"Everybody up" I heard Hank exclaimed, I slowly opened my eyes and felt water under my hand, I shot up and saw a lot more water around us "Where'd all this water come from?" Kailani asked "It looks like the liquifacture rate doubled up over night" Hank explained "What does that mean?" I asked wincing as I accidentally rolled over onto my thigh
"It means this islands sinking a lot faster than' we thought" Hank said "I thought you said a couple of days" Alexander said, I stood up despite the protesting of my leg "Now more like a couple of hours" Hank sighed, my eyes widened "We all need to get to that sub now or were gonna be 20,000 leagues under the sea" Hank said "Papa?"
Kailani asked, I looked to see her father wasn't around, she called his name a few times "Calm down, he's probably gone for a pee" Alexander reassured "Oh no" she exclaimed grabbing her bag and stuffing the guitar in it "What?" I asked confused "Last night he promised me he'd send me to college, now I know what he meant, he's going after the mountain of gold. Look I need to go get him you guys head to the sub and if were not there in time then leave without us"
she said pulling on her bagpack, I did the same with mine "No way your not going alone, I'll go with you" Sean said, I noticed he had a stick to prevent him from falling over because of his ankle "Sean you have a dislocated ankle and that's at elast four miles" Hank said "No it's fine, I can do it I'll be okay" he replied, I sighed
"No Sean he's right, your in no condition to make that trip" Alexander said "Well she can't go alone" Sean said, I stepped forward "I'll go with her" I said, Sean faced me and slowly shook his head "Uh uh no friggin way" he said, I rolled my eyes "I'm going no matter what you say" I said, he gave me an' annoyed look "I'll go with them"
Alexander said, we all faced him "I'm the one that called you to this island and it's my fault your in this mess, if this map of ours is right then the trident cliffs should be about a mile and a half in that direction, you get to the nautilus as soon as you can and meet us on the shore line" Alexander said, Hank nodded "We only have one map" Sean pointed out "Lemme see your phone" Hank said, Sean handed him the phone and took a photo of the map
"Now we have two" Hank said, I smiled "Hank, well done" Alexander said "Thank you, for calling me Hank" Hank replied "Anytime" Alexander said "Lanie we need to talk" Sean said with a tone, I gave him a look "I think it can wait" I said about to start walking, he grabbed my hand and pulled me back
"No it can't, look I don't know what I did to piss you off so much and I probably won't figure it out until later on but I don't exactly know if I'll ever see you again so keep this in mind.." he said it so quickly it was hard for me to keep up, so you can imagine how big of a surprise it was when he put one arm around my waist and slammed his lips agains't my own,
I put one hand on his neck and the other on his shoulder, I knew this might be the last time I would ever kiss him and I was making the most of it "Ehem" Hank said, I pulled away breathlessly and nodded
"I'll see you soon" I said, he nodded "I love you Lanes" he said, my eyes widened and someone took hold of my arm "C'mon Lanie" Kailani said, I nodded and followed her into the forest with Alexander guiding us.
As we were walking we eventually found Gabato, he was in a big hole in the groun trying to move a huge block of gold "What you doing here? Your supposed to be back at the Nautilus, I'll meet you back there"
he said trying to pull the gold "Papa stop" she demanded, he sighed "Baby this is our one chance, our one chance to send you to college, to give you different life, better life" he said before pulling again
"Papa we'll have all the wealth we'll ever need, just as long as were together" Kailani said, he nodded and she took his hand leading him out of the hole "C'mon guys we don't have much time" I said looking around, they nodded and we started following Alexander again,
we were following him but he looked a little lost to me "Which way are you goin?" Kailani asked, the pain in my leg came back twice as hard and I fell down "Lanie what's wrong?" Kailani asked worried, I shook my head "I'm fine..." I gasped when the pain didn't stop "It's your leg isn't it? Show me" she demanded,
a few tears fell down my cheeks "I didn't wanna worry you guys" I whimpered, she knelt down and I lifted my shorts leg, Kailani slowly untied the bandage and gasped "Oh my god Lanie" she exclaimed, I silently cried and fell back onto the ground "It looks infected, how long has that been there?"
Alexander asked, I took a deep breath before answering "Ever since I went into the hole for Nemo's journal" I replied, he sighed "We need to get that object out" he said, I felt something touch my leg and I screamed into my hand "Okay okay, we won't touch it, wrap it back up" Alexander said,
Kailani tied the blanket back around my thigh and I pulled down the pant leg "Can you stand?" Alexander asked, I did but it was very painfull "I'll be okay" I said, he nodded and turned back to his compass
"Were getting too much magnetic friction" he said "What does that mean?" Gabato asked "It means were lost" I said holding onto my thigh, Gabato threw his arms up in annoyence and I rolled my eyes.