Ok welcome back. Thank you all for reading the last chapter. it was really long.

READ-I would like to thank Afgncaap8 for telling me about my mistake in the last chapter. I honestly thought Antarctica was in the north, but it is in the south. So please ignore that part. And another thing, is that not all the facts about global warming will be true in this story since I am only 13 and am not a scientist. So please do not believe everything about global warming, I do not need teachers, parents, and others screaming at me for getting facts wrong.

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Dino- wow I loved writing the last chapter!

Yuki- so did I!

Colron-….

Dino- ignore Coly, he is just sick today.

Colron- I told you to quit calling me that! *Frown face*!!!!

Dino, Yuki- OMG!! You can do those faces! When did you learn?

Colron- *Bored face* you guys are idiots…

Colron- but you're my idiots *happy face*

Dino-……….. I feel disturbed, happy, warm, and angry…..

Dino- Colron….your cold is making you say things you don't mean, go back to bed

Colron- XD I LOVE DINO!!!!
Dino- I am your freaking cousin! No saying that!

Yuki-………..ON WITH THE STORY!!!

Also I am now using '========' to separate parts now

Review to Responses

Afgncaap8

Thank you again for mentioning our mistake. You just taught us something new about geology!

Chiyo and Osaka Fan

Thanks. And I think everyone is worried about that.

P.S. this is version two because I messed up on the original chapter 21 so I had to fix up some things and re-post it. sorry.

Crona

Ok, out of all the dumb things I ever did, this was on top of the list. Just for a summary of what was going on, I was on Antarctica, I was outside, it was cold out, I was with a Husky and an Alsatian puppy, and, now for the best part, I was lost. Great, right? Not so much when you are the one lost. I looked at the ground; I was still following the penguins, which was good. The reason I left was because my mind –and 'my conscience' Ragnarok- wouldn't quit bugging me about seeing the penguins up close. So I decided to follow there footprints. Of course I was taking a safety precaution and brought the rescue dogs Kai and Toklo with me. bad part was, I felt like I was going no where near the penguins. I had been keeping my face down and didn't notice the sky, or notice the blizzard that was starting. Only when it was beginning to get more windy did I realize. "Crap!" I said. "What do I do?! What do I do?!" I said. The dogs seemed to be panicking to. But not as bad as I, who was hyperventilating.

I thought back to the time that Medusa had me go to the North Pole to do some destruction on a military base that was abandoned for a week:

"Ok Crona, I am only telling you what to do when in a blizzard, you dig a hole and wait it out, now go destroy that base and I might give you a decent meal when you return."

Was exactly what Medusa had said.

I sighed and rubbed my arms. It was cold out and the wind was picking up. I looked around. I might as well listen to what she had said…. I started to dig trying to make a whole big enough for me and Kai and Toklo. When I was done I gestured for the dogs to get in and then crawled in myself. It didn't take long for the blizzard to seal off the entrance, though surprisingly there was a little light reflecting in there from the snow. I closed my eyes a bit trying to pass the time. This was my first time actually out side in a blizzard. So was I scared? Was I? What do you think!? I was outside in a blizzard, so of course I wasn't scared!!!! I was terrified!

I must have dozed off because when I opened my eyes I was really weak and tired…I squirmed around and dug out of the whole, the blizzard was over. I smiled and crawled out, Kai and Toklo followed suit, they stretched there legs and I looked around. "Ehh…. I know you guys can't speak, but… any idea where the base is?" I asked the dogs, the blizzard covered up all our tracks. And I couldn't remember what direction to the direction I came from that I made the hole in….

