-1Okay, this is chapter 5 (duh) and so far everyone thinks its gotten all WAAAA!!! BOO! HOO!

But seriously, I read it through, and it really was WAAAA!!! BOO! HOO!

Sorry if I bummed you all out with it. . .

And for you people who are wondering how Jay can still be alive from not eating for three days, he just didn't eat the day before he got locked in the shed with Senel. He probably just had other stuff to do.

Bet you he wish he did though! XD

Please read and tell me what you think.

Chapter5:

It was nearly four o'clock when the party, excluding Senel and Jay, were all arriving at Will's house. They were all getting extremely concerned from their failed searches for the past day. None of them had any other idea where else they could be.

Except outside the city of course.

Norma and Shirley both sat down on the couch on the opposite side of the door while Grune walked over to the window and stared out happily at the stars and moon. Chloe leaned up against the wall with her arms folded as Moses sat on the other couch placing his head in his hands, slumped over and sighed.

"I'm going to go check on Harriet." Will said.

"All right." Chloe replied without looking up. Will then walked through the door to the hallway and trudged up the stairs.

The rest of the party waited silently for his return. Finally, Moses broke the silence with a loud grunt.

"If only Jay were here to help us look for Jay. I'm sure he'd help us find him."

"Uh. . .what?" Norma asked with a confused look on her face.

"Well, we have been lookin' a while and haven't found neither of em'. If Jay weren't the one missing we could find him easily."

Chloe's head rose and she stared at Moses for a few seconds. "Of course it would be easier. Jay is an information dealer. Its his job to gather information." She left the wall and walked toward the countertop silently.

Suddenly, Norma jumped to her feet and yelped with excitement.

"OH! OH! What if we get the scallops to help us out!"

Everyone looked up at her. "What do you mean, Norma?" Shirley asked still sitting on the couch.

"JJ lives with the Orisorin, right? And they help him gather all that know-it-all stuff, right?" The other five nodded as Norma ran to the middle of the room. "So all we gotta do is ask those Scallops for help and they're both as good as found!!!"
"That's actually not such a bad idea, Bubbles." Moses said with a surprised look on his face.

Norma smiled happily as Will came back into the room.

"We've gotta plan, Teach!" she exclaimed to him cheerfully.

"What do you mean?" Will asked with an unemotional expression. Chloe walked next to Norma and stood beside her. "We should go and ask Poppo and the others for help tomorrow. They should be able to find them quicker than us alone."

"Yep. Hard to believe that little dummy came up with something that clever, ain't it Will?" Moses laughed as Norma scowled at him with a red face.

Grune then sighed with happiness and yawned loudly. This startled everyone, for they had forgotten she was even in the room. "My, I sure am tired. Isn't it about bed time, everyone?"

Shirley got up off the couch. "We should all get to sleep if we're going to search some more tomorrow."

Will nodded in approval. "Lets all meet in front of the entrance to the city in the morn---uh. . .in a few hours."

They all said goodnight and headed out the door as Will went back upstairs to his room. Moses and Norma were just out the door when something struck Moses.

"Hey Bubbles. You were the one to go check up on Jay, right?"

"Yep! Why?" she asked stretching.

"Couldn't you have just asked for Poppo, Quppo, and Pippo's help while you were there?"

Norma suddenly stopped and turned red from embarrassment. "Oh, uh. . .that's just you're imagination!"

She then ran off down the road leaving Moses standing bewildered in the middle of the street.

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Grune walked out to the stream behind Will's house just before the sun began to peek over the hills on the Legacy. For some reason, she didn't feel like going home.

Grune stared down at the crystal like waters and examined a small fish swimming past her. She bent down as the fish stopped to eat some bugs off the surface.

"Hello little fishey! I'm going to name you 'Wilber'!" She reached her hand into the water in attempts to pet the fish, but it became spooked and swam away after slapping its tail hard against the water.

"OH! How rude, Wilber! You should say 'excuse me' when you need to take off somewhere."
She shrugged her shoulders and walked over to the shed next to the stream and began to build a sandcastle while singing happily to herself.

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Jay was still kneeling next to the unconscious Senel as he noticed the sun beginning to come up, flooding light into the crowded area. Jay rubbed his swollen from all his crying and lack of sleep eyes.

He stared down at Senel who was breathing heavily from a sudden fever he had obtained a few hours after the bite from the strange animal. His cheeks were tinted red and beads of sweat rolled down his face. A few times Jay noticed Senel would groan or cough and then tilt his head to one side gritting his teeth furiously. He hadn't even woken up or said a word since the bite knocked him out cold.

