hey everyone, i'm back!! HUZAH!!!!!!! i am SO SORRY for the long overdue update. i hope this one will keep you satisfied for a while, and i hope you enjoy!! oh, and i'm sorry for the bad describing near the end(i never was good with fight scenes). by the way, this chapter is titled Confessions because... well, you'll see :)

DISCLAIMER: i do not own the Secret Saturdays or any of it's characters. i only own Lina and Gwen

It had been a few minutes since Misty arrived, and already I was sick of her. until I heard the reason why she had come.

"Argost has my parents" she said softly, trying not to cry. "what could possibly benefit Argost in taking your parents?" Drew asked.

Misty lowered her head, trying not to cry again. "I'm not sure, although my father used to… that is, he… um…" she seemed hesitant to say any more, but Doc and Drew persuaded her to continue. "my father used to work with Argost" she mumbled, looking ashamed. There was a collective gasp throughout the room.

"funny, your parents never mentioned that to us" Doc said, looking upset. Misty looked guilty, as though the whole thing were her fault. I felt a pang of sorrow for her. I couldn't imagine how she felt, and I wished there was something I could do to help.

"don't worry Misty, we'll get your parents back" Zak said.

Misty smiled at him, and I frowned when I saw the look in her eyes.

That look said it all;

Misty was in love with Zak.

For some reason, that really bothered me. "don't be stupid!" I told myself. "so what if Misty loves Zak? That doesn't have any affect on me". But I knew I was lying to myself, and I didn't say much throughout the rest of the conversation.

"are you ok Lina?" Misty asked, staring at me with a worried look on her face.

I forced a smile and shook my head. "no, I'm fine. It's just been a long day, you know?"

she nodded, smiling a little. "yeah, I suppose it has been. Well, I guess I'll go to bed now. goodnight Lina".

I nodded. "goodnight Misty". Before she left, she walked over to Zak and kissed him on the cheek

"goodnight Zak".

Zak blushed. "uh, goodnight Misty". As I was walking past him toward my room, he fell in step beside me. "so, you and Misty seem to be getting along good".

I nodded. "uh, yeah. I wasn't so sure at first, but she seems pretty ok".

Zak laughed. "yeah, so far you two haven't had a yelling match, so I'm hoping you'll get along".

I nodded. "yeah, me too. I didn't like fighting with Wadi when she was here, but that girl was asking for it!"

Zak rolled his eyes. "yeah, I'm kind of glad she's gone". We stopped outside my bedroom door and stood there for a few seconds in awkward silence. "well, goodnight" Zak said.

I nodded, smiling a little. "yeah, goodnight". I opened the door to my room and quickly went inside, closing the door behind me. My heart was beating fast, and I had no idea why. The next morning I woke up and went to the kitchen to get some coffee. I don't really like coffee that much, but it helps wake me up most mornings. I was almost to the kitchen when I saw Zak go into the living room, Misty right behind him. curious, I snuck into the living room and stopped a few feet behind the couch. "should I stay?" I thought. "I know it's wrong to eavesdrop, but what if they talk about me?" I was about to leave, when Misty said,

"so, Lina seems nice". I froze. They were going to talk about me! I took a few steps back so that I was standing at the corner of the wall. That way I'd be able to hide behind the wall if one of them turned around.

"yeah, Lina's great" Zak said.

"so do you like her?"

"of course, she's one of my best friends".

Misty giggled and shook her head. "no, I mean do you like Lina?"

Zak's eyes widened. "what? Oh, uh… I don't, I mean…"

Misty giggled. "Zak, it's ok. You don't have to tell her".

Zak frowned. "tell her what?"

"that you love me".

Zak's eyes widened and he blushed. I was surprised myself. "whoa, I don't love you Misty!" Zak cried, blushing more.

Misty frowned. that obviously wasn't the response she'd had in mind. "you don't?" she said.

Zak shook his head. "no. I'm sorry if you thought…"

"no, don't be sorry" Misty said, and I could tell she was trying not to cry.

I felt a sting of pity for her. "it must be awful to love someone who doesn't love you back" I thought, deciding to come out from my hiding place. "hey guys" I said, smiling. Zak and Misty turned to look at me.

"uh, hey Lina" Zak said, looking nervous.

I frowned. "is he guilty for talking about me? but he didn't even know I was listening to them" I thought.

"Lina, did you hear me?"

I jumped and shook my head. "sorry Zak, what did you say?"

"I said we're going to Weird World today to get Misty's parents back".

I nodded. "oh, right, of course we are". I was really nervous about going back to Weird World, considering the fact that I'd barely gotten out of that place alive the first time.

"Lina?"

I jumped and turned to Zak. "huh, what?"

"are you ok? cause you can just sit this one out if you want".

I shook my head. "no way, I'm going! I'm just, well… I'm really not looking forward to going to Weird World again. Not after what happened last time"

Zak nodded. "yeah, I understand. So, you're sure you want to go?"

