The hand reached out to grab a hold of the file labeled Top Secret. The small file was opened slowly and three small papers were brought out. A voice shouted out with joy.

"I was right! Mr. Green, in the Billiard Room, with the rope! Ha!"

"Aw, you beat me again."

"Now it's time for the 'In your face' dance. In your face! In your face! In your face!"

I leaned back against my bed and laughed. I and my friend Elizabeth Randall, or Liz, as I call her, had been playing Clue all day. It was our summer break. Both of our parents were at our school tying up a few loose ends. My mom was the school secretary and her mom was a teacher there. We had decided that day to play at my house for the day, and not having access to either of our computers since our respective mothers had taken the cords to both of them, we decided to pull out some board games since nothing good was on TV and our X360's had been confiscated.

"Ok, Liz, that's enough. Let's play Settlers of Cataan again."

"No, cuz you always win."

"Ok, fine. Hey, I've got an idea. We could go in the backyard and play airsoft for a while. Wanna?"

"Sure!"

I nodded and retrieved my airsoft weapons from out from the chest in my room. We put on our gear, loaded our guns and went out. I was fortunate to live more outside the city than others so we had a large backyard. We even had a small forest where Liz and I had played since we were little. Now it was mostly used for when Liz and I had our epic airsoft battles, and as such was littered with green, yellow, white and other colored pellets. We would play capture the flag, king of the hill or just have epic battles. It was just another day in the life of two American teens. Little did we know what fate had in store for us.

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After our epic battle, which ended in a tie, we walked back to the house, exhausted and drenched. We sat down in the kitchen and I made a meal consisting of burgers, fries and fruit juice. When we had started it was sunny, but during the game rain clouds had moved in, which was another reason why we came in. while we ate, a new Fairly Odd Parents was playing on the TV. I had taped it the night before because I had missed the earlier showing. During the commercial, we began to talk about it, because unlike others who "knew" that it wasn't a real place, we knew better. Several months back, we had returned from a most extraordinary adventure. We had been transported to another universe, apparently the universe where the Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom cartoons actually existed, since that is what we found there. We had decided to code name it the Hartman Universe in honor of him. If any wish to read about our particular adventures on that visit, read the first book, The Hope Prophecy, which tells of how I fulfilled an eleven billion old fairy prophecy with the help of the Jewelry of Sueñalon.

"It's been almost eight months since we came back, Morb. I miss everybody."

"Join the club. I miss 'em all, especially Betania. She was like the mother. I wonder if we'll be going back."

"Gee, I hope so. But why would we go back? Even if we did, they would most likely bee billions of years ahead of us. No one we knew would even exist except the fairies."

"Whoa, be careful. Don't expect that our time and their time are related. There had to be an outside force that brought us there in the first place. Maybe they, or it, will, if we are needed again, will bring us back to a time where they are still alive."

"Yea, I see your point. Still…" she drifted off. We sat there, staring off into space.

Suddenly I heard a noise coming from my room.

"Did you hear that?" I asked.

"What?"

"Somebody's in my room."

We silently tip-toed to my room. When we reached it I kicked open the door, holding my airsoft gun at the ready.

Nothing was amiss. At the same time I began to feel that dread sense of foreboding that had preceded our visit to the other universe. I noticed that Liz's expression had subtly changed. I asked what was wrong.

"Oh, I'm just feeling that something important is going to happen."

"Yea, me too. It's like a sense of foreboding, right?"

"Yes! Do you feel it, too?"

"Yea. It's similar to the feeling I experienced before we were transported to the Hartman Universe."

"Hrmmm. Hey, Morb, you don't think—"

"I do."

Suddenly a strong wind began to blow around the room. My door slammed shut and my blinds lowered themselves of their own accord. The room was now dark. Liz was grabbing my arm in fright. I placed my hand over hers in a reassuring gesture.

"Why aren't we flying away?" Liz asked over the roar of the wind. As soon as she asked that, the wind died down to a cool breeze. It was then that my eyes happened to glace over my chest which I had taken my airsoft weapons out of earlier. A light was coming out of the keyhole. I advanced toward it slowly, key in hand. It took me a while to place the key in the keyhole since my hands were unsteady.

I was greeted by a blinding light that filled the whole room. I shielded my eyes. It eventually died down and took on a blue color. I looked through the miscellaneous items stored in that chest. I eventually found the source of the light.

It was the Jewelry of Sueñalon. I pulled it out and held it up for Liz to see. She smiled, but only for a moment. I noticed her gaze had returned to the chest. I slowly turned. The room was once again filled with light. When it died down, I opened my eyes. Instead of a blue light, I noticed another color light emanating from the chest: yellow. I looked through the chest again, wondering what I would find.

The answer astonished me. I found a set of jewelry identical to the Jewelry of Sueñalon except for the color difference. I pulled it out and looked at it. Liz walked up to look at it.

"Oooo. Can I have them, Morb? Please?"

Give them to her. Like the last time, no words were spoken, but I somehow knew that I should give them to her. She took them with zeal and excitement.

Hold on.

Liz and I grabbed hands, and held on tight. The roof to my room blew off, revealing the same whirlpool of clouds hovering over the room. We closed our eyes and waited.

Eventually, we felt our feet leave the ground. That was the last thing I remember.

Ok! New story. Hope you like it!

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