Book 1. The long dark nights. RE-EDITING

16. A movie and a party. EDITED

Artos woke up the next morning feeling kinda tired from yesterdays events. He was rested but tired if that makes any sense. He looked at the clock. 06:32.

He got up and changed, then went down for breakfast. Talia was the only one in there. "Morning." She said.

"Good morning." He said.

"Sleep well?"

"As well as I could."

"I see."

Artos sat at the table. There was a newspaper on it. He slid it over to himself. The front page news was about a train wreck that happened.

"Humans are the craziest people." He said after reading that article.

"How so?" Talia asked.

"Well, they build all these contraptions, then don't really use caution around them. At least that's what it looks like to me."

"Yeah, that's the short of it to be honest."

There was a bit of silence. Then Talia spoke up. "So, how did you like the human world?"

"Well, it was cool.. Some of it anyway. The food smelled great. The humans asked too many questions. There was this guy who wanted to know more about Alaska, so that was cool."

"So you enjoyed your time in the human world?"

After a minute of thought, Artos finally answered. "Yes. It was quite fun I suppose."

Then Hinto came through the door. He looked awful. There was a look of panic in his face. Like something bad happened, or will happen. Talia saw this. "Whats wrong? Is it a mission?" She asked.

"I don't know. Maybe." He said.

Artos listened closely. A mission. His first mission. Hinto picked up the newspaper. He flipped through it. "Yep." He said on page 7. "What?" Talia asked.

"There was a rogue attack thirty miles from here." Hinto said. He went and pushed the button from before. The siren blared loudly. Dasker and Maria ran through the door, in that order. Everyone else came in behind them.

"And I win again!" Dasker said with triumph in his voice.

"Yeah. Thats because your bigger and stronger than me. And you jog every day." Maria said.

"Do yall do the same thing, and say the same thing every morning?" Artos asked.

"Pretty much." Dasker said.

When everyone was in, Hinto started his little speech. "Alright. Rogues have attacked a gathering of people thirty miles from here. More likely than not, its a trap. They want us dead after all. Drawing us out to attack us is the same old tactic they've always used. Here's the team. Death, Mental, Nature, Dark, Air, Electricity, and Fire." At the mention of fire, Artos sat straight. "Only those who have no trainer will be coming on this mission." Needless to say, but I will say it anyway, Artos's countenance dropped. He didn't want to say anything because he didn't want to interrupt a strategy session. He wanted to go on this mission, so he decided to pay attention to the meeting. "It looks like the rogues attacked then went into the west woods. When the so called Wildlife Controlled Killing Department got out there, there was no sigh of them. (W.C.K.D. WCKD is not good.) Of course, the newspaper called them Wolves, its clear to me that it was rogues. Now. Those whose titles were not mentioned, you stay here and wait for further instructions, if any there will be given. Clear?"

Everyone acknowledged the instructions. He then turned to Artos. "I need a trained individual on this mission. Its not a training mission. You'll get one of those before long."