I started to panic a little, "Ok, ok, calm down Crona, you have been in worse situations! Calm down!" I muttered as my heart beat started to slow down. I looked around. "Ok so the base is THAT direction." I said just pointing into a random direction……then going the opposite way. "But my gut tells me to go that way." I say going in that direction a few more steps then make a right turn. "But my head says to go in this direction." I say going in the new random direction starting to panic again and made another turn. "But my heart says this direction!!!" I said and went a few steps before I broke down, "I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO GO!!!" I wailed, Kai and Toklo looked at me with pitying eyes

"Was it right to follow the direction that the icicle went? Was it?" I muttered. After having my mental breakdown, I found a long icicle, so I tossed it in the air and let whichever direction it landed in be the direction I went. It was getting colder too. I looked around, hoping to catch site of the building I wanted to find. Sighing I found no site of it. I started to wonder if this was the right direction. I sighed and took another step forward, Kai and Toklo a few inches behind me…well Toklo a few inches because of his shorter legs. Kai was next to me. I took another step only to fall through the snow, and fall into an underground crevice. I gasped as I tried to stop the fall by grabbing onto the walls. I then gasped as I stopped falling, and gasped again as I felt a 60 pound husky fall on me and a the weight I could not tell of the Alsatian land on me. I grunted in pain. I then looked down….I was stuck in the crevice, on closer examination, I could not see the bottom, and it got wider lower.

Crap

Maka

"Oh god oh god oh god!!!!" Asura and I said in unison. "Were going out there!" I said as I stopped pacing beside Asura leaving him to pace in worry by himself. Luke looked out the window. "The first blizzard is over." He announced. "And the second one should be coming in twenty minutes." He said and gave us a nervous look. "You should bundle up really warm, you might get caught in the next blizzard." Marcus said coming down. "Nate will go over some of the things as to what to do if you face a danger out there. There are two backpacks by the door for you. Choose a direction to go in, and the rest of us will go in the other direction. you will find Walkie Talkies in the bag. Nate will stay here in case they come back. And if you find them, call everyone….hey where's Catrin?" he said and Nate shrugged. "I think she went out to look for him." He said

Catrin

"God! Why do I have to go by that stupid name Catrin?!" I muttered as I made my way through the snow. "Well it's not like I could say to them, 'Hi! I'm Medusa Gorgon! Pleased to see you again my beloved son! Now lets go so I can perform more experiments on your body and have you kill more people for me!'" I muttered and suddenly fell and slid down a random but very ironic ice slop for snowboarding and landing in a whole. "I WANT TO GO BACK TO NEVADA, NOW!!!!!" I screamed.

Maka

"And when you are in a blizzard, dig a whole and stay there until it is over." Nate finished and paused. "That should be all…" he said thoughtful. "Well, now go and get that idiot." He finished as he shoved us out of the building. I looked at Asura. "are you ready to find our Crona?" I asked him, he looked at me and replied. "I am always ready to save his sorry butt." Was his reply, and together we marched on into the snow in search of what was most important to us: Crona. Whom was also dead once they find him, I could see a very powerful Maka Chop once I find him and we get him to safety.

Crona

I shivered and felt the two dogs shiver two. Yes, I was still in the crevice, there was no way I could climb out with two dogs who's weights combined probably weighed around, if not more, 70 pounds. I had slipped some more and so now if I let go I would definitely fall to my death.

I felt Kai shivering and looked up, he had frost forming on his fur and he had icicles forming on him to. I looked at Toklo, he was also shivering and in the same condition as Kai. I was also starting to go numb, I was already losing feeling in my hands, and right now, letting myself just fall through that whole felt like the best thing in the world. But I had to resist, if I let go, Toklo and Kai would also die, and I would never be able to see Asura again, nor would I see Arachne and the research team…. I would never see Maka smile again, Maka pout and laugh again, Maka get irritated at Soul or others and Maka Chop them…I would never see her again…I didn't want that to happen. I shivered again.

I really wanted to go to sleep, my arms were starting to get sore.

