Hey guys! I finally got writing this chapter! :-)
"My mom's going to kill me when she finds out," Finn said with his head in his hands.
"You're telling me," Charlene snorted. Philby walked in to Forzen Marble and Finn snapped his head up. "This better be important!" Philby's expression was stern. "He has Willa." Finn and Maybeck exchanged glances. "Woah, someone needs to tell me what's going on." Charlene said, catching the boys' looks at each other. "When we went to go get my computer we couldn't find it. But today it was in my locker with a note that said the Janitor had Willa." Charlene smirked. "What's so funny?" Philby asked, agitated. "I mean, come on," Charlene said, rolling her eyes. "We're the Kingdom Keepers and we can't even beat an old janitor?"
"He's an OTA!" Maybeck exclaimed. "Did you look at the flash drive?" Finn asked Philby. He shook his head. "No, but I have it with me." Philby sat down and inserted the thumb drive into his computer. A video clip appeared on the computer screen. Philby gingerly clicked play. "Hello, Dell," The Janitor spat from the computer. "I see that you got my message. Silly boy! Do you really think I would label a flash drive TOP SECRET FILES and just leave it out? Ah, well you underestimated my intelligence I'm afraid. No matter, I will prove to you and the others that I do have the power to take down the Kingdom Keepers single handedly." Philby looked at the others to see their reactions about the news. "I have to say Dell, you have impressed me with your gullibility and lack of observation. If fact, you made it painfully easy for me to just take Isabel out of your numbers. Would you like to see her?"
Philby's heart stopped when Larry turned the camera on Willa. "Philby! Don't even listen to anything he's saying! He's just trying to scare you! I'm perfectly fine. But he has been in contact with Maleifcent-"
Larry's eyes opened wide when and he quickly acted on instinct. He grabbed the thing nearest to him-a screwdriver- and whacked Willa hard on the head with the handle. Phlby stifled a scream. "Now, she's not fine. You better come, Dell, things are starting to get a little out of hand." The screen went to static then blacked out.
Philby turned to the group. "We, I, have to go-" Charlene's eyes were bloodshot from tears and stood up, "You're not going without me. No way! If you're so gullible where you can just let one of us disappear, I'm not going to give you the chance to screw this up." Philby felt like Charlene was trying to hurt him, but he slowly nodded. "Yeah, with Charlie, no room to screw up." Maybeck said, stone-faced, but when he looked at Philby his eyes portrayed all of Maybeck's controlled anger. Philby was forced to turn away, but that was a mistake when his eyes landed on Finn. He was looking at him with something that almost looked like, shame.
Disappoint. It was almost as if Finn was looking at him like he didn't know him. He looked around at all the Keepers and his world was turned upside down. They were looking at him with the almost utter hatred.
He felt like the enemy.
He was the enemy.