"I thought you wanted to be a Catrillionair." Teased Benjamin Franklin Gates, the new guardian of his niece, Serenity Dogood Gates, who wasn't really happy to be there.
"It said nothing about negative temps!" spat Serenity, who was now fifteen. Ben's partner, Ian, rolled his eyes.
"How far?" asked Ian, getting very irritated of Serenity's nagging of the cold temperature.
"Almost there…" said Ben's best friend, Riley.
"Riley, you said that a hour ago…" Riley mumbled something under his breath and Serenity spun around and spat
"If I'm a teenaged brat, then you're a low life computer geek." Riley's mouth dropped every time she did that. She turned around and saw Ian's confused look. Ben laughed,
"She has the best hearing ever…if she wants to hear it." "It makes up for my eyesight." She pointed to her glasses. She paused for a second and then slapped her uncle on the arm.
"We're here!" said Riley over the sound of the beeping. The giant snowmobiles came to a halt over a small, but yet large, flat snow covered piece of land.
"You're magnificent Charlotte…" mocked Serenity jumping off of the tire.
"Serenity!" Ben tried to stop her before she jumped, but he didn't get to her in time, for when she hit the snow, she sunk waist deep in snow.
"I HATE SNOW!!" she screamed. She heard Ian laugh and say to her uncle 'Newbie'
"Uncle, why didn't you stop me?" she asked, lying on her back, unable to turn.
"I told you not to leave my side." She tried to fight back, but couldn't do anything other than give him a dirty look. Ben climbed down carefully and pulled Serenity out of the giant hole she had made.
"Ok, now where is she?" asked Riley. Ben turned to Serenity and asked her the same question.
"If we're here, then…" she turned to the waist deep hole she made, then looked under her feet.
"She's under our feet." She looked out at the flat of snow. Ian smiled.
"Let's dig."
Everyone had their metal detectors out and were prowling the grounds. Serenity's metal detector started to go off.
"Uncle, I found something!" she started to dig and a wave of excitement washed in and as quickly as it came, it left. Ben left his metal detector on the ground to mark his spot and ran over to Serenity. He knelt down beside her and she held up a fork.
"Sorry, false alarm." She looked at the rusted fork and held it to Ben.
"Fork?" He sighed and went back to his metal detector. She sighed and went back to her search. Every once in a while she would look over to her uncle and see if he had made any progress. When she looked over she saw him on his knees digging and ran over to him.
"What is it?"
"Listen," he hit his ice pick at a certain part of the snow to hear a crystal clear ping of metal hitting metal. Serenity dropped to her knees and started to shovel out snow with her hands.
They saw a piece of metal and she tried to wipe the snow away from the metal, but it wouldn't come off.
"Serenity," she pulled her hands away as Benjamin pulled out a water-bottle and poured some water on the same spot, revealing a very special name:
Charlotte
"We…we…we found it!" Serenity screamed, so excited over their discovery that she couldn't contain herself. She threw her arms around Ben and stared at the name of the ship that they have been looking and researching for years.
"Hello Beautiful." Ben whispered; everyone came and saw the name plated on the metal.
"What are you idiots waiting for? Start digging!" Every scattered and grabbed their excavating gear.
