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Grandad: Thank God. I got worried for a minute. They are evacuating the city. I got you a plane ticket to Unison Continent, so you can stay at the Temple of Nature. I want you to go get packed because it leaves in two hours.
Caitlyn: No problem. I will be ready in ten minutes.
Caitlyn ran upstairs in excitement and packed her clothes. She pulled a necklace out from the drawer that had a pink diamond as its pendant. The pink diamond was glowing. Caitlyn studied the diamond.
Caitlyn: (to herself) I have never seen it do this before.
Grandad: (Yelling downstairs) hurry up so you can get the hell out of here.
Caitlyn: I’m coming grandad.
MONOCHELLO CONTINENT
At the Octo District, Headmaster Johnson was sitting at his desk watching the news. General Brown walked in. Headmaster Johnson is a tall Caucasian man, with bright blue eyes. General Brown is also another tall, but heavy-set Caucasian male.
General Brown walked into Headmaster Johnson’s office.
G.Brown: Headmaster Johnson, you wanted to see me?
Johnson: General Brown, how long have you been working for me?
G.Brown: About four years now.
Johnson: Yes, and in these four years have I ever had an "Open Door" policy that allows you to just come in whenever you please?
General Brown became confused by the question.
Johnson: Um, yes you have had an “Open Door” policy when you started as Headmaster.
Johnson glared at General Brown.
G.Brown: Yes, but that changed two years ago. So, let’s start this over shall we.
Johnson pointed out the door, signaling the General to walk back out the door. General Brown walked out of the office and closed the door. He was giving Headmaster Johnson the middle finger on the other side of the door before he started knocking.
Johnson: That's better. Come in.
General Brown walked in. Johnson turned on the huge flat screen tv on his wall. The news was on television.
Johnson: Did you see the news recently? These rebels are growing in numbers and are posing an actual threat to us. Unison District gave them too much hope.
The General looked at the television and changed topics to distract him from the news.
G. Brown: Well, on a good note, our Search Team found that Yellow Diamond you sent them to find.
Johnson turned to Brown with a smirk on his face.
Johnson: Where did they find it?
G. Brown: In the middle of the Sand Ocean. Many of them lost their lives to get that for you Headmaster. Something was guarding it.
Johnson: Their deaths won’t be in vain.
General Brown shook his head and urgently explained.
G. Brown: Sir, you do know these are Idacast Diamonds? They rightfully belong where they are, or at the Temple. Removing them from their place could be a devastating blow to the planet.
Johnson: Nothing has happened yet. Now let’s go find the other ones. We will be rich beyond our wildest dreams and can buy this planet or any planet we want.
G. Brown: With all due respect. There are other treasures out there that will make you rich.
Johnson: Are you doubting my plans General? It’s bad enough that I had to surrender to Unison District. Once we make the” Peace Speech” tomorrow at the World Conference, we will collect all the diamonds and start the process.
ON AVALINE CONTINENT.
Avaline Continent is the Arctic of Ginia. It is always covered in snow. They will get at least two months of good spring weather before it becomes come cold again. On Mt.Glacius, a couple, Amy and Mike, were hiking. There was a blizzard making the hike difficult. They made it to a hidden cave.
Amy: (Amazed) Hey Mike, look at this.
Mike: It's beautiful in here.
The cave walls were made of clear ice crystals. The stalagmite and stalactites were also crystal clear. It looked as if they were in a cave made of glass. Mike and Amy continued to explore the cave. They made it to a huge room with a blue diamond the size of a basketball floating in the middle of the room.
Mike realized it was an Idacast Diamond.
Mike: Oh my God. Is this one of the Idacast Diamonds the Temple was talking about?
Amy: It looks like it.
As they were checking out the diamond, they did not notice what was happening in the background. A giant, orange, lizard like eye was watching them. Mike took a picture with his phone.
Mike: We need to inform the Temple that we found one of the diamonds.
Amy took a picture also.
Amy: Don’t touch it babe. Remember there is always some Guardian that protects these diamonds.
