I'm sorry I couldn't update soon like I planned. We had people come and stay with us and I basically had no time to type on the computer. Well, here is chapter 15 then!

Chapter 15: Caught!

Hay Lin's POV

"How much farther do we have to go?" Hay Lin called out ahead of her, panting.

"We're nearly there." Taranee yelled back. "She's probably on the hill that we were on before going to Irma's house later. I can't believe we stayed up without sleeping."

Sleeping? That was something else that was curious. Dreams were really starting to freak Hay Lin out at the moment. First Will had these weird dreams of an evil self. Then they all wake up having basically the exact same dream and with a shadow closing in on them. Or at least I think it was a dream, Hay Lin thought rubbing her head. Oh this is giving me a headache.

Hay Lin stopped as she recognized a familiar breeze flutter across her face. She closed her eyes and listened, concentrating. The other girls looked back at her with wonder.

"Uh, Hay Lin. Are you okay?" Irma asked walking up to her curiously. Hay Lin turned her head with her eyes still closed.

"The wind is speaking to me." Hay Lin answered. "I haven't had this feeling in a while. There are…voices. Very faint though."

If any of the girls thought that this was weird, they hid their thoughts well as they just raised their eyebrows and let her continue. Everyone was quiet. The wind was twirling around and around and Hay Lin listened closely. Sound was carried through the air and she calmed herself and concentrated on hearing the voices again. She almost opened her eyes when she heard small voices being carried in the gentle breeze.

"Will…to your father's."

"I can't…my friends…must stay."

"You don't need them…no…out of the question…come on."

Hay Lin gulped but still didn't open her eyes.

"The voices, they're coming in and out. I think one of them is Will."

"Really? Then we need to keep going." Cornelia sighed grumpily as she started toward the hill, followed by the other girls. Hay Lin let the air guide her. As she ran closer, the clearer the voices got.

"I'm not going anywhere unless it's in my mother's will."

"Alright then, go in the car and I'll take you to her work and retrieve it. We need to go there anyway."

"Why can't I stay with one of my friends? I need to stay in Heatherfield!"

"Why? I'm sorry but you can't decide that."

"Why are you in such a hurry? And how come they sent a nurse to come find me?"

"I have other things to do up here, Will. Could you please go in my car so I can go take you to your mother's work and find out where you'll be staying."

Hay Lin opened her eyes. So some guy is trying to take her somewhere and Will won't budge. She's obviously trying to find a way to stay in Heatherfield. They all slowed down once they started inclining up the hill. Deeply out of breath, Hay Lin only kept going in hopes that they could cure their friendship and get Will to stay. She only hoped that they weren't too late.

At last, the ground was level. It was still dark and the moon shown overhead. Hay Lin looked around. Will wasn't here anymore and she realized that they missed her. She sighed when she caught some noises of shoes walking up the hill. A man with short sandy blonde hair and jeans came up past the hill line and looked at them curiously. Then he smiled.

"So, are you Will's friends that she needs to stay here for?" he said sarcastically folding his arms together. For some reason, his words made Hay Lin's hair stand on end. She shivered as Cornelia spoke up angrily.

"That's right. Now if you don't mind, we need to talk to Will now." She said forcefully. Hay Lin and Irma looked at each other. By the tone of Cornelia's voice, she meant business. And by his smirk, so did he.

"Why don't you go take care of your precious flower." He sneered. Cornelia gasped with her eyes open in fear. Then she bit her lip.

"How do you-"

"Yeah, you wouldn't want anything happening to him, would you?" There was something about the way he was smiling at her, like he knew something that she didn't and was taunting her about it. Cornelia backed away slowly, acting like she was petrified.

"No." she whispered fearfully before she turned around and started sprinting down the hill as fast as she could.

"Corny, wait!" Irma cried as she ran chasing after her. She just called back, "You guys talk to Will and I'll help Cornelia!"

Hay Lin and Taranee were alone with this man, with the stranger who had distressed Cornelia. Why? And mostly, how did he know? Hay Lin decided to speak up.

"Where's Will? She doesn't have to go to her father's, she can stay with me."

"And how did you know that if you were way at the bottom of the hill?" he questioned, still with that weird smile on his face. Hay Lin gulped again.

