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Matt Stribling

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Have you ever wondered how it is to have divorced parents and then come back from boarding school for holidays and find out your mom has to go to an out of country job travel trip and your dad is missing? Well this is the story of the young 15-year old Matt Stribling. When he arrived to his Dad’s house he found it turned upside down and everything was in disarray. At first he wasn’t worried and was just thinking that either he is out on some treasure hunt(because his dad loves archaeology) and forgot that Matt is coming over on the holiday. This habit of his was the cause of his parent’s divorce. His mom loved technology while his dad used to like treasures and ancient stuff. His parents loved each other but they couldn’t just live together due to these major …show more content…

After arriving at his headquarters they do even more detailed studies and are able to figure out that the treasure is on an island not far from them. They right away make plans to go to this island and start digging. After getting all the legal permission they start digging on the spot they think the treasure would be on. After digging a bit, they find two tunnels that lead to the bottom. Robin and her dad take one passageway while Matt and one of Mr.Harper’s workers take another path. As they start walking underground where there is barley any light, Matt accidently pushes some rocks which was allowing the ceiling to stay intact to collapse on him. He runs and soon after gets separated from the worker. The worker calls out to him saying that he will go get some help. As Matt is inside the cave, rats(at least he thinks they’re rats) from all sides jump on to him and start biting him. As he struggles to fight the rats, some of Mr.Harper’s workers come in to help Matt. Matt quickly grabs his flashlight and right away the rats start to run away from the

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