Chapter 1 - "Nome"
Today was 2015, November 4th, which was the birthday of 4 kids, diamond kids,
the 4 children were very... different from the others, it's because they had rocks embed into their bodies,
which at first made seem like most of them weren't going to live long, or at all, but that wasn't true, obviously.
one of the four kids, Steven, is sitting down on a couch with a table near it, "Dad!" Steven called, "are we going to bake a cake?", the child's father walks out of the kitchen,
and over to him, "We could! or we can just buy one, which one, Steven?" the father asked, "hmm... buying one would be faster, right?" Steven responds, "way faster!" the father answers.
"Okay, I'm going to ask my brothers what type we should get!" Steven says, right before running outside.
"There isn't enough space, for the two of us, Tim."
"then why is there apparently room for Zack, Joey?" Tim shoots back.
"I don't want a part in this, please," Zack responds, whilst making a snowball.
"none of you are coming out of here, alive," Joey mutters,
"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" they all shout, "GUUUYYYYS, what kind of cake would yo-" Steven gets cut off by a snowball to the face.
"uh... my hands slipped," Zack says.
"STUPID HANDS!" Steven groaned, "anyway, what can of cake would you guys like?" Steven asks
"why? is it our birthday?" Tim replies
"ah, of course it is! I'd like a chocolate one, but that's probably too much sugar." Joey answers.
"me too!" Steven adds, "with some vanilla in it, maybe?"
"I'd like any cake, but If I'm being 100% honest, chocolate vanilla," Zack says, sitting down
"me too!"
"Okay then!" Steven responds, "I'm gonna go tell dad!" Steven goes back inside to give his father his brother's opinions.
Steven doesn't see his father in the living room, so he figured he would be in the kitchen instead,
he saw his father on the phone, calling someone, he leaves him to it since he doesn't want to interrupt him.
"Okay, can I talk to your father, Mr. Fryman?" Greg says to someone on the phone, "oh, okay, it was good talking with you though, say Hi to Ronaldo for me. bye." Greg closes the call.
Greg turns over to see his son sitting on a chair, "so... they said they'd like chocolate vanilla, which I like too." Steven says.
"Alright, I'll be back Shtoo-ball, don't do anything I wouldn't!" Greg heads out, "okay, see ya!"
all of the brothers sat down in the living room, watching Television.
"I'm bored already." Zack complained, "should we go back to snowball fighting?"
"no..." says Tim, "I'm too tired to do anything right now." burying himself into the coach.
"ugh" Joey whines, "well I don't want to sit around and do nothing!"
Steven gets up, "what do you wanna do? I think we should go outside and explore."
"yeah! let's do that." Joey agrees
"outside?" Tim asks, "I don't think that would be a good idea, dad could be back any second" Zack adds.
Zack grabs the remote on the couch and turns on the TV, "do you think static shock is on?"
Joey jumps on the couch, bummed out, "it better be!"
"shouldn't we check the news first?" Steven asks, "just in case"
"Yeah, we should," Zack responds, switching the channels, maybe something big is happening, who knows?
"there have been reports of people disappearing rapidly today!"
all of the brother's eyes widen, there has been a disappearance every 13 years, 1989, 1976, etc, and it was always on November 4th.
and today was November 4th.
"oh shoot..." Joey says, very scared, "wait... how about dad?" Tim stresses.
"we should check!" everyone races to grab their coats.
they all head outside, but before they even go to town, they see their father, Greg, walking up to the house.
"Dad! are you okay?" Steven asks, very concerned.
"yeah!" Greg answers, "why are you asking, shtooball?",
"We saw on the news that a lot of people have gone missing." Tim replies, "we were worried!"
"ah geez, haven't they gotten enough?" Greg thinks to himself,
Greg pets Tim's head, "they really need to find the source of that, or else we might have to move out.", "But first, we need to celebrate the birthday of 4 little stubes!"
"we're not little anymore! we are big boys now!" Joey gives his dad a hug, "and we've got to stop saying stuff like, 'we're big boys now' " he adds.
they chuckle, despite the fact that 20+ people disappeared.
"let's wait a bit longer, we'll have to wait for your uncle to arrive," Greg says,
"Uncle?" Steven asks, "Uncle Andy?"
"yeah! I've told you guys about him, and our stupid little adventures."
"When is he coming?" Tim questions, "it was fun playing with him and stuff."
"he should be coming soon-"
BEEP BEEP
"or I guess now."
a blue car drives to the entrance of their house, "ey Greg!" a man with a brown aviator hat, steps out of the car.
"Andy! it's been too long." Greg greets, "and guess whose fault is that?"
"ANDY!" all four brothers shout, running to hug their Uncle.
"Woah! you're all grown up!" Andy said, "last time I saw y'all were toddlers."
"especially you, Zack" Andy adds, "what else is new without your uncle?"
"Andy!" Tim speaks, "today is our birthday!"
"I know! that's why I came here you little stubes."
after the meeting, they all head inside and talk about various things and topics, like how Andy doesn't like the name family name and such,
and they ate cake, of course.
everything was pretty quiet until Steven brought the topic of exploration.
"you wanna explore?" Andy asks, in an instant, "then come with Uncle Andy!"
