Woah! Alright so we were hit by the storm, then the power was out for about a week, and then school started the night after the power came back on, so I was bummed. And then my Dad erased the WoWP Movie off the DVR, so I was trying to find the part I was at on Youtube. Oh, and I think this Friday or Saturday night, so that will probably be when I will finish up the rest of the chapters. Okay, so let's start with the chapter! Oh, and plus this chapter isn't spell checked yet, so if there's any grammar mistakes, sorry!
Disclaimer: Don't own Wizards of Waverly Place
Chapter 5: Listen to Me
Alex's POV
"Alex," I heard Justin say. I groaned. Why was he up so early? I moaned, turning my head away from him and into the hammock. "Alex," he said, shaking the hammock back and forth. I opened up my left eyes and started to roll over, until I was hanging off the hammock upside down.
I looked up to see Justin and Max standing there, laughing. I pouted and crossed me arms, staring at Justin as I said, "That wasn't funny. Now help me get dow-AH!" I screamed as I flipped over. They laughed even harder at that as I stood up, brushing myself off. I glared at them and started walking away, but Justin pulled me back.
"Come on Alex, I'm sorry. Now come on, we need to get a move on." He told me with his hand on my shoulder. I looked over at Max who nodded his head. I hugged Max who then turned around and started looking for Mom and Dad. Justin and I started walking, trying to find Archie. It wasn't that hard, since all we had to do was follow the cops around.
He then took us to the edge of a pier, sitting us down at a table. "I knew you'd find me," he said happily, sliding me a piece of paper. Apparently it was the Stone of Dreams map.
"I can't believe it," Justin muttered, trying to see over my shoulder. I openend the paper up, to find something that wasn't even close to the stone of dreams.
"This is a flier for a buffet at the all you can eat crab shack." I told him, throwing the paper back at him. He caught it and slid it back into his pocket, muttering something about needing that.
He then pulled out another piece of paper, opening it up for us. Now, that looked more like a map. I looked up to see Justin smiling, and I smiled too. Maybe we were going to be able to fix this soon...
"Are you sure this is the map?" Justin asked, unsure. It didn't look like there was anything special about it.
"Only one in the entire world." Archie said, leaning back in his chair. "I told you'd they'd help us." He said to the bird. Or lady... Lady bird.
"Hey guys!" Dad said, walking by. "Look what I just bought at the gift shop!" He said, showing us the same exact map that Archie was showing us. We both looked at Archie to see him looking down. Wow, nice job man.
"Wait, where's Max?" Justin said, but Max came running down the street, complaining about corning one and then the other dissapears. He ran off again after dad calling his name.
"Only map in the world, huh?" I glared at Archie. What was with this guy? We could have just bought a map and the gift store and been on our way? He reached behind my hair, all of a sudden pulling out a folded up piece of paper. I scooted closer to Justin as he put his arm around me. No, that's not freaky... "In my defence, I haven't showered in like, two days..."
"The reason, the other maps don't work," Archie said with a smile, "is because no one knows the right place to start." With that he slid the piece of paper onto the map, placing it over a boat where it matched up perfectly, showing us where the cave was that had the place to start looking.
Me and Justin looked at eachother, grinning. Archie told us that we should get a head start right now, the trip might take us a day or so. We both shot up, and started following where the map told us to go. We finally made it, but it didn't look like there was a pathway. "Now which way?" Justin muttered.
I grabbed the map, and started trying to read the letters. What was this? Japanese? "There's all this writing, but it doesn't make any sense." I told Justin, showing him. He took it back quickly.
"That's because it's in Spanish," Wow, I really needed to learn what these languages looked like... "which you've only been taking since first grade." He chuckled.
"Ah, well I kind of peaked at the English dictionary a lot," I laughed out. Justin just sighed and shook his head.
"It says the path will only reveal itself to those who intentions are pure... so me, obviously," he chuckled, walking away from me and taking out the giant head of the lion in the wall. It looked like it didn't weigh a thing when he held it. Alright, focus on the task at hand.
He breathed in, holding the lion with one hand and staring at the trees. "Okay, show me the way, open up, reveal the path."
We all looked around, but noticed that nothing happenend. Justin said the words again, but it didn't do anything. He passed the lion head to me as he tried to read the map again. It started slipping as I said, "Justin, little help here."
He quickly grabbed onto the head also, until all of a sudden, the head turned a purple color and out of no where a path became visable behind the trees. "We did it." I said happily, as Justin took the head back and put it back in the wall. He grabbed onto my hand and we walked through the trees quietly, not really paying attention to Archie.
It felt like we had been walking for hours, with Archie talking to his bird lady behind us, saying things like, "one wish per wizard," and "you'll be back to normal in no time." Hm... or maybe she could stay like that?
"How did she even become a bird, anyway?" I asked, haulting as Justin also turned around. Guess I wasn't the only curious one after all. Archie stopped and smiled, reaching up to pet the bird as he began her story. But she quickly bit him, which then he muttered out that he doesn't actually quite know.
I shook my head and Justin wrapped his arm around my shoulders as we started walking even further into the woods. I listened quietly to Archie and the bird behind us. I started laughing quietly. Justin looked down at me confused. "Is he flirting with a bird?"
Justin looked straight ahead then turned his head around quickly, to see Archie smiling and petting the bird lovingly. He chuckled slightly, moving a brach out of the way for us. A huge waterfall came into view, and seriously I just wanted to jump into it. "A waterfall. We're heading in the right direction." Justin smiled, looking at the map. I pulled out of his grasp to go and stand at the edge of the rocks that bordered the huge lake.
