This chapter explains alot of what's going on in the island, but also has a cliffhanger at the end, please review.
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"Are you sure we should trust her?" Bree asked Sayid as they walked through the jungle, "No, but it is the only lead we've got and hopefully it will be correct"
"It is!" a voice called from behind them, they all turned around to see Locke sitting on a log eating a mango, "Locke! What are you doing here?"
"I came to lead you to the children; that is what you are looking for isn't it?"
"After you ruined Scott's way out of the island, why should we trust you?" Sayid replied angrily, "Because I know where the kids are, I'm willing to help you find them, and besides, Scott got off the island anyhow right?"
"How do you know?" Sayid raised his hand, "I know, because I was there, I saw from the beach how he, Kate, Chloe, Bruce and another two men I didn't recognize got on a ship and sailed away"
"And may I ask what you where doing there?"
"I was getting this!" Locke pulled out a metallic disk with an image of a rose engraved on it, "Tia asked me to take it back to Ben and to make sure that you didn't get lost in the jungle"
"she was working for Ben?" Sayid asked angrily, "No, she had something Ben wanted and was willing to trade it to him"
"Trade it? For what?"
"I don't know, she just asked me to take it to Ben and that he would know what she wants in return"
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"What happened to everyone?" Marissa walked around the empty camp while the men inspected the tents, "they're all empty" Seth said as he exited his tent stuffing something in to his backpack, "So what now?" Sawyer asked looking at Dawson who had taken the role of leader since saved Ryan and Captured Tim.
"I guess we wait"
"I'm afraid that's not possible" a voice spoke, everyone turned around to see a blonde man covering Marissa's mouth and aiming a gun at her head, "Put your guns on the ground and raise you hands!"
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"So why didn't you want Jake and Angel to come with us?" Dean hurried behind Isabel, "Because like your brother, they are special, gifted, which for the time being, is a bad thing if they're on the island"
"Why?" Dean said as he twitched from the pain in his arm, "We should hurry, I think your wrist is broken, we have to get you to Dr. Hou…"
"Don't change the subject! You know something about what's going on here! You know something about the yellow eyed demon! About what's happening to Sam! And you're going to tell me!" Dean blocked her way and raised the handgun with his good hand, "No need for violence" Isabel smiled, "I'll tell you everything, but we must hurry before Sam decides to come after us again"
"Ok!" Dean allowed her and Carmen through, "So what is going on?" he said as he walked behind them, "First of all, the one you call yellow eyes, his name is Azazel, he has taken control of the island's power, begun to harness it for his own evil purpose"
"The island's power?"
"Yes, I'm sure you've noticed that this is no ordinary island, this island gives people extraordinary abilities, like your wrist, it was severely broken, but I'm sure that you can already move your fingers and soon it'll be as if nothing had happened to it"
"If that's going to happen, then why are you taking me to a doctor?" Dean said unwilling to believe what the woman was saying, "because were not taking you to a doctor, we're taking you to Ben, we just needed an excuse for you to come with us"
"Ok, let's pretend I believe you, what's Azazel's evil purpose?"
"Through his manipulation, he brought to the island several of this gifted beings, now if the island does wonders for ordinary people, imagine what it can do for people like your brother; the thing is, that Azazel has taken control of the island and used it's powers to take away the gifts that these people have"
"So why take away their powers?" Dean started to get interested in the story, "To give them back, in exchange for loyalty to him, he's building an army, that is way he brought them here, why he allowed them to survive the crash; to train them, get them stonger"
"If he allowed them to survive, why allow us too? What does his master plan have in store for us common types?"
"He's training them, if you're going to have a target practice, you need targets!"
Dean gulped, "so how does he get them to go "Darkside" like Sam?"
"We all have a dark side, he just looks for the right buttons to push, with that he can make anyone do anything"
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Jason Bourne had taken their weapons and handcuffed them all and now was leading them back to the barracks with a gun pointed at Marissa's head, now all that Dawson, Sawyer, Seth and Ryan could do was obey their captor.
Suddenly they heard a noise in the jungle, Jason rapidly took out a second gun and aimed it at the bushes without moving an inch the gun aimed at Marissa, "Who's there? Show yourself!"
