Disease

Disease

It was an important day for the people who lived in a small town named La Enfermedad. In 1910, this town experienced a disease – bird flu – and everyone became sick. A Spanish man who saved the town named it La Enfermedad because that means “the disease.” Every year, the town was tested, and the mayor read the results to the townspeople. Today, May 9, 2012, was important because the town learned its yearly fate. Today the townspeople were silent, waiting for the results. La Enfermedad was a dusty, small place with little life anyway. Today it was dead silent.

The Mayor took the letter from the envelope and opened it very slowly. He read it to himself and started shaking. The crowd knew it was bad news, and everyone felt the life being sucked out of them. They knew the town was infected again. The Mayor’s shaky voice announced to the people that the town was infected with bird flu, and no one was allowed to leave if infected. He also said that 10 people would not become infected and that someone had done this to the town.

The people started blaming other people, and after the accusing was done, the people just went back into their houses, their heads drooping. The next day people began getting sick. One family, including a mom and her children: Ann, Aaron, and Kaitlin, suffered from this disease. Ann’s mom sickened and her sister Kaitlin died. Eleven year old Ann decided to got to the park with Aaron to get the sadness out of her. Ann and Aaron say Mr. Wren. Mr. Wren was their teacher who talked about the future and prophecies and other things like that. Mr. Wren told Aaron and Ann that there was a prophecy that two males and a female would save the town. Mr. Wren said that the female had to be Ann because she was the only one old enough and not sick. Because she wasn’t sick, she probably was immune to the disease.

Mr. Wren said, “I will take care of your mother, if you go to fulfill the prophecy.” Ann said, “I will do it.” Mr. Wren told Ann that there was a common household object necessary to heal the town. He told Ann that he could not go to guide her, and she would need to ask Joe to guide her. Ann explained that she would she could never get Joe to come with her.

Mr. Wren warned her that Joe would want something in return for his mentoring. Aaron and Ann just walked away from Mr. Wren. Aaron told Ann he would not let her go without him because he wanted to protect his sister. Aaron and Ann found Joe and asked him to come with them. Joe refused. They told Joe they would let him carry the object, so he agreed to help. Aaron brought the ropes, and Joe brought the rest of the tools.

They left the town with Joe leading them into a weird hotel with a red carpet and fancy lights. The people there were in bright clothes exactly opposite from the clothes worn by the townspeople where Ann lived. Ann, Aaron, and Joe walked through the hotel, turning corners every second. They stopped in front of an elevator, pressed a small red button, and entered the elevator. The second the door closed, Ann and Aaron felt fear, but Joe didn’t seem to.

When the elevator door opened; they were facing a big steep mountain. Joe warned them to hide wherever they could. They saw a tall boy smiling. He said to himself that the town Ann lived in were going to die and that they were entering his trap. Ann gasped, and the boy looked at them. Joe told them to run.

They ran up the mountain. They stopped about half way there because there was a really steep climb. The boy caught up to them, and they tried to find a way to escape him. In their struggle, they pushed each other off the mountain side.

Aaron fell, and the boy said, “My work is done here,” and walked away. Ann looked down sadly. Aaron was the one who had fallen, and he was the one with the rope. They couldn’t continue without the rope because of all the steep places. Ann heard a voice, and she looked closely, joyfully surprised to see Joe pulling Aaron up by the rope. Joe handed the rope to Ann, and they climbed up the cliff. When they got to the top of the mountain they saw the object was a lamp. The top of the mountain was flat with brown grass carpeting it. When Ann tried to reach the lamp, she took a step back quickly because rats guarded the lamp. Ann asked Aaron to get the lamp because she was really scared of rats. Aaron tried to steal the lamp, but the rats attacked him. They said that only Ann could touch the lamp.

Ann slowly walked over with her vampire face – all the blood had drained out of her. She picked up the box? And returned to Aaron’s side. Once there, her face showed relief. There was a note taped on the box which said, “…my light will heal anything…”

When they headed back, using the elevator to transport themselves back, the mean boy saw them and began to chase them. They split up, thinking it would help them. The boy chased Ann because she has the lamp? Ann rand inside a burning building thinking the boy wouldn’t follow. He did not, but Ann was burned and could not walk, and this made her certain she would ie.

Suddenly, she thought about the note and turned on the lamp. Her burns began to heal. She saw a door and walked out of it. It was dark, so the boy could not see her to chase her. She looked for Joe and Aaron and found them in the hotel with the elevator. They stayed the for the night to rest. In the morning they returned to La Enfermedad and saved everybody. Joe hid the lamp to protect it. Everyone was happy.

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