Chapter Ten: Unfortunately Frequent Ordeals

Today when Sky woke up, he realized that Fall had started. How did he know this? Well when he woke up that day, he saw that everything had turned a strangely brown and red color. Even the grass had lost its grass-i-ness and was now a strange pale yellow.

Sky loved Fall. Why did he love Fall? Because there were LEAVES!

Running out of his shack-that-is-called-a-home he leaped into the air and landed in the leaves. Then, using his stick-that-is-cleverly-disguised-as-a-shovel, he shoved all the leaves into one humongous pile. When he was done, he jumped right into that pile and immediately sank into the lake of leaves. He nearly suffocated from leaves, it was wonderful!

"That's it. I've had it with you." A voice said from outside the leaves. Sky stuck his head out of the pile and found Betsy the cow staring at him.

"Shut up, cow." Sky grumbled and sunk back into the leaves.

"You never even guessed, did you?" Betsy said emotionlessly.

"Last time I checked, I was in charge. Now I say shut up!" Sky yelled, getting out of the pile. The pile suddenly lost it's fun, so he planned to make an even bigger pile! The bigger it was, the funnier it was!

"It won't matter for long. I'm going home." Betsy said, and mooed as she ate some grass.

"What do you mean? THIS IS YOUR HOME! And isn't it grand?" He put on a cheesy commercial voice, "We have all the latest grass, and an extra bonus of milk and leaves! Come, stay here now and we'll give you this free—"

"Nope, today I've decided to go home. I'll be leaving in about two minutes." Betsy said.

"But…BUT I NEED YOU!" Sky pleaded, dropping to his knees before the cow. "How else am I supposed to get milk?"

"Goats have milk."

"I don't know where to get a goat!"

"Then get a new cow. Oh, here comes my ride…" Betsy said and let out a loud moo, then looked up to the sky. Sky looked up to the sky too, and nearly fell over from astonishment.

There was a spaceship before him! Hovering in the sky, a large metallic disk with glowing green lights floated directly over Betsy! A bunch of beeping noises were coming from the spaceship, and Sky could have sworn he heard some mooing.

"Bye, Sky. And may you find much grass to graze on." Betsy said and bowed her head.

"Hey…WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?" Sky exclaimed.

But Betsy did not answer. Suddenly, a beam of light shot down from the space ship. Then Betsy began to fly! It was a funky way to fly, it looked more like someone was pulling her with an invisible string. The invisible string brought Betsy up into the space ship and the cow disappeared.

1…2…3…4…5…

Sky screamed his head off and ran for the hills…or down the hill, actually.

Still screaming, he ran and he ran and he could almost see the space ship following him. Since when has there been space ships, anyway? Sky had been an expert athlete back in school. He was so good, in fact, that the coached sent him to the their office to sit down and rest his feet before running. Unfortunately it took many days for his feet to rest, so Sky never got a chance to actually run.

Losing his breath, Sky made a turn and stampeded into the Inn. Ruby was there watering a fake plant when Sky burst in and ran up the stairs. Moments later, he found himself in Nami's room.

Nami was not there at the time, and Sky had no idea what drove him to go into the room. He slowly walked over to the window and looked out, the space ship was still hovering over his farm. It seemed to be coming closer, though. Sky closed the blinds on the window and ran under the desk to hide.

"Ouch!" Sky exclaimed as he hit his head on the desk. Suddenly a book fell from on top of the desk. Sky picked it up and gasped, it was Nami's diary!

Sky shoved the diary away from him and began to whistle, trying to ignore the presence of the diary.

The diary was waiting.

He shoved the book in one of the desk drawers.

The diary called to him.

He threw the diary across the room.

The voices told him to read it.

Just a peek. Sky told himself and took the diary and opened it up. He almost closed it when he saw the cover of the diary. There was a large flame with glowing red eyes and in strange letters were the words: Everything Burns.

He turned to a recent entry. At the corner of the page were four red and yellow hearts.

He read the beginning of the entry:

It's a official, four hearts now. Sky is so cute! He looks just like a dancing flame. Which, speaking of flames, my recent mission has been completed. Germany will never look the same, now. By the way, how long am I going to stay at this wooden inn? I'm supposed to be going back to Some Where for the weekend, but for some reason this wooden inn attracts me.

Oh and that artist who lives by the turtle pond, I left him a little present. My own fiery masterpiece.

Back to Sky, I think I'm going to steal his blue feather that he keeps hidden in his tool shed. Who knows? I may use it someday.

Sky slammed the book shut. His heart pounding, he put the diary back where it was and ran out of the Inn.

He looked up in the sky, the space ship was waiting for him.

Resuming his screaming and using his superior athletic feet, Sky began running again. This time he ran in the opposite direction, up the hill. He was slowed by the mightily annoying hill and so the space ship was gaining on him. Seeing Vesta's Vegetable Farm, he ran towards it and inside their store. Not thinking straight, he climbed up to the second story and found himself in Celia's room.

Celia was also not home. Where was everyone?

He looked out the window, the space ship was no where to be seen.

He turned his head and saw Celia's diary by the bedside table.

This time, Sky resisted his strange urges. "I am nuts. Completely nutso is what I am. No more diary-reading for me."

The voices told him to read the diary.

Sky sighed. "Alright, just a little peak this time!" He said firmly to himself and opened up the diary. The cover of the diary had a picture of the sun and the moon, but nothing more. Inside the diary was the craziest thing Sky had ever seen. He read the most recent entry. Three hearts were above it.

Dear Diary. I'm not writing today.

I love to play. Sky is OK. But may I say that to like his bike is a very nice thing to like. It's an invisible bike, which was given to him by a guy named Mike.

I think…

Should I talk to him? Should I stalk him? Or should I mock him, like Muffy? According to Girl Code Section 12 Line 239, mocking people means you like them. Do I like a guy with a bike? A bike which was given to the guy by a guy named Mike? No, I should not. Not unless he lets me get more fish, which is a type of wish.

He closed the diary. Looking at it gave him a headache. He decided to ignore the diary for now. He did decide one more thing, and that was that he could forget his fishing career.

Slowly, he crept outside the house. All was quiet, but something was coming.

Something…was…coming…

The space ship appeared directly over him.

Screaming like a little girl, Sky ran all the way back to his shack-that-is-called-a-home and shut the door.