Chapter 4

" No seriously where are we?" questioned Dilka

"You said we were in London" Charli replied. Dilka eyes widened in excitement

"OMG! wait how did we get here?" She asked. Charli moaned.

"You took us here through a portal on the oval..." he sighed. She blinked in deep thought. "OH that tree portal!" she said. I was pretending it was a portal at the oval though..." she said shocked. Charli started to walk off. "HEY wait up!" She puffed as she ran after him. "what are you doing?" She asked.

"I am going to fid money and a place for us to stay" he moaned.

"I have an Auntie and an Uncle that live here in London. We will just catch the double deck bus!" she said happily and ran off towards the road. Charli slowly pursued after her. She reached the bus stop and waited for the bus to come. They hopped on. " 1 euro please" the bus driver said. Dilka shook her head. Charli stared at her. She gave him her smart rider. "Do you take these on the bus?" she asked. He looked down at her.

"What currency does it have?" he asked.

"Australian dollars." She said.

"No we don't" he said. She looked up. I need to go to my aunties place though!" she cried. The bus driver looked at Charli. He just shook his head in dismay. "Okay girl you and your boyfriend can hop on the bus." he said.

"HEY! I AM NOT HER BF" he said annoyed. He bus driver glared at him and he shut his mouth and moved along to the back seat with Dilka.

It took 30 minutes to get to the street Dilka wanted to be at and another 10 minutes to walk down to the end of the street to Dilka's Aunties house. They arrived at the front door. The garden was green and lush and the house was two stories. Dilka pressed the door bell.

"Who is it?" a voice said.

"It is me, Dilka your niece" Dilka replied. The door swung open.

"Oh hello my drag little niece in the are you here?" a young woman around her late 20's asked.

"Well i was pretending these two-" she started.

"Ahhh longish story" Charli butted in. The Aunt looked down at Charli. " WHat a good-looking boy you have here darling" she said.

"I AM NOT HER BOYFRIEND! I am her neighbor who she likes to drag along into places!" he spurted out. He was sick of this. She looked at him.

"well come inside then and we will talk over some food aye?' She said. Dilka pranced in.

They sat themselves at the table with some biscuits. "So is your parents here?" Dilka's Aunt asked.

"No... only me and Charli" she said.

"How did you come here?" she asked

"I don't really know... Charli does though" She said. Charli groaned

"well start from the start" The Aunt said.

" well at lunch in school a girl who obviously likes my twin bro Leo came over to talk to him and the school bully caught her and she got really angry. Annie shrieked and hid behind LEo. LEo had nothing to do since he was terrified of her too. She drew her fist back and a metal plate grew around it and the next thing you know,the mark on my brother's back glowed green and him and Annie vanished." He said

The Aunt looked at him " Tell me about this mark" She said.

Charli lifted his sleeve. It is like this but flipped around and on his back" He said

Her eyes grew wide. She murmured something to herself. "Okay keep going"

"Dilka touched the spot they vanished with her marked palm and fainted. After school we were walking home and Dilka dragged me towards the oval and the trees that caught her interest the day before. She jumped through it and disappeared so I followed in curiosity. We came to London. Then Dilka acted weird and all grown up and know-it-all for a bit then vanished to normal blonde-brained Dilka" he said.

"HEY i am not blonde brained!" she yelled.

"Well that explains the change of atmosphere" The aunt said.

"humph?" He asked

"Nothing for you to worry about" She said. She hopped out of the chair.

"Wait what do I call you?" He asked.

"Zanna" she said and walked away.

HE turned around. DIlka was glaring at him. "Your mean you know." she said. She jumped up suddenly all happy. "I will show you the room you will be in!" she said and dragged him to the lounge room. "I have my own room when we come over here but you will have to sleep on the couch!" she said. Charli nodded his head. A smell wafted through the room. "OH! Uncle David is cooking dinner!" she piped.

"Is there any change of clothing I cud change into?" he asked her.

"maybe. You will have to see with Zanna tomorrow if you could go shopping." she said and hopped onto the couch. "Now what do you want to watch?' she asked.

"I don't care..." Charli said. They sat in front of the Tv for 30 minutes. "Dinner is ready" chimed a voice. They sat back at the table. "ZAnna?"

