Chapter Two: Missing People

Gabriel ran as fast as he could away from the attacker. He tried to fight him, but the man had snapped his sword in half, he just hoped the man was slower than he was strong. As he ran and ran, Gabriel found himself in a forest, dodging trees and rocks to get away from the man who attacked him. All of a sudden, his right foot swung up in the air and the rest of his body was thrown down. He looked up to see that his foot was hanging from a tree by a purple transparent rope. He tried to pull himself up to untie it, but a hand grabbed his chin and pulled him back down.

"Looks like the mighty Gabriel isn't so mighty after all." Said the man who attacked him.

"I am mighty, and you made a big mistake trying to mess with me!" Exclaimed Gabriel, his helmet slipping off his head, because, gravity.

"You're not mighty, you're a liar and a fraud," He replied, "You should have died instead of losing your memory."

"How dare you!"

"You remember the inside of The Wither Storms, right?" Gabriel had gained a small fear of The Wither Storm ever since the incident two years ago, so he was a bit scared to hear it's name out loud.

"Y-yeah." He replied.

"Well why don't you go somewhere almost exactly the same, right now."

"Wha-ahhhh!"

It was finally morning and everyone were getting out of bed. Petra went to ask Jonathan how he slept, but he wasn't in the guest room. She went downstairs to see if he was there, and she found him fast asleep on the couch in the living room.

"Jonathan!" She yelled to try and wake him up, and she succeeded; he jumped straight up from the sudden noise. He had bags under his eyes, which indicated that he didn't sleep very well, but Petra asked how he slept anyway.

"How'd you sleep last night?" She asked, sitting down next to him.

"Not to good," He replied, " I found the couch comfier than the bed, so I decided to sleep here." Lukas then came in with a cup of coffee and the second he saw Jonathan, he gave him 'the stare'.

"What's up mister kitty cat?" Asked Jonathan.

"You have blood on your sleeve." Replied Lukas, not taking his eyes off of Jonathan's blood stained sleeve.

"Where?" Jonathan asked while looking all over his jacket to find the red liquid.

"On your left sleeve." Lukas was getting very suspicious of him. He barely knew the guy, but he just couldn't help but feel something was up with him. As Jonathan found the blood and licked it to clean it up, a knock on the door was heard.

"I'll get it!" Exclaimed a voice from the stairway. Lukas went to join the voice at the door while taking a sip from his coffee. Jonathan and Petra said nothing to each other until another yell from the same voice who went to get the door was calling for them.

"Hey everyone, we need you for a sec!" Hearing this call, Jonathan and Petra got up from the couch and went to the door to be met with everyone else in the household, and…

"Ivor?" Petra (as well as everyone else) hadn't seen him since the whole 'portal incident' one year and three months ago.

"Gabriel and many other people have randomly gone missing!" Exclaimed Ivor.

"What?!" Exclaimed Axel.

"Gabriel's helmet was found in the middle of the forest in a pool of blood; his body was not found." Ivor replied while inviting himself into the temple.

"When did this happen?" Asked Olivia as everyone followed Ivor back into the living room.

"His helmet was found this morning and we believe what ever happened to him, happened last night."

"So, mister no-memory is missing?" Asked Jonathan after a big yawn.

"Who's this?" Asked Ivor, pointing to the short man.

"He's an old frie—wait… how do you know about him losing his memory?" Petra was immediately skeptical of her old friend.

"I was in The Wither Storm too, I saw him in there." He replied as many eyes looked directly at him and then back at Ivor.

"Many of the other people who went missing were in their homes alone," Ivor continued, "So it was possible that someone could have snuck in undetected."

"Some of us will go and investigate, and maybe someone could stay here to watch Jonathan." Said Jesse, getting his sword out.

"I'll stay and finish my time bomb, and watch Jonny." Axel insisted.

"I'm staying too." Said Lukas, looking at Jonathan through the corner of his eye.

"Alright then, show us where crime scene is Ivor." Said Jesse, walking out the door.

"Have fun looking at blood for hours!" Said Jonathan, waving them goodbye. All of a sudden, a hand pulled him up from his shirt.

"I don't know what your deal is, but I'm watching you." Threatened Lukas. Jonathan just smiled.

"You really hate me don't you?" He said. Lukas didn't answer, he only threw Jonathan to the ground.

"Dude, what's your problem?!" Exclaimed Axel, pushing Lukas on the chest.

"There's something up with him!" Replied Lukas, pointing at Jonathan.

"There's nothing wrong with him, you just don't know him!"

"Well there is something wrong, and I'm going to find out what." Lukas than walked away, leaving Axel and Jonathan alone; all alone.

Olivia almost puked looking at the amount of blood on the ground.

"Guys, check this out." Said Petra, kneeling down next to the blood.

"What is it?" Asked Jesse.

"Look at this," Petra pointed out black particle dust mixed in with the blood, "Don't you recognize it?"

"That's the particle effect that came from The Wither Storms tractor beams!" Exclaimed Jesse, surprised to see that particle effect again after years.

"Do you think The Wither Storm and this are connected somehow?" Asked Olivia.

"Must be." Said Ivor, scooping up some blood with his finger.

"What about the other missing people?" Asked Petra, pouring some blood into a small plastic bag for looking at.

