Okay, so I wrote this from a challenge from my friends that said I couldn't write something this random! I hope you like it!

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"Rose, where did you bring us this time?" the Huntsman sighed seeing that the Huntsgirl had yet to understand the complexity of transferring from one place to another. "I'm not sure Master? Could this be another dimension?" the young girl questioned. "My goodness, you're right! It's the realm of Alive Inanimate Objects!" the Huntsman pointed out. "Which means?" Rose continued. "Which means… anything you touch could be alive," the Huntsman clarified.

"Hey! Watch where you're walking!" a blade of grass shouted upward towards the Huntsman, but his over reactive anger made him stomp back down onto the grass. "Are there any real humans here?" Huntsgirl inquired. "Of course, but we're in the country. The woods. No one should be out here. Just the strange creatures of the forest," the Huntsman declared.

"Great, Katie! You got us lost – again!" Dean complained. "Lay off dude," David warned. "No, I agree with Dean! For once it really is all Katie's fault!" Jaclyn admitted. "Excuse me. I wouldn't have taken a wrong turn if someone hadn't dropped my map in the stupid river!" Katie hinted towards Lauren. "Look, I wouldn't have dropped it if I wasn't attacked by big foot," Lauren looked towards Murielle. "It's not my fault that Jaclyn ran me off of my trail," Murielle blamed. "Hey, David was doing something weird, and I had to dodge out of the way to keep from being knocked over!" Jaclyn shifted. "What? Dean was reading, not watching where he was going might I add, and he disturbed a snake. I had to jump out of the way to save my life!" David defended. "Yea, well…"

"Stop! Everyone stop right now! I don't know where we are, or how we got here, but I'm almost certain that we're not still in Michigan," Katie settled everyone down. "So where do you think we are?" David hung his arms over her shoulders. "I don't know. Without a map, I…"

"You said a little while ago you didn't need a map!" Dean tried to keep his tone light. No one wanted to get Katie ticked off – she had all of the food in her backpack, not to mention she could throw a good punch, and have one good tissy fit. "Yes, because I knew the park like the back of my hand – it was drawn on the back of my hand!" she showed a smudged trail on her left hand. "Then why did you jump into the river?" Murielle shot water into her mouth. "Because the map duh! Look. We just need to take a breather. I've got enough food to last two weeks, David's got all of the clothing, Jaclyn and Murielle have the sleeping and bathroom items, and Lauren and Dean have tents and miscellaneous stuff. Now we just have to find someone, to help us," Katie looked around. "Kate, sorry to admit it, but there's no one around for at least a hundred miles," Lauren broke it to her. There was a rustling in a clearing behind them.

"Everyone hide!" Jaclyn shouted. The group made a dash for trees, leaving Katie nowhere to hide. "Who's out there?" a deep voice called from the other side of the bushes. "Katie," David beckoned from a tree. She ran over to him and reached for his hand. David began to pull her up when a big heavy gloved hand fell upon her.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" The Huntsman raged at Katie. "I, um, you see," she stuttered. "Huntsgirl," he ordered having Rose come forward.

"Yes Master?" she kneeled in front of him. "Tie her up. We're taking her with us," he demanded not seeing any of Katie's friends. "Master, I don't think she's more trouble than she's worth," Rose defended the innocent girl. "I said tie her up," the Huntsman kept his voice steady. "Right away Master," Rose whipped her staff into a long blue rope, "Hold still," she ordered creeping behind Katie. "Who are you?" Katie shivered at the touch of the rough rope.

Her friends shot glances at each other not knowing what to do. "Should we help her?" David looked towards Lauren without speaking.

"I don't know, Dean?"

"How should I know? Jaclyn?"

"Don't look at me, Murielle?"

"I think we should stay here. No use in us all getting kidnapped."

So everyone stayed where they were and watched their friend being taken away. "We have to get her back!" David jumped out of the tree after they were out of sight.

"I don't see how we can though? Did you see the size of that guy?" Murielle bulged her eyes.

"But the girl didn't look that dangerous," Jaclyn cracked her knuckles.

"She could be though. What if she's like a genetic mutation?" Dean played.

"I say the most important thing is finding a town or something. We can get help there and figure out where we are, and how we got here," Lauren planned.

"You little children wouldn't be looking for the nearest town, would you?" yet another voice came from behind a bush.

"Who's there?" they all jumped.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you. I saw what that man did to your friend, and I want to help. My name's Lacy and this is Tali," she showed her friend who was also hiding.

"Do you know who he is?" Lauren asked.

"I've never seen him before," Tali noted. "He did seem dangerous though, but your friend will not be killed – trust me."

"How can you tell?" Dean tilted his head.

"I have my ways," she smiled.

"Can you just get us to town?" Murielle rushed.

"It's this way over here. What are you doing this far out in the woods anyway? Don't you know it's dangerous with all of the creatures popping out of nowhere?" Lacy shook her finger.

