Chapter 1: Darkness of the ruins: A journal from the Young Child Logan, 10:20pm

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"Where am I?" Was what I said when I hit my head on the floor out in the fields before. I got up and I tried to think, but then, my head hurt. I tried to stand up, but I couldn't. My legs were wobbling like jelly and I rubbed my eyes to wake myself up. I was going to shout, but it was quite dark and scary so I talked quietly, "Hello, is anyone there?". But no one called back. I missed my friends- I wanted to play with them- what happened to me after I tripped...? I started crawling on the floor and then something was shining and I began to walk to it. It looked like a crystal which was left on the floor and it looked really pretty! "Hello!" A voice said. I jumped, was it a ghost that heard me? "Hello?" Said the thing again. Using one ear to hear the sound, it was coming from the crystal! As I was walking closer to the crystal, what I began to saw was a bone. I was now thinking the bone was speaking to me, a magic bone? Before I got to reach out to grab the bone. A black cloak was pushed away, showing off a bright giant crystal skeleton; beginning to twitch. Then, with it's long bony hands, the shiny skeleton covered my mouth, as if he heard something call back. The skeleton did not want any trouble; I was quiet, waiting for the shiny skeleton to talk. I think it's name was George and I told him my name was Logan. George stood up, and the shiny crystals which I saw were not just on one part, but he seemed to be made out of something as shiny as diamonds! I opened my mouth to scream out how cool it looked, but then he shook his head, so I closed my mouth, but my eyes couldn't stop glittering. As he slowly lifted his bony hand off my mouth, I finally saw who he was as a whole, I only saw his head because he was wearing black clothes all over his skeleton body. I asked George how did this happen, he paused for a moment, looking down and didn't seem to want to talk about how it happened. So then I asked him how old he was and George said, "How old am I? My my, please do be polite when you ask a gentleman his age!". I giggled a little, he seemed funny. I was quiet for the whole time, listening to George talking. Then, I interrupted him saying, "George... where are we?". After being surprised by my question, I think he said that he would tell me after, so I said to him if we could explore! George waited for a few minutes thinking about my question, but then he said with a calm voice, "Yes." I was happy, but then, his voice was a bit ... low when he started to say it clearly and calmly, "Logan, be careful of this place, it has lots of monsters in here...". I shrank back and hid myself from thinking about them. "Please, don't be frightened, you've got me... remember? I'm strong enough to fend those monsters away!" I felt a little bit happier when he said that, but the types of creatures here... they probably look like some of them in my nightmares. I shivered, walking close beside George.

We began to explore, I was holding on to his arm. George looked at me and smiled a little, patting my head.
I felt safe.
George found something shiny, something which lit up like a star! He gave me something very strange, it acted like a lightbulb but it didn't look like a lightbulb, I put it in one of my pockets, and couldn't wait to go and look at it later. George lifted his arm up, trying to tell me to stop moving where I was with his hands, it felt as if breathing would be bad enough. I was about to take one step, but George placed one finger on his teeth and told me to be quiet and I stood still... I saw something move... but I couldn't see what it was, but George seemed to see it and held on to something, ready to hit it. Suddenly, something jumped at me and I couldn't move as I was too scared to even run. I tried to push it away but the claws scratched my arms and I screamed. Just before it's teeth met my face. I saw a looming black figure in the distance, with big red eyes, staring at me and disappearing. I cried silently, hoping that George could save me.

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