"You know what Justin? Why don't you just let me lead the way?" I asked him a few minutes later after he got upset with himself about which way to go next. I didn't want him to be upset. Then the next thing would be him bringing himself down, and I didn't want that.
We kept walking after that for a couple of seconds before he answered. "Maybe because you can't read a map... or a compass, or oh yeah, read Spanish." He said angrily. I took a step back looking down. Uh, okay. We playing this game again?
"Well," I smirked. "I know enough to not walk into a giant spider web." I told him. He started jumping around, yelling at me to 'get it off him' as I laughed. He stopped and looked at me with a glare as I laughed even harder, the bird and Archie laughing quietly behind me as well. "Haha, that never gets old. You always scream like a little girl- AH GET IT OFF ME!" I screamed as I wiped myself off from the spider web I had just stepped into. I ran right into Justin who wrapped his arms around me as he laughed. I stomped my foot but wrapped my arms around him tighter and burried my face into his neck.
"That doesn't count." I muttered as we released eachother. "I actually am a little girl."
"Alright we shall never speak of this again, agreed?" Justin said, staring at me as I agreed. We started back on our walk, Justin walking in the front while I was in the middle and Archie and the bird was in the back. What was her name again? Goosey? Gigi? Ah, it will come to me.
"Alright, we should be heading six degress North by Northeast... and we follow the path- STOP! All the way here." I bumped right into him, glaring.
"Could of gave a girl some warning." I muttered under my breath. He chuckled, turning to look back at the map. We stood for a couple of minutes before I got impatient. "Justin? We're kind of in a hurry here, time rippling, us dissapearing," I told him truthfully. He turned around and scoffed at me.
"You can't go two seconds without critisizing me can you?" He asked angrily. I took a step back and just stared at him. "What?"
"I don't want us fighting." I told him honestly. We have a little while before we stop remembering eachother forever, and I don't want that. Unless we find the stone as soon as possible. But that would make it harder to find it if we keep arguing every second.
He sighed and put the map down, walking over to me and putting his hands on my waist, pulling me close to him. I could hear that stupid bird squawking in the background, but the noise dissapeared as Justin pressed his lips against mine forcefully, making my breath hitch in the back of my throat. I moved my arms to wrap around his neck, just before he lifted me up so he didn't need to lean over. I wrapped my arms around his neck and let me tongue gently caress his. And in that moment, I forgot about everything.
Until something in the bushes started rattling and we broke apart, him still carrying me with my legs around his waist. I started breathing heavily. "Is it the cops! Thugs! Have they come for me!" I shouted, completely moving myself onto Justin's back into a piggy-back formation. All of a sudden a small bunny popped out of the bush, looking at us.
"Stay calm, it can probably smell fear." Justin said in a sarcastic tone, until he started laughing as he set me down on his feet. Ugh. Alright, thanks a lot. Wait, what have you done in your life time that the cops or thugs would be looking for you? Wait... I can't remember anything. Oh well, that may actually be a good thing. We started walking more ahead, Justin leading while watching the map.
"Alright, another twenty feet in this direction," he said more to himself then to me. I crossed my arms over my chest as he said this, smirking. I know a way that I could take lead in this. He turned around and looked at me. "Why are you getting taller?"
"Oh, that's because you couldn't stop being perfect long enough to notice that you are standing in quick sand." I told him laughing. He looked down, then back up, his face panicked. Maybe this went a little to far... He threw his backpack and the map onto the ground out of his reach, reaching up to me.
"Alex! Alex, please help!" He shouted, trying to grab onto anything that he could. Maybe I should help him- or I could wait and try to find us the right way to get closer to the cave.
"Alright, now maybe we can get someplace huh?" I teased, opening up the map on the ground. "Alex! This is not funny! Come on!" Justin shouted as I turned around. "Okay, so we're here and we need to get there..." I said, teasing him. Wow, we really haven't walked very far have we?
"You're holding it upside down!" He shouted. I stared at the map. I flipped it upright. "Oh that's better! Know what, it needs some of those little X thingies that they have at the mall you know?"
"Alex, grab onto something I'm sinking!" he said seriously. I turned around and saw that he was up to his waist. Desperation was in his eyes, and I knew that he was really scared. "Please, love." he said quietly. I lost it. I got onto my hands and knees and crawled over to the edge of where the quick sand was, telling him how I was sorry and that I would get him out. I reached over and grabbed the biggest stick I could, holding it for him and pulling on it to take him out.
He fell onto the ground and I jumped ontop of him, holding him tightly. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that."
"Hey, Alex. Sh, I know you didn't mean to, it's okay." He whispered, caressing my head. I turned my head and looked down at the map I had dropped. I grabbed it excitedly.
"Justin! Look! The mountains!" I said, rolling over and sitting up, pointing to the mountains right behind the trees and then the mountains on the map. He smiled and stood up, pulling me up along. We both turned around at the sudden movement of the trees, and saw Archie and his bird girlfriend walking towards us.
"Alright, let's get a move on!" I said, grabbing onto Justin's arm while the other hand was occupied witht he map. Archie followed quietly behind us as we walked, Justing panting a little more than he should have. He must have really been scared in that quick sand pit. I wrapped my arm around his waist, which in responde he put is around my shoulders. Hm, wait if Archie knew that we were brother and sister, then why wasn't he asking us why we were acting like this?
Oh well, that really didn't matter right now. As long as you are with Justin, then everything would be fine... right? Right.
Okay, not a lot of the Jalex I think. Next chapter probably will, since it's going to be them- ah nope won't tell you. It's almost 8:30 right now, and the internets not on yet, so I'll post this later and start the 6th chapter right now.
Alright, so let's go get a move on! Next chapter awaits!