A/N: Hi everybody! Thanks so much for all the great fb! This chapter is gonna explain something that I think the show left unanswered. The Rowell gang will be in the next one, okay? Hope you enjoy! - sarah
BTW: I aced my test and speech! Thanks for wishing me good luck, NorafanofMaxandLiz!
Chapter Three
Kadiya opened her eyes and yelped in suprise when she saw Zan staring at her, "What are you..." she trailed off, realzing they were both in his bed. He laughed and winked at her, "Don worry, I's stayed on da couch like a good little boy, I's just wanted to let cha know dat Rath's gots breakfast, Kay?" Kadi nodded, "Kay" Zan got up and walked over to the dresser, "I's gots ya suma Ava's clothes seeing as yors is at home 'n you 'n hers about da same size." "Thanks." , she smiled. "Do you mind?" Zan rolled his amber eyes, "I'ma goin, I'ma goin." He shut the door and Kadiya grabbed a pair of black cargo pants, and a dark blue lace camisole. She braided her hair in two pigtails, with a few wispy stands in her face, and slid on the dark blue converse sneakers Zan had left for her by the door. She walked into the living room and grabbed a slice of pizza from the box on the coffee table, raising an eyebrow at her brother, "Pizza for breakfast?" Rath swallowed a bite and grinned, "Breakfat 'o Champions." "Where is everybody?" "Zan's in da kitchen, readin da classifieds 'n Lon 'n Aves is at work." "Where do they work?" "Centafold." "Centerfold? Isn't that a top---" "Topless bar? Yeah, it is." Kadiya bit her lip, "Okay...I'm gonna go see Zan. " Rath nodded, and turned on the tv. "Hey you." she said, sitting beside him. Zan looked up from his paper, "Hey Princess." He nodded towards the counter "Ya wan sum coffee?" "Sure." she replied taking the mug he was nursing from his hands, and taking a sip, Zan smirked, but said nothing. "Any luck?" she asked him, glancing over his shoulder at the paper. "Dey alls crap jobs Kadi, 'n wit me havin no school experience I's ain't neva gon gets sumthin good." he complained throwing the paper down on the table in disgust. Kadiya chewed her lip thoughtfully, "What about Ecstacy?" "Whada 'bout it?" he muttered, standing up and pouring himself more coffee. "I heard the owner say he was going to sell it, mabye you could---" "Buy it?" Zan laughed humorlessly, "Look arounds yas princess, I's da man, I's da king, I's da unwanted trash dats crashin in da sewers. Where da hells am I's gon get da George Washingtons for dat?" he snapped. "Maybe if you'd quit plain poor pitiful Zan, I'd get the oppurtunity to tell you!" she snapped back. Zan crossed his arms, "Watch how yous talkin ta mes princess." he said barely crotrolling his anger. "Or what?" she challenged, standing up and placing her hands on her hips. Zan leaned down, his face only inches away from hers, "I's da man, so don fuck wit me" he whispered. Kadiya narrowed her dark eyes, "Well then that makes me 'da woman', so listen." Zan leaned back against the counter, "Start talkin den, " he smirked, "let's hear da master plan."
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Zan looked at her in suprise. Damn, that was a good plan, "Listen sweets, I's sorry dat I's was sucha---" "Dumbass?" she interupted. "I's was gon say control freak, but wadeva floats ya boat." "So then we're agreed?" Kadi asked, " I'll buy the club and sign it in all of our names and then we'll all run it together?" Zan nodded, " Sounds like a plan ta mes," he told her, playfully tugging on one of her braids, "So's Pippy Longstocking, yous up fo a movie?" Why not Spikey, just no chick-flicks." Zan raised an eyebrow at the nick-name and laughed, "Ma kinda girl." They walked out of the kitchen and into the living room, "Hey Rath, we're gonna go catch a movie." "Aight sis, hey Zan, yous takin da bike 'o yous walkin?" "Walkin, " Zan replied "Why?" "I's meetin wit sum peeps from da crib up ders, " he pointed to the ceiling, " ta find outs the deal with Kadi's lack 'o pod, ya dig?" Zan stiffened , "No." he said simply. "No?" Rath said angrily, standing up, "Look man, yous may be 'da man' but shes 'da sista' 'n whiles yous may love hers, I's do too 'n I'll be damned if ya keeps me from protectin ma little sista!" Kadiya moved from Zan's side and stood between the two, "Zan, why don't you want Rath to go?" "Because it aint safe 'n I don wan any 'o us ta get attacked by Khiver 'o da skins." he replied, keeping eye contact with Rath. "Rath, can you guarentee you won't get hurt?" she asked "No." he said, gritting his teeth. "Maybe we should all go with you and---." "No!" Both Zan and Rath yelled at the same time. "Look, " Zan told Rath, "I think protectin Kadiya is both of our numba one priorities, so yous go'n be's carefuls, aight?" They knocked fists and Rath smiled, "Aight." "Now we's, " Zand said, putting his arm around Kadiya's waist, "Is gonna go 'n sees a movie." Kadiya kissed Rath on the cheek, "You better be careful big brother, I'm not gonna lose you." Rath nodded, "I will, yous go 'n haves fun wit ma boy Zan. Don worry 'bout me." Zan ushered Kadiya out the door and through the sewer tunnels into the subway. "Ya gots a preference, Princess?" Zan asked, yelling over the roar of the oncoming subway as they walked up to the street. "Anything with Brad Pitt!" she yelled back. Zan rolled his eyes, his voice reaching it's normal pitch as they walked onto the street, "Yous kidding me?" Kadiya laughed "What can I say? He's got a nice ass---ets." she finished with a giggle. Zan crossed his arms and pretended to be hurt. "Aww, poor Spikey, " Kadi cooed, "don't worry, you've got a nice ass---ets too." "Oh, " Zan teased wiggling his eyebrows playfully, "So yous been checkin out ma assets den?" Kadiya giggled again, "Oh yeah, I'v been lookin." Zan felt lightheaded, "Yous serious?" he asked in a strained voice. She wrapped her arms around his neck a pressed a kiss to his suprised lips, "Fo sho, " she teased, mimicking his accent, "Yous definatly ma man." Zan laughed, "Glad ta hear it, cause yous definitly ma gurl." "So, " Kadiya said, lacing his fingers with hers, " What kind of Brad Pitt movie are we looking for?" "Oh no, ders no way dat I'm lettin ma gurl check out Brad Pitts assets, we's seein da Godfatha 'o sumthin." Kadiya shook her head, "Huh-uh, lets see 'Queen of the Damned' , I love that movie." "No Brad Pitt?" he asked her. "Nope, it's Brad-free" "Aight, den we's go 'n see it." She kissed him lightly and walked over to the ticket booth. Zan stared after her and smiled, "I's gots to be da luckiest half-human in da world." he mumered under his breath.
