At night time, Diego pulls his revolver once again and plans to find a secret attack while Lucy joins him with her spear. Snail and I watch over the treehouse.

After they left, I apologized to Snail again after my rage. Snail understands my struggles. 

Snail was a young tortoise at his island where home was a place for him to be free but got taken by zookeepers for entertainment and educational purpose. However, in his new home, he is still happy he has a home and be free. 

“I feel like this is a vacation, but my mind wants to go home,” Snail cried. His habitat smells funky because there is a dead tortoise there after the zookeeper calls out his name, Sloth. 

He was also a Pinta Island Tortoise just like me. But he died, and I am scared of what will happen next. 

Sitting down at night time where Snail’s new home is just a glass window, a painting of trees and grass that looks like a jungle, and an air conditioner. He is shivering, so he tucks down his shell. Speaking of shell, Snail has a second home just like Pinta Island. 

Snail, his name was like this because he’s the smallest of his family. But he has a big brain to find knowledge. 

A zoo. For each habitat, it has a minimum space to live until an animal gets crazy just like having claustrophobia.

A home. For each room, it has a maximum space to live until an animal decided to get out of the house if it wants to. 

Snail’s home. Fine sand, rocks, grass, and sea to breathe well. What he loves, never stops him to go back. 

“You see, Clay. Go back home is what you need. Just like childhood, it never stops you. It wants you if you remember much,” Snail smiled. 

“A tortoise is like an old man,” I said. During this time, we find Diego’s scrapbooks and drawings. 

One of the drawings is his mother and father. Both have orange hair, dark black eyes, and look similar to each other. I am shocked and took the book away! 

DIsgusting!!!

Snail remembers the time he was an infant, he saw his father and friend running towards rock and hide with their shells no hunters caught their eye and left. 

Snail also remembers the zoo makes him be alone, expressing himself on who he is. Until he is done being alone. He was sad. Lonely. Depressed. 

The boat was filled with animals and rescuers as it made Snail met me, a quokka who needs a friend to protect. We look at each other in the cage and smiled. 

“Are you okay?” Snail asked. 

“I am fine. Just lonely and nobody wants to talk to me,” I frowned. 

“I’m Snail. I am a Pinta Island Tortoise. What is your name?” He asked with a smile. 

“I’m Clay the quokka,” I cheered. 

“What is a quokka?” Snail asked. 

“What is a tortoise?” I asked. We were both confused by each other’s species. Both have a special type of animal and we are endangered animals. 

Considering that Snail is the last of his kind, I was so sad to hear about this since our kind, quokkas, are about to go die because of habitat loss. Without our site faces and fat body, no people would smile our disappearance. 

For Snail, people would also feel sad about themselves for what they had done to the tortoise’s kind. Without Snail, there would be no such things as subspecies of the Galapagos Tortoise. 

It is midnight. Diego and Lucy are not back yet. Damn. 

“Snail, I want you to look over the treehouse! I will find Diego and Lucy tomorrow! They must be kidnapped by the aliens!!” I said. 

“I want to help! You thought a slow animal will die, no! I used to bite people! So please!!!” Snail argued. I look at him sharply, listening to his mind of pleasure. I agreed with him and tell him to bring a gun. 

The next day, we went out to the hideout of the aliens. I first saw Hira who is holding flowers for her dead brothers. She said, “I am giving these flowers to my dead brother who died from an elephant.”

Hold up. An elephant. I must say. Elephants love to have respect for others since their spirit souls represent love. However, there are five elephants and whom could it be. 

Claus, who is the leader of the group and struggles and wants to go back to the zoo, even know their habitats were so small all of them almost pass out. 

Kinna, the daughter of Claus and the youngest one. A teen who also loves the zoo and plans someday she will take over this place.

Maggie, the sister of Claus and hates the zoo since she is the only elephant who wants to go back to Asia. However, she always “dance” the entire day of the zoo. 

Ban, the oldest elephant who wants everyone to be with each other. He is old and follows his leader, who he was, a leader of a peaceful elephant gang. He does not want his own kind to die, on the other hand. 

Lastly, is Pimples, who is a young male who has red dots on his face, where he might have ticks on his entire body. Poor guy. 

So I conclude this mystery: Ban, the elephant who wants peace for the aliens. But he does not like killing. Whom could it be?