TriNymphs - Chapter One - Back At The Start

"Come on! We're burning day light here!" Alexandria screamed at her sister.

"Figures," She breathed. Of course Alex would be impatient for me to get up instead of concerned, she thought to herself. But she got up and ran after her brother and sisters anyway.

Alex kept trying to trip her again, she was getting really mad at her, but then Alex ran into a tree. That made Chelsea, the sister she had been trying to trip, feel better. Alex was the one who liked the stupid forest so much, you'd think she would know to look out for trees, thought Chelsea.

But then again, they were all five at the time...

They finally saw the clearing up ahead, Lyssa (their other sister) and Chelsea both sped up. It was so...dark in the forest... And cold.

Alex took her time, she liked the stupid, dark, cold, forest.

Their little brother was already running pretty fast... For a five year old anyway. But he was still the farthest behind.

"And you were telling me to hurry up!?" Chelsea, who was way ahead now, yelled back to Alex. She was really looking forward to gloating when she got to the clearing first.

Lyssa blinked at her "You could just... Not care about it you know..." Chelsea made a mental note to poke her later. Hard. When she wasn't expecting it.

Lyssa got to the clearing about five seconds before Chelsea did. She walked to the middle then froze, Chelsea ran backwards the last few steps and shouted back to Alex, "You're last so you have to hug the kid in our class who picks his nose!" Alex looked happy about that...

Did she like like that kid!?!?

She started walking backward toward Lyssa, who still hadn't really moved... She wondered to herself what was wrong with her sisters.

But then she couldn't move either... Maybe it wasn't her fault... This time...

Then Alex caught up to the two. She obviously didn't care that they couldn't move. Chelsea hoped to herself that she would get stuck too, served her right, she thought.

She did get stuck. One blink later and everything went black for a second. But then they were somewhere else. Chelsea thought it felt off, like she wasn t really there, or like it was a dream.

Her senses seemed somehow distorted.

All three sisters were there, in front of some kind of house... There was a blue spot far ahead of them that Chelsea guessed was a pond. There was a woman walking towards the sisters. She was dressed in a toga-like dress with very draped, flowing material.

She was quietly, but intensely, chanting something.

Chelsea wondered what she was talking about.

Chelsea blinked, then suddenly they were in a completely different place. She could see and hear better, but it wasn't completely normal yet. Her sisters weren't in sight.

She was worried about them, but as she was only five, she didn t really think of it as a big deal at the moment. Then she could see and hear perfectly again and saw she was in her room. That was good, she thought. But then some old guy with long blonde hair and a really pointed face came into the room. That s not good, she thought.

He pointed a stick at the girl. She started to laugh at him 'cause it was really small and there was no way he could poke her with it from all the way over there, by the door. He said a weird word... It was like... ob-live-ee-ate.

This was a very comfortable bed, she thought, once she woke up.

Chelsea opened her eyes.

There was some old guy with long blonde hair and a pointed face in the room with her.

"Are you alright, daughter?" He asked.

She didn t think that the old guy was her dad. She didn t think she had ever seen him before.