They walked out of the cave and the giant eye that was watching them closed.
CHAPTER 2: Hurricane Heather
Over on Ried Continent, Caitlyn was on the plane headed to Unison Continent. She was watching the Bob Owen show. It was the segment with High Priest Lee. Caitlyn's necklace started glowing again. The flight attendants were handing out food. Suddenly, the plane shook violently. The flight captains turned on the seat belt signs.
The Captain made the announcement on the intercom.
Captain: Ladies and Gentlemen, if I could please have you return to your seats to the upright position and fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
In the cockpit, the pilots were fastening their seat belts. The Captain was looking at the radar.
Captain: The weather service said that there are storms forming within seconds in the area that we are passing thru.
Co-pilot: (confused) Within seconds?
Captain: Yes, as in it is taking seconds for thunderstorms to form.
Storm clouds started quickly forming. The clouds were very dark and gray while some were pitch black. The turbulence made the plane shake violently. A lot of people were holding on for life, some were praying, crying, and a couple people were having fun with it. Caitlyn looked out the window and saw nothing but constant lightning flashes illuminating the thunder clouds.
Co-Pilot: What should we do?
Captain: Increase the speed and get out this area.
The pilots made the plane go faster. The turbulence finally ended, and they were in the clear.
Co-Pilot: Well, you don’t see that every day.
AT RIED DISTRICT.
Jolin, a beautiful Asian young lady, was in the gym practicing her martial arts training. Her friend, Lalaine, a beautiful Hispanic young lady, walked in in uniform.
Lalaine: Jolin, guess what?
Jolin: What’s up Lalaine?
Lalaine glared at her.
Lalaine: I said guess.
Jolin: You're pregnant?
Lalaine: No!
Jolin thought a little harder.
Jolin: You're going to try to get pregnant?
Lalaine:(frustrated) No. Okay stop guessing.
Jolin: Then what is it?
Lalaine: (smiles) I passed the Instructor's Test this morning and they are promoting me to Instructor. They're transferring me to the Unison District today just like you.
Jolin became excited and gave Lalaine a big hug.
Jolin: Yes, so both of us are going to Unison District. Thank God, I thought I was going to be there all alone.”
Lalaine: Yup. Why are you in here training? Shouldn't you be getting packed? The flight leaves in like two hours.”
They heard a loud clap of thunder outside, so they ran to the hallway. A lot of people were gathered looking out the window. The rain was coming down in buckets.
Lalaine: I thought it wasn't supposed rain today.
Jolin: Well hopefully they don’t cancel the flight because of the weather or else we won’t be leaving until tonight.
ON TANAMO CONTINENT
There was a tour group taking a tour through the jungle.
The Tour Guide was cutting loose branches and leaves in front of them to make way on the path.
Tour Guide: As you can see, our jungle is one of the world's most luxurious jungles on the planet.
Tourist: What about the reputation of it being the planet's most dangerous jungle?
Tour Guide: It just depends on what part of the jungle you are in. There are a lot of dangerous creature lurking around, along with poisonous plants and insects. You must know what part of the jungle they reside in. Our tour path does not cross into any hostile territory. Now ladies and gentlemen, once we get up this hill, you will see the most spectacular view of Mt. Finine.
They made it up the hill and the crowd were amazed by the view of Mt. Finine. Mt. Finine is a dead super volcano the size of Mt. Everest. The Tourist exited the bus and immediately began snapping photographs.
The Tour Guide waited for them to take pictures of the spectacular view of the volcano and jungle around it.
Tour Guide: Mt. Finine is the world’s largest super volcano. Its last eruption was about three hundred thousand years ago; in which it was an extinction level event.
Tourist 2: Is it dead?
Tour Guide: Yes, it is. We don’t have to worry about an eruption in our lifetime.
A mini tremor shook the ground. The tourist and tour guide looked around in confusion. The tour guide looked at the base of the volcano and saw there was steam coming from it.
Deeper in the jungle, two forest rangers, John and Devon were walking.
