p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The next morning, Lana and her hunters, including Lola, set off into the jungle to hunt for food as well as the beast while the rest of the tribe remained on the beach. Lola placed Winston in charge of the tribe to lead it while the princess was gone. The alleged claw that Lana found in what she calls "Castle Rock" is now in possession of Lisa, David, and Greg. The three young scientists want to analyze the claw to confirm whether it is real or not, or at least they will try to analyze the claw due to lack of archaeological instruments necessary to determine the legitimacy of the claw. If the claw is proven to be real, then the child prodigies will try to confirm whether the claw actually belongs to the giant ground sloth as Lisa hypothesized or another animal, possibly an undiscovered species science had not known about for hundreds of years. The first graders pleaded Lola and the hunters to not go after the beast in fear of it hurting or, worse, killing them if they are not careful, but the pageant star insisted that herself and the hunters will be okay, still believing that the beast is nothing but a figment of the children's imaginations, so the kids complied. At least they will be safe with Winston and the rest of the tribe on the /br /The Loud twins and the hunters slowly sneak further and further into the wilderness and greenery of the jungle, their feet stepping on the dirt, dead grass, and small sticks and creating silent cracking noises. Each hunter is in a crouching position with their spears pointed forward, ready to throw and strike at a targeted animal. The pupils rotate around the hunters' eyeballs, looking around their surroundings in search for a small animal potentially hiding in the trees or behind bushes. Eventually, the hunters came across a path that is littered with many footprints made by some sort of small animal, possibly a pig. Lana crouches down and inspects the footprints on the path, smelling one footprint much to her polar opposite twin sister's disgust. After smelling the footprint the tomboy stands up and faces the rest of the hunting /br /"Yep. This is the same path I walked on which led me to Castle Rock," confirmed Lana. "I recognize the smell of the pig footprints anywhere. And, of course, mine."br /br /"How do you know a pig made those footprints?" Lola /br /"One, I recognize the smell of a pig. And two, I saw a few running along here while walking to Castle Rock. I call this path the pig run...because this is where the pigs run. Come on, let's go."br /br /The hunters began walking on the pig run with the mud-loving tomboy leading the way. The path is almost perfectly straight with the exception of a few small squiggles. However, the straightness did not last long as the pig run made a right turn a few meters away from where the hunters first discovered the path. As they made that turn, they immediately stopped in their tracks. Something, or in this case some animal, is in the way. Standing a few feet away from the hunters is a wild boar. The boar is huge in size, almost as big as a warthog from the African savannah. Its tusks had grown from both sides of its snout, curling upward, its pointy ends pointing at the leaves blocking the view of the blue sky. Its small grey fur is covering its entire huge body. The boar is staring at its human enemies with a threatening glare, its snout pouting out a cloud of air. The boar rubs the dirt-filled ground with its front left hoof, ready to charge at its targets. The hunters, however, are feeling at all scared or threatened. Instead, they are staring back at the boar with concentrated looks, holding their spears and aiming them toward the boar and never taking their eyes out from the boar. But no hunter is more concentrated than the chief of the tribe. Lola stares intently at the boar while tightly holding her spear, ready to throw it at the animal. She is controlling her breathing to prevent herself from becoming nervous. One speck of nervousness in her facial expression, and it's all over. She also suppressed any thoughts about her missing the boar to her animal-loving self telling her to not hurt an innocent animal, even if she is killing for food. If any such thoughts lingered in her mind, she would shake her head to hopefully forget it. Lola had been crouching for about a minute. Her crouched legs are beginning to feel tired from supporting the weight of her bent rear and body. Lola knew she can't be in her current position for any longer, so she has to make this quick. After a few more seconds of waiting, she finally throws her spear. The spear flew towards the boar at high speeds. The sharp end of the spear lands in the boar's left nostril. Blood oozed from the nostril as the boar began to hop frantically and squeal in pain. A wave of happiness and excitement struck Lola as she realized she hit her target. Her spear struck the boar in its /br /"I...did it…" she uttered to herself. "I did it. I DID IT!" Lola suddenly jumped with excitement as she is finally aware that she struck her target. "I got 'im! I got 'im in the snout!"br /br /"Nice job, sis!" Lana congratulated her younger twin sister. "Though, you throw like a girl," she teased before approaching the /br /This made the happiness disintegrate inside Lola as an insulting sense took