"nrrrrrrrrrrg, I am so bored and sick of this tense atmosphere!!" Cried Lemo as she jumped up from where she was sitting, causing everyone to jump.
"What else can we do, go running blindly through a pitch black forest? Or tramp through like a stampede of rabid monkeys with all our wands shining bright making us an easy target for who ever started this whole mess?" Cheesy said patiently.
"No, but we're not exactly invisible with that wand lit anyway" she replied sulkily, pointing to Andy's wand
"Hey! You wanna be in pitch dark!?" Ambo snapped, aggravated that she hasn't gotten her beauty sleep
"NO!" cried Lotte from where she was believed to be dozing.
A long silence withstood, broken every once and awhile by some groans and muttering from a sleeping Andrew.

Half an hour later there was a rustling in a bush a couple of meters from the clearing where the small group were sitting.
"Mmmmmmm…uh..no….mmmm…RABID MONKIES!! NO!! NOOOO!!" cried Andrew cried as he woke with a start, the rest of the group looked up in alarm, Andy gently stroke Andrew's hair,
"It's okay Andrew, there are no rabid monkeys..." Even as she spoke her voice shook.
Barry jumped up,
"Yeah, but it's something..." He reached to take his wand from his back pocket, to find it wasn't there. He began deperately patting his arse earning disturbed looks from the group, finally Lemo said,
"Barry. Please, stop touching yourself."
Barry turned to face her,
"My wand! It's gone!"
Lemo rolled her eyes,
"You're always losing your wand."
"I didn't lose it! Someone's stolen it!"
Banana raised an eyebrow,
"Oh really who?"
"The rabid monkeys!" Andrew replied groggily.
Everyone threw him an impatiently look, which Andy returned with a glare,
"He's still sleepy!"
Jub cleared her throat nervously from her seat on Don's lap,
"So is anyone...Uh...Going to check out the noise?"
But before any of them could move a voice cried out,
"Oh Le Mark of Dark! Peow!"
The group of teenagers exchanged worried looks before a peacock Blue color streak flew into the sky from a few metres away in the shape of a...
"What the fuck is that?" Don asked.
"It's the Dark Mark!!!" Jub squealed. A scared silence broke over the group, before it was broken by Andrew,
"It looks like their summoning batman?!" Andrew raised an eyebrow.
"Batman?" Lemo asked curiously, "Who is this 'batman'?"
Cheesy was also interested,
"Ooooh he sounds mysterious, can I meet him?"
Andrew shook his head,
"He's just a fictional muggle cartoon hero..."
Cheesy and Lemo looked disappointed.
Andy twisted a lock of Andrew's hair around her finger,
"But then what's that got to do with the sign?"
"Hang on, hang on!!! I'm no genius, but shouldn't we try and get this guy who did the mark?" Lotte suggested.
Wide eyes all around before they jumped up and rushed to the direction...

XXXX

"He's gone, we were too slow to react..." Lotte stated as she kicked a root protruding out of the ground, "We should've acted faster!" To emphasize this she's began walking faster in search of clues. And promptly fell over previously mentioned root.
Banana groaned from ahead,
"Tell me something I don't know..."
Suddenly there came a yell,
"OI! We found something! Err...Someone!"
Lotte struggled to pulled herself up, oblivious ahead of her Banana and Cheesy raced into the darkness,
"We're coming!!!"
"Uhh, Banana? Cheesy? Could you give me a hand?" Only no reply came. Lotte was alone. Well at least she thought she was...

