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So don't sue me!
Anyhow.
'Tis my very first fanfic—and it's on my absolutely all-time favorite book. Yay! I'm really, really excited. So… Please read & review! Updates may come slowly. School can do amazing (in this case in a bad way) things.
Summary: It's around the world and more in 120 days. Can they make it? (Who's "they"? You'll see.)
Around the World
Chapter 1,
In Which an Offer Was Made
"What? What do you mean the train can't come?" complained the young man in rage. "I need to get to Bicknell now!"
"Sir, the train does not arrive for another twenty-four hours. I cannot change the schedule," explained the irritated train engineer. This grumbling young fellow just does not seem to get it. "There's nothing I can do."
Cursing, the 'grumbling young fellow' stormed away. After looking around, annoyed, for a while, he settled on a bench and plopped down his luggage—a beat-up old bag—beside him. Face in hands, he grumbled about the stupid train schedule.
"Excuse me, sir, but I see that you are in a hurry to get somewhere?" the young man looked up to see a girl in her mid- to late-twenties standing in front of him, her head cocked. "You know there are other ways to get around here, don't you?"
He didn't. "Other ways?"
"Why, yes!" the girl seemed surprised. "You can go by wagon, for example, and—"
"And how fast is that?" he inquired.
"—It takes at least two days and at most three."
"Oh, no, that's way too long—"
"Or there's the elephant," suggested the girl.
"Elephant?"
"You can always rent one, or even buy one. That's what I would do if I were you."
"And it takes—"
"It takes only about a day and a half."
"Good! I will be taking that." The fellow stood up, his old bag in hand, and seemed anxious to leave. "Oh, and thank you, by the way."
"May I go with you?" asked the young lady. Her eyes sparkled eagerly, and the young man couldn't say no.
"Well, yes, if you want to," he replied.
So they rented an elephant and began the journey immediately, while it was still morning, to get there faster.
There was no way they could've known what this would lead to.
A/N Short chapter? Yes. But I try… Now… Please review! I kind of need criticism… That just sounded funny…(By the way… the elephant's faster than the wagon because it can go through areas that aren't roads, whereas the wagon can only stay on the road, which goes around quite a ways before swerving back towards Bicknell.)