over. "HEY! SHUT UP! Like you're the one to talk!"br /br /"Please. I can throw better."br /br /Lana hops on the boar as it still jumps around in a mix of panic and pain. "Hold still!" the tomboy shouted in frustration as she tries to keep the animal still. Lana reaches into her grass skirt and pulls out her knife. She then stabs the poor animal in the back. The boar lets out a horrible squeal as it felt a sharp pain in its back. Lana stabs the boar two more times before it finally gave up and drops to the ground dead, letting out a soft yet horrible dying squeal before closing its eyes for the final /br /"Phew! Glad that's over," Lana said as she got off the corpse. "Now who's hungry?"br /br /The hunters let out a energized cheer, celebrating their victory over the boar. Now they have breakfast that will feed the entire /br /As the cheering died away, Lana asks her hunters, "So...uhh...who's gonna take this boar home?"br /br /The hunters and Lola remained silent as they thought about who will take the boar back to the tribe. The boar is pretty big and heavy, so more than one person will have to carry the dead body back /br /"Eh...guess we'll take it," Lucas finally /br /Lucas, Marcus, Mike, and Gus all surrounded the wild boar's corpse and picked the heavy dead body up. They then began taking the corpse back to the tribe at a slow pace due to the heavy mass of the dead boar slowing them down. The hunters that remained are the Loud twins, Skippy, Lizzie, Mickey, Mika, and /br /"So, shall we head to Castle Rock?" Lana asked the remaining /br /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"br /br /After strolling along the path for ten more minutes, the hunters finally made it to Castle Rock. This so-called "Castle Rock" is just like what Lana described during the previous assembly: it is a rock structure shaped like a castle. Lola could not help but admire this beautiful rock structure. The way the cylindrical towers have perfectfully shaped cones with pointy tops, the arch that represents an entrance to a castle, its light pink-colored rocks, stones, and boulders, it is just so awe-inspiring. And since Lola loves to imagine herself as a princess, she always wondered what it feels like to live in a castle. It's like a dream come /br /"Oh. My. Gosh. It's so pretty," Lola uttered, awe-struck by the structure of Castle /br /"It does look like a castle," Julia noted, also /br /"I knew you guys would be impressed," said Lana. "Let's go in, shall we?"br /br /The hunters follow Lana inside Castle Rock. The interior of Castle Rock is as big as a ballroom of a mansion or castle; the only difference is there is no roof. Once inside Castle Rock the children began exploring the interior. Small pink pebbles and stones littered alongside the rocky walls. Small pieces of grass grew on the cracks of the rocky ground. Above the left wall is a cliff where a person-if there is one living on this island-can observe the interior of Castle Rock from a bird's eye /br /Lola maintained her impressed expression as she inspected Castle Rock. She feels like she was living her dream of one day visiting a castle. It may not be a real castle, but Castle Rock was enough to fulfill the pageant star's dream. She even wondered if this castle was built by people or by mother /br /"This is so cool," Mika /br /"Yeah. It's like visiting a real castle," said /br /"It may be as big and wide as a real castle, but it is not tall enough. This tower is just decently taller than me," Skippy pointed out, comparing his height to one of towers, decently showing a /br /"Yeah, yeah. The castle's nice and all, but can we focus on searching for the beast?" reminded the /br /"Oh. Right," Skippy /br /The rest of the hunters stopped examining the wonders of Castle Rock and paid attention to Skippy. Lola even snapped out of her awed dazed and returned to /br /"So, as you all already know, this is where I found the beast's claw, so I assume the beast lives here, but then again it could live somewhere else and the claw accidentally snapped off while the beast visited here," explained the captain of the /br /There it is again. Lana once again mentioned her discovery of the supposed claw that belongs to the alleged beast. Lola let that thought of the claw sink into her mind. Now that she thinks about it, she remembered that Lisa and her smarty-pants friends have the claw and are analyzing it while she and the hunters are hunting for the beast. Now that she remembered, there is a likely chance that the claw may not be a claw or the claw actually belonged to an animal that is not the beast, which may confirm that she and the hunters are just wasting their time searching for a creature that doesn't exist. She had to remind Lana of this, and so she /br /"Uh, Lana?"br /br /"Yes, Lols?"br /br /"Have you forgotten that the claw you've discovered may not be a claw, or it might be, but it belonged to an animal that isn't the beast?" Lola finally questioned, though she began to nervously sweat a /br /"Of course not. Lisa and her nerdy friends have it," Lana /br /"In that case, Lisa and her friends may determine that the claw may not be real or it may belong to another animal, which means that we may be wasting our time searching for an animal that doesn't even exist!"br /br /"You don't know that yet! That's why we're searching for the beast in case