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Ariel lives in Virginia and is in 

sixth grade. She likes puppies and 

exploring in the woods. Her friends 

say that she's "awesome and a little 

crazy".

Chapter One

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Joanna and Brooke, best friends since kindergarten, 

went to the same high school. They both had normal 

lives, Joanna was tall with brown hair and brown eyes, 

Brooke with blonde hair and blue eyes, both with lots of 

friends.They both knew that they were always in slight 

danger because their dads worked for the FBI and CIA 

but they never expected this.

Halloween night, filled with kids dressed 

up as monsters and celebrities, was the 

best night in town. The local businesses 

always pitched in to build a haunted 

house, costume stores gave teenagers 

costumes to dress up in to work the 

haunted houses, and jump out and scare 

the kids. Everyone always had a great 

time

The three best friends, Brooke, Joanna, 

and Prim met up at Joanna's house to 

change into their costumes, then head 

out to the town to join in, on the fun. 

Their neighborhood was one of those 

that you see on TV, green grass, nice 

houses, happy kids playing outside. No one 

ever thought that anything bad would 

ever happen, it was a PERFECT 

neighborhood. 

The girls left the house at around seven-thirty, by then it 

was already getting dark. All the little kids were out Trick 

or Treating, with giant smiles on their faces. The older 

kids hung around in groups to wait for the haunted houses 

to open up.    

  Eight o'clock, the haunted houses were in business. Filled 

with monsters, and ear piercing screams. Brooke, Joanna, 

and Prim were actually a little scared (though they didn't 

want to admit it). So they all held hands, and had white 

knuckles. Entering the house, covering their ears to try to 

block out the horrible noises they stumbled through. The 

horrified white face of Prim was the last thing Joanna and 

Brooks saw before a huge, hairy hand grabbed them, 

knocked them out and carried them away.

Chapter Two

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    "Where, where am I?" Brooke asked dazed.

"Shhhhh" Joanna hushed, "Just listen to them."

She was referring to the three muscular men talking on 

the other side of the room, who Joanna suspected were 

their kidnappers. 

"What do you suggest we do with them now?" One asked

"Exactly what I told you, we make a ransom video and 

send it to their dads at the FBI and CIA, and make our 

demands VERY clear." The second replied

"Are you absolutely sure they'll meet our demand? I mean 

if they don't they loose two teenagers, if they do then 

50 terrorists will be set free, and anyways the President 

would have to agree." Exclaimed the third

Oh my gosh, did they kidnap us? What's going on? 

Where am I? Joanna?!?!?" Brooke shouted

    The three men turned to see that the girls had 

woken up and were watching them, and apparently 

Brooke had hit her head too hard.

"Calm down," The one with the mustache said, "don't 

worry we won't hurt you, well... unless the President 

refuses to meet our demands."

By that point Brooke and Joanna were pretty freaked 

out, they were kidnapped, taken from their perfect 

neighborhood were nothing bad was supposed to 

happen, and these men obviously had a plan for them 

that they didn't want to be involved in.

"The president?" Joanna asked, "what does the 

President have to do with you freaks kidnapping 

us? No offense."

"You better be careful what you say girl, we are 

terrorists." One with a big, bushy, red beard 

said.

"Now we're not mongrels, so let me introduce us. 

( Now their politeness, actually made them seem 

more menacing. ) The one with the mustache said. 

"I am Andrew, the one with all the tattoos is 

Deven, and the one with the bushy beard is 

Leroy, and we are holding you for ransom.

Chapter Three

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    See the girls were not stupid, though the 

terrorists thought the were, they were actually 

quite clever. For whatever reason (no one will 

ever know), the three men decided to confide in 

the girls that they were terrorists that had 

escaped from Guantanamo Bay (with help from a 

secret source). Now what these terrorists didn't 

find out from their research on the girls, where 

they lived, went to school, and where they were 

most likely to be on Halloween night, was that both 

of the girls LOVED to sleuth, and in fact were quite 

good at it. 

In fact that's what brought them together, and 

by revealing that little information about 

themselves, not only had they interested the girls 

in discovering how the escaped (since it's nearly 

impossible to escape from Guantanamo Bay) but 

they had made it a whole lot easier for them too, 

because now they knew where they came from, 

and that they had a fourth accomplice.

Back in the Perfect Neighborhood

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    Prim was freaking out, she had just seen her two 

best friends kidnapped by strange men. Her face was 

as white as snow and she had absolutely no idea what 

to do. If they were any normal kidnappers, they would 

have taken her too. But they weren't, they were only 

after Joanna and Brooke. But fortunately, Brooke and 

Joanna lived right near the haunted house, so Prim 

ran, legs flying, hair blown back, as fast as she 

possibly could to Brooke's house where she knew both 

the kidnapped girls’ parents were.

"Brooke and Joanna have been kidnapped!" Prim screamed 

as soon as she got to the door. With terrified faces, 

their parents started talking, all at once, completely 

freaking out.

"What did they look like?" Joanna's dad (who works for 

the FBI) asked.

"I don't know," Prim admitted "They were fast, and I 

didn't get a chance to get a good look. But I do know 

this, any normal kidnapper wouldn't have purposefully only 

taken them. They were only after Brooke and Joanna, and 

I think it's because of you." Prim said to the two dads.

Chapter Four

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    Now, that they knew exactly what kind of trouble Brooke, and Joanna 

were in, they rushed to HQ to see if they could find any information about 

the kidnapping.

Back in the Middle of nowhere

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    It had been one day since the kidnapping, and the girls were just waking 

up. Andrew and Deven announced that they were heading in to town to pick 

up a newspaper to use for the proof of life in the ransom video. The two 

headed off and left Leroy there to guard the girls. Now, Leroy wasn't the 

smartest one in the bunch, so he wandered over to the other side of the 

room to take a nap, (being a terrorist was hard work). After he fell asleep 

the two girls broke out their special weapons they were given, that were 

disguised as jewelry.

Joanna took out her knife, that was disguised as a spiky leather 

bracelet. Brooke, her laser shooter that was inside of a ring, and to 

activate it you just had to push a hidden button. Once they were 

sure the man was asleep, there was a click and a slash, and BOOM 

they were free!! They knew what they were looking for, information 

on how they escaped, and who helped them. Unfortunately, all they 

found were some birth certificates with the same names on them 

that the three men had given them so, nothing that they didn't 

already know But, there was something off about them, they had 

heard their dads talk about a certain trait of actual legal birth 

certificates, a seal of in eagle, very light and hard to see, and after 

examination, these birth records did not have them. Fake names, 

they should've known they wouldn't have told them their real 

names, or do something so thoughtless as bring proof that they 

were themselves (escaped terrorists) 

Deven

Andrew

Leroy

    Now the girls had four clues:

1.     These men were terrorists

2.     They had escaped from Guantanamo Bay (which is nearly 

impossible)

3.     They kidnapped them to hold them for ransom

4.     Andrew, Deven, and Leroy were not their real names, they 

had made fake birth records

Chapter Five

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    They heard Leroy start to stir, so they ran back to the 

chairs and tied themselves back up. Just in time too, because 

Andrew and Deven were just returning from their trip to 

town. The men entered the house, the girls were panting, 

terrified thinking that he might have seen them loose, but he 

hadn't.

"We're back! Leroy, get the camera!!" Deven shouted as he 

bursted through the door. Leroy jumped, startled at the 

sudden noise. He jumped up and hurried out of the room, and 

when he returned he had a high-tech video camera on his 

shoulder.

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