((It's okay. I'm just glad you're back  =D ))<br/><br/>Genesis smirked. It seemed like he had some plans for later today. He stood up and looked out the window, waiting to see Mary pull up before he went to the elevator. Immediately after he climbed into the passenger seat of the car he began fiddling with his little machine again.<br/><br/>"What took you so long?" Mary asked. "I've been sitting here for minutes."<br/><br/>"So impatient," Genesis said, smirking slightly. "Mary, that other young man at the meeting... who was he?"<br/><br/>"Well the only other young man at that meeting would be Mark Wintercoat," she said as she backed out of the parking space and started to drive. "Why?"<br/><br/>"He's offered for me to use his lab," Genesis replied. "It would be perfect for me to do adequate research without mom and dad breathing down my neck. Naturally, I'd prefer you didn't tell them."<br/><br/>"Is it safe to use another person's lab?" she asked sceptically. "What if he takes your research?"<br/><br/>Genesis didn't respond, but he didn't look too worried.<br/><br/>"Honestly," Mary grumbled. "You're hopeless."<br/><br/>--------------------<br/><br/>Ari was relieved when Blue escaped the monster's first attack. Black shot a glance at her when his feet touched back down on the ground.<span style="font-style: italic">Dumb demigod,</span>he thought. Air gasped and dissolved back into the water.<br/><br/>Black let out an annoyed breath, but he was still hungry and he could still smell that fox from here. He pushed off the ground and went back into his unnatural sprint.<br/><br/>The fox ran into a cave, it was trapped. He charged at it, but stopped abruptly when suddenly it transformed.<span style="font-style: italic">Damn, another demigod. I should have known. What do they want?</span>Black stood firm, fists clenched, expression hard, guard up.<br/><br/>Ari materialized from a puddle behind Blue and looked the monster over. It was remarkably humanoid, so it must have been pretty high level. But surely a high level monster would have been sensed and captured years ago. So, what was going on? The monster had his eyes narrowed at them. It didn't look very happy to have been tricked. Ari realized that if it was following Blue it was probably hungry, and they'd just taken away its meal. Ari was semi-hiding behind Blue. She did want answers from the monster, but he was intimidating to her. Especially those yellow eyes...<br/><br/>Black remained silent. He wasn't sure what to say to the demigods, but he was definitely curious what they thought they were doing leading him on when he was hungry.