Three:

The Things That Don't Make Any Sense

Things don't make sense. I wish they did. Am I cursed?

"Sophie! Sophie, wake up!"

What happened? Sophie looked up to see a boy with short dark brown hair standing over her, shaking her shoulders. Who is he? Sophie's eyes widened with shock. What happened to Josh? Where is he? …Where am I?

"Sophie! Thank goodness you're awake," the brown-haired boy said with relief.

Sophie sat up at what looked like one of those white hospital beds. A green curtain separated a little area that was surrounding Sophie from what sounded like a section of a hospital.

Feeling dizzy, Sophie put her hand on her forehead…which was bandaged? In panic, Sophie's half-asleep eyes darted around the room, searching for an exit. The brown-haired by watched her with cautious eyes from a plastic blue chair next to the bed. Sophie started to get more and more flustered as she couldn't find an exit without having to go through the brown-haired boy. Looking down, she saw multiple tubes and wires attached to her body. What are these doing here? Get them off.

"Get them off," Sophie whispered quietly.

"Sophie, what's wrong?" the brown-haired boy rushed to her side with a concerned look on his face.

"Get them off," Sophie repeated a little bit louder.

"Huh?" The boy was completely caught off guard as Sophie started to shake as her hands clutched the tube closest to her heart.

"Get them off." Sophie somehow managed to find her full voice in this eerie white hospital.

"Sophie," the boy put his hand on Sophie's shoulder, "are you ok?"

"Let go of me," irritated, Sophie brushed the boy's hand off. "Who are you anyways?"

The boy held onto Sophie's arm in concern. "Are you sure you're ok Sophie? It's me, Daniel?"

"Daniel?" Sophie questioned warily.

"Yes," the boy insisted, "it is me, your brother Daniel."

Ok, Bast can do delivery, but why the hell is she doing pick-up?

"Sorry about this Bast," Sadie said apologetically.

"Yeah, whatever," Bast grumbled under her breath.

Cater glanced behind his back to see the four weird godlings running behind him. He glanced over at Sadie, who ran next to him on his right, and Bast, who ran next to him on his left while carrying the semi-conscious godling. That godling, Carter thought, created fire without using neither a spell nor a wand. All he did was snap his fingers! Who is he…?

"Do you think Leo will be ok?" the girl with her hair in a braid asked as they ran.

"Yeah, I think he's just passed out 'cause he used to much energy to make such a big fire," the girl with straight brown hair explained.

"Or he could just be hungry," the blonde-haired boy suggested, which resulted in him receiving glares from the two girls.

"Since when have you become a mini-Leo?" the girl with the braids grumbled.

"Huh?"

"Never mind."

"C'mon guys, up here!" Carter called down to them from the stairs leading up to the Cairo Airport.

Quite frankly, they were probably all relieved the moment they stepped out of the First Gnome.

*SLAP!*

Fang and Maya were pushed across the room as Kate stood trembling between them.

"Wha-what the hell do you two think you're doing?" Kate asked quietly with anger in her shaking voice. Maya slowly reached up and touched the dark bruise that was forming where Kate had slapped her and Fang in their faces.

"What kind of group is this? This wasn't what I signed up for."

"Kate's right," Star commented as she got up from her seat, "you guys are acting like complete assholes. Fang! You should be leading this group which includes keeping no secrets. Maya! Stop the dramatic love-life act 'cause it isn't going to get you anywhere in life…!"

"…Also, if you to two have some kind of love relationship where you're trying to prove your love and worth to each other…" Kate added.

"…THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO BE DOING IT, IDIOTS!" Kate and Star screamed at them.

"Ratchet?" Maya asked hopefully.

"Ya know Mia," Ratchet started.

"It's Maya," she grumbled.

"the girl Max is soooo much hotter. Yo Fang, this is cool and all, but with a babe like Max kick'n ass, I would much rather join her group." Fang's jaw practically dropped out of his mouth at this point.

"I agree," Kate said, "besides, I couldn't really stand Maya that much anyways."

And with that, Kate, Star, and Ratchet left. Fang held his breath as a blanket of quietness settled over the hotel room. From this moment on, he was down to two members of his gang, with no worthy replacements. Of course he could always go onto his blog and ask for more volunteers, but would it really be worth it to get more people involved? Besides, Maya had been the only problem for Fang's group from the start. All he had left to rely on is starfish boy.

"So, what's it like to be in love?" Starfish boy asked shyly. Fang and Maya groaned; there was no turning back for any of them now.