Germany: 1943, "HURRY! HURRY! THEY'RE GETTING CLOSER!" A little girl cried. "Don't yell at the horses! Or else they won't go anywhere!" Another girl whispered but loud enough for the other one to hear her. "We just have to stay quiet long enough and then when we make it to the beach we can turn right and go up the mountain!" A young boy told the two worried girls. There were a few other kids but they simply remained silent and focused. There were two teenagers and 5 kids. The girl who cried first was ellie, short for elliot, her parents had wanted a boy. The second girl was one of the two teens, she was called alice. The boy who had the strategy was phillip. They were limited on horses so another boy was sitting behind him on the same saddle, alexander. Another teen, who was sweating with fear, had on a navy blue wool sweater that had the Star of David on it, this was maria but everyone called her mary. "You wouldn't be sweating and panting like a hound if you'd taken that blasted sweater off!" Phillip yelled. She just gave him a dirty glare, wheeled up her sleeve to show her arm and it quickly morphed into a jagged blade, he looked away in fright while shaking slightly. "Change back!" Alice yelled as a blasting light came upon them and the sound of their devilish dogs barking non-stop. Faster, anna, faster! The girl thought with her head close to it's ears and the horse looked toward the others, nodded and their entire herd had gone up in speed dramatically. Almost throwing one of the other boys off their horses. "THE BEACH IS COMING UP!" Ellie yelled, Prepare to turn right very quickly, anna! Alice thought to her horse and her horse alerted the others. "COME BACK HERE! YOU ODDITIES HAVE TROUBLED ALL OF US ENOUGH!" "WE'VE TROUBLED YOU?! WHY YOU LITTLE-" Alice brought her horse closer to ellies and cupped her mouth. They had arrived at the beach and alexander turned over to one of the silent girls, "QUICKLY, MAKE US INVISIBLE!" The girl who hadn't spoken was sarah, she flew up her arm and just like that, they were completely invisible. They made a hard right and started running toward the top. "UP AT THE TOP IS A CLIFF LEADING TO THE SEA, WHEN WE GET UP THERE-" "-PLEASE TELL ME WE'RE NOT GOING TO-" "JUMP!" They came to the top very quickly due to alice telling the horses to speed up. "ALRIGHT, NOW, JUST BELOW US IS AN ENTRANCE TO OUR LOOP, NOW C'MON!" Just then, they heard gunfire and alice's horses leg got shot and the two crashed down with a thud, sarah lost her concentration and their invisibility completely disappeared. "SARA BRING UP THE INVISIBILITY! I'M GONNA BE FINE, MEET YOU THERE NOW HURRY!" Alice yelled then put her hand to the horses wounded leg, a small light shined then the leg was healed, she looked back up and noticed that no one had moved a muscle. Alice hopped off the horse to allow her better balance for standing, I'm sorry anna, we need you to come with us, please. Alice thought. Then the barking of the dogs and their motor vehicles grew louder, anna shot up and with her head, picked up alice and she slid down her neck to land perfectly in the saddle. "The cliff's just up ahead!" "Tengo un mal presentimiento sobre esto..." The last teen said who was rafael, a hispanic who knew no german nor english. At the bottom of the cliff lied a raging, stormy sea with large jagged rocks below. JUMP! Alice told the other horses, without consent of the others, they screamed as the horses leaped into the air, one of the wights wielding a gun fired and it hit ellie's shoulder as blood splattered onto her horse. By the time the nazi's and wights made it to the top of the cliff, they looked down to where they'd fallen and there was nothing there.
While under the water, the 'horses' began growing gills, their hoofs became long fins, despite the change they all remained brown, they all were peculiar animals of the same kind. Alice noticed, ellie in dire pain from the salt water making it's way into her shoulder gash, rise, alpha, your friend needs air. Ellie's 'horse' rose up as instructed by alice, the horse was still entirely submerged but ellie's whole upper body was above water, she had compared it to riding a dolphin atop the water. They were all headed to a nearby island, not too long a distance and just a straightforward path, when they had arrived, the water was as gray as the clouds that had enveloped the sky but the further they went as all of them came closer to the island, the clouds moved away rather quickly and the sun started to shine brightly. While under, alice had noticed rafael and sara holding their throats as their faces turned red, alright, anna, everybody, rise, your friends are in slight need of oxygen. The 'horses' rose to lift their companions above sea level and all of them gasped though alice stayed under, making everyone worried for HER air. "¿Puedes oírme, ana, Alice?" Rafael asked, alexander cocked an eyebrow, "what makes you think a fish horse understands spanish?!" Rafael was a little confused and squinted his eyes while it looked like he was trying to guess what he had said, conveniently maria happened to know multiple languages, including spanish and decided to translate, "Rafael, alexander le había pedido groseramente" lo que te hace pensar un caballo de pescado puede hablar español? '" Rafael turned to glare at alexander then smirked as he brought his 'horse' closer to his then snapped his fingers and moved away with a cocky grin, making alexander puzzled. Just then millions of tiny bubbles came up to the surface, it looked as though the water behind him was boiling but in a limited size circle and began to chase. Piranhas surfaced and bit his butt and part of his back, rafael chuckled slightly, he doesn't take too kindly to others sarcasm. They all were nearing the island, but a couple of seconds they'd be on land, the sun shined brightly on them as it appeared to be high noon. Finally alice came up and the horses started to revert back to their original forms until finally stepping onto the sand in normal horse form. Everybody got off of their peculiar animals but right as ellie got off of hers she toppled to the ground and began bawling at how much the shot had stung with the salt in it. This alerted alice as she ran over to her friend and put her hands on the wound, she'd only healed animals before so this was her first attempt at a human injury, her regular light glowed and the hole closed up but it still formed a scab. "It appears that humans seem to be more difficult, animals heal much quicker, I just speed up the pace." Alice explained, ellie sniffled but managed to stifle her tears as she slowly got up. "Este es un lazo mucho más bonito que el anterior ...". Everyone turned to maria, "He said this is a much nicer loop than before." "The last one wasn't supposed to be a good loop." Alexander stated. "Anyway, we know that this must be a loop so there must be an ymbryne somewhere close. Let's go around the perimeter and then-" "that'll take too long! I say, cut straight through the forest then we'll-". All of a sudden there was an earthquake, cutting off maria and alexander, the horses started getting nervous, anna jumped back with her two front legs kicking in the air until she finally fell back down, making a huge thud. A huge stream of fire launched into the air followed by some water to douse it. "ESTO PARECE INTERESANTE! DEBEMOS SABER LA CONMOCIÓN!" "Maria?" Everyone asked in sync, "He says that we should see what the commotion is." Alice put ellie on her back to give her a ride since she looked tired, she looked back at the horses that behaved and stayed perfectly still but was reluctant to give them these orders; You guys, stay here! If I…, we need you, I'll be sure to call, we're headed toward the loud sounds ok? She didn't expect a response, "HURRY UP, ALICE OR WE'LL LEAVE WITHOUT YOU!" Seems they all decided to put themselves in danger without my opinion, this may get bad. She ran toward her friends as ellie was about to fall asleep.
