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A mechanic shop, a father named Ramon and child named Phoenix, the father urges the kid to be careful and tell nobody about their powers unless they really trust them. Now, like 6 years later, It’s night on a beach, a grown up Phoenix and a woman are on a patio with a bright yellow light and cover over top. There is a cracked door on the side with flashing lights and loud music coming out of it. The woman has dark skin, a curvy body, braided purple dyed hair, a neon rainbow gradient and slightly squiggly lines, one piece swimsuit with a cut down her stomach and on one side. Phoenix says“before we go in and meet your partners…” closing the door, “I have to tell you something.” Phoenix sighs and says “I have this thing where I just, cant go out into the moon light, is that alright?” The woman says “Yeah. Now come on.” And goes into the door, while Phoenix lags behind and puts his hand out into the dark. A sharp tooth sprouts out of it slowly. Phoenix pulls his hand back in and quickly follows the woman. Now, in the morning, Phoenix gets out of an expensive car blasting music and with bright flashing rainbow lights in front of a mechanic shop, while walking they look down and realize they dont have a shirt on, but have kiss marks on their chest. Phoenix grabs their shirt off their pants where it rests and puts it on, then runs their hands through their hair and it becomes neatly done instantly. Phoenix gets to the front door and opens it, only to be met with their father looming over them. Phoenix tries to explain, “DAD! I was out with friends! I didn’t drink any alcohol someone spilt some on me!” But their father stops them and starts to walk, the kid is unsure if they should follow but quickly decides to. Ramon says, “You know I don’t care about you partying, I went out all the time at your age, but you know what the one, ONE” he turns around to face Phoenix and puts his finger up, “ONE RULE I had for you was?” Phoenix’s face turns pale, “I DIDNT SHOW ANYONE! I KNOW THE RULES!” They shout. Ramon stares down at Phoenix, “Well, then how is it on, THE NEWS??” Ramon puts his phone up to Phoenix’s face, showing an article titled, “The Jones’s are secretly Vampires?”. Phoenix says sheepishly, “Ohhh uhh, OK OK, I was like REALLY drunk and I may have told someone, but I only said that I couldn’t go out at night, thats not even close to what a vampire is.” Ramon grabs the bridge of his nose and says, “Ok, just *sigh* get in the bus.” They both walk to the bus. Inside the renovated school-bus Ramon presses a button and they teleport into space. Ramon, still driving, says to Phoenix, “Ok, now let’s talk. Listen kid we cant stay here, I don’t blame you because I made this same mistake when I was a boy. We have to move somewhere far away and wait for this to blow over.” Phoenix nods and Ramon looks over slightly. Ramon says “I didn’t come to space just to tell you this, where do you wanna go?” Phoenix looks up a little, “Im not sure, how far away should we go?” Ramon says, “Just pick somewhere, somewhere you’ve always wanted to go.” Phoenix says, “Well, I’ve always wanted to go to an island, sandy beaches and warm weather. Theres a group of islands in Saint Helena called Tristan da Cunha, and I dont know what it is about it, but I’ve always thought it was the perfect island to escape from the law or the prying eyes of the public on.” Ramon chuckles, “I spent a few great years on good ol’ Tristan da Cunah, id love to go back. Then, its settled, back to Tristan da Cunah. Now, we should probably go back to earth, if we get too far our conciseness’s will stop being us and will only exist deep inside our minds. Takes forever to dig yourself back out of your own head, lucky I had your mother to help last time.” And presses the button on the bus again. Back on earth the locked and covered doors of the shop bang and clatter with people trying to get in. “Oh… I think the mob is here…” says Ramon, going over to the window and pulling back the curtain only to see mobs of reporters and press crowding the store. “Pack what you need first, then grab what you can. Put it all in one