The Moonstone! - A sequel to New World

Chapter 1

The ride!

 

I wouldn’t say that it’s the best night to go into space. There’s an unexpected meteor shower and my stomach is filled with butterflies, but today is the day. The day I go on my second mission through that wretched wormhole.  Its the last day of the month of November and I am expected to come back with all the information by December 31st. It’s not a pleasant experience going through that wretched thing, but I’m dong it anyway. It’s also a new moon day, and according to superstitions, you’re not supposed to go on a space mission. At first, I get nervous because I already experienced heaps of misfortunes on my first mission through the wormhole when it wasn’t a new moon day, so I predict that this time is going to be a million times worse, but the pleasure of seeing another world in a completely different time zone takes over.

 

Everyone wishes me good luck and says farewell.

 

“Bon voyage, au revoir, adios, sayonara, good bye, see you soon!” they say.

The butterflies in my stomach increase just like my urge to get on the ship. I say good-bye and board the ship.  I think about the glorious and strange encounters I might face and start my journey not knowing about the laborious and unsettled mysteries I will soon face in this new planet of fears.

Going through the wormhole is quite a thrilling experience. It is a first-class ride! It was so smooth yet so rapid. I felt like I was going through a roller-coaster! It’s like those rides which you love to go on , but they are so thrilling, and scary.

 

I expected this time to be the same as the last time I went through the wormhole. I would probably fall asleep and find myself in a new planet. I fell asleep in awe just by looking at the light and colour of the wormhole and woke up to still see myself going through the wormhole. I grabbed some snacks and hopped that my mom packed me proper food for lunch. I got a tiny lunch and some snacks, but it lasted me through the trip. I finally ended up in a planet in a binary system called Lilium Philadelphicum. What would await me in this planet? How would they greet me? I didn’t know the answer to any of these questions, but I continued the quest with anxiousness of what I would find.

 

 

Even though Lilium Philadelphicum is the scientific name for the Western red lily (the national flower of Saskatchewan), the planet looked nothing but pleasant. I could see black rivers, and brown-ish-green pieces of land. When you go though a wormhole, you could end up in any time period. Is this how the earth would end up?! Polluted and dirty!

 

 

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Chapter 2

Ghosts!

 

I entered the planet to find out that all the pieces of land were connected. I also found out that the planet was not polluted, but that that was the colour of the planet.  The animals in the planet looked like monkeys, but more like hairy humans with tails, just like in the diagram my team made at the space station. The inhabitants were intelligent, sophisticated and discerning. Their buildings were nothing like those of earth, but they were fascinating. They received me with great pleasure because we had already sent them a message that I was coming. Then, I found out that the city I was going to stay in was called Hibiscus.

Apparently, I arrived later than I was supposed to. Consequently, there was only one more available house in the city. I found a house at the edge of the city and started to unload my paraphernalia. By the time I finished unloading my luggage, the whole town had come to see me enter the house. When I entered the house, everyone looked astonished, like I was going to enter a haunted house! I got terrified. Were there ghosts inside Irashnathi and Nathinshin’s (the owners of the house) bodies, was their house haunted, was I doomed?!!!!! Only time will tell...

I entered the house still fearful of what would happen to me. That night there was a red moon. As I admired the red moon, I heard footsteps approaching me.

 

“What could it be?” I thought.  

 

I got ready to run and flew down the stairs, jumped off the “balcony”, and skid out the door to meet a group of people huddled around the door. They looked mystified because three ghostly figures were behind me.

 

“AAAAAHH!!!!!!!!!!,” I screamed.

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Chapter 3

Red Moon

 

“She has come to curse us!” someone said.    

Then, the ghosts spoke, “She did not bring us.

Those foolish young ghosts went into Irashnathi and Nathanshin’s bodies, as you know, and because it is a red moon month, the ghosts will take over and gain control of the world!

 

Red moon months only occur every 1000 years, but is very severe every time. We have to wake up and tell you guys every single time”. The second ghost said, “You must retrieve the moonstone before the last day of the month of December, and make sure that the ghosts don’t get it any time in December”.

 

I wondered what they where going to do, and then came to the reasonable conclusion that they would make a fair decision
                                                                                                  

 There was a bunch of chattering and the Blooranges (people who make important decisions) decided that they would let me be the leader of this project.

I wasn’t ready to do anything other than research and I had to get back to the spaceship by December 28th to get back to earth on December 31st.

“I think that maybe someone else should be the leader, I’m just here to do research,” I said.

  But, apparently, I was almost the same species as ghosts because I had come from another time and galaxy. I was a little bit offended, but I understood their point of view. I didn’t know what to do! Do I help the inhabitants of this planet or only focus on what I was supposed to do? Is there a way to do both? All these questions surrounded my head. I didn’t know what to do.  It was and important decision that I had to make rapidly. What should I do?!!!

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Chapter 4

The troubling

 

I had no other choice, I needed to find a way to do both, help the Philidelphicums (inhabitants of Lilium Philadelphicum), finish my research and reach the spaceship in time. I was in the middle of the circle in front of the house I was staying in at midnight. They thought that planning to save a planet would only take a few hours. That’s insane!

