Chapter 10 - The Newcomers

Jess and Leslie slowly made there way to their tree house. During the way, the kept their guards up, in case any evil creature attacked them. They arrived at the tree house. When they got up the tree house, Leslie put up protective spells around the tree house, using the book of charms.

"How did you do that?" asked Jess. "I thought only elves were able to do magic."

"Yes, but it also said that other people may do it too if they really loved the person they were healing, protecting or bringing back to life." explained Leslie.

"So if I wanted to perform any attacking magic, would I be able to do it?" said Jess

"Only if your doing it to protect the person you really love" said Leslie.

"So you have any idea's on how we can stop this living hell?" said Jess. They both sat down and started thinking.

"I think I have an idea!" said Leslie. She opened the door to the library and she started looking for a book.

"AHA!" said Leslie. "I found it!"

Leslie showed the book to Jess. The cover of the book read with golden letters "History of Terabithia". Leslie skimmed threw the book to the last chapter which read "Kings and Queens of Terabithia." They saw that the last couple of hundred pages were blank. The few last pages was mostly about Jess and Leslie. Then they realized that the book started writing things on it's own. It wrote "King Jess and Queen Leslie didn't know what to do to stop the living hell that Melgor had created. Then Queen Leslie thought about finding some help by asking the old King and Queen of Terabithia and she found this book" The writing stopped. Apparently the book was magical and it wrote everything that would happen. They both looked very shocked and they closed the book.

"So your thinking of finding the old King and Queen of Terabithia?" said Jess with the same shocked look on his face.

"Yup, but the thing is that they lived almost a century ago!" said Leslie "They are probably dead by now."

Hopelessly, they both sat down on the library floor. They started thinking again.

"Well there isn't much we can do now. All we can do is wait for Toori to contact us with were abouts of any of the creatures. Until then, we just have to wait." said Leslie with a sad look on her face.

"I just hope that by the time Toori contacts us, it won't be to late" said Jess.

They climbed down the tree house and they slowly made there way back to the bridge. After they had crossed, they hid their weapons and started walking back home. Leslie looked back at the demonic bridge and said "Goodbye Terabithia, please be Ok".

Two years had passed since the day that Jess and Leslie saw that Terabithia had become a living hell. It was now the beginning of their school year as 7th graders. Jess had grown taller and he also had also lost most of his baby fat, which made him look more appealing to women. Leslie had turned into a very beautiful women. Her hair had grown to her Elbows and she too had gotten taller, but she was still not as tall as Jess. They both waited for the school bus holding hands. The bus arrived and they went to school. Scott and Gary were, like always standing at the front door of the school. They were in 6th grade this year, because they had both failed 5th grade, because they were always planning stupid pranks on Jess and Leslie. But now, they did not dare do any pranks, because last year, they got in another fight with Jess, this time it was after school. They were both beaten to a pulp by Jess, just like when Jess was in 5th grade. But Jess had been suspended for a week for fighting. It was a big deal, because Leslie always brought back his homework and Janice was always with Leslie every time Jess wasn't around.

"Hey Jess. I think I'm ready to do that spell to bring back your left arm." said Leslie.

"What are you talking ab-" Jess suddenly remembered Terabithia. Two years had passed and yet Leslie still remembered it.

"What happened to that living hell anyways?" said Jess.

"Well, we are still waiting for Toori to contact us." said Leslie.

They walked to their classroom and sat down next to each other, like always. The course had started, when the principal walked in and introduced two new students. One boy and one girl. Their names were Ted and Anna Johnson. They were brother and sister. They sat right in front of Jess and Leslie. When the course ended, Jess and Leslie started whispering about Terabithia and that they should go back after school to see what had happened. They didn't realize that Ted and Anna were right behind them.

"Terabithia?" they said together. Jess and Leslie suddenly jumped and turned around.

"Where have I heard that name before" said Ted.

"Hey, I remember Ted, it was the place where we use to play 5 years ago" said Anna.

"What?" said Jess and Leslie together.

"But Terabithia has only one entrance and that's the one I build." said Jess in a shocked way.

"This can't be right." said Leslie and she took out the book "History of Terabithia" and started reading.

"Oh no, I guess I missed that small paragraph. It said here that Ted and Anna Johnson were the King and Queen of Northern Terabithia only for 3 years. After that they left and never returned, but shortly after there departure, King Jess and Queen Leslie arrived and are now ruling all of Terabithia from the ancient city of elves." Leslie didn't read the rest, because when she turned the page, it was the same part that she had read in the tree house two years ago.

"So if you guys ruled the Northern part of Terabithia, then you must have entered it from the other side of Terabithia." said Jess.

"Then if you guys are the old King and Queen of Terabithia, then you can help us save it!" said Leslie happily.

"Why? What's wrong with it?" asked Ted.

Jess and Leslie explained the whole story about Melgor and his family. Ted and Anna quickly understood and they agreed to help.

"We will meet you at Terabithia, at the ancient city of the elves. From there, we can make a plan and destroy this evil that destroys Terabithia." said Ted.

The rest of the day, they were all thinking of ways to defeat Melgor, when the time came to go home. Jess and Leslie arrived home and headed streight to the tree house and sat there waiting for Ted and Anna. They were still kept their guards up. Ted and Jess arrived a couple of minutes later. They had no weapons and no armor. They gave Ted a sword and a shield from the armory in back of the library and a bow and a set of arrows to Anna. While they were still thinking of a plan on how to stop the living hell, Leslie tried to fix Jess's arm. While she was trying, Jess explain to Ted and Anna how he had lost it. They both listenned with their eyes wide open. Leslie tried the spell one last time and it kind of worked. A huge light flashed with a loud noise. Jess flew to the wall of the tree house and the rest were staring at him with great shock. Jess felt an arm at his left. He looked down and saw an arm, but it was something much more powerful and devastating that had grown on his left side.