The forest they ventured through was considerabely short as after but a half minute they could see all the way through the ends of the trees and noticed a village being terrorized by some odd peculiar. They all were confused when they saw a fellow peculiar harm innocent people, it was a girl who looked to be about 10 or 11 and she was wearing sunglasses, as expected due to the sun's blinding brightness. It appeared that the girl could sense their presence and turned toward their direction, sarah acted quickly and made an invisible barrier to make them unseen, the girl looked away with a sigh. To rafael this made him think she was ok, "Tal vez ella es amable". Maria slapped the back of his head for his idiotic remark, "¡Idiota! ¿De verdad crees que ella es amigable?" Everyone turned to face them with confused glances as they argued in spanish, after thumping his head, maria told them what he had said; "Maybe she's friendly-" Just then, the girl burned another building and forced out the family living there, the others slapped their foreheads now knowing the stupidity of his statement. "LOOK!" Phillip, who had been rather quiet most of this time had pointed out something VERY peculiar about the girl, the same hand she used to burn the building shot ice, it first emerged like a frosted gas then liquified, finally hardening. She brought up her other hand and that one shot out fire once more, burning yet another building, surprisingly, she was laughing like a child who had just gotten a wonderful party gift and seemed like she was having a lot of fun until one brave, tall, and muscily man ran up to her, tied her two hands into a bag tightly, put her arms behind her back while the man held them. The children gasped, then another man walked up, scolding her for a while then finally slapping her, making her glasses fall off, she closed her eyes tightly so no one could see them, she was slapped repeatedly and tears began to fall but kept her eyes closed. The man knee'd her in the stomach and this time her eyes shot wide open from the shock, he managed to keep her eyes open by putting his fingers to her eye lids, her eyes were white. The crowd that had gathered, jumped back, "WITCH!" "ABOMINATION!" "DEVIL'S CHILD!" The girl fell to the ground as the townspeople started kicking her, sarah lost her focus so the inviso-barrier disappeared, maria charged out of the bushes she hid her hand inside her sweater and it emerged as a small jagged dagger. "NO MARY! DON'T!" She sliced the calf of one of the men that were kicking her and he crashed down like a ton of bricks, she turned to look back at the person she had cut and he had the swastika on his upper-arm, mary gasped when she noticed that the whole group had swastika's and she ran but while she did, they saw her hand change back from a blade to it's regular form as well as the Star of David on her very out-of-place sweater due to the heat. Everybody else was wearing their stars on the inside of their socks and under their shoes. Sarah had gotten us in trouble and into that chase by trying to fool the nazi's. She had a long dark blue skirt that had tons and tons of stars all were the same color but were actually the Star of David, they couldn't notice until one of them finally got a closer look and saw that it had SIX points instead of the normal five. For fooling them, she ran away but ran toward us, bringing the horses with her, alice noticed her outside and took everyone with her on her horses quickly and the chase started. Maria was the only one who ever wore her Star of David in plain sight, she claimed to be proud of her religion but actually, all of them were proud…, they just valued their lives. Rafael ran up next and grabbed the girl, though, it was before she could pick up her sunglasses, she decided to keep her eyes shut but she also was resisting the help. Rafael snapped his fingers again as the townsfolk started to chase them since he had the girl. A giant great white shark leaped into the air from the nearby beach they had swam out of and it began it's attack, everyone screamed and most of them left in a panic. It was the men that stayed but they were faster than the others, finally, alice arrived on her peculiar horse, anna and alpha. She started running close to the two of them, grabbed rafael's hand and yanked him up onto the back of her saddle, the girl jumped onto alpha as they ran back toward the forest. Sara, mary, ellie, philip, and alexander immediately noticed they had been left behind until they heard alice's faint whistle in the distance and out came their horses, they were picked up unwillingly by the horses heads, as they slid down their backs and landed on the saddle, they heard alice whistle once again and the horses began charging into the forest.
