Log date 5-17-62: It's been thirty days since I haven't seen my oldest sister, Agnes around the house. I have been secretly searching for her in the night, after I was grounded for doing the same in the day. What can I say though, I'm a free spirit and I cannot be housbound for long. Ithas also been six years since the world turned into an apocalyptic mystery full of new creatures and plants, and sadly our history before has been long forgotten. I have studied in school all the myths and which ones are the most dangerous, I hope this enate knowledge will guide me to my sister. The Onyx sector is where I plan to look tonight, I have intel. that this area is full of runaways and criminal myths. Agnes always loved fairies so why not start there? Thisis Elaina Ezra Barringer over and out.

Elaina finishes writing her slaped together entry log on her laptop; she shuts it off setting it at her bedside table. She then pulls on some typical looking night time co-op chlothes that would only be seen in some kind of action packed spy movies. Including a compact backpack full of supplies and her beloved black fingerless gloves her school friends always wondered why she wore them, sometimes she wondered that about herself. Elaina looks in the mirror to re-brush her hair into a thick glossy ponytail. "Okay Elaina, tonight you are going to a dangerous place, you can handle yourself." She gives herself a quick pep-talk before she leaves.

She cracks open the window, carefully pushing the screen out,then she closes the window to make it looks like she is still in the house. Elaina knewcthat her parents wouldn't bother to look out the window for the screen. She creeps back to the shed for her blue moutntian bike, then she silently leaves making her way into the city sectors. Elaina bikes through the Quartzite sector which she learned is one of the many slum sectors higher than Onyx. Her awareness grows each second as she bikes past a couple of boarded up houses thinking how dangerous this actually is. But, excitement takes over and Elaina begins to pedal faster down the mucky streets knowing that she is succueeding for once. A couple of kids run around in circles tagging eachother with laser pointers. Elaina smiles at the childeren when they stop and watch her bike by, then recals how she and Agnes used to play.

Elaina arrives at the gate of the Onyx sector, she sees a couple of harpies fly overhead. Immediately, she pulls herself off the bike amd ducks into some bushes not wanting to get caught. She whispers to herself, "I hope this will hide my bike."  The solid tin fence shuffles behind her, instantly Elaina turns around to see a small,cat creature with dove-like wings wiggling it's way out, "hi there little guy." She whispers. The cat creature looks at her then sits on the ground and begins to lick it's paw. Elaina turns her attention back onto the gate. She rifles through her backpack looking for somthing useful to scale the wall; untill she hears a faint boy's voice in her head. 'If you are looking for a way over the fence, it will not work you're going to have to go underneath." Elaina immediately stops rifling through her backpack and slowly turns around to where the cat creature was. "Did you um...just talk?" The cat creature fluffs his wings and lashes his tail, "yeah you bet I did, I can talk telekenetically."  Elaina was about to shout but quickly remembered reading up on these kind of creatures, known as a miniature griffin which are quite friendly towards mostly everyone. "What are you doing?" The curious griffin asks then flutters over to Elaina's side. "I'm looking for my sister, now go hunt or....whatever miniature griffins do." The griffin flutters his wings and hisses at her, "little f.y.i. miss, you won't get far in the Onyx sector without my help." Elaina shuts her backpack, "fine, you can help me...I'm Elaina and my sister's name is Agnes." The little griffin begins chewing on his paw, "oh, okay and I'm guessing you want me to tell you my name? Well just call me Jay, like the bird." Jay begins grooming his wings, while Elaina shuffles her backpack onto her back. "Okay how to get under the wall." Jay bounds over to the hole he crawled out of, "can you crawl through this?"
Elaina crawls out of the bushes to a rusty old hole that appears only big enough for her backpack to fit through. "I think I can manage." Jay crawls through the hole, "send your backpack through." She follows his orders then she kicks at the degraded parts of the hole, rusty cakes of the metal crumble away to reveal a decent sized hole for her to fit through.

Elaina and Jay slink through the Onyx sector in the alleyways and shadows of the night. "Alright, now that you're here in the Onyx Sector, your going to need to blend in. So take this window curtian that is lying over this trashcan and cover yourself with it." Jay paws at the dingy fabric, Elaina hesitates for a moment then whispers, "do I have-" she gets cut short, "yes" She pulls out her pocketknife to cut holes in the curtian to turn it into a makeshift poncho with a cowl. A rancid stench hits her nose that wanted to make her puke, "it smells like garbage Jay." Jay rubs on her legs, "It is garbage, but you won't smell like human." Elaina never thought of this it was rather a brilliant idea. "Where would my sister be Jay?"

"Just follow me." Jay flutters his wings at Elaina to follow. Ten minutes of silence and slinking through the alleyways of the creepy sector. The two come upon a building. "This is where the stronger myths that dislike humans hold the ones they capture. Let me get a closer look." Jay takes a running leap, flying into the air, and quickly becomes a mere sillouette that dissapears over top the building. Elaina looks around to get a good visual on her surroundings. She studies the material composition of the building to see if it is climbable and luckily it was. She glances at the end of the alley, noticing an area bustling full of flying,glowing,crawling,and slithering mythical creatures trading bottles and items of magical properties. She never knew how pretty they actually looked in real life she saw them in books but they looked nothing like the real version.

