This chapter contains Christianity. Also, Queen Helena is my OC.


Chapter 6: Realization

Queen Helena strolled through the castle, searching for something to do. She wore a puffy red dress, with a leopard print down the middle. Her black hair was in a regal bun on the top of her head, and a golden crown accented with rubies.

It wasn't long before she spotted two penguins and puffin heading in her direction. She stopped, immediately. "Filthy animals!?" she exclaimed in disgust. She had a surprisingly faint Danish accent. "In my castle!?"

Right when she was about to summon the guards, the birds whipped out their Symbols of Sizone.

The queen gaped. How could birds be in a clan? She had heard that it was possible for animals to be clan members, but she had never believed it. Until now.

One of the penguins took off the dark gray back pack he was wearing and pulled out paper and a pen. He began writing on the paper, then handed it to Queen Helena. We have a plan to retrieve the Dionte, was written on it.

Helena wasn't completely sure what was going on. Avian members of her clan? And they know of the Dionte!?

She eyed the birds, curiously. "What do you know?" I'm talking to birds, she thought. I must have gone insane. But when she read the next thing the penguin wrote, she decided to side with the three Sizone.

Trust us. We're on your side, and we know how to retrieve the orbs the easy way.

Helena knew that only the clans knew of the orbs. And that the Aunka would never tell her about this.


"Amen." Two penguins-an adult female with slightly curled feathers on the back of her neck and a little skinny boy with bright green eyes-were knelt down outside the Monroeville Christian Church in Monroeville, PA, and had just finished praying.

It was a small building constructed out of brownish bricks. It was the shape of a basic house, and it had several bushes and trees growing around it.

The little boy up at the church, eyes wide with wonder. "Hey, Mommy," he said to the woman in front of him, "how come we never pray in the church?"

"Because penguins aren't allowed in churches, Johnny," his mother answered. "However, that shouldn't stop us from praising God."

"Why makes God so special?"

Johnny's mother smiled, as though she was expecting him to ask that. "Well, Sweetie, God did something very special."

Johnny tilted his head. "Did He invent something?"

His mother seemed to ponder this. "Well...that's one way to put it. He created every being on Earth, including the plants."

Her son gaped. "One Guy made

everything!?"

"That's what I've been taught."

"Humans, too?"

"Humans, too."

"But, Dylan says that humans came from fish who grew legs."

His mother laughed. "Well, Johnny, you tell Dylan that he's only half right."

"Why?"

"Because God helped the fish to evolve-or grow legs-and, eventually, turn into humans."

Johnson woke up and looked around. He and Skipper had fallen asleep on the sand by The Sound (it wasn't very comfortable, but they'd slept on worse). He looked at his leader, who was still sleeping.

Johnson thought about his dream. He and his mother...at church? Their conversation about God and what He had acomplished-creating life. How his friend/future commander, Dylan, had been partly wrong and why. The lieutenant didn't understand why he would dream about that.

Wait. The riddle! "Life began somewhere far superior, and mixed with water." That was it! Heaven! God was up in Heaven, and He created life on Earth. And if it mixed with water...

Holy Water! Johnson thought, excitedly. That must be it!


Huh. Not as long as I would've liked it to be... I'm trying to make my chapters longer. Oh, well! Btw, can you guess who Dylan is? ;) Please review!