Exonerated

  Olivia Hunter leaned back to observe the shifty-eyed teen before her, "Do you know why you're here, Daniel?" the boy blinked at her behind thick lenses.
 
"Am I in some kind of touble, Ms. Hunter?"
 
She gave a soft chuckle that took years of her face. "Not so much, no, Daniel but it appears your grades have slipped a little, can you tell me why that is?"
 
"Uhm, I guess I have a lot on my plate right now, Ms. Hunter"
"Oh, dear. Is everything alright at home?"
"Oh, yes everything's fine...it's just I'm a senior now, college pressure and what not..."
"I see..."
 
Daniel Cassidy was Ayn Academy's brightest students with a record of perfect A's since the 1st grade but his beautiful A's were dipping into B-s which is scientist parents were greatly worried about.
 
"Well, you're in no immediate danger, the school year's just beginning. I'm sure you can get your grades up by mid-terms"
 
She struggled to get up from her desk chair to escort him to the door.  Before she left she whispered in his ear, "Don't worry about Lauren Mitchell, Mr. Cassidy she'll come around but flowers would be a nice suprise tomorrow morning on her desk, wouldn't they?"
 
"What? How did you-?"
 
She gave him a small wave and shut the door before he could finish his question. The boy was in love with the new girl and nothing could be more distracting that cupid's arrow. Anyone could have noticed but Cassidy was remarkably good at hiding his feelings but it didn't matter how good he was he still couldn't hide it from an empath.
 
Holly Cross, fanned a hand over her face. The fat suit she wore kept her warm and toasty but it wasn't exactly a soft cashmere sweater. As Olivia Hunter, the chubby motherly guidance counselor of Ayn Academy she kept her identity beautifully. She had tried coloring her hair but the more observant superheroes and villains could still see through her disguise. Nobody would suspect the roly-poly  counselor to be the lithe, athletic assassin, Holly Cross. 
 
"Annabelle, will you be so kind as to send the next student in?" she said into the intercom
"Sure, Olivia" a high pitched reply came. 
 
Ursa Hunter stomped her way into the office, her combat boots were caked with dirt and her strawberry blond hair stuck out in all directions. She slammed the door shut behind her and stood straight before crumpling into a ball filled with laughter. Holly rolled her eyes as Magick laughed. Ever since Holly donned the fat suit the team had been relentless at teasing her. Magick wiped the tears of mirth from her eyes and slumped across the chair before Holly's desk. 
 
Holly scribbled on some paper. "Angela Morgan got an interesting suprise in her locker this morning" Holly said without looking up. Magick snickered in response. Holly's pen stopped abruptly and she stared at Magick over the rim of her none prescription glasses. 
 
"What were you thinking, Magick?" Holly asked her, her silver eyes glistening. 
"She totally deserved it Holly! I swear! She's been going around saying How Crysta have different fathers and are mom was probably a total slu-"
"Magick! We do have different fathers! We have different mothers! we're not really sisters! It's just a cover!" Holly exclaimed
 stamping her high heeled shoe on the linolium. 
 
"Well, I know that and you know that but Morgan doesn't and she had no right to call my fictional mother a slu-"
Holly glared
"floozy" Magick finished
 
"You made it rain tadpoles in her locker"
"Yeah, well I was going for frogs but I hadn't mastered the spell yet"
"You couldn't have just emptied a bucket of chili on her head?"
 
Magick blinked at Holly, "Wow, that was so lame"
"It's suppose to be lame. You're suppose to be a boring average teen"
"It's not me Holly! I mean you know I'm all about the shazam!"
"Tone it down, Magick or SHIELD will be all over us in a flash"
"Yeah, I know"
"Good. Now get to class"
Magick rolled her eyes. 
 
"And tell Teresa to stop throwing out my peanut butter"
"Who?"
"Crysta? You have to remember your code names we can't risk it"
"Right, later big sis"
 
OCC: Sorry Magick and Crysta if you don't like your names but if you pay attention all our civilian names are going to spell Outsiders. Olivia, Ursa, Teresa...you can always change your names if you like.

