Adventures in Jamaa

## Characters

* Dr. Dean White
* Hoshi
* Snow Angel
* Celeste
* Milo
* Melody
* Theo
* Microegg

## Prologue

***Snowisha Nature Reserve Lunchrooms - 12:00 PM***

It was a tiring day in Snowisha Nature Reserve’s lunch room, where all the pets that work at the lab are eating their lunch. The television was on, and currently airing was Paw4 News.

“Hello! Kira Cosmos here from Paw4 news. We are here live with Dr. Dean White, a scientist who may have created the next big invention.”

The fidgety scientist looked at the camera.

“Yes, I think we have,” he said. “This invention can teleport you to different parts of Spunkiya all around the world, depending on where the portal is programmed to take you. Currently, our available locations are in Paris in France, Rome in Italy, and London in England.”

“Okay Dr. White. How does this work?”

Hoshi was looking at the television with awe.

“Hey, Snow Angel, he kinda looks like you! Crazy hair and all.”

“Shut up, Hoshi.”

Hoshi giggled and looked at the tv. On the screen, there was a phone number and a website.

“That concludes our interview with Dr. White from Snowi Labs. However that isn’t the end of this segment. Dr. White and his team are looking for a group of six scientists that can experiment with this portal for them, to see if it is functional. If you know somebody who is interested, please call the number or visit the website on the screen. Thank you, this is Kira Cosmos.”

“Snow Angel, do you want to go into the portal?”

“What? No? Are you insane???”

“C’mon, it’ll be fun!”

“Why don’t you ask, like, anybody else?”

“Everyone else would be too *boring*. They’re all serious old people. You’re the only one here who’s, like, around my age. Come on! Just come!”

Snow Angel sighed, and put away his lunch.

“Fine. I just need some time to think about it. I’ll let you know.”

“Good! We deserve some fun, anyways!”

—

***Snow Angel’s Office - 6:00 PM***

One month later, after Snow Angel agreed to volunteer for the experiment and mostly forgot about it, he was at his desk working, when he clicked on his email and saw a message.

It read,

“*Dear Snow Angel L.,*

*Congratulations on making it onto the list of the six participants who will volunteer for the portal experiment.*

*You along with:*

*Celeste H.*

*Milo T.*

*Theo A.*

*Melody Z.*

*Hoshi S.*

*Will be volunteering in the experiment on Friday, May 16th at 12:00pm on a trip to London, England.*

*If you have any further questions or queries, please call the number on the bottom or reply to this email.*

*Thank you,*

*Researchers at Snowi Labs.*

Snow Angel didn’t think he would’ve been chosen. He thought it was a dumb raffle.

*Surprisingly, Hoshi got selected too,* he thought. *Maybe I should call her?*

As soon as Snow Angel picked up his phone, it rang.

“Hi Snow Angel! Did you hear the news? We got selected!” She said excitedly.

“Yeah, I was about to call you.” He looked at the calendar. It was May 14th. Barely any time to prepare.

“Oh, don’t bring any luggage. I asked and they said that they would teleport us in front of our hotel and some stuff they brought for us would be there.

*That’s so weird.*

“Hm. Okay. Bye,”

“Huh? Wha-“

Snow Angel hung up.

—

***May 16th, 11:45 AM***

Snow Angel arrived, thinking he’d be one of the first ones there; but he was the last. There were already five gliders there; a blue one, a purple one, a green one, a brown one, and then Hoshi, of course. He walked up to the group and sat on a chair.

“Oh, hi!” called the green glider. “I’m Theo! I think you’re Snow Angel..? He’s the only one who hasn’t arrived.”

“Uhh.. yeah.”

Hoshi looked up from her phone.

“Oh, I thought you weren’t even going to come! Hi Snow Angel! Here—let me introduce you to our.. co-volunteers i guess?”

“You already met Theo, he’s the green one. The blue one is Melody, the purple girl is Celeste, and the brown one is Milo.”

Snow Angel sighed and waved, and waited patiently. He waited and waited and waited, until it was time.

—

***12:05 PM***

“I apologize for my tardiness,” said a man who entered the room. He seemed like he was in a rush.

“Welcome, volunteers, for the first ever portal! Us at Snowi Labs are ecstatic to be here with you all, and for us at Snowisha, this is a huge feat. For many years, scientists have been making portals, and—oh! Looks like the portal has opened already.. heh.. no time for dilly-dally. Let’s go over safety precautions and how this thing works, and then you guys can start your journey to London, England.”

Snow Angel silently noted how unprofessional this place was, and how it was a miracle they were even able to make this portal. *It probably doesn’t even work.*

About twenty minutes later, the lecture ended, and Dr. White moved aside.

“Well, volunteers, good luck, and stay safe.” He said. “You may enter the portal now.”

One by one, gliders went in. He sensed their energy. *Nervous, excited, regretful.. hm.*

Finally, he was the last one to enter the portal. He took one last look at the lab, and entered.

Where would they land?

## Chapter 1

Snow Angel quickly exited the portal, seeing confused pets in front of him.

“Where are we?” Theo asked. “This place is barely familiar..”

“Yeah, it’s barely like the London I thought we were going to,” added Hoshi.
Snow Angel looked around. They were obviously right. Mossy ruins everywhere; lifeless pets, giant animals, old, moldy statues..

*Wait, lifeless pets and giant animals? He thought. Where \*are\* we?*

Celeste grabbed her phone out of her pocket and took a picture of the place. “Maybe it’s, like, a sad part of London. Maybe one of these old buildings is our hotel.” She said in a faint, quiet voice. But when she tried google searching the images, it wouldn’t work. There was no signal.

