The Gipsoid

Prologue

I sat on the floor with my twin brother and my two best friends. We were all in deep thought. Nothing made sense. Just two weeks ago I had been having the best summer ever. My two best friends were staying with us for the summer, while their parents were away. What could possibly go wrong? Outside every day for hours, going to Disney, it was like a dream come true. It was like having a sleepover except for the whole summer.

We were having a water balloon fight when my dad heard his phone ring inside and went to answer it. A few minutes later, he rushed out looking frazzled and said there had been a break in at the lab, so he grabbed his keys and left.

I knew something was off because my Dad was a very levelheaded person. I knew he would never ever leave four teenagers home alone, especially when two of them were not his kids. We waited and waited for him to come back. That was two weeks ago, we have not seen him since. Now, we are just four kids, sitting, wondering, and waiting.

I jumped as I heard the doorbell ring. I had a feeling of dread as I went to answer it. My brother, who was just a few minutes younger than me, was trailing right behind me. I held my breath as I slowly creeped the door open and saw that it was only the mailman. The mailman had left a letter on our porch. A singular letter, on our porch addressed to me, my brother Carson, and my two friends Emmy O'Connell and Jake Wilch.

My name is Hannah Burket, and if you are reading this, it is a record of how my friends, family and I intertwined with the legend of the Gipsoid.

I am a thirteen-year-old girl with blue eyes freckles and dark blonde hair. Emmy is a thirteen-year-old girl with blue eyes a few freckles and blonde hair. Carson is a thirteen-year-old boy with blue eyes and freckles and dark blonde hair. Jake is a thirteen-year-old boy with no freckle's, dreamy sea green eyes and chestnut brown hair. You might be wondering where Emmy and Jakes parents were, well we were in Paris we had left Emmy and Jake with the us for the summer. You also probably want to know where me and my brothers Mom is well, she was on a work trip for three months. So, it was just us four kids NO PARENTS we were all alone... with a coded letter. So, after we stopped waiting for Uncle Steve (for that is what Emmy and Jake called him although he was not Jake and Emmy's uncle) and trying to call their parents which we could not because their parents would not let Emmy and Jake take their phones and Carson and I did not have any, we got down to work. You also are probably wondering why we did not just go and use a public phone well, because their parents had no cell service where they were on their trip.

We all had no idea what language it was so we went to the library in Brooklyn, because that is where we lived so we could use the computers. We soon figured out it was coded in Palaic, so we started to decode it. This is what it ended up saying,

Dear Children,

I am very, sorry this has, to be like this, but I cannot write much because she could find this, but I have found an exotic creature that no one knows exists other than her. I am sorry I cannot tell you who she is, but she is bad this creature could destroy a whole city and she wants to do just that. I do not know if I will ever see you again tell your mother I love her. Now Go! I have been kidnapped to who knows where and they will most likely find this letter therefore I have to be vague but go to the Bay of Kotor and someone will meet you there and he will say, "Oh my darlings how I have missed you," and you tell him, "Yes, and your hair looks gorgeous." I know this is strange for you, but you must leave NOW!

Love, Your Dad/Uncle Steve

After we got this disturbing news, we decided to go home and pack for the rest of the day for it was only 11:38 a.m., and then leave at around 5:30 p.m. to go to the Bay of Kotor. We bought some plane tickets using a debit card their Dad and Mom told us was only for emergency's and brought that along. The four of us all walked to the airport and went thru security with no trouble although some people gave some strange looks and one person asked if their parents were around, but other than that we had no issues. We all boarded the plane and settled down for the long plane ride. While we were on the plane Carson and Jake slept, but Emmy and I talked.