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AMAZEMENT CLOUDED Levi's eyes as the three-step off the bus. Tall buildings and bright lights filled the boy's vision, he swallowed hard when he saw a bunch of people walking around, smiling and laughing.

Levi grabbed the first thing he can which was Five's hand. Five brushed off his nerves and squeezed it reassuringly, bringing Levi closer to him as they followed El, walking so closely so no one saw their linked hands, not that Five was trying to hide it but he knew of Twelve's insecurities.

As they walked, they all grew more comfortable with their surroundings... well not Five, Five was always on edge around new places.

Levi dragged Five behind him, trying to catch up with El. Eleven stopped, turning her head slightly to look at the boy in amusement.

"So cool..." Twelve whispered, looking around the tall buildings, his blue eyes landed on what seemed to be a theater.

His heart speeds up at the sight of two guys, the taller one wearing big glasses and the shorter one looking at the man with an annoyed expression yet adoration was still steeping through his eyes.

Levi watched the two who were holding hands carelessly, laughing, not caring about the dirty looks people were giving them.

He looked at them with curious eyes, feeling himself smile softly. Five stopped when he noticed Levi wasn't moving, the green-eyed boy followed the boy's line of sight, smirking towards Levi.

"Told you." Five said, crossing his arms while pulling Eleven by her bag to stop. El looked at the boys confused before looking towards where they were staring at the men as well with a smile.

Levi let out a confused sound, turning his head to the older boy, "What?"

Five rolled his eyes, whispering. "I told you it was okay to like a boy."

Levi sighed, his eyes traveling to the ground fidgeting with Ben's legs, he looked up connected eyes with Five nodding his head. "Okay."

Five grabbed the boys hand and let El lead them away, Levi followed behind the two but looked back once more connecting eyes with the two men who settled down from their laughing fit.

Levi exhaled sharply as they smiled at the boy, he smiled back before looking away and walking with Five as the two older men share a knowing glance.

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After walking for a few minutes, the beautiful tall and lit up buildings became abandoned ones and work factories.

The streets were quiet, no one making a sound as there were no people walking around except them. It was silent besides the squeaking of animals and hissing of pipes and their footsteps padding against the oily streets.

Levi tightened his grip on Five's hand, growing weary of his surroundings, not saying anything as El leads them down what looks to be an alleyway.

Indistinct chatter and chuckling slowly reached their ears as they looked around seeing homeless people scattered around the alley, talking.

Some of them looked at the kids weirdly while some just ignored them, Five felt uneasy while Levi was giving soft smiles towards the people that looked at him.

They finally made it out of the alley and continued on their...well El's path. After a while, Levi was growing tired, just as he was about to ask if they could stop, El quit walking looking ahead.

Twelve's eyes widened at the very large 'abandoned factory'. What caught his attention was that there was street art littering the walls of the building, and the boy was in awe of all of it.

Five looked at Eleven with uncertainty but she just nodded for the boys to follow. Five cursed under his breath, teleporting him and Levi to catch up with El's running figure.

Twelve looked at the older boy in fear, Five saw the look and sighed, kissing Levi's forehead. "It'll be okay."

Eleven slowly opened the door, leading the group inside the lowly lit building.

Five clenched his free hand in a fist when they walked into the building. It was dark when they entered but they could see flickers of light coming from farther in the building.

Soft mumblings and loud laughs echoed their ears as they walked towards the light flickers, seeing a group of people surrounding a large metal can with a fire lit inside.

"Hello?" Eleven called out causing Five to shake his head and pull Levi closer to him with a curse.

"Well, well...What do we have here?" A taunting voice of a man with a large mohawk said, walking around his group and making his way closer to the kids.

"What is she wearing?" One of the girls says as all the people stand up, walking closer to the kids, looking at them weirdly and disgust.

"We're looking for my sister," El said, ignoring the comments about her overalls.

Levi stepped closer to Five, the green-eyed boy let go of his hand and wrapped his arm around the scared Twelve who was now cuddling his face into Ben.

"Aw... Shirley Temple lost her sister. So sad." The scary man with the tattoos and mohawk mocked.

"I saw her. Here." Eleven stated, going to pull the picture of the mystery girl out of her bag but was stopped by the big guy who looked like a teddy bear in Twelve's opinion.

"Uh-uh. Hand out of pocket. Slow."

Five and Eleven fought the urge to roll their eyes as the girl slowly took the picture out of her bag. The photo was snatched out of her hands by mohawk man, who looked down at the picture in realization and amazement.

The woman with the afro took the picture out of the man's hands, confusion was written on her face. "Is that Kali?"

"Kali?" Five questioned, raising an eyebrow.

The mohawk man glared at the kids, causing Levi to bite back a whimper, "How'd you find us? Who else knows you're here?"

"No one." Five snapped, letting go of Levi and pushing El behind him, glaring up at the older man.

"So what then? Poof! You just show up like magic with that picture?"

Levi looked at the man confused, "Poof?" he whispered, glaring at Six who stood behind teddy bear man, laughing at Twelve's cluelessness.

"Stay calm. They're just kids." The lady with the afro demanded.

Twelve's eyes widened as he connects eyes with Teddy bear-man, feeling the fear in his body disintegrate when the man sent a soft smile towards him.

"A kid who could get us killed" Mohawk exclaimed.

Five scoffed, snarling. "Anyone could get you killed, dumbass!"

Eleven and Twelve pulled Five back as the man stepped closer to the boy in fury, pulling out a switchblade pointing it towards the kids.

The group of adults was shouting at the man, telling him to put the knife down. "Axel put it down!"

Levi watched as the man now known as Axel looks down at his hand holding the blade in fear.

Five bites his lip failing to hold back a laugh while sharing a look with a giggling Levi as they watch this Axel started frantically screaming shaking his body as if to get something off of him but there was nothing there.

"You're a terrible dancer, Axel." a voice commented, making all the people look up towards the staircase, seeing a girl with black around her eyes and crazily puffy hair, smirking at the older guy.

"I told you, stay out of my head!" Axel yelled at the smirking girl.

"So, we're threatening children now, are we?"

Five glared, mumbling under his breath, "We're like the same age." Levi quietly snorted, nudging the boy.

"They know about you," Axel stated as they circled around Kali.

"The girl had this." A girl with messy hair and a big bow said while handing Kali the picture of her younger self.

The girl with puffy hair grabbed the page from the woman's hand, glancing at the three in curiosity, "Where'd you get this?"

Five rolled his eyes, ignoring the conversation, letting El talk to the girl. Five looked at Levi next to him, smirking as the boy was talking to mid-air, glaring at Axel as he heard the man calling the schizo.

Five watched as Axel was going to pick up his knife on the floor, but before he could reach it, El used her powers, making the knife fly into her hand.

Axel yelled out, moving to stand next to the rest of the group, leaving the group of teens in the middle.

"I saw you. In the rainbow room." El pursed her lips, closing the switchblade and handing it to Kali.

Kali gazed at the girl, with a smirk. "What is your name?"

"Jane." El swallowed.

Kali slowly grabbed the girl's wrist, El let the girl pull her sleeve up revealing her '011' tattoo.

Kali lifted her wrist letting the girl left her sleeve revealing her '008' one.

Kali looked into El's eyes glancing towards the boy's she came with, seeing one play with a plush and the other smiling softly at him. "What about them?"

Eleven followed her line of sight, letting out a soft laugh.

"Felix and my brother Jasper. Five and Twelve."

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