They all got in the car. Making it harder for Brandon to escape, they made him sit in the middle seat in between Jasmine and Alex. Alex's wand was pointing straight at him.

"Alex, could you hand me another orange soda?" Max asked finishing the orange soda he already had.

"Max, that's your third one," Alex said, "and Jasmine said we needed them.

The Russos took the gas station's full stock of orange soda before they left. They knew whatever had Harper was a witch. Only witches could look that hideous.

"Are we there yet?" Max asked, "I want to get this over with. I have a 3 month old sandwich under my bed and I want to see if it grew mold yet."

"Max, it would've grown mold before we even left the house," Justin stated.

"Yeah, but I couldn't find it," Max said.

Alex rolled her eyes.

"Couldn't we just teleport to the top of the mountain?" Jasmine asked.

The Russos suddenly all had the same look on their place like they realized they wasted all this time riding in the car for nothing.

"No, she can sense magic inside the boarders of her property," Brandon said, but then realized he shouldn't have said that.

"What's outside of her boarders?" Alex asked, "We can teleport there and she wouldn't know."

Brandon started to get nervous, "I can't tell you."

Alex grunted and asked, "Justin, do you know?"

"How would I know?" Justin questioned.

"Because you know everything," Alex said.

Jasmine looked out the window, "We are almost at the start of the trail, anyways."

Everyone got out of the car with Alex still holding onto Brandon. Everyone got some of the orange soda to bring with them. And their hiking gear.

"Jasmine, Max, could you please hold Brandon's arms while we are walking so he won't get away?" Alex asked.

"No," Max said, "That's awkward."

Alex gave Max the look.

"Fine," Max said and held Brandon's left arm while Jasmine held his right.

Alex looked at the trail. "Ugh, I don't want to do this again," she complained.

"Come on, Alex, we have to save Harper," Justin said holding his map and walking on. Max, Brandon, Jasmine, and Alex fallowed behind him.

"Let's play iSpy," Max said to Brandon.

"Okay?" Brandon asked confused.

"Max," Alex said behind them, "Don't befriend the enemy,"

"I spy with my little eye," Max said, "something… green."

"Tree?" Brandon guessed.

"Yup. It's your turn now," Max said. "After I go to the bathroom."

Max, who drank three bottles of orange soda, ran off behind a bush.

"Max!" Alex screamed. There was no answer.

"Max!" Justin yelled as he ran behind the bush and almost fell into a hole.

"Justin!" Alex yelled, "What happened?" She ran next to the bush with Jasmine and Brandon fallowing behind her.

"There's a hole," Justin said.

Alex turned around. "Where is he?" she asked in anger toward Brandon.

"The witch has him," Brandon said. "She captures hikers this way."

"And what does she do with them?" Justin asked in shock.

"She usually eats them or-"

"EATS THEM?" Alex asked.

"But since Max is part of the magical world," Brandon said quickly, "he'll just get turned into a monster to find people for her to eat."

"But Harper's a mortal," Alex reminded him. "She's going to die!"

"Oh right," Brandon said.

Alex looked down at the hole. "I'm going down there," she said.

"Why?" Justin asked.

"It's the fastest way!" Alex said. She sat on the ground next to the hole and jumped in hoping she wasn't going to die on the way down.

"Alex!" Justin yelled down the hole. "This is so stupid." And he jumped into the hole as well.

"You idiot," Jasmine said to Brandon.

"What?" he asked.

"Why are you working for a witch?" Jasmine questioned.

"I didn't have a choice," Brandon said.

"Why?" Jasmine asked.

"She bought me," Brandon said.

"Is that even legal?"

"No."

"Why were you being sold?"

"After you left I had no one to walk home from school with. So I had to walk alone," Brandon explained. "And some people kidnapped me. And I was sold off."

"You could run away," Jasmine said.

"She could find me. I did before." Brandon lifted up the back of his shirt to show lashing marks. "She did that."

"We could help!" Jasmine said.

"If you know how to kill a witch," Brandon said.

"No…" Jasmine said. "But Justin might. He's a nerd."

"Yeah. I could kind of tell," Brandon said.

Jasmine let go of Brandon's arm, because she sort of trusted him then. "We need to go."

"Okay."

Jasmine looked down the hole. "You go in first," she said, still questioning her trust.

"Okay," Brandon said as he jumped into the hole with Jasmine fallowing him.

Author's Note:

So... "Team Max" or "Team Brandon"? lol

Or even... "Team Justin"? Hahahaha. Just kidding, he's too old for Jasmine. ;P