ship fast enough to find a suitable planet for him to hide in, he must take research on the planet's lifeforms and know their species to blend in. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 Krel thought, but Seklos knows it was not that simple.

 Krel did research in his laboratory on planet's with lifeforms that would communicate with him but all of the planet's were...not his style, "This would be a difficult problem" Krel said aloud knowing that no one is here, he sighed and it hit him. "Computer, search a planet with communicated lifeforms with at least technology and have to be far from this planet". The computer was searching for results when it finally came a planet icon, "This is called after their element, A planet billions of lightyears away from Akiridion-V, Earth" The computer gave more info on the planet earth, it had lifeforms that would communicate with him and they may have less advanced technology but, hey at least they have tech like no other. But the real problem is that the lifeforms, are called humans that walk around in two and has never seen an akiridion. Well there is a solution for it, apparently you need is a transductor to blend in with the humans, and the only available ones are on; one, the royal mother ship and two, in the royal laboratory of Akiridion-V.... "oh kleb.."

For a couple of horvaths, Krel managed to get a portable transductor from the royal laboratory, with a little help from the sneaking techniques that he got from Aja who would sneak out of the palace. He now has a transductor, all he needs now is a ship fast enough to travel about billions of lightyears to earth and he might find the best one soon when he needs to escape the 'Aja' security system. He has packed up all he needs, his serrator, his clothing wear, some food and medical supplies, his transductor and... a picture of his family together, he may have shouted at his father but he just felt guilty for that and he wishes he could be the son his father wanted...

But he couldn't

He was about to grab his cloak to hide his akiridion blue light when he heard his door room slid open and saw his own mother in shocked to see him getting his nighting cloak.

"Krel...what is all this?" Queen Coranda whispered, not to alert any guards around.

Krel took a breath and spoke with all he had kept in, "I'm sorry, mama...but I can't be what papa expected me to be and for that...he rather has no son" he looked down on the floor to avoid having eye contact with anger eyes.

But to his surprise, he got a kiss on the forehead and was handed a key to an...aircraft. "I knew you were going to say that, so I will be waited for you're arrival in Akiridion-V, my beloved son" In Queen Coranda's eyes, they were almost forming emotions that are presented as sadness of losing her son and proud thaf her son is no longer a youngling. Krel couldn't help but hugged his mother before going to the hangar. Queen Coranda then turned off the 'Aja' security system for Krel to swiftly go. "I hope and pray for you to find you're happiness"

Krel finally got to the hangar, selected an aircraft fast and strudy enough to travel to earth in billion lightyears, he looked back at the place he called home then looked at the stars and unknown planets across the universe, "Alright then" he hopped at the aircraft inside and destroyed the GPS of the aircraft and closed the glass cover around the vehicle "....time to see this planet earth".

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After a long and tired travel he stumbled upon a place called Arcadia Oaks at the break of night, "this must be where humans live" Krel said aloud, he pulled out his transductor and started to scan him to look like the humans here, he then was transformed as a dark tanned male with brown locks of hair and brown eyes, a t-shirt with a line that looked like a human's heart beat, black skinny pants and tennis shoes.

He set the time when the transductor would fade, grabbed his pack, tried to hide his aircraft in the trees, leaves and branches, and walked towards Arcadia Oaks.

It was awfully quiet, too quiet to be percise and not long after he heard a noise, coming from an alleyway near him. As he looked closer, he saw what seems to be a gremlin, (no really, the gremlin who would talk with a talk pad becase all of this was befode it happened). Krel was shocked that lifeforms like this existed since he didn't saw any info about this specimen.

The gremlin stared at Krel and started to pounce at him, Krel quickly dodges it and ran like he has training with Varvatos on the training field. He ran and ran and ran until he bumped into something or...someone, he looked back at the creature that was behind him gone 'What in Seklos and Gaylen name's was that' Krel thought for a second, he then looked at what he bumped into and he never felt so embarrassed....

"Woah, hey there, are you good?"

To be continued....

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The universe isn't the only thing that has mysteries in the world, there is also history with questions that are needed to be answered, and well let's go take a trip through time.

This is a place where kings and queens were real, how our ancestors were in this era, and where magic existed for real life. This is a place called Camelot and home to the legend King Arthur.

King Arthur sat on his throne along with his royal wizard beside him, Merlin the great. He and King Arthur were discussing about the trolls always invading the kingdom. And as they were done, Merlin went to his workshop to see his apprentice slacking off his sweeping duties.

"Hisirdoux!" Merlin shouted at his apprentice who was shocked to see his master back.

"Master, uhm... I-" Douxie was cut off by his master raising his hand, signaling him to stop with his excuses, "I'm sorry..." he looked down, avoiding having eye contact with him.

Merlin sighed and handed him the broom of his apprentice once hexed, "next time, do not rely on magic to do your job". Douxie accepted the broom and continued to sweep the floors, with Merlin out of the room.

"I told you, you should have never hexed the broom" A black cat with glasses said at the back of Douxie, "If you were to listen to his words, you might have not been scolded by Merlin".

Douxie looked at the cat with glasses, which is his familiar and replied, "I know Archie, but I just don't want to listen to what Merlin asks me to do anymore", He looked at the window of Merlin's workshop "I wish I could be like the people down there, being free from work and not listening to anyone but yourself".

Silence filled the room until Archie replied "May I remind you that, without Merlin there to save us, we could have been tossed in the dungeons, or even get thrown out of Camelot". For a brief moment, Archie perched at his left shoulder to ease Douxie, Douxie then petted his feline companion to relieve his negative thoughts.

"I always wondered..." Douxie put down his broom and sat where the sunlight shoned, " I wanna end this apprentice contract I have with Merlin." Archie looked at him with shocked eyes, "Yeah, I'm done dealing with the old man's dirty work!, I'm gonna say to him that-".

"You will say to me, what" Douxie jumped a bit at the sudden voice of his master, at the door with his eyes fixated to him. "Do continue you're words, Casperan...or are you just gonna be silent". Merlin had his crossed by what Douxie said, "Not even a response to what you said...?". Silent was Douxie to his master, knowing fully well about his decision.

Douxie took a deep breath and spoke what he needed to say, "I want to quit being your..." he mumble out the last words in his sentence. Merlin raised an eyebrow at him, about to question him about the last sentence he mumble, when he was being called by King Arthur.

"Well, we will proceed this discussion in another time." Merlin grabbed a scroll from his work desk and walked out of the room before he looked at Douxie, "and don't mumble out your words, it's quite irritating" and left with Douxie standing quietly.

Douxie was ashamed that he couldn't even face his master by saying he wants to quit, but then again, he owes him for saving him from the knights before, he could never bring himself to say that he wants to quit the contract.

"Why didn't you say you wanted to quit?" Archie questioned him, still perching in his shoulder. "It would have been you're moment...", Of course, Douxie just looked at Archie and turn back to where he sat before, without saying another word.

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As each day goes by, and many failed attempts to tell the master about the contract. Douxie was almost at his last day of the contract fully sealing the apprenticeship, he tried to tell his master, but with just a mere glare of his master's eyes, he would feel like he got hexed by frozen-feet.

And in every failed attempt, it always ends up with Douxie doubting himself that his decision is just a false belief.

"Douxie, why not I could do the planning on the confession...?" Archie suggested, because seeing his wizard companion failing over, and over tores his dragon heart apart.

"Really Arch...?, you would do that for me?" Douxie faced his familiar in the face and he suggested it. "But, my last day as an apprentice is gonna end in four moons, how will you do it?".

"I know ways to fulfill that in less than two moons".

Douxie wore a smile for Archie, being there for him even in the darkest of days. "Thank you, Archie..".

And in the first moon of the last days of his apprenticeship, Archie explained the plan to Douxie to have some alone talk with Merlin, and if he gets frozen-feet again, Archie would be the backup for all the explanation if he has enough courage to say it too.

On the second moon of the last days of his apprenticeship, They have commenced the plan; operation 'Confession' (It was the best thing I could think of, pls have mercy on me).

Archie waited for Douxie to lead Merlin to the castle gardens, where he and Morgana practiced her magic here, because the flowers were the enchanted kinds in the enchanted forest.

While for Douxie...

"Must I have to follow you in the castle gardens, Hisirdoux?" Merlin complained by Douxie interrupted him and King Arthur.

"I promise you, Master...once we are done, I'll be out of your hair" Douxie said, leading Merlin first.

And as percise, Archie was waiting in the gardens. When Archie saw them he transfigured into a dragon and flew out of the garden.

"Please sit for a moment, Master" Douxie gestured Merlin to sit at the concrete bench, and he accepted the gesture.

On Merlin's mind, he might be being like this to get him out of his duties more, (Somehow me lmao). But what Merlin saw in Douxie's hands was a scroll, but not just any scroll.

His apprenticeship contract...

"Hisirdoux, what is all this about?" Merlin questioned the apprentice.

"I have been trying to tell you this master..." Douxie took a deep breath, "I no longer wish to become your apprentice, Master Merlin.". All went silent for a while, Douxie was hesitantly waiting for his master's response, while on Merlin, well let's just say he is still processing it all.

"I...don't understand this, Hisirdoux" Merlin finally said with a confused tone.

"I no longer want to be by your side anymore, I want to be free..." Douxie's hand to allow Merlin for his contract.

But Merlin didn't accepted the contract. Douxie was surprised at the sudden decline.

"Master...?" Douxie faced his master, still feeling frozen-feet.

Merlin rosed from his bench place and faced Douxie as well, "Look Hisirdoux....I swore to someone to help you become a wizard, even if you try to quit, you can't".

Douxie was silent, as Merlin walked out of the castle gardens, Archie flew in to Douxie's knees and stayed beside him til the sun set and formed a nightly sky.

"Douxie, please...let's go back inside now." Archie said, despite Douxie just zoning out....coming up a plan.

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Douxie explained Archie about running away from Camelot, venture to other places to which they never been at, meeting new people and listen to no one else but themselves.

Archie, of course, had his 'doubt you' face about this whole running away thing. "Wouldn't Merlin notice that his apprentice is not here?".

Douxie looked at the contract in his hand and stuffed it in his pack, "What apprentice?". Douxie said as he wore his casual smug smile.

Archie was glad that the Douxie he once knew came back, "Alright then, let us adventure".

They climb up the castle walls and climb down their freedom, Douxie was now thrilled to finally set foot outside the walls of Camelot, He then followed a compass to north and ran straight forward north.

Time flew by, Douxie met fellow wizards around every era, through the Greek era, through the Victorian era. He got into so much fashion in a while, out of his bun, leather vest, in having blue dyed hair, black tank top and hoodie.

In 9 centuries past he now settled into a small town called Arcadia Oaks in a apartment, with two part-time jobs and stabled food and rent. He went outside to check if there are any shadow nymphs lerking out at night.

Archie as his look-out in the skies, while Douxie out with his enchanted bracer glowing in the darkness. For a while, he found no signs of shadow nymphs but only running footsteps in his back. He turned around and was greeted with a bump in his chest.

The boy looked like a 14 year old, with tanned skin, brown eye's and brown locks of hair, was constantly out of breath.

"Woah, hey there, are you good?"

He got to meet his face, that looks very terrified. And he started blushing...blue?

To be continued...

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Krel backed up a few steps to meet the person who he carelessly bumped into. The person was about 18 or 19 keltons old to Krel, 𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛, Krel thought as he examined the person. They wore all black in top to bottom, well they have a white belt. They had a dark blue hair with black in the mix, Their face also consists of dull golden eyes with a skin paler than Krel's human skin. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 Krel thought one more time before the person spoke to Krel.

"Hey, are you alright, really?"

Krel was trying to summarize to what he mean, "I am alright, am I not?".

"Well, you're face is starting a blue hue"

Blue hue...? Oh kleb, Krel touched his face and looked at a glass window, and to his surprise, he was blushing blue, panic he quickly turned around and tried to calm himself down in order to clear the blue blush.

"Is that a normal thing for you or somethin...?" The person, still there, asked.

Krel turned to him with no more blue in his face, "It is to me of course, but It is not your concern now".

"Oh, well my bad, Sorry about that and all".

"It is alright... now I must be going somewhere else now".

Before Krel took a step forward, the gremlin creature was back and was angerer than before, whatever upset it, it looks really angery at Krel.

"Oh, Kleb!" Krel exclaimed and ran straight back to the person earlier. "What is that thing there!?", Krel said to the person in front of him as his body shield.

"Hey, what thing-" The person said as he looked at the gremlin creature and went silent.

"Hey, kid... Do you trust me?" The person said to Krel, and of course Krel, had little doubts.

But then again....

"Yes...?" Krel answered, and the person grab Krel's arm and dashes out of the streets with the gremlin following them.

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Douxie dragged the latino kid down somewhere the gremlin could never follow them, and with Archie still on the lookout in the skies, surely this plan would have to work. Douxie just couldn't believe that gremlins still roam this time in the surface here, I mean, the last time he ever saw one was on one of his master's errands with him in the dark caves in Camelot.

But back to topic here, Douxie signaled Archie to follow them through the skies, hoping that Archie got the message. And finally Douxie reached their destination, a small alleyway blocked with a brick wall at their end.

"Why are we here?!" The latino boy angerly question him, still catching his breath.

"Hey, You chose to trust me...so just trust me on this", Douxie convinced the latino boy to have some trust in him.

The latino boy finally nods and waits for what is about to happen next. The gremlin finally caught up on them, but doesn't really walk towards them, it is just there, standing, waiting.

"What in Seklos and Gaylen name's" the latino said with shocked.

𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠?, Douxie looked back at the boy, He looked up at the sky and saw his furry familiar with his glasses glimmering.

"Well, this particular alleyway is rigged with a substance this creatures hate", Douxie explained the boy who look somewhat... confused.

"So you do know that creature then!" He shouted at him, quite angerly.

"I do, but I didn't expect them to show up tonight, I thought they were extincted..." .

"Well then, what is that thing if you know them?".

"A gremlin...".

The latino pressed his body against the wall and just waited, Douxie did the same, far apart from the latino.

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Krel was now in an alleyway with this unknown human with a 'gremlin' at the only way out. They were now waiting, Krel doesn't know what they're waiting, but they are waiting for something to happen.

"So, what's your name, by the way?" The person said who was giving Krel eye contact.

"Krel...Krel Tarron" Krel introduced himself quietly. "And your name?".

"Hisirdoux Casperan, but I prefer to be called Douxie" The person or Douxie said, "nice to meet you, Krel" he extended his hand towards Krel.

Krel accepted the hand, and firmly shakes on it, and was quickly pulled back.

"What brings you to Arcadia Oaks then?" Douxie said, fixated on Krel.

𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝐼 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑚...

Krel was planning to 'twist his words' to tell him. "I ran away from home due to some family issues, and I was recommended by this plane- I mean, location." Krel almost slipped up the word planet but was recovered quickly.

"A fellow runaway then." Douxie said with a smile on his face, "So this is your first time running away?".

"Yes, and I have no idea what to do next".

Krel was silent, he really didn't thought much when he first landed here and never learned anything from earth back in Akiridion-V.

"Y'know...there is still a spare bed in my apartment, maybe you could occupie it..?", Krel looked at Douxie with the suggestion that he couldn't believe.

"Really..?" Krel replied, "You would do that for a stranger like me?...Why?".

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As Douxie suggested for Krel, he looked kinda surprised at it, "You would do that for a stranger like me?...Why?", Krel respond to Douxie.

Douxie didn't expect that a stranger, who it is his first time running away from home, would say that particular question.

"Well, we runaways have to stick together..." Douxie said with a playful nudge, "Am I right?".

The conversation with the two boys started rough, but soon became quite soothing, Krel finally showed a glimpse of joy in the conversation with Douxie and so did Douxie. And as they joyously continued their convo, they hadn't realized that the gremlin was... suddenly gone.

Douxie looked up at the nightly sky to see his familiar flying, and in his jaw, the gremlin.

Douxie got up, arm extended for Krel, he accepted it, walked out of the alleyway.

"Are you sure that gremlin is gone?" Krel said to Douxie, as he looked to the sides of the streets.

"Yeah, it's gone, were safe now..." Douxie said to Krel, making eye contact. "Come on, my apartments not far from here..." he dragged Krel down the streets to get to the apartment of Douxie.

From the stroll to Douxie's apartment, they were starting to get to know one another, from loved ones, to what caused them to run.

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"Wow, Douxie, I never know you were running for that long", Krel said to Douxie still on their stroll.

"Yeah...but I've gotten some use to it with a little help from folks..." Douxie responded.

"But is it not lonely for you to run away for that long?"

Krel waited for Douxie's response from their conversation. Which made Krel double think about his words.

"Ah kleb, I am so sorry, I did not mean for my words to make you think about something personal!".

Krel never got a word from Douxie, only a giggle?.

"You really are sensitive about this, huh?" Douxie faced Krel, with a smile, "Well, Am I alone now?"...

Krel couldn't help but wonder, "No...I guess not.", If this human is just being here because of Krel, or Krel is just being here because of this human.

To be continued...

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Douxie and Krel reached the apartment of Douxie, he grabbed his apartment keys before realizing that...he still held on to Krel's hand. Blushing red, Douxie then let's go of Krel's hand, "Sorry... I forgot about, y-your-".

"It is alright...", Krel respond, also blushing a bit, Douxie then unlocked his apartment door and extended his hand, to make an introduction to the apartment.

"Welcome to my humble abode, a.k.a my apartment.", Douxie introduce his room, followed by a small giggle. Krel also got caught in the giggling, "here, let me tell you where you can sleep for a while." Krel nodded and followed Douxie through their apartment.

While walking through the apartment, Krel observed each object and furniture in here, the room all consists of furniture that are sofas, armchairs in each corners of the small table in the middle, a ceiling fan with a lamp, and a tv. To Krel, it looked like a black box to him.

"What is this contraption?" Krel said, walking towards it, "Is it a universal communicator or some kind of other tech?". Krel then bend over to examine the black box more, Douxie started to snort and walked somewhere, and the black box is flicked about...a dating show.

"Great Gaylen!" Krel exclaimed while being tumbled back down, meeting dull golden eyes.

"It's called a Television, or TV for short..." Douxie extended his hand for Krel to get up from his fall, "why, don't you have those in your place?".

"Sadly we do not have this...TV" Krel respond, focusing his attention on the dating game, "We have not seen any like this, back in my home".

"What?!" Douxie said with shocked eyes, "DO you have ANYTHING fun in your place or something...?". Douxie placed a hand on his hip, (I can imagine sassy Doux XD) looking like pretty sassy.

Krel rubbed the back of his neck, trying to think of anything that is on Akiridion-V, and it hit him. "We have this fun game where one gets a staff and something to stand on, and then the other would have to battle the other standing on the standing area, and battle till the death and then....", Krel stopped his explanation for seeing Douxie face. Eyebrow raised, mouth opening slightly, eyes darted at him.

"What kind of fun is that for you?" Douxie, finally spoke. "I mean, I never heard of that kind of game, what is that exactly".

"It's called 'Seklen war' it is well played back in my home", (It's actually a game I recently invented, it is played how Seklos and Gaylen were at war, and the victorious would be called the hero, me and my big imagination).

Douxie gives a slight giggle and gestured Krel to follow again. Krel now walks into a bedroom with a twin bed, he guesses that it is where he will stay for a while, "Do we have privacy or no..?" Krel questioned him and Douxie nods, which give Krel a sigh of relief.

"Well it's getting pretty late", Douxie said looking up the wall clock. "I'll see you tomorrow morning then alright...?".

"Yes, 'tomorrow'...". Krel said, walking to the bedroom, "Good night, Douxie...", bid good night with a smile and closed the door.

Douxie did the same for tonight, He flopped in the bed thinking about Krel's smile, before realizing that his face was firey hot because of his familiar in his cat bed.

"Who was that...?" Archie questioned him, eyebrow raised. "Also, must I really bit that gremlin..?".

Douxie smirked at that, and gestured Archie to sit beside him. "He is just a fellow runaway like us" Douxie answered, "And besides, it's his first-time to run away from his home, you can't blame him".

Archie looked doubtful about Krel, but since he saw the gremlin, he has to trust him with all the hope he got, "I'll make sure that he doesn't grab my stash of tuna".

Douxie then petted Archie while giggled his excuse to watch Krel, Archie then yawned and jumped back to his cat bed, Douxie followed yawning as well and drifted himself to sleep, along with a strange sound but ignores it.

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Krel wakes up by the smell of frying bacon, '𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙?' Krel thought. He stepped out of his room and saw Douxie in the stove, cooking their breakfast with a cat in the kitchen table.

"Oh good morning there, Krel", Douxie greeted Krel morning, still at the stove.

"Good morning as well, Douxie...", Krel replied, weary as he is.

"You can sit down while I make breakfast", Douxie continued, while flipping the bacon. Krel nodded and went to the table.

Krel sat where he was opposite to Douxie and the stove, until the black cat with glasses (a.k.a Archie) soon moved towards Krel, of course Krel didn't think much about the glasses cat since he thinks it is normal for earth cats to have glasses, (...tho imagine if it was a normal thing here).

Douxie noticed it and just gave Archie a 'don't you dare' face, which made Archie wanna do it. Archie's plan was to try and talk to them to see if they would freak out about a talking cat, Douxie so disagree's about (he doesn't know about what Archie is planning but he know's him too well).

"Oh, don't mind my cat Archie..." Douxie said, handing Krel his plate and puts a bowl of tuna in front of Archie, "he gets GRUMPY if he doesn't get his tuna in time.".

"Ohh..I see", Krel responds "My sister's pet does that same also, and believe me he can be very grumpy..." he continued while slightly laughing.

"So you have a sister then huh?.", Douxie said, curiosity got the best in him. "If it's not a personal topic... could you maybe...talk about you're life was...?".

He then saw Krel with shocked eyes, and was replaced with a smile and finally said, "I'd be happy to!".

(Don't mind me, imma just time skip this scene)

Krel and Douxie were out of the apartment, leaving Archie inside the apartment. Krel was astonished by Arcadia Oaks being crowded with alot of folks here, Douxie then found an idea to get closer to Krel.

"Hey, how about I give you a tour of Arcadia...?", Douxie suggested which made Krel a glimmering smile.

"Yes, I would love that!", Krel beamed up of excitement. "It would so klebtastic!".

'𝐾𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐?' Douxie thought, '𝐻𝑒ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔..'.

Douxie and Krel then strolled across all the sights to see in Arcadia, to the bustling crowds in the arcade, to the relaxing moments in the park, to the full of joy in the school.

"This is a school..?" Krel questioned the building.

"Yep, Arcadia junior high school..." Douxie responded, "I used to school here but I soon dropped out.".... Douxie then felt hands around his head, Krel's hands.

"I do not see any wounds or anything...".

Douxie then laugh so much that Krel was blushing blue of embarrassment, and let's go of him. "Okay we really need to get you learning about slang language." Douxie said, wiping an imaginary tear in his eye.

"Okay...?". Krel continued walking, Douxie followed him to where his going, and they walked all the way to the canals. Krel then find this place very interesting but continues to walk, while Douxie was ahead if him. He then sees a boy flying out of nowhere on a vehicle in two wheels, he just ignores it and continued strolling.

Douxie then heard a police siren coming towards them. "Douxie, might I ask why this kid here isn't in school?".

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Officer Scott came out of his car and walked towards the two boys, "So Douxie, can you tell me why this kid is not inside school?". Douxie was fully known by Officer Scott as the 'school skipper', which his familiar to him to always skip school and Officer Scott would bring him back to school, Krel gave the both of them a look of confusion and thinking 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝐼 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒?.

"Excuse me but what is a 'school', if you don't mind me asking...?" Krel questioned Officer Scott, which gave him a suspicious look.

"You don't have schools at you're place?!" Douxie nervously exclaimed, Krel shaked to him "uuuugh...I wish I was at you're place sooner!", with that remark gave Officer Scott more annoyed about him.

"You don't know what school is..?" Officer Scott said, bending a bit to examine his features, "where are you from then...?".

Krel wasn't too familiar to Earth, and never known what are the places here, well except for one. "Antarctica...".

...Douxie gave a maniacal but a comedy gold laugh, with Officer Scott with a confusing look eyebrow raised.

"Is this some kind of joke to you..?" He crossed his arms, looking more annoyed, "you know what..." he grabbed Krel by the arm, earning him a hurtful yelp "Come with me..", he saw Douxie with a face of concern and worry "You too Douxie.".

"R-right..." Douxie said nervously, and now he has to go to the building he hated and avoided.... SCHOOL. (NOOOOOOOO).

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The three of them made their way to the building, Douxie felt like his death was coming to him like the grim reaper, waiting for him at the gates of hell...( Me on a Monday). Krel was astonished by the teens were there, all cheerful, studying with friends, and chatting with other people in the grounds. Scott then gave a small chuckle at his expression, "Well Douxie, I'll be leaving now, make sure he gets enrolled here at Señor Uhl's office..." he turned around after making that remark.

Douxie rolled his eyes when Scott was out of the building, "So you really are interested in school..?" Krel nodded in response as a yes, "Well then..." he patted his back "Let's go to Señor Uhl's office.".

Krel walked all the way to Señor Uhl's office, with Douxie leading the way with his hoodie on, Krel noticed this and is wanting to ask him about, "Are you alright..?" Krel saw a little nod from him and he now knew, he was nervous about coming back to school, "You can leave me if you are nervous to come here...".

They were at a stop for a moment, Douxie turned around to face Krel, "Why would I do that..." he replied "I'm not leaving you alone and besides my nervousness won't stop me or you, to get you enrolled..." Douxie then gave him a smile making Krel smile as well. They then continued walking to Señor Uhl's office, while they started to chat a little, to help Douxie's nervousness even tho he still has his hood on.

The two boys had reached to Señor Uhl's office, with a knock or two the door opened showing two boys, one was tall and slim and the other was kinda short and chubby, then came a tall blonded man who was speaking Spanish, to Krel he thought he was speaking in tongues. "Now I better not see you two Alborotador being late again!" He said with the two boys nodded and walked out of the room, Señor Uhl then noticed Douxie and Krel at his door. "Fancy seeing you again, Douxie.".