Maka

I looked around and suddenly froze. "Asura, I think I might know where Crona is." I said looking at the ground. He looked at me, I could sense the anxious and hope radiating off him like a big loud speaker announcing it. "Remember earlier today, he said he wanted to get a better look at the penguins, but we couldn't because Marcus didn't want us to head out that far until we had gone through all the safety guidelines." I started. Asura nodded signaling that he remembered. "Well," I said and pointed at the ground, there were penguin tracks. "How much do you want to bet that me will probably find Crona with the penguins?" I asked. Asura didn't answer, just took off running, following the tracks. Nothing was going to stop him from finding Crona, I smiled he and Crona were very good friends and Asura really cared for Crona.

I then realized that I was being left behind and ran after him. "SLOW DOWN!!" I yelled at him, he slowed down a little then came to a complete stop. "There are the penguins; I have a feeling we aren't going to find our little lavender haired boy down there in the group of penguins." Asura said sounding sad, and scared. I looked, and sure enough he was right, there was no trace of Crona. I frowned, this was not good. We still had no idea where to look for him. I started off in a new direction to go in. Asura followed, I could tell he was getting more anxious now that we had no lead as to where Crona was.

I then spotted footprints. "Maybe they're ours." Asura mumbled. I shook my head, a grin spreading on my face. "There are dog footprints too. Not just one set, but two sets of them," I said grinning happily. We now had footprints to follow! We would be able to find him now! I rushed following the footprints. I then slowed down a bit, something was not right. The footprints seemed to be ending, but there was no sign of him, there was no sign of the dogs…

Crona

I was starting to get tired, my arms ached, I couldn't feel my fingers, or my legs. I was freezing. And it was getting colder by the minute. The snow covered most of the opening up so there was barley any light, but I learned that right where we stepped was the weakest part with the thinnest ice –which I didn't even know I was walking on ice at the time- the rest was thick enough to hold a pick up truck filled with heavy sumo wrestlers. Kai squirmed some more and whined. "Kai! Quit it! your going to make us fall if you keep it up!" I scolded, though my voice was weak and tired and did sound at all as I hoped it would. It sounded more as a plea, which it was in a way. I glanced at Toklo, he seemed to be asleep. Oh god, hopefully he wasn't dead. I could feel the frost that had formed on my face. I sighed, I really wanted to get out of here, let my arms rest, get warm, but I couldn't.

I was probably never leaving this crevice, though right now I had no idea if it was really called a crevice, my brain seemed to be shutting down thanks to the cold. So I had no idea if Crevice was the right I took a quiz right now, I would surly get a negative 78 for my grade.

I sighed, I was going to die here with two dogs. The dogs are going to die because I couldn't hold on forever and fell. I always thought I would die by the hands of Medusa…or Steins dissection, not this way.

Maka

I was standing at where the footprints ended. This was not a good thing, where did they go? Where? I looked around starting to panic. What if a pterodactyl came up and took them?! Ok now I was just going crazy, pterodactyls don't live in Antarctica, they live in the Caribbean. I sighed and looked around. I walked a little further, Asura right behind me panicking. As I took another step, this time kicking snow, I heard a whine followed by a soft, weak: "Cold...." I froze and looked around. I recognized the voice. "Crona?!" I yelled looking around. "…..M-Maka………?" the weak voice replied, it was scared and tired I moved again knocking away more snow. "…..Y-y-y-you just k-k-kicked snow on m-me." he mumbled I froze. "Where are you?!" Asura said running up. "I am in the crevice, or whatever its called down here..... I….. I'm s-s-stuck…I can't feel most of my body….and I think my ankle is caught on something…" he mumbled and I saw the small opening. "I-if I let go…. I fall…and possible die…"he mumbled then added. "B-b-but…falling seems like the best th-thing right now…" I froze. "Asura! Get the rope! Crona! Were going to lower down a rope for you to climb out of!" I said.

Crona paused. "But…K-Kai…and T-Toklo….there down here to…" He said I thought for a moment. "Try and tie the rope to Toklo, we'll get him out that way. Then do the same with Kai, and then I want you to tie it around your own waist when we bring it down again." I said. I heard a small agreement. Asura handed me the rope and we lowered it down. "Tell us when to bring it up." I said. There was a weak tug on the rope and an even weaker. "Its done." Asura and I pulled Toklo up with no problem, he was out cold. Asura rubbed his fur then stuck him in his coat to keep him warm. We then lowered the rope again.

