CHAPTER FOUR

On The News

"Is the little guy going to be ok, mom?" Kendall asked, leaning his head on his mother's shoulder. Katie was on Mrs. Knight's other side, in the same position.

The three of them were sitting in the waiting room, waiting for the doctor to come back to tell them whatever he could. They weren't relatives of the boy, so they wouldn't be able to get a lot of information. James, Carlos, and Logan had gone off to find something to eat.

"He should be," Mrs. Knight replied, lightly patting her children on the head. "We got him here just in time."

"What was wrong with him?" Katie asked, still anxious.

She had been at the pool for only a few minutes before Kendall had rushed in, grabbing her and dragging her out of the pool area. Not answering to any of her threats to put her down and only telling her what happened as soon as they got to the hospital.

"Well, from what I can understand, he hasn't been in a home for a while." Mrs. Knight replied. "He's an orphan and has been wandering the streets for a couple of days now. The police had been looking for this boy for a long time." She explained. "He had a nasty cut on his arm and it was infected pretty badly. But like I said, we got him here in time and he'll be fine."

"Good." Katie replied with a soft smile.

"Hey dude, we got you something to eat." James announced he and Logan and Carlos walked back with arms filled with chips, candy, and gum. "We got a lot of choices, so here!" Kendall stared as James thrust all of the food onto his lap.

"Whoa!" Katie cried as she grabbed a package of skittles. "How did you get all of this stuff?"

"That was Carlos' fault actually," Logan replied, clenching his jaw as he turned to the hockey-helmeted boy, who was then shoving potato chips into his mouth. "Apparently he thinks that if he can't play hockey in the Palm Woods he can play it here."

"He shoved the stick into the machine and broke it, didn't he?" Mrs. Knight asked sternly.

"Yep." Logan and James replied.

Kendall couldn't help but laugh at his friends; it helped him that they were there with him, because he hated hospitals. He had been there many times; once for breaking his wrist, another for bruising some ribs, another for breaking his leg. All of those came from hockey fights. He was fine when it came to playing hockey, but if he had to go to the hospital afterwards he wasn't a very happy camper. It's not like Kendall was scared of hospitals or needles, he just hated them.

"Why don't you go find a TV to watch," Mrs. Knight suggested. "I'll stay here and wait for the doctor to come back."

"Ok, mom," Kendall leaned over and gave his mother a kiss on the cheek before waving his hand towards Katie. "C'mon Katie."

"See you later, mom." Katie gave a small wave before grabbing some more of the candy and following her brother and her friends. Mrs. Knight went back to reading her magazine. She didn't look up until she heard someone clear their throat. Mrs. Knight slowly put down her magazine when she saw a security guard in front of her, arms folded across his chest and glaring at her. "Uh," she laughed nervously. "I guess you're wondering why all of this candy and chips are sitting here." She stated nervously.

"There's nothing on this TV!" James complained as he rapidly moved through channels, holding his finger against the 'Channel Up' button.

"Yeah, let's just watch the news!" Logan snapped as he grabbed the remote from James' hand and changed the channel. He rolled his eyes when he heard his friends' groans and loud boos. (Thankfully they were the only ones that were in the room.) "It's not going to kill you to learn about what's going on with the world."

"Yes it will!" Carlos cried, dramatically rolling onto the floor.

"You have such weird friends!" Katie laughed, shaking her head. Kendall was laughing too as James launched himself off of the couch and onto Carlos.

"Yeah, but they're cool." Kendall replied and glanced up at the TV. His eyebrows furrowed together and then his eyes widened as he reached out towards Logan, slapping him in the face, trying to get the remote, without taking his eyes off of the TV. "Remote! Logie, give me the remote!"

"Ow!" Logan cowered away. "Fine! Just stop hitting me!" He leaned out of the way and handed Kendall the remote, glaring at his friend. Kendall quickly scanned the remote and turned up the volume before paying closer attention.

"-no one could explain what had happened." The reporter was saying into the microphone. He was standing in front of a farmer's market. Behind him was a large guy that was sweating a lot. "all of the accounts that I am given are the same. They saw a teenage girl running away from two teenage guys. Apparently they had climbed onto the roof of this building behind me," he gestured behind him. "And the girl jumped off the side. When people rushed over to see if she was ok, she was nowhere to be found." The reporter cleared his throat and turned to the man beside him, who had a giant sweat stain on the front of his shirt and under his arms, and was wiping sweat off of his forehead.

