The Black Sheep
LEUXY
" I know I saw her run this way” I can hear my oldest brother Ushu’s voice echoing off of the cave walls around me.”WHY EVERY f*****g TIME SHE RUNS INTO THIS JUNGLE WE LOSE HER?!” His voice made the walls of the cave began to shake. Leuxy looked through a small opening she left behind and couldn’t bend the cave walls back into place because her three older brothers came running through. She didn’t want them to hear the cracklings of earth being bent and twisted back into place and risk being captured. ”Relax Ushu, we’ll find her” Baki the youngest of the three said. "She’s not far. looks like she also may have cut her self." Kima, the second oldest walked into view holding a piece of cloth from Leuxy pants, where She had cut her leg when she was trying to Climb up the cliff to escape her brothers. "I can’t pick up her scent. I have to admit she’s gotten better at covering up her tracks" Baki chuckled. Leuxy slowly stepped back from the opening in the wall to make her way through the dark cave. "LEUXY WE KNOW YOU ARE HERE ,WHEN WE FIND YOU.YOU’RE THROUGH!" Ushu yelled to Leuxy. She rolled her eyes and shook her head at his comment. Over The Years she has learned to slow her breathing and heart beat to a point where she appeared to be dead. With a family like hers, she had to learn how to survive and most importantly how to stay out of sight. Everyday was a battle to make it through to the next day Just because she had been born the black sheep. While Leuxy walked through the cave, her mind wondered on past thoughts that just came rushing back from all the years of being left out in the middle of the jungle, For weeks on end by her parents as a way to toughen or punish her. Because she purposely failed every obstacle training that were being thrown at her. Leuxy knows this jungle inside and out. She knows where all of the hidden passageways are, what tunnels that lead to here and there, and what areas in the jungle is safe. She even gets along well with all the mystical creatures here, Including the extremely dangerous high ranked creatures that no one dares to step foot near. Her whole family thinks that she’s weak and can’t defend herself, that she’s just a regular human born into a supernatural family. It’s not uncommon for a human to be born from a supernatural being, it’s just very rare .she pretends to be frail to keep her family off her back on certain things because a human child can’t do the same stuff they can and that’s just how she wants it. Because she’s not fascinated with the warriors lifestyle. Leuxy always found every life precious no matter how bad someone or something may seem. She feels like there’s always a way to avoid having to end a life with cruelty because of a misunderstanding. Leuxy sighed and tried to shake the thoughts clear from her mind as she began to reach the end of the tunnel. She bends the cave walls out of her way and stepped out onto a cliff. This was one of her favorites passageways. It led to a large area with trees as high as skyscrapers, multi-colored plants and a giant roaring crystal clear water fall that holds secret caverns underneath. Leuxy closed the opening before swiftly jumping off the cliff where she had been standing enjoying the view, she landed on a tree brunch down below. Before she could continue on her way down to the jungles floor, Leuxy senses something heading towards her and moving quickly. The minute she turned around to react she was knocked off balance and began tumbling. She reached her hand out to grabbed a vine that wrapped around another tree brunch before she’d hit the ground. She quickly swung herself into a bush landing on all fours. Leuxy started scouting out the area fearing the worst that her brothers may have found her. She went over all the steps in her mind that she had took leading to now. Leuxy knew that she had been very careful in covering up her tracks. So how the hell they have found her?! Before she could get a chance to react, Leuxy was tackled out of her hiding spot onto her back. She quickly kicked her self up off of the ground into a defensive fighting Position preparing for her brothers attack. When she sees an opening she’ll try making her escape again. Leuxy sensed the unknown figure making its move again but this time there were three others. These are not her brothers, it has to be someone else or something else. Wonderful, last thing she needs right now are unidentified enemies in her families territory. They’re moving in from every possible direction, the first figure attacked her on her left . She quickly jumped to her right and cartwheeled off of one hand and landed on both legs crouching. She sensed an attack coming from above. Leuxy backflips several times before coming to a halt and pressing her back up against a boulder. Her family needs to be notify of the attack but how. She’s pinned up in a hard spot trying to figure out a strategy. But she didn’t have time to think and react because this time one of the enemies attacked from behind, crushing through the boulder like it was nothing. Leuxy quickly flips around and blocks the attack which sent her sliding across the ground. She uses the force of the attack to roll backwards and push her self up off the floor and stood her ground. Now she was starting to get annoyed. Why do they keep attacking and vanishing, why don’t they fight her face to face so