Drawings Can Be Dangerous
Chap-ter two, hey, he said, Grab your things, I've come to take you home- Oops, sorry. Peter Gabriel's kind of hypnotizing. Next chapter... watch my empty silloutte, who close their eyes but still- Oops! Sorry!
Jack lead the two teenagers through the tangle of trees that surrounded the Halloween world, following the white mushroom back to its hideout. Double F was close behind him, taking a few minutes to pull a twig out of her feathers. Charon was WAY behind, complaining about how her mom was going to KILL her when she came back home with a dirty uniform.
"Are we there yet?!" Charon shouted, straining to keep up.
"I'm not sure!" Jack answered.
"I smell markers!" Double F shouted. "I smell my markers! I used them to color in a picture of Kairi I was drawing a couple of days ago!"
Charon sniffed the air. "Hey, I do smell markers!"
"Is that that awful smell?!" Jack coughed, stopping to regain his breath. "That's... (cough) horrible!"
Charon took this time to catch up with the Pumpkin king and her best friend. She growled audibly, ripped off her shoes, and threw them into a tree. "I HATE SHOES!"
"Look!" Jack pointed into the distance, making notice of a huge castle. It was flesh-toned (any flesh tone will do; it works with anything), squat looking, and decorated on the corners with four turrets. A deep, yet waterless moat encircled the castle, and two clay-red doors sealed the palace shut. "I remember my father talking about castles like that during the Black Death!"
"Did you draw that?" Charon asked Double F.
"Uh uh, you?"
"No. Why would I ask if I had drawn it?"
"Kish kish!" The White Mushroom bounded happily to the castle, forgetting that three people were following him. Jack chased the Mushroom silently, leaving the two teenagers to try to follow in his ittty bitty footsteps.
***
"Okay, we're in the castle," Charon, the proven cynic, began to speak. "Now what?"
The hallways were plain and bare; eggshell wallpaper with wooden vanities sitting on the left side of every hallway opening. A chandelier hung on the ceiling about 30 feet in front of them and 200 feet above them. The hardwood floor was mostly covered by a long strip of red carpet. Behind them stood the gigantic set of doors, practically a drawbridge. Jack stood directly next to a large potted palm tree, big enough for the three of them to fit behind if they all squeezed together.
Double F whistled, listening to it echo cheerfully. "This place creeps me out."
"And not in a good way," Jack monotoned before stepping forward. "Either one of you keep track on the mushroom?"
"Oops." Charon's tail drooped considerably.
"Uh oh," Double F spoke in a sotto voice, her wing muscles tightening.
Jack sighed. "This is going to be a long mission, I'm stuck with these idiots-"
"Sir?"
"Nothing, Charon, let's move on."
***
"This is weirder than weird," Double F spoke to herself as she poked her head around the corner of another hallway. It was identical to the first. "Everything looks the same."
"It's all so... cliche', it's unbelievable," Charon laughed.
They'd been walking in a straight line for what seemed like hours, deciding to go down a corridor once they found the end of the current hallway. Jack kept forward with a steely resolve, and was growing increasingly tired of Double F and Charon's constant complaining.
"Charon, hush!" Jack whispered, pushing his hand over her mouth. "What was that?"
Double F sniffed the air, while Charon simply looked around, her knees sore and her mind bored.
"I can't smell anything," Double F responded.
"Well, I know I hear something," Jack grimaced. "It's coming from behind us."
As Jack turned to look behind him-
His face met the door they walked through earlier.
He yelped and jumped back, nearly tripping over the two girls.
"It's the Labyrinth!" Charon screamed, pointing to the door and thinking of one of her favorite movies. "It's the Labyrinth!"
"We've been walking for nothing!" Double F roared.
"That's not possible!" Jack took a few steps to his right, only to run into the potted palm. "WOAH!"
The large, clay-red doors began to open.
"YI!" Double F squealed.
"Everyone, hide!" Jack snatched the girls by their tails and pulled them behind the plant with him as three monsters walked through the door.... three familiar monsters....
"WELCOME to my humble abode!" Lisa sneered and laughed uproariously. Isaac was still try to pull himself through the door, struggling to pull something through the drawbridge. "This's where- Isaac, is she even in the door yet?"
