"mmmmmmph…" Elizabeth groaned, her head was pounding. She felt a breeze on her back, and she felt something tickling her face. Slowly she opened her eyes and lifted her head. She was laying facedown in a field; a light breeze was blowing her hair around. She flipped around and sat up, rubbing her head. What had happened? Then she remembered. The ground under the tree! Her eyes went wide, where was Gil! Luckily she found him right next to her, flat on his face and passed out. She released a sigh of relief and poked the back of his read repeatedly.

"Gil, wake up! She yelled as she smacked the back of is head as hard as she could. Finally he stirred. He sat up rubbing the back of his head.

"Dammit Liz!" he mumbled as he yawned. Once he opened his eyes he looked around in shock.

"Where are we?" he cried as he jumped up, turning in circles. Liz also stood up and brushed off her knees.

"That tree ate us remember? And apparently…dropped us in a field…"she said slowly, realizing how ridiculous it sounded.

"Ha! I must be dreaming! No problem, I'll just pinch myself and wake up!" Gilbert reasoned with himself hysterically as he pinched at his arms, saying "Ow!" every time.

'This isn't a dream Gil!" Elizabeth cried out. He stopped.

"We…need to find someone to talk to…" she said quietly. Both strained their vision looking for any signs of life. The sighed when they didn't see anything.

"We might as well start walking then." Gilbert stated as he just chose a direction and began walking. Liz couldn't think of anything better, so she fallowed.

Soon the pair manager to reach a road, it was beat to hell and falling apart.

"Hey, a roads a road. It must lead somewhere!" Elizabeth said happily to her albino companion, he fist pumped in happiness.

"What can I say? The awesome me just has an equally awesome sense of direction!" he exclaimed, Elizabeth smacked him upside the head and huffed off down the road.

"Owwwwwww, that hurt Liz!" he whined as he rubbed his head.

They continued their antics as the continued down the gravel road. Once they reached the top of this one hill, they were ecstatic to see a little village below. The cheered as they ran down into the town entrance. It was adorable, straight out of a story book. Little windows with shutters and flowers. And a fountain in the center. All that was missing were the villagers.

"Where is everyone?" Gilbert asked. Liz shrugged. Then they heard the sound of a stick breaking, their heads turned in that direction. There sata small hooded figure, seeming to be looking at them.

"Umm…hi there." Elizabeth offered out her hand to the quivering child, who slowly accepted it.

"Bonjour…" He whispered, and then disappeared in a puff of purple smoke. Before they could even comment on the exploding child the sound of happy piano music filled the air as people started throwing open their shutters and poking their heads out. People were also pouring out of the door and shops and suddenly a crowd had formed all around them, then the music paused, everyone took in a deep breath at the same time s the music started up again.

"BOUNJOUR!" every voice in the town yelled out. The duo yelped at eh volume. Then the music got faster.

"Bounjour!" a man in a hat called from a window and two other women said it. Then a group of children came running up and pulled on the older children's clothes while singing "Bounjour Bounjour Bounjour!" as the skipped away.

"Bounjour! Bounjour! Bounjour Bonjour Bonjour!" the entire town sang out. Gilbert and Elizabeth were frozen in fear. Never had they been so scared in their lives. The people continued to sing "Bounjour" and dance around, all with horrifying smiles glued to their faces. Gilbert nudged Liz and pointed to a break in between a few of the village folk, they made a mad dash for it, but it was soon closed up. The amount of space between the duo and the Villagers was growing smaller and smaller as they kept coming closer as they sang. Pretty soon they were right on them. Gilbert was whacking one on the head repeatedly with his wooden sword, but they didn't respond, and Elizabeth was strangling another one, who just kept singing. Then suddenly the music and singing and dancing began to slow, the way a music box does when it need to be wound up again. And then it just stopped all together. All the villager's smiles faded and they bend at the waist. It was over.

Elizabeth turned to Gilbert with huge terrified eyes. Finally they felt like they could move again.

"What. The FUCK. Was that!" Gilbert cried.

"I have NO idea." Elizabeth responded as she rubbed her temples, that song was going to be stuck in her head for DAYS! Then suddenly they saw a small twinkling light coming down from the sky. Both children took a few steps back as it neared, growing larger as it landed on the ground. Then a figure began to form from the light. She was a short woman, with short blond hair and a kind expression on her face. She wore a lavender colored gown and a matching ribbon in her hair. As she took form she looked around in panic.

"Oh no! I'm too late!" she said as she rushed to a villager, lifting their head to notice that their smiles were gone. She turned and saw Gilbert and Elizabeth standing there. Her reaction was nothing like they had expected.

'Oh, thank goodness! You're here!" she beamed as she floated over to them. Both were utterly confused.

"Um…what?" Gilbert asked harshly. The girl giggled.

"Oh what funny Heroes you are!" she exclaimed.

"Heroes?" Elizabeth added.

"And so humble! Oh! I knew I put my faith in the right people!" She cried happily.

"Hold up lady!" Gilbert called out. "First, who are you? And second, what the hell are you talking about?" he fumed. The blond woman stare at them an gave a small smile.

"Oh yes, how rude of me! I'm Lilli! The Good Witch!" she said happily, they two just stared in confusion.

"A…witch?" Elizabeth asked. The woman nodded.

"Well someone has to run the magic of French- Land!" she exclaimed with a laugh

"Magic?" Gilbert questioned

"French-Land?" Elizabeth added. The witch now looked at them with confusion.

"Well, Yes! You are the Great, Powerful Knights of the Playground! The strongest warriors in all of the Upper Land! You really should know these details." She added the last part with a pout. Both of the children's eyes were wide.

"What are you talking about?" Gilbert exploded "How would we know anything about any of this shit?" She looked at them in worry.

"Did the messenger not make it to you?" she asked.

"We never got a message." Elizabeth added.

"Well that's why! I sent one of my turtles to brief you, but I guess he was just too slow." She said with a laugh. "I guess I will tell you myself. With this the Good witch Lilli began to tell the Tale of French-Land.