Chapter 8: The Beginning of an Adventure

I woke up this morning as usual and took care of my crops and animals. While I was in my barn i heard somebody
scream near Mother's Hill. I burst out the bard door and ran down the path to Mother's Hill. As I got to the
fork in the road i heard someone crying just up ahead. I turned the cornner and saw Jo laying on teh ground
with blood flowing from a wound on her leg. "Are you ok?" I asked in a panic. I could tell she was in so much pain
she could talk. So i took my scarf from around my neck and tide it around her wound to help stop the bleeding.
She didnt have much time so I took her up in my arms and carried her to the clinic. Jack waited in the waiting
room as the doctor took care of Jo. "What the heck is taking so long!" Jack yelled and he pounded his fist
on the wall. Elli tryed her best to confurt Jack "It's ok Jack I'm sure she'll be fine" she said as she kiss
him on the cheek. Too bad she didn't know how wrong she was. A few minutes later the doctor walked out of
the E.R. ("emergency room" DUH!) he seemed to have a grim look on his face. "Jack..." he said looking into
Jack's deep blue eyes. "I'm afraid she might not make it" he siad begening to explain the situation. "She
somehow got this in her leg" he said as he held up a test-tube with a small shard of crystal in it. "It's a
type of magic poison crystal from the island in the middle of the sea..." Just then Jessica and Darcy burst
through the door. "WHERE IS IT!?" Jessica yelled as Darcy looked around the room. Darcy snatched the
test-tube with the crystal in it from the doctor. "Did anybody come in contact with tyhis crystal" Jessica
asked in a panic. "Jo did, I found her near the mountain path with it in her leg" Jack explained with a worried
look in his eyes. "Oh god..." Darcy said in shock. "What is going on jessica?!" Jack said with tears in his eyes.
Jessica expained that the crystal was indeed a magic poison crystal from Vodnal Island, but she didn't kno
how in the world Jo got it in her. "Is there any way we can save her?" Elli asked. Darcy held out a vile of yellow
stuff "Give her this, it will keep her stable." "Thank you" the doctor replide as he took the potion in to give it to Jo.
"That will only keep her from getting worse, we must get an Ikasty crystal to cure her" Jessica told Jack.
"Darcy, Jessica... who are you two... really?"