"A Amar?" Ferrin exclaimed.
"The creature in the lake gave it to me." Kendra said.
"I need to speak to Kendra, alone." Drake said.
"Ok?" Kendra followed Drake back to the cliff.
"You remember what I told you when we were here yesterday?" Drake asked.
"Yeah, the stuff about how important life is."
"Now that you have a Amar you will come back to life at this age every time you die. I come back close to the age you do."
"Cool. Why did you have to pull me away from everyone else?"
"Because it would've been weird in front of them."
"What would be weird?"
"This," He leaned in and kissed her gently. She was surprised, happy, and confused. It lasted about half a minute. She pulled out of it, with fear that it was a test to see how long she would let it happen.
"Why did you do that?"
"I really like you, when I kissed you the first time, I knew. Then my Amar grew back and if I was going to live longer than you, I didn't want to fall in love with you. Now you have a Amar and we can both live together till our Amars fail."
"Why didn't you at least tell me?"
"I didn't want to give you false hope." Drake said. Kendra sighed. "Whats wrong?" He asked.
"Im going to have to tell Seth." Kendra muttered. Drake laughed. "No seriously, im going to have to tell Seth, he's going to ask."
"Sorry, i'll watch from a distance." Drake held back another laugh. Kendra followed him back to the camp and found Seth setting up a tent for himself.
"Seth?" Kendra asked, knowing what was going to happen.
"What? Wait, could you help me with this?"
"Sure." Kendra was glad for the interruption. She helped him finish his tent. It was pretty large. The went in and put some stuff in it. They sat on the floor.
"Whats up?" Seth asked. Shadows moved behind Seth outside the tent. Kendra could tell it was Drake.
"Its Drake."
"Oh, what did he do? You guys went into the woods and I actually got creeped out for a second."
"We went to a little cliff. Its where we kissed the first time."
"The first time? As in, there is more?"
"That's what happened. He told me he liked me." Kendra said, trying to stay calm.
"Drake and Kendra sitting on a cliff, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Seth yelled.
"Seth! Shut up!" Kendra said, knowing that Drake was sitting on the other side of the thin wall. A small laugh came from the other side of the wall but Seth must've not noticed. Seth stood up and picked up a sack full of water. He drank it and placed it back on the small fold-up table they had set up. He bolted outside and ran to where Drake was before Kendra could blink. She followed him and watched as he stood in front of Drake.
"Hi." Drake said.
"Hello." Seth said. "We are going to get along well." Seth reached out his hand and Drake shook it. The sun was on its way down. Seth started to fade into the shadow as his abilities started to activate.
"Cool." Drake whispered.
A/N : This is really short because I wanted to make what happened with Seth while he was away so, here it is, hope you enjoy!
Seth watched Drake catch Kendra, he hated doing that. He felt like he was ignoring her last wish of him not being stupid. He tried to stay calm. A hand was placed on his shoulder. He turned to see Galloran and Jasher behind him.
"We will be leaving before the other group does, so we are mounting up now." Jasher said.
"Ok." Seth walked over to the horse he was going to be riding. He climbed on and watched everyone else get ready to leave. He smiled as he watched Jason say goodbye to Rachel. It was so gross but Seth felt, weird. He let his horse follow Galloran's horse. Ferrin told him that Galloran and Jasher had switched groups because of Kendra's worry for him. Seth was worried that he would never see her again but he had hope. He could see Drake with the knocked-out Kendra on a horse, starting down their trail. He let his horse lead the way and forgot entirely that he was riding. He grew really bored, really fast.
"Need somebody to talk too?" Aram asked.
"Yes! Im so bored!" Seth yelled.
"We didn't want Kendra to know but we are on another mission."
"Why couldn't Kendra know?"
"She may let her emotions cloud her judgement." The tiny Aram said. Seth wanted to burst out laughing but he promised Kendra that he wouldn't be stupid.
"What is this mission?" Seth asked, ignoring how cute and tiny Aram was on the horse he was riding.
"Its Bracken."
"What about him?"
"He's here."
"How?"
"He didn't say, he is contacting Kendra whenever she sleeps. He is trying to slowly convince her that she is in the fairy kingdom. He is also going to convince her that her grandparents are alive. He may also try and keep her with him to try and make her pull away."
"Why would he do that to her? I thought he loved her?"
"He does, he is trying to keep her emotions in tact. If she figures out her Grandparents are dead-"
"They're dead?" Seth asked.
"Unfortunately, according to Bracken at least. He is the only one that can reach both worlds."
"I cant let you keep this from Kendra." Seth said.
"Into the woods!" Nedwin yelled from ahead.
"What's wrong?" Galloran asked.
"To meet Jason and Seth's term "Zombies" They're here!" Nedwin yelled.
"You weren't infected?"
"No, but we need to get into the woods right now!" Nedwin yelled.
"Nedwin, take Seth, Jason, Corrinne, and Aram into the woods. Don't let them come back!" Tark yelled.
"Father!" Corrinne yelled as Jason grabbed her arm and led her to the forest.
