A World Found--Book 1

Chapter 4

They all groaned as the rocking stopped, they picked themselves up off the floor brushing themselves off. "We're here." Keith said, his voice echoed through the small shuttle.

 They all looked at each other. 'Hiss!' The door in the wall hissed and slowly started to open. Zoe shrieked and hid behind Freya. Freya clenched her fist, she had already made up her mind not to be scared, once she set her mind to things they always happened.

 The door finally stopped and Keith, taking a deep breath, walked through the open-door way. Freya was a little frightened about what might be on the other side, but when she stepped down off the shuttle her breath caught in her throat. Not only could she breathe like on earth, but there were also two moons high in the sky, and a vast green plain stretched out before them.

 Freya gasped as she felt the moons rays sink deep into her skin. Kat cracked her fingers and pulled out a walkie talkie, "okay, Keith and I head west, Zoe and Fey head East." She handed them each one of the radios.

 She rolled her eyes as they all stared at her dumbly. "They don't need radio towers; they are like coms. They work I swear." Zoe had a few tears falling down her face, "Shouldn't we stay together?" Keith sighed and shook his head. 

"Kat's right, even though it's a small planet it might take months to find the soldiers bodies." Zoe yelped and clutched Freyas arm. "Bodies?! Aren't we meant to find them alive?" Kat snorted. "You think they survived 17 years on a weird plant?" Keith gave Kat a warning look 

"Zoe, remember what that soldier that survived said? He said that the soldiers just disappeared out of the camp one night, I don't think they would have left willingly." Zoe was shaking at Freya side. "So, you think something killed them?" 

Kat sighed. "The moons are sinking; the sun will be out soon. We should go." Freya gripped Zoes' hand. "let's go Zoe, if we hurry, we might find some of them alive." Freya knew that they were 100% dead, there was no way they could be alive. Kat and Keith bowed their heads a little. "See you soon." Keith said. Freya nodded. "Don't die." With that the teams turned their backs and started walking in opposite directions.

Zoe and Freya had been walking for nearly two hours, their landscape hadn't changed one bit. It should only take about a month of nonstop walking to walk around the plant, such a small planet and yet they hadn't found anything yet.

 Zoe was writing down everything they saw into a notebook she had brought along. "Oh, look at this!" Zoe knelt by a bright blue and red flower. "Zoe don't touch it---" Zoe's hand shot back as the flower snapped at her hand. "Ouch!" she shook her hand and backed away from the flower. "Okay so this one can bite." she scribbled it down in her notebook. The terrain was flat, with green grass rippling in a refreshing breeze.

 There were no trees as far as Freya could tell. After another hour of tramping through the grass, the sun started to rise. But it was so far from the planet it only gave as much light as the moons, which was thankfully more than enough to see by. Yet the weather wasn't any cooler. Zoe held up her fancy looking watch. "67 degrees, it's perfect." 

Freya looked up into the sky, "When do you think we'll be home?" Her stomach had started to grumble, and they sat down in the grass, ripping open one of the freeze-dried packets. "A few weeks maybe, I doubt they would let us stay here too long." Zoe sighed and ran her hand over the grass. "It's so beautiful and untouched here," Freya suddenly stood to her feet. "Not untouched." she pointed toward the north. You could make out the top of a structure.