"Hehehe, Hola Señor Uhl..." Douxie said nervously, Krel waved a hand on him greeting a 'hello'.

"And, who is this..?" Uhl said, eyebrow raised and finger pointing at Krel.

"Oh, right...Officer Scott drop us off here, to enroll him."

He then sighed to that with an awfully angered tone, "When will Scott stop bringing random children here...?", he then gestured the two boys to get inside the office and so they did. They took both the seats in front of the desk, and with Señor Uhl seating in his desk chair they are now facing him, Douxie felt he was being judged by The Devil at court, but he felt a warm touch in his hands, it was Krel's hand reassuring his shaking hands.

With a deep breath, Douxie was calmed down and silently thanked Krel, now they are discussing the enrollment of Krel which took about a half 3 or 4 mekrons...I mean minutes. (I have to skip this part because I was now gotten pretty tired right now so yeee).

"Well then, Mister Tarron..." Uhl said, with a school ID with Krel's face and name on it, "Welcome to Arcadia Oaks junior high school.".

"Thank you, Señor Uhl..." Krel thanked him and was handed his school ID, "I promise you...I will be the best student here!". Douxie couldn't help but smile at his expression, he has never seen a runaway this excited about school before, the two rosed from there seats and bidding Uhl goodbye before leaving the room.

They were now outside the office, before Douxie walked towards the exit, "Well, I should be going to my shift, I'll pick ya' up sooner.", Douxie said, right after he felt a hand on his arm.

"You are coming back, right..?", Krel said, with a sad and nervous expression.

Douxie nodded and Krel let go of his arm, before he waved goodbye to him and so did Douxie.

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4:30 p.m., just in time for Douxie to finish his shift and making his way to the school, right after Douxie arrived the school bell just rang in time '𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑞𝑢𝑒', he then saw all of the students coming out of the building but haven't seen Krel. Then he finally saw him, also looking for him, as he saw Douxie he waved his hand up with the other hand with a lot of books, Douxie walked up to him and was greeted with a smile from him, "So how's school..?".

Krel was full of excitement that it couldn't be contained, "It was klebtastic! I got to study so much rather then back home..." excitement filled his words and tone of voice, "Their mathematics were so easy that I finished it in one mekron..".

"Mekron..?".

Krel cupped his mouth, realized what he said "I mean, m-minute..", he stuttered and looked down.

Douxie then patted his back and tried to forget that incident, then he thought of an idea for a hangout, "hey, wanna grab something to eat...?"

Krel nodded and they both headed to a cafe, where Douxie was familiar with, the sign read 'Runaway's Coven'.

"Runaway's Coven..? Are they referring to us..?", Krel questioned Douxie who shakes his head in response.

"Nope, it's just a name for their cafe.".

They then walked inside the cafe with a bell followed by them, they took their seats and ordered their food and drinks.

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They entered the cafe and was greeted by the aroma of sweets and tea inside, a person walked towards them to be greeted, their features were quite simple, Brown hair with a faded color of red formed in a ponytail, and had the uniform of the cafe. Green apron and white top, black jeans and shoes. "Hello dearest customers, and welcome to Runaway's Coven!". She finished it with a smile and soon knew a particular person, "Oh Douxie, I haven't seen you in a long time!".

"Hey Lexi, table for two please.." Douxie replied and requested.

The person or Lexi nodded and gestured them to follow her to an empty booth. "Please take a seat, you two", They both sat down opposite to each other in the table, Lexi then pulled out a pencil and notepad. "So what will it be for you two lovebirds?", Krel and Douxie were having shocked eyes, both a blushing mess.

"W-w-w-were not a t-t-thing...we're j-j-just friend- yea friends!", Douxie stuttered while trying to explain the situation.

Lexi then raised her eyebrow and had a 'I doubt it' face, but shrugged it off. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to assume...".

"It's f-fine..hehehe" Douxie responsed and though about both their orders, "We'll have two milkshakes and two slices of cherry pie...", Douxie then looked at Krel "If you're okay with that order..?".

"I am alright with anything..." Krel spoke quietly, covering his face to hide his blushing face with his books. (Remember last chapter)

Lexi nodded and walked off to the counter, which leaves the two boys sitting quietly, none of them spoke a word, both fully awkward with each other. Until Krel spoke to break this silence, "So how long have you been here, since you known that person earlier".

"Oh! Well half my years as a runaway..." Douxie responded and continued on, "To be fair, this cafe is run by runaways also. This is why it's Runaway's Coven".

"Oh, so the person earlier-"

"Lexi", Douxie cut Krel off to tell the name of the person, Lexi.

"Right, Lexi, is a runaway like us?".

"Yep, and so is the manager here too, their siblings but Lexi likes to serve customers a lot".

Krel stared at the counter and saw Lexi chatting with other workers, once Lexi saw Krel starring at her and waved at him, Krel returned that waved and faced Douxie again.

"So Douxie, where are you from, since you said it yourself that you are a runaway and end up here in Arcadia too...?".

Douxie thought long and hard to what place is Camelot in now, (I took research and it said it was in Somerset, Winchester or Caerleon in South Wales which is in England, so yee). "I'm guessing, England." (I had to say England because of his accent.).

"Here are your orders!", Lexi came with a tray of their order, "Two milkshakes each, and two slices of cherry pie each also". She placed the orders on the their table, and walked out to another table.

Douxie began to drink his milkshake, it was a strawberry flavor with whipped cream, and so was Krel's milkshake. "Don't be shy, try it" Douxie said to Krel who hesitates a little, "wait a minute...you never tried a milkshake?!".

Krel shaked his head, "We never had these kinds of drink, but I have second thoughts about this...", he still has second thoughts about trying something new.

"I'm telling you, it is so GoOd!".

Krel hesitates but tries anyway, one sip and his eyes were full of flavor, "By Gaylen's Honor, this is delicious!", He said with glee and continued to slurp the bottle. Douxie heard the tone of Krel's voice and just giggles at his expression, continued with his milkshake.

'𝐻𝑒ℎ, 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠'

Krel then proceeded with the cherry pie, and it was exquisite and flavorful, "Seklos and Gaylen, this is so so so so good!". He then continued munching on the pie.

"Great gravey, Krel! Please don't tell me you never tried pie?", Douxie said looking a bit astonished by how he finished his milkshake quickly.

"No, we also don't..".

Douxie was fully questioned about him but had to do it another time, and proceeded with his own pie, while focusing on Krel. And notices Lexi across the cafe with a smug face (if anyone has seen the owl house season 1 'grom night' with Luz, that's the face Lexi was making). Douxie gave a 'You stfu' glare, and Lexi then continued to order the other people.

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After their drinking fest (I mean the milkshake), and finished their pie, they rosed from both their seats. "Oh wait, uh...where is the restroom here?" Krel questioned Douxie, who then pointed at the direction of the restroom.

Krel ran straight to the two doors before Douxie then realized....'𝐻𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛'𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚?' "It's the one with a men's symbol!".

He noticed that and he went inside, a sigh escaped his mouth and waited for Krel. "Soo, Do tell me about you're date, Douxie" He suddenly jumped at a sudden voice, Lexi.

"I told you before, he is just a fellow runaway like us..!".

"And are you sure about that?" Lexi scooted closer to Douxie's place, "I saw how you looked at him earlier, you had a tint of red whenever you look at him..".

"Well even if I did-".

"I knew it!", Lexi cut him off with a gleeful cheer, but her mouth was cupped by Douxie's hand.

"As I was saying, even if I did he is very young, and probably not a wizard as well, we only just met in two days (also included today) And...".

Douxie let's go of his hand from Lexi, looking sad and bummed "And probably won't love me back...".

"Aww, Doux..." Lexi then patted his back, "Even if he doesn't love you back, You still a lot of chances with other people".

"But the thing is..." Douxie paused for a moment and continued, "He somehow gets me having butterflies in my stomach, head spinning, sweaty palms, and actual feelings for him...".

He then saw the men's restroom door opened and came out Krel, who then sees them at the booth. "Hello there, I am ready to go now...", he then grabbed his books and placed them on his hands.

Lexi then nudged Douxie, but he just ignored it "take him to this place", she then gave him a piece of paper, which Douxie accepted it.

The two boys then walked out of the cafe, Douxie then read the paper, it read 'Take him by you're motorcycle and go to this place', with a picture of Arcadia with a circle. '𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝐼..?'.

He look front when he realized that Krel was gone, panic filled his entire body. He just couldn't believe that the only person who was his first time here in Arcadia...GONE!, he doesn't have a choice he has to cast a location spell to find Krel. Well no one was around to witness this, he then tried to find the right spell he can conjure, he then proceeded to chant the words "Locahames!". He then sees a building which his awfully familiar with, "My apartment?" Now he knew where to find him, he then rushed to his apartment.

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With a very long run he then ran towards his apartment room, keys ready to unlock, but hears screaming, Krel's voice and...Archie, he then saw light coming from the other side. "If this is a magical foe then so be it", he unlocked the door and opened it to find.... Krel in his Akiridion form, and Archie looking quite shocked. "What in Merlin's name?!".

"Douxie there's an alien here!!" Archie said, pointing at Krel, who looks offended.

"Do not call me an 'alien' cat!.." He then looked back at Douxie with a shocked expression. Krel fled to his room to avoid Douxie for a while, Douxie tried to grab him but failed, and instead followed him.

"Hey, you got some explaining to do!".

"Please just go away, I don't want you to see me like this!".

Douxie then was familiar with this voice, it was Krel's, "Krel..? Is that you?".

"Impossible, how can THAT be Krel?!". Archie spoked which made Douxie become more annoyed.

"Krel please, we'll talk things out..." Douxie tried to reason with Krel, but all he ever got was silence. He then stayed at Krel's door and waited for him to open up, Archie then sat beside Douxie and waited with him. Douxie was about to fall asleep when he heard a door opening, but not just any door, it was Krel's door.

Krel was covered in his blanket from top to bottom, "You may come in...". Krel waddled (you heard me, Waddled) to his bed, Douxie and Archie followed him, sat on his bed. Douxie tried to get the blanket out of him, but Krel's grip was to strong. "You said you wanted to talk, so...?".

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As Krel was filled with a tasteful expression and flavorful delights of the milkshake and the pie, as soon as he was finished with his milkshake and pie quickly, he then heard a frizzy noise, then he noticed that it was his transductor. He had programmed it to fully operate it to make his disguise a bit longer, long enough to know Earth more, long enough to not let bounty hunters to know it's him, and long enough for Douxie to be fooled. He looked at his transductor in his wrist (It is in the form of a watch, sorry I really forgot to mention that), and tried to forget it.

"Are you alright..?" Krel was snap to reality with Douxie's voice, who looked concerned about him.

"Oh, yes I am alright..." he replied, with a small smile and gazed at the window, Douxie was getting concern about him while he finished his pie. '𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑥𝑖𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓...' the thought of fooling the person who helped him escape a gremlin, well makes him bummed.

"Well if you have anything in mind, you can talk to me about it", Douxie suggested, which made Krel respond to a small nod and continues to look at the window, paying no attention to his transductor in his wrist.

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After Douxie finished his pie, they rosed from both their seats, Krel then noticed an Akiridion light coming from...his skin, '𝐴ℎ 𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑏... 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟', "Oh wait, uh...where is the restroom here?". Krel questioned Douxie, which he pointed to the direction of the restrooms.

Krel dashed towards the doors when he realized, which door he should choose, "It's the one with a men's symbol!" He heard Douxie and Krel then proceeded inside, while inside he had to wait other people to get out of the restroom, when everyone was gone he then went to a stall, and let his transductor fade revealing his Akiridion form.

"Alright now time to fix this klebbing transductor...", he spoke and got his prototool out, started his repairs for a mekron or two.

"So here's the problem, there was a flexol of a...earth...?", Krel then remembered he got pushed by someone at school, and he got a little dirty, "That larvox..." he cursed under his breath, and proceeded to fix the problem. Sadly it couldn't be fixed but it was enough to go to the apartment and fix it there, he then activated the transductor again and walked out of the stall.

He came outside of the restroom and saw Lexi and Douxie, he then walked towards them, which made them stand from where they placed. "Hello there, I am ready to go now...", he then grabbed his books and held them in his hands to his chest, started to walk out with Douxie falling a bit behind.

When they reached out, the sky was a mix of beautiful colors orange, red, and a dash of pink. Krel had never seen such wonderful colors in the sky in Akiridion-V, which makes it more unique than the nebula sky back in Akiridion-V. But during the sky gazing he didn't notice that the transductor went into another fritz and was revealing his Akiridion blue skin, filled with panic he ran straight to the apartment, his memory was very sharp so he knows where the apartment is, leaving Douxie behind.

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After that run, he proceeded to get the apartment keys, (extra key that was given to him at school), twisted the doorknob and opened. He closed it behind him, and let the the transductor again fade away, a sigh escaped his mouth and tried to catch his breath.

"Ah Douxie finally you're back..." a mysterious voice spoke at Douxie's room, his door was opened to reveal the cat with glasses. "The landlord was here earlier, but don't worry I paid the rent to him-.." he then saw Krel in his Akiridion form and without thinking much....

"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!",Krel screamed at the door.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!", Followed by Archie screaming as well.

"Aaaaaaaaaah!!", Krel backed up to a nearby furniture (the arm chair), and continued to screaming.

"Why are you screaming?!" Archie questioned him, still surprised.

"Well I am screaming for the fact that there is a talking cat here?! Why are YOU screaming?!".

"Easy! You are the reason why I'm screaming!!".

They both heard a door open and saw Douxie in the door way, "What in Merlin's name?!".

Archie then pointed at Krel, "Douxie there's an 'alien' here!!".

Krel then was offended by the remark 'alien', '𝑊𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒...𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠!'. "Hey, do not call me an 'alien' cat..!".

And you know what happened, Krel dashed to his room, Douxie then tried to grab him but failed, but he instead followed him. Krel slammed the door, pressed his body against the door, and heard a knock on his door, "Hey, you got some explaining to do!".

'𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒...'.

"Please just go away, I don't want you to see me like this!".

'𝐺𝑜...𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦..'.

"Krel..? Is that you?!".

"Impossible, how can THAT be Krel?!" Archie spoke, which then he was silent. Krel walked to his portable tech lab and tried to repair the transductor.

"Krel...please, we'll talk things out..." was Douxie's last chance to convince him and he failed, soon he went dead silent.

Meanwhile Krel did so much in his repairs, but he just couldn't get it to work properly, sure he already removed the dirt from the transductor, but it still wasn't working. He knows that Douxie is still outside of his door, so he has to go and speak to him, he grabbed a blanket from his bed, hiding his form, four of his arms tightly holding the sheet, and slowly opened the door. Douxie was at his door, and was surprised to see Krel. "You may come in...", Krel then tried to walk but couldn't so he had to resort to waddle.

They both seat in his bed, while tried to lose eye contact with him. Douxie tried to get the blanket off of him but Krel had tightly held the blanket with all four of his arms, Douxie then pulled his hands back. "You said you wanted to talk, so...?".

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Douxie was looking at Archie and so was Archie, '𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠..?', he then took a breathe and spoke "If I'm going to talk, I need to talk to you face-to-face".

Krel slightly flinch at that remark, and thought of countering it, but he guesses that he has to tell the truth, "But if I reveal myself, you might hate me for fooling you...".

Douxie then extended his hand towards the blanket hole, and gently touched a soft surface, "the only one who you're fooling is yourself.." Douxie said still holding the soft surface, "I promise you that I won't hate you".

He then felt fingers in his hands, brushed it gently and caressingly, Douxie's felt like his face was burning up from the way Krel touched his face, "Alright then...I will reveal myself..".

Archie hid behind Douxie, readying his claws, Douxie then helped Krel taking the blanket off. After the blanket was off, it then revealed an Akiridion. Douxie was mesmerized by his beauty that he didn't notice that he was staring at him for a while, "Uh..Douxie..?" Archie questioned him, eyebrow raised and slightly shook him.

"I knew it...you hate my true self..". Krel then proceeded to extended his hand, to grab the blanket again, but he was stopped by Douxie's hand.

"Don't...I think you look amazing".

With that one remark made Krel blushed a dark blue, which made Krel pulled back his hand from Douxie, "So...you do not hate me...even if I fooled you... since the day we met?".

Douxie shooked his head, and respond with a soft, gentle smile. "I don't hate you just because you hid this, I'm glad you shared this kind of side of you, and thank the Arcadian Order that I ain't the only inhumane here".

Krel raised an eyebrow, having a confusing look. He looked at Archie with an expression that he fully understood, "Let me rephrase what Douxie meant" he stepped in and cleared his throat a bit (hooo boy, brace yourself for a long dialog). "You see, Douxie and I are magical beings that we have been here for over centuries, and I, myself, am a dragon not a cat, and Douxie a wizard who lived for centuries which is his 919 years old, and you might ask 'if it is possible for human's to live that long' the answer is no. For you see, Douxie is a wizard's apprentice that was in the age of Camelot. And you be asking 'if you are magical beings then do you also have magical abilities?', and to answer that, yes. Both of us have magical abilities, like Douxie for example can conjure some spells, and other things that wizard's can do. And as my abilities are that, I can transform to any form of animals in the world, I can spit fire straight from my mouth, I can transform to my dragon form just like your own way of transforming back, and I am a familiar to Douxie, which explains my mark in my chest, a contract of the familiar and his master".

"Okay Arch, I think Krel must be a bit confused about all of this info...", Douxie then spoke to make Archie stop for Krel's sake, but to his surprise, Krel was taking notes from a keypad like device in mid-air.

"Interesting, and if the contract breaks, can one repair it or it is a bound that would never be repaired again, if you can transform to any creature on Earth, do you take form of intergalactical creatures, and do you also take a form of a man or woman, if you and Douxie have traveled for centuries then what were the evolution of Earth, and if Douxie is 919 years old then how old are you exactly?". Krel then spatted questions at made Douxie and Archie quite. "Oh I apologize, I have a annoying habit of asking questions".

"We can, uh... answer those questions later. But may we asked you some questions...?", Douxie asked Krel, holding Archie to his side.

Krel nodded and turned his device off, "What do you wish to ask about me...?", he spoke quietly but proceeded with caution.

"What are you..?.

"I am an Akiridion, a royal Akiridion".

"Royal..?, you are a royal?", Archie stepped in, which Krel nodded.

"I am from a planet billions of lightyears away from here...".

"And what planet is it..", Douxie replied.

"Akiridion-V, home to us Akiridion's".

Archie and Douxie were mesmerized by it, and was comfortably in position. "May we ask about you're family..?".

Krel slightly looked away, but decided to take that aside, "My father King Fialkov, my Mother Queen Coranda, and my older sister Aja...", Krel then felt like water forming in his eyes, "W-what's happening, why is there liquid in my eyes?!".

"I think you're crying..", Douxie reached in and tried to wipe the tear away. "Don't you have that in your planet..?".

Krel shooked his head to that remark, "We have never experienced this 'crying' thing... we never cry back home".

Douxie finished wiping the tears away, and scooted a bit back. "If it's not to much, may you continue..?", Krel nodded and proceeded to discuss, from his whole race is, to where he driven to runaway, which took about half midnight.

"Well...It's getting pretty late...now", Douxie stretched and yawned, rosed from where he sat and scooped Archie up, fast asleep. "We should be going to sleep now, good night to you Krel".

Before he took off, he felt like he was being pulled by the shirt, he turned around to see Krel, "Douxie, could you perhaps...", he then slowly took a deep breath. "Will you keep this as a secret..".

The universal word, 'will you keep a secret', a word which may never be broken, or be spoken by others. A word which Douxie was familiar with, similar to what he told his past friends.

Douxie nodded but walked toward Krel an inch front, "I will if you keep my secret", he finished it with a wink. Krel nodded and Douxie then extended his pinky finger, "Let us seal the promise with this".

"What is this..?", Krel respond to tilting his head slightly to the right.

"This is called a pinky promise, a sacred earth thing that seals a promise together, from you and me...".

Krel then extend his pinky finger as well, and intertwined his pinky with Douxie's, while Douxie recites the following works; "I, Hisirdoux Casperan, promise to keep the secret of Krel to be latched to my soul".

Douxie then helped Krel recite the other words by writing it down in a paper; "And I, Krel Tarron, promise to keep the secret of Hisirdoux to be embedded in my... core".

"Core..?".

"It is like a human heart, but is like a glowing rock".

Douxie then shaked the pinky's together and said; "And if the secrets come out, I will cut my pinky finger..".

"And as too I".

They then disconnected their pinky fingers apart, and Douxie walked out of the room before saying, "good night, Krel.. sleep well".

To be continued...

Chapter Text

This story was a good progress for these two, they now truly have trust with each and other, well they have been at this for 4 days. They were now in trusted with each other's secrets and enjoyed each other's company, answer each one's questions, and feeling all like a runaway family.

Douxie finally woke up from a strange dream he had last night, something about king arthur coming back from the dead, but he wasn't too concerned, what really concerned him was that Krel hasn't woken up yet. He then loomed into the counter and see Archie cooking their breakfast, "Uh.. Arch? Where's Krel".

Archie just shrugged after placing both Douxie and Krel's breakfast, a classic eggs and bacon on toast. "Oh, maybe he isn't awake yet, could you perhaps check on him?", Douxie nodded and walked towards Krel's door.

He knocked on his door, of course no response, knocked again no response. Douxie had no choice but to barged right in the room, but to his surprise the door is locked '𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛'𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝐾𝑟𝑒𝑙?'. He twisted the doorknob but couldn't get it to open, so he had an idea to open the door with a unlocking spell, since he doesn't have a replica of Krel's room key, he searched for the right spell on his enchanted bracer, and said the incantation "Vorhemos!".

The door was opened quite elegantly, then revealed a sleepy, drooling Akiridion, with his portable tech lab not kept properly, almost falling on the edge of his bed. (I described it by how I sleep lmao), he couldn't help but wanted to chuckle at this moment but couldn't, he needs to get Krel ready for school. He checked the time on the hanged clock and it was, 6:03 a.m.

He walked towards the Akiridion and shook his entire body, "Krel wake up, you need to get to school!". (How my mom wakes me up for school QwQ).

"5 more mekrons..".

"You don't have a mekr- I mean minutes!", Douxie learned the time callings they had in Akiridion-V and he sometimes mistakenly says it. "You don't wanna be late, now do ya' !?", he then sighs at hus failed attempt to wake him up, then an idea strikes him; he can wake him up with a levitation spell, and luckily for him, he remembered the spell all too well, so with the following incantation "Sendravéx!".

Soon enough, Krel slowly floats up from his bed, instantly waking him up, "Hey, Hey, Hey! Douxie!!".

"What?, you couldn't wake up, so this was the best option", a teasing tone can be heard at Douxie's voice, he continued for a while dangling him back and forth, "So are you awake, or not?".

"Alright, I am awake..", Krel, admitted defeat, was slowly brought back to the ground, then landed on his feet. Four of his arms were crossed, "Was dangling me the best way to awaken me?", he only responded with a shrugged and a smile. Krel just rolled his eyes after Douxie walked out of the room, Krel then followed out of the room.

After Douxie and Krel reached the kitchen, they saw Archie reaching a can of tuna in the cupboard, "Archie? What about you're tuna diet?". Douxie then pulled Archie out of the cupboard, which made Archie get a tighter grip, but soon Douxie was the victorious one and placed him on the counter with a can of tuna, "One can for today..".

They then have their breakfast together, Krel and Douxie with their egg and bacon on toast, and Archie with his tuna. After they were finished with breakfast, the two boys were readying themselves for the day. Krel grabbed his school bag that Douxie bought for him, along with school supplies inside, turned on his transductor to reveal the latino boy. Douxie, fresh out of the shower, dressed his casual wear and dried his hair quick enough to it to dry off. They now were ready to get to their routines, "We'll be going now, Archie!", Douxie bid Archie farewell and walked towards the parking lot where his motorcycle was parked, he gives Krel another helmet, and starts to cranked the cycle to start, but nothing happens. "May I give it a try..", Krel spoke and got his prototool out, "Stand aside..", with a few tweaks and sparks, Krel gestured him to try it again.

Douxie cranked it one more time, and the motorcycle started, with a different new purr, "Did you do something with the engine..?", Krel, who just got into the cycle, shrugged followed by the same smile Douxie wore when he woke him up. He then rolled his eyes, twisted the accelerator, "alright, but you better hold on tight!", they were off, and oh boy it sure went fast. The cycle's speed was beyond the speed limit and that it was so fast, that some parked cars were beeping non-stop.

"Wooohooo!", Krel then shouted a exciting cheer by how fast it gotten, with his hands up.

"You do know that us going this fast, you're gonna fall off!".

"Well, I am used to this speed back home, so I do not fall off very easily!".

Douxie just continued to twist the accelerator, after receiving Krel's response. Douxie now felt the speed he needed for a long time, until he realized..." Oh fuzzbuckets, I forgot to drop you off!", Douxie then saw the school building up ahead.

All the students who just came to school, walked towards the building or some still walking towards it, Douxie then stopped with a screeching sound, the screech caught all the students attention, like ALL the students. Krel then hopped out of the cycle and took his helmet off, messy hair taken over, "Thank you, Douxie..".

Douxie took the helmet and hanged it over the handle, right after he tidied the messy hair "I should be thanking you..." Douxie said with a wink that the end, "Well then, I'll pick ya up after my shift at the bookstore".

He nodded in response, after Douxie two-fingered salute him and drove off, Krel then walked towards his classroom when he felt eye's all over him, like ALL THE EYES, on him directly. He paid no attention by it and continued to walk towards his classroom, sat on his respective chair, and then waited for class to begin...

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Jim and Toby got inside the classroom, all sweaty from the running, apparently they were chased by some dog. They then sat in their seats and waited for class to begin, Jim was all sleepy and droopy, all because for his training with Blinky at Trollmarket, stayed him up until 10 p.m.

