He had poisoned them. He had poured poison onto his gloves and had touched them with it. Their time was fading and not one of them had the power to activate their power gem. The drowsiness began straight away. He had mentioned something about the defenders. Ivar was out to get their parents. Then darkness fell.
Zsa-Zsa woke up again. There was a soft gentle beeping in the background. She opened her eyes to a white light from where ever they were. She tried to open her eyes the best that should can. It took several attempts but they were opened.
Zsa-Zsa then realised that she was laying on a bed by the looks of her surroundings a hospital bed. How she got here, she would never know. Zsa-Zsa then leaned up and found her fellow Jr defenders still asleep lying on their beds. She lay back down stared and looked around for anything.
She noticed a calendar, Friday 31st January 2032. They had all been out cold for 2 days. Wincing from another one of her friends caught her attention. She scanned the room and saw Danny was trying to wake up.
"Danny." Zsa-Zsa called out, "Try and open your eyes slowly."
"Thanks." Danny replied opening his eyes slowly then leaning up, "Are we in a hospital?"
"Yep, by the looks of it, we've been here 2 days." Zsa-Zsa replied.
"Do you think our parents found us?" Danny asked hopefully.
"No, it wasn't them." Came a soft mumbled from the right of Zsa-Zsa.
"Kyle, my man." Danny greeted smiling, "How are you?"
"Okay." Kyle said waking up, "Best sleep ever."
"We've been out for 2 days." Zsa-Zsa told him, "That drowsy part was clearly working. Anyway how do you know are parents didn't save us?"
"I stayed awake slightly longer than you guys before I did fall asleep however, I heard someone coming." Kyle told them, "They sounded very familiar."
The three awake defenders decided to drop the topic and chat about their current situation. Danny told them about Gildar's phone call in more depth so Zsa-Zsa could analysis it. A few minutes in Jack woke up and Danny filled him in on where they are. Annaka remained asleep.
"Should we check she's alive?" Danny asked after 15 minutes.
"She's alive Danny!" Zsa-Zsa exclaimed, "You do realise that machine measures her heart rate and it looks fine to me."
"Okay, just asking." Danny backed down, "But if she doesn't wake up soon. We're calling a doctor."
Zsa-Zsa rolled her eyes and continued their conversation about what they're going to do now since they can't return back to the castle. They had two options: Run away and hide or fight the enemy. Zsa-Zsa had heard the tales about the time Gildar, Ballista and Kook had to run away from Alwin, of course she thought her mum was just making it up for a bed time story. It wasn't until recently that she realised its significances. Their thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door.
"Hello, I'm Dr Stone." The male doctor greeted, "I've been treating you while you were asleep."
The defenders smiled back as Dr Stone told them about the poison and that curing it was successful. He also told them they were very lucky and they arrived at the hospital just in time.
"Who found us?" Jack asked, "Someone must have brought us here."
"Actually two people found you." The Doctor told them, "They should be coming to see you soon. The women told me she knows Kyle Temple."
Kyle looked up in confusion along with Danny, Zsa-Zsa and Jack. Not many adults knew Kyle that well. Most of them were family members who lived hours away so they wouldn't have found them. Plus Vane and Faetal hadn't been heard from in weeks. It was very unlikely it would be them.
"Also Doctor." Danny piped up before the doctor left, "What about Annaka?"
Dr Stone walked over to Annaka and stared at her for a few seconds, "She should wake up eventually, and she was poisoned more than you four, so her recovery would be longer."
"Thank you." Zsa-Zsa said smiling.
Dr Stone left the Jr defenders to get some rest but none of them listened, instead the topic of Ivar was brought up.
"What if he finds us?" Kyle asked, "He must have realised by now that we're missing. It's been 2 days. He could be searching this hospital for us as we speak."
"The worst thing we can do is panic." Jack told them, "There is CCTV everywhere, they would know if Ivar was going to kill us."
"Plus we can't do anything till sleep beauty over there wakes up." Zsa-Zsa added.