Bourne ducked as Jake suddenly jumped him from behind, but distracted him long enough for Ryan to move Marissa off the way, Bourne turned around to shoot at Jake when Angel suddenly clubbed him from behind, "You guy's all right?"
"Yeah, thanks to you, now we are"
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"We're here!" Locke said as they all walked out of the jungle, and on to a clearing where they could see a large Temple built in to a solid rock wall and covered with vines and tropical plants, "what is this place?" Sayid asked, amazed at the size of the rock building, "Ben's people call it the Temple, I don't really have another name for it, but the word pretty much describes the place"
"Are you certain the children are here?" Sayid said as they neared the temple, "Quite certain!" Ben stepped out of the entrance, "Please come in, you are our guests and you shall be treated as such"
"Why did you take the children?" Sayid raised his gun, "It was necessary, for their protection, as well as yours, I need you all to come here and it was the best way to get you to"
"So now that we're here, will you let us take the children?" Rick asked angrily, "Tell you what, come inside and listen to what I have to say, if by then you still want to take the children back to your camp, I won't stop you, none of us will!"
Sayid looked at the rest of his companions then nodded, "we'll listen to what you have to say, but we're still taking the children!" Everyone begun to follow Ben in to the Temple when Ben stopped them, "Piper, I'm afraid you're going to have to wait outside and accept what your companions decide"
"What? I have two boys in there, why should I stay back?" Ben was about to answer her when Locke walked up to him and whispered a few words then handed him the octagon shaped plate, "Piper! Lock has informed me that Tia believes that you are still protected by the power of three, an thus you are welcome to join us inside"
Everyone looked around puzzled but Piper begun to suspect that this may not be such an ordinary group of people, or an ordinary temple for that matter.
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"Hand's in the air!" Dawson shouted as his group surrounded the two men and the woman sitting around the bonfire in the bunkers, "Wait! Wait!" It's us!" Charlie shouted when he saw the other survivors come at them with guns ready to fire, "Charlie? Clark? Rogue? What are you…?"
"We escaped and captured them; we were waiting for Naomi and Bourne to show up so we could capture them too"
"Bourne? Is that this guy?" Sawyer threw Jason who was still unconscious on to the ground, "Yep, that's him" Rogue recognized him, "where's Naomi?"
"Dead!" Dawson answered calmly, "Locke killed her, stabbed her on the back"
"Ouch, was that necessary? I mean, I know we can't trust them but to kill her?"
"Yeah well, he was trying to warn us, trying to convince us not to call Naomi's boat but of course, we wouldn't listen, now I kind of wish we would have listened to him"
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"What is this place?" Sayid said as they entered the temple through a tight passageway, "It was built by the people that lived on this island long ago" the tunnel begun getting wider until it suddenly opened onto an enormous chamber full of rooms carved in to the stone walls and lit by torches and an opening high on the center of the ceiling, at the far end a waterfall formed a river that exited through an underground tunnel.
"Alex? Alex!" Rick ran towards his son who was standing next to the waterfall, "Dad? Dad!" the child ran towards his father, "Alex! Are you ok? Did they hurt you?"
The child shook his head then looked back to where he had been, Cindy was sitting next to the waterfall as were Leslie and Maia, "No, they just didn't allow us to lave the temple, but other than that they've been really good to us"
"Juliet, you did a good job, I knew I could count on you" Ben walked up to her, "As you can see I took good care of Leslie in your absence, she's made new friends"
"You knew?" Bree asked angrily, "You were working for Ben all along?"
"Yes, we had to find a way to get all of you here without bringing you by force"
"Why?" Sayid asked angrily, "Why do you enjoy toying with us? What about Alexandra? Was she part of your plan?"
"What? What happened to Alexandra?" Ben suddenly asked and Juliet sighed, "she died, she was killed; at first I thought someone found out who she was, but the death was too…evil; it's starting Ben, I don't know who was first, but there's at least one of them now!"
"Then it's three now!" Isabel interrupted as she arrived followed by Dean and Carmen, "What do you mean?" Juliet asked worriedly, "Isley and Sam have both turned, there's three of them!"
"What are you all talking about?" Sayid raised his gun, but Dean lowered it with his hand, "They believe that some of the people from our camp are suddenly going to turn evil and start killing people"
"And you believe them?"