Toby suddenly scooted closer to Jim's table, Jim raised an eyebrow at him, who then started inhaling "Where were you yesterday, I thought we were going to that taco truck that sales the hottest burritos!", Toby spoke with at the end of the speech a angerer tone.

"I thought we canceled that plan?".

"Dude, you can't cancel something that involves food...", he then rosed from where he sat, "and I will not TOLERATE THIS!". Suddenly they heard a screeching sound coming from outside the school, they loomed into the window to find that waiter at that one cafe, and hopped out of the cycle was the exchange student that got enrolled here.

"Wow, they must be very close to give him a lift from school".

Then, Toby had a gasp from an idea that he had, "Jimbo, we have to make him one of us".

Jim, who had a distinct look on his face, had an objective opinion on this, "Are you sure, I mean he is still new, should we just let him choose if he wants to be friends with us?".

"Jimbo, when it comes to new people", he then sees the the exchange student coming inside, and sat on his seat, "I'm the man", he then approached him and started talking.

'𝑂ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑑...'.

For a few minutes later, Toby walked towards him and looked like he was defeated. He then placed his head on Jim's table, and Jim patted his back to comfort him, "He said he isn't interested meeting new people!".

"Well, Tobe's, some people just want to be alone, you have to take time to make them your friends, like we are", Jim can see that spark in his face, "And whatever you're planning on you're mind, don't you dare...".

"Oh Jimbo, trust me..", he then scooted back to his table right at the bell rang, "it will work, because I, Tobias Domzalski, will make the new kid, one of us, and my title will return to it's former glory!".

.... '𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛...'.

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Douxie was finished with his shift at the bookstore, and his now on his 15 minute break, he set his timer for 15 minutes on his phone after pressing start. He then took out his lunch, which was a sandwich with a mayo packet Archie packed for him, '𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ", he then munched his sandwich, while sitting on his motorcycle. He then wanted to see the repairs Krel made to the cycle,so as he crouch under, he saw the engine that was mildly glowing blue, and the starter wire, that had a tiny gap on the middle, was patched up, "He did a pretty good job", after Douxie finished his sandwich, he then threw the leftover rubbish into a nearby bin, and checked his timer, "I still got 12 minutes left for my shift is finished". He then sat on the cycle, put his phone on his pocket, and waited for the timer. He suddenly felt like he was being watched, but couldn't feel their magic, so he brushed that feeling off and thought that he was just being paranoid.

Suddenly, hands slowly began to show up on Douxie's shoulders, carefully placing all fingers. Douxie felt there were fingers on his shoulders and he slowly turned around and... "BOO!".

"AAAAH!", Douxie then fell from his motorcycle to the ground, landed on his back, which followed the sound of laughter. It was Lexi playing another prank on Douxie.

"Oh god, you should've seen the look on your face, it was priceless!", she said between laughs, which made Douxie become more annoyed about her.

"Nice to see you too, Lexi..", he said, which he had a agitated and annoyed face.

She then extended her hand for Douxie to get up, which he accepted it, "Hey, it was just only a prank okay, we chill right Doux".

He just crossed his arms towards her, "yeah..I guess". He then sat back his motorcycle, watching the timer if his break was over, when it read '11 minutes and 35 seconds'.

"So, where's that friend of yours..what was his name again?".

"His name is Krel..." Douxie respond, "and he is in school right now".

Lexi's face was so shocked by what Douxie said, "School?!... why would you put him at book prison?!".

Douxie then sighed and un-crossed his arms, "look, I'm just surprised as you alright...but that's his choice", Douxie tucked his hands on his pockets, then realized. "Say, why are you here actually, shouldn't you be at the cafe, with your brother?".

"Oh, Lucas can manage himself", she replied "but I'm actually making last minute deliveries, that's all..".

Douxie then rolled his eyes, checking his phone again, '11 minutes and 02 seconds'. Lexi just looms over the corner of Douxie's shoulders, which caught his attention, "May I help you with something?".

Lexi then had her 'you look sussy' face, "you kept looking at you're phone, I thought you were waiting for something to happen, since nothing special happens in Arcadia".

"That's not true, there were gremlins every night, and I stumbled into one with Krel", Douxie then looked back, but still continued "...From the night we met".

He then heard a squeaky squeal coming from Lexi, with her eye's full of glimmering lights, "Love on the chase~!".

Douxie scoffed and hand palmed her in the face, "I kept telling you, we're just friends..." Douxie spoke between giggles "so quit messing with me and Krel!".

As the both laughed for a while, joking around, and talked about some topics. Which Lexi wanted to ask him a question, "Hey, Doux..", she looked at him, and same goes for him, "be honest with me, what do you really think about Krel?".

Douxie thought long and hard about what the say to her, "Well, his a good kid, good to have company with, has a nice hobby that a like to help, and many more..." Douxie replied and looked back to the secret he was supposed to keep, '𝑁𝑜..𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠', "In fact, he is really nice to have around when I'm in the apartment".

Lexi then had a relaxed face and smile warmly at Douxie's answer, "Well I'm glad you were true about this, and remember this...", she then pick up all her deliveries, and turned to Douxie one more time, "if you ever need someone to talk other than Krel, you can call me anytime for a chat, sometime".

Douxie nodded as Lexi went to her deliveries, he then thought about something about what she said, '𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑', he saw that his timer went off, meaning that his break was over. He got off from his cycle, and went inside the bookstore.

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After classes were done, their next period was gym class, which Krel doesn't know what that is, in fact this is his first time to gym class. They all wore their gym wear, and proceeded with a physical activity, Rope climbing, which Krel was familiar with back home. Varvatos would make him climb a rope faster than his sister's record time, '𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡?!'. He could hear some low whining at the back of the crowd, making the teacher quite annoyed, '𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑠...𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚?'.

"Alright, settled down everyone!", the teacher started shouting, making the whole whining go dead silent. "This makes me more disappointed than you all, so to make things easier, I'm setting you up into pairs of two in my judgment".

'𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡, 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑉𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔...? 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡?!'.

"Here are the list of two pairs: Mary Wang and Darcy Scott, Claire Nuñez and Jeremy Fisher (not part of the show), Steve Palchuk and Eli Pepperjack, blah blah blah blah blah, (my lazy booty), Tobias Domzalski and Shannon Longhannon".

"What?!, no offense Shannon..". A distinct screech on the back spoke with an tone of anger.

"Offense taken..", followed by a female voice, taking the offense.

"And finally, Jim Lake Jr. and Krel Tarron, well that's all, NOW GET CLIMBING!!", with that sudden shout, they all scattered to meet their partners, while Krel just stand there looking for his partner name 'Jim Lake Jr.'.

'𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑏 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡?!".

"Uh, hey are you perhaps Krel Tarron..?".

He turned around to find a boy skinny and tall, black-er hair than Douxie, and stood in front of Krel. "Yes, I am Krel...", he respond and step back a inch away, "and you must be Jim Lake Jr....?".

He then scoffed waving a hand, "my friends just call me, Jim..", he pulled out his hand towards him, offering a shake, "nice to finally meet you, Krel". With that he finished it with a smile.

Krel took the hand, and shooked it firmly. They then walked towards the rope that they are supposed to climb, Krel looked over the other students struggling to climb a bit. Krel was dumbfounded in that sight, that he made a look of confusion and disappointment. He then started to climb, without any struggle he reached quicker than the other pairs and rang the bell, the teacher looked starstruck and checked his stopwatch, "Holy moly, a straight four minute climb!".

'𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑗𝑎'𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒..', he then started to climb down, landing on his feet perfectly balanced.

Everyone was looking at Krel, all in awe and amazement, and a clap from the teacher started echoing the gymnasium, "Dang kid, you got some agility in you..", he suddenly approached him, hooking his arm around his shoulders, "how about I offer you a spot in the team, huh?".

Krel unhooked the teacher's arm, walking back, "thank you for the offer, but I would have to decline this, I am not fund of you're...'sports'..", '𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡..?, 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑥𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒..'.

The bell rang, and everyone dashed out of the gymnasium, along with Krel, they all changed out of their gym wear and into their casual wear, and in the changing room, Krel suddenly heard a voice coming from the metal walls, 'lockers'. "Hello..? Is someone there, please help me out", Krel's curiosity says he should not check the strange voice...but on the other hand.

Krel then opened the locker, revealing a boy with glasses like Archie, and was half naked. "Oh thanks man..", he then rosed from where he was stuck.

Krel just nodded at it and proceeded outside and waited for Douxie to pick him up, he found a spot outside to sit on to wait, and to pass the time, solving some word puzzles for his brain or whatever something Douxie said.

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After a long shift at the bookstore, Douxie looked at the time which was 4:52, the time Douxie picks Krel up from school. He bid the manager farewell and walked out the bookstore and into the parking lot, he jammed the keys in the keyhole and twisted the accelerator. That's when he saw Zoe at the sidewalk, he stopped right in front of her, and hopped out and walked towards her, "Hey Zoe, what's up...?".

Zoe saw him and went up to him, "Hey Doux, my cycle got a flat tire, and I felt my extra tire at my apartment..".

"I can take you there, but we move quick tho, I have to pick someone up from school..".

She nodded and hopped to the cycle, along with Douxie, and they drove off to her apartment, "Say, who's this someone you're picking up from school?".

"My new roommate!".

"Oh what happened to you're previous roommate then?".

"He got kicked out, for not paying rent!".

They then stopped by Zoe's apartment, she hopped out and dashed to her apartment to find the tire, he soon waited for a straight 2 minute long after she brought the tire. '𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒..𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓-'.

"Hey come on, we have to go".

That sudden voice got Douxie snapped back to reality, and he then zoomed back to where Zoe's cycle was parked.

After that ride, Douxie drops Zoe off to her parked cycle, being such a good friend, he had to help her repair her cycle, after all 'runaways have to stick together'. Douxie pick a wrench and afford to help her, "wait, what about you're friend you were supposed to pick up..?".

He did have to pick him up, but repairing this won't be that long, "Don't worry, with a little magic, this will be quicker than a gnome grabbing a soggy sock".

Zoe raised an eyebrow at him, but since she was the one who owes him for being free from in slavery, "Alright then, hurry up, I know a repairing spell that I've been working on".

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After Jim and Toby got out of the building, Toby wanted to leave early, but Jim had to stay behind for a while. Actually he is waiting for Blinky to arrive to school for pat-troll, Toby then rode his bicycle and disappeared from the distance, after that he saw Krel sitting outside, doing what seems to be a word puzzle. He approached him quite carefully.

"If you are trying an attempt for a sneak attack, do not bother".

Jim jolted at that suprise remark, "you can hear my footsteps?!", he then stopped at his tracks after that remark. A moment of silence filled the atmosphere, when Jim wanted to break this silence, "who are you waiting for then...?".

Krel slowly brought his attention to Jim, earning Jim a heavy gulp, "I am waiting for my friend to arrive, of course...", he then stand, walking towards him a bit closer. "And what about you, Jim...who are 𝒚𝒐𝒖 waiting for?".

"I, uh..just want some time alone, hehehe", he nervously response to that with a nervous chuckle.

Krel just kept glaring on him, but walked back to his spot. Jim just stood there awkwardly, shifting left to right, until Krel put his book down. He was so startled by that, because Krel gestured him to sit down beside him. '𝑊𝑎𝑖𝑡..𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚?...𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑇𝑜𝑏𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑...', he then puffed his chest, and walked towards him with wobbly legs.

Jim sat down beside him, like a school girl embarrassed by their love interest, Krel pulled his puzzle book out once again and started scribbling. A silent minute filled it once again, Jim couldn't get comfy when someone like this is on your school, "Ah, Kleb..".

That sudden remark just made Jim jolt a bit, he then looked at Krel by that, "is something wrong..?" Jim questioned him, leaning towards him just a bit, he then saw his pencil just broke. He had an idea, he reached his bag for a pencil sharpener, he got a hold of it and offered it to him, "here, it's for your broken pencil..".

Krel then accepted it and sharpened his pencil, "thank you, Jim..".

Jim smile gently and patted his back a bit, "hey no problem..". They then heard a motorcycle stopping, and hopped out the waiter at that one cafe.

"Well I best be going now..", he rosed from his place and handed his sharpener.

"How about you hang on to it..".

"Really..?".

He nodded to him, Krel then walked towards the boy and the motorcycle, handing Krel a helmet, "Say who's that boy earlier with you..?".

Krel turned a slight bit and turned to the boy back, "Oh, my new friend...".

'𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅!'.

With that, they were ready to go before Krel waved his hand, Jim taking that, and they drove off and disappeared. '𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑝, 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑡-𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔'.

To be continued...

Chapter Text

The cold and fresh air hits Krel's face, like the crisp air of Akiridion-V, takes him back to delightful memories. And with a feeling like that, he latches to Douxie's hips and pressed his face against his back, holding back tears from joyous times, you know how Douxie felt that, all blushy and red, but concerned as well. "Are you okay, Krel...?", Douxie slowed down a bit, asking Krel.

He didn't respond and it made Douxie a little worried, then he remembered that piece of paper that Lexi gave him 4 days ago, and thought now's that time to take him there. So with that acceleration, he drove to that place Lexi marked at the paper, passing his apartment, to which Krel was confused by it. "Douxie, you passed by the apartment..", Krel finally spoke, pointing at the apartment passing by.

"I know...", Douxie respond focusing his attention on the road, "I'm taking you to a place where we can chill for a while". He then feels another strong hold from Krel, then heard a quiet 'okay' from him.

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With a long drive, they reached to a place full of dandelions, with a mixed of yellow, orange, pink, and white. Krel was amazed by the field of flowers, he knelt down and touched the soft, fluffy flower and walk through the field. All emotions were written on Krel's face, a glimmer of spark can be seen on his eyes, which made Douxie follow behind him finding a place to sit.

After finding a perfect place for them to rest their feet, Douxie sat down to make sure it was safe, and it was, "Hey Krel, over here!", Krel then walked towards him and settled his books down, sitting beside him. He then looked at the view of all Arcadia, astonished he was by it all.

"The view from up here, is so..so..".

"Klebtastic..?".

He turned to meet Douxie's gaze, and smiled a little "Yes, I guess that is word".

They sat there for a while, full of silence (the silence follows them anywhere), but Douxie thinks it's time to start talking, "Say, Krel... were you really alright, back earlier..?", Krel looked at Douxie again, while he continued. "Well I mean, you did latched to my hip and pressed your face against my back, you can tell me you know..".

Then Krel tucked his knees and brought them to his chest, after his transductor faded revealed the Akiridion prince, his expression changed from wonder, to sadden, "By the drive we had, and the air that hit my face...", Krel then started crying a bit, and tried to continue "...It reminded me the crisp air of Akiridion-V when I am riding with Aja and Zadra... I missed that, And I have this feeling that I do not quite understand very well, but it makes me very sad".

"I think I figured out what your feeling...", Douxie respond, patted his back, "your homesick..and don't worry, every runaway gets homesick. We would miss the warmth feeling of our loved ones and regret running away in the first place, but it's okay...".

Krel wiped his tear off, sniffles a bit before responding, "how is it okay..?".

Douxie then moved his hand from the back, to his shoulder, "because you still have the memories of them, and you just focus on that..".

A smile then was plastered onto Krel's face, both sincere and sweet, "what about you, Douxie..?", He spoke quietly, which made Douxie give a confusing look, "What I meant is... do you ever get this 'homesick'?".

The two just gazed each other, waiting for his response. Douxie finally took a deep breath and finally gave his answer, "to be fair, I never had a home before Master Merlin give me a spot to become his apprentice...", he spoke, right after he continued "...I don't remember what my real home was or my loved one's, I only had Archie as my family".

Douxie felt like his heart was pierced by guilt and disappointment spears, guilty that he doesn't remember anything before Merlin, and disappointed for the fact he could never felt a warm touch from a loved one. He just wanted to cry at this very moment and let his tears drip down from his face, then he felt like his hand was being held on to, he looked up to see Krel holding his right hand, very close. He couldn't help but wanted to cry so much that his eye's will be dry, and that's what he actually did, pressing his head into Krel's shoulders.

Tears were now soaking Krel's bright clothes, and he doesn't mind it at all, comforting Douxie was all he could focus on. Krel hugged him with all four of his arms, letting Douxie cry there, "..It is now okay, Douxie..", Krel whispered into his ear, "You no longer need to suffer now...".

Then he slowly brought his head up to meet Krel's gaze, all Krel can see was red puffy eyes, and dried tears in his face. Krel, who was still holding onto Douxie, felt like that their being watched, and it's not the paranoid feeling his having, "Douxie... do you have this feeling that you are being watched..?".

"Yeah..I did, and it wasn't a magical being..", Douxie respond, sniffling and wiping his tears, he remembered that back at the bookstore, "And it wasn't just Lexi or being paranoid, someone was watching..".

Soon, something was being thrown far beside them, they saw what seems to be a... "BOMB!", Krel shoved Douxie out of the explosion, grabbed his serrator and set it in the shield, blocking the blast.

The explosion was a 10 feet radius, so it didn't really got damaged around Arcadia, but it was a big enough explosion to grab everyone's attention in all Arcadia, Krel and Douxie were alive, and both in shock. "W-what was that?!", Douxie spoke with a questioning-exclaimed toned, "Krel?!".

"I am alright, we barely avoided the blast...", Krel respond, wincing at his injured left leg that got to the blast, he deactivated the shield serrator and set it in the blaster, readying his stance, "Douxie, can you try to stand up..?".

He got a nod as a response as Douxie stood up, he saw the leg injured from Krel, shocked he was but he has to try to protect both him and Krel. Then he saw the motorcycle, not too far to dash to and drive back for Krel, but that would risk Krel being seen as an Akiridion, still...he'll have to take that risk.

He was about to dash to the cycle, when a shot almost aimed at him, Krel ran towards him, aiming his serrator. All Krel can do is to get to a safer place for them, but concerness was all Krel can right now, "Douxie..are you alright?".

"Yeah, I'm fine..but can you cover me for a while..?".

He didn't know what Douxie meant, but he nodded. So Douxie was searching for a spell in his bracer, while Krel activate the shield serrator blocking all the blasts, Krel can hear a wave of siren's in the distance but he has to stay focus on covering Douxie. Finally he found the perfect spell, once he did have it, he instantly grabbed Krel's arm and said the incantation; "Flastidious!", they dashed out of the field and into the cycle, they got on to the cycle, not having time to put on helmets, Krel then deactivated his serrator.

Douxie hurriedly jammed the keys in, and quickly twisted the accelerator as fast as he could to escape. Luckily for them, the speed of the cycle was very fast for anyone to see that an Akiridion is riding with a boy, and also for them they lost the figure. They both let out a breath of relief and they drove off to the apartment.

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They both stopped at a place where there were no people around, but they weren't sure enough, so Douxie peek at the end of the alleyway, looking if there were anyone else passing by. Douxie then sighed by the cost being clear, and also it was a good thing to Krel to activate his transductor in great timing, he transformed to his latino disguise, which still has the sting feeling of pain in his left leg.

Douxie couldn't help but knelt down to see Krel's injured leg, it was all in scorched marks and burns from the blast, along with scratches and grass scraps scattered around the leg. "Oh fuzzbuckets... okay, uh...", panic filled Douxie's entire body, losing his train of thought, seeing how injured he is, Douxie doesn't have a healing spell, since he didn't learned that before he was still an apprentice, and in fact that a spell is a very complex thing to master. Douxie couldn't find anything that would help Krel, '𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘, 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑥, 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜..𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜..𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜?'.

Then he finally thought of an idea, and it might be embarrassing for him, but he would rather be embarrassed than not helping his friend. He then went a bit closer, holding onto Krel's shoulders, "can you try to walk..?", he questioned him, which Krel shooked his head, "alright..and uh, how much do you weigh?".

Krel doesn't know what he meant be it, and he also doesn't know what he does weigh, "I am sorry, what..?".

"You know what, doesn't matter..".

Suddenly, Krel felt like he was in zero gravity, all weightless and light, he then felt like hands lifting him. "Oh, you don't weigh anything, you seem pretty light..", he then figured out why he is weightless, Douxie picked him up...and in a bridal style kind of carry, "Sorry, I can't use my levitation spell since I used up some of my energy to cast that sprinting spell, and don't worry I am pretty strong myself".

The two were just standing there, all bashful and embarrassed, until Douxie started walking all the way to the apartment. Literally all Krel can do, is just covering his face being all blushing blue, '𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠!?'.

Douxie then kicked down the door, which made Archie jumped at the sudden noise, "Do you want me to die this young?!", he then saw Krel being carried by Douxie, with an incredibly injured leg.

Douxie then placed him on the couch, foot resting on a cushion, Douxie just stood by Krel's side while Archie then went to grab the first aid kit from the bathroom, Douxie then heard a faint 'You could have just said so!'. Once Douxie got the first aid kit, he took out some bandages, sterilized solution, clean wraps, and ointment, "Don't worry, I'll clean it up as quick as I can, but just bare the pain for a while...".

As Douxie brought out the sterilized solution and ointment, pressed against the wound, earning Krel a hiss of pain. '𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛!', he then closed his eye's shut, while breaking a sweat. "Is it finished..?", Krel spoke, whilst he opened up one of his shutted eyes, then felt like silky fabrics were wrapping up his wound.

"Yeah, it's done...", Douxie respond wiping a drop of sweat in his forehead, "Go on, try standing..if you can manage, that is...".

Krel then slowly shifting out of the couch and tried to stand properly, his leg was a bit wobbly and still hurts a bit, but he manages to stand properly. "Yes, I guess..", He replied while extending his arms out to support his balance, he did almost lost his balance if it wasn't for an arm supporting his balance. He soon realized that the arm was Douxie's, grabbing him as soon he was troubled, "Thank you again, Douxie..".

"No problem, I'll place you here...", Douxie spoke while pointing at the arm chair, he lead him to the chair for him to sit properly. "Okay then uh, quick question... WHAT WAS THAT EARLIER?!", with that sudden shout could be heard by the whole apartment.

"My goodness, why don't you tell the whole people in Arcadia while you're at it..", Archie spoke about his sudden voice, "but Douxie's right, Krel... that explosion was massive, it even got everyone's attention in all Arcadia, including the policemen and firemen..?".

"I...do not know as well, it was so strange that another extraterrestrial would attempt to attack a royal extraterrestrial..it just does not make sense".

"Well that is...we gotta stir clear away from it, avoid it as much as we can". Douxie then stood up from where he sat, and helped Krel stood up as well, while Archie transformed to his dragon form, "that thing is still out there, and knows what we are...so we have to avoid that thing as much as we all could".

"Is this also apart of this all 'runaway' thing?".

Douxie smiled at Krel's words, and brought him a bit closer, "when it comes to something like this...You bet".

To be continued....

Chapter Text

After two days after the explosion incident, and to Krel's injury along with it, the explosion was the talk of whole Arcadia. In fact it's in every gossip, from talks to the people, to the morning radio casting. It might take a while to let this talk be yesterday's
news of Arcadia, but still a day's a day, and it sometimes needs to pass, (Woof I become Shakespeare lol).

Archie woke up before Douxie, as he stretched and yawned, he walked towards the living room to prepare for the two boys. Then as he walked in he saw Krel, already in his transductor and backpack, in 6:00 in the morning, "Krel...are you going to school already?".

Krel, who gave a slight jump by the sudden voice, turned to Archie giving a sigh and smiled, "Yes Archie, I am..".

"But, the 'thing' might be still out there...scouting you right this second".

Krel then grabbed the toast that Douxie taught him how to make toast in the toaster, placed it on his mouth (like an anime girl who would be late to school #relatable), and knelt down to Archie, "I will be fine Archie...and if they come for me, I have my serrator prepared..".

Archie then pressed his head against Krel's body, "you know Krel.. even tho you are an extraterrestrial, you already feel like family to me and Douxie", he then transformed into his dragon form, swooping a bit of money for him, giving it to Krel in his palms, "in case of emergency, use the bus ride home...".Krel accepted it and placed it in his pockets, he soon walked towards the door to leave and bidded Archie goodbye.

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As Krel walked past through the places where he quite remembered from his ride with Douxie, from the café where Lexi greeted him with a wave from the window, to the police station when Officer Scott gave him a suspicious look at him. When he finally reached the building by just a few blocks, he can't shake the feeling that he was being watched, then a sudden noise of footsteps came. Krel was already reaching out for his serrator in his pockets, until.. "Hey, Krel good morning!".

Krel turned around to find Jim, giving him a smile and a wave (Skipper once said, 'Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave lol). Krel gave out a breath of relief, and returned the wave as well, "Hello as well, Jim good morning..".

"You're acting a bit jumpy..is everything alright with you..?".

"Oh, I am fine...I'm guessing I am a bit paranoid today".

"No kiddin' you're not the only one here, everyone is so paranoid about the explosion two days ago..", Jim walked along with Krel walking in the building, "everyone thinks it was a terrorist attack, or a nuclear experiment from the government...".

'𝑂𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑒..'.

"But what should I know, Toby keeps on giving of some major theories..he even said that it must've been from aliens", He then follow up with a small laugh, whilst he opened his locker.

Krel, did the same only his was a bit far from Jim's, easily got offended by the remark 'aliens', "Well, maybe this 'Toby' might be true..I mean I was there to see the explosion only a 19 feet radius".

"Really..?".

"Yes, but I was never injured...".

Jim slammed his locker shut and walked towards Krel, giving a pat in the back, "Good to know you're not hurt".

With that sudden remark Jim gave, Krel gleefully smiled at him, and as Douxie sometimes says to his response, "Yeah, I guess you're right!", '𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡...'.

Jim then walked towards their homeroom, as Krel follows along. Soon as they got inside, all the talk was about the explosion, '𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡'. Krel looked over at Jim, who is also annoyed by the noise, resumed walking to his seat. Krel then went to his respective seat, and still couldn't get the feeling that he is being watched, but he guesses that he isn't being paranoid too. All the chatter is all that this room is filled with, and it's making Krel's focus escape his head.

