1 hour earlier at home

Billy and Sarah were getting the children ready for bed, Robbie and Kate were going to bed in the loungeroom.

Hope took Michael into his room. She lay him down and put the covers over him.

"Hope, please can you please read me a story please?" Michael smiled.

Hope laughed and picked a book from the shelf "How about 'Jack and the Beanstalk'?"

"Yeah!" Michael sat up and started to bounce up and down. Hope sat next to him on his bed and he climbed onto her lap.

"Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack…" Hope began to read, Michael insisted on turning the pages for her. She was about halfway through the story when she heard Bella start barking and growling. "Michael wait here ok?"

Hope walked down the hall and cautiously looked around the corners, Bella never barked like that. She got to the kitchen and saw Bella standing outside growling and scratching at the door.

"Bella what's wrong" when Hope got to the door Bella whimpered and scratched at the door. Hope opened the door and scratched Bella behind the ear. Suddenly Bella started to growl again. Hope turned around and saw why.

There was a man standing in the kitchen "Hello Hope" he said "I'm Pyro"

"What do you want?" Hope asked.

"You and your siblings" Pyro smirked and walked towards her. Bella leapt forward and bit Pyro hard on the leg, he cried out and suddenly a ball of fire appeared in his hand he shot it at the dog.

Bella whimpered and fell to the floor. He looked around the kitchen, Hope was gone. She had run down the hall into Michael's room. She felt sick when she heard a voice coming from the room "…Fee Fi Foe Fum, I smell the blood of a Englishman"

Hope opened the door and saw Michael sitting next to a man, reading the book. Another man that looked exactly like the one reading was tying a distracted Michael's legs together.

Hope levitated a lamp sitting on Michael's bedside table and made it hit the two men over the head, they were both knocked out and Hope ran in and untied Michaels legs. "Michael, we have to go" She whispered "I need you to be really quite for me ok?" Michael nodded and put his finger up to his lips. "Ok let's go" she picked him up and walked towards the door stepping over the two unconscious men but she was stopped at the door by another man he looked exactly like the two on the ground.

Suddenly the man multiplied into four more copies of himself. They all went to grab Hope but she raised her hand and all four of the men were lifted into the air. Hope swung her arm which sent them flying into the wall, she swung her arm again and the crashed into the wall opposite. Again she swung her arm and shot them up at the roof and once more which crashed them down to the ground.

Hope left them there and ran. She came around the corner and saw Robbie and Kate were asleep on the couch. They had somehow slept through all the noise. Hope shook them "You have to get out of her ok?" she told them "Run next door and stay there"

Robbie and Kate ran out the door. Hope was about to make Michael go with them when fire shot out and missed Michael and Hope by centimeters. "Going somewhere?" Pyro asked.

Hope looked down at the leg that Bella had bitten, it was soaked in blood and Pyro was limping. Hope looked around and saw what she was looking for. She raised her hand a levitated a baseball bat that was lying on the ground in the lounge room. She swung her arm and sent the bat hurdling in Pyro's direction. It hit him in his injured leg and he collapsed to his knees and clutched his wound.

Hope and Michael ran upstairs into Claire's room they saw Billy and Sarah knocked out on the ground. Hope didn't have time to stop and see if they were alright, she heard Claire scream and ran faster.

When she got to Claire's room she looked inside and saw a man with tentacles instead of arms. Claire was backed into a corner and was crying. The man was laughing and whipped Claire with one of his tentacles. She screamed again and tried to back further away from him.

Hope levitated Claire's blanket and covered the man with it, she twisted it around so that he was unable to get out. All of a sudden he ripped out of the top and twisted a tentacle around Hope's body, pinning her arms to her sides. Pyro limped into the room and picked up Michael.

He glared at Hope "I aught to kill your family right here in front of you" he snarled at her. He limped closer to her.

"No! please let them go, just take me" she begged still struggling to get loose.

"That's not going to hap- OCTO! You idiot she's getting away!" Pyro pointed to Claire who had just run out of the room. "Take this one" he thrust Michael into Octo's other tentacle.

Pyro limped down the hall "Pump!" he called out. A woman suddenly smashed a holein a wall nearbyand climbed through to stand near Pyro "What?" she said.

"One of them got away, I need you to find her"

Pump rolled her eyes and walked down the stairs she heard whispering and smirked. She leaned over the railing of the stairs and looked down to see Clair crouched down in a corner whispering into a phone.

"Mummy" Claire whispered. There was a pause as the person on the other end spoke "There are people in the house" Claire started to cry "You and Dad have to come ho-" it was then that Pump jumped down and grabbed Claire. She dropped the phone and tried to pull away "NO! NO PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! MUM! DAD! PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! HOPE!"

Pump picked up the phone and crushed it in her hand. She then walked upstairs with Claire under one arm. When she got into Claire's room she turned to Pyro and said "We have to go, she called her parents"

Pyro nodded and watched as Pump smashed a hole in the side of the house and jumped down onto the lawn. The others followed, Pyro did so with extreme difficulty.

They climbed into a van that they had parked out the front and sped off. Hope struggled. She and Michael had both been tied up and Octo was tying Claire up as they drove down the road.

"What do you want from us!" Hope yelled. They ignored her "HEY! I asked you a question" She kicked the back of Pyro's seat.

He turned around to face her and created a flame ball "Unless you want to watch your little brother and sister burn to death, you better shut up" he said calming and smirked as Hope closed her mouth and glared at him.

Claire started crying, so did Michael "I want Mummy" Claire said shaking uncontrollably.

"Claire its ok" Hope said "I'm here, I'm going to take care of you. Everything is going to be ok"

Claire sniffed and nodded. Hope looked around the van for something, anything she could use to cut her ropes or attack them with. There was nothing. She looked out the window. She had no idea where they were.

Michael began to wheeze and make little choking sounds. He looked at Hope with panic in his eyes. "Oh My God" Hope said struggling even more to get loose.

"What's wrong" said a guy who had been sitting silently in the back of the van. Michael wheezed little more

"He need's his inhaler, he's having an asthma attack" Hope told themtrying to moveover to Michael. "Mike you need to breathe slowly ok? Slow deep breaths" Hope looked up "Please you have to help him, he can't breathe"

The guy looked over to Pyro "Why should I help him?" Pyro smirked holding up Michael's inhaler.

"Please" Hope said "Please give it to him"

"I don't think so" Pyro said.

Hope began to cry looking at her brother, he couldn't breathe, he started to go slightly purple "Michael!" She looked up at Pyro"Please, I'm begging you! he's going to die"

Pyro just laughed. The guy at the back of the van stood up and took the inhaler out of Pyro's hand "That's enough John" he told him walking over to Michael, he placed the puffer in his mouth and squeezed it. Michael slowly began to breathe properly again.

Hope breathed a sigh of relief.

"What the hell was that Kai?" Pyro snapped.

"I wasn't just going to sit there and watch him die! He's just a little boy" Kai said glaring at him.

"I'm in charge here and as long as I am you don't do anything without my permission" Pyro clarified.

Kai made a sound of disgust "I'm your brother not your slave, John" Kai spat back at him. And with that Kai walked back over to his seat, sat down and crossed his arm, indicating that the argument was over.

Pyro glared at him and just turned around "Drive faster" he snapped at Pump who was at the wheel. Hope was still watching Kai, he glanced over at her. 'Thank you' she mouthed and him.


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