Marsiana 2-2
CHAPTER 2
Marsiana sat on the edge of the crater of volcano and stared intensely at the center of the crater.
‘Now it will happen,’ she said, not taking her eyes off the streams of sulfuric smoke escaping from under the lava from previous eruptions. But the eruption began yet, and Marsiana get nervous. ‘Is it possible I was wrong?’ she said to herself. ‘No, that's impossible. I could not be mistaken.’ A few more minutes passed, and Marsiana saw with relief as a pillar of smoke and fumes go more intensive, rose to a height of more than one hundred meters. Then, somewhere in the depths of a volcano something boomed, trembled, and a muffled explosion thundered. Stones under Marsiana came shaking, but she kept on her feet, and even her expression did not change. ‘Well, come on darling volcano, come on. Pull your socks up a bit more,’ she begged, slightly changing her pose. It seemed that she couldn’t wait to rush into the depth of the crater. As if wanting to please the girl the volcano erupted with the series of muffled explosion. And then thundered the explosion of such force that it seemed near Marsiana struck the lightning. In the air with the roar and clatter threw stones, ashes, raised a column of smoke. In the center of the crater appeared hot lava. The eruption has begun. Marsiana absolutely calmly reacted to the bombings, falling around her stones and caustic sulfuric smoke. Stones over flew her by side, and an unpleasant smell does not bother her. She needed the lava. It is for her, she looked up at the volcano, and so much time, almost an hour waiting for the start of the eruption. When the lava start to overflow the crater, Marsiana ran, dipped with her palms a little bit of molten rock and began to rub her hands. Her face appeared satisfied smile with. She narrowed her eyes, smiled even wider. She felt good…very good. ‘What a pleasure!’ she cried, scooping up with her palm a little more lava. ‘How nice. I now probably will live for a thousand years and maybe longer, and will not change at all,’ she said, looking at her glowing hands. Around Marsiana continued the eruption. There were bursts of varying strength. Into the sky flew rocks, ashes; climbing up clubs of steam and smoke. But Marsiana did not pay attention to it. She was busy only with herself. ‘Thank you dear volcano!’ she shouted. ‘It’s a great lava,’ with these words she suddenly jumped up on the lava flow, and like surfers on the crest of an ocean wave, with enthusiastic shouts and laughter slid down the slope of the volcano. It was very fun, and she for a quite long time rode on the stream of lava, then rising again to the crater of the volcano and climbing down on the new lava flows. The show was fantastic, but the scientists who observed at a great distance over the volcanic eruption, could not see the small figure of a girl on a background of red-hot, bursting with the heat of lava. And Marsiana done everything possible so that she no one could see her, not only the people, but also the instruments of scientists. Had a ride to her satisfaction and got a lot of fun, Marsiana returned home. There she gets to know that in the city this morning, there was a maniac, who was hunting for the children. Already there were two lost children. She was not familiar with them, but she believes that Billy knows them. The whole town was terrified, and the police took all necessary measures to find missing children and capture the dangerous maniac. Marsiana rushed to call Billie and Christy. * * * Billy didn’t hear about missing children. At that moment Marsiana heard that Mrs. Carter was calling her. ‘Now I go, Grandma Aunt Audrey! I'm just talking to Billy!’ Marsiana shouted. ‘You’ve got a guest. It’s Christie,’ Mrs. Carter said loudly. ‘Christie? Tell her that I'm going… Billy, did you hear, Christie came to me?’ Marsiana asked into the phone. ‘I heard,’ Billy answered. ‘You're all yelling there, as if you have a fire. Okay, call me later.’ ‘Good. Will not disappear,’ Marsiana with mobile phone in her hand ran out the room. Christie looked pale, frightened and confused. Marsiana silently grabbed her hand and pulled aside from the front door that Mrs. Carter couldn’t hear what they were talking about. ‘Marsiana,’ Christie's voice trembled, she almost cried. ‘Come down and tell.’ ‘I know, where Steve and Maggie,’ Christie said. ‘All think they stolen by a maniac,’ Marsiana answered. ‘Even the police think so.’ Christie shook her head and sighed. ‘Well, I do not know what's worse kidnapping by the maniac or what happened to them in fact,’ she said ‘Tell,’ Marsiana demanded, though, as she thought, she guessed already what happened to the children. Christie, stammering, told it like it was. ‘I see,’ listened to the girl Marsiana for a moment fell in thoughts. ‘Hopefully it’s not too late. They're just in a cave?’ ‘Yes. The door slammed shut, and they can not get out. The key also they can not find.’ ‘Go!’ Marsiana grabbed Christie by her arm and dragged her along with herself. * * * The cave was dark and cold. The water was dripping from the ceiling. Steve for the umpteenth time in vain examined all the walls and ledges. No secret lever or buttons he found. Maggie has long ceased crying and only sobbed. She was very sorry for herself, and she was sorry that she wanted to help Steve. If not her thoughtless desire she now would be at home. ‘This is your all fault!’ she said reproachfully. Steve sniffed and looked at her. He looked miserable and unhappy. ‘How I could know that it all happened,’ as if apologizing, he said. Maggie wiped her face with her dirty fists and unfriendly looked at him. ‘It’s not my fault that I had dropped my glasses, and then we have fallen into the cave together with it.’ Steve said and sighed. ‘For us sure someone will come,’ his last words were not very confident. ‘Yeah, wait!’ Maggie exclaimed sarcastically. ‘I wonder who will come after us, and how they will pull us out of here.’ ‘Christie knows that we’re here,’ Steve said in a voice full of hope. ‘She will say to Marsiana or someone from the adults. Do not worry, Maggie, we’ll for sure be saved.’ ‘It would be good.’ At this moment they heard a rustle at the door. ‘Oh, Mommy mouse!’ Maggie cried and jumped up on a large rock. Steve shrugged indifferently. Big deal just a mouse! ‘I thought modern girls are not afraid of mice. It is not so modern!’ ‘Perhaps,’ Maggie agreed, without dismounting from the stone. ‘But the mouse the same nasty, like a hundred ore thousand years ago. Do you see her?’ Steve shook his head. ‘There is not enough light to see the little mouse,’ he said. ‘You could say it in short,’ Maggie accused him. ‘Do not hear?’ ‘I hear nothing. Rustle stopped.’ For a moment nothing happened. Then there was a rattle. Somewhere showered with small stones from, and the door swung open into the cave. Marsiana, Kristi and Billy stood on the threshold. With cheers Steve and Maggie rushed to their rescues. ‘How did you get here?’ Marsiana asked children sternly. Steve and Maggie exchanged glances. ‘You tell,’ Steve said pushing Maggie forward. ‘We played,’ Maggie was beginning and hesitated. ‘Played?’ Mariana looked at Christie. Christie sighed guiltily. ‘Sorry sweetie Marsianochka. They asked to play your game…just begged me.’ “Marsianochka” pleased Marsiana, and she decided not to take offense. ‘Okay,’ she said. ‘What happened?’ ‘The game is very fascinated us,’ Christie kept telling. ‘Billy leaned over the first-aid box and lost his glasses. He wanted to pick them up, but failed down. I tried to help him, and also failed. So we got in the cave. We could not open the door,’ Christie ended apologetically and looked at Marsiana. ‘Are you very angry with us?’ ‘Me?’ Marsiana wondered. ‘Not anymore. But that's what your parents will say, I do not know.’ Steve when he heard the word “parents” sniffed. ‘Maybe you do not know,’ Marsiana went on to saying. ‘But police from the whole state are looking for you. Even there is a rumor that in the city appeared a maniac, and he kidnapped you. ‘Maniac?’ Maggie's face paled. Her eyes widened. ‘Maniac,’ Marsiana confirmed her words. ‘Christie, tell them.’ ‘Yes, they are looking for you since yesterday morning. Since you have been lost inside the game. ‘What shall we do? Steve almost cried. ‘We'll come up with something. Now it's time to get out of here,’ Marsiana turned and led the way out of the cave. Children in silence followed her. They walked more than ten minutes, but did not reach the surface. Marsiana somewhat was puzzled by that. ‘Weird,’ she said stopped for a moment. ‘What do you mean?’ Christie asked but Billy shone with the flashlight around. ‘I know well that game, but in the game there is not the tunnel.’ ‘Maybe you just forgot?’ Billy suggested. ‘I forget nothing. In the game broke someone else.’ ‘Police? Steve scared. ‘I don't think,’ Marsiana objected. ‘They now are checking the neighborhood of the town.’ ‘Who then?’ Christie asked. Marsiana shrugged. ‘Soon we’ll get to know it. If he or it is now in the game, then surely watching us and will try to do something,’ Marsiana explained. The children did not understand what she means. ‘In what sense “to do something”? You mean something bad or good. Explain it to us,’ Billy insisted. ‘I do not know yet, but we should be very careful.’ ‘But it's a game!’ Maggie exclaimed. ‘Now we will come out of it all and return to our home!’ she decided that Marsiana just frightens them because they without her permission played her game. And most importantly, they played without it. Marsiana said nothing in return and went ahead. Children followed her. Another ten minutes later Marsiana stopped and said: ‘Billy, you're in charge. I need to take a walk for a while. I’ll be back soon…’ and disappeared. The girls were in shock, and the boys pretended that nothing unusual had happened. ‘Here is a dark, that's why it seems to us that she disappeared,’ Billy said. ‘In fact she disappeared in an unknown to us tunnels. It's a game of Marsiana!’ Billy was saying so wishing at first turn to calm down himself and only then his friends. ‘But what if she doesn’t come back? What shall we do then?’ Maggie said almost in tears. ‘Don't bee ridiculous,’ Billy chided the girl. “She’ll return. You will see. Marsiana never leave us. She is not such kind of person!’ * * * While the children argued and fearfully looked around Marsiana decided to find out who is watching them. It is from the first seconds of her staying in the game she felt that something has changed. It was still her game but at the same time also someone else’s. Someone unknown and invisible intervened in her game. Perhaps it was a kind of a trap prepared for her – for Marsiana, in which inadvertently got Steve and Maggie. Although if someone made one’s goal to lured Marsiana in the cave he achieved it. She is here now and was walking along the dimly lit corridor. In the darkness, Marsiana saw no worse than the cats. Near the wall Marsiana noticed some movement. She stopped. The movement is also stopped. But Marsiana knew that she was not alone. ‘Kare adh ta om tuakoa roane ka?’ she said, referring to the darkness. The answer to her was silence, but then rang a voice. ‘Kare knowa thar takeru.’ Marsiana chuckled and took a step forward. From the wall separated the shadow and Marsiana saw before her some odd creature. She looked carefully. It was kregl! ‘Again you!’ she exclaimed going to burn the annoying creature. But then she changed her mind and smiled. ‘I leave you in my game. When I'm bored, I'll come here and play with you.’ After these words Marsiana melted the kregl into the wall of the cave and went back to her friends. The children were frightened and wary looking at her. ‘Rat!’ Marsiana said with satisfied tone as if this message could all rejoice. Especially the girls. Maggie immediately began to look around at the sides, but Christie involuntarily clung to Billy. Boy, just in case demonstratively moved away from her. His heart always belonged to Marsiana, and he wanted that she and everyone knew and saw it. ‘Where is she?’ Christie asked, cautiously peering into the gloom. ‘Where?’ Marsiana repeated after her. ‘I locked her in the hole. It's still the game. My game.’ ‘You are right,’ Christie said and relaxed a little. ‘We all have forgotten that this is a computer game and that we are all in the game and that is not all on real.’ Marsiana was listening to her, nodding her head affirmatively. ‘Of course it’s not on real. Do not worry so Christie. Nothing bad will happen and can not happen.’ Children came to life and all together went to the way out of the cave. Five minutes later they were in the room of Christie, and said each other “goodbye”, went home. Marsiana, to escape from thinking about kregls immediately went to the garden of Mrs. Carter to visit her flowers.
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