Authors Note: this is just another people get stuck in Tortall except not really. See each one of us, the Freaky Five (that's ballonfuzz, IceDragon26, SirAnna, acegrl101 and me Zimba the Evil Quail) is going to write a chapter from each persons point of view. It's really now as bad as it sounds, this chapter is crummy though because it just gives lots of background info, it'll get better though. So just read it and review okay, ~Thanx

Disclaimer: I don't own nothing okay well except for the dust bunnies that live under my bed but no lawyer wants those, I think.

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Trapped in Tortall

Chapter 1

By: Zimba the Evil Quail

"They're perfectly capable of playing 'court games' actually they're quite good at them. They also prize money and power highly, but I don't think that they would go as far a Delia but they could get close. They've been raised in such closed minded families that they believe that most important part of life is to have money." Julianna nodded in agreement. Julianna and I had just completed 1st period, Study Hall, the topic of discussion had been the comparison of the girls in our private all girl school to the characters in Tortall, sadly most of them had the obvious traits of Delia of Eldorne.

JJ (Julianna's nickname) and I finished putting our books in our locker and went to meet up with the rest of the our class in the Commons. Our class was going on a field trip to a Power Plant (groan). Julianna and I met up with the rest of our friends, Maggie, Lauren and Amelia. Together we were know as the Freaky Five. Our name was a copy of a group of girls in our class called the Foxy Five, their group consisted of Amy, Amanda, Alex, Ariel, and Maya.

The Foxy Five and the Freaky Five were complete opposites. The Foxy Five were all girls who loved to obsess over boys, make-up, and fashion. While we, the Freaky Five, spent most of our time reading. We even began a Fantasy Book Club at our school. One thing we both have in common is the liking of the internet for completely different reasons. We love the internet for FanFiction.net and FictionPress.net, while they enjoy AIM and staring at pictures of their favorite actors with their shirts off (boring).

There are some moments when both the Foxy and Freaky Five come together. The prime example of this is on Field Trips. Our class can fit on one large bus and one small bus; the year before we, the Freaky Five, had taken over the small bus and they (the MOB aka Most Obnoxious Beings aka preps and airheads aka most of the other people in our class) would triple-up on the large bus. This year our classes numbers had swelled, if only five people sat on the small bus they would have to quadruple up on the big bus and the teachers wouldn't stand for it, so some people of the MOB were sent to our bus. We would have to listen to them complain about how they couldn't sit with so and so. Luckily though they sat as far away from us as possible but they had extremely high-pitched voices that carried and made someone want to scream. So we the Freaky Five had forged an agreement with the Foxy Five. They would ride on the small bus so we didn't have to end up with the really, really annoying people and they each got their own seat and weren't over run by sweaty people ( the air conditioning usually broke) for the three hour ride.

The field trip to the Power Plant started as any other. Maggie led the pack of students and stood outside the small bus, which meant no one would go on it. When the rest of the Freaky Five arrived we took the seats in the back. Then the Foxy Five arrived taking the seats in the front. We were extremely lucky this particular field trip because many of the teachers had caught the flu so they decided that the small bus wouldn't have a teacher supervisor. It seemed that our regular bus driver had also come down with something, meaning we had an especially peculiar bus driver. He seemed way too old to be working or even alive. His face seemed to be a maze of wrinkles, and his nose was very prominent almost like the beak of a raven. He slouched so much that I wondered if he was even capable of seeing over the steering wheel. The oddest thing, was that he never said a word, not in the beginning to lay out the rules nor to tell us to shut-up because we were being to loud.

It was an extremely gloomy day, rain was pouring down in sheets and I could barely see the back lights of the bus in front of us. I must have dozed off because when I woke up we had left the city and were out in Nowheres Ville. I looked around, JJ was squinting at her book trying to make the words out in the gloom, Maggie was staring out the window in one of her thinking stupors, Amelia, also know as Imi was listing to her head phones and playing games on her cell, Lauren was sleeping. The Foxy Five were all listening to their head phones, I could hear the steady beat of the rap songs. They were mostly looking at different magazines.

