For those just joining us...

My name is Jaden and I am writing this story with my friends in my eightieth year. Well, some of my friends and family are no longer with me, but I have compiled their journals of these events and I will endeavor to write what they felt on certain matters. This is the story of something that happened a long time ago to me and my friends on a journey with our heroes, Kyle and Jessica, the Tracers.

Still, no need to worry, grandpappy Jaden will give you a few pointers before this story begins. If you already read the first case of the Tracers, there's no reason to read this, but if not, let me be your guide.

There are six secret human societies but you only need to know three for now.

Werewolves were like the police and government of the societies on earth. We never had that much physical power, only twice as strong as normal humans but we kept our heads about us in a world of rather chaotic mutant societies.

The Pharaohs were an ancient race of people created by the Egyptians who age very slowly. For instance, there's my friend, Kyle, sitting across from me while I write this. He only looks nine, but he's over one hundred and eighty years old-old fart but he looks like a pipsqueak-. (He's cute, I just pinched his cheek.) They had long ago left earth for a home in the stars and were far more advanced than humans in nearly every way.

The gargoyles are the youngest race in the societies. Immortals with great power, a nation of them set out to take over the world. Hearing of this, the pharaohs came to earth to stop and completely destroy them as a race in a war called "the Purge".

In the year 1964, two pharaohs came to the state of Oregon. The wild, powerful and imaginative Jessica and the stuffy Kyle who is right now giving me a lazy eye as he reads this over my shoulder. (How's it going, Kyle?)

When they came to this planet Jessica had the delightful idea to search for lost children. Stuffy old Kyle went along after some convincing. (Kyle's expression is reminding me of my grandson when I refuse him candy.) On their first journey, my father Allen was their guide to how the world of humanity worked and he taught them many life lessons, mostly Kyle was the recipient of these lessons, ignorant as he was stuffy. (That line got a smile.)

They went to find a child named Thomas.

On their journey, they met two other pharaohs who called themselves "trickster gods". Tricksters grant wishes instantly to other people for a price they make up. They have incredible power through the combined inventions of hundreds of pharaoh tricksters working together.

First, they met the evil Darius, who almost convinced Jessica to kill herself to find Thomas.

The second trickster was my good friend Xao, who helped them get to London where Thomas had been taken and quickly became their friend. However, even when he helped them, the power of the tricksters, to grant wishes to people without working, made Kyle uneasy. Xao swore off his power after Kyle gave him an ultimatum to do so or leave them.

(I myself am not entirely sure if Kyle made the right call. Trickster powers could be used for the greater good- but now Kyle is folding his arms and telling me I only think that because I'm young. A dimple cheeked boy telling a wrinkle-faced old man he's too young to understand something... my life is weird.)

In London, they found the boy was being held by a gargoyle. The gargoyle overpowered them and captured Kyle. In the home of the gargoyle, Kyle learned the truth of the Purge. Not all gargoyles were part of the nation that tried to conquer earth, not all were guilty, but still, his people tried to purge them all. This man he was fighting was but a father driven mad by the senseless killing of his family. Kyle saw the gargoyle's humanity and appealed to the memory of his family.

Jason let them go with Thomas. The Tracers and Xao now had a lot to think about. They realized the great evil their people had done, even in spite of understanding the reasons for it. They resolved to move on from that point and tell others what they discovered.

However, their journey of confronting the truth of the Purge had only begun. As had their trials facing the kidnapping organization that took Thomas and sold him to Jason in the first place, lead by the evil Tyrin. At least Darius had been dealt with, they believed.