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video games they had ever played. They still held onto
the hope that they were dreaming.
    “ What I can’t understand
is how you three fit into this,” said Piper looking at them all
again. “I find myself wondering why. Why today? Why can’t I get the
old stories out of my mind? Fairy tales about a prophecy. A fairy
tale I haven’t remembered in over ten years, until now.”
    Jack and Leo looked at each other confused
as someone began to laugh.
    “ Us? A fairy tale?” Jayson
sat between his friends, smiling. His laughter sounded like small
hiccups as he tried to contain them. “Let me guess. We’re some
figment of your imagination and everything that has happened in my
life up until this point was all part of a prophecy? I suppose
there’s some mystical reason I got a D on my last math test
right?”
    “ You got a D on Mr.
Harmon’s math test?” asked Leo, furrowing his brow at the boy
beside him.
    “ Jayson, stop it.” Jack
glared at his friend as Jayson continued to laugh.
    “ No, I’m done with this,”
Jayson said and rose to his feet. Jack and Leo stood and watched as
he headed for the mouth of the cave. “Thank you for dinner, Piper,
right? But I’m out. Peace, man.” Jayson waved at the girl still
sitting beside the fire before slipping out the entrance. Jack and
Leo followed. They gave Piper an apologetic look as they hurried
after their friend.
    “ What the heck are you
doing?” Jack asked, running to catch up. Jayson was walking
incredibly fast along one of the path, staring at the ground
beneath his feet. Neither Jack nor Leo knew where he was going, and
they suspected Jayson didn’t have a clue either.
    “ If I don’t give into
their test, they’ll have to send us back,” said Jayson.
    “ What are you talking
about, dude?” asked Leo. He was already panting and out of
breath.
    “ The government, the
military and the conspiracy, remember? If I refuse to give in to
this world they’ve created, they’ll have to send us
back.”
    “ Back? What do you mean
back? Jayson, there is no back, just —” Jack stepped in front of
Jayson. He grabbed his shoulders, stopping him short and pinched
Jayson hard on the arm.
    “ Ow! What the —” cried
Jayson and rubbed his arm. The sun was setting quickly, but even in
the dim light of dusk, he could see the stern look Jack was giving
him.
    “ This isn’t a game,
Jayson,” said Jack “You’re acting so bunk right now, it’s not cool.
Does that valley look like a made up conspiracy world? Or Piper?
She was helping us, and you totally walked out on her! Not cool,
man. Now what are we supposed to do?”
    “ Well I’m not going to lie
down and accept it, if that’s what they think!” cried Jayson, “Give
me proof!”
    “ Proof?” Leo shouted
throwing his arms into the air. A deafening roar broke through the
darkness somewhere above them. The boys huddled together and stared
up at the strangest creature they had ever seen.
    Hunched as it was, it was taller even than
Jack. Its front arms hung long like a gorilla’s though the only fur
it had was a small patch on the top of its head. Its entire body
was covered in a thick, dark gray hide, and its orange eyes bulged
out of their sockets. It stood to roar at them again, and the boys
huddled even closer.
    Leo whispered, “How much more proof do you
need?”
    “ Shut up!” said Jayson. He
edged toward the underside of the ledge the creature stood on. It
roared again, and banged its fists on the ground. Jack and Leo
pulled Jayson back, but he had managed to grab a large
stick.
    “ I’ll distract it. You go
to the village and get help.” Jayson whispered as the creature
began edging its way down to them.
    “ Come on, man, enough with
the hero crap. Let’s just run!” said Jack. He gave a longing look
back up the path toward Piper’s cave.
    “ And what if it catches
all of us? Better one dead than three,” said Jayson.
    “ This isn’t a game —” Leo
stopped short, and gave a