Alskimous

Chapter 9

That night I had the same weird dream. Except this time, as we pulled up to shore everyone around me disappeared. The boat  stopped and Alvin and his army charged at me. I woke up, breathing heavily, my heart fluttering in my chest. Then I realized it was morning.

"Oh, you're awake," Dorothy said turning around from the driver's seat. "I was starting to worry, you were tossing and turning a lot."

"Oh, yeah," I said walking over to the front. "Is that land over there?"

Dorothy squinted for a second "Oh my goodness Angie! You're right! We're almost there!"

"I'll go wake the others." I walked over to the back again and shook Emma. "Emma! Emma! Wake up!"

"Huh...what," Emma said groggily.

"Emma we're almost here!"

"Really!"

"Yeah go look!" She ran over to the front while I woke up Arthur.

"AHHHH! I'LL GET YA ALVIN!" Arthur screamed.

"Arthur calm yourself, we're on the boat,"

"Why'd you wake me! I was just about to fight Alvin!"

"We're almost there!"

"Ugh," Arthur rolled his eyes and went to get some food from the bags. I walked over to where Rebecca was sleeping.

"Rebecca! Rebecca! Wake up! We're almost there!"

"Wow, great. Let me sleep," She said drifting back to sleep.

"Oh, no you don't," I whispered smirking before yelling in her ear "AHHHHHHH ALVIN FOUND US AND HE BROUGHT HIS ARMY TOO!"

"What!" She sat up abruptly, along with Charles who was next to her.

"Just kidding! Now get up!" I said walking over to Matt.

Before I could even get near Matt I heard him grumble "I'm awake! I'm awake!"

I walked over to where we put all of our food and grabbed an everything bagel. As we got closer and closer I could make out the green landscape of Ireland. I wonder why they weren't affected by Alskimous.

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We pulled up on the shore at around noon. It seemed that the rest of us missed land too because as soon as Emma parked the boat we all jumped out and ran onto the surprisingly empty beach. We all laid on the sand for a few moments until we noticed something we hadn't saw in days. The familiar, short, green stalks most commonly known as, grass.

"GRASS!" Arthur shouted sprinting along the beach to the green field he had spotted.

We all followed and threw ourselves on the ground and joyfully reunited with our little green friends.

"Alright, let's not waste any more time. Where are the Waratukan's headquarters?" Dorothy asked Matt who had the map.

Matt reached into his pocket and examined the map "Umm, it looks like we're about 2 miles west of where they are, so we have to walk east."

"Let's get a move on then!" Emma yelled as she took off running.

We walked for a long time over many landscapes. Occasionally we past some people who gave us weird stares as we walked by. I didn't blame them. They were probably concerned that a bunch of disheveled 12 year olds were walking in the middle of nowhere all by themselves. Finally, we came to a huge stone building. It had to have been over 100 years old because it had a renaissance-castle look to it. There were two guards standing at the door wearing green battle suits and paint on their face.