Discovering Mountainston

by Edan George

 

WARNING: THIS IS A FICTIONAL PERSONAL NARRATIVE WITH MYSELF AS THE MAIN CHARACTER. ANY OTHER RESEMBLANCE TO REAL LIFE PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS OR IDEAS IS COMPLETELY COINCIDENTAL. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.

 

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS STORY RAPIDLY SWITCHES FROM FIRST TO THIRD PERSON. KEEP UP…. IF YOU CAN! LOL

 

One fine morning, I was reading the newspaper and eating toast with jam while sipping a coffee, when my eyes fell on a map. Not just any map, a treasure map. And on the front page, too! It was alongside an article about the map and above a caption that read “Estimated location of the unknown island.” The whole thing was under a big title. “Mountainston?”

 

Intrigued, I started reading. It turned out that satellites had found an unknown island in the Atlantic that was roughly 240 miles southeast of Florida. No one had made an expedition yet, but Edan, a great adventurer, had the strong desire for me and my friends (Desmond, Emily, and Alyssa) to discover it before anyone else did. 

 

I went to each of their houses and showed them the article. Then we came back to my house for a meeting.

 

In the end, it was decided. We would get there via a specially engineered four-seater plane. Then, we would claim it as our own.

 

Two weeks later, we were all ready. We had packed, then walked the three minutes to the airstrip, where the plane would take us to Mountainston. We got on board and stowed our bags, then the plane took off.

 

Almost eight hours later, we were all tired, and the plane was landing. We recharged with some food before the plane landed, though, and when it did, we got our backpacks and set off.

 

In addition to our bags, we had also brought foldable bicycles to get around. We started exploring, and we found beautiful views from mountaintops, but no civilization nor wildlife yet, except for a flutter of rainbow parrots that kept following us around. We spent the night in a cliffside cave on Mountainston’s highest peak. Then, the next morning after breakfast, we hiked to the top and planted a flag. That flag still stands today, more than two hundred years later.

 

The ride back home was uneventful, but when we got back, we started a big celebration for our discovery, and invited the whole town to fly to Mountainston and see it for themselves.

 

However, we were going to need a bigger plane. So the whole town helped to build an engineering marvel, a triple-decker plane, that could fly the entire town with room to spare.

 

We took off right then and there, and once we arrived, we started setting up civilization. Once the camps started turning into villages, the villages into towns, and the towns into cities, we started ordering supplies from neighboring islands as well as the mainland. Once we were done, everyone was so pleased that they decided to live there forever. And to this day, newer generations of those ancestors still live there. Can you believe it???

 

By now, the country is bigger than ever. Lots of people visit it every year, and it’s become one of the most popular vacation destinations in the universe.

 

I hope you will visit Mountainston soon.

 

Thank you for reading about our adventure, 

 

           -Edan George

              and his group of explorers