I noticed a major typo in my last update (Chapter 2) I wonder if anyone else did. I saw that I forgot to delete the part of Kyle's hair…for those who are confused about which color his hair really is, it's the part "semi-long light blue hair that was slightly a mess in its small ponytail." I apologize for that stupid, yet small mistake. I will fix it when I can. It's coming up on the day me and my family starts to drive home…As I re-read chapter 2…I noticed I called Mal a she and her more than once…MAL IS A MALE! HOW DID I MESS THAT UP?!
Chapter 3 The Humans Discovery
The purple haired teen, named Paul, and black haired teen, named Ash, rushed to the towns Jeweler who was also the Town Mayor. They specifically went to the door of the business. Upon entering, they saw two people were in the single room. An older man with extremely light colored green hair that symbolized his age was elderly but not old; he was dressed in work clothes that had a rough brown look to them. His eyes were a strange coloring of the left being blue and the right being a dark green. He was examining an ocean rock that sparkled strangely. Next to him was a younger person, a teenager, with dark green hair and green eyes, clearly of relation to the older man. He was dressed in a pair of black pants and a green shirt, his clothes seems to be wet from the ocean. "Mr. Hayden!" Ash called as he ran over with the Emerald chunk.
"My boys, how was the hunt?" he said not looking up from the sparkling ocean rock. The teen that was in familiarity with the Mayor smiled as if he was welcoming home family "Hey take a look at what I found at the ocean floor." He smiled as he flipped his hair that was in front of his face. "Drew, let's hear about what game they brought back first…" the Mayor said.
"We didn't bring back any game, but we have this!" Ash said as he and Paul revealed the gems in their possession. The mayor and Drew each choked on something, the Mayor as he was getting a drink from his water next to him and Drew choked on the air he had breathed in. "Hold on…let me evaluate them…" The mayor said a little nervous, if they had found a precious stone on their island or in his families land then they could help the towns' economy greatly. "These….these are raw gems…so finely cut so they don't lose their natural value…where…how…"
"We came across these trespassers up river, they said that their transportation had broke down and they were in need of supplies to get it fix and to last them until they could set back out, one of the girls said she had a 'fairly nice amount' or something like that…Paul told them we needed financial help with buying into the Competition, then the girl with a really expensive brooch, as the rest of them each had something with equal value gemmed items on them, asked us if she could help pay for the buy in…Paul told her 4 billion, and she reached into her pouch and pulled these out after a while…they didn't even look upset about losing out on 4bil! Which means they have to have a lot more on the Transportation that broke down…" Ash said as he was waving his arms up and down.
"How many were in the group?" Drew asked carefully as if he would be worried that they might be Pirates and they would come raid the town in search for more gems, theirs and the towns bank, other valuables, and to kidnap and plunder the town or even to try to take over the Island. Paul saw his green haired friends' worries so he spoke up before Ash did. "It was a party of 6, three mid 20s guys and what seems to be their younger sisters. I can't be sure if they are all related to each other but there are some similarities…"
"Drew, I would like you to go see this group, as my son, you will symbolize a peaceful communication…" The mayor said as he tried to think about other possibilities. "Take Ash and Paul, as well as something to defend yourselves with, the hunters of the forest are more restless this season…I don't want my sons to get hurt…"
"Sure, it's only a little after noon so they might still be within the area where we met them…" Paul said, his mind, though, was thinking of his past family who were killed in a Thunderstorm when he was a kid, he was remembering how he washed up on this Islands' Shore, somehow he received very little harm. He knew he wasn't related to Ash or Drew's father the Mayor…he also knew Ash had a similar experience as to why he is currently the mayor's 'son'…but Ash never talks about it so he never brought it up.
As Paul thought about why the Mayor adopted him and Ash, his thoughts went to why Drew was the only son he had by blood and what had happened to the wife…as the thoughts continued Paul didn't hear Ash calling out to him. "Hello! Earth to Paul! Hello planet Paul! We need you back here on Earth!" Ash said waving his hand in front of Paul face as they continued to walk up river.
