Cade and Blake are going on a daring mission to sneak into their school tonight to steal the prophecy held by the alien leaders. Shadows are moving everywhere. Every window and door seems to be creaking in the chilling October winds. They’re watching for dark spirits roaming the halls and for the aliens who stand guard at the alien tower on top of their school. The school office is locked, but Cade has a plan. They know to stay in the shadows, and they know how to get creative in outrunning dark spirits. But what they don’t realize is that someone else is hiding in the school.
Drew Marsher is a 12 year old from Cashes Dade who will never forget the night the aliens attacked the kingdom. 20,000 people were murdered in the attack. The aliens claim those people were dangerous, working with dark spirits to create dark illnesses to destroy the people so they could take power over all the kingdoms. What Drew saw that night says otherwise.
Before we continue with Drew, it’s time to reveal the answer for the last mystery challenge. The key question that reveals an important clue about how to defeat the aliens is this:
Why haven’t they destroyed everyone?
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Drew wasn’t surprised when the aliens arrived, in fact, he was expecting them. Drew has read just about every book there is about space, the planets, and alien life. He watches the sky every night for alien activity. Before the invasion he thought he saw bizarre lights appear far above the clouds. Sometimes blazing lights would streak across the sky. Now he watches the alien towers where ships fly off. Sometimes they fly straight up into the sky and disappear. He has seen strange flashes and heard heavy booms coming from high above the clouds. Drew believes there is a great war happening between many planets and that earth is at the center of the war. He’s expecting to see other alien races appear soon. The question will be, who’s side should they join?
Last night, Drew saw a bizarre flash in the sky over the mountains. It kind of mushroomed and slowly expanded out in a slow green wave before disappearing. Then he saw several ships fly low over the mountains with bright light beams shooting out, roaming the hills. He believes they were looking for something or someone. That’s why tonight he’s going to sneak into the school. He’s done it before, to sneak into the school library to read books the aliens won’t allow BlackStar Students like him to read. This time, he plans on sneaking into the office to recover the prophecy he knows the aliens are hiding in there. He believes the prophecy must reveal clues about what’s going to happen soon in the great war of the worlds and the aliens don’t want the people of Cashes Dade to figure out how to win the war. When Drew finds his way to the office he’ll be in for a surprise.
Drew Marsher is really smart, but he struggles in school. He struggles to sit still and focus. He can be hyper-active and impulsive in his thinking and actions. He needs to be active and move around to really learn well. He hates trying to learn and study in silence sitting completely still for long hours at a time, but this is the only way the aliens allow students to succeed. If they can’t follow this way, they lose points, and Drew just doesn’t get much good studying done during these times because he needs action and noise. Drew is smart and creative. He is also good at finding solutions for problems.
Drew basically says whatever happens to be on his mind at the time. He can go on pretty long talks changing topics rapidly. When he starts talking, you never know where it’s going to go. You can bet it will probably have something to do with outer space and aliens. Drew is a wanderer. If you ask Drew to go to the lunch line and bring you a drink, he might be back in a few minutes or a few hours because he saw something interesting on the ceiling or wandered to who knows where. As annoying as his wandering can be, it is also really valuable. Drew sees things no one else sees. He discovers great ideas that no one else thinks of.
Last night, Drew could see something bizarre was going on in the mountains west of Cashes Dade, and he was right. He didn’t know, but he was looking where Cade and Blake were out spying on the secret alien activities. Something mysterious happened to Cade and Blake out there, something they will have to be forever concerned about. The aliens really were looking for someone. They were looking for Cade. Something happened that Cade and Blake can only pray the aliens never find out. But they were looking. The question is, what do the aliens know?
