A/N: So here's the 4th chapter... Sorry I've been busy! Hope you like it.
I don't own anything but my OC Alyssa. Thanks for your reviews!
We were all falling. I was scared. We were all screaming. I realized I was still holding Sean's hand. I let him go. I closed my eyes waiting for the crash, screaming… Wait… We were still… Does this thing have any end? "WE ARE STILL FALLING!" Trevor yelled. You know those moments when your life goes in front of your eyes because you know you are going to die? Well… That was one of those moments. I opened my eyes. We all held each other hands. This was getting kinda boring, we were still falling… Is that possible? "Trevor, what's at the bottom?" Sean asked. The book, what happened in the book? Ugh I couldn't remember! "Well, if what Verne wrote was right…these tunnels could go for hundreds, thousands of miles." Trevor answered him. RIGHT! But… He is just a science fiction writer… Was he right? "VERNE WAS NOT RIGHT!" Hannah yelled. Uhmm… Thanks for your optimism. "Trevor, finish. What's at the bottom?" Sean asked. Wait… Now I did remember… Gosh no please! I want to live! "It just ends!" I said, and Trevor nodded. "Ends? Got any other theories?" Sean asked. "There will be unicorns waiting for us in the paradise!" I said. Wait… What the hell did I just say? "Well, the walls of this tunnel could have gently eroded…by water which still runs through it…providing a gradual break to our fall. Kind of like a water slide. So that means no unicorns" Trevor said. Well that's a better theory than mine. "Water slide? Well that's a theory!" Sean said and looked at me. What? I really thought that in the center of the earth there will be unicorns… "But wouldn't the water have formed stalagmites pointing straight up at us? We'll be skewered." Hannah yelled. Again, thanks your optimism. "That is also possible!" Trevor said. We all screamed. I closed my eyes… Then felt something wet… "IS THAT WATER?" Wait… Water? WATER? I don't know how to swim! "Yes it's water" Sean started to pray? "water slide water slide water slide" he kept saying. "But Trevor… I don't know how to…" Too late… We splashed. I saw Sean and Trevor swimming I tried to copy their movements. I did everything I could but I couldn't swim… I tried… I was running out of air… Everything went dark…
I woke up to a kiss. I coughed and saw Sean in front of me. Ugh! Did Sean kiss me?! I punched him on the arm. "What's wrong with you?!" He said confused. "That's the same I'm asking to you!" I snapped at him. "So, I save your life and you hit me, nice huh?" He said. "You… You saved my life?" I asked. "Yeah I did… Don't you know how to swim?" He asked me. "Well thanks… No I don't" I said. "What happened exactly?" I asked him. "Well we splashed then we three got out and you didn't I splashed again saw you there… And got you out and… Uh huh…" He said. "What happened next?" I asked raising a brow. I mean why when I woke up he was kissing me… "Um, I… I gave you CPR" he said blushing. "Well um thanks" I said kissing his cheek and standing up. . I looked at the ceiling; there were these blue shining things. "Are those stars?" I asked. "No… It's just the cave ceiling" Trevor said, answering my question. "Is it just me or the cave ceiling is…" Sean started "Moving?" I said. "Yeah… It does look like it" Trevor said. Suddenly the blue shinning things started to fly? Were they birds? "Are they birds?" I asked. "Electric birds?" Sean asked. "They look like Cyanis rosopteryx. Only they're bioluminescent, like fireflies or glowworms. It's incredible." Trevor said. Indeed it was incredible. "Have you seen these creatures before?" Hannah asked. "Yeah, in the museum, but they were fossilized." Trevor answered. "These things have been extinct for over 150 million years." "Then… How are they here?" I asked; Trevor shrugged. "Where are they going?" Hannah asked, I started to follow them to this tunnel. Sean followed me. I looked around, oh my god. I saw a waterfall… a beautiful landscape… No way… Were we in the… "Ladies and gentleman, I give you the center of the earth," Trevor murmured, his face just as shocked as everyone else's was. "MAX WAS RIGHT! HE WAS RIGHT! MAX WAS RIGHT!" Trevor yelled and laughed. Then he looked at Sean "YOUR DAD WAS RIGHT! YOUR DAD WAS RIGHT!" Alright we got it Trevor… "Hannah your dad was right too" Sean told Hannah, she didn't seem to be happy. "They both believed…in something that everyone told them was impossible." Trevor said. "HE WAS RIGHT!" I looked at the sky… "What's the light up there?" I asked. "I can't tell" Trevor answered me. "It must be some sort of luminescent gas combination." Uh huh… So that tells me nothing… I hate everything that has to do with Chemistry or whatever is that…
"It's like a terrarium" Sean said. I raised a brow and looked at him surprised normally I was the one who knew the things… The intelligent one.
