On a day that seemed like any other everyone was just waking up to a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and the gears were clacking? As it turns out the sister of princess Elena was already up and about working on a new invention. Her grandmother was not really surprised when she walked in to see that.
"Isabel, would you please go and wake Elena. She in unusually late this morning." Her grandmother said.
"Sure thing Grandma." With that Isabel cleaned her face and hands and went to wake up her sister.
On the way there she ran into the royal wizard Mateo, who was reading while walking and not looking where he was going. Because of Isabel's running and his lack of vision they ran into each other. This caused both of them to fall back.
"Isabel! Are you ok?" Mateo said after he saw it was the young princess.
"I am fine. Just going to wake up Elena." She said happily.
"Elena is not awake yet? That is strange." He said while helping her up.
"She probably just stayed up to long." She said.
"Maybe." He said thinking hard about it.
"Well, see you." She said running off again.
After pondering what Isabel said Mateo couldn't help but want to follow her. He ran after her till they both finally reached Elena's room. Isabel opened the door with a loud, "Elena! Time to wake…" But before she could finish Isabel and Mateo saw the terrifying truth. Elena was not in her bed!
"Where did she go!" Isabel said in a huge panic.
Just then the royal guard and Elena's friend Gabe ran up. "What is going on?"
"Elena is missing!" Isabel said close to tears.
"What!?" Gabe looked in the room and when he saw she was right he yelled, "I will go alert the other guards and search for her."
"OK." Isabel said trying to calm down but her worry was too great. Her tears wouldn't stop from falling.
Mateo saw this and wanted to help her. He kneeled down to her level and put his hand on her shoulder. "She will be fine. You know Elena. She probably is out exploring or something."
Isabel was still worried but after that reminder she felt a bit better.
"You're probably right. Thanks Mateo." She said showing him a smile.
"No problem. Now go to breakfast. I will help look for Elena." Mateo said.
"I will help too." Isabel said just as determined as he was.
Mateo knew that when Isabel decided on something there was no changing her mind so he agreed on the condition that she searched with him. With that said and done they began their search. They and the guards looked high and low for any sign of Elena but there was nothing. Many of them even went into town to search but she was not there either. Along the way Naomi joined the search but there was no luck with her either. Eventually Mateo, Isabel, Gabe and Naomi regrouped to think of a solution.
"So what do we do now?" Mateo asked.
"Not a clue. Elena normally came up with the plans." Gabe said.
"Well, she is gone right now so we need to figure something else out instead." Naomi said.
They all tried to think of a plan but they didn't even know where to start. Elena disappeared in the night with no sounds or disturbances. They didn't know where she went, if she was taken, or how she even got out. Just then Isabel thought of something they could start doing.
"Let's check her room. Maybe there are some clues in there." Everyone agreed with her, so they all went straight back to Elena's room.
When they opened the door again they took a minute to visible look around the room. The thing that was most out of the ordinary was the fact that Elena's window was open even though she liked it closed at night. Since that was hardly a clue they all entered to search the room to get a closer look. They looked in the drawers, in the bed, under the bed, in the closet and even under ever nick-nack Elena had. There was nothing. But just when then they were about to stop the search Mateo thought of something that just might help out better.
"'I know. I will contact Zuzo. He might be able to tell us where she went." He sounded excited with this idea.
"Good idea." Isabel said just as excited.
"Well, we got no better ideas." Naomi said.
"Go ahead but I will continue the search." Gabe said not really expecting magic to help in this situation.
"I will stay with Gabe and look. It is better to split up in these situations." Naomi said continuing her search.
"Ok I will let you know what I find out." Mateo said.
"I am going too!" Isabel said following Mateo which he did not mind.