I'd always known I was different, odd, unique. It was never anything that resulted in playground bullying or anything soppy like that. I don't have a traumatic backstory fit for talent show sobstory. What was me a unique freak doesn't haunt me past put enlightens my future.

"Jeff! Get a move on!" my girlfriend sighed for the unpteenth time. I was getting tired of her constant moaning. It wasn't my fault it was so difficult to get ready, fitting gloves over sharp, foot-long claws was incredibly hard. When I was at last satisfied nobody would glare at me in the streets, I trotted downstairs and set my eyes on the beauty before me. It was one of our first dates in a long time. We'd set dates before, even gone out, but stuff often got in the way, my powers. Natural human instinct to danger is to flich, but I'm not human, so my instinct is to curl up into my armadillo shell. I've learnt to control it, over the years but if somebody grabs me from behind, bang, I'm a shell.

She opened the front door and I stepped out into the cool refreshing air, set peacefully under the purple sky. Piercing through it was a comet, a comet with wings. It was like a bird, but flew with such power and speed, it was unnatural, like me.

"Right behind you" a girl cried. I turned around. It wasn't Nicole who had spoken. It had been someone else, someone who we could not see. Was she yelling at the bird? As we stepped out of the drive Nicole gasped and the sharp air caught in the back of her throat. Before her and before me eyes, a red haired girl appeared across the street. She was quite slim with brown eyes, eyes that met mine.

"Has my invisiblity worn of?" she shrieked, quickly cheeking all of her body. All I could do was nod. For the first time in my life, I wasn't alone. 

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TREETERNAL
Name: Dilloman
Secret Identity: Jerry Tate
Powers: Has a shell like back that it used as a shield. Can dig using his long claws and can roll up into a ball to run people over
Appearance: Fairly small and quite chubby with a round face. Hazel eyes and gelled-back blond hair. Quite slow at running but pretty strong and a gifted climber (his claws can dig into most vertical surfaces)

AUTUMNMAY
Name: Chamagirl
Secret Identity: Lilly Bridson
Powers: can blend into anything at will (effectively turning invisible). Can also see from any angle. Also can grip easily onto any surface, as long as it isn't completely vertical.
Appearance: Slim figure, just under average height. Shoulder length, thin, red hair. Dark brown eyes and thin lips. Her ability to disappear disguises how unfit she actually is.

ICHIGORINGO-CHAN
Name: Vespertilionem
Secret Identity: Rick Jones
Powers: Super sensitive hearing, ability to hover/fly at will, can eat several tons of any substance without dying/getting fat.
Appearance: straight, shoulder-length light brown hair, large, bright blue eyes. He is taller than average but the average weight.

VICTORIAGLASS
Name: Viper
Secret Identity: Diana Romine
Powers: She has sharp fangs that are poisonous. She has the ability to move quicker than a human but not super fast - just enough to go for the kill. She is a bounty hunter that relies on her highly attuned senses of sound waves and smell along with her killer fangs.
Appearance: Jet black hair - shoulder length, snakelike green eyes, pale skin, forked tongue.

updated Jul 7 '11 by Treeternal