Friends Change

Elisa was finding it hard to sleep that night in Leah's room in bed. She was too worried about Izz to sleep. He was still weak and tired but some fur had grown back on his face which seemed to relieve her worry a little.

"You okay? You haven't talked or been yourself this morning.

Is it to do with your brother?" Leah told her.

The female Psammead nodded sadly in reply.

"Yeah I'm worried.

He never had anybody to count on in Aria until he came here." she said to them.

"Doesn't he have any other family besides you?" David asked.

"No.

Jen helped him become an Arian Knight after he abnd Ogre Child defeated Nalia and the shadow spirits.

Brydon and the others took him in since he had no family." she explained to them.

Leah and David wondered where the rose mark on Izz's left cheek came from.

"It's his family birth mark. He nearly went to join the Warriors of Darkness until Jen helped him escape from that kind of life.

He has been getting help being an Arian Knight again." Carley answered.

"Wow that's a lot to have gone through." David said to them.

But Izz's eyes opened slowly.

"Hey what's going on?" he asked softly. His vision was a little blurry because it was changing from human back to Psammead.

"What's going on?" he whispered softly.

"We went to Aria and Jen and Makai used magic to reverse the magic that made you human.

It'll take a while, okay?" Carley explained to him.

He nodded as he felt pain in his head and body. He was shrinking back to normal Psammead height.

"You should rest, okay?

You'll be okay soon, I know it." she reassured him.

He was worried as he lay on the couch. He was happy to be going back to normal but knew that the others would want him to stay as a human but knew they liked him as he normally was.

"Maybe I should go before I change back. It would be better that way." he thought as he left the house in human sized clothes.

Leah was hanging out online when she saw Elisa run into the room with tears down her face.

"What's wrong?" she asked her gently.

"Izz he left for some reason.

I've a bad feeling somebody will capture him because if they know about Psammeads, they'll want to use him for magic he doesn't have except for the Flame of Equinix." the female Psammead replied.

"Don't worry we'll find him." Leah said to her but understood.

But Izz was already in a cage.

A human in a lab coat had found him and his body was half covered in his normal grey fur and his snail like eyes had returned.

He hoped the others would come soon.

"I hope the human realises I don't have magic or things could get ugly." he thought scared.

The human was observer smiled. He was into the mystical world and wanted to use Izz to show humans.

"This'll be perfect!" he heard him say but Izz was angry.

"Take this!" he yelled biting the scientist in the hand.

"You little!" the scientist yelled in pain.

"I don't think so! My friends will come and stop you before you can hurt me!" Izz told him angrily as the scientist growled.

"Don't think about it!" the human said as he injected the Psammead with a needle in his half furry chest. Izz cried in pain but gritted his half human teeth which were changing back slowly into Psammead teeth again.

"I won't let you win.

Once my friends get here, you're..... dead!" he thought as he curled up into a ball. His chest hurt badly.

Elisa's head ached. She saw an image of her brother in pain and being hurt by a scientist.

"Where is he?

Take us there so we can help." Carley said as the female Psammead led them to an abandoned house.

The human was gone for now but he could come back any minute.

Leah saw Izz in a cage and gasped.

He was badly hurt and crying softly.

"It's okay. It's us!" Leah whispered to him.

"T-Thanks guys.

I knew you'd come." Izz whispered closing his eyes.

He was back to full Psammead form again.

Elisa and the others hoped he would be okay as they got back to the Robert's house.....