Back at the HQ, Leah was combating boredom. She had never wished to cross paths with the Outsiders yet here she was again. Some insane hunter had chased her back into Holly Cross's life and much as she hated being with these people she'd rather be with them than have her body mounted and stuffed in some gun toting maniac's living room. Her class ended earlier that day so she sat in her room typing out the beginnings of a reaction paper for her Philosophy class but every now and then she's switch tabs to open her page on Facebook. 
 An tiny bell sounded and she opened a tab to find her mother had sent her an email, she must have been desperate to find her, her mother was completely illiterate with computers.
 
My dearest: Leah, 
 
 Where are you, my darling? Sam and Emily's wedding is next week. I had sent you at least two invitations but they all came back stamped, "return to sender". Your dean informed me that you had moved applied for a transfer. How could you do this without telling any of us? I'm not angry Leah. I just want to know where my baby girl is. Please come to the wedding. Be happy for your cousin, Emily you two used to be so close. Don't let her think you're still bitter 
 
With love, 
Mom
 
Leah, glared at the message before deleting it without replying. Come to the wedding? let Emily know she wasn't bitter? but she was bitter! Darn Emily for coming to visit and taking away the love of her life. Darn Sam for tossing her aside for her prettier cousin. She took a miserable look at her surroundings. Her room was filled with moving boxes stacked high to the 
ceiling. She kept promising herself she'd unpack soon but couldn't bring herself to get around to it. So there she was propped up on her elbows, lying on a naked mattress playing mafia wars like some kind of anti-social whatever. She looked out her window where a pink and orange sky told her night was coming and the rising of a new moon would not bode well for her. 
 
She snatched her phone from the night stand and dialed Holly Cross, she got her answering machine, "Hey, Cross get over here soon, unless you want to find an angry wolf and a destroyed house when you get home"

A limo drove along the streets. It seemed as if the driver had no idea of where he was going. It passed the coffee shops of the main streets, and the specialty grocery stores that were nestled in the lavish shopping centers, of this fairly well off neighborhood. And then finally, it stopped in front of the high school steps. The black car blocked incoming cars and buses, and the beeped at it, demanding that it move immediately. A kid, about 18 years of age stepped out. He was fairly tall, about 6 ft tall, dark, and from the distance most stood, he was rather handsome. 
 
As the young man walked into the school, he relieved looks. It was probably the way he was dressed. Even in this part of the state, the preppy look had long since faded, and that is exactly what he was wearing. A pair of gray slacks, a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. And a vest over top of that. His dark skin would make him seem like he was from somewhere in the states. But no, when he spoke, an accent would put whoever heard it off. He spoke with a UK accent. 
 
The tall young man walked down the hall holding a triple folded piece of paper in his hands. Looking down and up, up and down to make sure he was at the correct door. On the note it read:  Dear Xane Umbridge, As a new student at this school, I would love to meet you first, before any of your teachers. It is my responsibility and pleasure to make you feel comfortable and ready to face the triles of high school. Signed: Olivia Hunter School Counselor.
 
Xane walked into the room, to see a rather heavy-set woman sitting behind a desk. She had a smile on her face that somehow said two different things: hello, and I can kick you're ass, so don't try me. But he sat down, when she gave the gesture to do so. As the two spoke, Xane got a weird feeling that she somehow knew him, more than the exterior, knew him like a good family freind would know him. Never the less, he did not speak of his family, and tried to end each question with a simple answer. 
 
The door opened and a girl stepped in. She was beautiful, and Xane was a little infatuated. Again, he got that feeling of difference from her. Like she was not regular, like she could do more than anyone let on. Her first words were "Hi, I'm Cr...Ahhhhchue" She lowered her head, a little embarrassed. "Hi, I'm Teresa, and I hate peanut butter." She ended her odd sentence with a smile.
 

