HERE WE HAVE THE NEXT PART OF THE STORY.

Disclaimer: see first Chapter. Fine. I own nothing but the Half-animals. Okay? Fine.



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Kendra and Ariel changed into running forms of their animals (yes, half- animals can do this, they can turn into the kind of animal they are, look fully human, or have animal parts [in Ariel's case, two dragon wings, 1 arrow tipped tail, and two horns on the head. All colour is turquoise here.]. Very few can change to any animal of their species and even fewer can make up what the animal they are going to change into looks like. Now I might want to bring up the fact that most half-animals live to 2100 years old, and important people like *spell makers* get immortality.) ran towards the center stool/soapbox in the town-square. Somehow, by-way-of-author's poor time judgment, they beat the crowd there. Needless to say, the crowd still arrived.

"HALT! Uhh, where are you taking those three guys, in cages?" Kendra asked the crowd. Kendra decided to stretch out her cinnamon-coloured wings and wrap her lion-like tail around her legs to add some extra gusto. Ariel pulled the same stunt with her turquoise (with purple underside) wings, and wrapped her arrow-tipped tail around her legs.

"These are hunters!" a random crowd member shouted.

"Now what makes you think that these guys are hunters?" Kendra continued, her long, brown hair blowing in the cool breeze (of which fogged up her glasses.). Ariel tried to position her hair to blow in the breeze, until she realized that she had her hair cut short, and for the day, spiked with a blue hair-colouring spell on the tips (of the spikes I mean)

"Uh," "err," "well" "They have swords and bows and arrows and stuff like that!" Said several other crowd members.

Kendra wiped off her glasses and continued."Right. But don't they have a few too many fighting utensils?"

"Err," "umm" "yeah, but" "well," "I guess you have a point…"

"Exactly! So they must be on a very important quest, right?" Ariel said.

"Of course, you also realize that you just screwed up the destiny strings of time and such." Kendra said to crowd.

"But Ariel told us too!" Said yet another crowd member.

Ariel suddenly had a face that from now on we call 'the guilty grin face'.

Ariel had one of those big teeth grin and the twitching eye and as a special addition, turning red (in future faces she won't be blushing). A few seconds afterwords, Ariel returned to normal and snapped back at the crowd "Well its their fault they got lost in this forest, looking like freakin' hunters! So…"

Kendra and Ariel joined in for this one.

"LET THEM GO!!! COME ON! DROP THE DAMN CAGES!!!"

Immedietly the crowd scattered so fast the cages were left in mid air for about 2 seconds, before slamming on the ground with a loud CLANG.

"Well, that went well. C'mon Ariel, we have accidental prisoners to release and greet." Kendra said as she jumped off the stool/soapbox thingie. Ariel did the same, or at least tried to as she fell off of the stool/soapbox thing. Ariel looked to what stopped her from moving her feet only to find that she had forgotten to un-wrap her tail (of which is currently wrapped around her legs.). Ariel growled in frustration as she released her legs, got up and continued towards the still locked cages.

One of the crowd members had stayed behind to help unlock the cages.

"Sorry about that," he said as he approached a cage, which so happened to have Aragorn in it. The first thing Aragorn noticed about the guy helping him was 1) that he was unlocking the door with his tail and 2) the tail had blades along the tail until the end (of the tail. no! get back here, TAIL, not TALE!), of which had a rather larger, shaper blade…

So, what do you think? As I may have brought up before, please oh please R&R! Ahem, as far as I know, a Mary-sue is a blonde with blue eyes that falls in love with Legolas and saves the fellowships asses a couple of times. Well, in the defense of Kendra, she has brown hair&eyes, and doesn't save the fellowships asses ALL the time. As a final note, the people in this story will get into some sticky situations, but NONE OF THEM DIE (except for the bad guys.), I repeat, NONE OF THEM DIE! Okay, okay. Now leave me alone as I work on the 3rd chapter. Go on, shoo!