I race towards the hole, then I hear a scrabbling sound and Jay’s hand appears over the edge. He sticks his head out, looking a bit shaken but still in one piece. ‘You’re okay!’ I breathe a sigh of relief. We crowd around and help pull him out of the hole. He holds out his hand and clutched in it is the seventh Shadow Shard. ‘I grabbed it from him as he fell,’ he says. ‘That means we’ve got all the pieces.’ A moan comes up from the hole and Jay turns pale. ‘Quick, we’ve got to get out of here!’ ‘But we’ve got all the Shadow Shards,’ I say. ‘We can reunite the Shadow Stone and use it to defeat Doppelganger!’ Jay shakes his head. ‘Not here. It takes time to bind the shards together. We need to put some distance between us and Doppelganger!’ ‘How do you know that?’ asks Asuka. Before Jay can answer there’s a loud banging from the hole as though something is trying to climb out. ‘RUN!’ yells Jay, and this time we don’t argue. We race up a set of stairs, and just as we reach the top I hear Doppelganger crawl out of the hole.
