Chapter 112
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The ride back to the island was quiet as the group dozed off into a deep sleep, their bodies still reacting through instincts gripped the feathers tightly to not let go. They flew over the ocean as the cold winter's breeze resisted against them.
Fortunately, they just managed to get something that's perfect for the situation. Lachlan grabbed hold of the air stone out of habit, he didn't actually need to be holding the stones to activate them but it was just a habit he hasn't got rid of yet.
He changed the air flow and temperature, it changed to a gentle and warm breeze and glided across their skin, heating it up to give the group a comfortable sleep.
They woke up to the rising sun on the horizon, it's light spread across the ocean to change the colour from dark blue to orange. The air was still gentle as it lightly brushed against their faces to give them warmth.
"Morning Phoebe,' Lachlan's arms were still wrapped around Phoebe, he leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Phoebe tilted her head and did the same back.
"Morning," Phoebe replied. She wiggled around a bit before finding a comfortable spot, where she was comfortably resting in Lachlan's embrace. Phoebe asked with a morning voice, "How much longer do we have left?"
"I don't know, I'm not exactly sure how much further we have left until we get back to the island but I would suggest we take a break soon. I'm beginning to feel the effects of having summons out for too long," Lachlan explained as he turned and nodded to Simon.
Simon nodded back. "Yeah I'm starting to feel my head begin to swell, I reckon we have about another 3 - 4 hours until I just collapse from exhaustion."
"Great, we should be able to get to an island by then and once you two rest up we can finish off the journey," Chloe said happily, she was getting fidgety just thinking about seeing her family again and giving them those gifts.
They found a small island after flying for another 2 hours, it had a diameter of about 3 kilometres, it was a really small island that had a tall mountain on top. The mountain cliffs overseeing the ocean as the waves crash into the rock below.
The island was relatively luscious with green vegetation but close to no trees and bushes, just grass and the occasional flower here and there.
Landing on the open mountain the group hopped off the birds, Lachlan and Simon quickly unsummoned them as they sat down to take a break. Their feet were dangling off the mountain as they felt the upward drift push against their legs.
Controlling the temperature of the wind they made sure everything was slightly warm, not enough to make them boil but just enough to make them comfortable. Phoebe sat next to Lachlan while Chloe sat a bit away from the cliff, slightly shaken by the height even though she was just flying much higher before.
After resting for an hour Lachlan stood up. "Alright, I think I got enough energy to get us back."
Simon followed right after. "Same, this environment is pretty relaxing, just something about it heals my fatigue."
"Suppose we should remember where this island is then, use it as a place to have vacations or whatnot. There doesn't seem to be any dangerous beasts here anyway, it'll be the perfect little getaway," Chloe remarked.
They all nodded before they continued their journey, reaching the island after another few hours. Chloe and Simon both ran up to their partners and joyfully reunited, even though they weren't even away from each other for long.
"So did you bring the air stones?" Maddie asked with excitement.
"Of course," Simon replied as he took out an air stone from his pocket and handed it over to Maddie. "Happy Birthday, I brought that air stone just for you; make sure you take care of it, it may be able to save you from dangerous situations."
"I didn't know it was your birthday. Happy Birthday Maddie!" Chloe exclaimed cheerfully. Flynn, Lachlan, and Phoebe followed soon after; giving Maddie a happy birthday and wishing her luck.
"So now that we have the stones can we hurry up and begin the floating island idea?" Maddie asked impatiently, she was excited to start already since she wanted the island to be floating. Just something mythical about it, something that could only happen in a fantasy world would now happen in her real world.
"I suppose we can begin now, it's just there's something we'll have to do to prepare for that. As we don't want the island collapsing or anything we want to make sure the stones are placed properly beneath the island; which will need someone or something to be down there observing everything," Simon explained. "Otherwise, who's to say the island won't snap in half because we misplaced a stone."
"I can handle that," Anne abruptly said out of the blue. The group didn't even notice her presence, all the while she was just standing there silently; watching and hearing everything.
"How so?" Simon asked.