"A terrarium thousands of miles beneath the crust of the Earth." Trevor said nodding. "A world within the world." He started to read the book as we walked "The waterfalls, which for a long time, could be heard flowing from afar…now cascaded along the towering canyon walls…streaming along the rock with no end."
"It's basically what Liedenbroke wrote… Right?" I asked. Trevor nodded.
"You read the book?" He asked me. I nodded smiling "Of course, it is one of my favorites" I answered, I looked around amazed. WAIT… If it was like in the book…
"Are we saying that Liedenbrock the character was real? That he existed?" I asked. "Someone came down here. Someone saw all this. Someone got out and someone told Verne." Trevor answered. "SOMEONE GOT OUT?" I yelled excited. "That's the best thing I've heard all day." Sean said. I agree with him. Of course! We will get out of here! Sean looked at me and chuckled, I smiled and shrugged. I don't care if he laughs at my reaction, I'm happy. We are getting out of here. I am so happy I could hug Sean, HA! Just Kidding!
"Doesn't this just completely blow your mind?" Trevor asked Hannah blowing this flower. I smiled. "My mind is blown yes." Hannah answered him. I looked at Sean, his greenish hazel eyes locked into my gray ones, I felt something in my stomach… No it's not what you are thinking, I don't feel 'butterflies' when I see Sean, maybe it is something else… I looked away.
We kept walking and saw this GIANT MUSHROOMS! Mushrooms! I love fungi; it reminds me of Mario Bros, my favorite videogame.
"Enormous fossilized mushrooms." Trevor explained. I smiled and started to hum Mario Bro's theme song. "Sort of like enormous fungus?" Sean joked, I chuckled with sarcasm. He smiled at me… Again I felt something in my tummy, No Alyssa, it's nothing… You are just being stupid, it's just Sean…The cute and handsome Sean, No! STOP! I kept walking shaking my head…Wait everything seems to be like in the book… "Uhm Trevor, as everything is like the book… I mean the good things… The dangerous things are real too right?" I asked Trevor. "I was thinking 'bout the same" He answered me. I bit my lip. We all kept walking without saying a word. We suddenly bumped into this… Tree house? Sean and I smiled to each other and ran inside of it. Woah… Maybe Liedenbrok lived on here. I looked around and saw a hammock. I laid on it. "Trevor! Come here quick!" Sean yelled. "Sean? Alyssa?" Trevor and Hannah yelled at the same time. "Someone actually lived on here!?" Sean asked me, I smiled. "I think that someone was Liedenbroke" I told him. "Look at everything he was a genius, he managed to live on here and…Oh look here" I told him pointing at all the notes that were on the table. I stood up and start looking at them. We kept reading the notes and stuff. Trevor joined us. "Look Trevor, think I've found Liedenbroke's notebook!" I said giving him this notebook. He looked at it and raised a brow. "Um… I don't think this is Liedenbroke's handwriting." Trevor answered and got the Journey to the Center of the Earth book. He opened it and compared the handwritings from the notebook and the book. They were exactly the same… That meant… Max lived on here!Sean's dad lived on here! Maybe he was alive somewhere looking for food or something. Hannah called Trevor and he went outside to talk with her. I smiled… Wait… He could be dead too… I frowned. I looked at Sean who was as shocked as me… I grimaced and sighed. Sean sat on the hammock, I sat beside him. He covered his face with his hands. "Finally I found where my father is" He said, I looked at him. "Um, Sean, Alyssa?" Trevor called us. I stood up, and so did Sean, we got out of the tree house and went to the beach. Then we saw him… Max. He was dead. Sean started to cry and hugged Trevor.
