I will be posting entries for CAVES! Each entry will include one chapter (Excluding the first entry, it'll have the Intro and chapter one!)

Lets start:

CAVES

Introduction

Somewhere in a lab on an island near the east coast of the U.S., a man sat at a computer, typing furiously. He had sat there for hours, researching. This man's name was Seth Lydux. He was searching for two particular children in fact. He searched and searched, and then something happened. His eyes lit up. He had found exactly what he had been looking for.

CHAPTER 1: The Note

It was Friday afternoon in the Lakeveiw Middle School. Lucy Harrow, who was 12 and in the sixth grade, scratched away at a paper she was trying to finish before she got out of school for the weekend. Lucy had dark brown hair that went down to her waist. She was especially eager to go home and finally see her parents, who had taken a trip to Florida for a vacation. She and her brother, Marty, had been staying at home with their Grandma for the past week. Today was the day they got back.

Ring! The bell signaled the end of the day. She quickly rushed down the hall and started out the door when Mr. Cethart, the principal of Lakeveiw stopped her.

"May I see you in my office Lucy?" he asked.

"Um, okay," Lucy replied. She hadn't done anything bad. Why would Mr. Cethart want to see her?

As she walked in, she noticed that her brother was in the office too. Marty Harrow had black hair, and was 13 and in the seventh grade.

"What are you doing here?" Lucy whispered. Marty shrugged.

"Today I have received a phone call from the state police about the plane your parents were riding in," Mr. Cethart announced. Marty and Lucy glanced at each other. "I don't know how to say this, but there was an.... accident,"

"Are our parents alright?" Marty asked.

"I'm getting to that. The plane crashed somewhere in Louisiana. And I am sorry to say that everyone on the plane was found dead," he said.

Tears filled both children's eyes. How could there parents die? They were alone. Where would they go? Would they live with their Grandma? Surely she didn't have enough money for both Marty and Lucy. Would they go to other relatives? Would they become orphans?

They sat there stunned, until Mr. Cethart broke the silence.

"Their will is to be read tomorrow. It will tell you where you will go. Until then, your Grandma will take care of you. She is on her way now," he said, "Oh yes, this note was found near your mother's body. It may have some importance to you,"

He handed them the small piece of paper. They were about to read it when their grandma came through the door.

"Come on, let's go," she said sadly.

Marty stuffed the little piece of paper in his pocket. They walked out the door and into their Grandma's car.

The ride home felt like it lasted for hours. The whole time they cried; and when they got home they laid down and cried.

"Kids, dinner!" their Grandma shouted from downstairs.

The siblings woke up, they didn't even know they were sleeping. They walked slowly downstairs.

"I'm not hungry," Lucy said.

"You've got to eat a little," Grandma replied.

Lucy sighed, and started picking at her food. After they were done, they went upstairs to talk.

"What I want to know is how the plane crashed," Marty said.

"It's probably like any other plane crash," Lucy said. Silent tears rolled down her face.

"Well, I'll be in my room," Marty said.

Marty's room was filled with all kinds of posters on movies he had seen, bands he liked, and many other things. His floor was completely clean, though. His walls were light blue, and there were two book shelves on opposite sides of the room. His bed was queen sized with plain blue sheets. Marty let himself fall onto his bed, and he just laid there.

* * * *

At the same time, Lucy was in her room. The walls in there were a calm pink, she had a draped bed which had white sheets, and on a bedside counter stood a frame with a picture of her mom and dad on it. She sat on her bed and looked at it for a long time, until finally she fell asleep.

* * * *

The next morning, Marty and Lucy silently walked down the stairs and went to get breakfast. Marty had fallen asleep in his jeans. He remembered the note that was found at the crash site and decided it would wait until after breakfast.

"The reading of mom and dad's will is today," Marty said.

"Yup," Lucy replied. She stared at her plate.

"At least we get to find out who our guardian will be," Marty said.

"Yup," Lucy repeated. She didn't feel like talking right now. "I'll be outside."

It was a cold autumn morning, though she didn't seem to care. She walked over to the swing, and sat there for a while. As birds yapped overhead, Marty walked outside.

"When are you coming in?" he asked.

"How long have I been out here?" Lucy asked, to her it felt like she had been out here for about five minutes.

"An hour and a half," Marty answered.

"I didn't know I had been out here that long!" Lucy said, surprised.

"Well you have," Marty said. "Let's go in,"

As they walked inside, they heard their Grandma call to them.

"Kids, come inside and change!" she called.

After they changed, they headed back downstairs when Marty remembered about the note. He found it still in the pocket of his jeans that he had just taken off.

"Lucy, come here," he said.

"What?" Lucy asked.

Marty showed her the note. It only said one word: That word was: CAVES.

There you go. That's the introduction and first chapter of the first book in the CAVES trilogy.

StF