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"You did WHAT?!" all thirteen parents yelled.
"I- It was an acc'dent mum!" Aaiden hurriedly tried to explain. "Honest i' was!"
"So you mean to tell me that you made up some imaginary list, broke my sons heart, and put all our children's lives on the line because their going up to the north pole?!" Lisa raved furiously, eyes blazing with anger, Nathan holding her back, but the others looked really mad too.
"You are all so gr-"
"You can punish us later!" Rekha, one of Gupta's sisters, interrupted. "We've gotta find them before something else does!" none of them appreciated the way she said 'something else'.
"Wait!" Joyeeta cried. "…Where's Krishna?"
…
"Krishna!" Joyeeta yelled as she slid down their tunnel entrance, landing in the middle of their family room. One of her eldest daughters lay sprawled on the stone couch, fiddling with her claws in complete boredom with a blanket over her lower half. She looked up at her with tired eyes.
"Hi mom…" she greeted hoarsely. Her cold was still going strong. "Could you please not yell? I've gotta headache."
"Don't try that on me!" she hissed. Normally she spoke to her children with love and compassion, especially when they didn't feel well, but not this time. "Where. Is. He?"
"He? He who?" she asked, looking confused. She was a fairly good actress.
"Gupta! Who else?" she snapped.
She shrugged weakly and shivered a little, sliding down further and pulling the blanket up. "How should I know? I've been sleeping most of the day."
"Just tell me what you know, young lady, or I'll-" she promptly stopped herself.
Krishna's eyes widened. Her mother had almost threatened her. If it was that serious… "Ok, f-fine." She started quietly, feeling guilty for betraying her brother. "I saw Gupta last night when I got up to get some tea- the guys played some trick on em, and they're heading to the north pole to get off Santa's naughty list." She let out without taking a breath, instantly clamping her paws over her mouth. She'd just betrayed her brother…
-Farther North-
The kids were bored. After all, walking wasn't at all entertaining after a few who-knew-how-many miles, and there was nothing for I Spy, except snow, trees, and the occasional rock. Boring. The sky was clear, the Northern Lights were glimmering, but that was all. Not a single interesting cloud, not even a wisp. Boring. Boring, boring, boring.
"I'm sooooo bored." Squint groaned for the thousandth time, draped across Raz's shoulder, who was beginning to get annoyed.
"Yeh, we all are. Git over i'." she mumbled irritably, fiddling with her scarf, which she was bending and twisting into different shapes to keep her fingers busy. She felt fidgety and twitchy and anxious, like all kids if they stayed unentertained for too long. …Or when she could sense something amiss. Not necessarily wrong, because that would mean danger or a setback in their journey, but something definitely wasn't the same as it had been. She just couldn't figure out what.
The strangest thing they'd seen on their trip so far was a crazed squirrel that came and jumped on Gunner's head when his acorn rolled in front of them, getting under Raz's foot. Unsuspecting and unable to balance herself, she'd been sent sprawling. Since then, she'd developed a dislike for those dumb, annoying little creatures, finding her jaw clenching with anger whenever she thought of it. It had, after all, practically attacked her friend. Not effectively, but still.
As they went along, Squint suddenly stiffened from his place dangling on her shoulder. What was that sparkly shriek in the sky? It wasn't part of the Northern Lights; it had disappeared as quickly as it had showed up. So what… there it was again! This time the rainbow, shimmery… whatever it was came raining down on him. He coughed a little and sat up. What in the world…
"Oi, ye ok?" Raz asked, turning her head to look at him. "Yer no' getting sick 'er something, are ya?" he just raised an eyebrow. "If ye are, don' breathe on meh. I ain't getting sick righ 'fore Christmas."
"No… just choked on something."
"Oh yeh? And whas tha?"
"I dunno… something sparkly fell outta the sky."
She gave him a weird look. "Do ye have an'eh Ah'dea how 'diculous tha sounds?"
Yes, yes he did. But she didn't need to know that! "I don't what it was. It was…"
There was a sudden startled cry from the front. "What the-?!" they rushed forward and were promptly stunned into stillness.
-Elsewhere-
"Ah still can' be'lie ye act'lly tricked yer bab'eh sista inta runnin off ta fin' s'me guy tha lives in th' middle a' nowhere!" Lalli's devastation had been transformed into anger. If, and when, she got her precious baby girl back, those boys would be grounded until she died! Picking on younger siblings is one thing; she knew. She'd been a middle child herself.
But driving them to the point of hysterical tears (they'd also admitted that was the reason they'd all been crying so hard the day before) and running off into the wilderness to find something that was so vague and broad it was pretty much impossible? She wanted to punish them worse than an 'on hold' grounding, but her focus was on her precious, irreplaceable, beloved joey.
Worries raced through her mind. What it they couldn't find them before a predator of sorts did. She knew, if anything at all, looked appetizing to a hungry carnivore, it would be a band of defenseless little kids with no parents to protect them at the moment. After all, the north pole could be anywhere! North was just a vague direction!
"Daling, please, try ta r'lax. Ya need ta calm down."
She turned on her husband, eyes flaming with anger. Uh oh…
"Relax?!" she hissed. "Ye want me ta r'lax?" oh boy… he'd really done it now. "Ah'm sorr'eh Blayke, lemme clar'fy ar situation fer yeh. Ar' one an onl'eh daughter is los' in thr middle a nowhere with no pr'tection- from anythin! She coul freeze ta death, er make a fine app'tizer. So don' ye dare tell meh to calm down."
"Uh, y-yes dear." He said hurriedly, leaning away from his suddenly violent wife. He'd never seen her like this before. If this was the side effect of Raz missing, he really hoped they found her soon. For his, and quite possibly, their marriage, sake.
'Oh Raz' he thought. 'Where are ya?' all the others were thinking the same thing.
And… done! Jeez! Six chapters in two days! This is going great! Review please!