Already at the tenth chapter... This is going swimmingly, better than expected. I don't think there is something else you should know, so just enjoy the chapter and please review! I know it's not about the Starkid themselves (minor roles in this, I know) and I'd like to know how you think about this. I don't know how the Team act in real, it's is mostly considering how they react on the situations I give them. I do not own Team Starkid or their productions. Enjoy!

-Vuraangreg

"We'll have our camp here," Richard panted, as he dropped the backpack and almost fell on the ground. They had walked non-stop for at least three hours, and they began to feel it now. Everyone sat down immediately, even the strongest under their group. At some point, Shayne had to carry Luke as well because he was tired. But now, it just seemed like the second Criss-kid had been lazy.

"Who do they got?" Jay asked, of which the loss of Bruce affected her the most. He was her older brother, and now she was scared she would turn into him. She stayed close to Richard, like Iris, seeing him as the safest person around. Shayne and Charley stayed close, and ST gave Luke permission to stay with him, though the Richter didn't trust the Criss-kid. Maurice searched safety with his oldest friend, Claudia. Lyana got to a duo/trio at her choice, choosing the one that needed her the most. At the moment, that was the group of Jay, Richard and her oldest daughter.

"All Saunders, Olive, Delia, Clark, Vanessa and Bruce. I don't know who the next should be, but it seems good to protect Jay as good as possible," Mrs. Greenwood-Criss said. All turned to the woman when she said that.

"I will do that," Iris said, since the two had been best friends since kindergarten, causing Richard to accept the job as well. Luke rolled his eyes, and ST turned his head. At least they had someone they could trust blindly. At least they didn't have to wonder whether to trust them or not. The only ones he truly trusted, were Richard and Charley. But with her overprotective brother, he only trusted Richard.

Many had tried to gain his trust (except for Luke, maybe) but failed anyways. He just… couldn't. It felt wrong somehow, and couldn't tell them why he didn't trust them.

"Alright, now we better rest – today has been a very busy day, and we need to regain strength," Richard said, before searching a nice place to lie.

"Whose time is it for guard duty?" Luke asked, and the answer resulted in him being the guard for this part of the night. everybody fell asleep fastly, and Luke searched a rock to lean on. It was a rock like every rock, so it wa sure he shouldn't fall asleep until it was half past twelve, so he had to stay awake for at least four hours now. He stared at different places, but it was actually quite boring. There was nothing to see, but the trees, the bushes, the small insects crawling all over the ground.

Soon, the black-haired boy found a bug who wouldn't go away from him. He called him Caller, named after the funniest bug in Starship, and just talked to it like it was a friend of his. There was only one problem: he couldn't see the danger coming to that place.

Luke looked straight the trees in front of him, where he heard a branch broke. He stood up, and didn't see Caller already was gone. If Luke was smart enough to figure out why the bug ran away, he surely should run away right now.

In all of a sudden, a fog appeared out of nothing. Soon, Luke couldn't see more than two feet in all directions. And coming with that, he could feel how he grew sleepier every second. When he almost fell asleep, a figure appeared in the fog. Only the contours of him/her, he couldn't see more at the moment. The person made his way forward, and for Luke it was harder and harder to keep his eyes open. I can't fall asleep, he thought, only three hours and a half to go. But time didn't went faster, and the person now almost stood in front of him.

Luke frowned. He knew this man. He knew that face, but he was too tired to know exactly who it was. he tried to remember who it was, but his brains were slowed down. In the other side of the fog, someone was pointing something at him, and behind him someone was doing the same at with the man, but Luke didn't really pay attention to that. This man was, from what he could see, tall so the man was grown-up. He had black hair, and something around his head he forgot the name about. And the facial expression of the man, seemed pretty sad.

"Help ST; he'll need it more than any other," the man said. That voice… Luke was sure he had heard that voice somewhere else before, but he couldn't put his finger on it. If he wasn't that tired, he should've grinned because he knew how ST felt.

ST! that man in front of him had something to do with the boy of which he tried to gain trust. He could figure that out by himself, because he didn't really pay attention to which names the man was using. And he thought of Sweet Tooth, and not of his friend.

