Down at the Pets Café, six kids where sitting at a table. Tina Torrison had short blonde hair and was holding a black kitten. Freddy Raven had messy white hair and was holding a small ferret. Sitting next to Freddy was a kid with realy colorfull hair and was holding a ferret. Her name was Sam Sage.
"Alright," Tina said. "We can't wait for those three forever now can we?!"
"No." The other two said. Suddenly the door flew open and three kids ran in.
"S-sorry we're late!" Rick Silk panted. He had a hamster in his front pocket and messy brown hair.
"Dad made us wait, forever!" Tom Yewbeam said. He had black hair and dark brown eyes. A small snake was on the kids arm.
"Yeah, Uncle Paton takes FOREVER!!" Said Mike Bone. His hair was like a hedge and there was a wolf pup behind him.
"Took you long enough!!" Tina said. Her kitten mewed and she turned her attention to it. "What in the world does Paton make you do, Tom?"
"He told he not to make things explode and not to leave the Café unless I call him." Tom said.
Then Mike said, "And Dads mom had Paton stay at the house for a while to clean up the mess Tom made!" Tom hit him in the head.
"Guys, calm down…" Sam said. The two stopped and looked at her. "Tom, Mike…you don't need to fight!"
"Your parents are like best friends." Freddy said. There was a sudden gust of wind and the three sat down.
"So, why did you call us here?" Tom asked. He took sunglasses out of his pocket and put them on. The snake slithered onto the table happily. The wolf jumped onto Mike's lap and the hamster jumped onto the table.
Tina looked at them. "Manfred Blood." She said. She put the cat on her head and it quickly went to sleep.
"What is he doing?" The three asked in unison.
A gentle wind blew through the Café and a few plates blew over. "He locked our parents away." Tina said sadly. "Tancred, Emma, Lysander-"
"-But ours where at home." Tom said. "How can they be-?"
"They are safe for now…" Sam said. "But Tina is right; Tancred, Emma, Lysander, Olivia, and Billy where all taken. Manfred hipnotized them and now they are locked up in the basement. They can't use there powers at all, either…"
It started to sprinkle outside.
"The Thunder House is WAY quieter then normal…" Freddy said. "I go over there every so often…Even Tina's fathers dad is missing in action!" His and Sam's ferret jumped onto the table and began to eat the food on the plates.
"That must've been a mouthfull…" Rick said. He grabbed his hamster and pet him. "So, what are we going to do…?"
"I don't know…" The three said in unison.
"We've tried to get Manfred to let them go, but he tries to make us stare into his eyes. Even Carlos is looking out for us." Sam said.
"So…we go to the academy?" Mike and Tom asked.
"I can see whats up with Carlos." Sam said. "But you music people will have to watch out for wolf boy. He's also been watching us."
Mike, Tom, and Rick looked at eachother.
"How come we don't know about this…?" Rick asked. "We've been hanging out with you for a long time."
"That's the problem." Freddy said. "They want you three for some odd reason. Probably because of our endowments."
A car suddenly drove up and a black eyed, black haired kid got out with a ruttwiler behind him. He walked inside.
The six grabbed there pets and ran behind the counter and into the room behind it. Mr.Onimous had given the shop to Benjamen and he allowed all endowed 'good' kids into the back. While he was in the back, him and Runner Jr. where running around doing things.
"Well, hello!" he said. Runner Jr. barked happily and jumped up and down.
"Hello Runner…" Mike said and pat the dog on the head. His wolf pup growled.
"So, why do you come to this part of the Café?" Benjamen asked and set a few things on the table in the middle. Sitting on the table where three cats; Leo, Aries, and Saggittarius. The three where drinking milk from a bowl. The meowed happily when the three walked in.
The six smiled at the cats and said- in unison-, "Carlos Bloor."
"Him again?" Benjamen asked. Tina nodded.
"He kidnapped our parents." She said and sat down at the table. Aries rubbed his cheek against her hand and she pet him. The black cat that was asleep on her head yawned and jumped down. He was WAY smaller then the three, but they ran around the table.
"What?! Who exactly?"
