Haha, well, here are the results for the poll...There were nine people for Kai/Jewels, and six (counting my vote) for Ray/Zarine. I'm pretty sure kanilla meant that she liked Tyson/Hilary best in her review. And dragonwave likes Max and Mariam. There's Kai/Jewels action in this chappie. : )
Chapter Eighteen - Missing

"Let's finish this tomorrow," Zarine suggested. "I have to go over to Carrie's."

"Okay," Leo shrugged. It didn't really matter to him. "I'll see you at school," he said, hugging her.

She stepped back away from him in shock. What was he doing? "Yeah, bye," she said hurriedly before leaving. That had seriously freaked her out.

She made a quick stop at Kai's house, giving her stuff to Thomas before running to Carrie's.

Being the two smartest people in the class, Kai and Jewels were gluing pictures to their poster already. They both grabbed the glue stick at the same time, and their hands touched. Looking at each other, they blushed. This was the fifth time that it had happened.

"I'll just get another one from Carrie's room," Jewels said awkwardly.

Kai looked back down at the picture that he was pasting onto the paper. "Good idea."

He was so frustrated with himself. He and Jewels were very comfortable together, but sometimes when he looks at her, he found himself wanting to brush a strand of hair from her face, touch her face, or drown himself in her violet eyes whenever she made eye contact with him. It was so ridiculous. He felt nothing but friendship towards her, or so he thought.

Jewels came back with another glue stick in her hand. She glanced at the clock and saw that it was five thirty already.

"Where is Carrie? She's supposed to be home by now. She's going to miss her date if she doesn't come home soon," the redhead fretted.

"She's got a date? With who?" Kai asked curiously.

"Jason –" she replied. Then the door bell rang. DING DONG!!!

"Talking of the devil," he remarked.

Jewels ran downstairs to get the door, and was very surprised to see Zarine instead of Carrie standing there.

"Hi, so is Carrie ready yet?" Zarine asked cheerfully.

Jewels just stared at her. The blue haired boy said, "Wait, Carrie's not here. Isn't she with you?"

Zarine rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't be asking if she was here beside me. She left the library half an hour ago!"

"Then where is she?" Jewels demanded frantically. [Oh, what happened to you, Carrie?] she thought.

"Let's wait until six, and then we'll go out and look for her, alright?" Kai asked calmly, taking charge.

"What if she's gotten into a car accident or something? How do you know that something bad didn't happen to her?" she questioned, sounding nearly hysterical.

Kai's auburn eyes widened. [Okay, wait a minute, Jewels doesn't lose control of herself! So why is she so distraught?] he wondered, confused.

Zarine tried to reassure her friend, "She's going to be all right. Nothing happened to her. Maybe she just saw Jason and he dragged her off to an early dinner."

"Maybe," Jewels said doubtfully.

Before closing his laptop, Kenny said, "Thanks, Dizzi, now we can go home."

"Yeah, good thing too. My drivers need to cool down a little," Dizzi told him.

He chuckled and walked briskly out of the library. On the bridge across the river, he looked out onto the waters, admiring how the sun made it sparkled. Then a something sparkled on the ground by the river.

Kenny shook his head, trying to see if he was just imagining things. A sparkle on the ground? When he looked at it a second time, he was convinced that it was real and not his imagination running wild. Curiosity got the better of him, so he went down there to investigate. He was really surprised to see Carrie's metallic red laptop on the ground.

He picked it up, and saw that it was shattered. He couldn't help but wince. What could have happened to make Carrie drop it and damage it like that? Quickly, he ran over to her house to see what was going on. He arrived in time to see Zarine hugging Jewels in front of the door.

"Hey guys! What's wrong? Is Carrie here? She dropped her laptop..." Kenny panted, his words running a hundred miles per hour.

"Whoa, Kenny, slow down!" Zarine said. "What's going on?"

Chief was so breathless, he just shoved Carrie's laptop into Zarine's hands. Zarine looked at it, copied his suit and winced. It was shattered and damaged, possibly beyond repair.

"Oh my, that's her laptop!" Jewels gasped.

Kai barked, "Kenny, let's go, we're going to look for her. Jewels, Zarine, you two stay here and contact the others!"

"You want me to stay here? While my sister is in danger?" Jewels asked incredulously. "You've gotta be kidding me!"

"Someone have to be here. Your dad is not going to be here until after midnight and your mom is at the hospital working in the night shift," Kai said.

"Fine, call here right away when you've found her," she said, surrendering.

"She'll be okay," he said. He surprised himself by going up to her and giving her a hug. "She'll be okay, I promise."

"Thanks," she said.

With a last glance at the two girls, Kai walked away with Kenny at his heels.

Meanwhile...

Carrie was still unconscious in the car. The two smoking creeps stopped at the abandoned amusement park, and their boss came out from the Candyland house. The driver rolled down the window.