"I just fixed my underwater drone, if I put a stone on there to nullify the gravity I should be able to place all the stones underneath the island without it getting destroyed again," Anne explained confidently.
"And while that's going on I'll go to the people and explain the situation; then with the help of the gravity stone, I'll lift everyone off the island in case the worst does truly happen," Maddie explained before shooting off, using the gravity stone to fly away.
"Alright then Anne, prepare that drone we're going to start," Simon said as he walked to the hut to grab some more gravity stones.
Although it wasn't certain, it would be a much smarter choice to bring along more gravity stones than necessary rather than too few. Lachlan, Phoebe, and Chloe quickly went to their huts to grab their gravity stones as well.
But when Lachlan stepped into his hut he felt something suddenly run into him before whatever it was quickly wrapped their arms around his legs. "Welcome home Lachlan!"
It was Sarah, she has been patiently waiting for Lachlan's return today. Even though she had no idea whether or not he would actually be back today she was prepared to wait an entire week for her brother.
Lachlan reached down and picked Sarah up, bringing her into his arms, "Thank you Sarah," Lachlan gave a quick kiss on the forehead. Sarah rubbed her forehead with a slightly embarrassed face. "Stop doing that." She complained.
"Now, your big brother's going to be busy with something so I'm going to have to ask you to stick by Maddie for an hour or so. Once I'm done I'll take you somewhere fun, granted you're going to have to prepare yourself for a long trip," Lachlan said as he put Sarah back down.
"Alright," Sarah nodded with a hint of disappointment.
"It's alright, I promise the trip we'll take will be well worth the wait," Lachlan reassured Sarah as he slightly panicked from the tone of her voice.
Sarah brought up a big smile. "Pinky promise!" Sarah held out a closed hand with only her pinky extended.
"Pinky promise," Lachlan replied as he wrapped his pinky around Sarah's. Sarah's pinky was tiny in comparison to Lachlan's. "Now, I'll quickly take you to Maddie and remember, listen to what she says and stick with her for just an hour."
Sarah nodded rapidly and Lachlan lifted her back up before shooting out of the hut towards where all the others were. When he got there Maddie was busy explaining the situation to everyone, 'Alright, so basically what we're trying to do is make the island float high in the sky. Now, this does involve a bit of risk which I why I'll need you to have your entire family present when I bring you all away from the island."
Lachlan brought Sarah up to Maddie. "Don't lose sight of her; I'll go into the caves and bring out the farmers."
Lachlan suddenly felt something watching from the distance, looking towards one of the tall trees he noticed Dylan perched up high on one of the branches. He was watching over everyone, looking for any dangers.
Lachlan suddenly disappeared from his spot and reappeared next to Dylan. "Haven't talked to you in a little while, how's everything going?"
Dylan was slightly shocked by Lachlan's abrupt appearance but calmed himself seconds after. "Everything's going alright; although there have been a few times were a child began to wander off the parents managed to notice seconds after and find their child quickly."
"Seems you're still a bit of a worry wort," Lachlan squatted down. "Listen, you should try to become friends with a few of those parents; that way it wouldn't look so weird if they see you perched up a tree watching over them."
"But how do I do that?" Dylan asked impatiently. He had attempted to converse with some of the parents before but it quickly died down and before he knew it everything became extremely awkward.
"Find parents that have similar interests and hobbies as you, try to talk to them during something like dinner time. Where everyone's rather relaxed as the children should be sleeping," Lachlan explained confidently. Although internally he had absolutely no idea what to do either, he stuck with his group and it worked, he didn't want anything to cause it to collapse.
"Alright," Dylan nodded.
Lachlan smiled and shot off towards the caves. He walked through quickly and ran to the cottage. Walking in he saw Joe and Zoe's parents playing a bit of poker with a few of the other older ones. Phoebe's father was there as well with them.
"Is something happening?" Harrison asked. "Did you find what you needed?"
"Indeed, and I'm going to need to get you all out of here and into safety for a little while. What we're going to attempt to do will be dangerous and I'm not entirely confident nothing is destroyed. So, I'll bring you all to Maddie who'll take you to a safe area," Lachlan explained.
