Smoking Power

Chapter 11

"So how are we actually going to find this thing?" Declan asks.

After getting cleaned up from our fight with the Hogmer, we bought our tickets and had a look at the map that we got with the tickets.

"Accordin' to the map 'ere, we are currently next to the golf course and plantation walk." Amber tells us while carefully studying the map in her hands.

"How many attractions are there?" I ask her.

"Thirteen in total. There is." Amber clears her throat loudly, "the tickets, theatre and tour section, which we just passed. The gift shop. The cafe and ice creamery. The plantation walk. The sky walk. The look out. The mini golf course. The nursery. The candy making kitchen. The water park. The toboggan ride, and last but not least, the laser tag."

"The candy making kitchen sounds as good a place as any to start looking." Declan not-so-subtly puts in.

I roll my eyes at Declan thinking of his stomach again. "Ok guys, this thing is going to be small, about a fifth of the size of a pen." I tell them.

"How'd we know wha' it looks like?" Amber asks.

"How bad is Gareths memory loss? He forgot to tell us this too?" Declan shakes his head sadly.

"Seriously Declan? This is serious." Amber elbows him in the ribs.

"Hey-" Declan begins to say.

"Guys! Stop!" I push them apart, "this is serious as Amber said, so just stop. I don't know what it looks like but I'm willing to bet that we'll know what it is when we see it. If we wouldn't be able to work out what it is then Gareth would've told us. He obviously knew that we will know what it is when we see it." I repeat the bit about knowing what it is when we see it in hope that they get the point.

"Then where d'we start lookin' for it?" Amber asks.

"We'll start at the plantation walk and make our way up towards the top of the park I guess." I shrug at her.

"Should we split up? Cover more space in less time, phone each other if we find it or something of interest? Because I think the candy making kitchen is like, up there somewhere." Declan points in the direction where he thinks the candy making kitchen is.

"No." Amber and I say in unison.

"One of the only things that movies teach ya is to never split up when on a mission because someone always finds someone that's trying to kill 'em. Technically speaking this is a mission so we're stickin' together unless ya have a death wish." Amber says to Declan.

"Besides, that Hogmer is still on the loose around here somewhere. Who knows how many buddies he has with him." I add.

Declan sighs, upset that he can't go to the candy making kitchen straight away.

Through out the whole walk we look out for this 'lavapick piece'. After checking every small stick, ends of straws, rubbish, we still haven't found anything. There are still twelve more attractions to go so the chances of the lava pick piece being here was pretty small, but still it is a bit of a disappointment.

We spend the rest of the morning going to each of the attractions. We get a little distracted at some of the places like laser tag and candy making kitchen, but all in all we look really hard for this mysterious lavapick piece.

On our last activity, I'm starting to wonder whether or not it blew away in the wind. Or if someone mistook it for rubbish and popped it into a rubbish bin. By the way Gareth was talking, with it being long forgotten by many, I'm really considering it no longer being here. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realise how low the chances of it being here really is.