The muscled man came said, "You got her? Good, get her out and we'll drop off the delivery and get our money,"

"Sure thing," they said, and got out of the car. One of them opened the trunk and slang the girl onto his shoulder.

Carrie felt herself being carried (ha, that's her name with a d) and her eyes fluttered open. Her body felt weak and her eyes fought to stay open. She fought the drug effect, trying to stay conscious.

The boss knocked three times on the bedroom door of the Candyland house.

The door opened and he led his minions down into a trap door, leading down to a tunnel. The tunnel was very dark, the only light source was from the candles spaced distantly. At the end of it, two cloaked figures stood there, guarding a door.

"Good, Master will be pleased that you got her. You can go in," one of them told them.

[Who on earth would want me?] she wondered. [It can't be a joke of Jason's, can it?]

They went in and their employer was on his 'throne' as usual. "Master, I have her, Jewels Satsuki," the boss announced proudly.

[Jewels? I'm not Jewels!!!] she thought, outraged.

The man that was carrying the girl, dropped her onto the ground roughly, not caring whether it will hurt or not. He got the cloth out of her mouth and unbound her.

"That's not Jewels!" the Master snarled. "You've captured the wrong twin!"

"What?!" the smoking creeps blubbered. "I thought it was her!" "Boss, you have to believe us..." "He was the one..." "We saw the other..."

"SILENCE!" a cloaked figure barked. "How dare you behave so in Master's presence?"

The men stopped and stared at them sullenly. "Explain!" the Master ordered, pointing at the taller man.

"You see, sir, the boss told us that this Jewels girl had a rare tone of red hair. Coppery red, I believe he said. He also told us that she was capable of doing great damage but doesn't really look like it," the man defended. "We thought it was the shorter twin because she was the one that looked the most like she couldn't do much damage."

"That is no excuse!" the Master snarled. He turned his attention the muscled man, "Did you specific that Jewels had violet eyes while this twin has green? Well did you?"

"N...n..o..o" the man stammered. "I thought they weren't such dunderheads."

The teen on the chair rang a bell and ten men with cloaks came running to his command.

"Get them out of my sight and give them the usual punishment. Half of you, stay, I must get Jewels tonight," he growled.

Carrie looked at one people referred to Master all the time and wondered who he was. His voice sounded so familiar, but she just couldn't remember who it belonged to.

"Gosh, they must be pretty useless if they couldn't even tell Jewels and I apart, considering how much different we look," Carrie drawled. "And how much money did you pay them? I hope you didn't lose too much spending on them."

"So you're awake," the Master said. "You should really shut your mouth before I do it for you."

"What? Everyone makes mistakes, yours was just dumber than most," she smirked, ignoring his order.

In two strides he reached her and slapped her across the face. "Shut up, you little bitch!"

She looked unflinchingly at him. "Don't like to know the truth now, do you?" she asked.

"Get this wench out of my sight!" the teen shouted. "Beat her! Don't go easy either!"

A cloaked figure grabbed her arm and dragged her by her hair to a cell. He closed the door and started beating her. Carrie screamed with pain as he hit her with a baseball bat over and over again, and finally lost consciousness once more.

Jewels and Zarine went into the house after Kai and Kenny had left. "Do you really believe that Carrie is going to be fine?" Jewels asked.

Abruptly, lightning flashed in the sky, and thunder shook the ground.

"Uh oh," Jewels said. "RAIN!"

"Yes, I do. She is more than capable of taking care of herself," Zarine answered.

"Do you want anything? You can have anything you like," Jewels offered.

"A cup of water would be nice," Zarine responded.

They went into the kitchen. Suddenly, a rock hit the window, and if Zarine hadn't ducked in time, it would probably had smashed her head open.

Jewels gasped, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I am, but I'm afraid your tile isn't," the petite girl replied, pointing the smashed tile.

"There's a note stuck to the rock," Jewels said. Detaching the piece of paper, she read, "If you want to see your sister, I suggest you go to the forest by the terrace alone, right now."

"Does it have a signature?" questioned Zarine.

Jewels looked over the piece of paper. "Nope, nothing."

"You're not going there alone. I'll be coming with you," Zarine said.

"I never said you can come," Jewels reminded.

"I never asked," Zarine countered. "I wasn't asking permission because I'm going whether you want me to or not."

"You're used to getting your own way, aren't you?" her friend laughed softly.

Zarine grinned. "Yeah, my family tried not to spoil me, but it's hopeless. They always give in to what I want in the end. Let's go to that forest."

Kai and Kenny had split up to cover more ground. When Kenny passed by Tyson's dojo, he decided to ask Tyson to help.

He ran inside and didn't even answer Grandpa when he said, "Hi, lil' dude!"

"Tyson!" Kenny said. "Carrie's missing!"

Tyson ignored him and continued fighting with Hilary. "It's not my fault I'm so bad at cutting!"