After the sun had gotten high enough for Jay to tell it was early in the morning, maybe four or five he thought, Jay unwrapped the handkerchief around Senel's arm to inspect the damage. He couldn't see how bad the maul was in the dark.

He quickly but carefully pulled the wraps from underneath each other slowly revealing the wounds.

Jay gasped when he saw the bite marks on Senel's left arm. The wound on his wrist had become red and infected.

"How the hell could it have gotten infected so quickly!?" Jay asked himself shaking. Senel groaned again in his sleep and moved around his bear feet kicking his shoes lying beside him. Jay had taken off Senel's shoes, unbuttoned his shirt, and removed all the weights to try and cool down his fever. But it hadn't worked, the infection on his arm was just causing his temperature to rise by minute.

Jay placed a cold hand on Senel's forehead. Heat rose to his skin letting Jay know his fever was highly over one hundred degrees.

"J--jay. . ." Senel's eyes opened just a bit, revealing his lightless blue pupils. His voice sounded weak and strained.

"Senel! How are you feeling!?" Jay asked anxiously. He could see in Senel's eyes that he wasn't going to get a strait answer.

"Where. . . .where are we? Why is. . . ." he stopped in the middle of his sentence and gasped as a shot of pain jetted up his arm and through his whole body.

"Senel, what's wrong!?" Jay said noticing Senel's agonized face.

"What happened?" Senel questioned in a shattered voice.

"You were bitten by some kind of monster. It injected a very strong poison into your main blood vain in you wrist." Jay laid the bloody cloth on top of the wound so more infection couldn't get into the bite.

Suddenly, Senel heard a faint noise coming from outside the shed. He tilted his head slightly towards the window thinking it was just his head playing tricks on him. It sounded like a woman singing to him, or maybe it was just the wind.

"Jay. Do you here that?" Senel asked weakly. Jay looked up from doctoring Senel's bad arm.
"What?"

"That. . . noise. It sounds like someone singing. . ."

Jay listened carefully and heard what Senel was talking about. "Its coming from right next to us!?" Jay crawled quickly to the wall and listened to the sound on the outside.

"HELLO!!! Is anyone there!!?" Jay yelled as loud as he could to the outside force. "HEY! IS ANYONE OUT THERE!!!???"

He heard a few footsteps coming from the outside. Then he heard a familiar voice.

"Oh, hello, Jay!"

". . .!"

"What are you doing? Are we playing hide and seek?"

". . .Grune!?"

"You count to thirty and I'll go hide!"
"NO! No, Grune! Senel and I are trapped in here!" Jay's voice became shaky and anxious. "I need you to go get Will!!! Tell him Senel's hurt and we need to get him to the hospital! Tell him he's running a high fever and he's falling in and out of consciousness! Do you understand!!??"

He heard silence on the other side of the wall. "Grune? Are. . .are you there!?"

"Goodness! Look at that cute little squirrel! I'll name you 'Edward' little squirrel!"
Jay's face began to turn red from annoyance. "You know what, just go get Will. . .please."

"Okey-dokey! You want me to go and get you a cheese cake with chocolate sauce!"

"What . . . ? No! Go get someone who can help!"

Grune walked over to the door and stared at it for a moment. "Maybe you should turn the knob! That's how I go to somewhere else!"
"We've tried! Its locked on the outside! Can you open it!?" Even though he knew very well he would have to explain the process step-by-step, he took the only option he had left.

"Why do you need me to open the door? Are you're arms broken?" Grune's sweet voice suddenly went strangly serious, but the tone didn't replace the question.

"Oh my God . . .All right, Grune. First off, put you're hand on the door knob. Got it?"

Grune put her hand on the knob as Jay instructed. "Right! Now what!?" Her happy tone returned.

"Now turn you're hand, with it still on the knob, to your right." Jay saw the knob on his side of the door turn slowly. His heart beat quicker as the knob turned towards him.

This is it!!! We're finally going to get out of her! Now Senel can get the help he needs and neither of us will die of starvation or dehydrate!!! WE CAN GET A SNOWCONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then, the knob stopped. It stopped turning. Jays heart sank into his stomach as the sad realization swept over him again.

"Uh-oh! The knobs turning, but the doors not doing what I tell it to."

Jay sat still on his knees against the wall, staring down at his hands. The door was locked on the inside, and for some reason . . .the outside too. It didn't make any sense to him.

"Okay then. Grune, go and get someone. Anyone nearby, and bring them here. To this spot."

"Alrighty then, JJ!!!" Grune said impersonating Norma happily. Jay heard running footsteps start up then slowly fade away. He looked over to Senel and noticed that he had again drifted into an unconscious sleep.

