Isolated Flame

Nowhere Boys

Felix is thrown into another world, alone and powerless without the other boys at his side. He tries his best to survive in a world where he was never born, this time he was alone and the other three in this world are different so getting home may be a problem. Meanwhile Jake, Sam and Andy are trying their best to use magic to save Felix, easier said than done.

Timeline: AU after Season 1, so Andy doesn't disappear and Ellen has no idea about magic and the like.

Disclaimer: I do not own Nowhere Boys

Chapter One

"So why do you think this is a good idea again?" Jake asked as the four trekked through the Bremin Ranges.

"Oscar had a vision about something magical and dangerous that is going to come to this world and we have to close the door on it before it can do any harm here." Felix explained hauling his messenger bag up onto his shoulder, gripping the strap firmly.

"Dude's I don't get why we just suddenly became Bremin's protectors of all things magical." Sam complained, waving his hands out to the side, using his wind to clear the path of fallen branches for the group.

"It might be because we have elemental powers now and the only ones who know about magic." Andy suggested as he ducked under a low hanging branch.

"So what do we have to do to stop this evil power?" Jake asked as he jumped over a fallen log.

"Basically I have to use a spell and hope that the new evil power doesn't come through before I finish." Felix said, biting his lower lip, still missing his snakebite's.

"Well we have been in need of a good laugh." Sam smirked.

"Oh, well, if all you need is a good laugh, by all means let endanger my life." Felix shot back sarcastically Sam just reached out and slapped Felix's shoulder good naturally getting a look in return and the skateboarder knew he was forgiven.

"Are we there yet? I have to get home before my parents do, otherwise they will flip out." Andy asked from his place at the back of the group.

"Yeah, it looks like we are." Felix said as he looked up from the drawing Oscar had made that morning.

"Finally!" Sam sat down onto a nearby log.

"Let's just get this done, I have footie practice in an hour." Jake looked at Felix who pulled out his Book of Shadows and flipped the pages before he stopped on the needed spell.

"Ok, ok this should work." Felix took a deep breath and before he could get a single word out the air in front of him pulsed and a wormhole started to open up.

"Is that supposed to happen?" Sam leapt to his feet.

"No, I didn't do anything yet!" Felix started to flip through the pages of his book rapidly, trying to find the right spell to stop the wormhole. The sky above head started to darken as spiral clouds appeared and the wind started to pick up around them.

"This is not good! Felix, do something!" Jake stepped closer to Andy and Sam while Felix fanatically looked up at the wormhole, the sky and his book.

"I'm trying!" Felix snapped back before he suddenly dropped his Book of Shadows and his eyes turned black.

"Felix!" Sam shouted in panic at the sight of Felix's eyes.

Felix tilted his head before he stepped forward, hand reaching up towards the wormhole.

"FELIX WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Andy shouted out in a panic.

Jake tried to run towards the Goth, but wind whipped between the three and the fire elemental. Felix stepped closer to the wormhole and his fingertips came in contact with the surface and Felix blinked the black fading from his eyes.

"Huh? Guys!" Felix looked around confused, seeing the wind stopping Jake, Sam and Andy from getting to him. He was suddenly jerked forward, his hand engulfed into the wormhole.

"Help! Guys help me!" Felix grabbed his wrist and started to tug, trying to pull himself out of the grip the wormhole had on him.

"FELIX!" Sam tried to run towards their panicking friend, trying to use his own powers of air to counteract the wind that was blocking them.

"JAKE! SAM! ANDY!" Felix shouted as his whole arm was dragged in and he lost his footing, falling into the wormhole completely and it winked out of existence.

"FELIX!" The three boys shouted in a panic, pushing against the wind more fiercely.

Suddenly the storm died down and the wind disappeared, the boys stumbled forwards. Andy almost face planted, but Jake's hand on his elbow saved him.

"Thanks." Andy muttered as Sam rushed over to where the wormhole had been, he knelt onto the ground and gingerly picked up Felix's Book of Shadows.

"This isn't good." Andy breathed out, eyes wide as he took in the sight of the black book.

"Didn't Phoebe say that a witch is nothing without their Book of Shadows?" Jake said slowly, panic lacing his voice.

"Felix has the talisman and he has magic, he'll be alright… Right?" Sam looked at the other two with wide, worried eyes.

"I don't know… He said it needed all four of us, all four elements to get the talisman to work. When he's by himself, the talisman might be useless!" Andy swallowed hard as he delivered the bad news.

"This is not good. We have to get him back." Jake said firmly, finger's curling into fists as the ground started to shake a bit.

"We will, maybe we can use this!" Sam held up Felix's Book of Shadows.

"We can't do magic remember?" Jake pointed out as he breathed deeply and the shaking stopped.

"Felix said we have potential and we have elemental powers now, if we work together and find the right spell… We can save him!" Andy's voice was firm.

"He's saved us countless times, it's our turn to save him." Sam nodded his head in agreement.

"We can just hope that whatever world Felix is in right now, we exist there and they might be able to help him." Andy swallowed.