she can get this over with. " I don’t have time for this crap " Leuxy thought as she sighed. soon she has a magic potion class and Aunt Lilly hated when her students run late for her lessons. Now two of the enemies decided to move towards her at once attempting to attack her. One went high and the other went low with a strong attempt to throw her off balance. She jumps into the air to somersaults out of the way, in that exact moment the other two camouflaged enemies tackled and pinned her to the ground. "CHECKMATE!" they said in unison. She recognized those voices"Emerald.....Diamond?" she said in an annoyed tone. Leuxy lifts her head up off of the ground and saw Emerald’s green eyes and Diamond’s light silver eyes looking down at her. "the hell Emerald.....Diamond you two scared the crap out of me.” They both giggled and jumped off her chest. She sat up on the ground and Crisscrossed her legs as she glanced down at her laughing familiars. Her two other familiars Sapphire and Garnet came frolicking out from behind the jungle plants and ran towards their brothers. All four of them engaged in play fighting, she looks at them with an annoyed blank expression ,they laughed about how they ambush her. They stopped goofing around and looked at Leuxy with a gigantic smirk on their furry little faces. Leuxy gently smiled back down at everyone as she reached towards them acting like she was going to pat them on the head, then she swiftly flicks them across the forehead. "OW?!" the Quads said rubbing their foreheads with their little paws"what the heck was that for?!" Garnet huffed angrily. Leuxy took a deep breath to calm down and relax. "Y’all already know I’m on edge most of the time. Why would you guys scare me like that? I thought you guys were my brothers or enemies." Leuxy sighed as she crossed her arms while she shakes her head. Diamond jumped on her lap and placed his paws on her shoulders "Sorry Leuxy. We just wanted to play and we haven’t seen you in days. We missed you."Leuxy relaxed a little and leaned back propping her self up on one hand and petting Diamond with her other, as she stared down at her four familiars. Their furs were dark black and glistened like stars in the night sky when the sunlight shines on them at just the right angle. They looked identical but aside from the fact that their eye colors differ. Diamond who is a male has silver-grayish white eyes. Garnet, a female has ruby-ember like eyes. Emerald, that’s also a male has eyes that are a perfect deep green and last Sapphire who’s a female has lovely dark blue eyes with some splash’s of teal. She honestly has no idea what type of mystical creatures they were, nor even think that they’re species have ever been recorded And she knows about every living creature out there. They look like saber tooth cat cubs. Their sabers are noticeable but not long, with a tail that resembles a foxes tail. Leuxy sat forward to let her three other familiars jump onto her lap ,then she gave them all a hug. she looked down at them with a raised eyebrow, "I’ve miss you all too but where in the hell have you four been for the past five days?" Sapphire answered first "Well we went swimming in a volcano and then raced to the earths core in which, I WON." Sapphire chuckled placing a paw gently over her mouth as she side glanced her siblings while she made her eyebrows dance in a mocking manner. The three of them rolled their eyes. Leuxy laughed and began to slowly stand up. Diamond and Emerald climbed up to place their self on each one of her shoulders as she carried Garnet and Sapphire in her arms. She leaped high off the ground onto a brunch above her to continue her way home effortlessly jumping from brunch to brunch. As Leuxy traveled along the tree lines the quads told her of their journey to the different places that they’ve visited which no human would even guess existed on earth. "We drove deep down into the dark abyss of the ocean to hang out with the great horrific Kraken." Emerald open his paws out as far wide as they could possibly spread, explaining how huge this sea creature was. "We were like hamsters floating next a blue whale" Garnet chimed in. Her siblings all nodded in agreement to her comment. Leuxy laughed "I’m surprise the kraken didn’t eat all of you." Diamond looked down at Garnet in Leuxy arms all relaxed with a paw propped up under her cheek,then he sighed. "One of us did and it was careless Garnet." Leuxy threw her head back in laughter "Why did you just sit there and let the kraken eat you?" Garnet shrugged her shoulders. "I wanted to see how much heat the kraken could withstand before it spat me out or blow up to a billion little pieces." Leuxy looked at her with curiosity. “So which happened first, you being spat out or it blowing up?" Garnet glanced up and smirked. "I heated myself up to the suns temperature and the Kraken went berserk." Garnets grin was sinister while she rub her paws together. The quads bursted out in laughter. "The kraken was flailing it’s arms around like one of those inflatable tube figures that you see in front of car dealerships" Sapphire said while laughing. In between laughing Diamond explaining to Leuxy on what happened. "There was smoke coming out of holes I didn’t know it had and to think its eyes were big before." Emerald shook his head while he placed his paws over his face. "Garnet did not come out the way she went