Nekokat: Yo! Like I said last chapter that I triedto not put any crazy stuff, but... What the heck! I ain't perfect! So sue me!.. And that is the last time I'm ever editing any of my work using the document manager thingy here in ... Their spell check is busted... Buwahahahaha... XD
+Vampire girl and the Weirdness of Arrowhead forest+
+Dib's POV+
"Hey... The reason for all this walking around is all for our survival and your robot right?"
"Uhh, yea..." "Then why the hell didn't you even bother to ask Kameo?!"
"Oh, uh, you were both so close-like and all that so why should I intrude?"
"Ugh, that's not- Aargh! Never mind... Just keep a close look-out for your dog thing..."
I've been with Zim for more than 12 hours now and... Well, his company isn't all bad after all. But one thing's for sure, and that's the fact that the truce won't last for too long. Enough about that, my feet are starting to feel really sore from all this walking...
"Zim, can't we rest for a little bit?" I panted while I slumped down on a nearby rock.
"Rest? Heh, if you keep on going like that, you'll never make it out alive. So put some back into it and let's get walking!" You know what? I take back the 'his company isn't so bad after all' thing.
After a few minutes or so, we managed to venture into a weird looking forest... There was a sign somewhere near the opening but I didn't quite get to read it due to Zim's nagging. Although I could've sworn I saw the word Arrow and head. Huh. Arrowhead? Weird name for a forest especially if it didn't even have any visible arrowheads... It probably meant something else. Ignoring that, I took notice on the creatures that stalked the place. A clump of moving black, white and grey colored fur which was reminiscent of the mome raths in Alice in Wonderland were lazily marching around the terrain. Hey... I just noticed something. The deeper we go into the woods, the more arrows I see around us... And the stranger thing is that the word that filled them up made no sense whatsoever. Baloney? Cheese dip? Oh, you have got to be kidding me. And just look at Zim! Doesn't care at all! Ugh, why do I care-!
Huh? Is is me, or did that arrow with the word crabgrass just move? Growl... Oh God I think my hunger pangs are getting to me.
"Earth monkey! Watch out!" shouted my green skinned companion and leapt at me, almost crushing a few mome raths during the knockdown and Zim on top of me.
"What the fudging HELL do you think you're doing?!"
"Hmph. You should be thankful that I saved your life" and with that, he pointed at an arrow bearing the word crabgrass lodged deep into the tree bark.
"Oh... Well, then... Thanks..." I heard a lot of leaves rustle from different directions. After that, it was quiet... For a while.
"Zim, when I say run, just run..."
"Why should I listen to-"
"Just do as I say!" Eerie silence and a little more rustling.
"RUN!" I grabbed at Zim's arm and dashed to a random direction. Some fairly loud thwack sounds could be heard from behind. Those stupid arrows are alive, dog damnit! Alive!
"Holy crap!" That was close. I'm guessing these arrow things are pretty much territorial. I can't believe I'm thinking this but, I actually miss home.
"Just... A little... More!" Zim gasped when he saw the forest come to an end. And he was right; it was the end of the forest... Which only led to a rather steep cliff and if we got tipped over it, we'd come out covered in maggots, leeches and the like. Oh snap the arrows still followed us out of the forest...
"Zim, we've gotta get out of tree range! Jump!"
"You expect me to-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" I pushed him off and jumped in after him. I just hate hate hate this.
+Someone else's POV+ this is not the POV of the person last chapter... so... new character...again... XD
I watched as two guys jumped off the cliff, into Swamp River. Hm, I guess these are the two visitors Kameo mentioned earlier... They don't look too smart to me. Oh well! They'll bump into me sooner or later. Oh... It's starting to rain...
+Dib's POV+
"UGH! Phooey! G-ack urrggh... Nasty!"
The river was completely revolting. It's a good thing it's raining now or else we'd have no choice but to bathe in the salty river... Heh, though I wouldn't say the same for Zim here. He's hidden himself under a little bush with big leaves.
"Hey Zim! I thought you said resting was for weaklings?"
"I never said anything like that, Dib-worm" he glared. I just smirked and sat down next to him. And ow... I think I injured myself back there... Ah well. Time passed like a snail as the rain was slowly reduced into a light drizzle.
Just as I was about to rest my eyes, a little green spec caught my eye. I tried to shake the sleep outta my head and tried to focus on the moving green dot.
"Doo dee doo dee do, do dee doo..." Gir? Holy crap it is him!
"Zim! Zim! Your SIR unit!"
"Huh? What? Wher-OOF!" I grabbed at his collar and ran off to the robot's direction.
...Which was a bad idea. Why? Cause I was stupid enough to not think about Gir actually noticing us...
"Whooooops!" it shrieked, picked up some food on the ground and ran off. Not again...
"Gir! What is wrong with you?!"
"Waheeheehahaha!" This is gonna be a long run...
+Someone else's POV+
Heh, I'm guessing Kameo was right when she said that this robo doggie was as gullible as a dysfunctional brain of an eight year old. I flew up above them as my iPod had the song Grow up by Simple Plan playing. Oh the irony... Anyways, although gullible, it's pretty much adorable in a chibi way. Ooh and here comes the wall, haha. Such a pity that they don't know it's only a hologram... Well, this dog sure makes it really convincing...