"Wait, what are we suppose to tell everyone? They are going to notice Felix is missing, again!" Jake realized.

"Oh! I know, we can grab some camping gear from my garage and then say we were going camping. That we need to get away from all the stress and whatnot." Sam suggested.

"Good, that's good." Andy nodded his head in agreement.

"We have to get moving and get ahead of this thing before anyone notices he's missing." Jake jerked his head back to the trail.

"Okay." Andy started down the path.

"Don't worry Felix, we'll get you back." Sam whispered to where Felix had been moments before.

"Come on Sam." Jake pressed his lips together; hand on Sam's shoulder in comfort.

"Yeah… Yeah." Sam nodded his head and followed Jake and Andy.

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"Oof!" Felix grunted as he was tossed onto the forest floor. He scurried to his feet; he dusted his skinny jeans off as he looked around.

"Jake? Sam? Andy? Hello!" Felix shouted as he looked around, hand automatically wrapping around the talisman.

"So I went through that wormhole and…" Felix held up his right hand and tried to focus on his fire, but there was nothing.

"No fire, that means I'm in a different universe… Again." Felix sighed as he kicked at a twig.

"If I'm in a different world again, then that means the Restoring Demon will be coming after me… If I'm alone here then the talisman won't work…" Felix growled he ran his fingers through his hair in frustration before he searched through his bag fanatically, panic rising up in his chest.

"No, no, no where is it?" Felix squeezed his eyes shut as he remembered back and let out a groan when he realized he had dropped his Book of Shadows before the wormhole sucked in him.

"How can this day get any worse?" Felix asked head tilted backwards to look up at the sky and it seemed to rumble threateningly.

"Forget I asked." Felix corrected himself quickly as he adjusted his bag on his shoulder.

"Time to see what is happening in this world, I just hope there is a version of the guys here." Felix sighed as he started to hike back towards the road that would lead into this world's version of Bremin.

It took him a while to get back to town and he walked down the street no one seemed to notice him, which Felix took as a good thing and a bad thing. Good thing was that no one seemed to be mobbing him because he went missing or something and a bad thing because there was no mobbing so he might not even exist in this world.

"Best find Oscar and see what's going on in this world." Felix grumbled as he crossed the street, passing by the park across from the police station.

"Watch out!" A familiar voice shouted, but the warning came too late as a football nailed him right in the head, sending Felix crashing down onto the ground, searing pain radiating from his head causing a small groan to escape his lips.

"Hey dude, are you alright?" The same voice asked Felix squinted up from his place on the ground.

Sam Conte was looking down at him with a worried look on his face.

"Uh, yeah, I think so." Felix managed to get out and Sam offered his hand to the fallen teen, Felix grabbed the offered hand being used to having his version of Sam around, Sam hauled Felix to his feet and grinned at him. Felix pulled his hand out of Sam's quickly and Sam dropped his own hand to his side.

"Sorry about that mate, my friend has a wicked throw." Sam rubbed the back of his neck.

"Oi Sam, hurry up!" Another familiar voice shouted and Felix stared in shock as Andy Lau, number 1 nerd jogged over in a Bremin High Footie uniform, hair cut short and spiked up.

"Whose the Goth?" Andy jerked his head at Felix, eyes narrowing.

"Dunno, your throw just hit him in the head." Sam stood next to Andy, tossing the football back to the teen next to him.

"Ah, sorry freak, but you should watch where you're walking." Andy smirked when Felix involuntarily flinched back at the 'freak' comment.

"Come on guys! Stop talking with to the new kid and get over here." A voice shouted and the two boys turned to look at another teen, it was Jake Riles.

"Yeah, shut it Jake." Andy shouted back, he gave Felix one last look of distain.

"Come on Sam, leave the kid alone." Jake shouted Sam gave Felix an apologetic look before he ran off to join Andy and Jake.

"Fabulous, they all are jocks and jerks just what I need today." Felix sighed to himself; at least he knew that they were alive in this world. He kept an eye on the three who were throwing around the football and he did duck a few times when Andy purposely threw the ball towards him.

Felix rubbed at his throbbing head, feeling a bump under his hair. He looked down the street easily picking out his house and he made his way towards it. He didn't want to admit it, but having them targeting him and calling him freak again made his chest hurt while bringing back up unpleasant memories of the past.

Felix stopped suddenly when he realized that he actually liked being friends with Jake, Sam and Andy. He liked having friends that really knew about him (his magic) and accepted it, accepted him. He shook his head; he needed to stop feeling emotions, as he couldn't have them slow him down, not right now.

He silently crept towards the smaller house where his room was; he spotted some action figures sitting on the table outside the door.

"Oscar, just need to find him." Felix couldn't help the smile spreading on his lips. He walked towards the living room window and peered through the window and felt himself freeze at the sight he saw.

Oscar was sitting on the couch, laughing at the television looking happy and his legs fully functional. He was sitting next to their mom and dad all three looking happy and Felix stumbled backwards feeling like he had just been hit with that football again.