"Grph... no," Isaac struggled, digging his feet into the red carpet. "She's... she's tough!"
"Who is she?" Jack gasped, not taking his eyes off of Lisa.
"Who Is 'she'?" Charon asked Double F, referring to the thing Isaac was trying to pull through the door.
"Oh, come on!" Lisa smacked Isaac out of the way with her wing and brutally threw a cloth sack over her shoulder. Wait...
"Sally!" It was now Double F and Charon's turn to cram their hands over Jack's mouth. It was Sally Lisa had slung over her shoulder, her wrists bound together and her mouth running at full speed.
"You let me go!" Sally shouted as Lisa turned around, facing the never ending hall. "As soon as Jack realizes I'm gone, he'll hunt you down like a dog!"
Lisa scoffed like a deadbeat teen and snapped, "Jack this, Jack that, that's all you ever talk about. Worry about yourself for once! Be your own woman!"
"What?!"
"Lisa, I still don't think this is a good idea!" Isaac took Sally's side, unexpectedly. "She doesn't want to be here!"
"Who asked you?" Lisa curtly hissed. "Now, come on, or Riku'll eat all of the Cheez Its."
Isaac sighed and followed his former friend, ignoring the numerous cries from Sally.
***
"So, which one of you thought it would be funny if that gargoyle monster kidnapped Sally?!"
Charon and Double F looked at eachother futilly. "Neither of us!"
Jack growled, making sure that his pace didn't slow.
Yes, they were running, struggling to keep up with Lisa and Isaac, who would often just disappear around a corner just as the tiny group came into eyeshot of them. They had been running aimlessly for a long time now, each of the loosing their breath at a faster and faster pace.
"So, WHY has that thing kidnapped her?"
"I dunno!" Double F gasped.
"I wrote Lisa's character so she was a feminist, but she was never like this!" Charon began to explain.
The Pumpkin King growled inwardly. "Oh, just wonderful! Huh- WOAH!" Jack slammed on the brakes as he turned the next corner, making the Charon crash into him. Double F missed him and fell onto the floor.
It was a young girl, younger than Double F or Charon. She had short brown hair, a white shirt, and pink shorts. And ridiculously huge shoes. Her large blue eyes stared at the group until Double F called out her name.
"Kairi?"
"Yes?"
Double F regained her feet and began to talk to Kairi, leaving Charon and Jack to collect their thoughts and begin to breathe again.
"Did you see two gargoyles go by here?"
Kairi asked, "Do you mean Lisa and Isaac?"
"Yeah."
"Yes, just a few seconds ago." Kairi let her eyes drift towards the ceiling, her voice dreamy and unfocused. "They had a person with them. She was screaming a lot."
"That was Sally!" Jack lunged forward and grabbed Kairi by the collar of her shirt. "Where did they go?!"
"Through the door... in the wall." Kairi waved her hand, and a red wooden door fizzled into view, appearing in the wall.
"Thank you!" Jack put Kairi back down and wiped his brow. "We can get Sally back now!"
"Sally is supposed to stay here."
Jack startled, then snarled in anger as Double F situated herself directly in front of Kairi. "Why?!" whistled the angry griffon girl.
"Sally has to stay here, and learn to think for herself," Kairi breathed, looking Double F in the eyes now. "She has to stay."
"Oh, puh-lease," Charon sighed. She reached for the door handle, Jack following close behind.
"She has to stay!" Kairi shouted, her eyes flaring and her fists clenched. She took a fast, threatening step towards Jack and Charon.
"HI-YA!" With one quick, masterful move, Double F had flipped Kairi over her shoulder and onto the ground. She made some fast hand movements, slammed her arms to her side, and bowed. "Hai!"
"Alright, Double F!" Charon hollered.
"Excellent, Gina!" Jack gasped, his fingers clenched together.
"Double F!" Charon and Double F shouted together.
"Yes, whichever, that was amazing!" squealed Jack, wringing his hands together, surveying the unconscious Kairi. "This could be useful later!"
"Jack, the door!"
Jack turned to see that the door Kairi apparated was starting to disappear. "YA! Hurry girls, run!"
