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pulling Kaj slowly back
towards the lake.
     
    Kaj flipped around on his stomach
as he was being pulled, trying to find something to grab on to.
 He looked back, and to his amazement and shock, the lake was
gone and a long grey tentacle was wrapped around his foot, pulling
him.
     
    Out from the sand, seven more
tentacles sprouted out in a large circular formation.  Kaj
knew he was in trouble now.
     
    "Ahh!" Kaj yelled as he was being
pulled towards his doom.  Inside the ring of tentacles was a
large oval that was the same color as the tentacles.  The oval
opened up in three separate parts, revealing a sea of jagged
teeth.
     
    Kaj looked forward, scratching at
the sand.  The oval mouth of the mysterious creature leaned up
towards the tentacle that held its grip on Kaj.  Looking down
at the spinning teeth, Kaj felt his heart drop.  He was mere
feet away before the tentacle would twirl him around and into the
creature's mouth.
     
    An idea suddenly popped into Kaj's
head.  He had to make it quick.  He knew that he didn't
have much time left.  Kaj reached for his blade, pulling off
the cover, launching it far from where he was.  He twirled
around, and with one swift motion, sliced the tentacle off his
foot.  The tentacle spurted out weird colored liquids before
it retracted back towards the creature's mouth as it let out a
whine.
     
    Kaj tripped as he got up, but
managed to escape.  He went over to where he had tossed the
cover for his blade and slipped it back on before putting it back
in the case on his back.  Kaj looked back to see the
mysterious creature dig back down into the sand. He stood there for
another few seconds, taking in what had just happened to
him.
     
    Kaj then continued his journey
forward.
     
    A loud crackling sound from above
got Kaj's attention.  He noticed the moon was out.  Kaj
squinted as he thought he saw cracks appearing on the surface.
 His eyes widened when he saw about three weird creatures
hopping around on the moon.  Kaj heard a few more loud
crackling sounds.  Before he knew it, the moon split apart.
 The creatures hopped off of the surface and landed back down
somewhere on the planet.
     
    "The moon has fallen," Kaj
whispered to himself.  "Ahh."  He dropped face first in
the sand.  "The Oce have taken the moon."  Kaj rolled
over on to his back, facing the dusty sky.  "I was so close."
 He licked his dry lips.  As hard as he tried to keep his
eyes open, Kaj suddenly blanked out.

CHAPTER SIX
     
    THE SECOND HELP
     
     
    Kaj awoke in a strange cave on a
bed.  He was in a poorly lit room with just a candle burning
on the small stand next to the bed.  Kaj leaned forward and
noticed that his empty backpack and his sac, which contained his
dagger, were on the floor near his feet.  He reached down and
put both of them on before heading out the same doorway to another
room.
     
    "Where am I?" Kaj questioned as he
walked into a larger cave room.  There was a long desk with a
mess of papers over by the corner of the room.  Another bed
was opposite of that.  The room was brighter than the room he
was just in.  Kaj looked to the right of him to see a cloth
covering another doorway.  He walked over to the desk of
papers and started looking around.  He picked up one of the
papers.  "Nosidda?"
     
    "Hey!" A voice yelled out.
 Kaj jumped, dropping the paper, and looked over to see an
older human enter from the doorway that was covered, which led to
outside.  The man had a long gray beard and was absent from
hair on top of his head.  He wore a dirty white t-shirt with a
gray vest over it.  The man was also extremely skinny.
 His hands and face had dirt on them.  What really
shocked Kaj was that his legs were not organic but mechanical.
 His legs were rusted and squeaked when he made his way over
to Kaj.  The knees bent backwards with big circular platforms
instead of feet.  "These are my private research
papers."
     
    "Sorry," Kaj said, backing away
from the man