Team 5 No. 2: Two Moons

## The Story

Cheers could be heard down the hallway, laughs and giggles and jokes being stated loudly in the living room. Michael, having an old home family camcorder he got from M, has been recording the night play out with Elliot taking copious amounts of liquor while M is struggling to hold her alcohol in. And in the back, Steven is cooking an amazing dinner as per usual. Life actually seemed normal after the death of The Monolith, or as normal for a bunch of people who can't leave their home could be.

But nonetheless, life was good for the group.

"Hey Michael, I wanna show you something" said M, leading him to the elevator as she put her fox mask on.

"You're gonna want something to cover your face completely, here"

M takes a pair of sunglasses from her room and gives them to him. Michael, extremely hesitant, tried to get out of doing something he wasn't supposed to do yet wasn't enough for the group's peer pressure. M quickly huddled Michael in the elevator, watching the doors shut, sealing his fate.

"Okay, you ready?"

"Ready for what?!" Michael exclaims worriedly. M grabs Michael's arm

"Just make sure you're holding on to me, alright?"

As the elevator door opens, M quickly weaves through the air while unsheathing her katana. Soon making it to the second floor and to another elevator. They wait for the doors to close as she clicks the highest button.

"Where are we going M"

"Do you just not trust me? What did I EVER do to you."

She replies mocking him as Michael rolls his eyes. The elevator rings as the door opens to a long hallway, M dashes with Michael grabbing onto her arm trying to keep up. They make it to a door labeled "Dr Ochomo, Room 170" M quietly opens the door,

"Just stay here alright, Ill be back soon"

Michael hides in a dark office down the hallway while M sneaks into the room. M closes the door and flicks on the light switch, revealing a black haired woman with a cup of coffee on a computer. "Why now?" The woman says, grumpily.

"I just got something I want to do"

The woman turns around to reveal that her entire face is pitch black, with only her eyes showing through the pitch black void of her face. "Dont fuck this up Mitsumi, got it?" dangling a lanyard with a keycard.

"I promise Maya."

"Jesus you and your bad decisions...now get out of here girl, before you get caught."

M walks down the hallway with the keycard on her neck, turning the corner and seeing Michael in a dark corner.

"Cmon, lets go. Also you suck at hiding."

"Thanks." Michael says unhappily

Michael and M start to run down the hallway and make it to a staircase as they spiral up to the top floor and open the door. They open the door to be hit with a nice warm breeze and the smell of pine trees. They pan from foot to sky, seeing a dirt path and a portable, with a large satellite dish, bigger than anything they have ever seen before way back in the distance. M points with her katana to the bowl of the dish, "Now that's where we're going" she chuckles.

She digs her foot in the dirt as she gets into a running position, "You're gonna just have to run with me here, alright?"

"Wait what?" Michael says nervously

She grips his arm and starts to sprint, "Run!"

They both start sprinting down the dirt path as she jumps in the air, placing her katana under her foot, kicking it back and unsheathing it, placing both of them on top of the dish. They land and start to tumble

"Seeee..” She peers down from the satellite to the ground “that really wasn't that hard now was it".

She pans back to see Michael spread out flat, hyperventilating. She takes off her mask and tosses it along with her katana on the metal ground, laying down next to him completely relaxed to the contrast to Michael.

"Okay? Now what?" says Michael, not wanting to move a muscle.

"Well I mean c'mon man look at the view! Isn't this awesome?" She asks him with a slight disappointment.

"I mean, I guess, but what if Boss finds out huh?"

"Trust me, He's never gonna find out, never has"

As Michael starts to relax, conversation begins flowing, asking about what had happened before he was there, any cool secrets he could know about Elliot or Steven. She soon started to finally talk, how she had been basically kidnapped by Boss, telling her all of her problems would just "Go away" .

Michael connected to this, having the same thing happen to him, it's just how he gets you to join the team. Past the depressing realization that their employer is manipulative, they started to share their past together.

“My family was never normal from the start, my father had this crazy obsession with this god damn katana. Short story is, my great grandfather fought the Mongol invasion, and to help in his victory, he needed the power of 10,000 men, so he called to a demon. Demon gave him the katana and he won, yipee. It was foretold that one day his kin would pick it up again when the time way right and get the great power of the fucking demon.”

“Do i have 3 guesses?”

M laughes,

“My father was just a total asshole, having children JUST to secure that someone would pick the katana up again.”

“Where is he now?”

She hesitates.