Kai was challenging. He was a lot heavier then Toklo so we had to use more strength when we got him to the ledge his scrabbled to get a firm hold of it with his claws helping us a lot by that. I walked over and got some of the frost off his fur then went to the rope and look down the hole. I could see Crona clearly now…. Well kind of, he was to far down for me to see him that well, but I could see that he was indeed still alive. But was getting tired. I lowered the rope. "It's your turn now, Crona." I said and waited for him to say he was ready. Then Asura and I pulled. But we didn't seem to be getting anywhere. I heard him cry out in pain. "My ankle, it…its really stuck in a hole in the rock…wall….thing…" Crona said I thought a moment. "Crona, this is going to hurt, but we might need you to twist your ankle about trying to get it out, while your doing that we will pull you out. It might hurt." I said.

Crona made a noise and we started to pull. We seemed to be able to pull the rope more to us, inch by inch, I then heard a cry of agonizing pain and we were suddenly able to pull him out easier. When we got him to our side Asura and I ran to his side. He was even paler it seemed. But he also had a lot of frost in his lavender locks of hair that weren't hidden under his fur hat and earmuffs. "Crona! Are you alright?!" I said urgently. He gave me a weak smile. "My ankle hurts like hell…if that counts as alright…because that is the only thing I can feel at the moment…" he mumbled. "I…I feel really tired." He said. I froze. My brain couldn't remember if this is one of the signs of hyperthermia that Nate told us about, but I knew this was not a good sign even if it wasn't for hyperthermia.

Asura picked Crona up and put him on his back. He then looked at the sky. "the other blizzard is coming, we need to get away from here and build the hole in the snow to wait in." Asura said as he carried Crona away. "Maka, call the others and tell them we found Crona." Asura said as he walked back in the direction we came in, Toklo still in his coat, Kai following behind weakly. We found a spot where there was no ice on the bottom to make the hole. Asura set Crona on the ground as him and I dug the whole. It was kind of hard seeing as our hands were cold number then we would like. But when we managed to make it we had Kai and Toklo go in first, then I helped Crona in, Asura came in last, he had his back against the entrance as the wind started to pick up.

We then had an enclosed hole after the snow blocked off the entrance. Kai and Toklo were curled up next to each other and Crona was slouched. He kept coughing, and I was getting worried about him. "It….I-it's g-g-g-getting c-c-colder…." He mumbled, he was shivering, but the hole was actually warming up with all our body heat. Then it hit me. "Crona, did you by any chance while out there eat some snow?" I asked urgently, Asura looked at us and understood. Crona looked confused and slowly nodded his head. "I…I was r-r-really thirsty…and s-s-snow is f-f-f-frozen w-w-water." I mumbled. I froze, after Nate had finished giving us instructions I remember Luke adding that not to eat the snow, it will freeze your core. Crap. Crona! Oh god! What if he had hyperthermia?! I know I wasn't at all that knowledgeable when it came to these things. But I was pretty sure, that when your core freezes, it is NOT a good thing!

And he might have gotten hyperthermia from being out in the cold for so long, not to mention his ankle. "Crona! Can you feel anything?!" I asked, I was freaking out. He nodded. "My ankle still really hurts….b-b-but I t-t-think the c-c-cold is w-w-w-working l-like an ice pack for it…." He mumbled and slouched again. "I'm really tired…" he said and I sighed and brought him over to me and wrapped my arms around his waist and rested his head on my shoulder

I could still hear the wind howling, signaling the blizzard was still going on. I looked down at the sleeping boy that I held in my arms and smiled a sad smile, he seemed even weaker. Asura was starting to doze off two, and I realized I was having a hard time to keep awake and I was getting cold to. I looked around, everyone was looking weaker. And it hit me, we probably used up all the oxygen in here. Crap. I squirmed a little, careful not to wake up Crona, and punched a hole in the snow, I took a deep breath as fresh air came in and that seemed to get Asura to wake up. He took a deep breath two. He wasn't wearing his scarf surprisingly. He had taken it off and wrapped it around Cronas ankle to make sure whatever bad condition it was in, it didn't get worse.