Teresa wondered what Olivia had meant, asking her to be a student guide, as she walked down the hallway to the guidance counselor's room.  What's a student guide do? Teresa wondered, as she avoided the iron on one of the lockers.  While touching iron didn't make her faint anymore, after that spell, it still hurt. I wonder if the team knows about me yet.... Crysta thought. She knew they suspected something. 
 
She opened the door to the guidance counselor room. "Hi, I'm Cr.....Ahhhhchue." She lowered her head, cursing herself. You Peanut Butter Lover! Urgh, I can't believe I just did that! "Hi, I'm Teresa, and I hate peanut butter." She said, smiling as she looked at him properly.  Her first thought was Tall. What'd he do to get that tall?!?! And what's with the prep. Imagine if he met Ursa. 
 
"This is Xane Umbridge." Olivia said, "You'll be his student guide. Show him around- 
 
"Umbridge? As in the Harry Potter books!? That is so UNcoo-.... uh.. I mean... I, uh, " she stopped talking as Olivia glared at her, wincing.
 
"Show him around the school, and where his classes are. Understand?" Olivia asked.
 
"Uh, yeah. Well, let's go." Crysta said to Xane.  She led him outside. "Could you wait, just one minute? Thanks!"  Crysta said, not bothering to listen to him. She closed the door, and fell down against it, breathless with laughter. 
 
Holly Cross glared at her. "Are you done laughing? What do you want?" 
 
Crysta got up and said, "What's with me being his student guide? Is there something special about him or something? He feels.... weird...." 
 
"Weird?" Holly asked. "Well, there may be something, but... just show him around. I asked him a few questions, but it seemed... normal? I guess..." She looked like she was hiding something.
 
"Kay. Later fatsuit!" Crysta said, exiting quickly. "Okay, thanks for waiting!" 
 
"You're welcome," He said, shooting her a questioning glance.  Did he hear something? Maybe... Nah, I'm too suspicious. "So, you're my student guide? Here's my schedule." Crysta glanced at it, realizing he spoke with a UK accent. Was he from the UK?  
  
"Are you from the UK? Is that why you're Umbridge?" Crysta asked, realizing a second later that might seem rude. 
 
"Uh, sorta. And Umbridge is just my name. Do you like Harry Potter?" He asked. She grimaced, thinking that he had taken offense. 
 
"Yes! I love magic books. They're amazing! What about you?" Crysta asked. Maybe....  "Do you have any siblings?" She asked, curious. He was a little familiar. There was something about him, and the fact she had to be his student guide. 
 
"Slow down!" He laughed, smiling. "My first class is homeroom, right? Can you show me where that is?" He asked, carefully evading her questions. Hmm..... interesting. "By the way, what was that about peanut butter? You don't like it?" 
 
"Of course I don't like it! Any sane person wouldn't! It's so disgusting! I HATE it! With it's creamy, or crunchy, and being so peanuty.." She ranted on, getting angrier and angrier. "Peanut butter is so out! It never was in! It--" Her voice broke off as Xane pulled her back, away from a window that had just shattered. 
   
"What the chocolate?" Crysta asked. That was me? My magic? How? I didn't want to do that... Several lockers burst on fire, and Crysta felt light-headed. She the sprinklers turned on, and Crysta broke the glass around the fire extinguisher with her magic. She staggered. This is all wrong? What's with me?

Magick  was     doing an extrodenarioly good job of balencing her pencil on her nose. it vhad'nt fallen in like five mineuts. AND her stupid math teacher hadn't noticed. Her winning streak soon ended, however, when a red alarm went off in her head. Something was wrong with Crysta. Something magic-wrong.  "Ursa" raised her hand. 
 
"Yes Ursa?" The teachert sighed. 
 
"I need to go to the bathroom Mrs. Jones." 
 
"Well you should of thought about during passing period." Sneered the evil teacher lady. 

 
"But I have to puke." 
 
"GO!" 
 