"Hey Elaina." She turns around to see Jay land next to her, " there are people and fairies at the top of the building there is a good chance your sister is one of them." Elaina takes off the nasty smelling poncho and her backpack. "Jay I have an idea." Jay takes a step back, " oh great, and I bet it's a crazy one?" Elaina smiles in a smug way, "yep." Jay sits and begins to groom his wing, "spill it then." Elaina rifles through her backpack pulling out an icepick and her pocket knife. "Okay you have claws right?" Jay flexes his paws to reveal them. "Good, now I can tell by the looks of this building it's made with plastic siding you are going to grab onto the back of my shirt using your claws and we are going to fly run up the wall. I will use this Icepick and knife to help me not fall because I know you probably couldn't carry me alone." Jay stops grooming and stands up, "okay I'm ready, I'll run at your back so I can fly easier." Elaina positions herself on the wall stabbing her pocket knife and icepick into the wall, "ready? Now!" Jay takes a running leap at Elaina's back clawing her into her shirt skimming her skin.  She repedatedly stabs at the wall as Jay lifts her up. The two jump to he top of the building, Elaina realizes that Jay actually clawed into her back skin but she quickly dismisses that thought. "Wow that actually worked! Now we might die." Jay hisses at the fairies in a defending way.

Whistling music stops playing and all attention is turned onto the duo. The beautiful fairies turn from greens,blues and reds to browns, greys and blacks. "Elaina the Fairies are going to eat you for disturbing their festival." Jay warns. She notices how he people there are in some sort of trance slaving away at the fairies' whims. The fairies whistle at eachother, then lunge at Elaina with needle sharp teeth and claws, "I'll protect you!" Elaina yells at Jay. The two fight fairies side by side, Elaina glances over her shoulder at Jay to see if he was okay, she notices a familiar face instead, Agnes. She holds back tears of joy noticing shd was mostly okay. Elaina kicks a fairy over the edge of the building, and then she turns and grabs her sister's shoulders, "Agnes, Agnes Barringer wake up out of this trance!" She shakes her sister one more time gefore disbaching another wreched fairy. "Elaina, they're sending backup!" Jay shouts in her head while pushing on a door with his paws. "Agnes snap out of it!" She slaps her sister across the face. Dumfounded and confused, her sister looks at her , "What where am I?"Elaina briefly hugs her sister then grabs a chair barring the door shut. "Jay, go grab my backpack."  Elaina orders.Jay immediately jumps off the edge of the building, moments later reappearing with it. "Here." Elaina frantically unzips her backpack pulling out a good sized bundle of five fifty chord. She then unravels the chord and ties it to a nearby light pole , "Agnes you go down first, Jay make sure she gets down."

Agnes positions herself over the wall climbing down the chord making it safely to the ground. Elaina cuts the top of the five fifty chord letting it slide down the building. Jay pops up at the top, "what are you doing Elaina? Agnes is safe now." Elaina swings a leg over the building  icepick and pocket knife still in each hand , "I didn't want the fairies to follow us." She digs each of her tools and slides down the side creating a hideous ripping sound. "Agnes lets go home." Elaina notices Agnes was in tears, her sister embraces her in a big hug. "Thank you for saving me from the terrible myths I love you so much." Elaina smiles at the thought of her sister being found and safe, "I would do anything for my sister even if it meant breaking the house rules."

The three silently make their way to the wall of the Quartzite and Onyx sector. "Let's hope we don't have to come back any time soon." Agnes puts in.  Elaina notices Jay had been rather quiet the trip back with his tail dragging on the ground in a sad way. The three crawl to the other side of the wall fence. "I guess this is goodbye." Elaina bends down to pet the top of Jay's head, "good bye? What for? You have proven that you would fit in nicely with my family, it must be pretty lonely to live here as a cat bird huh?" Agnes bends down, "yeah in the short time I've known you, I say we should keep you." Jay bounces a little then jumps into Agnes's arms showering her face in vigorous licks. "Oh thank you! Thank you! I am a lonely Griffin!"

The three slink home, Elaina removes the screen from her window after the rather tiresome night. "I'm not bothering to put that back on. Then she notices  a faint light under the bed covers. She yanks the blanket off to see her little sister, Mira, reading somthing on her computer. "Finally, you little turd I caught you!" Mira jumps on the bed and slams the computer shut, "hah! I know what you've been up to all these nights! I won't tell Mom and Dad though maybe." Elaina crosses her arms then glances over to Jay and Agnes. Jay leaps onto her desser curiously sniffing her perfumes, "its cozy in here I could get used to this." Mira leaps off the bed tackling Agnes to the ground, "Agnes! Your back! I've missed you so much!" Elaina grabs her laptop and places it on the dresser, "alright we can have a sleep over in my room tonight." Agnes stands up, "Elaina, how are we going to explain his to Mom and Dad?" The three fall silent and Elaina's gaze come to rest on Jay, "I don't think they will ever know the truth, but they will ask where you've been all this time."