A/N okay back to Russ…

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Chapter 6

Russ had pushed his way through the crowd and saw Ness standing beside a girl. Dan, following behind him, looked at the poster he had grabbed.

"No doubt about it, that's Paula." Dan informed.

"It looks like Ness has a girl friend. Hehe."

Dan sighed at Russ' comment, "So ar-"

"Russ? Dan? What are you two doing here?"

Russ and Dan looked up to see Ness had noticed them and was standing in front of them."

"Hey Ness, long time no see." To Russ, Dan whispered, "Get up you idiot."

"Hey Ness, looks like you finally found yourself a girlfriend."

Ness and Paula's faces instantly flared up at the thought, "No, no! It's not what you think. I just rescued her, because of the poster. Haha, yeah that's it, the poster."

Russ snickered and full of sarcasm he said, "Yeah that must be it."

As the argument continued Dan walked over to Paula, "So…you have PSI powers too?"

"Ya, I have Freeze alpha and beta, and Fire alpha."

"Ahh, PSI powers would be awesome. Hey I'm working on a devise that can give PSI powers to its wearer. Do you mind it I get a sample of your blood? You too Ness and Russ, can I have a blood sample?"

"I guess."

"Sure…"

"Will it hurt?"

"Nope." Dan opened his pack and pulled out a device that looked like a PHD, but with a needle point at the top. He touched their skin with it and a small red drop went up the needle. It didn't even bleed, "Perfect, thank you."

"What will that do?"

"Well I'm hoping that I will be able to isolate the unique gene that is located in your blood, if I can do that, assuming there is a gene, I may be able to give myself PSI powers, then I'll be of more use to Russ."

"You don't have to do that, even without powers you're still a genius, and with all your gadgets, you important, even without powers, mind you, with powers, you'd be even cooler."

"Thanks, but anyways, we just got here, and," Dan laughed a bit, "We saw one of the missing posters for Paula, and we were just going to save her, but I guess you beat us to it, by a day or so."

"So why are you here?"

"Well, I was in winters, until Russ flew into my window all of a sudden. What happened before that, well, Russ?"

"…No comment."

Growl… "Hmm…I'm hungry. Wanna grab a bit to eat?" Ness asked.

"Yeah!"

They walked to the department store, up the escalator, and to the burger shop. They proceeded in ordering four burgers, and sat down.

"You know, these things have almost no nutritional value…oww!"

"Shut up Dan."

Paula giggled, and Ness laughed. Russ and Ness didn't have much to talk about together because they lived near each other, but Dan and Ness were talking a lot, and Russ and Paula got to know each other too.

"Anyways, we should go."

"Oh ok, well I hope I'll see you again some day soon."

"Maybe you will."

"Dodododo" Dan popped his in from the side.

"…oooookkkkkaaaayyyy."

Russ and Dan walked out of the store, "OH NO!"

"What?" Dan turned to Russ.

"SEAN! We have to hurry! We have to get back to Onett, find him, and get back here before Ness is unprotected for too long!"

"Oh no, you're right, let's go."

"Wait!" Buzz Buzz flew out of Russ' hoodie, "Another ally is in this town Russ, and you must find him."

"Crap…maybe we could split up?" Russ asked, "No…that'd be dumb. Where is this person?"

Buzz Buzz, concentrated for a moment, the park."

"Okay let's hurry." Russ started running.

Dan started running after him. When they got to the park, Russ asked, "Any direction?"

"…There!" He pointed at a girl, about Russ' age, that was sitting under a tree. She was wearing a T-shirt and jeans, with a jacket. Her hair was red, and in a ponytail.

They walked over to her, "Yes? Can I help you?"

"Apparently. You have PSI powers?"

She gasped, "How'd you know? Unlike Paula, I've always been good at hiding it."

"I could sense it." Buzz Buzz said drifting in the air beside Russ, "You must help us. Paula will be in danger if you don't. Ness, Paula, and two others, will defeat Gigyas, but without Russ, Dan, Sean, you, and four others, they will not even get the chance to try, before Gigyas' dark minions defeat them."

"…oh…"

"So, will you join us?"

Ness and Paula walked past them.

"Sure, I always felt like this day would come."

"Great, but we have to run. When I got here, this weird…creature, shot me to Winters and my friend Sean, to Onett."

Russ started running. Dan asked, "How fast can you run?"

The girl replied, "If I'm going to join you, can I at least know your names?"

"Oh, sorry, we're in such a hurry that we forgot. I'm Dan, and that's Russ."

"Pleased to meet you Dan, I'm Paige." They started running after Russ.

After about 5 minutes of running Russ slowed to a walk and the others caught up. By then they were in the forest between Twoson and Onett. As they walked, Russ and Paige got an intense shiver.

"You guys ok?"

Russ looked around, "Something very evil is here. Let's go before it finds Ness."

Sean flew through the air and landed in a soft spot on lookout hill.

"We were defeated so easily! I must learn a new skill if I can be able to defeat us." For hours, he went around fighting snakes, runaway dogs, and spiteful crows until a warmth came over him and a memory unlocked, "…Psi inferno beta…," he breathed.

"I should go meet up with Russ, if he's in Twoson."

Sean ran though Onett until he saw a group of kids walking in his direction. There were two boys, and a girl. One of the boys vaguely resembled his friend, Russ. He squinted to try to see better, but failed. As he continued to walk he noticed one of the boys pointing at him and talking to the girl.

"Who's the girl?" Sean whispered to himself, "Wait! That's Russ, and…hey…that's Daniel, our friend from Winters." Sean started running, "but who's the girl?"

"Is that Sean?" Paige asked.

"Yup, that's Sean."

"Hey!" Sean yelled.

"Hi!"

"Who's that?" Sean asked as he looked at Paige.

