????’s p.o.v:

 They both were asleep. It was daytime sure, but they were both asleep. That was good. I took them into a shared dream. The scene was of the water location. I swam around the area I knew all to well. I came into the The royal gardens were I spotted Patton on a rock admiring the garden. He was a lot like me. I swear. I silently swam and looked for the other boy. The shadowling. My crystal patterned white tail pushed me forward as I see the Shadowling. Patton’s dad had a blue tail that had wave like patterns that was a lighter blue color and I had a white tail that had silver lining on the crystal Patterns on mine.

“Virgil.” I say. I know I had that voice a queen would have taking order in her kingdom. I know because I have used it to many times before. Virgil looked at me for a second. I gestured for him to follow me and he nodded and did so.

“I know you are wondering why you are back underwater but this is actually a shared dream. As you may know by now. I am Opal Haerting. Queen Opal hearting. But you can just call me Opal or mrs Opal, or even Lady Opal. Whichever one you want.” I said as we made our way to the garden area.

“I’ll go with Lady Opal.” He said. I nodded and we arrived at the garden.

“Patton!” Virgil said and went over to him. Patton looked at Virgil and the swam towards each other and hugged. Patton then looked at me a bit and a look of shock came over his face.

“MOM?!” He asked. I smiled and Nodded a bit.

“Yes deary. Im right here.” I say swimming over a bit. We started to talk and all that. He was actually surprised that He was now a Prince when I told him.

“Im a prince!?” He asked again. I nodded.

“If I were to inherit the throne…. Can my friends help me rule?” He asked once the question came up. I thought for a minute and shrugged. 

“I dont see an issue with it. It could possibly be fun for you all.” I say. After a bit I could tell that they were going to wake up soon. So we said Our goodbyes and they vanished. I soon woke up as well. Stay safe please.

Roman’s P.o.v: 

It was taking remus forever to find the others now. It had been about an hour or two since virgil had fallen asleep when I hear someone stir a bit. I looked over to Virge and Pat and realised that they both were waking up. Patton was rubbing his eyes a bit and Virgil was stretching now. I went over to them a bit.

“Oh hi Roman. Didnt see ya there.” Patton said tiredly.

“Its alright. I saw Virgil swimming here Hold something and it turned out it was you and you had passed out.” I said. Virgil nodded a bit.

“How long were we out?” Virgil asked.

“Well I know Patton was at least asleep for about an hour before you slept and you slept for about 2 hours at most. You had ! to 2 hours of sleep and Patton Had 2 to 3 hours.” I said.

“Were is everyone?” Virgil asked and I shrugged.

“I dont know. Remus was supposed to find them and tell them to come here but I guess its taking forever.” I said

“Wait Remus has been gone for how long?” Patton asked.

“2 hours. He left before stormcloud had fallen asleep.” I said.

“We should go make sure he is alright.” Patton said. It was a good Idea but we also had to stay here too.

“We can’t We could leave and they end up coming here seeing that we are gone.” Virgil says.

“Maybe we can leave a note and we can come back every 30 minutes.” Patton said. I nodded and grabbed a pencil and a note book and wrote something Down really quick.

Went to go find you. We check in every 30 minutes. Stay here for about an hour just in case.

I then put the paper in a noticeable spot and followed Patton and Virgil into the water.

“We should stay together. That way if anything comes we can fight back the best we can.” Patton says. He then kinda feels the gem that was on a collor around his neck. I had tried to get it off but I couldn’t it had a metal around in the leather and the leather was also to thick to cut. One thing I did see when I tried to get it off was that there was a lock like thing on the back that needed a key. I dont know who can lock pick so ya.

“Ok. lets go.” Virgil said and we went into the water. We turned into mermen and we swam out of the cave and looked around. Luckily Virgil had a water prove timer watch that literally was water proof. It worked underwater. He had set it to 30 minutes. So we looked around until his timer went off and we swam back to check. We did this a lot. We had about ten minutes before virgil had ran into Gaurdia and yelps slightly. I saw patton quickly hide. When that happened not knowing it was gaurdia.

“Oh hey Virgil. Any news?” Gaurdia asked obviously worried.

“Um ya actually. Did you run into Remus tho?” Virgil asked.

“Actually no. Why? Also News?”

“He was suppose to find everyone and tell them to get back to the cave.” I said.

“Why?” Gaurdia asked. Me and Virgil looked at her like she just asked the dumbest question ever. Then I remembered that only me, Virgil, and Remus knows about Patton now. I looked back over to were patton had hid a bit before Swimming over to it.

“Hey, Its just Gaurdia.” I said and Patton poked his head out then looked at Gaurdia a bit before finally coming out. I wonder if he is going to do that at everything that startled him.

“PATTON?!” Gaurdia asked. He still had the bandages on what did show of the cuts and all that. Its weird tho. Patton had nodded and waved a bit

“Hey.” He said softly like if he had made a wrong move, Something bad would happen. He was Held captive for about two days and was already terrified of almost everything. It somewhat kinda angered me.

“What about Patton?” I hear Elisabeth asked. I looked towards it and See Elisabeth and Nightlara.

“Patton is safe now and we are now looking for remus because he was suppose to find ya.” Virgil explained.

“Where is he tho?” Nightlara asked.

“I looked to see where he was and the was no Patton. Just then Virgil’s timer went off.