"You mean like animals? I can take them!" David declared.

"Yea, sure, animals," Tali lied. "Wait, you kids are from the Reality Dimension, aren't you?"

"Huh?" they spoke in unison.

"You've never heard of dimensions?" Lacy retorted.

"You mean in like math?" Dean guessed.

"Boy we have a lot to learn," Lacy mumbled to herself. "Good thing we have a long walk ahead of us."

They all began to wander off in a southwest direction. No one knew where the ladies were taking them, but it was better than standing there, waiting for their friend to be killed.

David, Dean, and Jaclyn had all split their food from Katie's backpack into theirs.

"Who are you? Please tell me," Katie begged.

"Quiet girl. You are our new official guide, so tell me where I am," the Huntsman ordered.

"I don't know sir. I was walking with my friends, and then we lost the map, and then we were in this strange place, and then you came, and…"

"Silence your rambling! Can you help me or not?" The Huntsman yelled.

"I'm sorry sir," she put her head down in shame not being able to help. Katie hated feeling answerless like this.

"We'll stop here. Huntsgirl, I'm going to go find dinner. Set up camp here. Keep an eye on the girl too," The Huntsman walked off.

"I'd love to," Rose sat Katie down on an old stump and walked off uphill to find firewood.

"What am I going to do?" Katie mumbled quietly. "There's no one here to save me. I might as well become one of those Hunts-people, whatever they're called?"

"I'm lonely too," the stump spoke from under her.

"What?" Katie jumped to her feet with her hands still tied behind her back.

"I used to have a bunch of friends a long time ago. The trunk, the branches, all of the leaves, but then one day someone came by and stole them from me. You can sit back down if you want. I don't mind," the stump allowed. She carefully sat back down shocked that a stump was talking to her. Maybe she was going crazy from hypothermia from the jump into the river or something? "I have been here alone many years, and there is never many things to talk with. Even my roots have seemed to abandon me. Of course every once in a while a woodland creature will run by, but since they cannot live on a bare stump, they'll wave hi and run along as if nothing had happened. So who were those people you were with? They don't seem to like you very much?"

"I… don't know them. They took me."

"Well that was rude! What did you do to them?" the stump pondered.

"Nothing. Why are you talking?" Katie questioned.

"Well, this is the dimension of Alive Inanimate Objects. Everything's alive! My name's Conrad, but I'm known as Conrad the Lonely Stump, because no one ever comes to visit me," he introduced.

"Did you just say I'm in a different dimension?" Katie laughed in disbelief.

"Yup! And by the looks of it, you're from the Reality Dimension – because your world is so plain and boring! I think the people you were with were from the Animated Dimension – what you would call cartoons. It's really quite easy to understand once you get all of the details," Conrad assured.

"So how did I get from my – dimension – to here?" Katie wondered still finding it hard to believe that there were different dimensions.

"Well, there are thousands of portals all over the place. You just have to activate it." Conrad stated.

"The river! When I jumped into the river, I remember trying to get some leverage on a rock, but I only succeeded to push it even further into the sand! But it did feel like more like a button!" Katie jumped up all excited she had finally figured something out since the river incident.

"Hey, I can sense that she's coming back. You may want to sit down," Conrad advised. Katie regained her seating on top of Conrad the Lonely Stump and pretended like she was still scared and confused. So she did the only thing that she thought would work.

"Um, do you have a name that I might be able to call you by?" Katie asked respectfully.

"Do you?" Huntsgirl began to arrange the wood before igniting it. Katie could feel Conrad become sad to see his dead friends being used as firewood.

"I'm… Katie."

"Well, Katie, you can call me Rose," she still didn't look up from the flame.

"How old are you anyway?"

"How old are you?" Rose returned.

"I'm thirteen."

"Me too. Eighth grade I'm guessing?" Rose warmed her hands.

"Yes. Are you related to him?"

"Are you related to him?"

"No."

"Well then neither am I." Her response confused Katie terribly.

"Is he a family friend to you?"

"Is he a family friend to you?" Rose insisted on the game.

"Oh I get it! He's your legal guardian!"

"Not really."

"Where do you live at?"

"Where do you live at?" Rose sat on a rock on the other side of the fire.

"Michigan."

"New York."

"Okay, cool. So Rose, you seem like a nicely levelheaded person. We don't really need to play these games. Why do you guys want me with you?" Katie compromised.

"The Huntsman thought that you knew the area. But obviously you don't," Rose glared into the ground.

"I'm sorry, Rose. Really, if I could help you I would, but my friends and I got completely lost. I'm afraid it's my fault," Katie admitted.

"You had friends with you?"

"Totally. Oh, right. You didn't see them, but they were there. I hope they're okay."

"Don't tell the Huntsman when he returns."

"Don't tell me what?" he reentered the campsite carrying a large deer over his shoulders.

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