Andy walks over to the door, grabbing his coat.
"wait!" Greg says warily, "where do you plan to take them?"
"yeah!" Joey adds, "where should we go?"
Andy points south of their house, "that mountain over there."
"I've always wanted to go there," Steven says, "but dad said it's too dangerous"
"Greg, there's literary a road there, you walnut."
"Just walking to the mountain isn't the bad part."
Andy and the brothers glare at Greg in confusion, "but... you can go there with Andy if you want, just be careful."
"we will," Zack reassures Greg, before walking along with his brothers and Andy.
they walk along the road to the mountain, it's covered in a lot snow and rocks.
"This place gives me an odd vibe." Joey states, glaring over to Tim, "yeah, it feels off..?" Tim agreed.
"I and Greg used to go here a lot when we were visiting friends," Andy says,
"We also threw snowballs at each other in here, made snowmen, and all that good stuff, but one day" Andy sighs,
"Greg didn't want to go, I think it was when we were like... I don't know, 15?, anyway, he was scared, I think he saw a tree and thought it was that slender man thing, but I never pressed him for details."
Steven runs to catch up with Andy, "are we going to see bears?"
"No, I've never run into any bears around here."
"maybe it was an alien." Zack adds, "Illegal aliens? not on my watch!" Andy chuckles.
"not like I can do anything about them right now, though" Andy regrets making that joke.
they all arrive at the top of the mountain, where it's pretty flat and has bigger rocks than the other parts, and some green glass shards near one of the rocks.
"I don't remember it being so... empty." Andy frowns, "what you mean, uncle?" Joey asks,
"like it's so flat compared to when I was last here, it had more greenery and stuff, it's kind of sad to see it like this." Andy puts his hand on Joey's shoulder, "but, it should still be fun."
Andy walks over to one of the rocks, which had a symbol that of a diamond, "this doesn't look weird at all." Andy says, sarcastically.
"Hey, Joey!" Steven calls, "wanna see who can build the biggest snowman?"
Joey looked over to Andy with concern, and looks back over to Steven, "do your worst!"
Steven & Joey race to grab as much snow as possible, while Andy is still looking at the strange symbol,
It's giving him an uneasy feeling, and bad memories, he tries to wipe it with his hands, but it's stuck like a permanent marker.
Zack and Tim are also trying to build a snowman, but Zack stops when he sees Uncle Andy trying to get wipe something on the rock,
"Hey, are you alright? you've been looking at this for a few minutes.",
Andy flinches a little, "uh, yeah sorry about that, it's just... I don't know... I want to get rid of it.",
Andy grabs a bottle of water he had in his pocket and tries to pour it on the symbol, but it didn't do anything to it, "damn it." Andy mutters,
"well... doesn't matter, I'll go join those stubes with their snowmen, ya coming?", Andy trying to force a smile, "alright, just gonna check something." Zack answers,
he continues to look at the symbol, he tries to put his hand on it, but he feels something weird like his head starts tingling, then the rock embedded in his head starts glowing white.
"this looks cool... and familiar?" he thought to himself,
he strokes along the symbol's outline with his index finger, it starts glowing white which caught him off-guard, "uh... guys?" he says as the rock begins to shift backward.
Zack slowly walks backward, fearing that he might have messed up big time, the others and Uncle Andy rush towards him, "oh god what is happening?"
Andy looks down the hole the rock revealed, and it looks like there's... stairs? it looks like it's been overthrown by nature, "well this must've been the thing Greg saw, this isn't creepy."
Andy starts walking down the stairs with his phone light on, "come here, Stubes, we might have found something AMAZING.", Tim gets worried, as this place doesn't look safe.
"We should be careful, w-what if there's a trap or something?" Tim tries to show his concerns, but he did it too late since they already arrived at the bottom,
a large room, that looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, with a platform in the middle.
all four brothers start gasping, "how long has this been around?" Joey asks, "well it's been here for a while by the looks of it, long enough to have a fight with nature."
Andy responds, he walks over to the weird crystal platform to inspect it, "this has been damaged, and it looks recent"
that sends chills down Zack & Tim's spine, but Joey and Steven are too amazed to react, "look!"
Steven points to another staircase, though this one seems to end pretty short, "well, that's enough of that." Andy heads back to the stairs,
"We shouldn't stay here for long. come on stubes!", "aw!" the 4 kids whined, "but this is so cool..." Joey and the others walk up the stairs, "we'll go here another time."
Andy didn't know what to think, the last time he saw a diamond symbol like that, wasn't a good time, "I should tell Greg about this." he thinks.
Andy and the others rush back home before it gets dark, the kids go to sleep, but Andy and Greg stay up to talk about what Andy saw,
"that place? I was close to there, saw something... tall, and ran out." Greg recalls, "but I don't know if it's still there... just keep an eye out on it, okay?",
Andy glares at Greg with a doubtful look, "do you think it has to do with those gem things?",
Greg freezes for a second, "Probably, but I'm sure it's going to be okay."
after that conversation, Andy went back home, but Greg has a hard time sleeping,
"what if they're back for... what if they changed their mind?" he thinks about it, then finally sleeps, "no, it won't get them... it'll be fine."
