Since you guys liked Chapter 1 so much, I'm posting chapter two today!

Song for this chapter: Clocks by Coldplay.

I continued walking through theforest, stopping at times to catch my breath. No one was around. They wouldn't be looking for me. Well, maybe.

Someone else found me though. I heard crackles of dead leaves, realizing I was not moving. I glanced around the trees, trying to figure out where the noise came from.

Chris appeared from behind me. I spun to see him.

"Chris," I begun, "I don't want any trouble…"

"What are you doing on Sly's land?" he questioned.

"I was just passing through." I put my hands up to signify that I would not hurt him, "Promise."

"Come with me."

"Why?"

"Because," Chris faced me once again, expecting him to create a devilish grin, but with a straight face, "You're trespassing on our land."

"No… It's really not what it looks like…" In a split second decision, I rushed off in the other direction. Chris stood there, not trying to catch me.

I reached a large tree and hid behind it, a little of wanting Chris to find me. Pulling out my diamond sword, I slowly came to the realization that he wasn't going to follow me. Confused, I continued on my path.

Eventually I came across a crossroads. There was a path that went to the left, and one that went to the right. I took the left path. While strolling along, I recognized a certain area off to the side of the path. It had a tent and a burnt-out fire. Food remains were scattered over the place, as if it was all of the sudden it had been abandoned by a group… my group. This had been the campsite that Kitty, Fury, and I had stayed overnight. The place where Fury went missing. The place where Kitty and I looked up into the stars, reminding me of my friends. The place where we found the temple.

Remembering my exact position of that day, I found our footprints leading the the temple and followed them. A little less than a minute later, I set my sights on the stone temple, and entered it.

I went down the narrow hallways, dimmed like before. That was the fourth time that I arrived in the budder block-covered room with the two portals: one to the Nether, and the other to the Aether.

I had already been in the Nether. My question was if Kitty could even get inside the other portal. I knew that Oblivion's hideout had been in the Aether. Maybe she was hiding a secret. An important secret. And Kitty didn't want me to find out. So she killed her enemy.

I never thought about the other options. Kitty could possibly have been the bad one here. She and Fury could have been against Oblivion because she was trying to protect me from Kitty's true self… I didn't want to think about it.

Looking around the room, I noticed something that wasn't there before. It was a amulet lying on a block of budder. Carefully, I walked over to the amulet and picked it up. With a gold chain and a sapphire gem on the inside, it looked very similar to Sky's. I slid it over my neck.

"Who are you and what are you doing with my friend's necklace?" I glanced behind my shoulder to see a familiar face, "Jordan?"

"Beatrice?"

"What are you doing with… How'd you find this?"

"I found it on the block… who's necklace is it?"

"Yours."

"Mine? I don't own anything like this."

"iEcho told me it was yours."

"iEcho? Do you know where she went?"

"No. Sorry."

"Beatrice," a male voice called out, "Come on, we're gonna be late."

"Is that Ray?"

Beatrice cringed and walked backwards out of the room, "No."

"Wait!" I ran after her and grabbed her arm, "Beatrice."

"He can't know you're here," she whispered.

"Who?"

"Rex."

"Who's Rex?"

"Shhh…" Beatrice started to lead me through the hallways. I quietly followed behind. Occasionally, she would turn around and check if I was still there, "He's Ray's friend. He absolutely hates the Sky Army. Especially their generals. If he knew the Illusionists are allies with Sky, he'll kill me. Literally."

"That's why he can't know I'm here."

"Yeah. Cause you're a Sky Army general."

"Well… technically I'm now a co-captain with Ty, only a position lower than Sky… but… general… sure."

"Beatrice!" Rex called out yet again.

"I'm coming," Beatrice replied. She turned her attention to me and whispered, "When you see the path ahead, go right. There's a back exit. I have to go left to meet up with Rex."

"Does that mean you're not coming back to HQ?"

"Maybe. Once I get rid of Rex, somehow, I'll come. Goodbye." We came across the path and she went down the left one. I continued along on the right.

I exited the building and noticed lots of trees. Making my way around, I spotted Beatrice and an unfamiliar man. I decided that he was Rex. Rex had brown hair, and blue eyes, although one of them was covered with an eyepatch. A white X was imprinted on his bare chest.

"Beatrice, what were you doing in there?" Rex questioned her.

"Nothing. I was picking up something, but it was gone once I reached where I left it."

"Who took it?"

"I don't know."

"Come on, we're leaving."

Somehow Beatrice spotted me through the trees, watching their conversation. She tried to walk away from him, but Rex pulled her back.

"We're leaving."

Beatrice pulled off Rex's eyepatch. She stared at him with wide eyes. I noticed what she was staring at. Rex had one pure white eye.