it exists!"br /br /"You don't know that the beast actually exists, too!" Lola shot back, growing irritated. "We may be spending time looking for some damn beast that only existed in our imaginations! This is gonna be a complete waste of your hunters' time!"br /br /"Can't we at least try?!" Lana is beginning to get angry. "We're doing this for the tribe! We're protecting the tribe!"br /br /"Yeah. Protecting the tribe from some beast that is make believe," the princess scoffed /br /This just made the tomboy turn red with rage. "You know what?! FINE! Then I'll go search for the beast with my hunters!" She faces her hunters. "You guys would help me search for the beast, right?"br /br /The hunters just remained silent and they awkwardly faced each other. Then, they scooted closer to their chief, indicating that they agree with Lola that they may be just wasting their /br /Lana grew more enraged. "Fine! Join Lola if you want! I'll go find the beast myself! I'll even beat the beast with my bare hands!"br /br /"You're not going anywhere, buster!" Lola pointed at Lana threateningly. "As chief, I command you to come back to the beach with us!"br /br /"I don't care if you're chief or not!" Lana angrily approached Lola. "You don't tell me what to do!"br /br /Lola fists clenched and shook angrily as she heard those words. How dare she defy her orders?br /br /"How...dare you…" the princess gritted her teeth, glaring at Lana with a look of /br /"Enough! Both of you!" Skippy pleaded as he got between the infuriated /br /"Let her punish me, Skippy," said Lana, still fuming. "I don't care if she takes away my hunting privileges."br /br /Lana then leaves Castle Rock, not daring to look back at her twin sister and hunters. She is going to find the beast no matter what it /br /"Come BACK HERE!" Lola demanded, about to run after her tomboyish twin only to be held back by /br /"Lola, let her go," said Skippy, watching his girlfriend /br /"But Skippy!" the beauty queen released herself from Skippy's arms. "She can't disobey my orders. I'm the chief!"br /br /"I know, but forcing her to come back with us will only make things worse. Let her cool down for a bit. Then things will be back to normal."br /br /Lola wanted to argue back, but then gave up. Skippy was right. Forcing Lana to come back to the beach will just escalate tensions. If she wants to alleviate the tensions, she has no choice but to let her sister be on her own to /br /The chief sighs in defeat, "Fine." She orders the rest of the tribe, "Come on everybody! We're heading back to the beach!"br /br /The group began heading back to the beach, but only one remained in Castle Rock: Skippy. Skippy couldn't help but worry about the strained relationship between Lola and Lana. Their bickering seems to be getting worse. I mean, sure Lola and Lana are known to fight with each other a lot, but this fight is...different. Skippy had a gut feeling that the current fight might turn violent, more violent than the previous fights. The Anderson feared that if the fighting worsened, law and order would disintegrate, and the entire island will plunge into chaos as many tribe children are forced to take a side. Skippy shook his head, trying to forget those dreadful thoughts. He hoped it will never turn that way. He believed that Lola and Lana will find a way to make up and just forget about the whole beast thing. After thinking for a bit, Skippy ran towards the hunters to catch up with them./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"br /br /After strolling along the path for ten more minutes, the hunters finally made it to Castle Rock. This so-called "Castle Rock" is just like what Lana described during the previous assembly: it is a rock structure shaped like a castle. Lola could not help but admire this beautiful rock structure. The way the cylindrical towers have perfectfully shaped cones with pointy tops, the arch that represents an entrance to a castle, its light pink-colored rocks, stones, and boulders, it is just so awe-inspiring. And since Lola loves to imagine herself as a princess, she always wondered what it feels like to live in a castle. It's like a dream come /br /"Oh. My. Gosh. It's so pretty," Lola uttered, awe-struck by the structure of Castle /br /"It does look like a castle," Julia noted, also /br /"I knew you guys would be impressed," said Lana. "Let's go in, shall we?"br /br /The hunters follow Lana inside Castle Rock. The interior of Castle Rock is as big as a ballroom of a mansion or castle; the only difference is there is no roof. Once inside Castle Rock the children began exploring the interior. Small pink pebbles and stones littered alongside the rocky walls. Small pieces of grass grew on the cracks of the rocky ground. Above the left wall is a cliff where a person-if there is one living on this island-can observe the interior of Castle Rock from a bird's eye /br /Lola maintained her impressed expression as she inspected Castle Rock. She feels like she was living her dream of one day visiting a castle. It may not be a real castle, but Castle Rock was enough to fulfill the pageant star's dream. She even wondered if this castle was built by people or by mother /br /"This is so cool," Mika /br /"Yeah. It's like visiting a real castle," said /br /"It may be as big and wide as a real castle, but it is not tall enough. This tower is