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"Alls I'm sayin is dat if L'stat 'n dat Jesse gurl was together, den dey should 'o made dem do da dirty at least once." "No," Kadi protested as they walked back to the crib through the sewers, " They couldn't do that. L'Stat was holding himself back because he wanted her to live, and when she was dying he knew he had no choice but to make her like him. " "And den dey shouda done da dirty!" Zan finished triumphantly. Kadiya rolled her dark eyes, "You are completly awful, Zan, there's no way I'm gonna watch one of my favorite movies with you again." "Aight den, we'll watch da Godfatha next time." he told her, opening the front door. "I can hardly---- Rath!" Kadiya screamed running over to the couch and kneeling by her bleeding brother. "I's aight kay, it looks worse den it is." Lonnie walked over to Zan, her hands on her hips, "How da hell could ya let Rath go by himself Zannie-boy, he coulda been killed!" Ava spoke up from the corner, "Da old Zan neva woulda let dis happen." Zan glared at the small blonde, "Ya gots sumthin ta say Aves?" Ava stood up and walked over to him, "Ya gone soft." "Cuse me? I's sorry I think dat I's just heard da gurl dat don mean nuthin ta me and could be killed in a heartbeat jus say dat I was soft." he growled. "Yas heard right, you majesty, eva since yo 'princess' as you call her showed up yous been half da king yous wuz before, yas aint got no respect now." she told him sharply. "Enough!" Kadiya screamed, "Rath's over here dying and you two can't stop fighting over something that can wait! He can't!" "Dis ain't ova." he told Ava softly." "Straight up." she replied, sitting on the bar stool by the couch. Kadiya held her brothers hand as Zan began to heal him, "This is all my fault, " she cried, " he never would have gone there if it wasn't for me." Guilt washed over her as Zan's breathing grew ragged, and she knew he must be losing energy. Raths eyes flew open and Zan collapsed to the floor, " 's he aight?" Rath croaked, sitting up. Kadi leaned over Zan and lifted his head onto her lap, brushing the hair off his forehead, "Baby its time to wake up." she whispered, "Spikey, open your eyes." Zan took a deep breath and opened his eyes, and the others all gasped at Kadi's glowing hands, The Antarian symbols buring with a brilliaint blue light. "Shes da revivor. " Rath said softly.
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Zan felt warmth spread throughout his body, replinishing the energy he had lost. He opened his amber eyes, "She's da revivor. " he heard Rath say. "Reviva?" Lonnie snapped, "Whada hells a reviva?" Zan looked down at Kadi's hands, which were scared with Antarian symbols and glowing a viberent blue. " A revivas an Antarian with da ability ta bring back powa, strength, even life back to one 'o da royal fo." Rath explained. "Well, if little Miss Reviva wuz 'round back up der on Antar, den how comes she let us die da first time?" Ava demanded. "She didn't, " Rath hissed, " Since ma sista wuz killed afta wes were, da aristacrats sent her with da ability ta revive us if need be." "So what yous sayin is dat Kadi-gurl can bring back da dead?" Lonnie asked. "Onlys one 'o us, but yeah." Rath replied. "Hows cum she wasn't wit us in da pods?" Zan asked sitting up and leaning against Kadiya. "Kadi wasn't one 'o da royal fo technically, 'n since time between Antar and Earth's centuries apart, what only happen'd 16 years ago on earth, happened 300 years ago on Antar." Rath explained. Kadiya bit her lip thinking, "Well, what about the crash in Roswell? Didn't that happen fifty years ago? Because, if so, that would have been nearly 950 years ago on Antar, ages before our past selves were even born. " Rath smiled, "Yous must be da brains 'o da family. Dats right, but every generation of Antarian royalty has a fo square that serves a term 'o 25 years. It wuz written 'n ancient text dat if da royal fo didn't eva finish der term, den da whole planet would suffa." "Back up man," Zan said slowly, "I's confused. We aint' da first royal fo?" "Naw, da king always stayed within yo family, but the othas could be aristocrats which is what Ava, Kadi, and I's were. Anways, like I was sayin, da royal fo 950 years ago on Antar died before der term wuz up, so's sum 'o da Aristocrats sent down two sets 'o fo pods so dat da royal fo and a back-up set could be transported and hatched, den returned to Antar 'n continue der terms." "Why not just keep da pods on Antar?" Ava asked. "Because da rebels would destroy da pods." "So I was sent as a baby because there was no pod for me, with my back-up?" Kadiya guessed. "No," Rath told her, "Yous da back up."