Chapter 3: The Dangers of the Unknown World

I see Myra with her joyful expression running in the snow. Smiling. Happy. Excited. If you maybe squint your eyes you might see that she is as bouncy as a dog and as alive as a squirrel. I laugh as I too start running and rolling down the sparkly white hill. Myra turns back to look at me and exclaims,” Quick! Come! While I was rolling in the snow I hit something hard like wood.” I run to her and I notice that she had pushed aside the snow to reveal a big wooden board. What is that, Hmm. I bend down and start pushing more snow aside. I glance at Myra and her thoughtful expression make her look like she was constipated. Lol. I say, “ Hey Myra, instead of standing there help me uncover this thing, maybe if we have a clearer vision of what it is we can find out if it could help us throughout the game.” She suddenly snaps out of her own world and quickly bends down to help me. While we push the snow aside, my hands are starting to get pale and shivers go down my spine. We uncover it to the point where a whole box is showing.

We lift it up on the snow where we can see it at our level. “ It’s a box. Boxes are meant to be opened. Let’s open it.” says Myra as she unboxes the giant cube. She looks inside and reaches in and takes out a coat. The coat is marine blue and is brown and fuzzy on the hoodie. It has black buttons that seal the warm smooth fabric. It ends nearly at Myra’s waist and I urge her to wear it. The workers there told us to take our coats off and since Myra did not have a coat and I had one I had to take my own precious puffy coat to the coat rack. I realize that I don’t have a coat now and I ask Myra,” Hey Myra? Is there another coat in there?” “ Let me check.” Says Myra as she reaches again in the wooden box and pulls out another coat this time light blue with black buttons and a black fur surrounding the tips of the hoodie. I slide my arms in the sleeves and I wrap the fabric across my stomach. I look inside again and I see another set of gadgets such as walkie talkies that use the planet's axis to get connection between the two users or servers. In the box there is also a metal detector and some sort of Spider-Man web shooter thingy miggigy. There are also two more things, that looks like earbuds to connect and find each other if we get lost and a Swiss Army knife.

I look at Myra and ask,” What are they expecting us to do with all this stuff?” Myra takes a step closer and bends down towards the gadgets taking a better glance at the machinery. “ Well maybe the walkie talkies and the earbuds are for not getting lost and communicating with each other in case of help or instruction. The metal detector could mean that there could be other things under ground therefore to always keep this in hand. The spider man device is maybe a sense of saying there will be situations were we will need a quick sense of escape. And the Swiss Army knife might serve us a great deal because of all the tools attached to it. So I don’t know but I feel like this game won’t be easy and we will need to have to work together if we want to either survive or get ice-cream.” “What do you mean survive are we going to be in that of grave danger? Is it that dangerous because if it is I am going back.” “ You can’t go back the door is is closed and locked now we have to find the key and get out.” I am breathing hard knowing that I regret in coming here. I take a deep breath and I exhale as my warm air turns into visible white mist. “ Ok we can do this Myra you take one walkie talkie and I’ll take the other, and put on the ear bud. You take the metal detector and I’ll take the spider man device. Then you can take the Swiss Army knife. Are we good?” I put on a stern face like I was going to do mission impossible or something.

Myra is ready with her earbuds on, walkie talkie in hand, metal detector in the other, and Swiss Army knife in her back pocket of her pants. Wait, since when was she wearing pants? I am confusion. I take the other set of earbuds and I lock between the outer ear and the pinina. I take the other walkie talkie in hand I sing ,” Testing Testing 123 Make sure that we are clear and we can see. Darling Darling let the adventure begin, because all I feel is the excitement through my skin. Darlin Darlin we are getting out of this place sooner or later, cause if you don’t the rest of your life you’ll be a skater. Darlin Darlin we are prepared to win and get the icey sweetness down are chin. I love it you love it let the winter wonderland begin we will do it together through thick and thin. Baby’s might be dangerous but don’t let yourself get nervous. Oh baby’s let me hear you sing it cause I love it you love it let the winter wonderland begin we will do this together through thick and thin baby’s it might be dangerous but don’t let yourself get nervous. because we are going to do this right even if it takes all night. Oh baby’s Darlin my good friend I say. you go hit the nay nay cause if you want to do this game all you have to do is play. Oh baby’s I’ll tell you is that the world is wonderful but if you want to get out of here,the scenery will not be so colorful. Cause babe I do really love you out of character and sight but we need to do this or else I can’t see my family tonight. Let’s explore the regions through icey snow, but if we don't want to get eaten let’s stay low. Because let me hear you sing it l love it you love it let the winter wonderland begin we will do it together through thick and thin. Bay be it might be dangerous but don't let yourself get nervous. Cause baybe all I want to hear you say, we need to get this ice cream so that we don’t have to pay. Cause baybe oh oh oh oh ooaoh o o o o ooooooooooooo(gets higher in pitch) oooooooooooooooooooooo. Baybe say I’m crazy but let’s not get lazy. Cause we got to do this right to stop seeing all this snowy white. The wind is blowing through my hair it feels nice but we don’t want to catch a cold we need to take care. Please listen for I am too am scared but we got to stay prepared. For something will be happening that we will be drowning in dispair but baybe it will not be always fair. Cause baybe let me hear you sing it I love it you love it let the winter wonderland begin we will do this together through thick and thin. Baybe it might be dangerous but don’t let yourself get nervous. Cause baybe we will stay in this cold until we say yay. Cause if we are dead this is were we lay. I don't care what they're going to say

Let the storm rage on. The cold never bothered me anyway.”