"Oh this is Paige, Dan and I met her in Twoson." Russ answered.

They started walking again to Twoson. Grrrrrrr.

"Oops, I guess I'm hungry," Sean said. He started blushing at looked down to hide it. We all laughed.

"I know, let's have a picnic!" Paige proposed.

"Sure, I'm ok with that how about you?" Dan agreed.

"Yes!" Sean yelled out.

"That sounds good."

"Over here!" Paige had already run off and found a clear spot of grass and started to roll out a blanket. They all walked over, put down are backpacks, got out their food and started eating.

"Wait, I forgot to get some food…" Her voice trailed off, as did her smile.

"Here, I've got plenty," Dan said as he handed her one of his sandwiches.

"Thanks!" Paige's eyes lit up and her smile came back as she dug into the sandwich, "Mmm, this is good."

As we ate Russ noticed a drop of rain land on his backpack, "Oh no, it's starting to rain, we got to find shelter."

"No problem," Dan said as he pulled out a portable tent and set it up. They all scrambled inside with their stuff. It suddenly started to rain a lot harder.

"Whew, that was close." Sean was right if Dan hadn't brought his tent they would have been soaked. They all sat in the tent looking bored.

"It's dark out," Paige said.

"Hey it is," Russ said as he grabbed his sleeping bag. Again Paige didn't have one, but Sean had brought an extra, incase of emergency. They were all pretty tired and fell asleep fast.

Dan woke up with the sun as usual, much to his distress. Today he didn't want to, since no one else did, but it's hard to break a 4-year habit. He got up at looked at his friends, Russ and Sean, who had always encouraged him, were sleeping on their sides looking like they were fighting aliens in their dreams, and his new friends Paige was on her back sleeping so peacefully.

"I guess I won't wake them," Dan whispered to himself.

Dan carefully stepped over Sean and Paige then opened the tent door, the rain had stopped, and stepped outside.

A year ago during a trip to a mysterious island he was attacked and lost his right eye. He used my remaining eye to construct a mechanical eye that could act like a regular one, but that could zoom about a hundred times further than a regular eye. It was installed by his father and it worked perfectly. He could also see using infrared and night vision.

He surveyed the area, looking for anything out of the ordinary. He grabbed something he had been working on; He called it, the Crusher Rifle .He hope that when it was done, it would be stronger that his Automatic Laser Rifle. A noise disrupted his thinking and he turned to see what it was. He noticed Paige get up and come outside too.

"Hello stranger," Dan said as joke. She laughed softly.

"Hello stranger, to you to. What are you doing?"

"Working of a rifle I'm making. Why are you up so early?" He asked.

"I usually get up now and read for a while," She answered.

"You look very tired, do you want some coffee? I always bring coffee. I have tea too, or you could have hot chocolate," She looked cold but, for all he knew, she could have been cast Psi Fire lightly around herself.

"Oh, hot chocolate please."

Dan thought, 'Ok so maybe she was cold, but have to admit that would have been cool.'

"I steaming cup of hot chocolate coming up," Dan said as he went back inside. He grabbed his kettle stand, it was a stove element supported by four stands, and had a place for a fire below the element. Dan pulled out my lighter, lit a fire, and put the kettle, which had some water in it, on the element. After about 3 minutes the water was hot enough. I poured some of the water in a cup, then I grabbed a hot chocolate container, opened and scooped three scopes, stirred it and gave it to Paige.

"Thank you" Paige said quietly, she was obviously tired.

"No problem," Dan replied. He brought a blanket out and put it on the wet grass. Paige and Dan sat on it. We continued talking for a while until Russ and Sean finally woke up.

"What's for breakfast?" The half-conscious Russ asked.

"Scrambled eggs," Dan had taken the liberty to make breakfast. He had plastic plates too so everyone grabbed one and some eggs and started eating.

"Mmm, these are good," Russ said, now fully-conscious, "I didn't know you cooked."

"Yup, I took a course at the boarding school."

"So what are we doing anyways?"

"Oh, we haven't told you yet." Dan said.

"Well, our first job is to protect Ness from Gigyas' Minions, and our second task is to find the second song. You see, Ness has a sound stone that he got from Buzz Buzz; he has to find eight pieces of a song. For us, there are eight, but instead of one stone, we get a stone from every point. This is to further enhance Ness' strength.

After breakfast they packed up their stuff, it took Dan a little more because he had to put the tent away, and headed down the path to the Twoson forest. It was just like before but Russ seemed uneasy. He had an untrusting look on his face.

"What's wrong Russ?" Paige asked sympathetically.

"What? Oh, nothing, just something doesn't feel right here," He said, like he had come out of a trance

Dan' hair stood on edge as he used his mechanical eye to look for infrared images. That's when he saw it. Dan gasped; he saw a huge body of heat that covered the whole forest as far as he could see.

"Guys, prepare yourselves!" Dan yelled as the heat slowly shrunk into a body-like figure and stepped forward so he could see it without the aid of infrared. It looked like a teenage boy but about six feet tall

"Muahahahaha, so I finally meet the children who oppose my master," he mocked, "how pathetic."

"Watch it man," Russ shot back.

"So you're Gigyas," Dan said, "hmm, I expected more."

"Ha, you are mistaken," the man said, "I am but a minion of the one of whom you speak, I am the great Crius (Cr"I"us), Personal Bodyguard of Gigyas!"

"Now I will separate you so you will never find the eight song pieces," Crius said, "PSI Separation Omega!"

All of a sudden they were all engulfed in a sphere of light and sent of in separate directions.

"Paige! Russ! Sean! No!" Dan yelled but he knew he could do nothing but try to find them later. Then suddenly everything went black as he felt himself lose consciousness.

A/N OH YEAH Longer than previous chapter. LONGEST. W00.