"Who are you?" Luke asked whispering. He couldn't whisper any louder, what if he woke up any of his friends? He felt how his eyes closed, and was gone before he could say 'starship'.

Lukes eyes closed before he could hear the answer.

Someone plashed a bunch of water over Lukes face, which woke him up immediately. He opened his eyes and glanced to the first person he saw in front of him: Richard.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" he asked.

"What are you babbling about?" Luke asked, and Richard sighed annoyed.

"I asked you to wake me up when your guard duty was over. You didn't wake me. What has happened?" Luke closed his eyes in an attempt to remember the last thing he saw before he fell asleep. The picture of the man of last night appeared in front of his eyes.

"A man I know," Luke answered after a lot of thinking. Richard raised an eyebrow.

"Who is it?"

"I don't know."

"Then why do you tell me you know him?"

"I haven't directly said that!"

"Yes, you did!"

"Richard, I was sleepy and there as a lot of fog and a man we know, but I couldn't really see him that clear because of the fog all around me, and this man just came walking to me, saying we had to help a sweet tooth, because he needed it most of us, whatever a sweet tooth could use, or something, and I fell asleep before I could hear the name after I asked him who he was, but…"

"What's going on here? People try to sleep!" the voice of an angry Iris was heard over the camp, waking everybody up who was still asleep – so she only woke up ST, because all the others were looking at Richard and Luke's little conversation.

"Sorry, honey," Richard muttered, so only Iris would hear it. he only didn't count Luke hearing it. Luke had an amused smile on his face, to hide his disgust of his sister being in love with that idiotic son of an idiotic Richter. Before Luke could comment, however, he had the bucket (they got a bucket?) thrown against his head, the thrower none other than Richard Richter, his future brother-in-law.

The morning went slowly, and everyone was bored when it was midday. They didn't feel like doing anything that day, so they all had a lazy day that day. It was silent… too silent, if you had to believe Shayne and Richard.

"Where's mom?" Iris suddenly asked. Everybody looked around, but there was no sign of Mrs. Greenwood-Criss. They all went looking for her, but after half an hour, they couldn't find her. And, to make things worse than they already were, Shayne smacked Luke (only one time!) in the face.

"Why'd you that for!?" Luke shouted, angry the young man had smacked him.

"If you didn't fall asleep, she would be here! You idiot!"

"I was sleepy, don't insult me!" Luke said, covering his head for a possible upcoming new attack. Before Shayne could do so, the others stopped them.

"It wasn't Luke's fault," Jay said, keeping Claudia from hurting Shayne because he had hurt Luke. Luke sighed relieved – most of the time, people didn't really believe him. It was nice to know that, even in the darkest times, he had someone to count on.

"Then who did it?" Shayne asked. The answer was pretty simple.

"It was Uncle Joe. He must've done it. He still had some Somni, I guess, and they must've made a gas out of it, and mixed it with the mist. He were probably going after Jay, but got Aunt Lyana instead," Richard said, not-knowing he slightly offended Jay with that. Shayne frowned. This didn't match. How could Richard even know they had Somni, which the group assumed they waist it for ST?

"They could still be here. but we need to be sure of that," Richard said after a long silence, thinking.

"You can sit down here, but I'll go search for my mother," Luke said, still mad on Richard because he had woken him up with water , and ran off the shadows of the forest. He was shortly followed by everyone else, and last of the group to go after the Criss-kid, was… do you know who? That's right! Richard. At some point they could find Luke anymore. Until Luke let hear where he was.

"HELP!" the Criss-kid shouted as loud as he could, and with Richard and Shayne in the lead, they ran in the direction Luke's scream was heard. They found him quite fast, and saw three people surrounding the young boy, as if he was their prey. They were wearing cloaks and their faces were covered, but they knew who they were. Possessed family of theirs.

Richard was the first to react. He recovered first and ran up to the three people, with the plan to grab Luke and drag him away from danger when he and Shayne (he so hoped the oldest Logan would agree) were taking care of their three friends/(so-called) family members. But, like the law of Murphy [A/N or whatever it is named] said, if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. Just like this time, that Murphy-guy was right.

Richard stumbled next to Luke, but fastly stood up, just to get knocked down by one of the people, of which he guessed was his own mother, Amelia Thunders. He moaned before slipping in the unconscious.

