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thing yet you continually manage to pull off the dork card.”
    Cody shrugged. “It’s not easy mate that damn wig gets pretty itchy .”
    “Aw but you look so cute with long hair,” Ryan swooned, batting his eyes at the young Irishmen.
    “Oh, toss off,” Cody responded, sticking his tongue out.
    “Yeah, you two are real mature,” Ethan grunted.
    Both Ryan and Cody ignored that comment.
    Again Ethan could feel his frustration building and the banter of his two teammates did nothing to improve his mood. He cracked his knuckles, rather loudly despite the expansive space of their surroundings.
    “Do you have any idea how bloody annoying that is?” Cody snapped.
    Ethan just shrugged.
    “You know, you could just use a gun, right?” Ryan asked, referring to the bow on Cody’s back.
    Cody shrugged. “Do you have to ask that question all the bloody time?” Cody growled, through clenched teeth. “I happen to like the thing and you know that specialized payloads have saved your arse more times than you’d admit too.”
    “I think that goes more to the fact that we aren’t entirely human,” Ryan shrugged. “And all those wonderful skills that have been drilled into us since we were kids.”
    “Or I just rock and you just suck.”
    “Ladies,” Ethan said, halting his pacing. “Do me a favor and shut the hell up.”
    Ethan found it oddly amusing that most of the fantasy tales told about vampires, werewolves, magic, demons, and other things that went bump in the night were written off as nothing more than fiction. If the world only knew that all those things and more existed, life would be more interesting.
    But that would also incite a panic like no other – knowing that there were monsters out there that the forces of nature could be magically controlled by a select few. No, that would be anarchy. Nations would clamor for control of those individuals, rush to figure out how they did that and in the process probably plunge the world back into the dark ages.
    As much as Ethan would have liked to have thought that society had moved beyond the ability to discriminate he saw it firsthand every day in school. All you had to do was look at the way Gabriel was treated; he had no magical abilities, he wasn’t a different species, his only crime was being attracted to the same sex. And yet, for as much as tolerance was preached throughout TV, books, and the web he was still virtually ignored.
    Ethan fiddled with the gauntlet on his armor, running a hand over the smooth metal surface. The armor was black, made of interlocking metal plates. He idly picked dust out of a bullet hole that had appeared in the chest of his armor, which had been easily stopped by the dense yet lightweight material.
    “What’s going on over there?” Cody pointed toward the large park to the north. They could see crowd had gathered. From this distance they could see several lit bonfires and what appeared to be a makeshift stage.
    Ethan and Ryan turned to look toward where Cody had indicated, both grabbing their goggles off their belts and looking in that direction.
    “People,” Ethan said. “Lots and lots of people. Is there some big party that I didn’t know about or something? Cause if there is then I need to find some new personal assistants.”
    “Concert, it looks like,” Ryan said. “And you knew about this, the band invited you yesterday.”
    “Oh,” Ethan said, lowering his goggles. “Wait, are you sure I was there? I wasn’t like asleep or anything was I?”
    “Nope, you were just doing your rude and usual thing by ignoring them,” Ryan answered.
    “Good to know, do you think that it will be a problem?”
    Both Cody and Ryan shrugged.
    “Not really, I mean you are always a bit of a wanker,” Cody said.
    “Not that you idiot,” Ethan growled. “The concert.”
    Cody shrugged and adjusted the quiver of specially designed arrows on his back as well as the arm guard on his right forearm.
    “That’s all you got for