MBL Eurodisney Concentration Camp
"Hey!"
Harrison Owens had never been in a fight in his life. Granted, he'd always wanted to be in one. Heck, he had wanted to be on the MBL field team... and they were always fighting, it seemed!
Still, something about this fight was just weird...
He sat alone in the meeting room where he, Walker, Davis, and Redros had been talking. The three men needed to step out for a time, leaving Owens some time to glance at his surroundings and think about what had just happened.
He wasn't too far into his thoughts when warning claxons had begun to sound and all the computers in the room shut down.
Protocol, Owens thought wryly, crawling under the table. In case the enemy wants to hack into their system... dump the hard drive and shut off the power. Ironically, same as the MBL's protocol...
At that thought, the door was kicked in and a shout was made into the room by an MBL soldier.
"OWENS!" it called. "LETS MOVE!"
The voice was Redros'. Coming out from under the table, Owens saw Ariel standing behind Redros, an urgent look on her face.
"We're under attack!" the former TOMB member said, motioning for Owens to follow him. Tearing down the hallway, Owens looked over at Ariel, who looked as determined as he'd ever seen her.
"There's something different about you," Owens whispered. The girl looked over at him, arched her eyebrow and smiled, then refocused on what she was doing.
But, Owens was serious. There was something about this girl that was different from the last time he'd seen her. He couldn't exactly tell what it was. Rage? Fury? Sheer determination?
As she started to pass him, he got his answer: two giant wings had unfolded out of her shoulder blades. Owens didn't know what to say...
"You can fly?" he asked, dumbfounded.
She smiled as she looked back at him. "Just try to keep up, will you?"
After running down the length of the hallway, Redros ducked inside of a small closet and pulled the other two inside. "Alright," he panted once the door had been shut, "Owens, get us out of here..."
Owens' eyes bulged as he heard his name. "What?" he asked, surprised. "How?"
"That ring," Ariel said, pointing to the platinum band on the ring finger of his right hand.
"This?" Owens asked. "My dad left this to me... it's not mystical or anything. I mean, it's just a ring..."
"Not when I saw it work," Redros said, pulling the ring off the young man's finger and sliding it onto his own. Redros aimed the ring at the back wall of the closet. To his amazement, seconds later, a giant portal appeared seconds later.
"Alright," the gruff Redros barked out. "Everyone inside..."
Ariel jumped in first, followed by an uneasy Owens. Redros followed suit, closing the portal behind him.
"What was that?!" Owens asked, standing and wiping the grass and dirt from his jeans.
"Phantom Board Access Ring," Redros answered, tossing the ring back to Owens, who caught it one-handed. "Given to your dad by the former ruler of the Phantom Boards - Boss Tweed."
"Tweed..." Owens thought. "Yeah, Mom told me about him."
"His brother rules here now, along with a few other people who might help us out," Redros said, standing. Before him lay a huge expanse of forest. In the exact center of the forest, raised high on a hill above the entire area, sat an exquisite-looking palace. Redros pointed to the giant building. "That way," he said. "Just stay close... the forset can be treacherous..."
