Ostriches

Quick explanation for anyone new to AJ: In 2016, there was a poll made by AJHQ for people to vote what animal should come to Jamaa next. Among those animals were the falcon, the sloth, and the ostrich. The falcon won the most votes and therefore were added into the game. After a few months, sloths were added into the game as well, but the ostriches never came to Jamaa, so I will be making a story about why. Please remember this is not true and is just a creepypasta (kinda), and criticism is appreciated. I've looked at tips online about how to improve my writing, so this is definitely an improvement from my first story. With that being said, let's get on to the story. I'm not done yet, but I hope it's good so far. I'll edit it as often as I can.

Story
(This is an official document written by a member of the Forgotten Archives researchers)

Disclaimer: Liza's emotions described in the following few paragraphs are according to her letter.

Liza was feeling stressed enough about what happened a few months after the sloth was added, but writing about her experience made her feel even worse. Her sudden, extreme migraines were preventing her from sleeping comfortably. As such, the panda alpha spent all night trying to find the right way to explain to the other alphas why ostriches still aren't in Jamaa. Liza was extremely worried about what the alphas and the jammers would think when they heard the news. They had been waiting months for the animal to arrive, after all.

She was very hesitant to write even a word of the letter. Liza was not usually the type to worry, she was mostly a wise, brave, hero. But she seemed to worry all of the time then. She worried if the other alphas would consider her a threat or not worthy. So she kept everything from them, and waited until people forgot the ostrich was supposed to exist.

Since she was feeling much more confident after people forgot about ostriches, she was able to finish her letter, but still feared of reactions from Jammers. The letter consisted of constant misspellings and handwriting that looked more like a child's scribble drawings than words to the point where it became illegible in some cases. We, the researchers of the Forgotten Archives, may or may have not accurately decoded the letter. Some words have been crossed out by Liza due to unknown reasons, leaving us only to guess what she wrote given the context of the letter.

Thus, this is not an official copy.

The letter has been found due to fellow researchers rummaging around scrolls in the Forgotten Archives about ostriches and why they never arrived to Jamaa.

A typed "copy" of the letter has been provided below.

   Dear Jammers and fellow Alphas,

On behalf of ostriches being unable to arrive to Jamaa, I feel like I should speak the truth about what happened.

''The ostrich heartstone has not been searched for and found by yours truly, but ostriches unfortunately cannot arrive due to complications that I can only describe as... unnerving.''

My migraines and lack of sleep may possibly make the writing quality lesser than what an Alpha should be writing, but please, hear me out.

''I temporarily obtained the animal's heartstone after being able to find the sloth's. I noticed some strange behavior coming from the heartstone not even after a few minutes of obtaining it. The strange behaviors included an unusual bright yellow/green light occasionally coming from the heartstone, of which has never been seen before in my experience with them. Having lucid nightmares around that thing has been extremely common. I felt really bad energy coming from that stone.''

I have put the ostrich's arrival on hold for these reasons, and to keep Jammers safe.

UPDATE:

''Things have only been getting worse around the heartstone. It has been giving me extreme paranoia and anxiety. And dear Mira, the migraines. I have been constantly in pain because of the migraines. I want them to stop. But I can't. I need to keep figuring out what that thing is.''

UPDATE:

''I have been finding pieces of other heartstones around Jamaa that I have never seen before, specifically close to places I have recently been. I have even found hundreds of pieces inside of my home. This means that whatever animals connected to those heartstones are now unable to arrive due to their stones being broken. They could be extinct now for all I know. I don't know if that can happen when the stones are shattered. They could be extinct. They could be extinct. I'm going crazy. I keep hearing screams of terror in my head. My migraines are unbearable and I can't get sleep anymore.''

UPDATE:

''I destroyed the cursed stone. Nothing good can come from it and it would be better to just give other animals a chance.''

I seriously hope that some heartstones still exist out there.

UPDATE:

''I STILL KEEP FINDING SHARDS. I STILL GET MIGRAINES AND I STILL CAN'T GET SLEEP. WHY WON'T THE PROBLEMS GO AWAY EVEN AFTER THE OBJECT HAS BEEN DESTROYED?''

UPDATE:

I don't think that thing was even a heartstone.

''I can only theorize that the actual ostrich heartstone has been shattered. Along with countless other animals'.''

UPDATE:

If only I didn't try to study that thing, none of this would have happened.

''I have definitely discovered some new kind of evil in Jamaa. Because this was an actual threat to me, unlike the phantoms, which are kept at bay by Mira's powers.''

I am attempting to hide how much physical and mental pain I am in.