Odd One Out

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Emerald was quietly snoozing in her bed when something wet and slimy touched her. She tiredly opened an eye, and she saw a black thing, some sort of octopus, she thought, and the octopus thing carried her to a portal that was like a black hole. She was fully awake by this moment, and she was sucked in the hole.

The next day, she opened her eyes. “Where am I?” she asked herself. “Am I dead?”

She finally figured out that she wasn't dead. She was very sad about being here. In fact, she cried. She cried so loud. "Where is my family?" she cried loudly. "Can someone help me?"

Emerald looked, trying to find any sign of life around here. She saw a bunny, a panda, a tiger, a wolf, a monkey, and a koala go out of a green portal. "Hey, over here!" she called out to them. The panda approached her.

"Take my hand," she said softly. Emerald took her hand. "I'll show you around."

For the rest of the morning, the panda showed Emerald around. The panda talked about the lands. She said to Emerald, "This place is known as Jamaa. Jamaa is a land, and a sea, that is taken over by animals. We call this place, sometimes, animal jam." Jamaa seemed like a great place to Emerald. "When are we getting to Jamaa?" Emerald asked. "Oh, you're already there." the panda responded.

"Well then, I love Jamaa!" Emerald said. "Yes, love it. Jamaa's an amazing place. It's full of secrets." the panda said.

Emerald looked the panda in the eye. "Secrets?" she said, confused. "Like what secrets?" Emerald was waiting for an answer. "If I told you, they wouldn't be secrets anymore, wouldn't they?" the panda responded. Emerald nodded.

"Hey, I didn't even catch your name, so rude of me! My name's Liza, whats yours?" the panda, Liza, asked Emerald this question. "Name's Emerald," Emerald responded. "I'm from Earth."

"Earth, I see. Did the phantoms take you to Jamaa?" Liza queried.

"No, but these octopus-things did." Emerald responded.

"Those are the phantoms, Emerald." Liza said.

"Oh," Emerald replied.

Liza took Emerald to a portal and said, "This is your den."

"The portal is my den?" questioned Emerald. "What's a den?"

"One, jump through the portal. It is your den. Your den is inside the portal. Two, your den is where you live." Liza said. Emerald nodded. Then a hand crawled through the den portal.

"What is ''that?" ''said Emerald, about to throw up.

"Oh, that's just Bob," Liza said. "He's very nice. He apparently likes to crawl around in jammer's dens."

Emerald shivered. "Thanks for showing me around, Liza, but I want to go to my den now. See you!"

Liza waved goodbye to her, and Emerald noticed a tear form in her eye. Emerald formed a tear in her eye too, and they both quietly said, "I miss you."

Emerald sadly went through the portal, until Liza couldn't be seen. Then she was taken to a house, this is my den, though, Emerald thought.

The bunny she had seen before came to her and said, "This, right here, is your den. You can edit it. Try editing it." Emerald did. "Great, now click the X button and close out of editing."

Emerald saw a X button randomly pop up and an arrow was pointing to it. She clicked on the X button. She decided to sleep, so she slept.

The next day she woke up.

She decided to click on the 'world map', located on the bottom-right corner of the game.

She clicked 'Jamaa Township'. She was transported to a place with lots of commotion, so much that it hurt her ears. "Ugh, that ''noise!" ''she said. "Make it stop!"

She finally decided to go to another place on the map. Coral Canyons.

Here, was waiting the wolf.

"Hello," the wolf said in a low voice.

"Hi," responded Emerald. "What's cooking?"

"Nothing is cooking," responded the wolf. "Animals don't know how to cook."

Emerald backed away from the wolf. She ran up the steps. She saw the beautiful nature that surrounded her, until she came to lots of jammers jumping on the bridge.

"THE BRIDGE WILL BREAK!!!!!!" said one wolf.

"IT'S ONLY A MYTH!!!!" said another wolf.

She decided to jump on the bridge. She didn't say anything. She didn't want to be mean to anyone.

Finally, she said, "I need someone to show me around Jamaa."

She exited the crowd, and so did a wolf, with boy eyes.

"Come with me," he said mysteriously. Emerald nodded her head.

"First stop, Epic Wonders," the wolf said.