Journey: The Center of Gaea

  Me and Crimson were back at the forest gathering roots for the boat. "Sis, when this is all over, I need to back home for a couple days to see you and Mom." I told her.

   "Hell yeah, you do." Crimson said. "Mom misses ya, you know." She told me. Then, we saw Quillton run by, Crystal leading him somewhere.

   "Quillton?" I asked. Me and Crimson dropped our roots and raced after him. "Quillton, where is she taking us?" I called after him.

    "She found your dad!!" He told me. My eyes widened. Crimson looked at me and ran faster. We stopped at a treehouse. A man about 45 or so was going through research. He was blue skinned like me with brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing a dark blue coat, black shirt, black jeans, and black combat boots. His hair was streaked with gray. Crimson was shocked. He turned his head and glanced at us, his eyes widening when he saw me and Crimson.

    "Galaxy?" He asked. He ran down the stairs toward me and my sister. "Crimson?" He asked us.

    "Dad?" I asked. Dad smiled.

    "Hello, son." He said, hugging me and my sister.

    "Dad, I thought you were..." I struggled to say. He chuckled.

   "Well, apparently not!" Dad said, laughing. "I've been down here trying to find that idol, son." He told me.

   "Any luck?" I asked. He shook his head.

   "Sadly, no." Dad told me. The he noticed Quillton. "Ah, Quillton!" He laughed. "I worked with your dad." He said. Quillton's eyes widened.

   "My..my dad?!" Quillton asked. Dad nodded.

   "Yup! Man was he fun to work with!" Dad laughed. "Son, do you have a way out of here?" He asked. I nodded.

   "We're just about done with our boat. Dad, come with us, please." I asked him. Dad sighed, and nodded.

   "OK, let's go." He smiled. me and Crimson smiled and ran back to the ocean where Sunset was just about done with the boat. She gasped when she saw my dad.

   "Is that..." She started before my dad cut her off, shaking her hand.

   "Quartz Nebula, scientist." He said. "Now, Galaxy, Crimson, tie those bands together. Quillton, help Sunset with tying that mast." He said. All of us nodded. Soon, the boat was done. Dad smiled. Sunset yanked five big sticks out of the ground.

   "We'll use these for oars." She said. Me and Quillton nodded. Quillton got in front of me and Sunset in the back. Crimson and dad got in the middle. We then began rowing the boat out towards the ocean. I looked at the sky. No clouds, meaning the boat trip might actually be the easiest thing here. Of course, our victory was short-lived when the man-eating fish arrived. I was standing up with dad and we were batting away every single one that jumped out of the ocean with an extra stick we picked up. I had been in the Baseball league when I was younger so I knew how to bat. Quillton was tying the bands together tightly so the boat didn't break. Sunset helped me bat away the fish as the sail carried our boat.

    "Come on!" I yelled at the fish. "Come get some!" I said as I batted one away. The fish landed back in the water and swam away from our boat. Oh you think that's it? Just man-eating fish? Oh no no no. It gets much worse than that. Pretty soon bigger fish were jumping out of the water, roughly the size of a small house lamp. Batting them away was harder because it required more force to bat at them. One of them had almost bitten Crimson before I caught it in time and batted it over the side of the boat. The boat rocked and came to a complete stop as we hit land. Quillton glanced up. Dad did also.

    "This cavern, something's familiar about it." He told us. He was right, something was familiar about this cavern we walked up to. Dad and I walked up to the cave. There was an engraving on the cave. I squinted my eyes to read it. I then put on my black framed rectangle glasses to read it better. It read: "Danger to all who enter."

    "What do you think, son?" Dad asked me. I glanced at the cave.

   "The idol has to be here."I told him. Dad nodded, and me, him, Sunset, Quillton, and Crimson ran into it, hoping it wouldn't be booby-trapped.