Me: ok, sry if this took me a while to put up, but I was having a tiny bit of writers block and also problems at home, so I wasn't near computer that much, but I finally finished this chap!^^

Mushra: yeah, took you long enough…

Me: (hits him in the back of the head) ok, well, enjoy!!^^

Mushra: why am I always getting hurt?

Jaden:

Everyone was in a better mood, now that Zen was out of the hospital. Except me.

No, its not because I still hate the guy, because I don't….I can't. Not after what he's done for my sister, there's no way I could feel negatively towards him. But I still wasn't in a good mood.

Zen had to stay in the hospital for one more day after the incident, and once they said he was able to be out of the hospital, I had started to feel better, because I was finally about to be able to get some answers to the questions that wont leave my head…but then they said he should stay in-doors for a little while, just in case. So, about three days.

This was the second day we'd stayed in a hotel. Thankfully, this was a big room they let us stay in, plenty of bedrooms, bathrooms and all that, so we weren't crowded.

But we were stuck here until we knew Zen would be fine. And its killing me to have to sit here and wait. If winter wasn't sick with the goo-goo eyes sickness, then she'd hate this just as much, but she had that distraction, so…

I kept myself away from everyone, not wanting to put them down with my mood. Everyone was over in the hang-out area of this room while I sat on the window seal of one of the windows, all the way across from them. Sago was sitting in between both area's, not wanting to leave me alone, but not wanting to be left out of whatever fun everyone was having, also.

I just stared out the window, thinking hard and ignoring everyone else. I thought of my parents and wondered what they could be doing to them right now. If they were in cages, like we were before. If they were….being hurt….tortured….or if….they were already gone….if they'd been of no real use to those guys except to anger us…

I shook my had, trying hard to get those images out of my head…..but what could they want them for?! It had to have something to do with us, that's obvious…but what?!

"Jaden!"

I sighed at the sound of Mushra's voice, who still had not stopped bugging me. He was the one everyone had chosen to ask me stuff. Like, are you ok, do you need anything, or why wont you come hang out with us? Only because he's used to having me get angry with him, so it wasn't so different. "Yeah?" I didn't turn.

"Why don't you come over here with us?" he said. "What fun is it to sit over there staring at nothing? We're not going to bite, promise!" he laughed and everyone laughed and mumbled in agreement.

I laughed a little, trying to keep myself from seeming gloomy, but my hoarse voice ruined it as I said, "Your guys aren't the one's who I'm worried will bite…" they wouldn't, but I sure as heck would if they said the wrong thing, the wrong way.

"You sure?" Mushra asked, and I could tell by his voice that he wanted me to join everyone. Everyone wanted me to join in, but I couldn't right now. I had to think.

"Yeah, I'm sure, guys…."

I began thinking again. Well, we have no idea what they want, only that it has something to do with us, the earthlings, or else they wouldn't have taken my parents. We have no idea what they could be doing and I wasn't sure I wanted to know right now. And we had no idea where their hide-out was…but we were going to find out, as soon as Zen was ready to go.

Once everyone had fallen asleep, other then me, I had started to think of Zen and our new found powers. We hadn't used any of it yet, except winters little arrow attack that had wounded Eilis. It had the same lavender look to it as Mushrambo's lavender ball, which had killed Eilis, so that was good. We had that power…but what else? We hadn't had time to use our powers and I hadn't had time to ask Zen what his powers were. So, soon, I needed to find out.

I had eventually fallen asleep and had a weird dream…

I ran as fast as I could, not knowing where I was running to and who I was running from, just that I was running. What I saw as I ran was tree's, hills, a water fall as I crossed a huge bridge, more tree's and then a big hill with ruins at the top. I watched it, confused, having no idea where this was…

Then, I saw Eilis and Ryuma, smiling wildly. They just watched me as I stared. And then everything went dark as I woke up.

I looked around, seeing most everyone up and sat up also. Yakumo and Binka were still asleep, but everyone else was awake, and all surrounding papers that were scattered all over the floor. I got up from the bed I was laying in….someone must have put me here last night…

"What's with the huddling?" I asked everyone as I rubbed my eyes.

