Hey guys. So yup, I'm adding another story to my list of things I need to update.
Right. So another Fablehaven FF... This should be good.
I'm writing this time basically because my mother, my friends, and myself all want to know what happened to Seth and his quest for the Singing Sisters.
Honestly, I'm going to try to get things right, but at the moment, my friend has the fifth book of Fablehaven (She's borrowing it and hasn't read it before)... And I don't have some of the names or and stuff memorized. Heh. I really should re-read the series... e.o;...
Right, so this will mostly be an introductory Chap... and I'll try and make it legit and stuff... xD
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So, for future reference,
I do NOT own anything from Fablehaven. Brandon Mull does.
Only going to say that once because writing it at the beginning of each chapter gets a little tedious. (And I forget, sometimes.) If you need it stated, just waddle back here and re-read it.
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"I can't believe this," Seth muttered as he paced by the pool in the backyard of the Fablehaven mansion. He could hear the irritation in his own voice. "We save the preserve multiple times and save the world, but we still have to have mentors? There are many errors in this logic!"
"Since when were you an expert on logic?" Kendra replied coolly. She sipped some lemonade from a glass with lots of ice in it. Kendra sat at an outside table with an umbrella over it for shade near the pool. "It's so hot out here," she complained.
"Well. It's definitely not because of you," Seth retorted.
"Keep telling yourself that and you might just believe it."
"Any comeback that comes from you is rendered invalid." Seth stopped pacing and sat in the other chair at the table. He picked up his own glass of lemonade and drank from it.
Kendra scowled at her brother. A fairy fluttered up to her and chirped in her ear, interrupting her display of displeasure at Seth's words. Kendra turned to the fairy. They conversed for a moment in Silvian, then Kendra laughed. The fairy flitted away.
It was Seth's turn show his displeasure. "How do you manage to have a civilized conversation with those things?"
Kendra turned to her brother and rolled her eyes. "You're just holding a grudge against them because they turned you into a walrus. No, not even a real walrus... Some we-"
"I get it!" Seth watched a few fairies study themselves in the reflective water of the pool. "I'm just saying... They are so shallow. I don't get how you can be friends with them. I think a few of them deserve to be locked up in a jar."
"Seth-" Kendra broke off as Seth reached for his glass of lemonade. Just before his fingers touched the glass, a stream of white light hit the lemonade. The glass shattered into millions of bits, small, sharp pieces showering on Seth.
"Ouch!" Seth yelped as a few bits of glass embedded themselves in his fingertips. He picked out the glass, causing his fingers to bleed. One of the fairies from the pool chirped angrily at Seth. Seth glared as he sucked on his fingers, trying to stop the bleeding.
Kendra winced.
"What did she say?" Seth asked, examining his wounds before sticking his finger back in his mouth.
"Uhm..." Kendra laughed nervously. "She said something about you being locked up in a jar... and then something about your clothes and a walrus... And... "
"Never mind," Seth said, peering at the wounds on his fingertips that had now stopped bleeding. "I get her point. Actually." He waved his hand in the air and his voice rose. "I got about 5 points. All stuck in my hand."
"Well, at least fairies can't dampen your spirits. You can always make a joke, even if they did just threaten to kill you."
"Only if they make it rain."
"Rain? ...What?" it took Kendra a moment to get the pun. "Oh." She sighed. "Really, Seth?"
"Really." Seth grinned at her. He turned his gaze to the driveway at the distant sounds of a car approaching. "Our trainers are here," he said grimly.
Kendra got up and walked towards the driveway, but Seth stayed sitting where he was. He wanted to put off meeting his mentor for as long as possible.
Seth waited. He heard voices a little ways off. Then, Kendra walked back to him.
"They want to meet you," she announced. Kendra grabbed his arm and dragged Seth towards the driveway.
"Hey, Seth!" Bracken called from behind the SUV as he pulled a couple of bags of luggage from the back of the car. "Haven't gotten yourself killed, yet? That's good."
Seth managed a smile for the unicorn that rarely got to visit the preserve. "Hey, Bracken. Nope, not dead yet."
"Unfortunately," Kendra added. "It would spare us all of his bad jokes."
"My jokes are not bad," Seth retorted. "You all just have a lack of understanding for good humor."
"Did he eat a dictionary or something?" Bracken asked. He opened the back doors of the SUV.
"Why would I-" Seth abruptly stopped talking as two girls and a cat got out of the car. Two thirteen-year-old or so girls and an orange-furred cat.
