Madi and Chrystal go to the beach! Hehe, I felt in the mood for the beach. R&R?
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Madi: *is silent*
Mia: That's a first...
"Heck yeah!" I exclaimed as I ran off the Tortuga and onto the beach. Chrystal followed me. It was a hot Saturday afternoon.
"Hey Madi!" Chrystal exclaimed. "Come back! I'll race you to the shoreline!"
"You're on." I smirked, walking back to where Chrystal was.
"Three... Two... One... GO!"
Chrystal and I took off, sprinting down the beach. I saw the blue-green waves braking close to shore as people surfed them. It was a beautiful day. I could stay here forever. I had left my Creature Pod in the Tortuga. Chrystal and I jumped into the ocean, a fragment of a second apart.
"I won!" Chrystal exclaimed.
"Aww!" I exclaimed. "Sad, but true."
Chrystal smirked. "Yep."
"Hey, how long are you staying in our world?" I asked.
"In all honesty?" Chrystal answered. "We're sort of trapped here. The portal was destabilizing, and then it just shut!"
"So... you're going to live with us forever?" I asked.
Chrystal shook her head. "No. All of us are working together, trying to get us back to our world."
"So... Can't you just use the same thing you used to get here?" I asked.
"I think there's a changing code, day by day, and it's never the same, and you've got to find the code," Chrystal explained. "It changes like once every hour, too... and there's some complicated math equation to find it."
"Ugh. Math." I rolled my eyes. "I had this terrible math teacher once. Hated her."
"Aw," Chrystal replied. "That stinks."
"I know," I replied. "Anyways, we're at the beach. Have you tried Manta-boarding on waves?"
Luckily, Mom had repaired the one I crashed.
"Nope," Chrystal replied.
"Me, neither. Let's do it!" I exclaimed.
We ran into the Tortuga and I grabbed the two Manta Riders. Suddenly my Creature Pod began to play its ringtone- Out of the Woods by Taylor Swift. Emma had stolen it one day and set it as that, and I never changed it. (I actually really liked the song, but the lyrics shouldn't be about escaping the woods, they should be about going to the woods.) I walked over- 279 messages from Emma and Allie?!
"What's that song?" Chrystal asked.
"It's Out of the Woods by Taylor Swift," I replied, tapping a few buttons on my Creature Pod. The song started to play.
"Nice," Chrystal replied. "I've never really paid too much attention to the media."
"I have an Instagram and Twitter and that's it," I replied. "As I said, I got raised by Zach and Donita. Donita made my Instagram when I was 11!
"Wow." Chrystal rolled her eyes.
"You ever gone Manta-boarding?" I asked.
"Nope," Chrystal replied. "Have you?"
"Last time I was in the Arctic, and I broke one of them." I laughed a little. "Let's do this."
We ran back outside, and as we passed, my mom gave us a look that said, don't break them again. I smiled in reply, and she turned back to talking with everyone else. I heard a few words: math, code, parallel universe, Madi, Chrystal... and that was it.
"Okay, whoever stays on longest wins, right?" Chrystal asked. "Or does the best dismount?"
"Sure!" I replied, paddling out. "I'll go first."
I caught a wave and stood up. It's harder then it looks! Seriously! I smiled, still balanced. I could ice skate, and it was a matter of balance too. I did a sharp turn on the top of the wave. Then an air grab, pushed off and flipped. Then I landed in the water, laughing.
"That was awesome!" Chrystal exclaimed. "9.6!"
"Beat that!" I exclaimed, sitting on the Manta Rider in the ocean.
"Fine, I will!" Chrystal sassed.
She swam out and caught a wave, then stood up as well. She did a sharp turn on the top of the wave too, but fell off. I started laughing as hard as I could. "Chrystal, I think you're supposed to stay on the wave, not fall of it!"
"I know that, Madi," Chrystal replied, laughing. "But that landing was a 10!"
I rolled my eyes. "8.3!"
"10!"
"8.3!"
"10!"
"8.3!"
"Oh, forget it, 8.3!" Chrystal sighed. "How'd you do it?"
"Donita made me figure skate! UGH!" I exclaimed. "It's actually fun when you're not being made to do it. It's about balance."
"Balance... that reminds me of something..." Chrystal muttered. "The equation! Whatever you do, it's gotta stay balanced."
"I remember. It's math." I rolled my eyes. "But it's summer now. Forget math."
"What's your favorite subject?" she asked.
"Science!" I exclaimed. "I'm a Kratt. Biology and zoology."
"Same!" Chrystal exclaimed. "Animals are totally awesome."
"I know!" I exclaimed. "We're taking the freshmen class on some adventure in 12 days. Today's Saturday, so that would be... not this Wednesday but the next one after that, I think? But anyways, yeah, and I have no idea what adventure we'll do. We just can't take them out of the country, to the Arctic or to the desert. Or any, you know, life-threatening situations."
"Yeah, and how are you going to talk about me and you?"
"Uh..."
I hadn't thought about it. If I said, Hey it's Madi, and this is Chrystal, and she's from another universe. She's also... trapped here until she can get back and she's like me in her world except she's not exactly me... It's complicated! I'd probably say it really fast and everyone would be like, Wait, what?!
"I'm going to wing it!" I exclaimed, laughing. "Like I do most everything!"
Suddenly it started to rain, hard. Thunder cracked.
"SERIOUSLY?!" I asked, annoyed.
Chrystal laughed. "At least we didn't break the Manta Riders. Race you back!"
"YOU'RE ON!"
We laughed as she ran back. This time, I was able to beat her by a fraction of a second.