I finished my song almost amazed that I could make such a beautiful song so quickly. I told Myra, “ok we need to move on maybe we can find something if we keep on walking.” Myra and I start walking and as I glance at Myra I see that she is not completely reassured with this whole game situation, so I stretch out my hand to touch hers to signal her that she can hold my hand if she needs to. She looks at me and smiles and holds my hand tightly in her cold, pale, smooth and delicate fingers. Probably 20 minutes later, we see a mountain far away in the distance. Myra squints her eyes and exclaims,” Oh, I get it the key is hidden on the very top of the mountain!” I look at her with wide eyes, “ We have to climb that?” “ Myra looks at the Spider-Man device that is attached to my left hand. “ Maybe we don’t have to climb it” “ Huh? What do u mean Myra?” “ With the spider man device and the hook that’s on it it can dig into the firm rock and help us climb this huge mountain.” “ Oh I get it. So you mean we can climb it easier with this thing then having to go on the trail where there is a risk of having not enough time left to get the key.” “ Correct it saves time and it’s a way that a lot faster.” I suddenly realize one thing that could be an obstacle when we climb in that certain manner with the device. An avalanche, what if that happens, what do we do if that happens? I ask Myra, “what about avalanches that could be a problem too you know?” “ Good thinking Annie, I’m sure we can figure something out. For now we have to get to the mountain first.” We walk. Our pace faster now that we realize there will be many obstacles and getting to this precious key.

Suddenly my thoughts are interrupted by the beeping of Myra’s Metal detector. Myra bends down to the place where it was beeping.” I don’t get it is it in the snow.” I look around. “ Hey Myra try moving from place to place to see where the exact spot of this metal item is. “ Ok let’s see”,she turns left and walks a few steps. The metal detector keeps on beeping and a bit faster this time. “ Wait the tempo is faster. Maybe you are getting closer,” I say to Myra as she takes a bit more steps forward. This time the metal detector is beeping like crazy and we both look up from the Icy ground. We see a small glacier the size of an elephants head, and we see next to it is a marine blue and red backpack. “More supplies!” I exclaim as a zip open the backpack. Inside there are two pairs of ice skates with a red embroidery of a rose on the side of each skate. “ Come look what I found! There are ice skates inside this bag.” “ There are! Oh how wonderful maybe we will have the chance of skating on a frozen lake.” “ Look Myra, there is a rose embroidery on each shoe. Could it mean something?” I don’t know let’s find out by first finding a frozen lake and skating across it.” She squeals as she takes the backpack and puts it on her back. “ Ok let’s go.” I follow her as we walk carefully in the snow. Finally we see a frozen lake with actually some trees that are undressed of their beautiful leaves. We put the ice skates on and tie the white laces tight so that it is not loose enough to lose the ice skates while skating.

Wait a second. I just realized I can’t skate. If I have never seen grass, obviously I have never seen ice either. And I realized that just now. Wow. Annie. You just showed yourself how a dumb human being should act and think. I ask Myra, “ Hey Myra, I don't know how to skate. Can you teach me?” Myra skates towards me and helps me get up,” Sure thing, Sweetheart. Stand slowly and now one foot after another we can do this.” I take a deep breath and step forward. Then I hear a low growl from underneath the surface of the ice. The ice begins to crack and an ice monster reveals himself. Scared I step back. But clumsy as I am I fall awkwardly on my butt. For some reason that made the ice monster more furious because now I have my butt marks on his sheet of ice. I take a quick look at this ice monster. His teeth are ice crystals and so is his long claws and scales on his back and knees. His eyes are blue as ice and crystalic and the cold in his heart reflects the cold in his eyes. Then I suddenly realize. Isn’t this the same ice monster that almost killed Anna and Christophe? Say what. Ok no time to think about fictional movies. We need to escape I grab the nearest throwable thing and throw it at the monster's face. Whoops. Now he is even more furious and leaps towards us making the ice crack. Underneath my feet is a giant crack that is soon to be opened. But before I have time to react I fall in the cold icy water.

Myra screams,” Annie!” “ Hang in there!” “ Myra help!” I shout as I slip and fall. I hold my breath and I dive under the ice sheet. Hoping that some miracle would happen. Myra, still trying to dodge the monsters ice claws, runs towards a hole in the ice sheet and dives in it, for the only solution is to hide underneath. I open my eyes and a small hole in the ice sheet is above me. I peek in and I see the ice monster from ants eye view. I see that the monster has some sort of a third crystal eye on his forehead. Maybe that’s his weak spot. I smash the ice gasping for air. As soon as I do that the ice monster looks over and sees me still alive. He runs forward like bull in an arena and as if in slow motion I throw a sharp icicle at that third eye weak spot and as I thought he falls backwards and lays immobile on the surface of the frozen lake. Myra breaks through the ice and gasps for air. “ You won’t believe what I found down there. There is an old submarine. I think that’s what the monster was guarding. Let’s explore later. First let’s try to find some warmth.” We find a cave near the frozen lake and we sit down on the cool rock. I find the Swiss Army knife and try to make sparks of fire. I finally make it and Myra finds two extra coats in the bag. We put them on and we get as warm as possible. That was close. We could have died. I thought. Look at me. A princess who has been guarded and taken care of her whole life is now in a scary game that has monsters that could rip her into million pieces, natural disasters that could get her gasping for air, and dangers that could end her life forever. I shiver. I lay my head on Myra’s shoulder and I say with a gentle voice, “ Myra if I die put a rose on my tombstone and say” I may not be your true love but I am your best friend and you are my best friend I will love you forever,” Myra looks at me and laughs.” One, you are not gonna die and two I’m not that deep so don’t expect me to say all that deep stuff and what not. But what you said about being your best friend that is definitely possible. I love you Annie you are a true friend. A rose will definitely not be enough to thank you’re kindness that you have given me. Thank you Annie”

End of Chapter 3

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