The Secret Zoo; Obscurities & Magic

Chapter 4; Walt The Wide and The Specters

It was early morning in the Nowicki household. Noah was toasting some eggo waffles when his sister came down to breakfast. Noah noticed that his sister was still moving slower than she normally would but she was now smiling again. The measurable look on her face while she was getting better hurt him but the thought of the Secret Citizens going through the same thing bothered him.

"Could you put a couple more in for me?" His sister asked. Noah snapped back into the real world.

"OK, Megan are you sure you want to go back to school? Did mom say you could come with me, I mean if we get the message?"

"I think I OK enough. I talked with mom and she said it was OK as long as I don't overexert myself."

He nodded and went back to his breakfast.

Noah couldn't concentrate on polynomials of math class or which president was which not with what happened to his sister of what is probably happening to the Secret Zoo. It was already tough with The Shadowist, a man once known as Jonathan DeGraff a man who lost himself in darkness, magic and madness. His sole goal was to take the Secret Zoo for his own, twist it to a living nightmare. Then what take the world? Then there were The Sasquatch the first front line troops for The Shadowist, before their corruption they were the worst part of man and animal given physical form. Now there were bug-ponies that can shape shift into animals and attack people leaving them sick. Noah didn't want to think of it. It was all too much.

Lunch came, then went, at Rescues the Action Scouts were sitting in the Monster Dome. The Monster Dome was a gigantic rusted dome shaped jungle gym, one of the oldest pieces of the playground equipment at Clarksville Elementary. Their usual spot in the playground where they could talk about their lives and their lives at the Secret Zoo in some form of peace.

"So, you think you're up for some Cross training today Megan?" Ella asked her friend.

"Yeah, we still don't know what they did to you." Richie broke in. Ella smacked Richie upside the head.

"I went through this with Noah this morning, I'm feeling fine and I thinks I can do it." Megan assured her friends.

Noah took a deep breath. "I know Megan but I'm your brother it my job to worry about you."

"We're your friends it kind of our job too." Ella added.

"That's right." Richie confirmed.

They were quiet for a long time the friends knew at this moment they did not need to say anything the quiet was good enough. That was until they heard a familiar mocking voice. "Well, Well, Well, if it isn't the Action Dorks!"

The group looked up and saw three familiar figures, it was Walt White and his cronies Dave and Doug. They were coming there way ready to make trouble for them. Walt was the meanest kid at Clarksville Elementary. Walt was not like any other bulls, he was not strong or rich, a jock or popular he was Fat, he swung his arms around as he walked running into other kids as he walk. Dave and Doug were his cousins and did whatever Walt said.

"Well it's time to make you pay for what you did to me." He snarled at them smacking his ham handed fist into his beefy palm.

Noah knew what Walt was talking about, sort of. The Action Scouts were the first to stand up against him and he didn't like it. "We didn't do anything to you," Noah started. "If I remember correctly you attacked Ella and Richie twice over nothing."

Dave and Doug position themselves to watch for any adult, all the Scouts knew that Walt would not be so brave if there was an adult around. The Scouts watched as Walt did is best to squeeze through the gap. Noah stood in front of his friends, he knew he couldn't throw a punch but at least he could use himself as a shield.

Before Walt could even get his fat arm through Noah watched Walt fly backwards. Doug and Dave looked in disbelief but soon the both of them joined him as they were sent flying forward. The three hooligans soon stood up, they looked around trying to find the source of their attackers.

"What did you..." Before Walt could finish, he was thrown even future. Doug and Dave looked around and soon they too were knocked down as well.

"What are you..." Walt shouted but he saw that Noah and his friends where no where near them. Walt watched as Doug and Dave were dragged away from him, Walt doubled over as he felt a fist hit him in the stomach he dropped to the ground.

When Doug and Dave stopped being pulled along they got up from the ground. A series of eerie voices said in unison. "Leave here NOW!"

The two of them away screaming. "Ghost!"

Noah watched as Walt crawled away holding his stomach. When they were out of sight Noah saw something moving in front of him, three human shaped figures.

The Scouts all smiled they knew who their saviors were, The Specters. The Secret Zoo special stealth force. The were like The Descenders as they used the magic of The Secret Zoo to allow them to do something amazing but instead of acquiring animal aspects they used Chameleons to blend in with the world around them.

Noah and the other Scouts watched as a teenage girl's head appeared out of no where. Her hair was clipped to dramatically different lengths and her bangs fell at angle down to her chin, it concealed most of her face. Noah could tell she was smiling the floating head spoke carefully. "Hay Guys." She said.

"Hey Evie," Ella said. "You and the girls out for a stroll?"

"Sort of, we're here to give you a message. You got cross training today just meet Tank at the Clarksville Zoo entrance." Evie said to them.

"Thanks for the message and for taking care of, them." Noah said The Specters.

"Hay it was no problem, I know you could have handled them yourselves but the girls and I need to have some fun on this arena." Evie's head started to vanish again. "See you soon." Evie and the other two Specters vanished.