"Besides, she won't be able to stay with you for long." Hay Lin was already thinking of what to say for an explanation when she heard exactly what he had said. She snapped her head and inhaled sharply.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked getting a little scared. This guy was intimidating, and he knew it. The man had started going down the hill to a dark green car on the road where Hay Lin and Taranee just realized Will was sitting in.

"Wait! Will, we need to talk to you!" Taranee screamed as they started chasing the man down the sloping hill. Suddenly, something big and scaly whipped them right off their feet.

"Ughh." Came Hay Lin as she hit the side of the hill. They scrambled up and saw the man look back at him. His eyes suddenly flashed into something different. The baby blue in them turned icy and his smirk looked very familiar...

"Cedric!" they both yelled, now sprinting down the hill angrily. Will turned around at the sound of their voices. Seeing them running wildly toward her, Will tried to open the door but the locks clicked and she started banging on the window. Cedric hopped into the car through the door that wasn't locked. He drove away sneering and with Will looking bewildered.

"How are we going to find them now!" Taranee yelled. "We don't even know where they're going!"

"I do. They're going to her mom's work. It's not far from here, but I hope we won't be too late."

"It better not be far from here!" Taranee said frantically. "Plus, I'm getting tired of running."

They walked quietly up to the giant fortress looking building of Simultech. Hay Lin held her breath as she looked at all the signs of struggle up to the door. Footprints were dragged a lot and there were even marks on the walls that Hay Lin couldn't explain. They were clearly done by magic though.

"The door is open ajar, but the dragging and footprints lead around the place." Hay Lin told Taranee confusingly.

"One of them has to be a decoy." Taranee said heading to the right. "You go inside and I'll follow these tracks." Hay Lin nodded and went inside. She ran into the glass elevator and clucked impatiently as the glass elevator went by each floor. What had happened to Will? What would and could Cedric do to her when she was so obviously weak from what happened? Hay Lin was about to get her answer when the elevator made a 'ding' at the last floor. She stepped through it and looked to see if anything was there.

Nothing. No lights were on and there were no sounds. Maybe I took the decoy, Hay Lin wondered. She was about to head back down to help Taranee when she heard somebody scream.

"No! Get away from me or I'll-"

"Or you'll what Guardian? Use your wonderful powers that don't exist because you don't have any friends?"

"She has friends!" Hay Lin yelled running down the hall. "Will don't listen to him, he's Cedric!" She ran into the room and saw Will with her hands tied up and next to the window. Cedric was a big lizard again and looked like he was trying to push her out!

"I noticed." Will said darkly but then smiled when she noticed that Hay Lin had come to get her. "Hay Lin, he killed a man outside in the front!" Will shouted angrily. Cedric held her hands by the rope and let her lean out dangerously. He was smirking. Will was torn between being angry and being scared. That's just about how Hay Lin was feeling right now. Something was squirming in her stomach as she took in the situation. Will was hanging out the window, a dead man was outside, and Cedric was here, that was enough said for itself. Cedric's tail just burst through the walls and a loud alarm started ringing.

"Well," he laughed. "Now what can you do?"

At that moment, he let go of Will and slithered away. She fell out screaming, falling fast and heading toward the ground. Hay Lin ran to the window and concentrated as never before on letting the wind hoist her up as she was falling to her death.

"No! Will! She screamed. Every thought left her, and so did her energy right before Will hit the ground. Hay Lin fell backward onto the ground, dizziness came and she just lyed there. No sounds came except for the constant ringing of the alarm. She struggled to get up. She strained to gain clear focus again and she staggered over to the window. She looked down and gasped. Will was on the pavement below. Hay Lin started shaking her head and sobs came.

"No!" she said tears streaming down her face. Suddenly there was movement below as Will hoisted herself up on her elbows and started rubbing her head. Relief as she had never experienced coursed through her body and she felt the shock wear off. Hay Lin started to feel dizzy again and slightly sick, especially when she heard another scream.

"Hay Lin! He's dead!" Taranee's voice screamed. Just then, tons of policemen came surrounding the building with guns in their hands. Hay Lin looked down and also saw that Will had disappeared.

"Freeze and put your hands behind your heads!" yelled an officer with a megaphone. "You are both under arrest for murder!"

Getting worse but getting better, right? I hope so, send a review please and tell me because reviews help. The next chapter will come sometime this week so be on the look out. I hope you liked it, see ya!