The lost children (finished editing)

"Chapter 9; So smart and trouble"

Trigger warnings; yelling, broken limbs, badly timed pranks, bad decisions, missing kids, accidental experiment, violence, etc.

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"HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID? YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN US ALL CAUGHT WITH THAT STUPID LITTLE STUNT OF YOURS!" Harriet's sharp voice cut through the air of the Forsaken Falls camp, causing everyone in camp to flinch.

While it was true that they all had 5 leaders (Mal, Harriet, Ben, Uma, and Cj), Harriet was the most senior of the group and could overrule the others when it came to certain things. And now, it was one of those things.

Jay had gone out alone to look for Chad, Lonnie, and Evie who were still gone—looking for Jane—and had run into a few lost boys. And instead of running away before they could notice him, he pranked them. And then tried to flee in the trees, which resulted in him falling and breaking his leg. If the Gaston twins hadn't been collecting fur and other fabrics they'd found, they wouldn't have heard him and he would have been a goner. And Harriet wasted no time in laying into him when they had informed her of what the 7 year old had done.

"It was just a joke.." Jay said quietly, looking properly chastised.

"JUST A JOKE? JUST A JOKE?! YOU COULD HAVE LED THEM TO CAMP! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED— " Harriet's furious rant was cut off by Sammy, who along with Doug, was trying to fix Jay's leg.

"HARRIET!"

"WHAT?!" She snapped at her first mate, furious that he had cut her off. To Sammy's credit, he didn't even flinch—just rolled his eyes "That's enough. One, I'm sure he's feeling bad enough as is and that he won't do it again. Two, we need to fix his leg. And three, we don't need you attracting anyone to our camp with your yelling."

Harriet turned red with embarrassment and threw her hands up in the air in frustration " fine. But he's on camp arrest!"

Jay made a move to protest, but Doug covered his mouth so he couldn't and hissed warningly "you're already in enough trouble. Don't tick her off and make it worse or you'll never be able to leave the camp."

The thief crossed his arms and slumped back in defeat, pouting as Harriet stormed off to her 'ship' .

The Gaston twins followed her, probably planning on trying to calm their captain down.

"Oooh, you're in trouble " Sammy commented somewhat teasingly after Harriet was out of ear shot, trying to lighten up the mood.

"And you're gonna get my fist in your throat if you don't shut up" Jay snapped, not in the mood.

"If I was you, I wouldn't be threatening the person who's gonna be resetting my leg" Sammy said, not really meaning it.

"Guys, can we not fight? This leg isn't gonna reset itself and we still have to move Jay to the med cave" Doug reminded timidly, a bit annoyed.

"Fine" the other two boys said in sync with the same annoyed voice and expression.

"Gil, Harry, Carlos! Come here. We need your help moving Jay to the medbay!" Sammy called out to them, knowing the Smee twins wouldn't be much help, and that Cj and Audrey were on the watchtower so they couldn't help.

As only 2 of the 3 boys ran over, Sammy realized that he hadn't seen Harry in awhile. "Gil, Where's Harry?" He asked nervously, afraid of the answer—knowing that Harriet wasn't going to be happy if the answer wasn't a good one.

"He went to the bathroom, " Gil said nonchalantly, not recognizing Sammy's tone.

"And how long ago was that?" Sammy pressed, causing Gil to furrow his eyebrows in thought.

"After training " Carlos chipped in, causing Sammy to go pale. That was hours ago.

Oh today was not gonna be a good day at all....

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"Careful, careful!" Mal instructed, grabbing the waterskin Zevon was holding. "You have to be careful!"

Uma rolled her eyes, as did Zevon.

"You already said that. Relax, he knows what he's doing " the young Cecaelia said, annoyed. Mal did this every time they made a potion, just because Zevon was slightly younger than they were and because he was just a bit cocky and it was just so annoying.

"Yeah, I'm not stupid, Malvina," Zevon said, emphasizing her name just to annoy her. It worked.

"Will you two be serious for once?! This potion needs to be perfect or else it will just end up hurting jay!" The demigod snapped angrily.

"We know that but we aren't new here Mal! We know how to make potions! We're just as experienced as you are!" Uma told her angrily, which caused Mal to get angrier.

Zevon groaned as they started to fight again, and placed his head in his hands. Because of this, neither of them noticed the camp mutt, Dude—as Ben had so eloquently named him—, run over.

They didn't even notice when he started drinking out of the potion they were making. But Ben did.

"Dude, no!" He called out frantically, causing the other three to notice what the puppy was doing.

"No! Bad dog!"

"No dude, that's not for you!"

"Carlos, Ben! Control your mutt!"

All 3 of them yelled, jumping up.

Dude got startled and ran back to Ben who picked him up, looking scared. "Oh my God, what potion is that? Is it gonna hurt him?"

Zevon rolled his eyes, trying to hide how nervous he was.

"Why would we be making something that would hurt hi—owe! Mal!" The ravenette whined as she slapped him over the head.

"There's something called tact. You should get some."

"It's a pain relief potion. It probably won't hurt him" Uma said, addressing Ben.

"What do you mean by probably?" The brunette asked, hugging the puppy tight.

"Well.. we don't actually know if it will or will not hurt him" Mal answered, wincing.

"WHAT?!" the Smee twins cried, causing them all to jump. They hadn't seen them approach.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice spoke up "ouch. Tone it down a bit, will ya? You're hurting my years."

All 6 of the children's jaws dropped as they realized where the voice was coming from. Ben looked down at the puppy in his hands in shock, who just stared up at him.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Are you gonna drop me? Please don't drop me. I'm not a cat. I can't land on all four legs" Dude rambled, not understanding why everyone was gobsmacked.

"Oh crap. Harriet is gonna kill us."