Congrats if you made it past that awful summary. Set in the first season. Rated M for bad language. Enjoy!
"Look what I got," Gemma sang happily waving a shiny box in Mel's face. Melanie squinted and tried to read the writing on the currently moving box.
"Robin Hood?" she asked scornfully "Whoopdy-bloody-doo," she rolled her eyes
"Hey," Gemma answered sternly "Don't knock it until you try it child. Hot guys in tights doing archery and stuff," she said. A flicker if interest lighted Mel's eyes for a moment, but it soon faded.
"But still," she said "I'm not watching it ," she said.
Gemma huffed and decided to wait until later on and just put it on. Mel would get into it soon enough.
Suddenly Melanie's older brother opened the door.
"Hey, what you guys doing?" he asked. Mel shrugged
"Trying to get out of watching Robin Hood," she answered. Gemmy narrowed her eyes and shrugged at Ryan.
"Right, well me and Josie were gonna do a Ouija board. We need more people. You in?"
Mel and Gem nodded. Ryan had been rather shy when Mel first brought Gemmy home to introduce her family to her new best friend, locking himself in his room, grunting answers and eating as fast as possible so he wouldn't have to stay and make strained conversation. That changed when the three of them were babysitting Marcus (Ryan and Mel's younger brother), and Ryan got drunk on Jack Daniels and bitter lemon, yelling "Oh Em Geee Girlfriend!" down the phone at random contacts.
"An unspoken bond seems to form once you have seen someone's true colours when they're pissed," Mel had put oh so elegantly.
Ryan had lighted candles in the room and switched the lights off. His friend Josie was sitting there and next to her was a dark haired girl with a black net over her face.
Gemma was about to ask who the heck that was when Melanie started moaning.
"How come you're allowed candles and lighters and fire in your room and I'm not? Where did you get that Ouija board? Does mum know you are doing this? Does mum know you are letting us do it? Where did she get that veil from? Were they the ones in the attic? Did you get them from Woolworths? I was going to-"
"Shut it," Gemma said sitting next to the girl with the veil.
"Fine," Mel said plonking herself down next to Josie. Ryan sat down and nodded at the stranger. She breathed in deeply through her nose, lifting her hands and wiggling her fingers with the air.
"Spirit board, through the ages we have spoken of your power, and until now we have only dreamed of what could be accomplished," she said in husky voice that was probably supposed to sound mystic and magical. Gemmy gave Mel an unsure glance and they both had to fight a fit of giggles.
"So your Granddad?" Mel asked two hours later. Gemma had apparently made contact with her dead Grandfather who was in fact very much alive.
"Hmmm," Gemma answered raising her eyebrows. They had left Ryan's room before they snorted out loud and offended the strange girl "That stuff's a load of crap if you ask me,"
"Excuse me," came the floaty husky voice of Strange Girl, who had slid in through the door unnoticed "Don't anger the spirits with your sceptic ways. They will come back to haunt you, Mark my words."
"I'm sure we'll be safe. My Granddad will protect us," Gemma answered smirking
"If the spirits don't curse you I will." warned strange girl, and she started chanting and waving her arms around madly. Melanie discreetly ushered her out of the door and shut it on her face.
"What a disturbed child," she said turning back to Gemma who was messing with the DVD player. "What are you putting on?"
"Oh err… Friends," Gemmy answered shiftily pushing the play button. The Robin Hood theme tune started blaring out and Mel groaned
"Too late now," Gem retorted "It's already on,"
Melanie was way to lazy to get up and change it, so she started fighting Gemma for the remote. When she got hold of it they started a tug-of-war, pushing and hitting all sorts of buttons as they went along. The television flashed white and stayed glowing the strange pearly light.
"Shit," they said in unison. The light looked as if it was growing, but it must have been the screen.
"Is it me or-"
"-It's leaking out of the Tele, yeah,"
The light started to flow like a river out of the television screen and it rose like a tidal wave, crashing down on the two gob smacked girls, blinding them both.
When their sight returned they could see trees and broken light. Hear the light twittering of birds and scuttling of forest animals. Smell the sweet scent of grass just after the rain had fallen. Feel the change in the air, the freshness, the lightness. It was bliss, beautiful calm serenity that they had somehow fallen into.
"This is real right?" Mel whispered softly, scared that speaking would break the beautiful spell.
"I…I think…so" Gemma said staring around them, reaching out and brushing a tree trunk with her hand. The bark was rough, bits cracked off in her hand "Oh I think this is very real," she answered.
"Right, I'm calling someone," Mel reached into her pocket to pull out her phone and screamed in horror. "Look and my phone! Just look at it!" she shoved a melted metal blob under Gemma's nose. "It's ruined!"
"Oh my god look at the remote too!" Gem exclaimed holding up the melted remote which she still had in her hand "I wonder what…" she trailed off at the sound of horse hooves. "Do you hear that?" she asked uncertain if her ears were playing tricks on her
"No I hear it too," Mel reassured her "Sounds kind of urgent. Official even?"
Gemma turned to Mel and was about to ask how the heck horse hooves sounded official, when the cause of the noise came into view. It was men on horses, wearing tights and other strange clothes.
"Are we in Camelot?" Murmured Mel. Eying up a dark haired beauty who was looking as if he was in charge. The horses came to a halt, forming a circle around the two girls.
"What is your business here?" asked the dark guy on a bay horse who to Melanie's utter delight was clad in black leather.
"No. Frickin. Way," Gemma said, letting her mouth hang.
"Subtlety Gem," Mel said nudging her friend "Hotties like subtlety."
"No, no. I mean yeah, but no. It's bloody… Guy!" he said
"Yeah it's a guy," Mel said rolling her eyes and mouthing 'sorry' to the hot guy for her friend's crazy behaviour.
"No!" Gemmy tried again "Guy of frickin Gisborne!" she nearly yelled.
This Guy guy looked half pleased half concerned that Gemma knew who he was. Mel was just staring in non-understanding-ness.
"What is your place here in Sherwood Forest Peasants?" he asked
Gemma squealed and jumped up and down
"I'm in Sherwood forest?" She asked glancing around the woods as if to see the trees in a whole new light. "Mel! We're in Sherwood Forest!"
"What the fuck is Sherwood Forest?" Mel yelled.
"Answer me!" Guy yelled back. The girls looked at him and then back at each other
"It's where Robin Hood is! And Little John and Much and Allan a Dale and," she gasped and her eyes lit up "Will Scarlett!" she finished laughing happily. "Oh my god Mel can we find them?"
"Oh don't tell me I'm stuck in frickin Robin Hood land! Why didn't you just put Friends in like you said? Then we'd be chilling with Chandler and-" she stopped as the tip of a blade touched her friend's chin.
"You just named the most dangerous outlaws in the country. You could prove useful yet," Guy said, sheathing his sword and holding out his hand. Gemma looked at it in disbelief.
"Oh my God this is really happening!" she said. He grabbed her wrist and heaved her up onto his horse. Mel looked a bit put out, but was soon upon the back of a horse, clinging to the waist of another yummy Nottingham guard.
As they rode to see the Sherriff. A group of merry men emerged from their hiding place behind the trees. Having heard every word of the conversation. They exchanged weary looks and decided to follow Gisborne and the two strangely dressed girls to Nottingham.