"Hn?" was all he said, which Drew had learn quickly, much later did Ash, that it meant he was really off in his own world. Ash smiled as he pointed in front of them one of the Traveling Group. It was one of the girls, the one with long blue hair and dark blue eyes. She had apparently didn't hear Ash's exclaim as they saw her standing in the river's bank looking around for something. The three assumed she was looking for fish and was about to make themselves known to her so they could be of help. But she then reached down and pulled out a rather large stone. Paul immediately knew what it was; it was a fossil of some kind. Fossils are more common up river some more but they were still around the half way point to the spots were fossils could normally be found. Though Paul was confused a bit as she seemed so happy to find a fossil, girls don't get so happy over stuff like that…
Then they witnessed her glow a pale pink and light purple color. The water in the river flowed upward in small droplets, spiraling around her as the light moved into fossil she held close to her chest. Paul and Drew and Ash then heard something strange come out of her mouth, although it sounded too strange for them to make sense of what she had said. The fossil started to reshape, it slowly floated up towards the eye-line of her sight and form into a shape of a large egg. They were shocked at what they had witnessed; the egg was bigger than an ostrich's. The girl then looked up as she went to turn towards going back to camp; her dark blue eyes came in contact with pairs of black, green and brown wide surprised eyes. She stopped her movement and watched them with what Paul noticed was fear, it was something he knew since he always scared people away from him.
"What was that? How did you do that?" Ash asked, he was intrigued by what he had seen, was it magic, an illusion, or a trick of the light? Paul was about to ask her his self when the three teens heard a voice from behind. They quickly turned their heads to see who it was. It was one of the older males of the group, the one with ruby red hair that seemed to be naturally messy and emerald green eyes. He had a look that sent shivers even down Paul's spine.
"It seems the people of this area are quite nosy…" he said as he was leaning up against a tree. "What do you think, Dan? How should we go about this?" the teens turned and saw the blonde male with light pink eyes standing on a very high branch in a tree on the other side of the river. "Well we could shut them up so they don't go bring more people over here? Is that acceptable Mal?" the blonde asked towards the ruby haired teen. "Wait a minute, what's to say they didn't witness anything?" a new voice came out, in which they had to make another complete turn to right, deep within the forest, walking towards them was the semi-long light blue haired guy with silver eyes. He stopped in front of the closest of the three teens, which was Ash. "Did you see anything?" his voice was commanding and cold.
"See? We only saw her turn a rock into an egg…" Ash said. Paul called him an idiot and Drew face-palmed. Learn to read a situation! They both shouted at Ash in their minds.
The Royal Princes looked at each other; each had a look of coldness that put Paul's glare to shame. Paul immediately pulled his friends back away from the other strange travelers when he saw two of them reaching for Ash and Drew. "Don't touch my brothers." Paul said with as much menace as he could muster, but in truth, he was flat out freaked out. He would not be able to protect himself plus Ash and Drew. Drew was the more along the lines of a negotiator type. Ash was more of the kind that could ease most tension in a meeting. And Paul was the guard type. And Paul could tell that these people in around them were intending on hurting him and his adopted brothers.
"Wait, Da'Long!" a voice called out. The head of the blonde with light pink eyes turned to the girl in the river with the egg. "We could use them instead of killing them…" she said carefully. The blonde who seemed to answer to Dan and Da'Long smiled at her, all coldness gone and now has a playful natural look in his light pink eyes. It would seem that the young girl was on a very good spectrum level with that specific older male…was she his daughter? Paul's mind was known to wonder about in his own thoughts for brief moments, and at that moment, that was what his mind asked.
"Malki'Haiki lets configure on a way they could be of use." The blonde said to the two others of his group. The one with ruby hair looked up and started to think. So he answers to Mal and Malki'Haiki? Paul thought about these names he was hearing…he started to wonder again, they have two different names, so which is true? Could he and his brothers really offer up a peaceful notion to them? They are currently deciding on if they need to silence us...if they allow us to live, will it only be until they have run out of use for me, Ash and Drew…and how much of what they tell or show us is safe to believe?
"Ky'Sheer, do you think they could be of use?" the blonde who was doubled named Dan and Da'Long asked the other who was first thought to be Kyle. The light blue haired man thought about it with Mal, when he turned to look at the three teens before back at Mal as he said, "They could be of use…although there is a risk of enlisting them, not just our cover but their home as well could be at risk, that's innocent lives…the cons out weigh the pros…". Paul looked at Drew, who was trying to understand what they had meant by too many cons, what cons are they talking about? What were these people hiding from?
