The Secret of the Mountains
Edited and Published by Shama Farag
Chapter 1… The Beginnings
“Are you sure we should be climbing these mountains?” yelled a girl over the roaring winds.
“Of course we should, Kat! Because anyway, some people say there is a secret in these mountains and we’ll be famous!” her sister said calmly after the wind had stopped.
“I don’t agree, Chloe,” Kat replied and went down the mountain.
Chloe stared at her sister until she heard a piercing scream and rushed over to where it came from. It was Kat in an ice crack trap!
“Help!” she screamed.
“Okay, I’m coming,” Chloe yelled down at her and leaped in.
“How are we going to get out then?” Kat said, very mad.
“Right then-” Chloe cut off when she saw the rope she set up had slipped from the piece of ice she tied it to. Just then, a shadowy figure came toward them, and before they could ask who it was, they got trapped in ice.
Chapter 2… Hideout
A few years later... “Hey, come back here, you!” a guard yelled at the intruder.
“I’m Kai and I just need some food,” Kai replied, running away.
“Sigh! Forget it,” another guard said out of breath. And Kai kept on running and stopped at an old treehouse.
“I have some bread, sister!” he exclaimed.
“You know I like being called Maya. It is my name, after all,” his little sister complained.
“Well, dig in!” Kai said, ignoring her.
While eating, Maya asked, “When are we gonna get a new hideout?”.
Kai stared at her for a while and then replied quietly, “Soon. Now just let's eat.”
Meanwhile, one of the guards was wandering in the forest for Kai and found Kai’s voice from inside the treehouse.
Chapter 3…Trouble
Immediately the guard rushed to tell the others,
“Guys, I found where the intruder is!” he exclaimed proudly to the others.
“Really, where is he?” asked the chief, pushing her way through the other guards.
“Chief Jane, ma ‘ am, he’s in an old treehouse in the forest!” the guard replied.
“Show me,” the chief demanded suspiciously. And the guard led her into the forest and pointed to the treehouse.
“Hmm, I see, well for tomorrow, I have a plan.” Chief Jane said with a smirk on her face.
“That kid's gonna have a horrible look on his face when he sees it. He's gonna be in big trouble!” Chief Jane said to herself when she arrived at the police station to set up the plan.
Chapter 4... Fire!
The day after, the chief proudly marched with the rest of the guards to the hideout, and they sneaked to the treehouse to put some fire on matches and threw it next to the treehouse. After that, they ran straight to a safe distance from the fire. Then, the fire spread quickly, and the kids could feel the heat from inside and from the window.
“What’s going on?” Maya asked.
And Kai’s reply was nothing. He held her hand tightly and pulled her down the part burned stairs before the fire would spread anymore.
Chapter 5… Lost
“Where are we going?” Maya asked as loud as she could over the roaring flames.
Kai tried to remain calm but kept on tugging her hardly out of the part burnt hideout. They managed to escape and went deeper into the forest. Meanwhile, the guards had complained that the plan didn’t work.
“Guys, quiet, and the plan did work. We are not going to kill them. We just simply burned their hideout, and now they will not steal any more food,” Chief Jane had told them, and they immediately stopped talking.
“Now, let’s put out this fire before it spreads to the village,” Chief Jane added. But she was still wondering what Kai and Maya were up to…
“Where are we going?” Maya repeated,
and this time Kai answered, “We are… are lost!”
Chapter 6… The Mountains
“Lost!” Maya exclaimed worriedly.
“But how?! Well, we ran from the fire an- Kai cut off and saw a mountain.
Maya saw it too, “Maybe there is a cave or something we can go to!”
Maya got brightness in her eyes again.
"Well, sure, let’s start climbing now!" Kai also exclaimed joyfully.
A few minutes later… “*groan* We’ve been climbing forever and no cave,” Maya complained.
“I think you’ve spoken too early, “ Kai said, pointing to an unusual-looking cave.
“Um, I think that’s an ice glacier,” Maya replied, still looking frustrated.
“Well, the only way to find out!” Kai said, running toward it.
Maya followed. “But that cave is across an ice crack!” Maya said.
“Well let’s jump over it!” Kai exclaimed.
“Wait,” Maya said, tying a rope they found in the forest to a rock in the snow.
“There, just in case.” Kai rolled his eyes and jumped, but it didn’t work, he fell in! Maya went in to rescue him, Kai thanked her, and they were walking to the rope, but on their way there, they found two girls!
