Chapter 11: Early Riser

The sun had already risen that next morning. Another early morning for Roxanne, she decided she should stop her bad habit of sleeping in, to keep this streak up of waking up before her sister. It felt good, to not sleep the whole afternoon.

Out of her pajamas, and ready to start the day, she walked out of her room, and into the bathroom. She grabbed out the tube of toothpaste, and proceeded with brushing her teeth.

Roxanne violently moved her hand back and forth, making sure that her teeth were clean and ready to start the day. But as she spit into the sink for the first time, she heard a thump that shook the whole second floor.

Following the thump, there was a bang of a door. From the direction of the sound, it sounded like it came from the room next to the bathroom. "Hmm, I can't believe Rose is up this early, for once." Roxanne thought to herself. But the theory wasn't that believable, she had to see it for herself.

While brushing with one hand, Roxanne opened up the bathroom door with her other. Sure enough, three feet to the left was Rose. She was fully dressed, even had her backpack on, what a shocker!

"Hey Rose, I was thinking that maybe we could go down to the mall today." Roxanne blurted out as she brushed her teeth. I don't think Rose could even understand what she was saying… "I heard they were having a sale on shoes, and I really could use a-"

Rose stopped in her tracks, and immediately turned around to her sister. Roxanne dropped her toothbrush, on the floor. Slowly, she walked backwards, away from her sister. Rose's eyes were glowing bright green, almost neon green. Roxanne got a glimpse of Rose's birthmark, which was the same color as her eyes. "Umm…Rose, are you okay?" She trembled. Something was in fact wrong, with her this morning.

Just then, Rose brushed her arm backwards, reaching out for her Huntstaff. She quickly positioned it forward, facing toward her sister. She started to charge it up, to make the energy stronger.

A blast of green energy blew right at her. Roxanne flew backwards, crashing into her vanity. Luckily it was on stun, or it could have killed her. But that didn't mean, it didn't hurt. Roxanne grabbed her head, with her left hand. She slowly picked herself up, and onto her feet. Other than she might have a concussion, Roxanne seemed pretty intact. Besides a couple of busies on her elbow and back calf, and the burn mark left on her shirt and chest, she was fine. But right now, her health didn't worry her. Something strange was up with Rose, and she must find out.

Trying to focus her vision, Roxanne kept her left hand over her head. She tipped over at the entryway of her door, but picked herself up. She hurried down the stairs, and stared at her father that was blocking her path.

"Hey honey, where you going in such a hurry?" He chuckled.

Roxanne didn't care about her father right now. She pushed him out of the way, and looked around the house. "Dad, where did Rose go!!?" She asked him.

"She just stepped out not to long ago."

"You let her out!?" Roxanne ran to the door, and quickly put on her shoes. Her father stared down at her, puzzled. "Dad, something's wrong with Rose. I need to find her!!" She quickly ran out the door.

Franticly running down the sidewalk, she searched every corner or alleyway near her neighborhood; each turned up empty. Roxanne started to get nervous, and scared. For the first time, she seemed like the hero, and it was making her worried. She stopped before crossing a crosswalk, and scanned the city around her. No where, was her sister to be found.

Roxanne grabbed her head; it started to hurt even worse. She decided to take this time, to think this thing out. "Okay Roxanne, think!" She encouraged herself. Suddenly, an idea popped up into her head. "I know!" She praised, "I'll go get Jake! He'll know what to do!" She then trotted down the crosswalk, even during the traffic. She then continued to walk forward, to the electronics' shop.

"Come on G, why did you drag me over here this early!?" Jake yelled at Lao Shi, and they both entered the shop. It was summer vacation; even he didn't get up this early for dragon training.

"I'm sorry Jake, but we must find the person behind these attacks. We cannot waste anymore time." Gramps walked over to the backroom.

There was no use arguing with him, all Jake could do is pout, and start his search. But of course, Jake wasn't going to do that. He walked over to the desk Fu was sitting at, and leaned onto it. "Hey Fu, wanna do me a favor?" He gleamed over to the Shar-pei.

"Oh no, no way kid. Last time I was the one searching for those Aztec skulls; it's your turn this time." Jake gave an evil stare to Fu, but then slowly started to make his way to the computer.

Suddenly, Roxanne bashed through the door. She held onto the door, holding her chest burn. Not only was she in pain, but she was exhausted from the running. "Jake…" She paused to catch her breathe. "Rose is in trouble!!" She yelled, almost falling over to the ground.

Jake jumped off the stool, and staring at her from afar. "Where is she!?" He asked, in a concerned tone of voice.

Letting go of the door handle, Roxanne slowly went to her knees. Jake slowly started, to walk in front of her. "I…I don't know. She ran out of the house, and I can't find her."

Rose, was missing? Jake suddenly jumped into action, he ran over to the door, ready to leave. "We have to find her." But Roxanne stopped him.

"Wait! Something's different about her." Jake let go of the door, and looked down at her. "Her eyes, and glowing bright green. And her birthmark, the same. I think she's being mind controlled, or something…" Roxanne reached up at the door handle, and brought herself up to her feet.

Fu Dog jumped down to the floor, and walked over to the bookshelf. "Green eyes and birthmark you say? Hmm…I've heard that somewhere before." He grabbed out a magical encyclopedia, and started to search though the pages.

"You keep searching Fu, we'll go find Rose." Jake firmly spoke. He then went into the backroom, to alert Gramps of the news. Then, he scooped Roxanne into his arms, dragoned up, and flew out back door.

Sadly, we are coming to an end, to our story. I predict probably 2, or 3 chapters are left. x(, I'm still debating about a fourth sequel, quaduel? (no, that's not going to work xDD)