"yes Charli?"

" I need clothes..." he said ashamed.

"Okay we will go tomorrow!" she said happily.

After dinner he hopped straight into 'bed'.

" I wonder who Leo is going..." he asked himself.

He woke up in a black and white world. There were trees everywhere and a path going north. HE could here some chatter. 'It's getting hot can we please find a place to sit?'

'Okay can we have food and water though?'

'sure not the food though we can look for some' Charli suddenly saw two people walk along the path. HIS eyes grew wide. It was Leo and Annie! He tried calling out but nothing came. It must be a vision of what is happening right now. He thought to himself. He saw them under the shade and finding the water leaves. He saw their fascination in them. Leo closed his eyes. Annie walked across the path to another tree. A white wolf appeared. It howled and pointed it's noise towards a fossil. She walked over it and touched it. A yellow light appeared. It shot up into the sky. Annie screamed and ran towards Leo. Suddenly a yellow three winged creature. Leo opened his eyes. He saw them run for there life. Suddenly he heard a voice in his head. 'what am I doing?. Charli will think of me as a jerk for this!.'

'only if Charli was here'

Charli said in his thoughts. 'You aren't a jerk. Remember you are having the adventure we both wished for. I am stuck in London with Dilka's Aunt and Uncle... Only if I was with you!'

He saw The creature fly towards him and Leo fainted. Charli yelled and woke in a start.

The woke up to see the lounge room pitch black. He heard footsteps quickly running down stairs. Zanna's head peeped around into the room. "Are you okay. You screamed" she asked.

"I'm fine I just had this weird dream. It must just be the separation from my brother kicking in." He replied. She walked in and sat at the end of the couch. "Is it just that or did you see something?" She asked. Charli sighed.

"Okay, I saw Annie and Leo. Only a bit of the journey they are having though. It happened and then it ended when Leo blacked out. I also got two of his thoughts transmitted to me" he said. She was looking at him intently.

"You are interested in me and my brother aren't you?" he asked. She glared at him.

"maybe" she said. A grin appeared and she walked off. He turned his head around. 3AM. Ever since Dilka came Leo's and his world changed. 'What did we do before Dilka came?' he questioned himself. It suddenly hit him. They wished for an adventurous life! Charli glared at the wall. "if we didn't make that wish I wouldn't be in this mess!" he moaned aloud. He turned around and tried to get back to sleep.

The next morning he woke up. The house was very quiet. HE slowly got up and put on his clothes again. (he was sleeping in his jocks) He slowly walked towards the kitchen and pepped his head around. He sighed in relief. 'I will get some food and some money and get away from this hell house' he thought to himself. Ever since the dream a funny feeling creeped around the house. He got himself a sandwich from a cupboard. He looked around the Kitchen until he stopped Zanna's bag. He opened it very slowly and opened the purse. There was 300 dollars in there. He decided to take $100. Te zipped the bag back up and walked back to the lounge room. He picked up his school bag and opened the window. He looked around to see if anyone was there. There was no one. He quickly hopped out the window and closed it behind him. He was now standing in the garden. He gladly stole a map of London in the lounge room last night. He looked at it. The closest bus stop was a 5 minute walk from here and it will take him to the mall. He quickly ran out of the yard without getting spotted and sprinted to the bus stop. He didn't want Zanna, David nor Dilka see him leave.

As he arrived at the bus stop the bus was just about to leave. He gave him 1 euro for the bus trip. He sat in the bus for 30 minutes until he reached the mall. When they reached the more he hopped off and thanked the bus driver. The mall was bigger then the one back home. It was 3 stories high and was already buzzing with people. He first needed to find a clothes shop. So he could have at least another pair of clothing. Charli walked in to find a shopping complex full of stores. " Dam I should of gotten 200 euros instead" he said under his breath. The walked into the closest shop called 'Surf life' It was a shop sort of like City beach back in Australia. He easily got stuff. He walked out with a bag of stuff. He walked on for a bit until he reached the food court. He walked to subway and brought himself a sub he could have for breakfast. Their service was very slow and they messed his order up. He sighed and walked over to a table near by. He ate and slowly took in what was happening around him. It was 9AM and it was already buzzing with it would be dead and most of the shops will be starting to open. Charli opened the map. He still had some money left over.