"Three of a kind!" Tyler shouted as he slammed his cards down.
"Straight flush," Harrison said nonchalantly as he lightly tossed his cards on the table. Tyler's mouth opened wide from shock.
"Royal flush," Dakota said soon after and shocked the both of them deeply. She grinned widely, "What? Didn't think I had the cards to win? Learn to math."
She stood up from the chair and walked over to Lachlan. "Alright I'm ready, let's go, those two won't finish processing what happened for probably another day."
"What are you talking about, it's obvious you cheated!" Harrison shouted as he pointed to Dakota. "The chances of that happening are just too slim, you probably cheated when you were shuffling the cards!"
"Shit! Let's go now!" Dakota grabbed hold of Lachlan and dragged him out of the house, running away from a furious pair of gamblers.
They ran through the caves swiftly and quickly ran to Maddie. "How's everything going? Can we go now?"
Maddie saw the two furious gamblers coming closer and quickly issued some commands to the stone. The group of people around her were swiftly lifted up without anyone being left behind.
She suddenly issued a few more commands but for other stones. There were two by Harrison's and Tyler's feet, they were quickly brought up into the air with Maddie's control. She kept them at a distance but made sure they were still safe.
Maddie turned to Lachlan. "We're ready now, you go and do your things and really try not to destroy this island."
"No promises for that," Lachlan replied as he issued a few commands to his own stone and shot off. He went back to the centre where he grabbed his stones before shooting off towards the waters.
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The ride back to the island was quiet as the group dozed off into a deep sleep, their bodies still reacting through instincts gripped the feathers tightly to not let go. They flew over the ocean as the cold winter's breeze resisted against them.
Fortunately, they just managed to get something that's perfect for the situation. Lachlan grabbed hold of the air stone out of habit, he didn't actually need to be holding the stones to activate them but it was just a habit he hasn't got rid of yet.
He changed the air flow and temperature, it changed to a gentle and warm breeze and glided across their skin, heating it up to give the group a comfortable sleep.
They woke up to the rising sun on the horizon, it's light spread across the ocean to change the colour from dark blue to orange. The air was still gentle as it lightly brushed against their faces to give them warmth.
"Morning Phoebe,' Lachlan's arms were still wrapped around Phoebe, he leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Phoebe tilted her head and did the same back.
"Morning," Phoebe replied. She wiggled around a bit before finding a comfortable spot, where she was comfortably resting in Lachlan's embrace. Phoebe asked with a morning voice, "How much longer do we have left?"
"I don't know, I'm not exactly sure how much further we have left until we get back to the island but I would suggest we take a break soon. I'm beginning to feel the effects of having summons out for too long," Lachlan explained as he turned and nodded to Simon.
Simon nodded back. "Yeah I'm starting to feel my head begin to swell, I reckon we have about another 3 - 4 hours until I just collapse from exhaustion."
"Great, we should be able to get to an island by then and once you two rest up we can finish off the journey," Chloe said happily, she was getting fidgety just thinking about seeing her family again and giving them those gifts.
They found a small island after flying for another 2 hours, it had a diameter of about 3 kilometres, it was a really small island that had a tall mountain on top. The mountain cliffs overseeing the ocean as the waves crash into the rock below.
The island was relatively luscious with green vegetation but close to no trees and bushes, just grass and the occasional flower here and there.
Landing on the open mountain the group hopped off the birds, Lachlan and Simon quickly unsummoned them as they sat down to take a break. Their feet were dangling off the mountain as they felt the upward drift push against their legs.
Controlling the temperature of the wind they made sure everything was slightly warm, not enough to make them boil but just enough to make them comfortable. Phoebe sat next to Lachlan while Chloe sat a bit away from the cliff, slightly shaken by the height even though she was just flying much higher before.
After resting for an hour Lachlan stood up. "Alright, I think I got enough energy to get us back."
Simon followed right after. "Same, this environment is pretty relaxing, just something about it heals my fatigue."
"Suppose we should remember where this island is then, use it as a place to have vacations or whatnot. There doesn't seem to be any dangerous beasts here anyway, it'll be the perfect little getaway," Chloe remarked.
