Chap 4
A new day begins and the gang wakes up to a beautiful morning.
Liz: Good morning baby.
Max: Good morning.
Max and Liz start kissing each other rather passionately and this does not going unnoticed by the others who are just arriving downstairs to join Max and Liz for breakfast.
Kyle: Ugh! They're at it again!
Michael: Can't you two do that some place else.
Kyle: Man, even wild animals don't do it this often.
Just at that moment a chair flew past Kyle's head, he was about to complain but, Liz gave him a glare that could have killed him then and there, in fact if it wasn't for Kyle being half alien and managing to shied himself from any attack Liz gave him, it would have. After breakfast the group cleaned up and started to prepare the restaurant for opening. Everything was pretty engrossed in what they were doing, everyone except Michael that is. Every now and then he'd look towards the stairs looking for Maria hoping she would come downstairs, but every time he looked there was no Maria. This did not go unnoticed by the others who were too looking at the stairs waiting for her to come down too.
Michael: I'll go check on her, she should have been down by now.
Isabel: I don't think that's such a good Idea
Michael: Why?
Isabel: I think you know why
Liz: I'll go I'm the only one who she'd most likely talk to after yesterday she might be more likely to lash out at you guys
Max: Liz is right.
With that Liz leaves and goes up to see Maria. She walks down the hall to her room and knocks on her door but there is no answer. After about a thousand knocks, she decides to go in. To her surprise and dismay there's no Maria, she begins to worry. She checks Maria's private bathroom and the other rooms in the loft that she thinks Maria would have gone she even checks the balcony. But no Maria. Now panicked, Liz races downstairs yelling for the others.
Max: Hey where's the fire.
Liz: She's gone!
Max: Who's gone?
Liz, Maria, Maria's gone!
Ava: Are you sure, she could be on the balcony or something?
Liz: I checked there
Kyle: You checked in her bathroom? She could be having one of her long baths she likes to have?
Liz: Yes! Everywhere… I'm really worried Max.
Michael: We have to find her. I'm gonna drive around.
Isabel: Wait! I'll go with you.
Everyone is worried about Maria. They all search in separate locations. Max and Liz check the gyms where Maria liked to work out, Ava, Kyle and Alex check the Spa's and Michael and Isabel check the hospitals. They meet back at the restaurant each hoping that the other has found her but are deeply saddened to find that neither one has found her.
Meanwhile, back in the alley Maria lay on the ground paralysed. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face. Seeing what they did to her mother was more than she could bare. She was all alone now and felt terrible. She didn't even have her friends, they had betrayed her and she was in so much pain that she wanted to die. She had run out of all hope. Just at that moment another portal opened. She instantly began to panic as the cosmic winds whirled around her. She began to think they had returned to finish off the job. Panic set in as she tried to move but couldn't. The fact still remained she was paralysed. She began to tremble, this was it, she was surly going to die. She made her piece closed her eyes and prepared for the end. But it never came. Instead came a familiar voice. One that she had heard a thousand times in her dreams, each time sounding pleading and urgent. But this time is was full of concern for her not for itself.
Voice: What have they done?
Maria wanted to reply but all she could do was lay there and stare. The figure through the portal stared at her looked into her big brown eyes and formed a connection instantly. He searched her mind and seeing the damage done and healed her. She could finally move, more importantly she could talk.
Maria: Thanks. How did you do that? And who are you?
Voice: I need your help.
Maria: I gathered that. You've begged for it in my dreams enough. Who are you?
Voice: Please… I can't stay here any longer.
Maria: You don't like answering questions much do ya?
Voice: Please. I'll answer all your questions and then some. Just help me.
Maria: Well it's the least I can do; I mean you did save my life and all.
Maria reaches up to take the figures hand and at the same time the voices hand reaches down to take hers. The cosmic winds swirl. She takes the voices hand at that moment the winds begin to swirl faster and faster making it harder to pull the person behind the voice out. She pulls with all her might and out he comes falling on top of her.
Maria: Owwwww.
Man: Dittto
She looks up to see who it is she's just freed from portal and is about to thank him when she looks at his face. Shock washes over her features as she comes to realize who she's just freed.
