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Chapter 14: Day 6-8
The next day, it rained practically non-stop, so everyone lay around inside the cabins, beginning to feel the effects of hunger.
As promised, the day after that, Candy met with the six members of the council and spent the whole day coming up with a document that would not only define the powers of the council and the president, but also contain a few laws and policies.
Dipper ripped out a blank sheet of paper from the back of his 3 book and they used that to write down the laws. In the end, this was what was approved by the council, and later read to the rest of the contestants:
The Saharan (Home Base and surrounding areas within 3 miles) Accords
Powers of:
President
Council
Can suggest laws that the council will vote for or against
Serves as judge in all cases. Criminal or civil.
Can arrest anyone for violating the following laws & policies
Can "declare war" with any common threat.
Can impeach any council member for misconduct.
Has the right to draft ANY citizen (including himself/ herself and/ or the council members) for any reason (brigade, "war", etc.)
Can create laws that President can veto
Can override President's veto IF it is unanimous among members
Can override President's judicial decision IF it is unanimous among members
In charge of food collection/ distribution
Has right to impeach president for misconduct.
Votes over Presidential request for a council member's impeachment
Saharan laws and policies:
1. Killing and fighting will not be tolerated; if broken, arrest will be made and suspect will be prosecuted.
2. Each contestant has the right to have weapons of any kind
3. NO ONE has the right to search and seizure unless there is undeniable proof that something is being used to do unlawful activities.
4. Curfew is 10:30 pm local time. If broken, arrest will be made and suspect will be prosecuted.
5. If a "declaration of war is called", ANYONE is subject to a draft called by the President.
6. Any activity that requires the contestant to go out past the forest MUST be approved by the President.
7. Any food caught from now on will be placed with the council and will distribute it as seen fit.
8. If the brigade that is to be assembled catches any unlawful activities, they have the right to make an arrest and send the suspect to the President for Prosecution.
The morning after the meeting, Dipper woke up at six thirty, unable to go back to sleep.
He silently got out of his bottom bunk and looked at the stone statues in the back of the room and drifted towards them.
It wasn't fair that some maniacs were terrorizing the kids by turning them to stone.
He had suggested a war against the cloaked figures, but Candy didn't want to risk having any more contestants turned to stone.
As he looked at each of the victims, Dipper noticed that Lee and Nate were holding large leaves over their crotches. Once again, he wondered why. But he wasn't curious enough to remove the leaves.
Dipper quietly pulled a stump that had been lying around over to the statues, stood on it, and held hands with Wendy. He put his fingers in the spaces between her own fingers.
Dipper bowed his head and closed his eyes, racking his head for a solution to the problem with people being turned to stone. He wasn't going to sit by and let them (especially Wendy) be stuck like that forever.
After about five minutes, Dipper opened his eyes, with no further inspiration. So he pulled out his 3 book with his free hand and opened it. The paper he'd been using as a book mark feel out.
Dipper let go of Wendy to pick it up. The paper was the note that Mabel had found in the girls cabin. Neither of them had been able to figure out its meaning.
Dipper whispered the note to himself. "Once they are frozen, they become impure. But when you find water, you have the cure. ~PK"
He twirled the note in his fingers as he tried to figure out its meaning for maybe the millionth time.
Dipper eyes widened as he had an epiphany. He reread the note several times more, than looked at the statues.
It was a long shot, but the plan he had formed was worth a try.
In the next fifteen minutes, Dipper woke up Mabel and the two of them carried Pacifica to a slowly churning river in the forest surrounding Home Base.
They had originally planned on taking Wendy, but because of the weight she gained from being turned to stone combined with the strength the twins lost due to hunger, Wendy was too heavy.
Pacifica, on the other hand, was significantly lighter. So despite the hatred the twins had towards her, that's who they ended up taking.
Once they arrived at the river, Mabel spoke. "Are you sure that if we drop her in the water, she'll become human again?" asked Mabel. "Besides, why couldn't this wait until later when we could have asked a few others to help us carry Wendy?"
"Because I don't want to get everyone excited," replied Dipper. "Especially if I'm wrong."
"Well, there's only one way to find out," said Mabel. She and her brother swung Pacifica three times and tossed her into the water.
Pacifica's stone body fell four and a half feet before hitting the bottom.
As Dipper stepped forward to take a look in the river, he saw a flask sticking out of the ground that contained what looked like a red, carbonated liquid.
He pulled the flask out of the ground, briefly looked at it, and put it in his vest. He'd analyze it later.
Suddenly, the sound of water bubbling broke the silence.
Dipper looked up and saw a small steam rising from the river water. Then, Pacifica's body returned to normal after a quick white light. She frantically stood up to keep herself from drowning.
A coughing Pacifica staggered out of the river where the twins helped her remain standing.
"Are you alright?" asked Dipper.
Pacifica grabbed his arms. "It was horrible! The whole time I was stone was unbearable. The whole time, I was conscious, but I couldn't see, feel, or move. I could hear snidbits at a time. It was like I was forced to experience a death where I knew what went on around me."
Dipper weaseled out of her grip. "That sounds bad. But believe me, I feel like we're two steps from hell. And inevitably, we're going to be there soon."
Suddenly, a girl with sandy blonde waist length hair, with tan skin who was wearing a neon purple tank top, Jean shorts (with a knife sticking out of her back pocket), and neon pink flip flops emerged from the trees on the other side of the river and ran across it. She stopped when she saw the other three.
"Who are you?" the girl asked.
"I think the real question here, is who are you?" Mabel countered.
Before the girl could answer, three cloaked figures emerged on the other side of the river, each holding a medusa device.
Pacifica yelped at the sight of them.
"Don't worry, I got this," said the girl. She summoned two balls of green energy and used them to blast two of the cloaked figures back into the trees.
The third grunted and pulled the trigger on his medusa device. The girl counter attacked with a continuous stream of green energy. The two beams collided over the river and pushed against each other.
The girls' beam easily won out and the cloaked figure was blasted back into the trees.
"Again, who are you?" asked Mabel incredulously.
"My name is Sahara," said the girl. "I'm a local who wandered in this area and was-" Suddenly, her skin turned pale, her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she passed out.
~Jameer14