Hello :] Right ho, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my friends Callum and tom. They inspire me (x the bunch of retards. Well, enough of my rambling. Have fun x!

Piki tried to open her eyes but her capturer's tied a piece of black cloth around her eyes before she could get a look .Also she was tied to a chair by a rope that felt like it was wearing her wrists to the bone. She had a piece of duct tape across her mouth so she crossed shouting and screaming for help from her mental list of ways to escape. She heard a set of foot steps coming down the corridor and the creak of a door.

"Awake I see. Well I might as well tell you where you are." Said a smooth voice.

She sounds like a woman…

"You're in a place in which you won't leave unless your parents love you enough."

Piki felt her hearts freeze over.

My parents are dead…

"What are you doing T, Not playing with your food are you?"

She heard another person enter the room.

Playing with your …food?

He walked over to Piki and held her chin between two fingers.

"Is this the best you could get?"

His fingers made her jump. They were freezing and the tips felt like they had been sanded down with sand paper.

"The others were in the camp. She was taking a walk though; I and Cameron thought that it would be easiest."

Piki felt her heart sink. These people must be crazy. What do they want money? Or are they cannibals…

"She'll have to do for now then."

Piki laid her chin against her chest.

"Aw, is the baby sad we're going to get her buddy's too?" The female voice said mockingly. Then she felt a sharp needle prick her arm. They were drawing her blood.

"My turn."

Doing what?!

She screamed in her throat as she felt a knife being dragged across her arm.

"Didn't like that? That's just the beginning." The female voice whispered in her ear with a raspy voice.

They then started to drag the knife across her arm, down her torso and down her leg to her feet. They did this until there was a thin long line that went all over her body.

"Not to spoil your fun Tim, but what is the purpose of this?"

"You'll see." She heard a set of footsteps leave the room.

"I don't see why I have to watch her. I mean I was the one that did all the running and stuff." The female voice mumbled.

These guys must be insane.

What purpose would I be to them? If they wanted to be emo and cut people, why not them self's?

But the said that they were going to get Nellie and Ed.

I don't want to know what they're going to do with us.

Ed opened his eyes. Nellie was still there next to him, sleeping deeply.

He got up and walked outside.

The morning air was fresh, crisp and damp.

The sun beat down on the campsite.

Time to give Piki a wake up call.

Ed walked over to Piki's tent.

"Guten morgen Pi-"

She still wasn't back.

Maybe she really was lost. He pulled out his cell phone and dialled Piki's number.

He waited for a few minutes until someone picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

This voice definitely wasn't Piki.

"Uh, hi. Im wondering when Piki will be back."

"Oh she's not coming back."

Ed's eyes widened.

"What?!"

Beep.

The phone line went dead.

She's…not coming home?

What's going on here...?

"Ed..."

Nellie walked out of her tent rubbing her eye.

"Did you sleep ok Nellie?"

She nodded.

"Where's pumpkin?"

Ed raised an eyebrow. Pumpkin...

"Oh Piki." He smiled. "She's not back yet."

Nellie yawned and mumbled something. "We should go looking for her."

"Well, where would we start?"

Nellie sighed. "Scrap the idea, im going to sleep."

She walked back into the tent and into her sleeping bag.

Ed paced back and forward.

What do I do…?

I could ring Piki's phone again but ill probably get cut off again.

Ed sighed and looked at the floor. The black burnt wood from yesterday was still there. There's got to be some clue somewhere about where she is.

Suddenly, a piece of black material was tied around his mouth. A thick scratchy rope was tied around his wrist... He thrashed his legs around in hope he would hit one of his captures. Two pairs of strong arms picked him up and carried him through a thick cluster of trees. He saw that there were a lot of trees and branches on the floor. On some of them was what looked like…blood?

Are these the same people that have Piki captured?

Is this where they dragged her too?

Something yellow caught his eye.

It was in the shape of a smiley face.

Piki's lighter.

One of the captures also spotted it and picked it up with his free hand.

"Look at what i've got Tim."

"That's nice Cameron. Let just keep moving."

Ed saw a rusty old blue truck ahead of him.

The two men threw him into the back of the truck and sped off.

Ed kept trying to kick one of the men that he believed to be called Cameron.

Cameron just kept laughing and tied his legs together.

"This ones almost as feisty as the emo."

Tim sighed.

"I don't think she's emo, I think she's a scene kid in training."

Cameron smiled. "Well, im not going to lose sleep over it."

Nellie….how could you have slept through this?

Nellie yawned and stretched her arms.

Much better.

She had caught up with her sleep.

"Hey Ed im awa-"

Ed wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Come on ed, no fooling around."

There was silence. Not peaceful silence. The kind of silence that could drive a man to insanity.

Nellie started to look around, startled.

Ed has to around somewhere.

She looked on the floor and saw something. It was a deep midnight blue. She picked it up and had a closer look. It had a long sliver chain and a blue pendant in the shape of a star.

Where have I seen this before…?

Eight years ago…

"Happy birthday Eddie!"

Nellie was in a room full of ribbons, balloons and cake. A few kids were running around. A small boy ran towards her. Nellie handed him a small present. He gave her a hug and thanked her. He beckoned her to a circle where everyone was sat down. She sat down next to her friend, who had a small milky white dress on. The boy opened gift after gift... He opened Nellie's and found a small action figure. He thanked her and opened the next one. It was from the girl in the milky dress. It was a small chain with a star shaped pendant. The boy squealed and put on the chain. He thanked the girl multiple times and hugged her. The girl smiled and hugged him back.

"For my eddy."

Present time…

That's where it was from. She knew she saw it somewhere before. It was Ed's seventh birthday present from Piki. Nellie didn't know he'd kept it after all these years. He must have worn it under his shirt. She put it in her pocket to give to Ed later. Now to find him. He couldn't have gone far anyway. Could he…?

Dundundun… :} this toke half an hour to write so im kind of proud with myself.

Leftover cake, ribbons and balloons for reviewers ^^