Ch. 4: Cody's Inferno
Ice went back to the lab and told them about what happened. The others were confused by what Ice told them.
"A Rottweiler in Section 13?" Drago interrogated, "Are you sure, Ice?"
"I'm not makin' this up, D-Dude!" Ice said, "The strangest thing is that this dog reminded me of the one that chased me when I was a shortstop."
"Most stress from working too hard can result in hallucinations," Kepler said.
Ice showed him his ripped pants.
"Does this ripped pants look like a hallucination to you?" Ice asked.
Then, another dark portal appeared from behind Cody. This left the J-Teens baffled.
"Looks like you were right, Ice," Chrissie said.
Cody was suddenly getting pulled in. He struggled to get away, but the portal was strong.
"Cody!" Drago shouted as he and the others grabbed him.
Very soon, they were pulled in, too. The J-Teens suddenly found themselves back on Cody's farm. The crops were in an inferno. It was scaring Cody half to death.
"No! No! No! Not again!" Cody screamed.
He was having flashbacks just like Ice. He was seeing himself as a kid, surrounded by fire while in the field. Colleen saw that Cody was in trouble.
"Cody!" Colleen called.
She was about to run to him, but Drago stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.
"Colleen, no! You'll get burned!" Drago said, "I'll save him."
Drago ran into the blaze without getting burned. Cody was cowering in fear when he saw Drago running up to him.
"Cody, hold on!" Drago shouted to him.
Suddenly, Drago saw a branch cracking and it fell on top of him. He was pinned down by the burning branch.
"Drago!" Cody called.
Cody snapped of his fear and ran toward the fire. He grabbed Drago by his left hand and tried to lift him up. When he finally got Drago free, the fire, the farm, and everything else disappeared in a flash, they were back in Kepler's lab.
"What happened?" Colleen asked with a baffled expression in her face.
"Cody, are you okay?" Drago asked.
"Yeah. That crop fire happened when I was kid," Cody said.
"Just like the dog that attacked me," Ice stated, "What's happenin'?"
"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with that stone we brought back," Colleen said.
Then, Colleen's cell phone rang. She answered it, and on the phone is her grandpa.
"Hello?" Colleen said.
"Colleen, it's me!" Angus said.
"Grandpa! You won't believe what is going on. First, Ice saw a rottweiler that once attacked him. Then, we found ourselves a Cody's farm during a crop fire."
"I was afraid of this. That stone you have is the Stone of Samhain, a magic stone created by Celtic witches who worked for Froggo."
"What does it do?"
"It has the power to bring worst fears to life. Froggo used it to bring even the bravest of knights to their knees."
"Like Ice's dog or the fire at Cody's old farm home!"
"I got a pretty good idea who sent that stone to us," Drago said.
"Grandpa, how do we destroy the stone?"
"The only way to deactivate it is for the people within range of it to face their fears. Be careful, with each fear, the illusion becomes more intense."
Angus and Colleen hang up at the same time. Suddenly, a portal appears and begins to suck Colleen in. Drago and the others grab onto her until they were all sucked in.