Chapter Two: A Nice Little Break
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Disclaimer:
Don't own it. Just a fanfic. Don't take it seriously.
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"Crap," Jo mumbled. Her head and back ached dully and something was pressing on her legs. "Get off Diana. This is my couch."
"Get off my bed," Diana mumbled back.
Jo's eyes snapped open. She defiantly wasn't sleeping on the couch in Shawn's room. Unless of course they'd just put in a sky light. A slight breeze caught her attention and she looked around.
She was laying on her back in the middle of a field. To her left was a dark forest. To her right, lush green fields spread for as far as she could see. Near her left arm was what looked like the luggage she'd packed earlier that day. Shawn was laying across her legs.
"Get up Shawn. We're in trouble."
She nudged Shawn in the ribs. Shawn snorted and rolled over.
"Hey! Get up. Yer on my legs!"
Jo poked Shawn in the side and she sprang to her feet, growling.
"I told you not to open the door," Jo mumbled flatly.
"Where are we?"
"How should I know? I just woke up."
"Hey, our stuff came with us." Shawn started rooting in the bags.
Jo got to her feet and looked around. "Great. Teleported by a hiccup in a closet No one's ever going to believe this one."
"Found my Riot!"
Jo flopped to the ground. "We're in so much trouble. And we're gonna miss DCI. And I've been looking forward to seeing the Blue Devils for months."
"Now you don't have to take the AP exams," Shawn consoled.
"Guess it wouldn't be so bad if we stayed for a little while. We've got enough food and soda to last us at least a month. Two months if we eat those Goldfish sparingly. Don't know where we're going to find ice though."
"Good thing these bags came too. Now we've got toothpaste, underwear, deodorant." Shawn hugged the deodorant. "Shampoo, toothbrush. Batteries. Car keys. Found my wallet." Shawn looked around. "Not that I'm gonna need it. Whadda we do now?"
"I dunno. What's the first thing they tell you to do when you get lost?" Jo asked, playing with her shoe laces.
"Start screaming?"
"That's not gonna work out here."
"Yeah. Guess so." Shawn flopped down next to the bags and thought. "Guess we should go look for people."
"Good plan but we can't take all four of these bags with us. Let's figure out what we can leave behind."
The two girls started looking and quickly came to then conclusion that there really wasn't anything they could leave.
"Do we really need all these clothes?" Jo asked. "We could just take an extra pair or something and buy more later."
"We don't have any money. And there's no way I'm leaving my undies behind."
Jo cringed. "Good point. Well we can both just wear our backpacks and stuff all the clothes in the smaller duffel. Then we'll take turns carrying it."
"Okies. You go first!" Shawn shouted.
Jo frowned. "You suck." They transferred the contents of the bag and Jo shouldered it. "Let's go."
"Which way? Scary forest or wide open plain?"
"Since the forest is scary I'd suggest going in the opposite direction."
They started across the plain but quickly came to realize that hiking wasn't as easy as it looked. Especially when you were wearing flip-flops or a four year old pair of Vans. Tired and unhappy they stopped an hour later.
"This is almost as bad as Disney," Jo grumbled. "At least there are no puppets."
Shawn began to sing 'It's a Small World After All' loudly and Jo tossed the duffel bag on her.
"What if we get knocked into some alternate dimension where there aren't any people?" Shawn asked.
"Then we'd be screwed," Jo answered.
"Crap dude! We're in another dimension!"
"You just realized that?" Jo asked flatly.
"Do you know what this means?" Shawn sat up straight. "We might pull a Fushigi Yuugi!"
"We never saw the end of that one so you'll have to explain."
"We might become mortal enemies dude!" Shawn exclaimed.
Jo flapped a hand dismisively. "Yeah right. Like we'd ever become enemies."
"It could happen!"
"It won't. First of all we'd have to be rescued by handsome men." Jo gestured at the empty plains. "Don't see that happening. Secondly, one of us would have to become insanely jealous of the other. I've never done that before but I bet its a whole loot work. Thirdly I'm not summoning anything no matter how many sexy men ask me too. Too much drama. Makes me sleepy."
"Well....I don't know. Sexy men can change allot."
"Fine. Let's make a promise. I swear on my Lord of the Rings books that we will not become mortal enemies."
"Okies. I swear on Vice City."
"There. Problem solved."
