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 * Brittany. Tristan. Alminay.Malcolm.Shelbee**

__**The Floating City of Ore**__

Many people have wondered what it would be like to live in the air but the heroes of our story didn't have to wonder for they did live in the sky. It was not by choice but they did they lived in the sky. You see, a millennium before, the earth below them had been destroyed by nucler warfare. Yes the beautiful earth that you currently live on is destroyed. There was fire, there was death,and there were explosions. the one thing that was lacking was survivors. Among the few survivors were a number of scientists. These people were able to escape the chaos on earth and build their home. Yes their home in the sky, their Floating city of Ore. One day a boy named LaLu McDougal was on his hover board that his uncle gave him on Christmas, then he heard someone call his name he turned around and ran right into a building. He stood up and brushed his long black hair into place. LaLu was very short so he liked to hover board to feel taller. He turned around and there was his annoying, twin sister. Yes she was annoying but LaLu had to admit she was one of the only people who really understood him they had the twin connection. They were both 16 years old but didn't look anything alike. Her name's Sapphire, shes extremly tall with icy blue eyes and bright blue hair. " What do you want " said LaLu. " Wow practicing does you a lot of good" laughed Sapphire changing her expression quickly she added " Uncle Snickett needs us to baby sit the devil twins" Again!!" Thats three times this week!" "He's paying us this time" Sapphire said. After a moment of thought LaLu replied, "fine lets just get it over with". They walked off towards their Uncle's place making sure they didn't walk too fast. The twins Aunt and Uncle lived on the other side of town and they hated to go over even though they loved their Uncle. Their Aunt's name is Aunt Lemony, there two children Artemis who is three years old and Nadine who is five years old. LaLu and Sapphire's Cousins hated to be babysat so they were major brats whenever LaLu and Sapphire came over. It didn't help that their Aunt Lemony absolutely HATED Sapphire and LaLu, the twins sometimes thought that their Aunt told her braty children to torture them. After babysitting, the two of them headed home for the rest of the day without any pay from their Aunt Lemony. Their Uncle usually pays them but he had to stay out later then he usually does. " I really hate living here " said LaLu. " You read my mind"! exclaimed Sapphire. " I really wish that we could live on the Earth. I wonder what it looks like " said Sapphire. " Yeah, but the Supreme Chancellor would never in a million years let any one go to the Earth" said LaLu. The Supreme Chancellor is the ruler of the Floating City of Ore. But the weird thing is that no one knows his real name. In fact no one really knew where he had come from. "Yeah i guess your right, and niether would Uncle Snickett or Aunt Lemony." sighed Sapphire. " Look!" Said LaLu " WHAT WHAT WHAT, what is it????" screamed Sapphire. " When I fell off my hoverboard earlier today the necklace that mom and dad gave me cracked open" said LaLu. When the twins first moved to the Floating City of Ore their parents died in a tragic way. All the kids know is that they were scientists trying to find out if it would be okay to live on the earth again, and they just disapeared one day and have never been seen again. LaLu and Sapphire want to find out what happened what to their parents and a way to live on Earth again. " Oh is that it, I thought it was something more important." I'm sure we can fix it" sighed Sapphire. " No thats not it. look there's a tiny piece of folded up paper inside!" said LaLu. " Really i wonder if its from mom or dad!!!!!!! " yelled Sapphire. "Calm down, jeez lets just read what it says." said LaLu. No one knows how he can read since his long black hair is always in his eyes, in fact no one has ever seen his eyes before since he has always had long hair. " It says: Dear children, someday i hope that you find this note. We had a feeling that no one really wanted to go back to Earth after the war and something bad might come out of it. But we did find a way...." LaLu stoped reading. " Why the heck did you stop reading, i want to know how to get to the Earth!!!" screamed Sapphire. But her brother just sat there not moving. Sapphire grabbed the note from his hand and she saw what he saw. The