in" he chuckled. Leuxy looked at Garnet with a disgusted look ,"Garr it didn’t" Garnet shrugged her shoulders "I can tell you that I came out somewhere but I don’t know where" Leuxy frowned in even more disgust "Ew, you’re taking a bath when we get home" Garnet crossed her paws over her chest and leaned back in Leuxy’s arms. Her siblings laughed, "What’s so funny,because you three taking one to" Garnet siblings groaned. The quads continued telling Leuxy of their adventures which had her laughing all the way home. The Quads always knew how to make her feel better no matter what. They make dealing with everything at home bearable and she’s happy that they are in her life. Leuxy arrives home to the castle that’s positioned right inside an open dome cave. Which sits in between two enormous mountains that’s surrounded by the jungle. Her room is on the south side of the castle on the 40th floor that faces the garden with a large water fall. She jumps onto her balcony and pushed open the double doors with her telekinesis,the quads jumped down and went out her room door to go goof around somewhere in the castle. Leuxy glanced at the clock,she saw that she still have half an hour before her class started .so she run inside her bathroom quickly to freshen up, she walk up to her restroom mirror and stares at herself with those hazel brown eyes. Her kinky dark raven colored hair reaches her waistline. Her hair was neatly braided back into four box braids with gold hair cuffs, which was nicely decorated and now had some frizz happening .Her caramel colored skin along with her beautiful diamond shaped round face and cute button nose was covered with dirt from climbing up the cliff and being tackled by the quads. Her tail that she keeps tucked under her clothes is wrap around her waist that’s hidden from everyone was also covered in some dirt. Her tail had appeared after a couple of months of her turning four two years ago . Her aunt Lilly helped keeping it hidden for this long so far by telling the family’s tailors to resize all of Leuxy’s clothing. Lilly has been her fathers bond-by-tie since they were seven and she is family to Leuxy and her siblings. Ever since Leuxy’s Tail, fangs and powers were known, aunt Lilly been even more protective of her since. Because aunt Lilly knows and understands that Leuxy is built different and just not really into the assassin warrior lifestyle. She continued to look over at herself in the mirror "I look so miserable" she chuckled. Leuxy turned on her shower and waited for the water to warm up while she undressed, meanwhile using her mind link to contact her familiars. "Quads,get y’all butts in here now ,its bath time ."She puts on a shower cap and then hops into the shower. The Quads came in dragging their tails behind them five minutes later. Leuxy gave them a side glance " Stop being nasty Quads fix your faces." The Quads phased through the Shower’s glass doors and slump down under the running water. "stop acting like it’s the end of the world",Leuxy washed them one by one then she sent them on their way to finish up her shower.she yelled to them From the shower "Quads don’t run around my room soaking everything up,use a towel or go air dry outside now." Diamond yelled back to her ."Or I can always dry us four with an air burst" Leuxy eyes bulged out of her head as she hurried to rinse herself “NOOOOO. YOU ARE GOING TO DESTROY MY ROOM!” She turned the water off and hopped out to grab a towel to wrap herself in as she rushed into her room. "outside Quads. You four know better." She pointed to the direction of the balcony "outside now, and remember no using your powers or talking in front of anyone". They sighed and jumped off the balcony disappearing somewhere into the garden." I swear if they don’t make me talk for one second, they’ll won’t feel right. "Leuxy checks the time and sees that there is still fifteen minutes left to spare. She quickly got dressed so she can get to the buildings thats behind the castle that was built for the school. She teleported into the schools auditorium, since no one is usually in there unless there’s an event. She peeks her head out of the double doors to make sure her brothers weren’t waiting for her in the hallways. When she felt the coast was clear she walked to her locker to grab her grimoire, “Damn this thing gets heavier by the day" she mumbles to herself as she gets ready to shut her locker door. Leuxy was grabbed from behind with her back slammed against the lockers to face her three brothers towering over her. "You’re not the only one with tricks Leuxy " Baki laughed. She chuckled nervously "Hey guys is there something wrong?" Kima and Baki were holding tightly onto her while Ushu glared down at her with rage in his eyes. He crossed his arms and slightly smirked, then leaned back up against the lockers behind him. "Leuxy don’t play stupid with me, I’m already irritated from earlier.” He spoke in a low deep tone almost sounding like a growl. Leuxy looked down at her feet being unable to look him in the eyes, not wanting to make it seem like she was trying to challenge him. "I don’t understand why you three are so angry with me."She spoke in a low voice, if it wasn’t for her brothers enhanced hearing they would not have made out what she was saying." Are you Stupid or something, what the f**k possessed you to set our weapons on fire during this mornings