Chapter Ten; Rain!

Rose slowly walked out of my bedroom mirror and stood in front of me. "I'm so glad to see you, I'm afraid that I have some bad news." I told her as I explained what happened to the children and that I was worried sick about them.

"It's alright, I already knew." She began. "I've been watching over them this whole entire time." She said.

"Well I'm glad but that's not the worst of it." I began before I picked the remote off of the nightstand and flicked the television set on. It was showing pictures of a bunch of cryptics coming out of computers and laptops a crossed the country and even a crossed the world. Then a blonde haired news reporter that resembled Rose came onto the screen. "Gosh, she looks like she could be your long lost twin." I told her with a grin (although she was much too focused to notice) before I continued to watch the news with her.

"This just in, there are more and more reports coming in of a computer generated insects mysteriously crawling out of their computers in a new virus sweeping the nation and all a crossed the globe. It is yet to be known of what is causing this strange phenomenon but it is still under extreme investigation. And now I turn you to Bill for the weather." She said before I turned it off and set the remote back down.

"That's awful. What are those things?" Rose asked me.

"Cryptics, they were created by The Master himself. And I'm afraid if we don't do something to stop them, the world as we know it might possibly end." I told her. "Now I have a feeling that the only way to do that is to get them through the portal and send them back to where the nightmares exist. Do you know how to do that?" I asked her as she thought for a moment.

"Yes I think I do. Good dreams and bad dreams are like positive and negative. They repel each other. One can't exist without the other. If I stay here until morning then they are sure to go away." She told me as I smiled at her lovingly. "Great, I love that plan." I told her softly before I removed the resurrection ring from my pocket and slid it onto her finger.

"I figured you'd might." She told me as she smiled back at me. "Well, now that we have some free time on our hands," she began as she wrapped her arms around my neck. "care to spend it with me?"

"Well gee, I thought that you would never ask." I told her with a grin in which she returned before we sealed our agreement with a passionate kiss.

Meanwhile our children had been busy following the fairy who finally led them to a beehive. "Mmm, honey." Cassie said as she began licking her lips.

"Yeah, it does look good. But how does Rosie expect that we'll make it all the way up there?" Jane questioned her younger sister. "Especially with all the bees up there buzzing around?"

"You got me there." Cassie admitted sadly as she hung her head. That's when suddenly something else zipped in front of her face. She looked up to see a humming bird in front of her. "Hi." She began. "We're hungry, could you please help us get up to the hive?" she questioned it as the bird continued hovering in front of her. "Do you understand?" she asked it.

The bird nodded in agreement before it turned around and allowed her to climb on its back. "Thank you." She told it gratefully.

"Be careful Cassie." Peter told her.

"I think you mean bee careful." Jane pointed out as he rolled his eyes at her.

"Don't worry, I will." Cassie began. "I'll be back in a minute." She said as she finished climbing onto the creature's back before she rode it high up into the air.

"C'mon, you can do it Cassie." Jane said to herself as she watched her sister hover in front of the beehive where all the honeybees were still busy buzzing around unaware of her presence.

"Alright, I'm really, really sorry about this. I know how much you have worked on your hive but you can always make another one." She said as she broke a twig off the branch and started poking at the hive. That's when suddenly the bees stopped and turned to look at her buzzing angrily. "Uh oh." She said to herself as they buzzed in a triumphant charging sound before racing towards her.

"Cassie!" Jane yelled worriedly.

"Cassie run!" Peter called through his cupped hands as they all watched as their sister sped away above their heads before they started running after her and Peter and Maggie grabbed ahold of each other's hands.

"Is she going to be alright?" Maggie questioned him anxiously.

"I sure hope so, she's getting too far ahead of us and I can't see her anymore." He said when suddenly Rosie sped away.

"Don't worry Peter, Rosie will find her and look after her." Maggie reassured him as Jane heaved a heavy sad sigh and hung her head.

"This is all my fault." She said as she slowed down to a stop while everyone else stopped and turned to look back at her.

"What are you talking about?" Peter asked her.

"I shouldn't have been so mad at her. After all, I knew she didn't do it on purpose. And I never wanted anything like this to happen." She said as her brother placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Of course you didn't, and it isn't your fault." He told her. "Don't worry Jane, we'll find her." He reassured her.

That's when suddenly there came a gigantic crack of thunder inside the distance.

"Please tell me that nobody else heard that." Jane said as everyone looked up at the sky and saw that it had gotten dark and cloudy.

"Uh oh." Jane said worriedly when suddenly great humongous drops started falling from the sky.

"RAIN!" Peter hollered on the top of his lungs as they started to run as fast as they could avoiding getting hit by one of raindrops as it struck the ground and thunder continued to roll in the distance while lightning lit up the sky. Jane felt like she was going to burst into tears when suddenly a raindrop fell on top of Maggie and struck her to the ground.

"Oh no! Maggie!" Peter exclaimed as Nathan and Jane started running ahead of them. Peter stopped and looked back at her before he glanced up ahead and saw a red toadstool standing in front of a rock. It looked like a perfect umbrella for them. "Jane! Nathan! See that mushroom over there? Get under it while I go help Maggie." He told them as Jane nodded at him and took Nathan by the hand before the two of them raced under it and Peter turned around to run back for Maggie.

"Maggie," he began before he knelt down next to her. "are you alright?"

"I think so." Maggie began as she slowly woke up and tried to steady her breathing.

"Can you make it?" he asked her.

"I'm not sure." She answered before he picked her up and hoisted her inside his arms.

"Here, let me help you then." He told her as he raced over to the others and set her back down once they were safely under the mushroom.

I just wanted to apologize and say sorry about the missing chapter, thanks for my reviewer taking the time to let me know. Here's the real chapter ten! Thanks again for everything you said!