He tries to think of anything else, but failed. The sounds of the chatter grew louder and louder, until.."Krel..?, you alright there bud?".

With that, it snapped Krel back to reality, he was all sweaty and short-breathened. Jim was really concerned him, since Krel 'did' witness the explosion up close, then he had an idea popped in. "Say, we actually have a free track today, you wanna head outside for a while..?, Jim suggested, pointing out of the room.

To Jim's response, Krel gave a nod and walked out of the room along with Jim, closing the door behind them. They sat where the classroom can be seen, shaded by a small tree, and plastered all with weeds and shrubs. The two just sat there awkwardly, none spoke a word, the only noise there was was the chatter around them, and Krel's short-breathes.

Jim thinks it's high-time to start talking, he took an inhale and finally spoke. "So what's up with you lately..?", Krel turned to Jim from his sudden words, "you know you can tell me anything".

Krel then sighed to that, and thinks it's time to talk, "I am alright...I just had this feeling that makes me very nervous about something..".

"And what are you nervous about..?".

"I...do not know exactly what I am nervous about".

"Well..what about things that make you scared?".

Jim maybe struck a nerve there, 'cause Krel eye's were full of fear, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that..l-let's talk about something else that can calm yourself down, alright?".

Then they heard a faint voice coming from the distance, Jim soon realized who that voice belongs to, and Krel just saw a chubby like figure that is constantly running towards them.

"Toby, what are you-".

"James Lake Jr. You buttsnack! You left me 2 minutes ago..", the boy who was named Toby, cut off Jim's words and started shaking him very fast, "I don't want my best friend to go alone with that 'thing' out there, and you're with...".

He dropped silent when he saw Krel, and turned back to Jim, who is now nauseous. Toby let's go of Jim, and appears to have stars in his eyes, "You made him one of us!".

Krel was a bit confused, then as Toby knelt down and clasps his hands into Krel's, somehow with a victorious smile like Varvatos would do, and again stars in his eye's. "I'm sorry, but...who is he?", Krel questioned looking at Jim.

"I'm very sorry about him, Krel...he really wanted to be you're friend also", Jim apologized, scratching the back of his neck.

Krel then looked back at Toby with an expression when he now gets it, "So you must be the 'Toby' I heard about from Jim...".

"He mentioned me!".

"Indeed, about you're theories with the explosion incident, I like the theory of an extraterrestrial did the explosion".

Toby's eyes then shimmer with sparkles and stars, '𝐴ℎ..𝐾𝑙𝑒𝑏, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎...'.

Jim then pulls Toby away from Krel's hands, having an annoyed expression, "Toby can you cut it out for a bit...", he spoke looking at Toby, "Clearly, he's into things simple...so don't try to do something 'extraordinary'", he finished it with air quotes with the word extraordinary.

'𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦...?'.

Suddenly, the feeling was back, but this time it felt like that they are glaring on Krel, he twisted and turned his head to see where this extraterrestrial was located, question him about how he found him, and 'maybe' destroy him so he can't tell anyone about him and his location. But he couldn't find him, he might as well discuss this with Douxie and Archie about this... then the bell rang for first period, "Oh looks like second period is starting...we better get to Mr. Stricklander's class, before we get scolded", Jim spoke while stood up and extended his hand for Krel, "If you're feeling alright...we would be a bit early for his lesson".

Krel did had that unusual feeling of his, but something with him being with Jim and Toby for some reason, makes his unusual feeling almost go away. So Krel accepted his hand and was pulled all the way to Mr. Stricklander's class, '𝐼𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒..𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟..𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜'.

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After school was done for the day. Jim, Toby and Krel then walked out, talked about what happened earlier, they do share a great topic all together, they really learned something new about each other so much. Then the three boys heard motor engine running, and to their surprise, it was Douxie who seems to have a black eye in his face. Krel rushed to him, dropping his books.

"Seklos and Gaylen, Douxie...What happened to you're face?!".

Douxie, winced at the sudden touch in his black eye, soon grab hold of Krel's hand that was touching the eye, "just had a dirty brawl for a friend".

He soon saw Jim and Toby walking towards him and Krel, holding the dropped books of Krel. For some odd reason, Krel seems a bit relaxed and well, "Hey, you seem well...", he spoke patting Krel's head, "Did something good happened in school?".

Krel glimmered a bit and nodded, "I have learned so much...I learned new 'slang' languages, thanks to Toby!", Douxie relaxed his expression...until, "Say, Douxie...what is a 'buttsnack'?".

"Okay, we're going now!", Douxie grabbed Krel and placed him on the cycle, and drove off, with Jim and Toby waving goodbye.
"What was that all about..?", Toby questioned looking at Jim for answers.

"No clue...", then they spotted the burrito truck, (woth someone you all might know), "So...up for that burrito with ghost peppers?".

"I thought you never ask".

To be continued...

Chapter Text

Douxie woke up from the smell of cooked food, which gave him the energy to get up from his bed. He saw Archie, again, cooking breakfast in his dragon form, Douxie was about to wake Krel up before Archie stopped him, "Don't bother going to Krel's room, he just left earlier".

"What?!", Douxie exclaimed with questions in his mind, "Why would you let him go out, while there is a literal being out there that is haunting him down-", he then his mouth was shoved by a piece of toast, must've been the leftover toast from Krel.

Archie stood on his two bottom feet, crossing his upper feet (I have no idea what people call those things), "Hisirdoux, the boy can handle himself well. New to Earth, sure, but capable of defending himself. Like you said, he protected you from the blast whilst he got a leg injury from that said blast".

Douxie was muffled by the toast, but chewed his way out for him to speak, "Still, we can't just let that thing roam while he is out there, do you have any concerns about Krel?".

"I do, now unlike your pathetic excuse of a master, I keep in touch to who I aim to protect, that includes you and Krel".

'𝐻𝑒'𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡'.

"And besides, I gave him some spare money for him to take the bus ride home, if something happens to him". Archie then shifted back to his cat form and proceeded to munched his breakfast, pushing Douxie's breakfast to him.

Then Douxie soon received a text message from the cafe he worked at, the message was from his boss which said: "Hey Douxie looks like you're having a day off. Apparently, Finn (not part of the show) got the chickenpox and the health inspector is requiring for the café to be closed and be quarantined for a while, so I'll be seeing you again soon, Simon (not part of the show).

..."Looks like I'm going to Lexi soon".

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As Douxie walked towards his motorcycle being parked, he saw a glimpse of a shadowy figure, tall and bulky, buff and all, just standing in a dark alleyway. And in a blink of an eye, the figure suddenly vanished, like Douxie just imagine it.

He just ignored the feeling, and proceeded to walk towards his motorcycle and drove off to The Runaway's Coven Cafe. To be honest, Douxie has always seen Lexi, but hasn't seen Lucas in so long since he met them in Scotland '68 (Scotland before Camelot, I just don't know what time is that, so I did it randomly), they were orphans by childhood, but they soon became both wizard's apprentices. Their master was a bit rude so they both ran away from them, and Douxie ended up meeting them.

'𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒...𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒'.

As Douxie finally arrived to Runaway's Coven, not only did he got greeted by the smell of deserts, but also came along chaos. Apparently, their was a rude customer at the cashier (like a Karen, y'know what imma call this character, Ms Karen), demanding a refund for the tea having milk....'𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑒𝑎 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡!'.

"I demand a refund this instant!", Ms Karen gave in a fuming tantrum, "can you not see that I am lactose intolerance!?".

"Ma'am please...", Lexi who is operating the cashier, pinched the bridge of her nose while squinting her eyes shut. "You specifically said you're order; 'One latte with extra cream and milk, powdered cinnamon, and make it hot. Bianca (not part of the show), you heard her order didn't 'cha?".

Lexi shout at the kitchen, who which that respond pop a female head up the window, '𝐺𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝐵𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑎'. Her features were kinda unique, her hair was perfectly bleached in twin tails, her bangs were splashed with a pink and purple highlight, and had a childish face. "Yep, and I have her order on paper right here too".

"Caught you red handed...bitch..", Lexi trash talked to Ms Karen, while sticking her pierced tongue at her.

The whole cafe was now full of small laughs and chatter, which made Ms Karen so frustrated that she was readying her hand to punch Lexi, and with a swing of her arm she hit a skin surface. "Holy shit, Douxie!", the fist hit Douxie right in the eye, making Lexi shriek in shock.

"Glad I had...fast reflects", Douxie barely spoke after the fist was removed from his face. Soon his nose started to bleed a little, then Lexi dashed towards Douxie to help his conditions.

"What's going on here...?". Then suddenly a man's voice appeared out of a room, his features were like Lexi but he had blonde hair with green faded colors in his tips, has a pierced nose ring, and wore a darker apron and a badge with the writing 'manager'.

"Long time no see...Lucas".

Lucas then saw Douxie and Lexi, very close. "Lucas, that rude customer punched Douxie straight in the eye, and she gave him a black eye and a bleeding nose".

"I thought he was a theft, so I had to defend this girl...I didn't mean to-".

"Save you're excuses, I've seen the security cameras and looks like you were about to swing some punches at my co-worker here", Lucas cut her off looking a bit aggravated. "I call the police to take you away from my cafe, and it looks like they are on their way".

Ms Karen gave both angered and shocked expressions, immediately her attention goes to Lucas, "Just who do you think you are, huh?. I wish to speak to the manager of this place, at once!".

"Bitch you're talking to them...", Douxie finally spoke while wiping the blood off his nose, standing quite slumpy and wobbly.

Ms Karen, of course, looked as if she saw a ghost as Lucas nodded to what he said. Then officer Scott came in and escorted her out before slandering some pretty nasty words, after that Lucas thought it would be time..."Alright people, shows over, you can go back to what everyone was doing", he then saw Douxie being helped by Lexi, "...Take him to my office and patch him up".

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"Ah, son of a bitch!".

"Will you hold still, you buttsnack!", Lexi spoke as she struggled to put some patches on his nose, while Lucas is helping Lexi out with medical supplies. "Aaaaand...done, now...", she gripped Douxie's shoulders after doing the most bazaar thing... shooked him back and forth, "WHYWOULDTAKETHATHITYOUBUTTSNACKDONTTELLMEYOUWANTKRELTOBEWORRIEDABOUTYOU?!".

"Chill, you bloody boulderhead" (slang of the chapter 'boulderhead' similar to 'head full of rocks'). Lucas spoke as he pulled her out of Douxie's shoulders, "but seriously why take the hit of that homophobic bitch..?".

Douxie then stood up and patted Lucas in the back, "aww come on, I don't want that pig to dirty Lexi's face...". Douxie then pulled away and smiled softly, "it's been do long that I haven't noticed that you changed, it feels like just yesterday that you were that hard-headed of a brat".

Lucas looked a bit annoyed by what Douxie said and gave him a tight grip in the back, somehow twitching his eyebrow. "Call me a brat one more time, and I'll send your ass to a firey place, in the underworld you slimy prick".

"Here we go again...for once you two, act like real men!", Lexi then step in between them, pushing them to opposite sides. "Say Doux, what time do you pick up Krel?".

...'𝑓𝑢𝑧𝑧𝑏𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑡..'.

Then the office doors were swing open to hear the chatter of the explosion incident. Lexi and Lucas went back to their posts, dealing with the customers, while Douxie being left alone in the office. Then out of nowhere, footsteps can be heard...inside?, Douxie then turned around to find that shadowy figure from the alleyway, but this time closer for him to see. "You..", said with a voice deep and..echo-y?.

"..Me?".

"Where have you hidden the prince?".

Douxie was quite confused by what it said, "prince...?".

"Don't play dumb with me, human...", then started pointing their finger at him, all full of scales and claws, "I know you have hidden the Prince of Akiridion-V, so begin to tell or suffer my-".

"Telosious...", Douxie cut them of with a chant of a spell, making them choke and wheeze. "Okay now you tell me...what do you need Krel for?".

As they finish up wheezing, they stood up and spoke, "I was claiming my reward for bringing the missing Prince of Akiridion-V, and when my resources have told me that the Prince was in this planet, it was a rising opportunity for me to capture him, and bring him back to Akiridion-V...", confused they were, that they would give up precious intell for a human being, "what sorcery is this, human?!".

"Truth spell, makes you tell the truth whenever I ask, so your a bounty hunter then...were you the one that cause the explosion back to that place?", Douxie pointed to the field of flowers in the valley not far away.

"Yes, and causd the injury from the Prince, spied you two back at you're place, which lead me here to you".

"Just who are you?".

"I am Flinge Kripton (not part of the show), from sector 223".

Douxie sighed at him and pinched the bridge of his nose, "okay, Flinge...we will discuss this later so...Vexlie". With that chant, Flinge was now petrified like stone and fell down for Douxie to see his face, "great...I should've brought him to my place".

"What's going on here...?", Lucas peeked through the door and barged in, seeing Flinge laying there frozen, "Hisirdoux..?".

"Uh...extraterrestrial business?", Douxie just shrugged at Lucas with a 'ahh, shit I'm caught' smile, "Look I just need this guy to be in my apartment, and can't do that with suspension...".

"Say no more..", Lucas then closed the door behind him, stepped inside a bit and said an incantation, "Vortek". Then suddenly a portal appeared into thin air, making Douxie feel speechless, "courtesy of Zoe's new tech spells, it leads straight to your apartment. So just dump the sucker in the portal".

Douxie soon shoved Flinge into the portal, and the portal vanished in time for Flinge to get in. "Thanks a lot Lucas..".

"It's all good, now we're even", he spoke after looking at the time, "say...when are you picking up this 'Krel' Lexi kept talking about?".

..."Fuzzbuckets..".

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As Douxie drove towards the school and stopped right at the entrance, he was just in time to see Krel coming out of the building. To his surprise, Krel dashed towards Douxie also dropping his books down, he then carefully placed his hand against the black eye, "Seklos and Gaylen, Douxie...What happened to you're face?!".

Douxie just winced at the sudden touch, '𝑦𝑒𝑎ℎ..𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ..", "just had a dirty brawl for a friend". Douxie respond taking the hand off of his hand, then was surprised that his face was completely fine, no cuts nor scratches. '𝐺𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚', "Hey, you seem well...", he spoke patting Krel's head, "Did something good happened in school?".

He soon saw Jim and Toby walking towards him and Krel, holding the dropped books of Krel. Krel literally was beaming with glitter, "I have learned so much..I learned new 'slang' languages, thanks to Toby".

'𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑...𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑'.

"Say Douxie...what is a 'buttsnack'-"

"Okay we're going now!", Douxie just grabbed Krel, placed him on the cycle and drove off, '𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡..'.

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"Okay before you say anything, please don't scream".

"Why would I?", Krel questioned him while putting away his school bag, "Douxie...what is it this time".

Douxie fiddled with thumbs and was constantly avoiding eye contact, "Douxie, what is it this time I got homework to do".

Douxie thinks it's time and find where 'he' is, he soon let Krel follow him and to his surprise, he was a bit speechless.

..."WHAT THE KLEB?!".

"I knew you were gonna say that...".

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Krel was shocked and silent for the fact that, Douxie, a mere human..or wizard, could capture an extraterrestrial that huge. "You captured an Argathon?!", Krel spoke with his tone higher then normal, "how..when..why..where?!".

"First off, that thing is called an Argathon?", Douxie respond while pointing at the unconscious Argathon, "And secondly he was stalking me a while ago, and not to mention...He Is The Bloody Bounty Hunter!". Douxie then relaxed his nerves and tries to focus on the situation at hand, "look let's just contain him for the time being, got any ideas on how to detaining an Argathon like his size?".

"That's an Argathons normal size...", Krel corrected Douxie's words, soon brainstormed his memories to think of what weaknesses do Argathons have. Then an idea strikes him like lightning, "Do you have anything that is made out of iron?", Krel finally spoke.

Of course, Douxie was just confused about what Krel suggested, "Well yeah, there's a 50 inched chain down at the basement of this apartment".

"Alright we need that here, and fast...because I think he is about to wake up".

"Alright, just keep watch on that guy until I get back", with that Douxie slammed the door behind, while Krel stood guard on him.

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After long tired attempts to detained the Argathon in chains, they finally were finished. They began to ready their stances for what's coming, Krel begin to warm up his serrator in, and Douxie hand on his bracer, "Well, as the saying goes: ready when you are".

With that, Douxie held up the bracer, and said the incantation "Revelt..",as the two were just waiting for Flinge to wake up, they soon hear rattling chains from Flinge. Flinge tried to struggle with all of his strength left in him, but soon failed. "Mordrax's Miracles, the chains...actually worked?!", Douxie spoke with amazement and confusion.

"Of course..." Krel respond, "My parents once captured a fugitive Argathon, and detained them with something that was made of iron. For you see, Iron in sector 223 is known to be strong and invincible, perfect for detaining strong and buff Argathons".

'𝐻𝑒ℎ..𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠'.

Soon the rattling stopped, and soon Flinge raised his head up to see two boys in front, one was Douxie and other was Krel. "The Prince!..".

"Shhh! Not so loud, you Larvox!", Krel then shush for the words that were spoken aloud. "Now what are you doing here, besides the info given by Douxie, what other purposes do you have".

Soon Flinge was now smirking showing one of his fangs, "why should I tell someone that is as weak as you, you snarglet..". (Slang of the chapter 'Snarglet' is an offensive word to someone weak and spineless). "And even if you can get information on me, you can't. Us Argathons are known to keep our secrets kept in and never to come out".

"His right, Argathons are very loyal when it comes to an oath...or information", Krel finally admitted defeat which lead him a sigh.

As Douxie stood there silent, knowing it was hopeless of getting more info, he sees in the corner of his eyes, Krel stepping in forward, '𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔?!'. "Krel, what are you doing?!", Douxie spoke while raising his arm out for Krel, "you can't just walk towards him without unknowingly!".

"Trust me on this", Krel respond "I know about these things, Douxie...if you just trust me on this, please...", he soon lowered Douxie's arm and slowly walked towards the captured Argathon. He then raised his serrator and set it in blaster mode, soon did the most absurd thing, he shot the window near Flinge. The window was cracked- no, shattered into a million pieces, flying off the building, "Sorry about that, there was something bothering me on the window that was needed to be annihilated".

The bullet (I don't know what there called or made off, so this was the best option for me) flew out of the window, leaving the residence below unnoticed, Flinge was now petrified, and Douxie's jaw was wide open from what he did, "Oi! You shot a window that 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 be paying?!", Douxie exclaimed angrily at Krel.

Krel slowly turns around to see Douxie face to face, his expression changed from a very scary and cold look, to a sweet and sincere look. "Sorry about that, got caught in the moment..", he respond while scratching the back of his hair, "did I said it right?".

Douxie just tried to let it go and out comes a sigh, "yes you said it right..." Douxie respond, "now what are we gonna do, he won't talk more now?", he finished with his arms crossed and had his sassy pose (sassy Doux is back y'all! XD).

"I'm not sure, but I might need to go to my room to find out more...", Krel then walked towards his room before stopping at his doorway, "oh and...keep watch on that guy", and with that he closed the door leaving Douxie with Flinge.

'𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠, ℎ𝑢ℎ...ℎ𝑒ℎ, ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡'.

"You must really care about the young prince, now do you..?", Douxie's attention was nkw darted at Flinge, whose once pale face was back in color, "admit it human. You care so much for the Prince of Akiridion-V that you ended up becoming his own personal guard, that you keep watch on him and aim to protect him".

"H-h-how do you know that?!", Douxie respond all flustered with his face all red, "shut it, ya buttsnack! Your gonna be quite and be there until Krel gathers up a plan". Douxie then sat on the couch and tried to continue to watch over Flinge, who was closing his eyes and was now relaxed. He couldn't help but think about what Flinge said to him were all true tho, after this past week he was being attached to Krel very well, that maybe...'𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑', (hmmm, I wonder who keeps saying that too =_=).

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"𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞~!".

"𝐒𝐨𝐨, 𝐃𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐱𝐢𝐞".

"𝐈 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐥!".

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'𝑂𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒..?'.

"Douxie?", Archie spoke making Douxie snap back in reality, Archie sat next to him all concerned and worried, "is everything alright with yo- WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME IS THAT THING THERE!?", Archie soon exclaimed pointing at the Argathon.

"Relax Arch, this is Flinge Kripton, from sector 223 and the one who caused the explosion incident, and also injured Krel's leg before", Douxie respond reassuring the dragon-cat at his side.

But before Douxie could batter an eyelid, Archie pounce at the detained extraterrestrial with lightning speed, with eyes that are flashing red rage. Douxie just caught him in time for Archie to not scratch Flinge to death, "let me at 'em Douxie, I'll teach him a lesson to not mess with my boys boyfriend!".

"Archie!".

"What, it's the truth..".

Then the three soon heard a slam of Krel's door, he was beaming with glitter and was holding..."glasses?", Douxie spoke pointing at the thing Krel is holding.

"Oh this are not 'glasses', no no no no...", Krel respond denying what he said, "this is my newest, and possibly my favorite, invention! I call it...'The Mind Reader!'...".

Douxie soon dropped Archie and approached him to take a closer look on Krel's new invention, "but why make it look like glasses..?".

"Well, Toby did gave me an idea that went like this: "Hey you know that if the government would mind mind reading glasses, think about the darkest secrets to unravel". So yes...", Krel respond and soon pulled out another pair, "and I also made another one for you! Is this not exciting?!".

A sigh escaped his mouth, and soon hand over the other pair of mind reader, "whatever you blue brain..". Douxie and Krel then wore the mind readers and turn them both on, "so..now what?".

"You now focused your vision on the person that you need to read their mind", as Krel finished his explanation, Douxie (mostly) gets it and follows Krel's lead, before seeing Archie raising his paw full of claws at Flinge, "Archie no!".

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Krel and Douxie now stood in front of Flinge, with their mind reader's ready for him, "Alright Flinge...let's see what you're really hiding?", Douxie spoke that sound very intimidating...'𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝐼 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑏𝑦-𝑑𝑜𝑜?', (I'm sorry but I had to XD).

(𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 are the thoughts, just want y'all to know).

"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝'𝐬".

"You'd be surprised when you live with this guy", Douxie respond on Flinge's thoughts.

"What?!".

"It worked! I can not believe it in a millon keltons!".

"𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞...𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠?"

"Douxie..what is 'bluffing'?", Krel questioned Douxie from what Flinge said in his thoughts.

"That he thinks we're faking you're invention..".

"𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞!? 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨-".

"General Morando?", Krel spoke full of confusion, "why and what does General Morando want with me..?".

"Wait who's this General Morando?", Douxie question to the person they mentioned.

"He is my parents personal Guard and the general of all Akiridion-V's armed forces..", Krel respond and continued, "but what does he want with me...and why?".

Flinge soon sighed and decided to tell them, "General Morando set out a bounty for the missing Prince of Akiridion-V, and return him...dead or alive", Flinge paused and soon continued. "He is planning to rule Akiridion-V with you as a weak spot for the king and queen of Akiridion-V, to finally have the throne".

... The room was now full of silence, none spoke a word to what Flinge spoke. Douxie soon gazed at Krel, and accidentally (🟥) his mind, "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞?!. 𝐇𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐕, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭!".

"Krel snap out of it!", Douxie's voice snapped Krel back, but with a look of worry and a little droplet of a tear.

"Douxie, I'm scared...I don't want to go back", Krel all shivering and scared, hands quickly go cold and shaking on Douxie's shoulders.

"I won't let it happen, Krel...not when I'm here".

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Well, how about we got to one of Krel's friends for once, shall we.

The morning sunlight shoned the inside of Jim's bedroom invited in, the ray's hit the boys face making him rose awake instantly. Jim stretched his arms to his back arching, with a yawn he forced his body to get up from his bed, he stayed up in 3 in the morning to get some training in Trollmarket, with the help of Blinky and Aaarrrggh, and had to ease Draal back with the whole 'not a troll can't be a trollhunter' thing.

With a few blinks he went to the hallway and checked his mom's room, he saw his mom sounding asleep, '𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡'𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑐'. He then went to the kitchen downstairs, and saw his mom's leftover meatloaf on the kitchen counter. "Oh god mom", since Jim doesn't have a choice he might as well reheat the meatloaf, he placed it in the microwave and set the timer.

After that was over, he soon took the meatloaf out, sliced it into bite-sized cubes (his kinda style), and placed into..."Wait, maybe I should pack Krel also", Jim said aloud "he did say it's his first time here and never learned anything new from Arcadia Oaks", he thought of the right decision..."I'll just pack an extra, just in case". And with that he shoved the three bags of meatloaf and left one extra for Barbara, he had to check all of his things before going, "pens, notebooks, my phone, and my amulet, good I'm ready to go", Jim walked towards his doorway and left the house.

As Jim could say 'keep it crispy' (again, I had to XD), he was tackled by non other than Toby who was smiling as wide as ever. "Morning Jimbo!", he greeted.

"Morning Tobe's", Jim replied "Oh and here, it's my mom's meatloaf", he then gets into his backpack and hands Toby the bag of meatloaf.

Toby, who was now drooling over it, snatched the bag of meatloaf and quickly shoved it in his pack. Toby soon noticed that Jim was packing an extra bag of meatloaf, "Hey Jimbo who's that bag for in you pack?".

"Oh, I thought I could pack an extra one for Krel, since he's new here in Arcadia Oaks, and he also said that he doesn't have any good cuisine back at his hometown, so I wanted him to try this homemade meatloaf".

"Oh I think I can relate with that", Toby respond nodding.

After that, the two were now on their way to school, walking and talking to past the time. But after a while, they crossed paths with a latino boy in front of them, and they now that it is Krel. Jim signaled Toby to be quite and planned a sneak attack on him, they crept quietly until..."I can hear you two, you know".

"Aww man!", Toby whined as they both popped out of their hiding place, "you have good sense of hearing".

"Tell that to the people around us".

"Fair point..", Jim respond feeling embarrassed.

"So where is the guy who picks you up from school?", Toby said as they walk.