"Thank you, Bracken," one of them said. The strange thing was, it was the cat that spoke.
"A talking cat. That's not weird at all."
"Your welcome, Karen," Bracken replied. "And Seth, technically, I'm a talking unicorn... So what's the big deal?"
"You're human."
"I'm human, too," Karen said. "Well, partly human."
Seth nodded. "I'm just going to leave it at that." He glanced at Kendra. "You're not phased by this at all?"
"Nope. I'm used to weird things. I live with you, remember?"
"Thank you for your support on this matter, my dear sister," Seth grumbled.
The two girls laughed softly. "So, Bracken, these are our students?"
Bracken nodded.
"Wait, what?" Seth looked from Bracken to the two girls. "You mean they are our mentors? You're telling me two girls that are younger than me are going to teach me things? Again! Errors in this logic!"
"I think we should x-ray his stomach. I'm really worried he ate a dictionary. Well, more worried for the dictionary than him. He seems fine," Bracken noted.
"I did not eat a dictionary!" Seth shouted in exasperation.
Everyone but Seth laughed. Even Karen the orange cat purred in amusement.
Seth glared at all of them.
One of the girls stepped forward. She was a little taller than the other. She wore a simple blue shirt and jean shorts. Her eyes were clearly blue, but not fake blue, like the contacts. They looked genuinely bright blue. She had semi-short black hair that ended just past her shoulders.
"Hello, Seth, Kendra." The girl smiled. "My name is Lana. I'm going to be Kendra's trainer. Or mentor. Whatever my title is."
"I think we should get official titles that are really fancy and epic and stuff that makes us seem all smart," the other girl said.
"Seem?" Seth muttered. "You mea-"
The other girl interrupted him. "My name is Wyn. I'm going to be your trainer, Seth." She studied him with lime green eyes and stood with one hand on her hip. Her hair would have reached to the end of her shoulder blades had it not been pulled back into a ponytail with only her bangs loose. She wore a simple light-green tank top and white shorts.
"Well, I think that's all for introductions," Bracken noted.
"Yup," Lana confirmed. Then she added, "We'll take our bags, Bracken."
Bracken almost let the relief show on his face, but he didn't. "You sure?" he said. "They are pretty heavy."
"We'll get them," Lana replied, smiling.
"I can't help but notice you say 'we' like you mean both you and I, Lana. I am not carrying those things," Wyn said. She waved her hand at Karen. "Cat. Karen. Carrot. Whatever, You carry them." As an afterthought, she added, "Please." Wyn began walking towards the house.
Lana and Karen shared a glance. They both rolled their eyes simultaneously. Lana picked up her luggage and followed Wyn. The bags were huge, and had looked heavy, but Lana picked them up like they were as light as a piece of paper.
Karen stalked up to Wyn's bag. She sniffed it. Then sneezed.
"You want me to get it, Karen?" Bracken offered.
"I got it," the orange cat replied. She took a few steps back, then, with a determined look on her face, leaped at the suitcase. She hit it was a force that knocked it over, but the cat herself was unfazed. She studied her work for a moment, then turned to Bracken. "Can you put the others on top of this one?"
Bracken looked from the cat, to the 3 suitcases worth of luggage. "Alright," he said a little dubiously. He picked up the other two bags and placed them on top of the first.
Karen then dug her teeth into the handle of the bottom suitcase. She proceeded to tug the luggage towards the house, walking backwards. The orange cat made remarkable pace, despite being a cat and despite having to walk backwards.
Bracken, Kendra, and Seth followed the cat.
"So what's the cat for...?" Kendra asked Bracken.
"Not sure. Extra passenger. That's about it."
Karen was good until she got to the porch. She stopped and stood still, making a little cat-panting noise. "Right. Wyn can get the rest. Well. She'll either bring this up to her room, or come down here and live on the front porch. Either one works, though the latter is more likely."
"Hmm?" Wyn said as she opened the front door. "I heard my name?"
Bracken made a choking sound that Seth deciphered as his attempt at trying not to laugh.
"I was telling them how good you are at playing video games," Karen lied.
Wyn raised her eyebrows. "She was?"
Seth started to reply no, but then hastily nodded his head. "Yeah, she was telling us how good you are at everything."
"Well, not everything," Wyn said. "I'm bad at playing Mage characters. Archery, Warrior, and anything else. Magic, nope."
