CHAPTER 9-COLLECTING SHELLS.
Dash and Mirage walked along the beach with buckets in their hands. Suddenly, Mirage' s toe hit something in the sand. She looked and gasped when she saw a purple shell that shone in the sun with a glass-like surface. She bent and picked it up before observing it.
"Dash, look at this!" Mirage said, showing Dash the shell.
"Wow, cool!" Dash said.
"Hey, Dash, why don't we have a contest? Whoever finds the most shells gets to pick where we eat tonight." Mirage suggested.
"Ok, you're on." Dash said before he and Mirage headed in separate directions.
Mirage found a lot of shells as she walked along the shoreline, some looking glassy, some looking unique in shape, even some looking like the heads of superheroes.
"Look at that!" Mirage said as she found a shell that looked like Dash's head, finding one that looked like Violet right after.
Meanwhile, Dash walked along the shoreline and found shells that looked like Pokemon, Naruto characters and even some that looked like Disney characters.
"Check this out!" Dash said as he found a shell that looked like a familiar duck that was a friend of a certain mouse. He walked a little further before his foot hit something buried in the sand. He at first thought it was a pebble, but when he looked, he saw what looked like an orange round piece of glass. He brushed some of the sand off it before pulling it out by the edge. He looked puzzled when he saw it was an orange orb with four red five-pointed stars inside it that was approximately 3 inches in diameter.
"What's this thing?" he asked before he headed back to where Mirage was.
"Aunt Mirage, what's this?" he asked as he showed her the orb.
"I don't know." Mirage said as she looked at the orb before Dash handed it to her.
"I think you should have it. Think of it as a good luck charm." Dash said.
"Thank you, Dash." Mirage said with a smile before she asked, "How many shells did you find?"
Dash counted his shells before he answered, "34."
"I found...34, too." Mirage said before she suggested, "How about we just go to McDonald's?" with a smile.
"How'd you know that's what I was gonna suggest?" Dash asked.
"I didn't. I was going to suggest it." Mirage said as they walked toward the pier.
"Guess it's true that great minds think alike." Dash said.