It took Krel to realize about who he is referring to, "Oh you mean Douxie..?".

"Wow...that's his name".

"Tobe's!", Jim spoke while making Toby to quiet down. "I am so sorry about him Krel", he apologized.

"It is alright Jim", Krel respond "well he can't drive me to school today, because we both didn't get the proper sleep we needed, but as Douxie stated 'suck it up and walk yourself to learning prison!'.."

Jim nodded, but Toby..."Man, I wish I had a brother who acts like a dad, would I wish for that".

"I don't understand about what you said Toby", Krel said with a tone of confusion "Douxie is not related with me...".

They both stopped and were now silent for a while, Jim wasn't prepared to hear that actually, but tried to ask tho "Are you and Douxie...intimate?".

"...I'm sorry What", Toby questioned him while darting eyes of questioning. "And what do you mean by the word 'intimate' here Jim...?".

As the two were just rambling, they looked at Krel who seems to be blue.."Uh, Krel...you good? You're face is kinda blue".

"U-uh, yeah...I'm fine!", Krel spoke between frustration and embarrassment, while he was covering his face being all blue. "I-I'm not intimate with Douxie...We're j-j-just close friends, yes! Friends".

With all if their babbling the school bell can be heard a block away from where they are, "Aw crap the bell! We're gonna be late", Jim exclaimed and ran straight to the direction of the school, along with Krel and Toby behind.

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The three of them got to school in time, and went to their respective seats, all sweaty and panting non-stop from the run, they just made it when Mr. Stricklander came in, as always he is all stern and serious, Jim can feel that he is all that he's been looking at. They got started with classes with Stricklander writing on the board, it was all the same actually as usual, about poems, how to properly write them, and the types of poems there are (I only got this with my real life lessons in school).

Jim just slouch his seat, huffing away a strand of hair. Then suddenly felt something hit this head and saw a crumpled up paper, he looked around to see who threw it but no one looked (sus)picious. He then picked up the crumpled paper off the floor, and folded back. He saw some writing and fully folded and see the whole writing; "square up Lake, or are you a chicken?".

"Who the fu-!", Jim exclaimed quite loudly, but was cut off by Stricklander throwing a piece of chalk.

"If you have something to share, Lake..now's the best time?", Stricklander said looking very pissed.

Eye's were all looking at him, and quiet laughs can be barely heard. Jim just stood there all embarrassed, until Krel stood up and spoke. "I'm so sorry Mr. Stricklander, I was talking to him and maybe something I said made him shout, I'm sorry".

Mr. Stricklander just sighed while pressing the bridge of his nose, "I guess it's alright...but don't make it into a habit in the near future, you may be seated".

The two then seated and Stricklander was back to the lesson, Jim couldn't help but be astonished by Krel's courageous to stand up for him in the face of Stricklander, just couldn't.

"Hey Krel...", Jim whispered leaning towards to Krel, as Krel leaned back, "I just wanna say thanks...back there".

"It's fine", Krel respond "...we'll have to take this conversation after class".

Jim nodded and went back to their classes.

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"Jimbo, what was that earlier", Toby exclaimed in the cafeteria with Jim and Krel, "You were shouting 'Who the fuu...' for no reason, what was that".

Jim sighed and tried to ignore Toby, which will be hard. "I kept telling you, Tobe's...literally nothing".

"Quit lying, Jim", Krel said beside him "Clearly there was a reason for the sudden shout, and you won't tell us because...?".

"I just don't want you guys to get involved on my problems".

"That's a lot of bull", Toby respond having a 'I doubt that shit' expression, "if it's about something then, we'll be-".

"Alright", Krel spoke cutting off to what Toby was gonna say, "if you do not wanna talk about it, we understand".

"Thanks a lot Krel", Jim respond with a sincere tone, "oh yeah I almost forgot..", he went into his bag and got the bag of meatloaf, "I made this for you as well, it's my mom's meatloaf and I thought that you should have some too".

Krel who was speechless, accepted the bag, and smile warmly at Jim, "thank you Jim", Krel thanked him and settled down. He then opened the bag and soon took a bite of a bite-sized cube, "...Jim this is really good".

"I know right", Toby spoke and also took a bite of the meatloaf.

Jim was happy to see his friends have smiles in their faces, it also gives Jim a smile on his face. But the smiles faded, by someone behind him. He turned around to see non other than Steve Palchuk, "Hey there Lake...", he greeted with a fist hitting at the other palm, "ready for our square up?".

"Wait, you were the one who threw that crumpled up paper earlier?", Jim respond looking all dumbfounded.

"Yeah no shit, Sherlock...I haven't forgotten about that time you embarrassed me in front of Claire and The Coach, and you're gonna pay for that".

"Oh you mean that I exposed you of your habit of stuffing a kid in some random lockers, then yes...I haven't forgotten that moment either".

"Hey, what's going on here?", Toby questioned while Krel with a mouth stuffed with bite-sized meatloaves.

"It's non of your business, Domzalski", Steve said looking angery.

"If it is not our business, then I have to go to the restroom", Krel spoke swallowing his food, and stepped out of the cafeteria.

"Well, that's one freak out".

"Hey, don't you dare say that to him...".

"OoOoOoOh I'm so scared, hah or what Lake".

"I'll knock you out like the bitch boy you are".

Steve might be angry to what Jim said, because at the second blink of an eye, he went in and pushed Jim so far that the tables were all scooted. Everyone was now surrounding the two boys fighting, some chanting 'fight' over and over, while others were pulling out their phones and recording them. Jim hurriedly dodge the punch that was from Steve, '𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑦'.

Jim soon got up and swiftly dodged all of Steve's punches, "God Dammit Lake, Fight me like a real man!", Steve shouted and landed a punch on Jim's face. His nose was now bloody, blood dripped from his left nostril.

Jim soon wiped his bloody nose and prepared a fighting stance, "If it's a fight you want, then you're getting one, bitch boy".

Steve soon gave a left hook, which Jim easily blocked it. Jim then jab him straight up in his teeth, which gave Steve a tooth gap. Everyone laughed at 'the new look' for Steve, and to make it better, the tooth came off and still had blood on it.

Steve got even more furious, by his expression he wasn't gonna hold back, "You're gonna pay for this, Lake!".

"Bring it on, Palchuk!".

Jim and Steve both had a straight punch, the suspense by the bystanders, trying to see who gets the first hit. But to their surprise, no one got the hit as someone blocked both their fists, and it was non other than Krel. "I was only gone for a sekton, and this happens", Krel soon pushed both of them with a single blow, putting them against the walls or the tables. A sigh escaped his mouth and soon he grabbed his bag and left the cafeteria.

"...What in the dingdong fu-?!".

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Jim who just got out of the infirmary with Steve, both got patched up amd giving each other death glares. Toby waiting with Krel at the lockers as they saw Jim coming out of the infirmary. "Jimbo!", exclaimed Toby while running towards him, "thank god you're not that badly hurt".

"Yeah..", Jim respond and soon looks at Krel all worried, "and don't worry about this Krel, it's wasn't your fault".

"If you say so, Jim", Krel spoke looking quite disappointed, "but I really didn't mean to push you that far, I really was".

"Like I said, no biggie".

Soon a ringing can be heard and was coming from Krel's phone, he pulled it out and saw 'Douxie' on the phone, he then answered and greeted with a "hello..?".

"Hey Krel, I'm afraid I can't pick you up from school", Douxie spoke on the phone, followed by the sound of clattering in the background, "apparently- Woah!, The customers at work are getting hangry at the moment- eek! WATCH IT, YOU BUTTSNACK, so you might as well walk home for today if that's okay with you".

"Uh, of course...I'll see back at the apartment?".

"Yeah see ya- JUST WAIT A DAM-", the call was now cutted and ended.

As Krel placed it back in his pocket, he turmed to the others, "Well I guess I'm walking home".

"And we'll be there with you", Toby spoke out.

"That's true", followed by Jim.

(I gotten lazy here so let's just time skip this bingbong)

As the three walked further and further to their destination, Jim thought of the most terrific thing of anyone's friendship.

A gift.

But the question is; what would be the best present for Krel here?, Jim thought long and hard, he even asked Toby about what would be the best gift, then Toby tried to take matters in his own hands and try asking without being (sus)picious, "Say Krel...if someone you know were to give you something, like a present. What do you think would be the best present for you?".

Krel was silent, but soon looked over a shop full of phones, accessories for the phones, etc. Then something caught Krel's attention and pointed at it, he pointed at a Mp3 with headsets in pair, "I'm quite fond of some music's that Douxie showed me, and I would be happy if someone were to give this as a gift".

"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡, 𝑇𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑠"

"Wait here for a minute you guys", Jim said as he went inside, and indeed it took a minute for Jim to be out. He came out with his hands behind his back, and was smiling non-stop.

"Jim..?".

"Ta-Da!", Jim presented him the Mp3 player with the pair of headsets, "I just had enough money for this, and it was a 34% off sale, so I also got you the headsets.." Jim said full of happiness and joy, but soon plastered a questioning expression, "if you like it, that is".

Krel was surprised at the sudden present, but soon had a smile on him, "I like it a lot...", Krel spoke while he was handed over the Mp3, "this is the best gift ever...Thank you guys".

"You can thank Jimbo for that", Toby said as he nudged Jim by the shoulders, "I was only here to ask you without being suspicious".

"Nah, Tobe's..you were a major help to this, really", Jim respond also nudging Toby as well, and goes back to Krel's attention, "But still I'm glad you're our friend, and remember this; that Mp3 player is the symbol of our friendship together, so whatever you do, don't lose or break it".

Krel just giggled at this, thinking like it was an oath, but decided to play along as well, "Okay I won't lose or break this".

"Oh you betta', that cost me $87.99, so..yeah".

They soon continued to walk all the way to Krel's apartment, and after that, Toby got home with Jim and was now resting peacefully...why? Well he finally made Krel one of them..."But wait, how did he pushed both me and Steve...?, I guess we'll never know".

Chapter Text

As the arising sun slowly rosed up, here we see inside the room of the Akiridion prince, the only thing that woke him up wasn't just the sound of his alarm clock, even tho it wasn't yet going off, nor the smell of freshly cook food, since non wakes up that early , but rather the banging and clattering sounds in the kitchen. Immediately Krel brust up from his bed,and jolted towards the door bursting it open. Douxie also got out with his bed hair sticking out his head, and tiredness in his face.

"What the fuck is going on here?!", Douxie exclaimed quite angerly "it's fucking 5:50 in the god damn morning!".

"Seklos and Gaylen, Douxie...", Krel respond "must you really used that much faul language at this time?".

Douxie, somehow got agitated, was darting spears at Krel, was it from the noise or the fact he woke up quite early than his usual time, all Krel knows is that his angry. Soon, both Douxie and Krel went up to the source of the noise, and was greeted with a hissing flying cat and a terrified Argathon running away from the said flying cat.

All that they could hear was hissing, panting, and clattering of pots and pans. "What the kleb is going on here exactly!?" Krel said crossing two of his upper arms, and his lower arms on his hips.

But it seems they both didn't hear, or ignored what Krel said. So it's time for Douxie to get in on this, he got his hand on his bracer to find a specific spell, and once he found one he immediately chanted the incantation, "Mobilésis!". And in an instant, both Archie and Flinge were now frozen in place by a blue aura holding them in.

"Thank you, Doux", Krel thanked him as in return Douxie nodded, "now what is going on here, or so help me...I will blasted both your klebbing butts out of this apartment!".

"Okay Krel, chill" Douxie said easing Krel's nerves, "but seriously...Let's start with Archie here".

As the blue aura faded for Archie, he transformed back into his cat form and sat on the kitchen counter, "I saw that this beast here just got out, so I had to at least capture him back, but apparently he swiftly escaped my grasp, and I didn't hesitate to chase him", Archie finally said his testimony, and was now on his dragon form.

"Okay, how about you Flinge...?", Krel spoke.

As the blue aura also faded around the Argathon, he almost lost his balance but recovered quickly. "As the feline said was true, but I did not want to escape. I only wished to be able to move my arms around, but as I saw the feline and everyone in the galaxy knows that-".

"Argathons are afraid of four legged furry species, I also forgot to mention", Krel added with a face palm in his forehead.

"Right, and as I see this feline...It immediately rises its claws on me, I had no choice but to run away from it".

Douxie just pinched the bridge of his nose, and sighed. "Okay new rule here; if the Argathon here starts moving, don't point you're weapons on him...", Douxie said and turned to Archie, "this includes claws, fangs, and fire breathing".

"Are knives allows?".

"Don't you freaking dare, you fur ball of a familiar".

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It was now 6:18 and Krel was all prepared for school but had a look that was tired, "Doux...must I really go to school? I didn't get any proper sleep today", Krel whined all tired with has face half awake.

"Krel, you need this alright so suck it up and walk yourself to learning prison", Douxie respond on his sofa chair in his gray tank top, with a bowl of cereal. Krel thinks it's the cereal that is his favorite, was it called 'Lucky Charms'?...All he knows is that that is his favorite.

Krel looked kind of confused by what he meant, "walk...?", Krel ask.

"I can't drive you school today, so you might have to walk to school today".

"I can escorted the prince along", Flinge spoke out of the sofa.

"We don't want to raise anymore suspicion today, the least", Douxie respond lifting and pointing his spoon at Flinge. "Oh! I almost forgot something", Douxie soon hopped out of his seat as he placed the bowl, and dashed to his room, he came back shortly after with something in his hands.

"What's that?", Krel ask.

Douxie soon revealed the item in his hand, and gives it to Krel, and immediately his eye's were lit up, it was a touch screen phone that was a latest model. "Zoe gave me this as a gift from my last birthday bash, and since I already got a phone, you can have this one", Douxie said while patting his electric blue hair, "in case of emergencies, call the number that says "Douxie", and to accpet a call is all you need to do is swipe the green button to the right, and if something happens our safe word is... 'work', so you like the late welcoming present?".

And Douxie soon felt four arms wrapping around his waist and a head on his chest, Douxie can't help but return the hug. And in the background they hear both Flinge and Archie going "awwww", the two soon broke the hug looking all blushy, well at least Archie and Flinge agreed on one thing.

"I-I love it so much...", Krel said who looks down on the floor "thank you...".

"Y-you're welcome..", Douxie respond also in the state of a blushing mess.

There was a moment of silence, until Krel started his transductor, puts his new phone on his pocket and walked to the door "...then I will see you later", that was the only thing he said before closing the door.

Douxie waved goodbye as the moment he couldn't see him, then lightning struck him instantly, "...shit I forgot his lunch".

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As Krel walked half way through the sidewalk, he started seeing the people around him all looking at him very weird. And that's when he realizes who it is, and hears some clattering of cans, and immediately stops..."I can hear you two, you know".

"Aww man!", Toby soon popped out of his hiding spot along with Jim, "you have good sense of hearing".

"Tell that to the people around us".

"Fair point..", Jim respond as he looked embarrassed.

"So where is the guy who picks you up from school?", Toby said as they walk.

It took Krel to realize about who he is referring to, until it hit him. "Oh you mean Douxie..?".

"Wow...that's his name".

'𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒...𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒'.

"Tobe's!", Jim spoke as he nudged him to shut up, "I am so sorry about him Krel".

"It is alright Jim", Krel respond "well he can't drive me to school today, because we both didn't get the proper sleep we needed, but as Douxie stated 'suck it up and walk yourself to learning prison!'..".

Jim nodded in understandment, but with Toby just dangling his hands and had a whiney experience, "Man, I wish I had a brother who acts like a dad, would I wish for that".

Krel stopped by his tracks and turns to his friends, "I don't understand about what you said Toby", Krel said with a tone of confusion "Douxie is not related with me...".

All of them stopped right in their tracks, the words when Krel said that, he went in a very complex state of transe, having to make other excuses for what he said. And after a while Jim finally spoke, "Are you and Douxie...intimate?".

"...I'm sorry What", Toby questioned him while darting eyes of questioning. "And what do you mean by the word 'intimate' here Jim...?".

As the two started rambling, Krel's mind went back to what happened earlier when he and Douxie hugged each other, he was so embarrassed by it that his face turned blue. '𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤?! 𝐻𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑..𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'.

"Uh, Krel...you good? You're face is kinda blue". Toby said, waking Krel up from his transe.

"U-uh, yeah...I'm fine!", Krel spoke between frustration and embarrassment, while he was covering his face being all blue. "I-I'm not intimate with Douxie...We're j-j-just close friends, yes! Friends".

Somehow deep inside him, Krel thinks that maybe that's all they were made for...just friends. He knows they only meet in, like four wardons, but still..he felt like that they were meant to be in this universe, but he doubts that his parents will be understanding of him. Obviously not. He then saw Jim and Toby running and so he followed along, he caught up to Toby but Jim had the upper physical fitness in his body, and so they ran all the way to school.

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The three of them got to school in time, and went to their respective seats, all sweaty and panting non-stop from the run, they just made it when Mr. Stricklander came in, as always he is all stern and serious, Krel paid no mind to that, since it only reminds him more of his dick of a father. They got started with classes with Stricklander writing on the board, it was about poems, how to properly write them, yada yada yada yada.

Krel didn't paid no attention to this, since who uses poems in a job actually?!, but his mind was only drifting somewhere, in a plain full of blue and black colors, a golden sun with a hint of dullness, and the sweetest of melodies drifting the air in the universe that speaks like the universe was all hi-.

"Who the fu-!", Krel soon was snapped back from that sudden shout coming from Jim.

He saw a piece of something white hit the head of Jim, and immediately Krel looked up at him. "If you have something to share, Lake..now's the best time?", Stricklander spoke with an irritating tone in his words.

Krel looked over to Toby, who also was looking over to him. Well Krel can't just sit around and sees one of his friends getting humiliated in front of him. He rosed from where he sat and spoke, "I'm so sorry Mr. Stricklander, I was talking to him and maybe something I said made him shout, I'm sorry".

Krel thought he'll be out of this school, all because he would lie to the teacher, not to mention THE Stricklander himself. But to his surprise, the lie worked and Strickler bought it. "I guess it's alright...but don't make it into a habit in the near future, you may be seated". Krel and Jim were now both seated backed, as Strickler went back to the board before a student gave him back his white thing which Krel soon realized that it is a chalk.

'...𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑?!, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡...𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡? "𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓"?..𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑡".

"Hey Krel...", Jim whispered leaning towards to Krel, as Krel leaned back, "I just wanna say thanks...back there".

"It's fine", Krel respond "...we'll have to take this conversation after class". After that was over they immediately went back to Strickler's lesson, '𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑘𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑜?...𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟'.

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"Jimbo, what was that earlier", Toby exclaimed in the cafeteria with Jim and Krel, "You were shouting 'Who the fuu...' for no reason, what was that".

Krel sighs, as they were seated...'𝐴ℎ 𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑏, 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑥𝑖𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ'.

"I kept telling you, Tobe's...literally nothing".

"Quit lying, Jim", Krel spoke right beside Jim, which made Toby slightly jumped, "Clearly there was a reason for the sudden shout, and you won't tell us because...?".

"I just don't want you guys to get involved on my problems".

"That's a lot of bull", Toby respond having a weird expression, "if it's about something then, we'll be-".

'𝐷𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝐿𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑜𝑥'𝑠'..."Alright", Krel spoke cutting off to what Toby was gonna say, "if you do not wanna talk about it, we understand".

"Thanks a lot Krel", Jim respond with a sincere tone. Krel soon got back to him going hungry for today, until Jim spoke, "Oh yeah I almost forgot..", he went into his bag and got the bag made of paper and was very moist in the bottom, "I made this for you as well, it's my mom's meatloaf and I thought that you should have some too".

Well, Krel was speechless for a sekton, '𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦'.  He smiles in a warmly way he mustered and accepted the bag "thank you Jim", Krel thanked him and settled down. He then opened the bag and soon took a bite of a bite-sized cube, and in the sekton his face was filled with flavorful colors, that felt like he was Seklos, defeating Gaylen. "...Jim this is really good".

"I know right", Toby spoke and also took a bite of the meatloaf.

'𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝐼 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢'. Krel soon stuffed one by one until his face was so stuff, that he couldn't even talk. Toby was laughing at how Krel looked with a face stuffed with meatloaf cubes, saying that he was the 'Prince of Meatloaves' and laughed once again.

Soon he can hear a buzzing noise coming from him somewhere, it's in him but Krel couldn't pin point the location. And sooner the laughing stopped and Toby turned to the other side, Krel followed in as well and found someone with golden hair, and black eyes (I forgot what Steve's eye color was so please bare with me). "Hey, what's going on here?", Toby questioned.

"It's none of your business, Domzalski", said the golden haired male looking quite angery for no reason.

Then comes the buzzing again, Krel soon found the source and his eye's were now on...his transductor?. Of course, Krel is more surprised than anyone else, but thinks it might be another glitch for this.

"If it is not our business, then I have to go to the restroom", Krel spoke swallowing his food, and stepped out of the cafeteria.

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After a long search of finding the school's restroom, even tho it was on the left wing in the corner of the hall where it was noticeable. Krel set foot inside the restroom amd checked if any other students were still in, and once the coast was clear, he let his transductor faded inside the stall.

The buzzing was still buzzing and now beeping, but soon stopped and came out a projector-like flash. Krel didn't know that a transductor would have this kind of feature to begin with, he might add this to his notes. The projectile was all static until it went to a clearing, and then revealed a familiar face.

"Hello..? Hello...can you hear me, Krel?", said the person in the projectile screen.

"...Mother?".

"Oh my, dear...thank Seklos you had a safe landing", Coranda said with a pleasing tone.

"Mother, what is the meaning of-!".

"Krel, dear...I am running out of time, but I just want to say this; Morando knows where you are, and is sending a fleet of bounty hunters from all over the universe, to kill you and take your core".

"What...?", Krel spoke in disbelief.

"All I am asking is that you have to be safe, and do not worry about me...I will be fine".

"But Mother...what will happen to you, papa and Aja?!".

"You're papa and sister are alright, they do not know you're location is, and I am only requesting the royal engineers to communicate you through this transductor. So please, Krel...", Coranda's screen soon slowly brought back to static, until her final words were made out, "Be safe and be careful, my beloved son", and faded to static.

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He walked out of the stall and out of the restroom, he could not believe what he heard, and his mind goes back to last night where Flinge confessed everything what Morando was up to this whole time.

'𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒?!...𝑤-𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒?!', but at the moment of panicking, he remembers what Douxie told him last night.

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"𝐾𝑟𝑒𝑙...𝐼'𝑚 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑑".

"𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦...?".

"𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ...𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑑𝑜, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢".

"𝐵𝑢𝑡, 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢?".

"𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙...𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔".

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'𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑥𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡', Krel thought, '𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒'.

Soon, Krel could see students run past him saying that there is a fight in the cafeteria, and overheard the names 'Jim and Steve'. He doesn't know who this Steve is, but he sure does know Jim. He then quickly ran all the way to cafeteria and brust through the doors opening it, he was in shock at this point but soon saw Toby just in a cheering stance. "Toby...!".

"Oh hey Krel..", Toby said.

"What in Gaylen's name is going on here?!", Krel spoke with a questioning-exclaimed toned, and pointing at the two boys fight in front of them.

"Hey don't look at me like that...", Toby respond, "Steve was the one who threw the first punch on Jim's face".

Krel couldn't believe what he said and blink a few times, "I am sorry, What?! He got punched...in the face?!".

Soon the boys were quiet when Jim jab the golden haired male right in the face, and flew out something out of his mouth, with a closer examination of the two...it was a tooth that still had a bit of blood in it. "That was awesome sauce!", Toby remarked as he never expected Jim's punches were hard as steel.

Krel glared at disbelief from what he said, "Not it is not 'Awesome sauce', this is stupidity!", he soon thought a plan to try and stop this. Because the thing he hates the most is that he despises violence, it always follows him around.

"You're gonna pay for this, Lake!", shouted the golden haired male, which soon Krel figured out that that is the guy named Steve.

"Bring it on, Palchuk!", respond Jim, who...had a bloody nose?!.

And at that moment, it felt like time just frozed all by itself as Krel ran up towards to the fight, and at the neck of time...blocked both their fists in both of his hands. "I was only gone for a sekton, and this happens", Krel soon pushed both of them with a single blow, putting them against the walls or the tables. '𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛'𝑠...𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒'. A sigh escaped his mouth and soon he grabbed his bag and left the cafeteria.

Toby was dumbfounded but manages to get a word out of his mouth, "...What the dingdong fu-?!".

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Krel and Toby were waiting for Jim to be out of the infirmary, they only just sat there all quietly, until Toby tried some small talk. "So...I didn't know you were that...strong".

Krel slightly jumped, and glance back at Toby, "oh...yeah, I didn't even know that... I had the brute strength".

"Are you...like, worried that Jim won't see you as friend, because you pushed him hard in the wall?", Toby asked leaning in. "Don't worry, Jim is a very forgivable guy, he'll understand".

Soon, the two sees Jim and Steve both out of the infirmary, before giving each other death glares. And after that, he sees both Toby and Krel then started to walk towards them, before Toby dashed towards him first, followed by Krel who tries his best to avoid eye contact. Jimbo!", exclaimed Toby, "thank god you're not that badly hurt".

"Yeah..", Jim respond and soon spots Krel as he looked down on the floor.

'𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑏𝑦'𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠...𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠...'.

"And don't worry about this Krel, it's wasn't your fault".

Krel who was surprised..."If you say so, Jim", Krel spoke still looking quite disappointed, "but I really didn't mean to push you that far, I really was".

"Like I said, no biggie".

'𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔...𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑'.

Soon a ringing can be heard and was coming from Krel's phone, he pulled it out and saw 'Douxie' on the phone, he then answered and greeted with a "hello..?".

"Hey Krel, I'm afraid I can't pick you up from school", Douxie spoke on the phone, followed by the sound of clattering in the background, "apparently- Woah!, The customers at W͟o͟r͟k͟ are getting hangry at the moment- eek! WATCH IT, YOU BUTTSNACK, so you might as well walk home for today if that's okay with you".

