I walked through a huge forest. The only one who came with me was Sherbet, again. "How many times do you have to follow ME?!" I screamed, not looking at him.
"Because I'm always assigned with you!"
"Whatever the reason is, I'm tired of you!"
I kind of felt bad for saying that, but I wasn't lying.
The air was crisp and fresh. The sky was a dark gray. I hoped it wasn't going to rain. The trees were waving to the rhythm of the wind. Yes, it was windy outside, but the major gusts came a few times.
You could tell Sherbet felt awkward looking for something specific. Usually, we're assigned to jobs to look for something easy to find. Now we're looking for that one thing.
"Wouldn't it take years to find something so specific?" Sherbet once said. He thinks too much about the future. I'm just happy the others are looking too. Not because I'm scared that it will take years without help, but Sherbet won't worry as much with help. But he still looked awkward.
I thought I smelled delicious mushrooms, but I was hallucinating. I guess I was hungry. Sweet smell of mushrooms, what's better than that? I guess grapes. I thought. Sherbet was obliviously hurt by what I said, still, because he didn't say a word.
I was sick and tired of Sherbet's silence. He didn't say anything and just followed me through the forest. Finally, I yelled at him. "SAY SOMETHING!" "Why? You're just going to yell at me again." Sherbet said rather calmly. His voice didn't have one crack of cowardliness. I kind of felt proud for Sherbet basically standing up to me.
"Wait a second, Troy. Look!" Sherbet said, excited. I spun around. It was the fountain. It was that wonderful fountain! And it was actually there!
"And no one's here yet!" Sherbet said proudly (which is rare of him). "Would you look at that. This is great!" I screamed happily. I ran towards the fountain. "What power do you think it holds?" I said, kind of greedily.
"Not sure. But let's not mess with it."
"Why not?"
"Well, we really don't know how to make it stop…"
"Fine. We'll wait. But it may take a while."
And it did. It took the others about 2 hours to find this place. Luckily, there were grapes around, but they still took a while.
"You could have moved it when you GOT HERE." Kiki grumbled. Sherbet looked hurt a pretended to curl up into a ball.
"Sherbet and I didn't know what to do and if it was OK with you guys." I said, protecting Sherbet. It was strange how all the others came without Sherbet and I. Then it hit me.
"You were trying to get rid of us! Admit it!" I yelled. I was pretty surprised they were doing this. We weren't that bad of a team.
"OK. We admit. But you guys were so late that we thought we'd just lose you. Besides…" Kiki suddenly stopped talking. "You got here before us…" She was lost for words.
I grinned. Can't judge the book by its cover, eh? I thought happily.
"Why don't we just hurry and move it?" Sherbet said quickly. He looked worried. More worried than usual. He was a paler orange too. He was looking at the sky. Then I looked up. Now I knew what was going on. Something was about to crash in Dinosaur Island. Right here.
