Chapter 5.

"Woe what just happened?" Joel asked baffled by his friend's disappearance.

"Yeah, it's like she was never here."

"They teleported her." Ryan growled slamming a fist into a wall.

"What do you mean they teleported her?" Carter rounded on the other man." How can they teleport? Their demons not."

"When I was with the demons I learned a lot of things and one of them was they could teleport people." Ryan said then tilting his head as if to listen to an inner voice he added. "They had to have some sort of a link to the person though."

"What kind of a link would they have to Dana?" Kelsey asked looking at the newest member of the team.

"The mark on her temple." Carter murmured grimly his mind floating back to the small little circular mark.

"So what, they used that to take her?" Joel asked incredulous

"Yes."

"So the nightmares were just a distraction?" Chad asked, not really directing the question towards anyone.

"Well it made a good diversion." Kelsey replied thoughtfully.

"It also may have been a way to weaken her mental defenses." Captain Mitchell said grimly as Miss Fairweather worked to find the girl in question.

"So now they have a weakened and exhausted Dana and." Carter said stalking over to the computer monitor.

"Man we have to get her back." Joel said and joined Carter and the scientist.

"Do you have any means to track her?" Captain Mitchell asked worriedly.

"Yes there's the data chip in her morpher, if I can just lock on to it." She replied typing even faster trying topic up the signal.

"No, she didn't have it." Ryan said remembering her non-morphed state during the battle. Memories flashed through his mind of his time growing up in the shadow world. At the images of the beatings for disobedience in the beginning, his own worry mounted, he'd not thought about his sisters emotional state or her physically fatigue. Rage surged through him again and he vowed to make everyone of them pay for this, one by one.

"But there has to be a way to get her back." Carter said forcing himself to remain calm as the scientist worked on it.

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She ached, that was the first thing Dana realized as the drowsiness subsided. The second was that she was laying on something hard and she was tied up. Her hands bound together behind her back and her feet together. Then she realized their was dirt beneath her cheek and water seemed to be dripping from somewhere near by. This was definitely not good why was she hear, the last thing she could recall was the nightmare and the fight. Was that it? Had they managed to merge the two? When she remembered the documentation that Ryan had given of his childhood she shuddered she was in real trouble here. Would the guys come for her? Would they even know where to look? Then she remembered she hadn't been wearing her morpher during the battle.

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"Anything?" Carter asked Miss Fairweather, it had been more than 5 hours but from what they could tell there was still no sign of Dana.

"With out her morpher it's hard to even guess where to look." Miss Fairweather.

"They're probably blocking your computers anyway." Captain Mitchell said grimly.

Carter stood there now not saying a word the last few hours he'd spent with Dana flickering through Carter's mind and he felt both pain and anger welling up. They couldn't lose Dana; he couldn't lose her, not now, not when things were finally starting up between them.

"Carter?" A soft voice asked and he found Kelsey standing a few feet away.

"Yeah?"

"She'll be ok," the yellow clad girl sc touching his arm in a means of comfort. "We'll find her and bring her home." She added and he managed a small nod.

"Nothing!" Miss Fairweather said slumping in her seat. "There's not even a trace of her."

"I might have a way to find her!" Ryan said from where he was standing. He'd been thinking it over and although he'd been taught spells they were not as easy for him as Vypra. Still if they could help him from his sister...

"What?" Joel asked wanly.

"I told you that I learned things when I was growing up, well there might be a spell that can help us find her." He then looked to his father. "I'll need a few things."

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"What's lost is lost, what's found is found; spirits call the one blood bound!" Ryan chanted as he added something to a pot in the galley.

"Well?" Joel asked even as Ryun fatigued.

"Shadow to shadow, light to light, help me find this soul tonight!" As he spoke the words the pot's contents churned and he knew something was happening. He just hoped it would work the right way and not turn him into a baboon. "Wind to wind, sand to sand, show me this being where I stand!" He finished and all of the lights Flickered and went out.

"What's going on?" Kelsey asked even as she felt a hand slide into hers. Glancing over she found Chad also watching the newest member of their seam working the magic that might bring them to their missing member. She'd never seen Chad so worried, it was almost like he was her brother. That made her feel bad because she felt as if Dana was a member of her own family. She squeezed his hand and waited.

As the pan began to glow and images began to take shape Ryan almost sighed in relief, until he saw what was happening that is.

TBC

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