Chapter 7 - Slaves, Arguments and A Mission Accomplished

A few miles further on, Harold, Stinky and Sid were getting tired and thirsty.

"Man I should go now for a Yahoo soda right now." said Sid.

"Fellars!" burst out Stinky, "Look!" there standing in front of them was a volcano, this was La Sombra hideout, but they didn't know.

"Come there could be food there!" said Harold excitedly.

"And some yahoo soda!" said Sid.

"Well what are we waiting for, let's get going!" said Stinky and the three of them rushed away!

As they climbed to the concourse of La Sombra's hideout, one of the guards saw them.

"Enemy approach!" he shouted and all of La Sombra's men huddled around the three worried looking boys. Harold hold onto his Wally tightly. "Well guys looks that this is the end." shivered Stinky. Then La Sombra came up.

"More gringo spies!" he shivered, "They must have come to free those other ones. Lock them in with the others!" and so the men did.

"Is there any food on the way?" asked Harold.

"Stop talking you fat Warthog!" shouted La Sombra.

"AND I'M NOT FAT!" shouted Harold.

The men then threw them into the prison cell. "Harold? Stinky? Sid?" asked Mr. Simmons.

"Mr. Simmons!" cheered Harold, "We found you!" and Harold jumped with joy, until...

"Happy, but how are we going to get out?" asked Rhonda bitterly. Harold then stopped and thought, "I dunno know?" he said and some of the students groaned.

FIVE HOURS LATER

The students were bored, tired and hungry, though they were given food by the goons. Later, La Sombra came towards them, he speaking something in spanish to one of his men.

"Enviar ellos a ser mi esclavos" he said. The goon knew what he was saying and opened the cage.

"We're free!" cheered Harold.

"Shut and get to work, you're La Sombra's slaves!" shouted the goon.

"You heard what Dundee says, get out now!" snapped La Sombra. Everyone groaned and did what he said.

MEANWHILE

It was the late afternoon and the dark clouds grew darker and darker, the sun was now gone and all around them was nothing but the shadows of the day from the clouds.

"M-maybe we should stay here for the night?" Helga asked.

"Now we have to keep going, I want to find my parents and who know what will become of our friends?" Arnold said.

"Look Arnold, face the facts, we have been walking around for hours, with this map dating who knows what? What happened to your parents, I don't know, Helga doesn't know and you don't know. We're tired and we want some rest." said Gerald, just then, thunder was heard and rain poured down.

"Look Gerald, I know we're tired, but I don't want to give up." said Arnold and he walked further on.

"He's a bold kid that Arnold." said Gerald.

"Oh criminy , give it up football head! We've been up walking for hours, my feet ache, I'm sweating like a guy out from a gym and I stink! You're parents would have found another way home or they could be dead!" then Arnold just lost it.

"LOOK HELGA, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU ON THIS TRIP!" he shouted, "THEY'RE MY PARENTS, I'LL FIND THEM ON MY OWN IF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! AS FROM WHAT I HEARD, THEY LOVED MORE THEN YOUR PARENTS DO!" he snapped. Helga and Gerald were shocked, they have never seen Arnold this mad before, he was always a nice, calm, relaxed down to earth guy.

Arnold turned around and walked on. Gerald followed behind. Helga was left alone. "Fine, but don't crying to me when you..." but Arnold and Gerald was out of earshot, "...Come back." said a sad and tearful Helga. Helga took out her heart locket and saw the picture of Arnold, the boy she loved all her life, the one whom she admired, the one who she have focused her life upon. But in the end, she chucked it away and was setting up her tent.

LATER

Arnold and Gerald were battling through the wind and rain on a dangerous cliff (the same one from 'The Journal' part 1).

"ARNOLD!" shouted Gerald, "WE HAVE TO STOP, THIS IS GETTING DANGEROUS!"

"NO I'M NOT STOPPING, I'M NEVER GOING TO GIVE UP GERALD AND THAT'S THAT!" but just as Arnold was taking one last step, a bit of rock fell and Arnold slipped down into a riven.

"ARNOLD!" shouted Gerald. But there was no reply. Arnold splashed into the water and was floating across the river. As he floated along, person came and grabbed him out of the water.

Arnold was then later seen in a hospital bed, he woke and saw two people standing beside him on either side of his bed. They were patting him with cotton wool to heal the scabs and bruises on Arnold's head and body.

"Little boy?" asked the woman, "What are you doing here?"

"I-I came here with friends for a contest, but...I came here to find my parents." Arnold with a weak voice to talk to.

"Ssssssssssh." hushed the man, "You need some rest, lie down and relax." so Arnold. and then the man looked through Arnold's back pack to find any identification.

While he was looking through, he found and old journal.

"Hey, this looks familiar?" said the man looking at the old book cover. He then opened it from the strap and read some entries.

"This-this looks like mine?" he wondered. The woman looked too and she was surprised, "That's your handwriting sweetie and this...this is us!" she said.

"Then that means...that is...our son!" Yes it was Miles and Stella, they're alive! They're now helping the green eye people with their health and have a small hospital in their village. The two them hugged and cried with tears of joy. They have been waiting nine years for this day to happen! They have realised that there son has now grown up and became a man.

"Our sweet baby boy is now a man." said Miles, who have a beard around him and turning slightly greyish in his blonde hair. Stella had longer hair and was turning a bit grey on her brunette hair. Later Arnold woke up again.

"Hey hi there, Hey Arnold, I'm your dad and this is your lovely mom, you're so lucky." said Miles. Arnold then remembered hearing that in the journal, his eyes bugged out and he rubbed them. "Mom? Dad?" he asked. Miles and Stella nod there heads in agreement, "Mom? Dad? Mom and Dad? MOMMY AND DADDY!" he cheered and hugged them tightly.

"I've missed you so much!" he said with tears of joy coming out of his eyes. "We've missed you too darling, we missed you too." said a tearful Stella and they stayed like this until nightfall.

THE NEXT MORNING

Helga was still sleeping and was thinking about Arnold. As she woke up and walked out of the tent to see if her locket was still there, she found that it was gone! "Hey who took my locket? When I find that person, they wished they never'd messed with Helga G. Pataki." she snarled. But just then, as she turned around there was...BRAINY!

"Brainy?" she snapped, "What the heck were you doing with my locket? You're going to get...forget it, it would not help." she said sadly. And she began to sob.

"...Helga...You must not give up...I do have...a crush on you but...you love Arnold more...You two are meant to be...he's got the...brains and you...got the tough...ness...Arnold still loves you...he was nice to you in pre-school and...at P.S118...the point that I'm saying is...don't give up your love for Arnold...He cared for you and...Looked out for you when it comes to your...family." and that all came from Brainy.

"Wow, you know, looking back at it now, I remember those days and he did look out for me when I it comes to my family. I love him Brainy, I LOVE HIM! Thanks." and she gave him a hug. "Can I have a kiss now?" Brainy asked. But just then Helga gave him a punch in the face as usual. "Not on the lips, but I gave you the Irish kiss." and she laughed. But just then Gerald ran towards her.

"Helga! Arnold's missing!" he gasped, "What? When? and How?" she asked.

"Arnold's missing, he was telling me not give up when he fell down a riven he's been missing since yesterday!" said Gerald frantically.

"We must find him, we can't go home without him." said Helga. So they helped up Brainy and the three of them rushed to find Arnold. They went past the cliff and not over it. Bashing through the trees and vines fighting there way to find Arnold.

E.O.C - 7