Title: Emissary to Sherwood
Chapter Title: Prologue
Summary: Two girls from Massachusetts in the year 2004 get transported to Sherwood forest in the 1100s. They don't believe they are actually meeting Robin Hood and his Merry 'Men', but they do realize when they begin falling in love with them...
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Warnings: This story contains three original characters. Also, Robin and his Merry Men don't show up until chapter three. I hope you'll like the first two enough to stick around, because I've got high hopes for this fic, and I'll cry if I don't get any reviews.
"Why do you hang out with IT?"
"She's been a friend of mine since we were born. She's also my best friend in the world!" Iris Kentbury, Storms Hart Academy's most popular girl announced. Her dark brown eyes flashed in anger at the girls surrounding her. When they tried again to bad-mouth her friend, she tossed her waist-length brown braid over her shoulder and stormed away.
From across the school, Jaq – pronounced "Jack" – Foster smirked at the bewildered Clique Chicks. She turned bright gray eyes back to her friends, listening to the social outcasts and unknowns joke around. She shook her head, sending her chin-length red-brown hair fanning out around her head. She was an outcast part by choice, and part by necessity. She was one of two tomboys in the well-to-do private academy she attended, thus marking her and the other tomboy, a girl named Billie, among the outcasts.
Jaqueline Foster was worse than Billie, however. Billie wore tight pants under her uniform skirt and acted out as often as possible. She sat, ate, talked, and walked like a boy. Jaq, though, had gone the extra mile and bought a boy's uniform. It wasn't so much that she wanted to be a boy as she hated being confined to the limitations a girl's uniform had. She also detested having hair in her eyes, thus the length of her own.
Iris and Jaq had been friends for almost fifteen years when, in tenth grade, Iris was discovered as a beauty. The girl's long, pale brown hair attracted many eyes, as did her brown eyes, so dark they were almost black. The pale-skinned teen was whisked away by that year's popular upperclassmen. By the next year, she was the prettiest girl in school, and one of the most popular. By the year after that, the girls' senior year, Iris was the prettiest and the most popular. Throughout it all, though, she stayed true to her childhood friend and lifetime neighbor. In spite of Iris' popularity, and Jaq's lack thereof, the girls remained loyal and best friends.
They both attended Storms Hart Academy in Springfield, Massachusetts (A/N: I made that school up; don't try to look for it). They lived next door to each other, right at the edge of West Springfield, and a mile and a half from the woods. Both girls also shared many of the same interests. Both were fond of the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", though Jaq preferred the book "Outlaws of Sherwood" by Robin McKinley to the movie. They also loved "The Labyrinth"; Iris could even quote large sections of the movie. Neither girl cared much for the social hierarchy of the school one way or the other. They were both content with their position, so long as no one said a harsh word about the other.
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A/N: Well? What did you think? Not the best, I know, but it's late, and I'm always bad at introducing my own characters. I just never know how.... Please review and let me know what you think of this? Thanks so much. I have another story coming out soon, and it should be in the same section, as well as one in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and one in the Buffy Crossovers. The only reason I'm advertising my own stuff is because all four are chapter stories and I'm doing them all at once. So if you're looking forward to any of them being updated, please be patient with me. And again, please review and tell me what you thought of it? And try to be nice? I've been emotionally sensitive lately... VV