Her scream was high pitched. The kind where toi get a shiver down your back. The kind when someone scrapes their nails on a chalk board. The kind where the person screaming is in utter pain. But gladly it wasn't all the way like that.

toi would think the water elementals would be plus careful around the giant sea snake. It's one of the many creatures that live in our vally's lake. Some of the water elementals are even poisson ou sea snake shape shifters. Thats why I laughed when one of them screamed at the giant serpent.

Trixi yelled at me for my rude behavior and we ran towards the snake. From far away it looked dangerous but up close I could see it better. It wasn't the sea snake that sacred the swimmers. It was the thing on the sea snake.

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Janie:

Even if I was many miles away from it, I seemed to hear a scream, a girls scream.

"What was that?" I asked Zuka, interrupting my bubble of water and letting it fall to the ground.

"I don''t-" But Zuka stopped speaking. He dropped his head to the floor and began sniffing.

"Janie.......we need to go down there..now."

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After we ran down the rocky hillside to the lake we could now see what really happened. A gigantic green and blue sea snake was swimming frantically with an odd thing on its back.

A long silver spear was stabbed into the back of the sea serpent and it was covered with blood.

"Oh My Gosh!!" I screamed as I ducked from the snake as it violently turned. "What are we going to do?" I asked confused. "And who stabbed him?"

Zuka's face looked grim. "Laman did it."

"Who's Laman?" I asked.

"Laman is the only other energy elemental in the world besides me. He was brother's with Nephi. But apparently he went toi know....."

"Yea yea I get it. This is a magical world. toi have to have a bad guy. Woopde doo."

"NO SHUT UP!!" Woa. Not cool. WE ran down towards the sea serpent.

It had fallen down in a splash. A tall Chinese girl was crying at the sea serpents feat.

"What's wrong?" I asked her. Danny and a girl with freakishly curly red hair came par me.

"The Sea serpent is dying Janie. I t was stabbed par an energy sword. It is made par an energy elemental. Energy elementals can bring life ou death. This snake will die."

I wasn't listening. To her at least.

"Well can't one of us heal it? Zuka is an energy elemental. He can bring it life can't he?"

The red haired girl finally spoke. "No. Zuka isn't like Laman. Laman is the one who stabbed the sea serpent. We saw him earlier. Laman is an energy chimera shape shifter. Zuka is just an energy elemental."

"What about these guys!?" I asked while pointing at all the people siting on the bank of the pond.

"No. They may be water elemental's they can heal. But they can't heal an energy elemental's doing."

I rolled my eyes and sat down. I pulled at my dress. Why was I supposed to wear this? It has nothing to do with what I am. Why can't I wear jeans and a T-shirt like all the other kids can?

I got up and passed Danny and her 'new' best friend. I ran strait to Mrs Brown. "Mrs. Brown I want to leave this crazy place and never, ever come back. And if toi would like to know, your daughter is a huge jerk who takes pride in hurting her best friend."

And thats when I walked out. In my blue dress. in my hatred for that place. In my happiness to leave it all. But also, in that small feu of hope inside of me. Saying, I may actually be a bit sad to leave it all. But it was still little.

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Danny:

I stared, with my mouth open. I couldn't believe how stupid she could be!! Good ridens. She was a bad friend anyway. I knew I was lying. I somehow wished she hadn't left.

Brenna was quiet the entire time. But finally she spoke after everyone left to go take care of the serpent and to go home.

"Danny, toi have to go after her. It's only the right thing to do." Brenna whispered.

"She doesn't want this." I a dit on the verge of tears.

"No, but she is our secret weapon now. Laman is now at large. We all thought he was dead. She is the only one who can withstand his powers. Ice and energy can't hurt each other. loup and Chimera can't either."

(If toi want to know what a chimera is it is a Greek Mythology creature that was half lion, half goat, half snake.)

"I guess you're right." I whispered. The BOES all decided that since we now knew that Laman was alive we all needed to stay inside the Vally for safety.

Wait. toi should probably know the story of Laman. toi know, never mind. You'll figure it out.
Brenna, Marcus, and I all decided one thing. We were going to sneak out that night. And go look for Janie. Not even my mother knew.