The boy turned around, grinning at the sight of Adam. "Adam!"
They exchanged a brief hug, thankful to be reunited. Adam had to ask though, rather mad, "I thought Asteria had ordered you to protect Alison. So what happened?"
Toxic, who'd expected the question, replied "I'd like to tell you really, but I'd like to only say it once, so can we wait until everyone is here?"
Adam nodded and latched onto Toxic's arm to hold him firm. "Alright. It nearly 6, so we need to go back to the location Asteria sent me."
Toxic nodded and said "Then what are we waiting for?"
With the conversation done, Adam and Toxic sped away to the middle of the forest where several people waited. There was Tabitha, of course, along with J. But then there were faces Adam didn't recognize.
There, standing with Jay, was a boy with a green Mohawk and a girl with glasses and a ponytail along with a boy who didn't bare a shirt.
There was a ragged old woman and a girl with fire standing next to that girl from earlier, Snowflake. But where was his sister and Angel?
"Does somebody want to tell me where my sister is?"
Nobody seemed to have a clue, and that only made Adam all the more nervous. "OK then, who saw her last then?"
No response. This was no good. it was already 6:15. Asteria was always punctual... "Toxic can you scan the nearby areas and see if Asteria is anywhere close to us?"
"I'll try." He used supersonic 3 times before shaking his head. "I can't sense her anywhere."
"Like anywhere nearby?"
"No anywhere at ALL."
"How is this possible? She has to be somewhere!" Adam had begun to panic. First he had been separated from his family with only Angel, then found Asteria, lost Allison, and now lost Asteria?
"I'm not sure. My supersonic should detect her just about everywhere unless she..." Toxic suddenly showed terror and panic in his facial expression.
"Unless she what?!"
"Unless she had gone underwater."
As a fire type, Asteria was extremely vulnerable to water. She could not use any of her fire abilities if doused. If she was underwater, she was basically defenseless and with no ways of attacking or defending.
Adam whirled around, raged, and screamed "EVERYONE. ASTERIA IS IN H2OLIVIA'S TERRITORY!"
Everyone immediately went still then went into defense mode. Its time to go swimming.