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Chapter 7: Plight of the Star Children

When Kaytie halfway came to, she found herself inside a machine! Her hands were in the kind of shackles you see on the Power puff girls. They covered her hands and feet.

"HUH?" she suddenly snapped awake. Panicking, she struggled with the shackles. "Where am I?! Raven! Raven! Raven, where are you? What happened? What is this place? Where's my friend?"

Tears flowed softly yet swiftly down her cheeks. "Poor Raven" she remembered. "I sure hope the others find her". She bowed her tiny head.

"Who's Raven?" a voice asked her. Her head popped up. She looked to her right and saw another 5,000-year-old star with red hair in one braid, wearing a green version of Kaytie's outfit (darker shade on the shirt) and green eyes. Her name was Christishinae, (chris tee shin ay) Christy for short. She was shackled, just like Kaytie.

Kaytie gasped, "Christy?! You fell to Earth, too?" "No way" replied Christy "I was pulled to Earth by a machine; this one, in fact". "What?" The two girls were both confused.

"I got pulled down, too!" yelled another girl to Kaytie's left (same age, same shackles) She was black (African-American, whatever!), and her shirt, skirt, sleeves, ribbons and shoes were all the same shade of red. Her hair was in a big bun with 2 curls on each side of her face. This was Kalikimaka (Kali). (Trivia: Kalikimaka means Christmas in Hawaiian!)

"Kali!" Kaytie exclaimed "you too?" "Of course!" shouted a Mexican girl next to Kali with light blue in all of her respective accessories. Her hair was light brown in a ponytail in the middle of the back of her head.

She continued "You didn't think you were the only star he needed, did you?" "Maria Preciosa?" yelled Kaytie "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!"

She looked all around her. Aside from those who had spoken, there was an Indian girl with her hair in a million braids, her outfit in yellow, and a Japanese girl with short hair just below her face and a big purple hairbow with deep purple in her costume, and confusion in her countenance. (Looks kind of like Sailor Saturn)

Kaytie was in a ring of shackled star children! "Don't worry, guys" she reassured her friends ('cause she knew every one of them) "I have friends here on Earth who will save us from that scary guy!"

"Oh, will they?" asked Slade, entering the door below them. Kaytie glared at him "Yes they will! I know they will! Raven's my friend, and she won't let you get away with this!"

The others looked at one another. Preciosa said to the Japanese girl, Toriyama (Tori) "Kaytie's always right".

Slade turned to her and said, "We'll see about that". "Yes, we will!" said Kali. "If a star gives her word on a matter" said Christy, "ye'd be daft to be doubtin' her".

Then she screamed as her shackles shocked her. Her head fell to her chest and she cried softly. "That will be quite enough of that" said Slade "Well, time to get on with the procedure".

Suddenly full of fear, Kaytie cast her tearful eyes to the windowed ceiling. "Raven" she whispered, as the tears fell down her face, "Where are you?"

She bowed her head again. "I'm right here" Raven's voice said above her. She looked up and saw Raven!

Stay tuned, y'all!