I peered out into the aisle way to see the bus in front of us. I saw it turn off the road, but instead of following it our bus driver kept going straight. Before I could ask the bus driver "What the hell was going on?" in a nice way, of course, I heard the thump as our road dead ended and we started bumping along on the grass. Then bang, we ran into a tree!

Everyone stopped what they were doing to look around and see what was going on. I stood up and yelled at the bus driver, "What the hell is going on?" meant in the nicest sense of course. He just stood up calmly, bring himself to his full height which was about 4 inches shorter then me. Slowly he muttered some word in a language I was sure I had never heard before, and suddenly I felt as if I had just gone down a hill on a giant roller coaster. Then dusted off his clothes which I had not seen before, he was dressed in a type of robe. Then he looked at me as if he just heard what I said. His response was "That would take all the fun out of it, now wouldn't it dearie."

Then, right in front of my eyes, he morphed into a raven and literally flew through the roof, though, there was no hole. At that moment I knew something was wrong and it had not been a trick of light. I was stranded with the Foxy Five and my friends in the middle of nowhere in a rain storm. I was also very cold, our uniforms consisted of a short skirt, knee highs, Doc Martins, a white blouse and a navy-blue sweater if you were lucky enough to bring one, I wasn't. I decide things couldn't get much worse then this, but I was very wrong.

No one had spoken since the bus driver had disappeared. We were all too shocked. I sat down trying to make sense of what had just happened when I heard metal ripping metal. I looked out the fogged glass of the window trying to see what had made the eerie sound. I felt rain on my head, I looked up with dread and apprehension on my face, looking down at me was a thing with the body almost like metal spider but with a human torso and head. It had ripped a hole in the roof of the bus and was now peering down at me. It smiled, it's teeth sharpened metal, it's breath smelt distinctly of carnage and dried blood. I heard the people around me screaming I heard myself screaming but it felt as if it wasn't really me but someone else. It reached down with a metal arm and brushed my cheek. That spurred me and the others into action. The Foxy Five, after the initial shock had headed straight for the bus door, that was closed. We, the Freaky Five, were all sitting stock still, knowing that we couldn't get out the way we had come in. I stared at the monster. My body was perfectly still except for my left arm frantically reaching towards my backpack that had slid in to the aisle. My arm brushed against the emergency exit door handle. I noticed Imi, who was sitting in the seat adjacent to me, see my hand try to open the emergency exit, but it had a special security leaver which I couldn't undo with one hand. Imi scooted to the edge of her seat, and poised herself to open the emergency door then, with lightning speed, she undid the latch and kicked the door open.

The monster jerked his head up as the door clanked against the outside of the bus. I took that moment to slither out from it's metal legs and make a mad dash, but in my haste I tripped over my backpack. I had thrown myself headlong, so I flew about 2 feet before landing face-flat in the mud with the backpack straps tangle around my ankles. I heard a splash as a person landed in the mud next to me and dashed off, 2 splashes later I felt some one lift me up help me untangle the backpack from my legs and dash off I looked up to thank them and saw the receding form of Lauren.

With that I ran as fast was humanly possible. I followed a path that had been made by the people in front of me. I soon pulled up behind the dashing group, as it was harder for them to run through untamed forest. Imi and Amy were leading the group. They were probably the fastest runners at long distance, but I could tell even they were getting winded. Julianna began to drop behind because of asthma, then Maggie, and I knew I was going to fall behind. I could run short distances fast, but tired quickly. Finally I couldn't keep going so I stopped exhausted. Slowly I got my breathing under control but the rest of the group had long disappeared. I began to backtrack in search of Maggie and Julianna. Sure enough when I reached a small clearing their was Maggie, Julianna, Alex and Maya.

I slowly approached them to look over the shoulder of Julianna and there on a stump was a gooey, glowing substances almost like a spider web. Julianna and I looked at each other recognition dawned on our faces at the same instant, we both knew all to well that we were being chased by spidrens, and the only place spidrens existed was Tortall.

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