just decently taller than me," Skippy pointed out, comparing his height to one of towers, decently showing a /br /"Yeah, yeah. The castle's nice and all, but can we focus on searching for the beast?" reminded the /br /"Oh. Right," Skippy /br /The rest of the hunters stopped examining the wonders of Castle Rock and paid attention to Skippy. Lola even snapped out of her awed dazed and returned to /br /"So, as you all already know, this is where I found the beast's claw, so I assume the beast lives here, but then again it could live somewhere else and the claw accidentally snapped off while the beast visited here," explained the captain of the /br /There it is again. Lana once again mentioned her discovery of the supposed claw that belongs to the alleged beast. Lola let that thought of the claw sink into her mind. Now that she thinks about it, she remembered that Lisa and her smarty-pants friends have the claw and are analyzing it while she and the hunters are hunting for the beast. Now that she remembered, there is a likely chance that the claw may not be a claw or the claw actually belonged to an animal that is not the beast, which may confirm that she and the hunters are just wasting their time searching for a creature that doesn't exist. She had to remind Lana of this, and so she /br /"Uh, Lana?"br /br /"Yes, Lols?"br /br /"Have you forgotten that the claw you've discovered may not be a claw, or it might be, but it belonged to an animal that isn't the beast?" Lola finally questioned, though she began to nervously sweat a /br /"Of course not. Lisa and her nerdy friends have it," Lana /br /"In that case, Lisa and her friends may determine that the claw may not be real or it may belong to another animal, which means that we may be wasting our time searching for an animal that doesn't even exist!"br /br /"You don't know that yet! That's why we're searching for the beast in case it exists!"br /br /"You don't know that the beast actually exists, too!" Lola shot back, growing irritated. "We may be spending time looking for some damn beast that only existed in our imaginations! This is gonna be a complete waste of your hunters' time!"br /br /"Can't we at least try?!" Lana is beginning to get angry. "We're doing this for the tribe! We're protecting the tribe!"br /br /"Yeah. Protecting the tribe from some beast that is make believe," the princess scoffed /br /This just made the tomboy turn red with rage. "You know what?! FINE! Then I'll go search for the beast with my hunters!" She faces her hunters. "You guys would help me search for the beast, right?"br /br /The hunters just remained silent and they awkwardly faced each other. Then, they scooted closer to their chief, indicating that they agree with Lola that they may be just wasting their /br /Lana grew more enraged. "Fine! Join Lola if you want! I'll go find the beast myself! I'll even beat the beast with my bare hands!"br /br /"You're not going anywhere, buster!" Lola pointed at Lana threateningly. "As chief, I command you to come back to the beach with us!"br /br /"I don't care if you're chief or not!" Lana angrily approached Lola. "You don't tell me what to do!"br /br /Lola fists clenched and shook angrily as she heard those words. How dare she defy her orders?br /br /"How...dare you…" the princess gritted her teeth, glaring at Lana with a look of /br /"Enough! Both of you!" Skippy pleaded as he got between the infuriated /br /"Let her punish me, Skippy," said Lana, still fuming. "I don't care if she takes away my hunting privileges."br /br /Lana then leaves Castle Rock, not daring to look back at her twin sister and hunters. She is going to find the beast no matter what it /br /"Come BACK HERE!" Lola demanded, about to run after her tomboyish twin only to be held back by /br /"Lola, let her go," said Skippy, watching his girlfriend /br /"But Skippy!" the beauty queen released herself from Skippy's arms. "She can't disobey my orders. I'm the chief!"br /br /"I know, but forcing her to come back with us will only make things worse. Let her cool down for a bit. Then things will be back to normal."br /br /Lola wanted to argue back, but then gave up. Skippy was right. Forcing Lana to come back to the beach will just escalate tensions. If she wants to alleviate the tensions, she has no choice but to let her sister be on her own to /br /The chief sighs in defeat, "Fine." She orders the rest of the tribe, "Come on everybody! We're heading back to the beach!"br /br /The group began heading back to the beach, but only one remained in Castle Rock: Skippy. Skippy couldn't help but worry about the strained relationship between Lola and Lana. Their bickering seems to be getting worse. I mean, sure Lola and Lana are known to fight with each other a lot, but this fight is...different. Skippy had a gut feeling that the current fight might turn violent, more violent than the previous fights. The Anderson feared that if the fighting worsened, law and order would disintegrate, and the entire island will plunge into chaos as many tribe children are forced to take a side. Skippy shook his head, trying to forget those dreadful thoughts. He hoped it will never turn that way. He believed that Lola and Lana will find a way to make up and just forget about the whole beast thing. After thinking for a bit, Skippy ran towards the hunters to catch up with them./p