suitcase” says Ramon before grabbing two suitcases and rolling one over to Phoenix. Phoenix and Ramon both run off in different directions getting their stuff. Later, Phoenix is rolling their suitcase into the bus and Ramon does the same. The bus has a bunk bed, small kitchen, small couch, and table. Phoenix and Ramon get in the bus and Ramon takes one last look at his shop. They back out of the driveway and swarms of reporters follow. Eventually they are out on the road. Miles go by, nobody says a word. An hour later Ramon says, “Have I ever told you I was in a band?” Phoenix looks over, eyebrows raised. Ramon says, “It was 1979, I was a hardcore punk, red Mohawk, stretched earlobes, a blinged out jacket, skinny leather pants, the works. Me and my buds Tony, Jackal Josephine (we called her Joe), Mar’, and your mom, Helen. We weren’t very good, but nobody was back then, we just wanted to have fun, and we did. Tony was the singer, Joe was on bass and backup vocals, Mar’ on electric guitar, your mom on tambourine and triangle, and I was on the drums. We grabbed a super cheap camera secondhand and recorded everything. I didn’t keep the camera but I burned most of the videos onto some CD’s.” Phoenix stares in disbelief, “Why am I just hearing of this now?” Ramon smiles, “I brought the discs, ill show you when we stop.” A few hours later they stop in a remote area hidden behind trees and mountains and Ramon plays the video for Phoenix, smiling. Shot pans out to a man in all white, only half of his face is seen, sweating like crazy and a woman in red walking along. “How did we get here?” Asks the man, “I said I was sorry, Johnathan” says the woman. “Im actually going to die if we have to walk any longer” says Johnathan. The woman replies, “Don’t be dramatic, John.” Johnathan looks over to her, the half of his face not seen before melting off. John is holding up his face with his hand so it doesn’t fall off, “Im not.” He says. The woman in red looks pained. “Thats pretty bad.” she says “WAIT!” She yells, stopping and pointing to the van that Ramon and Phoenix are in. “Pray they let us in.” Says John, walking over to the Van as the woman follows suite. They knock on the door and Ramon opens, stepping out and closing the door behind him. “Yo, whats good?” Asks Ramon, “So my husband and I are on the run from the police and he’s suffering from… heat stro-RAMON?” Says the woman, John looks at his wife, still covering his face. Ramon says “Mary! It’s been forever! How have you been!” Mary smiles, and says “Im on the run again, and I dragged my husband into it this time.” Before following Ramon in, he says “Oh yeah, that” he points to Phoenix sitting on the top bunk “is Phoenix. You guys can stay as long as you need. Bathroom that way, you can sleep on the couch, it pulls out into a bed, if you wanna stay.” Mary says, “Thank you, do you have any ice packs?” Ramon says “Theres some peas and carrots and stuff in the freezer.” and walks away to the front of the bus. John sits down on the couch and Mary grabs some frozen peas, then pushes them against John’s face then he starts laughing, and Mary joins in, then John pushes in for a kiss. Phoenix looks over from his top bunk and says “Get a room, guys!” Mary pulls away and says, “Oh! Gosh, sorry, I forgot you were here!” Still giggling. “Who are you guys anyway?” Asks Phoenix. “Im Mary, and I’m a witch” says Mary nodding her head, “Im John, and she is not a witch” says John. Mary looks at John “Yes I am!” John rolls his eyes and says, “Well, not a very good one.” Mary looks offended, “Yeah? Let me show you!” And starts to wave her hands around. John’s eyes widen and he grabs Mary’s arm. John says “I wasn’t trying to offend you, sugar, you remember what happened last time?” Mary’s face switches to realization, and she says “Oh god I’m so sorry.” Phoenix says, “Can I ask?” And John says “Yeah sure, last time Mary tried to do magic we ended up in another dimension and the only way out was a great sacrifice. Long story short I cant be more than 5 yards away from Mary at any time now.”Phoenix says “Dang… do you guys wanna play chess?” Mary replies “Yeah” and John replies “I’ll watch.”