Project cosmos: The Golden Ring

Sandy Knocks My Door Down

I let my friends into the cabin. They sat down on the floor around my bed then proceeded to stare at me.
"Alright... so... um..." I stuttered.
I didn't know how to start.
"What did you do first?" Ivy asked.
"We went to Maine," I said.
"Then?"
"We had to walk all the way to the other camp,"
"There's another camp?"
"Ya, and it's like the hottest place on Earth!" Mark laughed.
I nodded.
"The kid who ran it was kinda weird," Bridgette said.
"Ya. Then we found this one city. That's where Sandy was. After that, there was this huge storm that got us all separated. I found Latona and we ended up going down a hill that defied the laws of physics..." I explained.
I didn't want to say what happened next. Latona was the only one who knew that I had gotten involved with the time gods. Latona looked at me and nodded.
"Then something else happened... Something that only Latona knows,"
"What do you mean?" Mark asked.
"When I reached the bottom of the hill... I..." I couldn't say it.
"Isabelle got involved with the time gods!" Latona blurted out.
"Latona!" I shouted.
"Sorry..." she sighed.
"Isabelle... is that true?" Ivy asked.
"Wait... is that why you passed out on the plane?" Mark asked.
"Maybe..." I sighed. "Anyways, let's get on with the story,"
"We'll be talking about this later," Mark pointed at me.
I ignored him. "After that, we went off to find Travis in New York,"
"Those stupid wind spirits kidnapped me," Travis sighed.
"Ya. Then we met Adria there too. Then Mark and I went up to that one place where the gods live. I met my mom, Mark met his dad. Speaking of which... Mark... what did your dad even say?"
Mark's face turned red.
"N... Nothing! Nothing that concerns you!" he shouted quickly.
"Okay then... moving on. After that we went back to Maine to drop off DJ. Then we got Brigette. Then we came back here!" I finished my story.
We sat quietly, my friends were still taking in the whole story. Then I heard a noise coming from the door. A loud pounding. I was about to get up when I heard a crash. Our cabin door was laying on the ground, on the other side of the room. Sandy was standing in the doorway.
"Sandy?! What the heck?!" I yelled.
"I just fixed that door last week!" Ivy yelled.
"Last week? What happened last week?" I asked.
Ivy glanced at the floor. "Nothing..." she whispered.
"Alright, so Sandy, why are you here?"
"Something came up. We need to leave,"
Sandy led us out of our cabin and out of the camp. We took a sharp turn, the same way Sandy went before. She led us to a small little cabin. We went inside and looked around. There was only one room. It had a mini fridge, an old bed, and a toilet that was hidden behind a curtain.
"You actually live here?" Mark asked.
"Ya. It sucks," Sandy sighed.
"So, you wanna tell us what's going on?" I asked.
"You guys remember when there were monsters gathering around the camp? Well, I figured out why they were there," Sandy explained.
"What happened?" Ivy asked.
"My mother happened," Sandy scowled.
"What?!" we all shrieked in unison.
"I found out that my mother, if I can even call her that, has been dealing with monster taming,"
Then I remember the history book that was still in my bag. I swung the bag off my shoulder and opened it. I opened the book and started flipping through the pages. This book was not filled with the type of history I was looking for. Every single page was filled with names and death dates. They were all campers. Underneath each name, was a cause of death. Most of them said: At the hands of High One. What the heck did that mean?
"Those campers... are Siv's 'experiments'. She used to practice her taming on them. They were told to meet Siv in the woods, then they'd never come back. When I found out, Siv kicked me out,"
I thought Siv was hiding something... That's why that room was blocked off.
"You guys need to leave camp. I'll get the rest of the campers out too. I'll make sure Camp Safety is more safe next time," Sandy sighed and pushed us down the hill.