"Yeah but we still don't know where we are."
Jo sighed and fell over on her back. Something in the distance caught her attention. A dark blob was moving towards them quickly. Jo's nose twitched and she tilted her head to the side slightly.
'What is that?' she asked herself.
A rotten smell reached her nose and she wrinkled it in disgust. The blob was getting much closer very quickly and now she could hear faint sounds of yelling.
'That sounds familiar,' she thought. 'Where have I heard that before?'
"Are those...?" Shawn asked.
"I don't care what they are!" Jo shouted, springing to her feet. "They're getting closer!" Jo grabbed the duffel bag and slung it over her shoulder. "Run!"
"Oh great," Shawn mumbled. "I knew something like this was going to happen. Every time someone gets sent to another dimension they always get chased by something."
Jo, who had all ready high tailed it, stopped and shouted at Shawn to move. Shawn sighed and started running.
Halfway across the field the blob got close enough for the two girls to see their attacker's faces.
"This sucks!' Shawn shouted.
"And its all your fault! I knew I was gonna get eaten! Monsters like that always want to eat their prey!"
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
"So if I rub a donut on your head they'll eat you and not me?"
"If I'm going down I'm taking you with me!"
"Some friend you are!"
"Shut up and run!"
"Creepy forest dead ahead!"
With that both girls crashed head first into the dark forest. The creatures followed them, howling darkly.
"A tree!" Jo shouted. "Climb a tree!"
They both scrambled into a tree, climbing as high as they could. The monsters reached the tree, trying to pull them down and laughing darkly.
"This is so your fault!" Jo shouted. "As soon as the threat of being eaten is gone I'm gonna kill you!"
"You'll have to catch me first! And I can run pretty fast!"
"So can I!"
Both girls finally stopped out of exhaustion. They clung to random branches, trying to catch their breath and not fall out of the tree at the same time.
"We're pretty lucky those monsters can't climb trees," Shawn said. "Cause we'd be dead meat."
"I didn't hear you coming up with any good ideas," Jo wheezed.
"I wasn't knocking yer idea dude." Shawn paused and looked down. "Did ya hear that?"
"I don't hear anything but the hungry growls of our attackers," Jo answered.
"There it is again!" Shawn exclaimed and a strange hush fell over the forest.
"Cripes," Jo whispered. "This can't be good."
"Sounds like they're moving away," Shawn whispered, trying to see what was going on on the ground.
"Amen to that. Let's hope they stay away."
"Yeah, but what scares away monsters?"
"Um." Jo scratched her head. "Bigger monsters?"
"Exactly."
"Oh crap. We are gonna get eaten. Maybe if we climb higher it won't see us."
"It'll probably hear us or smell us or something."
"This really sucks. If we ever get home I'm not talking to you again."
"You're blaming this on me?"
"Who opened the door and blasted us into a dimension full of hungry monsters? Shawn did. Who told you not to do it? I did. That means its your fault."
"Its not like I meant too," Shawn hissed.
"Doesn't change the fact that we'll be somethings dinner in a few minutes," Jo hissed back.
"We're not gonna get eaten!"
Intent on their argument, both girls didn't realize that they were raising their voices. They also didn't notice the face that the monsters were silent. They also didn't notice that something had climbed into the tree.
"We're gonna be okay!" Shawn shouted.
"Right! Cause we're just on some nice little break! All we gotta do is click our heels and we'll go home."
"I'm starting to think I'll leave you here!"
"Can't leave me if I've been eaten!"
"Stop saying that!"
A hand reached out and grabbed Shawn. She fell with a startled yelp.
"Shawn!" Jo shouted, reaching down to pull her up.
Something grabbed Jo and tossed her to the ground.
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1. We went to Disney on a band trip last summer and Shawn and I got lost in Epcot. We wandered around for at least an hour before we managed to find a bus to take us back to the resort.
2. I hate puppets.
3. Fushigi Yuugi is an anime done by the wonderful Yu Watase. Two best friends get sent to an alternate dimension and end up being mortal enemies. Shawn started buying in a couple of years ago and has yet to finish it. *glare*
4. There's lots of sexy men in Fushigi Yuugi. ^___^
5. Shawn loves Vice City.
That's it for chapter two. Hope you enjoy. I can't wait for DCI. I really wanna see the Blue Devils. Gotta get tickets first thou. .
