Soon, it was time for the class trip to Hiddenite Emerald Hollow Mines. The grade was extremely excited. What struck the grades was the unexpected deaths of King Diamondman I and II. It was rumored that Diamondman II died fighting a giant rain demon that was destroying Hiddenite. The buses unloaded and started up.

The drive was boring us to death. Skeletons flopped on the ground as we ran down the rocky hill to Hiddenite. The bus flipped over and flew down the hill before stopping at an empty field. "The most literal field trip I've ever been in," said Liam.

Anvils fell from the ground as Liam and I took cover in the upside-down

bus. Skeletons and anvils fell onto the field, burning everything up. The bus fell into a flaming borehole of doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom...

"Emeralds," I asked, "where are you?" The ceiling rumbled and the hole patched up. Amethysts fell into the hole. The emeralds fell into a pond in the hole. "Gotcha," I said. The emeralds were huge, so we put them in a compartment of the bus. The bus creaked with the weight of the emeralds, collapsed in, and exploded.

BOOM! The emeralds flew into

different areas of the underground ravine system. The emeralds burned in a flaming bus, but one emerald flopped into a pond, the one that all of the emeralds had started with prior to the explosion.

Rubies fell as we ran up a lost stairway to a giant room. "I AM KING DIAMONDMAN III!" a booming voice said, and we looked around to see a throne.

The king looked around and said, "I am King Diamondman III, and I will tell you what my grandfather King Diamondman I and my father King Diamondman II did not have the time to tell you.

This mine is under attack by the rain demon who vainly attempted to destroy this mine just a few days ago.

This mine cannot be destroyed. Meet the future King Diamondman IV."

Abruptly, a baby crawled into the room with a staff. The staff had a giant black diamond on it, and when the baby tapped the diamond on the ground, the ground rumbled and in came sentinel diamond robots. "Come, jump in!" said Diamondman,

and we raced down the stairway, back into the ravine, and up a ramp until we appeared in a deep circular room. Rows of diamond robots sat hundreds of feet above them, and a man stood tied to a wooden board in the middle of the room.

"You, Rainman XXVII, have set a rain demon upon these emerald-like

grounds, which results for a lifetime sentence in our emerald prison-no, literally, the prison is made of emeralds-and you go now." A diamond robot went out of the crowd and flew down to unhook Rainman XXVII. Suddenly, though, Rainman ran out the grasp of the diamond robot and disappeared down the ramp and into an arena.

The arena was a small, oval-shaped room. Rainman XXVII threw one hundred rain demons into the arena. Soon, the rain demons had spread all around the world and only three were left.

Rainman ducked as the sword from the transforming anvil from the last book slashed through the air. A rain

demon threw a giant beam of rain at the king, who blasted red diamonds back at it. The diamonds knocked the water into the ground. "Oops," said King Diamondman III, "those were sentinel diamond robot spawners." Suddenly, each diamond robot latched onto a rain demon, and the three rain demons exploded into puddles. Liam, King Diamondman III and I escaped, but Rainman wasn't that lucky...

Rain Demon Count:

Killed: 3

Remaining: 97

The rain demons were still out there! We ran out of the arena and onto the diamond robots. We flew up and our diamond robots dug through the ceiling until we were out into the field where this extremely literal field trip started up. Liam saw a flash of rain appear, and he kicked his diamond robot. It sped up so fast that when he zoomed into a rain demon, the robot's sharp end sped through the

rain and the rain demon collapsed, short-circuiting the diamond robot with an explosion the size of a city. Another rain demon then fell into the radius, exploding upon contact as Liam fell from the sky straight into the waiting arms of my diamond robot.

Rain Demon Count:

Killed: 5

Remaining: 95

A diamond landed on King Diamondman III's head, who flopped onto his diamond robot, out cold. "Uh..." said Liam, "how the flip are we supposed to get out of here now?"

The diamond robots raced across the field until a great tower stood in our way. We went into the first floor, which was completely destroyed. We looked at a

broken elevator, and took it up.

SOON...

"Food..." said Liam, as the diamond robots threw donuts on the ground. "FOOOOOOOOOOOD!" Suddenly, the elevator boomed, "Floor 1,893,462. Destination." The building toppled as it passed. "Hey, is that an exit sign?" asked

Liam, pointing at a sign in bold under a door - EXIT. Liam opened the door into a corridor. 'Welcome to...' a sign said-'the mantle of the Moon.'

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Liam ran out of the corridor, just in time to faint.

The moon is killing me!

How many floors exist-1 CENTILLION?!?!

Those diamonds! They are on floor 2,304,597,389,382,897,492,900,387,443,294!!