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Chapter 5- "In which our heroines are lost"
Gandalf felt something odd sweep through him. Surely this feeling was significant but he could not remember what it could be. With a shrug the wizard turned back to the manuscripts, and books that littered his table. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Ow! Shy get off me." Niari tried to push her friend off of her.
"Would ya wait a second Ni-ni, goodness, could I at least get a chance to move before you start pushing me?" The girls slowly disentangled themselves from the forest floor.
Whoa forest floor!
"How the heck did we get outside?" Shiana asked looking around immediately questioning. "And where are the cabins? I don't remember those huge trees being there before. And what the heck just happened back there with your parents?"
"I'm sorry to say this Niari. I know we both try not to curse, but that was some seriously scary shit that just went on back there. I mean first your parents go all Sci-Fi on us, talking about- 'you're an elf' and stuff, then you pull out that beautiful, sharp blade-knife looking thing, and the blue ring, and next thing I know, we're skipping around in the forest of Never Never Land!" She added the last with a shriek.
"Geez, calm down Shy! Can I think?" They were both prone to hysterics but she felt that one of them had to stay calm here.
She looked around. Ok, so Shy was right and it didn't look like the woods around their cabins. In fact it didn't look like any woods she had ever seen before. The trees surrounding them now were much, much larger. In fact, the more she looked the more she realized that they were not just marginally larger, these were huge. Not to mention beautiful. Wow. And the air was crisp and breezy like in the fall. But it was summer wasn't it? And she couldn't be sure but the air seemed different. Cleaner, and fresh, even more so than the area up at the woods where they were. She was starting to admit to herself albeit reluctantly, that this was not home.
"Uh Dorothy" started Shy "We're not in."
"Hey! No, nuh-uh Shy, don't Dorothy me, don't even finish that sentence." Niari cut her friend off.
"We may be in a dire situation here but I refuse to let you resort to such corniness as to utter that played out phrase. It's in every movie and book where someone gets mystically transported to some strange other universe."
"And what the heck do you think happened to us Niari!" shouted Shy.
"Geez, I always thought that if it happened to me, I'd at least get transported to a camping store first with an unlimited credit card so that I could buy all the necessary supplies first. And then get zapped to Never Never Land. Oh, and maybe a quick trip to the spa, so I could get a facial, and hair-do that would last for forever so I could look good for Prince Charming." Shy stated calmly hugging her arms around herself and staring around.
Niari's jaw dropped. "Leave it to you, the shallow queen to think of getting your hair done right before you get dumped into a situation that may I remind you, IS COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR CONTROL!" So much for staying calm.
"Oh so your telling me that you couldn't use a good shampoo right now." Shy stated ignoring her friend's outburst.
Please girl, we all know those fashion models who play those roles on TV did not fall into the man of their dreams arms without a makeup check so excuse me for being a victim of TV." she said smiling at a very confused Niari. Then more softly "Come here sweetie."
Shy wrapped her arms around her best friend. "Whatever this is, I'm here with you. Even if I know you will forget all about me when prince charming shows up. And he better show up and bring a cousin along with him too."
Niari just smiled at her friend's attempts to cheer her up. She was more than glad that Shiana could ever know that her best friend was there beside her.
She suddenly felt Shiana's arms around her stiffen and pulled out of the embrace to look around.
There in front of them was the largest friggin spider she had ever had the displeasure of seeing in her life. It was huge. Let me define huge as larger than life, larger then them in fact. It was clicking these huge pincer things and moving restlessly on its eight humongous legs. She heard Shy beside her start to whisper "Yay though I walk through the valley of this -freakin huger than life spider's -shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
"Don't move Shy," Niari whispered.
Shy interrupted her warped prayer long enough to hiss back. "Do I look like I'm capable of moving to you? Hello frozen in fear here." She added her voice audibly shaking.
I turned my attention back to the mutant spider. It was shuffling on its legs looking like it was trying to decide which one of us to eat first.
"On second thought Shy" I said, "Run!"