 “We only live for 100 years, we need to use our time wisely,” they said.

 “WOW!!,” I said.

 

 I told them a random plan which came to my mind.

 

 “First, we gather all the information that we know about the ghosts, the moonstone, this month, and red moon months. Then, we use that information to find their weakness(es) and/or how we can use our resources to get the moonstone. After, we use what we know and get the moonstone. Finally, we guard the moonstone and I go home!”.

 

 Everyone except a little boy said good job, you’re so awesome and that I had a thought-out plan.

The little boy said, “We need to know the exact area of the graveyard where the moonstone is, so that we can figure out how long it will take to execute your plan”. Before I could say anything, everyone shouted rude comments making the boy run home in anger and sadness. I thought about what happened and concluded. I would secretly ask the little boy who is 20 years old but is still considered a little boy because the Philidelphicums’ average lifespan in 100 years.

Chapter 5

Maze-mania!

 

After everyone had gone home, I went to the little boy’s house and saw his mom scolding him for interrupting the Blooranges while they were having a meeting(again). I waited until they were finished (which took about and hour or so) and entered like I never heard anything. I greeted the family and asked to talk to the little boy alone. We introduced each other, and I learned that his name was Ajaravles. He found ways to improve my plan and told me that the ghosts made a fake moonstone and put it in Irashnathi and Nathanshin’s house. When all the villagers or most of the villagers were inside the house, they would trap them and turn them into ghosts. I examined the information thoroughly and made a secret plan which I wasn’t going to reveal to anybody anytime soon.

 

The next day, early in the morning, at 8:30 am EET (Eastern Earth Time), I put the plan into action. Since last night, we gathered our information, and we decided that we would go to Irashnathi and Nathanshin’s house. We went there to see that the house had been put together like a maze! I was going to trick the ghosts by bringing only a few of the villagers to Irashnathi and Nathanshin’s house and bringing the rest to get the moonstone in the graveyard. Then, I got a holographic message saying that the graveyard had also been set up as a maze. Someone had heard my plan and alerted the ghosts, but who?! I had to get through this maze, fast, and cleverly without the mysterious secret agents for the ghosts stocking me.

 

 After a few minutes, people started asking questions like how to get through the maze, but because I went on numerous maze games before, I found a way to get inside the house. As I entered the house, I found a book with a key hole. I knew that it would only open if you inserted the key, but I tried opening it and to my surprise, it opened! I was about to read the book when the ghosts started coming near us.  And old man in his 110’s recited the spell to duplicate things and since I was wearing a garnet necklace, it duplicated and the ghosts coming near us were thrown into the graveyard, where they belong. The rest of the ghosts were more powerful, and the garnet necklace only prevented them from hurting us.

 

As I flipped through the pages,

 

I noticed that there where directions to get the key and keep the information in the book a secret. As I turned to the second last page, there was another key hole and on top of it, it said

“If you have found the key and are holding it right now, you will be sucked into this black hole.”

I panicked, but then I realized that I wasn’t holding the key. Just then, the little boy tried reaching out of a black hole that suddenly appeared! I freed him and he told me that a very powerful ghost put him inside the black hole and disguised itself as the little boy. “THAT MEANS THAT THE GHOST IS ABOUT TO GET CONTROL OF THE MOONSTONE!!! IT’S GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!,” I said.

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Chapter 6

Home, sweet home!

 
 We had to do something immediately, or else, all the planets would be ruled by ghosts for eternity! We flew to graveyard(literally) and stopped the ghost right before it grabbed the moonstone. More and more people randomly appeared in the graveyard. The ghost was surrounded, so it summoned more ghosts. The people continued to appear. The furious ghost summoned all the ghosts in the spirit realm.

 The wizards casted spells, while the others protected the moonstone and made sure the ghosts in the graveyard never escaped. Me, the little boy, Irashnathi and Nathanshin’s made sure the most powerful ghost didn’t do anything harmful and accidentally got teleported into the spirit world! This wasn’t part of my plan. After I knew that the old man could duplicate things, I asked him to duplicate people, so we could put the ghosts back in their place. I never knew this would happen, I was trapped!

 

 We tormented the ghost until it confessed why it wanted to control the world and turn everyone into ghosts. The ghost said that it wanted to turn people into ghosts because it was turned into a ghost because it was “evil” but it was just playing around and accidentally turned the world into a dark world. With that, its father banished it into the spirit world.  It said that the sadness and anger overpowered it and it took some wrong decisions.

 

 I had to fix this, but I only had twenty more minutes to get on the ship - well, technically only ten minutes because it would take maximum ten minutes to board the ship and attach the ship to the quick, and more durable spacecraft. I reunited the father and child. The child is the ghost who I turned into human again and the father was the elderly man that helped me defeat the ghosts. As I left the planet, the little boy told me that I could go through the wormhole to get back in time so that the NASA wouldn’t close the reception portal. Then I realized that wormholes could bend time and safely came back to earth.

 We had a celebratory party and I finally went home. “Home sweet home, there’s no place like home, I am so happy to be home,” I said, relieved.

 

The End!