The Trio

"Zain, hurry up or you'll be late for school," Mother's voice could be heard from the kitchen.

"Tsk!"

Zain exclaimed from the dining room as he quickly stuffed all the remaining food into his mouth, "I'm not a kid mom, you don't have to take me to school, I'm sixteen for damn sake."

"Not yet, you'll be sixteen in four months' time, that's long enough" she replied with a grin, "and besides, you're still my baby, and my only child. It will only be right if I take good care of you."

Grabbing his backpack, Zain rushed out too fast for his mother to even bother chasing after him, or so he thought.

'Not today, mom. I've got some new things to do you shouldn't be aware of.'

The school wasn't far from home by any means, and Zain, of course, already got there in a matter of minutes.

The duo he was expecting could be seen in front of the school gate. "It seems like you're early today, boss," Gem sarcastically said before giving a small, fake bow. Rising his head from the bow, his eyes gleamed with furiously.

"So that's what you expect me to do, Zain, after you came thirty minutes later than our initial time." Gem barked. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, DAMMIT."

Dem quickly grabbed his brother before he ripped Zain apart.

"Calm down, please. I'm sorry. You know I had to not make things stand out too much, and besides, I wouldn't do anything so stupid without having a backup plan of my own." Zain quickly explained, hastily backing off. "If I hadn't, my mom would have found out using her witchcraft like always, you know how extremely observant she is."

Hearing this, Gem managed to calm down a bit for Dem to let go.

"Then you'll have to compensate me for letting me stay too long. You know, the longer I stay here, the further the time I'll have to turn my fantasy into reality." Gem's eyes glittered with excitement, stars in his eyes as he said the last statement.

Hearing this, Zain smiled. "Then you shouldn't dare complain again because if I had screwed things up now, then I'm sure we wouldn't have gotten another chance to do this."

Clap! Clap!

"Now, let's start with phase one of the task. Let's show some appearance."

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Gem and Dem didn't just have similar names, they are brothers and twins, to be precise.

Gem is the craziest among the duo, he was extremely rough to the extent that he had no friends other than Zain and his brother because of his rough rigid character.

At one point in time when he was younger, he fought a kid and "made him all right." You heard that right– the kid lost his left hand in the fight and was rendered, all right.

Gem, although he could get mad frequently, related to Zain more due to one thing they had in common: their love for fantasy.

Dem, on the other hand, is the more like the one with the brain. One thing he loved for sure was science and experiments.

Although he was smart and calm, he still did crazy stuff like one time, he tried to inject some combination of chemicals into his body, all in the name of it being a vaccine that makes one immune to every disease.

He wanted to do that because he was desperate to prove someone wrong, a certain person who called him a loser.

In the end, Gem managed to calm him down and made him use it on two rats, a male and a female.

It was only then he realized that it was an advanced body smoother - one that levels everything in the skin and gets rid of any awkward non-leveled part in the skin.

As for the female rat, her breasts were cut off and her nose flattened, and as for the male, its nose also flattened but as for what else he lost... well... I can't say, you can guess for yourself... sorry.

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Walking into the school was a certain trio that made all heads turn towards their direction.

"The living disasters are here themselves." A student commented and of course in a low tone so he won't be caught.

The others didn't even need to turn their head in order to understand was meant by the living disaster. Who else could it be if not Zain and his crew, particularly Gem.

Everyone quickly adjusted and create a path for them to walk through. This action is not foreign to them so they simply ignored it.

"The phase one of our mission is for us to make an appearance in the school," Zain started. "If the three of us don't appear in school today, they'll know something is up and might ask our parents.

"Right." Both Gem and Dem echoed.

Entering their class, Zain and Gem sat down with grins on their faces, carrying a certain strange air of aura.

Seeing a grin on Zain's face was indeed cute, even making some girls cheeks flush red, but the moment their eyes met Gem's grin, shivers were sent down their spines, it was terrifying.

