Sierra, Katherine and Laney were astounded when they walked into the museum of Earth science.
It was huge.
It had exhibits that were from the astronomy department.
There were also some exhibits from paleontology, suchlike the dinosaur skeleton of an albino white T-Rex, fossilized tree sap and even a skeleton of the tiny glowing birds called archaeopteryx.
Those birds were from the Jurassic period.
As they were looking around, Sierra began to feel a tugging, painful sensation to her head.
She began to drop down onto her knees.
Uncle Max, please just let me be. If you have something important to tell me, then you can tell me later because right now, my friends and I have to do some very important research. Sierra said to herself as she was now slowly looking up at her friends.
Katherine and Laney looked back from their interest in the glowing birds and the touchable fossilized tree sap.
When they looked back, they saw Sierra on her knees, clutching onto her head.
"SIERRA!" Katherine and Laney said, together as they ran over to her.
"Girls…" Sierra said as she was slowly getting up.
Katherine was now on one side and Laney was on the other side.
"Sierra, maybe we should take you back to Mr. Anderson." Katherine said, concerned for Sierra's health.
"Yeah." Laney said, in agreement as they were helping Sierra stand.
As the young girl was about to speak, she began to feel the pain subside.
She sighed in relief.
"Alright, girls. I think I'm good." Sierra said as she was now beginning to stand on her own, miraculously.
Katherine and Laney looked at each other, concerned before they looked back at Sierra.
"Are you sure, Sierra?" Katherine asked, with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, Sierra…Because, earlier, you looked as if you were about to drop." Laney said, with a suspicious look on her face.
Sierra began to feel a surge of energy.
She smiled.
"Yep! I'm fine!" Sierra said, with joy.
Katherine and Laney looked at each other.
"Eh. We'll take it!" They said, together in a low voice.
They then looked back at Sierra and all three of them were now looking around, together.
…..
A young boy was over by the skeleton of the albino white T-Rex, writing something in his journal when he spotted Sierra over by the huge volcano.
He had brown hair that was short in a bob and he also had blue eyes.
He had a very white smile.
Plus, he looked as if he was a crossover between Clark Kent and Reed Richards.
His name was Darien Marcus Lidenbrock.
Hmm. She seems nice. Maybe I should go over to her and introduce myself. There's something very special about her. Well…Here I go. Darien said to himself as he looked up from his notes and began to walk over to where Sierra and her friends were standing at, in front of a huge volcano.
…..
Katherine turned around and saw a young boy looking at her.
"Can we help you?" She said as Laney turned back around and saw the young boy as well.
The boy looked at Sierra just when she turned around.
Sierra looked at him and smiled.
"Hi there. I'm Sierra, daughter of a volcanologist and the six time great granddaughter of someone who got out and told Verne about what he saw thousands of miles beneath the crust of the Earth…and you?" She said as she looked at the young boy, with intrigue as she was holding her hand out to him.
He looked at her, with surprise.
"You…You know my six time great uncle?" Darien said as he looked at her.
"Yep. In fact…I'm his six time great granddaughter." Sierra said as she looked at him and smiled.
Darien looked back at her and smiled.
"Aww." Katherine and Laney said together, with lovingly looks on their faces.
Darien and Sierra looked at them.
"I'm sorry that we ruined the moment for you, Sierra." Laney said, hesitantly.
"Yep. It was just so cute to see you two together." Katherine said, agreeing with her.
Sierra smiled at them.
"It's okay, girls." She said, forgiving them.
"We all make mistakes sometimes but, we learn from them and that's what makes us stronger." Darien said, in addition to what Sierra stated.
"Yep." Katherine said as she looked at Laney.
"You're right." Laney said as they all smiled at each other.
Darien then looked at Sierra.
"So…What brought you all here today?" He asked as he looked from the two girls to her.
Sierra began to feel tears about to burst from her eyes.
Not only did she have to do volcanology research, she was also wanting to figure out what happened to her Uncle Max.
She sniffled and began to rub her eyes so that Darien nor her friends would see the tears.
"We're here to do research." Katherine said, speaking for Sierra.
"Yeah." Laney said, in agreement.
Darien looked at Sierra, who was now looking at him, with clear eyes.
He could see that she was crying.
"Sierra, are you okay? You look like you have been crying." Darien said as they were now beginning to walk over to where an exhibit was.
Sierra began to look off into the distance.
"Huh? Oh yeah. I'm fine." She said as more tears were flowing from her eyes.
Katherine and Laney looked at each other, concerned.
"Sierra, are you sure you're okay? You can tell us what's wrong. We're here to help you." Darien said as he began to console his arm around her.
Sierra looked at him, with teary eyes.
"SIERRA!" Katherine and Laney said, concerned as they saw the tears dripping down from her blue eyes.
Sierra looked at the exhibit that they were all walking over to.
It had journal entries, encased in glass.
It had diagrams of volcanoes and the center of the earth displayed out.
Plus, the exhibit had a picture encased in glass.
Sierra gasped, in realization at who it was about.
It was about Max.
Max Anderson.
Sierra sighed and looked back at Katherine and Laney.
"Do y'all mind if I tell y'all something? Something that has been racking my mind for many years now?" She said as she looked at all three of them.
"Sure, Sierra." Darien said as he looked at her, with a reassuring smile.
"Yep." Katherine said as she smiled at her.
"Go right ahead, Sierra. You got this!" Laney said, with encouragement.
Sierra took a deep breath and began to tell about her Uncle Max.
…..
"Wow." Laney said, shocked.
"I am so sorry, Sierra." Katherine said, feeling guilty for her.
Darien looked at her, with reassurance.
"Don't worry, Sierra. I never got to know my six time great uncle either. Though, volcanology is a pretty intense subject." He said as Sierra was looking at Max's picture.
"Yeah. I can already tell it is." Sierra said, in response as they were all looking at her uncle's picture.
"Your uncle was a very nice man, I bet." Katherine said as she looked from the picture to her.
Just as Sierra was about to respond back, she began to feel a strong impulse but, this time, it was much stronger than the last one she had.
Darien looked at her.
"Sierra, are you okay?" He asked as Katherine and Laney were also looking at her.
"Yeah, Sierra. Are you sure you're okay?" Laney said as she looked at her, with an eyebrow raised.
"Because the last time that you wasn't, you were breaking out into tears." Katherine said as she nodded in agreement with Laney.
Sierra began to feel dizzy.
As her head was spinning around, she was now falling onto the floor.
When she fell onto the floor, her head landed on the carpet and she was now falling into unconsciousness.
"SIERRA!" Katherine, Laney and Darien said together, in concern.
(So…Sierra is acting weird. Strong impulses and now, she meets a young boy who is the sixth nephew of Lidenbrock. Sierra reveals to Darien, Katherine and Laney that she's the sixth great granddaughter of Lidenbrock. Plus, she also reveals to the group that she never got to really know Max for the kind of person that he is. Now, she's falling into consciousness. Stay tuned for chapter eight.)