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Chapter 7

"Psst, Zak!"Maddie whispered to the bed next to her. "Wake up! You to Jordan!" As Jordan and Zak awoke from their sleep, Maddie pulled out her lap top again and started it up.

"Wh-what?" Jordan drawled, voice thick with sleep.

"Just get over here, you idiot," Maddie ordered, and Zak slipped off of his bed and sidled up onto Maddie's, Jordan doing the same thing, getting o her bed just as the internet browser appeared on her computer screen. She skillfully moved her mouse to the favorites and clicked on the last thing she added.

"Why did you wake us up Maddie?" Zak yawned, before noticing the search page.

"We're continuing our search from earlier that that airhead of a nurse made us stop," Maddie told them, scrolling down the screen before finding the last thing her mouse had hovered over before she had had to shut it down.

"Isn't that a-?!" Jordan started before Maddie's hand was slapped over his mouth.

"Yes, it is," She growled low, before releasing his mouth and pressing on the link.

It was a link to a government website, and as much as Maddie hated to admit it, it was their best lead right then.

"Let's see…" Maddie murmured, and the three all had their heads together, looking at the bright computer screen in the dark infirmary.

"What is it talking about?" Both boys' whispered into opposite ears on Maddie's head. The boys' were unsure of what it said on the page, but they knew that if anybody was going to know what it said, it would be Maddie. She was awesome like that with computers. She could hack into any site with little effort. Jordan and Zak had tried before to give up plants to go with hacking, but Maddie refused. She loved her plants too much to give them up for anything- even higher wage.

"This may be it," Maddie whispered, clicking on one of the links on the site, causing the room to go completely black before the light from the screen reappeared. "This could be the answer to our mysterious fainting spells."

It was a picture of a stone. It didn't look like their answer.

"That doesn't look like an answer to me!" Jordan protested quietly, and Zak took the liberty of asking the question that was on both of their minds.

"What is that?" Zak whispered to their friend. Maddie looked at the computer screen and said simply,

"That's the Kur Stone."

And none of the three knew what sort of trouble they were getting themselves into with just that one sentence.

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"Remember," Maddie reminded the boys after they were released from the infirmary the next day to go home. They were still in the infirmary, finishing up their conversation from last night. "Look up everything and anything- find out anything and everything you can about the Kur Stone, got it?" The boys nodded, and Maddie tacked on something else to the end of it, to be safe.

"Don't let your parents know," She advised. "We don't know what the Kur Stone may be, but I have a feeling that it's something we don't want our parents to find out that we're looking up. Got it?" The boys nodded, and Maddie nodded as well as she swung her feet off the side of the infirmary bed that had been her home for two days and grabbed her back pack and slung it over her shoulder.

"Alright then," She said, heading for the door. "I'll see you guys later." She left the room.

And Maddie was gone.

"I should go to," Zak said, and heaved himself off of the bed and grabbed his back pack and awkwardly put it over one of his shoulders with one hand, leaving Jordan behind, all by his lonesome. He gave an awkward one handed wave, and he too, was gone.

"I should go to," Jordan muttered to no one in particular, getting up. He was about to pick up his back pack when a flash of green from the window caught his attention. Jordan hopped over to the window, to see a Gartner Snake lying there. He smiled and picked up the snake,

"Hey little guy," He cooed. "What are you doing in a place like this?"

"Put me down, you infernal mongrel!" A voice seemed to hiss in his mind, and Jordan let out a small yelp and the snake fell from his hands.

"W-who was that?" Jordan asked, his voice small.

"Down here, you idiotic bafoon!" The voice hissed angrily. Jordan jumped and looked down at his feet, where the Gartner snake was glaring angrily up at him, hissing.

"Wait- you said that?!" Jordan was freaking. Please let this be a freaky dream, please let this be a freaky dream…

"Yes you idiotic child of the time of Kur!" The snake hissed angrily. "The snake at your feet, Parseltongue of Kur!" Jordan knelt down beside the snake, and looked it in its angry yellow slitted eyes.

"Wait," He said, processing what the snake was saying. "Did you say Kur? As in, the Kur Stone?" The snake looked up at him.

"Yes, boy." The snake seemed to growl as it hissed. A thought was beginning to form in Jordan's head.

"Do you have a name?" Jordan asked the snake, and it seemed taken aback before it responded.

"Yes," The snake told Jordan. "It's Riku." Jordan smiled.

"Well, Riku," Jordan asked him. "How would you feel about coming home with me? My parents raise and study snakes- you'd fit right in." Jordan scored two for two as the snake- Riku -was again taken aback by his question. Finally, Riku settled himself, and responded.

"What have I got to lose?" Riku asked, and Jordan picked him up again.

"Hey, watch it!" Riku protested as he was placed into Jordan's back pack. Jordan only chuckled lightly as he zipped the snake inside.

This might be really strange, but Jordan found it kind of cool.

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And the plot thickens! And, yeah, I was reading some Kingdom Hearts fanfics as I typed, thus the name Riku for the snake. I thought it fit him better. Besides, it was between that name and Marluxia, and Marluxia is just... ugh... *shudders*

Please read and review and tell me what you think!

~~Paw-Chan Signing Out~~