“I dont know…probably celebrating or dead, I stopped caring years ago…”

Back at the house, Steven and Elliot are watching TV

“I fucking hate this show. And this one, and this on- all of these suck!” Elliot clicks rapidly trying to find something enjoyable.

“Maybe if you would stop for a goddamn second you would find something.”

Steven takes the remote from Elliots hands and turns on Spongebob,

“There you go, you big baby.”

“...Yeah I can do with this”

Steven roles his eyes, going back into this garage. As Elliot watches the yellow sponge, he hears a distant ding from the elevator. His heart sinks.

“Hey Elliot you seen the-” Steven walks into the room with Elliot and Boss, standing next to each other, with Boss slowly rearing his head to Steven.

“Where, are, the other two, Steven? I was under the impression you'd all be Gallivanting together like a happy family. ”

“Uhhhhhh…Uhhhhh…"

"Steven!"

"I uhhhh...dont...know?"

It cuts back to M and Michael,

"Any other secrets you wanna share?" Michael said trying to change the mood of the situation

"O yeahh..Docs autistic"

"Really!?"

"No?!" M Said as she gave a hardy chuckle

Michael rolles his eyes as he lays back down, "Whatever"

M starts to bug Michael about his secrets, starting with the mask, "What do you look like under there?"

"I don't know, normal? I'm not supposed to take it off, you know that."

"Why not?" She says eagerly

"I don't know, I'm just not."

"Awwwww but that's boorrring! C'mon nobody is up here but me, what do you have to lose, you lived without it before, right?"

"Yeah?"

“Okay, well…”

M gets up and gets on top of Michael, slowly starting to reach for his mask. Michael freezes, staying still as she reaches for his face, unhooking the latch and pulling it up. Her face slowly closes in,

"Mitsumi." She screeches and falls over, seeing Boss standing above them like a pillar in the foggy dusk.

"I distinctly remember telling ALL of you to AVOID coming up here. Especially if you're going to do... Whatever this is."

“...”

“Is that what I relayed to you after I caught the Doctors together, or am I mistaken?"

"Yes!..yes it is..."

He looks down a Michael, "And petit pinson..someone teaching you how to fly? If it wasn't for the surprise of hearing a portal open in Montana…”

Boss lets out a deep, computer-like chuckle, only 3 bursts of breath exit his throat, an inhuman laugh.

“Both of you. Vacate.”

Mitsumi grabs Michael's arm as sparks fly out of her sheath, taking them back into the door leading downstairs. With both of them terrified, they head back to the elevator and make it back to Steven and Elliot who are already in their gear. Michael and Mitsumi run to their rooms, put on their clothes and head back with all of them huddling in the elevator.

“Soo uhh, hey-”

“Shut up, Mikey.”

“Hey! Youre the one that said he never figures out before!”

“Because I never wanted you to know! Because you cant come out of your shell, yeah?!”

“How does that fall on me!”

“Because I th-”

“OH MY GOD! SHUT UP!”

Elliot screams over the two, and the metal box stays silent.

They take their seats as the helicopter starts to lift them into the air and into the dark night above. Michael couldn't fall asleep this time, instead constantly thinking about what had happened,

'What the hell was that, lied to, got ontop- jesus, this is work, im doing work, no way she likes me, she knows her job, right?'

“Michael!”

“Wha, what.”

“We're here, you keep in that head of yours for too long and you'll end up dead.” Elliot says as he takes his last steps of the helicopter.

“Was it really that long?”

They step off the helicopter as it flies off once again, before Boss comes in through the radio,

“An entity was spotted by locals in the area. It's got big glowing eyes and said to be gray scales . You know what to do.”

"Oh of fucking course we have to kill the entity!" Elliot says, tired and grumpy, not wanting to do another night mission in a mountain forest.

Yet they venture on, hoping to find this "entity". They enter a rocky incline of a mountain, with a small river separating the sides in half. They continue to walk on the rockside before Elliot shuts everyone up, and turns  them invisible.

He holds his hand out, telling them to stay here as he crouches down and starts to walk to what they can't see clearly, the foggy night blocking what Elliot is hunting for though his night vision goggles.

He slowly creeps behind a tree and peers up to a female humanoid figure with gray skin, darker gray scars across her entire body, thin robes. She floats in the air as if she's suspended under water, he looks at her head, seeing one large eye. He clicks on his radio,

"What the hell is that thing...thats not what..."

Before he could radio the team behind them anything actually useful, the humanoid's eye creeks its head into his direction, coldly staring at him, beyond his invisible veil he hides behind.

"Guys shes fucking staring at me, there's no way she can see me right?"