Sago turned as I knelt beside him. "Jaden, you've got to see this…"

It was wanted papers. Scattered all over the floor. They were like the old one's of Yakumo from the first season. But these were a little different. Black paper with white writing instead of the other way around. And they weren't exactly wanted posters…they were wanted posters with threats also. And the people on the posters….were us.

"What in the world is this?!" I asked as I gazed at the pictures of sago, Mushra, kutaal. Yakumo, too, and Binka and the kittens…and even us….me, heather, winter and Carly! But, who was doing this and how'd they get pictures of us?!

I started reading the threat…

…IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF YOUR LOVED ONE'S, THEN YOU WILL HAND OVER THESE PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEE THEM. IF YOU DO NOT OBEY, I SHALL SEND MY SERVANTS AFTER ALL OF YOU AND DESTROY YOUR HOMES! AND DON'T TRY AND SNEEK PAST ME, BECAUSE I HAVE SPIES WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVES, PEASANTS! ONCE WE HAVE THESE PEOPLE, YOU SHALL BE LEFT ALONE, BUT IF I FIND OUT YOU HAVE DISOBEYED ANY OF MY ORDERS, YOU SHALL BECOME ONE OF MY PRISONERS!!!

LONG LIVE, KING DAKU….

"Wow, he sure is full of himself…" Mushra said, trying to lighten the mood but failing.

God, what did they want with us?! "We have to do something….we can't leave…we can't do anything without making sure all the people in the city are safe…"

"She's right." Sago said. "We've got to think of something…."

Heather spoke up then. "I have an idea."

We all looked at her, waiting.

"We could take everyone back to earth. We could have them stay there. I know that somehow Ryuma's been going back and forth, but what ever power he's using to do that has to run out soon, so I think that earth is the safest place. Also, it seems like he can only teleport to places close to our homes. Like, near the portal, so all we have to do is get them so place far from there." She finally finished, seeming proud of her idea.

"Man, heather, that's actually a great idea!" Mushra exclaimed, surprised. Heather just glared at him.

"It's perfect." Sago said, then looked at everyone. "But we have to hurry, or else Daku's secret servants will see us and alert him."

Everyone nodded and, after we woke up Yakumo and Binka, we headed out into the city, alerting everyone as fast as we could. We watched for bug enterrans, not warning them, as we started getting everyone out of their homes and started moving them towards the hill. It was sunset once we'd gotten almost everyone to earth. Yakumo, Binka, Carly and winter volunteered to go to earth ahead of us to keep everything in order over there. Me, sago, heather and Mushra stayed behind to keep everyone going. Kutaal, the kittens and Hakuba had headed in with the others at some point.

It was dark by the time we had gotten everyone over, and there wasn't an inch of ground in sight that was seeable for miles because how many people were here….this would take a while…

And so it did. We had to walk for at least two days to get all these people away from the portal and then tell them what was going on. After that, we had to sleep, or else we'd be dog tired.

Once we woke up the next morning, we were able to hurry back faster then we'd walked all the way there and we were back within an hour, but then had to sleep again. We couldn't go back unless we were alert and ready.

Also, Yakumo, Binka, Hakuba and kittens had stayed behind with everyone to watch over them and also to keep safe. Hakuba had some cards at his disposal, so that was good, Yakumo had her tiny bit of power and Binka had a bazooka, so they'd be fine for now.

We woke up, at the camp-site, and started packing our stuff up. Kutaal's was fixing a quick breakfast. Eggs and bacon. We had to hurry and pack, eat, make sure we were fully awake, then get going.

"Come on, Jaden, just sit and enjoy the food for right now. Everyone else is…" Mushra said through mouthfuls of bacon and eggs.

I sighed, trying to hurry and eat while I packed up the rest of my clothes, covers and my cell (we had brought it with and left winters with Yakumo…we're still not sure if it works, but Hakuba says it will, so…).