Magick left the classroom feeling triumphant. The feeling instantly vanished. Crysta was in the hallway, were all sorts of things were magically breaking. And the most impossible thing of all, she was standing next to  
 
"Slight!?" Magick yelled/asked. 
 
"Um..exuse me?" said the boy, who Magick could now see was not, infact, Slight, he just looked alot like him. 
 
"Uh..sorry. You look like someone I know. Cry....Tereasa....what the hell?" 
 
"Don't look at me." Said Crysta. " I    have no clue what's going on." 
 
Then suddenly in a rush that magick could tell came from her, the lockers turned into dragons. What a great day this is turning out to be, she thought. 
 
OOC: Sorry if the spelling is messed up. the computer i'm using has no spell check.

Walt Z. Foxtrot who was for some reason supposed to be called Sebastian Archer in the earth school he was currently attending (and had to pretend he was a cousin to Crysta, Magick and Holly) found himself being escorted by his new rather large friends, Beau, Moe and Joe. They decided to pick him up right before third period and bring him to the boys’ bathroom. He wanted to tell them he didn’t have to go and because of his complex biological structure he probably wouldn’t have to go in another week but they seemed so excited to show him the restroom he just didn’t have the heart to tell them. 

They looked almost as happy as Crysta whenever she threw out the butter of peanuts Holly liked so much. He told them they could put him down now as soon as they entered but they kept on carrying him right to a stall.  

“You’re going to get it now, new boy!” They laughed 

 
They started to push his head towards the ceramic bowl. Now Walt has been on earth long enough to know what the toilet it for. At first he had mistaken it as a learning device for young earth children to explain the natural phenomenon of whirlpools but after Magick and Crysta going, “Holly! The alien is staring at the toilet again!” Holly had pulled him aside to explain what a toilet was and what went through it. So Walt knew, he did not want his head in there. Now Minevrans (from the planet, Minerva) are natural shape shifters born with a gelatinous exoskeleton. So Walt liquefied himself so quick, Beau’s hand was pushing nothing but air which of course landed his hand in the toilet. Joe on reflex probably at hearing the splash flushed the toilet. Next thing Walt knew Beau was screaming his hand was stuck and Joe and Moe were trying to pull him free, completely forgetting Walt which he found incredibly rude. So he gave a small salute and strode out.  

He was strolling the hall when he encountered Crysta, Magick and a boy he did not know. Around them glass shards flew like shooting stars ending in a sprinkle to the floor. Walt clapped at the show resulting in Crysta, Magick and the boy looking at him funny. He had misunderstood the situation again.  

 
“What is upward?” He asked in form of greeting.    

Holly was on her way to the ladies room when she heard wailing and snickers coming from the boys' room. Without any inhibitions she pushed her way in to find three large adolescents crammed in a stall. One apparently appeared to have gotten his hand stuck in the toilet (how the heck did that happen?) while the other two were trying to free him and at the same time keep from collapsing with laughter (nice friends). 
 
"Gentlemen, what seems to be the problem?" she asked. 
 
Moe look up from the stall to see a guidance counsler smiling pleasantly down at the three of them.   

 "You can't be in here this is the boy's room"  Moe said

"How very observant Mr. Johnson" 
 
"Though you could pass for a dude you big fatty" 
 
Holly blinked in surprise at hi insolence before she realized she had read his mind accidentally. She let the comment slide, it was just the suit after all...wasn't it? No time for simpering female insecurities. She made her way towards them to peer into the stall where Beau Maxted's hand was wedged, it took her a minute to see the problem and solve it. 
 
"Mr. Maxted?" 
 
"Uhm, yes Ms. Hunter?" 
 
"Are you making a fist?" 
 
"I think so..." 
 
"Don't" 
 
Beau relaxed his hand and it slipped out with a gurgle.  
 
"Ohhhhhhh" he and his friends replied in unison. Holly rolled her eyes. 
 
"Mr. Maxted what were you doing with your hand in the toilet, did you lose something?" 
 
