AEL-Emma+E.

Hi, my name is Emma. I am 10 years old. My favorite hobby is swimming. I am from the United States A.Z. Tucson, but now I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of my faveorite books out of many is Lord of the Rings. I have a mom, a dad, two brothers, no sisters and i used to have a hamster but it died. I have brown eyes, i am tall and i have long brown hair. My favorite color is red. I like art and clay.

Draft #1 Mountains of the Moon By Emma ** Morocco was half asleep when the lecture stopped. She was in history class, the most boring class out of all her ten classes. They were in the middle of a movie about how paper was invented, when a mysterious man stepped in and called for Morocco. They stepped out in the hall together and he passed her a note. She was a little suspicious; He said his name was Shale.**
 * The letter said,**
 * Dear Morocco,**


 * We need you to help us because you are the only one who can find The Mountains of the Moon.**


 * Secret Agency M.**


 * After reading the letter she went to the principal and asked is she could be dismissed from High School. “I guess, but only for a month at the most. Remember this is only because you get really good grades.” Said the principal.**
 * Then they went to a telephone booth and he dialed 6554-243-6296 on the phone and they fell right through the floor. It was obscure and dark when they got to the bottom. They landed with a thump on an old rusty trampoline. There was a code pad that looked like this:**


 * 1 2 3**
 * 4 5 6**
 * 7 8 9**
 * *0***


 * He pushed 0192837465 and all the doors opened to a secret lab. She was lead to the elevator and they went up 20 floors. What struck her as funny was that the elevator music was normal and that she was on a mission. The doors slowly opened and there was a man. He was sitting in a tall black leather chair. He was tall and thin. To Morocco it looked like he had not gotten any sleep last night. “Welcome to Agency M.” he said in a low gruff voice.**
 * Shale will be your guild in this mission. He pushed a button and a portal appeared. Morocco hesitated but he said "don’t worry, it is safe." Next thing she knew she felt like she was being squeezed by invisible hands. Then being flung under water. Finally she opened her eyes and to her amazement, they were on the moon. A car was parked close by. Shale said that would be their car. The terrain was bumpy and dusty. Even though there was a windshield the dust stung her eyes.**
 * She saw a tunnel through the dust. By now it was nearly dark so they closed down the car. Shale pitched up a tent while Morocco fixed up dinner. For dinner they had dehydrated noodles and water for dinner.**
 * The rest of the trip went fast. The cave entrance loomed in front of them. A darkness deeper than night waited for them menacingly. The few minutes they were in the tunnel seemed to stretch out in to decades. Little red eyes peeked out at them. A little spectacle of light started to appear at the end. Then they shot out of tunnel in to the light.**
 * What Morocco saw was beyond her wildest dreams a huge barren plane, like a desert but dryer. The ground was cracked and all the plants withered. There was only one tree. It was white and was standing over a well of dry dusty stone. Surprisingly it was dripping water a slow hollow sad sound. The whole place looked like despair its self. Then a bright blue iridescent light shot out and hit the mountain behind. “You found it!” Shale said. “That that is mountain of the moon.”**
 * Just then a sparkle caught her eye. She walked over to it then to her surprise it was a note tied with a thin gold ribbon.**


 * Morocco, **
 * You have found the mountains of the moon! Now you need to find the four gems. They will be located around the mountain range and inside the mountains. Good luck.**


