As Sadie was putting the wood down and starting the fire, she heard the tv say, “There is going to be a huge freeze and snowstorm tomorrow.” Jake then said, “I should go get some food and supplies in case we get stuck in the cabin during the freeze.” Sadie agreed, but wanted to go with him. He said, “No, because you drove us here from the airport and didn’t sleep on the airplane, so I can go, and you can get some rest.” “OK fine, but hurry because I thought I saw a wolf outside.”  Jake then left.  Sadie sighed out of exhaustion and decided to take a nice bubble bath. While she was bathing, an icy chill went down her spine. She knew the generators were working and that the freeze wouldn’t be here till tomorrow but knowing this was a new place for her she decided to get out of the tub and put her robe on and go check.  That was when she saw the windows covered in ice.  She checked the doors and could not open them because the snow was halfway up them.  Sadie started freaking out and started yelling “HELP!!!!!!!!”  She then started to push the door again, but it was of no use. She decided to go to sleep and hope that Jake would be home soon. 

 

    Sadie woke up abruptly, realizing she slept through the night.  She rushed to the windows and tried to open them, but they still were stuck. Sadie had no idea what to do! She decided to watch the news and see what happened and why the freeze came a day early. The meteorologist said “We monitored the storm for 2 days and everyone was sure it was coming today, but yesterday it picked up speed and was colder than anticipated. This freeze will probably last one week and our weather is going to get colder and colder.” Sadie sighed and then grabbed the throw pillow next to her and screamed into it. She has always hated being alone in bad circumstances. Sadie then had a flashback of when she was kid. Her family was out camping.  After a while, the family decided to go to town, meanwhile leaving her behind accidentally. She was left out there to survive on her own with no food and nothing to protect her. Ever since then she hated being alone.  Sadie’s attention was diverted when she heard a loud bark and whimper. She grabbed a pan in the kitchen and walked over to where she heard it. She was scared that a wolf had gotten into her house.  Sadie started breathing heavily. Suddenly, a huge Newfoundland dog came running out. Sadie had no idea how this dog got in, but she knew that it must have been the wolf-like figure she saw yesterday. She walked to it slowly and pet the dog. The dog suddenly licked her face and she knew that this dog would keep her company until the freeze went away.  Sadie and the dog and curled up on the couch and watched a movie called, “The Call of the Wild,” which was a book Sadie had always loved as a child. 

 

     The next day, Sadie woke up to the dog on top of her and a freezing cold blast hitting her. She knew that the generators were still working and still had some pieces of wood left. Sadie and the dog went down the loft stairs to check on everything. As she looked out the window, she noticed that one of the generators was turned off. She was having a panic attack, thinking to herself, “What if we never get out? What if we don’t have enough food? Water? Energy, Wood?” The dog then rushed down the stairs and started comforting her as she was collapsing on the couch, bawling her eyes out. The dog laid her head on Sadie’s lap. After she was done crying, she had to find how the dog got in. Maybe there was a small hole that she could fit through or an opening. She knew that when she bought the cabin there had been no holes or openings that outside animals and cold could get in, meanwhile wondering, “but, still how did the dog get in?”  Sadie decided to keep busy working around the cabin, all day, while checked everywhere for an escape.  Sadie went to the fridge and pantry and realized they were running out of food.  Just feeding the dog was like feeding two grown men. She had to find an opening within the next 2 days, or they would have a hard time surviving the freeze.  

 

     During Sadie’s ordeal, while Jake had been going down the mountain for the supplies the car windows kept icing over.  All he could think about was how Sadie was doing by herself.  He realized he could not go any further and stopped the car.   The snow was getting worse to where you couldn’t see.  Jake had no idea how far he was and decided to look around and see if he could seek shelter.  Amazingly, he saw lights in the distance.  He hiked over and found a huge cabin.  Jake knocked on the door and a little old lady answered.  Jake said, “I am stuck in this horrible storm and was wondering if I could seek shelter with you until the snow dies down?’’ The lady then said, “the freeze hit us early, so it might be a couple of days until the snow dies down.” She then showed him to the den, where her husband and cat were sitting down watching T.V. in front of a huge fire.  The lady asked, “why were you out there in the snow?” He then told her about he and Sadie movie into the cabin up on the mountain and their need for supplies.  She then showed him to his room, and he fell asleep. 

