Chapter 14: Strange case of Dr. Athena and Mr. Hyde

Chapter 14:
 Julian led the children (including the dog children) to the airport, luckily, Julian's house was about a mile away from the airport, he dialed a number on his phone to make reservations for seven seats for the ride back to Portland, he uttered a pattern of numbers (likely a credit card number) and hung up. Bingo, who had not been on an airplane before, seemed confused.
 "I thought people usually scheduled their flight days before hand, how did you get the tickets when the flight's today?" Bingo asked.
 "Oh, well, people around here are usually unable to afford first class tickets halfway across the country, so I got them, since they were the only seats left, we got them." Julian put his phone back in his pocket. Kayla and Alex started jumping around in excitement.
 "Yes, I finally have time to draw, I haven't drawn for a week now!" Kayla and Alex high-fived and started talking about what they would do on the plane. Kyle and Terri, however, did not seem so enthusiastic as Alex and Kayla.
 "Oh no, I'm not very fond of planes, especially since plane crashes can cause thousands of deaths each year." Kyle's skin turned a shade of white akin to a skeleton. Terri was worried for another reason (although along the same category of Kyle's fear).
 "Oh, plane rides, well, I guess it would be fun to be in a hot, cramped room for five hours and die from asphyxiation due to the abundance of mouthbreathers on board, sucking up all of the remaining oxygen from the vehicle. Yes, fun." Terri started petting Bingo nervously.
 After hours of agonizing and absolutely painful walking (or at least, how Bethany described it) the clan reached the airport. The airport was just a white building with many windows, the airplanes sat on the other side of the building, barely any people were in the building or on board the planes. It seemed as if the planes only had about thirty coach seats and eighteen first-class seats, all being a soothing violet color, the planes had "Spirit Airlines" painted on the side of the planes in large, gold letters. Julian directed the group to the building, the interior was white with blue in the mix. The walls had a sunset painted on every wall, the tile floor was white, with a blue line that struck through the middle of each tile. There was a lady standing behind a counter, who was printing the tickets out for the clan. Kayla ran to the desk, almost dying from anticipation, if she was on a beach, she'd unite with the plane tickets in an embracing hug. Unfortunately, SSN dropped from the ceiling to greet the clan.
 "Yes, it is I, SSN! You kind of forgot about me at Julian's house. I did have tea with Mary and Ron, I always thought I didn't like tea, but I guess I do like it." SSN was still wearing the same purple clothing, Alex wondered if Perfect Zero, Female Forte, and SSN were connected somehow due to all of them wearing the same clothes (not considering color) and never revealed their true identity, but he decided that was a question for later "Now, I think it only makes sense if I go home with all of you, because I also live in Portland." SSN started adjusting his hair using the window's reflection to help. The lady behind the desk printed out another ticket, and gave them all to Julian.
 "So, I know this may not work like other airlines, but I believe modelling an airport like a movie theater is a good idea. Now, all you have to do is walk through the metal detector and go outside to plane twenty-eight. Then, you give the pilot your tickets" the lady gave a smile.
 "Wait, why did you gave us eight tickets?" Julian contemplated giving one of the tickets back, but the lady refused taking back the ticket.
 "Don't worry, other customers here have experienced the same dilemma you were in. A family planning to go to their favorite resort, but are meet with an additional guest, who drops from the ceiling. It may not happen much here, but trust me, this kind of thing happens here more often than at other airlines, so it's only fair for you to get an eighth ticket." the lady directed the crew through the metal detector, and after passing, they went outside to plane twenty-eight, and gave the pilot their tickets.
 "Now, the first-class section is cut off from the other passengers," the pilot noticed Terri, who celebrated from this information, and rolled his eyes "But there is this one girl in the first-class section who's hiding in a pillow fort, there could possibly be two of them, but they're just hiding in the pillow fort, like gremlins. Anyway, enjoy your flight." the pilot ripped of a part of the ticket off and gave the ticket stubs to everyone, the crew walked threw the aisle of those unfortunate enough to not be in first-class and opened a sliding wooden door, and gasped in shock to see the first-class room.
 The walls still had the color scheme of the plane, but the floor and ceiling were a beautiful shade of violet. There were two sections of seats, left and right, and were set in three by three clusters on each side. The seats had a sunset painted on them and contained shades of pink, red, orange, and purple, the sun was a bright shade of yellow, but didn't hurt the eyes. The room was dimly lit, but it was still possible to see, the room was possibly this way to make the atmosphere soothing to those in the room.
 The pilot was correct, in the back of the room, there was a gaint fortress made from blankets, pillows, and even had a bookshelf, containing only about thirteen books, and even had a mattress. There was a girl who appeared to be remodelling the interior of the fort, she wore a deerskin coat (or it appeared to be deerskin) and distressed, black jeans. She had green eyes and black hair that reached to her sides, her hair had blue extensions and appeared to be curly at the bottom of her hair. This seemed like an ordinary girl, but something was off about her, her hands were emitting a blue light, and had two ghostly hands, both colored violet, were helping her remodel the fortress. The girl appeared to be familiar to Alex, but when she turned around, he gasped.
