Nowhere Boys - Without a Flame

Sam, Andy and Jake are sent on a multi-world adventure thanks to an unknown man who has Felix in his grasp. The boys have to endure different versions of Felix to get back to their Felix before it's too late. Sequel to 'Isolated Flame'

Disclaimer: I do not own Nowhere Boys

Without a Flame 3

"Don't tell me." Jake covered his eyes with his hand as the trio stood in front of the alter in the warehouse completely alone.

"Still not our world." Sam reported glumly after he tried to use his air powers.

"Can this day get any worse?" Jake groaned, throwing his hands up into the air.

"Well, well, who do we have here?" A voice called out and the group whirled around to see Felix leaning against the side of the alter, wearing all black as per usual, but this now included huge dark veins that were visible up his arms, collarbone and neck stopping just below his chin. He was playing with a fireball, letting it drift between his fingers as he studied the trio.

"You had to ask." Andy swallowed at the sight and the uneasy feeling that this Felix was excluding.

"Hey you… Um why are you're veins all you know… Veiny?" Sam asked, edging away from this world's version of Felix.

"My body can't contain all the power I have now, there are… Side effects." Felix said simply as he flicked his fingers towards the boys and the fireball expanded and flew towards them. The boys yelped and ducked out of the way of the fireball.

"What the hell man?" Sam exclaimed as Felix raised his arms up to the side and numerous fireballs formed around him, eyes bleeding black.

"It's rather perfect that you are here. Earth. Air. Water. All the elements I need a recharge on." Felix smirked as he pushed his arms towards the three boys sending the barrage of fireballs at them. The boys ran and hide behind the pillars in the warehouse, letting the fireballs hit against the cement or scorch the ground by their feet.

"What do you mean by that?" Andy shouted, dread growing in the pit of his stomach.

"I'll do the same to you three like I did to the other teens with magical potential in this town. I'll take your magic for my own; I'm so close right now. With your powers added to my own powers I can bring my brother back!" Felix shouted as wind started to whip around the warehouse, fire crawling up his forearms.

"Well that was unexpected." Sam muttered as he peered around the corner of his pillar before he ducked back around to avoid a fireball to the face.

"I really hate world jumping." Jake sighed in annoyance.

"Better question is how are we going to get him to help us recite the spell?" Andy asked as the trio made a run for it and hide behind a broken wall, keeping an eye out for evil Felix.

"First step is not to get fried by his barrage of fireballs." Sam suggested and the other boys made noises of agreement.

"Step two is to take him down." Jake peered over at the dark eyed Felix who was twirling a fireball around his fingers looking bored.

"How? We can't do any magic here and he's more powerful than anyone we've ever faced!" Andy exclaimed, panic seeping into his voice.

"We take him out the only way we can. Brute force." Jake punched his hand into his palm.

"Yes that won't gut us all killed." Andy muttered as the jock and skater all launched them selves at evil Felix. Andy sighed and took off running behind them, this ended in a weird dance of attempted tackling and dodging fireballs.

"Hold still damnit." Felix growled as Sam spun around another fireball while Andy dropped into a crouch letting the fire sail over his head and Jake leap frogged over another one.

"No thanks!" Sam shouted as he managed to wrap one arm around evil Felix and he planted his feet on the ground trying to keep them both in place for the other two to come and help take evil Felix down.

Felix let out a scream of rage as his eyes turned black and his dark veins spread up onto his face.

"Hurry dudes!" Sam shouted as wind and fire started to whip around the room like caught in a hurricane. Jake football tackled Felix, arms around his slight waist and Andy lashed out at Felix's ankles to throw his balance off. The four landed on the ground in a tangled heap, air being knocked from their lungs. Andy and Sam scrambled to grab onto Felix's wrists and pin his arms to the ground while Jake straddled Felix's waist, keeping his thighs locked tight so Felix couldn't buck him off.

"What now?" Jake asked worried as the evil, insane version of their fire hissed and struggled underneath their holds.

"Use the talisman!" Andy shouted jerking his chin at the glowing talisman that was hanging around Jake's neck.

"Quick! He's stronger than he looks!" Sam and Andy were straining to stop Felix from knocking them backwards. Jake tore the talisman off his neck and slammed the glowing pendant onto the center of Felix's chest, all three wincing at the loud scream of pain that emitted from Felix's lips.

"Divinity of the elements, I summon thee. Through this world, we can see. Another place where we can be. Take the fire make it burn, take the air and make it turn. Take this water and this earth, and to another world call us forth. Earth, Water, Fire, Air. Earth, Water, Fire, Air." The three boys chanted while Felix convulsed under the power from their talisman.

