Author's Note: Due to my erratic writing style, I can understand why people are confused when they are reading this. So, this chapter is going to set a lot of things straight! Anyway, thank you to everyone who reviewed! I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 3: Knowledge

Logan POV

"HEEELLLP MEEE!" The scream came from the guy running toward us, with a huge monster chasing him! As he got closer I recognized him, Carlos. "Ca-Carlos?"

"That's the monster! It's been terrorizing the town, and your friend is bringing him here! You need to take care of this!" Nanaki yelled running inside his shop. He returned brandishing a pole arm. I knew that I didn't have a lot of time to plan because the monster gained speed when it noticed the village. So Nanaki and I ran towards the beast, my book's pages opening to the spell I knew would be best. I just hoped everything went smoothly.

"Carlos! You have to get out of the way! NOW!" Figuring the monster was a plant, based on the vines and flora growing from its body, I knew how to take care of it. The moment Carlos jumped out of the line of fire I called out the spell.

"FLARE!" A ring of fire shot out of the ground, surrounding the beast in a pillar of fire and trapping it. Its screech rang throughout the area and things got worse. Apparently the giant beast had a friend.

"James, NOW!" Someone yelled from behind the other plant beast. From where I stood a small silver ball exploded in mid air and sent waves of flame onto the monster, burning it to a crisp. The monster that I had trapped also had burnt down into a huge pile of ash.

"Logan! Carlos!" I instantly recognized that voice, Kendall. Well, I found them, no, they found me. We all laughed because we finally found each other in this strange land.

"I'll take care of the remains. Maybe I can find something useful in them." Nanaki said as he left with his weapon. Carlos, Kendall and James stared at me with an expecting look on their faces.

"Thanks Nanaki! And what are you three looking at?" Nanaki nodded, throwing his left hand back in some sort of gesture. I headed toward the back of the shop, where a lone tree stood, providing shade over a patch of grass. My friends followed behind me in silence, either in shock, confusion or complete fear.

"Hey, what have you guys been up to?" I asked my friends. Carlos climbed up the tree and his legs hung off a branch, Kendall fell on his back and sighed, and James fiddled with a metal object while sitting on the grass.

"Looking for you and Carlos!"

"Stuck in prison!"

"Tree hopping…..until that mean monster caught me."

Kendall POV

"Logan, we brought you some reading material. We need to know where we are and if there is any possibility of us getting back to LA." I tossed Logan the books, map and smiled when they caused him to fall against the tree.

"I told you that it was Carlos who screamed!" James cheered. He and I hitched a ride on a caravan that was headed near, but not to Quartly. So instead of hours of walking, we only ran for ten minutes when we heard the scream. We saw the beast chasing someone when a pillar of fire trapped it, and another monster came to its rescue. I knew that we had to save them, even if we didn't know them.

"Shut up. Who would have thought that Carlos would be wearing that?" said James still messing with the metal bomb. Logan had already finished the first book which had to be over six hundred pages long. I watched him the second time, wanting to know how he did that so quickly. He pressed a glowing green hand against the book and said 'Absorb'.

"Woah! Look at Logan!" Carlos said in awe, I couldn't believe it myself; Logan had absorbed the entire contents of the book into his mind! He repeated the same process with the third and final book.

"Done. Anything else you need to know about?" Logan said with his eyes aglow, apparently the book was playing out in front of his eyes.

"That can wait." The man who knew Logan said, "I'm planning on cooking, do y'all want to eat?" As if on cue my stomach growled, along with everyone else's. He started a fire and began roasting some meat over it, Logan called it a 'spit'. Nanaki, Logan's friend, explained that because we saved the village from the beast that we were welcome to his shop anytime.

James POV

After eating the succulent meat, Logan started to explain what he had gathered from the books Kendall and I brought. He started with the history of the 'planet' we were currently on. The 'Absorbing' must have worked wonders, because he sounded like the book.

"Gaia, the earth beneath us, used to be a lush green planet. Monsters didn't exist and the people lived in peace, for centuries. A decade ago, the Hiro Company became a global force; they had a hand in the mining, agriculture, technological and economical sectors of modern life. The company, under secrecy, began human experimentation, that is to say, they altered the DNA of humans and changed us into the monsters from earlier. Hiro Company launched a 'Rejuvenation Operation' in order to cover their genetic experimentation; however the 'R.O.' caused the earth to die, leaving barren wastelands and making forests die out.

Normally plants would start to grow where there wasn't any but because of the devastating effects of the Operation, the plants couldn't grow. 'R.O.' caused the planet's 'life force' to diminish, until it barely exists. Now, I do not know how this occurred because pages were ripped from the book but I have to assume that the Operation failed and caused the exact opposite results. Also, due to the lack of control the monsters escaped and fled to various parts of the world, where they mutated. Now towns and cities fear the monsters because their numbers keep growing."

"Have you figured a way back home? Or how we got here in the first place?" After being 'warped' into a prison I wanted to get back to my world, where things made sense.

Carlos POV

I sat and listened while Logie droned about the world we were on, Hiro Company, and the monster infestation. He hadn't even hugged me, let alone asked if I was hurt. I wasn't but it seemed like all of a sudden my boyfriend didn't even noticed my existence.

A/N: Oh, poor Carlos! I feel sad that 'Mega Smart' Logie is ignoring Carlos. Please check out the awesome, and absolutely amazing Demon'sAngel17's work. If you review maybe I will be nice and post another chapter tomorrow ^-^ Have a tree hopping day! ~Ray~