"Uh, of course...I'll see back at the apartment?".

"Yeah see ya- JUST WAIT A DAM-", the call was now cutted and ended.

And again he's mind goes back to what happened earlier, but tries to hide it to avoid suspicion towards his friends. As Krel placed it back in his pocket, he turmed to the others, "Well I guess I'm walking home".

"And we'll be there with you", Toby spoke out.

"That's true", followed by Jim.

Krel doesn't know but, whenever he is with his friends, all of his stress and negative thoughts would disappear, and is replaced with joyous and the kindest feelings he bottled up inside.

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As they walked all the way out of the building, along the way was just being a silent walk, well some murmured voices can be heard from behind him, but paid no attention. All of his attention goes back to Coranda and Krel's conversation, " '𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑚𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒' ".

'𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜?'.

Then he was shot back to reality by Toby and his sudden words,"Say Krel...if someone you know were to give you something, like a present. What do you think would be the best present for you?".

'𝐴 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡..? 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠?', but soon looked over a shop full of phones, accessories for the phones, etc. Then something caught Krel's attention and pointed at it, a rectangular device that looks what Douxie had back in his apartment that produces to what Douxie describes 'music'. "I'm quite fond of some music's that Douxie showed me, and I would be happy if someone were to give this as a gift".

"Wait here for a minute you guys", Jim spoke as he went inside the store full of phones, and got back out with his hands behind him.

"Jim..?", Krel spoke with a questioning expression and tone.

"Ta-Da!", Jim presented him the rectangular device with some wires attached to it. "I just had enough money for this, and it was a 34% off sale, so I also got you the headsets.." Jim said full of happiness and joy, but soon plastered a questioning expression, "if you like it, that is".

Krel was surprised at the sudden present, but soon had a smile on him, "I like it a lot...", Krel spoke while he was handed over the rectangular device, "this is the best gift ever...Thank you guys".

"You can thank Jimbo for that", Toby said as he nudged Jim by the shoulders, "I was only here to ask you without being suspicious".

"Nah, Tobe's..you were a major help to this, really", Jim respond also nudging Toby as well, and goes back to Krel's attention, "But still I'm glad you're our friend, and remember this; that Mp3 player is the symbol of our friendship together, so whatever you do, don't lose or break it".

Krel just giggled at this, thinking like it was an oath, but decided to play along as well, "Okay I won't lose or break this".

"Oh you betta', that cost me $87.99, so..yeah".

'𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡? 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑏 𝑖𝑡'

They soon continued to walk all the way to Krel's apartment, and bidded Krel farewell as the two were now on a distant range and went inside. Along the way through the apartment amd to the hallways, Krel still plunders back at his own mother's words, that made him question to what would Douxie, Archie and Flinge reacted. What would they say. How well would they take it.

But, no...Krel has to 'suck it up', let it all flow towards him, and brace himself for what's coming. He slowly opens the door, and sees shattered up food all over the floor, and Douxie full of band-aids and patches. Archie perched at his resting spot at the sofa, with Flinge at his side. '𝐼 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟'.

Douxie soon noticed him at the door, and went up to him all a bit limpy. "Hey Krel", Douxie greeted. He noticed something by the moment Krel's transductor faded quickly, "hey..what's the matter?".

And immediately, Krel was dripping tears down his eyes and was now on his knees. Douxie didn't understand but he soon followed Krel as he rubbed his back. Archie and Flinge soon were joining in on them, as they huddled, Krel tried to speak but all that comes out of his mouth were choked sobs.

"Krel? What's wrong? Did something bad happened at school?", panic filled Douxie's words, "you gotta tell me Krel? We're here with you".

Krel's sobs soon eased up a bit as he wiped his tears away, and tried to mustered the words that he was about to say, "My mother called me through my transductor...and said that, Morando knows where I am, and is planning...to kill me".

To be continued

Chapter Text

After all this times here in Earth, how about we go to a place billions of lightyears away from here. Akiridion-V...

House Tarron was now in a busy spot lately, after the disappearance of the young prince. King Fialkov was now in his study quarters, all silently seated at his throne. Discussing with General Morando all the common places where the prince might be. Aja was in her room, holding one of the belongings of her little brother close to her. Disappointment filled her mind and body all together, with Luug beside her and comforting her. Zadra and Varvatos guarding the room doors of the King, and trying to make Aja to get out of her room. Coranda on the other hand, wasn't at all worried, but tried to act like it, because she knows that her son is on a planet where he is safe and sound. And if not, then she will brace herself for the worst outcome.

She was on her daily stroll in the palace, watched as the guards flee to other planets to find the prince, guards walked past her as they greeted, and peeking through both Fialkov and Aja in their quarters. But while on her stroll, she felt like something is about to happened, she doesn't know why she's feeling this, but she just felt it. Soon she felt a tap on her shoulder, and saw Aja finally out of her room, her face was full of darker circles below her eyes.

Aja looked at her mother, and finally spoke, "may I join you on your stroll, mama?". As she held something tightly in her upper arms, "Zadra and Varvatos wanted me to get out of my quarters for this past delsons".

With a warm smile, she gladly accepted the request and walked along the hallways of the palace with her daughter. After a horvath of walking, Coranda couldn't shake the feeling of insecurity with something yet again. But she has to try to shake that off, and soon turn to Aja. "What is that you are holding close to you, my child?".

"Oh this..?", Aja respond after revealing to what she held, "it was Krel's invention that I had my hands on after our lessons...back a wardon ago", then soon fell silent once again.

'𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑟𝑒𝑙'𝑠 "𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒" 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑒...𝐴𝑘𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝑉 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒'.

After another horvath, they met up with Varvatos on his weekly training, "Good day, My Queen", greeted Varvatos with a bow. And soon rosed his head to see the young princess finally out of her quarters, "Princess, You are finally out of your quarters! Varvatos is full of joy and relief".

"Good day, Varvatos...", respond Coranda.

"I am...but do not worry about me to much, Varvatos. I am fine and well...", Aja spoke with a smile in the end, the brightest smile that she always wore.

And in another horvath, they soon stumbled upon the quarters of Fialkov, all fuming he was. Demanding General Morando to make the searches faster, and quicker in order to find him immediately. "Aja, I think it is best for you to stay here, while I have a word with your papa", Coranda said quiet and soft. Aja soon nodded and watched Coranda entering her father's quarters.

Coranda carefully enters with a knock on his door. Once he notices her, he requested everyone in his quarters out for the time being. He then flops down into his chair, as he pinched the bridge of his nose with his eyes shut. Coranda then moves her way through her husband, and places both her upper arms to his shoulders, and her lower arms in his hands. "Darling, please do not tire yourself out", Coranda said filled with sincere and softness, "we will successfully find Krel, and do things the right way of understanding him".

She soon felt some movements on her husband, and looked at him directly in the eyes. His eyes also had dark blue circles below his eyes, but much more darker than Aja's, tired he was indeed and a weary sigh escaped his mouth. "Coranda dearest, I have to undo a wrong and make a right...for him", Fialkov said as in the last sentence he spoke felt heavy to speak. "I have not slept well in this past wardons or so, but I still push myself to find Krel soon".

"It is alright, Fialkov", Coranda said as she slightly lifted him up from his chair, "you may rest for now". She soon ordered the guards to escort Fialkov to his sleeping chambers, and so did the same with Aja as she let out a yawn in the moment when she and Fialkov were out.

And in the moment of silence, Coranda continued on her stroll through the palace. The feeling of insecurity was slowly shifting out of her nerves, and tries to focus on Fialkov and Aja's well-being for the delson. All fell silent a bit, no guards were pasting by, and not many people were around, it was just her alone, and in the hallways of the palace.

Suddenly, she heard faint voices coming from somewhere in the distance from where she stood. She came quietly to the source of the voices, and soon saw General Morando talking to the Zeron Brotherhood, wait THE ZERON BROTHERHOOD?!. What were they doing there, they are the most wanted bounty hunters in the whole universe, what were they doing here with Morando?

Coranda can only make out some of the words they were saying, far away she was but can try to make out the words.

"Any news about the prince, Alpha?". Morando spoke as if he had this talk before.

'𝐾𝑟𝑒𝑙?'.

"It seems that he is in a planet where he is blended well with their organic life forms", Zeron Alpha said as he presented him a holographic picture of a planet, "He is hidden in the planet called Earth, which is run over by this life forms as 'humans'... where it is located billions of lightyears away from here".

Morando soon gave a smirk and a slow clap to this, "the young prince is remarkable...if only the King himself was not blind to see what his son can do". He stop clapping and was back to his stern face, "You bring him back to Akiridion-V, either dead or alive with a whole armada of bounty hunters if you wish
..I only want his core, and with his core, I will overthrow the Akiridion throne, and all Akiridion kind will bow before me", he soon requested the Zeron Brotherhood to take action, and after that they left. After a sekton past, Morando left as well.

Coranda couldn't believe what she just heard, she has to do something about this. And as mother she knows what to do, inform her son about the dangers ahead of him. Obviously she doesn't know how to communicate with him on earth, but maybe the royal engineers might have a solution to this, since she witnessed Krel stealing the transductor back a wardon. But that could mean that...it's worth it to alert Krel, even if someone found out.

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She got into the royal laboratory, and saw only two royal engineers in the room. They noticed Coranda's presence and immediately bowed to her, "Queen Coranda..what are you doing here? Is there something you need?", one asked first as they raised their heads up.

"I request a communicator towards the stolen transductor!", she said without thinking twice. She knew the Krel had to have the stolen transductor, since she has been to earth keltons ago.

The two engineers were a bit skeptical about the queens demands, but wouldn't dare to justify her words. So they quickly got to their work bench, and started a communication device, specifically for the stolen transductor. "This is just an unfinished product, so please be g-gentle with it, my q-q-queen".

She soon dashed towards the communicator, and soon pressed the only button on the device. Soon, static was on the screen, literally nothing but static. Coranda waited, and waited, and waited...and waited, until a faint voice was heard and the static almost lifting up. "Hello..? Hello...can you hear me, Krel?".

There was a moment of silence until a voice was very clear, "...Mother?".

"Oh my, dear...thank Seklos you had a safe landing", Coranda said with a pleasing tone.

"Mother, what is the meaning of-!".

"Krel, dear...I am running out of time, but I just want to say this; Morando knows where you are, and is sending a fleet of bounty hunters from all over the universe, to kill you and take your core".

"What...?", Krel spoke in disbelief.

"All I am asking is that you have to be safe, and do not worry about me...I will be fine".

"But Mother...what will happen to you, papa and Aja?!".

"You're papa and sister are alright, they do not know you're location is, and I am only requesting the royal engineers to communicate you through this transductor. So please, Krel...", Coranda's screen soon slowly brought back to static, until her final words were made out, "Be safe and be careful, my beloved son", and faded to static.

The transmission faded, and with the two engineers, all confused. "My Queen, was that who I think it was?", they spoke with caution towards her.

Coranda, who slowly turned her head towards them, looked at them with eyes full of consideration. "Please...", she spoke quietly with a faint voice, "do not tell Fialkov, nor Morando...if you do, Morando will...will-".

"A-a-alright my queen, we will not confess to them", they spoke as theg tried to comfort Coranda as best as they could, "you have our solemn word".

"Thank you..", she stood up, with her upper arms holding the desk, "tell me..what are you're names?".

The two were stund, but the first one approached her, he was a 6 feet tall Akiridion with flowing, straight hair, and bulk like an Argathon, "I am Askrol, my queen".

Soon the next one approached, he was a 5 feet tall Akiridion with a short and wavy hair, with a mark on his forehead, and was gentle like a Muzzkelt, "...And I am, M-m-m-Magril, you're highness".

"Askrol, Magril..I am forever in your debt", she placed both of her lower arms to their's, and with a look of pride...they knew that they had to keep this..to their cores. "Now if you excuse me, I have someone who should have been exiled a kelton ago".

To Be Continued...

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Okay so here's the announcement for you guys. I kinda wanna say two things for you so Imma break 'em down for you all, and yes it is my first time to write an announcement...okay so:

1. I recently uploaded a new book series from the movie Encanto, so the story is just one of my fantasies with Camilo and an original main (male) character, it was just an idea whenever I go to bed, just like this series. So if you guys are interested on the story, then I would be so greatful that you might enjoy it, and yes it's my time writting another story, but I've gotten more idea's to come in the future.

2. After I (🟥) the whole series 'A Runaway's Love Story' I thought I would do a prequel for the main Runaway's, like for instance; it would describe how Krel manages to get to Earth and how they found him going to Earth. And how Douxie met more of his wizard friends, and what he did over 9 centuries. I thought I would let you guys decide if this choice would be an 'alright I agree' choice, but if you guys don't like it, then I'll just put it on the main story then.

So yeah..these are what I wanted to say to y'all, so I hope you guys will understand this, and also for those who are still reading this, thank you for your support on this little story, and I'm truly greatful for all of you. Well that's all for now folks, I'll see you all very soon.

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9:13 p.m. was the time where Krel had told Douxie, Archie and Flinge about what happened earlier in school, Flinge was just as shocked as the Prince himself, Archie was brave enough to let Krel to go to his room for sometime for himself. But for Douxie couldn't process all of the info that Krel just gave him, to kill Krel, take over his planet, getting a warning by his mom, and taking his core, for some odd reason.

Douxie on the other hand, didn't get the chance to talk to Krel about it before he went inside his room. He somewhat got a feeling that, he should've been the shoulder for Krel when he wants to cry, just like what Krel did for him with his issues.

He got up and went to the fridge for a while, grabbing a drink for him, but soon thinks about Krel if he needed a drink.

"Hey, Flinge...", Douxie called out Flinge at the couch with Archie, watching the TV. "Can you come here for a second?".

Flinge got up from where he sat, and walked towards Douxie by the fridge, "is there a problem here?", he spoke with, again, the echo.

'𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓@𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚?!'. "Uh...what do Akiridion's drink?", Douxie asked as he pointed at the fridge full of drinks.

Flinge bending over to see the inside of the fridge, and soon faced back to Douxie. "They prefer something sweet to drink...".

..."Wait what?".

"Yes...Akiridion's enjoy their beverages with a sweet flavor".

Douxie was stood there silent for a bit, he didn't know that Krel's species were into sweet drinks, which actually made somehow. Douxie then went back to search for something in the fridge again, as Flinge walked back to the couch with Archie.

It took awhile for him to find something sweet for Krel to drink, a soda can for Krel, it was the only drink that Douxie had on his fridge so that might work for him. He soon walked up to Krel's door, and again, was locked. "Vorhemos...", the door made a slight clicking noise before it swung open.

"Krel..?", Douxie called out by the doorway, "can I come in?".

There a brief silence after, but a faint voice can be heard as a 'yes', and so Douxie let himself in to see the Akiridion inside his sheets again. Krel took out the sheet, enough for his head to pop up, his eyes had streaks of lines, probably from all that crying he's been.

"I, uh, brought you something to drink...", Douxie finally spoke as he extended his hand with a can, "Flinge told me that you're species like sweet drinks...so this is what I had in my fridge".

There was a silent minute, until Krel accepted the can as he smiled, "thank you", he said in a quiet way. He then scooted to his side, and patted the space beside him, meaning he wants Douxie to sit down, "you can sit down...if you want".

He thought about it thoroughly that it may be a rude choice, but since it would also be rude to decline an offer as well. Douxie finally accepted the offer and sat next to Krel in the bed, drinking their beverages while at it. None spoke a word, the two until just sat there silently with drinks in hand. Douxie wanted to start talking, but that would be a bit early, but on the other hand someone has to, "so..uh..how did you found out about you're...mom?", Douxie finally spoke while on Krel suddenly darting his eyes towards him. '𝑂ℎ 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑚, 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛!'.

"She said that she ask the royal engineers to program the stolen transductor to be communicate...", he replied, again quietly. "I'm guessing she knew that I stole the transductor in the laboratory".

"...I'm sorry, you stole THAT in a laboratory?!", Douxie sounded a bit astonished for some reason, "I didn't know that you were capable of doing something like that, I mean...you just don't look like the kind of person to steal".

Krel, who was quiet for a while, began to brust up laughing, "for you're information, Douxie..." he finally stopped laughing, "...I am much more capable of doing drastic tasks before we met here..".

"Oh, really...?", Douxie replied trying to be smug, "well then...mind telling these 'drastic tasks'?".

"With pleasure...", Krel respond with a smile plastered in his face, Douxie was glad to finally see his friend's smiling face again, that it couldn't make him even more happy.

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It was now 10:31, about an hour past by, all of that time was only Douxie and Krel talking about the things that they did before they met each other, joyous laughs were filling the room by them. "Alright then...you convinced me that you are the kind of Akiridion to do such things then", Douxie said as he raised his hands up by defeat, "I just never thought that you would do something like that anyway".

"Oh Hisirdoux...never underestimate me like that, besides you should have seen me in school", Krel respond while taking a sip on his soda.

"What happened in school?".

"There was a fight in the school cafeteria, and I easily blocked those fists", Krel respond with a hint of pride in his words. The silence was once again back, but this time...it was Douxie who is silent, "uh...Douxie?".

"Were you hurt?", Douxie finally spoke with his voice sounding threatening, and his face looked like he is about to kill someone, "tell me if you are hurt!". He soon cupped his hands around Krel's cheeks, making Krel poker his lips, "Tell me who is the sick hot-headed buttsnack that tried to hurt you!".

They just stayed there for a while, all stood silent. Douxie soon realized that what he is literally doing, which it might deserves a face palm for everyone. He soon releases his hands out of Krel's face, and immediately his face was filled with red and pink colors across his face, "s...sorry about that", he apologized as his gaze was out of Krel's range.

"It's fine...", Krel respond as he touches his cheeks to where Douxie held him, "and I get it...you are worried about my well-being, and I do not mind".

Douxie was glad to have Krel here, who is very innocent when he is with him, "yeah", Douxie's face was now slowly fading the colors that was across his face, "after all..you act like the little brother that I always wanted", he said with a playful nudge by the shoulders.

Krel just smiled back as he nudges Douxie also, "and you act like a big brother like I always wanted!". Krel then pulled back the nudge as he takes another sip from his soda, "but I really want to thank you...", he said as he turned to Douxie, to which their eyes were intertwined with each other's gazes.

"Thank me for what?", He questioned.

"For being there for me!...no one back in home, other than my sister, ever comforts me if I am feeling sad, you're the second being to be there for me", Krel smiled as the moonlight shone right on the window, passing by Krel's face.

His face with the moonlight, made it more beautiful by the lighting of it, in Douxie's perspective...he looked like a God with that smile and the moonlight, (now I know how Douxie sees Krel, like a God). "Yeah...no problem", Douxie was about to reach in to patted his hair, but in a split second, Krel took the first move by...hugging him.

"Sorry about this, but I just felt like I needed a hug", he said as his face was deeply buried into Douxie chest. It was a lot to process for Douxie, he just couldn't get this moment to adjust a bit, I mean he took the first move instead of him, so yeah he just didn't know what to do.

Douxie soon returned the hug, and caressingly placed his hand into Krel's back as his face softly landed on his bright electric blue hair. "I'm glad you feel better now...", he whispered leaning into Krel more closely.

To be continued...

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Archie rosed from where he slept in, his paws stretched out making his claws pop up, a yawn soon escaped his mouth with his eye's shut. He soon checked the time and to his surprise, it was 5:50, the usual time to when he would prepare for the two boys. He climbed down off the couch, and stumbled upon Flinge who was fast asleep on the arm chair that Douxie would sit. "Hey Flinge, wake up", Archie spoke with a husky tone and a gentle slap on his face. Flinge just hummed at what he said, which Archie a bit more agitated and had to choice...but to claw his way out of it, "If you do not wake up...I will claw you're face right here".

It took a second for Flinge's eye's to open quickly to meet Archie's gaze, with claws armed and ready. He gave a 'you wouldn't dare' glare to Archie, and finally spoke with a low echoing voice, "you wouldn't dare...".

"Oh you better believe it...".

"Mister Casperan said, to never rise you're claws on the Argathon...".

"But he didn't say in front of him, now did he?".

There was a stern stare between the two beings, until Flinge admitted his defeat, "then I am awake now".

"Good..", Archie eased his claws and transformed to his dragon form, "now best to not wake Douxie and Krel, for they do tend to be angry in the morning".

"I agree..", Flinge quickly agreed with him for the past event that happened that occurred with the two boys, "so...Sir Archie-".

"Don't. Call me 'sir'..", Archie interrupted him, "I do not like to be call by such titles, I suggest that you call me Archie...". He was right one that actually, he didn't like to be named by titles, so he would tell the other wizards to not call him titles, "and besides...you are now the closest thing for Krel to have as an extraterrestrial friend, so why don't we just get along?".

A cheeky grin can be slowly slipping in his face, he let out a quiet chuckle right after he nodded. The two beings were now starting preparing breakfast for the two boys, it started a bit cramped in the kitchen, but they soon got the hang of it by adjusting a little. Time flew by and was now 5:56, the perfect time to wake the boys up, "Flinge...you go wake up Krel, while I wake up Douxie", Archie spoke as he transfigured into his cat form and walked towards Douxie's door, followed by Flinge but at Krel's door. "Rise and shine, Douxie!", he cheered with the door cracked open (I don't know how he managed to get the door open without him having thumbs, but let's not think about it too much).

But to his surprise, Douxie was nowhere to be found. His bed wasn't all messing, in fact quite tidy, he wondered if maybe he got up much earlier than Archie. But just as he was about to enter Douxie's room, Flinge called out to him quietly. Archie then went to Flinge's shoulder to perch, until the scene caught his guard down. Douxie was sleeping right next to Krel, and he was...snuggling with him, "...what in Merlin's name?".

"Is this normal for humans to be sleeping in that position?", Flinge ask with a sharp finger pointing at them.

"Not if they are THAT intimate!!".

A small groan can be heard from the bed, then came a bit of movement from the blankets. A head was popping up and it belonged to non other than Douxie, a little yawn escape his mouth. A sense of tension was visible by the two as Douxie found them staring at them, they slowly closed the door trying to avoid tension...but was immediately captured by Douxie's hands. A blushing Douxie was now outside of Krel's room door, and immediately faced to see the two. "Whatever you're thinking right now...it's not what you think!", Douxie spoke while making sure he doesn't wake Krel up.

"Sure...", Archie respond quite (and I quote) 'sincerely', "if you meant by you and Krel are having something going on between you two last night...then sure".

"Geez, what has Lexi been putting on you're head...?".

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Minutes go by for the three, had an atmosphere so thick (let me rephrase that 'thicc' ), that it was like you're being suffocated by gravity itself. Not to mention, THE SILENCE WAS BACK!!. Douxie and Archie were just glaring at each other, while Flinge was trying to avoid conflict between them. None were even speaking until Archie gave out a sigh, "look Douxie...we got off on the wrong foot here, let us just forget about this scene ever happened before Krel wakes up".

After he got to speak his peace treaty, Douxie let out his own sigh but this time, much more down and longer. "You're right, Arch...I'm sorry", he took out his hand towards Archie for him to shake, he accepted it and shaked both they're hands together.

"So what about the prince's studies...?", ask Flinge.

"Well, it's the weekend so...he doesn't have any school today, so we could just explore a bit", Douxie suggested aloud.

It immediately got red flags for Archie and Flinge, but just as they were about to speak, they saw Krel walking all sleepy and droopy. With a stretch and a yawn, he opened his blue ringed eyes and smiled weary, "Good morning everyone...".

"Good morning", they all said in unison.

"Good news, Krel...you don't need to go to school today..", Douxie said. Krel gave a look to him with a questioning expression, "it's the weekends...you get two breaks from school until Monday".

"Oh!", Krel respond "I didn't know that there was a thing here", he was full of joy that he doesn't get to go today...but at the same time feels sad, "...but then, I don't get to see Jim and Toby today either".

Douxie felt a bit pity for Krel, but tries to at least reassure him about that, "hey now...don't look so blue, you can still see them today...just not at school but rather anywhere!".

"But Mister Casperan, he is blue...", Flinge spoke from behind.

"It means don't be so sad in Earthling", Archie answered him which made Flinge understand more.

The wizard rose from where he sat and went over to the extraterrestrial prince was, "how about we go and continue the tour...since we did got distrubed by Officer Scott for no apparent reason", he stated as his mood switched, "other then you not having to go to school...".

"Of course!", Krel answered "..just let me get my transductor". He dashed towards his room to retrieve his transductor, leaving the wizard, the cat, and the Argathon.

"Douxie...if you wanted to have some alone time with Krel, you should have just ask us", Archie said with a teasing tone.

"Can it, Arch..".

All was in silence after Krel got back from retrieving his transductor, the two then proceeded to walked towards the door. But before they were completely out, Douxie let out a faint 'don't mess the apartment', and gave another death glare and leaving the two inside.

..."so, do Akiridion's like male species?".

"...excuse me, what?".

To Be Continued....

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The two boys were now out of the apartment and directly walked past through the parking lot, which made Krel confused at first. He turned to Douxie for an explanation, but thought he shouldn't. Douxie noticed it by glance and tries to explain it, "the motorcycle got a flat tire during my deliveries, so we have to walk today".

"Oh..I see", Krel respond weary. Guess that answer's one of his questions, "so where are we going next on our tour", he added.

He went to a pause until he remembers all of the well-known places where they can hang out, "we could go to the arcade over down the street". He soon pointed at the direction to where the arcade is located, "if you're alright with that anyway".

"Yes...I'm alright with that", answered Krel. Eagerness fuelled his entire body, seeing all the entertained places all around Arcadia, especially without Officer Scott coming in and ruin the day.

And in a split second, Douxie yanked his arm (the transductor form arm), and started sprinting all the way to the arcade. Krel thinks that this might be something else other than your typical tour, but Krel doesn't care, all he cares is to have a good time here in Earth.