The three monsters on a mission each bolted through the quickly disappearing door, leaving it to slam quietly behind them.
***
"You see, Sal? This whole world is at your disposal, you just have to learn to control it yourself!"
Lisa waited for Sally's response, didn't get one, sighed, and looked down upon her flock of minions.
She, Isaac, the the aforementioned Sally all stood atop a giant pulpit in the middle of the northern wall of the main room of the castle, one which shot straight up from the floor. Thirty feet below them, the thousands of drawings that had sprung from the minds of the teens were dancing to Big Band music, happily chomping down food and sucking down Welch's grape juice. The ballroom was mostly a brown marble, and it smelled of peanuts, giving the impression that the place was made of tiger butter. Lisa took a quick glance out of the corner of her eye. In the left corner of the pulpit was a spinning white dust devil. As she watched it, a Shadow heartless jumped from the tornado and off of the pulpit to join the festivities.
"Boring. Hey, Isaac, find any cool looking monsters in that book yet?"
Isaac sat next to Sally, who was sitting on a box, crying her eyes out. He leafed through Charon's fairy book, reading dazedly and not hearing Lisa's question. Sally sobbed mournfully; he stretched a wing over her shoulders and patted her arm comfortingly.
"Isaac!"
"Whu?" Isaac jumped and dropped his book on Sally's knee, making her cry out in pain. Lisa picked up the book and saw the fairy enblazoned on the page.
"Oo, Peg Powler! This looks interesting!"
And with that, Lisa ripped the page out of the book and threw it into the dust devil.
"Charon's going to be mad when you give her a book with no pages," Sally remarked snidely.
"Charon won't be getting her book back, thank you," Lisa accentuated the words evilly, watching as a green skinned, snaggletoothed woman crawled from the tornado. "Ew. Go- go find Sora, lady, get yourself some clothes. Ech."
Lisa turned once again to Sally. "Look, Sally, I like you. That is the reason that I have brought you here; to teach you that a woman does not need a MAN to feel complete, okay? So, just admit that Jack has been treating you like a dog, and-"
"NO, NEVER!" Sally cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"See, that's your problem!" Lisa yelled back, bending down to Sally's level. "That guys got you TOTALLY under his control! You need to think for yourself! Speak your mind!"
"I'm speaking it NOW!"
"Girls, girls, stop!" A black wing with skeleton fingers seperated the gals from eyesight. "Lisa, can I talk to you?"
"Grrrr... fine, whatever!"
Isaac stood up, put his arm and wing around Lisa's shoulders, and slowly led her away from the ragdoll. "Lisa, please, just send the girl home. She was fine back there; all you're doing is making her miserable."
"Did I ask for your opinion?" Lisa snapped.
Isaac pulled back his wing, backing away from Lisa. His face fell to the ground. "Well, no, but..."
"Then why are you telling me what to do?" Lisa poked Isaac in the chest painfully. "I'm trying to teach this girl a lesson; if I start doing what you say, I'll be going back on my word!"
"But, it's not an order, it's a sugge-"
"Just be quiet and find more monsters, Isaac!" hissed Lisa through gritted teeth. She grappled his neck and began to strangle him. "Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Lisa!"
Lisa pushed Isaac away from her, paying no mind that he had fallen off of the pulpit entirely. "Now, Sal, you see how painless that was?"
"For you," Sally argued back. "Isaac's in pain. I don't want to hurt anyone."
"Well, baby, sometimes you have to," Lisa said as she placed her gigantic foot on Sally's lap, crushing Sal's legs under her weight. "Now, I'm going to hafta start hurting YOU if you don't start shaping up!"
"Ow!" Sally flinched. "That hurts!"
"Tell me that, when I let you go, you'll dump that King Guy and make your own life away from him!"
"NO!"
Lisa stepped off of Sally, shaking her head. "Poor little braindead dolly. You're gonna hafta be kept under constant conditioning. No stopping until you learn to think the right way; LIKE ME!"
Oo, man, Lisa's mean! Good; it's all setup for the end. Just about two more chapters, and we'll soon be done.
Chap-ter two, hey, he said, Grab your things, I've come to take you home- Oops, sorry. Peter Gabriel's kind of hypnotizing. Next chapter... watch my empty silloutte, who close their eyes but still- Oops! Sorry!
