Adventure to the City of Gold

Ok this is one of older books, which I had planned of remaking. It is not that bad( I actually had to edit it a lot). So unfortunatly this isn't the original version( I accidently clicked save so the original version might be gone, :( ). Well here is the chapter. Oh and sorry about the whole no comment thingy. I'll continue to work on it. Even if I have to have About Me at the top of the page.


Chapter 1: Myth and a Chase

There has always been a legend of a city of gold which was used to hold the most powerful nuclear weapon on earth. Many people believed it was a myth, or fairy tale.
But one day, three unlikely girls who barely knew each other, would be put into a epic quest to find it. It all began one night at Lily’s house.
All the neighborhood kids had gathered to play the daily Flashlight Tag Game. This was normal for these kids, for every night they played it. Lily was being forced by her parents, who are usually out of town because her dad is a high ranking FBI agent, to babysit over six kids.
Lily, who was 17, was like every other American girl. She loved sports, and she had many friends. She lived in a large suburban house, which was normal in her neighborhood in Washington DC. She is the President of the Young Democrats club, and currently takes teaches karate to kids. She’s the perfect child, except for the fact that she’s still a virgin at 17!
It was to be a normal night, she had invited her neighbors Ariel and Sophie to come along. Ariel ran up to Sophie and exclaimed,
“ So anything new with you?”
Sophie then flipped her blonde hair back and said snobbily,
“I just got back from totally making out with my new boyfriend. It was soo fun. You know Oliver from Art class. He’s like totally hot, and he’s a great kisser. He’s like a totally good match for me. Well a match fit for ten minutes”
She then high-fived Ariel, and she continued,
“Oh Ariel, your soo lucky that you have an abnormal friend like me. You so normal. If only I could be you. If I was like you then I would be unpopular, and a nerd. You know I’m just messing with you”
Ariel came from a normal family. She went to school like a normal kid, and she ate a very normal diet. Ariel looks like a normal, boring person on the outside but she was a jealous wreck. She lived with her newly adopted older brother, named Nick, who almost everybody loved more that her. Flashlight tag was the only way to get away from him.
She wasn’t very active and the only thing she did in the summer was tour across Europe and take an all girls retreat in July. Ariel and Lily are somewhat friends, but they didn’t see each other often. Ariel is usually heavily reading, and or blogging. She is usually quite, and keeps to herself. She is the exact opposite of Lily.
Lily was a popular girl, while Ariel wasn’t really. She blamed it on the fact that she was one of the few red-haired girls in her neighborhood. Her parents just said,
“Just ignore them, remember red-haired girls are beautiful. When your 14, we’ll allow you to change your hair color.”
Ariel was only one year away and she wanted it to go by fast. She mainly had one true friend, the young Sophie.
Sophie was the second youngest kid in her neighborhood at age 14. She was best known for being a glamorous kid, who every night at flashlight tag, wore some new lipstick color. She also happened to have three ex-boyfriends (most considered them just friends) and one boyfriend so far. Sophia always boasts how she makes out with her boyfriends behind the school, and how her blog gets over a million hit’s a day. She is always the girl who shows up to each class an hour late.
It started the normal way, all the kids met at Lily’s front porch and discussed where base was going to be.
“ Now remember, my Mom says that we can’t go in the road and into the neighbor’s yard. Now, let’s make this a nice and fun game.”
For an hour, it was very calm; nothing but kids playing games and the slight sound of cars passing bye.
Then something strange happened, a white van just stopped in front of Lily’s house. At first they didn’t mind it, but slowly it got a little disturbing. The three girls hid in the bushes and watched. They were a block away from Lily‘s house. It was eerie as the people in the van just stared at the house. Then, the doors opened and six men wearing black suits walked out. They all looked almost identical, and threatening.
Ariel could see that they each had a gun and she knew that they had bad intentions. She tried to keep quiet as the men looked around the house. Sophie had an idea, and threw a pinecone a couple feet away.
The men then jumped into their car and sped off on the other direction. The girls made a dash to Lily’s house. Then, suddenly, the car spun around and drove toward them quickly.
The girls were freaked out as they all tried to run fast. The car was only a couple of feet away when they then heard gun shots. They were so close to Lily’s house, but Sophie accidentally tripped on the sidewalk. Lily quickly helped her up .
Ariel was trying hard to open the door, for the men had gotten out of their van and were running towards them. Lily then fumbled to unlock the door, and they all fell in. She barely had enough time to lock the door behind her, as the frightened girls started to hide around the house.
Sophie, being the smallest of the group, hid inside a box inside Lily’s Mom’s closet. She then piled some clothes on top of her and went into a deep silence.
The other two girls hid in other places. Then, suddenly, they heard the sound of the door breaking down and the racing of footsteps around the house. The girls didn’t know why the men wanted them or what they wanted. Ariel, (who was hiding under a bed), saw the feet of many scampering about the room. They were throwing stuff all around. Most of the things were very expensive. It seemed they were searching for something. One of them said,
“ Find that map!”
He said it constantly. Ariel could tell that whomever it was had more authority over the other 3 men that were in the room. The four men then left the room angrily. After twenty minutes they heard the sound of a car driving away.
The girls were still worried , for they didn’t know if there were still anybody inside. Lily , who was hiding in a secret trapdoor below a carpet, had called the police.
In a matter of minutes, the police had come and all of their parents were desperately worried. Ariel’s mom Judy cried,
“ Ariel! Are you ok? Did anything happen?”
Ariel had barely enough time to answer, because her mom was hugging and kissing her. Lily’s father instantly ran inside and started searching the house frantically. Lily walked suspiciously up to her dad, and asked,
“What are you looking for?”
Her dad then looked inside a small vase( which was full of flowers) and started digging. Then he took a rolled up sheet of paper which was covered in dirt out. He sighed heavily in relief and then put it back in the vase. He then turned back to Lily, who was very suspicious, and said, “Oh nothing, I just had to see that everything was there”.
He then walked away, after telling Lily to not tell anybody about what she just saw. The first thing Lily did was quickly take out that sheet of paper from the vase. All it had was drawings of animals, and some stuff written in French. She then put it back and forgot about it.
Though soon the map would be back in her life, and even more important.