Dylan laughed, "Maybe that's cause it wasn't there till a minute ago, Darlin'."
The rock, pushed into the grass as it was, still towered over Dylan. Walking up to it, he laid his hand on the surface. It was surprisingly cool to the touch.
"Dylan! Don't touch it!" Aspect yelled. "Who knows what it could do to you? We don't even know what it is!"
Suddenly, the rock started glowing bright orange, getting brighter by the second. After about five seconds, it was so bright that the group had to shield their eyes from it.
"What the heck IS that thing?" questioned element. Heat began radiating from the object, searing her skin. She yelped and out of no where came a huge wave that crashed over it. The brightness dimmed, and the heat stopped. Element dropped to her knees, she felt like she was on fire.
"Element!" shouted Aspect. She looked around at the others, who were staring in shock. "Go get help or something! Call the League of Heroes!" (Btw, I just made that up. Feel free to go along with it and make something up.)
Dylan felt strangely unhurt from the light, but when he tried to back away, he found he was stuck, as if some barrier had closed around him, leaving him room only to breath.He closed his eyes against the light, and hoped the girls outside had a plan.
Aspect noticed that nobody was doing anything. They must be in shock, she thought. I have to stay with them, to make sure that nothing else happens, but I can't just wait for help to show up… What do I do? What do I do?
Element jumped up, pain shooting through her. "Somethings wrong" she moaned. "We have to leave now!"
"Dylan, Cassandra, let's go!" shouted Aspect, also standing.
"Sorry, I can't quite move right now!" Dylan yelled, trying to remove his arm from the stone. His invisibility wouldn't be much help, and he couldn't use umbra-kinesis. He couldn't move at all, come to think of it. He was breathing, but that was about it.
He winced as he felt a hot spike of pain shoot up his arm.
"Ow! For Fox sake, that hurt!"
"What? Oh, man. This is not good," Aspect said to herself nervously. She turned to Element and quickly asked, "Would you please go contact the League?"
Element nodded. "I'll try. Shove him!" she called, as she ran to a big oak tree. When she reached it she flew up to it's highest branch, and sat on it. She put her hand into a groove in the tree bark, and fire pulsed into it. "Send you're message" whispered a voice.
"Something fell into the yard of the collage campus, and there are four of us that found it. Myself and one other girl are fine, but the other two can't move. The stone looks of a Galaxy Stone. One of the missing ones. We need help immediately!" She said, looking quite ridiculous talking to a tree. Her fire turned cold, and she flew to the bottom of the tree. She needed to use her powers to help her friends, but she couldn't be recognized. She closed her eyes and breathed a few short words, and she felt herself changing. Her sweatshirt, jeans, and ball-cap turned into black pants secured by hight-lace boots, a grey poncho looking thing with a sash in the middle to keep it from flowing around, and a maroon cloak with a large hood on her back. A mask of fire covered the spots around her eyes, but they didn't burn her. She flew back to her friends, and landed beside Aspect.
(Okay, that's a super awesome outfit! No pun intended, I swear!)
Aspect tried to shove Dylan, but he just groaned and didn't budge. Why couldn't he just move?!? Nothing like this ever happened to heroes (or villains, for that matter) when they were around the Galaxy Stones. Unless…
Aspect gasped as a sudden thought crossed her mind. But it can't be true, she thought, He looks totally human! The more she thought about it, though, the more sense it made.
"Dylan," she drawled, moving around to his front so that she could see his face. "Are you human?" she questioned suspiciously.
Dylan just stared at her, confused. What kind of question was that? Was there something that made him look alien? What would that even look like?
Before he could answer, another red hot needle of pain shot up his arm, causing him to wince in pain. He cursed.
"Questions later, help now!" He yelled
"Okay, okay! Sorry!" Aspect yelped as she moved back behind Dylan.
She tried to shove him again, using all her strength. "Hey! He moved this time!" she shouted in excitement as she pushed him further away from the mysterious stone.
Element helped her push by moving the earth, and moved water up and down the spots that were burning on him.
As she kept psuhing, Dylan felt himself sliding away from the stone, until he broke away with an incredible pain. Dylan held his arm to him as he fell over from the girl's shove as well as his own weakness.
As soon as his hand left the stone, it stopped glowing, leaving sunspots in his vision.
"Are you okay?" Aspect asked Dylan after he fell. "What happened to you?"
Element knelt down, and started to search his body for outer wounds. Finding none, she used her healing ( it comes with water ) to search inwardly. She felt burns and shadows, and tried to heal the burns as best she could.
Dylan got to his feet shakily, waving off the healer, "I feel like someone shoved a foot-long, redhot poker down my wrist. What the hell was that? And what in the world makes you think I'm not human?"
"Ah… Um… Ahahaha! Nothing! Nothing at all!" Aspect responded mysteriously. She looked around and saw that a small crowd had started to gather around the group of four. "I think we should get out of here. We're drawing a crowd," she said as she gestured to the steadily growing mass surrounding them.
Dylan shot her an annoyed glance, and then noticed the crowd.
"Who invited these dimwits?" Dylan said, his voice turning cold, "They look like they're begging for trouble."
He shook off the pain, and took offered Aspect's hand. She looked worried.
Aspect helped Dylan up and noticed the sudden change in his voice, going from warm to ice-cold in a matter of seconds.
Who is this guy? she thought. He shows up out of nowhere, and then a freaking Galaxy Stone lands in the courtyard.
"You good?" she asked, a bit concerned.
Dylan nodded, but in reality he wasn't sure himself. It hurt to think, and his right arm still burned on the inside, though after careful inspection he found himself to be clean outwardly, save for a bit of dirt from being forcefully shoved to the ground. He began walking back to the study, but he kept his eye on Aspect. He was certain she was hiding something, and he had an untameable desire to find out exactly what.
"Good, good," Aspect said as Dylan walked back towards the lounge. She turned to see that Element had already moved Cassandra and was checking her over for wounds. "Hey, E, you coming?" (Can I call you "E"? It's just shorter.)
Element walked back to the galaxy stone, which was now cool again. Doing something incredibly stupid, she picked it up. It was extremely heavy because of it's size, but suddenly in shrunk down. Nothing happened other then it's colors constantly changing. Beautiful colors of the galaxy, colors she never imagined. She put it in a hidden pocket of her cloak, then she continued to walk with her friends.