***
Disclaimer:
Don't own it. Just a fanfic. Don't take it seriously.
***
"Crap," Jo mumbled. Her head and back ached dully and something was pressing on her legs. "Get off Diana. This is my couch."
"Get off my bed," Diana mumbled back.
Jo's eyes snapped open. She defiantly wasn't sleeping on the couch in Shawn's room. Unless of course they'd just put in a sky light. A slight breeze caught her attention and she looked around.
She was laying on her back in the middle of a field. To her left was a dark forest. To her right, lush green fields spread for as far as she could see. Near her left arm was what looked like the luggage she'd packed earlier that day. Shawn was laying across her legs.
"Get up Shawn. We're in trouble."
She nudged Shawn in the ribs. Shawn snorted and rolled over.
"Hey! Get up. Yer on my legs!"
Jo poked Shawn in the side and she sprang to her feet, growling.
"I told you not to open the door," Jo mumbled flatly.
"Where are we?"
"How should I know? I just woke up."
"Hey, our stuff came with us." Shawn started rooting in the bags.
Jo got to her feet and looked around. "Great. Teleported by a hiccup in a closet No one's ever going to believe this one."
"Found my Riot!"
Jo flopped to the ground. "We're in so much trouble. And we're gonna miss DCI. And I've been looking forward to seeing the Blue Devils for months."
"Now you don't have to take the AP exams," Shawn consoled.
"Guess it wouldn't be so bad if we stayed for a little while. We've got enough food and soda to last us at least a month. Two months if we eat those Goldfish sparingly. Don't know where we're going to find ice though."
"Good thing these bags came too. Now we've got toothpaste, underwear, deodorant." Shawn hugged the deodorant. "Shampoo, toothbrush. Batteries. Car keys. Found my wallet." Shawn looked around. "Not that I'm gonna need it. Whadda we do now?"
"I dunno. What's the first thing they tell you to do when you get lost?" Jo asked, playing with her shoe laces.
"Start screaming?"
"That's not gonna work out here."
"Yeah. Guess so." Shawn flopped down next to the bags and thought. "Guess we should go look for people."
"Good plan but we can't take all four of these bags with us. Let's figure out what we can leave behind."
The two girls started looking and quickly came to then conclusion that there really wasn't anything they could leave.
"Do we really need all these clothes?" Jo asked. "We could just take an extra pair or something and buy more later."
"We don't have any money. And there's no way I'm leaving my undies behind."
Jo cringed. "Good point. Well we can both just wear our backpacks and stuff all the clothes in the smaller duffel. Then we'll take turns carrying it."
"Okies. You go first!" Shawn shouted.
Jo frowned. "You suck." They transferred the contents of the bag and Jo shouldered it. "Let's go."
"Which way? Scary forest or wide open plain?"
"Since the forest is scary I'd suggest going in the opposite direction."
They started across the plain but quickly came to realize that hiking wasn't as easy as it looked. Especially when you were wearing flip-flops or a four year old pair of Vans. Tired and unhappy they stopped an hour later.
"This is almost as bad as Disney," Jo grumbled. "At least there are no puppets."
Shawn began to sing 'It's a Small World After All' loudly and Jo tossed the duffel bag on her.
"What if we get knocked into some alternate dimension where there aren't any people?" Shawn asked.
"Then we'd be screwed," Jo answered.
"Crap dude! We're in another dimension!"
"You just realized that?" Jo asked flatly.
"Do you know what this means?" Shawn sat up straight. "We might pull a Fushigi Yuugi!"
"We never saw the end of that one so you'll have to explain."
"We might become mortal enemies dude!" Shawn exclaimed.
Jo flapped a hand dismisively. "Yeah right. Like we'd ever become enemies."
"It could happen!"
"It won't. First of all we'd have to be rescued by handsome men." Jo gestured at the empty plains. "Don't see that happening. Secondly, one of us would have to become insanely jealous of the other. I've never done that before but I bet its a whole loot work. Thirdly I'm not summoning anything no matter how many sexy men ask me too. Too much drama. Makes me sleepy."
"Well....I don't know. Sexy men can change allot."
"Fine. Let's make a promise. I swear on my Lord of the Rings books that we will not become mortal enemies."
"Okies. I swear on Vice City."
"There. Problem solved."
"Yeah but we still don't know where we are."
