Jade opened the closet door, pulled out a towel, and shut it. He walked back into the kitchen, where InuYasha and I were still stuck. He threw the towel to me.

"Thanks Jade," I said as I started to dry the floor with the towel. He mumbled something that I couldn't quite comprehend, but that was normal for Jade. But going to college isn't... I thought to myself.

As I dried the floor, I was watching Jade carefully. He usually goes straight to his room when he gets back from college. This time, he went to the living room, and was doing his homework! Ok, now I could definatly tell that something was up.

"Hey Teal! Could you stop day dreaming over there, and finish the floor?" InuYasha yelled with impatience.

"Yeah, I will," I said as I quickly turned away from watching Jade and continued drying off the floor.

When that was all done, Jade had gone downstairs, so I couldn't "observe" him anymore, so I started watching TV. Man, we had thousands of channels, but nothing was ever on but the news. It was crazy! I continued flipping through the channels, and I was in the 500's now. InuYasha was on the couch, sitting next to me, and of course, Benji. The 500's were bad channels, the ones like Jade liked to watch, so I quickly flipped through them.

"Wow, and this stuff is FREE?" InuYasha exclaimed at one of the 'bad' channels.

"Man, you're so sick," I said as I punched in a number, that didn't start with five.

It ended up being some boring news channel, which was the only thing on anyhow, so I started watching it. Blah blah blah.. was really the only thing I heard. I titlted my head upward and looked at the ceiling. I had never noticed that there were lots of tiny little dots in it. I started to count them, then everything went black.

I woke up in my bed, once again. I rubbed my head. It felt like I had fallen, and hit my head. My leg hurt, too. I struggled to move, but I managed. As I slowly regained my senses, I had found that I wasn't in my room, nor any other room in my house. I sat up, scared. I kept looking around, and around. Nobody seemed to be around, not even InuYasha, who wouldn't let me be in a different room as him, except for at night. I cautiously got up off of the bed, and started walking around the room. The wall seemed to be made of cinderblock, and there was a window, but with bars strung across it. The one wall, the one I didn't notice right away, was completly bars. It looked like I was in a prison cell. It felt like one too. A cold mix of fear, dread, and loneliness crept in. I walked back over on the bed, and sat down. Who could've done such a thing? I kept asking myself. I started crying, not loud though. It was as if I was afraid to cry louder.

Suddenly, I heard a drum beat from down the corridor. I crept to the barred wall, and strained my eyes to peer down the hallway. I caught a glimps of a blonde talking to a wall. Wait a minute, that blonde looked awfully familar, too familar. I kept studying the figure, and- Oh my gosh! That blonde was Jade! A sense of sadness filled me. How could Jade have done this? Why did he do this? What was up with him? I kept studying, even though it filled me with anger and saddness. Why would Jade be talking to a wall? I strained my eyes farther than they had ever been strained. I caught a glimpse of something red. What was it? It resembled a sleeve. I gawked. It was InuYasha's haori! So Jade had me in a prison cell, and InuYasha pinned to a wall. I walked away from the wall, and sat on the bed. I started crying again, still softly.

"Why would Jade do this?" I asked outloud, quietly. I was to afraid to speak any louder than a whisper.

Several minutes went by, and a couple of guards walked back, so I shuddered. They were tall and skinny, and had on armor, and one wore a black cloak. I heard them take something and throw it in the cell across the hall. I started sobbing again once they left. I felt so alone, more alone than I did at home. Believe it or not, I actually hated being home. No body ever payed attention to me. I knew that my mom loved me, but she had an odd way of showing it. I wept even harder at the thought of my mom, and it must have gotten loud, because from the cell across from me, rang a familar voice.

"Teal? Are you there?" the voice said. It was Xavier! Jade must have got him to.

"Xavier? Is that you?" I said, cautiously.

"Yeah. Man am I glad to see you. What's up with the master of all evil?" he asked.

"That's what I would like to know. One minute I was on the couch with InuYasha watching the news, and the next, I woke up in the bed."

"Oh, so neither one of us knows up with him then. I bet it was the beer. He probably bought some cheep brand, and it was cotaminated, and it's causing him to act this way," Xavier joked.

I laughed. Xavier always made me laugh.

"Thanks, I really needed that laugh. But he doesn't just have me and you, he also has InuYasha," I told Xavier, quietly.

I backed away from the wall as the guards walked by again. I was starting to get a sense of their schedule. They came by once every hour during the day, but I wasn't sure about nights. After they walked out of our corridor, we resumed talking once more.

"You're kidding? Why would Jade take all three of us? Hey, by the way, did you see the outside of this place? It's huge!" Xavier said.

"No, I told you, I passed out or something. So, you think Jade has other people than just us?" I asked. My voice was a bit louder now, but still not loud enough for the guards that stood watch outside the doors could hear.

It was a good thing that there were steel doors seperating the chambers of cells. In this chamber, there was the wall to which InuYasha was chained, my cell, Xavier's cell, and two steel doors on both ends. I was guessing InuYasha was knocked out, or otherwise he would've been able to hear us.

"So, have any ideas on how to escape yet?" I asked Xavier, a bit unhopeful.

"Nah, not yet, I'm working on one," he said. But what he said, and what he looked were two different things. He looked sad and worried, but talked confident.

I guess the both of us dozed off, and I woke up completly unaware of where I was. Then, when my eyes met the cold, hard wall, I remembered. I walked over to an old, wooden chair that I found in the corner of my cell. I lifted it up and put it over by the window. I climbed up on it, and stared out the window. I could see the ocean, and the sky. The sky was black as coal, even though the sun was still up. It was raining, and the wind was cold. I wasn't sure if we were even still in the same country any more. I wasn't sure of anything.

I walked back over to the barred wall. Xavier was in his cell, still sleeping. I looked at his cell. He didn't have a window like I did, so he couldn't even tell that we were even on earth any more. I sat on the bed, and started weeping once more. I couldn't help it. This whole place filled me with sadness, and dread. I quickly stopped when the guards walked by, but continued once they left.

What is Jade planning to do with us? Will InuYasha ever regain consciousness? Will Xavier and I ever escape?