The Carolmire Prophecy is about to be revealed. Can you solve this mystery challenge? What is the hidden image in the sky shown in the picture above? The following prophecy will show clues to what the answer is. Find out the intriguing answer which will in turn be a clue to the deep secret the aliens are hiding. If you have a guess at what is hidden in the picture leave a comment below. Now, get ready to enter the city of Carolmire in the mysterious far northern kingdom called “CHRISTMAS LAND.”
CAROLMIRE PROPHECY
“It began when the aliens mysteriously ranked us all BlackStar
They claim our constant dancing meant we’d never make it far
We were bright and energetic, with music in us all the time
Yet somehow that is why we failed, our energy our only crime
The key to the mystery is what is found under the broken clock
Once you find what is hidden, the deep secret you will begin to unlock
So the time came then, we had to leave the school we’d made our own
They sent us to live in the freezing cold , isolated and alone
The aliens claim we are a cancer to the world; we have no right
We are allowed to live only by mining for them the glowing crystal light
We always live in the cold darkness, the time of winter stays frozen still
So in the dark night our citizens keep a candle lit up on their window sill
We only see dim light during the day, and it’s so dark at night
Yet we are miners so we know how to find the distant light
We celebrate Christmas once every month, so our city is always bright
We play the music all the time, singing in the streets, an awesome sight
On every Christmas Eve we sing Silent Night while gazing at the sky
Then for one week we stay at home letting our fires rise so high
We will never forget the night we saw him, climbing in the dead of night
He was heading for the aliens hidden secret-their green glowing light
On a silent night we finally had hope our dark fight would be won
We’ll never tell the aliens that we know his name is Cade Mayson”
Are you an expert on the dewey decimal system? Can you find any book in the library in record time? Can you solve complicated puzzles at the speed of light? More importantly, are you a champion? If you love action-packed mysteries with many fun puzzles to solve, then you’ll love this story which is the second in a series by Chris Grabenstein. If you haven’t already, you should read “Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library” to be introduced to the series star character, Kyle Keeley, and his friends/teammates. See if you can discover the secret way out of the library before it’s too late. Then you will be ready for the Olympics, The Lemoncello Library Olympics that is.
Kyle and his friends are riding high after winning the challenge in the previous story. They’re famous, but with fame comes a price. Students from around the country are upset that they didn’t have the opportunity to win the big prize that Kyle and his friends won. It’s decided that there should be a library Olympics for the top students from around the country to compete with Kyle and his friends for the ultimate prize: a college scholarship. These games will be more challenging than ever against really tough competition. Can Kyle and his friends win again? Or will they lose and fade away?
There’s a deeper mystery going on in the library. Books are mysteriously disappearing. Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is in danger against an old enemy. What are they trying to find? Or what are they trying to hide? Can you solve the mystery? Can you be a champion?
Leave a comment below what you think might be going on with the missing books. In the next post we will reveal the mystery of the northern lights that appear in the sky around Christmas near the Kingdom of Christmas Land in the Carolmire Prophecy.
“They saw us, the ghosts, I mean. The windows turned bright green like on fire. Dark ghostly figures flew out of the windows. The dark spirits were after us.
Blake turned to me and said, ‘Cade, we’ve got to move, now.’ We ran along the ridge. We started to pass the empty ghost city up close. We passed dark, rotting, broken towers with empty streets curving in and out through the city. It was chilling silence except we heard several ghosts in the distance groaning, like in circles, getting louder and louder, then quieter and quieter. I turned back momentarily. I saw dark flashes on the trail along the ridge. Blake pointed to the shadowy forest in the valley below. I said, ‘That’s too scary.’
He looked at me like I was crazy and asked, ‘That’s more scary than being chased by dark spirits?’ I thought about it for a moment while we sprinted ahead. I nodded, ‘Yeah. They may be haunted.’
He was like, ‘Come on, Cade.’ He knows how I joke. He was getting kind of irritated so I told him I had a plan which was mostly true. Bright red clouds crashed directly over us, thundering like an explosion. They cut through the black towers with dark blue stained glass windows. I started to hear singing again, ghosts singing, the same haunting song as before, swaying up and up, then down. Their voices were really hollow and sad. They echoed across the empty streets.
