Steven's Perspective:-

Even though I didn't say so, I was damn tired and I wanted to sleep at once, it's tiring when you travel from one universe to the other and be awake for almost 3 days. But Sheeran looked far from tired as he had taken his short nap when he was sort of kidnapped. That boy was abducted from his planet, brought to a new Universe, and kidnapped once again on the way, yet he was so fresh, I might have fainted out if I was in his shoes. Anyways it is rightly said, Earthians even though they don't have any kind of energy or stuff, will surprise you every time with their actions that are their superpower.

We reached home, "Noel I am home!" I said, she peeped from the kitchen rubbing her hands against her apron, and said, "Good timing Steven!! The dinner is ready, you can have some along with it us." "Alright, bring it on," I said and we went to the table after freshening up. The five of us had dinner, and this was the first time my family got to know about Sheeran. Especially my little daughters.

They used to ask me about all sorts of my travel, what I saw, whom did I defeat, etc. I guess this time I had lost my place to Sheeran. He told them several stories all about Earth, their thoughts about God, and stuff. I have to say that boy is a pure storyteller. He knows very well how to change the tone while telling a story, when to make it darker and how to end it in a PG-13 way! We had some custard, made by Noel as dessert and after the dinner show, I took Sheeran with me to show him his room.

"We will leave early tomorrow, as the person, we want to see, well he is kind of available only in the morning," I said as I opened the door to the guest room. "Yeah sure, just a final question. How can you say that it is early or late, or even if it day or night even without the presence of sun here, and also sun provides us with the energy we require to live so how are the people living here, and btw can you tell me more about the person, and also-" I stopped him by putting one of my hand on his mouth and the other one on my forehead, cursing myself.

"It's not the time for all this Sheeran, tomorrow fine?" I said, "Yeah ok, btw thanks Steven for everything you are doing for me." he said "It's my honor, Gute Nacht! habe süsse Träume!!" I said and vanished to the Arbeitzimmer [Work room] before he asked any questions. I reached the Arbeitzimmer, went to my table, and switched on the table lamp. I sat down on one of the chairs, took a paper and pen, and started writing the synopsis cum adventure story cum report of the mission, as I had to submit it in the Alpha Yuri office tomorrow itself. I wrote every ounce of it but did not mention Sheeran's weird dreams as they seemed too erratic to me.

I completed the report in about a half-hour, yawned a bit, got up, stretched my body, and went to my bedroom, to do the needful. When I reached the bedroom, I saw Noel wasn't asleep and was reading a book, while sitting on the bed. "Tired, aren't you?" she asked, "Yeah, it's been a long day you know, also I got a chance of returning to my old home after quite a lot of time," I said and laid on the bed keeping my head on her lap while she was reading, and I fell asleep.

I woke up at around 6 in the morning I guess-, and went to the bathroom to do the needful stuff[ Bathing and the other stuff which you thought of] -. After it was done, I went to the sink, took my brush, and brushed my teeth. I went to the guest room after getting ready, to wake up Sheeran. I opened the door and to my surprise, He wasn't there, who was still partially asleep, got a shock and I woke up completely, "Not again!" I said to myself and raced to the Kuche [Kitchen].

"Noel, did you see Sheeran, as he isn't there in his room." I asked panicking, "Relax honey, he is playing with Alina and Amelia on the Lawn, and they already had their breakfast." I sighed and sat down on the sofa, in the hall. Noel came from the kitchen with 2 cups of coffee and sat beside me. "Don't you think you are thinking too much Steven?" she said while handing me one of the cups. "Yeah I think so, and you know why I am doing so, he is the key, Noel, if something happens to him, neither the superior council nor me, myself would be able to forgive me," I said, taking a sip from my share. "Everything will be fine Steven." She said, kissing me on the forehead. "Yeah, I would like to believe so," I said. I finished the cup of Coffee and kissed Noel on the cheeks before leaving.

"I will see you soon girls, bye," I said as I came to the lawn and hugged them. We left for my friend's house. I had kept the thing about my friend a complete secret from Sheeran. I glanced at him as we were walking by, I noticed that he was not wearing the clothes that he had when we left earth. "Ahem, Sheeran whose are those?" I asked pointing at the other bunch of clothes he was wearing which included blue jeans and a pearl white shirt tucked in. His outfit was similar to mine, just that I wore a tie and a tuxedo, over my shirt.