“Well that’s great,” Hoshi said, rolling her eyes. “No signal and no sign of life—I mean lively life—around here anywhere.”

Snow Angel was about to open his mouth to speak, but someone else spoke before him.

“Wait, guys,don’t you like, see the giant animals??? Damn, where are we?”

“Of course we saw them,” replied Celeste. “But as long as they’re harmless, who cares? It’s mean to judge.”

“No, like, this can’t even be normal. We can’t be in Spunkiya, I swear.”

Melody started to twirl her fur around nervously. She was obviously regretful, and probably missed her home at Spunkiya.

“Well, guys, instead of talking, why don’t we look for answers?” Hoshi said cheerfully. “How abouttt.. that guinea pig?”
Hoshi pointed at a white guinea pig with yellow soulless eyes and a cream stripe.
“It’s rude to point, Hoshi.” teased Milo as he was following Hoshi.

Snow Angel was looking down, as if he weren’t even with the group, like he just so happened to be near them, but he was listening to their conversation.

Once the group approached the guinea pig, they fell silent. They didn’t know how to approach these pets, and the guinea pig probably couldn’t speak English.

“..Hi, what is your name?” Melody asked nicely.

“Microegg,” said the guinea pig stoically.

“Oh.. where are we, exactly?”

“Lost Temple of Zios,” he replied.

“He kinda acts like a search engine,” Hoshi whispered to Snow Angel. “Kinda like you.”

“Would you shut up?” he whispered back. “We are in a serious situation, geez!”

“We are in a serious situation, geez!” Hoshi replied mockingly.

“Okay, thank you Mr. Microegg..” Melody replied sincerely. Suddenly, the “owner” of the guinea pig started to walk away, and Microegg soullessly followed.

“So,” Hoshi loudly talked to Melody. “What did he say?”

“Um.. that, there are these jammers and like, they are pets, so they have to do what the owner says and stuff..”

“Jammer? What a lame name.” Theo said in a joking tone and looked at the buildings behind them. “Wait, maybe there are more answers there? If you look up, there’s kinda a book. Maybe it’s a library!”

*Is nobody gonna talk about how weird that was?*

The other five gliders agreed to this and followed Theo into the library.
—

The library smelt of old books. There was mostly silence and darkness; the only source of light were a few dimly lit candles on top of tall desks that the gliders could not reach. There were a few shelves, and though most couldn’t really help, some caught their attention.

History of Jamaa. The Jamaapedia. Jamaa Journals: Ancient Editions. When you opened those books, not only would dust fly out, but you could tell that you were in a different world. The map showed one large continent connected to a few countries, but they were labeled in different languages, so they were mostly no help.

Milo picked up a book titled Old Jamaa Maps. When he opened it, he found many maps just like the old ones in ancient languages, and some of other obscure places, but at the end of the book, he found a map in English with the caption Modern Jamaa map for reference. He looked around to see that nobody was around, and only a dumb looking bunny was there, so he ripped the map out of the book and stared at it for a couple of seconds.

“I think this map could be useful,” he finally said. “Right? Melody, where did the guinea pig say we were?"

Hoshi answered for her. “Uh, Lost Temple of Zios.”

Milo pointed to a place on the map. It was green, full of drawn moss, and old looking. “This is where we are, right?” He then pointed to a building that looked like the library the gliders were in.

“Mhmm..” a few gliders said in unison.

“So, if we follow the map, and go..” he studied the map. “Maybe this way?” He pointed at a beach,right next to the Lost Temple of Zios, which was apparently called Crystal Sands. “We might find our way back home.”

“Sounds good,” Snow Angel replied. “I guess.”

“Can’t believe I’m doing this,” Hoshi said, “But I agree too. We should go to Crystal Sands. I mean, the name Crystal Sands suggests magic, anyways!”

“It’s not really magic,” he mumbled.

Theo and Celeste nodded, and the group of gliders started to walk out with the map.
—

Right on the bridge to go into Crystal Sands, random gusts of wind suddenly started to blow.

“Hold on!” Theo exclaimed, holding onto the rails as hard as he could. Hoshi was exaggerating greatly and acting like she was genuinely being blown away. Milo was just walking normally, acting like the wind wasn’t even there. Melody looked like she was on the verge of tears. Snow Angel was staring at Milo’s paws.

*If he drops it, I swear.*

Milo ended up trailing behind the rest of the gliders, because he couldn’t preserve walking so coolly with all the wind. He was catching up, though.

Once the wind stopped gusting, they were able to run to Crystal Sands. They thought it was the best idea before another random wind storm came their way.

Snow Angel felt the warm, sticky sand on his paws and tried to shake them away, but he couldn’t. Because it was sand. The other gliders were either playing with the sand nervously, or looking back, waiting for the last of the group to arrive. Snow Angel was doing the latter.

*I’m starting to resent him. When is he going to arrive?*

Milo eventually picked up his pace, and that’s when Snow Angel noticed something.

“Where’s the map, Milo?” he said in an annoyed but upbeat tone at first.

“Umm, the wind-"

“Oh my goodness, are you serious?” Snow Angel snapped in a rude tone afterwards. “Out of all pets, you had to lose the map? Anyone else, you know what, including MELODY, could have probably done it better than you.”

“Oh!” Hoshi noticed that Snow Angel was yelling. “Ignore him!” She said cheerfully. “He’s so young, yet he has the spirit of an old senior man,” she laughed.

*Say whatever you want, but it’s his fault we’re going to be lost and clueless.*

*Oh, and are we just going to brush off those giant animals just like that?*

## Credits

* Written by Spunkiny from 7/15/2023 to TBA (ongoing).
* Cover by Spunkiny.

## Trivia

* The first chapter of the story was published on the same day as Wikipets’s two-year anniversary.