I have been so out my 39 clue groove and haven't able to get back in! That is when I figured out the best way to do it:

READ THE NEW FREAKIN BOOK!

Needless to say, it took me about three weeks to get the book and I spent a whole whopping afternoon reading that thing. My overview:

Okay, I love that they brought up the ages. I had started to think Dan was getting a little to young for my my taste compared to my age so I found a new love for Ian, because he is exactly my age according to the old series, but when they switched up the ages, Ian is sixteen and Dan is stinkin thirteen! One year and I'm like, "The love is back... There goes Ian, but wait! He's in the book a lot. Yes! Love is back!"

That's basically what I focused on... that and the fact that I really want there to be a Vesper girl like Dan's age to try and get inside his head for information...

NEW IDEA!

Needless to say, I can't use it right now, because I haven't even finished this story. I'm probably going to make this a sequel end or a short trilogy. I'm running out space on my Shelf of Glory. I've alredy had to move Swindle around to fit. The books on it are Maximum Ride, Ricky R's books (kid ones at least), 39 Clues and Swindle. I'm goign to have to move books... Maximum Ride and Swindle will go, but even then there won't be enough room on the shelf! Oh, well. Both series will end when I'm at NYU so... That's like five years... WRITE FASTER.

Anyways, back to story.

11

The two teens ran for what seemed like forever until they found civilization.

Once they were in the hustle and bustle of the crown in the market suare some yards into the city, Jacob and Brooke ducked into and alley panting hard.

"I think," Jacob panted, "we lost them."

"Yeah," Brooke wheezed. "Well, at least we found the city."

"Which city do you think this is?" Brooke and Jacob peered out to look at a sign. Brooke frown.

"I dunno. It's all Greek to me."

Jacob smiled, "That was good. 'It's all Greek to me.' Why didn't I think of that?"

"You're not as cool as me."

Jacob smirked, "Considering I saved you, it wouldn't be good to make insults."

"And exact;y how did you save me?"

"My dearest, do you not remember?" He shook his head. "Tsk, tsk! How awful! You must be horrified to not be able to known how you anrrowly esaped death."

"Hey," Brooke cut in, "it wasn't that narrow, and who wouldn't shut up a minute ago when we were being stalked?"

"Uh... Hercules?"

"No, and everyone knows Hercules was Roman. Heracles was Greek."

"Are we really going to have this conversation here?" Jacob asked. Brooke sighed.

"Right, first things first. We have to find Ian. He can't be far ahead of us. He's probably on his was to Stuttgart right now."

"Then let's go!" Jacob delared. He was two feet out of the alley when he heard something rumble. It was their stomachs.

"How a bout a snack first?" Brooke asked helplessly. "I'm starved." She met him at the end of the alley.

"I'm cool with that... shoot! Get back!"

They moved farther into the alley when brooke finally saw what he was talking about. Two bulky men in black were coming out of the foliage at the other side of the street.

"They're no doubt looking for you," Brooke said. Jacob just turned around and started to walk to the other end of the alley. Brooke was about to follow suit when she saw a small flicker of movement behind the men. She saw a snag of brown hair and then nothing.

"Lex, c'mon!" Jacob called.

She snapped out of her tance and followed him. He was satring up at a wall. It was two stories tall.

"Who's ready for parkour?" he sing-songed.

"Not me," brooke replied trying to figure out what she just saw. "I got a C in parkour."

"Better than me. I got a D."

"How did you get a D?"

"I ran into a wall and fell into a pile of mud," he said slowly.

"Ouch!"

"What about you?"

"I argued on how there was a better route on how to get to the other side of the course. Robert Starling was very mad at me."

"Stupid," he muttered playfully. Then, Jacob became serious and started to think of a way to get up the wall.

It was mud dried wall with about a meter distance between the two shops. Small crates were lined up along the wall.

"How about I lift you up," Jacob said. "And then you can haul me up."

"or we could make stairs with the boxes."

"Well, it you want to take the easy way then..."

Soon, they both had stacked up the bokes to form a staircase suitable to put weight on and were at the top of the stores in not time.

"Whoa!" Brooke said. Jacob whistled.

"Wahet a view."

The view indeed was spectacular. You could see for miles all around ancient and modern architecture and deveopement. In the deistance, a building caught Brooke's eye.

"We're in Athens," she said fianlly. She pointed to the building. "See that builing donw there?"

"The one that looks old and is falling apart, yet has lovely features that I can see for miles?"

"Yes," brooke said heistantly. No normal person gave that kind of desccription, but then again, she was not the person to be thinking that after the things she had been through the past day and a half.

"So, what's up with it?"

"That's the Parthenon. Temple to Athena; constructed in Athens Greece."

"Good to know," Jacond said absentmindedly. "How are we goign to find your friend in this city. In this continent! He could be anywhere by now."

"Well, if I could find a computer, then I can find his watch or at least find a headquarters around here comewhere. There has to be one. I'm pretty sure it would either be a Janus one or an Originals one. Hopefully there is one though."

"There has to be," Jacob said. He stopped for a moment and sniffed the air. "Do you smell that?"

he sniffed some more. "It smells like... gyros."

Jacob sounded a little wistful, so Brooke decided to give it a try. She smelled it alright. It was close wherever it was. It was a nice aroma that made her mouth water. She was hungry.

"Let's find it. We were goign to get something to eat weren't we."

"Yeah, let's get away from here and into the city more. I don't think I'm fond of the woods any more. I want to be near the water again."

Brooke nodded. She wanted to be in Germany away from this area for a while. At least until her nerves calmed down. She's been strung since the breakout. Scratch that. She'd been strung since her first kidnapping!

"Yeah, I'll agree with that."

...

It had been half a day since Dan had arrived in Athens, and he would be having a pretty good search goign on if he could find them. Of course, he hasn't so his day wasn't goign good so far.

I wonder how Amy's doing, being locked up in Stuttgart all alone, Dan thought as he walked through the streets.

Occaisionally he caught glimpses of what he thought was brooke and Ian, but then realized it wasn't. After it happneing three times, it got annoying, but he still traversed along the way.

He had his new super-cool Ekaterinan watch on taker mode. So far, he hadn't had a good relaionship with it's map because it had made him run into walls four too many time, but now he thought he had gotten the hang of it. There was not a single thing showing up except his own white dot. Every dot was color coordinated with a branch color. Apparently, the originlas were white. He asumed the Madrigals were black.

Sighing, Dan crossed the street searching for any sign of Brooke or Ian. He needed something.

After an hour, he lost hope. It was about five in the afternoon, and there was no sign of them anywhere.

He turned around to go back to the hotel he was staying at when a beep was heard from his watch. Dan took a look, and he froze in his tracks. A yellow dot had picked up, and it was directly in front of him.

Dan looked up and caught eyes with Ian Kabra, and he about fainted on the spot.

Egh! It's too short, but I have little battery life left...