Alex lee came round in a dark room, the teenager tried to move but discover he was chained to a wall.
"Your awake" A voice said.
Alex looked up to see the figure of a man standing in the shadows.
"Who are you, what do you want" Alex demanded.
"The rest of this" the man said as a half moon shaped pendent hung down his hand.
Alex immediately felt his neck to find it was indeed his pendent the man held.
"What do you mean the rest of it" Alex asked.
"Oh come now Alex, you know very well your friend Josh has the other half around his neck" The man answered.
"You leave Josh out of this" Alex snapped.
The man shook his head.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, you see together the pendants form a key, however there is a 3rd piece which I've been unable to locate, and you Alex going to tell me where it is" The man continued.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Alex answered.
"Then allow me to explain, the pendants fit into the 3rd Piece and form the vault key to the pirate kings treasure," The man added.
Alex looked shocked.
"So you are secret order," Alex said.
The man laughed.
"Not quite, now tell me the location of the final piece of the key and I shall allow you to you can go free," the man offered.
"I don't know where it is," Alex answered.
"And if you did" The man replied.
"Then I probably wouldn't tell you anyway," Alex told him.
"A pity, I guess we'll just have to hope your friend josh is more helpful," The man added.
"No you leave him alone," Alex almost yelled.
"Just like your father, noble to the end" The man said with a smile.
The man then turned and left the room.
The journey to foxily island had been a long one, but Luke and his friends were now on the ferry approaching the island.
"Never gets old seeing home again" Spike told Luke as he looked at the island in the distance.
"How's Josh holding up?" Luke asked.
"Not sure, I think it's hit him pretty hard" Spike replied as nodded in the direction of Josh, who was stood alone on the other side of the ferry.
Luke walked over to him.
"You ok Josh, you hardly said a word since we left oxford" Luke said.
Josh turned to him.
"Just thinking about Alex" Josh answered as he ran his fingers over the half moon pendent which hung around his neck.
"You two must be very close" Luke replied.
Josh nodded.
"He's like a brother" Josh said.
"I know the feeling" Luke continued thinking how he now felt about sky after the events at Serf Systems.
"Thanks for coming back with us Luke, it means a lot" Josh told him.
"Hey it's what friends do," Luke added with a smile.
The ferry soon arrived at the docks and 3 people, who appeared to be in there mid twenties and an older man, greeted Luke the others.
"Josh" The man said as he smiled at him.
"Dad" Josh almost yelled as he hugged him.
"I see you brought some friends with you" Josh's dad continued when he saw Luke followed by Sanjay, Jay and Danny.
"This is Luke, Sanjay and Jay, guys I'd like you to meet my dad Joe and that's James, Rebecca and Zack" Josh introduced.
"Good to meet you all" Joe told Luke, Sanjay and Jay.
"Josh has told us a lot about you" Zack added.
"Nothing bad I hope" Jay replied.
"Any news on Alex" Josh asked.
Rebecca shook her head.
"I'm afraid not, in fact we haven't heard anything Kyle since he left" Rebecca explained.
"Kyle's gone after him," Josh said.
"Couldn't really stop him," Zack answered.
"So that's why spike came instead" Danny replied.
"Good job I did too" Spike said as he joined them.
"You were attacked" James said to Josh.
Josh nodded.
"Yeah but spike soon dealt with them" Josh answered.
"Hey you and Dan took a few of them down as well," Spike continued with a grin.
Spike then turned to James and Rebecca.
"I need to see the council at once, the people who attacked us were defiantly shadow ninjas" Spike told them.
"We'll call a meeting at once," James said.
Rebecca then turned to Joe.
"Joe you would be so kind to get our guests settled in," She added.
"Not at all" Joe answered.
And with that Joe led Luke and the others to his house.
"I get the guest room made up for Jay, but you boys will have to cram in josh's room" Joe explained.
"Don't worry were used to that at uni" Sanjay replied.
Later that day Luke and the others met up with Josh and Danny's friends Nathan, Chris and Lisa at one of the local bars.
"It's weird being in here without Alex with us" Josh said.
"It sure not been the same without him" Chris replied.
"So what happened" Josh asked.
"Well 3 days ago we were all on our way back from a charity night at the youth club" Nathan started.
Foxily Island 3 days ago.
"Well that's the most fun I've had in ages" Alex told his friends.
"The highlight for me was when Max lost that quiz and ended up getting gunged," Lisa said with a grin on his face.
"Now that was funny," Chris replied starting to laugh.
"Yeah he always was a sore loser," Nathan continued.
"You still staying over tonight Nait" Alex asked.
Nathan nodded.
"No way am I sleeping in an empty house?" Nathan answered.
Alex then turned to Chris and Lisa.
"What about you two" he added.
Chris shook his head.
"Dad's got plans tomorrow, and I promised I've have Lisa home by 11" Chris explained.
"Mummy still not trust you then" Nathan said with a wink.
"Nathan" Lisa said as she gave Nathan a playful slap.
The teenagers continued to walk until they headed their separate ways, and Alex and Nathan soon arrived at Alex's house.
That night both boys were woken by a loud crash.
"What's going" Nathan asked.
"Someone's here" Alex replied.
Suddenly the door bust open and something was thrown into the room, the teenagers were blinded by a bright light, Nathan then heard lots of feet running towards them.
"Alex" He called.
But before he got an answer something hit him around the head, Nathan then fell to the ground out cold.
"When I came round the room was empty, and there was no sine of Alex anywhere" Nathan told Luke and the others.
"Sounds like we were lucky" Danny said.
"They attacked you as well" Chris replied.
Josh nodded.
"Spike seems to think they were shadow ninjas," Josh answered.
"But it's been 4 years since we last saw them, what could they possibly want after all this time" Lisa asked.
"Who knows, but if they are involved it isn't good" Josh replied.
Meanwhile two figures stood at the foxily docks.
"The boy has arrived" one of the figures said.
"Good, and the map and codex" the 2nd figure asked.
"Being obtained as we speak" the 1st figure answered.
"Then we must move quickly before our presents here is discovered" the 2nd figure replied.
The first figure nodded.
"I shall give the order at once" he told the other as he left.
The 2nd figure then pulled out a mobile phone and dialled a number.
"Master everything is going as planed" The figure said.
On the other end of the phone a man sat in a darkened room.
"Excellent, bring the boy to me as soon as you have him" the man answered.
"As you wish" the figures voice replied.
"Soon the time will come for me to finally return to foxily and claim what is rightfully mine" the man said.
To Be Continued.