They all nodded before they continued their journey, reaching the island after another few hours. Chloe and Simon both ran up to their partners and joyfully reunited, even though they weren't even away from each other for long.
"So did you bring the air stones?" Maddie asked with excitement.
"Of course," Simon replied as he took out an air stone from his pocket and handed it over to Maddie. "Happy Birthday, I brought that air stone just for you; make sure you take care of it, it may be able to save you from dangerous situations."
"I didn't know it was your birthday. Happy Birthday Maddie!" Chloe exclaimed cheerfully. Flynn, Lachlan, and Phoebe followed soon after; giving Maddie a happy birthday and wishing her luck.
"So now that we have the stones can we hurry up and begin the floating island idea?" Maddie asked impatiently, she was excited to start already since she wanted the island to be floating. Just something mythical about it, something that could only happen in a fantasy world would now happen in her real world.
"I suppose we can begin now, it's just there's something we'll have to do to prepare for that. As we don't want the island collapsing or anything we want to make sure the stones are placed properly beneath the island; which will need someone or something to be down there observing everything," Simon explained. "Otherwise, who's to say the island won't snap in half because we misplaced a stone."
"I can handle that," Anne abruptly said out of the blue. The group didn't even notice her presence, all the while she was just standing there silently; watching and hearing everything.
"How so?" Simon asked.
"I just fixed my underwater drone, if I put a stone on there to nullify the gravity I should be able to place all the stones underneath the island without it getting destroyed again," Anne explained confidently.
"And while that's going on I'll go to the people and explain the situation; then with the help of the gravity stone, I'll lift everyone off the island in case the worst does truly happen," Maddie explained before shooting off, using the gravity stone to fly away.
"Alright then Anne, prepare that drone we're going to start," Simon said as he walked to the hut to grab some more gravity stones.
Although it wasn't certain, it would be a much smarter choice to bring along more gravity stones than necessary rather than too few. Lachlan, Phoebe, and Chloe quickly went to their huts to grab their gravity stones as well.
But when Lachlan stepped into his hut he felt something suddenly run into him before whatever it was quickly wrapped their arms around his legs. "Welcome home Lachlan!"
It was Sarah, she has been patiently waiting for Lachlan's return today. Even though she had no idea whether or not he would actually be back today she was prepared to wait an entire week for her brother.
Lachlan reached down and picked Sarah up, bringing her into his arms, "Thank you Sarah," Lachlan gave a quick kiss on the forehead. Sarah rubbed her forehead with a slightly embarrassed face. "Stop doing that." She complained.
"Now, your big brother's going to be busy with something so I'm going to have to ask you to stick by Maddie for an hour or so. Once I'm done I'll take you somewhere fun, granted you're going to have to prepare yourself for a long trip," Lachlan said as he put Sarah back down.
"Alright," Sarah nodded with a hint of disappointment.
"It's alright, I promise the trip we'll take will be well worth the wait," Lachlan reassured Sarah as he slightly panicked from the tone of her voice.
Sarah brought up a big smile. "Pinky promise!" Sarah held out a closed hand with only her pinky extended.
"Pinky promise," Lachlan replied as he wrapped his pinky around Sarah's. Sarah's pinky was tiny in comparison to Lachlan's. "Now, I'll quickly take you to Maddie and remember, listen to what she says and stick with her for just an hour."
Sarah nodded rapidly and Lachlan lifted her back up before shooting out of the hut towards where all the others were. When he got there Maddie was busy explaining the situation to everyone, 'Alright, so basically what we're trying to do is make the island float high in the sky. Now, this does involve a bit of risk which I why I'll need you to have your entire family present when I bring you all away from the island."
Lachlan brought Sarah up to Maddie. "Don't lose sight of her; I'll go into the caves and bring out the farmers."
Lachlan suddenly felt something watching from the distance, looking towards one of the tall trees he noticed Dylan perched up high on one of the branches. He was watching over everyone, looking for any dangers.
Lachlan suddenly disappeared from his spot and reappeared next to Dylan. "Haven't talked to you in a little while, how's everything going?"