"NOOOO!" Felix shrieked as the spell worked and the three elements and their talisman disappeared.

"I WILL get their power. I need their power!" Felix chanted to himself, hands grabbing at his shirt where there was now a hole from where the talisman burned.

"Oscar… I will get you back. I swear it."

~~/~~

"Hey dudes my powers work!" Sam exclaimed as he pushed the dust around them up towards the ceiling of the warehouse.

"Finally! I'm so glad we are finally home; I'm not sure how many versions of Felix I can take. That last one freaked me out." Andy rubbed his arms.

"Speaking of, Felix was taken by that hooded man! We have to get find them and fast! Who knows how long we've been gone!" Jake gripped the talisman in his hand and blinked as heat started to emit from it.

"Hey it's like a Felix locater!" Sam examined as he peered around Jake at the dimly glowing pendant as Jake moved it around.

"It gets brighter this way." Andy pointed at another part of the warehouse.

"What are we waiting for?" Sam whacked their shoulders and took off in that direction.

"We have to stay on our toes, we have no idea who or what is waiting for us when we find Felix." Andy warned cautiously.

"We'll just face it head on like always, we don't know what is happening to Felix we can't waste time." Jake shook his head and veered left when the talisman burned brighter down that way.

"Over there!" Sam pointed at a circle of candles that were burning bright, a large rock slab sitting in the center of the circle and Felix's lanky body was resting on it. His head lolled to the side, black bangs brushing against his closed eyes, his chest was rising and falling slowly like he was still asleep. The hooded man was gently caressing Felix's pale cheek looking down at him.

"Get away from Felix!" Jake shouted as the three of them came to a stop just outside the circle of candles.

"How are you back here? I sent you away for good!" The hooded man twisted around to see the last three elements standing there, talisman burning brightly in Jake's hand.

"Of course, the talisman. I was wondering why Felix wasn't wearing it like he always did." The hooded man muttered, understanding how the trio got back from the other worlds he had sent them to.

"What do you want with Felix?" Sam asked, tightening his fists.

"With this world's Felix? Nothing I just need a vessel for a soul and this world's Felix is the closet to what I need." The man said pleasantly like he was discussing the weather.

"A vessel for a soul? What are you talking about?" Andy asked, confusion evident in his voice and he was racking his mind trying to find anything he read about soul transferal.

"See the Felix in my world died and I can transfer his soul into this Felix's body, simple." The man explained easily.

"You do know we aren't going to let you do that right?" Jake growled, feeling the ground tremble beneath his feet.

"You can try and stop me, but the process has already begun." The man held up a glowing red amulet, a matching one sitting on Felix's chest.

"We'll get the amulet from him, you get the other one off of Felix." Jake whispered to Andy and suddenly punched his fist into the ground, sending a huge crack towards the hooded man who had to leap away from the circle to avoid falling into the crack. Andy darted off to the side to circle his way around to Felix while Sam thrusted his arms towards the man, throwing him away from Felix with a strong gust of air. The man struggled to his feet, the hood having been thrown off by Sam's wind.

"Oh my god." Jake stared in shock and Andy turned to look at what caused Jake to sound so shocked and he froze.

"Oscar?" Andy asked, eyes wide as they stared at an older teenaged version of Oscar with black veins running up the left side of his face, much like evil Felix in the other world had.

"Hello." Oscar smirked, waving mockingly at the stunned boys.

"This day just getting weirder and weirder." Sam placed a hand to his head.

"You can't replace your Felix with ours! It's not right!" Andy shouted, clenching and unclenching his fists.

"It's too late, soon my brother will be back." Oscar grinned as the two amulets' glowed brighter than ever. Felix let out a gasp of pain as his body started to twitch and his lips parted to allow a small red and gold ball of energy to float up.

"Felix, fight it!" Andy encouraged, panic in his voice as the ball that could only be Felix's soul and magic slowly be sucked towards the amulet on his chest.

"He can't, it's too late." Oscar laughed hysterically.

"Then you don't know our Felix!" Sam snapped as he used his wind powers to launch himself at Oscar and lashed out with a kick, sending Oscar flying backwards into a pillar causing his grip on the amulet to loosen. Jake darted forward and snatched up the amulet.

"Andy! Grab that one off of Felix, hurry!" Jake shouted, Andy nodded and wrapped his fingers around the amulet on Felix's chest and letting out a shout he managed to yank it off.

