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Here's another necessary chapter, though most of it is Original character history. But there is good stuffs here too!
Raul scribbled down the answers to the stupid questions. This work was emphatically elementary for her 14-year-old intellect. Her ears really did hurt. She ran a hand over the tips to try to lessen the pain and started. They were tapered! She raced upstairs and put her snowboarding hat on. This was aberrant.
Raul Elstar had known Nelena, (this was described before), and helped her smash sticks. Raul had very short, boy's cut, blondish-brown hair. She hated the fact that Nelena, though almost a year younger than herself, was about ¾'s of an inch taller than he. She had piercing gray eyes.
"Hey, Raul?" her 12-year-old little sister, Lilly, called from her room.
Lilly had long brown hair, and she was 5' tall. She had identical gray eyes to Raul, their only similarity. She was much more heavily built that her friend Ria, but, again, it was all muscle.
"Yeah?"
"Could you come here a minute?"
"What for?" She and Lilly were nicer to each other than their parents thought, but they were still sisters.
"Please?"
"Sure." Raul ambled to Lilly's room. She was crouched with her hair out of the usual ponytail. Raul closed the door. She turned to Lilly, whose face sported a look of fear.
"Does this mean anything?" Lilly pulled her hair back to reveal similarly pointy ears.
"This complication doesn't compute." Raul pulled off her yellow and black hat.
"Strange."
"Agreed."
Suddenly there was a knock on the window. Both Elstars jumped, then quickly pulled out the ponytail and got on the hat. Raul then went over to the glass. There was a lady with pointed ears crouched on a branch on the tree near the pane. Raul cocked her head, and then unlocked the window and let the lady in.
The lady wore a long, royal purple dress. The dress was of a plain, dark purple make with folds at the bottom so that when the woman turned sharply, it flew in a circle around her. Over that was a lavender coat with no ties or buttons to hold it in place. Instead, a thinly knotted gold cross pin containing an amethyst in the middle. She was a very tall being, probably 6 feet tall. Her long black hair cascaded around her shoulders and down to her hips. Her dark blue eyes searched them keenly.
"Who are you?" Lilly started.
"An intruder." Raul growled.
"An elf."
"Huh?" Raul said, baffled. "elves are vagary, naught a trifle more.
"I am obviously proof of your incorrectness. Another example is your ears." At this, Raul and Lilly's hands shot to their ears. "I have come to give you information, news, and a warning." The elf-lady answered. "But first, I need your friends."
"Uhhh…." Raul and Lilly were confused.
"Stay in this room, I'll be back." The lady jumped out the window and disappeared into the dark.
"Should I tell mom?" Lilly asked.
"Negative." Raul answered. "But you and I might desire to get our backpacks void and prepared." So they both went downstairs, took out all schoolbooks, cell phones, everything from their packs. They grabbed an extra, and then went back to Lilly's room.
"Why do we need backpacks?" Lilly asked.
"If that biped was seriously an elf, then I am disinclined to assume that we'll be loitering here for much more time," was Raul's answer.
They both sat down and waited. Soon there was another knock at the window. This time, Lilly got up and opened it. The lady scrambled through, followed by Nelena, Ria, and Lilly and Raul's 12-year-old third cousin, Noeli.
Noeli Sondans had wavy, dirty blond hair that fell just below her shoulders. She liked to keep it in a low ponytail. She used to be 4'11, but for some reason she was now 4'5. Her blue eyes looked confused.
"You waned in caliber." Raul said as she pointed and laughed at Noeli. Noeli glared at her.
"Okay, what's going on?" Ria asked with surprising force.
"More than 1000 years ago, a war was waged. It killed almost everyone. Or at least, it would have if five young girls hadn't come. I have been alive since then. You five are those heroines." The elf told them.
"Heroines?" Said Ria. "That's a drug." They all laughed.
"Us?" inquired Raul.
"Yeah right." Lilly said, disbelivingly.
"What do we need?" Nelena asked, all business.
The four others turned to Nelena.
"You actually believe her?" Ria questioned. Nelena nodded.
"Anything you can carry on your back. There is, err, was no technology, so don't bring it." was the answer.