Dylan was slightly shocked by Lachlan's abrupt appearance but calmed himself seconds after. "Everything's going alright; although there have been a few times were a child began to wander off the parents managed to notice seconds after and find their child quickly."
"Seems you're still a bit of a worry wort," Lachlan squatted down. "Listen, you should try to become friends with a few of those parents; that way it wouldn't look so weird if they see you perched up a tree watching over them."
"But how do I do that?" Dylan asked impatiently. He had attempted to converse with some of the parents before but it quickly died down and before he knew it everything became extremely awkward.
"Find parents that have similar interests and hobbies as you, try to talk to them during something like dinner time. Where everyone's rather relaxed as the children should be sleeping," Lachlan explained confidently. Although internally he had absolutely no idea what to do either, he stuck with his group and it worked, he didn't want anything to cause it to collapse.
"Alright," Dylan nodded.
Lachlan smiled and shot off towards the caves. He walked through quickly and ran to the cottage. Walking in he saw Joe and Zoe's parents playing a bit of poker with a few of the other older ones. Phoebe's father was there as well with them.
"Is something happening?" Harrison asked. "Did you find what you needed?"
"Indeed, and I'm going to need to get you all out of here and into safety for a little while. What we're going to attempt to do will be dangerous and I'm not entirely confident nothing is destroyed. So, I'll bring you all to Maddie who'll take you to a safe area," Lachlan explained.
"Three of a kind!" Tyler shouted as he slammed his cards down.
"Straight flush," Harrison said nonchalantly as he lightly tossed his cards on the table. Tyler's mouth opened wide from shock.
"Royal flush," Dakota said soon after and shocked the both of them deeply. She grinned widely, "What? Didn't think I had the cards to win? Learn to math."
She stood up from the chair and walked over to Lachlan. "Alright I'm ready, let's go, those two won't finish processing what happened for probably another day."
"What are you talking about, it's obvious you cheated!" Harrison shouted as he pointed to Dakota. "The chances of that happening are just too slim, you probably cheated when you were shuffling the cards!"
"Shit! Let's go now!" Dakota grabbed hold of Lachlan and dragged him out of the house, running away from a furious pair of gamblers.
They ran through the caves swiftly and quickly ran to Maddie. "How's everything going? Can we go now?"
Maddie saw the two furious gamblers coming closer and quickly issued some commands to the stone. The group of people around her were swiftly lifted up without anyone being left behind.
She suddenly issued a few more commands but for other stones. There were two by Harrison's and Tyler's feet, they were quickly brought up into the air with Maddie's control. She kept them at a distance but made sure they were still safe.
Maddie turned to Lachlan. "We're ready now, you go and do your things and really try not to destroy this island."
"No promises for that," Lachlan replied as he issued a few commands to his own stone and shot off. He went back to the centre where he grabbed his stones before shooting off towards the waters.