"Jaden, you'll end up choking if you keep eating so fast." Zen told me. I glared at him for a second, then kept back, finally finishing the food in my mouth and grabbing more.

Winter didn't like that so much, fearing I was still on edge about him, but it wasn't exactly that, its just that, that whole time we'd known him, we'd all been on edge, and I thought for good reason, but then he just all a sudden almost got himself killed trying to save my sister. It happened so quickly that I'm still not sure how I feel about him….but I will owe him a big dept for a really long time, I know that much.

We finished and then started on our way, all of us riding something to speed up the process…but then, as we rode faster, finally out of the city, I realized we still didn't have a freaking idea of where we needed to go.

"Well, where do you think a gay snake guy, weird liquidy silver guy and a bug dude would have a hide out?" Mushra asked me, trying to sound like he actually was curious.

"Don't know, hot-head and I don't appreciate the sarcasm right now." I said to him, holding on to sago as we rode his pink scooter thing. Kutaal had his car and Carly sat in a back seat thing he put on there (hope that's stable), heather and Mushra had his hover-board and winter and Zen had a flying motor cycle (called a hover-cycle, and also, in place of wheels was these circles that emanated air and helped it float and speed up).

"Sorry…grumpy pants…." He muttered the last part under his breath.

"We need to be serious about this, guys, and no fighting." Zen said all of a sudden.

I resisted the stupid and unreasonable urge to burst out and say, "Ok, since when did anyone put you in charge or even happily let you be a part of our world saving group?! 'cause I don't remember!" (well, I shouldn't say anything 'cause, me, heather, winter and Carly aren't exactly a part of it, either. We only helped them with Ryuma that one time and that didn't count as saving the world, it just counted as saving ourselves).

"Yeah, he's right, we need to stop fighting and think." Says the girl that was locking lips with mister leader……ok, I needed to get control of my pissed of mood. "Now, really, what kind of place would they be looking for as their hide-out?"

we all were quiet then, thinking.

"they'd be looking for some place obvious, just because we'd be looking for a hard place. Some place out in the open, maybe, because we'd expect them to be hiding hard…." Sago announced, thinking deeply as everyone listened and nodded. We made it into the huge forest then. "maybe even a place we know well…" he said, thinking even harder.

Just then, I felt a shocking pain in the back of my head, like a bad headache and saw part of my dream again, flashing behind my eye-lids….what was this?!

Sago started to continue and my headache disappeared, but then Zen interrupted him. "Wait! Stop talking!" I looked back at him a little annoyed that he and interrupted and also, in a bad mood because my weird, super fast headache. "Did you hear that….?" He asked, looking around and stopping his vehicle. We did too, listening hard.

And then we heard a twig breaking and someone cussing under their breath.

"Who's there?!" I yelled, getting annoyed.

No answer.

"Oh, so you all are cowards, huh?! Come on! Come out and face us, you wimps!!!!" Mushra shouted to the followers, invisible in the tree's.

and then they jumped out, spears and swords in hand, ugly faces glaring at us. Lizard enterrans and bug enterrans had surrounded us and we had no where to go….thanks a lot, Mushra!

"Does Mushra always get you all in situations like these?" Zen asked, looking at the many enemies.

Me, Sago, heather, kutaal and winter all said, "Yes, he does!" at the same time.

Me: ok, if I missed anything or messed up, mis-spelled anything or anything like that, please tell me in review, I was just trying to hurry and I sry.

Mushra: yeah, she just sucks…

Me: (sighs and hits him in the back of the head)

Mushra: OW! God, what is with you fan-girls and causing me pain?!!!

Me: anyways, pl-

Mushra: No, I want an answer! Why am I always the one who's hurt?!!! Why not sago or kutaal?!!! I mean, really, what did I do to deserve this?!!!

Me: (pushes him out of the way) please-

Mushra: 9pushes me out of the way) you all better answer me in the review or I'll-

Me: (pushes him harder) REVIEW!!!! AH!! (gets tackled by Mushra and we start wrestling)