Chapter 9: Second Attack

I'd like to thank LittleGloriaFaith24 for giving me some ideas for this chapter (and for the story.)

That next morning, Roxanne was up early unusual for her. Most of the time Rose was always up before her, but it seemed lately she has been sleeping in. Anyways, Roxanne was awakened by a phone call for herself and her sister. She got up, and went to the bathroom right next to her sister's room. She pulled out the toothpaste tube, and started brushing her teeth.

As she brushed her choppers back and forth, she couldn't help but hear noises coming from Rose's room. Roxanne pressed her head closer to the wall, to see if she could hear anything. But all it sounded like was Rose's muffled voice…yelling at someone. At times, even screaming out her voice. Roxanne spit, then rinsed her mouth. She gave one last inspection to make sure her teeth were completely clean, and then she hurried out of the bathroom.

She went and knocked on Rose's door. But when she never answered, Roxanne figured it was time for her to enter in herself. She slowly walked in, and noticed Rose was in her bed, talking in her sleep. But Roxanne knew that Rose needed to get up. So without even a second thought, she went to her sister's shoulder and started shaking it.

"Rose, come on get up!" She yelled at her.

Finally, Rose shot her head up, and gave an evil stare at her sister. "Roxanne, stop waking me up in the middle of the night!!" She spoke, and then sunk her head back onto her pillow.

Confused, Roxanne shook her sister once more, telling her to get up. "Rose! It's 8:30!!"

Rose jumped up, and looked out her window. Sure enough, it was bright and sunny outside. Still not convinced, Rose looked over to her digital clock. It read: 8:32. For some reason, Rose could not believe it was already 8:30! It seemed like she was only asleep for 2 hours!!

"Let's go Rose, get dressed! Jake just called five minutes ago!" She set, throwing a pair of pink pants and a flower shirt that was Rose's favorite onto her sister's bed.

Once Roxanne said the word 'Jake', she got Rose's attention. "Jake called!?" She got all excited. "What did he want?"

"He says there has been another attack from the 'mystery killer!' He says we can join them down on in the 5th avenue alleyway in 15 minutes. SO YOU BETTER HURRY UP, GET DRESSED ALREADY!"

Rubbing her eyes, Rose pushed her feet to the edge of her bed. "Already, I'll get up!" She yawned. Even though she was really tired, she couldn't miss a chance with Jake.

Rose quickly got dressed, and the two sisters left the house. They trailed down the sidewalk, and headed to 5th street. Luckily, their house wasn't too far from there, so they didn't travel long. And they seemed to come at the right time too, because Jake, Lao Shi, and Trixie (Spud was too lazy to get up that early, so he didn't make it) were just entering into the alleyway too. Roxanne called out to them, and they both caught up with the group.

"Sorry we're late, Rose slept in!" She joked around. Rose gave a signal with her face, telling her sister to shut up, without actually saying it.

"It's cool, at least you guys showed up. So, where is this creature suppose to be!?" Jake spoke out.

Lao Shi hinted to his grandson, and pointed out his arm to the left of him. Deeper into the alleyway, you could see a small animal sitting straight up. The whole group ran in the cramped alley, to check it out.

A small furry creature laid there. Its fur was brown, and it had a little green elf outfit on. Jake picked him up, to look deeper at his wounds. For now at least, he was a live.

Jake noticed the little guy had a slice mark almost on half of his neck line. And another scar to his forehead. "Who did this to you?"

"I…I don't know. It was dark, and I couldn't s…see. It came out of no where!" He yelled out.

"Come on, we need to get you some help." Jake dragoned up, and prepared to take off.

But the little furry dude fell down his head onto Jake's palm. "Please…it'll get me! I…I need to hide!" He whispered.

"We'll protect you, but first you-"

"No!" He screamed out. "I…need to hide…" His voice started to get slower, and his eye lids slowly went down. "I'm…so scared." Suddenly, his whole body was completely lying in his hand.

Jake dragoned down, and inspected the creature. Lao Shi grabbed his arm, and touched it lightly. "He's gone." He whispered.

A sudden burst of sadness went through the group. "Poor guy." Trixie bent down her head, it was bad enough knowing that he dyed but seeing it with her own eyes, was heartbreaking. Jake set the little guy down in the spot where he found him, next to the trash. There wasn't anything, they could do for him.

The group walked out of the alley, and back onto the sidewalk. Everyone still felt like crying, from that incident. But Lao Shi knew, he had to stay professional about it. "Jake, two killings in less than a day isn't normal. We need to find out who is doing this, and why." He looked to his grandson.

"I know G, but how are we gonna find this dude…?"

"Check to see if you can find any information that will lead us to the attacks. Before anyone else gets hurt." Lao Shi patted his small legs down on the ground, and walked into his electronic shop.

To Jake, Gramps suggestion seemed impossible. "How am I suppose to find something, if I don't know who I'm looking for!!!?" He yelled, but it was a useless question because his grandpa wasn't even there to answer it.

Later in the day, we find Jake half asleep on the computer, looking for any evidence. The three girls (and Spud, who finally joined them) sat on the chairs next to the desk, making conversations.

"So what was it!?" Jake asked Rose, as he searched through useless information.

Rose closes her eyes, trying to remember. "Well, in my dream, I see myself in my Huntsclan outfit, talking to the Huntsman. He's yelling at me…trying to force me to do something. I yell back, disagreeing with him."

Spud looked at Rose, as if he was interested in her story. "Yeah, what happens next!?" He yelled.

"I don't remember…SOMEONE woke me up this morning!" She stared at her sister sitting next to her.

Roxanne gave a small hush of her body. But it soon was over. "Hey it was 8:30! You needed to get up anyways…" She grabbed the cushion on the chair she was sitting in, and banged it friendly on Rose's head. Just like close sister's, they always joked like that.

This time, however, Jake was more into Rose's dreams. Because the last time Rose had a dream like that, it ended up to be true. "So do you think the Huntsman is back!?"

"Hmm…I don't know. I wasn't using my dream charm, so how could put myself into my dream…?" She still was puzzled herself.

Once that conversation was over, an awkward silence entered into the room. All people could hear was the typing of Jake's fingers as they searched through his information. "Man, this is so pointless. Please let's do something else, just so I won't have to do this!!!" He pleaded out.

"Hmm…" Spud thought this out. "We can go see that movie I wanted to see yesterday!" He was referring to the movie Jake said was for '10 year olds'

"Fine whatever; we'll see your stupid zombie movie." He jumped off the chair, and headed for the door. Everyone gave a look like, are you serious!? But no one decided to say anything, because at least it was something to do.

They all walked over to the cinema down the street. Bought tickets, and went inside the theater. Spud joined them later, with a pile of snacks in his hand. "This is gonna be so cool!" He shuddered with excitement. Roxanne's attention was turned to Spud who was sitting right to the left of her. All she could do is shake her head at him, and giggle.

"And now, our feature presentation." Said a voice from a speaker. Everyone in the audience cheered.

Roxanne took a drink of her soda, and noticed she only had a bit of soda left. "Hey Rose can I have some-?" Suddenly she looked to her shoulder, and Rose wasn't in her seat.

OOH :) (Just to let you know, the little brown furry creature can be seen in the episode, Something Fishy This Way Comes. Not sure what is their names, so I didn't mention it xD)

Just to let you know, I might not update any of my stories until Monday. I'll be very busy, the next four days :(