Lynn's POV

I stared at the brothers my mouth wide open as I scattered to my feet.

Zayn let out a prolonged sigh before saying, "You're right, but I'm here now for some reason and I'm willing to help, I guess," He stood up from his squatting position and continued to say, "Do any of you really know why we're here anyway?"

"Yeah, kinda," I commented stretching my arms. If you didn't know being hit by a cheetah going about seventy miles per hour and then getting electricity sent through your body hurts a little bit.

Zayn cocked his head and said, "Well why then? I'm pretty sure we all didn't get some really weird note for nothing now did we?"

"Wait a second did you just say note," I cried advancing a few steps towards Zayn, "We got a note too!" I grabbed the note we had found and held it next to the one I had just violent snatched from Zayn. Zayn's read; The time is now. Sibling against sibling, foe against foe. The new world has commenced so that's how we know. The final battle will tell who lives and who dies. So to the likes of all evil say your last goodbyes. His also had a map to get here on the back. But why didn't he just teleport here like the rest of us did? Maybe it was because of Alex's parents? I doubt it though, they could care less about Zayn. That doesn't really matter now though.

Ours read; A large battle has come. The evil is close and knows their stuff but if you find the others you have this won. So make the right decisions and get the job done. On the back side of our note it read; Although this war is sibling against sibling it's not the two you may think. It also had the medical symbol on above the words on the front side. We do know that the medical symbol is Alex and Zayn's family crest having to do with their parent's powers. But we don't know who else would know this unless they were very close to the family. I continued to study the letters before I muttered, "Why does it say, siblings?"

Sammy turned to me and said, "We know that Zayn apparently isn't evil and Alex's parents are, right?"

We all mumbled something along the lines of a yes waiting for Sammy to continue.

"Well," she finally continued taking the letters from my hands, "They have a big army of evil warriors that all have powers and are really strong like really strong-"

"Do you have to remind us?" Alex groaned finally pushing his semi-functioning body off of the ground.

"What I mean," Sammy started running her eyes over all of us, "Is what if we are the army for the good side? I mean it would make sense, wouldn't it? It, not every day you randomly get thrown into the middle of a jungle is it?"

We all thought about that for a minute. But whose army are we? It has to be somebody's sibling. Somebody that we know, that we've met before. Just as that thought was created I realized something, Alex has an aunt! "Alex," I shouted running over to his side with a crazy grin on my messed up face, "You have an aunt! She's Aunt Carol, I've met her!"

"Woah," he chided methodically backing up, "Slow down what do you mean?"

"I'm saying that your dad has a sister that is good! I've met her when I was little she told me something but I forget what it was, anyway she's not evil I don't think. Meaning that she could be the sibling that the letters are talking about," I finished taking a deep breath as I was panting from all of that explaining, yet they continued to look at me with confusion, " You know the sibling against sibling, foe against foe part? We always thought it was Zayn and Alex but it never said brother against brother it said sibling against sibling. That means it could be a boy and a girl, hence the fact that Alex and Zayn's father has a sister."

"Oh I get it," Sammy offered trying to piggyback off of my explanation, "Since she is good she could be trying to have us as her army. She must be the entire reason we're here! She is probably watching over us and trying to guide us. But then again if she's trying to help us why would she just let Thomas get stolen!"

We all nodded in agreement. If this aunt is as good and almighty as we hope she is then she would be helping us right now! Thomas is bad guy knows where and we are stuck here acting like preschoolers learning that LMNOP isn't one letter! This is all way too confusing for me right now. I just wanna be home, well my definition of home, dealing with my bully-ridden life. How did my life go from bad to worse so fast?

Alex just sighed and said, "Things really couldn't get worse could they?"

Just as those obviously cursed words left his equally as cursed mouth we heard a roar like sound come from the air above us. But just as soon as I got a decent glimpse of the firetruck red dragon it just disappeared. "What was th-" I tried to get out but a loud thump on the ground behind us cut me off. We all very cautiously started to tip-toe over towards the now groaning sounds emitting from the mess of tree branches.

Just as we were about to take another step towards the lump like figure Sammy stuck out her arm and said, "Wait," We all obeyed as she advances to standing right next to the mound. Zayn, Alex, and I exchanged confused looks as Sammy began to remove some of the branches. Right as she was picking up around the tenth branch she screeched out some inaudible word.

"What is it?" I asked grabbing her arm.

"It's more like a who." She stated still looking shaken up.

"Well then who is it?" I asked emphasizing on the who.

"It's my boyfriend Theo. I don't know how he got here but he's a dragon and he looks really hurt!" She cried out running back to his side.

"Well no duh," Zayn mocked seeming to search for something, "It does sometimes hurt when you fall onto the hard ground from very high up."

