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Yeah, so I have a new story! The Lion King! No, it doesn't tie in with my other story, though my main characters are cousins. I know I should be on WWL, but I have serious writers block, so I started a new story. I will not forget my other story. This is my way of getting rid of writers block. Please review, and constructive criticism is welcome!


Chapter 1: Unneeded Want

Mimi Diamund sat on her bed in her room, chewing on her nails. Or at least pretending to. She had put a clear, nasty-tasting nail-polish on to stop her from biting her nails. It was working so far, but the nervous urge wasn't letting up. The reason for her distress?

Her cousins.

Zeahire and Saloma Diamund. Both of them had disappeared two days ago. Her parents, aunt and uncle were looking for both of them, but Mimi knew what happened.

The forest. The cursed forest. It was an old (and lame) legend, but it was true and scary. They had lost her aunt to that forest. The adults wouldn't believe that the girls would go near the forest, but Mimi could feel it.

She knew that Zea doesn't pay attention to where she is going, and Sal usually is watching her to make sure she doesn't trip. Which ends up in Sal tripping, then Zea is distracted and trips, usually over the same obstacle. When Mimi is there, she usually laughs her head off then trips or one, or both, of her cousins.

Mimi smiled, distracted from her sadness by silly memories. Her cousins really were crazy. Crazy enough to get themselves lost in a forest that they had been warned from birth about going near. Her smiled disappeared.

Mimi hopped out of bed, and started for the door. She had to get out of the house. Her parents had put her on lockdown because they knew wanted to look near the forest.

She snuck by her brother, who had come home from college for his missing cousins, and came into the front hallway. From there, she walked to the closet, and grabbed a few necessities, and one want.

The necessities('needs') were a light jacket, tennis shoes, her bag, and her sketchbook. Yeah, a sketchbook is not really a 'need', but Mimi takes it everywhere, so it has become a 'need'. The want was her ice skates.

Why ice skates in the middle of summer? Well, her cousin Zea had promised to go ice skating near the forest with Mimi.

Both of them knew that the forest was off limits, but it seemed that if you didn't touch the forest floor, you were fine. There was a long pond, in the back of Zea's huge backyard, that lead into the forest. All three cousins had secretly taught them selfs how to skate on that pond.

If was kind of childish, knowing that Zea was gone, and yet still expecting her to keep her promise. But Mimi knew that she had always been a little childish and stubborn, and now was no exception.

She made sure her skate guards were on the blades, then put her skates in her bag. She threw her bag over her shoulder and took off out the front door.

After about two minutes of walking, she came to the gate of Zea's backyard. Grabbing the key out of her trusty bag, she unlocked the gate and stepped inside. Locking up the gate again, she started for the hidden pond.

She didn't even need to search for the small dip in the ground that showed the entrance to the pond. She pushed back the bushes that concealed the rest of the area, and quickly slipped by. There wasn't anything special about the small clearing, except for the pond itself.

It was frozen. Completely solid, all year round. Mimi smiled. This was were a lot of her adventures with her cousins had happened. When they watched Inuyasha, Zea's favorite anime, they all played a part. Mulan, Sal's favorite, and The Lion King, Mimi's favorite, as well.

Mimi put on her skates, sitting on the tree stump that was perfect for sitting down and putting skates on. She then re-flung her bag over her shoulder, and took off across the ice, and into the forest.

Her plan was to go as far as the pond would let her to see if her cousins were anywhere near. She had never gone more than ten meters in, so she had no idea how long the pond actually was. So far it was 30 meters, and she still couldn't see to the end of it.

She skated over to the side, to look around.

Big mistake.

As she went over a thinner section, it cracked, trapping the blade of her skate underneath the ice. Her momentum propelled the rest of her body forward, while her foot was still stuck. She went down, hard.

Mimi landed on her knees and elbows, which, if you've ever done before, hurts like hell. She pushed herself up, mumbling under her breath.

"Of course I fall. How could I not fall? That's just how this whole thing has gone!" The mumbling turned into ranting. "My cousins disappear, I'm put on lockdown in my room, the ice breaks, my skate is stuck, and I fall on my face! Of course! WHY NOT!"

After her ranting had died down, she reached for her skate. The water was only 3 inches deep here, so she would have to be careful. She reached in and grabbed the blade, without cutting herself. The water was cold, and the blade was colder, so her fingers automatically jerked away.

And touched the bottom.

Mimi froze, not from the cold, but from fear. She had no idea if the bottom of the pond counted, but she was pretty sure it did.

Three seconds later, there was a blinding light, and Mimi found herself floating. There were swirling blue and purple lights, and she seemed to be moving through them. Suddenly, she was dumped on frozen body of water. She relaxed, thinking that was just the pond back home. But then she looked up.

She didn't see the familiar cover of the forest, oh no. What she saw was fields. Miles and miles of fields, with that type of tree you often see in african forests. Like the Lion King. What were they called? Acacia trees?

The thought of the Lion King made Mimi wonder if she was in that very movie. She dismissed that thought as soon as she had it. There were no frozen lakes in the Lion King. And even if there were, it was impossible to be transported to a movie. So then were was she? The only direction she hadn't looked yet was behind her, so she turned around.

And froze.

'There is no way' She thought vaguely.


For those of you who haven't read my other story and want to know what happened to Mimi's cousins, or the specifics of the curse on the forest are, please look at my Inuyasha story, What's With Life?