The song for this chapter is: Stay by Rihanna.

Sky POV

Although I held tight onto the arms of my crutches, Quentin tried his very best to help me. Ty, leading our group, was paying no attention, Annie at his side. We wandered aimlessly in the forest, looking out for anything we could find.

"What's up with Ty? Is there anything I missed while I was gone?" I quietly asked Quentin.

"There was the fact that everyone thought you were dead. Ty got hurt the most."

"You guys should've been able to deal with it on your own."

"How? Our leader missing, no one left to deal with the squids, and only seven people in the whole army."

"So it was you, Ty, Jerome, Ryan, Sierra, Annie, and Mia?"

"And two days of Jordan."

"Yeah. Anything else?"

"Well, there was that one day…" I glared at him strangely. Quentin continued, "We were all in the main storage room. Mia, or at that point, Susan, stood up on one of the boxes. She started yelling about how you deserted us and that we should abandon the Sky Army. It stung us… a lot. Furious and upset, Ty kicked her out."

"Is that one of the reasons for that squid invasion yesterday?"

"Probably."

"Nothing more than that?"

"Nuh uh." Quentin shook his head. It was silent for another minute as we tried to catch up to Ty and Annie.

"Quentin! Annie! I found it!" Ty shouted. He didn't say my name. It kind of offended me. Focusing on what Ty found, I noticed him race up to a large building made out of diamond, obsidian, and budder. There were signs on the grass that read stuff that I couldn't make out from my location. I only saw one: "The HQ of IHasCupquake."

Yosh POV

I finally woke up, still on the comfortable bed in that small but cozy room. There was a knock on the door. Yawning, I stood up and carefully opened it to find the lady with the black heels who gave me the keys.

"Good morning, sir," she said.

"You can call me Yosh," I told her, "No need to get all fancy like."

"Alright, Yosh. Breakfast is ready. We have some more guests from the Sky Army joining us today."

"Huh?" She gave me fresh clothes and I changed into them. It was a plain white T-shirt, blue pants, and clean white socks. With only socks on my feet, I followed the woman, who's name was Isabel, into the dining hall. A girl with brown hair, a gray tank top with a cupcake on it, black shorts, rainbow colored socks, black shoes, red bracelets on her wrists, and a pink flower in her hair, sat at the head of the table. To my surprise, Sky, Quentin, Ty, and Annie sat at the long wooden table as well. There were others who I did not recognize.

"Good morning, visitor," the girl called me out.

"You can call me Yosh…"

"Shouldn't you be with your group?" Sky asked. He glanced at me, slightly lifting his sunglasses from his eyes to look at me.

"Uh… I got lost." Nervous, I sat down in the chair next to the girl. Sky sat across from me.

"Hi," the girl said, "My name is IHasCupquake, but you can call me Cupquake for short."

"Okay," I told her, "Thank you for letting me stay."

"It's my pleasure. This is a friendly place where everyone is safe. No one would dare to come and attack."

"May I ask… why?"

Cupquake was silent and glanced down at her food-filled plate before continuing, "I would rather keep that between me and the rest of my group." She took a glimpse of me and smiled, "Well, enjoy the meal."

The Sky Army recruits, and Cupquake and her group, including Isabel, ate most of the food on their plate. I barely touched anything. Cupquake tapped me on the shoulder.

"Are you going to eat that?" she asked.

"No. You can have it if you want."

"It's alright. I'm stuffed already. Isabel!"

Isabel perked up from her breakfast, "Yes?"

"Can you take Yosh's plate into the kitchen?"

"Yes…"

"It's fine," I told her, "I can bring it in." As I stood up, Cupquake sat me down again.

"Let her."

I decided to let it be, although I did not understand Cupquake's motives. There was something hidden in her HQ that she wanted no one else to know about.

iEcho POV

"Hey Mat," Ian asked, "Where are we going?"

"Uh…" Mat replied, "To the…"

"You cactus! You don't know where we're going, do you?" Preston demanded.

"Preston, come on, let him be," I defended Mat.

"Alright. But only for you."

I blushed. Running up to meet with Mat, I personally questioned him, "Do you know where we're going?"

"No idea," he responded, "Have any thoughts?" I shook my head and glanced around.

"So," Ian investigated, "What now?"

"I don't know," Preston replied, "Ask Mat. He seems to know what he's doing." Mat rolled his eyes and persisted on being silent. I glared back at Preston and motioned slicing off his neck.

"Mat, where are we going?"

"Please, Ian. Don't."

"Okay, okay, chill out!"

There were many trees surrounding us. The sky became gray. Clouds covered a large portion of the gray. The whole location made me feel nautilus and light-headed. In the midst of this, my eye caught something a little too familiar. And referring to familiar, in a bad way.

"Oh my Notch!" I shouted and then covered my mouth with my hands. Nervous, I spun around to make sure no one else but Mat, Ian, and Preston heard.

Preston ran up me and held onto my arm. Worried, he looked down into my eyes, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

I struggled to get out my words as I viewed the thing, "The… the… portal. To the squid dimension."

In front of us was the navy blue wool and obsidian-made portal leading to the dimension of the squids.

The squid portal has been found! What happens next? You'll just have to wait for tomorrow's chapter!