"Yet," Kendra noted. "You're Seth's mentor... And you're on a magical preserve..."
Wyn glared. "It's a game. I never said I wasn't good at magic in the real world, Kendra. You don't want to be on my bad side."
"Right." Kendra looked slightly shaken, but nothing she wouldn't recover from.
"The irony of that statement..." Seth muttered.
"Indeed," Wyn replied. She turned to Karen.
"Hoy. Cat. Bring my stuff inside."
"No,"" Karen replied and waltzed inside, tail held high.
"No? Kareeeennnnn!" Wyn drew out the name as she whined. "Pleasssseee?"
"No," Karen stated.
Wyn pouted and turned to Bracken. "Bracken, Can yo-"
"Don't get it for her," Lana said, suddenly standing in the doorway. "Make her stop being lazy and drag it to her own room. Or just let her live out here."
Wyn crossed her arms. "Fine. I'll just stay outside."
"Fine by me," Lana said and walked back into the house, leaving the door open. She called over her shoulder, "You guys might want to come inside. Stan wants... Something."
Kendra and Seth shared a glance. "This can't be good," Seth muttered.
"You won't find out if you don't go," Bracken pointed out.
"You aren't staying?" Kendra asked, sounding a little sad.
"I wasn't planning to stay for long. The Fairy Queen wants me back home... Working on this and that." Bracken said it casually, but his eyes told a different story. He really wanted to stay.
Before anyone could come up with a response to that, and before Bracken could turn to leave, Karen appeared in the open doorway. "He wants you, too, Bracken. Told me to come tell you that." Then, Karen turned back into the house. The open door closed magically behind her.
"Cats closing doors..." Seth muttered.
Bracken looked at Kendra and shrugged. He walked into the house. Kendra followed, leaving Seth and Wyn the only ones outside.
To avoid a moment alone with his new mentor, Seth walked hastily inside. He heard Wyn sigh behind him and follow.
"Seth! Wyn!" Stan called from the dining room. Seth followed his voice.
Inside the room, everyone was seated at the long dining table. Stan sat at the head of the table, and Ruth sat in the seat next to his. Vanessa and Warren sat next to each other on the other side of Stan. Kendra sat next to Ruth and Bracken next to Kendra.
Everyone else was seated at various spots along the table.
Warren motioned for Seth to sit in the empty chair next to him. Seth walked around the table and sat. Wyn sat next to Seth, which automatically made Seth believe this was going to be a meeting with bad news.
Stan clapped once to get everyone's attention. He stood, cleared his throat, and looked over the gathered people.
"Alright. Everyone... The first thing I address at this meeting is Seth and Kendra's new mentors. Wyn, Lana, please stand," Stan started.
Wyn and Lana stood from their places.
"Lana is going to train Kendra and Seth is to be trained by Wyn," Stan announced.
"Meow," Karen said from the other end of the table, where she was sitting in the end chair. She just wasn't visible.
"Oh. And that's Karen over there. She's a talking cat. We aren't exactly sure how that happened," Stan continued.
"She's also stronger than a normal cat," Wyn added.
"You would know..." Seth muttered, not loud enough for Wyn to hear. Warren, however, did hear and turned his laugh into a cough.
"Moving on," Stan said. Wyn and Lana sat back down. "Seth."
Seth looked up at his grandfather.
"Its almost been a year since the Zzyzx was closed and you still owe something to the Singing Sisters. An item of their request."
"They haven't contacted me," Seth protested.
"Well, there's only 2 months until a year has passed since you've seen them. They will contact you before then. Be prepared. That's another reason we got you a mentor."
"Right," Seth muttered.
"Thirdly," Stan continued. "Kendra, have you given any thought to becoming an Eternal?"
Kendra looked down at her lap.
"I know you still have another year to think about it, but it's a tough decision," Stan said.
Kendra nodded.
"Finally..." Stan started. He took a deep breath. "We believe someone is trying to reopen the Zzyzx. Before the Enternals are in place and before the secrets of the artifacts' locations can be shrouded in myth."
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Right. So I know that's a pretty cliche ending/plot... But I need something for Kendra to do while Seth saves his own butt from the Singing Sisters... Not to mention, it's actually vital to the end of the story.
So. Thanks for reading.
I might not update for a while because I need to re-read the fifth book, at least, before I really get into the plot. I don't want to mess up something important and have to go back and fix everything.
Anyway.
Review? Reviews are nice...
Thanks for reading again!