"Ew" Kendall and Katie winced, making the same face.

"This man had seen the girl." The reporter turned the microphone towards him. "Now, can you tell us exactly what you had seen today?"

"Sure thing," the man replied in his gruff voice as he wiped sweat out from under his arms and wiped his hand on his shirt. "I was mindin' my own business, helping a customer. And she goes walking by, stealing some of my apples. I was going to chase her, but there were two teenage guys already on her tail. So I just stayed back where I was."

"Can you tell us what she looked like?" The reporter asked.

"All I can say is that she had black hair, I don't know, I didn't get a good glimpse." The man replied.

"Thank You," The reporter turned back to the camera. "In the same news, we have had reports of supernatural things happening around the LA area. One civilian can swear that he had seen a small boy riding by him on a piece of wood that looked like a staff. And another has sworn that they had seen teenagers that had lion tails, hands, and feet running around. No one has gotten a really good picture of them, but here is one."

Kendall's eyes widened as on the TV appeared a grainy shot of a boy with silver hair and silver eyes, holding a giant hammer. He couldn't really see the guys' face, but he was sure that this was the same guy that was in his dream.

"Kendall?" Katie waved a hand in front of her brother's face. "Kendall, are you ok? What's wrong?"

"That…that boy." Kendall stammered, pointing at the screen. "I've seen him before."

"What?" Logan snorted. "Did you take the picture." He sat up, eyes wide and an amused expression on his face. "Are there such things as witches and ghosts too?" he made an 'ooohing' sound and laughed along with Carlos and James.

"No, no," Kendall shook his head. "I've seen him in a dream!"

"A dream?" James repeated and looked concerned. "Kendall, did Carlos hit you in the head with a hockey stick?"

"Yes," Kendall admitted. "But I'm not making this up! I swear! I saw this in a dream earlier this afternoon." He turned to face his friends and his sister. "When we got back from the mall, I went to my room and took a nap. I saw him in my dream. He saved me from being eaten by a wolf."

"Kendall, wolves aren't indigenous to Los Angeles." Logan stated calmly.

"Guys," Everybody turned when they heard Mrs. Knight's voice. "The boy is awake; we can go see him now."

"Kendall," Logan stood up and placed a hand on his friends' shoulder as the others hurried out to go to the boy's room and check on him. "Let's go see how the kid is doing and we can talk about this later. Alright?"

"Yeah," Kendall frowned. "Ok."

"Where are you been?"

The girl looked up and smiled sheepishly as she entered the alleyway behind a large tarp that covered a pile of junk. She set her broken bag on the ground and took off her cloak, brushing her black hair off of her forehead. Three boys and a girl were standing in front of her. The smallest boy was the one that had spoken.

"Sorry, I got a little sidetracked." She apologized. The other girl raised an eyebrow, her facial expression not changing.

"Koto and Rilian?" she guessed.

"Yeah," the girl admitted. "But there was this kid that I found, he was really hurt, so I picked him up and took him to an apartment where I knew there were people inside that would take care of him."

One of the boys smiled as he shook his head. "You always were the kind of person that had to stop whatever she was doing to help a kid."

"Yeah," the girl agreed as she walked over to a bunch of broken boxes that was sitting in a can. She held out her hand, a fireball hovering over it and thrust her arm forward. A rush of flame moved out from the fireball and hit the broken boxes, immediately igniting it. "That's my curse." She looked around at her companions. "But I think we should go see how he's doing tomorrow."

"That means that we're going to have to get some new clothes."

"Right."

A/N: Next chapter is where Big Time Rush meets the mysterious girl and her friends, and after this the chapters get longer. What do you think of it so far? And what element do you want each Big Time Rush guy to have. Fire, Water, Earth, and Air are your options. Thanks to Miss Fenway, mebemelover, ChristianGirl56, neko-naito, bballgirl22, and cooliokiddo for reviewing. Thanks for reading guys!

-Riley