Every single person in their classroom have a story to tell with a crazy encounter with Gem they can't forget, which contributed to one of the reasons why he had no friends other than Zain and his twin brother, Dem.

Entering the classroom was the English teacher, Mr. Pink.

"Good morning class."

"Oh ho, good morning Mr Pink." Gem replied, loud enough to beat everyone's voice who responded to the greeting as well.

Standing up from the chair, Gem walked forward, towards Mr Pink with a smile.

"It's been quite a while, teacher, it's been almost 24 hours since we last met. I haven't told you how much I missed have I."

Getting to Mr Pink, Gem stretched his arms wide for a hug. Mr Pink gulped and trembled slightly while nervous sweat drooled down his forehead.

"What do you want!" He asked.

The whole class was silent. Not a single one uttered a word, some even held their breath as the watched.

"Oh, now you know where all this is going to." Gem cheered with a short laugh. "You are a smart one aren't you."

"But I still feel quite bad you rejected my hug. I have another idea, we should at least go for a handshake, what do you think, Pink." Gem stretched out his hands.

Please. Mr Pink fell on his knees. I beg of you, tell me what you want and I will do my best to fulfill your request.

Right, I guess you don't like me.

So here is the thing, I want to be taking some time off along with my friends. Both Zain and Dem waved vigorously with smile, plastered to their face.

Maybe I will be back by the end of the day. Until then, I want you to contain this and not let it stare any commotion.

You got that. Gem concluded as he pat Mr Pink, twice on his back. Each pat felt like gunshot.

Ok, i'll fulfill just that. Pink replied, his upper body by now has been twisted. But what of the others in the class.

Turning around with a cold gaze, Dem stared at them. They wouldn't dare, would they.

Everyone flinched and hastily change position to act like they never heard any of the conversation. Some where whistling to the ceiling, some were staring out through the windows, some were even endlessly dusting their shoes.

With a nervous tone, Mr Pink permitted. "You, Dem and Zain, may leave.

Seeing Gem and the others exited the class, Mr. Pink was relieved, at least he wouldn't be among who they plan to ruin.

The entire class sighed as well, In relief.

Dem had a grin as he thought, 'The old man just made things easier.'

"Gem," Zain called out as the wrapped his hands around his shoulder. You know you shouldn't hard been so scary, you should make it more like a plea than a request.

Ha, you are funny. Gem replied. I'll rather be feared.

"That's a phase of our mission completed," Gem spoke as they were finally outside the classroom.

Dem replied."Yeah, you guys did great, but don't you think this is kind of stupid?"

Both Zain and Gem turned around with a puzzled look on their faces at Dem who just spoke.

"Come on, we all know that the story of the legendary green was just a fictional book. I've proven it to you guys multiple times with science that magic is just something made up by a creative 'someone'."

"I know you do have natural green hair like Mr. Green, but it doesn't make you some sort of big shot or the protagonist of reality. Anyone can have green hair; it's just a coincidence."

"Stop being so unreasonable and quixotic!"

Still looking at Dem, Zain and Gem were still puzzled.

"Come on, guys, you can't go looking for some city that exists in a storybook. Come on, guys, use your brain."

It was at that moment Zain snapped. "I think the only one not using his brain here is you!"

"After all the preparation we've made to go explore the outside world, you're telling us to back out now." Zain barked in annoyance.

Turning to his side, he could see Dem burning in rage, the anger in his eyes was insane.

"Just what has gotten into you, brother? If you have lost interest in our adventure, then back off and go stay with all of 'Dem' in the classroom," Gem continued.

"Besides, when you're with 'Dem,' I so much prefer it than when you're with 'us'."

"Go rot wherever you want, for all I care."

Making a fist, Gem threw a mouth-shattering punch at Dem before walking off.

Zain was supposed to be the one to hold Gem back, but he was just too annoyed to do so.

Staring at Dem for a while, Zain turned around and walked off, bearing slight regret in his mind for not stopping Gem from doing what he did, but this...

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