        Back at the cabin, Sadie woke up to Peaches, the name she gave the dog, shivering.  The fire was out and there were only three pieces of wood left for one more fire. There was no longer any heat, that she could feel. She got out of the bedroom and opened the bookcase. She looked out the window and saw that the generators were frozen. She tried the oven and the water, and nothing worked. She started freaking out and then heard Peaches barking at something. 

 

        As Sadie walked over, she saw that Peaches was barking at a little opening.  She started jumping and screaming for joy. She happily yelled to Peaches, “We’re going to survive! Thank You Peaches!”  She kissed Peaches on the head, to have the dog slobbery lick Sadie all over her face.  Normally Sadie wouldn't really appreciate it, but this time she didn’t mind. She walked to the kitchen and grabbed a rolling pin from one of the boxes to get the opening bigger so she could fit. When she was done, she ran to go get her warmest clothes on, and already had a sweater that would fit Peaches. She then crawled out of the opening with Peaches following.  The snow was so bad that you could barely see. She started running, or at least trying because the snow was getting higher and higher. Yesterday the snow went down and melted a little because the sun came out for a few hours, but during the night the snow hit harder. She found an outline of something and realized it was the shed and some trees. She started running and running with Peaches at her side. She stopped running at one point to catch her breath and saw something in the trees. She walked to it and saw that it was a snowmobile that had keys on the seat. Peaches jumped on the passenger seat. Sadie decided to see if it still worked.  She put the keys in and turned the ignition on. It didn’t turn on and she laid her head on the controls.  She was about to give up, and it started. She wasn’t really going that fast, but way faster than running. She and Peaches then saw a light in the distance. She had a huge smile on her face and then looked at Peaches and yelled, “Lights!!!!” Peaches, at that point, let out a bark loud enough to be heard for 100 miles. Sadie just looked at her surprised and kind off scared. She was scared that other dangerous animals might come out and attack.  Suddenly, she saw a few wolf- like figures following them and getting closer.  One howled and she knew it was a pack of wolves. She started to go faster and faster so she could make it to the woods, but the pack was getting faster and circling her. 

 

     During Sadie's ordeal, Jake sat there getting nervous about her. He was worrying that she might run out of food and supplies to stay alive. He knew he had to get to her somehow. The lady said to him, “I know you want to save her, but you can’t. The snow is going to get worse and colder and you won’t be able to see anything. Hopefully in a few days it will be dialed down and then you can get food and go get her and take her here if you want. We have lots of food and supplies.”  Jake agreed with her.   The 4th day of the freeze he had a feeling that she’s ok and he shouldn’t be freaking out. He knew she could do this. She can cook, do these to keep herself occupied and not freak out. 

 

         She was almost to the lights and started to go as fast as she could because the snow was getting a bit lighter. Peaches started to try to help Sadie by barking at the wolfs as if she were communicating with them. It worked and they stopped. Sadie looked at peaches and just knew that her new dog was going to be in her life forever. She stopped and started walking with Peaches towards the lights. She looked up and saw the sun peeking through. After a few minutes she looked up and saw how beautiful Alaska was even when the weather is not being very nice to you. She looked at her hair and saw all the snow fall on the brown and purple streaks that she has had since she was alive. She then saw a cabin a mile away. She started running while crying with happiness. When she got to the door, she rang the doorbell and her boyfriend opened the door. He rushed out and hugged Sadie and they fell to the floor. She was so happy that she found him. Peaches was jumping around them.    

 

        A week later, Sadie and her boyfriend were settled into their new home. Sadie didn’t have to buy generators, but she did have to patch up the opening of where they escaped. She adopted Peaches and bought her all these things. And now she knows that it isn’t so scary to be alone in bad circumstances. 

  

 

 

 

In  hindi my name means glow shine,  since my name is from india

The place i was born I don’t remember who put my name ,but all i know is that it represent my self and that every time people i see or meat they always  say my name is pretty.

It is not the only people they say that  my parents always say they    like my name more than the other names and I always say I would like to have a normal name because I don't see why they like my name because it is special.

I don't say i don't like my name because I feel different off , not all the people have the same name as me. That's what I was thinking , that was before I knew that i was not the only one who had my name.

