Veritas POV

Wait, what? Oh, morning. Goody.

"You guys! Come on, up!" I shouted, lightly tapping everyone on the shoulder to wake up everybody.

I walked over to where Nudge, Angel, and Dani were sleeping.

"Come on, up Dani," I urged.

"Five more minutes," she said, making a gesture for me to go away.

"Get up, before I force you to get your butt up," I said with an edge in my voice.

"Getting up," she said, standing up, "Come on, Nudge, Angel, get up."

I turned around, pleased that my threatening worked, for the time anyways. Max walked up to me.

"Fang's going to go grab some grub from someplace nearby," she explained.

"Sounds good to me," I replied, walking over to sit down at the entrance of the cave letting my legs dangle over the edge. I gazed out into the open air with a surplus of trees surrounding at the bottom.

"What's up? Something bothering you?" Jake asked from behind me, then sitting down next to me.

"No, not really. Kind of. It's complicated." I said, looking at my feet. I then got up and walked over to the cave wall and leaned against it.

"Um, Veritas," he started, "Why are you sinking into the floor?"

WHAT!?!? I looked down. I was sinking into the floor.

"Jake, help me," I begged. He reached out to grab my hands, but his hands went right through mine. I concentrated hard, mentally praying and hoping that I would be raised back up through the cave floor.

Fang landed at the entrance, his mouth opened, he dropped his stuff, and ran over to me.

"Why are you just standing there? Let's help her out!" Fang almost screamed.

"I've tried. It's like she's transparent, except not through sight but touch," he explained.

I felt a push from the bottom of my feet, and suddenly I was standing on the cave floor again. I sighed in relief, and hugged Jake.

"Everything okay here?" Adrian asked, while the rest trailed behind him.

"Did you bring breakfast?" the Gasman asked eagerly.

"Yeah," Fang said, "But right now that's not important. I think Veritas has a new power."