hunting class Leuxy?” She looked at him puzzled "I don’t know what you’re talking about" Ushu uncrossed his arms and pushed himself off the lockers and walked towards her. Lexuy kept her head low and stood as still as a statue not wanting to give them any more reason to hurt her. "You don’t know?" He’s demeanor become more intense "You can’t just do something like that and expect everyone to be okay with it Leuxy". She slowly looked up at Ushu who is around six feet tall, with brown cognac hazel eyes that appeared to be engulfed with fire. His skin was honey brown with tribal tattoos that covered most of his arm and His Facial features were strong but Complemented his looks. He had shoulder length curly thick dark brown hair in a neat ponytail, which made the part on the side of his head that had a low cut with designs really show. He was well built from all the training he was put through and is the Doppelgänger of our father. Minus the eyes and hair style and that dad is way taller then him and more bulky and toned with a lot more tribal tattoos. Kima and Baki looked just like father too and they were also well built but just a couple inches shorter then Ushu. The difference is that Kima has chestnut colored eyes that had highlights of a dark purple in them along with light brown hair that’s locked up just like dad’s. He has a few tribal tattoos but not as many as Ushu. Baki eyes are light honey with a dark gold ring surrounding both of his pupils that faded into his eyes color. He kept his lengthy thick black curly hair loose, occasionally it’s in a neat bun to that also shows a low cut on the sides of his head just like Ushu. But Baki only had the left side of his head designed with patterns. Leuxy sighed. “It’s wrong to kill animals just for sport. They have families to" her brothers laughed. "They’re just Antelopes. There are thousands of them running around through all of africa." Kima snickered “And how else are the younger students going to learn to hunt and fight if you keep destroying our equipments every time you don’t agree with our teaching methods?" Kima’s voice was serious this time and he is usually the quiet and calm one. Kima and Baki let her go and stood next to Ushu who’s facial expression was even more terrifying.” I honestly don’t understand how you end up like this. Weak and pathetic " Ushu stepped closer to her " Just because you are useless to this kingdom don’t mean your classmates have to follow behind you" Ushu said with a deep growl. Leuxy flinched and lowered her head to look at her feet again "I’m sorry, I just feel like there ar—"Leuxy was cut off by a sharp punch to her stomach from Ushu and she fell to her knees hunched over gasping for air. Baki walked closer to crouch down in front of Leuxy, "To think that you’ll be smart and try not to piss us off but no you always have to be Mrs.hug a tree" Baki grabbed her braids tightly to force her head up to look at them." Let this be our first and last warning. Either fall in line or just stay away from our classes." Kima’s voice was deeply sinister as his eyes glowed a lightish purple hue.Baki let’s go of Leuxy braids with a force that sends her hitting against the lockers behind her, Leuxy body was trembling with fear. She’s crouched sideways with her arms over her face as a way to show that she won’t put up a fight. The school bells rings "Great now we are late for class because you wanted to be a pain in the ass!" Baki hissed. kicking her in the ribs ,which caused her to spit up blood."okay enough I said I was sorry". She spoke between clinch teeth with tears rolling down her face as she’s backed to being hunched over trying to bear the pain." I knew I said no physical altercations outside of combat class" Leuxy brothers jump around to see Aunt Lilly Standing there glaring at them with a piercing cold stare."aunty Lilly good morning" Leuxy brothers said in unison as they bowed their heads as a sign of respect. "Keep that bullshit to your selfs ,I know I made myself perfectly clear about fighting in my hallways." aunt Lilly voice was harsh and her blue eyes seems to burn a hole through her Nephew’s, she had her hands tuck in her long white lab coat as she slowly walked towards them. The sounds of her high heels hitting against the marble floors echoed throughout the empty hallways. Leuxy brothers still had their heads bowed as aunt Lilly stop in front of Ushu "Ushu I would expect the oldest and the next heir to the throne to act accordingly and not like a spoiled child ,just because someone broken his toys" Ushu lift his head up to look at his aunty, her icy glare made him flinch and step back a little " Your righ—-" Aunty Lilly cut him off "I know I am, and don’t think I’ve forgotten about you two. Kima the future kings right hand men and Baki the future general of the warriors. I’m disappointed in you three’s actions. If this is who the kingdom has as the next leaders then we’re all doom and might as well jump into the belly of the beast now" her nephews bowed their heads even lower and put their left hands over their hearts,then Kima spoke up " We are sorry —-" Aunt Lilly cut kima off to "you’re right you three are. Now get out of my sight." Leuxy brothers walked away as quickly as they could. Leuxy looked up at her aunty and smiled as big as she could trying mask her pain. "Morning aunt Lilly, you’re looking lovely as always" Aunt Lilly