Chapter 8 tension flight:

Charli felt himself jump up and down in a dark landscape. Where was he? He slowly got up head aching. He placed his hand on it to feel it, it was very tender. The room suddenly lightened up a little. An older version of Dilka was standing in front of him. "Dilka?" he asked. She shocked her head.

"I am not the Dilka you know. I have something for you," she said. She opened her hand up. A water lily floated in her slender right hand. "What is with the water lily?" he asked. Dilka placed a slim finger over her lips. It obviously was a secret that he needed to find out for himself.

He took the water lily out of her hand. "Your friend Dilka has found another clue," She said and vanished into the darkness. It suddenly went very bright.

Charli opened his eyes to see Dilka's head straight over his face. "Move your face away from me," he groaned. She noticed and quickly ducked away into the chair. They were back in Zanna and David's house. "What happened?" he groaned rubbing his swore head. "You don't remember?" she questioned. Charli shook his head. She held the water lily. "This was in your hand. You were going to crush it so I took it," She said.

Charli looked up at her long childish face. Aren't you angry at me?" he asked. She shook her head. "I over reacted," she said.

"did you find anything when I was gone?" he asked. Dilka looked at him puzzled then pulled a slip of paper out of her pocket. "I found this note on top of the TV," She said as she handed it to him. Fire that burns through the night is the goal. What did fire that burns through the night and a water lily have in common with each other and a portal? He thought to himself. None of this made sense unless the fire part was just to confuse him.

"What is with that face?" Dilka asked. Charli shook his head to get rid of his lingering thoughts. "Oh, I was just thinking what does water lily and fire have in common?" he asked. Dilka sighed and got a lighter that was near by. She lit the water lily alight. "What are you doing?" Charli asked astonished.

The water lily slowly burnt into a crisp and it went dark. A flame flickered in the darkness. Letters of flame appeared in the darkness. Enemies are closer than expected. Allies are further away than expected. Take this word as a warning of success or defeat, It had written.

"Enemies are closer than expected?" Dilka stuttered confused. Charli looked up at her shocked and confused face. "What?" he asked.

"Zanna called someone about you going missing today and drove off in a rush. David really wanted to capture you. Then this message," She said. She was obviously good at gathering all the information.

"it could be because they knew how bad being alone in London was?" he asked. Dilka shook her head. "It isn't that bad right now," she said. Charli sat up. A shudder of pain went down his spine. "Well ignore it. We need to find a way to get to Leo," He said. Dilka nodded.

Zanna walked into the little room they were in with a tray with China teacups full of warm tea. She rested it on the table next to them. "Nice to see your awake," she said with a faint smile. Dilka looked up at her.

"Dilka I need to talk to Charli for a bit," she said. Dilka opened her mouth to say something but closed it and slowly walked out of the room. Zanna sat down on the chair Dilka was sitting on. "Why did you run away?" she asked coldly. "I_I don't know," Charli replied. Zanna leant closer to Charli.

"Co-operate with us and we will get Leo back for you," she hissed. Charli thought for a moment. They would get Leo back? NO! He couldn't trust them right now. "I don't believe you and what do you mean by co-operate?" he asked. Zanna smiled. "You will find out later. What about if you don't co-operate we will do something to Dilka?" she sneered.

"But she is your niece!" Charli said shocked. Zanna crossed her arms. An evil glint shining in her eyes. " We aren't related at all. She is an orphan," Zanna said. Orphan?

"Anyway, she is useless here. You have seen the other Dilka haven't you?" She asked. Charli nodded. "That is the only important thing about her. Otherwise she is a normal being. We want you to get that Dilka for us," she said. Get the older Dilka? How would I? I have only met her in a dream! "No!"

Zanna's face looked like a ghost's face now. "So you want Dilka to die?" she asked. She stood up. "NO! I just don't want to do someone's own dirty business," he said. Zanna turned around.

"Only you can get to that Dilka. Your brother could too but that would be a harder way," she said. How does she know so much about us?

"Oh! And your brother has another job to do for me. It's going to be hard to get in contact with him and he will probably be the same as you. Mind you, I have a feeling he will be meeting her soon," Zanna said.

"Who?" he asked.

"Rosa. The daughter of fairies," she replied. The daughter of fairies. What did that mean. Was she a foe as well? Or was she someone that could be trusted. Zanna tapped her foot impatiently on the ground. "David better finish that device so some of our men can go into that world," she said. Her face brightened and ran to Charli's bag and rummaged through it until she pulled out his notepad. "This thing will be useful for us to figure out what this world would be like," she said to herself. What did the notebook have anything to do with this? It was just a hobby book. Something clicked in his head. The daughter of fairies! In this made up realm he made these special people. They where related to a special things in that world. They were fairies, dragons, phoenixes, wolves, nymph and the ruler of all 'hydra'. Hydra's were extinct in that world though so that person carried its blood.

Zanna was looking at him. "Did you remember something?" she asked.

"Only about the daughter of fairies," Charli said. She nodded.

"We know about the daughter of fairies, daughter of nymph, son of wolves, son of phoenix, son of bahamut (platinum dragon) and the Hydra blood carrier. It isn't big news for us. We have our sources," She said. She walked out the door leaving Charli all alone in this room with one decision to be made.

No one came into the room he was in for the rest of the day. "I bet they fed her lies to keep her out of this room," Charli muttered under his breath. He never tried opening the door because he would know he would be hassled by Zanna about his choice. He sat in the dark room realizing there were no windows in this one room. He slowly got up his bare feet touching the cold floor boards and he kneelt down to rummage through his bag. Zanna had walked off with his notebook but he had other things in his bag. Well that was what he had thought. There was a lunch box, pencil case, school dairy and a 5-subject book. His phone and iPod weren't in there! He sat down on the floor in dismay. He had nothing to do. Well he didn't want to study since he wouldn't be back at school for obviously awhile.