® © ® © ® © ® ©So, basically I'm just pulling one story after another in my head. Thankfully the only ones I'm (sort of) having writer's block with are the ones that haven't even been published yet… I think… I might be sort of stuck on my Narnia one… Oh well… Anywho, this is basically the story of how and my three best friends, Ryan Wynne, Alexa Zabella, and Thehya Madarang, and I were sucked into another universe and changed into animals. For those of you who know us, yes, I do kinda have us out of character. But who cares? If anybody wants a full detail description, PM me and I'll e-mail it to you. And if you people are really nice to me, I might even include pictures of us. And don't worry; I'll keep the mass chaos to a lower minimum (?! That makes no sense.). Unless you want the mass chaos… o.O © ® © ® © ® © ®

Disclaimer: I, the wonderful authoress of this story, do not, under any circumstances own Redwall© (I just had to use the © thingy…), any of its affiliations, or the kick-butt tapestry of Martin the Warrior. They are owned by the wonderful man named Brian Jacques. I only own the characters that are not recognized.

This Story is Dedicated to the Hamer Family

In Loving Memory of:

Jarod Edmund Hamer

3/6/06-6/26/07

Age: 15 months

R.I.P.

Does This Tail Make My Butt Look Big?

Chapter One: Attack of the Evil Swirly-Vortex-Thingy

My House:

"Rain sucks," Kialie complained as she stared out at the gloomy landscape that was her backyard. It had been raining all day.

"That's the fiftieth time you've said that," her friend Alexa scowled. The rain was making them all grumpy. "Shut up."

"Idohwanna!" Kialie started to whine. "Thehya and I wanted to frolic outside!"

"Then do it inside!"

"There's no room!"

"SHUT UP!!" The walls trembled as Ryan's tremendous yell shook the room. He took a deep breath to calm himself down. Ryan turned to Kialie. "Hey Kialie, didn't you say you checked out that new Redwall book?"

"Oh yeah." She got up and ran out of the living room.

Thehya turned to Alexa after they heard the receding footsteps on the stairs.

"Alexa, you shouldn't be so hard on her. I realize that you're just put out by the rain, but you don't need to take it out on her."

The other girl snorted in reply. "If she didn't act so darn immature half the time, I wouldn't have a reason to. Besides, it's not like you don't act the same way a lot of the time."

"You know perfectly full and well that you do it too. Don't think she didn't tell me about the 'duck race incident'."

Flashback (This is actually a real flashback of something that happened on Friday, February 9, 2007.)

As Alexa and Kialie were heading back to the school after getting some turtle-ly goodness from Javasurf, Kialie looked at the pond.

"Hey, look! Duckies! Hi duckies!"

The two ducks (a boy and a girl) started to swim away from the side of the pond.

"Where're you going, duckies? You know, I can't get you from behind this wall."

Alexa pointed at the ducks. "Hey look, they're racing!"

The female duck was ahead of the male duck.

Alexa pumped her fist in the air. "OH YEAH! My duck won! Your's is slow and it stopped to do… something…"

"Nu-uh! I bet on the girl duck too!"

"Really? That means we both won! Gimme some skin!"

They completely missed each others hands.

Kialie laughed. "We completely missed each other's hands! Say, what're our prizes?"

Alexa pondered that question. "Umm… Turtles!"

"Turtles? Sweet!"

"Look, we already have our prizes!"

"Oh, wow! Amazing!"

"God must have known that we were going to bet on the same duck and win, so He made us go get turtles without us even knowing that they were our prizes!"

"AMAZING! THE GREAT AND AWESOME POWERS OF GOD STRIKE AGAIN!!"

End Flashback (Yes, this really happened.)

"And your point is?"

"My point is that all of us act the same way. That's why we're all such good friends." Thehya sighed. "And besides, for all you know, her immaturity could save us all one day."

Alexa couldn't help but laugh. "Her? Save us? I know that she is very observant and either remembers, hears, or sees things that we usually don't, but her IMMATURITY? Oh, please. If that ever happens, I'll give you a million bucks and all my manga."

"You're on!"

Ryan sighed as he continued reading his new volume of Fruits Basket. 'Remind me again WHY I'm friends with these three?'

Suddenly, Kialie burst back into the room, waving a book in her hands. "Found it!"

Alexa rolled her eyes. "Whoopdy-freakin'-dooda."

Kialie stuck her tongue out at her cranky friend as she settled down next to Thehya. Finally, everything was calm. The falling rain and some thumps on the ceiling where Kialie's two dogs had started another wrestling match were the only sounds as the four teens silently read their books. A few minutes later, though, the silence was interrupted by a gasp from Kialie.