I nodded. "yes, absolutely sure"

he shrugged. "well ok, we'd better get going then".

I nodded, and we all headed to the airship. I felt my heart hammering in my chest, and I started taking deep breaths. "nothing bad is going to happen. Nothing bad is going to happen…" I kept telling myself.

"Lina, calm down. It's going to be ok" Zak said. he was sitting beside me, and he must've felt that I was nervous.

I smiled. "sorry Zak, I'm just real nervous for some reason"

"it's ok Lina, I'm nervous too" Misty said, smiling at me. I smiled back. I felt guilty for automatically assuming that Misty and I wouldn't get along. But so far we'd been nice to eachother, so maybe we'd be able to be friends.

"even though she loves Zak" I thought. "gah, why am I thinking that?!" I asked myself.

"because you're jealous"

I sighed. "oh great, my conscience"

"that's right. and you're totally jealous of them"

"am not"

"are too"

"listen you, I am not…!"

"we're here" I heard Doc say, tearing me away from my thoughts. I gulped nervously as the airship landed about half a mile away from Weird World.

"I hope mom and dad are ok" Misty said, worry evident in her voice.

"I'm sure they're ok" I said. we smiled at eachother.

"hey Misty, there's something I don't get" Zak said. "when Argost took your parents, why didn't he take you too?"

"he tried, but I ran outside and hid in the woods near our house. I guess he got tired of looking and just left without me" she said, shrugging.

"ok, let's stay together as best we can" Doc said. "if we split up, we'll be easier to target. This place is riddled with traps, so be careful. I cannot stress that enough" we all nodded. we knew how dangerous Weird World could be. "ok guys, let's go" Doc said. we all made our way toward the mansion. My heart was beating hard in my chest, and it felt like my hands were sweaty.

"why am I so nervous?! I'd handled things a lot worse in the past!" I thought. We snuck up to a large door at the side of the building and Drew opened it slowly. I'd learned that you had to keep your eyes peeled around Weird World. There was no telling what could…

"aaaahhhhh!!!" I turned in time to see Zak fall through a trap door.

"geeze, what's with all the trap doors?!" I thought. Misty and I ran to the edge of the opening just as the claw sprang up and latched onto the edge like a grappling hook.

"Zak, are you ok?!" Misty called.

"yeah, just give me a sec to climb back up" he called. About 10 seconds later, he made it back up, and Misty and I helped him out of the trap.

"ok, now what?" Misty asked.

"hey, are you guys ok?" Drew called. She sounded like she was way ahead of us.

"yeah, we're fine Drew! We're coming!" I called. Zak, Misty, and I caught up to the others a few seconds later. "well, nothing really bad has happened so far" I thought. At that moment, I heard a horrible roar. "oh great, I jinxed it!" I thought, scowling. We all turned and saw Munya standing behind us. "oh snap" I mumbled.

"Drew and I will take care of him" Doc said, activating his power glove. "the rest of you go on ahead".

"but dad, you said not to split up"

"under certain circumstances, you have no choice. now go" Zak, Misty, Fisk, and I all hurried on down the hallway.

"I'm glad Gwen decided to stay behind" I thought. "she probably wouldn't be able to stand it here" Gwen had volunteered to stay behind on the airship with Zon.

"ok, so which way do we go now?" Misty asked when we came to a split hallway. We glanced down both halls.

"I'm not sure" Zak said.

"well maybe we can split up…"

"no way, we shouldn't split up any more then we have to" Zak said.

I sighed and nodded. "yeah, I guess you're right". we glanced back and forth down both hallways a few more times before finally making a decision and going down the right hallway. After running for about five minutes, we stopped when we heard voices.

"what are we going to do?"

"calm down Amber"

Misty gasped. "Amber! That's my mom's name!"

"ok , let's not jump to conclusions. It could still be some kind of trap" Zak whispered. Misty and I nodded. We hurried down to the end of the hallway and looked around the corner. There were two rows of cells on either side of a long corridor.

"it looks like a prison" I thought. I saw two people in a cell nearest to us. a man and a woman. The woman had a light blue jumpsuit and had shot brown hair and green eyes. the man had dark red hair and hazel eyes. they both looked a lot like Misty. They had to be her parents.

"mom, dad!"

yep, they were defiantly her parents. We hurried over to the cell they were in. "Misty?! What are you doing here honey?" her mom asked. She and her husband hurried over to the bars.

"we're here to rescue you guys!" Zak said.

"Zak? Zak Saturday?" Misty's dad said.

"uh, yeah. hi Mr. Stewart" Zak said, smiling a little.

"who's she?" Mrs. Stewart asked, turning to me.

"hi, I'm Lina. I'm a friend of theirs"

"it's a long story,and we'll explain later. but now let's just get you two out of there" Zak said. "hey Fisk!" he called. Fisk immediately appeared from around the corner. he grabbed the cell bars only to cry out in pain and jump backwards.

