Wild Thornberry Adventure

chapter 8

The next morning, Darwin, Eliza and Cherry were given sleeping bags and had camped out with Bree and Sloan under the stars. Cherry and Darwin were still asleep, but Eliza sat up in her position and looked all around, anxiously.

"Cherry! Darwin!" she called. "Donnie's gone, we need to find him! The eclipse is in a few hours!"

"But I'm not finished with my dream..." Cherry groaned, burying her face in her pillow.

"Donnie's always missing," Darwin said. "And I was dreaming about shepherd's pie!"

Eliza then knocked on Bree and Sloan's door while Darwin and Cherry slowly and unwillingly got up.

"Bree? Sloan? Have you seen Donnie?" Eliza knocked and the door opened. "He's..." Eliza looked to see Donnie at the door. "Donnie!"

Donnie jabbered and wandered inside the trailer.

"Donnie, I believe Sloan told you to stay out of there." Cherry waved a finger. "I ought to tell your parents about this!"

"Bree! Sloan!" Eliza called, as she and Cherry wandered in further together.

"This is like those science fiction movies..." Cherry felt creeped out. The room was all dark and a luminighting blue color. There were monitors sending out all over the jungle like some sort of surveillance.

"What is all of this?" Eliza wondered as she tripped over something.

"Eliza, you okay?" Cherry asked.

"I don't like this place," Darwin walked over, pulling on the wild child's arm. "We got Donnie, now let's go."

"What's that?" Eliza gasped, noticing a door.

"You don't think Bree and Sloan are aliens, do you?" Cherry asked, worriedly.

"Don't be silly, Cherry." Eliza grabbed the ends of the door and pulled it back. There was a smaller door revealed with a tiny window with bars against it like a tiny jail cell. Eliza looked into it after both girls heard faint whimpering and crying. Eliza's eyes then widened as a small cheetah cub came into their vision. "Tally!?"

"Oh, that must be Tally." Cherry moaned. "Don't worry, little guy, Eliza will get you out of there."

"Who are you?" the cub looked up at Cherry.

"I'm Cherry, I can talk to animals too." Cherry explained. "Eliza should be the one to save you after the stories I've heard about you and your adventures with her."

Eliza then found some bolts on the door, undid them and opened the door, thus freeing the cheetah cub. The cub happily and playfully pounced onto the red-headed girl.

"Eliza!" Tally cried.

"Oh, Tally!" Eliza happily took the cub, hugged him and spun him around in a little circle. "I knew we'd find you!"

"Eliza, we have to get out of here." Tally warned.

"What do you mean?" Cherry asked.

"Hello girls..." a dark voice crept up behind them, making shivers run up and down their spines.

"Sloan..." Eliza murmured.

"You were the poachers, weren't you!" Cherry hissed as she noticed Sloan and lost all faith, trust and respect she possibly had for him when they were all acquainted.

"Where did you get him?" Eliza asked, still shook up.

"I picked him up," Sloan replied. "On the savannah."

"You... bought him?"

"No," Sloan shook his head. "I picked him up...right off the ground."

"YOU SELFISH JERK! YOU SEPERATED THIS POOR ANIMAL FROM HIS FAMILY!" Cherry roared.