Chapter 3

Sorry it has been forever but I just haven't been in the writing mood and I have been extremely busy with school just 4 days to high school graduation and the exams are coming so I'm going to be really busy in the next week.

It was getting heavier as the day progressed into evening and the family still saw no sign of Donnie. The wind was howling and the snow was blowing harder into their faces. Their only hope was that Donnie hade been found and made it to safety. "Donnie! Donnie!" Eliza yelled over the noise of the storm. "Its no use even if he was nearby he wouldn't hear us.

The family walked around dazed like zombies not believing that this sort of thing could happen to them. "Where is he?" Stomping around like he could lose it any moment. " Calm down Nigel." Marianne insisted. "This happens to be no ones fault obviously he wanted to take a walk and got lost." "Oh Ya? Well if "YOU" were watching him or even looking for clues at what he was about to do!" "What?" Marianne said in shock. She was in disbelief that her husband would say something like that in that way to anyone. "But…but" was all Marianne could spit out. "Dad?" came a very small voice from not far behind them. "Why are you doing this to us?" Eliza said worried. "Doing what?" he snapped back. Eliza began to cry it just wasn't like her father to be like this, what was he doing she wondered. "Nigel this isn't like you one bit why are you acting this way?" Marianne wanted to know? She had stopped him is the midst of a blizzard. "Acting like what?" he said a little more calm now but still very upset about something.

Yet it wasn't the fact that they were out in the middle of a deadly blizzard looking for their son who should have stayed put. Yet he didn't even know why he was acting that way. He finally figured out why. "M…Marianne" he choked out "their is something I never told anyone not even my own parents." They all gasped hard. "When I was a young boy about 8 years old me and some of my buddies went out into the forest near my school about midnight maybe even later and we started running around with sticks…" he pauses a minute " remember this was in the midst of a major snowstorm, and anyways we were running around with large sticks like we were playing some form of war when we heard this awful scream that seemed to come from right behind me.

This little blonde haired boy got hit so hard by a swordstick that went flying into the air when we found him lying there he was cut up on his head so badly on his head. There was no chance of him surviving in the cold but we were so scared that we ran off back to the schoolyard and went to bed hoping this was all a nightmare. I finally went to sleep and when I woke up the next morning I assumed it was a dream then just 5 minutes later there was another horrid scream when a student found the frozen body of the little boy. No one ever found out it was us that killed him and I still blame myself for it. He would have survived if we would have brought him in and his body couldn't handle the cold. Now that little Donnie is lost out there somewhere I think it is my entire fault and that haunting memory keeps coming back at the worst times. He finally finished and was in tears and had everyone else crying then. " Nigel" Marianne started. "That was no one's fault how were you to know something like that would happen? You were just stupid boys out for fun. It wasn't anyone's fault." "But Marianne how can you say that it was my idea to have the sword fight with a couple boys and in the process hurt little James. It still haunts me. I wish I never done that, it was my entire fault.

"It wasn't and you know it. Now lets go find him before anything happens to him." Nigel was very silent for the rest of the day and into the evening where they had set up camp again; the winds had died down a bit so it wasn't as difficult to set up. Even at dinner that night he still cried and sniffed here and there. Another afternoon went by and the storm hadn't let up so again they were stranded in a small tent to defend for themselves. At midnight when everyone was fast asleep there was a noise that was getting louder by the second. Eliza had woken up first and scrambled to her knees and crawled outside in the blistering cold. She saw a light in the sky almost like a meteorite but it wasn't.

It landed near a glacier wall and sizzled out, she ran out to see what it was before anyone else woke up. As she got close she realized it wasn't any sort of space rock but a clue to where Donnie might be. She grabbed the item that seemed to get even louder and she sprinted it back to the small tent where her family was. " Mom! Dad!" Eliza called for them as she made her way back. "What?" they both said confused and tired. As she told them what had happened it seemed to glow a bright green. "What do you think it is?" Eliza wondered. "It sure looks like a space rock but it isn't because its fake, but it sure has a nice green glow to it", Nigel examined it closely. "Well let's go take a look and find out where it came from." He finally said. They all headed out to where Eliza found it. The thing made a 5 ft. deep hole in the ice and there was black around the outlining of the hole.

The rock had smelt of sulfur so Nigel had them back away. "Everyone back away from the rock it might have poisoning gases to it. It looks like it came from a volcano not far from here. I assume it came from that glow over there." Nigel pointed to the North where there was this great orange glow coming from just over the hill. " Ooh can we go look at it?" Eliza said excitedly " I don't know Eliza this thing could be poisoned." He said "but it might help us find Donnie" Eliza said. "How is this piece of rock going to help us find him?" Nigel said, "I don't know but it could." Eliza said happily. "Lets go in a couple of hrs. maybe things will be settled down then." Marianne said. They all went to bed for 2 more hours to get rested up.

When they got up the wind had died down so they could get a good start on finding him. Eliza had the piece of rock and when she stepped outside the orange glow was now a green glow across the dark skies it scared Eliza so much that she screamed out of fear. As everyone saw what she was yelling about it turned yellow "What the…" Was all Marianne could say before the earth shook beneath them. They scrambled for safety but there was nothing around so they ran as fast as they could on the ice without falling. The ice started to crack when they saw the most horrific thing ever, everything around them started collapsing inward like what happened with Darwin and they had only seconds to get to safety.

As they scrambled more the volcano started to pour out lava and ash as the earth shook more violently. The crack had gotten to them as they kept running. Eliza got a good idea and she slid on the ice and the rest followed and then the crack caught up to them and it swallowed them whole. They fell downwards as they were spinning like skydivers without a parachute. They hole was pitch black as the family went hurtling towards the ground. Just as they were about to hit the ground 10 ft. as a matter of fact some kind of magnetic pull forced them upward in an upright position. "AHH! Were all going to die!" Debbie screamed and the rest joined in. "We are going to be some kind of dinner!" Eliza screamed.

After what seemed like forever they saw the near end of the broken up ice and the magnetic pull forced them up further up and before they knew it they were in some kind of machinery. " Do you think Donnie could be in here?" Eliza pointed out looking at all the cool stuff that looked like a science lab. " Lets go explore" Eliza said. She started off but her mom grabbed her rather quickly. "No Eliza we don't know what this is or who or what is in it. Best we stay put for now." Marianne said as she kept a tight hold on her daughter. "Uh mom you can let go now I won't go anywhere." Eliza said. "Oh sorry" she said.

After a few minutes of them standing there frozen and scared this funky looking animal met them, it sat there next to them. This animal was a dog except it was green with wild eyes and pointy ears and straight ears. He had love in his eyes even as wild as they looked. He gestured the family into another room, as the shaking dissipated there was a bright light to the left. It was a blinding bright white light.

To be continued…