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What Lies Beneath
by
~Miriah~of~the~Wind~
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Chapter 7: No Day But Today
(A/N: Okay, I the things in brackets or [] are from a song called 'No day but today' and its buy the musical Rent. I don't know the whole song so I wrote what I could.)
[This is it. This has set.]
Dib stood on top of the school steps over looking the playground. He took a deep breath to calm himself. Gaz came over and said, "Are you sure you want to do this? What if your wrong?"
"What if I'm right?" Dib asked. Everything that he had studied and worked for would all come down to this. It was his ultimate test. He could pull off a good relationship with the Cosovian people his race would be saved. He had to get the aliens to a safe location. A place where gossip, rumors, and Saucer Morons wouldn't be a problem. Like the library.
[Forget about regret.]
Dib hesitated. What if Shland didn't trust him and wouldn't come? Even if she did they would have start some kind of conversation. But what if the other kids gotten to her first? What if she really believed that he was crazy and unstable? No, Dib thought, without me the Earth is doomed and I can't do it alone.
[No other road. No other way.]
Only the Irkens could call this Invasion and they would listen to Zim. Sure Zim was a nut, but he knew his own people. The only real problem was getting Zim to listen to him. Shland could talk to Zim. Irken and Cosovians had a very tight and strong relationship. One couldn't and wouldn't survive without the other. Perhaps the human race could be part of this and make it a triangle, but what did his race have to offer? Perhaps he should do some more research on the positive aspects of Earth.
[No day but today.]
No. By then it could be to late. Dib stuck his hands in his pockets. His fingers hit the medallion and the page he tore out of his magazine whose symbol matched the pendant. That's what they would talk about. Their race. Their culture. Their religion. He had to do this toady. Other wise it would be too late. He put the necklace on and walked down the school steps. Nervously he and Gaz made his way to Zim, Vio, and Shland.
"Um. Could I see you guys in the library?" Dib asked shyly. All three of the aliens looked at each other, not sure what to say.
"Tak al ma lanca faka miora." Zim said to Vio and Shland. He said it as though he was accusing Dib of a crime.
"U hadwa niki shik untha?" Vio asked. Dib looked at them in confusion. Maybe they're speaking ancient Irken Dib thought
"Ih dio thwa hey shey ta." Shland said. Dib guessed what Shland was speaking was ancient Cosovian because her speech was much quicker and her pitches were sometimes high and sometimes low.
"XiXi! Ayd ino shiv!" Zim said in a panicky sort of voice.
"Ahwt aevh ew tog ot seol, Zim?" Shland asked. Zim nodded and turned to Dib, "Alright human. We'll come with you but if this a trick vengeance shall be mine!" They followed Dib and Gaz into the Library and Dib looked around. The library was completely empty except for the sleeping Librarian.
"What did you need to say to us that's so secret?" Shland asked.
"Well, you are the heir to an Empire so surely you have studied the history of your people." Dib said.
"Yes. I have, many times." Shland said. Her eyes widened and she turned to Zim saying, "Do you think he knows?"
"Oh coarse not, nobody but the Cosovians and the Irkens have known about that and only you know how to retrieve it." Zim scoffed
"Know what? Retrieve what?"Dib asked.
"It's an ancient secret Dib. A secret that I can not yet tell." Shland said. Dib's stomach twisted into a knot. Was that secret about Atlantis?
"Would your secret have to do with a city called 'Atlantis'?" Dib asked. Shland, Zim, and Vio's mouth opened wide.
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