Chapter 12

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Molten was messing with the portal, trying to get it working to return Bryan back to normal when he hears a rather... bizarre conversation between Balloon Boy and Puppet.

"Everyone but Molten and Bryan know now," Balloon Boy sighed.

"How?" Puppet said, alarmed.

"Remember Bryan's nightmare from a couple nights ago? It was about what happened to me."

"That's not good," mumbled Puppet before she sighed. "What if he finds out?"

Balloon Boy paused for a moment, giving the question a bit of thought. "He'll be angry, that's for sure."

"He will be. I don't want Bryan to be angry at us but... it seems likely he will be."

"I'm more worried about Bryan finding out about them than he is about us. He won't be as angry at us as he will at them."

'Them'? Molten wondered. Who's 'them'?

"Especially Gabriel. Yeah, I'm aware. What do we do?"

Gabriel? As in Missing Children Incident Gabriel?

"I don't know..." Balloon Boy paused for a moment. "I know I'm the older one and I'm supposed to have the plans, the ideas, but I really have no clue. Besides, we can't really do anything until Molten gets the portal fixed."

"True. I just wish life was simple."

"Bri," Bri? Possibly Brianna? Molten thought with his head tilted to the side as he continued to listen, "we had William as an uncle when we were kids. There was no way in hell we were going to have a normal childhood."

Bryan has an uncle? Huh... Now that I think about it, that man has never spoken about his family. I wonder why.

"Keep it down, would ya? No one knows that part!"

"Oh c'mon, AI does. Plus, the others are powered off."

So AI knows about their uncle...

"How can you be so sure?"

"They're always powered off about now."

"When Bryan's an adult, idiot."

"Oh... yeah, I forgot."

"Gosh, you're an idiot!"

"Hey! Why so mean?"

"Because I have an idiot for a brother."

So it is Brianna. Unless they have another sibling they didn't tell us about.

"Now look who's being loud."

"Shut up."

"Hey! You're not allowed to hit me, little sister."

Must be Brianna.

"If you're the oldest, act like it."

"Meanie."

"You love me."

"Yeah, I do," Balloon Boy sighed before silence fell.

"Gosh, they act like children," Molten grumbled as he continued to mess with the portal.

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Word Count: 400

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