"I got it!" Andy held it up to show Jake who was now leaping over the circle of candles that were almost burnt out. Jake took the other amulet and pressed them together, he growled when nothing happened. He slammed the amulets onto the ground using his strength and Earth element to add to it, the amulets shattered under the force. Felix's soul and magic went back into his mouth and Felix's body arched as he took a deep gasping breath.

"NO!" Oscar shouted as he tried to rush forward, but Sam hit him with a constant, strong flow of air keeping Oscar pinned to the pillar.

Felix turned his upper body, coughing violently clutching at his chest before he looked around in confusion.

"Guys? What's going on?" He asked, voice weak and hoarse with disuse.

"Felix, oh thank god you're okay." Jake breathed out as Andy dropped into a crouch to even out his rapidly beating heart while Sam let out a whooping cheer.

"Guys?" Felix asked as he swung his legs over the side of the slab. Jake and Andy were at his sides instantly supporting him, as he was clearly still weak and unsteady on his legs.

"We'll tell you everything later, but right now we need you to help us send this crazy version of your brother back to his world!" Andy promised before he jerked his head towards where Sam had Oscar pinned.

"Oskie?" Felix whispered in shock before Jake gently shook him.

"He's not your brother and he's dangerous, we have to do the spell now." Jake insisted, tightening his grip on the goth not wanting to let him out of his sight again.

"Okay, okay. I expect a damn good explanation when we're done though." Felix grumbled his agreement.

"We'll talk over lemon chicken." Andy promised getting a small smile from Felix.

"Hurry up dudes my wind is starting to loose strength!" Sam called out desperately seeing that Oscar was able to push back against the wind current.

"When we open the portal, think of the world we just came from!" Andy shouted suddenly getting an idea.

"Divinity of the elements, I summon thee. Through this world, we can see. Another place where we can be. Take the fire make it burn, take the air and make it turn. Take this water and this earth, and to another world call us forth. Earth, Water, Fire, Air. Earth, Water, Fire, Air." Jake pressed the talisman into Felix's hand and the fire elemental held it up strongly letting it glow like a beacon.

A purple blue portal appeared and Sam moved his arms violently towards it and Oscar let out a roar of anger as he was tossed through it. Felix dropped his arm and the talisman faded back to normal and the portal closed. The goth started to slump forward, completely exhausted by this point and muttered out a small thank you when Jake and Andy caught him. They lowered him onto the ground and Sam jogged over to the group and knelt next to their fire before dragging him into a tight hug.

"You're the only Felix I ever want to see again, I like this version of you! Don't ever change!" Sam exclaimed, tightening the hug as he remembered the other versions of Felix they had seen that day.

"I think this is part of the explanation I'm due." Felix patted Sam's back, giving the other two a look of confusion over the skater's head.

"Yup, just let us enjoy the moment." Andy joined the hug and Jake wound his arms around the other three and Felix found himself in the middle of a group hug, all the elements back together.

"Where did you send that version of my brother?" Felix asked after a few moments of silence, eyes drooping back down feeling worse than he had before.

"To someplace hopefully both of them will find peace." Andy said mysteriously.

"Uh-huh…" Felix yawned and glared when Jake patted his head.

"Sleep Felix, we'll get you home safe and sound." Jake promised, as much as Felix wanted to protest his body was agreeing and soon he was fast asleep with his head resting on Sam's shoulder. The trio exchanged fond looks over Felix's head and at that moment they mental promised they would all stick together no matter what.

~~/~~

Oscar let out a grunt as the portal spat him out in the warehouse of a different universe, he flew onto his feet ready to jump back into the portal only to see it wink out of existence.

"Oscar?" A voice called out softly, the teen whirled around and came face to face with Felix who had the same black veins as him and a hole burned in the middle of his shirt.

"Felix?" Oscar asked just as softly as the two walked towards each other.

"…My brother died." Felix said, lips twitching.

"Mine too… Do you think?" Oscar let his statement trail off, something he hadn't felt in a very long time flared in his chest. Hope.

"That we can be brothers?" Felix finished the statement; hope flaring in his own chest.

"Yeah…"

"Oksie." Felix opened his arms and Oscar launched himself into Felix's arms and let out a strangled sounding sob that Felix echoed as the two sunk onto the ground.

"I'm not going anywhere, not ever." Felix promised his new brother, the one who was just as broken as he was, but hoped together they could start again.

"I don't want you to, I don't want to." Oscar agreed with the promise.

"Thank you, thank you."