Hey, I wrote another chapter. I was kind of upset with the last one because I discovered after I posted it that I made a lot of pettily mistakes with past and present tense. (because of my changing it to a book instead of script.) Hopefully this chapter goes better.
The group carried/kicked their suitcases down a narrow hallway. There weren't any lights only windows with broken glass, letting in a little of the sun light as it was starting to set.
"I can't believe we spent the whole day walking. Between losing five hours, jetlag and walking four miles I'm pooped, I just want to sleep."
Felix' stomach growled. "I'm starved those peanuts on the plane couldn't feed a mouse."
"I could really go for a corndog right about now." Jake chimed in.
"Here you can have mine." She tossed a bag of airline peanuts to Felix from out of her purse. Felix missed and picked the bag up off the ground. "I'm allergic. We can't buy any food we only have about enough money left to make a call from a pay phone."
"Nice, thanks." Felix opened the bag and started eating.
Jake reaches his hand out and Felix poured some peanuts in. "What about you Hayley?"
"I'll be fine." She kept telling herself that anyway.
Jake reached in to back pocket and pulled out his key to unlock the door. Across the hall Hayley found her room and did the same.
"Good night guys." Hayley opened her door and walked in closing it behind her.
"See you in the morning." Felix smiled.
Jake dropped his suitcase and plops on his bed. He kicked his shoes off and stretched out. "This isn't exactly the Ritz, but as long as it's got a bed. It's all good."
"Maybe not all good…" Felix flipped the comforter off his bed to reveal a gross stain. He cringed. He then walked over and peered in the bathroom. "…and there's no toilet, sink or tub, just a bucket."
"For what?" Jake said ignorantly.
"I don't want to know." Felix closed the door to the bathroom, if you could call it that.
"AHHHHH…"
"That sounds like Hayley." Felix said worried.
Jake jumped up off the bed. They both rushed to her room, just as Hayley was running out.
"Are you, okay?" Felix asked concerned.
"Eww…Eww…eww…" Hayley had a disgusted look on her face.
"What was it?" Jake said equally concerned.
"A dead possum, under my bed." Hayley started ringing her hands.
Felix walked into the room to rid the room of the possum.
"You fight monsters and you're afraid of a little possum?" Jake put his hands on his hips. "Where's the sense in that?" His questions were answered with a shrug, which threw Jake off guard.
"I got rid of it through the window." Felix held his nose. "Every things okay in there now, I can't say so much for the smell though."
Hayley hurried past them. "It will be fine. Sorry I bothered you guys." She quickly entered her room and shut the door behind her.
Jake and Felix looked at each other extremely confused. They both shrugged their shoulders and headed back to their room. Jake sat back on his bed and turned to Felix. "That was really weird even for Hayley. She didn't even come up with a 'come back' when I was teasing her."
Felix complied. "I think this whole thing, not knowing where we are and not having any way to contact home is really getting to her. Even though she fights monsters, aces all her classes and somehow finds time to be one of the best cheerleaders on the squad she's still just a girl who's scared of possums. I think she's just a bit frazzled."
Jake wrinkles his eyebrows. "Frazzled? Really? I can't believe you just used that word." Felix picked up a pillow and threw it at him.
Hayley finished sliding her boots and stood up off her bed. She opened one of her suitcases and took out a blaster. She laid a note on the side of her bed stand and climbed out the window. When she landed on the ground she glanced over at the possum and smiled shaking her head.
Felix and Jake were looking through their suitcases. "Man, I was really looking forward to fighting new monsters." Jake pulled all his clothes out. "Felix do you have my toothbrush?"
"No." Felix said with a mouth full of toothpaste. He spit it out in the sink. "Maybe it got mixed up with Hayley's things."
"I hate to bother her, but a man's gotta brush." Jake walked out his door and shut it, then walked up to Hayley's door and knocked."Hayley do you have my toothbrush?" There was no answer on the other side of the door. "Hayley?" No answer. He knocked again. No answer. He knocked again. No answer. "Hayley?" Jake tried to turn the door knob, but it was locked. Then he stood back and used his foot to knock down the door and ran inside and start looking around.
Felix heard the noise running in the room and pointed to the broken door on the floor. "Why did you knock down Hayley's door? We don't have the money to pay for that you know." Felix reasoned. "Where's Hayley?"
"I don't know, I knocked three times and she didn't answer. I don't know where she is." He continued to peer around corners and look under things.
Felix walked over to the night stand and noticed the note. "I do." Jake walked up and stood behind glancing over Felix's shoulder to look at the note.