"darn it, there's an electrical field over the bars!" Misty said.

"you ok Fisk?" I asked.

He nodded.

"ok, plan B" Misty said. suddenly we heard shouting. We turned and saw Doc and Drew turn the corner, Munya right behind them.

"oh snap!" I hissed, feeling fear rise inside me. I had always been afraid of spiders, and Munya was no exception. even though he wasn't a true spider, he was close enough. He ran toward us, shooting webbing out of his mouth. "eww!" I said, frowning.

"Lina, look out!"

I screamed and tried to dodge the web flying at me. But I was too slow, and it hit me. "yuck!" I cried, desperately pulling at the sticky stuff. I managed to get most of it off of me, but by the time I'd done so, everyone else was covered in web. "wow, he's quick!" I thought.

"well well well, so nice of you to stop by Saturdays!"

I cringed. I knew that voice. I turned to see Argost standing in the doorway. I cringed again, ready to run. but then I remembered that the others were all caught in Munya's web. "dang it!" I thought. It seemed as though it was all up to me.

"well it looks like things will be easy for me today" Argost said.

i gulped.

"darn, what the heck am i supposed to do?!" i thought, panic rising inside of me.

"Lina, don't try to fight him!" Zak yelled. "just get out of here! go get Doyle and Gwen, they'll help!"

i shook my head. no way was i just going to run away like a scardy cat. i didn't have much time to think, because Argost came flying right at me. i screamed and ducked. he flew over me, just barely missing me. "great, that was real smart!" i thought, mentally scolding myself for just ducking like that.

Argost laughed. "oh i was right, this will be easy!" he jumped forward and kicked me, sending me skidding across the floor. i slammed into something that felt like a knife piercing me in the back. i screamed in pain as tears welled up in my eyes. "snap, i'm going to feel that tomorrow!" i thought.

Argost jumped at me again, but i jumped away, narrowly missing his fist, which was aimed at my head. hr growled in frustration. "all right, enough messing around!" he cried, picking up a giant globe he'd had sitting near a doorway. why he had a giant globe, i had no idea, but when i saw him roll it toward me like a giant bowling ball, i forgot to wonder why he had it in the first place and tried to run out of the way. but the giant globe ran into me, pinning me to the ground. searing pain shot through my body, and i wondered why i wasn't squished. that's when i noticed that the ground beneath me (and the globe) had caved in a little, leaving just enough space between the floor and my body for me not to get crushed.

"well that's surprisingly convenient" i thought, squirming, trying to get out from underneath the giant sphere.

"Lina!" i heard Zak yell. and all of a sudden i saw a blast of flames. then i saw Drew leap forward and attack Argost.

"yay, Drew got free form the web!" i thought, wincing as pain shot through my back. i felt drained all of a sudden, like i couldn't go on. i felt something wet and sticky on my back and glanced behind me. i saw that my lower back was bleeding. "darn it!" i thought. "but what could've cut me?" i looked around and saw that Argost had a whole bunch of swords hanging on the walls. i noticed that one of them was bloody. "whoa, when did i run into that?!" i thought. then i remembered when Arogst had kicked me and sent me flying into something sharp. "i must've hit that sword!" i thought, feeling weaker and weaker.

"Lina!"

i looked up as Zak and Misty leaned down in front of me. "guys, you got out of the web!"

Misty nodded. "yeah, Doc and Drew got us loose". she must've noticed the blood on my back, because her face turned pale and her eyes widened. "oh my god, Lina!"

Zak suddenly noticed too, and he gasped. "Lina, oh my god! we've got to get you out form under this thing!" he looked around, a panicked look on his face.

"Zak, calm down" i tried to say, but i felt so weak. "what's wrong with me?" i thought. that's when i had a horrifying thought. i had always heard that when people were bleeding and felt really weak, that meant that they were bleeding to death. "i don't want to die!" i thought, suddenly feeling panic myself.

"don't worry Lina, we're going to get you out of here!" Zak said.

i felt my eyes start closing. "i just need to rest for a minute" i mumbled.

"Lina, no, you have to stay awake!" Zak said. he sounded scared. "Lina, please!"

i tried to force my eyes open, but it was no use. everything slowly went black...

NORMAL POV
Zak shook Lina's shoulder. "Lina! Lina, stay awake! you have to stay awake, you could bleed to death!"

Lina didn't move.

Zak felt tears well up in his eyes. "Lina, you can't die!" he put his hand on the side of her face.

"i love you Lina"

bum bum BUM!!! is Lina going to die?! no, of course not. you guys know i wouldn't do that to you, right? well, i hate to say it, but i should have the last few chapters up soon. that's right folks, THIS STORY IS ALMOST OVER!!!! but don't worry, i'm thinking of writing a sequel. so i hope you all enjoyed this one, and please review!!!!

-FreddysNightmare1984