The ride back to the island was quiet as the group dozed off into a deep sleep, their bodies still reacting through instincts gripped the feathers tightly to not let go. They flew over the ocean as the cold winter's breeze resisted against them.Fortunately, they just managed to get something that's perfect for the situation. Lachlan grabbed hold of the air stone out of habit, he didn't actually need to be holding the stones to activate them but it was just a habit he hasn't got rid of yet.He changed the air flow and temperature, it changed to a gentle and warm breeze and glided across their skin, heating it up to give the group a comfortable sleep.They woke up to the rising sun on the horizon, it's light spread across the ocean to change the colour from dark blue to orange. The air was still gentle as it lightly brushed against their faces to give them warmth."Morning Phoebe,' Lachlan's arms were still wrapped around Phoebe, he leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Phoebe tilted her head and did the same back."Morning," Phoebe replied. She wiggled around a bit before finding a comfortable spot, where she was comfortably resting in Lachlan's embrace. Phoebe asked with a morning voice, "How much longer do we have left?""I don't know, I'm not exactly sure how much further we have left until we get back to the island but I would suggest we take a break soon. I'm beginning to feel the effects of having summons out for too long," Lachlan explained as he turned and nodded to Simon.Simon nodded back. "Yeah I'm starting to feel my head begin to swell, I reckon we have about another 3 - 4 hours until I just collapse from exhaustion.""Great, we should be able to get to an island by then and once you two rest up we can finish off the journey," Chloe said happily, she was getting fidgety just thinking about seeing her family again and giving them those gifts.They found a small island after flying for another 2 hours, it had a diameter of about 3 kilometres, it was a really small island that had a tall mountain on top. The mountain cliffs overseeing the ocean as the waves crash into the rock below.The island was relatively luscious with green vegetation but close to no trees and bushes, just grass and the occasional flower here and there.Landing on the open mountain the group hopped off the birds, Lachlan and Simon quickly unsummoned them as they sat down to take a break. Their feet were dangling off the mountain as they felt the upward drift push against their legs.Controlling the temperature of the wind they made sure everything was slightly warm, not enough to make them boil but just enough to make them comfortable. Phoebe sat next to Lachlan while Chloe sat a bit away from the cliff, slightly shaken by the height even though she was just flying much higher before.After resting for an hour Lachlan stood up. "Alright, I think I got enough energy to get us back."Simon followed right after. "Same, this environment is pretty relaxing, just something about it heals my fatigue.""Suppose we should remember where this island is then, use it as a place to have vacations or whatnot. There doesn't seem to be any dangerous beasts here anyway, it'll be the perfect little getaway," Chloe remarked.They all nodded before they continued their journey, reaching the island after another few hours. Chloe and Simon both ran up to their partners and joyfully reunited, even though they weren't even away from each other for long."So did you bring the air stones?" Maddie asked with excitement."Of course," Simon replied as he took out an air stone from his pocket and handed it over to Maddie. "Happy Birthday, I brought that air stone just for you; make sure you take care of it, it may be able to save you from dangerous situations.""I didn't know it was your birthday. Happy Birthday Maddie!" Chloe exclaimed cheerfully. Flynn, Lachlan, and Phoebe followed soon after; giving Maddie a happy birthday and wishing her luck."So now that we have the stones can we hurry up and begin the floating island idea?" Maddie asked impatiently, she was excited to start already since she wanted the island to be floating. Just something mythical about it, something that could only happen in a fantasy world would now happen in her real world."I suppose we can begin now, it's just there's something we'll have to do to prepare for that. As we don't want the island collapsing or anything we want to make sure the stones are placed properly beneath the island; which will need someone or something to be down there observing everything," Simon explained. "Otherwise, who's to say the island won't snap in half because we misplaced a stone.""I can handle that," Anne abruptly said out of the blue. The group didn't even notice her presence, all the while she was just standing there silently; watching and hearing everything."How so?" Simon asked."I just fixed my underwater drone, if I put a stone on there to nullify the gravity I should be able to place all the stones underneath the island without it getting destroyed again," Anne explained confidently."And while that's going on I'll go to the people and explain the situation; then with the help of the gravity stone, I'll lift everyone off the island in case the worst does truly happen," Maddie explained before shooting off, using the gravity stone to fly away."Alright then Anne, prepare that drone we're going to start," Simon said as he walked to the hut to grab some more gravity stones.Although it wasn't certain, it would be a much smarter choice to bring along more gravity stones than necessary rather than too few. Lachlan, Phoebe, and Chloe quickly went to their huts to