Chibiyu: Awesome Chibi powers activate!

Nick: …I think Chibi has officially gone insane…

Chibiyu: No, I live in Crazy, right in front of Insanity and in between living free and dying a weirdo. :~)

I NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL OWN JONAS CHARACTERS OR SONGS OR ANYTHING BUT THE PLOT AND MY OC'S!!!!!


JOE'S POV

The sun vanished behind a cloud and the blue sky turned black in a matter of seconds and the bell rang, one, twice, three times; a tornado warning. My class ran into the hall and faced the wall, heads down and hands over head but before I ducked down, I watched Nick's second hour file out and almost yelled out in worry when I saw Nick wasn't with them. That was when I saw Henry and his group laughing and starring at me like they won the lottery. What did they do? I wanted to run up to him and force him against the wall until he told me where Nick was, but now, I couldn't, I was too worried about the weird weather change and the tornado and Nick to care about Henry and his little gang.

The school's power went out a girls screamed and Stella pressed herself closer to me and I held her tightly, still in the position, technically. Thunder boomed, a thousand times louder than Nick on the drums, and lightening flashed the whole school briefly white. Rain pounded above our heads, sounding more like falling hammers than water, and all the time, my thoughts went to Nick. I looked over my shoulder to see Kevin holding Macy and looking at me with concern; he noticed too. He eyes plainly asked where Nick was but I shook my head and ducked down as the whole school seemed to shudder from the wind relentlessly nailing the outside walls. Please be ok little bro.


NICK'S POV

Black faded to the colors of fire and crisp air entered my nose and I immediately associated it with Fall. I opened my eyes slowly, not even realizing I had closed them, and gasped out in shock and awe. I pinched myself to make sure this was real and to my pleasant surprise, it was. I stood on a leaf covered path, surrounded by tall trees, their leaves red, orange, and gold, whispering to me in welcome. In the clear horizon was a small white city and in the center, a small but glorious castle. Where…where am I? How is this real?

"It is real because you are." The same voice of a girl sounded and I looked around, feeling no fear, but rather unease. A golden cat with black tipped ears and tail with piercing honey brown eyes jumped from a tree and landed in front of me and I marveled in its larger than normal size, but it was still small enough to be classified as a cat. "Welcome King Nick, to Riptide."

I starred at the cat, not processing what it had said, but the fact it had spoken in the first place. Did someone drug me or something, because there was no way this was real.

The cat giggled, more like a tittering sound than a meow. "I am not only a cat, only in this world my King." The cat stood and looked to the horizon, to the city. "My name is Katja (cat-ya) and I am this world protector, in a way. I guide it when its king is absent, and you have been absent for many a moon cycle, young Nick." She starred at my in disproving. Can cats do that?

I blinked, realizing she wanted an answer. "I'm sorry? I didn't exactly know this world, Riptide, existed!" I exclaimed and the cat smiled, another oddity.

"No one but you and I know of the other worlds either." She almost seemed sad about that fact. "King Nick, before you enter your city and take your crown, you must know that this world is unique, just as you are unique. Everyone in your world, the human realm, has their own world created from their hopes, dreams...and despair. Yours is this one, it is everything you've wanted and everything you've ever relished in; it is, in every sense, you." She explained, standing and walking over to me. "I know of many worlds and each has names to describe them, some change, some stay the same. For as long as this world has lived, it has been Riptide, or turmoil and change and force, and I know you will find the answer as to why."

Yes, I knew why. I always covered, bottled and hid my emotions, forcing them away until I couldn't take it and I let it go alone. It caused a riptide of emotions in my own heart, which, I guess, in turn affected this world as well as my home.

"The Darkness," Katja continued, "It has descended twelve moons ago, and can you think what happened twelve cycles ago?" Twelve months? I looked to the cat in confusion and she suddenly understood. "Of course. Time must move faster in this world than your own. Here the nights are shorter than your and people require less sleep and get more work done in the daylight. Of course."

Ok…seriously….am I high or something? Katja turned behind me and I looked back to see my own world, the sky black and wind tearing through the grass, making it look more like waves than ground.