I found out that there is one part of the world who has my name. It is in india  now. I am happy that I am not the only one that has my name .

I search my name and looked up and I said there are other ways to say my name but just one dipti ,dipti. When I was a kid like 7 years old some kids  would write my name like dipti. That makes me mad because I don't like people to make fun of my name .

 Anesima’a shrugged off that feeling, the one that she felt she could not trust to turn her back on her own lady in waiting, and she got up and left her crown behind, and suddenly she was shocked at how long s’ealia’s hair had grown. Anesima’a smiled and noted that it was probably because her pay had been raised, so she could afford for anti-disease elixirs. Sighing, she placed her crown at the foot of the bed, gathered her hair up into a headscarf, and walked out to the deck.

The deck was her favorite place. She could breathe in the salty sea air and search the land ahead for places where they might settle. All along the coast there were villages, until her eyes reached a gap in the civilization, and she saw it would be suitable for her people. There was nothing for hundreds of miles in each direction, and it had sea cliffs that were wet with the spray from that divine salty liquid that would keep the cliffs slick and impossible to climb. Forests on the other two sides were inhabited by Pixie wolves, who would not hurt the voyagers, but would openly attack other being such as humans. The reason why? The voyagers were half Pixie, half Faerie, and although people thought that those two species were the same, they had dubbed those two by the title Fairy, the little folk were very different from each other.

They had come from a different world, but it was too dangerous to stay, so they fled to Ireland, the location of the portal, and hid there until the humans unearthed their old civilization. They needed to live in Ireland though- if not they would have already settled- for Ireland was the portal to their world, and without the magic seeping out of it, they would die. Bu they were already dying, Anesima’a scolded herself. They needed to find a place and fast, and the one she saw looked acceptable. She turned to walk back to her room to tell S’Ealia her news and walked straight into the head guard.

“What are you doing here, Metamorphisel?” Anesima’a groaned while holding her head from her vantage point on the ground. “Where is my lady in waiting?” Anesima’a asked as he dragged her back to her royal suite.

“S’Ealia, you must know that you are a lady in waiting, and you don’t have a lady in waiting.” Metamorphisel bellowed at her, and she frantically shook her head.

“You have mistaken me for S’Ealia. Tis me, Anesima’a, and my lady in waiting is supposed to be in here polishing my crown.”

“Does the princess to the Voyagers go around on a tunic, and scream at the guards? No, you are S’Ealia, and here is her lovely lady princess Anesima’a.” He said, depositing her at S’Ealia’s feet, who was wearing Anesima’a’s grandest day dress, her silk slippers drenched in rare gems to make it look like the sea pounding its waves at the grey cliffs or Ireland, and had her long blond hair braided in the way Anesima’a had braided her hair, and worst of all, sitting on her head was a crown that the queen of the voyagers gave to Anesima’a to wear during parties and festivals. The only thing Anesima’a could have used to prove her royalty. She took one look at S’Ealia and spat on the silken slipper to the right that her foot was nestled in, and then Metamorphisel hit her in the head, and all went black.

“Have you got over your fit of rebellion, S’Ealia?” he added the other word to spite Anesima’a, and Anesima’a remembered an announcement made by her mother a few months ago. Any girl Anesima’a’s age could earn their way into being the heir by finding land for their people to settle. It was the only way that it was a lady in waiting could participate in, due to her low ranking in society, so here she was, about to steal her throne back.

“I found a place where our people could settle, and I was looking at it while I thought S’Ealia was polishing my crown. It is on the north side of the island, bordered by sea cliffs and forests alike, and so, if S’Ealia has found a better place for us to settle, I should like my identity back.” Anesima’a said calmly and civilly, in a way her mother would applaud.

“I told you, yer name’s S’Ealia, but even so, where is this place you speak of?” He said, interested. In her conversation, and she knew she had caught him right where she wanted.

“I’ll show you, if I can go on deck, once you see that, we must see the Liber Fatorum to see which one of us is really the princess, and if an apology or a coronation is in order.” She said, for if whomever you were searching for put their hand on the book, it would glow. If it was a false pretender to the throne like S’Ealia, the book would remain the same, and it was a lesson taught only to the heirs and the sages of the book in times like these.

