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Chapter 3

Arthur, clad in a heavy trench coat, arrives at the location; just as the storm clouds clear up and reveals the sun that is a couple hours from setting. He walks through an old gate, and comes up to a run-down mansion. Well, it's time to begin the search. The sooner this gets done the better. Arthur thinks to himself. He goes into the mansion and begins his search.

-3 hours later-

"THAT WAS A COMPELETE WASTE OF TIME!" Arthur yells, as it echoes throughout the empty mansion. "THERE IS NOTHING HERE! That blasted frog! I'm going to ring his neck as soon as I see him! A powerful creature, HAH!" Arthur storms towards the front door.

"I wish there was something here, like a demon or maybe a vampire. Then MAYBE I could have some sort of challenge." Arthur reaches the doorway and looks out the window and sees that the sun is close to setting. He then turns around to give the foyer of the house one last look. About to turn away, he sees in the corner of his eye a shadowy figure zoom into a room across the foyer.

"Ah, there is something here. Well, at least this trip is getting interesting." Arthur says as he runs after the shadow, and enters a very dusty library. In the library there were many shelves of books that looked even older than the mansion and quite a few pieces of furniture with sheets hanging over them.

"So you think you can hide from me, huh?" Arthur starts pulling off all of the sheets and overturning the furniture, but finds nothing. He takes the last sheet, frustrated, and balls it up and throws it across the room yelling, "Gah! Where did it GO?" He turns to walk out of the room, and he sees the shadow dash out from behind a space between the wall and bookcase, and back into the foyer. Again, Arthur follows it and as he makes his way out of the library, he sees the shadow zoom up the staircase and assumes that it went into one of the bedrooms upstairs.

He enters the first room, overturns every bit of furniture in it and searches the closets only to find nothing. Leaving that room, he looks across the handrail onto the first floor to see if he sees the shadow, yet again finding nothing. The hunter turns his head and sees one of the doors of the bedrooms close just slightly, and takes off to go into the room. Upon entering the room, he immediately flips over the bed. Hearing a noise behind him, Arthur sees the shadow almost fly out of the room.

"BLAST IT ALL! QUIT RUNNING YOU BLOODY WANKER!" Arthur yells at the shadow as he follows it out of the room and down the staircase. Just as Arthur reaches the bottom step, the shadow runs toward another room and as soon as it had reaches the middle of the room, it disappears with a yell. Arthur slowly crept up to the spot to see a hole in the middle of the floor and as he peered down it he saw a young boy.

Arthur backs away from it thinking, WHAT? A BOY? And then peers into the hole again. The blond haired boy looks up at him. Arthur stares at him, falling into a stupor. What in the world happened to the creature and why is a boy here?

"Uh…Hello, up there." Innocent blue eyes looked up at him, "Can you help me out of here?"

Snapping his head up, Arthur says, "Oh, quite right, I will be right back with a rope."

He backs away from the hole for a moment and chants a spell, summoning a rope long enough to reach the boy. And then he tossed one end down into the hole.

"Grab on to the rope and I will pull you out lad!" Arthur yelled down to the boy.

"Alright," was the response.

After a few moments, the young boy was out of the hole and standing next to his rescuer. The boy shifts from one foot to another.

"Thank you," he says with a bright smile.

While patting the child on the head, Arthur says, "You're quite welcome."

"OH! By the way my name's Alfred. What's yours?"

"I'm Arthur. It is nice to meet you. Now what are you doing here? It is quite dangerous here."

With another smile, Alfred says, "Oh, well we came here lookin for somethin to do."

"We?"

Alfred nods his head, "Yep, me and my lil bro. OH! YEAH! HEY, MATTIE IT IS OK TO COME OUT NOW!"

Coming out of the room Alfred was previously headed towards, came his brother Matthew. The younger twin joined his brother and the hunter. Both, Alfred and Matthew are wearing average clothes: sneakers and blue jeans. Alfred has red and blue shirt, while Matthew has a red and white shirt. Suddenly, Matthew starts pulling on his brother's sleeve and they whisper to each other as they move away from Arthur. After a few moments, Arthur, becoming impatient, folded his arms and started tapping his foot while waiting for the twins.

Alfred turns his head towards Arthur, and practically yells, "Hey Artie!"

At this Arthur winces, and tries his best to say as calmly as possible, "Alfred, please call me Arthur. Not Artie."

"Uh…Ok... Oh! Hey! I gotta question! Why are you carrying around so many books and weird stuff in your jacket?" Alfred asked, opened up Arthur's trench coat to get a better look at what was in it.

Arthur explains, "They are magic books and such that I need for my job. You see, I'm, well, how shall I put this. I'm kind of like a policeman. I use magic to catch dangerous villains and magical creatures."

At this, Alfred's eyes began to shine, "Magic? Really? So cool! And you catch bad guys, too? Just like a hero, right? Awesome! Hey, did you know that I'm a hero too!" Alfred ended with a 100 watt smile, causing Arthur to chuckle a little.

Matthew started to pull on Arthur's sleeve, catching him by surprise. What the…When did he get there?

"I have a question, too. Um… Why is it you came here? Were you looking for a bad guy, for your job? Do you think that we are the bad guys?" Matthew softly whispers.

"What? Yes, I came here for my job, but why would think that children like you are the villains?" Arthur says, as he bends down and places his hand on Matthew's head.

"Huh? OH! Yeah! That's right, Mattie! We are just kids! There's no way that we could possibly be the ones he's lookin for!" Alfred exclaims.

Hmm… The way he said that was a little odd. Arthur thought, but let it slide and said, "Alright boys, we should get out of here before it gets dark, we would want your parents to get worried."

Arthur started to head towards the front door, but noticing that the boys were not following him. He turned to see Alfred's head down, and Matthew, close to crying. Arthur jumped and said, "What's wrong? Are you both alright?"

Alfred looks up at Arthur, "Our parents are gone. We have been alone for a long time."

Arthur jumped a little in surprise and said, "Oh, my apologies." Poor things, I wish I could help them….hmm… OH! "Well boys, how about both of you come with me. That way you won't be alone anymore." Arthur said with a smile.

The twins looked up at him and nearly shouted, "Really?"

Arthur nods his head.

"YAY!" Alfred yells, and runs toward Arthur and tackle hugs him. This causes them to go through the front door and on to the porch floor, just in time to see the sun set completely and the moon start to rise into the sky.

Ouch… "You're a lot stronger than you look, lad." Arthur says as he looks down. But instead of seeing a boy, he sees…. WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!

Lookie a cliffy :D

Sorry I had to do it. It was just so dang tempting XD

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