Helga pocketed her phone and continued walking towards her home. As Helga climbed up her stoop she heard yelling from inside her house. Trying to ignore it, assuming it was just her parents, she opened the door and headed up to her bedroom. Helga looked out her window; just as she arrived home it had begun pouring. Helga stared at the window for a moment as if something had caught her eye. Outside she saw people she knew and cherished outside in the rain; Phoebe, Nadine and Lila. Despite their disputes in the past Helga found that she enjoyed Lila's company for her personality rather than Arnold's love for her. After Lila told Arnold she didn't like him she stopped feeling negative towards her in secret, but kept acting like she hated her to avoid suspicion. Helga looked at her clock that read 8:14 and sprawled out across her bed. Helga sighed and closed her eyes, drifting off to sleep.

"Arnold!" Helga exclaimed as she ran through what seemed like an oasis in a jungle. A gunshot echoed through the jungle from behind her driving her to run. Helga came to a sudden stop as she was met by a towering male in a green cloak with yellow stripes with a collar that reached behind his head. The male that stood before her held up his staff high above Helga's head and directed her to follow him with his arm. Helga followed the male into the woods until they reached an Incan like temple with intricate stone carvings in the walls. "Omp paka loka." The male said to Helga. Helga turned around to look at the cloaked male and he pointed his staff at the temple directing her to go in. Helga climbed the stone stairs and as she reached the inside of the temple she saw a large corridor that stretched to an altar where a pendant made of gold with an emerald in the shape of an eye laid. She picked up the pendant and as she stared at it her dream faded into darkness where she laid during her slumber.

"Well I'll see you guys… I mean…galls later" Phoebe said enthusiastically as she climbed the stoop to her house and waved a final farewell to her friends. Phoebe closed the door and seemingly moments later it began to pour. Phoebe looked out the window on her door and saw her friends continuing on their journey home in the rain that already had drenched them in water that dripped from them as they walked. Phoebe was filled with guilt as she walked away and sat on her couch. On the TV was the weather channel giving a forecast of mostly rain for the remainder of the week. It was not uncommon for many days of rain in a row this time of year in Hillwood. Phoebe sighed and turned on Facebook on her phone to see if any of her friends were on. Phoebe scrolled through her friends list but found none that had been online in the last hour. Phoebe pocketed her phone and stared out the window at the rain as it struck it at an angle due to the wind. Phoebe thought she would read to pass the time so she went into her room, took out A Tale of two Cities and began reading.

Arnold laid across his bed watching the rain hit his skylight. Arnold pressed a button on his remote and his fun quickly came to a stop. Looking at the clock that now read 10:23 Arnold looked out the window to see the rain dying down. When the rain had come to a complete stop moments later Arnold climbed onto his roof through the trapdoor on his skylight. Arnold brought his remote with him to the roof and pressed a button causing a vent to dry the roof with warm air with high force. In moments there was no water on the roof and Arnold could comfortably sit on the edge of his roof watching the streets below him with no activity whatsoever. Arnold sat on his roof for a few minutes before he saw cars driving by and people walking through and went inside. Arnold left his room and proceeded down the stairs where he heard conversing from the living room. As Arnold reached the bottom of the stairs he was greeted by his grandpa. "Hey Shortman…I just got a call from Eduardo …he said he sent something in the mail for you that your father gave to him during his time in south America. He also said he sent something the green eyed people gave to your father to give to you when you were born…" Phil said as he revealed a package to Arnold. "No way! Really?" Arnold said as he became excited. Arnold quickly tore open the package to find an object wrapped in leather and a small sized jewelry box. Arnold untied the string like knots around the leather and removed the leather to find a silver colored key with strange writing in a mysterious language engraved along the key. Arnold reached for the jewelry box and opened it to find a pendant with an emerald in the center, gold holding and silver tangled into an arc on the top that a rope attached to creating a necklace. On the bottom of the box was a note that read "The key was given to your parents as a thanks from the green eyes for preventing the sickness from spreading to their village. Your father was given a letter saying that any of his descendants can use this key as he does. The pendant was the gift from the green eyes to you . Your father was given it to bring to you after they returned to South America. However there is a problem here in the city of the green eyes. River pirates have pillaged much of south America searching for this pendant. This is the pendant that your father took back from the infamous pirate La Sombra. We need you, Arnold to return to South America in order for us to fight off this infamous river pirate. "It says they need me…" Arnold said. "What can I do to fight a river pirate. Arnold asked himself aloud. "They probably remember last year when…" Phil stopped hesitantly. "I can shoot…" Arnold said. Another note was underneath the one Arnold had read that had a date on it 2008 January 1st. "Grandpa there is a date…" Arnold said. Phil looked at the date and then at Arnold. "I think that's when they want us to go…" Phil said as he turned to Arnold.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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