Felix read Hayley's note out loud. "Won't be gone long don't follow me. In case you come into my room well I'm gone, I glanced out my window and saw Mr. Clayton talking to the owner in a foreign language. There's something different about him I went to check to out. I knew you guys were tired so I didn't want to bother you.
~Hayley"
"She's crazy!" Jake exploded.
Felix continued "P.S. Jake, I'm not afraid of anything! Felix, check your pocket." Felix sat down the note and rampaged through his pockets. "She stole my Troop Tracker 3000."
"But when...did..."Jake started to realize. "… stupid possum!"
"I can't believe she went without us."
"Not for long." Jake run to his room and came back with his black troop utility belt and a hand held blaster that he stuck in one of the holders.
"She said she would be back shortly and not to follow her." Felix reminded Jake.
"But she knows we're supposed to stay as a group when fighting monsters." Jake opened the window. He started to left one foot out when Felix pulled him back trying to reason with him. "But she's not fighting monsters."
"If she's not fighting monsters then why did she take your Troop Tracker?" Jake jumped out the window.
Felix muttered under his breath as he followed Jake out the window. "Fine, why do I always let you win…You always make me do things…that I don't want to do." He landed on the ground next to Jake. "How are we going to find her anyway?"
Jake started twisting his wrist watch. "We can track her through her watch devise."
Hayley peered from behind a tree and watched as Mr. Clayton walked into the woods not far from their hotel. She glances down at Felix's tracking devise and noticed it picking up signals of the Doulos. "The Doulos?" Hayley whispered. She began to tip toe closer ducking and hiding behind trees as she went. She started getting deeper and deeper into the woods. Suddenly Mr. Clayton stopped in front of a large cave and walks inside. 'Where could he be going?' Hayley thought to herself. Suddenly a hand touched her on the shoulder and she jumped.
"Nothing scares you, does it?" Jake teased pulling his hand back.
Hayley grabbed them both by their shirts and pulled them down. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Jake broke down your door and we found your note."
"You broke down my door?" Hayley questioned Jake. "You know we don't have enough money to pay for that."
Jake looked at Felix. "I've been informed." "Why did you go snooping around without us?" Jake asked frustrated.
"Can I have my Troop Tracker 3000 back?" Felix held out his hand. Hayley placed it in his hand, guilt written all over her face. "It's the weirdest thing it keeps saying the Doulos is within a 30 foot radius. We defeated him already. It must be broken." Felix yanked it from her hand "We're not supposed to be looking for monsters, remember? Mr. Randall said he doesn't need us anymore."
"Mr. Randall didn't tell us that Mr. Clayton did. You said so yourself he didn't seem quite right. Well I've been following him and he's been acting offal strange."
"He probably knows you've been watching and is trying to teach you a lesson." Jake jumped in.
All three turned as they heard a loud *Bang* come from the cave Mr. Clayton had just entered.
"What do you think that was?" Felix' eyes widened.
"Guys I really think something's up." Hayley's face became very serious.
Jake reflected her face of concern. "But this might not have anything to do with monsters. This might be something for the police."
"There's only one way to find out." Hayley started to stand up and walk toward the cave. Jake grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back. "Where do you think you're going?"
Hayley shook out of Jake's grip. "We need to find out what's going on and the only way we can is by following Mr. Clayton."
"Okay, let's check it out." Felix complied.
They started walking toward the cave together and crouched down. "Where did you get the dead possum anyway?" Felix asked as he tip toed forward.
Hayley smiled. "I needed a way to get your tracker without you noticing. The possum came as a convenient surprise."
They all quietly snuck into the cave's mouth. As they walked deeper and deeper in Hayley points to a small entrance on the side of one of the walls in the cave. "Something tells me this is not a normal cave."
Felix glanced at Jake. "Did I mention I'm afraid of the dark? Felix hit his foot on part of the cave. "For the love of all that it powdered and wholly, Ouch!"
The trio walked inside the opening and part of the cave closed behind them leaving the room pitch black. A deep voice pierced the room leaving an echo. "So glad you guys could finally join us."
Torches were lit in the corners of the room and placed in holders in the cave surrounding them. As the room brightened they noticed the ceiling was rather high and the moon shined through a small opening above.
"Who are you? I recognize your voice." Hayley called to the shadowed figure.
"Of course you do, how could you forget me? I certainly never forgot you or anything about you."
"Who is it Hayley?" Jake asked concerned.
Light then filled the cave showing Mr. Clayton with glowing eyes shape shift into a large winged creature and another monster with large wings standing close by. The voice still came from a person who loomed in the darkness. He then stepped out from the dark to revel himself.