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Chapter 8: A Plan

Logan POV

I kept running through the snowy streets, occasionally slipping on some ice that I didn't notice. I made my last turn and almost slid into the brick wall because of some more hidden ice. I ran up the hill and barged into the front doors of the school. Once inside I walked the rest of the way, hoping that I wasn't too late.

'Carlos is back there….' Too late to go back, he should have remembered why I took off. If not, then I could just pop out and grab him. The meeting couldn't proceed without me anyway.

As soon as I walked in I heard something, it sounded like a monster even though the town should have been protected from them. When I noticed the figure hunched over in a student's desk I sighed a breath of relief, it was only Kendall.

"Am I late?" James yelled the second he entered the room, waking Kendall up from his nap. When he took a look around he noticed someone was missing. Carlos.

"Where is Carlos? Is he still in the museum?" Kendall asked. I wondered how Kendall knew that Carlos was in the museum, but I let it be. The door suddenly flung open revealing a panting Carlos; obviously he got lost or fell a lot.

"Logie! How could you leave me like that? I need to be here too!" He collapsed on a desk, sprawling out and trying to catch his breath. Now that everyone was here I could begin.

I activated the projection system and pulled the chalk board up, revealing a holographic image of the map. The entire planet of Gaia and all of its continents appeared, three huge land bodies with several medium islands in the middle sea, and countless small islands littered the outer sea.

"Okay-" I began before the door swung open again, revealing Lilka and a girl I never met before. Before I could ask who she was James announced it.

"Marivel? What are you doing here?" He looked at her and Lilka before someone answered him.

"Oh, Lilka invited me. Maybe I could be of some help?" I nodded and they sat down, near the right side, away from Carlos and James.

"Back to what I was saying. This is the continent that we are currently on." The map zoomed to the appropriate area and highlighted where Selije is. "Now based on the reading that I have been doing, I might have figured out a way to get back home. We need to find the point where all the ley lines cross. I can't figure out where they are because I don't know what I'm looking for." I sighed and noticed Lilka raising her hand, like this was an actual class.

"Oh! I know the perfect person! She's right here!" Lilka pointed to Marivel and the pale girl blushed.

"Lilka, don't! Oh, ha-ha hello!" She became nervous when everybody focused their eyes on her.

Carlos POV

"Yeah, I guess I can detect the ley lines. But they don't change, so I think there was a diagram in one of these books." Marivel walked up and flipped through the books before she found the picture. Logan made the hologram show the image, so everyone could see what he and Marivel were looking at.

"So, you can see that the one point where the lines meet is here." Logan said as the image zoomed to the one area where the point met. I stared at the area before stating the obvious.

"There isn't anything there. Just open seas. How can we get home from the middle of the ocean?" Everyone agreed there wasn't any land mass anywhere near the point.

"Not necessarily. There is one island right where the point meets. It's called Glaive Le Gable; it supports this planet, and keeps it alive. However, in order to even think about going there you need to activate the Raypoints." Lilka explained, "There are four Raypoints, just like there are four ley lines. To activate a Raypoint you must speak to the,"

"Woah! Hold up! In a language we can all understand please!" Kendall interrupted, I'm glad he did because I couldn't follow anything she was saying either.

"Okay, sorry. I've done this once before, except it was an attempt to save the world. There are four elements, four ley lines and four Raypoints. Muse, Geo, Fray and Wing. They ley line is controlled by the Raypoint of the same element. In order to make the teleport work, you need to activate the ley line, so you have to….."

"Activate the Raypoint." Logan finished looking excited. Lilka and Marivel nodded, smiling.

James POV

"So what? Each one of us has to activate a Raypoint? How can we find them or even get to them and back without weeks of travel?" Everyone looked at me like I asked them to find a unicorn.

"I don't like it. But I guess we have no choice. We have to get back home no matter what." Kendall said, taking the leader role yet again.

"Marivel and I did it before, except we need two more people to go with Kendall and Carlos. I could ask Tim if he didn't mind going again." I wondered who Tim was but Logan knew, like everything else.

"I know Tim. Or I met him earlier today! Did he have a floating purple cat with him?" Marivel nodded and smiled. Lilka said she would be right back, and Marivel left too, to grab another person, to complete the four groups.

"Logan, can we trust these people? We barely even know them. Only James knows Marivel, and Lilka only seems to know you and Carlos." Kendall voiced the concern that I knew would come up.

"We have no choice but to. They seem to know more about this whole ley line system than I do. Plus, if they know how to activate the interdimensional teleporter then we have to trust them." I had to agree with Kendall, even though I knew Marivel for a short while, I didn't know much about these other people.

Minutes Later

Lilka and Marivel returned with two people, a short dirty blond with a floating purple cat, Tim, and another guy, except this guy had shockingly blue hair. The two girls introduced Tim and Ashley.

"They both agreed to assist us. So let's get going!" Marivel said. When I asked where to, she said her flying machine. Lilka, Tim and Ashley nodded and followed Marivel out of the school.

Kendall POV

I didn't trust these people. Lilka, Marivel, Tim and Ashley all seemed like they knew what they were doing, and if you asked me that seemed even more suspicious. It's like they had done the exact same thing before we showed up. Call it premonitions or whatever you want, but I had a feeling that we wouldn't be getting home, at least without some problems.

A/N: I'm so sorry it's so short. Like I said above, I got a lot going on. Please review! Also, due to recent events in my life, I may not update for a while. Everything is touch and go at the moment so I can't promise any updates for a while. And I needed to use this as an outlet. SO I apologize if I lost anyone in this chapter. Most of this is from Wild Arms 2, so if you haven't played this game then you won't understand: (Lilka, Marivel, Tim, Ashley, Raypoints, Ley Lines, Glaive Le Gable, or the EMMA motor) I tried to explain it to the best of my ability, but because of the event's today I may not have done it in a way that makes sense. If you can't follow this chapter, please tell me in a review or PM. Have a nice day and please review! ~RAY~