------------------------------ Chapter 1----------------------------- "Do we have to go?" Ryan said in a pleading voice, " I know your sick but I don't want to leave." He was siting under his favorite cherry blossom tree next to his very ill parents when the plane flew by above his head. A couple of minutes past before the plane landed, the plane drivers rushed to his family and brought them into the plane, he felt the ground feel farther and farther away. Farther away from home. They landed at the New York airport five days after they left home. Home how he longed to be back home, smelling the sweet scent of the cherry blossoms, eating the cinnamon rolls he had eaten every day. The ambulance pulled into the hospital parking lot soon after they left the airport. Ryan let out a long sigh, he wished he could leave New York as soon as he could. "When I leave, I'll make sure my parents are better." He thought to himself when he was riding in the taxi to the hotel. His dream was vivid, he was making a potion out of the bark of a cherry blossom. He knew what he had to do. He hurried to the hospital to say goodbye to his parents, the goodbye was heartbreaking but he had to leave instantly, he went to the airport but he was told there was no pilots left because of the sickness, so he went to the docks and got on a ship, whos driver was a axolotl that could talk. As the ship left the dock he thought, "My journey has begun."