letter just ended there was nothing else! " This must have been from the day that they died" said Sapphire. " Something bad must have happened and mom and dad could'nt finish the note!" said Sapphire. Meanwhile LaLu just sat there not moving. " Snap out of it brother, we can figure this out." exclaimed Sapphire. Finally LaLu was like " I can't believe we were that close to knowing, Sapphire are you thinking what I'm thinking" " YES we have to go back to mom and dad's old workshop and look for more clues!" said Sapphire. " Actually i was thinking that we go talk to mom and dad's old partner, Dr. D Andr'e. She will definitley be some help." said LaLu. " Okay lets go!" Exclaimed Sapphire. "Well maybe in the morning I'm a little tired now." said Sapphire. " Fine but first thing in the morning we are leaving!!" yawned LaLu. They both walked to their hovering space beds and fell asleep in a place that is no more then somewhere to lay their heads at night. In the morning both kids woke up very early. It was time to go talk to their parents old partner and friend Dr. D Andr'e, she should have something that would help them out in their search for their mother and father. Sapphire and LaLu got dressed and packed a small bag with a few things inside. Like a picture of their parents, change of clothes, some money, and an old key to their mom and dad's old office. First the children decided to head to their parents old office. As soon as they arrived Sapphire started going through old papers in the filing cabinet, while LaLu went to their old desks to look for any kind of clue. The kids were rumaging through old things that seemed useless when suddenly Sapphire dropped a box on the floor and out fell one scrap of paper. " Jeez Sapphire, someone's going to hear you try to keep it down" sushed LaLu. " Look at this!" cried Sapphire. " What, did you find something important? " said LaLu. " Yes!" exclaimed Sapphire. " Listen to this: If your reading this we are probably gone... don't lose heart. Go talk to our old friend. Love mom and dad. We have to go talk to her right now!!!" said Sapphire. " Lets go hurry up LaLu." said Sapphire. " Okay okay lets go" said LaLu. He jumped onto his hoverboard and Sapphire started to run with her long legs. At this rate they would be to the earth in no time at all! Dr.D'Andre's new office was much bigger with a more advanced sercurity system it was almost impossible for anyone to break into it. When the kids finally got there they knocked on the door. But no one was answering it. " Hello Dr.D Andr'e its Sapphire and LaLu, we have to talk to you its very important its about our mother and father" said Sapphire. Suddenly the door rushed open and there was Dr.D Andre. She looked much different now, her hair had grayed, she had many more wrinkles, and her once green eyes had dimmed into almost a hazel. " Sorry to keep you waiting kids, I had to make sure it was safe to open the door. Well what are you just standing there for, Come in, Hurry up, Lets move it" said Dr.D Andr'e. Quickly LaLu and Sapphire rushed inside and the door closed behind them. " Why is she acting so weird?" whispered LaLu. " Rember, the same person that killed mom and dad whiped out her memory she doesnt rember anything. I'm surprised she even remembers us." said Sapphire. " Oh right sorry" said LaLu. The person that killed their parents also killed something else, Dr. D Andre's memory and her knowledge of her and the twins parents plans on getting to the earth. " I haven't seen you kids in quite a long time time! So what is it you kids need from an old friend like me" hurried Dr. D Andr'e " Oh we were just wondering if we could look through your old papers to see if there's anything important in them." said LaLu. " I dont really understand any of my old research, but go ahead i guess" shrugged Dr. D'Andre. During the following next week LaLu and Sapphire searched everywhere in the old house, in all the cracks and in all the corners. While searching the old lab they discovered the blueprints for the whole house. At first they thought that there was nothing special about them at all. But one night LaLu was looking at them while sitting in his hover bed and he noticed that a part of the wing of the house was missing. " Wake up Sapphire, look at these blueprints to Dr. D'Andre's house, there is a empty part in the blueprint" said LaLu. " Its probably nothing" moaned Sapphire, wanting to go back to sleep. "No, it would be nothing if a bathroom was missing, or something small like