By: Guest Writer, Zoe
L.
Troop 1360
“Sparky, I don't hate you. It's just
that we're complete opposites. You know, fire and ice? They just don't mix.” I
understood what she was saying, but it still seemed like she was using our
gifts as reasons to dislike me.
“You know the saying 'opposites attract'?
Maybe you should adopt that as your philosophy instead,” I retorted and left to
go walk around the camp some more, leaving Glacier to ponder my subtle words of
wisdom. I really wish she could put her differences aside for the sake of
everyone else here, but she's stubborn as a mule. Sometimes I think she really
only cares about herself. Maybe she just needs some time to be alone.
It was still dark outside even
though I knew it should have been morning. Then I realized that the storm must
be closer to us than I thought it was! I quickly made it back to others to warn
them.
“EVERONE GET UP! THE STORM IS RIGHT
OVER US!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. Dusty, Glacier, and Geeli jolted
from their sleep and looked up in the sky to see the massive black cloud over
our heads. Then, a huge crack of thunder boomed throughout the area and a bolt
of lightning struck the ground right in front of us. That's when we all started
running. Well, we were more like sprinting.
We ran and ran from the following
cloud, as fast as we could. I was in front of everyone else, with Geeli lagging
behind. I kept running until I heard a soft thud from behind. I looked back and
saw that Geeli had tripped on a large root sticking up from the ground and had badly
injured her ankle. I went to her and she started to cry.
“This be all my fault, I reckon,”
she said in between sniffles.
“Why do you say that?” I asked,
genuinely confused. “I'm the one the cloud is following. It's after me.” I was
about to ask why but she took in a deep breath and continued. “The storm be
evil. It been causin' quite a ruckus in my hometown, blowin' 'way houses,
floodin' crops, you name it. Then one day it done decided it wanted ta get rid
of all the people, so it made a huge tornado and done sucked up e'erone in
sight. E'erone except me. I thought I got away scott free and found y'all to
protect me, but I reckon it been followin' us for a mighty long time and now
we're all gonna be sucked up by the storm! I'm so sorry!” she finished and
started sobbing.
I didn't know what to think. This
evil storm is even scarier than I thought.
“Well, there's only one thing to
blame in all of this and that's the storm. We're going to stop it, no matter
what it takes!” I didn't know how we were going to do it, but what was
important was getting everybody to safety. We can figure out how to defeat
storm later.
“But we're going to need everyone's
help and we can't do it with you being injured. Come on,” I said to Geeli as I
put her on my back and ran to catch up with Dusty and Glacier.
I know there's a way to get rid of
this storm, but does that way have to include Glacier and me on the same team?
Find out what happens next in the stunning conclusion of Mystery Law & Protection Force written by Lime Green Giraffe Staff member, Edie W. The Final Chapter will be posted at limegreengiraffe.org on September 25.
Find out what happens next in the stunning conclusion of Mystery Law & Protection Force written by Lime Green Giraffe Staff member, Edie W. The Final Chapter will be posted at limegreengiraffe.org on September 25.
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