Here comes part three..
Ali stopped in a shower of sand and jumped off of Hybrid’s back. There was no clue anywhere. She growled in frustration and turned a circle.
“Shhhh, Ali. Calm down, it’s okay,” soothed Natalie. Big mistake. Ali rounded on her, hands curling into fists. She was shaking from fury. There was a kind of fire dancing hungrily in her blue eyes.
“My best friend is gone. She’s like my little sister, and she’s gone, Nat. It’s my fault. This. Is. Not. OKAY!” Her voice rose to a wild shriek, her backpack morphing into a quiver. She drew her bow and fired randomly, her arrow hitting a creeper that was a few hundred feet away square between the eyes. Then she turned her bow on us. We backed away, seeing the explosive arrow she had nocked in it. The arrow buried itself at our feet and exploded, hurling us into the air in a shower of sand as Ali threw her bow away in temper. We stayed down, crouched on the sand, and Ali screeched, incoherent with rage, and dived headlong onto the ground, pummelling the sand with her fists, kicking up a storm, still screaming non-stop, rolling across the ground. Finally, she lay flat out on her back, her chest heaving, exhausted. Slowly, she sat up.
“I’m fine,” she gasped, shaking sand out of her hair. We glanced at each other, silently questioning the sanity of our friend.
“Seriously, I’m okay now. Just needed to… let off some steam,” Ali sighed in apparent relief and stood up. She skipped over to where we were crouched and pulled us up one-by-one. Then she saw the clue, etched onto a flat stone.
“This is the last one, I promise. I’ll be waiting for you in the diamond mines of your precious home. Come and find us, if you dare, and give me my book,” read Ali. The fire of her tantrum appeared in her eyes, and she hurled the stone away, spitting in fury, before dashing back to Hybrid Eclipse and swinging herself into the saddle.
“Let’s go get Prim back,” she growled, and nudged Hybrid with her heels, flicking the reins. He reared and took off at full gallop, with the rest of us scrambling to catch up.
Ali unleashes her wild side :)
but did you bring the book