John: Another scenario, what if a huge bear pops out of nowhere and just started beating the shit out of you. Not even eating you, just beating you to a pulp.
Devon looked at him as if he was crazy.
Devon: Where the hell do you come up with these things man?
John: I don’t know, they just pop up.
Devon stopped and looked around.
John: What's wrong?
Devon: Just listen.
John: I don’t hear anything.
Devon: Exactly. The jungle isn’t silent like this. We would hear something. Birds, insects, animals running around, it's too damn quiet.
John: Wow, I wonder what is going on.
UNISON CONTINENT
In the cafeteria, Markus and Josh was getting food from the buffet. Markus was piling food on his plate.
Markus: What type of mission do you think it is?
Josh: I don’t know. I'm betting it is either a search and rescue, or a treasure hunt?
Markus: You can’t bet on both; it must be only one thing you're betting on.
Josh: Fine, I bet it's a treasure hunt.
Markus: And I bet it is a search and rescue.
Josh looked at Markus and smiled.
Josh: How much?
Markus: Twenty dollars.
Josh: You're on.
When they sat at a table a nearby television was tuned to the local news. It was a weather report. Josh saw the size of the hurricane
Josh: holy shit, look at the size of that storm!
Markus; Turn up the T.V.
Someone turned up volume on the T.V. The reporter on the television showing satellite images of the storm.
Reporter: This massive storm developed in just an hour. Storms with this intensity usually take about two days to get to a category five Hurricane. Hurricane Heather is now headed towards the northeast area of Monochello Continent. Everyone on Fort City, and all towns and villages in the surrounding areas are ordered to evacuate the area immediately before the storm hits.
While they we’re watching the news, a group of students were talking loudly. Markus threw his biscuit at them. As they looked around to see who had thrown the biscuit, Markus stood up.
Markus: Hey shut up, we are trying to watch this because we're the ones that will have to do search and rescue when the shit hits the fan.
Two Security Guards walked up to Markus and Josh.
Guard 1: The Headmaster would like to speak with you in his office. Could you please follow us?
Markus and Josh looked at each other in confusion. As they were walking to the office, they were trying to figure out why they were being called.
As they were walking, Josh whispered to Markus.
Josh: what did you do this time?
Markus shrugged his shoulders.
Markus: I didn't do anything, what did you do Josh?
Josh: Nothing.
Markus: Did you sleep with his sister again?
Josh: (chuckles) No. Did you kill another one of his dogs?
Markus: No, and the last dog I killed of his was by accident.
Josh: Yeah right.
Markus: Should we just make a run for it and say these guys never came to us?
Josh: We'd have to head straight for the temple.
Markus: Let’s go then.
Markus and Josh started running, but the guards were hot on their heels.
OUTSIDE GINIA.
In the Outer World Observation Center (O.W.O.C), Captain Jenkins walked in the headquarters and met up with Adam and Lloyd.
Jenkins: It's been three hours and we got a category five hurricane that appeared out of nowhere in Ried Continent. How the hell did that happen? You think it has anything to do with the rising heat due to the ozone.
Adam: It's hard to say, but we have a big issue with the hurricane. Besides the winds being clocked at two hundred and fifty miles per hour and it is producing a shit ton of tornadoes, you need to look at one thing that makes this catastrophic.
Lloyd pulled up a satellite image of the hurricane.
Jenkins studied the images,
Jenkins: It’s already completely out of Ried Continent and headed towards Monochello Continent.
Lloyd: You see the areas that are neon green?
Jenkins: Yes, there's a lot of them.
Lloyd: The hurricane formed over the most polluted area of Ried Continent. Those green spots are areas of highly concentrated hydrofluoric and sulfuric acid.
Jenkins: (sighs) How did I know this storm would have acid rain spots?
Lloyd: There are a lot of reports stating the rain was eating anything metal before communications cut off.
Jenkins: Hopefully a lot of people evacuated like they were told.
Lloyd: I doubt it, no matter how many times we order an evacuation there are still people that don’t listen. Then we end up having to either save them or add them to the body count.