We stood on the snowy rocks, staring into the valley. The cave was well-hidden, you'd have to know it's there to see it. I looked at Sam's watch. Henri wouldn't even be heading home for another few hours. We might have taken his GMC Off-Road and driven to Eureka. Maybe. That wasn't even an issue. What mattered was that me, Sam, Emmett and Eight were about to walk into a Mog deathtrap.

Daurin had found Eight 3 weeks ago, 2 days after we'd promised Henri we wouldn't come looking for the Mog cave. She was beautiful. Hispanic looking, almost. She had tan skin, brilliant emerald eyes, and pouty lips. She looked like a softer version of Emmett, only her straight, black hair fell to her shoulders. Eight was a good 4 inches taller than me, standing at about "5'9", which meant, whoopee, I was still the shortest.

"I can't believe we're about to do this." She whispered, flashing me a perfect smile. I nodded in agreement, wearing a nervous grin instead.

*Eight

They found me in Peru, running from those hideous alien things. I would've died too, if they'd been a second later. I don't have a story. Not one I'd like to share, anyway. My Cepan, Adelina, died when I was 14. That was the day my first Legacy came. Invisibility. I grinned to myself, remembering the first time I'd used it-but that's another story.

Dammit, Marina. No more. I thought quietly to myself. I looked to the people next to me. These were my friends. My family. Sophia-strikingly beautiful, I was at least half a foot taller than her, and was still less brave than she was. Emmett-probably the strongest out of all of us, guaranteed an Elder, and Sam-the bravest human I knew, not to mention the cutest.

These were the people I had to protect. The people I couldn't be secretive with, like I usually was.

"Listen, I can only keep us invisible if we all hold hands, or else we'll need this." I popped the lock of my Chest open and pulled out the Lesius stone. I shoved the Chest under some snow.

"What the hell is that?" Sam asked. I reminded myself he was just anxious and ignored his snappy attitude. I pressed the yellow stone to my forehead.

"Lesius. The second you touch this, you'll have my Legacy for an hour."

"You can do that?" I laughed at Sam's expression. "Man, I hate being human."

"Hey!" Sophia jabbed.

"Soph, we don't know what the hell you are."

We all gave a soft, nervous laugh, but soon everyone was quiet again. We were scared. Very scared.

"We have to do this, don't we?" she asked softly. It wasn't really a question. We'd come too far for that to be the case. We'd stolen Henri's car, driven for hours. This is what we had to do. I held out my hand, and Sam took it, Sophia taking his and Emmett hers. We were invisible within the second.

Sam's grip tightened as we entered the cave. There were tunnels. A thousand of them.

"It'll take years to find anything in this place." Sam whispered.

"Sophia, which way?"

"Up 3 and go left."

We went, and I realized why she'd decided to go this way. Down the right hallway, a loud groan followed by howls echoed off the stone walls. Hellhounds. Scurrying down more tunnels and opening doors, I was always able to hear our fearful beating hearts. We passed Mogadorian after Mogadorian, none of them ever picking up our scent. They looked…normal, almost. Laughing, sweating, working. One almost tripped into this river of green lava, even stopping and looking around to make sure no one saw.

After some time, Sam yanked on my hand. We all pressed out backs flat against the wall as a group of Mogs marched by in army attire. Combaters. I'd had my fair share of those-the ones trained to kill.

"We're running out of time!"

"We're running in circles, that's what the fuck we're doing."

"Here," Sophia cut in, rummaging through her backpack. She ripped a piece of duct tape off the wall. "If we see this again, we'll know we've been here and go the other way."

"Great."

"Leave her alone, Sam." I hissed.

"Look princess, don't start with me alright I already-ow!" I stepped on his foot hard, causing him to bump into Emmett, who bumped into Sophia. The roll of duct tape became visible as it rolled out of her hands and into the foot of a Combater.

A hush fell over us as the soldier stepped out of line, staring right in our direction. It stared through us, narrowing it's eyes as if it knew we were there. Sophia scurried us along the wall and in between a row of shelves filled with colorful glass jars.

"Guys…" Sam whispered. We hushed him. "Guys…" his voice cracked.

"What, Sam?"

"Look."

I narrowed my eyes. I wasn't seeing what I was seeing. No way. Please tell me it was a joke. A sick, Mogadorian joke. There was a hand floating in the jar. Two inches from my face. And a foot in the one next to it. Then a torso in front of Sam, and an arm for Emmett. There were hundreds of them, and we were smack in the middle.

"Sophia, don't get too close." Emmett warned. I could feel Sophia inching towards the sleeping face in front of her.

"Sophia." I wavered. Soph practically had her nose pressed up against the glass, I could feel it.

The eyes snapped open.

Several things happened at once.

Sophia screamed, jumping backwards into the shelves behind us, several jars shattering against the ground. Sam let go of my hand to catch however many he could. We were all visible in seconds. Jars shattered, shelves knocked over, Sam and Emmett barely managed to dodge a Blaze that put a crater in the wall behind us.

I grabbed Emmett's arms and flung the Lesius stone to Sam, who caught it and disappeared, Sophia along with him. We had all gone as soon as we came, but they knew we were here.