"Do you want to go back; I can't keep the entrance open much longer without destroying your world." Katja asked and I thought to how everyone, even my own brothers wished I was gone and this was a way to be gone. I shook my head and I watched my last link to my home, my old home, fade until all that existed was my own world.


KEVIN'S POV

Ok, the weatherman said sunny and clear all day, what was this? Where was Nick? Did Nick's disappearance have to do with the weather? Girls screamed again as a window from a closed classroom burst open and we all heard the bang and the shattering tink of glass against the tiled floor.

"We're gonna die!" Someone shouted as another window burst open and the roar of the wind lions scratched at our eardrums. My girls were crying and I felt Macy shaking but she let no ounce of fear show on her face as her eyes were pressed closed and lips moving in a soundless prayer. I did the same, praying for the school's safety and that Nick would be ok and found.

And then, silence. The lights flickered back on and students shouted out in joy and confusion. Sunlight filtered through the windows to the now blue skies and teachers were in a panicked frenzy, telling for us to go home quickly and stay inside while the coast was clear. Only one man, the principal looked calm as he stepped over to Kevin and I, who were standing and making sure Stella and Macy were alright.

"Mr. Lucas, Mr. Lucas, a word please." He led us to his office door and the halls were now deserted and he looked at us and to Stella and Macy who were at the end of the hall, not even looking at us but waiting for our return. "Your brother, Nicholas, was not in his second hour and yet, he was in his first. Where is he?"

I looked to Joe to see him looking back at me in terror. Nick hadn't…then where? We looked back to the principle and he waved us off, saying to find Nick and there would be no harm done because he was the best student in the entire school…that was an ego decrease for me. We ran to my car and I drove home, Joe keeping a lookout for any signs of odd weather and Nick because he wasn't answering his cell phone or the home number. Nick, where are you?


NICK'S POV

"King Nick, you do not believe me and yet the evidence is right in front of you." Katja stated and I nodded, I was the logical and this was illogical…but strangely…I could have it...A whole world…one where I made, where I belonged…where I wouldn't be put down by the ones I thought were my brothers. The air chilled but I did not notice and Katja bared her teeth. I was just as freaking good as they were, there would be no JONAS without me, or perhaps they've forgotten that without me, they would be nameless nobodies. Now, in my world, all of them will be nameless nobodies, fading from my memory as I am actually treated like a King…oh, if they could see me now…"My King!!" Katja shouted and I looked up at her in surprise as I finally realized the new level of chill in the air, how the leaves colors turned muted, not black or grey, but dimmed, and as the sun seemed to pass behind an unseen cloud. A growl came from the bushes by Katja, who hissed lowly, her fur on her spine standing up straight. Did I do this?


JOE'S POV

No sign of Nick anywhere…what could this mean? Could he have just got frustrated and walked home and didn't want to talk, could he have gotten caught in that storm? Could he have been kidnapped? No Joe…calm down…Nick probably got caught in another part of the school when the freak storm hit and got a ride home when he saw we weren't here. Great…he would be livid thinking we ditched him…crap. We got home after I voiced my idea to Kevin and he seemed relieved but also like he knew that wasn't what happened…and I agreed with him.

We entered the empty house and ran upstairs, noting how there were no messages, other than mine, on the answering machine and no note on the counter. There was no music coming from upstairs like there normally was when Nick was upset, all there was, was silence. We bolted upstairs, jumping steps, taking them three at a time and when I got upstairs, Kevin pushed me behind him and I expected to see someone…Nick's kidnapper…waiting for us.

"Who are you?" Kevin sharply asked and I peeked over his shoulder and saw what I was not expecting. It was a teenage girl, around 15, brown curly hair with golden brown highlights and her very front curls pulled back and braided. She was three inches shorter than me, from where she stood and her brown eyes looked wise, mature, and distressed. I noted that she was very pretty and I might have a shot at her.

"Joseph, Kevin, I am called Katja, but that is not who I be." The girl spoke, and I couldn't place her accent, it was a mix between English and something foreign, something unheard before. "I with news that you will l not like to hear and will most definitely never believe. It revolves around your brother, Ki-Nicholas." I narrowed my eyes at her stumble over my brother's name.

