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Chapter 1: Prologue

      It was a dark night in San Sebastian, Spain. Mariana Rodriguez just gave birth to her first child. She named him Sebastián, because the Rodriguez family always lived in San Sebastian so she thought it was a unique idea to name her son after the city.  Diego Rodriguez was the father. Mariana only spoke Spanish, but Diego spoke Spanish and English. They were going to teach Sebastián mostly Spanish, but then eventually English because Diego's speaking ability is very useful for life; being able to speak Spanish and English.

      Mariana was holding Sebastián in her arms and then a loud boom occurred, but it wasn't loud to her or everyone in the room because it was on the other side of the hospital. A few minutes later the fire alarms start to go off, the water sprinklers start spraying, and everyone was in a panic.

      The doctors were told to take as many people outside as possible far away from the hospital. Nobody knew what was going on.

      When Mariana and Diego got outside Diego wanted to know what happened so he went around the building and found out that a helicopter had crashed into the hospital. "It must have been trying to land while carrying some injured patients," he said aloud. He went back to where Mariana and Sebastián were. He couldn't find them. He asked a doctor where they were and he didn't know. He kept asking multiple people this same question.

      After looking for 10 minutes he found Mariana trying to find him. She wasn't holding Sebastián. "¿Donde esta Sebastián?," (Where is Sebatian) he asked. "En el auto," (In the car) she replied. They went to their car and couldn't find it. They saw a car similar to the one that they had but it wasn't theirs. They starting panicking. They called the cops and the cops started looking for Sebastián and the car immediately.