 "Athena! I didn't know you were going back to Portland too!" Alex and Athena ran to each other and tried to hug, but the timing was off and they both tripped and fell.
 "I thought you told me you had nothing to do over Spring Break, we could have had a great weekend here, but I guess you're just not a social butterfly. But enough about me, why are you here?" from Alex and Athena's expressions, the rest of the crew inferred that they must have been close friends.
 "Well, it's kind of a long story. Actually, I think I can summarize it in a few paragraphs." Alex then told Athena about the Prototype and its users, the alien race known as Figures, and about the Starforce mine and Bethany the Pomeranian.
 "Interesting, from how you described Mars, it sounds like he's merely half Figure, now, you may wonder why I think that, and it's because I'm also half Figure!" Athena proudly stated.
 "Oh, that makes so much sense, your name's Athena and somehow I didn't put the pieces together. I do have a question, how could you and Mars only be partially Figure?" Alex appeared to be confused.
 "Well, I learned a while ago that the process of creating a Figure is quite complicated. First, the couple that wants a child will pick a birthstone, and that would be the month a Figure is 'born'. The stone is then put through an invention that Figures made called the "Gem boiler" it basically hard-boils rocks to make them soft. The couple then injects examples of their DNA, like blood or hair, and then the couple waits until the month that the birthstone represents, like if the stone is Garnet, the Figure is 'born' on January. Then, the stone gains a form based off their parents, and continues to grow." Athena stopped and took a deep breath, since she almost passed out from explaining the process of a Figure's creation.
 "Wow, I can't really think of a reaction to that, so I'll just say that I acknowledge your statement." Alex was the only person (human or dog) that wasn't speechless. The room was silent for a while.
 "So, I'm guessing since you are only part Figure, if you were a pure Figure, your powers would be more prominent?" Terri pointed to the two hands that orbited around Athena.
 "Yeah, my mother was an expert in psychokinesis, and even though having two more hands isn't really psychokinesis, I can still pet four dogs at once!" Athena started petting Bethany and Bingo with her ghostly hands, and kept her other two hands free to make tea (one of the perks of being in first-class).
The party didn't notice how long their conversation was, since their debate on how "neither" is pronounced was cut short by the pilot opening the sliding door.
 "We are officially here at Portland! I've been waiting half an hour just so you could end your conversation, but I really need to get back to the airport by sundown, so off you go." the group got off of the plane, and immediately after they walked into the lobby of the airport, Alex checked the machine to see that BetaMan was in the airport's parking lot, and was dropping someone off.
 "Alex, we need to run if we want to get to BetaMan before he leaves." Kayla grabbed Bethany and the clan headed off towards BetaMan's car. As they reached the lot, Beta was already trying to drive out of the airport to leave. The group hatched an idea for a last resort. Bingo and Kayla ran in front of BetaMan's car and were both screaming. BetaMan slammed the breaks and got out of the car.
 "Please don't do that again, I'm not even eighteen yet and I almost had a heart attack!" BetaMan was breathing rapidly, as if he just did the 500 meter dash.
 "Beta, we have your dog, Bethany." Kayla and Bingo presented Bethany the Pomeranian as the rest of the group gathered around the scene.
 "Wait, why did you call me Beta?" Beta was sweating nervously. Athena and Alex both tried to explain the situation with the Prototype and the Figures to Beta, and afterwards they were both exhausted from talking so much.
 "Ah, I see, no need to call me 'Beta' since my name is Hyde, yes, that's my birthname." Hyde was hugging the Pomeranian that he had been looking for since at least last year. There was an awkward silence for about a minute or so, until Hyde attempted to break the silence.
 "Well, I got my driver's license last week, so I've been literally everybody's entourage, and I believe my next client is someone you may know, Kyle." Hyde grabbed a piece of paper from his coat pocket, it read "bruh fox" and nothing else "I only got the name of her youtube account, which is a little odd, but I'm not one to judge. So I looked through her account, and it looks like you two are friends." Kyle jumped up from hearing the name of his friend.
 "Yes, I bet we can finally meet each other in person! We've been trying to set plans to meet up for a while, and it looks like today's the day!" Kyle was adjusting his hair (using a nearby puddle for his reflection). Hyde appeared to be concerned with Kyle's request.
 "Look, my car can only really fit six people, and there would be eleven of us in a single car, I'm not saying it would be impossible to go and meet up with her, but you can try." the clan took the challenge, every human fit in the back seats (Bingo and Bethany had to sit on SSN's lap) and even though they were very uncomfortable, they fufilled the challenge.
 "Oh wow, you actually did fit in the back seats, well, I guess it's a road trip then?" Hyde got into the driver's seat, and headed towards the next client's location
 It looks like Kyle will reunite with his friend.