Alyssa Vernal and The Lost Treasure

Chapter 2 -The Golden Palace

"Calm down," Enna told Alyssa. "The taxi drives itself. It's like autopilot in an airplane. But that's not important right now!"

Alyssa stared in front in awe, then she turned to Zalina and Enna. "Woah, how is that possible?  HOW DID YOU GUYS DO THAT?" 

"Do what?"

"The autopilot! Only airplanes can do that, right?"

"Um, well..." Enna said, scratching her neck. "Airplanes aren't the only ones that can do that. There are some special cars that could also do it. Like, for example, the queen's car - never mind." 

Alyssa frowned. Why did Enna hesitate to finish her sentence when she mentioned the word queen? 

Zalina yawned. "Well, we better go to sleep. Come on. Let's talk about this tomorrow."

"Wait," Alyssa said. "In the car? Here? We're going to sleep here?" 

"Yes." 
Alyssa really didn't feel comfortable sleeping in a car with strangers. In fact, the car was still moving, and Alyssa was unsure if she could be able to sleep while that was happening. 

"Where exactly are we going?" Alyssa asked. 

"We can't tell so suddenly," Enna responded. "It'll ruin it." 

"Ruin what?" 

No answer from both of the girls. 

Enna shrugged. "It's still quite far. So, uh... in the meantime, we should sleep and we'll get there in the morning." 

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You have arrived at your destination. Something said. The voice sounded like a robot. 

Zalina yelped at the voice. She rubbed her right eye and asked, "What time is it? How long have we been sleeping?"

She was wearing a metallic purple headband with a star on it and a sky blue heart sweater with sky blue stripes on her sleeves and a pink mini skirt with a black stripe on the bottom. She was wearing yellow boots.

Alyssa woke up and groaned. She looked at the time in front of her and responded, 

"It's 6:00." She muttered. "What time did we sleep last night?"

Enna thought for a second. "I think we slept at 10:00? I'm not so sure. I forgot." 

"That'll be eight hours then." The three of them walked out of the car. Alyssa saw some bushes, trees, and vines everywhere. 

"I honestly think we should sleep more," Zalina complained. "It's still too early. Where are we, anyway?"

Alyssa looked at her with a rather confused look. 

The place they stopped at looked like a forest. 

There were trees and grass surrounding them, it did not make any sense. There was a path leading inside the forest, but it was too dark and looked a bit creepy they didn't want to get in there. Alyssa turned to look at Enna and Zalina. She frowned at them. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"Uh, well..." Zalina nudged Enna.  Enna cleared her throat.

"Oh, sorry, wrong place." Enna scowled. She brought out a metallic purple stick. Alyssa thought maybe it was some kind of wand or something. She waved it and suddenly they were in a different place!

They were in front of a palace. A golden one. It was made by real gold. It was the most beautiful palace Alyssa has ever seen. Even better than beautiful palaces in pictures.