5
AVERY
For a few minutes we just sat bobbing in the little pond.
Then Samantha said: “Sister, maybe we should get out now. The kraken won’t come again until the next full moon.” She started to crawl out of the dinky little boat, wobbling it slightly. The Sam started out after her.
Soon, we decided to get off as well. As we climbed out of the boat, Danica frowned. “I hate to think about the poor dears that got eaten by that monstrosity.”
Jackie shuddered. The twins sighed. “And we have to deal with that every week.” They said, and we whirled around. “What?” Jackie said, and Danica said: “You said the next full moon! What, in this world the full moon rises every week?”
Sam nodded, and sighed. “This is a miserable world.” Samantha raked her hands through her long blonde ringlets, and the three of us just stared in wonder at this magnificent world.
“Sam,” Danica said, and he looked up at the sound of his name. “You said you came from Elvaeda, right? Then do you know where we can find the Great Spirit?”
Sam gasped, and Samantha slapped her hands to her mouth. Sam put his hand in front of his face, like he was a police officer stopping the traffic. “Please,” he muttered. “Don’t say her name out here. Even though the kraken ate most of this island’s inhabitants, it is still not safe to say her name.”
Jackie looked at me, and I shrugged. Suddenly, in the midst of our conversation, a splitting headache rang across our heads, and we collapsed to the floor in agony. Even the twins were in pain.
“What’s happening?” I muttered, gripping my head in my hands. Samantha was crying, still holding her head and Sam muttered to me: “This isn’t good,” he said, huffing. “Us Elves are somehow…connected. If one passes away, we have a slight sting at the side of our heads.”
“Slight sting?” Jackie said, huffing. “We’re in AGONY here!!” Sam nodded, and sighed. “This means, the most powerful elf has fallen.” I just looked at him, wondering who he was talking about. He looked up at me as soon as the pain suddenly stopped. “The queen has left this world.”
The three of us sprang up, in shock and disbelief. Jackie shot a look of anxiety at me, and Danica covered her face with her hands. Sam sighed, and patted her sister on the back as she cried.
Suddenly, another rumbling sound that mimicked the one we heard before the kraken emerged sounded, and the ground rumbled below our feet. The twins stared at each other in horror, and Sam cried: “It’s a double eater!!! Oh god, that kraken was a double eater!!”
Already we could feel the land tilting, and we hurried over to the boat. But once we pried open the rubber bushes, we found that the little boat we had been sitting in just moments ago was suddenly split in half. There was no place for us to go.
“How the HECK did that happen?” Jackie groaned, and the ground started to tilt more as the kraken used it’s massive black tentacles to lift the island up. Sam grabbed my hand and propelled me towards the small pond. “It doesn’t matter,” Sam said, jumping into pond. “Boat or not, we can still jump into the water to escape the kraken!!”
Samantha jumped in, dragging Danica with her, but just as Jackie was about to jump in, the ground rumbled again and she lost her balance, falling onto the yellow grass floor with a thump.
“Jackie!!!” I screamed, lifting my hand to Jackie for help. “Hurry up!! Grab my hand!!” But it was too late. Just as Jackie was about to grab my hand and get up, the island was raised up in the kraken’s thick black coils, dragging Jackie with it. I just stared in horror as the island was tipped again and the last of the island’s remaining inhabitants were forced into the kraken’s mouth, along with Jackie.
Once the kraken was done with it’s second helping, it dropped the island back down again and swam away on it’s dark tentacles, the whole sea rolling like massive waves as it swam away. When the island dropped back down, the rubber tree forest was again quiet; no worms, no birds, no Jackie.
I covered my face with my hands. The twins just gaped in horror. Danica was tearing. With Jackie gone, I remembered how we became friends in kindergarten:
I was new there, just transferred over when my parents and I moved house. I was a loner, and when someone tried to befriend me, I just turned them down. My parents moved a lot last time, and I have long ago learnt not to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it, that’s how life goes.
But then Jackie, one of the students sitting in the top row, made her way to me when school ended. I was there leaning against the wall, my face the same emotion it always was all through school: Sadness.
“Hey there, long face!!!” Jackie said cheerfully, and I glared at her. Though my glare Jackie just continued smiling, and then she said: “Why the long face, eh? C’mon! Let’s play in the playground together!!”
It was rough on me, with all my moving and such, but Jackie didn’t seem to mind at all. She showed me around the school, introduced me to her friends; always found ways to make me laugh. I liked her as my BFF, and it was always the same for her.
But now she was gone.
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