Chapter 4

When Mark got home that afternoon he dropped his bag beside the front door and looked around.

"Emily are you here?" he called out.

He walked into the kitchen and found the singed door and his destroyed phone.

'This can't be good.' He thought as he went to the phone that was on the wall and used it to ring Ace.

"Ace Lightning here."

"Ace its Mark. Can you come to my place? I think something happened to Emily. She isn't here. I'm worried that Lord Fear has her."

"Don't worry kid." Ace replied. "Sparx and I will be there soon."

"Thanks." Mark ended the call and turned to the destroyed phone.

'What happened here?'

He turned as Ace and Sparx walked through the door.

Ace looked to the singed door then to the broken phone. "Lord Fear was here."

Mark knew what that meant. "He's got her."

Ace nodded.

"We need to rescue her."

"Mark do you still have your piece of the Amulet?" Ace asked.

Mark nodded as he touched the piece of the amulet underneath his shirt.

"Good. Get set. We're going to Lord Fears to rescue Emily."

When Emily woke she found that she was lying in a white crystal orb in the middle of the haunted house.

She found that her legs wouldn't allow her to stand.

'What's going on?' she thought to herself. 'I feel so weak.'

She looked up when she heard someone laughing and saw Lord Fear smiling at her with Lady Illusion behind him.

"At last we have you."

"What…. What do you want from me?"

"I think you know precisely what I want from you."

"I'll never give you my pieces of the Amulet."

Lord Fear chuckled. "I thought you might say that. Which is why I'm going to take it by force."

"What are you talking about ?"

"Can't you feel it?" Lord Fear asked. "Right this second the crystal that you are in is draining your life force. Once it's all gone from you I'll be free to take the pieces from you."

Emily knew that he was right.

As much as she wasn't willing to admit it she could feel herself getting weaker and weaker as the seconds went by.

She looked up at Lord Fear. "You'll never get away with this. Ace, Sparx and Mark will save me."

Lord Fear chuckled. "I hope so. This will be the perfect moment to be rid of Ace Lightning and his miserable lightning brat once and for all."

Emily fell to her left side.

She tried to pick herself up but she found that she couldn't move anything.

Lord Fear laughed. "Soon those pieces will be mine."

"Think again Fear." Came a voice behind them.

Lord Fear and Lady Illusion both turned to see Ace, Sparx and Mark standing by the door.

Mark was carrying his lightning gauntlet on his arm.

Lord Fear laughed cruelly. "Ace Lightning. It's so good of you to come."

"Mark." Emily whispered as she rolled onto her back. "Help me."

"Emily."

"Mark you free Emily while Sparx and I deal with Lord Fear and Lady Illusion."

Mark nodded as they started fighting.