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They made it to the arcade, and let me tell you it was packin'. A lot of people are in the building, standing on this devices while other's join in to watch them. Some were stepping in a weird formation while an audience was there, cheering, in awe, and screaming 'I'm next! I'm next!'. Others were on contraptions with a stirring wheel attached to it. More people are also going crazy by this...paper coming out of the contraptions. Lights are somehow darker and dimmer than the outside light, with other lights which were in a mixture of pink, green, blue, and purple.

It somehow hurts Krel's eyes so much, that he would constantly rubbed his eyes to get rid of this sight. Douxie laughed at this gesture he was doing, which Krel looked at the wizard. "You will get used to it sometime...", he stated "...but, hey. What'd you wanna try out first, eh?". Douxie extended his arm, much like what he did when he first introduced him to his apartment, and plastered a smile for Krel.

He was so confused to what to start with, since it is his first time in this 'arcade'. "Umm...I do not know much about this, why not you...what do you people say...?", Krel said as he was looking for the right word, "...take the lead?".

And of course, Douxie then began to search for which game is best for Krel. Took a while for him to finish his search after finding the best game for him, then immediately dragged him to a bigger box with what seems to be sticks, attached to it in the end. "This is a game where you shoot the zombies here..", Douxie spoke, "..and it is so much fun for newbies like you!".

"Newbies..?", Krel ask.

"Another Earthling slang of new people".

"Oh...", Krel added "..then let me grab my serrator-".

"Woah woah woah woah woah woah!", Douxie stopped him just in time, "not that kind of shooting Krel...". Douxie then went to introduce Krel to the sticks on the edge of this box, "...these are what you need to use in the game. This is an arcade gun, it is programmed to shoot the zombies on the screen, think of it as a simulation...only this doesn't include a helmet".

The Akiridion prince now fully understood, and puts back his arm where he should've pulled out his serrator, and takes the stick (or guns to be precise) out of it's resting place. "So...now what?", he asked the wizard as he hold the gun, Douxie then inserted a coin inside two times, and with him hold the other gun.

The wizard looked at the prince for a while with his signature cunning smile, "now let the fun begin...".

The game began with zombies suddenly appearing the scene and stared running towards them, Krel was a bit shaken at first but couldn't fail now. Douxie started shooting the zombies, followed by Krel. He got the hang of it time to time, which made them went to the next level, "alright...be careful in this round Krel...", Douxie spoke "...this level has buffer zombies, more buffer than Flinge".

"More buffer than Flinge?!", Krel respond. He's shakiness was back again, but more intense than before, "I-I do not think I can do that...".

"Dude it's just a game...", Douxie insured his companion. "You can always try again, you don't have to win it all..." he finished it up with the smile that Krel had gotten used to.

'𝐻𝑒'𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡' Krel thought, '𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒...𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔'. He looked at him back with the most determined face he had on him, "Alright then..." was all he could say before the next level began.

It was all normal on screen, until it began to shake inside, it continued until a figure pop up out of nowhere. It stood more than the height of Flinge and Coach Lawrence combined, (I just learned the coach's real name). And Douxie wasn't kidding when he said that it was buffer than Flinge, it was ten times buffer than Flinge- no, Varvatos perhaps.

The nervousness was back again on Krel's body, his transductor camouflage began to go pale. But with just a mere glance at Douxie, he was back to his determined self. They proceeded to fire at will, but sadly they both ran out of ammo. "Ah..fuzzbuckets", Douxie cursed when the screen showed a game over text. "Well sorry about that Krel...", he turned to Krel just to see his face lit up.

"That was klebtastic!", full of joy and excitement in his voice. "It was so quick, sure we didn't win...but I had so much fun!",the thrill of just holding a toy gun on screen was really enough to make him excited.

That was enough for Douxie to crack a smile for him, he then hooked his arm onto Krel's back neck. "Well how about we go and out of this joint, hmm?" Douxie said as his companion nodded immediately, and proceeded to walk out of the building which greeted them with the bright ray of sun, making them hissed by the sudden brightness.

"Well looks like someone's becoming a vampire...", a silhouette of a person stood in front of them, "...I guess I'm gonna wear some garlic around my neck".

Soon the figure can now be seen as a male, with blonde hair with green faded colors in his tips, much similar to Douxie's style, had something on his nose that looked quite like a ring, and wore a black sweat shirt that (🟥) 'regret one thing... and now the others', with some grey pants and something dangling on his hip side that looked like a chain. They quickly smirked at them both before Douxie walked towards him and punch him in the shoulders, "Oh shut up you boulderhead!".

A confused look on Krel, got the attention on the green haired male. "Say Doux... who's that here?", he pointed at Krel making Douxie looked back at Krel.

"Oh right... I suppose you two haven't met yet", Douxie then walked up to Krel, while hooking his arm around his neck again, "this is Krel...his from a very far away place", finished it with a smile. Krel looked at Douxie as he walked to the other person, "Krel, this is Lucas... he is Lexi's brother, and the manager of the Runaway's Coven Cafe".

Krel was dumbfounded by the fact that he is Lexi's brother and manager of Runaway's Coven, he just couldn't believe that at all, "oh so you're the guy Doux has been telling me about..", Krel turned to Lucas, "...he even roped Lexi into this, and started blabbering on and on about you at work, I honestly didn't think that I would finally meet you".

Speechless was Krel, still glancing at the wizard for more information on him, took him a while to finally speak. "Oh yes.... I also very delighted to meet you as well", Krel having a nervous smile at his face, trying his best to be polite.

Douxie soon stepped in between them both, and faced towards the prince, "him and Lexi treated that black eye I had not too long ago".

With that remark made Krel have some sensation down to his spine (..i think Akiridion's have spine? Idk). He soon stepped closer to Douxie and touched the place where the black eye was there previously, making the wizard blushed furiously. The black eye has faded but for a bit, which still had the faint dark color still, "well I am just glad you were treated with care".

Then a noise of a camera shutter came to their attention, which the noises source was Lucas with his phone on camera mode, "oh ho I'm sending this to Lexi..", he said playfully.

The two boys soon noticed what was happening between them, and quickly parted for a while, both a blushing mess. "You buttsnack! Don't you DARE send that to her!", Douxie exclaimed as he was chasing Lucas, while he was teasing him by typing something on the phone.

Krel's heart hasn't stop beating, his blushing face hasn't been calmed down, and his emotions were in a twist of like a super nova. He looked over at Douxie, still having his face all flustered and about, '𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒...' Krel thought to himself for a while until the wizard came to him, all sweating bullets but face still red.

Douxie wiped the sweat from his forehead to the chin, and slowly looked up at the prince. "So... Lucas sended Lexi the picture already..." Douxie said as his arm were on the back of his neck, "...and how about we just get going now?".

The Prince didn't say but to only respond to him with a nod, and kindly bid Lucas farewell as they walked to the apartment. It was silent at first, awkward even, but Krel wanted to break that silence and started some small talk, "I'm sorry...".

Douxie was surprised by the sudden apology, "What do ya mean?".

"I'm sorry I embarrassed you in front of Lucas...all because I was worried about you're condition".

"Krel no...don't be like that", Douxie stoped at his tracks as do Krel, "...look, that is what good friends do: worry each, embarrassing each other, taking care of one another...that's real friendship to me".

With the words of inspiration from the wizard, Krel's self-esteem was boosted enough for him to shine a bright smile in his face. They soon walked to the apartment faster, just so that the cat and Argathon were not fighting at each other again.

To be continued...

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As the weekend has come to an end in just a breeze, the night soon came to arose from the sky, filling the sunny sky with blue and purple colors, accompanied by twinkling stars that were starting to appeared one by one. The town soon fell into the nights temptation and dimmed their lights in their homes, soon fell asleep, awaiting for tomorrows shining sun. Some were now sounding asleep, some stayed for their night shifts, and some would be slaying Gumm Gumms… okay that came out wrong, but we’re not wrong tho. In the coldest nights in Arcadia, would there be Trolls roaming about the streets of Acadia, and only the trollhunter would do it to keep the people’s nights be peaceful.

Jim went around, slaying Gumm Gumms who were trying to take his amulet, while Blinky was trying his best to assist the young trollhunter by swinging his dagger around, and Aaarrrggh was at his best to keep it quiet when he smashed one of the Gumm Gumms head (or something like that). “Master Jim, behind you!” Blinky said getting Jim’s attention, it worked and he successfully avoided the attack from a Gumm Gumms.

“Thanks, Blinky” Jim said as he kept swinging his sword through the Gumm Gumms, as the army was getting less trolls, more soon came out from the sewers, “oh crap!” Jim cursed under his breath, “looks like they send reinforcements now”.

“Retreat!” Aaarrrggh said with a low growl, with the two agreed and started run to the bridge of the canals. As the three ran towards the bridge, Jim looked back for a while seeing if the army of trolls were following them, and they were. But then a blue hue of light came from an alleyway, then in a blink of an eye, the army that was following them disappeared. Jim was so stunned that when he came to his senses, the figure vanished out of thin air.

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The three soon made it to Trollmarket, panting rapidly and sweat dripping from their foreheads. “Is Master Jim alright?” Blinky spoke with concern, “no cuts, no bruises, no sever injuries?”.

“I’m alright Blinky”, Jim responds who was wiping his sweat away, “what about you guys?”.

Both Blinky and Aaarrggh checked for any serious injuries that they might have on them, “perfectly intact, Master Jim”

“Good...”, Jim then pulled the amulet away from his body, which made his daylight armor vanished, only revealing his normal clothing.

“Oh, hey you guys are back!” soon Toby popped up into the end of the staircase, possibly was waiting for them. “So how was it, was it gruesome, bloody, dusty…?”.

The group soon walked all the way the training area, also getting greeted by trolls nearby, guess that they are now getting used to the fact that humans are in trollmarket now. As they were walked all the way to the training grounds, Jim’s thoughts still went back to the figure in that alleyway, it really took him by surprise by that figure could be capable to take a whole army in a blink of an eye. It didn’t take a while for them to get to the training area, they were met by Vendel and Draal inside. “Ah, your back...” Vendel spoke as he stepped forward to the trollhunter, “we thought that you would come here”.

“Is there something wrong, Vendel?” Blinky respond as he stepped in front of the two (what a great father figure for Jim).

Vendel was getting irritating by Blinky’s actions, which he then swung his staff at Blinky’s arms which was blocking the troll’s view on the trollhunter. “Am I not allowed to be concerned for the trollhunter, Blinkous?” then proceeded to walked towards the trollhunter with Toby at his side, “…So trollhunter, have your battle against those Gumm Gumms become more difficult for you…?”.

Toby soon stepped forward also, blocking Jim from Vendel and started scoffing, “there is nothing that Jimbo couldn’t do and don’t even think so lowly of him, just because he is a human”.

Jim then responded to what Vendel said, while he asked Toby to stand back a bit, “it wasn’t difficult at all, but something did happen while we retreat…”.

“Was it Bular!?”, Draal spoke as he stepped in, “I should have been there to avenge my father!”.

“It wasn’t Bular, but instead…” Jim was trying to find the words to better explain what had happened, “…A figure wiped out that entire army of Gumm Gumms and then vanished out of thin air”. As Jim was finished explaining what happened, the area stayed silent for a short amount of time.

Then Vendel soon spoke, “Well…looks like that you have an ally at your amidst”, Jim didn’t think that it was an ally since they didn’t present themselves to him face to face, but in the other hand, they would be good backup if the time Bular would appear, these thoughts made Jim foggy until Aaarrggh shook Jim out of it and Vendel continuing speaking, “now listen here trollhunter… you must find these person and convenience them to join the fight for all troll kind”.

“And what if they refuse…?” Toby added.

Vendel then walked away from them, until he stopped at his tracks and finally respond, “…then Draal would handle the rest”, followed by Draal with his grin and fist clashing with each other.

This concerned Jim very well, because…”and what if they are human?”.

That sentence made Vendel to turned a bit to them, “Human, Troll, Gnome, Elf, Changeling, doesn’t matter…as long as you convince them, Did I make it clear for you...?”.

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Already morning, teens moving along to their classes, while on Jim has somehow headbanging his head against his locker door, looking quite miserable. Toby on the other hand was trying to comfort his best friend with all the things he likes, a vespa, Claire, food ingredients online, but nothing seems to be working. Jim just let out an unpleasant low groan, and slowly lowered himself to ground level, and brought his knees to his head and just stayed like that. “Oh come on Jimbo, it won’t be that hard, it’s just finding a… mysterious person who helped you last night and suddenly disappeared without an introduction”.

To what Toby said just made Jim to groan loudly, which made him like the worst guy in the world. Then after a while of sitting at the lockers, a motorcycle could be heard and it was no other than Krel with that dude named Douxie, he hopped out and walked over to the two who were just sitting at the locker. Curious he was, which he kneeled down and spoke, “what is wrong with you guys?”.

“This guy has been miserable, and it might be contagious…” Toby respond as he pointed at Jim.

“Oh okay…” Krel spoke followed by him yawning.

Then Jim noticed it quickly, of course it wouldn’t be a serious matter if someone yawned, but then he remembered that the place that he, Blinky and Aaarrggh fought those Gumm Gumms was near at his apartment. Then it soon made sense, he randomly came to Arcadia Oaks, he didn’t know anything here about Arcadia Oaks, and don’t forget that he climbed the rope in under 4 minutes and even stopped mine and Steve’s fists which send them both flying. But it doesn’t prove on that blue light tho, Jim just needs to dig up more proof. Then suddenly Principal Levit came on the school announcement, which started with a mic screech then followed by his voice, “Good morning students of Arcadia Oaks High, this is your principal Levit here speaking, announcing the exams have been re-scheduled from the last week of the month, to today due to unexcepted occurrences…”, as he said that everyone started to groan and whine, some started panicking about it, and could hear someone saying ‘yes!’ probably Eli. “So sorry for this everyone…study hard~”, then he ended the announcement, then everyone hurried to their classes to study.

Toby just whined the most, knowing him he didn’t study, Krel doesn’t seem to be stressed at all, in fact… he’s quite calmed by this, “how are you so calmed about this, Krel?!” Toby said as he shook Krel by the shoulders, “THIS EXAM IS SUPER IMPORTANT, AND THIS MIGHT BE ONLY TIME THAT YOU’LL BE IN HERE!!!”.

“Hey stop that, Tobes!” Jim sprang up and pulled Toby out of the dizzy Latino, “… Maybe he just studied last night…”.

“Actually…” Krel who was regaining conscience from that sudden shaking, “… I didn’t study at all, I haven’t heard of a test coming”.

This gave Jim little more proof of him, and to be fair, he really wasn’t there when it announced that exams would be on the last week of the month, it was only on the day before he got the amulet of daylight. That only means that he didn’t study last night, he must’ve been the figure last night, but that still doesn’t prove anything more, he might as well dig further down on this.

“AND THIS IS MORE OF A DISASTER!! FIRST PERIOD IS MATH, AND I’M NOT READY!!!!”.

“Toby, be. Quiet!!” Krel soon slapped Toby in the face, which it did made him stop screaming, he then gripped into Toby’s collar making him look at him, “listen here you Gloober, don’t start panicking over something like this. YOU. WILL. GET. THROUGH. THIS, do you understand me, Domzalski…”.

Soon came the first bell for the first period, everyone was hurrying to get to their classrooms, knowing that if your late, you will not get a sheet to be answering. So, the three also hurriedly walking to their class, Toby just started praying for no reason, Jim trying to not stress out of this, Krel was just calm about all this. Jim just kept a close eye on him, he maybe his new friend but he still needs more info on him.

They just got back to their seats, Miss Janeth hasn’t arrived yet so it was a good opportunity to have a quick study, with some quadratic formulas, geometry, and calculus. There is no way that they could study all this before Miss Janeth would be back, Jim looked over at Krel who was only reading the notes of the mathematics, maybe he is taking little notes. Then he suddenly closed the notebook, took out the Mp3 player that he gave him, plugged the earphones on and started to rest his head at the table, ‘I didn’t know I befriended such a delinquent!’ Jim thought to himself, mostly crying inside, ‘Well more reason to take upon of this info…’.

All if the students inside of the class went silent, as the door swung open and entered Miss Janeth, hands full of math answer sheets, she adjusted her glasses and she walked over to her desk. “Good morning, students” she greeted followed by the whole class greeting her, “as you may have heard of the announcement of Principal Levit, that exams had to be re-scheduled for today, because of something that Lawrence did…”, she then started dividing the papers right at the moment when she kept complaining about working ten times more than what she does, “anyway… pass this around and start answering, remember; no cheating, no copying other people’s answers, and no sharing answers with each other”.

As the sheets were being passed on, everyone soon started writing on the paper. The paper soon reached to Jim, and oh my gosh… the questions were so complicated that it doesn’t have anything that they taught in the past, ‘Well then… there goes high school for me’.

“Pssst… Jimbo…”. Jim turned around to Toby, who was leaning towards him at his edge of the table, “This test is impossible to pass…!”.

Jim over again at his answer sheet, then back at Toby, “don’t stress too much… just write the things that you know on each one”.

Toby, looks like he is about to cry, respond as he slithered back to his seat, “but I don’t anything about this…!”.

Looks like the test has everyone on edge, everyone even considered cheating, he soon looked over Krel, who still has his Mp3 player on him. Jim could try and peek to his paper, but that would be a valuation about their friendship and he doesn’t want to risk it, but he also doesn’t want to fail at all, so quick peek wouldn’t hurt…right? He slightly leaned in on Krel’s side, and oh shish kebabs, he answered all the answers without breaking a sweat, how does someone who only (🟥) the notes, and is starting to ace the test with a Mp3 in them?!

Krel soon turned around to meet Jim’s glance, which made Jim jumped. “I am so sorry, Krel… I didn’t really mean to look over your paper…”.

Maybe Krel didn’t hear me, for which he took of his headphones off, on one side to maybe hear more of his music. He spoke “Jim? Is there something you need…?”, with curiosity on his face right now. He then saw Jim’s paper being empty, Jim was ashamed that he had to look at Krel’s paper just for him to get a passing grade. But to his surprise, Krel handed his paper to him as he was looking over to Miss Janeth, who was sounding asleep on her desk, “Answer only a few, just so she won’t (sus)pect us when she wakes up…” he soon looked over to Toby, who was even struggling “…and maybe give Toby the paper also and tell him to answer a few as well”.

He went back to his chair as he was keeping an eye on Miss Janeth, Jim soon looked at the paper and Krel and back at the paper, ‘…I have befriended an Angel!!!’.

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The day finally ended; exams soon finished as the three boys were out of the building. Toby was smiling like crazy as he stretched his arms out, “Man the just flew by so quickly…” Toby said as he walked out of the entrance of the school.

Jim scoffed of his companion’s words, “yeah…only because you only need to write what was on my paper…”, he soon looked over Krel who was finishing a call from, probably, Douxie. Jim was hesitant on saying a word to Krel, but he soon mustered enough courage to speak to him, “say Krel…” which caught Krel’s attention, “… I just wanna say thanks, back at the math exam… you saved my butt there”.

The Latino looked at him for a while, after he smiled at Jim with sincere eyes, “it’s all good Jim, I am always here to…give you a helping hand”.

“Well now I just feel guilty…”.

“…About what?”.

Jim realizes what he just said, so he was trying to make an excuse. But a motorcycle soon pulled over right beside the sidewalk, and it was Douxie as he took his helmet off. “Krel! Come on now, we’ll miss the concert!”, Douxie shouted as a smile was plastered on his face.

“Wait, concert…? Do you mean that concert at the park? Was it called ‘Papa Skull?’…”.

“Yeah…Douxie was so excited for the concert, that he kept rambling last night, and got me to sleep so late…”.

‘Ohhh that’s explains the sleepiness of his…’.

“Well, I have to go, he’s been jumping on his motorcycle...”, he then walked over to motorcycle and hopped in and took the helmet, but not before he waved at them. And soon was long gone before Jim could look back.

Toby then went over to Jim, with his face having a smug look, which it surprised Jim. “So when are you gonna make a move on your SeNoRiTa, Jimbo?”.

Which he remembers that he would be babysitting her little brother while, she and…Steve, go to the concert, where Krel and Douxie are. Well, he can’t miss his chance now.

To Be Continued…

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Douxie and Krel soon made it to the concert area, where people were still rearranging the props, lights, speakers, amps, and various more things that would be on stage for tonight. Krel hopped out first of the motorcycle, followed by Douxie who is parking it beside more motorcycles. They eventually got to the stage area, where someone of a familiar voice was calling the wizard, “Hey Doux!” He was greeted by non-other than his friend Zoe, she walked over to him as they shared a fist bump together, “so glad to see you come here to help us out”.

“And miss out the set up and the free seats front… wouldn’t miss it for the world”, Douxie respond as a chuckle escapes his mouth as he said that.

She looked over to Krel as curiosity fills her up to the brim, “And who’s he?” she asks as she pointed over Krel.

Douxie soon looked over on his companion by his side, he slid his arm around Krel’s shoulders patting it gently. With his signature sly smile he said, “This is Krel Tarron… he’s the roommate I told you about…”.

“Wait really now…?” she responds as she observes him more, which her expression changes to a gentle and friendly vibe, “well then pleased to meet you… the name’s Zoe, and any friend of Doux here is a friend of ours…” she finished it by extending her hand to him.

‘Was that how I introduced myself to him? Good Lord what a cringy move from me’.

Krel accepted the hand as she shook it, a small smile was plastered on his face “… a pleasure to meet one of Douxie’s friends”, he said with a joyful tone in him.

Zoe soon turned to me, still held onto Krel’s hands. “Why didn’t you tell me that this guy was your roommate, we could’ve had a drink fest together at the apartment…”.

If only she knew about the Argathon that is living with him in the apartment, who is getting an uno game with his familiar. If only she knew that his roommate is an extraterrestrial royalty from somewhere far from here, who ran away just like Douxie and some of the population of wizards also.

Douxie snapped back to reality and respond to Zoe, “… yeah uh, he’s quite underage to drink alcohol…”.

“Oh really…?” Zoe spoke with a disappointing tone in her voice, “… well that’s alright, I guess”.

Douxie lets out a relieving sigh, but as soon he lets go of Krel’s shoulders, he started wandering around the stage area, Douxie following behind him bolting to him. He manages to catch up to him up on the stage all of a sudden, Krel squatted down to a speaker. He looked over to Douxie and pointed at it, “Douxie, what is this…?” he asked.

“That’s a speaker…” he replied as he also squatting down to his level, “… it’s a device where you plug in something with music, to boost the volume in it, that way everyone can hear the music even on the back of the crowd”.

“Only this speaker has been broken due to Clay’s guitar solo at San Francisco 2 months…”, a feminine voice can be heard at the lower part of the stage, carrying a box full of wires. She had a pretty tanned skin but not too tanned, looking like Krel’s tone, but a little lighter, which she had black hair with green fades to her ends, gray eyes with heavy mascara, and a pink tee with white and black sleeves to her top, and a mini skirt with high boots. “Honestly… does he think that this speaker is made of money, that he could just break it”, she started complaining.

“Oh, you know him, Megan…” Douxie spoke as the girl or Megan, looked up at him “… he’s just full of his own pride”.

Megan just scoffed at that, putting the box down, “Well then, he might as well drown in his own pride then to damage the speaker that is pretty expensive to buy”.

Then all of a sudden, music was now being played. Everyone turned to the sudden music’s source, so did Megan and Douxie. To both of their surprise, the once broken speaker was now playing music, Douxie knows who did that. Krel. “There you are, your once broken speaker, is now fixed”, Krel said as he stands up and grabbing his phone back to which what the music came from.

Douxie just chuckled at him, amused about his talent to fix things that are, somehow, beyond repair. Douxie walked to him as he slinged his arm around his neck, “oh you never ceased to surprise me, Krel”.

A lot of Douxie’s friends came up to the once broken speaker, inspecting the speaker more further. And they were so shocked that a 14-year-old, or so Douxie thinks he’s 14, would fix a speaker that was beyond repair for 2 months.

Then Zoe stepped toward the Latino, maybe asking him how in Merlin’s name did he fixed that. “…How did… how did you fixed that?” she asked.

‘Called it’.

“It wasn’t difficult to repair that, since it was just child’s play to fix a snapped wire and coil…” Krel respond he explained how he fixed that, “… and that’s nothing compared to Douxie’s motorcycle, just a readjustment to the connectors of his cycle, and it was better than before”.

They all looked over to Douxie, disbelief in their faces, to which he shrugs, “…it’s true, he really did fix my motorcycle”.

Zoe was somehow speechless as she pushed her neon pink hair back for while, “Wow… like, never thought that someone so young would know engineering” she said. She then leaned in to Douxie with some pleading eyes, “hey Doux… could you perhaps, convince your friend here to like, oh I don’t know, help out with some repairs on some broken amps, lights, wires, and maybe that smoke machine”.

Douxie, who would accept it immediately, thought of a prize for Krel’s help, or else he would complain him about not getting anything about this. He looked back at Zoe, who had a grin on her face, and finally said “… Sure, but in return you give me and him payment, let’s say; $60 for repairs”.

Her grin soon faded, and her eyes now with an ‘are you serious’ expression, “how about this; I’ll tell Cassandra, Emery, and Aria to give you and your friend tickets to the concert with backstage passes, which are more valuable than just $60 for payment…”.

‘You pay a hard bargain’ he thought, he stayed quiet for a while, until he catches Krel’s attention. He might as well consult this with him since he will do must of the work here, he gestured him to come to him, as Krel did so, Douxie pulled him far from Zoe.

He formed themselves into a huddle, basically just placed his hands on his shoulders. “What is it, Douxie?” he questioned.

“So, uh… Zoe and I had an agreement to, if you could fix some broken stage equipment, and in exchange she will provide us some tickets to the show, with backstage passes for us to go backstage to meet the band members…” Douxie said as the air felt silent for a second.

Then Krel had that expression on him that makes him want to crawl into a cave and die alone for this agreement, “you have to be joking with me”.

“I-I’m only doing this one time only, I swear to Mordax himself”.

