A/N alrighty chapter 39 here now peeps. Enjoy it!

ALright i've been getting some messages asking me why i haven't updated very quickly or at least havent gone up on an update ramage like I did in January, and my answer is this. I have frickin high school to deal with, it sucks up my energy like a sponge and leaves me veerryyyy worn out.

I'll work to keep updating and not disappear til summer but, I got stuff on my plate that kills.

Jetravenex: on a brighter note this one did not want to come out... Must be because it's stuck between two big events... eesh.

Chapter 39

Aidan Baxter was the kind of person who viewed himself as someone able to handle crisis situations. After all he'd helped the Raynet sisters handle the death of their father quite well in his opinion. He'd also supported them as had the rest of his family (all five of his brothers and sisters and of course his mom), throughout the tough time the sisters were ruled by their 'wicked' stepmother. Hell, he'd even somehow managed to keep it together when Sirriah committed suicide! But, Jet's disappearance along with Viki had thrown Aidan for a loop.

Hence why he was no pacing through Jet's bedroom holding her favorite stuffed Pegasus Star in an iron grip. His expression locked on the floor in front of him as he paced back and forth, constantly staring at the silvery carpet. Downstairs he heard his mother talking to some of the officers as they struggled to work out where the two girls had gone. Although Aidan had a sinking feeling they wouldn't find them.

He didn't know why he had that feeling, but he just kept getting the vibe that wherever Jet and Viki had gone, they just couldn't reach them right now.

The bedroom door swung open and Aidan lifted his head to see Alica standing there. Aidan straightened up and loosened his grip on Star, before tossing her onto Jet's unmade bed.

"What's the news?" He asked turning his body to face Alica, casting his eyes once more around Jet's room. He knew the room mostly by heart now, all the white furniture, and the light blue walls. Then his eyes fell upon the mirror that stood atop the dresser and across from the bed he was standing beside. He glimpsed himself in the mirror and winced, his blond hair was disheveled and messy, his glasses were slightly tilted to one side, and he seemed to have slight bags under his eyes.

Alica sighed as she leaned against the door frame slightly her fingers drumming against the side. "Well, let's just say things are about to get crazier, Meredith and Sam finished early in D.C. and…" Her voice trailed off biting her lips slightly and averting her eyes.

"They've heard that Jet and Viki are missing and Meredith's about to bring hell in her wake when she comes home." Aidan finished rubbing a hand over his face wearily before sitting down on the edge of the bed. "Great, as if things weren't bad enough."

"Well, it's your fault for holding off on mentioning the fact that Jet and Viki went missing three days ago to Meredith." Alica pointed out with a roll of her eyes.

Aidan narrowed his eyes at her. "Yes, yes, it's my fault can we move on already!" He snapped subconsciously picking up another of Jet's stuffed animals, a green tyrannosaurus rex.

"Sure, I'll move," Alica said whirling around moving at the last second to avoid the door frame, "Oh, everyone else is waiting for you to get on the chat." She said gesturing towards Jet's open laptop. Then she walked out slamming the door abruptly behind her, the doorframe rattling slightly from the impact.

Aidan sighed his face softening as he looked down at the green dinosaur in his hands.

He'd given it to Jet as a present for her 9th birthday, and in his mind's eye he envisioned himself wearing a pair of cargo pants and a gray colored t-shirt handing it over to the young Jet, a purple bow wrapped around the toys neck. Jet took the toy gently before rubbing her cheek against the soft fuzz that made up the dino's body a huge smile threatening to split her face in half.

Aidan sighed before he set the toy down and rose from the bed. He went over to Jet's desk and plopped down in the chair. Heaving a sigh he turned on the laptop, watching as it went through the start up procedures before halting at the sign in screen.

Reaching his hands forward onto the keyboard he typed, "Masqueraderulz" in for Jet's password and watched as the computer granted him access.

"She's really got to change her password." Aidan muttered under his breath as he began the process of getting to the bakugan site and undergoing the standard ritual of logging in, turning on the laptop's computer camera…

"Aidan Gene Baxter!" A furious female voice erupted from the computer causing him to jump. Three smaller video screens appeared and one of them contained the currently enraged older sister of Jet, Meredith Raynet.

Meredith's black hair was slightly disheveled and looked like she's thrown it into a quick ponytail out of necessity. She had slight bags under her eyes but in spite of this still managed to scare the crap out of him. Her green eyes were blazing with anger.

Aidan heaved a sigh reaching up to run a hand through his blond hair sinking back into his chair. "Hello to you too Meredith, Mike, Tyler…" He said nodding to the other two occupants of the chat.

Tyler muttered out a greeting while Mike just folded his arms across his chest and gazed at Aidan severely.

