Chapter Eight

Hey guys! Sorry this chapter is a little short - I just felt that it was a good breaking point; we're going to learn something knew in the next few chapters about a character I'm betting you'll never thing I'll extend! (Actually, as I don't have too many characters, there's no way you would get it wrong on your second or third try) Anyways...

Some night we're having! In front of us is the insane convict (he was the insane one, not us,) and behind us is inspector Javert. I look behind us, making sure he was really there, when I notice something.

WHERE WAS ALEX?! I haven't seem him since…

Not since we ran from Javert. Oh God.

We can't return to camp without him or there will be a search party for him.

But we only have like a half an hour until the adults start waking up. It would take that long just to get back to the prison.

We have no choice. The camp would be less worried about one missing person than 5.

Alyssa will help us too. She really should have been here today. We could have used her spunk and sass.

Javert is standing right in front of the time portal. We'll never get back unless we can get him to leave. I check Irina's watch. 5:20. We need to get back to the camp, and now. Javert is busy getting out his handcuffs, watching us intently. If we run, do you think we could lead him on a wild goose chase until we go back through the portal?

No, he has a big, stick thing and a pistol that he could use to shoot at us.

I just realized that my solution for everything is just to run. And I'm the person complaining about all the running!

Wait, did the time portal just shimmer, like someone just ran through it?

No, there's no way, we would have seen them. Javert has managed to get one of the handcuffs ready to, well, handcuff somedoy. Yeah. He starts looking at me.

My brain has stopped.

That's when I hear a great thud.

Javert is on the ground, but he quickly gets back up again.

Then he and Alyssa duke it out, (the rest of us are too dumbstruck to help) until Alyssa aims a good kick at Javert's head and he passes out cold.

It's not been a fun night for Javert.

"Boom, yeah!" Screams Alyssa, doing her little happy dance. "That's what I'm talkin' about!"

However, there's still the convict to deal with, although he's looking a little more frightened after seeing Alyssa's performance, and the fact that we've already taken him down once.

Hey, we never really retrieved that toy pistol, now did we?

Now that I think about it, it's more of a Nerf gun.

Hey, Javert fell for it, maybe this guy will too!

I reach into the bushes, pull out the Nerf gun, and point it at him very threateningly. Then, I say in my most intimidating voice,

"Get. Out." He debates whether or not to listen to me, then slowly turns around and walks away.

Once he is well out of earshot, I start panting really hard and clutching my chest.

"Where were you?" Tersisa demands Alyssa. "You were supposed to be here! Do you know how many times tonight that would have been useful?!"

"It's not completely my fault!" Alyssa snaps back. "I thought we were supposed to meet there at 2:00, not 12:00! I've spent the last five hours looking for you when I heard some people coming towards me and decided to save your guts! A little thank you right now would be nice!"

Irina runs up to Alyssa and hugs her. "OMG thank you SO much! If it wasn't for you, we'd all be arrested right now!"

"Okay, okay, you can get off me now." Irina stops hugging Alyssa.

"So wait," she asks, "where's Alex?"

"We'll tell you when we get back to camp," I say, and we run (hey, this time not my idea) back to camp and into our tents where we hastily get changed and sit on our sleeping bags.

We then take turns telling Alyssa the turn of events that had happened in the past five hours. Not, the best ending, two of our friends were captured.

"Wow," said Alyssa. "Do you think there's been a world record set for making the most enemies in five hours?" Irina laughs and slaps Alyssa playfully.

"Guys!" barks Katie. "We have to focus! Alex is trapped in some dungeon with Valjean, and there's no way to get him back until tonight! We have to think of a plan!"

"How about we go back to the jail, armed with the Nerf gun, put some hard rocks in it (we can do a google search for what the hardest rock is), bust into the jail, and run until we find Alex! I can even print out a map of Toulon prison!" Alyssa squealed. "Are there any cute guys there?! I wanna kiss 'em! Oh, we're gonna have the time of our lives! Yeehaw, everybody, let's go right now!"

So that's Alyssa. She's kind of crazy, not to mention boy obsessed. If she was aloud to party 24/7, she would. She's also quite attractive, with her rusty red tangled wavy hair almost reaching down to her shoulders. She looks almost like a younger version of Alessia Cara in her "Here" music video (sorry, I'm obsessed with that song!) She's an awesome fighter, and can sway almost any boy close to her age with her flirting abilities. Shew and Terisa are sort of the closest out of our group.

"Alyssa, we need to be a little more prepared than that. Also, have you noticed that the rest of the camp is beginning to wake up?" We all listened for a moment and hear the sounds of tired voices.

"Oh," Alyssa admitted. "Yeah. That."

"And, I haven't slept for like, 24 hours!" Terisa adds. "Let's get at least 10 minutes of sleep!" Of course, nobody argued with that. It was about 7:30 when they woke us up.

"Girls, have you seen Alex?"

Of course by now, we're way good at lying.

"What?! Um, uh, no, of course we don't know where Alex is! How would we know where Alex is?"

Yeah. She didn't suspect a thing.

Stay tuned for chapter 9!