Land of Ice: Chapter 7

Shelter

"Guys, we've got an emergency!" Jesse yelled, running over to her brothers and sisters. "There's going to be a huge snow storm tomorrow!"

"Should we get into the E.S?" Maggie asked.

"Yeah, this storm is going to be so big, the polar bears will be running for cover!" Jesse replied, gasping for breath.

"What's the E.S?" Onewa asked.

"The E.S is the 'Emergency Shelter'. We go there when big storms hit." Sapphire explained.

"Come on, we'd better get everyone together." Maggie said, taking off in the direction that Vakama and Jake were. "Snowball, Shadow, come!"

The two wolves quickly ran off, trailing behind the she-wolf-demon.

"Onewa, can you go help Maggie tell everyone?" Sapphire asked. "I'm going to go get Brian."

"You got it!" Onewa said, running after Maggie.

"Jesse, you, Debbie, and Nuju get the E.S ready." Sapphire ordered, heading toward Brian's hole.

"You can count on it!" Jesse said, and ran back over to Nuju and her sister.

Sapphire then took off toward Brian's hole, and quickly uncovered the snow. Not wanting to wake him, Sapphire gently lifted him out of the hole, and held to her chest in an effort to keep him warm while she went to get Kyle from his hole. She uncovered the snow off the hole, and nudged her brother with her foot.

"Kyle, there's a storm coming, get your butt up!" she said, not loud enough to wake Brian.

"Huh?" Kyle said, still half-asleep.

"Come on, you can go back to sleep when we get to the E.S!" she growled, getting slightly annoyed.

"Alright, I'm coming…" he groaned.

"Good, now let's get back to the others." she said, and the two of them ran off to rejoin their siblings and friends.

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The E.S turned out to be a large cave at the base of a mountain. Once inside, everyone, except Brian, who was still sleeping, began filling the cave mouth in with snow. Snowball and Shadow both settled down beside Brian, curling up next to the young boy.

"Now what?" Vakama asked, already feeling a slight chill.

"Now, we make a fire, and we wait…" Kyle replied, throwing some dried up, old twigs into the center of the room.

To be continued…