He couldn't do it; he couldn't drag this world's Oscar into his problems. He had gotten Oscar attacked and possessed in the last universe because of him and this Oscar could walk and was happy with his family. Felix gave the house one last longing look before he started back towards the street.

Felix shoved his hands into his jacket pockets as he walked down the road as he considered his options, which were rather limited now that he basically confirmed he didn't exist in this world.

One, he could go to see if this world's Phoebe was into magic and would be willing to help him out or two, he would go find the shed they had stayed in before and tried to make it livable and get some food. Option one sounded like the best option right now, he had no urge to live in that place again and dig or steal food to eat.

"Hey!" Sam called out as he jogged across the street, Felix startled as he turned around to see Sam coming towards him.

"Oh, uh hey." Felix waved his hand slightly feeling awkward as Sam came to stand in front of him with a huge smile.

"Sorry about before with Andy and Jake… They can be jerks, but hey what can you do? Oh I'm Sam, it's nice to meet you!" Sam stuck his hand out while smiling at Felix.

"Felix." Felix shook Sam's hand before shoving his hands back into his pockets.

"I haven't seen around you here before, are you new?" Sam asked.

"Yeah I guess you could say that." Felix shrugged his shoulders.

"Hey if you need any one to help show you around, just come give me call!" Sam beamed at Felix as a car honked behind him. "Ah that's my brothers, I'll see you around Felix!"

Sam waved as he slid into the back seat before the car drove down the road.

"Good to know you're a nice guy in all universes Sam." Felix couldn't help but smile before he squashed it down knowing that it wouldn't help him in the long run.

"Awe damn I should have asked him about Phoebe's shop." Felix felt like kicking himself as he started to walk down the street towards where Phoebe's shop was located. He kept his head down as he made his way to the thankfully still open shop, the bells jingled as he walked in and he peered around looking for Phoebe.

"We don't have any vampire books." Phoebe snapped and Felix couldn't help but smile at the familiar way she greeted him.

"I'm not here for any vampire books." Felix snapped back.

"I need to talk to you about universe jumping, maybe there is something in your Book of Shadows that can help me?"

He watched as his words had the right affect on her as she stiffened and looked at him distrustfully. Felix heaved a sigh; this was getting old real fast.

"My name is Felix Ferne and I got sucked through a wormhole of sorts and ended up in this world were apparently I don't exist. This isn't my first experience with universe jumping and I just need to get home, but when I got sucked in here I lost my Book of Shadows and this talisman won't work because my Earth, Water and Air are back in my world." Felix ranted, getting his story off his chest.

"Come with me." Phoebe jerked her head towards the back as she stepped behind the beads. Felix followed and breathed in the sight of the familiar room that didn't seem to change in any universe.

He moved to sit on the chaise lounge that he had used as bed previously and settled in comfortably.

"I'm guessing you've been here before then?" Phoebe raised an eyebrow.

"Something like that, it's nice to know you are the same in every universe Phoebe." Felix smirked and Phoebe rolled her eyes as she pulled out a Book of Shadows.

"Can you tell me what happened just before you were pulled into the spell?" Phoebe asked as she flipped open the book as Felix described what happened to him.

"Hmm, it seems like a modified Unmaking Spell that targeted you, it is like something or someone is trying to get rid of you…" Phoebe guessed.

"So they decided to let the Restoring Demon do the work for them, great." Felix leaned back in the lounge covering his eyes with his right hand.

"Looks like, well good luck kid." Phoebe waved her hand toward the door.

"Gee thanks, is there anything you can give me that can at least slow down the Restoring Demon while I try to work out a spell to get myself home?" Felix asked hopefully, clutching the Talisman.

"Maybe, but it could take a while… Where do you plan on staying kid?"

"There is shelter or shed I guess out in the forest my friends and I stayed in last time this happened." Felix stood up awkwardly.

"What do you want from me kid? I can't just keep you in the back room here." Phoebe rubbed her forehead as she remembered what shed Felix was talking about

"Actually in that other universe I told you about, you told everyone you were our Auntie and let the four of us sleep back here." Felix piped up and laughed as Phoebe sent him a familiar glare.

"Ugh, fine! I don't do breakfast or anything parental got it?" Phoebe pointed her finger at him and he grinned at the familiar line.

"Wait did you say Felix Ferne?" Phoebe suddenly spoke up her eyes going wide.

"Ah, yeah?" Felix raised an eyebrow.

"The Ferne family, before they had Oscar or whatever his name was, they had a stillborn boy…" Phoebe trailed off as Felix's face went pale as he realized what she meant and he slumped backwards onto the lounge.

"You can't let anyone know your last name. You can use my last name when you enroll." She sighed annoyed.

"Thanks Phoebe." Felix said quietly.

"Get some sleep kid, you look pretty beat." Phoebe gestured to the blankets and Felix nodded as he swung his legs up on the longue he had sat back down on and let Phoebe drop a blanket over his body and he felt his eyes drooping shut as the day caught up to him.