The warmness of the cave flowed into him magically, drying his hair and clothes, making him feel refreshed. But he also felt warmness from the smaller figure, which lay across him. Maddie's sleeping form against his felt…right. The close proximity with her made him want to trail kisses from her luscious lips down to her neck. He smiled at the vision.

Feeling her stir slightly, broke him of his vision, but put him into an even greater one. Her. Just her. Her face illuminated from the faint light of the fire causing a glowing effect. He smiled. She stared at him through her brown orbs, before they led somewhere away from him, and he followed her gaze, immediately wishing he hadn't.

In front of him was a long metallic colored, cylinder shape, hollowed in the middle. He stared into the blackness of the barrel, knowing what would come out of it. Three clicks, caused all breath to escape him, as Maddie gripped his shirt fiercely, obviously afraid. He was too. He was too.

"Stand up." the man demanded, gripping the gun in anger. He pressed the barrel to Zack's throat, and demanded again. Nothing happened. Zack was frozen. His eyes wide in shock, his breathing shaky in fear, and he was shivering at the thought of being killed.

"I said up!" the man yelled, pulling him up by the hair of the head. "You must be related to the kid we found snooping around in here earlier."

That declaration shook Zack from his state, and turned him angry. Feeling the blood boil within him, his face turned beat red. He didn't know how much anger boiled in him until he lurched wetness from his mouth into the mans eyes, causing temporary blindness, giving Zack an opportunity. He clenched his fists, the white of the knuckles showing, and threw it into the mans jaw. He heard a snap, and took the opportunity to run, after grabbing Maddie by the hand, leaving the others behind.

All he thought of was getting he and his friends out alive, but he only grabbed Maddie, until he could figure out what to do. His breath became ragged as he ran through the darkness of the cave, Maddie following.

Together they came into a large cavern with a tin devise in the middle, and a boy on his knees coughing. Zack knew who it was. He grasped Maddie's hand tighter before running to his brother and skidding to a halt before bumping into his brothers hacking form.

"Cody?" Zack asked. Cody's head shot up, and Zack noticed the trail of blood coming from his mouth, but didn't mention it as he grabbed him up and pulled him into a hug.

"We have to get out of here." Zack said quickly. "But we have to get the others."

"Others?" Cody asked, through his coughs. Zack nodded before leading them out of the cavern.

(A/N) I realize this chapter is extremely short, and I am sorry for that. But I got off grounding a couple days ago, and most of my thoughts were on other things. I love this story and enjoy writing it, and I feel weird if I dont put at least one chapter up a weekend. I was going to put another one up last weekend, but I got grounded for being out, for the second time, after curfew. Apparently that isnt so good. So here is a short chapter in it. The action is picking up in the next chapter. The next one will be a good 3,000 words or more. Someone will be critically injured. Cody's romance will be sort of revealed. Things will heat up between Maddie and Zack. And Tapeworm will be useful in their escape...or their capture. I will try to have it up by wed. since this chapter WAS so short. Please tell me what you think. I'm getting like 1,000 hits per chapter and I'm not getting nearly enough reviews for that. It's weird how people keep reading something and NEVER review. Well, I thank all who has reviewed, and I have replied to most, if I skipped you it is probably because I checked my email at the library, and their computers(for some reason) wont allow you to get on I dont know why, because it is a public library. I dont know. Thank you all for reading and thanks times a million who have REVIEWED. Now please review this chapter.