Sportacus raised his head tried to look around him. He was in strange surroundings and was aware of other people in the room with him. There was hardly any light to see by and there were no windows anywhere. Something told him it was day time and he had no idea how long he'd been unconscious. His head pounded like a drum and his neck felt stiff. Ropes were tied about his wrists and ankles tightly preventing him from movement. He closed his eyes and lowered his head again but raised it when he heard a footstep in front of him. Slowly opening his eyes he saw someone standing in front of him.

"Where-where am I?" Sportacus croaked his voice hoarse.

The shadow turned away for a moment and addressed someone in the room, "Get him some water. He's thirsty."

Footsteps could be heard on the other side of the room and a tap was turned on. The footsteps returned and then walked back. Sportacus saw the shadow kneel down in front of him.

A glass was pressed to his lips. "Drink." The voice cooed. It was that of a woman.

Sportacus sipped at the water and resisted the urge to spit it back out. The water was by no means fresh and tasted gritty. Sportacus swallowed it with some difficulty and when he did the glass was taken away.

"Better?" The voice cooed again.

Sportacus nodded.

"Good." The woman stood up, "You're somewhere but we won't say where. Let's just say you're on a vacation. Holidaying with the Shadows isn't something many people get to do."

Sportacus cleared his throat a little, "what do you want from me? You're Aurora aren't you?"

Another white toothy smile touched the woman's face, "yes I am. The only female member of the Shadows and I'm the leader at that. You my little sugar candy are the bait. Little Kitten wouldn't come on his own so he needed some persuasion and you are it. We would have preferred to have gotten the girl but you'll do just as well I suppose. I have to apologise for what Blade did, he gets carried away sometimes and I've told him about having his way with women. He won't harm the girl again, he's dead. Slit down to his gizzards."

Sportacus shook his head. Something about Aurora reminded him of Lily but he couldn't put his finger on what. All he could think of was Lily's way of killing people, when they'd outlived their usefulness she'd kill them just as she had done Doctor Cranium. A cloying fear gripped him when he realised he could suffer the same fate.

"Our poor captive doesn't like people getting killed boys!" Aurora shouted seeing the sickened look on Sportacus' face. "It's a shame! He'll really not like it when we get Kitten and kill him too! The only thing is that he won't have long to dislike it as he'll be dead too!"

Sportacus' head screamed at the loud voices and the pounding increased so much it reached fever pitch and he could no longer grip consciousness.

The only sound in the kitchen of the Mayor's house was that of the kettle boiling. No one had had anything to drink for a while and they were all thirsty. No one had left the house for fear of sharing the same fate as Sportacus. Dawn had broken two hours before and a feeling of safety came with the light of the new day but still no one stirred. No one knew what would be waiting outside for them and no one wanted to imagine.

Kit got up from his chair and stretched before going to check on Robyn. He'd checked on her several times during the night to make sure if she wanted anything or not and that she was ok. Before going into the bedroom he went into the bathroom and filled a glass with water to give to Robyn in case she was thirsty.

Upon entering the room Kit dropped the glass in shock and ran out back into the kitchen.

"She's gone!" Kit exclaimed.

Ché attempted to stand up but remembered what had happened last time, "gone where?"

"If I knew that I wouldn't have dropped the glass and come running in here saying 'she's gone' would I?"

"There's no need for that. She can't have gotten far. I'll look for her with you and everyone stay here."

Pixel stood up and shook his head, "I can help. I have cameras on my house that can see all over town, if she's still in town we'll find her."

The three set off a few seconds later. Ché had to crawl through the front door like he had the previous evening to get in and after stretching went one way to look for Robyn whilst Kit went another and Pixel went to his house.

The minute Pixel logged into his computer alarms sounded indicating the same high levels of psychic energy he'd detected three weeks before when Robyn experienced her father's death. He got his cameras to zoom in on the source of the energy and quickly located Robyn. Leaving his computer logged on to monitor what was happening Pixel left his house to go to where the girl was.

Robyn was standing in front of a tree close to where she'd been attacked the previous night. By the looks of things Robyn hadn't moved from where she'd been when Pixel's cameras found her and he was a little worried. It was only when he saw what was on the ground that he understood why Robyn hadn't moved. A small puddle of blood lay not far from the tree and there was no doubting whose it was.

Ché and Kit soon joined the pair and seeing the blood didn't know what to do. Kit placed a hand on Robyn's back but she didn't react to the touch at all. Her skin felt cold under his hand and he said her name but she didn't respond to that either. Looking at Ché and Pixel with obvious worry he saw that they felt the same.

Suddenly Robyn blinked and spoke as if hypnotised, "I'm in a large room with no windows. It's dark, all the lights are dimmed and there is silence apart from the sound of breathing. They're sleeping. I can hear water and it sounds close, like the sea. There are buoys on the water and boats as well sounding their horns. I'm thirsty but she has the water and my hands are tied. I try breaking the ropes but I'm not strong enough and it hurts. My wrist hurts and I don't know why."

Robyn stopped speaking and began to sink to the ground but Kit caught her and placed her legs over his arm and held her shoulders to carry her. He made his way back to the Mayor's house and a very confused Pixel and Ché followed.

When they'd almost reached the Mayor's house, Pixel ran ahead to open the door for Kit who had his hands full. Everyone stood up when they saw Kit carrying Robyn and everyone wanted to know what had happened. Kit carried Robyn straight into the bedroom and Bessie followed to see if there was anything she could do to help. Ché feebly explained what they'd seen and heard and Pixel helped him out by explaining about the psychic energy floating around and Robyn picking it up before.

Ché looked at Pixel oddly as if he hadn't understood, "are you trying to say the girl's psychic?"

Pixel nodded, "I find it as hard to believe as you but that's the way it is. Her being psychic is the only way she could be affected by the energy like she is. I've researched it since what happened the last time and everything points to the fact that somehow Robyn is able to harness this energy and use it. How she does it and where the 'power' came from I don't know."

"So where does this energy come from?" Ziggy asked trying to get his round all this technical stuff.

Pixel thought for a second and theorised out loud, "I've been monitoring the levels of the energy and there are always low levels which seem to have no effect on anyone. When the energy peaks it has some kind of affect on Robyn and she can see things, hear things and even feel things that have happened. What she was describing must be what Sportacus was seeing, hearing and feeling. He's alive somewhere."

Ché tried to recall what Robyn had said and asked for a piece of paper and a pen. He spoke as he wrote, "Water, sea, ropes, no windows, large room, boats, buoys and boat horns. Wait, I think I know where it is. A harbour, it must be. Where is there a harbour close to here?"

"There are two, Crazytown and Greentown." Kit said walking back into the room. "Crazytown harbour has been abandoned for fifteen years. If they've taken him there we'll find them. No windows and a large room sounds like one of the old warehouses near the harbour. An ideal place to hide out with a captive."

"How's Robyn," Ziggy asked concerned for his friend.

Kit shook his head, "out cold. There is something very wrong. Right now we should be worrying about what we're going to do to rescue Sportacus."

Everyone nodded. Sportacus was in grave danger and needed help.