• “UGHH!” Dijitae yelled as he tried to pull himself out of the room. Slowly he crept towards the door trying to make his escape. The lava was rising higher and higher. Dijitae was moving at a rate which seemed to be miles away from the exit. “I..URGHH..PROMISED!” Dijitae painfully said. Suddenly he was moving faster. Was he regaining use of his leg? He thought to himself. He turned his head around to see if he was right. Wrong. He kept thinking of Stella. He moved faster. He thought about her aiding him with the cocoa. Faster. He was getting closer. The lava was rising yet faster. He clutched the last bit he had to and limped his way out of the house.


    ***
    “Wake up sleepyhead.” I was opening my eyes and in a blur I saw Jet. “I’m up.” I replied. “Good. ‘Cause I got something to show you.” he looked exited. “What is it?” I said while throwing on my robe and slippers. “Just come on!” Jet was walking faster and faster until he was running. “See for yourself.” he said, pointing at a body lying on the snow. “It’s just a mangled body.” I said. I took another look at it. “Oh My Gosh!” I screamed. There lay Dijitae, looking totally unconscious. “Is he… you know dead?” Jet asked. “There’s only one way to find out.” I said, reaching for my Coffee cup. I poured some in his mouth. We waited. And waited. Until I put my ears against his chest. Bu-bump! Bu-bump! was what I heard. “He’s still alive!” I said happily. He woke up and I hugged him. “W..Where am I?” he said dizzily. “It’s not where you are. It’s where you are going to be.” And Jet and I towed him away.
    “Stella? Stella!” Dijitae woke up finding himself on my bed. “What happened?” he asked. “Well, Jet woke me up and told me he found you out in the snow. I poured coffee in you and here you are!” I said in a story like way. Dijitae moved his eyes away from mine and down to his leg. “It’s healed!” he burst with excitement. He got up and walked. “But how?” he questioned. “Mr. Healy’s instant healing tonic, for wounds and fractures, blah, blah, blah.” I replied. ‘Thank you so much!” he said. “May I go see my family?” he asked. “They’re right outside.” I said. He leapt out of the room. “It’s so good to see him on his feet again.” Jet smiled.
    “Thank you again, Stella, for healing my Diji.” Mrs. Hoffwire said. “I couldn’t have done it without Jet.” I smiled along with Jet. “We left and I said, “We done good, Jet. We done good.”


    ***
    “GAAGH!” an arm reached out of the lava. The person called for his spy-bird Yellow-Tail. “Where is she?” the man asked the bird. The bird replied with a caw and a bird-screech. The crow was nearly a foot long and wasn’t even yellow. His eyes were, though. The man got out of the lava and summoned the other men. They all walked out. The lurked nearer to through the thick wood and to the town. They all stopped at the gate. “Who goes there?” the gatekeeper asked. The leader told his men something and they climbed up the gate. One of them pulled out the gatekeeper and threw him out. The gatekeeper ran away screaming. The men got inside and walked pass the houses. The leader stopped at one.
    “Tonight, we feast on the girl!” he yelled. The men raised their scarred and ashy arms in the are and shook there fists cheering.