"Lysander, Olivia, Tancred, Emma, and Billy…" Mike said sadly and pet his wolf on the head.
"Don't worry…" Ben said. "I know them, they will get away."
Wind blewa round the room. "Not when they are hypnotized…" Tina said.
"Carlos and Manfred…" Benjamen mumbled and pulled up a few chairs.
Everyone sat down and talked with eachother untill it was time to go home.
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"DAD!!" Mike and Tom yelled when they ran into the house- Tom had called Paton and said they where comming. Unfortunatly, there was a few sweaters on the ground and they tripped over them. They both face planted. There pets slithered and ran away to a different room in the house.
A few moments later, Mike was lifted into a standing postion. "What?" Charlie asked. "And are you okay?" he soon pulled Tom up.
"Yeah…" Tom mumbled. "Doesn't help when there sweaters on the ground, though."
"Oh calm down…" Paton said from the kitchen. He walked out and looked at the two. "So, what happened?"
The two told Charlie and Paton everything that happened. "Now they are hypnotized!!" Mike said at the end. "I don't know how to get them out either!"
"That explains why Ingledew is gone…" Paton mumbled.
"MOMS GONE?!" Tom burst out. Mike suddenly pushed the two into another room. "DIVE!!" he yelled. A lightbulb went BOOSH! And then quiet.
"Your fault, Uncle Paton." Charlie said and got up from behind the table.
"Yeah, I know…" Paton mumbled and walked into the halway where Tom was.
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Tina entered her house, but she knew it would be no good. Her granda had died about a year ago and her parents and grandpa had been kidnapped.
"Alone…" She said to herself sadly. It was fun having wind contests and seeing how far she could get before Emma hit the farthest tree. Suddenly the phone rang and she ran over to answere it. "Hello?"
"Hello!" A friendly voice said. "It's Mike-"
"-And Tom!"
"Well, we told our parents your story and they said that you could stay at our house…since there realy ins't anywhere for you to go. Sam and Freddy are coming too."
Tina didn't know what to say about this. "Alright." She said. "Should I bring my academy clothes?"
"Yes." There was a sudden pop and the phone hung up.
"Odd…" Tina said and looked at the clock.
When her bag was packed she began to walk down to Filbert Street. It would take a while, she knew, but it was the only way. When she was getting to the bottom of the large hill, a minivan pulled up. "Paton…" Tina asked when the window was rolled down. "I thought you only stayed in at night?" He didn't say anything, especialy when the other window was rolled down.
"We asked him to come get you! Dad couldn't come because he's cleaning up glass." Mike said. The door opened and Tom moved into the back. "Come on! We're getting Sam and Freddy now!"
Tina nodded and suddenly the clouds above cleared up. She climbed in and sat in the back. After a while they came to Sam's house and Tom jumped out. He ran to the door and soon the two where running back to the car.
"Hello, Paton!" Sam said and sat in the middle next to Sam. While they where driving to Freddy's house, there was a quiet mewing. At that moment, they discovered that there was a bunch of tiny holes in Tina's backpack. Tina quickly pulled out her black kitten and held it close. The car swearved a bit.
"Sorry!" She squeaked and quieted the kitten. After a few moments it was asleep in her lap.
"It's okay…" Paton said and continued to drive. Sam giggled and looked out at the street.
"Freddy!!" They all- except Paton- called when Freddy came running out with a bag. The door opened just before Freddy got there and then they all decided to let Rick come.
"Guys," Freddy said. "I've been talking to my ferrets and they have said that there was an odd occurance in the air. They both have been saying that there is a haze at night, well…a fog."
"I've got nothing to do with it!" Tina said and put her hands up innocently. Freddy nodded and the conversation stopped when they got to Rick's house. He was sitting in the yard outside of a hampster/girble cage in the back yard, moving very slowly.
Sam jumped out of the car and walked over to him. "Rick!" She called and opened the gate. Rick looked at Sam then went back to his cage. "Rick, what's wrong?" everyone called from the car.
"Dad and mom are gone…same with the hampsters and girbles!" Rick called over. Sam told him what was going on and he reluctantly went into the house to get his stuff.