"Um, guys?" Her voice was barely above a squeak.

"What now?" was the only reply she got from the other three.

"You better come look at this." Kialie was obviously a bit freaked. Alexa, Ryan, and Thehya looked at each other as they gathered around their friend. Something was evidently wrong.

"It seems that either someone vandalized this book in a really spiffy design—which, by the way, I don't think is very possible since I was the first person to check it out, though it could've been done before the book was at the library." She paused as she turned the book around with trembling hands so the others could see it. "Or a swirly-vortex-type-thing is forming in the book. And believe me, I good for truly hope that it's the former."

Alexa rolled her eyes again as she looked closer at the book. "So someone drew a circular thingy that looks like its spinning and seems to be growing larger every second. Big de-" She stopped as she realized what she had just said.

"Oh, snap."

Thehya screeched as she grabbed Kialie's arm and dragged her to the other side of the room, causing the book to fall out of her hands. The book landed face up and the swirly-vortex-thingy rose into the air. As the three girls clung to Ryan, (Alexa and Ryan had joined the other two just moments before) a strange breeze started to pick up. Seconds later, it was a full fledged gale that was blowing from some unknown source.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" Ryan shouted over the tornado-without-the-tornado-itself that was basically destroying the living room.

"I don't know!" Kialie yelled back. "If I had to guess, though, we're probably about to be transported to another dimension. But that's just a guess."

"Why do you figure that?" Alexa asked/shouted.

"Well, if you really want to know, big tendrils of that big swirly-vortex-thingy are coming towards us. And if I've learned anything from all the books and slash or fanfictions I've read, that usually means it's about to grab us."

It was true. The ever quickening swirly-vortex-thingy was starting to reach towards them.

"Um… guys?" Thehya started. "I'm thinking now would be a good time to START RUNNING."

Kialie scoffed. "Are you crazy? Please tell me you have read at least one story or seen at least one movie where someone is transported into another dimension."

Thehya thought for a minute. "Umm… Not that I can remember."

"OI!" Kialie slapped her forehead. "Well, why haven't you?" Shaking her head sadly, she continued. "It's a very good thing that those… things aren't going very fast. Anywho, it wouldn't be any use to run. The vortexes always manage to get their victims. Even if you ran, they still somehow manage to get you anyways. So basically, there's no use running. We might as well just stand here and save our breath." The black tendrils of the swirly-vortex-thingy slowly continued their approach towards the semi-terrified group. Kialie took a deep breath as she turned around to face her friends.

"Guys, we're about to depart on an adventure that some people would die for." Her face was determined, her voice serious. Gone was any sign of the girl who had earlier been doing her own rendition of "Hard Work" from Fame. This was a side of her people rarely saw.

The tendrils came up to her and slowly started to make their way up her legs. Kialie shivered at the cold touch but continued. "We don't know where we're going, when we'll come back. All I know is that we're all in this together. Once we see that we are, we're all stars and we'll see that we're all in this together. And it shows when we stand hand in hand, make our dreams come true." (She shuddered, absolutely horrified, as she realized she had just said the whole refrain from a song from High School Musical.)

"We gotta stick together, no matter what happens." She stuck out her hand. "Are you with me?"

Slowly, each of her friends put their hands on top of Kialie's. By now, Kialie was nearly completely covered with the black stuff. Pulling her hand back, she stared into their eyes and smirked.

"See you on the other side." With that, she closed her eyes as her face was completely covered. The black mass then sunk down into itself and quickly returned to the swirly-vortex-thingy. The brave girl was gone.

"That idiot…" Ryan whispered to himself. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand as Alexa sniffled. Thehya turned and looked at her sniveling buddies.

"Do you guys have short term memory loss or something?" She slapped both of them upside the head. "If I remember correctly, she said 'See you on the other side.' Which, of course, obviously means that she expects us to go in after her. Did you not listen to that long monologue she gave? I mean, seriously, you guys! UGH!" Thehya turned around a stalked towards the swirly-vortex-thingy. She turned around. "Later, peeps." Immediately, she wasm grabbed in. Ryan looked at Alexa and then back at the swirly-vortex-thingy. With a sigh, he reached over and grabbed the remaining girl's arm as he started towards the vortex.

"Well, come on Alexa. It's not like we have a choice in the matter." His final thought as he was sucked in was 'PLEASE remind me why I'm friends with these three again!'

END CHAPTER ONE