that but not a huge part of the house missing!" cried LaLu insistantly. They both got up and rushed over to Dr. D Andre's place, she had given them a key so they went right in and ran right to that spot. They ran back and forth through the "ghost section" of the house(as they called it). "Jeez! This makes no sense, there has to be something we're missing! And these squeaky floors are really getting on my nerves!"shouted Sapphire. "Wait what did you say?" questioned LaLu. "That this makes no sense" said Sapphire, staring at her brother. "No, No. I meant about the floors!" LaLu said impatiently. "That the squeaking was starting to annoy me, why?" answered Sapphire."Marble floors don't squeak!" After looking at the floor, they discovered a secret trap door. LaLu opened the door and found a big black hole with stairs. At first they were both scared to go down but Sapphire had a gut feeling that there was something important down there. "Lets go we have to hurry it will take us at least the rest of the night to get down there." said Sapphire. " Okay let's go!" said LaLu. They walked and walked until it seemed like days, the tunnel must have been at least 200 feet below Dr. D' Andre's house. As soon as they got down there they found the plans there parents had left and data about the earth and radiation. It said that the radiation on the Earth would only last 100 years. " That means that we have been living up here this whole time for no reason!!" screamed Sapphire. She was so excited. then there was another trap door and right under it was a huge rocket that could have held at least 20 people. Inside the rocket there was supplies to live on Earth and a map of the Earth. LaLu the smarter one figures out how to work the rocket and the twins take off to start there life on the planet Earth. Meanwhile, at Aunt Lemony's house she was spying on the kids was a secret camera installed in Dr. D'Andre's house. She knew the kids found the hidden entrance and she took the faster way to the rocket and snuck on way before LaLu and Sapphire had found the rocket. Aunt Lemony didnt want anyone finding that there was a way to get to Earth because her husband was making so much money selling outer space hover beds. If the kids told anyone about this then their bussiness would crash and Lemony could not let that happen. When Sapphire and LaLu first got to the earth they were so excited. It had been there dream for so long and now they were finally living it. It felt so weird for the kids to be out in open air and not feel trapped inside a giant bubble any more. There was something that looked like a giant arm in what looked like used to be a street. " I think I know what that is, we learned about it once. It looks like the arm of the Statue of Liberty." said LaLu. "Wow, thats kind of sad don't you think?"said Sapphire. "What?"asked LaLu. "The fact that the world tore itself apart because of greed and pride" replied Sapphire with a sad tone to her voice. "Um....Sapphire are you just now realizing this? Wow...you really didn't pay attention in history class did you?" said LaLu "Oh I think you right" said Sapphire. " But I'm really tired i think i'm going to head back to the rocket for the night, do you want to come with me?" asked Sapphire. " Sure we have the rest of our lives to explore" said LaLu. When they got back to the rocket they heard a shuffling noise in the back round. quickly Sapphire and LaLu turned around and there stood their Aunt Lemony with a gun in her hand. " Hello children, i'm very sorry about this ,but i'm going to have to kill you" laughed Aunt Lemony. Both Sapphire and LaLu slowly gulped, but they were totally speechless. " In case you kids were wondering...I was the one who killed your parents. Now its finally your turn! You could'nt just stay away from the rocket could you? I really didnt want to do this but I have to. You see if people find out where you are then they will want to move here and your Uncle and I will become poor since you cant have hoverbeds on earth." said Aunt Lemony. Suddenly there was a loud bang and there was no more Sapphire and LaLu McDougal. Lemony went back to the Floating City of Ore and no body ever knew what happened to Sapphire and LaLu, not even their Uncle Snicket. Life for the people still went on and no one ever figured out how to get back to earth since LaLu and Sapphire took most of it with them to Earth. No one ever knew how sick and twisted Lemony was. Some people thought she was a sweet woman, but everything is not how it seems.