We went like that having a new supply of air for a few minutes before the hole covered up again, I guess I would have to punch another when we started running out again. Crona moved a little and snuggled up against me. Asura smirked and I blushed. Crona would probably never do that if he was awake. But despite the surprise I smiled and kissed the top of Cronas head/hat. He mumbled something I didn't exactly understand but I smiled still.

I suddenly recognize this as the same thing, or really close to a certain book about mutant kids with wings, on a certain volume, with the exact –or really similar- thing happen. Yes I read the Maximum Ride books, I had actually just finished Fang.

I told Asura my discovery and he rolled his eyes," I can see the ironic coincidences there," he said and smirked. "So are we going to be kidnapped and auctioned off?" I shake my head then pauses. "I have no idea, it could happen. But first Crona would have to learn how to read minds, compulsion, talking to fish, have gills, and fly." I said. Asura arched his eyebrow, I grinned "That's what Angel can do." He said, I nodded "And which dog will talk? Toklo or Kai?" He asked I thinks. "Toklo." He says before I could decided. "and you would probably be Max and I would be Fang." He says and laughs.

We keep talking about books while we waited out the blizzard, Crona still in my arms fast asleep, Kai and Toklo curled up next to each other sleeping and Asura and I talking and laughing. I punched a hole in the snow five times before the blizzard ended and we were able to get out. Crona hadn't woken up yet and I was worried. He should have woken up due to all the laughter we did. As I crawled out and stretched –Asura had went back to carrying Crona- I looked around. I could not see our footprints at all. I then looked at Asura. He was staring at Crona. I went over to them and froze, then smiled. On Cronas sleeping face was, a tiny smile. Both Asura and I did the same thing "AWWWWWWW!!! So cute!!!" he said.

I pulled out the Walkie talkie and called the others. After Nate's praises, and Luke's semi-praises, Marcus told us to stay there and they would come with a helicopter and get us. I also told him about Cronas condition.

After about fifteen minutes of waiting, hearing Asura tell me funny stories at to what happened at Shibusen from before I met Crona and went there, and I laughing at how idiotic they could be –and how funny the April fools day of Cronas second year there, everyone stole his clothes and left him only a pink fairy outfit to wear for the entire day- the helicopter finally arrived. Inside it were Morgan, Nate, Nick and a stretcher. Nick took Crona from Asura and put him on the stretcher and Nate gave us all more praises and herded us onto the helicopter the dogs followed happily.

Though it was a sad thing to see Crona on the stretcher, it was worth seeing his reaction when he woke up five minutes later on it confused and surprised and just a expression that I could not describe but sent everyone laughing and clutching there guts.

Thank you all for reading!!!! I know this was nine pages of goodness. Remember I got the direction Antarctica was in mixed up. Thank you again for reading. LOL Medusa made her appearance, she was Catrin, and Max. so if you wanted to know that and didn't figure it out.

Again thank you all for reading and reviewing, and for you to know, the story is getting closer to its end, we still haven't decided as to we should end the story soon or not.

Dino- that was fun, yea! MAXIMUM RIDE!! Angel I do not like.

Yuki- I don't like her either.

Colron- I LOVE YOU GUYS!! :):):):):)

Dino-……BED……NOW!

Colron- Nya!

Dino- BED NOW OR I WILL RIP OUT YOUR ARMS AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU WITH THEM!!!

Yuki- Run-kun, you should really do as she says…. I think she is serious

Colron- NYa-hahaha!!!

Dino……….DIE!!!!!!!!
Yuki…well then……

Yuki- BYE-BYE EVERYONE!!! SEE YOU NEXT CHAPTER!!!! XD