"I know the pros aren't very good in our favor but we are in need of dire help…do you want Siren'na to get hurt again? Or maybe have Minerva get kidnapped and used as a tool for money?" the blue haired girl said, as she said that the ones named Ky'Sheer/Kyle and Malki'Haiki/Mal both had a look of horror and fear. "You know Minerva would easily get her abilities abused, plus with how she gets she will either be killed, if she was lucky, or she would end up as a prize. If she became a prize, you know what would happen. And Siren'na would of course never back down out of a fight which could get her killed instead of being turned into a prize since her personality is one of a fighter…as for myself, I am more lucky that Mother and Father kept me away from public's' eye very well…but sooner or later my story will also get out, thus my chances of death or slavery will be increased. We are in need of help…so why not enlist these guys. You know Shauatania and the ones who harmed our transportation will eventually find us, and with just the 6 of us, our chances are very slim. Enlisting them would give us some extra pros than the cons can counter. Think about it a little more, having an outside source? Battle Tactic Number 45 having a foreign allied source can increase the goal of victory by 15.5% of a chance." The girl's voice still rang with the sounds of silver chimes at each symbol and there was a strong touch of battle training with her words. She seemed to have trained in ways of War's Battle Strategies…Paul, was again, taken by surprise by the young girl, who could never pass as a Soldier though she spoke with the authority of a Commanding Officer.
"Alright Dra'gona, you win" The one who seemed to the closest in trust with her, the one named Dan and Da'Long, laughed as he patted her head, she looked at him little shocked but still smiled". Then the one with Ruby red hair, Malki'Haiki or Mal spoke "…you three." Mal said, bring the attention of Drew, Paul and Ash to attention to him. "Come with us, resist and we will use force, come along without resistance and you won't have any harm come to you. Simple as that." Drew and Ash followed, as well as Paul, but his mind started again with the over thinking, the girl who just saved him and his brothers from possible death, the girl who got so excited over a fossil and had transformed it into a living egg, the girl who seemed to know war tactics, the girl who looked to be just barely a teenager…was called Dra'gona. Paul thought about the name, it had a strong ring of honor, loyalty, strength but most of all…it sounded different, foreign, and almost…other worldly…
The three teens followed the older guys of the group with the blue haired girl to a deeper part of the forest but it was still not far. Only a few feet, it only seemed far due to the strangely difference of growth of wild grass and greenery less than a few feet away from the river. They had stopped in front of a line after line of ferns that looked to be painful to try to go through. But Mal stood forward and waved his hand once around the front of the ferns, and for some reason the ferns parted, allowing the teens into a strangely crafted terrain. The trees were warped outward slightly to frame out a wondrous looking shape of a clearing. But the trees had no look of being damaged into forming the shape and structure. The grass on the clearing had soft moist moss, a strange kind that seemed to be an ocean green color. Flowers bloomed off in an area where the trees had started to grow strange fruits, none that Ash has ever seen. The area seemed…special…wildlife also seemed to be at relaxed in the cool area. Around the area's borders, the trees seemed to have tunnels of the ferns as if to link locations together. One fern tunnel seemed to travel towards the mountain in the distance, another fern tunnel traveled in the direction towards the grove near the ocean's bay, another fern tunnel seemed to travel into a large mossy spot, it would seem that it led to the broken down transportation the group had spoken of since sounds of sparks and zapping noises sounded from the tunnel. All of the elements of nature in the area seemed to have changed its natural shape of its own will…
"I told her to let me do the wielding…" the ruby haired guy of the group said as he went to the fern to the zapping noises. "Hey, kid! Come out here! And bring Mist!" he called. The zapping and sparking noises stopped before a female voice spoke. "Alright we will be right out! Mist! Their back!" footsteps echoed from the tunnel as if it was on a metal platform.
