 Just then, all the children are seized by the kidnapping gang, who call themselves “The Pirates of Pompeii.” Lupus manages to get away without being seen.Flavia, Jonathan, Pulchra, and Leda are taken to a seaside grotto, where they join a band of almost fifty kidnapped children.All of them are subjected to a severe beating to keep them subdued, but Jonathan and Flavia tell the children jokes to keep their spirits up.