XXXX

"Wanky is a bad house elf! She shouldn't have left him! She should have watched him!" Looking a lot like Cobby with her large tennis ball sized eyes and dirty dishtowel dress.
Andrew stiffled a laughed as the house elf continued to refer to herself, Andy slapped him on the back of the head,
"Dirty mind!" She scowled.
"You should be used to it-"
"Wanky is a failure!!!" The house elf declared as a fresh set of tears streamed down her face. Andrew turned his back and doubled over in a silent laughing fit. Andy slapped him this time on the arse,
"Quit it!!!"
Lemo and Barry on the other hand were comforting the house elf,
"Who should you have watch Wanky?" Barry asked kindly, only a hint of a smile.
"Can we adopt her Barry?!" Lemo asked hopefully, "We could raise as our child! We could be parents! She's so cute! We'd change her name of course but-"
"Lemo, you said house elves are servants..."
Lemo frowned,
"Myes, they are but I want a child!"
"Lemo! You're sixteen years old!" Jub said shocked as she approached the group with Don in tow, "No sign of who cast the mark..." She added, "Where's Lotte, Banana and Cheesy?"
Barry also seemed to agree with Jub,
"Lemo, we can't raise this House elf as our own! She belongs to someoen else!!!"
Lemo pouted,
"But she's so cute!!!"
Wanky sobbed harder, followed by crazy hiccuping.
"Where is Banana, Cheesy and-"
"Present!" Banana and Cheesy called simutanously.
Lemo finally pryed her eyes from Wanky,
"Where's Lotte?"
Banana and Cheesy stopped and looked behind them,
"She's coming." They both stared expectanly behind them into the dark. Lotte didn't emerge from behind the two trees. The twins swapped wide eyed expressions, "She was with us, we swear!" They spoke at the same time."
"Well where is she now?" Andrew asked.
"We don't know..." Banana said quietly.
"Oh great, c'mon Donny Wonny. We'll go look..." Jub said pulling Don over to where Cheesy and Banana had just walked through.
"So will we!" Andrew said grabbing Andy's already wet-with-tears hand,
"I knew something like this would happen! First Sirius, now Lotte! I bet it was the Life Shitter who sent up the mark!"
Andrew shook his head and put his arm around her shoulders,
"We really have to work with how you deal with stress..."

XXXX

Lotte gasped as something grabbed her leg and pulled her into the bush, her scream muffled by the dirt that gathered under her chin as she was dragged. She was yanked and pulled to a upright sitting postion before her mouth was covered by a hand. In panic she struggled until a familar voice spoke,
"Vat thee 'ell are zew doing 'ere?!" A Bolivarian accent demanded.
Lotte's night vision began to clear,
"Vector Slum?!"
"Zess? Do I know zew?"
Lotte shook her head,
"No, but I have a friend who is nuts about you! His name is Andrew, he-"
"Boyfriend?"
"Uhh...No...Just friend. But anyway-"
"Zew didn't ask my quesdron..."
"Uhhh...What was that again?"
"Vat are zew doin' out 'ere by zourself?"
Lotte blushed and thanked god he couldn't see her blushing,
"I tripped on that root over there..."
"Zour bluzzing..."
"I'm what?"
"Bluzzing...Going a red?"
"Oh!" Okay maybe he could see her blushing...Typical.
"Lotte? Lotte...? Can you heeeeeeeeeear meeeeeeeee?!" Lotte heard Andy whisper.
"Andy?!"
She heard a gasp then eager footsteps,
"Where are you?"
"Here. In the bush."
"Sounds kink-" Andrew began before Lotte heard a soft slap of a hand hitting jeans. Then the leaves parted to reveal Andy peering into the bush and her face inches from Slum's wand,
"Zew know Zeez people?" he asked staring at Andy's shocked expression. Lotte soon relised why.
"You guys look awfully cosy in here..." Andrew said also poking his head to peer into the bush. Lotte relised she was sitting on top of the Bolivarian seeker. For the second time that night she flushed crimson.
"Slum was just-"
"Pleez call me, Vector..."
"Well Vector was-"
"OMIGOD IT'S VECTOR SLUM!!! ANDY!!!" Andrew pointed at Vector as though Andy hadn't noticed he was there, "IT VECTOR SLUM!!!" He then proceeded to squeal and jump about. Andy rolled her eyes then called out behind her,
"Over here Banana! Cheesy! We've found her!"
"Can I please, please, please have your autograph?! I am a huge fan!"
Vector stared at him,
"I don't zink zeez is thee time nor place..."
"Drew...He's right..." Andy put her hand out to help Lotte out of the bush, "We've got to get a move on...The others are worried sick..."

(AN: this was written by Ambobo, She is awesome. Recently I had writers block for this story, now I'm going to write the next chapter. If she were here now I would be squeezing her into oblivion, a million thank you's amboboshkins!!!! hugs)