"Hey Miss F!" Anara said brightly
"Whats up?" Miraj asked cluelessly looking at Miss Feragonda with a suspicious face
"I just need to speak to Sahpiro for a little bit, in my office." She said. Why am I so popular with the teachers here? I MEAN COME ON! Why can't they just be interested in Anara? She is the princess here. Well, then again, technically IM a princess...just a secret one.
"Kay..." I said following her out the door.
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"Gosh! In the headmistrisses office twice in one week? That would suck!" Miraj said
"What do you mean twice in one week?" Anara asked with a shocked "Shes only been there once, which is right now!"
"Sorry...just a slip of tounge" Miraj said unconvincingly.
"No. It wasn't. What do you know that we don't?" Lanasha cornered her.
"W-when we were looking for her, she wasn't out walking...she was in Miss F's office. But I don't know why, she didn't tell me...!" Miraj replied hestitenly.
"Interesting..." Lunace said quietly pondering to herself.
"Don't mention this, please, she'll kill me..."
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I sat in Miss F's office again.
"Now, Sahpiro.." She began
"If this is about the monster, I told you everything I know already"
"It's not. I need you for a mission."
"What do you mean?"
"It's a mission, there is a jagged terrain forest and desert area, it's in trouble, but we don't know what..."
"And you want me to find out what? Why me?"
"Because you have the advantage. You control every element. No matter what terrain, you can control it."
"Do I have to go alone?"
"Unless you want to be exposed as you really are, yes."
"No. I'd rather my friend be with me."
"It will be more difficult...you would only have your fire power!"
"I don't care!" I nearly shouted "I'd rather have more than just me!"
"Okay...who do you want with you?"
"Lunace, Miraj, Lanasha...and...Anara."
"I will make it happen. But, I have one more condition."
"Yeah?"
"There are five Red Fountain boys who will have to come with you, for backup. They were already assigned this mission before you, but they decided they would need some magic."
"Okay..."
"Wait here while I go get the others."
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About 15 minutes later the others arrived.
"So...anyone want to tell me whats up?" Lanasha said
"Well, there is a disruption in the terrain, aka Hiaran desert. The animals have been acting weird and there have been more frequent earthquakes, and the waterholes have dried up. But that isn't all, apparently the crystals that control the area went missing, they are still in the forest, but they aren't in the spot they should be. I want you girls, teamed up with the Red Fountain boys, to find the crystals and restore the area!"
"Red Fountain Guys?" Anara started paying attention suddenly.
"They were origionally given the mission, but they thought they could use some faries assistance. I asked Sahpiro to help, but she insisted you all came along."
"So, when are we going...?" I asked
"Better question; HOW are we getting there?" Lanasha seemed puzzled.
"The ship will be here in about...10 to 20 minutes. Go wait outside"
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We all sat on the ground in the middle of the campus, just chatting.
"So, whats the plan when we get there?" Miraj asked
"I'm not sure yet, we should meat our 'team' first before making plans..." I replied
"True. And what if this takes more than 24 hours?" Lanasha asked at me, she thought I knew.
"Maybe they brought camping gear? Hopefully they did." I felt uncertain about this.
"I hope..." Anara and Lunace said at the same time.
"But too bad we never went shopping today" Miraj blurt out. It was still early, about 10AM, but we wouldn't be here long.
"Yeah, it would have been fun..." I said drifting off slightly. Suddenly a roaring sound appeared, it wasn't THAT loud, but it did startle me.
We looked up to see a red ship, obviously from Red Fountain. It slowly landed, about 50 metres in front of us. Then the ship opened and 5 guys walked out. If it wasn't obvious they were from red fountain before it was obvious now.
"Were looking for...Sahpiro?" One of them said, he looked like the leader
"Yeah, originally it was me who was coming, but I hope you don't mind these four tag along? Do you?" I guestured to the others.
"Whatever...I guess" The same guy said.
"Hop aboard!" Another said, more cheerfully than the leader.
We all walked aboard the ship, it was very advanced and modern.
"So...uh...hi!" The leader said "I'm Aronn. The captin of this group."
"I'm Dale, second in command." Another said
"Luke is my name and if you call me anything else, you are going to have a very horrible next few days"
"My names Arnold..." He seemed quiet and he looked somewhat like Anara.
"Hi, I'm Draine! Nice to meet you guys!"
"I'm Sahpiro, this is Miraj, Anara, Lanasha and Lunace!" I said, suddenly all five of the guys were staring at my hair.
Oh yeah, my hair. Black hair in a big massive ponytail. BIG DEAL.
"We'll lift off now, the trip will take approximately 3 hours." Draine said sitting down at the control panel.
Three hours? Miraj reflected my thoughts by saying:
"THREE HOURS?"
"Yep, so get comfortable." Aronn said.
I walked to a different part of the ship with Lanasha and Miraj, but Anara and Lunace stayed.
"So, when we get there whats our plan gonna be?" Miraj asked.
"I guess, set up camp and split up?" I offered
"Do we know what these crystals even look like?" Lanasha asked looking at me, then Miraj, then back to be.
"No...but they would be different to the surroundings I guess..." I began to say but then Aronn walked in.
"Hello" He said "When we land we have to have some form of plan. Sahpiro, since you're the leader of your group, you come up with the plan." Since when was I the leader? I mean I MAY be the most powerful, but that didn't make me the leader. But I guess I had to go with it.
"I say we split up, into pairs...maybe, we'll cover more ground. But first we should set up a camp somewhere." I was coming up with this all on the spot.
"Good idea, where should we set up camp though?" Miraj asked
"Somewhere covered, but visible. We need to be able to know where it is." Aronn said.
"We'll look when we get there." I said.
"Okay, you guys should rest up, Lunace and Anara are helping steering the ship" He replied walking out. I turned to Lanasha and Miraj
"I didn't know either of them knew how to fly a ship." I said
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We landed in the desert, except it wasn't very desert like. It had heaps of trees and plants, they were in orange dert, yes, but I hardly saw how that could be classified as a desert. We all walked out, and Aronn started talking.
"Okay, first, guys, set up the tents. Then we will split up into partners and start looking."
The setting up took 30 minutes, and we just sat down on the ground chatting while the guys did all the work.
"Okay, done. FINALLY!" Draine slumped on to the ground
"We aren't done yet..." Arnold said
"We still need to start our search. And since I'm in charge I'll choose partners." Aronn declared. Hmmm, last time I checked I was in charge.
"Okay, it will be Draine & Anara, Luke & Miraj, Lunace & Dale, Arnold & Lanasha and me & Sahpiro. No switching, or going off on your own. Everyone fine with that?"
"Yep"
"Yep"
"Yeah..."
"Whatever"
"Sure"
"Good enough for me"
"Mmhm.."
"Yep"
Aronn looked to me but I didn't say a word.
"Okay, lets go I guess." We all walked off in different directions.
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"So...um..." Aronn started talking. We had been walking for ten minutes, I guess he wanted to break the awkward silence. "There is a lot of trees here for a desert..."
"Thats what I thought..."
"Hmmm...haven't seen much water though."
"Apparently one of the side effects of these crystal things going missing" I said as nicely as possible "See, look at the dried mud over here, its a sign that there was once water here, but the dencity means it couldn't have just sunken through."
"For a fire fairy you know a lot about water..."
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