"Elliot what the fuck is it!" M responds in a frustrated voice. Elliot's radio screams out Mitsumi’s voice from his end, he looks up seeing no sign of the entity. The frame shows the women above Elliot, matching hes turns to stay behind him. He stops, moving underneath a tree and turning quickly, she brushes against the leaves, giving out her plan.

"Help shes on my a-!"

She picks Elliot up by the leg and flies up into the air. The team gives chase, Steven calling the helicopter back while M grabs Michael and starts to slash, jumping  through the trees, trying to catch up to Elliot.

The two jump across trees faster than a person could blink, M's back starting to steam, then catch on fire. Before any harm could happen to the both of them, M gets close enough to throw Michael onto the entity, grabbing onto her neck for dear life.

Elliot looks up to see Michael hanging on and tries to get out of the death grip.

“Put me down you bitch!”

Weirdly, she obliges, and ends up in a clearing where Michael falls to the ground, getting up and pulling his gun out and shooting her 3 times in the back, all of them flattening and falling down onto the soft grass below.

Elliot is put down as the entity floats inches off the ground, just staring like nothing had happened, Michael gets a running start, pulling out a knife and charging, aiming for the eye, but is swatted away like a fly, slamming into the tree with a crunch. He gasps for air, then falls silent.

Its empty,

Michael's eyes open, hearing people in the distance, he looks up, seeing a giant figure, looking like its made up of the cosmos itself.

Its hand slowly starts to hold out to him.

Elliot gets up and tries to blind the creature, yet nothing happens. He begins to run yet is tackled to the ground in a hug, unable to get out.

"You are mine now... Nothing will hurt you." She says softly

"NonoNO, let me go! KID!" She starts to remove his helmet and holds his chest. Elliot grabs a hold of his revolver, shooting it in the air in an attempt to catch M’s or Steven's attention to where they are.

in seconds theres slight brushing of trees against the wind, and Mitsumi appears above the women. Her eye looks up and sharpens.

Mitsumi puts all of her force down, putting immense power into the cut.

Time seems to freeze, M stumbles to the ground with her katana in the hands of the creature, blade first. She peers back to see a trickle of gold blood running down her arms, comparable to a light cut.

She tosses the katana aside like a toy,

“Do not hurt him!”

"Are you out of your mind?!" M screams,

The women shows a scared expression as M yells at her,

"Nooo! Stop!" She looks down and covers her self

Elliot takes this time to sprint to Michael who hasn't gotten up. M looks to the right seeing Michael, barely alive on the ground.

She rushes over to him, checking his pulse before running to her katana, then quickly vanishes before appearing with Steven. Steven begins to take over, pushing Elliot while he rolls up his sleeve, Golden colors poor into the dark forest as the two snakes rap around his arm and pouncing into Michael.

"Elliot hold him down!" Michael's eyes spring to life, he jumps up and tries to grab his gun instinctively but Elliot grabs his arms and puts them behind his back. Michael breathes heavily until he calms down,

"Mornin' kid! Its a shit show!" Steven says to Michael as he waves his hand in his face, making sure he can see. Michael gasps for air, completely dazed from the events that had just happened,

The team all gather themselves and look at the entity staring deeply only at Elliot, she doesn't move, blink, or seem to breathe. They start to approach the entity, as they get closer she starts to open her arms for an embrace of Elliot. Everyone tensed up.

Michael's hand on his pistol, M's hand on her katana and Steven's hand on his revolver at the sight of the thing moving.

“I have a plan.” Elliot whispers

“Your plans suck!” Mitsumi fires back, but Elliot continues

Elliot slowly starts to move closer,

"Do you have a name?" he asked

"My name is Odinya, Daughter of Anodus, Seer of all, Princess of Caria."

"Coooooool..." Elliot responded very cautiously, "Now why are you here?"

She starts to reform, like her body is trying to physically bury what had happened.

"I....Dont..know"

"Alright alright... can you explain why you feel this connection with me"

"Because it was destined in fate for us to meet!" her deaninor starts to lighten up

Elliot turns around for some sort of escape card from the team, but they are as confused as he is. They call back Boss, telling them that practically a god just told Elliot that they were destined for each other.

“Is she violent?”

“She broke Michael’s ribs and nearly killed the boy after he shot her.” Steven responds

“Anything else?”

“No, not yet.”

Boss lets out a deep sigh and tells them to come back to base for inspection. The helicopter flies over them, staying in the air as M puts everyone in. The ride was beyond awkward, having a 7ft eye woman sitting right next to Elliot as he's trying to sit as far away from her, Steven having no business in this, pushing him closer to her, and M trying not to kill her in the process.