“The Liber Fatorum is only reading material, but we’ll see. We’ll see.” He said, unlocking the cage she was in, and marching her to the deck. The voyagers changed their course towards the north, and they finally saw the place where they would settle.

“The girl you say is S’Ealia, she does not even know an empty spot from a city, my apologies, for you are to be crowned the princess this afternoon.” Metamorphisel bowed to Anesima’a and she smiled and was glad that everything would be back to normal just as S’Ealia walked up to the deck.

“Why are you bowing to that devil child, Metamorphisel?” S’Ealia asked while kicking Anesima’a in the shin.

“She has found a place for her people to settle, so she shall be crowned princess this afternoon.” Metamorphisel answered without bowing to S’Ealia, and S’Ealia’s eyes began to cloud over with anger.

“I will not let you do that, you are too independent, and I hate you all. This is my kingdom and I decide what goes, she is too big of an idiot to rule this junkyard straight.” She went on crying, and then suddenly remembering her company, she composed herself, and said,

“I demand a rematch. On the terms of the new princess.” S’Ealia said, glaring at Anesima’a and she spun around, trying to splash muddy water in the face of Anesima’a, but only drenched her dress and she kicked the ship with anger, causing her to break her foot.

“My terms are that we go see the Liber Fatorum, and we shall each put our hands on the page in turn, and the sages will tell us who the true ruler is from there.” Anesima’a said, trying to look as if she did not know of the secret or the Liber Fatorum, and S’Ealia agreed, thinking that the crown on her head would be proof enough that she was the princess with a thousand enemies, who guarded her people fiercely instead of a lying pretender to the throne.

“First though, I write a letter to my mother, who is one a quest to settle.” Anesima’a said, intending to message her mother the queen on what calamity had happened, and S’Ealia shrugged, not seeing what she was intending to do, and said, “Very well. Carry on with your letter. The rematch shall occur after this has been done.” She said, trying to act like the sovereign princess whose identity she was trying to steal. 

“Very well” said Anesima’a, and she began pulling a quill out from her sleeve, and reached for a sheet of parchment, and began to write.

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My dearest Mother,

Strange things have been occurring, I found a place to settle, and it is wonderful, but S’Ealia is trying to steal my crown like how you thought she would. She is too greedy to see that I am hinting at things that only the heirs know, and she is too dumb to see it. My only hope left is the Liber Fatorum, which my hand will illuminate the pages, although, the Liber Fatorum only works through feeling, and not the crown on their head, so I might win this challenge yet. I must hope, and I must try to become the young woman you wanted me to be, even if I never see you again, for you have disappeared mysteriously, and might have died. Perfect timing for S’Ealia. No queen to prove her wrong, only a forlorn princess without a gold circlet on her head, and her identity stolen by a Lady in Waiting. Goodbye, for this might be the last I write to you, if this challenge fails. By the time you read this letter, it will be over.

Your loving daughter,

Princess Anesima’a Samara Ütenberk’Alsor of the Voyagers

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“S’Ealia, my lady in waiting, are your ready?” S’Ealia called to Anesima’a, just to spite her. Anesima’a was glad that she would walk out of this one way or another, and she or S’Ealia would need to accept that their previous lies were over, and they must be forced to work as a peasant, working the fields that Anesima’a found.

“I am ready.” Anesima’a said as she brushed passed S’Ealia, knocking her over, for S’Ealia had no friendship with the sea, and every second that she was not sitting down, she was wobbling terrified.

“Ah, I see, S’Ealia is trying to prove her worth, and is she succeeding Anesima’a?” The ancient sage dressed in skin like an old sheet of parchment, and a threadbare toga said to both the girls, and Anesima’a snorted, and shook her head.

“Interesting. Now, you first, girl with no crown. Place your hand on the book. I will see what happens from there.” The Sage said in a voice that sounded like wood creaking, and tiles scraping together softly. Anesima’a walked up to the Liber Fatorum and placed her hand on the book. At first, nothing happened, but then, as the pages opened by themselves, she put her hand where the indentations spoke of it, and the page glowed a radiant gold that was a beam flashing straight to the heavens. The sage gasped, and S’Ealia frowned. Anesima’a stepped away from the book, and it shut itself as tightly as a clam with a pearl it did not want to give up.