Then the girl with orange hair and ocean blue eyes came out with the girl that gave Paul and Ash the gems, the one with brown hair and dazzling blue eyes. They came out and saw Dra'gona/Dawn holding a large egg. They smiled and went to congratulate her when they saw the Earthlings standing off to the side with Da'Long/Dan and Ky'Sheer/Kyle. Siren'na/Misty went to the watering pool that was oddly overlooked and took a cloth with real golden trims embedded into the small cloth. She took it into the water and brought it out to wring it as she walked over to the girl who was thought to be May/Minerva. Both of them seemed extremely calm about them being in their well hidden campsite. The brown haired girl gladly took it as she cleaned her hand and upper arms which had splotches of oil, grease, and strange blue glowing ooze. As they stayed quiet and waited for someone to speak, Drew watched the dazzling blue eyed girl, he noticed the oil and grease came off easily but the blue ooze, once it was removed it somehow more started to reappear. In which he too notice she was trying to hide the creepy blue ooze from anyone and everyone by wrapping it up with the cloth. He then realized that if it kept coming out of her arm like that then it could only be one thing…her blood.
"Um…" he didn't know which of the older guys at the area were in closest relation to her but he also didn't want to tell the wrong person seeing as if they were still dangerous, then the injured would be seemed as the weak…he didn't know what their standards were, but he was not about to blab on her injury in case of the worst base type scenario would and could happen…they could attempt to kill her. So he tried to address the person herself. "If you're bleeding…"
"I am fine. It's a flesh wound." She said with a smile. She had spent a little time using some of the remainder of the power in her personal Information Sphere to look up some of the planets pop culture. There she had found something called "Monty Python the Search for the Holy Grail." She had found it rather humorous. Apparently she had been watching it while in the midst of fixing something. Drew laughed a little at what the strange girl that was in front of him.
"You know the Black Knight, gets every limb cut off until it's just his head and torso…" Drew said softly as she stood near him, but in reality she was rather far away. Drew was put in an area to sit around a small ditch with Paul and Ash. The girl was standing to the far left, leaning up against the ferns that seemed to be hiding something large and metal. "Yes he does, but it does not specify that he dies. He could grow back the limbs." She smiled as she got the blue blood to stop.
"Name's Drew, Drew Hayden. The town's mayor's son. What would your name be?" he smiled as he watched her from the spot he was not allowed to leave from. She smiled at him as she giggled. He felt his heart flutter in beat with the musical sounds of the giggle. She looked at him with a dazzling smile that could only match the way her sapphire eyes danced with a cute gleam with the sun's rays shining down. He noticed her hair seemed to also be ruby red at times and in certain areas. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
He watched her poke out a small, pinkish tongue from her lips as she winked at him. He had to fight to keep a blush from forming on his face. What the? My heart beat's way to fast…calm down…breathe…she is just a girl from a travel group… Which means she has no plans on staying near our town or maybe even on our island; she's just a traveler, a normal girl…with the most dazzling sapphire blue eyes, with the most intriguing auburn hair, with the sweetest soft looking pale pink lips….wait this is not helping! Drew snapped back as he caught his eyes and thoughts wonder how they would feel. He counted himself lucky that the girl that had his eyes, some might assume, soon his heart, was now giggling at something, was it him or something she found funny?
Minerva watched him with playfulness in her eyes; she could tell he was struggling with his emotions. With her and her allies enhanced senses from being on a highly advanced planet, not only could she tell but so could the other two princesses AND their brothers. Mal, specifically, was not happy about this interest the green haired Earthling was developing and was not happy about his baby sister's' was reacting to it.
Paul's mind was still within its questions about the blue haired girl that was polishing the large egg with a cloth of a strange yet oddly awesome design. Dawn/Dra'gona was well aware of his confusion and interest in her as she had felt it in her nerves. Her hearing could hear the strange beating coming from the three Earthlings. She was smiling at Minerva/May who gave her a playful wink. The two then moved closer together, which brought the eyes of the green haired teen named Drew and the purple haired teen named Paul on both of them. The brothers were still conversing on a certain subject, but both Mal and Dan were also carefully watching their sister's toy with the Earthlings. They knew that their sisters understood how any life form of a male would feel about them from just meeting them. Etspuna was a world extremely well known for the Royal Families strange case of luck in the female population. The females, Princesses and Queens, always tended to be the best of the best in beauty, intelligence, strength, loyalty, and much more. Their women are of the most desired, of which is why many colonies and of the such would try to make and take them as a prize in more ways than just to look pretty at, in ways that would cause the culprit to be executed for, as the Earth term puts it, kidnapped, forced marriage and finally it continues to rape.