"Almost exactly the same crime scene." Replied Ivor.

"Well, let's go check them out." Said Jesse. With that said, everyone went off to the eighteen other crime scenes in which people were missing; sadly, they didn't get any further in the case. All they found was more blood with more of the particle dust in it. After three hours of searching and investigating, they decided to head back to the temple and have lunch. As they opened the door, it all seemed too quiet.

"Hey, we're back!" Exclaimed Jesse. No one answered. They all got their weapons out, thinking something had happened. Petra went into the kitchen to find Lukas laying on the ground, unconscious.

"Lukas!" She exclaimed, shaking his body to try and wake him up, "Guys, come in here!" Everyone ran in, and seeing the sight in front of them, they helped shake him awake.

"Ugh." He moaned after he finally woke up.

"Lukas, what happened?" Asked Jesse.

"Someone tampered my drink or something." He replied, rubbing his head.

"What?!" Exclaimed Petra.

"Yeah, I don't know what happened to Axel and Jonathan, but that's what happened to me."

"Wait, where are they?" Asked Olivia.

"Hey guys." Said a familiar voice. They all turned around to see Jonathan standing at the doorway of the kitchen.

"Jonathan, where's Axel?" Asked Petra, walking up to her short friend.

"Oh, he told me to tell you guys that Magnus came and asked him to stay in Boomtown for a while to help him win his crown back." Everyone stared at him for a bit but looked back at Lukas as he got up and walked up to Jonathan… and punched him right in the face, making him fall to the ground. Everyone ran up to him and held him back before he got at Jonathan again.

"What the hell was that for?!" Exclaimed Jonathan taking his hand off his face to see that it was covered with blood from his nose.

"YOU!" Yelled Lukas, "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT TAMPERED MY DRINK!"

"I didn't!"

"YES YOU DID!"

"YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE!"

"I've had a bad feeling about you ever since you arrived, that's enough evidence I need!" Jonathan got up and raised his bloody fist and threw it at Lukas, but Petra jumped in front of it, getting hit in the stomach. Jonathan's face immediately changed from angry to terrified; he had just punched the one he came to see in the stomach.

"Petra!" Jesse ran over to her as she crouched over and hugged her stomach and started vomiting all over the floor. Jonathan felt so bad for what he had done.

"I'm sorry." He said under his breath, starting to cry, but his cries slowly started to turn into small chuckles. It felt as the world had frozen around him as more blood dripped from his nose, and as Petra fell to the ground in pain. Jesse picked up the vomit-covered Petra and carried her upstairs to their room. All that were left downstairs were Jonathan, Lukas, and Olivia, who then slapped Lukas across the face and walked off. Lukas then walked right up close to Jonathan and threw another punch at him, but Jonathan grabbed his fist mid-punch, which surprised Lukas.

"Don't mess with me." He said, squeezing Lukas's fist tighter and then letting it go. He then walked off towards the downstairs bathroom to clean up his nose.

"Ugh." Petra's stomach was in so much pain as she laid motionless on the bed. Jesse couldn't believe that even with a chest plate on, the punch did so much damage. He pulled the chest plate off to reveal Petra's old blue t-shirt. He ran into their bathroom and opened one of the cabinets and pulled out an ice pack to give to Petra.

"Thanks Jesse." She said as Jesse put the ice pack in her stomach.

"Why'd you do that?" Asked Jesse, taking his own armor off.

"From, what I could remember, Jonathan's a tough guy, so I didn't want anyone else to get hurt." Replied Petra, closing her eyes.

"You got yourself hurt though."

"I know."

"How did he hurt you so badly, even with a chest plate on?"

"I don't know, why don't you go ask him!" Petra didn't want to talk about it anymore, for talking was making her stomach hurt more. Jesse then jumped onto the bed with Petra, in his old white shirt and red suspenders.

"You know I care about you." He said looking at his girlfriend. His only reply was a groan from her. All of a sudden the door creaked open and a voice spoke.

"Hey lovebirds," Said Jonathan, his face all cleaned up, "May I come in?"

"Yeah." Replied Jesse, turning his head to the doorway. Hearing the invite, Jonathan ran in and jumped straight onto the bed.

"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for what I have done today, and I wanted to know how it went with investigating today." He said, crawling over to in between Jesse and Petra.

"It didn't go to well." Replied Jesse, raising his head up to see if Petra was okay, and to his relief, she had fallen asleep.

"Did you find out who it was that did it?"

"No; we're not even close." Jonathan then jumped off the bed and walked to the door.

"Well, I should probably leave you two to get back to what you were doing," He said, "Oh, and I hope you're treating her good as your girlfriend." He then slammed the door shut. Standing outside their room, Jonathan cracked his knuckles and smiled. He knew that today's work was over, which meant the rest of today he could just slouch off and play casual. Axel was gone, which meant only three to go before he was done with the important part. He walked into his room and locked the door. He took his jacket off and threw it onto the bed and then he jumped onto it himself. Looking up at the sealing, his mind wondered off to think about what he would do next as he fell asleep on his extremely comfortable bed.

Authors Note: Ohhhh! Jonathan lied about the bed being uncomfortable! I wonder if he lied about anything else ;)

I hope you're as excited to read the next next chapter as I am to write it. See ya.