Chapter 2 Notre Dame de Paris

Upon looking outside they found beautiful sites that were all French décor.

"Oh my, this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen," Elizabeth said with a smile on her face.

"Yup it sure looks amazing," Hogarth said.

Hogarth upon looking at all the buildings, houses, and churches finally realized where they were.

"Elizabeth, we're in Paris," he cried out in realization.

"Paris, what's that," Elizabeth asked confused.

Now Elizabeth was born in the fields of Pennsylvania and had never went anywhere else, so it's natural that she wouldn't know what Paris was so Hogarth filled her in on the subject.

"It's one of the most beautiful countries in the world, are you sure you've never heard of it."

"No of course I haven't."

"Well I think we probably jumped time too because this is the past," Hogarth said in realization as everyone and everything around there looked as if they had been living in previous centuries.

"Well I must say that everyone seems to know their place here," Elizabeth said playfully, "come on let's go and see the town."

As Elizabeth was about to run down Hogarth grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back up.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, not so fast Liz you can't go down there you'll scare everybody," Hogarth said.

Elizabeth realized that since she was a life-sized mouse she would be noticed by everybody, but that didn't stop her from begging.

"Oh come on, pleeaassee," Elizabeth said putting on her puppy dog eye routine again.

Hogarth getting annoyed with her constant routine looked into his backpack and he found a red hood.

"Here put this on your head," Hogarth said handing her the hood.

She tied it around her neck and concealed her mouse ears and it also did help to hide her face.

The hood actually matched with Elizabeth's red cloak and actually could act as a good disguise.

"Thank you Hogarth, do you think anybody will notice I'm a mouse if they see me."

"No, nobody we'll notice, if anyone asks we'll just say you're wearing a costume and so-forth."

Elizabeth nodded at Hogarth and they set off into town.

Before they did however, Hogarth called Dexter on his communicator.

"Hey Dex, it's Hogarth, I found out where we were."

"Good, well where are we?"

"We're in Paris, France in the past."

"What," Dexter said "how is that possible?"

"Well I guess, like Dean told me, things happen for a reason."

"Well you and Liz have fun, and come back soon alright, if anything happens call me."

Hogarth turned off the communicator and set off into town with Elizabeth, holding hands together.

Along the way they waved to people who welcomed them into their town with smiles and polite waves.

"They seem very happy to see us don't they," Elizabeth said.

"Yes I think they do," Hogarth said in response to her question.

As they walked through the town they found people dressed in costumes for a celebration that was going on later today. Hogarth was able to find out that the celebration was called "The Festival of Fools".

This festival was where people would dress up in hilarious costumes, play games, and have fun. Hogarth had once read about it in history class when studying the ancient times of France.

Seeing all of these people in the streets with their costumes, and cheerful attitudes made Hogarth and Elizabeth want to join in the celebration with them.

Unfortunately Hogarth didn't have a costume to wear. Elizabeth could have passed herself off as a girl in a mouse costume but Hogarth needed a costume that was goofy and silly.

"Hogarth, look what I found." The next second Elizabeth spotted a stand where they were selling costumes for the festival.

"Great eye Elizabeth let's go see if I can find a costume." They walked over to the stand and were greeted by a cheerful clerk.

"Welcome, what can I do for you?" Looking around Hogarth found a very silly, flamboyant costume that stood out amongst the other.

"How much for that costume sir," Hogarth asked.

"Well since it's a special day today it's free for you." Hogarth smiled at the offer, "Really thanks."

Hogarth took the costume and quickly changed into it.

"Well Elizabeth how do I look?"

Elizabeth seeing Hogarth in the goofy outfit tried to stifle a giggle but failed and burst out laughing. Hogarth looked at her with a frown on his face.

"I'm sorry… HA, HA… it just… HA…looks…HA… so funny," Elizabeth tried to say while laughing at the same time.

"Yeah, very funny Lizzie, ha ha," Hogarth said in a grumpy tone.

Elizabeth, trying to lighten him up, started acting childish again.

"Hey Mr. Grumpy Face," Elizabeth said with her hands on her hips, "lighten up and have fun I was just joking."

Hogarth lightened up at her joke and smiled at her.

"Alright Liz you got me, come on let's head to Towns Square," he said cheerfully.

Elizabeth quickly grabbed his hand and ran dragging him along with her to the Towns Square. When they got there they saw crowds with thousands of people there celebrating this event.

They both had a good time at this event joining in the many fun activities and games that were played during the festival. After a lot of fun they came across Paris's most celebrated cathedral,

Notre Dame de Paris.

"This building here is so beautiful Hogarth", Elizabeth said awestruck at seeing the cathedral, "what do you call a building like this," she asked.

"A building like this is called a cathedral, Elizabeth."

Seeing the confused look on Elizabeth's face when he told her what is was he decided to explain to her.

"A cathedral or a church is a place where people go to pray to God. God is supposed to be the one who had created the whole world and all of us, he's a great being, and we pray to him here."

Elizabeth listened but was staring awestruck at the cathedral right in front of them.

"This is amazing can we go inside," Elizabeth asked.

Hogarth, who did not want to get her puppy dog eye routine again, decided to let her have her way.

"I don't see why not."

Elizabeth jumped in joy and yelled in happiness. "YAY, come on let's go," Elizabeth said quickly grabbing Hogarth by the hand and dragging him in with her.

"I really need to stop letting her have her way," Hogarth said under his breath.

So they're going to head inside the church where they will finally meet Quasimodo. Stick around. Also I don't know a lot about the Festival of Fools and what kind of flamboyant costume Hogarth would wear, so give me some suggestions.