"I don't know what to believe, but something happened to Sam, he's not acting normal, and I'm going to find out why and cure him!"
"There's no cure, he's not sick, he has just accepted what he believes his destiny is!" Isabel walked up to them, "You don't need to believe us, but you should know that the children are safe here, as are you, this temple is protected by an ancient magic"
"Well we're leaving, and the children are leaving with us!"
"No Sayid!" Piper shouted, "If they'll be safe here, then I'm staying with my children"
"So am I" Rick walked up to them, "What? You can't possibly believe what they're saying?"
"I'm afraid I do" Piper said calmly, she didn't dare tell them that she could actually feel the protective magic all over the temple, "As do I"
"Why? They have no proof, they're just making this up! Please, ancient magic?"
"I'm afraid I've had my share of run ins with ancient magic, at least enough to believe them"
"Well I'm going back!" Sayid said angrily, "as am I!" Bree added and they both walked away.
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Charlie explained to the others what they had learned about their prisoners, "Ok, so now what do we do with them?"
"Keep them locked up I suppose" Dawson said as he looked at the four tied up prisoners, "Maybe we should trust the two that claim to be secret agents?" Seth joined the conversation, "Maybe they could help us find a way out of here"
"We'll let Scott decide that when he gets back with the children, in the meantime we should get everyone back to the beach camp or Scott's group will be worried when they get back and find it empty" Dawson said calm but firmly, his tone of voice making it clear that no one was to say otherwise.
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Piper was carrying Chris when she walked up to Ben, she wanted to know how much Ben really knew about her and the power of three, "Excuse me Ben?"
"I'm sorry Piper, I can't talk now!" Ben said as he took a walkie-talkie and raised it up to his mouth, "Have you found Jarra's trail?"
"Confirmed" a voice spoke through the speaker, "Follow them, remember to keep your distance, but aid them incase they run in to Sam, Isley or any other threat"
"You sent someone after them?" Piper asked angrily, "I sent them to protect your friends, kind of liken what your whitelighter should have been doing so you wouldn't end up in this mess!" Ben said impatiently and left.
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Sayid, Bree and Dean were walking through the jungle as the sun begun to set, "So why did you come back with us?" Sayid asked Dean, "I thought you wanted to know how to help your brother?"
"I already know all I need to know"
"So what will we tell everyone?" Bree asked, "they're sure to ask why only three of us came back"
"We'll tell them the truth, Scott and a few others left to try and rescue us, as for Piper and Rick, Ben offered them refuge for them and their children and they accepted"
"And what about Sa…?"
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"Run!" Sayid shouted, several trees begun to fly out of the ground, as they hurried through the jungle, "Over there!" Dean pointed towards a group of Bamboo trees growing close to each other enough to serve as a hiding spot.
"$(&&()&$)&(&)(///&$&"
They all ran into it and remained quiet, waiting for whatever that was chasing them to go away, suddenly everything became quiet and they heard a set of footsteps, slowly walking towards them and then there was a laugh, "Come on? How stupid do you think I am?"
Suddenly a cloud of smoke quickly flew past them, cutting off all the bamboo trees covering them, before them, Sam was looking at them with a devilish smile, "Time to die!" he said as a cloud of black smoke begun to rise from behind him, "Not yet!" a man yelled as he and a woman standing in the distance begun to shoot towards Sam, the black smoke charged at Bree and was about to hit her with full force when one of the bullets hit Sam on the shoulder, the black smoke violently turned around and charged at the two people who continued firing their guns.
The black smoke flew straight at them and just as it was about to hit them they both jumped to evade it, but the smoke rapidly turned around, wrapped itself around the woman's foot and threw her up in to the air, the woman crashed on to a tree then begun to roll down the steep ground leading down to the edge of a cliff; unable to hold on to any of the loose rocks until finally she rolled out the edge and managed to hold on to a branch sticking out at the edge of the cliff.
"Harley!" the man ran down the steep ground, barely able to stop himself from falling over the cliff, he looked down and saw Harley hanging on the dry branch, "Hold on! I'll get you up!" the man shouted.
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told you there was a cliffhanger : )
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