"Aidan," Meredith said slowly her voice sounding strained, as if she'd been crying a lot. "Why didn't you tell any of us that Jet and Viki had gone missing?"

Aidan looked down trying to come up with an explanation, he very much doubted his 'I don't think they're here anymore' would go over well, in fact it probably wouldn't have gone over period. "I don't know Meredith, I guess I wasn't thinking." He said at last.

Meredith narrowed her eyes and balled her fists and Aidan's eyes widened as the girl tried to punch the screen, only for a hand to shoot out and grab it.

"Meredith, relax." A male voice spoke from the side, "Breaking my computer won't solve anything, it'll just make me have to replace it."

Although Aidan couldn't see him, Aidan had to heave a sigh of relief. "Leave it to Sam to calm the situation…" He thought, picturing Meredith's boyfriend of 6 months sitting beside her at…wherever the hell the two of them were at.

Meredith heaved a sigh and lowered her fist, Sam releasing her as she went.

For a few minutes no one said anything, Meredith was staring straight ahead but her eyes seemed unfocused, Aidan tapped Jet's white desk, Tyler was tossing and catching a baseball while Mike was looking thoughtful.

"Well," Mike started awkwardly biting his lips when all the people on the chat suddenly refocused on him. "If it helps any Meredith, me and Tyler, are heading back up to Chicago too." He said quietly as Tyler suddenly moved to the right of his camera disappearing from his screen only to reappear beside Mike, flashing them the peace sign before reappearing back in his screen.

"Really? I thought you weren't coming back to Chi-town for another year Mike." Meredith said, as her lips turned up in a sly grin. "Can't take the heat?"

"Can't stand the locals…" Mike said. "I just don't fit well with them," He said. "I mean," he gestured towards Tyler who had pulled out a lighter from his back pocket and was staring at the flame intensely.

Meredith sighed and banged her head against her computer's keyboard. "I see what you mean." She muttered.

Aidan rolled his eyes at Tyler's antics. "It'll be nice having you back Mike, I like having someone who isn't as smart as me around," He said smiling slyly.

Mike threw him a friendly glare. "Gee, I appreciate your belittling of my intelligence so much." Mike said folding his arms leaning back in his seat, which Aidan now recognized as a car seat.

Aidan raised an eyebrow. "Well, I should as I have no room for you and Tyler in my place, and I doubt Meredith-"

"Um, genius? My uncle's heading back up to Chicago to be with my grandma for the holidays and with Sandburg being out due to flooding, I decided that I'd join him." He glanced sideways at the other boy in the back seat with him. "Tyler decided he wanted to join me."

The other blond perked up at the sound of his name shutting the lighter with a snap. "Heck, yeah, I wanted to see the Windy City too." He said.

"Okay, okay… That's all good and dandy but don't you think we should focus on looking for Jet and Viki?" Meredith demanded. "Sam and I have to spend the night in Ohio, before we dare attempt the roadways again in the morning. It's starting to snow."

"Yeah… That hit us a day ago." Aidan said sheepishly scratching the back of his head. "Expect about 5 inches come morning."

Meredith rolled her eyes. "Oh wonderful, anyways, we should be back tomorrow and I promise you Aidan," She said leaning into the camera. "I can and will make your life hell until we find my sister." She glared at her camera but Aidan knew the heat of it was all for him. She leaned into the camera and hissed. "Do I make myself clear?"

Aidan swallowed before nodding his head attempting to maintain his calm expression. "Crystal." He replied.

Sam appeared beside Meredith wrapping an arm around her waist. Sam was a good few inches taller than Meredith. He had a calm expression on his face but, a shiver ran down Aidan's back. He knew Sam wasn't someone you wanted to mess around with. "Come on Mere, you and I are tired, you can threaten Aidan later, I want to go eat something." He said in a calm voice gently bringing her up to her feet with her leaning partially against him.

Meredith sighed before grudgingly reaching forward her hand partially covering the screen as she rested her hand on the camera. ", I guess we'll be seeing you guys tomorrow then, Sayonara, and Aidan you better have some clues by the time I get there!"

Aidan with exaggerated slowness raised his hand and brought it up into a salute. "Yes m'am." He said in a monotone sounding voice.

Tyler and Mike bid the black haired girl farewell just before he screen vanished.

"Well," Tyler said yawning and stretching. "We still have a few more hours' worth of travel ahead of us, we're just getting through Arkansas right now so… I'm logging out for now." Tyler said waving a hand at Aidan before his screen disappeared. Mike only remained and the two of them considered each other.