Maria: you…
A new day begins and the gang wakes up to a beautiful morning.
Liz: Good morning baby.
Max: Good morning.
Max and Liz start kissing each other rather passionately and this does not going unnoticed by the others who are just arriving downstairs to join Max and Liz for breakfast.
Kyle: Ugh! They're at it again!
Michael: Can't you two do that some place else.
Kyle: Man, even wild animals don't do it this often.
Just at that moment a chair flew past Kyle's head, he was about to complain but, Liz gave him a glare that could have killed him then and there, in fact if it wasn't for Kyle being half alien and managing to shied himself from any attack Liz gave him, it would have. After breakfast the group cleaned up and started to prepare the restaurant for opening. Everything was pretty engrossed in what they were doing, everyone except Michael that is. Every now and then he'd look towards the stairs looking for Maria hoping she would come downstairs, but every time he looked there was no Maria. This did not go unnoticed by the others who were too looking at the stairs waiting for her to come down too.
Michael: I'll go check on her, she should have been down by now.
Isabel: I don't think that's such a good Idea
Michael: Why?
Isabel: I think you know why
Liz: I'll go I'm the only one who she'd most likely talk to after yesterday she might be more likely to lash out at you guys
Max: Liz is right.
With that Liz leaves and goes up to see Maria. She walks down the hall to her room and knocks on her door but there is no answer. After about a thousand knocks, she decides to go in. To her surprise and dismay there's no Maria, she begins to worry. She checks Maria's private bathroom and the other rooms in the loft that she thinks Maria would have gone she even checks the balcony. But no Maria. Now panicked, Liz races downstairs yelling for the others.
Max: Hey where's the fire.
Liz: She's gone!
Max: Who's gone?
Liz, Maria, Maria's gone!
Ava: Are you sure, she could be on the balcony or something?
Liz: I checked there
Kyle: You checked in her bathroom? She could be having one of her long baths she likes to have?
Liz: Yes! Everywhere… I'm really worried Max.
Michael: We have to find her. I'm gonna drive around.
Isabel: Wait! I'll go with you.
Everyone is worried about Maria. They all search in separate locations. Max and Liz check the gyms where Maria liked to work out, Ava, Kyle and Alex check the Spa's and Michael and Isabel check the hospitals. They meet back at the restaurant each hoping that the other has found her but are deeply saddened to find that neither one has found her.
Meanwhile, back in the alley Maria lay on the ground paralysed. Tears streamed uncontrollably down her face. Seeing what they did to her mother was more than she could bare. She was all alone now and felt terrible. She didn't even have her friends, they had betrayed her and she was in so much pain that she wanted to die. She had run out of all hope. Just at that moment another portal opened. She instantly began to panic as the cosmic winds whirled around her. She began to think they had returned to finish off the job. Panic set in as she tried to move but couldn't. The fact still remained she was paralysed. She began to tremble, this was it, she was surly going to die. She made her piece closed her eyes and prepared for the end. But it never came. Instead came a familiar voice. One that she had heard a thousand times in her dreams, each time sounding pleading and urgent. But this time is was full of concern for her not for itself.
Voice: What have they done?
Maria wanted to reply but all she could do was lay there and stare. The figure through the portal stared at her looked into her big brown eyes and formed a connection instantly. He searched her mind and seeing the damage done and healed her. She could finally move, more importantly she could talk.
Maria: Thanks. How did you do that? And who are you?
Voice: I need your help.
Maria: I gathered that. You've begged for it in my dreams enough. Who are you?
Voice: Please… I can't stay here any longer.
Maria: You don't like answering questions much do ya?
Voice: Please. I'll answer all your questions and then some. Just help me.
Maria: Well it's the least I can do; I mean you did save my life and all.
Maria reaches up to take the figures hand and at the same time the voices hand reaches down to take hers. The cosmic winds swirl. She takes the voices hand at that moment the winds begin to swirl faster and faster making it harder to pull the person behind the voice out. She pulls with all her might and out he comes falling on top of her.
Maria: Owwwww.
Man: Dittto
She looks up to see who it is she's just freed from portal and is about to thank him when she looks at his face. Shock washes over her features as she comes to realize who she's just freed.
Maria: you…