Craig of the Creek: The Movie

Chapter 6

In the middle of the night, Craig was sleeping on the floor with a sleeping bag. In a dream sequence, Craig was walking in the beautiful, peaceful creek by himself with his staff. Then he felt a low rumble. He looks down and see pebbles jumping on his feet. He looks up and see a gigantic size bulldozer coming towards him. Craig looks terrified as he takes off running from the bulldozer. As his continues to run, he look at all of the trees tumbling down around him. He tries to jump into his stump, but something was pulling him back so jumped to the left, missing the bulldozer. He gets up and see nothing but tree stump. The sky was red and the creek was gone. He felt another rumble as the 1,000 ft mall grew above from the ground. He holds on to the edge of the building as it was tall than a skyscraper. Craig was holding on to the edge, dropping his staff. Michaelson appeared on the screen in front of him saying, "Change is good. Change is better. Out with the old in with the new." He laughed sinisterly with devil horns on his head.
Craig fingers was slipping as he falls from the building.

"Ahh!" Craig scream as he wakes up from his nightmare.

He couldn't sleep, so he look on his phone and see pictures of the creek. He then saw a picture of an old war and the background looks just like the creek.

"What kind of war is this? Hmm. It was called the 'Water Balloon Incident'?" Craig read through the anciet history of the incident on his phone.

"It was set in the 1890s. It says that the yanks won territorial rights to this land after the tomato War, but until then they still paid taxes to the British crown on all sorts of goods including play things, meats and vegetables. The whole town was in the snit over a new balloon tax. The brits were adding a nickel on every balloon. People were up in arms, boiling for a fight. Then the water balloon incident happened. People turned over a cart full of balloons. Wait a minute. This incident happened in this area. Near the creek. And that must be my great great great grandpa, Cornelius Williams. And he was arrested by Colonial Governor, Archibald von Michaelson. Is he probably related to... nah. His men attacked their territory but the locals used guerilla warfare. They made a barricade of upturned water balloon carts and fought back with whatever they had. They had a lot of balloons. Even British balloons which were small and hard. The red coats were in full retreat. Did this really happened? Well it's on Wikifeedia so it really happened and it took place right in Herkleton." Craig said while reading the info history on his phone. After what his father told him about Michaelson backstroy, he had an idea.

"Wait a minute. That's it." Craig said while he calls Kelsey and J.P.  in the middle of the night.

Their phones rang while they were sleeping. They woke up to answer it.

"Hello?" J.P. and Kelsey yawned.

"Guys. I'm not ready to give up on the creek. I have another idea to save it." Craig said on the phone.

"But it's 3 o' clock in the morning." Kelsey said.

"I figure out the answer. I was reading the balloon incident and I found out it took place in Herkleton and near this area. The creek should be a national landmark." Craig said.

"Well, there probably should be a document that declared the creek a historic site." J.P. said.

"Then maybe we can find it. We still got two days. We can show the document to the Mayor and she can stop Michaelson to bulldoze the creek. The Elders won't have to work for Michelson mall and Kit won't have to move her trading business elsewhere J.P. you and Maney won't have to be separate from each other. Our houses won't be parking lots. They won't tear it down, ever. And we won't be able to move away from each. Nothing will change." Craig said while Jessica was up in hallway to use the bathroom as she overheard his conversation on the phone which fave Jessica an idea.

"Fine. We'll do it in the morning, but Craig don't get your hopes up." Kelsey said.

"You're a bold kid, Craig. We're with all the way. But we better hurry, before those bulldozer knock down the creek." J.P. said.

"Can we go back to bed, now?" Kelsey said.

The next morning.

"Hey, guys. I'm gonna see if I can get your mother out, today. Just hope she doesn't try to escape last night. Craig, breakfast!" Duane said.

"No time to eat, dad. I figure out a way to save everything. Dad, don't sell the house. I gotta find the document that can save our house and creek." Craig said.

"You thinks this new plan will work this time?" Bernard said.

"At least he trying to do the right thing. And that gives me an idea, too." Duane said.

"I'm done." Jessica said as she excuse herself from the table.

Craig was meeting up with Kelsey and J.P. to find the document.

"Okay, Craig. You convinced us." Kelsey said.

"Right. We're gonna find that document, show it to the mayor, prove that the creek is a legal national landmark and stop the bulldozers from tearing it down." Craig explains.

"Right. And we're gonna do it all in next 46 hours and 19 minutes." J.P. said.

"Yes." Craig said.

"Well that should be plenty of time." J.P. said.

While walking on the sidewalk, they accidently bumped into Louie.

"Hey, you kids watch where you going." Louie said.

"Sorry, sir." Craig said.

" One of these days you're gonna bump into the wrong person. Little brats" Louie said.

"Some people." J.P. said.

"There's one thing you forgot to mention, Craig. Where are we going?" J.P. said.

"To the one person that can help us find that document. Stacks." Craig said.

"Stacks! I forgot about her." Kelsey said.

The trio went to the public library to talk with Stacks on finding the document, but it wasn't that easy for them.

"I can't help you, guys." Stacks said as she was moving books.

"But Stacks this is important." Craig said.

"I know it is, but I don't have that type of information. I'm not sure if I know what to find the 'Water Balloon incident'. It was probably lost a long time ago." Stacks said.

"Craig, let me handle this. Stacks, If we don't find that document, everything will be torn down. The Witches Café that they work at. The Flower shop. The entire creek." Kelsey said.

"The movie theater. The arcade." J.P. said.

"Look, I really wanna help you guys, but I cant." Stacks said.

"If the creek is destroyed and we have to move away and we won't be able to see each other again. We won't ever have our book club, again. " Kelsey said.

"What?" Stacks said as Craig butts in.

"You and Kelsey always make great books together. It's a shame that you two won't be doing it anymore, since the mall is gonna have us move away from each other." Craig said.

"Right. Two days from now, no more book club meetings with Kelsey, Stacks." J.P. said.

"Oh, I didn't think of that. We do both write awesome stories with each other. I don't know who else I can write a story with since we both share the same book topics. " Stacks said.

"Yeah, but hey. What can you do." Craig said.

"Right. See ya, Stacks." Kelsey said.

"Wait a minute. You wanna save the creek don't you? Well, come on. We got a document to find." Craig said.