"Ah this one, you don't recognize it? Aunty Noel already warned me about it, that you won't remember. They are your clothes, but the old ones. I had nothing to wear after my bath and hence Aunt Noel, gave these to me, I have to say, you have got a very caring wife Sheeran." he said, upon which I became a little bit nervous but soon returned to my original color, and I hope so Sheeran didn't notice it.

We walked past the streets, no one was awake at this hour except for some dogs. "How much more Steven, I can't wait to meet this friend of yours." Sheeran asked, "It shouldn't take us much time, his house is on the outskirts of the city, btw mind you this friend of mine is alpha yuri like me, he too recently brought an apprentice for himself from the earth." I said, "Yeah fine, I will take care of it, don't you worry." he said.

We finally reached my friend's house, it was an old shabby but huge mansion, just like a miniature version of the parliament but this one was pitch black. I opened the black gate at the opening and entered the mansion's premises. All around us was a lush green pasture of grass. We walked out way towards the mansion and reached a mighty door which was the entrance to it.

I opened the door with Sheeran's help, and it opened with the usual creaking sound, I have told her millions of times to repair it, but all in vain. The mansion had a huge staircase upwards diverging into two parts further up. Both sides of the staircase had doors to it. On the ground floor, I walked towards the staircase, turned behind, and then turned to the right, "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and 13." Saying so I banged on the floor twice.

"Sheeran, come here," I called him and removed 3 planks from the wooden floor at the place I was standing. "Follow me in Sheeran, and when you do so, fold your arms in front of your chest, something like this." I said, "Oh, Wakanda forever?" He asked, and I was a bit puzzled, but I was assured that he was doing the correct action. I jumped in the hole and started sliding down with zero effort, Sheeran followed me behind.

The specific position reduces air resistance as well as friction and hence we slide down easily. After finishing our short ride we reached a room, which was dark apparently. "Mi, are you there? it's Steven." I screamed, on which I heard a familiar voice ahead, "Yes Steven I hear you, come in here, just don't turn on the lights I am having a little experiment here. I held Sheeran's hand and took him with me towards Mi's sound.

After walking a while we saw a red light beam, being emitted on certain blue fungi. We followed the light, as we just got about 1 meter close to the table, the plant on which the red light was incident exploded. "Huh, it failed again." A voice from the darkness which was Mi's said, saying so, I heard certain footsteps going away from us and then I heard the clacking of light switches, after which the room was filled with light.

Mi's room was the same, as it used to be 16 years ago with loads of books, chemicals kept on separate shelves, and several weird biology specimens. As the lights came, I saw Mi, along with her table and I went and hugged her. She hadn't changed a bit, confused as always with her glasses on. She was wearing her usual lab coat, a pant, and a top as an outfit. "Well it's been a long time isn't it Fiery Fox?" She asked, "Yeah it has been, killer cat" I replied and we gave each other a fist thump.

I looked at Sheeran and he was confused once again, "Sheeran this is my Best friend Millie Marseille, Mi for short, an expert in Biology and. Chemistry and also an Alpha Yuri. She is the first friend I ever made after coming here. And Millie this is Sheeran Lewis, my first apprentice." I said to both of them one by one. "Oh so he is the pr-" she was about to continue but before that, I put my hand over her mouth, "Yeah I guess that's fine, yes, and where's your apprentice," I asked her removing my hand from her mouth.

"Yeah, he might be up there on the ground floor. Just give me a sec and I will call him." She closed her eyes and focused, "So which devil is in there?" Sheeran asked. "Malthus- the mischievous" she replied and opened her eyes and after a few seconds, we heard some footsteps coming from the ground above. There came a big, bulky boy from the log tube, he looked at Sheeran and then at me and then again at Sheeran, "You! You jerk! How did you get here." Sheeran burst out, "Of course not by walking! But hey this explains why you disappeared from the dorm." The boy said.

"Sheeran are these your manners? Come one greet him." I told him, and he moved ahead and shook hands with the boy, "Greetings, Mr Lewis." The boy said and I was shocked a bit, as to how come he knew his name. " Yeah same to you Mr Cox" Sheeran replied and each of them moved to their opposite sides and walked away from each other. I judged that we are going to have a great problem here.