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Chapter 18 Rough night:

Months had passed. Things had been getting darker but Amber was filled with hope. She and Ryan had been training for months for the dreadful day when the Martians would return

to take over the planet. One day when Amber was walking to the forest

where she trained she heard someone yell her name. It sounded like her

father. "Dad? Is... Is that you?" She said. It was pretty dark now and

she saw a tall, dark figure show from behind a tree. He slowly walked

over to Amber and fell to the floor. Amber had trained for safety

against this kind of stuff but she couldn't just leave him there for the

wolves. She picked him up and put him over her shoulder and walked out

of the dark woods and headed home. Who was this man? How did he know my

name and why was he here? She wondered if this could have actually been

her father. She didn't have time for sweet thoughts. She needed to keep

training and help Amy train too. They had finally arrived to the house

and barged through the door. "Amber? Who's he?" Said Ryan Protectively.

"I don't know but he's hurt. I think he might be my father" said Amber

quickly. "And what gave you that crazy idea." Said Ryan cockily. "My

father left when I was 6. He went to join the war. I though he were

dead. If he really is my father and he's hurt then I have to help him or

he will be dead." Said Amber "okay..." Said Ryan he knew he had lost

this argument. He just wanted Amber to be safe. He came over to the man

and said "he resembles you. You have the same eyes. I dunno. Maybe, just

maybe it's your father" said Ryan. Amber sweetly looked up at him and

smiled "I'll go get my mom. She will know if it's him or not!" Said

Amber racing for her moms house. A few minutes later she came barging

back in with her confused mother who was holding groceries "okay we're

here now what do you want?" Said Leanne. "Mum... Is that, is that dad?"

Leanne looked at the man lying on the couch. "Oh, oh my god. It can't

be... Ronaldo? Is that really you?..." Said Leanne. She was weak at the

knees. Could it really be him? He looked up at her. "Leanne? Is that

you?". "Ronaldo it's really you!" Leanne rushed over to her husbands

side and squeezed him tightly. Amber was still having a problem

processing all this. Her father, that had been gone since she was six, making her believe that her father was dead, had returned now after a

huge kidnapping into space and only 5 people being able to escape and

survived and had to train for safety and then a safe army cadet comes

along with a gun and bombs and a knife who is fully trained. Where was

he 9 months ago? "So where you stuck in space on the ship like the rest

of planet earth?" Said Amber calmly. "No. I went into hiding" Said

Ronaldo honestly. "Then why didn't you help us?" Yelled Amber in anger.