Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:48:19 +1000
From: Addisyn Draco Batchelor <addisyn.draco@gmail.com>
Subject: Ok. 24

This story is a work of fiction. any similarities are completely
coincidental. 'Ok.' contains love and sex between teenage boys. Any mention
of celebrities or characters from tv is not an assumption of their
sexuality.The obvious thing if you don't like this is to go somewhere
else. If it is illegal to read this where you're from please do the
same. It also contains some coarse language, just coz it's hard to write
naturally without writing the way I speak. Overall I'd rate it M for mature
audiences, so if you're not old enough to be here, please seriously
consider not being here. This is my first public submission, but please
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Born Strange.

We all woke up the next morning hungover, groggy and sore in so many
different places. Dyl came racing into our room, jumping on our bed,
yelling for us to wake up. Ax and I look at each other and crack up
laughing. Vlad stumbles in a few minutes later, dressed in something that
could only have come the wonderful mind of Dylin. It was quite obvious,
because Dyl was wearing something similar. They looked really cute
together.

Once we'd woken up to the fact that we were awake, we raced to the room
phone to order breakfast. And as much aspirin as possible. The terrible
catch with being witches is that we can't heal or fix minor things like a
headache, nausea or unfathomable exhaustion. We are, quite basically, human
after all. Mortal wounds, it seems, Ax and I can fix. But the minor shit
doesn't heal. It's a pretty good trade off for all the power anyone can
dream of, so I'm not really complaining.

The guy on the other side of the phone couldn't contain his laughter as we
argued about what to get. I decide to put his foot down and say

"Just give us a bit of everything, thank you." and put down the
phone. There was a moment of silence before Dyl starts jumping up and down,
racing over to hug me. That's when he started glowing, shifting into his
wolf form. I don't think he realized it, because he kept going, crash
tackling me to the ground. Then, Seto came running from his makeshift bed
(A blanket under the sink).

"No Seto, it's ok. He's not hurting him." Ax pleads. Seto keeps running,
coming to a grinding stop in front of Dyl/Konrad. He takes a sniff and
licks his face. All the humanoids in the room mellted into a puddle. I
heard Vlad squeal a little. Dyl starts to change back, and Seto must have
thought he was on fire or something, because he tried stomping him out. All
you could hear was Seto yipping and growling softly, and Dyl screaming and
swearing loudly. Ax was trying as hard as he could to restrain Seto, until
Dyl was finished transforming. Then he jumped around like nothing happened,
stopping to sniff Vlad.

"Guys, where did the dragon come from?" Vlad asks, shaking a bit.  "Oh,
that was Axyl's birthday present. I made him myself!" Tobe says, grinning
and acting like it was nothing.

"Ohh. Ok. As good an explanation as any, I guess. Dyl, you look sexy as a
wolf..." He says, changing the subject. Dyl was busy blushing and winking
at Vlad, trying the keep his concentration long enough to dress
himself. Tobe and I look at eachother and realise we're both naked. The
room service will be here soon, and we silently agreed that the staff of
this hotel had had enough of our gorgeous naked bodies. We don't really
want to get a reputation. Within seconds we were fully dressed, dressing
for the hotel, as Ax was still enforcing a lockdown. Vlad had a few days of
holidays spare, so he called them in to stay with us. For some reason, he's
a part of all of this. Zayk is one thing, but if we want to literally save
the world, we need all the help we can get. It seemed the universe was
lining it up so that we could survive, but as with all things in the
universe, it's not going to be simple.

We heard a knock on the door about 30 minutes later, and had an impromptu
race to the door. Dyl won, of course. When food was involved, he's always
first in line. The room service guy was laughing as we fell over eachother
to get to the door after Dyl opened it. He recognized Vlad and waves. It
wasn't the unfortunate looking one Vlad was avoiding last night. He was
much cuter, almost textbook beautiful. We paid for our food, and
unashamedly watched him walk out. And then we watched him walk down the
hall, winking and waving. He turned around, blushing and waving, then
disappeared around the corner. Poor boy, he'll probably be kicking himself
for the rest of his life that he didn't try to instigate something.

We all tuck in to the selection of breakfast foods we ordered, finishing
everything in under an hour. Four hungover teenage boys can really go
through a lot of food. Thank God I've got enough to pay for it. Stuffed, we
sit around on the couch, laughing and smoking a post-breakfast cigarette
each. I looked through the movies on the tv. We had a great selection of
the newest movies, and some awesome Swedish movies too. We settled for 'The
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' in Swedish with English subtitles, and sat
down to watch it. About half way through the movie, Vlad asks,

"So, how come you have witch powers Dyl? And Toby, have you always had
them?"  Damn. Busted,

"Well, no. And Dyl hasn't always had them either. Sometimes, when a witch
has sex with someone, a power transference happens. That's why Axyl can
sing, and I can melt things with my mind..." I say, giggling at the last
bit.

"Oh. Then how come I don't have any other powers then?"

"I don't know. Ax?" I ask.

"Maybe it's because you're already an empath. It may cancel out our
powers. Supernatural Empathy is a powerful gift, it's possible that it's
too powerful to have in conjunction with a witches powers. Other than that,
I haven't got a clue." Ax responds. Haha, haven't got a clue. Sounded like
a pretty adequate explanation to me.

"That makes sense. It's not fair, but it makes sense." Vlad says, looking
dejected. Dyl puts an arm over his shoulder.

"It's ok Vladi, I've got enough power for both of us." He says, grinning
ear to ear. Vlad can't help himself, he starts giggling.

"Maybe we should leave these two alone for a while, Tobe." Ax suggests. "We
don't wanna be in the splash zone." I wink and say,

"I thought you'd never ask."