"You don't seem confident when you stumble over his name." I told her, coming out from behind Kevin.

She smiled small. "Tis' true, I almost called him what I have been calling him for years, even before my eyes befell upon him. I almost called him by what he is to me, to my friends, my family, and his people. I almost called him King." She said, looking lightly at us, truth in her eyes but disbelief in mine. Nick was not a King, this girl had issues.

"Why are you here?" Kevin harshly asked and her smile faded, not at his tone, but at the reminder. She looked to her feet and her hand went to her neck where she pulled out a silver chain, something I knew very well; Nick's dog tag. "Where did you get that?" She fingered it and tossed it to us and I caught it and made sure it was Nicks and it was; it even had the scratch I had accidently made on it.

"Nick gave it to me as proof for you. Also…" She pulled a single fiery red leaf from her pocket and let if float from her hand to the ground and on its way down, the edges sparkled gold and it seemed to burst in flames, but that was not the case; instead of flames, a hologram of Nick came in view. "King Nick, I shall give you privacy. Yell when you want to disconnect." She said, bowing slightly to Nick and he smiled, genuinely smiled at her.

"I like that form Katja, but it's different than what I am used too." He told her and the girl laughed before waltzing off and he rolled his eyes, his gaze darkening as it went to ours and he crossed his arms. I opened my mouth to speak but he cut me off. "Before you speak and befoul the air," He started a new accent apparent in his cold voice, "I yearn for you to see that I am not leaving. I left that world for mine, you for solitude, and you my brothers, will nary find me." He paused his eyes not softening as he looked away from us and I took this as an indication to speak but he suddenly turned to face something unseen in the hologram and he sighed, pulling a dagger swiftly from the side of his belt and hurling at the unseen and he turned back without a second thought about what he had just done. "Well, speak your disagreements." He ordered with a bored tone and I just starred shocked at the change Nick had gone through in one hour.

"Nick? Is…is that really you? What happened to you?" Kevin said suddenly and Nick looked to him, eyebrows raised.

"It is I." Nick confirmed, giving us a look we knew very well, one of forced patience. "Katja gave you my trinket?" I pulled it out and showed it to him and nodded. "As to what happened to me…" He smiled, looking off at something unseen again, "I found where I belong and it is my will to stay."

"Nick, bro look, did this have anything to do with Henry and the gossip we've been too deaf to hear?" I suddenly asked and Nick slowly turned to me and glared.

"You heard of it, but you did not act upon it. How could you have not, the whispers floated through air and slept on ears and traveled when re-said. You did know, but yet, you'd rather be deaf and blind than see the pain I should not have to voice." He retorted so coldly that it stung my very heart and he was right…I think…he was getting harder to understand with each passing minute.

"Where are you?" Kevin asked. "Are you safe?"

Nick chuckled at the last question. "Safe? Please. As to my whereabouts, it is a place you can never find nor enter, it is Riptide." Nick said with flourish, wind picking up wherever he was and leaves blowing at him, never touching his school uniform.

"Nick, please come home." I begged and Nick seemed to find that funny as he laughed and rolled his eyes.

"No." He said and I could tell he was saying this from his free will. He was happy without us…but we would be the selfish brothers we were known to be and bring him back, whether he wants to or not. "Think me selfish to put my happiness above yours, but so be it. These last three months have been living Hell and I am finally free of it." I wanted to hit Nick as he swore so easily…but that wasn't the only thing wrong, he seemed…older. "Believe or not, one twilight here is enough for me to say nay to your petty pleas. Katja, come forth." He summoned and the girl walked forward, inclining her head with a smile and he returned both gestures. "Fare thee well Joe and Kevin, I pray you have happy days." He nodded to Katja and his image faded and the leaf dissipated into dust before we could even say our goodbye. Was he…was he really gone forever?


Chibiyu: This end was really fun to write. I am getting into a different way of tongue to show differences between Riptide and Earth, aka the human realm. Katja, for the most part, is based off of me. Yes, I tend to speak differently than most people and my accent is a bit torn…but I don't turn into a cat in different realms…or do I? Until Next Update!