" where should I try and take residence?" he asked himself. He looked at the map murmuring to himself. "Need some help there young lad?" a voice asked. Charli lowered the map to find a slim blonde guy standing in front of him.

"Ah yes. DO you know somewhere that has cheap accomdimation ?" he asked.

"Sure I do. I will take you there!" said the man. This was a very generous offer for him to make. CHarli got out of the seat and followed the man to his car. Charli's mouth dropped. It was a red sport car he usually saw in his dad's car magazines. It looked a bit like a ferrari/dagger. "It is just a car lad. Nothing to worry about." he said and climbed in. Charli followed.

When they were driving to the place the man asked. "Why are you here lad?"

"Ahhh... Long story you won't understand or believe it. I didn't really either at first." He replied.

"Oh come on mate I have heard of everything tell me."

"I rather not..." Charli replied. The man just nodded his head and turned left. The streets were getting grubbier . Charli had a bad feeling about this.

"Where are we?" he asked.

"Downtown London. You wanted the cheapest place to stay no?" he asked

"I guess so..." They took another turn into a slimmer street. The car pulled over.

"Now tell me how you came here boy. If you don't I won't take you the rest of the way." He snorted. Charli thought quickly. He didn't want to be dumped here so he might aswell tell the man. It seemed like a nice man after all. "well..." The explaining happened but he didn't talk about what happened at school he just simply said 'he had a bad day at school'. When he finished the man Smiled and drove off again. "I have heard other strange stuff don't you worry." The man said. Charli looked up at him.

"well then would you know where a portal will be?" He asked.

"What you talking about lad?" he questioned.

"Never mind." They drove for a couple more minutes until they pulled over next to an alley way. There you go just walk through that alley way and tah dah. I will com with you though." He said with a big smile. Charli just nodded and got out of the car. The alleyway had graffiti on it. 'It is down town London I guess.' Though Charli.

Meanwhile...

Dilka arose from her bed and looked at the time. 9:00. She hopped out and ran to the door. She suddenly stopped. "Better put on a t-shirt" she said. ITwas a very ht summer night so she had taken off her pj top. She skipped to the wardrobe and picked a random t-shirt. SHe slowly strolled out and trotted down the stairs to the lounge room. "Hi the-" she started as she entered the room. She looked at the couch bed. It was empty and his bag wasn't next to it like it was last night. She walked into the kitchen. No- one was there. "Where would he be?" she asked in a quiet voice. Suddenly it popped in her head. "HE MUST BE HIDING!" she said happily. She suddenly put on a straight face on and yelled sternly. "Okay where are you Charli?" she yelled. Not realizing Her aunt and uncle were still sleeping. She suddenly heard foot steps coming down the stairs. She ran t them expecting Charli. "Keep your voice down dilka. We are trying to have a sleep in" said Zanna.

"Sorry i was looking for Charli. Do you know where he is?" she asked puzzled.

" I knew he would do this after last night" Zanna moaned.

"what do you mean?" DIlka asked worried.

"He was having a bad dream last night and over re-acted about me calming him down. I think has gotten into his head. Normal humans aren't like this." Dilka was looking at her blankly. "I think he has run away Dilka" Zanna replied. Dilka looked up at her.

"No he wouldn't do that!" Dilka yelled in disbelief.

"There is something wrong with him Dilka. We will find him." Zanna said sternly stormed out of the house.

Dilka was sitting on the couch. Head in her hands. She heard talking outside. She was curious, so she walked to the door and placed her ear over it.

" Sir, Charli ran away. I need some help finding him. He could be anywhere in London." She said. She heard someone talking through the phone she was using.

" He has gotten suspicious. I shouldn't of talked to him about his time vision. I just hope he doesn't get into any trouble."

She heard the mobile close and Zanna's car drive off. "Time vision?" she said softly very confused. Something wasn't right around here. She walked back to the lounge room and sat in the chair. She saw something above the TV that wasn't there before. She walked over to it and picked it up. Fire that burns through the night is the goal.