Beau started to whimper and rubb at his eyes with his damp sleeve making Holly grimace.  
 
"It was the new kid, Ms. Hunter!" 
 
"We've had over five new arrivals Mr. Maxted please be more specific" 
 
"The weird new junior with the big eyes and the messy hair" 
 
"Are you referring to Mr. Archer?"

"Yes, mam. He shoved my hand in the toilet"

"The same Mr. Archer that is probably half your size?"

"He's not--"

"The same Mr. Archer who is also my cousin"

"Uhhh"

"I see. Please all get to class, you're missing it"

The three large boys scrambled out.

"And Mr. Johnson" Holly called making Moe pause at the door

"Don't ever call me a fatty" she smiled her eyes blazing. Moe paled and bolted.

Holly checked her lipstick in a mirror and walked about to see the three boys frozen in place.

" I thought I told you three to..." she stopped realizing they were frozen like ice sculptures. She ran down the fall puffing from the weight of her fat suit. She paused at the sight before her. Xane Umbridge was holding up Crysta while shards of broken glass lay at their feet. Magick looked worried and Walt looked lost.

"How--" then through the silence the sounds of Glee's "Don't stop believing" cut through the hall.

Holly opened her cell phone to hear Leah's unhappy message. Holly paled before snapping the phone shut.  
 
"Mr. Umbridge it appears you're making quite an umpression on your first day. It appears that there is a gas leak and if you seem to be seeing some strange activity make your way to the nurse's office and have her treat you. I must talk to my sisters and my er...cousin. Family matter, please understand"  
 
Xane shrugged and made his way towards the nurse's office that Holly pointed too. Her sweet smile melted when face with the two magic users and the alien. 
 
"The three of you are suspended for the rest of the afternoon. Collect your things and meet me in the parking lot in 10 minutes" 
 
"I didn't do anything!" Walt protested 
 
"Doesn't matter just go. Leah needs us back at the house"

Almost as soon as Xane stepped outside with his guide, Teresa strange things started to happen. These were no ordinary strange things, these were really really strange things. Lockers started turning into dragons, music began to play out of nowhere, and to top it off, three boys that had only seconds ago exited the boys loo, had been frozen in their postions. Xane, was confused, but was clear on one thing. He could not escape it. Stuff like this had happened before. It was the reason he had had to move from Europe to the states. But, for right now, he had to conceal his secret, and go with the flow. 
 
As he was just standing there, watching as Teresa, another girl, and a boy. It was as if, these people had just popped up out of nowhere. Then,
 

"Mr. Umbridge it appears you're making quite an umpression on your first day. It appears that there is a gas leak and if you seem to be seeing some strange activity make your way to the nurse's office and have her treat you. I must talk to my sisters and my er...cousin. Family matter, please understand"

The moon’s figure was beginning to take shape even the sun still sailed in the sky and Leah chose not to take any chances. She made her way to the basement towards a large cage. Magick and Crysta had taken it upon themselves to paint the concave walls with a meadow filled with rainbows and butterflies while the alien boy had painted the ceiling with the night sky. Leah stripped down to wear a silk robe, locked herself in and placed the key on a hook nearby. She rested upon throw pillows Holly had left in the cage and awaited the change.

She could feel her body humming, it was unsettling feeling like a million spiders were crawling under her skin. Then something went wrong. Leah spat blood as her canine incisors replaced her perfectly aligned teeth. A tail sprouted painfully out her end. She was jolted forward as her tail shot back into her body and a wolf ear took the place of her human ear. She cried from the sudden shock of it. The change was always painful but it was one fluid movement of pain, it didn’t come in rapid changes all over her body. She ran to the metal bars and made a grab for her phone that rested on the table nearby but just as her hand shot out to take it changed into a wolf’s paw knocking the phone out of her reach. She collapsed on the floor in frustration and her scream ended as a mournful howl as her mouth changed into a snout. The floor was decorated with splashes of blood caused by the transformation glitches. Her right arm changed into a wolf’s leg while her left leg changed, then they shifted into her human limbs at the same time her left arm and right leg changed. She was caught in a perpetual shifting state and it hurt like heck. She stared at the key longing to unlock the cage and go get help but she couldn’t risk herself in the state she was in. She was in too much pain to control the wolf within and she could feel it rising to be set free. In one desperate attempt she ran head first into the stone wall. On an ordinary human this could have ended in a deadly blow but it merely knocked Leah out. Even in her unconscious state her body changed but slower this time but ever one in a while she’d wince and cry out in her dreams.      