grab their gravity stones as well.But when Lachlan stepped into his hut he felt something suddenly run into him before whatever it was quickly wrapped their arms around his legs. "Welcome home Lachlan!"It was Sarah, she has been patiently waiting for Lachlan's return today. Even though she had no idea whether or not he would actually be back today she was prepared to wait an entire week for her brother.Lachlan reached down and picked Sarah up, bringing her into his arms, "Thank you Sarah," Lachlan gave a quick kiss on the forehead. Sarah rubbed her forehead with a slightly embarrassed face. "Stop doing that." She complained."Now, your big brother's going to be busy with something so I'm going to have to ask you to stick by Maddie for an hour or so. Once I'm done I'll take you somewhere fun, granted you're going to have to prepare yourself for a long trip," Lachlan said as he put Sarah back down."Alright," Sarah nodded with a hint of disappointment."It's alright, I promise the trip we'll take will be well worth the wait," Lachlan reassured Sarah as he slightly panicked from the tone of her voice.Sarah brought up a big smile. "Pinky promise!" Sarah held out a closed hand with only her pinky extended."Pinky promise," Lachlan replied as he wrapped his pinky around Sarah's. Sarah's pinky was tiny in comparison to Lachlan's. "Now, I'll quickly take you to Maddie and remember, listen to what she says and stick with her for just an hour."Sarah nodded rapidly and Lachlan lifted her back up before shooting out of the hut towards where all the others were. When he got there Maddie was busy explaining the situation to everyone, 'Alright, so basically what we're trying to do is make the island float high in the sky. Now, this does involve a bit of risk which I why I'll need you to have your entire family present when I bring you all away from the island."Lachlan brought Sarah up to Maddie. "Don't lose sight of her; I'll go into the caves and bring out the farmers."Lachlan suddenly felt something watching from the distance, looking towards one of the tall trees he noticed Dylan perched up high on one of the branches. He was watching over everyone, looking for any dangers.Lachlan suddenly disappeared from his spot and reappeared next to Dylan. "Haven't talked to you in a little while, how's everything going?"Dylan was slightly shocked by Lachlan's abrupt appearance but calmed himself seconds after. "Everything's going alright; although there have been a few times were a child began to wander off the parents managed to notice seconds after and find their child quickly.""Seems you're still a bit of a worry wort," Lachlan squatted down. "Listen, you should try to become friends with a few of those parents; that way it wouldn't look so weird if they see you perched up a tree watching over them.""But how do I do that?" Dylan asked impatiently. He had attempted to converse with some of the parents before but it quickly died down and before he knew it everything became extremely awkward."Find parents that have similar interests and hobbies as you, try to talk to them during something like dinner time. Where everyone's rather relaxed as the children should be sleeping," Lachlan explained confidently. Although internally he had absolutely no idea what to do either, he stuck with his group and it worked, he didn't want anything to cause it to collapse."Alright," Dylan nodded.Lachlan smiled and shot off towards the caves. He walked through quickly and ran to the cottage. Walking in he saw Joe and Zoe's parents playing a bit of poker with a few of the other older ones. Phoebe's father was there as well with them."Is something happening?" Harrison asked. "Did you find what you needed?""Indeed, and I'm going to need to get you all out of here and into safety for a little while. What we're going to attempt to do will be dangerous and I'm not entirely confident nothing is destroyed. So, I'll bring you all to Maddie who'll take you to a safe area," Lachlan explained."Three of a kind!" Tyler shouted as he slammed his cards down."Straight flush," Harrison said nonchalantly as he lightly tossed his cards on the table. Tyler's mouth opened wide from shock."Royal flush," Dakota said soon after and shocked the both of them deeply. She grinned widely, "What? Didn't think I had the cards to win? Learn to math."She stood up from the chair and walked over to Lachlan. "Alright I'm ready, let's go, those two won't finish processing what happened for probably another day.""What are you talking about, it's obvious you cheated!" Harrison shouted as he pointed to Dakota. "The chances of that happening are just too slim, you probably cheated when you were shuffling the cards!""Shit! Let's go now!" Dakota grabbed hold of Lachlan and dragged him out of the house, running away from a furious pair of gamblers.They ran through the caves swiftly and quickly ran to Maddie. "How's everything going? Can we go now?"Maddie saw the two furious gamblers coming closer and quickly issued some commands to the stone. The group of people around her were swiftly lifted up without anyone being left behind.She suddenly issued a few more commands but for other stones. There were two by Harrison's and Tyler's feet, they were quickly brought up into the air with Maddie's control. She kept them at a distance but made sure they were still safe.Maddie turned to Lachlan. "We're ready now, you go and do your things and really try not to destroy this island.""No promises for that," Lachlan replied as he issued a few commands to his own stone and shot off. He went back to the centre where he grabbed his stones before shooting off towards the waters.
