Hi guys, I'm still alive, soooo... yeah. I got some really nice reviews in the past few days, so thanks for that! :) Alright, I'm sorry this took so long, but here's your next chapter... Darry's POV!

Darry

Leo stood there, soaking, and spitting water out of his mouth.

"Dude!" he shouted. "What was that for?"

"Soda told me your hair was on fire!" I yelled back at him. Soda looked back and forth between us.

"It was," Sodapop mumbled, looking at his feet.

"Haven't you figured it out by now?" Leo asked quietly, staring at me with his red face. I bet that was from all the anger and emotion he had been going through. His hair was matted down and stuck to his face, and the way he looked at me, with those big brown eyes made him look like a lost puppy stuck in the rain. I shook my head as the others ran into the alleyway, shouting.

"Whoa! Dude, Pony heard Soda tell Darry that your hair was on FIRE!" Two-Bit screamed, probably attracting a lot of attention, though none of us focused on that.

"Um…yeah, what I was gonna tell you is that, err, well, I'm kinda sort of, um, well I'mimmunetofire!" he finally spat it out, then blushed furiously and stared at his feet. I heard what he said, but at the time I thought he was delirious, or maybe even a little bit traumatized from the whole experience. Johnny stepped forward and put an arm around his back.

"C'mon, man, you've had a long day. Let's go to Pony's house and then you can tell us what happened." Johnny said, leading Leo to my truck.

I drove home in silence, but I heard the guys in the back of the truck yapping away. (With the exception of Dally, of course. He sat there with his arms crossed, staring at the side of the road.) In the cab, Pony was staring out the window, obviously deep in thought. Leo sat slumped over between us, he had fallen asleep again, and his head would occasionally loll onto my shoulder.

"Jason, where is she?" I heard Leo mutter in his sleep as his head flopped forward. Pony's head snapped around to look at him.

"Darry, can I tell you something?" He asked me. I rolled my eyes and looked at my kid brother for a second before returning my gaze to the endless road ahead of us.

"You can tell me anything, Ponyboy." I told him, trying to sound trustworthy. He wrung his hands together, just as the guys in the back burst into laughter.

"Well, that night you brought Johnny and I home from the hospital, I had a weird dream." He said. I nodded, not knowing where he was going with this.

"I heard Leo talking, to another boy, his name is Jason." Pony said, and I almost slammed on the brakes out of shock. Leo slumped forward rather fast, and his head hit the dashboard before Pony or I could stop it.

"Whoa!" Pony shouted, and Leo shot upright so fast, it was almost inhuman.

"STOP THE CAR!" he screamed, and I instinctively swerved to the side of the dirty road and slammed on the brakes. Soda, Two-Bit and Steve fell out of the back. I put the truck in park and pushed the door open. Running out to check on the guys, I saw Leo dash out of the driver's side door into the tall grass on the side of the road.

The guys stood up, and brushed themselves off.

"Never again." Soda muttered.

"What'd you do a thing like that for?!" Steve yelled, while Two-Bit grinned like a mad-man.

"Well, Leo told me to stop the truck, very loudly, I might add, so I freaked out! Is everyone okay?" I asked them.

"Yeah, yeah." They grumbled together. I glared at Dally.

"What'd that kid ever do to you?" I asked him, approaching him slowly. I knew Dally ignited quickly. In the background, I saw the other guys fidgeting nervously, and I heard Pony calling Leo. Dally jumped off the bed of the truck, landing gently on the ground.

"He is a child of Hephaestus, he burns things, destroys them. I hate him because he could destroy everything we have, and you are all oblivious to it. As for all the things I know about him, well, let's just say he talks in his sleep too much. 'My poor, poor ship'. Heard him talking about it when I went to get these two," He told us, jabbing a finger at Johnny and Pony, who was inching closer to the brush on the side of the road. "I realized it when he got stuck in that burning church; no one could survive that."

I was shocked; it was like Dally had gone to a library and looked stuff up. I was also confused with the name he had used. Hephaestus, was that Greek mythology? Turning to the guys, I put on a confused face. They shrugged their shoulders, almost in union. I sighed, and looked back at Dally, who had hopped back up on the bed of the truck, and was picking at a scab on his hand.

"Darry, where's Pony?" Soda asked from behind me. I whipped around, a new problem at hand.

"Oh, that kid will be the death of me!" I groaned, running with the gang towards the field of grass. Plunging into it, the grass barely reached over my head, but Pony and Leo would not have trouble hiding in here. We ran, calling out Pony and Leo's names. Suddenly, I heard shouting from my left. Not waiting for the rest of the gang, Soda and I sprinted ahead, yelling for our brother and Leo. Soon, we located the point of the shouting, it was Pony. They were in the middle of a fairly large clearing and most of it was of fire, which was odd because there was no smoke coming off it. Pony was yelling our names and clinging to Leo, whose hair was also on fire. (That proved Dally's theory, for me at least.) Pony ran to us, his arms outstretched for a hug. I embraced him quickly, and then jogged through the middle of the clearing to Leo, who was standing there with his eyes closed and arms raised above his head.

"Um, Leo, your hair is definitely on fire this time." I said cautiously. One of his eyes popped open.

"Shush, I'm trying to concentrate." He said, and I noted that he had a little sense of humor. I raised my hands in surrender and backed away from him and the burning grass. Little by little, Leo brought his hands down, and by the time he was done, the wildfire was completely extinguished. He gave me a goofy, drunken grin that Two-Bit sometimes has.

"Didn't think I could do that." He said, staggering towards me. I ran forward and caught him, just as he collapsed.