Jo sighed and fell over on her back. Something in the distance caught her attention. A dark blob was moving towards them quickly. Jo's nose twitched and she tilted her head to the side slightly.
'What is that?' she asked herself.
A rotten smell reached her nose and she wrinkled it in disgust. The blob was getting much closer very quickly and now she could hear faint sounds of yelling.
'That sounds familiar,' she thought. 'Where have I heard that before?'
"Are those...?" Shawn asked.
"I don't care what they are!" Jo shouted, springing to her feet. "They're getting closer!" Jo grabbed the duffel bag and slung it over her shoulder. "Run!"
"Oh great," Shawn mumbled. "I knew something like this was going to happen. Every time someone gets sent to another dimension they always get chased by something."
Jo, who had all ready high tailed it, stopped and shouted at Shawn to move. Shawn sighed and started running.
Halfway across the field the blob got close enough for the two girls to see their attacker's faces.
"This sucks!' Shawn shouted.
"And its all your fault! I knew I was gonna get eaten! Monsters like that always want to eat their prey!"
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
"So if I rub a donut on your head they'll eat you and not me?"
"If I'm going down I'm taking you with me!"
"Some friend you are!"
"Shut up and run!"
"Creepy forest dead ahead!"
With that both girls crashed head first into the dark forest. The creatures followed them, howling darkly.
"A tree!" Jo shouted. "Climb a tree!"
They both scrambled into a tree, climbing as high as they could. The monsters reached the tree, trying to pull them down and laughing darkly.
"This is so your fault!" Jo shouted. "As soon as the threat of being eaten is gone I'm gonna kill you!"
"You'll have to catch me first! And I can run pretty fast!"
"So can I!"
Both girls finally stopped out of exhaustion. They clung to random branches, trying to catch their breath and not fall out of the tree at the same time.
"We're pretty lucky those monsters can't climb trees," Shawn said. "Cause we'd be dead meat."
"I didn't hear you coming up with any good ideas," Jo wheezed.
"I wasn't knocking yer idea dude." Shawn paused and looked down. "Did ya hear that?"
"I don't hear anything but the hungry growls of our attackers," Jo answered.
"There it is again!" Shawn exclaimed and a strange hush fell over the forest.
"Cripes," Jo whispered. "This can't be good."
"Sounds like they're moving away," Shawn whispered, trying to see what was going on on the ground.
"Amen to that. Let's hope they stay away."
"Yeah, but what scares away monsters?"
"Um." Jo scratched her head. "Bigger monsters?"
"Exactly."
"Oh crap. We are gonna get eaten. Maybe if we climb higher it won't see us."
"It'll probably hear us or smell us or something."
"This really sucks. If we ever get home I'm not talking to you again."
"You're blaming this on me?"
"Who opened the door and blasted us into a dimension full of hungry monsters? Shawn did. Who told you not to do it? I did. That means its your fault."
"Its not like I meant too," Shawn hissed.
"Doesn't change the fact that we'll be somethings dinner in a few minutes," Jo hissed back.
"We're not gonna get eaten!"
Intent on their argument, both girls didn't realize that they were raising their voices. They also didn't notice the face that the monsters were silent. They also didn't notice that something had climbed into the tree.
"We're gonna be okay!" Shawn shouted.
"Right! Cause we're just on some nice little break! All we gotta do is click our heels and we'll go home."
"I'm starting to think I'll leave you here!"
"Can't leave me if I've been eaten!"
"Stop saying that!"
A hand reached out and grabbed Shawn. She fell with a startled yelp.
"Shawn!" Jo shouted, reaching down to pull her up.
Something grabbed Jo and tossed her to the ground.
*******
1. We went to Disney on a band trip last summer and Shawn and I got lost in Epcot. We wandered around for at least an hour before we managed to find a bus to take us back to the resort.
2. I hate puppets.
3. Fushigi Yuugi is an anime done by the wonderful Yu Watase. Two best friends get sent to an alternate dimension and end up being mortal enemies. Shawn started buying in a couple of years ago and has yet to finish it. *glare*
4. There's lots of sexy men in Fushigi Yuugi. ^___^
5. Shawn loves Vice City.
That's it for chapter two. Hope you enjoy. I can't wait for DCI. I really wanna see the Blue Devils. Gotta get tickets first thou. .