Blake turned to me and said, ‘They’re getting close.’ We started hearing their fast-paced whispers. Chilling winds started pulling at us from behind. ‘If you have a plan, now would be a good time,’ I heard Blake say. I took out my blue shell that flashes a blue light with my shadow. It’s hard to explain. ‘When I count to ten, break right.’
‘Why do you have to count to ten?’
‘So we go at the same time.’
‘Then just say, ‘Break right.’ You don’t have to count.’
‘If I don’t count, you won’t be ready.’
‘Yeah I will. I’ll see the light flash and that’s when we go. I’m not stupid.’
‘I didn’t say you were stupid.’
‘I didn’t say you did.’ I glanced back. I saw dark hands reaching towards us. ‘Ready now,’ I said. I let the light flash. I dove and slid all the way down the hill while Blake sprinted down. I looked up. The dark shadows disappeared over the ridge. Me and Blake celebrated. We tried one of those chest bumps, but I went too high and he went too low and we both went down. Then we started jogging around the rest of the ghost city. It was really quiet even with the ghosts’ singing. I gazed up at the aliens’ flag they raise high over every city. It’s blue with a white star in the center, that always glows softly in the moonlight, but it’s five lines that don’t quite connect. I hate it. They raised it over our city and our school. They think it’s all theirs now. I saw faces in the windows, just staring at us. They had different expressions that were just frozen like that, but I heard them whispering to us. Then we stopped cold. The clouds parted overhead. Breaking moonlight lit up a ghost in hazy green. We could barely see him. He was sitting out on a bench just staring out into the empty street.
He said in a low, hollow voice, ‘They never saw me. They never saw me. I should have been seen, but they never saw me.’ I looked and saw his shirt glowing softly on his shoulders where I saw he had a BlackStar patch. Me and Blake hurried ahead. The slow rhythmic booming started up again, growing louder and louder. The ghosts’ sad song grew quieter but more clear. We were almost at the edge about to break away into the hills back to Dayces Cameron. Then Blake asked the question I didn’t want to ask.
‘What if this is where the BlackStar Students live when they die?’ I would discover the answer to that question much later, and it shocked me. We turned the last corner. Dark shadows fell away behind us. The dark spirits would be back soon. Then we saw it; a massive clock glowing green against the red sky. The haunting song echoed around it, going around and around. I could finally hear what they were singing, over and over, the same lines, over and over and over.”
“The clock is ticking, they wait for their time where they lean
The dark ghosts are singing, their desperate hope to be seen”
“The clock is ticking, they wait for their time to arrive where they lean
The dark ghosts are singing, their desperate hope…
When the aliens invaded our kingdoms, they took power over our school. Now all of us students have rankings. Their standards are really high. Their tests…don’t get me started on those. I’m one of the BlackStar Students, the lowest ranking, meaning we’re failing. They watch us in class you know. I guess you don’t know that’s why I’m telling you. Me and my friend Blake got in trouble yesterday. It was during a math lesson that was well into the THIRD hour. Let’s have a moment of silence for that. Aaaaannndddd, okay, moment’s over. We tried staying still but we were so bored, so we played Crazy Catch. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a game where you throw a marble as hard as you can and the other kid tries to catch it. You get points for making him drop it and the crazier the catch the more points you get, you know, the one who catches it. Catching on? Sorry. Anyway, Blake threw it so high I had to jump up from my desk, I caught it right between my two fingers, then I had to kind of roll and spring back up and quickly dive back to my chair. Somehow they saw me. We had after school detention for a week cleaning the halls and dishes, way too many dishes.
