Chapter 2: Another day - Another problem

Isaac and Mia lay awake thinking about how much they loved each other, staring up into the beautiful clear sky, until that is they were disturbed by Garret getting up. Garret couldn't help being clumsy and generally annoying at times its who he was and this was one of those occasions that Garret accidentally proved to the others how clumsy he was, he was still half asleep as he got up and went to get a drink and as he went over to get a drink he stepped too close to the camp fire they had lit the previous night setting his leg on fire.

Garret screamed in pain as his leg was burned, waking the others and Mia quickly used douse to put out the flames that were engulfing Garrets right leg. The group were glad they had two mercury adepts with them, especially since Garret had a habit of accidentally setting things on fire which would have been a major problem for the group if Mia and Picard weren't there to put out these fires before they got out of hand.

Garret had always been a bit clumsy and slow witted but to his friends it didn't make a difference. He did set things on fire sometimes but he was a nice person and a strong fighter and these characteristics overshadowed his clumsiness. You are who you are and you cant change that, Garret being the sort of person he was did cause accidents on a regular basis, but the others were used to handling the trouble the accidents got them into so it wasn't really much of a problem for them.

Soon the recently awoken adepts were ready to continue through the forest on their way back to Vale where the adventure had begun. They were hoping to make it to Vale before dusk, and undisrupted the group may have made it to Vale by then.

But what at first looked like a fairly harmless forest contained something more than the just roaming monsters which they had come to expect, something that would make passing through the forest much more dangerous.

The adepts were walking through narrow winding pathways that ran throughout this dense forest. They had been forced into using the pathways because the forest was too dense to travel through directly and the pathways were the only other option available to them. Garret had offered to burn a way through the forest, but the others all thought it was too dangerous because it would be too easy for the fire to become uncontrollable and Mia and Picard didn't want to use up their psynergy trying to stop a forest fire, unless they had to.

Because the forest was so dense it had surprised them more than it normally would have done that there was a gigantic crescent shaped clearing so deep in the forest. Felix who was leading the group through the forest recognised it immediately as Luna, but Felix thought "why would the symbol of Luna be here?" It made no sense; this forest was so dense that they couldn't get through if they didn't stick to the paths, and yet someone had created this clearing in the shape of Luna, there had to be a reason for it being here.

Then Felix's thought process was abruptly interrupted as Ivan who hadn't realised Felix had stopped bumped into the back of Felix.

Normally Ivan would never have made such a mistake but he had other things on his mind that preoccupied him.

Ivan had been on guard duty last night and saw that Isaac hadn't slept so he read Isaacs mind in an attempt to find out what had kept him awake all night. But Isaac had put up a mind block to stop him knowing what he was thinking, which meant that there was something Isaac didn't want him or Sheba to find out. The fact that Isaac was keeping something from him surprised him because they had saved the world together and he had always let him know what he was thinking and gave Ivan the impression that the thing kept secret was personal, but Ivan still wished Isaac trusted him with it.

These thoughts about what could be bothering Isaac had been what distracted Ivan and he and Felix were knocked to the ground as he bumped into him. But what surprised Felix most was that when he turned around to tell Ivan to pay attention to where he was going he saw that one of the adepts wasn't there.

It was Jenna that had disappeared and there was no sign of her anywhere.

The adepts split up to try and find Jenna but after a four hour long search they had not found her or even a clue to her whereabouts and they regrouped in the clearing but now another was missing

"Wait" Isaac shouted to the others as they prepared for another search of the pathways they had not yet checked "Where's Mia?"

Authors note: I would like to thank Lord Cynic for his review of the first chapter of this story. Please review even if you don't like it because if you tell me what you do and don't like about the story I will be able to improve it and make it more enjoyable to read. I will update as soon as I can.