Chapter 5- "In which our heroines are lost"
Gandalf felt something odd sweep through him. Surely this feeling was significant but he could not remember what it could be. With a shrug the wizard turned back to the manuscripts, and books that littered his table. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Ow! Shy get off me." Niari tried to push her friend off of her.
"Would ya wait a second Ni-ni, goodness, could I at least get a chance to move before you start pushing me?" The girls slowly disentangled themselves from the forest floor.
Whoa forest floor!
"How the heck did we get outside?" Shiana asked looking around immediately questioning. "And where are the cabins? I don't remember those huge trees being there before. And what the heck just happened back there with your parents?"
"I'm sorry to say this Niari. I know we both try not to curse, but that was some seriously scary shit that just went on back there. I mean first your parents go all Sci-Fi on us, talking about- 'you're an elf' and stuff, then you pull out that beautiful, sharp blade-knife looking thing, and the blue ring, and next thing I know, we're skipping around in the forest of Never Never Land!" She added the last with a shriek.
"Geez, calm down Shy! Can I think?" They were both prone to hysterics but she felt that one of them had to stay calm here.
She looked around. Ok, so Shy was right and it didn't look like the woods around their cabins. In fact it didn't look like any woods she had ever seen before. The trees surrounding them now were much, much larger. In fact, the more she looked the more she realized that they were not just marginally larger, these were huge. Not to mention beautiful. Wow. And the air was crisp and breezy like in the fall. But it was summer wasn't it? And she couldn't be sure but the air seemed different. Cleaner, and fresh, even more so than the area up at the woods where they were. She was starting to admit to herself albeit reluctantly, that this was not home.
"Uh Dorothy" started Shy "We're not in."
"Hey! No, nuh-uh Shy, don't Dorothy me, don't even finish that sentence." Niari cut her friend off.
"We may be in a dire situation here but I refuse to let you resort to such corniness as to utter that played out phrase. It's in every movie and book where someone gets mystically transported to some strange other universe."
"And what the heck do you think happened to us Niari!" shouted Shy.
"Geez, I always thought that if it happened to me, I'd at least get transported to a camping store first with an unlimited credit card so that I could buy all the necessary supplies first. And then get zapped to Never Never Land. Oh, and maybe a quick trip to the spa, so I could get a facial, and hair-do that would last for forever so I could look good for Prince Charming." Shy stated calmly hugging her arms around herself and staring around.
Niari's jaw dropped. "Leave it to you, the shallow queen to think of getting your hair done right before you get dumped into a situation that may I remind you, IS COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR CONTROL!" So much for staying calm.
"Oh so your telling me that you couldn't use a good shampoo right now." Shy stated ignoring her friend's outburst.
Please girl, we all know those fashion models who play those roles on TV did not fall into the man of their dreams arms without a makeup check so excuse me for being a victim of TV." she said smiling at a very confused Niari. Then more softly "Come here sweetie."
Shy wrapped her arms around her best friend. "Whatever this is, I'm here with you. Even if I know you will forget all about me when prince charming shows up. And he better show up and bring a cousin along with him too."
Niari just smiled at her friend's attempts to cheer her up. She was more than glad that Shiana could ever know that her best friend was there beside her.
She suddenly felt Shiana's arms around her stiffen and pulled out of the embrace to look around.
There in front of them was the largest friggin spider she had ever had the displeasure of seeing in her life. It was huge. Let me define huge as larger than life, larger then them in fact. It was clicking these huge pincer things and moving restlessly on its eight humongous legs. She heard Shy beside her start to whisper "Yay though I walk through the valley of this -freakin huger than life spider's -shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
"Don't move Shy," Niari whispered.
Shy interrupted her warped prayer long enough to hiss back. "Do I look like I'm capable of moving to you? Hello frozen in fear here." She added her voice audibly shaking.
I turned my attention back to the mutant spider. It was shuffling on its legs looking like it was trying to decide which one of us to eat first.
"On second thought Shy" I said, "Run!"