Thread:Blindsighter101/@comment-71.72.193.49-20150102021644

Chapter One Zap! There goes another alien. I kicked down the Emperor Space Dude’s door. There he sat, like an ugly green octopus with his brain outside his head. “Graffle wabble kwee!” he shouted. (In case you don’t know, that’s alien for, “Now you will die, space traveler!”) About a hundred green aliens came from the ceiling and made a circle around me, chanting my name. “Dustin…Dustin…” they chanted. “DUSTIN JUSTIN PARKS!” Mr. Questioner shouted as he slammed a yardstick on my desk. “ALIENS!” I shouted as I awoke from my dream. The rest of the class snickered. Now, I know what you’re thinking, Hey, this kid must not like school if he’s sleeping in it! That’s not true. Well, not totally true. I like school, just not Mr. Questioner’s class. R-I-I-I-I-I-I-N-G! The dismissal bell rang. I calmly walked out of class to the parking lot with my bus and got in. I left my backpack in class. I had no homework anyway. DUH-NUH-NUH- DUSTIN IS AWESOME! That was my ringtone. I picked up my phone to hear my mom’s voice. She had bad news. Grandma Parks had died. If you just heard a sound like a window breaking, don’t worry, nobody’s breaking into your house. It was just the sound of my heart breaking. No, shattering describes it better. “Dustin, honey, you there?” my mother asked. “Yeah, mom, I’m here,” I replied. “Look, honey, I know it hurts, but we can go out for Orange Leaf if you want to.” I tried to sound excited when I said, “Yeah, okay.” In reality I was crying. My mom picked me up from the bus, and we got to Orange Leaf. I got blueberry-chocolate swirl. When I finished, I was pretty cheered up… until the next day at school. We had to go to the library to get an old book to do a report on. Today was Friday, so my mom picked me up from school instead of the bus. She dropped me off at the library and said she would come back in an hour. I walked up to the front desk and asked where the old books were. She said to look in the basement. I found a dusty old book called, The Legend of the Lost Island. It seemed pretty old, because dust was covering every single inch of it. I picked it up, and an old map fell out of it. “Huh?” I said, puzzled. I picked it up and examined it. It was a map to the Lost Island, a mythical island that could control the seasons with help from special gems, according to the book. There were four gems, light blue, brown, yellow, and pink. I gasped when I saw the pink gem. It was the exact same one that Grandma gave to me! The Lost Island, by the way, was somewhere in Lake Erie. I rushed up the steps, checked out my book, and ran to my mother’s car. I was excited. This weekend, we were going to Lake Erie. We live in Cleveland, Ohio, so it’s not too far. My best friend, Michal, was coming, and he’s staying the night at my house. I read the book on the way home from the library. It said one could not enter the island alone, so no one entered it, for no one believed the other. It was also surrounded by fog that makes you crazy until you exit it, so unless you could hold your breath for 11 minutes, you were gonna be going crazy. Good thing Grandma bought me gas masks! Whoa, I thought. It seems like everything I need for survival on the Lost Island was given to me by Grandma! Almost as if she predicted this… I shuddered. No way could Grandma have known. Could she? Chapter Two “Hey, Michal.” I greeted him at the door. Then I lowered my voice, “Follow me downstairs. I have something to show you.”  I could see he was confused, but he followed me anyway. We went to my room downstairs. I pulled the map from my pocket and showed him. He read it, and gasped. “WHOA! I totally believe this is real!” he said sarcastically. “I totally believe you just happened to find a map to the Lost Island! Very  funny, Dustin Justin. Ha ha ha.”  “C’mon, dude! You gotta believe me! You gotta!”pleaded Dustin. “I do,” replied Michal. “Good. And don’t call me by my middle name. You know I don’t like it. And I got a good reason for it, too. Would you like a middle name that rhymes with your first? I didn’t think so.” ‘’So tomorrow we go up to grandma’s cabin and find the Pre-Expected Circumstance-’’ “What a weird name!’’ Michal interrupted. “Anyway…” I continued. “and grab the pink gem and gas masks” “Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa. Whoa. Are you to telling me that your grandma has one of the gems?” Michal asked. “Yes… and that surprises you, why?’’ I counter-asked. “Hmmmm… fair enough,” replied Michal. My grandma was a pack-rat. She kept almost everything. “So then it’s all set. Now let’s get to bed so we can,” I yawned, “Rest up for the journey tomorrow.” And with that, we both fell onto the floor, into our sleeping bags. Chapter Three “We’re he-ere!” said my mom in a singsong voice as we pulled into the dock’s parking lot. Michal and I rushed out of the car and ran to the front door of my grandma’s cabin. “Umm, how do we get in?” asked Michal. I grabbed the orange key from grandma’s vegetable garden. It was dug into the ground to look like a carrot. I turned the lock and the door slid open. I rushed to my room and grabbed everything we needed. The gem, gas masks, food, water, and a tent. “Okay, now where’s the Pre-Expected Circumstance? The boat?” asked Michal. “Out front,” I replied. We got outside and saw the rowboat. “Well,” I said. “Off we go!” Chapter Four I didn’t even notice the fog as we rolled into it. I guess I expected green mist to envelop us. But it wasn’t like that at all. It just got really windy, and I saw Michal looking out to the lake. “Michal, are you okay?” I asked. He turned to me with a wild look in his eyes and shouted, “AGGGGAFLAFFLEWABBA!”  I was confused at first, but then I thought, the masks! I put mine on and put Michal’s on for him. He immediately stopped and thanked me. We traveled in silence until our boat hit the Lost Island. Chapter Five “We’re here already?” complained Michal. “Hey, don’t complain, you’re the one who went crazy,” I said. “I can gladly give you a one way ticket back to Looney Ville.” He immediately shut up then. “Hmm?” I asked myself. I walked over to a wall with a perfect gem shaped hole. I put mine in. The gem suddenly turned a part of the wall. The wall then crumbled into dust. But in the dust was a brown octahedron. Autumn! I thought as I picked it up. I decided a wall was too silly to do again. So it had to be something harder. I looked around, and saw a tree with another perfect gem shaped hole. I rushed over and plugged it in. All the leaves then fell, along with a round, yellow gem. I knew right away that it was summer, and I found a shady place and dug a hole and placed the gem inside. Sunlight immediately shone through the trees and shade, revealing a blue, almost white, gem. I thought out loud, “This is gonna be hard.”      Chapter Six “What’s gonna be hard?” asked Michal. “Never mind,” I said. I tossed the blue gem into a pond. It froze. But something else was happening. You know how when water freezes, it gets crack lines? This was happening, but the crack lines were forming words, like it was trying to talk to me. When they finished, it said-  Dear Dustin, If you are reading this, you have put away all four gems in their proper places. I knew you would. That’s why I left you all the things you needed, including the Pre-Expected Circumstance. When you leave, don’t worry about the fog. It‘s gone now. You better get off the island now. It’s about to collapse. Love,     Grandma I couldn’t believe it. Grandma did know I was here. But I had to go. The island was starting to rumble and it was cracking apart. I sprinted to the boat, barely making it. Grandma was right. The island collapsed into the lake, never to be seen again. I wondered how grandma knew. Maybe she was watching over me, protecting me. I smiled at the thought. I love you too, Grandma. I thought. The End 