We buried max near the sea with some rocks Sean was sobbing; I cried too, Uncle Max was dead… He wasn't really my uncle but… Whatever, I felt bad. Sean let Trevor go, he was crying. I walked to him and patted his shoulder. He looked at me with his red and puffy eyes. I sighed and hugged him tight, he hugged me back. I rubbed his back. "I never really got a chance to know him. I mean, I wish I did." He said; we were still hugging. I felt as if I wanted to freeze this moment and stay like this forever. Trevor tapped Sean's shoulder and we finally let go. I knew we were friends again. Trevor had a paper in his hand and started reading it "August 14, 1997. Today was Sean's third birthday. Six weeks ago, I promised myself
I would be home in time… to give him his first baseball glove. Now I'm worried…that I'll never get the chance. I set out to make an incredible discovery to share with Trevor and the world. But now, I would trade it all…just to be able to watch you grow up to be the brave and caring man…I am certain you will become. Happy birthday Sean. I love you. Daddy" Sean started to cry again. I rubbed his back, and now he was the one who hugged me. I hugged him back and he cried on my shoulder, even if he was taller than me. After what seemed like hours he let me go. He walked near the sea and sat down beside him. We both stared at the sea for a while. I played with a pluck of my red hair, when I noticed Sean was staring at me. "Thanks" He said. I raised a brow. "For being here with me" I shrugged. "What are friends for?" I said. He smiled. "So now we are friends" He simply said. "Well I suppose we aren't.. I mean if you don't" I started but he cut me off. "Of course I want to be friends with you" I smiled… Something in those words reminded me….
*FLASHBACK*
"Alyssa Evans! Come here and give me my shoe!" A boy said. I giggled climbing tree. I looked down and Sean was there with one shoe and his other bare foot.
"What if I don't Anderson?" I said with a smirk.
"Then forget about us!" He said.
"Us?" I asked. "Yeah… Our friendship!" he said.
"Oh so our friendship will end because of your shoe?"
"Yup… Guess you don't want to be friends with me!" He said. I sighed and climbed down. "Well…Of course I want to be friends with you…." I gave him his shoe. Happy?"
"Yes… But there is one more thing I'd like to do…" He said and kissed me on the lips. My eyes widened.
"And what was that for?" I asked. He just smirked and walked away.
"Earth calling Alyssa" Sean said waving his hand in front of my face. "Wha-What? Oh right…" I shook my head. "Everything okay?" He asked me. "Um yeah... just let's got back in the tree house." I said. He raised a brow and nodded. We stood up and got into the tree house. I wonder if he still remembers that day, the day he kissed me…Of course he doesn't… Forget it Alyssa, it's Sean Anderson.
"According to Max's journal… we're here in this giant air pocket that's surrounded by lava. And during periods of intense seismic activity. The magma that surrounds us...turns this place into pretty much just a big oven" Trevor said when Sean and I got in. I sat on the hammock and listened to them.
"So that's what happened to my dad?" Sean asked. Trevor and Hannah glanced at each other. I rolled my eyes and stood up. "Look we know we are just kids but that doesn't mean we can't handle this" I said, and Sean nodded.
"Max was planning an escape. His notes say that temperatures down here can easily hit 200 degrees. A human being can't survive beyond 135." Trevor said.
"It's already 95 degrees." Hannah said. "It was 82 when we got here." Trevor said.
" Temperature's rising quickly… And It is getting really hot…" I said. I waved my hand in front of my face so I could get a bit of 'cold' air.
" So, what do we do?" Sean asked,I looked at Trevor and Hannah.
"I say that we follow Max's plan." Trevor said laying Max's notebook in the table.
A/N: Tadaaah! That was it... REVIEW! Hmm... Any ideas?