Wakey, Wakey

Fred POV

I grunted and sat up. Man was I sore. I don't think we ever ran that much before. I looked around. Everyone was still passed out. I tried to find any trace of the cave, but it was gone. It looked like nothing was ever here. Huh, wonder how that happened. I tried to wake Joe and Sam up. They didn't respond. I sighed. Great. What was I supposed to do now? I noticed Cade wasn't here. Her sister was, which meant she hadn't gone far. Did she even make it out of the cave with us? I don't remember seeing her.

"Oh good. You're up." I spun around. There she was, and she looked pissed. She had everything packed up and ready to go too. "Get your friends up, now." I immediately started shaking, yelling, and even kicking to get them to wake up.

Sam reached consciousness first. "Wha-?" He looked around and winced as the pain set in. "Ow."

"Hurry. Cade is pissed."

"Huh?" He looked over at Cade. "Why?"

"I don't know, but she wants to leave. So, we should leave. Now."

Sam nodded and helped me wake up Joe. It took us five minutes. Why was he such a deep sleeper? When he finally got up, Cade was even more mad.

"Finally. Let's go." She picked up Gabby and marched off quickly. We had to run to keep up.

"Why do you think she's so ticked?" Joe asked.

I shrugged. "Who knows what goes on in this crazy chic's mind."

Sam stared at her. "Guys, what did we come out here to find?"

"Her par- oh." I looked down.

"They could still be alive, for all we know they could have escaped like we did. We did end up in some random place. I didn't recognize it. Did you?" Joe looked at Sam and me for confirmation. We both shook our heads. "Maybe they're half-way across the continent trying to get home."

Sam sighed. "I don't know…" Why was he so upset? It's not like this affected us at all. He should be glad that we're alive.

"Wait, if we ended up in some random place, how do we know where we are? Does she even know where we're going?" I looked around. I saw nothing but desert. No plants, no animals, nothing. Just sand and dirt.

"Yes." Cade spun around and glared at us. "Don't talk like I'm not here. I can hear everything you're saying." She turned back around. "I brought a compass. We're heading east towards Melbourne. We came out about five miles north of Tarneit. We'll be in Melbourne soon. From there we might get a ride to Wentworth. My home is near there."

"Might?" I didn't want to hear that. I was tired and hungry. I just wanted to get back home and scarf down some Ray's pizza. My mouth watered at the thought.
"Might because this is Australia. All the major cities are along the coast. Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, all along the coast. Any travelers or shippers would be headed to those cities. We need to head into the desert."

Great. Just what I wanted. I stopped. Sam and Joe bumped into me. Cade turned around and glared. "We are not stopping."

I looked at Joe. "We have The Book with us. Can we use it to get back to the cave?"

Joe seemed shocked. I guess he'd forgotten we had The Book with us. I smiled at myself. I had my moments.

"I guess so, but I don't know where we'd end up. We might end up back at the cave, or we could end up in two-thousand BC."

"Oh come on. You've been reading that book a lot lately. Don't you think you know how to use it by now? Doesn't it have some page where it lists all the places we've warped before? Kinda like a history page on a computer?"

Joe shrugged. "I don't know."

Cade tapped her foot. "Well figure something out."

Joe opened the book and flipped through the pages. "Sorry Fred, no warp history page." I frowned. "But we do have the Transporter Page." He looked up at Cade. "Do you know the coordinates of your home?"

"Of course. My mom made me memorize them when I was little because it was out in the middle of nowhere. 33°59'50.21"S and 141°57'13.84"E."

Joe typed in the coordinates. "Well, here goes nothing." He pressed a spot in The Book and green fog curled around us.

They landed in a cloud of dust.

"Did we make it?" Joe coughed and looked around.

Cade's head spun around. Sam noticed this. "Yeah, the first warp is always the worst." He attempted to help her, but she shoved him away.

"I'm fine." She stood up and brushed herself off. The dust cloud cleared. They were standing by a river. "Hey, that's the Darling. It worked. My home is just one and a half miles east from here."

"One and a half miles? We have to walk after all that just happened!" Fred grumbled. Cade turned around and glared at him. Fred shut up.

"We better get moving." She looked towards the sky. "It's almost dark, and then the deadlies come out."

The trio gulped. They did not want to meet the deadliest creatures in the world. Much less what would happen if they did.

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