"Go Corrinne!" Galloran said as his awesome sword was unsheathed. Aram reached the forest first, for a short man, he was extremely fast. Seth was there next, then Jason, he would have been there sooner but he had to pull Corrinne who was surprisingly strong. Nedwin arrived last but he stayed behind purposely. Nedwin had grabbed two horses, he let the rest stand by the forest so if the others made it the horses would be near by. They ran in the forest for a while. It got really dark and Seth faded away into the darkness. Aram lit a torch and handed it to Seth. Aram was about to transform. He went a few yards away from the group. Seth came as close as he dared. Aram grew, it looked painful almost. Seth couldn't help but stifle a laugh. He could only imagine how funny it would be at daybreak. He tried to think of Kendra and how she told him not to be stupid, not to laugh. After that it was easy to stifle the laughter. What if he killed her when he knocked her out? He hadn't even considered it. He pushed the thought away when Corrinne walked up to him.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"No, I just left my father to fight zombies when he is already weak from contacting Kendra-" Corrinne cut herself off.
"Galloran contacted Kendra?"
"She somehow managed to talk over long distance. My father is worried that she may have hurt herself doing it though."
"Did she say she was ok? I have to know. I really cant live with myself without knowing. When we were at Fablehaven it was all fun and games. Now, there's more than a big chance that I'll never see her again."
"She's fine. She was worried about you mostly. We must hope to see everyone again." Corrinne said. Seth started walking deeper into the woods. Corrinne followed.
"Galloran will be ok." Seth said.
"So will Kendra."
"I hope." Seth stopped at a small river. There was a boat, large enough for the now smaller group to fit in, even Aram.
"We should get the others." Corrinne said. Seth looked around.
"Corrinne,"
"Yeah?"
"Don't, move."
"Why?"
"You cant see them?" Seth asked. There were hundreds of hooded figures surrounding them.
"See who?"
"Ok, we need to warn the others without making too much noise." Seth whispered. He walked very slowly towards Corrinne and gabbed her arm gently.
"What are you doing?"
"You cant see them but there's hooded figures surrounding us. I'm about to speak a different language to them, don't make any sudden movements, stay calm." Seth whispered. Corrinne didn't seem to believe him but she listened anyway. Seth told them to let him and Corrinne through. They made a opening. Seth walked though and held Corrinne's arm to make sure they didn't take her silently or forcefully. He walked back to the camp. The figures didn't seem to follow.
"We found a boat that can take us across a nearby river." Corrinne said once Seth let go of her arm.
"Lets go then! Pack-" Nedwin stopped. Seth could see the hooded figures grabbing everyone. Nobody else could see them? He walked over to Corrinne and kicked one of the figures next to her.
"Told you! Now, can you see them yet?"
"No." Corrinne whispered. Seth cut another of the men with his sword.
"They took everyone else. They don't want to come near me." Seth whispered. A man gabbed his mouth and not too long after one grabbed Corrinne. Everything went black.
Seth woke up on a stone floor. Everyone was already awake, other than Aram.
"They made sure Aram stayed asleep." Corrinne said. She was right there was a hooded figure in the corner holding needles.
"Can anyone else see them?" Seth asked.
"No." Nedwin said.
"We need to get out of here." Jason said.
"They have to listen to me." Seth said.
"Why?" Jason asked.
"I'm a shadow charmer. I can turn invisible in the shadows and speak all the languages of dark beings. I have other powers that I don't know about yet."
"Useful." Nedwin said.
"Talk to them." Corrinne said. Seth spoke to the man in the corner and ordered him to let them go and get them out of here as silent and fast as possible. It listened. Why had they taken them in the first place?
"Follow me." Seth said. He tried to ask the man to make himself visible to the others but the hooded figure shook his head. Seth didn't want to push the man too hard. Everyone followed Seth until they reached the outside area. There was a fire nearby, or at least smoke. It was morning already. Corrinne took him away from everyone else.
"Thank you." She said. Almost as if someone made her say it.
"For what?" Seth asked.
"Youi could have held back the shadows for someone else. You helped me." She kissed him and walked back to the rest of the small group. Seth almost melted. He walked back to everyone else.
"Jason and Seth should go ahead." The Shadow figure said. Seth jumped at the kindness in his voice. Everyone else did too. Could they see him now.
"Woah." Aram said.
"Looks like a Lurker." Jason said, annoyed. He must have had a bad experience with Lurkers.
"Why?" Nedwin asked.
"I everyone went it would be too much of a fuss. Tomorrow morning the rest of you will join Jason and Seth." The Shadow said.
"What's your name?" Seth asked, tired of calling him shadow in his head.
"Morrow." He replied.
"I guess we should go." Jason said. Seth followed Jason to the camp.
That is Seth's bit of fun. Hope you liked it!
Kendra watched Seth fade.
"Corrinne?" Rachel yelled. Kendra raced to where Rachel was a looked around, Corrinne , Nedwin, and Aram were standing there. Seth appeared next to Corrinne.
"Hi, guys." Nedwin said.
