(Author's Notes- Hey Everyone, Evilcleo and E.B.F.R. here. Sorry for the delay in updating, school for us has been very demanding to say the least. Evil schoolwork, evil classes, evil professors!)

Chapter #7

Previously:

That was until Lucky suddenly asked for one of Elizabeth's colored pencils and a piece of paper. And as Lucky inspected the letter, he took another piece of paper, putting it over the original note. Granted, Lucky didn't have a clue as to why he was doing this - call it Spencer intuition...but he took another one of Liz's colored pencils that lay nearby and gently/lightly began to color over the note only to discover a secret message from Emily

'Woah! Emily how in the world did you manage to do this?' Lucky thought relativity surprised to find Emily's own surprise.

The note read:

Juan,

You're free to date or kiss whomever you want. I'm breaking up with you. It's for the best. We're both single now so I can find someone who cares about me, and you can go with Allison Barrington for all I care. It's over, we're over. I don't want to see you again. You've hurt me too much.

Goodbye.

-Emily

In very small letters now outlined thanks to Lucky's actions: the secret message read:

"Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California."

"Guys come here." Lucky called over, looking over Emily's little secret message again. It made absolutely no sense, but if Emily put the message in there for them to find, it most likely put her in more danger than she already was. The message was there for a reason though: to help them find her. As soon as possible, Lucky guessed.

"What is it?" Nik asked as everyone except Zander crowded around him. It made Lucky feel a bit closed in with everyone reading over his shoulders, but he knew Emily was probably in more dire circumstances for him to be so occupied with such a concern .

"Emily, she wrote a secret message for us to find." Lucky told them.

"She must have been taking Spencer lessons huh?" Liz quipped up, looking and reading it over.

"Apparently so, and they sure paid off." Nikolas said.

"So where is she going?" Zander asked, sitting back and waiting for an answer. He saw Lucky was uncomfortable, being ganged up like that, so he let Lucky have his space as he sat down in a chair, ice in hand.

"Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco California?" Liz asks questioningly as she read the note for herself.

"Why would they go there?" Zander asked, as he continued to put ice on his black eye, confused slightly.

"You don't think he'd leave her there do you?" Liz asked worriedly, thinking of Emily locked in a damp jail cell, crying out for help that could never come.

"No, I don't think he would. The prison is for tourists now. Alcatraz stopped being a prison in 1963." Nikolas told them.

Everyone looked at him like he had grown three heads.

"What? I had a paper to do one year and that was the topic." Nik defended himself to them.

"Whatever, man. Look let me call my dad, and we can look up on his laptop as to why they're going to Alcatraz prison." Lucky said, fishing his pockets for his cell phone.

"Shouldn't we tell Jason about Emily's message?" Elizabeth asked, curiously.

"Not yet. I want to find out why before we do that." Lucky responded and called his dad. It would be pointless to tell him something like that but have no clue why. No, they needed the full story.

Ten minutes later Luke Spencer was at Kelly's with his laptop computer.

"So what do we have here Cowboy?" Luke asked as he sat down. "Ah, I see Lovely Lizzie, Vlad Jr., and last but not least Zander Smith, our previous kidnapper."

"Dad, we got a secret message that Emily sent us through a break up letter to Juan. We're trying to figure out why Em's captor would take her to Alcatraz Prison in California though." Lucky said instead, ignoring his Dad's comments. This was neither the time nor the place for them.

"Do we know of any events happening there?" Zander asked putting down the ice for the moment.

"Good idea Zander." Lucky said, as his dad furiously typed in the prison on the internet search page, only to find out there was an event there at the end of October.

"Hey, what do you know, lookey here? There's a masquerade in the mess hall on Halloween night. If that isn't spooky, I don't know what else is." Luke said. Spending Halloween night in an actual prison is certainly an interesting and frightening experience, he was sure.

"A Masquerade? As in everyone wears masks?" Elizabeth asked, while Lucky nodded in response.

"Emily's captor isn't stupid, I give them that much." Lucky said, a bit disappointed. It would be hard to find Emily in such a grand party, but a grand party with masks was practically impossible.

"Are there any invitations left?" Zander asked as everyone looked at him. He gestured to Nikolas. "I'm sure a Cassadine Prince wouldn't be denied access to such a shindig." He suggested.

Nikolas smiled. "Zander's right again. Maybe I could contract an invitation or two." Nikolas understood what Zander was implying for once.

"I'd get on that soon." Luke advised him eyes on the computer screen. "It's getting pretty close to Halloween and who knows how many invitations are left this late." He typed and looked over his findings.

"Well?" Lucky asked, impatient. Emily didn't have all day, not with the thoughts that raced in his mind of what her captor could be capable of.

"I think our vampire friend can get a ticket or two, if he hops on it right away. Apparently it's 'the party of the year' from many critics." Luke reported.

"Who do I contact to get them," Asked Nikolas.

Luke looked back down at the computer and searched a couple screens. "Here, this is your specialty." Luke said as he simply turned the screen to Lucky's brother.

Nikolas rolled his eyes and frowned at the screen. That was quite a name, even he couldn't pronounce it! Still, he pulled out his cell phone and typed the number in.

"I'll be back shortly." He told everyone and took it in the back.

Lucky glanced at the screen himself. "Wow that's complicated. Nik speaks seven languages, yet he can't pronounce it. We have to go to this party and get Em back, the sooner the better."

"You aren't going to the party Lucky, or Lizzie for that matter." Luke told them.

"What? Are you kidding, Dad? Emily is my best friend. We have been through thick and thin together, I owe her this, and will not stay here in PC when she is in such danger!" Lucky exclaimed, outraged at Luke's announcement. He wasn't a child.

Luke looked calmly at Lucky and the quiet Elizabeth who was just as confused. "You, Emily, Nik and Elizabeth are stuck to the hip in school right?" At Lucky's and Liz's nods, he continued. "So if all four of you didn't come to school on the same day, wouldn't that be highly suspicious? Two missing would be a surprise, but more than that and our whole plan is busted. Besides, we need you here to hold down the fort, you can do that, right?" Luke explained to them.

Lucky looked at his dad and knew he was right, but didn't have to be happy about it. "So we have to concentrate on who won what war when Emily is in grave danger." He said through his teeth, trying to hide his anger.

"I never said you had to concentrate, just that you attend school and act like you are." Luke verified for them.

Nikolas quietly and unnoticed, reentered the diner as the tension came to a maximum. He cleared his throat for effect, asking for attention.

Everyone's eyes flew to him.

"I got three tickets. They are on their way." Nik replied and sat down. Lucky knew there was more to the story by the ever so slight twitch in his eyes and the furrowing of his eyebrows.

"And?" Lucky persuaded Nik to spill.

"And that means Jason, I and Luke can go." Nikolas said simply.

"And?" Lucky prodded. Nik knew Lucky knew he was hiding something, but Nik wasn't saying anything.

"And the big guy who I got the tickets from is highly suspicious. There was just something off about him and I could have sworn I heard static coming from his end." Nikolas responded.

"It's a cell phone Nik." Lucky suggested a solution.

"It was more than my cell phone Lucky. It was like he was using one of those devices that hides your real voice and when someone uses those, you know they are hiding something." Nikolas explained.

Lucky's brows rose at this and looked at his dad. "What do you think?" He asked.

Luke went back to his computer. "I think its time to do some research on this guy."

(Author's Notes - We hope you enjoyed this long awaited chapter! Please Review! -Evil Cleo & E.B.F.R.)