Chapter Four

When our heroes arrive back at the cabin they don't find the repair man, but instead they find Loki. He is dashing and charming and the kind of person who could just sweep you off your feet; but he's also brooding and something of an anti-hero so obviously the only person that could change his heart would be our protagonist. Unfortunately he is destined to remain unloved forever because the heart of our protagonist lies with someone else, He sincerely is the Jacob to our sidekick's Edward. Still, when he arrives he absolutely steals the show and is incredibly charming. 

But he's Loki so he cannot resist sending everyone on a wild goose chase after some book in the Catskills when people are vanishing from towns right the hell now! So our team gets together and assembles all the clues, when our protagonist uses her Sherlock Holmes level deductive abilities to determine where the next town to go missing will be. Standish, NY! Our protagonist also learns that the base of operation for these thefts is Titusville Park, NY so our protagonist and her squad of scoobies adventure out, exploding onto the scene of Standish for a few hours of fun and then head out to Titusville. 

The thing about Titusville is that it's a reasonably large mountain and the protagonist deduced that there would be all kinds of Nemean Animals and Spirits of the Land protecting it. Well, something was wrong with her deduction skills or our protagonist was huffing too much flour because there were no spirits and no nemean animals, just big stupid giants and a couple of tengu. Just to test the waters, we sent in one of the supporting characters to try and sneak into the place. Now in any other book you might read about how the supporting character was captured and had to be rescued by the hero, and that's basically what happened except we're going to put a sexy twist on the book and reveal that by the time the protagonist arrives the supporting character has managed to seduce her way into the bed of the Dragon! 

The importance of this is to build up the use of the supporting characters and make other people start to care for them. A real ensemble cast like you might find in Buffy or Firefly. Everyone has to have a story and be sincere. Anyway, the supporting character almost gets away with stealing an ancient and important relic responsible for all the missing towns, with the help of the protagonist, but it is too early in the story for the Dragon to be defeated so the heroes cannot possibly win. I'll write up some believable reason why he doesn't just kill them all instantly. Maybe something to do with heartbreak and romance with the supporting character, or... just warping everyone into a parallel universe.