Morphus ran home, panting, hoping he got home in time.Damn! What if I’m not there in time? What if they killed her- NO! Don’t think that! She’ll be fine, and besides, they might not...didn’t it say that it was going to get her? But who is her? What if they was talking about someone who I didn’t even know, to scare me? But...they all seemed so serious, so somber, black eyes staring at me, into my mind...

He ran toward his house, relived, and a little scared to see his mothers car parked in the drive way. He wondered if she was in the house, dead. He shook his head, she wasn’t dead, and she was making dinner right now...

The though comforted him, and he relaxed, thinking of anything besides that strange dream he had in the forest month ago.

Then, for a minute, his happy thought-mask slide off, reminding him he had forgot to tell them about the dream!Oh, well, I’ll tell them when we meet tonight...

He walked into the living room, slumped down on the couch, and stared at the cheap blue wallpaper, one corner torn the show the wall beneath, dead and bland. Then his mom came in, blocking his view, and interrupting his strange thoughts about it.

She squatted down, so their face where level, and said, in a sad voice, one that reminded him of a kindergarten teacher, "Morphus, honey, Massy, she is missing..."

On the way in, Morphus paused to study a picture hanging on the wall, the only one that was farmed and wasn’t on a corkboard in the apartment.

It was a picture of Alex and his brothers, they looked to be...14 or 15,and Alex looked about 12 or 13. Hayden, the oldest, was standing so all you could see of him in the picture was his head and part of his neck. His curly red hair was covering up his eyes, and his mouth was open, like he was yelling at someone, but a happy kind of yell, like he was having fun. Alex is in the background, about to fall on his butt in front of a tree, his woolen hat about to fall off his head, his face red from the cold, and frozen in happiness and shock at the fact he is falling. Nes is on the tire swing, coming toward the camera, so he was just a blur of the bottoms of his sneakers and his brightly dyed hair, that was, at the moment, a purpley red color.

He sighed, he missed Nes and Hayden, they where like brothers... they where away right now, in Ireland, calling every so often, asking if the apartment was torn down, and asking they weren’t dead, and yes, their going to be back in a few months, and if they came back to a burned down building (talking about Zane) they would hunt all of them down....

"Morph! What are you doing? Are you going to tell me who the hell "they" are? Cuz, you know, these 2 interrupted my stud y and-"

Um, yea, about that....I forgot to tell you guys about something....its about them..."

Zane glared at him, and said, “Spill it already!"

" Um...well, ah, you know how I had to hurry up and leave this morning? And how I said-"

"Get on with it!"

Well, I had this dream, where this...things said they where going to get "her" and I thought they where talking about my mom, but they weren’t...they where talking about my 6 year-old cousin, Massy...I don’t think they have killed her yet- there was no body...and, and ,if they kill her...I don’t know what I’ll do..." He had started to cry, and Alex picked up a block of wood and was carving it nervously.

"What...what did these things in your dream look like?" asked Alex.

"They where these little things...black eyes...they where wearing a strange looking iron boots, kinda like a redcaps...the redcaps are slightly taller, though...most had bluish hair, in messy dreads...but, God, their eyes...," he shivered.

By this time, the block of wood that Alex was carving was a loop of knots. He looked up nervous, and started slowly, while pacing, "Well, I think I know what it is..." He turned to Cassie, who was deep in thought, her cropped brown hair in her eyes, her sliver nose ring flashing in the light. She looked up, startled.

They all looked at her expectantly, Zane’s gaze had a slightly annoyed look to it.

Sorry about the rambling thoughs in the beginning,but I whated his thoughs to be human and kinda rambling... and this chapter is so boring...there be some action soon...

And sorry for the cliffy but... the next chapter with be up soon,and if its not,email and remind me.