Sorry for the long wait…

Chapter 2

Everyone starred at Joe anxiously when he opened his eyes and sat up.

"What happened?" He asked.

"You fainted." George explained. "And you didn't seem sick when you arrived so what's wrong?"

"He did seem a little pale when Biff told him about the letter" Nancy began to say, but Joe interrupted her.

"No way! That is only a stupid joke, I'm fine I promise. Excuse me I forgot something in school." And then he ran outside again.

The rest of them just starred at each other. Chet was the first one to speak.

"What in the dark side of the moon was that about?!"

"I don't know" Nancy began, "But isn't the bus stop on the left?" She was right, the bus stop was in the other direction, for some reason Joe had run out in the forest instead. "Frank, I'm sorry! Something is definitely wrong here…" Nancy began, but she just couldn't make herself say the rest she was thinking. It really seemed as Joe had something to do with, what ever it was, or at least that he knew something about it. "I'll call Bess and ask her to look up the car they found that little girl in!" She said instead and walked away before Frank could ask her anything she didn't want to answer.

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Bess noted the number and hang up the phone, then she logged up for the Internet to search for the owner. And she found it.

"What?!"

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And about Joe, he had run quite far in the woods when he finally stopped to rest. He tried to get rid of the despair that had finally caught up with him with beating one of the trees with his fist. All that happened was that his hand began to bleed…

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Bess called Nancy's cell phone. And after their talk Nancy had forgot that Joe Hardy had acted a little strange.

"The clan of the lit out phoenix"

"What?"

"The car, it's registered on… that clan."

"Have anyone heard of something called the clan of the lit out phoenix?" They all shook their heads.

"The library?"

Unfortunately the library was about to close when they arrived so they hurried to borrow every book they could find, that they thought could hide some little unimportant clue at all and then they all ended up at Frank's home as it was nearest.

Some hours later Fenton came home and caught sight of the kids who sat in the living room busy whit their work.

"So you have found something to investigate again?" He laughed and walked in to them. Then he caught sight of a book with a golden phoenix on, and then he read some words in the letter that had started everything, and in the same moment he stopped laughing and looked around the room several times.

"Have Joe seen this letter?" He asked deadly seriously, actually he was so serious that he scared all of them. Then Chet replied.

"Yes, and after that he run out in the woods and" Fenton Hardy left the room and before anyone knew he had disappeared in his car. "Ok, now this starts to be a little creepy" Chet continued and turned to his friend. "First you get a letter that seems to be a joke, until Joe sees it and decides to run away. And now the same thing happens again with your father. What's going on? Are both he and Joe involved it something? Because I refuse to believe they are?"

Frank starred down at the table. He really wanted to refuse to believe that too but still there was no other explanation, was it? He rose from the table.

"Can you warn me if dad comes back please?"

"What?" Nancy exclaimed. "Sure ok, this can't be any worse anyway!"

Frank walked up to his father's office and came back with a binder.

"If dad see my with this he will kill me!" He muttered and put it down on the table.