"Then you should let me do it!" Hilary complained. "Instead of messing it up!" Then she spotted Kenny. "Oh hi, Kenny.

Tyson turned around and greeted, "Hey, what are you doing here?"

"Carrie's missing!" Kenny answered.

"Wait, Chief, are you sure she's not on her date?" Hilary asked.

He explained everything quickly and after, Tyson said, "Well, let's go already!"

They went their separate ways. Hilary met up with Zarine and Jewels during her search. Her friends updated her on the latest news and she decided to tag along with them.

When they arrived, three teens around seventeen were waiting for them.

"I thought I told you to come alone," one of them snapped at Jewels.

"I'm here, so who cares. What do you want?" Jewels demanded.

"You're going to come with us," he stated. "Quietly."

"And if I don't?" she challenged.

Little did the girls know that there were other people behind them, trees hiding from the girls' sight. That person grabbed Hilary and pointed a gun at her head. Hilary's eyes widened in fear.

He threatened, "I'm going to kill her if you don't, so you better come quietly with us."

Jewels nodded in defeat. The teenagers began walking, still holding Hilary hostage. Jewels walked with them, and whispered to Zarine, "Find the others and tell them about this."

Zarine nodded slightly to avoid attention. "If you think we're going to let you go and alert your friends, you're wrong," the leader of the band sneered at her.

The last two people came out from hiding and grabbed her in a painful grasp.

"Zarine!" Jewels cried.

One of the teens poked a pistol at her back, forcing her to move towards the car.

She couldn't help the tears running down her face as she glanced back and saw those two guys hitting Zarine over and over again. What had she gotten her friends into?

When Ray arrived back at Kai's mansion, he found that Kai and Zarine were still out. He began to feel worry and called Kai's cell.

"Kai, where are you?" Ray asked.

"Didn't Zarine or Jewels tell you about Carrie's disappearance?" Kai responded.

"No," Ray said.

"Okay, go to Jewels' and see what's going on. I'm going to meet you there," Kai said.

Ray hung up and ran all the way to the twins' house, not caring that the mud was dirtying his pants, or that he was getting soaked. Zarine was the only thing on his mind. He feared the worst when he saw the windows all dark, with no light shining through.

Kai came running with Tyson, Max and Kenny behind him, even more soaked than Ray was. "Let's try opening the door," Tyson suggested.

Kenny turned the door knob and the door opened easily. "What's going on here?" Ray asked angrily. He wanted to know where Zarine was. He wanted to know that she was alright!

"Jewels? Zarine?" Kai called. He walked into the kitchen and turned on the lights.

Kenny gasped when he saw the broken window. "What happened in here?" Tyson wondered, speaking out the thought that was in everyone's minds.

"Look, a note," Max said, pointing to a piece of paper on the counter.

Kai read it out loud and swore. "That must be where they are! I told them to stay here!"

"Let's go!" Ray said urgently. "We've got to help them!"

Zarine lay on the ground, pain shooting through every nerve in her body. "Let's go back to the amusement park. Master will be wondering where we are," she heard one of her torturers said before blacking out.

"What about her?" the other questioned.

"Oh, just inject this in her. She wouldn't be able to move when she wakes up," the first guy said, throwing a needle to the younger boy.

"What if she isn't unconscious?" the younger one asked.

The one who was in charge sighed with frustration, "One slam like this will assure us that she will be unconscious." With that said, he slammed her head against a tree trunk, causing another trickle of blood to leak from her head.

Rain pounded down her body. She woke up later with her head throbbing. [Where am I?] she thought. [Why am I here?]

Then the memories came flooding back to her. The images flashed through her head. Hilary, being threatened by those cloaked guys to those two people hitting her again and again like she was a punching bag or something. She had to get help.

With every bit of strength that she could muster, she tried to roll onto her stomach and crawl out of the forest at least. However, her arms wouldn't support her and she ended up falling flat on her face. Feeling helpless, she started to cry. Here she was, just lying there when her friends were in danger.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps and branches crunching. Weakly, she lifted her head to look at the people who were approaching.

"Zarine!" Ray cried, dropping beside her, and drew her to him.

"Ray! You have to get help. They've got Jewels, Hilary and Carrie. I only heard them say that they were going to the amusement park or something. They called someone 'Master' but I didn't know who they were talking about," she said, sobbing with worry, and shivering with the cold.

"It's okay. We'll get them back," Ray soothed. Feeling the heat of her body, he touched her forehead and found that it was boiling. "Oh no, you have a fever."

"Ray, you get Zarine back to my place and the rest of us will go and get the girls," Kai said.

Ray nodded. "All right. Good luck."
Haha! Yes! Another chappie done!

Here's another poll: When should Kai and Jewels kiss?

1) When they realize their feelings for each other
2) Their kiss should be on the spur of the moment, leaving them confuse and everything
3) I don't care, just get them to kiss!