I was walking with my friends, Nikolet and Shannon when the impossible happened. It was a normal day in New Jersey, I was hanging out with Nikolet and Shannon on a hot weekend summers day. School had let out a month ago and the three of us were now in camp, and not as counselors. That's right, us 15 year olds still went to camp, WITHOUT getting paid. Anyways, we decided to go out even though there was a light drizzle outside.
Big mistake number 1.
We didn't want to walk on the streets where it was all open and let ourselves be rained on. No, we decided to go through the woods behind Nikolet's house where the trees will shield us from the drizzle.
Big mistake number 2.
So we were walking in the woods conversing with each other with the occasional laugh as I tripped over a root or something. I wasn't the most coordinated person out there to say the least.
You know when rain that began light suddenly turns to poring rain? Well that happened, and we began running home.
That's right, mistake number 3.
As I stated before I'm not the most coordinate person in the world and this time when I tripped over a stray branch, I brought my friends down with me. From a fall that should of only scratched us, it made us pass out.
If that wasn't strange enough, when we woke up it seemed like we were in a different woods.
"Sam, you idiot! You could of hurt us all!" Nikolet scolded.
"It isn't my fault I suck at walking!" I retorted getting up.
"Yea, you've only been doing it since you were 1," Shannon said, flicking her straight blonde hair with dyed brown coon tails on the right side, back over her shoulder.
"Well we all can't do track. And it's not my fault my feet are to big for my body," I said annoyed that they were ganging up on me. The ending statement was true though. My size 10 feet were big compared to my slim 5 foot 3 self. It really was quite ridiculous, in my opinion at least. "Besides I think we have bigger problems. I don't think this is your woods Nikolet."
"Of course it is. Where else would we be?" Nikolet said, smoothing her black hair with dyed blonde coon tails.
"I don't know. I'm just saying," I said.
"Maybe she's right. This doesn't seem like where we were before," Shannon agreed with me.
"Who's woods is this? I probably know it better then you two," Nikolet tried to assure herself. "Look the rain already cleared, lets start heading back to my house. We'll play Wii or something." That silenced us for a while.
"Why is it suddenly so cold?" I asked. Where as before it was raining and hot, it was now sunny and freezing, and we weren't dressed appropriately at all. I was wearing my black jean shorts and my white flowy tube top. Nikolet was wearing black soffee shorts and her pikachu short sleeve shirt. She also had a light jacket on. Shannon was also wearing black shorts and her high school Shakespeare t-shirt. She too had a hoodie. Why did I have to dress appropriately for the summer? I thought to myself, rubbing my newly tanned arms.
"I don't know. That's weird." Nikolet said confused, pulling her jacket closer to herself. We continued walking.
It wasn't until 15 minutes later that I disturbed the tense silence by saying, "Do you believe us now?"
"I think we're lost," She finally said.
"That's what I was telling you!" I said exasperated. "What should we do?"
"Well these woods have to end somewhere. I say we just keep walking straight." Shannon proposed. We all agreed
Mistake number 4.
This is where the story gets super strange. I was ahead of my friends. I was no longer aloud to be in back of them seeing as I made us all fall before. "You sure this is a good idea? This forest seems huge! When will we get out of-" I stopped in fright.
"Whats wrong? Woah." Shannon said stopping next to me. She squeaked.
"What's up?" Nikolet said before seeing what we were gaping out.
A bunch of huge spiders were staring at us. When I say big, I don't mean the big bugs they have in school or even occasionally at home, I mean HUGE! They were all either bigger then us or the same size as 5 ft 8 Shannon.
Now we are all terrified of spiders. So we were gaping at them unable to say anything for the fright that suddenly overtook us. I couldn't hold it in any longer, I screamed. Nikolet and Shannon both clasped a hand around my mouth, trying to stop my screaming. It was too late though and the spiders started on us. We all screamed and started running.
I looked back to see that one of the spiders were on my tail. I winced as it reached out a leg to grab me. It just got my left arm though. I yanked my arm free wincing from the pain. I looked to my arm to see a deep gash with blood pouring out. I paled as I looked at it not used to so much pain or blood. I was, after all an average 15 year old girl in New Jersey.