Xane sat stunned behind the car. Was he really hearing the truth, or was this group of characters just pulling his chain. There was an air of doubt before he realized that they had to be telling thier truth. And that is when he decided to accept the truth. Fate would not let him escape his own life. A car pulled up, and they all entered. While Xane just sat there. He had no regular way of following them. He knew he could not run as fast a car, so the only option was to use his magic. 
 
With the simple utterance of a word, Aeros, a sudden gust of wind came lifting him from the spot he sat in. It carried him all the way up into the clouds. Xane tumbled foolishly through the air, until he was high enough to be out of sight from anyone who would persecute him for being a powered. Still with the car they rode in, in his sights he kept focused on not falling. Even with all his training back home, using Aeros to fly was as tricky as it got with his powers.
 
When they pulled into a manor like house, Xane sort of felt at home, as in it reminded him of the house he grew up in...Well one of them anyway. He lowered, but his powers went fritzy when he got close to the ground. THUD. He did a faceplant in the grass. Xane stood up and brushed himself off. And then, he heard voices. It was the Teresa, and the others. Knowing that he had to get inside, Xane went around back and kicked in a window. He knew that they wouldn't mind so much, once they knew why he was here. 
 
He ran, to the front of the house, and stopped just shy of entereing the room they were in. It suddenly got hot, very hot. A volcano just appeared. Using his own magic, "Pyros" The lava that had begun to spew out, began to retract back into the mouth of the erupting monster. The whispers had become to much, and he had to reveal himself. 
 
Xane stepped out from the wall he hid behind. "Um...Hi"

Walt found himself suspended and had quickly picked up on the human ability to whine. He wanted to study up on the eating habits on adolescent humans; the lack of respect for their food had always intrigued Walter. It was taboo for Minevrans to disrespect what gave their body energy. Then again he could always study Crysta and her anger towards peanut butter which Walt was pretty sure was food. He touched a button on his watch which projected a holographic notepad he took down notes of his observations.

Walt found himself suspended and had quickly picked up on the human ability to whine. He wanted to study up on the eating habits on adolescent humans; the lack of respect for their food had always intrigued Walter. It was taboo for Minevrans to disrespect what gave their body energy. Then again he could always study Crysta and her anger towards peanut butter which Walt was pretty sure was food. He touched a button on his watch which projected a holographic notepad he took down notes of his observations.

The girls were discussing magic again, a primitive form of art according to Minevrans. He looked up at Magick. He asked her a question about a habit of hers which made Holly smile crookedly. Walt took notes, it wasn’t the kind of smile she made when she was happy but still there was a sincere pleasure to it, Minevrans never expressed themselves with their face.

They stepped towards their home but as they got to inside the ground beneath their feet eroded to form a mole hill which spouted lava.

Walt reached out a tentative hand to the glowing liquid earth but was yanked back by his collar.

“You don’t want to do that” Holly said her expression grim. She turned from him to yell, “Leah!”

Her call was greeted by silence which Walt was learning meant bad. When a member of the Outsiders did not respond to a call after they had called them all to regroup in the lair, that meant they were either unconscious, dead or in the shower or worse! Unconscious because they were dead   and in the shower. Little bumps ran up Walt’s skin.

“Holly, Leah…” Walt began looking for reassurance.

“I know, Walt. C’mon, Magick, Crysta please take care of this mess. We’re going to find Leah”

They checked the basement first where Leah usually spent her time when a full moon rapidly approached. The light flickered bringing them in and out every second in complete darkness.