“PATTON!?” I yelled in surprise. He was just here? Where did he go. We looked around a bit and I soon hear Virgil say something. We went to where he was and saw Patton hiding behind a rock watching something.

“Oh Shit. Hey roman. I think I know what happened.” Virgil said. I swam over and looked at what the were looking at. Oh. Those people had remus in a cage like thing?

“A shadow cage. Those are actually difficult to get rid of.” Elisabeth whispered.

“W-what do we do?” Patton asked. His voice was really tiny now and he sounded scared. We started to try to come up with an idea. And yet again patton snuck away from us. Luckily One of us saw him.

“Patton!” Gaurdia whisper shouted. We look at where she was looking and Saw patton trying to sneak up on them to get remus out. Virgil started to swim after him a bit but unfortunately one of the people had spotted Patton.

“HEY!” They yelled out before swimming towards patton. Patton had quickly dodged them and started to swim away fast. Most of the others including the one that spotted him swam after him.

“Virgil, You go get patton. Gaurdia. You distract them. Elisabeth, Roman, You two distract and I’ll get remus.” Nightlara said. We nodded and did just that. After a bit I saw Nightlara’s beautiful galaxy like tail and remus’s Green and Grey tail swimming towards the cave. Me and Elisabeth soon trap the ones we distracted and Elisabeth sealed them away in the pocket dimension. Before meeting up with Nightlara and Remus. We soon see Logan and Janus with them. We join them and wait. After a while, We hear A scream. We all look at eachother and started to swim as fast as we could towards the scream.

3rd p.o.v:

Patton had swam fast. He was terrified. He kept swimming having one thought. They were going to hurt him badly if they managed to get him. He soon felt virgil’s presence near him and he looked. Virgil Was a bit behind him at that point. Next thing Patton knew was that One of the people had grabbed Virgil and hit him against a nearby mini cave that was just indented enough inward to be a cave like thing.

“Virgil!” Patton yelled, stopping. That was A mistake. The person let Virgil go and quickly trapped him before two others grabbed patton. Patton had tried to get away from them a bit which actually succeeded as he slipped out from below them. He quickly swam to the floor as more of the people followed and forced him to go through a mini tunnel that had thorns in it. He didn't know that until he tried swimming through. He let out a scream from the pain as he struggled from his current situation. In a torny tunnel with People trying to get him on either side. Patton soon stopped struggling to afraid to do anything else. The thorns Had caught him by the tail and skin. He was crying softly, terrified and beginning to hyperventilate when the others had arrived. The others had Captured the people and  Nightlara freed Virgil who immediately went to the tunnel Patton was in.

Elisabeth and Gaurdia then Helped carefulling get Patton out. Virgil held onto Patton as they swam back to the cave to get everything together and get back home. Virgil was also trying to calm Patton down and Remus kept apologizing for getting captured. Remus didn't need to apologize tho. After a bit Elisabeth swims into the cave but they swim right by it. It confused the others before Nightlara said that they needed to help Patton’s parents since now Mostly everyone in the Attack was now captured. That person was the least of their worries.

“What about that person?” Roman asked softly. Virgil had calmed patton down again and Patton had fallen asleep. They had learned after Patton had passed out the second time That Nightlara could tell he didn't sleep while he was kidnapped. So his body was exhausted and he needed to sleep as much as he could.

“ You mean Greyson?” Elisabeth asked.

“THAT WAS HIM!?” Gaurdia asked stopping all of a sudden.

“Who?” Greyson. He was a shadow that was corrupted a few Years ago… Try not to speak his name around Patton. I know Patton’s magic was suppressed so he couldn’t read the magic aura and Gaurdia here never met Greyson in person so ya.” Nightlara says.

“Why dont we say that name near Pat?” Remus asked. The three girls looked at each other for a second.

“You know how when patton first met you all he had some trust issues.. Except for Virgil of course.” Elisabeth asked.

“Your not saying that that dude was the reason for that?” Thomas asked. Thomas had joined them one the way towards the cave. Gaurdia nodded a bit. 

“How? Why!?”

“He had Found out Patton was a unittien in 9th grade and Had befriended patton. He kept the act up for about 2 months. The first time Patton went to his house, he Hurt Patton a lot. He then threatened Patton to stay quiet and help him with anything He needed or else he would do more then that and even said that If patton didn’t comply, he wouldn’t see anyone but him for a long while.” Gaurdia said in a growl.

“Patton had ended up spilling like 2 days after to his parents who knew something was up and they got Me and Elisabeth since Gaurdia was with her parents for the month by then. They called the school and the police and kept patton home on online school for the rest of the month while we looked for Him. We did find him a bit and warned him at first. We saw him a couple more times but when Patton had moved out to move with you all, We didn’t see him. The last time Patton saw Greyson was just before he bumped into Virgil in 11th grade.” Nightlara said.

“Wait, me, Remus and Logan had met him in 10th grade.” Roman said. Elisabeth nodded a bit.

“ Patton was absent for about 2 days before the weekend. Right?”

“Yes.”

“Patton saw him on his way home wednesday and he managed to get away and get back home.” Gaurdia said.

“How did you not meet him in person gaurdia?”

“ I was busy with stuff and i had only seen him on the phone once when he tried calling Patton.” Gaurdia said.

“And just so you know. WHat you say wasn’t really what he looked like, which is why I wasn’t extremely panicked seeing him.” Gaurdia said. They then stopped the conversation as they entered the underwater location and swam towards the castle. The queen and King sensed them and knew that it was time.