Hazel stared at her brother with wide eyes. 

"What?" She repeated dully, Jeremy sighed. 

"Must I repeat it?" He asked, Hazel nodded quickly. Jeremy sighed again. 

"Mom and dad called me. They said that a teenage orphan girl has the Marking potion in Australia. Since she has the Marking potion from who knows where, we need to get to it before Dark Soul does or else we risk him Marking someone important. Got it?"

Jeremy asked exasperatedly, Hazel nodded slowly. 

"Wow, alright. That's alright I suppose I can swing for a trip in Australia." Hazel said with wide eyes, she blinked twice before processing the information. 

"Shi-"

"Language, Hazel!" Jeremy scolded, Hazel stared at her brother in annoyance. 

"Jeremy, I really don't think that my language is bad in comparison to the situation we're being placed in! We have to go right away! I'll call my friends from school while you pack! Geez, it's already afternoon!" Hazel freaked out, she froze again. 

"By the High Council, do we even have any information? A town name or address? Who her name is? What orphanage she's in?" Hazel's eyes were wider than a dinner plate, metaphorically, and she glared at her brother. 

"Please, Hazel, calm yourself. Our parents emailed the information to us. By the High Council, you're freaking me out." Jeremy muttered, he walked away to the next room to grab a laptop from another room. In the meantime, Hazel was stiff and pondering how she was going to get everyone to drop everything to come to Australia with her. Hazel pulled out her phone and called Joanna, 

"Hey, Hazel, who're you calling-"

"Sh!" Hazel shushed Percy, who had just entered the room. 

On the third ring, Joanna picked up the phone. 

"Hazel! You have really crappy timing! It's my aunts birthday and I'm at this really stuffy restaurant!" Joanna whisper-yelled. Hazel quickly explained her situation. 

"Holy shit balls. I'll be there." Joanna hung up. Hazel was about to ask how Joanna was going to get out of celebrating her aunt's birthday and how she was going to get to Grandfather Clock. Hazel dropped the thought, she had a permanent wormhole at school. Joanna will probably sneak out and use that. 

Hazel then called Fiona, she repeated what she told Joanna. Fiona wasn't allowed to come. She called Erick, he was grounded so he couldn't go. She called Chase, he didn't go because Erick didn't go. 

"So it's only Joanna's who's tagging along." Hazel said to herself, she heard Percy scoff from next to her. 

"Forgot about me, Hazey." Percy pouted, he resting his chin on Hazel's shoulder as he leaned down to her level from behind her. 

"You're not tagging along, you're basically family. You're helping us lead." Hazel smiled, Percy grinned and punched her shoulder playfully. 

"That's sweet, Hazey." Percy laughed, Hazel rolled her eyes with a small smile. 

"Alright, so this girl we're looking for is named Delilah. She lives in the Twin Vipers Orphanage for Minors in Sydney, Australia. Let's go-"

"I'm bringing Joanna along." Hazel interrupted, Jeremy glared at her and to her surprise had a semi-prominent blush adorning his cheeks. Percy and Hazel had a silent agreement to say nothing about it. 

"Why are your bringing a human?" He asked, his anger barely contained. 

"Because Joanna was the only one who'd come on such short notice and because I invited her. Pay attention, Jeremy." Hazel said unimportantly, Jeremy face palmed while Percy enjoyed himself a good laugh. 

"Fine, so be it." Jeremy uttered, not enjoying the fact that a simple mission's party had to increase in numbers. All they had to do was grab a potion, Jeremy pondered why Hazel always wanted her friends to tag along. 

"Okay, we're meeting by the high school-" 

"Why can't we go straight ahead?" Jeremy asked irritably, Hazel looked at her brother as if it were obvious. 

"Joanna can't create wormholes, Jeremy. Now, we are meeting her at the high school and then we'll go to the orphanage." Hazel decided, Jeremy scoffed but otherwise remained silent. 

After the trio packed a small seabag each, they set to Hazel's school. 