crossed her arms over her chest and raised an eyebrow while she looked at her niece. Leuxy tried to laugh but a pain shot up from her ribs as she gasped and bit her lips still trying to smile at her Aunty. Lilly bent down to Leuxy level and placed a hand on her head " Uh huh .....you know damn well you about to pass out from the pain. Come on little one, lets get you to my lab.” Aunt Lilly help her up to make their way toward the lab ,but Leuxy couldn’t walk to long from the pain. So aunt Lilly scooped Leuxy up in her arms"I hate being carried aunty Lilly " Leuxy pouted " I know but you can’t walk anymore and we need to hurry up to get you some medical attention." Her aunt gently smiled Down at Her"Why are you looking at me like that?" Leuxy asked confused. "Because Bumblebee, I remembered when you were younger you had no problems letting me carry you. Piggy back rides were your favorites." Leuxy became relaxed in her aunts arms " Yeah when I was a baby, I’m not a baby anymore aunt Lilly " Leuxy said as she rested her head on her aunts shoulder" Leuxy sweetheart you were only a toddler two years ago so hush." Lilly chuckled which made Leuxy laugh “ Yes I know, but I had to grow up fast in this family of ours " aunt Lilly sighed " Yes true, but it still does not mean to miss out on your childhood. You can never get those years back."They arrived to the building that was made for the hospital where Lilly made her way towards the lab that was stationed on the third floor. She slowly sat Leuxy down in her desk chair. " Okay love, let me grab some things and I’ll be back. Please don’t touch anything ." Leuxy nodded her head and watched her aunty disappear through the doubled doors that led into the medical supply room. The minute aunt Lilly was out of sight, Leuxy hopped down off the chair to go look through the stuff in her aunts laboratory.She was still in pain but her curiosity was worst, she was never ever allowed in here without her aunts supervision. This lab is not a plan human lab. It’s filled with magical items and devices that’s so shiny and change colors and make weird noises when you play with the strange writing on them. Leuxy loves being in here,she walked into a back room which shelves and tables are filled with high rank grimoires and other magic items. She left the lights off so no one notice that’s she in there. Then grab the first thing that caught her interest, she sat on the floor with her legs crisscrossed playing around with a magical item which she thinks was called a relic and it looks like three Rubik’s cube that was put together. She was pushing the different colors on the color changing squares and turning the cubes any direction they’ll would go when a knowing voice made her jump. "Ooooooo what is that?" Diamond silvery eye looked at her glowing from the darkness cast by the Conner he stood in "Diamond what the heck, the four of you always popping out of nowhere. Wait ,where’s your siblings?" He smiled from the dark area where he sat showing off more of his fangs, all Leuxy saw was floating silver eyes and teeth now. Then his siblings pair of glowing eyes appeared next to him " We’re here. what are you playing with?" Garnet asked. "I don’t know really, it’s some kind of doohickey I grabbed off the table from behind me." she shrugged her shoulders as she went back to messing around with the relic. " So what kind of mischief y’all was up to since we last encountered each other?"She asked. The Quads laughed and walked out of the Conner to sit in front of Leuxy and began tapping their little paws on the relic playing with the colorful squares. "Eh...we went down to the kitchen and I distracted the chiefs by acting like a cat, meowing and doing other stuff those felines do to get attention so the others can steal some food" Emerald said while shaking his head sounding ashamed on how low he had to go. " Well someone had to do it. We did rock,paper,and scissors and you lost" Said Sapphire. Leuxy looked at them with a raised eyebrow without stopping in pushing and turning the cubes" why didn’t you four just shape shift into people that works there,and act like my parents order some food to their office or something?" The Quads looked at Leuxy still not stopping in tapping their paws against the relic "OH WOOOWW, you see I told you we could have done that"Garnet said" I told you we couldn’t because we not allowed to use are powers in front of people let alone talk" Diamond said "yes exactly, just don’t do it in front of people. But I never said you couldn’t use them,basically Quad you have to act like regular house hold pets and don’t get caught doing or begin anything else"Leuxy explained to them and went back to focusing on the device in her hands"well I just did the most embarrassing thing ever for no reason"Emerald shook his head and looked annoyed "I know it sucks Quads not being able to be yourselves trust me , buts it’s for your own protection" Leuxy stop playing with the relic for a second to loving pat them each on the head, then she went back to fidgeting with the magic item." Honestly what exactly do this thing-a-ma-bob do?" Diamond said annoyed at the relic as he tapped harder on the squares, Leuxy suck her teeth "like I said I don’t know" she sighed "this thing is a piece of junk anyways" she got up and place the relic back where she find it" come on let’s get going, I hear aunt Lilly coming back.