Post by Kitsune on Mar 13, 2016 12:11:59 GMT -5
Entry #1, June 4th, 20XX
I’m sitting here in a bus filled with other young teenagers and preteens. Mom’s adopted cousin had found something years ago when he was a teenager and only recently got back in touch with the rest of the family about it. He had, with four other people, opened up a camp out in the middle of nowhere one day and invited all the children of the family to go there one Summer. It was ages ten to fourteen so me and my two siblings, Connor and Aaron were signed up to go. Emily, the baby of the family, couldn’t come with us. Zachary and David, two of my cousins, were also able to go, but Zachary had gotten real sick the day before we had to leave so it’s just David with us. Everyone else on this bus, while from the same school that I go to as we all live in the same general area, are strangers to me. I’m sticking close to my family on this trip, that much is a given.
I may not be the most enthusiastic about going to this camp in the middle of actual nowhere, but Connor seems pretty excited. She’s all bouncy in her seat right up against the window while Aaron sits in between us silent as a rock. David, the oldest of my first cousins, sat in the next row over so we talk a bit but not a whole lot. Most of the time we’d end up debating about some game or movie that we saw and this isn’t the time for that.
Mom’s cousin, Jack I think his name was, never told us what it was that he found, only that it was amazing and he picked up these odd necklace while he was there. Apparently, all five had the same necklace that he did and told us that if we go there we would get a necklace like that to. I was probably the only one that liked how the necklaces looked. Jack had said that it was made of bone and real gemstones, and the pendant connected to it was obsidian. I don’t know if that’s true but if that one that I get looks that cool then I won’t complain. Not even about the lack of internet or WiFi of any kind. Yeah, David was kind of annoyed about that bit of information.
Well, there isn’t much else to say. I need to remember to keep this thing up-to-date at least once week if not once a day if I’m going to get any use out of this thing.
~ Eliot Wilder
I’m sitting here in a bus filled with other young teenagers and preteens. Mom’s adopted cousin had found something years ago when he was a teenager and only recently got back in touch with the rest of the family about it. He had, with four other people, opened up a camp out in the middle of nowhere one day and invited all the children of the family to go there one Summer. It was ages ten to fourteen so me and my two siblings, Connor and Aaron were signed up to go. Emily, the baby of the family, couldn’t come with us. Zachary and David, two of my cousins, were also able to go, but Zachary had gotten real sick the day before we had to leave so it’s just David with us. Everyone else on this bus, while from the same school that I go to as we all live in the same general area, are strangers to me. I’m sticking close to my family on this trip, that much is a given.
I may not be the most enthusiastic about going to this camp in the middle of actual nowhere, but Connor seems pretty excited. She’s all bouncy in her seat right up against the window while Aaron sits in between us silent as a rock. David, the oldest of my first cousins, sat in the next row over so we talk a bit but not a whole lot. Most of the time we’d end up debating about some game or movie that we saw and this isn’t the time for that.
Mom’s cousin, Jack I think his name was, never told us what it was that he found, only that it was amazing and he picked up these odd necklace while he was there. Apparently, all five had the same necklace that he did and told us that if we go there we would get a necklace like that to. I was probably the only one that liked how the necklaces looked. Jack had said that it was made of bone and real gemstones, and the pendant connected to it was obsidian. I don’t know if that’s true but if that one that I get looks that cool then I won’t complain. Not even about the lack of internet or WiFi of any kind. Yeah, David was kind of annoyed about that bit of information.
Well, there isn’t much else to say. I need to remember to keep this thing up-to-date at least once week if not once a day if I’m going to get any use out of this thing.
~ Eliot Wilder
Ten hours later and Connor Wilder had never thought she would be in this situation. All of the kids on the bus had arrived at the camp after they had crossed this really creepy, long, old looking bridge. They all expected to find cabins or something like in the cartoons they’ve watched but no. That’s not what they, and twelve-year-old Connor, were greeted with.
Instead the sight that greeted them was two parts awe inspiring and one-part terrifying. The trees, for one thing, were really, really huge. Some of them had to be as tall as the skyscrapers she saw the one time she had been to the city and just as wide. And to think that was the size they were normally and that they occasionally grew to be even larger.
And then the camp director, one of Jack’s friends if Connor remembered right, told them that the cabins they would be staying in would be determined by a short quiz.
Well alright then.
She, David, Aaron and a few others were assigned to the Blue cabin. Eliot was the only one of them to be sent to the Red cabin. Everyone else was separated almost evenly between Green, Yellow, White, Black, and Purple. There were other cabins that weren’t filled, but from what Jack and his friends were talking about, that was normal. The others were Fuchsia, Bronze, and Teal.
Two days later, after everyone had settled in, the creatures arrived. Strange ones from deeper into the forest. One was part human, part horse from the waist down. Another was part spider in the same way as the part horse person was. That one freaked a lot of the younger children out, even the older ones, though some like Connor and Eliot simply froze up and shut up instead of being vocal about it.
In fact, most were some sort of animal from the waist down with only a feature or two around their face. The ones that were not either had something else about them that made them stand out. Two, for instance, had odd glowing eyes. The last creature-person that showed themselves had been someone who’s skin was very pale green and had pointed, leaf-shaped ears.
Apparently, these odd beings would be in charge of specific camp activities.
But that isn’t what Connor was freaking out internally over. Oh no. It was that Jack and most of his friends took off their necklaces and the air wavered around them before they changed to look like the strange people to! The one lady who didn’t take her necklace off said it was because her form is a shark from the waist down and that without the necklace she would still be able to breathe but wouldn’t be able to move around very well.
After the initial freak out, pretty much everyone was okay with these people. Except for David. He had a strong fear of spiders so being around the half spider man was hard. He was trying though, which was all that the being had asked of him and was overall very understanding.
Two months passed by with not much incident. The creatures in charge of the camp activities always added in a lesson or two and did it in such a way that it stuck in everyone’s heads. The Light Elf, as was the species of the green lady, was very kind and would gladly take care of everyone’s cuts and bruises as they ran around and played and learned new things. The centaur horse guy was patient and didn’t get frustrated at all if someone asked him a bunch of questions and still found it hard to understand what he was saying. He taught them a new and funny language that he said would be one of the most important things they would learn here.
David still found it hard to be around the Arachne man, but he was getting better. So long as he was calm and more focused on what he had to do for the activity, he could get through the entire half hour without becoming too nervous. That was progress and the Arachne told him often that the being was proud of him.
Everyone was excited to go home and tell their families and friends what they learned and saw, even if many knew by now that said people weren’t likely to believe them.
And then the announcement came that they wouldn’t be going home. Jack had said that it was because the bus wasn’t working for whatever reason and that they needed to get it back up and running again before everyone could go home.
Those words were just a bunch of crap and Jack knew it. All the older kids knew it to. They were only said to keep the younger kids from bursting into tears or having a breakdown or whatever. None of the adults looked happy either, a few even looked sad, but they knew what was up. They knew that none of the kids would be returning home. Not now, not “when the bus is fixed”, not ever.
David wanted to scream.