ST looked around in the chaos, confused because this was happening. Iris was trying to get her younger brother (ow, she hated to admit they were related!), who hadn't enough power to stand up on his legs, out of trouble. Claudia, Charley and Shayne were teaming-up to get the fittest out of the three down. His brother Richard was knocked down by the second (wo-)man. And Jay was currently losing it over the last person left.

In an impulse, he grabbed the closest branch to him, but hesitated whether he would do it or not while touching it. with Jay's scream he got his answer, got the branch tighter in his hand, ran up to Jay's 'enemy' and hit him/her in the head. The woman (he'd seen the face) fell on the ground, softly smiling at Jay before searching the other two. His three friends could keep the fittest away from the rest for a while, so ST just decided to help his brother out.

He jumped between his brother and their second temporaly enemy, with only a branch to defend himself. It had already proven itself by knocking down one of the woman, of which he vaguely remembered had a relationship with a radio-voice or whoever it was. The person in front of him was prepared, and they watched each other a few seconds before running toward each other.

ST held the branch high, and expected to person in front of him to at least cover his head for the upcoming threat, but instead he revealed her face. Yes, I said 'her'… because it's a woman, obviously. ST stopped the branch in mid-air. He recognized her. Not only from the picture (he already had forgotten all the names they tried to learn him), but he knew her. To say it as a lyric, he had seen her around there before. Not only in face, but also as a mother figure. They were close, he remembered, that close as a mother and her child could be…

Then it hit him. It was his mother. Such a pity he couldn't remember her name, but since when did he even ask for her name anyways? In that moment of hesitation, he could see she fastly get the branch out of his hands. As if she was going to hit him, he defensively covered his head with his arms. But it never came, and ST slowly looked up at his mother. Before turning back into the strict face she had the whole time, it was a concerned face. Like she really worried about her little kid, Darkness or not, and like she was going to be punished…

Then, a scream. He recognized it, though he'd never heard her screaming. The third person, the fittest, had grabbed her wrist and was now fighting to keep her with him. At the other side, was his mother already dragging her oldest son away. When ST saw this, he reacted by running over the person he trusted most, took his hand and pulled to get him back to safety, along with Iris. Richard also had woken up, but still felt somewhat dizzy. He opened his eyes at once.

"Go get Charley," Richard demanded, mentioning he knew what was happening. ST hesitated – letting go on his brother meant helping Charley, but Iris couldn't pull her boyfriend on her own. At the other hand, Charley needed all help now –the person ST had knocked down before already stood up and helped the third one to get Charley away from Maurice, Jay and Shayne.

"But if I do, you'll be…" ST didn't finish, hoping Richard said something else.

"ST, I know how you feel about me, and about her. I think you'll feel safer around her than me. I knew this was going to happen, ST, and I already asked her to take care of you. Just do it. Trust me…" only the last two words could convince his younger brother. These words he had heard a lot over the past days, and it began to irritate ST everyone wanted to trust him. But when it's coming out of the mouth of people he trusted, he didn't mind at all when they were constantly saying it. And, knowing ST, he'd believe Richard when his brother added those two simple words.

So ST slowly let go on his older brother.

Well, I personally hate it to end with a cliffhanger, but for now, I had no other choice. Yes, I had another choice, but my chapters aways have around 2,000 words, and I didn't want to add those 350 more words. (I'm pretty stubborn!) Also, YAGG - I don't know if Shayne actually would do this, but in here he would... I'm sorry if I've written him , the list underneath has changed as well, though it's only Lyana who I dropped out.

Richard Richter (not yet dragged away!), Shayne Logan, Iris Criss, Maurice Daniels, ST Richter, Charley Logan, Luke Criss, Jay Walker, Claudia Stones (This list is made based off the age; Richard's the oldest, and Claudia is the youngest, but not the dumbest)

All the kids, Lyana Greenwood, Amelia Thunders, Maurice Daniels and the Darkness are mine; Charley (and Shayne and Ethan) Logan are created by Your Average Gryffindor Gleek and Claudia Stones by Silentdramaqueen01. I'm currently on weekly updates. Please review; it motivates me to go on with the story...