Chapter 3
James
I hit
the floor. Plumes of dust sprung up from there resting place. Annabeth lay
beside me, sleep, two packages held tightly in her hand.
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The sound of cows tore me from my
sleep. Light flooded my eyes, as I sat up. The barns beams were eroded from
long years of the elements. Barrels were stack high to broken up ceiling. My
whole body ached as I sat beside my best friend, wanting to get back to sleep. Annabeth
was already awake and eating some bread.
“Where
did you get that from?” I asked
“Luigi.”
“What?” She looked exasperated, as
if I was supposed to know
“The tall twin” I sighed, her and
her games. I grabbed a piece of toast from her, and placed it in my mouth. The
soft sponginess stuck to the roof of my dry mouth, but I didn’t care. I hadn’t
eaten in a while and my stomach was asking for more.
“So now what are we going to do
now?” She asked.
“Get out of this crazy world.” I
thought she was going to be happy at that answer but she actually looked kind
of disappointed.
“What do you mean get out of this
crazy world.” She looked me straight in the eye. “These people need our help
and you just want to leave and return to your normal life!” She was getting loud.
I didn’t like when people tried to make my decisions sound stupid so, I got
just as loud.
“We don’t know them!” I rose to me
feet. “The only thing I know that this could be a hoax or something”
“A hoax. We just jumped through two
portal, seen candy people and almost got blasted into Jello now you’re saying
this a hoax.” If I hadn’t been so mad I would’ve laughed. “I thought you would
believe them after what they said about your mom.” That hit me full force. I
remembered everything that happened the portal, the talk, the paper. I could
feel my eyes widening as I reached into my pocket and took it out.
I held back a gasp, I had never
seen my mom this young. . She was about my age, 13, her black hair glimmered in
the sunlight. A boy stood next to her, his curly, dark brown where like a
million tornados making him look strangely familiar. I couldn’t pinpoint it and
just as I turned to Annabeth it hit me.
“Annabeth, come over here.” My
demanding voice made her hesitate until I held up the photo.
“What about it I thought you said
you didn’t-”
“I know
what I said but just look.” I held the photo up to her awaiting a reaction. Her
face turned from mad to confused. She came closer to get a better look.
“I-Is that m-my Dad?” I nodded “So
my dad and your mom were friends an-an-” She burst into tears, turned and
stormed out of the barn. A sigh escaped me as I walked over to the where two
brown packages lay. There was no point in waiting, if I was going to be in on
this I had to be prepared. But why am I
doing this, just because Annabeth wants
to? I shook my head No not anymore
now I know that these people are like my family.
I looked around, making sure
Annabeth wasn’t back, and reached for the closest one. The long object kind of
jump into my hands making me jump. It was pretty light and it was just my size,
kind of like a walking stick. The paper tears easily and to my surprise it’s a
staff.
Not just an ordinary one you get
from a Halloween costume, it had an aura that attracted me. The letters
J-a-m-e-s were engraved on it and a black crystal was at the tip. Kind of like the leaders. I admired it
for a moment before hearing Annabeth’s footsteps and before I had time to hide
it, she was there.
“What are you doing” she asked. Her
red eyes trailed from me to the paper that lay beside me “What did you do?
Where is it!” I looked to my hands, confused. The staff wasn’t there.
“I-I-” I stammered over my words
not knowing what to say. It was in my hands just seconds ago and now it’s gone.
“You what?” She practically
screamed
“I- It was just right here.” I held
out my hand and there it was. There was a short silence before she broke it.
“So now what are we going to do? I
just heard some people from the house next to us. I think they’re getting ready
to come milk these cows.” She gestured behind me “And the man doesn’t sound too
nice.”
I thought for a moment. “I guess
we’ll save the world.” A small smile began to creep onto her face. “Now let’s
talk.”
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Five minutes passed and we were
already done with our “Mission: Save Candy Land” discussion. She told me about
what Luigi (aka the tall twin) said
before we jump into the last portal but based on Annabeth’s discoveries… there weren’t
any clouds.
“So now what” I said but she looked
as stumped as I am. I tapped the staff on my foot then an idea came to me.
“How about we-” I didn’t have time
to finish before a gruff voice began to speak.
“We can get o lot o money if we
find these two. It says here that there’s o girl with dark curly brown hair and
o boy with black. Not much description but I bet it’ll be easy to fin them.” I turned
to Annabeth… we were in big trouble.
“Yeah daddy” a girl’s voice interrupted
his ranting “but it’s not like they’ll be in the barn or anywhere near here”
“I know” he sounded disappointed “but
go in there an milk dem cows. I’m goin to go an finish brewin this batch o moon
and go sell it in town.” We heard his foots steps retreat and the girls come. I
started to panic and look around for places to hide.
“On the count of three we run”
Annabeth whispered, her voice shaking.
“Three” Click. The latch opened
“Two” Creak, There goes the door
“One”
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