“I can do that; I can do better than that.” S’Ealia said marching up, and the instant her hand touched the book, a spark burnt her palm and began turning her body into dust, creeping up from her hand, and she tried blowing it out, but it was too late, she had already turned into a statue of dust.  

Blowing away on the wind, S’Ealia’s remains created the village in that free space where the Voyagers live today, thousands of years later. A fairy circle by the coast is the doorway to their sprawling city, and the person of the right bloodline can open up the doorway to that great beyond. They did not need to fear the illness that kept their hair cropped short, and their fears crowing high, because the illness was as bound to the sea as the sirens in it, and they now lived on solid, sturdy ground.

 

 

 

            James was thinking about the first two sentences in the riddle, beware of the world that hides underground, and beware of the house that is too dark too see.  Right as he said it James had a flashback to when he was young. His father used to read a book to him every night as he went to sleep, the book was about a girl that travels to a different realm, then realizes she was supposed to save the world. When his dad read the book, he used to always say that the spirt world was a real place, and that one-day James will have to save it. Of course, at the time James thought that his dad was crazy, until now.

             He snapped back to reality and found that the house was shaking. The vibrations were too rhythmic to be an earthquake. Then he heard a dog bark, so he looked outside. He found a stray dog out in the open. He could not stand by and watch as the dog got hurt, so he went after it. As soon as he stepped outside, a crack in the ground swallowed the house, so he kept running. He picked up the dog and ran to the only safe place he can think of, his family’s greenhouse. 

               As he walked inside the place something moved in the dark, and before he knew it James was attacked, by his grandma. Out of all the people in the world his grandma was the worst, she always made him work harder for everything even his dinner. But at the same time James was happy to see her, he was so glad that he ran into someone he knew and could trust. But James’ grandma was not happy to see him, everyone knew that James and his grandma were the worst to pair together on account to a conflict that happened a long time ago. 

              As she angerly turned around James had no idea what to do, so he decided to follow her into the deeper into greenhouse. When you think of a greenhouse you picture a small rectangle covered in plastic for walls and the roof, but that is the total opposite of their greenhouse. This was 2,600 square feet house and it was four stories tall. On the last floor there was three rooms. Two bedrooms, and one bathroom. Whenever James came here, he was always amazed by how big it was. Beside the size, there was only 12 plants in there, but that wasn’t the weirdest thing. The weirdest thing there is when it was the afternoon the sun would come through, hit the plants and it would reflect words on the ground. 

                   Then it clicked, the words in the ground was the next clue, but how could he be sure about. He decided to ask his grandma about this. James was sure that she would yell at him for not using his head, but instead all she did was tell him “finally, about time you figured it out”.  James was shocked that his grandma knew, it made him wonder who else knew about it.

              James was tried and decided to go upstairs. As he was sitting in a greenhouse bedroom on the top floor, he wondered how long it would take for the sun to reach mid-day. Then out of nowhere his grandma called him down. He walked outside of the room and looked down, James could barely believe what the next clue was. It said, “we warned what would happen if you took too long, we knew it would not last for the next two days. You surprised us by how fast you took and now go to the house that is dark with shadows. You have the rest of the time to find the place and save yourself before the end.” Just as he was reading it out loud a deep hole just big enough for him to fit though appeared next to the clue. He knew that if he wanted to see his family again, he would need to go thought the hole. 

             He went to his grandma and they said their goodbyes and off he went to another quest. He jumped in the hole and it felt like he was falling forever. After a while, he landed, and everywhere he looked there was monsters. Not just one type, but an army of them, they came in all different sizes, colors, and shapes. No monster, though, paid James any attention. 

             As he looked around his surroundings, he saw an abandoned, dark, but interesting house in the corner of what looked like a dirt road. He decided that must have been the shadow house, so he went to it and walked right inside, desperate to locate his family. 

             There was a long small hallway going one way but other than that there was no other way to go, at the end of the hallway was a grand staircase leading to what James thought was a basement. When he exited the stairs there was a door, so he went in and to his surprise his family was there. He was so happy to see them, and they were so happy to see him. As they were having a happy family reunion there was a creak in the ground, James turned around and found the dog that he had rescued, for a second James was scared that it was a monster. As the dog came closer, its body had become an enormous monster that look like he was hungry.

 

THE END