"But why us?" Ria all but whined.
"Two of you are elf-children, two are ent-children, one is a dwarf-child." The lady answered.
"No way. I don't want to be mixed up in some big ol' war that isn't in any history books. What can we do? We're all kids. We aren't heroes." Noeli argued. "We can't be the difference in a war. Why would we put our lives on the line for someone that tapped on our windows? I, for one, am not going to believe someone who put fake ears on this morning!"
"Wow." Ria commented.
"Please!" the elf begged. "they need you!"
"Who needs us?!" Lilly countered.
"Yeah. How can we, a bunch of suburban girls, be mythical heroes for non-existent creatures!?" Raul chimed in.
"If you don't go back, you won't exist. Please, for your sake." The elf lady's eyes started to tear. The girls shared a look and a sigh.
"C'mon, guys, let's go pack up the backpacks." Lilly suggested.
"Bring hair-ties, gloves, and boots." Raul instructed. Lilly, Ria, and Noeli went to the bathroom to put their hair back. Then those three went to the kitchen and made sandwiches that could last the five 2 weeks.
"Raul, Lilly, we're leaving!" their parents called, oblivious to the other four girls in the house.
"Okay." The Elstar sisters called back, trying to keep them oblivious. It worked.
Nelena and Raul raced downstairs and searched the hat basket. There they found two pairs of gloves. Raul searched the closet upstairs and found the required 2 other pairs. Noeli wanted armsocks. Raul also retrieved her own steel-toed boots for herself, and her old ones for Noeli. Nelena insisted on sneakers. They raced back upstairs.
Lilly lent Ria her old hiking boots and put on her new ones. Nelena tossed the younger two 2 pairs o' gloves. Then Raul and Lilly dug out rope from their dad's workbench. It was divided between the backpacks. The sandwiches were, too.
Nelena pulled out her dad's two pocketknives and gave one to Noeli. Raul got a good-sized one from the previously noted workbench, along with a hatchet. The hatchet went into the pack, along with her and Noeli's knife. Lilly got the 2 biggest kitchen knives and placed them in her back. Nelena's went into her own pack (Lilly's old one.)
"Circumspect." Raul announced when they had all assembled. The lady, along with Lilly, Noeli, and Ria, all tilted their heads.
"She says we're ready." Nelena sighed.
"Okay, here's the staff." The lady handed Raul a white and black staff. Noeli placed her hand on top. Raul put her hand directly below Noeli's. Nelena placed her hand above Lilly's and Ria put hers below Lilly's. "Now, eldest elf-child, say 'csoph yt cedl vu kimr gohiv vji zes'."
Raul did. An irresistible force closed all girls' eyes. Ria tried to scream, but it felt like she was paralyzed. Panic gripped them all. Luckily, as fast as the sensation had come, it left. When their eyelids were released to open, the five were in a forest.
"Where are we?" Ria asked, the fear from their last ordeal still shaking her voice. They all looked around at the forest surrounding them. Trees were all they could see from all direction.
"I don't know." Lilly answered. Ria gratefully noted that her voice shook, too. The others nodded.
"Look, way over there! The trees are walking!" Lilly pointed. One of them had leaves that looked like the season was autumn. This specific tree-walker turned its head to the group, even though they were too far away to have been heard. It made eye contact to Nelena, and she felt herself getting stronger. It then walked away, leaving the other four oblivious, since they had been looking at the other ents.
"Let's follow them." Noeli suggested. So they set off, trying to keep up with the 20-foot trees. Whenever one looked back, the five hid. It was that way until the edge of the forest. Then the moving trees attacked a fortress.
The girls hid in the underbrush and waited. Some humans ran past them into the woods, dropping armor and weapons as they went.
Moon: Such a long chapter
Phoenix: That's it!
Moon: ?
Phoenix: Raul is acting like such a computer, I'm gonna frieking jump into the story and translate for her!
Moon: So... Which character are you gonna be?
Phoenix: Guess.
Moon: I don't guess. I know or I don't know. But just to keep you in check, I'm jumping in after you.
Phoenix and Moon: can you guess which characters we are?