“Leah?” Holly called

Walt took her hand being able to see in the dark helped in these situations. He could hear Holly’s boots hit heavily on the steps as they descended it seem to match the beat of his tiny heart pounding underneath his left wrist. They found Leah in her wolf form, unconscious.

“Leah!” Holly yanked the key off the hook and opened Leah’s cage. They knelt by her side and Walt checked her pulse.

“Should we be concerned that there is a new enemy?” Walt asked

“No, Leah’s transformations are magical. I think it’s safe to assume that the reason she shifted like this is due to the same reason Magick and Crysta’s powers are acting up.    

Together with Walt, Holly dragged the unconscious wolf up the stairs. She kept a careful grip on Leah’s head making sure to wrap her arms around the snout, in case the wolf girl woke up and decided Holly’s arm would make a neat chew toy. Walt had the harder time, carrying the large wolf’s body which weighed ten times as much as human Leah.

Holly could feel the sweat collect within her fat suit and as soon as they lay Leah down on the kitchen floor she ripped off the suit till she wore only a tank top and mini shorts she always wore under. Walt grimaced in disgust at the suit lay on the floor like used human skin.

“C’mon, Walt. Let’s get her to the living room” Holly sighed wiping her brow with her forearm.

She reached out but stop short, then fell backwards to avoid the large wolf snout that snapped at the air where her head had been seconds ago.

The Leah wolf was awake and with her wounds she clearly was scared and hurt, relying now on her base instincts. Walt wrapped his arms around Leah’s middle, giving time for Holly to scramble away. Leah, turned to snap at Walt but his alien flexibility kept his limbs and head out of her reach.

“Holly!, tranq her!” Walt called

Holly made a mad dash out the kitchen to get her rifle. The clanking of pots behind her warned her of the struggle that Walt may not keep up. He had super smarts and super flexibility but the boy wasn’t super strong, he could only keep Leah at bay for so long. She skidded to a halt in the hall to see, the new student, Crysta and Magick staring surprised at each other.

Crap! She thought

“Ursa, Teresa! Uhm...our dog has rabies...get out guest out of here, now! Please!” She called

She heard Walt give a loud yelp and turned to see Leah scrambling out into the hall. Her eyes were blood shot and dog drool dripped from her lips that were pulled back into a snarl.    

Crysta sighed. This is just WONDERFUL.  Leah's crazy, and there's some random idiot here. 
 
"So, Xane, we might want to get out. Our dog can get very.... violent." Crysta said. Telepathically, she told Magick, "Great job getting the lava to leave!" 
 
"What? I thought you did that?" Magick asked, confused. 
 
"Huh? No, I just made the volcano disappear. " 
 
"And I cleaned up the mess." Magick thought. "I remember that the lava receded, and then Xane stepped out." 
 
"How did Xane even follow us?" Crysta asked. 
 
"Um, about this rabid dog.  I can probably help." Xane said. 
   
"It doesn't matter if you're a dog tamer or a veterinarian, you still won't be able to calm him." Magick said scornfully. "Let's go outside." 
 
"No, I honestly can---" Xane said, stopping short as Leah stepped out.  "Is that your... dog? It doesn't really look-" 
  
Oh, wonderful.  Crysta thought. Like things weren't any more complicated.

 The commotion had been enhanced now. Xane stood silently, listing to the racket coming from seemingly every direction. In the kitchen both the fat suit lady, and the weird kid were trying to handle a dog. Or at least that is what both, the two girls from school, tried to pass as a dog. But, being from Europe, he'd been exposed to lycanthropes before. It was part of the local history, and the countries history as well. Xane played along though, seeing, and recognizing these two were under pressure.
 