Seeing this somehow made me run faster then I ever did before. I had to get out of here. After a while I looked behind me and saw no spider. I stopped suddenly. There might have been no spider, but there was no one else either.
"Shannon? Nikolet? Guys where are you? This isn't funny," I called out. Suddenly a long hairy leg grabbed me around me face. A muffled scream burst out of me as I was pulled to the ground and dragged across the forest floor. I tried to pull the leg off my mouth but only hurt my hands. I squeezed my eyes shut as the excited clicking of pincers came closer to me. I winced when I stopped and the pincers came closer to me. I was done for I knew it.
"Hey! You ruddy spider! Get off 'er!" I heard someone yell. I started freaking out.
"Get off 'er now! Or do ya want me to tell Aragog what you're doin." The spider immediately released me and scurried away. I sat up hyperventilating. Well, I thought, I always wanted a near death experience.
"Are ya ok? Hey, ya aren't a student here!" I looked up to see a giant man with a huge shaggy beard and longish hair for a man.
I scrambled up and ran from this unknown giant of a man. "Hey!" He yelled after me. I kept running anyway, desperate to get to the end of this forest and find my friends. I saw a clearing and ran towards it. I burst through it and searched for someone who could help me. I saw a group of boys a couple of yards away and ran to them.
I grabbed the first guy I reached from the group. "Help," I cried. They looked at me startled. "Help, big spiders, my friends still in forest, big man after me!"
"Wait, slow down. What happened to you?" The one with black wild hair and hazel eyes said. I noticed he had a British accent but I honestly didn't give shit.
"My friends and I got lost in the forest over there and we separated when we got chased by these huge spiders. I got away but I don't know where the hell my friends are. You got to help me find them!" I explained flipping my probably now messy curly hair over my shoulder impatiently.
"What's there names?" the boy with light brown hair asked.
"Nikolet and Shannon. Now come on! Help!" I you should stay begged.
"Maybe you should stay. You don't look good," The guy I grabbed onto said. I glared up at the guy. He had longish black hair, straighter and darker then the first black haired one.
"I am not staying. My friends are in there!" I said incredibly. Why'd they think I should stay?
"Fine. Come on." The four of them took out sticks from there pockets. I held in a snicker. What could sticks do?
"Where's yours?" The mousy looking one said.
"My what?" I asked.
"Your wand."
I scoffed. "A wand? Who do you think I am, Harry Potter?" I asked.
"Uh no but I'm James Potter." James said.
"Right," I said, not believing
"I think she's a muggle." The rat faced one said.
"Am not!" I cried indigently.
"Whatever. Muggle or not, lets get going!" The sandy haired one said.
We went in the woods and started searching for them. "Where are they? SHANNON, NIKOLET! YELL IF YOU HEAR ME!"
"Sh! Not so loud. We don't know what's in here. We don't want to let them know where we are!" one of them said.
"Well how do you expect us to find the-" I was cut off by the returning yell.
"SAM! GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!" We ran towards Nikolet's voice.
"I GOT BACK UP!" I yelled back. I pushed through and hugged her. She hugged me back.
"Guys, this is Nikolet," I introduced.
"Nice to meet you, I'm-" The light brown haired guy was cut off by a ear splitting yell.
"Shannon!" Nikolet and I chorused worried. What if she was seriously hurt? The six of us ran towards the sound. We came across a blonde girl laying on the floor of the woods.
"Shannon!" We chorused again kneeling by her.
"Shhhh!" She whispered loudly to us, "I'm playing dead. Is the acromantula gone yet?"
"Yea," the one with light brown hair said. This got Shannon up.
"Who the hell are you guys?" she asked quite rudely. Then I realized it was a good question. They knew our names, but we had no idea what theirs were.
"I'm Sirius, Sirius Black," The one with long black hair said. I realized with a jolt that he really was. He looked exactly like the descriptions of a young Sirius on all the Harry Potter websites and books. That's when I blacked out.
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