Chapter 7… The Lost Girls
“Who are they?” Maya asked.
Kai shrugged and added, “I guess they are frozen or something.”
“Well, let’s help them!” Maya excitedly said she liked helping people.
“I guess,” Kai said, looking around for something to start a fire.
Maya noticed and went for a stick and rocks. She made fire with the rocks on the stick and tried to melt the ice. It worked!
“Huh?” one of the girls said.
“Who are you?” the other said.
“I’m Maya, and this is my annoying brother, Kai,” Maya responded.
“Hey,” Kai complained, “Just because I call you, sister!”
One of the girls giggled, “I’m Kat, and this is Chloe.”
“Let’s just get to the rope,” Kai said. So they did.
“Wait, the rope!” Maya said, surprised.
Chapter 8,… Trapped!
“The rope must have slipped from the rock I tied it to,” Maya gloomily said.
“Well, I tried to teach you to tie knots, but you only slept through the lesson,” Kai said with a scoff.
“Well, here it goes again,” Kat said.
“We got trapped here by like a shadowy figure, but our rope also slipped,” Chloe explained. “Well, let’s try to put it back up,” Kai said.
“How?” Maya asked.
“Well, we can try to throw it back up,” Kai responded.
“But that's sooooo high up, how will we even reach it? Chloe complained.
“Well, I am a good thrower if I do say so myself,” Kai proudly answered.
But Maya was too busy trying to throw the rope back up. “We are doomed,” Chloe groaned. “Again,” Kat added gloomily.
“Guys, don’t give up!” Maya said positively, still trying to throw the rope back up.
Chapter 9… Out & Loose
“Almost there!” Maya exclaimed, getting a little more brightness in her eyes.
Chloe gasped as Kat covered her own eyes, and Kai just kept on looking at Maya as his eyes grew wider and wider with excitement each time Maya threw the rope higher and higher and HIGHER.
“Yes!” Maya exclaimed after the rope had gone up.
“Don’t say that just yet. Someone has to go up for the dangerous mission on the rope that is unsecured and tie it on something for the rest of us to go back up,” Kat pointed out.
“I’ll do it,” Chloe volunteered.
“Go ahead,” Maya offered back.
As Chloe climbed, the others set up a pile of snow if she fell, she did fall multiple times, and they had to set the rope again, but it was worth the wait! Chloe tied the rope then assured the rest of them that she tied the rope up there. They climbed up, and one of them finally cheerily exclaimed, “Out and Loose!”
Chapter 10… Secret Revealed
“Yes, but we never told you the reason we were there,” Chloe pointed out, then giving Kat a signal to tell them.
“Well, Chloe made us climb this mountain because some people say there is a secret in it, but I disagreed and went back down the mountain, but I didn’t notice the ice crack, and then well, you know the rest” Kat explained.
“Okay,” Maya said, “let’s find this secret!” “Yeah!” the others chorused.
Then they climbed up the mountain carefully. They had found another ice crack!
“I wonder if the secret is there,” Maya said, mostly to herself.
“Well first, of course, someone needs to tie it carefully,” Kai pointed out, tying the rope to an un-slippery rock.
“Let’s go in!” Maya said, climbing down the rope.
Kai stayed up there until he heard Maya yell from inside,
“Kai, do you still have that photo of mom? Dad gave you?”
“Yes,” Kai answered, then went down.
“Give it to me,” Maya said, leading Kai and the others to another person trapped in a crystal.
Chapter 10 (continued)… Secret Revealed (pt. 2)
“Who is that in there?” Kat asked.
“Probably the secret,” Chloe teased.
“Guys, stop fighting. I think Maya has something to show us” Kai broke in the fight.
Maya nodded and told them to come to look over to the crystal again.
“I think that this person is the secret and our mom,” Maya said, showing them the photo and bringing it back down to see the person.
“We need to melt down the ice,” Kai replied and excitedly started grabbing some sticks and making a fire on a huge stick to make a torch.
Maya swiped the torch from him when the torch was ready. She started melting the ice trap. It had worked! Once they shook the water off of the person, the trapped mother asked,
“Where am I? Who am I?” Just then, Kai and Maya got teary.
“You are our mom,” Kai answered.
“Let’s get out of here,” Maya sniffled and climbed the rope. The others got out too.
“If I really am your mom, then what about a hug?” Mom asked. They all fell into her arms. More secrets await!
Edited and Published by Shama Farag.
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