Hello peoples! Yes thefalmehat, this is the game you played in 2nd grade! I did switch around and delete some parts of the game, just because they really don't work that well. Really there are the Fleens in the forest and Captain Cajun's boat thingy and like three other things, Oh well. And to J, thank you for the kind advice! I hope this is a little more detailed. ONWARD!

Chapter 7: The Mirror Machine

As the group continued to walk through the cave which had gotten smaller and smaller since the opening, they started to shiver. They were all tired and cold, especially Cindy who was always dressed for warm weather. After about ten minutes after they had ran through the door on the other side of the chasm at the mouth of the cave, they came upon another door. This one made of unstable sticks banded together with some string.

"Oh great," Libby groaned. "We just made it through one of these." Jimmy went up to observe this "door".

"It doesn't seem very sturdy," he said. "Cindy, do you think you could kick it over?" She walked up to the front of the group and placed her hand on the "door", surveying it. She took a few steps back, ran up to the door, jumped in the air and stuck her foot out. The "door" crashed to the ground.

"Way to go girl!" Libby shouted to her friend. They all walked through the door behind Cindy. Behind the door was a platform connected to which was a narrow path, connected to another platform. On that platform were blank, green glass panels about the size of them. Next to the platform on which they were standing on was a something like a plank of wood on wheels.

"I want to touch it," Sheen said walking up to the cart.

"NO!" Jimmy yelled to him, but too late. Sheen pushed the cart and it went speeding down a hill and up a ramp, about to jump over a gap in the floor about the width of a large dining room table, too wide for any of them to jump across, and as it was sailing through the air it hit something and went hurtling down into the gorge and out of sight. When the group decided to look closer at what it had ran into, they discovered it was a beautiful gem hanging from a chain on the ceiling. As soon as the cart disappeared, another came rolling to the exact place where the other used to be.

"I think we've got to find a way to lower that," Libby said. She started walking towards the narrow path that separated them from the platform on the other side with the green glass panels. Cindy reached for her.

"No! Libby you can't-" Libby stopped her.

"I haven't done anything yet. It's time I did something to help," Libby told her flatly. Cindy didn't stop her. She quietly stepped away and let Libby go on. So Libby turned and walked, trembling, across the narrow trail to the opposite platform. Once there she surveyed the green glass panel. Although this was serious, she couldn't help but look at her reflection and fix her hair. It was when she was doing this her light bulb clicked on. "CINDY!" She yelled to the other platform, "Stand on the cart!" Cindy gave her a look, but then remembered how Libby hadn't questioned her and just did exactly what she told her. 'Why? Why did she just do it?' Cindy thought. She then knew why. It was because Libby trusted her. Libby was her best friend. She knew that she wouldn't do anything to hurt her, ever. Cindy carefully climbed onto the cart. Instantly images of her sprang on to the green glass where Libby was standing, and one disappeared. In its place was a stand and, of course, a glowing green button. Cindy noticed something when Libby was about to pick one up and set it in the stand.

"Libby!" she yelled. "That one has nail polish on! I don't!" Libby looked at Cindy, and then at the picture, and sure enough the real Cindy had no nail polish on.

"Cindy, we need to find the one that is identical! That's the problem!" Libby yelled back. All three boys had been watching this paying very close attention, and Jimmy yelled something to them.

"It's the one on the bottom left!" he told them.

"But...but...but," Cindy stammered. "My ponytail isn't that poofy is it?"

"Cindy this is no time to think about how poofy your ponytail is!" Jimmy yelled to her. Libby picked up the one glass panel Jimmy pointed out, set it in the stand, and hit the shiny green button. The cart Cindy was on started rolling forward. Sheen gave it an extra push and Cindy went flying down the hill. As her cart approached the gem, Libby stared back at the glass panel Jimmy selected. It was different! It was something only her friend and a girl would notice, her ponytail holder was a different shade of blue than what she had put in he hair this morning. The giant gem wasn't going to lift! Cindy was going to crash.

"CINDY JUMP!" she yelled frantically. Cindy apparently had shared her earlier thoughts. As the cart was about to fly off the end of the ramp she jumped onto the track it had just been on. She watched as it went sailing down into the pit of eternal darkness.

"Okay," she yelled up, "Now what?"

"Stay down there. Get as close to the wall as possible and wait for Jimmy's cart. When it comes down, jump on!" Libby yelled down to her. Cindy nodded and waited. Sheen and Carl went down the ramp and across the gorge successfully. Then there was Jimmy's cart. She had to jump.

"This is it," Cindy said out loud to herself. Up on the platform, Libby told Jimmy something.

"Jimmy?" she asked. "Can you please cover your ears? I want to tell Cindy something. It's a girl to girl thing and I have to yell. Jimmy nodded and walked to the far corner of the platform and covered his ears. Libby walked over to the edge of the platform and looked down where Cindy was. "Cindy?" she asked in a voice as quiet as she could manage so Cindy could still hear her. She looked up. "I know that you trusted me last time and, well, it didn't work. I want you to let me have a second chance as your friend. Please girl?" Libby sat waiting for her reply.

"Libby, if I were up there I'd hug you right now. You know I still trust you, you trusted me. I like that. I'm going to give you back the same pleasure. You're my friend Libby," Cindy said to her smiling. Libby smiled back.

"Jimmy!" Libby yelled. "You can uncover your ears now!" Jimmy got up and walked over to the cart. Libby got the panel in place and placed her hand by the button. "Cindy!" she yelled, "Are you ready?"

"Yeah!" Cindy yelled back and got ready to jump. Libby hit the button. She could hear the cart squealing as in came down the hill and at exactly the right time, Cindy jumped. She missed though, she almost went falling but Jimmy reached out his hand. This was no time to worry about "cooties". Cindy grabbed his hand and pulled herself up onto the cart.

"AHHHH!" Both screamed as they went flying over the gap. The cart landed with a thud on the other side of the gorge and screeched to a stop. Both Jimmy and Cindy dizzily clambered off the cart. A thought struck Cindy.

"How are we going to get Libby down?" she asked panicked.

"Already covered," A voice behind her said, and when she turned around there was Libby. She ran to her friend and hugged her.

"I'd always trust you Libby," she told her, and the three boys eyed them oddly. Cindy and Libby turned around to see the odd expressions on their faces.

"It's a girl thing," Cindy said, and the all walked on waiting to confront their next trial.


SO? DO YOU LIKE? This chapter had a lot of Cindy and Libby's friendship. That is the way girls are. If you want to know how I know, it's because I am one. I HATE it in the TV show when they show Cindy doing karate moves. They make it look so fake. It is NOTHING like that. And all she says is "hi ya", it's called a keia and it's just a yell. Oh well. I wrote a very LONG chapter this time. Stay tuned for more! REVIEW PLEASE!