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Thanks for reading this far, I have actually been working on this story for years, I just finally got the courage to share it. Please read further and review.

Chapter Seven

On Thursday, Star was running home from school to drop off her bag and quickly change for a concert that night. She was going to meet the guys and Kaede by the park so they could go together.

She throws the door open and throws her bag down on the floor, and was just about to yell to Gram that she was home when she heard someone falling in the kitchen. She ran into the kitchen and froze in her tracks. There standing in front of her was her father holding a baseball bat with her Gram on the floor. He started to yell at Gram how she couldn't keep them from him as he lifted the bat to make a swing at Gram. Star ran to her and pushed her out of the way only to receive the blow on her shoulder. Star grabbed Gram and pushed toward the door telling her to get help. Turning back to see the bat coming around for another round Star ducked and rolled away from the man she once called her father.

"Why are you here?" She hissed at him, while balancing out on her feet.

"I am here to see my daughters, but I was told I couldn't. NO ONE TELLS ME IF I CAN SEE MY FAMILY OR NOT!" he yelled while swinging the bat around.

I have to figure out how to disarm him Star thought as she dodged one swing. She wasn't as lucky on the next one as it caught her squarely in the back. Collapsing to the ground, Star rolled away and swept at his feet knocking him down while trying to get her air back. Looking around to make sure Gram was gone, Star got up to try and escape herself.

But her father was too quick recovering, He came lumbering at her, with a punch. Blocking it, she threw one back hitting him squarely in the eye, but he didn't budge. He came at her again this time connecting with his target. Unfocused she fell, not giving her time to respond he started kicking her in the stomach.

For some reason Star found herself thinking about that odd orb she found. Almost out of instinct she called it and found herself covered in a type of armor. As soon as this all happened she was picked up and thrown into the glass patio door leading to the back yard. When she hit the ground she just barely noticed the armor on her before she lost consciousness, the armor fading away at the same time.

The cops ran through the open door into the house. Here they found the perp with a baseball bat in position to hit a young teenage girl lying unconscious with glass laying all around her.

"Freeze!" yelled one cop, "put the bat down." He said while he pointed his gun at the man. The bat clattered on the ground, once the bat was given up, the chief gave the signal for the medics to get to the girl. When the man saw they were heading for the girl he began to threatingly approach the medics. The chief motioned for the cops to subdue him. It took five cops to get him handcuffed and headed out the door. The medics rushed to the side of the beaten girl.

The five boys and Kaede were all waiting at the park waiting for Star to come back so they could go to the concert.

"She's late!" Kento murmured.

"We can't go on without her, she would kill us, You know she could." Cye replied laughing.

Sage who was standing in the back shivered. He was getting a very bad feeling, "Something is wrong." He said.

Ryo looked at him, "What? Something with Star?"

"I don't know, I feel something is wrong."

"Well, let's go to Star's house and check. If nothing is wrong then at least we can leave from her house."

As they approached Star's house they could see and hear and flashing lights and sirens. They all broke out into a run. When they got there they saw Gram sitting in the back of an ambulance being treated. Running up to her Cye asked, "What's the matter? Is Star all right?"

Gram said nothing but looked over to the door where medics were coming out bearing a gurney. Kento gasped as they looked at the moving stretcher being loaded into another ambulance.

"What happened?" Ryo asked.

Tears fell down Grams face as she pointed to a man in a police car and said, "Him." At this time, the medic told the boys that they now needed to take Mrs. Agol to the hospital. Rowen asked if they could come, when the permission was given they piled into the ambulance.

"What do we do now, Mistress?" asked a dark man in the shadows, "I told you we should have taken her as soon as she received the orb."

"Fool," came the cool reply, "There are other steps to the plan that are beyond her getting the orb. While this did bring the armor to her attention, it will set us back."