So, they rushed him outside again. He was tired of the charade by now though. He thought it best to come clean about everything. "Look...I know what's going on. I know both of you are magic. I know that none of you are related, not that it was hard to figure out. I know that that wasn't a 'dog'. And I know why all this craziness has been happening." His European accent melded with the speech of America. "The reason I was sent here...To America was because of family reasons. My brother...Avery...You might know him as Slight, was part of your team. I don't have time to explain the entire story, but long story short, We knew that you guys were magic, I needed exposure to others like me, and I wanted to get to know my brother...But...I was too late... So, any question"? 

Leah, could feel the wild wind calling to her and she ran with it. Back at her home on La Push the wolves were free to run without being a threat or threatened by anyone but the city was so different, so loud, so crowded. Her paws hit pavement when they yearned for soil. She heard a loud unnatural roar behind her and knew the dominant female was behind her. She gave a wolfy grin and picked up speed, they would see who the true hunter would be.  The fire in her lungs merely encouraged her to push more and she took off like a bullet. 
 
Freedom, freedom, freedom a voice chanted in her head. She felt a small zing go past her and man jogging nearby went down for a sudden nap. In her wolf state she couldn't comprehend tranqs but she knew that an attack had been launched at her. She turned around abruptly and the motor bike passed her by. She made a sharp turn to her left and was leaping through suburban backyard, shocking an old woman who had been weeding her garden and earning cheers from little children playing in the next yard.

Walt weezed like an asthmatic child when Leah rolled over him. When she returned to her human state he'd have to tell her to lay off the s'mores she liked so much. He clutched the doorway for support, realigning his bones. Holly looked really frustrated because apparently Leah decided to take a field trip in her wolf state. The new member, Ghost appeared to be angry that Holly was scolding him.
 
"Why do you even have a werewolf on your team when you can't control it?"
 
Walt stiffened visibly. Did the new guy just call Leah an "it"?
 
"Leah's not an it! She's an Outsider like all of us, she's just sick it's not her fault" Walt grumbled, he wasn't sure why this annoyed him so much but it did
 
 "You think this time you can catch Leah without letting go?" 
 
Walt fixed Holly with a calm stare. 
 
"I promise you, Holly we'll catch her before she hurts anyone, including herself"
 
Holly didn't seem happy or unhappy with his answer so he figured there was no time to lose. He hit a few buttons on the gadget on his wrist and what had appeared to be a watch extended into an armor, sliding over his skin like it was made for him (which it was). He was aware that he resembled the hereos of an earth show called, "Power Rangers" and was often teased by the girls but what he lacked in fashionable costumes he made up for in skill. The bottom of the suit, which covered the soles of his feet grew tiny wheels that zipped quickly over the hard wood floor onto the cement streets outside. 
 
A tiny red dot was moving quickly on his visor. When he had discovered Leah's ability to change into a wolf he may have injected a microscopic tracking device into her system just for purely educational purposes of course, he just hoped when she changed she'd be so relieved they caught her and not ask how they had found her so quickly.

Crysta stared at Xane. "Xane! You're a.... wizard?!?! OMG!!! JUST LIKE HARRY POTTER!!!!" She squealed, not letting the charade end. 
 
"Give it up, Crys... we're done." Magick groaned, watching the other members chase Leah. "Let's just go help them. Wait here, Xane." 
 
"I really don't think it's a good idea. Our powers are like, going kaplooey. Xane, you say that you're a... wizard? Anyways, please go deal with the problem." Crysta said. 
 
"Oka-" Xane started to say, but got cut off by Magick. 
 
"What can he do?!?! He looks so... weak!"  Magick yelled. 
 
"Oh, come on, Magi-" 
 
"Fine! Go deal with the problem! Let's see what you can do."  Magick said, smiling. 
 
"Okay....." Xane said. "And, um, about your powers going "kaploo-" he got cut off again, this time by both Crysta and Magick. 
 
"Do you know something?" Crysta asked, excited, as Magick said, 
 
"Go help Leah and then tell us!"  Magick said. "Crys and i can deal with the powers going bonkers." 
 
"Don't call me Crys!!!" Crysta yelled at Magick.