The Talon Family
The Kiss of the Witch Doctor
February
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By: Chase L. Currie
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Sydney, Australia
Time: 1301
Nothing beats the sun casting down rays of warmth onto the Talon family as they sat on the beach. Gabriel planned the trip shortly after returning from her last mission where she was trapped in the North Pole and almost frozen to death. A snowstorm hit her home back in Colorado, and she needed someplace warm to be for a while. A place where she could feel the sun touching her body and Australia seems to be the place for it.
She laid on her beach towel beside her athletic adopted sister Helbis. They both had their sunglass on and bathing suits. They didn’t need to look around to see all the younger boys staring at them. Gabriel was tall, with fair skin and blonde headed with pale blue eyes. She was just as in shape as her Egyptian sister, the only other obvious different outside their hair color, Helbis was black, was her unique magical tattoos on her arms and legs. They were the embodiment of perfect physique on the beach.
While in the water was Gabriel’s younger brothers; Raphael, tall and lanky build like the runner he was and Michael build like a body builder with arms to match. They had the same hair color dark brown, expect Michael keep his shave in a Mowhawk, but they both share the same facial structure and oddly, the same nose. Raphael’s face was a little longer than Michael like his body.
Raphael had little green dots running through his body, and Michael had those same color dots all over his arms. Gabriel bear the same green dots in her hands, and these little rocks in their skin gave them the powers they now willed for Paladin. They were superheroes in their own rights. Their powers gain from an accident involving a meteorite that was their father’s fault.
Alexander Talon was one of the world’s greatest super geniuses working for the Paladin Division and trying to save the world from evil. He was studying a meteorite in his lab being aided by his three blood children when the space rock blew up giving them all powers. The children luckily enough had easy going powers while Alexander was locked in a coma but could place his mind into any of the robots thought his mansion.
A mansion and robots nowhere near the beach. The family couldn’t go on an outing with their robot dad walking around. It was just the four of them, well, five of them on this trip. Michael girlfriend, Sesily Inlustris, had joined them on their little weekend holiday to run away from the snow.
“You know,” Helbis softly said.
“Hm?”
“I missed the days when all the guys were looking at us,” she joked, sort of.
Gabriel sat up looking around at the endless amount of people to find most of the younger guys were staring at Sesily. She followed their gaze to the young girl who was unnaturally beautiful. Her beauty was odd because it seems almost too perfect like some artist had painted her out of his imagination. It was as if the poets of old was speaking of her when they talked about the goddess Aphrodite.
And Gabriel couldn’t blame any of the boys or anyone staring at her. She found herself doing the same thing all the time. Sesily had a long nose that fit perfectly on her face. She had deep green eyes and smooth skin. Her hair was blonde with black under it, and she was short but the right highest for anyone. When you hugged her, it was as if she was made to be hugged by you and you alone.
“How did Michael luck up with her?” Gabriel asked.
“I have no idea,” Helbis said. “Raphael is a little jealous.”
“I think I am too,” Gabriel joked. They all had boyfriends, or in the case of Raphael few girlfriends they were talking too and going out with, but none of them had anyone like Sesily. And the kicker of it all was she was deeply in love with Michael. It was nice to see. It was a good change of pace in their insane lives. Most of them had a hard time keeping relationships going because they were always jumping around the world on missions, saving the world, and not being able to talk about it with the person they were with because most people wouldn’t believe them. They had to lie all the time, and you can’t have a relationship built on lies.
Michael told Sesily everything about his life as a hero, against the will of their father and General Vernon Cain, head of Paladin. They both sat down with Sesily when they found out she knew far too much for any civilian and explained to her how she couldn’t tell a soul about any of it. She didn’t even tell her father what Michael and his family did for a living. None of her short list of friends knew what her boyfriend did or where she was going with them most the time. General Cain had monitored her whole life for months until he started to trust her. Now he was only keeping an eye on her text messages, phone calls, and anything she posted or said online. She could walk freely around her hometown without someone following her.
Not that she knew anyone was following her or keeping tabs on her. The agents of Paladin spent their lives as spies and knew how not to be seen.
“He’ll get over it,” Gabriel said laying back down.
“I hope so,” Helbis said. “Is he okay?”
“I don’t know,” she told her sister, “but it’s just good to have him around.”
“Is he still mad at me?” Helbis asked.
“I don’t think so,” Gabriel said.
“That’s good.” Helbis asked, “We going out tonight? All of us?”
Gabriel grin.” Let’s see what Sydney has to offer.”
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