They make it back to headquarters, Boss meeting them at the elevator and bringing them to their dorms. Boss stands over all of them but Odinya, having her grow almost instantly to match his height.

The team give puzzled faces to how that was even possible, with Boss looking at her, staring daggers.

"Damn Boss, you got competition or somethin'?" Steven says with a smirk

Boss looks down at Steven coldly, then back up to Odinya, holding Elliots hand and not letting go.

“You, need to leave. Immediately.”

“No.”

“Excuse me?.”

The team tenses up in response to her refusal, you don't say NO to BOSS.

“I am here to stay with Elliot Green, the human.”

Elliot perks up, freaking out how she knows his full name.

“We are both far away from home, I know little about you, but I know you do not belong here.” Her voice turns darker, and brutal.

“No. You are leaving. Now.”

Boss takes her hand, dragging her away, but she doesn't move a bit. He feels a slippery substance on his hand, he flips it over, seeing Ichor covered on his hand.

The room turns into a marble floor, with the same golden blood spilling onto the ground before cutting away quickly as Boss breathes out, shaking it off.

He tugs harder one more time, visibly putting force into his pull, and she pounces. Time begins to stop. Boss peers down, seeing her fingers turn into sharp claws, aimed for his heart, He takes a deep breath, and moves out of the way as she flies by him.

He takes her other arm, and slams her against the hallway ground. The ground cracks and dust flies. A fight begins to take place, Boss constantly moving as she attacks and him and Boss connecting hard punches.

She stops for a split second, before sprouting two more arms from her back, and lunging at Boss.

He does one final kick, slamming her against the wall where she falls, and struggles to get back up.

"I don't think I've ever seen Boss' legs before, this is awesome!" Michael whispers to Doc as they all watch.

He takes her arm, and starts to drag her to the elevator.

"Till next time."

He gets into the elevator, as just as when the door are about to close, Boss gets thrown out of the elevator, hitting the wall, and falling to the floor.

When he gets up, he takes in his surroundings, seeing the broken walls and sighs. Holding his head.

“I don't have the time for this. Take the damn Man!” His tone deep and angry, he shoves her out of the elevator.

"You can't just pin me with this thing Boss!" Elliot pleads.

"YOU brought her here, YOU deal with her, and If I hear one thing, one issue, about her, I will gut you and display you like a hunter's fresh kill.”

“Yep!” Elliot says terrified,

Boss walks past the wreckage into the broken elevator,

“Don't touch any of this until I send people to fix it.”

The elevator, busted, but working, starts to go up, and the team is left with Odinya. The group slowly walk back into the kitchen as she follows Elliot, somehow sinking her other 2 arms into her back, everyone simultaneously says 'Gross'.

“Hey M, Can you get her some new clothes?” says Elliot with his head down.

“What!? No!”

“She can't float around here in... basically lingerie all the time, can she?”

Mitsumi huffs and goes into her room, pulling out a blue turtleneck and leggings, and throws it to Odninya, which she does not catch at all.

“Put’m on.” M says frustrated as she crosses her arms

Odinya starts to strip in front of all of them, with the guys loudly telling her to stop while covering their eyes.

“I do not understand, you tell me to put clothes on and yell when I do so.”

“Okay we are just gonna turn around, and you put them on, alright? Your supposed to tell us when you're taking your clothes off.”

“Odd.”

They all sigh, as she put the cloths on,

“Wow, look at you, you can almost pass for a human.” Elliot says laughing

“Really?!”

“No, it was a joke.”

“Oh, interesting."

The team take to the couch, with Odinya following Elliot everywhere he goes, him still very annoyed. He turns on spongebob, and she is immediately captivated. Her eye widens, and she floats as close as she could get to the TV, taking in all of it. Steven begins to laugh not because of the sight, but because of the sheer randomness their lives had today.

Michael and Mitsumi walk away, bored and tired. They lay on his bed, Michael staring up at the ceiling fan.

"Who was that girl."

"What are you talking about."

"Dr. Ochomo?"

"Thats my friend, shes kept me sane while dealing with Elliot and Steven."

"And what about that comment with the "Doctors" that bossed talked to you about."

Her faces with anxiety and worry

"What? Did I find something you didn't want me to find?" Michael says

"Steven is dating her, and he doesnt like me telling you guys because im kinda the reason they got together."

"Can I meet her?"

Mitsumi sighs deeply and puts her hand on her face.

"Pleeaase?"

It cuts to them speedwalking to her office

"Dude we are SO fucked if we get caught you know that right, when did you become a rebel, IM the rebel!"