"Aidan," Mike said quietly. "You are the smartest guy I know, so cut the 'oh I wasn't thinking'crap because I sure as hell don't believe it…"

Aidan looked down at the keyboard. "Mike…"

Mike's eyebrows furrowed. "Aidan what's really going on here man? You know you can tell me bro?"

Aidan sighed. "I keep having this feeling… that we can't find them… But it's not because they're dead or well hidden!" He added quickly cutting off whatever Mike was about to say. "Look it's because Alica and I did manage to get a call through to Jet and Viki." Aidan admitted running a hand over his face wearily. "And... I believe that they're alright..."

Mike raised an eyebrow at this. "You called them?" He asked folding his arms across his chest and tipping his head to one side.

Aidan nodded his head. "Yes, as surprising as it is, they were completely fine… But wherever they were at they didn't want to tell me where…" He said trailing off.

Mike frowned. "Are they running away?" He said resting his chin on his hand his eyes staring off into space. "But that doesn't make much sense, Jet wouldn't run away unless it was necessary and Viki isn't the type to do something like that…so that doesn't make sense…"

"Aidan!" A voice called from downstairs making the boy jump. He glanced towards the open door leading into Jet's bedroom.

"I won't keep you…" Mike said. "I'll see you soon Aid," He said giving the blond the peace sign with his hand before his screen vanished as well.

Aidan sat there staring at the screen before he closed the laptop and rested his arms on top of it and rested his head on them. He sighed staring at the blue wall in front of him.

"Where are you Jet?" He whispered.

Suddenly a loud whinny erupted from outside and Aidan jumped to his feet whirling around towards the source but could not see the source in the room. He whirled around his eyebrows furrowing.

"Did I-" He trailed off as the sound came again, he froze and waited a second, ears straining for even the slightest noise when he heard the horse's cry again and it was coming from… "Outside?" He said going over to one of Jet's windows that overlooked the backyard and gently pushed aside the white curtain.

Outside just about everything was covered in a blanket of white snow. The snow sparkled with the dimming sunlight of the afternoon. He scanned the backyard before shaking his head about to draw away when a glowing white feather seeming to give off an unusual golden glow drifted down in front of the window. His head snapped up and his eyes widened.

Above his head perched atop a white cloud was an elegant white Pegasus, it's white wings spread the golden light of the sun making it seem to be surrounded by a golden aura. The horse wore golden armor, and on its back sat a silvery knight. The knight stood there, perched atop the Pegasus's back partially shining in the sunlight when all of the sudden the Pegasus reared whinnying and-

"Aidan?"

Aidan glanced away from the window to see his mother for just a second, but when he looked back towards the knight and the winged horse.

He found himself staring at the empty sky.

"Aidan?" His mother repeated stepping uncertainly unto Jet's room her head tipped to one side, "Aidan, honey we're going I have to make dinner…"

Aidan turned away from the window and faced his mother his expression dazed and a little awed.

His mother tipped her head. "Aidan, are you alright?"

Aidan blinked and shook himself before nodding to his mother.

"Yeah, just fine mom…."

Jet was famous for not answering her phone, until she got about 50 gazillion missed call messages showing up on her phone…or she had her phone on her and when you called on that 50 gazillion plus 1 time…

Yeah, she just sucked at answering her phone when you wanted her to.

Mike sighed irritably as he hit the call end button sinking into his seat. After hearing what Aidan said it did give him some peace of mind… Maybe Jet was just off being Jet, stirring up trouble in some place. Messing with the status quo.

Chuckling to himself he tucked his phone away and gazed out the window his eyelids beginning to feel heavy.

The car went into a long gradual turn going past a lake. Mike gazed at the lake that was covered with a thin sheet of ice, when he blinked. Cracks began to spread across the lake, and the next thing he knew the ice on the lake cracked apart revealing the blue waters trapped beneath. Slowly a giant blue being raised its head from the depths of the lake. It resembled the head of a large alligator or crocodile. Mike at first blinked in surprise then smiled drowsily laying his head against the window staring at the blue alligator. The alligator opened and closed its mouth causing the lake waters to slap at the bank pushing the remaining shards of ice up onto the bank.

Mike's eyelids flickered then he closed his eyes and his body went slack his head still resting against the window.

Once the car drove past, the alligator slipped back into the lake waters, the waters growing calm and still once more. A few moments later and a new thin sheet of ice formed coating the top of the lake. Soon the location looked as if nothing had even happened.

Farther off from where the alligator had shown itself to Mike a giant brown wolf, that had a hazy see through form halted in the middle of a large desert. It sat on its haunches and tipped its head back howling at the sky. It echoed over the desert for miles. And only the sun bore witness to it.

A/N okay i enjoyed giving the OC's a big appearance, but alright now that that's done...

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