Hey readers! Guess what? I'm typing from a school computer! Yeah, I know, "Why are you typing from a school computer?" Well, as it turns out that right now I don't have Microsoft Word on my computer, so I'll be typing here, saving it on the school website, and then copy it onto a document when I get Word. I will probably have several different chapters when I update next. Also the next few chapters will be from Eris's point of view but I'll try and get some from Pandia's as soon as possible.

Eris: We no own, you no sue!

Pandia: What she said.

I groaned. "Yes Pandia, it is too much to ask!" I heard a rustling to my left and opened my eyes, which were caked with something. Rubbing irritated them, but got the gunk off. I found that I was surrounded by this mysterious substance on my eye.

Mud.

"Ulgh! Ewwwwwwww!"

It wasn't just any mud either. It was dry-ish and had a distinctly grainy texture that I instantly recognized.

I heard a "So we landed in wet sand? Are we on a beach or something?" and apparently Pandia had too.

Wet sand? What could it mean? Where are we?

I looked around to further solve the mystery of that very question and was met with a small pool. It and a refreshing look to it and was surrounded by various desert looking foliage. The foliage cast a shadow over the pool as the sun went by, creating a forbidding body of water that harbored something dangerous in its depths and-

….

Sorry, we were reading A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens in school and he uses a lot of foreshadowing and stuff. So… Yeah. Sorry. Anyway it looked scary and I didn't want to take a much needed bath. Let us move on.

I looked behind me to discover a very daunting situation. We were in the middle of a desert in the mountains. At least I thought we were. It's kind of hard to miss a giant expanse of ENDLESS sand with mountains in the distance. I turned back to the oasis, just as Pandia thought it would be a good thing to jump in and I got splashed. Pandia had decided by the looks of it that right now would be the perfect opportunity to take a bath.

I rolled up my jeans till I could get them above my knees and waded in. I stopped when the water was lapping at my knees and dug my toes in the bottom of the pond. Pandia looked up at me. "Do remember that family trip you invited me to a few years ago?"

I looked at her, curious as to the reason she was bringing this up. "The one when we travelled to different areas around the four corners? What about it?"

She smiled at my forgetfulness. I really didn't have a clue what she was referring to.

"This water just reminded me of Medano Creek at the base of the Great Sand Dunes. Remember when we sat in the water?"

I laughed. "If we didn't have a hold on something it would take several feet away. It still amazes me. The fact that you had dry sand dunes on one side, large snow capped mountains on the other, and in the valley at their bases was a little creek were the sand and melted snow would deposit."

"Yeah."

All was quiet for a moment. The water in the pond had no current, except for what you made. The mountains in the distance were beautiful, but not close enough to see their peaks. There were no dunes to be found. This place was quiet, eerily so. I felt homesick.

"I wanna go home," Pandia said, voicing my thoughts aloud. We were both trying our best to be cheerful (at least I was), but it's kind of hard when you're in an unfamiliar place with no family, friends, or food.

"Unholy peanut butter!" I yelled.

Pandia just looked upset. "Are you still trying to see if you can use food in place of cuss words to see if it will catch on? I can tell you right now that I highly doubt it will catch on here."

"No! We don't have food!"

This got her attention. Pandia can not go a day without three meals and a snack, and even then she still complains that she's hungry! She most certainly will NOT last the standard week till starvation rule.

A few minutes later…. –

"We're gonna die!"

"Calm down Pandia!"

"We're dying the worst way possible! WITHOUT FOOD!"

"Pandia! You need to get a grip!"

"My one wish before death has always been a feast! I am being denied!

"Get a hold of yourself!" I slapped her once for good measure and she slapped me right back.

"WHAT IS IT?" she yelled in my face.

"Pandia it's getting dark! We need to make a shelter or fire thing! You should know. You watch Animal Planet!"

She looked around. "We don't have sticks and neither of us can climb trees so we should huddle under the leafy bush over their."

"Hey! I can climb trees!" And I was good at it too. I could climb higher up a tree then she could any day! My reply was of course met by an annoyed squint.

"You're too short."

"WHAAAAAA?"

"You can't reach the nearest foothold on any of the trunks. You're. Too. Short."

I gave her a look. "You irk me."

"Good."

Pandia huddled under a tallish leafy bush while grabbed rocks and sticks. Any dry stuff I could use for kindling was nice until.

"Pandia! I found poo."

"Poo? What?"

"Right there."

"So."

"It's a little dry, but still fresh. You know, like Doc's after a days but bigger."

"And?"

"An animal has been here!"

"So, there are animals in the desert."

"But it's huge! Way bigger then a dog!"

She failed to see my point. The rest of the night was uneventful. We built a pile of wood and right around the time it got dark we got a tiny fire going. A blew on it to provide oxygen and Pandia got mad. There was another argument, but I stopped and we took turns sleeping 'cause one of us had to keep it going. Frankly I think that she only let me sleep maybe three hours, but she argued that if she did, we couldn't tell what time it was so what did it matter?

Sometimes she makes me really hate her.

That's it so far. Now I am debating whether or not I should bring in our fun characters in the next chapter or not.

*Edit* By now I found a way to access Word on my laptop. Now all you guys need to do is pick the day of the week that we would update chapters. Most votes win!