"I can vouch for that," I chuckled taking a step closer to Zayn still wondering what he was looking for so I asked, "What are doing?"

He just looked at me like I was insane, which I'm not completely denying and said, " Are you kidding? Everyone knows that when any kind of shapeshifter changes they-uh-well-they don't wear clothes in their animal or other forms so naturally, they don't have them when they change back. "

"And trust me I can vouch for that," Sammy commented looking over her shoulder before going back to uncovering her boyfriend.

"Okay, so we are looking for his clothes?" I asked while scrunching my nose and still trying to make sure that I heard him correctly.

"Precisely," Zayn confirmed still diligently picking through the brush surrounding us.

All of the sudden, Alex, totally oblivious to our conversation, as usual, held up a navy blue drawstring bag as asked, "what is this?"

Zayn and I exchanged a sarcastic glance and both went to collect the bag. Zayn tried to grab the bag out of Alex's hand but instead of successfully getting the bag managed to tear through the leaf and reopen the cut on his hand.

Alex now looking satisfied flipped the bag over his shoulder and demanded, "Now tell me what this is."

"Okay, Sherlock let me give you a play by play. That you're holding in your hand is called a bag, you use it to carry things and can usually find it at this thing called a store, okay? Am I going to fast for you?"

Alex gave Zayn the 'get to the point or else' look and Zayn held his hand up in mock surrender.

"Shesh," he muttered wiping his bloody hand off on his shirt, "everyone is so uptight around here. Anyways that bag has that guys clothes in it and unless you wanna see a little more skin than normal I'd hand it over."

Alex looking slightly alarmed handed the bag over to Zayn who yanked it out of his hand and walked over to Sammy continuously mumbling about some conspiracy theory.

Once everyone was clothed and comfortable I decided we might want to know a little more about Sammy's mystery boyfriend. "So," I began running my finger through my very messy hair, "Tell us a little bit more about this dragon boyfriend of yours."

Sammy almost instantly started blushing before saying, "Well his name is Theodore I call him Theo for short. He's sixteen making him a year older than me but we still go to the same school. He is super nice and protective but kinda has some anger issues so watch out for that."

I giggled to myself a bit before saying, "So Alex and him should get along just fine, huh?"

Alex play-slapped my arm and shouted, "Offensive much?"

We all just laughed and boy did that feel good. It had been such a long time since we had just relaxed and didn't think about all of the crap we've recently been put through. Its a lot having to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, but when it comes down to saving the people I loved I'd do anything. Alex, Sammy, Thomas, hopefully, Theo, and maybe even Zayn are my family and when it comes down to it I will fight for them. It's hard to think the only parental figures you have ever know are evil and that you have to fight them in a war to the death, but they have hurt and taken the people I love so now I'm going to do the same to them. An eye for an eye I guess.

Just as we were about to start telling scary stories to forget the day's woes we hear a rustling on the ground.

"He's waking up!" Sammy called running faster than a teenager that is getting a new phone over to his side, "He's finally waking up!"

Theo's eyes fluttered open and he immediately started looking around until his brown eyes landed on Sammy. "Samantha I found you!" he exclaimed excitedly trying to sit up in the process.

"You did along with these nice people," she remarked gesturing us, "well mostly nice," she concluded giving Zayn the evil eye.

Theo gave a now annoyed looking Zayn a weak smile and joked, "Dude I don't know what you did but it must be pretty bad seeing that Sammy is mad at you, she likes everyone."

"Oh you know," Zayn started casually pretending to look at his nailbeds, " just your typical status quo evil or kinda evil twin brother to him." To show who his brother was as if the fact that they're identical isn't enough Zayn, elbowed Alex in the ribs causing him to let out a groan.

"Yes," I said throwing my arms around both of the boys, "we are definitely a completely normal family."

"The normalest," Alex wheezed out clutching his side while facing Zayn "by the way happy thirteenth brother I still really hate."

"To you as well brother I also really hate," Zayn remarked pretending to bow to Alex.

We all wished the boys a happy birthday and then proceeded to fill Theo in on everything that has happened so far.

By the time we were done his eyes were popping out of his skull. "That's all really messed up!" he relayed settling himself into his sleeping space like the rest of us.

"Yep," I chirped before letting out a yawn, "But there's nothing we can do about finding Thomas now so I say we get a goods nights rest and figure out how to find him in the morning."

Everyone showed their agreement whether in a yawn or a noise of some kind. We then all started to drift off into what we hoped would be a peaceful and nice sleep._________________________________

Hey guys, I know this wasn't the best chapter but here it is! I'm sooooooo sorry for not updating in forever but I've been so busy with they play, getting my braces, softball, and now my birthday tomorrow! But anyways thank you guys so much and don't forget to comment and vote! Adios!