That was the prince's worry, if anyone found out about the big details, if the Earthlings found out about their lineage and rarity…would they act of such as the savages who work their way into the high courts? Dan was almost sure the purple haired Earthling would not do so. He deciphered that the kid was the type to marry the one he loved regardless of what her status was, so he felt a little relieved. But Mal was not even considering the chances of the green haired Earthling as a possible life partner for his sister, in fact he was so certain that he would bet his life on the simple fact of when or if he learned of her Heir Powers, the ability to create Precious Stones and Pure Minerals, his slowly founding love for her would turn into greed for her money. Mal felt sadness straight down his heart to his soul…he knew Minerva or May as it were would never be able to have a happy life now that their Protective Charm was destroyed. And the only way to recreate it is to Master the Spiritual's Sub-class and Summons Sub-class to create the charm. Even then it could fail; it would be all about trial and error.
"So, what are we going to do now? How much do we tell them and…how much do they know?" Mal asked, part of his attention was on the green haired boy who was looking from the corner of his green eyes to watch his sister Minerva/May as she played with her tiger and panther. Mal could feel the sense of fear and worry coming off him, then he realized that the two felines were dangerous to Earthlings. So then, the Earthlings are not the main ruler of the planet, they share it with the wild life…nice to know, but useless for their fate…but new information stated that the green haired Earthling seems to already care for Minerva or May…
"We could just ask what theories they have right now; you know it's a good way to find out about someone. It tells how their mind works." The little sister of Mal said with a happy smiled. Mal sighed deeply, that was his sister, always wanting to know how the brain worked. It was strange really, she was the Princess of Stones and Minerals, so she had a lot of dealings with citizens on currency or in Earth terms cash/money matters…why did she and the other two princesses, the Princess of Dragons, Dra'gona/Dawn and the Princess of Aquatics, Siren'na/Misty, care to know so much about the way living beings worked? May wonders about how the brain gives commands such as Fight or Flight. Dawn always wonders about the emotions that everyone feels such as feels of love or hate. Misty wonders about the bodies capabilities for in battle, in the fields, or anywhere else. The Princesses are curious by their nature since they don't exactly have the most knowledge or experience with how the bodies of life forms work…but their brothers do worry that their curiosity would get them in over their heads.
"Alright, let's start with the dark haired kid…you, with the black hair, what do you think you saw?" Mal stated to Ash, who was just sitting their watching the water in the watering pool he was sat near. Ash completely ignored Mal as he watch the water glistened, his eyes were still open but something strange was going on with him. "Hey, I'm talking to you…"
Drew then spoke first, hopefully with the mindset to keep Ash from getting hurt. "He's sleeping." Paul sighed, because he knew it was true. It would be the only explanation as to why he hasn't said anything about wanting something to eat. The orange hair girl, Siren'na/Misty looked at him confused as she spoke up, stating something obvious. "His eyes are opened and he is in the captivity of a potential threat, there is no way he could be asleep." Then to prove Drew's point, Ash let out a soft snore. Misty moved to his sitting area and poked his head. Ash moved very easily onto his side, still in a sitting position, he softly landed on the grass and then repositioned himself to a more comfortable position, still snoring softly. Misty looked at him strangely before she started to chuckle a little and then she laughed a little more.
"He is such a weirdo…" she said as she poked his cheek, no response other than soft snoring. Siren'na/Misty was smiling as she continued to poke his cheek and then she held his nose. Ash's face turned in discomfort and then he groaned a bit as he blinked. He turned his head to Misty, staring at her for a minute as she continued to smile as she removed her hand from holding his nose. Ash groaned as he sat up mumbling something. "Is it time for lunch yet…" Paul and Drew were shocked, they could never get Ash to wake up from his naps, only their 'father' could get him up and they weren't sure on how he always did that.
"Amazing…she actually woke him up…" Drew said softly which was caught by May most of all. The others did hear his little spoken words but could not comprehend what the meaning was, which did not boat well for Mal, since he was all about learning the knowledge and getting to understand it, since he as well could not exactly understand what Drew had said…it did nothing for his mood which was getting worse by the second, both towards the Earthlings developing attraction to the Princesses and the way his sister was catching everything the green haired Earthen was saying, feeling and other sorts. Mal vowed in his mindset that he fully test the Earthen people before he allowed any sort of relationship form between them, plus he would have to set some ground rules.