The conversation was interrupted by a knock at the door. The Jr defenders froze. Maybe Kyle was right. Maybe Ivar had found them?
"Come in." Jack stammered a little.
To everyone's surprise it wasn't Ivar. It was their founders.
"I see you guys are awake." Medeva said, "Anyone wants pie. It's your favourite Kyle."
"Medeva!" Kyle exclaimed happily, "It was you who found us?"
"Not just me." She said walking over to him, "Any way I couldn't leave my Godson lying unconscious on the ground or my Nephew."
"How did you find us?" Danny asked happy that it was Medeva.
"Tinky can explain that." Tinkor said walking into view, "You see the university we work at isn't far from that far from the forest. So we decided to have a walk for 30 minutes then go and teach our classes. We were 10 minutes into the forest when Medeva noticed the 5 of you all lying unconscious. I called an ambulance to get you here."
"I'm so glad it was you guys." Kyle said grabbing a piece of Medeva's pie, "We thought it was Ivar."
Medeva and Tinkor froze at that name. It was a name they hadn't heard in a long time.
"Ivar?" Medeva questioned, "He's back."
"He's the reason we're here Aunty Medeva." Jack told her, "He took Annaka and Danny into that forest and two of his disciples Alwin and Banan, I think, kidnapped us three and took us there as well. Why do you know him?"
"Not really but we were involved in the trouble he cause towards Gildar." Tinkor told them.
"What trouble?" Zsa-Zsa asked confused.
Medeva was about to explain but Danny beat her to it, "I'll tell you later."
Jack nodded and was about to ask more questions when Annaka woke up.
"Where am I?" She asked then opened her eyes and found Medeva and Tinkor smiling at her, "Okay, I'm now utterly confused."
Everyone in the room laughed and filled Annaka in on what had happened. Medeva and Tinkor stayed for 20 more minutes then had to leave. Zsa-Zsa asked Dr Stone about the discharge forms. Fortunately Medeva and Tinkor had signed them, so they were free to leave whenever they wanted. The Jr defenders wasted no time; if Ivar was looking for them then they didn't have long.
"Where are going?" Annaka asked when they were on the train.
30 minutes had passed since their discharge. They had been following Jack for the whole time and had not dared ask any questions.
"Home." Jack replied, "We need to find James."
Zsa-Zsa agreed along with Kyle and Annaka but Danny wasn't too sure. Gildar wanted them to leave the castle as soon as, so going back to it wasn't really the best idea. Then again, they hadn't heard from James in a long time so who knows.
A very dull 1 hour and 25 minutes later. The defender stood outside their beloved Castle. Everything was normal. Not a leaf out of place. Jack crept forward and opened the Castle doors. The rest of them followed him through into the main room.
Everything was trashed. Papers were everywhere on the floor, the books were scattered among the ground and the inside door to the living room was off its hinges.
"This was a very bad idea." Zsa-Zsa stated, "We need to find James as soon as."
Jack opened the door down into the control room, well moved it out of the way as again, that door was off its hinges. Jack signalled that they should move down the stairs as quietly as they could. Danny couldn't help but feel that it was all very dramatic.
As Jack reached the door, he pushed it open gently and turned on the lights. The control room wasn't in that much of a state compared to the main room. All of the Jr defenders made their way in and stood around the oval table. The map of Canada was still there.
"Computer!" Jack ordered but there was no response, "Computer?"
Zsa-Zsa walked up to the computer and pulled open, what seemed to be a cupboard, from underneath the computer.
"The wires have been destroyed." Zsa-Zsa stated, "We have no hope of finding James."
"We should get out of here." Annaka said, "Something tells me, that whoever did this is going to come back."
"We have nowhere to go!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Yes, we do." Jack spoke up, "There is somewhere that Ivar doesn't know of."
"Where?" Danny asked.
"The other Castle."
A/N: Hey, hope you enjoyed my chapter. On my profile I'm going to put up the months and year each story has been set in just to make things easier.