The gang was walking up the palace stairs still laughing at the stupid questions. They walked through the foray, not noticing anything wrong. But there was. In the other room, behind a door, a man stood laughing.
Yumi, Ulrich, Aelita, Alex, Jeremie, Kate, Vanessa, and Odd went walking through the left hallway under the staircase. Joshua was tagging along but not as fast. The man emerged from behind the door.
"Hello Joshua" he said calmly.
Joshua stopped and turned around to see the man, standing there just smiling at him.
He gasped… he knew this man. He saw him the other day.
"I have a surprise for you" the man said and held up a pillowcase in one hand and rope in the other. Then he ran to Joshua and tied him up. Joshua's shoe fell off as he was picked up and taken out of the palace with out being noticed.
.: With the Others :.
"Hey you guys?" Yumi said looking around the kitchen. "Where's Joshua?"
Odd shrugged "He was right behind us"
"Maybe he went to his room" Aelita suggested.
"Yea, probably" Kate said in agreement.
Yumi smiled and nodded in reassurance.
The butler in the kitchen began serving them lunch for the day.
.: With Joshua :.
He felt himself hit the back seat of a car, as a result of being thrown in. He was looking around inside his pillowcase, wondering where this guy was taking him and when the last time this guy washed the pillowcase. He didn't say a word cause he knew it would only result in something worst. He lied there thinking 'What am I gonna do?'
Then something occurred to him… 'Mom!'
He knew his mom could read minds… maybe she could here him. So he kept screaming 'Mom!' in the back oh his head.
He wished that he still had the necklace his mom gave him. He tried thinking of a plan 'B'
'I'll bite him' he thought
'Bite who?' a voice said in the back of his head.
'Mom!' he yelled
'Are you ok?' she asked.
'Mom I need help'
'Why? What's wrong?'
'The old ambassador took me away'
.: With Yumi :.
She gasped.
"No"
"What?" Ulrich asked, looking at Yumi in concern.
Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates. Her mouth was wide open.
"Im not kissing a woman whose trying to catch flies" he said as a joke.
It didn't work. Yumi just sat there in shock.
'I cant believe this'Then she woke out of her stunned ness
"THAT BASTARD" she yelled.
"What?" again Ulrich asked, concerned even more.
Yumi got up and ran out of the kitchen.
"What was that about?" Odd asked, dumbfounded.
"Come on, its something bad. I just know it" Ulrich said and got up and ran after Yumi.
The gang ran out and found Yumi knelling on the ground in the foray.
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked.
She looked at him with tears in her eyes. Inside her hand was Joshua's shoe.
"He took him" she said calmly at first "HE TOOK HIM!"
End of this chapter... R&R