Minerva/May felt her brothers' uneasiness slowly turning for the worst so she turned towards him and smiled, she could understand why he was feeling that way. The Royal Family they were born in, when that family has a daughter, she becomes a target after she hits 'open season' as the hunters call it. It would be noticeable if she had hit the time mark for when she would be constantly targeted, that of course was many years ago back on Etspuna. So she is currently able to marry….May felt her brother's' feelings become sad, to him having his sister become a bride to any life form, he knew he would lose her, one way or another he would be left by himself… May walked over to him and gently hugged him saying something so simple. "You'll never be alone, okay?"
Drew caught the sight as May pulled away and smiled at her brother. But Drew was still confused on the matter, who was she to him? A wife? A daughter? A sibling? A servant? Drew continued to watch as the older male named Mal sighed and looked towards Ash asking the question again. "What do you think you saw earlier at the river?"
"At the river?" Ash had a look of confusion as he thought about it. "It looked like magic…it was really cool! Are you people a traveling magic group?" Ash started to get excited as he turned towards Misty. "Can you all do awesome magic tricks like that? It's even better than the Star Bound Traveling Circus back when they were still traveling!"
"Star Bound Traveling Circus, what is that?" Misty asked him as she sat in front of him with a smile. Ash's eyes widen in surprise and glee. "Star Bound Traveling Circus or SBTC is a travel group whose goal is to make as many viewers happy! To have the kids laugh and be in awe! They were the best of the best at what they do. They had tight rope walking, fire breathing, a tamer who could tame any animal, and then there was the family of the group! The Ring Master and his assistant, the Madam of Illusions and there was their son the jokester, who was the one who help out anyone in the act. The SBTC was like a big family!" Ash said as he made motions with his hands, he sounded extremely happy as he told someone who didn't not know of them, yet in his eyes there was sadness. Drew and Paul could never figure out why when he would talk about the SBTC he would get so happy and then slightly sad.
Misty on the other hand, being as close as she was, caught the water works in his eyes tear ducts. "You loved them…and they're gone now…" she said with a soft voice as she continued to watch him. "They…were your family…" she said, which shocked Ash, the words of the girl in front of him took off guard so the tears fell out of him eye. But it was a single tear. Just one, but one was enough to let Drew and Paul know why he never talked about his real family. "Yea…SBTC was my home, my family…before they died in the last war zone…" Ash said with very little voice.
"How did it happen?" Misty asked. Ash shook his head as he spoke. "We were traveling on foot back to the beach to where our boat was ported, before we got there, another battle between the two countries…my mom and dad, and everyone else did their best to get everyone back to behind safety lines…a bomb went off prematurely as we got close to the safe zone…I was small…I couldn't run very fast to keep up with everyone but my mom and dad protected me from the blast…everyone was gone when I woke up…the winning side was burying them for the respect they had earned in what we did to keep the civilians, the weak, smiling and laughing…to give them hope so they can do their best to continue living until the war was over. That battle, was the one when the war ended, a side was declared the victor…but every year…when the day of victory is celebrated… all I can do is morn for my families deaths…" Ash looked up and smiled sadly. Misty watched him, or more importantly, his tears. She watched the tears start to try to fall, when she reach over and put one of her fingers under his eye and caught a tear. She held the drop over the watering pool. Her brother Kleal'elno or Kyle as it were softly smiled as he moved over to the pool of water. When Misty dropped the tear in the water, Kyle moved his hand over the water and waved it up once. The water formed the shape of a small water based group; Ash immediately knew who it was. It was the SBTC.
"Hey Kid, long time no see." The Ring Master said… Ash was so confused, he spoke softly. "D-dad? M-mom?" Ash looked at the group as they nodded. Kyle smiled at the Earthling as he spoke. "The magic will wear off in about 10 minutes and then it would be about 24 hours before I can recast it. So make this count okay?" Kyle smiled as he and Misty walked over to the small seating area but within range so the spell doesn't just disappear from the lack of the caster being around.
"Kyle what is wrong with you?" Mal came up to him; his voice was full of confusion on why he just showed off his Spiritual Class along with his Elemental Class. "It just that we know how hard it is to lose family to war. I can not stand by and watch this when I can show him his family. You know the class doesn't work in favor of the user so at least I can help the poor kid out." Kyle stated as he watched the raven haired boy talk with his family. His sister was watching as well with a small smile on her face.
It was peaceful yet they all knew, something had to be done soon for the boys must not know anything else about them.