+Dib's POV+ oh for goodness' sake this POV changing is tiring XD
"Where'd he go?!"
"To the other side of the wall probably..."
I looked around for anything we could use to get over, under or through the mossy stone wall.
"Eat this food!" I snatched a cookie from the ground and ate it with one bite.
"What makes you so sure this stuff will even shrink us?!"
"Just eat the food!" And in no time, we were around 3 inches tall, tall enough for us to get through the miniscule mouse hole Gir went through. And on the other side...
Nothing. None. Zilch. The green robo dog is nowhere to be seen.
"Great! Just great!" I said restlessly and dropped to my knees. This is definitely karma. Ok, maybe not definitely but... Sigh. No choice now but to keep on going.
Hold that thought...
"Zim, quit poking me!"
"Me? You're the one who's been poking me!"
Have I ever told you that this sucks?
"If that wasn't you, then what..." Hssss. A warm, humid feeling passed me. It was that very feeling that reminded me of the Venus flytraps swarming the whole place. There was no need to give any signals this time cause Zim already went ahead of me.
"Hey! Wait up!" "Your loss for not running!" The plants were obviously bloodthirsty and really hungry. They snapped at us mercilessly and one of them almost bit my head off.
We barely escaped. But even if we were out of danger, we still kept running. Who knows what'll happen to us especially in thissize. Everything our size is probably at the bottom of this wonderland's food chain so there's no telling when or where danger will pop out. We stopped running when we reached this seemingly harmless meadow full of black and white flowers, plants and fungi. The skies were a dark shade of black and blue, and yet the sun was still out. It was quiet. Too quiet. Finally, the silence was broken by the faint sound of music.
"Hey Zim, hear that?"
"Hmm, yes. What is that odd sound?" We quietly made our way through a clump of tall grass. In a small clearing, we saw a girl who wore pigtails, had jet black wings and a fanged tooth, reclining on a big grey mushroom with her iPod.
"Hello?"
"Hi. You must be Zim and Dib, right?" she said in a cheery voice.
"Lemme guess, Kameo told you?"
"Yup! Oh, I'm Arian, resident vampire girl at your service! Or also known as the Caterpillar, in your worlds version."
"Um, okay. We were just wondering if you've seen a dog around here."
"A dog? Green and black fur, goofy eyes, has a zipper on his tummy, carrying a mound of food and is shrieking it's head off while running like a maniac and is actually a robot?"
"Y-yeah! That's the one!"
Finally, a glint of hope came across us... A short lived glint of hope, that is... "Nope, haven't seen any of those things... But I could help you with something else!" she beamed.
"So, what seems to be your other dilemma? If you have anything else, I mean."
"Well, yes... In fact we do have another problem."
"Really? Then fire away!"
"We wanna get taller"
"Why?" she cocked her head to the side.
"I mean, being as tall as a mushroom is such a crappy height..." Why do I have the feeling that I hit a sour spot here?
"I am currently as tall as a mushroom and this height is perfectly fine for me!!" And with a poof of smoke, she disappeared.
"Oh and just so you know, one side makes you smaller, while the other, taller" Arian's voice came from somewhere.
"The other side of what?!" Bad move. Then, she burst through the tall grass with pure anger in her eyes. And without warning, she uprooted the mushroom she was previously sitting on, yelled,
"The dog damned mushroom of course!" and threw the mushroom at us. After that, she transformed into one of those bats with heart shaped holes in them but her heart was sorta like a broken one... I'm guessing that's how you tell the difference between ordinary and vampire bats.
"Okaay..." Zim picked at the mushroom and gave me a piece. I bit off a morsel, and instead of shrinking like I expected, I grew taller. A little too tall. My head bumped into a couple of really hard tree branches till I finally stopped getting taller.
"Ow..." Zim was laughing his butt off back on the ground.
"You knew that that side of the mushroom was gonna make me bigger, didn't you?! Ooh, if only I could see you, I'm gonna show no mercy and step on you! Now gimme that other mushroom piece cause at this size, I could feel my head actually being big." I took the other piece from him and bit it, rapidly shrinking me back to 3 inches. I liked at the mushroom and grew at just the right size. So did Zim.
"Well, we'd better get some sleep I guess..." he stated.
"Sure..." We nested on a bunch of leaves right below an acacia tree. The sun has set and the stars are out. Sigh, to me at this moment, the stars seem so pleasant to look at.
+Chapter end+
Nekokat: Wee! 4 days of weekend! 8D
Dib: Heh... Well that was a crazy day...
Kameo: Phycus!
Zim: Isn't that a plant species here on earth?
Kameo: I dunno but it's fun to say! Phycus Phycus Phycus Phycus!
Dib: Phycus Phycus Phycus!
Zim: Phycus Phycus!
Gir: Phyyyyyycuuuuuusss!
Nekokat: PHYCUS!
Queen of Hearts: lawl I'm not gonna tell you guys her name yet XD Hey! That's my line!
Kameo: Chill, we're giving you the credit here!
QoH: Okay then! Phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus phycus!
Dib: Spread the word! Phycus! XD
Arian: Hi! Phycus!