Creech and Friends-A New Member

Chapter 10: Search in Switzerland

    In Switerland, Robyn jumped out of the portal and looked around for about a minute before looking behind her. "We're in the right locale," she called as she stepped out of the way.

    At that point, Lightning, Butch, Tom, Jerry, Bob, Larry, and Junior all tumbled out in a pile into the snow. After getting a break for a while, Robyn looked at her map. "So, where's the Indigo Stone of Generosity again?" Jerry asked.

    "Somewhere at the bottom of the mountain," Robyn replied. "The question I have is how we're gonna get down there in search of it."

    "I have an idea," Jerry replied.
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    Soon, they were all piled in a snow mobile, Tom at the front. "Are you sure you can drive this thing?" Junior asked.

    "Aw, come on, man. Don't be such a worry wart," Tom replied as he revved it up. "Of course I can drive this thing. Don't judge me." But in reality, he couldn't.

    The moment he started it, it zoomed out right from underneath the group, causing them to fall straight into the snow and ran out of control into a rock-not to far from someone who barely managed to get out of the way in time. Junior was embarrassed. "Sorry about that!" he called.

    Tom face-palmed. Now it was his turn to be embarrassed. "No, I can't drive a snow mobile," he admitted, hiding his face in his paws.

    Butch chuckled. "You were saying?" he mocked. Lightning just hit him over the head with his paw.

    Before Jerry could say something, Robyn spoke up, holding up her hand. "This time, I have an idea."
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    A few minutes later, they were all zooming down the mountain, following the trail. Robyn and the cats were all riding on snowboards while the others were on a sled. "Remember to watch where you're going!" Robyn called over her shoulder as she avoided a rock.

    There was quite a lot of commotion going on from behind meanwhile. "Look out for that tree!"

    "Tree? What tree?"

    "No problem. Hang on, guys!"

    "What? Why? Why do I even need to hang oooooooooooonnnnnnn?!" *POOF!*

    Robyn chuckled, shaking her head in amusement on how silly her friends could be sometimes. Soon, Tom, Lightning, and Butch followed. "Yeeee-hawww!"

    "Cowabunga, dudes!"

    Butch, on the other hand, was having a tough time with his snowboard, making him quite a sight.
"Man! How do you guys even RIDE on these things?" he asked as he almost lost his balance for the twentieth time.

    "Lots of practise and lots of balance, man!" said Jerry, who was riding on Tom's shoulder while hanging on tightly to his scarf.

    A couple more comments soon followed. "Wow, this is fun!"

    "I wanna do it again!"

    "Um, I can't see anything from back here. Uh, do you guys know where we're going?"

    "No idea! Never been here before!"

    "No one knows what lies around the bend-!"

    But Junior's sentence was suddenly interrupted by a startled scream from Tom. Up ahead was a wooden fence-and they were heading right for it! Junior gasped. "Bail out!" he exclaimed.

    He and Larry jumped off the sled in time while the others turned their snowboards around-Butch crashing into a tree in the process. Bob, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky. "What? Hey, where did everybody-? *gasp!*" *CRASH!*
   

    Robyn and Tom both winced in sympathy as Bob and the sled both crashed into the fence, sending Bob flying through the air and landing headfirst into the snow. "Oh, that's gotta hurt," Tom commented.

    Robyn agreed and told the others to start looking around to see if they were in the right place. Larry has just got up and was shaking the snow out of his earmuffs when he spotted his pal. "Bob! Bob! Are you okay?"

    "Mousetrap."

    "What?"

    "I wanted to play Mousetrap. You roll your dice, you move your mice. Nobody gets hurt."

    Lightning chuckled as he got Butch, who had somehow overheard, out of the tree trunk. "Oh, very funny," he grumbled as he rubbed his face, Lightning next coming over to help get Bob out of the snow.

    Then, Tom recognized the fence. "Hey!" he exclaimed. "I know this location! That must be the way to one of the old bridges!"

    "The what?" Robyn asked.

    "That bridge that collapsed a couple of years ago," Larry replied. "You know. We heard about it on T.V."

    Robyn took a glance past the fence and shuttered. "Boy," she said. "You guys were right about that. I'm just lucky that we didn't go down there."

    "Hey!" Junior called. "Look what me and Jerry found!"

    "What is it, kid?" Tom asked as he and the others raced over.

    Jerry just pointed at a strange-looking symbol which was engraved on the stone. One glance at it and the map told Robyn that they were in the right place. "Two of you guys will have to press that thing at the same time to see if it'll open," she instructed.

    Once Butch and Lightning did it, it ended up opening into a strange-looking hallway, closing as soon as they all entered. Luckily, Robyn happened to have a torch at hand, so they had no difficulty in navigating in the dark. A little while later, they found the stone and with Robyn's help, Junior managed to pry it off the wall. Suddenly, at that moment, the place started to shake because of a landslide. Luckily, Larry managed to spot a way out. They managed to escape in the nick of time and didn't stop running until they eventually reached the portal that would take them home.