One night me and Blake went exploring in the hills to the west of our City, Dayces Cameron. We found dark towers the aliens were building. People say they are building them for ghosts. We see bizarre lights in the windows sometimes. It was a cold night. Bright red clouds were rushing across the sky in three directions. We stayed low, in the shadows, so we wouldn’t be seen. That’s when we heard it, the singing, ghostly singing. They sang this sad, haunting song, the melody going up, then down, then up again, then down, over and over kind of bouncing. As we got closer we heard this booming in a slow rhythm with the singing, this low boom, one after another, really slow. We saw a really bright greenish-gold light mysteriously lighting part of the City, but the rest of the towers were under the darkest shadows I’ve ever seen. We got closer and we heard someone groaning, really loud, just on and on and on. The song began to fill up the entire city, echoing between every tower in the still dead shine. The slow booms kept going with the one voice groaning. He sounded incredibly sad. Finally we understood some of what they were singing. They kept singing the same two lines over and over again:
The clock is ticking, they wait for their time to arrive where they lean
The dark ghosts are singing, their desperate hope…
Then we saw a tall bluff closer to the towers, so of course we climbed up. Blake scrambled up, but I got a running start and shot right up those rocks in only three jumps! That’s when we saw them, their faces, staring out with sad, empty gazes…directly at us.”
Check out what happens next on the next post. What is the ghosts’ message? Can you figure out what the rest of the second line is? Leave your guesses in the comment section below.
I’ll never forget where I was when I first saw the lights. I was out in the river wash west of Cashes Dade playing hide and seek with my friend Blake. He’s in the Sixth Grade with me. This is classified, so don’t tell anyone we were playing out there, it’s a secret. You see, the river wash is a massive field with many of these narrow valleys where at any moment fast raging waves just roll through before going back out to the river. I know, I know, it’s kind of sort of dangerous, but it’s not as risky as it sounds. You just have to be ready, like all the time, otherwise at any moment you might get swept up in the rush. Anyway, I was hiding behind the haunted stones. I saw Blake getting close. He’s fast, but I’m fast and stealthy. I shot out like a lightning flash…Blake says they’re not haunted, but I know they are. They glow when the sun sets and no, it’s not just the light reflecting. You see, I’ve also seen them light up…sorry, that’s not the point. What was I saying? Oh yeah, so I ran past and scrambled up some large stones. It took me only 3 jumps. That’s a new record! I did. Seriously. I really did. Anyway, that’s when I saw the flash. The entire sky lit up in this green flash like a slow explosion. Then the rush came. I heard this loud boom like a cannon taking up the entire sky. It pushed me back. That’s when I saw them, these triangle shapes lit up in bluish-gold lights like they were on fire. Then, I didn’t know what they were, but I do now. It’s a night I’ll never forget, the night the aliens invaded our Kingdoms. Then, they invaded our schools…
A secret enemy will reveal themselves from the sky
They will claim to have standards that are so high
School should be a place to be creative and explore
They will turn the most exciting subject into a dreadful bore
A new idea was discovered by Brandon Cavormay
Students could succeed by learning their own way
Nick and Damian encountered someone with mysterious power
They did not realize he had arrived in high secret at the critical hour
His idea will be just the beginning, the first fiery spark
A student with strong determination will stand in the dark
Cade Mayson will be determined to begin the fight
He will be on a personal mission to recover the light
He will refuse to believe his parents simply left him behind
Instead he will look for secret clues he is meant to find
He runs like a lightning bolt shooting through the night
His fingers fly across the piano keys playing so bright
He will stare straight across the city at them with fire in his eyes
They will be in shock, staring in disbelief, the enemy from the skies
He will be the one to take the revolution so far
This will be the new way to succeed, called DadeStar
There is a secret yet to be revealed only found in the enemy’s hold
Sometimes it is best for the active tropical forest to go cold
He will discover the shocking truth of why they’re here
He’ll find a way for the students to stand against them without fear
When the eagle meets the branches of the Adway Tree
This student, Cade Mayson, will dream of setting them free
Are you ready to start an adventure? Join Cade Mayson in his quest to kick the aliens out of his school and the planet. It all begins here. Go through the posts and read the books to go on each mission with the Cashes Dade Ghost Strikers. Solve every mystery with them to figure out how to defeat the aliens and free the students. There is one line in this prophecy that is code for a deep secret. Can you figure out which line? What do you think this prophecy is predicting? Leave a comment below telling your guess for which line it is and what the prophecy is predicting. Are you ready to join the DadeStar Revolution?
