This is the last adventure in Hyde Park

Before we went on to the rest of the safehouses, we checked the greenhouse for Patrick.

Savannah used all her detective skills she learned through the years, searching and searching for clues… luckily, Collie Ba- uh, I mean Lesley found one.

"'Ello. What 'ave we 'ere?" Les said. "I think I found somethin'!"

Savannah quickly ran up to the marleybonean to inspect what he found.

"If I'm right, this is obviously Patrick's backpack."The sorceress looked at the bag with her magnifying glass.

"But that's only a theory!" Heather exclaimed.

"Oh no, it's 'elemental'. Get it!?" Savannah looked at her friends, who had confused faces, "Never mind, I'll stick to 'Brigadoon!' instead. But anyways, if you look at the colors of the backpack, it's black itself but the trim is green, leading to Pat's weird magic. While the symbol, here," She pointed to the button that was used for opening and closing the bag, "Is a brownish-silver color, which represents the Krokonomicon Wizards. That, and that his name is written on here."

"What if… he was kidnapped?!" Mia jumped on Mike's arms.

"Those odds are between absotively and posolutely!"

Suddenly, Michael fainted and fell along with Melissa.

"Hey! Wake up, air head!" she yelled.

"Remote control!" Michael exclaimed after he woke up.

"No time for (can't believe I'm using this) this blatherskite! Let's just go!" Amber yelled at the two.

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Boy, did they have a lot of battles… they even had to run away from one! But anyways… back to Ms Conrail…

"More ambushes…" Conrail mumbled, "Baxter must have the real goods on the O'Learys. No matter, we'll save him."

"I wish I was this enthusiastic," Heather whispered to herself. "And now to break the spirits… who in the wide-wide world of dogs knows where he is?!"

"I've got a bloke who might know where Baxter is."

"Ooooh!" Mia and Michael said.

"Won't part with information nice 'n' easy, tough."

"Awww…"

"I don't condone it, but a spot of the old rough-and-tumble might be in order. Find Willie Marks beyond the garden. Defeat him and he'll tell us what we need to know."

"We're on it, ma'am!" Savannah exclaimed.

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"What a pathetic excuse for an opponent you are, wizards." Willie Marks taunted us.

"I'll show you pathetic!" Mike ran into the battle circle. Mia, Savannah and Amber soon joined in.

"I'll wait for you here! Amber needs to show her true self!" Heather exclaimed.

"Thank you!" Amber said.

The battle was pretty fierce. But we proved ourselves very strong and smart. Sunbirds, Locust Swarms, Trolls and a Blood Bat proved the cat thug to be wrong about us. And man… Amber was fierce!

"Now tell us where Baxter is or there will be more than just Sunbirds!" Amber threatened the thug with her fire scepter. "That, or I'll give you the wet willie!"

"Now why did I go tangling with wizards? All right. You got me. I know where Baxter is. They're keeping him at the old Hyde fraternity house, but you'll never have him. It's locked up tight." Said the O'Leary with a tone of defeat in his voice.

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"Willie said we'd never get Baxter out of the old fraternity house? I know something he doesn't." Ms. Conrail began, "If he's there, the big mucks haven't had a chance to get their claws into him. Great job, Savannah. We'll find him yet. Can't save Baxter if we can't get through the door. As it so happens, I know a few scoundrels who have the right tools."

"Maybe we should leave him be? I'm dead tired…" Mia murmured.

"We can't give up on Baxter now! Defeat the Hooligans around here and pick up some Lockpicks. I won't tell a soul."

"Oh… alright." Mia mumbled.

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After a lot of battles they finally got the lockpicks.

"You managed it, did you? Regular lot of convicts with all these lockpicks, aren't they?"

"Aye, you said it." Savannah replied.

"I have no idea what anyone around here is saying…" Michael whispered to Melissa.

"No time to muck around Take these Lockpicks to the Hyde Fraternity House in the upper left corner of you map," Conrail pointed to a building on the edge of our map. "Find Baxter before the O'Learys know we've found him. Go quickly!"

To be continued…

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Phew… Short, but really intriguing, if I do say so myself, eh? By the way, a poll was made for a list of 'suspects' that'll help the villains. Will you know who it will be?