 * Agency M.**


 * The first place they went was a short mountain. A piece of wall was drawn on. It had little pictures of a loop with a stone shining in it and an open door. They went to the part that had the door in the picture but it was a solid wall. They looked around but nothing. Then Morocco stubbed her toe on something hard. She looked down and saw a round stone. It looked like nothing at first but after a little though it reminded her of the stone in the picture wall.**
 * She went to show Shale and they both agreed that it was the stone. Now the problem was getting to the top of the hill. Morocco volunteered because she had taken a class on mountain climbing. On the top like in the pictures there was the loop. She put the stone on and a rumbling like a loud thunder storm coming. Dust jumped up into the air. After the dust cleared, there was a door in the side of the mountain that used to have the pictures on it.**
 * Inside was lit by torches. The little shadows danced on the wall. They followed the little tunnel and entered a little room. “This doesn’t look very dangerous”, Morocco said. Just as she said that the floor opened up into a big yawning gap. Only by a trail of small platform rocks that you had to jump from one to another could you proceeded. “What will we do!?” said Morocco. “Stay calm and try to think of an idea.” Shale said. “We could try to jump from one to another and hope for the best.” said Morocco. “I guess we could, ok lets do that.” Shale said.**
 * The jumping plan went well. They made it and continued. Then tunnel started to get smaller and smaller until they were crawling on hands and knees. “I can’t continue” Morocco said. “You have to” Shale said. Just when they thought they were going to have to stop the tunnel opened into a big cave. A blinding light started shining blinding both of them. There in front of them was a gem on a pedestal in the middle of the room. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. An echoing sound started to come closer to them.**
 * As their eyes adjusted to the lights, they saw that there were logs ramming into the floor. “I guess we have to dodge them.” Morocco said. They swiveled and dodged. Before they knew it they were on the other side. The gem was warm to her touch. They put it into a silky leather bag and continued. A pin point of light shone in the obscure darkness. “I guess that is the way out” Morocco said. They rushed out and a cool breeze was blowing. There was a red orange light flooding the ground.**
 * The next day they continued to the next mountain. This time there was a door on the side. It was very dark inside. All of a sudden they felt like they were floating. “What is happening?!” Morocco yelled. Just then a light shone and they saw that they were floating over a big hole. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” they screamed as they fell into the hole. Splash! The water was freezing. Morocco opened her eyes and saw a hole in the wall next to her. She signaled to Shale and they swam through. Her lungs were about to explode when she emerged from the water. They were in a lake. “I have to get to shore.” Morocco gasped.**

The circle turned out to be an elevator. The water somehow didn’t go in the elevator. After what seemed like ages, they reached the bottom of the lake. There, was a castle of what liked like a giant crystal. The only way to get there was a little tunnel. They were great full that they could breathe under the water because there was what seemed like air ventilation so they could breath. “Who do you think lives here?” asked Morocco. “I don’t know.” Shale said. “We live here! Thats who!” yelled a loud and somewhat high pitched voice. Out of the corner came a green thing. It was short, fat and had six legs and two more coming out of what look like arm holes in the suit it wore. “Halt! We have you surrounded!” It was true. Out of the same corner came sixty more of the little green creatures which Shale and Morocco would soon learn were squids. By now they had three of the four gems. The squids led them to the giant crystle castle and led them down a series of short halls. In front of them was a huge door with pieces of gold and sapphire around the edge. The door opened and the room was huge. The edges were lined with fire and at the end of the room was a chair. In the chair sat a giant squid. “What do we have here?” said the giant squid. "We found them in the H2o room, sir." the little green things said. "Hmm, present your self." "I am Morocco." "I am Shale" "We come from NY." "They seem harmless... do you have any weapons on you?" "No, we are looking for a green jem." " We have that. I will give it to you if you help us." "What do we have to do?" "Follow me." He led them to a room filled with flowers. "Pick all of theese horrid poisons lilies." Then he left them alone and closed the door. Shale just smiled. "What are you smiling about?! We are about to pick poisons flowers and you are happy!?" shouted Morocco. "They are not poisons flowers. Thoes were green squids, a old tribe of squids. To them any kind of flower, weed or tree is poisons to them." They got to the task and by the time they were done it seemed like it was next week. They walk out and the kind said, " Are you done?" "Yes." "Very well a promis is a promis. Ok follow me." He led them down many halls and to a room. "Here you go." He gave them the gem and they left. Outside a car was waiting. Insted of driving it had three buttons. A green one that said back to HQ. A blue one that said back to Park, and a giant red shiny button which said self destruct. Of corse the most sensible thing was to push the green button so that is what they did. Back at the hq the leader thanked Morocco and she went back to school and every went back to normal. **
 * On shore she took a better look around. The iridescent water seemed to glow. “What a pretty sight.” Shale said. Over in a dark corner the water seemed a lighter color then the rest. They walk over there and to their surprise, when they put they feet in the water didn’t sink. They seemed to float over the water. First one step then another, they gradually made their way across the water. Then in the middle of the lake was a giant circle. “What do you think we should do?” Maybe we should step on it” “I guess…..” The circle we just big enough for both of them.