He couldn't help but feel they were both doomed and that Grune had already forgotten her simple little mission.

"DAMN IT! DAMN IT!! DAMN IT!!!" Jay screamed and beat his head hard against the wall from anger and frustration. "We're three feet from a house!!! And we've been here for TWO DAYS!!! Damn it!"

Jay slumped his head down as a throbbing sensation flooded through his mind.

Out of all the people to come and discover their location, it had to be the person who couldn't even remember where she was or where she was headed.

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It was early morning when the group arrived at the Orisorin village. They all noticed the furry animals running around nervously without hesitation.

"They must have been looking for JJ, too." Norma said as an otter ran beside her, tripped, and then scurried back to its feet.

"We should at least ask them where all they have searched." applied Shirley with her hands wringed to her chest.

When they made it to the Scallop Brothers house, it was empty except for Pippo standing in the middle of the floor looking worried.

"Hey Pippo!" Moses exclaimed running up to him. "We got a big problem."

"Have any of you seen JJ or Senny for a while?" asked Norma looking around the empty house.

Pippo got a surprised look on his cute little otter face. "You mean their not with you!?"

Everyone shook their head no.

"Where all have you and the others searched? If you have, that is." Will asked folding his arms.

"We've searched the Hidden Passage, the Man Eating Runes, the bridge plain, and the Ruins of Frozen Light. So far, we haven't had any luck at all."
Moses face sunk to a sad expression. "Maybe their not on the Legacy." Everyone stared at him for his comment with stunned faces.

"If they were taken to the mainland, we could never find them." Chloe said with sadness filling her voice.

"What if So-So got em'!!" Norma cried suddenly.

"Why would Solon want to take them both at the same time!?" Moses asked angrily.

"Well what bright ideas do you have, Red!?"

"I damn well know we would have found em' by now if Solon had the balls to go and kidnap both of em'!"

"Oh, sure! Or what if they just both decided to commit suicide at the same time and some stray dog came up and dragged them both into the nearest river!? Maybe we should make you check the ocean!!!"

"Shut up, Bubbles!!"

The two continued to lash out at one another until Shirley finally spoke up. "We've checked all around the Quite Lands and the city. Where else could they be?"

"All that leaves is the Wings of Light, the Great Hallow, the Bandits Lair, the Altar of the sea. . ." Will stated.

"The Crystal forest, the Crags, the mountain path, the Forrest of No Return, Mirage Palace. . ." Shirley continued.

"Argh. . .there's just way to many places to look!" Chloe complained to herself while Norma and Moses continued to quarrel in the background. Grune stood by and watched for a while before remembering what she was suppose to have remembered hours ago.
"OH! Why don't we just go back to the city get them?" Norma and Moses stopped bickering and stared at her along with the others.

"What do you think we've been doin' for the past couple of days, woman!?" Moses questioned furiously.

"Yeah, G-Girl! Those two have been gone for two days! They're not anywhere near the city." Norma put her hands on her hips and sighed deeply.

"Then how was I talking to Jay just before I went to bed? Oh, I'm confused."
The rest of the party, excluding Poppo, all went pale with disbelief. "Grune, do you know where Senel and Jay are!?" Shirley asked nervously running up to the older woman.

"Why yes. I do."

"Can you remember?" Will inquired with worry written all over his face.

"Hmmm. . .It was by a lovely river. I saw a fish and a squirrel. And for some reason, Jay wanted to teach me how to turn a door knob."

"Anything else!?" Chloe said anxiously.

"There was a tiny building with a bigger building next to it." Everyone stared apprehensively at her as she paused several times in the middle of her sentence.

"What else!? Think, woman!!!" Moses ordered.

"Yeah! Lives might be on the line!" retorted Norma.

"It happened in the city, right behind you're house, Will!" Grune finished with a wide smile as the party gasped.

"The tool shed!?" Will asked, his voice full of both worry and doubt.

"They've have been there! This whole time!!!" exclaimed Moses with astonishment.

"We've been walking by them for two days without even noticing them!" followed Norma's remark.

Shirley ran to the door and stopped to turn to the others. "We need to hurry back to Werites Beacon! They could be in trouble!"

"Right! Lets go everyone!" Chloe ran to catch up with Shirley as everyone else followed closely behind.

Pippo stood alone in the room with a bewildering look on his face. "Did I miss something?" he asked himself. He scratched his head with cute paw.

That was chapter 5!!!!!

Hope you liked it and the rest will be here pretty soon!!!!

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See-ya!!!