"Hey, Hazey." Joanna smirked, she had a duffle bag with her now and quiver tied to it. 

"Why do you and Percy call me "Hazey"?" Hazel asked, scoffing a bit at the weird name. 

"Fits. You leave your enemies hazy." Joanna laughed airily, Jeremy scowled. 

"It's like there's three of you, Hazel." Jeremy looked pointedly at Percy and Joanna. Percy looked at Jeremy in mock surprise. 

"Who? Me?" Percy pointed to himself, still acting surprised and slightly hurt. 

"Shut it, Percy. Of course you." Jeremy sighed in annoyance and opened another wormhole. 

"Come along, now." Jeremy said emotionlessly, the four of them went through the wormhole. Leaving a random pedestrian looking at where they left in astonishment. 

"What am I smoking?" He asked to himself, looking at the misshapen piece of rolled up paper confusedly. He crinkled his nose as threw the drug in a nearby trash can. 

"A few steps too far." He decided, walking away. 

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Hazel was the first to get out of the wormhole. 

"Lovely. It's night." She frowned, everyone followed he out in suit. 

"Actually it's early morning." Jeremy looked at his wristwatch. 

"Okay, we'll get some lun-breakfast and then go to the orphanage. I doubt it's opened this early." Percy squinted at the sky, it was painted warm colors. 

"Alright, where? I don't know about you, but I've never been in Australia before." Joanna pointed out, Hazel grinned before pointing to a café, 

"I'm getting a doughnut." Hazel said, peeking at the painted open sign. 

"Hazel, we're on a highly dangerous mission that has consequences that can erase the lives we know forever. And you're getting a doughnut?" Jeremy asked tiredly, Percy smirked. 

"We can't go to the orphanage right now, it's closed. So either we can sneak in, or we can have doughnuts." Percy grinned, he grabbed Hazel's arm and they walked into the orphanage. 

"I can't believe them." Jeremy declared, gaining Joanna's attention. 

"I can." Joanna then jogged towards the two. Jeremy thought about his actions momentarily, before catching up to the three right as they were in conversation. 

"Seriously, Percy, when are you going to get rid of the blue hair?" Joanna asked jokingly, Percy looked at her in astonishment. 

"My hair is fabulous, thank you. I rather not have ginger hair, it doesn't look awesome on me." Percy gasped dramatically, Hazel laughed. 

"Only you, Percy." She said as she ordered an apple crisp doughnut. Soon enough, they all sat down munching on doughnuts, except for Jeremy who insisted he didn't want anything. 

"Alright, game plan. We see this Delilah chick at her home-place-thingy and we ask for the potion. If she won't give it to us, we'll snag it at midnight. Or whenever she and everyone else goes to sleep. Are we good?" Percy asked, Hazel nodded along with Joanna.

"You're forgetting a lot of major details. This is an orphanage, they're going to have security if Delilah won't give us the potion willingly. And there isn't a high chance she will give it to us, we're strangers she's never met-" Jeremy was interrupted suddenly. 

"Jeremy! Chill out, who can say no to a tall guy with blue hair?" Joanna spoke up pointing to Percy, who grinned and ran his hand through his very blue hair. 

"Whatever. But if this plan of yours fails, I will do it on my own." Jeremy huffed, Hazel laughed at his behavior. Some people never change. 

"Brother, I love you, but you have a major stick up your ass. Lighten up, you don't need to plan everything out like it's war." Hazel placed her hand on her brother's shoulder and gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. 

"Fine. But still..." Jeremy grumbled unhappily, although he seemed to relax his shoulders in the slightest. 

"Alright, we'll travel to the orphanage at nine." 

Alright. Another chapter, go Jasmine! 

To set things straight, I made up the orphanage Twin Vipers Orphanage for Minors. If it's real I didn't know. 

So yeah. 

They're in Australia now, lol. 

Ok, nothing much else so...bye. 

~Jasmine