"Since it was in my benefit"

Mitsumi laughs and roles her eyes, reaching the door.

"Okay, so, she's super cool and such and such but she can be SUCH a bitch if you don't play your cards right, so just don't fuck it up, I really don't want her hating you." A look of pleading crosses her face.

"I got this Mits"

They open the door, and Maya looks up from her desk.

"Oh my fucking god WHA- oh, who the hell are you?"

Mitsumi steps in front of him, and whispers at her

"This is..the guy"

Michael peers at Maya's pitch black face, with a confused look.

"Kid I swear to mother fucking god you say I word ill make sure Boss catches you every chance he gets."

"No, no I deal with the unusual all the time, this is, normal, yknow?"

Her face turns to confused to wanting to kill him instantly.

"No, like, I mean like you're nothing new-"

"Okay! Time to leave!" Mitsumi pushes him out of the door and closes it.

"Mits...THATS it?"

"Hes really sweet okay? And hes nice, and caring, and I just want to mush his little head in because he's so fucking stupid, because I love him."

"And you've been loving him for how long now?"

"Since he stood up to that skeleton? Yknow the one the size of like a mountain?!

"Thank god I didnt say yes-"

"Hey!"

"Just, your gonna get to...violent, its your nature Mitsumi, its gonna happen, your gonna get to hooked, your gonna get addicted, your gonna fuck up, so DONT LET IT HAPPEN, count this as a visit...and I pay by the minuet."

Mitsumi looks down and rubs her head,

"Okay Maya, I know."

Maya stands yp and hugs her

"You know I care about you, just be smart arlright, I cant bare seeing you hurt, you know that"

Maya lays her heand on M's

"Now get out of here, I dont want you7 in more hot water"

"Oh wow, thanks Doc" Mitsumi waves her hands and roles her eyes, but smiles as she closes the door.

[That Night]

Elliot goes into his room, locking his door, and laying down. As he starts to drift off, he hears a distinct bump of the door. He looks under the door, seeing the shadow, bumping against the door. He groans, covering his ears with the pillow, not helping the repetitive sound go away.

He opens the door groggily, seeing Odinya,

“And why can't you fall asleep in the living room?”

“I don't sleep.”

“Uhhgggggggggg, and WHY are you at my door.”

“...”

“Fine. whatever.”

Elliot lays back down, trying to close his eyes but cant get over the monster women pressing against his back,

"was this running away from home for?"

"It was worth anything Elliot"

"Fan-fuckin-tastic" Elliot closes his eyes, but still has trouble sleeping

"Do you have like, anything to put me to bed, because I cant do this with you just laying behind me, staring though my head"

"I have a song to put you to sleep!"

"Yelling isnt going to help me fall asleep 'Odinya'"

"Sorry!" She wispers loudly, she moves close to his ear, putting her arm around him, holding his hand.

"La lum, la lum, the air, it hums, a soft, but striking tune. And when, it's still, there's still, a thrill, for the air will move, once again. La lum, la lum, la lum, la lum…”

"Where did you...hear that one?" Elliot says exceedingly more tired

"My sister"

"Isnt she like...evil?"

"No, I dont think so, it was most likely poor judgement"

"Whate-"

"Shush Elliot, go to sleeep...La lum...la lum..."

Elliot soon falls asleep completely, as she giggles and hugs him tightly. She the back of his shirt down, pressing her hand on his neck, making a symbol loosley resembling her eye in a golden tatoo. She hugs him again, still softly singing in his ear.

\*After Credits Page\*

Voices talk over each other in the dark

“**You are the chosen-**”

“Y*ou are the destined warrior*”

“You are strong-

*“So strong!”*

**“Your family is WEAK, you did not fail us Rayo,**

“Will be known forever!”

Lighting strikes, showing a woman with one eye, holding a scythe in front of another, with three eyes, chimed against a wall.

“…I wont let you down.”

All three start to laugh in cheer, as ‘Rayo’ starts to walk away.

## Trivia

* That portal opening was not part of his "plan"
* Odinya's connection to Elliot is bizzare, it had been asked by the team many times but the only answer Odinya ever gives them is "It was set in fate"
* Boss uses the term "petit pinson" to mock him, and also state the fact that he will always be the boss, its psychological warfare.
* Rayo is Odinya's sister (if you didnt already know)
* The symbol on Elliot's back just represents that he had been braneded by a Royal Carain, which is usualy when a Carain finds their soul mate and will protect them from harm, because no one wants to fuck with a Carain's chew toy.