He glared back to him, like shoot fire at his eyes directly, then it eased down letting him go from their huddle. “Okay, I will do this…” he said as he paused for a while, “…but in return of this, you will buy me desserts from Runaway’s Coven for a wardon”.

‘Oh you also pay a hard bargain’. Douxie just raised his hands for surrendering, ‘cuz there is no way he would ask for anything else than the desserts in Runaway’s Coven, “Alright, deal”, they both shake each other’s hands. Krel had his victory smile on and went to Zoe.

As he was about to catch up on Krel and Zoe, he somewhat got this feeling again with Flinge, the feeling that someone is spying on you right now, creeping somewhere at this very moment. Since he knows that this Morando guy is looking for Krel, taking his core or something, he knows that Krel is in danger 24/7. So he might as well try to protect him at any cost, he was about to scan around the place until a hand was gripping unto this wrist.

He turned around to see Krel, which it got him to return him to earth right now. “Douxie… are you alright?” he asked “… I have been calling you a sekton ago, are you sure you want this offer?”.

Douxie blinked rapidly to feel Krel’s skin on his, he immediately blushed slightly, then Krel realized what he was doing at he also blushed slightly too. They both into an awkward situation as Krel lets go of Douxie’s, and Douxie’s feeling was being replaced by this feeling that he doesn’t know what it is. “Uh… yeah, and yeah I agree with the offer… I guess my mind was just in the clouds for a while”, he responded as he eased up a bit and his blushing slightly faded a bit.

Krel then smiled a bit, as his blue hue slowly faded as well, they stayed silent for a while until he broke the silence. “Well then… I have started with this ‘amp’ thing, and Zoe said that I should do next to fix is this thing called a ‘smoke machine’, whatever that is…”.

They soon proceeded back to where they soon meet the amp, the amp was so busted and rusty even. Guessing that this thing hasn’t been used for so many years, then a familiar face soon appeared in front of them. They had a unique feature on them, an African-American man appear with very long dark brown hair into braids, half cut to be precise, eyes with two different colors on each one, the right with a brown eye and in the left a white eye. They wore a jean-like jacket with sleeves that were chopped out to reveal his muscular arms with an eagle tattoo, with a brown-red shade pants that were tattered to the knee, and finishing it up with shoes with some chains to the ankle to the heel part.

“Yikes, that might’ve been my fault…” he reclaimed as an expression that had some guilt in it.

“Wait… you did this? Mason what did you do to this?”, Douxie spoke as the man, or Mason, rubbed the back of his neck.

He finally surrendered himself, and spoke “…I spilled some diet coke on the amp when it was band practice, and it didn’t operate normally ever since…”.

“How did it operated when you spilled diet coke”, Krel joined in as he looked at Mason.

“Well… whenever the sound needed to boost up, it got frizzy and sparks were now flying out of it…”, he said.

Krel then kneeled down to the amp, he pried it open as Douxie kneeled down to see the inside, it was all rusty inside and had dried puddles, probably from that diet coke Mason was telling them about, and by the looks of it the wires got chewed up and fell apart. “And I still haven’t told anyone that it was my fault, and blamed it on some kids that were trouble-makers…” he said after he covered his face with his pair of hands, “…ugh, I’m supposed to be the one who is honest to things, not blaming it on kids that didn’t do anything”.

Krel and Douxie retracted back up from the rusted amp, Douxie step forward to Mason and placed his hand to his shoulders gently patting him, “it’s all cool Mason…” Douxie spoke with a tone of comfort to him, which he lifted his face up to meet his gaze, despite the high difference between him and Mason (Douxie was the tallest… shocker I know), “…because you’re in luck here, my other companion here can fix this amp in no time”.

“I think it might need to be cleaned first… oh Douxie!”, Krel called out to him as he came to him, with Mason on tow. “Could you clean this for me, because I cannot be sure as to where the nearest faucet is here…” he finished it of with a grin he is all too familiar about.

‘Ooh you are a cheeky buttsnack’.

“I could clean it up for you…” Mason said as his face lit up a bit “…I mean, it’s the least I could do for busting this thing for years”.

“And how many years?” Krel asked.

“About twelve years or so”.

The two were silent from that comment, after that Mason brought the amp to a faucet near the stage. Douxie just sat at the edge of the stage, and so Krel. Both sat beside each other, watching the sky turning to different shades of oranges and reds. “Wish this had the same view like the flower cliff we been to”, Krel said, eyes still up in the sky.

Douxie chuckles to what Krel said, “…well, without Flinge to bomb the whole cliff, it would’ve”.

To what Douxie said, the two started laughing. Which made him got a fuzzy feeling on his stomach whenever he gets to hear Krel laugh, or makes him laugh. The laughing session soon pasted and been replaced with a growling noise, Krel’s growling noise. “Woah… didn’t I give you lunch earlier?”, Douxie asked.

Krel soon held his stomach with a hand, with a confusing look “…I could have sworn that I have been eating properly earlier”, then another second later and the growling came back again. “Is there something wrong with me all of the sudden?!”.

At the corner of Douxie’s eyes, he spots a taco truck the was serving one of his friends also. He then turned back to Krel, “Maybe a quick snack is just something you need”, he suggested “…I’ll buy you something, maybe that will quiet down your stomach”.

Douxie soon walked towards the truck, and was greeted by a guy who was stubby and looked like he hasn’t shaved for a long time, he just had a shirt with stains on it, with a bath robe at it. “Hello mate, welcome to Stuart’s Taco Truck, the only taco truck in Arcadia”, he spoke with his Australian or New Zealand accent. “So what will it be for you, mate?” he asked as he leaned over to Douxie at the window.

He thought of what would be best for someone who hasn’t tried all the food on Earth, well he might as well try something old but classic. “I’ll have one Bean and Cheese, and one El Diablo”. ‘I swear to Mordax, Krel will kill for this’.

“You got it, mate!” he then retreated back inside on making the burritos.

The clattering of a lot of silverware, the sizzle inside that he doesn’t want to guess, and the humming inside following a rhythm that he couldn’t follow. He just stood there as he looked over to the stage area, where Krel was sitting there as he looks over the view he is having. Seeing him being eased from where he sat, still got him that same fuzzy feeling. Whenever he ever sees his face, or anything he does, a tint of pink could slightly be there on his face, and a smile would be on his face.

“Here you are, mate…” he man inside the truck said, which made Douxie a bit startled “…one beans and cheese, and one El Diablo”. Douxie then stuffed his hand around his pocket to see if he had any spare change on him, and lucky for him he has. Douxie handed him $13 and exchanges with a bag of burritos, thanks him, and walks towards the stage area with a visible cheeky grin. Sure enough, Krel is really gonna kill him for this.

Just as Douxie walks over to the stage, he suddenly hears a snap of something. It felt like time was much slower than before, the bar lights fell down towards the stage. Towards Krel. In an instinct of Douxie, he dropped the bag of burritos on the grassy floor, reaches out to his enchanted bracer, and said the incantation “Flastidious!” and his speed soon increased in a second. He swooped in through people and finally made it to the stage, he sprinted even more as he tackled Krel out of the way, tucking his head on his chest and arms when they both landed on the same grassy floor and rolled for a while. As time soon went back to normal, a loud crash followed along, a lot of people were now gathering around the stage.

Douxie and Krel soon got up from where they landed, shocking eyes darted at the stage and the broken bar lights were all scattered and broken. Krel breathing quite fast for Douxie’s pace, bullets of sweat formed at the top of both their heads. All he wanted was to say if Krel was alright, but it looks like he got to it first, “Douxie, are you alright!”.

He just went silent for a while, blinked continuously before responding “…Hey! I should be the one asking you that question!!”.

As they both got up, dusted themselves off, and was soon approached by Zoe who dashed all the way to the storage area from them. “Hey, you two!” she exclaimed as she ran towards them. She soon stopped right after she catch her breath, “…you guys alright?”.

“Yeah, we’re fine…”, Douxie respond back at her. He looked at the stage with a bar lights again, then back to Zoe, “It’s all good Zoe, we’re fine”.

She managed to breath properly now, wiping the sweat away from her head “…Well then, how about we continue the repairs when this is all cleaned up, here I’ll give you my number, Krel”. She then took out her phone out, typing something and asked Krel for his phone, for them to exchanged their number.

As they finished with that, Douxie walked towards the burritos then picked the two up, and good thing it was wrapped in foil before they were given to him. His gut feeling still got stronger, maybe someone purposely cut the bar lights and made it fall towards Krel’s direction, he doesn’t need to worry too much since that would make Krel more worried than him. He walked towards the smiling Latino as he held the phone, “…Douxie, could I really exchange cellphone numbers with anyone?”.

“Yeah, you can...” Douxie replied, “It can be someone that you want to talk to everyday”.

Krel just responded with an ‘ooh’ and nothing more, as they got to the parking lot with helmets in tow, Douxie kinda forgot about the burritos. “Oh and here are the burritos, almost forgot about it”, he reached in the bag and grabbed the El Diablo one.

They both got on the motorcycle, keys jammed in, helmets on, and the sound of unwrapped foil.

... “AAAAAAAH IT’S BURNING IN MY MOUTH!!!”

To be continued…

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The first week of Krel living among this human planet was pleasant for him, he has met a fellow extraterrestrial for him to relate, Douxie and Archie are also trying to adjust having two extraterrestrials living with them. But all in all, everything has been other than normal, a few mishaps of them, sure, but still.

Krel just arrived the school, with a fixated expression on his face. As he walks over to his locker, he looks over to a crowd of teens gathering about something, and in that crowd he sees Jim and Toby pushing people for them to see also. He thinks it's just nothing and proceeds to organize his things for today's lesson, as he was about to go to his class, he came across a girl with a blue streak on her short brown hair with hair pins and clips. She had a dark violet jacket and a dull magenta inner that wrote 'papa skull' in the middle with a skull at top.

They locked eyes together, brown eyes meeting brown eyes for a sekton and looked away for him to focus on the path. Then a hand was placed on his shoulder, it startled him a bit by the sudden touch, then came a voice "...say, you're Krel Tarron, right?". A feminine voice, not that familiar to him at all. He turned to the source of the voice and found that same girl that they locked eyes earlier.

"Uhh... yes that is me", Krel respond. "Do I know you?".

"Oh, I guess we haven't..." she replied as she tucked away a strand of her hair, and reached out her hand towards him "... I'm Claire Nuñez, it's nice to finally meet you".

Skeptical was Krel, seeing he doesn't have any trust on random people who come up to him. But they did raised there hand out for him, maybe this once he'll let his guard down a bit. "It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Claire Nuñez", he respond as he shook her extended hand.

"Oh you don't have to call me by my full name, just call me Claire", she said before snorting when she stated to call her Claire. "Jim has told me in rehearsals all about this new guy who he quickly became his friend, which was strange...".

"How strange?" Krel replied with a tone of curiosity kicked in.

"Like...it was always Jim and Toby, but it looks like there's three of them now". Krel then thought for a moment, it was always them in the beginning when he met them until he came to the group. "Well I better get going, so see you around then, Krel", she waved her hand out after she walked away.

'Well I guess I have a new friend' Krel thought, with a visible smile showing on his face. After that convo was done, he proceeded back to go to his class today.

He entered the room as fewer people were inside, maybe the other people were on that crowd earlier. Speaking of the crowd, Jim and Toby were there looking over something, Krel still didn't think much of it, he then took out his Mp3 player and headphones from his bag, placed it on his ears and started playing a song that Douxie recommended him, 'Ash Disperal Pattern' was the name. The song was a consistency of rock and soft music elements, which was a pleasant feeling for Krel's ears.

As time passes by, someone peered behind Krel, which gave him an eerie feeling. He looked over to his behind to see that boy from the shower lockers back at P.E., the same brown hair with paler skin than him, brown eyes associated with spectacles, he sported a green top and some black shorts. As Krel looked over his back, the boy scurried out and back to his seat like nothing had happened. 'Does he really think that I would not notice him?', Krel thought to himself. He got out of his seat and went straight towards the boy, to which the boy noticed and he quickly panicked on what to do. Krel then sat in front of the boy with a straight face, and spoke. "What were you doing staring at me earlier?".

The boy was like a statue, silent and still. 'I think I might have frightening him', Krel sighed once more and spoke less... what's the word, 'less threatening?' "Listen, I do not know why you were staring at me earlier, but all I want to know is what is it you want from me?".

"I'm so sorry! I'll never do it again! Just don't beat me up like you did with Steve and Jim!", finally he spoke in a more frightening tone.

Who would have thought that Krel was the frightening one, and Fialkov says he wasn't frightening enough. Krel raised a brow as to what he meant, until it hit him "...ahh you mean what I did at the cafeteria to stop Jim and..." he paused to find the name of the other.

"...Steve?" The boy respond as they were more cautious about Krel.

"Ah yes, Steve" Krel continued "...from causing more violence in this school, I mean do they always fight here?!".

"No, just when Steve gets bored with me shoving me in the lockers and getting my lunch money", the boy was now a bit at ease with his presence, "so...kinda?".

Intrigued by this boy in front of him, that they eventually had small talk about some topics; math equations, theories in Arcadia, extraterrestrial movies, and comparing their answers together. Krel had never had anyone besides Jim, Toby, Douxie, Archie, and Flinge to talk about this topics in one conversation. Soon first period bell rang, disappointment was on the two boys, wanting to talk more on the topics. Then the boy spoke up, "Oh hey I know, why not we talk on the phone, that way we can still talk about where we left off".

Krel's face then lit up, giving him the opportunity to learn the many secrets of his phone, he agreed and went to get his phone. The boy then gestured Krel to give the phone to him, and so he did, Krel observed on what the boy did, opening something, typing numbers on the screen keyboard, and putting a name. After that, Krel looked to what the boy put, "Elijah Pepperjack..?" He (🟥) out aloud.

"Yeah that's me, but you can also call me Eli for short", the boy or Eli, then had a nervous smile as he scratched the back of his neck. "It's nice to finally meet you... uh".

"Krel, Krel Tarron".

"Oh, okay then, thanks Krel".

Soon as they were finished with their exchanging of numbers, few more students came to class, along with Jim and Toby. Krel waved goodbye to Eli and went to his respective seat to wait for the teacher for todays lesson.

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End of the school day, out came all of the students, even Krel was now outside. He soon stumbled upon Jim, Toby and Eli coming in towards him, with a tackle and an arm swung by his neck. "Hey there, Krel..." Jim spoke up, "... man I didn't get to talk to you about what happened".

"What did?", Krel respond back.

"Dude, you got higher scores from the exams today!", Toby added as he was in between them both, "like dude! Tell me your secrets!".

"Wow Krel, I've never thought that someone would surpass me in exams, I'm impressed by your intelligence", Eli joined in on the convo, which got a look on Toby.

Suddenly the four of them then heard a motorcycle's accelerator hum, that's when Krel knew who it was, Hisirdoux. "Hey Krel! Ready to go now?" He said as he was about to grab the other helmet.

That's when Krel had a sour face on him, to what Douxie stop for a while, "I will be walking back to the apartment, Douxie..." he then started to walk towards the direction of the apartment, "...and for the record, I am still not going to talk to your klebbing butt!".

"Wait Krel! I told you I'm sorry", Douxie respond as a chuckle was followed by at the end.

"Oh so you think it is now funny?! Well guess what you larvox, I WON'T BE TALKING TO YOU FOR A WHOLE PARSON!!". That was the last time Krel spoke before storming out, fuming that is.

Jim, Toby and Eli were now a bit confused, till Douxie said "...I gave him an El Diablo burrito two days ago", to what they respind with an 'oooh'. "Krel come on! I just said I'm sorry!", with that little fiasco Douxie was now driving to catch up with Krel.

"Well this has become a weird day", Toby spoke to break that moment of silence.

"Yeah..." Eli replied as he rummage through his pockets, "but hey... at least I have Krel's phone number!".

"Wait what?!".

To be continued...

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Back to Akiridion-V, General Morando has been banished by Queen Coranda for planning on overthrowing the thrones of House Tarron, King Fialkov was shocked by what he heard about this, that was mostly the last time they ever see him again. "Coranda dear, how did you found out that Morando was overthrowing the throne?" Fialkov asked as curiously was overflowing him.

Coranda couldn't just say that she overheard him taking Krel's core to seized the thrones, no, she has to come up an excuse, which she has never done before "...As I was walking around the castle, I overheard him talking to some.... assassin's to kill us, and destory our cores to take the throne", Corando respond to him. 'Seklos and Gaylen... Krel would be disappointed that I have lied to his father'.

Then Aja soon came in the room with Luug on her second set of arms, "Mama, Papa, why did General Morando looked so mad when he was out of the castle?" Aja asked as she pointed at the door behind her.

Fialkov and Coranda can't let Aja know that he was 'planning on killing them', they must certainly not. "Oh he had trouble on... finding Krel quicker, and started to had a bit of a rage fit", said Fialkov as he had a smile to reassured her, now Krel would be disappointed at his parents lied to his sister.

"Oh I see... I do hope that he would find Krel soon..." Aja respond back "...because who knows if he is in any danger, or even injured at some unknown planet he is in". With a worried look on her face, hugging Luug just a bit.

Coranda stepped in the knelt down to her daughter, placing both upper arms on her shoulders and spoke, "Aja, my child, I promise you that we will find a way to get Krel back home to us, but we need to have patience on the search...", with a motherly voice, "... may you wait, until he comes back?".

She never like to wait long, but if it's about having good progress on searching for Krel, she will have to wait for him to come back, even if it takes a kelton or so. "Yes mama, I will wait for him", was all Aja had to say before walking out of the room.

After Aja was finally out of the room, Fialkov stepped beside his wife and spoke, "Coranda my love, do you know that without Morando to lead the search, we are with no lead".

Coranda was thinking of another way to get the search to continue, she cannot afford to losing Krel by Morando's hands, he knows what planet he is in, and would take his core in a sekton. That was when an idea struck her, (like mother, like son), "Fialkov... Morando was not the only one who also organized the search, Zadra and Varvatos were apart of the planning".

"Coranda, that is an excellent idea!" remarked Fialkov with hope and joy on his voice, "I will tell Varvatos and Zadra the word, I will return in a sekton". He then requested two guards to join him on finding Zadra or Varvatos, and walked out of the room.

Ever since Krel went 'missing', Fialkov was so determined to find him immediately, which gave Coranda a sense of hope inside of her by the actions of her husband. Right after he left, she followed behind. As she walked out of the door to meet by two guards on stand by, she proceeded to walk towards to anywhere that might take on a journey for her, and it did. While on her walks, she noticed Varvatos going outside of the castle grounds, she tried to get his attention but failed. 'He must have not heard me...' she thought to herself for a sekton, 'I might as well go towards his direction, Fialkov needs to notify him about the search'.

She slightly sprinted towards him, but before she could reach him, she saw Morando right at the entrance of the castle grounds. Coranda came to a halt, and quickly think of a hiding spot. She hid behind the archway of the entrance, only a few meters away from them, and slowly peeked at the archway. She saw Varvatos... kneeling down towards him? Something didn't add up here, Coranda still peeked in the corner and listen to the conversation of the two.

"It seems that the plan will have a delay, for I can no longer enter the castle grounds, due to me being banish", Morando spoke with a cold tone in his voice.

Varvatos was at a shock to know this, "You were... banished?".

"Apparently so..." he replied quite cold, "...but it wasn't the king who banished me, it was a queen". He then had a sour-like look in his face, indicating that he was furious at her. Just as he was about to continue, he took a slight glance at the corner of his eye, Coranda immediately took cover from his gaze, just to not be caught eavesdropping on him. He then looked back at Varvatos and continued what he was gonna say, "she must have known about the plans that I arranged, we might have to take the plan to another strategy".

"What do you mean by that, Varvatos does not quite understand".

Morando scoffed at the remark of Varvatos, and quickly turned around behind him. "Of course you can not process it, not even your own mind can understand such brilliance of my new plan". (Kinda having Pinky and Brainy vibes here).

Coranda just peered in a bit closer, and eventually heard the plan loud and clear, "at the coronation of Princess Aja, you will lower the castle shields for me to enter there, and kill the royal family".

She let out an audible gasp as she covered her mouth with all four of her hands. She couldn't believe what she heard, first he wants to kill Krel, but now he wants to kill the royal family?!

Varvatos looked up at Morando, with a shocked expression on his face, "kill...the royal family?... Varvatos took an oath to never harm the members of House Tarron".

"And you took an oath to me to do whatever it takes to avenge your family...", he quickly turned back to him with a dead cold stare, that went straight to his core. "Or are you not up for the task, Varvatos".

He then had this feeling of hesitation inside of him, then he finally nodded as a response. As Morando had an evil smile on his face and dismissed him out, Coranda fell to the floor as she held her mouth with her upper arms and on her core with her lower arms. She just couldn't believe that one of her husband's trustworthy guards were planning along with a traitor who will kill her son, and then the rest of House Tarron. She just couldn't let some... klebbing traitor kill her son, no, she has to do something about this before the coronation of Aja, a plan to protect both Aja and Krel from any harms way, but she has to act fast before Morando or Varvatos (sus)pects anything. And she's gonna get some help from two royal engineers, they helped her contact her son, maybe they would help her again, but she needs to hurry.

Time is ticking for her.

To be continued...

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You all might be wondering where I have been...

Well you see... I have been very busy with school and more IRL, and even trying to improve my writing skills. But, that made me lose track of time, and that I haven't been able to continue this series for so long, so here's a little reminder for things.

I'll be discontinuing this story until I have nothing better to do, since I feel unmotivated for a while. And don't worry, I will return to this series if I get some motivation.

Thank you all for the kudos, and comments about this story, anx I really do appreciate it. And I'm more appreciate that you all still love this story, but please be more patient on me for my return on this story.

Then, until then... goodnight/good day everyone

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Hello, everyone. Man, it has been years since I last hopped into this series. I had a lot of personal issues that made me feel unmotivated to continue the series, but with some friends of mine in my new college, they gave me some inspiration now. Shout out to them btw.

I have finally improved a lot since my last update, and with a new sense of writing experience I can improved this series more than what I originally planned.

Well then, get comfy ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary peeps, welcome back to The Runaway's Love Story.

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After weeks in Earth, Krel started getting the hang of being a teen. But like all teens, they have many things that they don't know.

When Krel was in the Runaway Coven fixing another speaker, Lexi comes over to give him a complimentary donut and coffee. Krel never smelled coffee before, and takes a break to take a closer look.

"Lexi..." Krel calls out to her, "what is this?" He gestures the cup in his hands.

Lexi walks back, and smirked. "It's coffee, kid." She replied, "you take a sip, and you feel rejuvenated. And they all have different flavors on making coffee. What you're holding right now is called a cappuccino." As she was done, she walks away to tend other customers.

Krel looks back at the cup, seeing a white leaf in the pool of brown. He swirls the cup for a bit, and takes a sip. At first, it was too hot, and remembers Douxie teaching him to blow on hot food or drinks to make it cool. He blows into the cup gently, and takes another sip. It takes a while for him to adjust to the sudden earthy taste, but it eventually grew into him, and before you know it, he finished it all. "Amazing. Earthy, but rejuvenating indeed."

Douxie comes in the cafe fresh out of his shift, he sees Krel by himself, and walked towards him. "Hey Krel, how's the repairs?" He asked, sitting down on the other end of the table. "Hopefully it wasn't too complex for you to fix. If it is, you don't have to force yourself too hard."

"Ah, Douxie. I didn't see you, and the repairs are doing great." Krel replied smiling, "though I was a bit tired, but after a drank coffee, I feel rejuvenated."

"Ah, you got a dose of caffeine." Douxie said, leaning against his chair.

Krel got curious about what Douxie said, "caffeine? Elaborate for me." He asks, moving a bit closer to him.

Douxie clears his throat, "Well, caffeine is very quickly absorbed and distributed throughout your body, including to your brain. It's here that caffeine elicits its most classic effect — helping keep you alert and awake." He grabs his phone, and types.

Krel thinks for a moment, "but that does not explain why caffeine makes human's awake."

"Caffeine works by blocking sleep-promoting receptors in your brain called adenosine receptors. It can do this because, structurally, caffeine looks very similar to adenosine, the molecule that usually binds to these receptors." Douxie replies, reading on his phone where he found a website of it.

(Real website by the way. Source: Caffeine & Sleep: How Long Does Caffeine Keep You Awake?)

Krel looks over at Douxie's phone, and asks, "you can read on your phone? How come I can not do that on my phone?"

"Ah, I guess you haven't seen the internet." Douxie replied, "here, let me help you get started."

Krel takes out his own phone, and hands it to Douxie. He lets the wizard tinker on it a bit, all while he fixes the broken speaker. After a while, the speaker has been repaired, and Douxie hands Krel back his phone.

"Did a few modifications on your phone, a few new apps like online and offline games, socials, and new phone wallpapers." Douxie listed the new features out. "Oh, and I set up an online wallet for you, so when you get a part-time job, you can put your paycheck there. I also set up some accounts for you, like a google account, insta, x, tiktok..."

He kept going and going, and it was just too much information to process all of it at once. Too much, to the point Krel started to get dizzy. "Too much... information..." he said weakly, putting his head on the table.

Douxie just chuckles, and ruffled Krel's head, "that's fine, there's a lot of things that a phone has in store. But let's just say that a phone is like... what you have in your planet, but portable and not too advanced." Douxie said, handing him the phone back to Krel. "And hey, you fixed the speaker too. Great job."

When Douxie praises Krel for a good job, he feels something inside his core, something fluttering and tingling. "Thank you, Douxie..." he replied, standing up. "So, shall we head home?"

Douxie nodded, carrying the speaker out of the cafe. Krel waves Lexi farewell, and leaves. As they reached to the motorcycle, Krel's phone buzzed, turns out, lots of his classmates have now followed his socials. It astonished him, and proceeds to tap the follow back button. "So many people must like to follow me, huh?" Krel said, still following back.

Douxie chuckles, and heads home with him for tonight.