Jack lead the two teenagers through the tangle of trees that surrounded the Halloween world, following the white mushroom back to its hideout. Double F was close behind him, taking a few minutes to pull a twig out of her feathers. Charon was WAY behind, complaining about how her mom was going to KILL her when she came back home with a dirty uniform.
"Are we there yet?!" Charon shouted, straining to keep up.
"I'm not sure!" Jack answered.
"I smell markers!" Double F shouted. "I smell my markers! I used them to color in a picture of Kairi I was drawing a couple of days ago!"
Charon sniffed the air. "Hey, I do smell markers!"
"Is that that awful smell?!" Jack coughed, stopping to regain his breath. "That's... (cough) horrible!"
Charon took this time to catch up with the Pumpkin king and her best friend. She growled audibly, ripped off her shoes, and threw them into a tree. "I HATE SHOES!"
"Look!" Jack pointed into the distance, making notice of a huge castle. It was flesh-toned (any flesh tone will do; it works with anything), squat looking, and decorated on the corners with four turrets. A deep, yet waterless moat encircled the castle, and two clay-red doors sealed the palace shut. "I remember my father talking about castles like that during the Black Death!"
"Did you draw that?" Charon asked Double F.
"Uh uh, you?"
"No. Why would I ask if I had drawn it?"
"Kish kish!" The White Mushroom bounded happily to the castle, forgetting that three people were following him. Jack chased the Mushroom silently, leaving the two teenagers to try to follow in his ittty bitty footsteps.
***
"Okay, we're in the castle," Charon, the proven cynic, began to speak. "Now what?"
The hallways were plain and bare; eggshell wallpaper with wooden vanities sitting on the left side of every hallway opening. A chandelier hung on the ceiling about 30 feet in front of them and 200 feet above them. The hardwood floor was mostly covered by a long strip of red carpet. Behind them stood the gigantic set of doors, practically a drawbridge. Jack stood directly next to a large potted palm tree, big enough for the three of them to fit behind if they all squeezed together.
Double F whistled, listening to it echo cheerfully. "This place creeps me out."
"And not in a good way," Jack monotoned before stepping forward. "Either one of you keep track on the mushroom?"
"Oops." Charon's tail drooped considerably.
"Uh oh," Double F spoke in a sotto voice, her wing muscles tightening.
Jack sighed. "This is going to be a long mission, I'm stuck with these idiots-"
"Sir?"
"Nothing, Charon, let's move on."
***
"This is weirder than weird," Double F spoke to herself as she poked her head around the corner of another hallway. It was identical to the first. "Everything looks the same."
"It's all so... cliche', it's unbelievable," Charon laughed.
They'd been walking in a straight line for what seemed like hours, deciding to go down a corridor once they found the end of the current hallway. Jack kept forward with a steely resolve, and was growing increasingly tired of Double F and Charon's constant complaining.
"Charon, hush!" Jack whispered, pushing his hand over her mouth. "What was that?"
Double F sniffed the air, while Charon simply looked around, her knees sore and her mind bored.
"I can't smell anything," Double F responded.
"Well, I know I hear something," Jack grimaced. "It's coming from behind us."
As Jack turned to look behind him-
His face met the door they walked through earlier.
He yelped and jumped back, nearly tripping over the two girls.
"It's the Labyrinth!" Charon screamed, pointing to the door and thinking of one of her favorite movies. "It's the Labyrinth!"
"We've been walking for nothing!" Double F roared.
"That's not possible!" Jack took a few steps to his right, only to run into the potted palm. "WOAH!"
The large, clay-red doors began to open.
"YI!" Double F squealed.
"Everyone, hide!" Jack snatched the girls by their tails and pulled them behind the plant with him as three monsters walked through the door.... three familiar monsters....
"WELCOME to my humble abode!" Lisa sneered and laughed uproariously. Isaac was still try to pull himself through the door, struggling to pull something through the drawbridge. "This's where- Isaac, is she even in the door yet?"
"Grph... no," Isaac struggled, digging his feet into the red carpet. "She's... she's tough!"
"Who is she?" Jack gasped, not taking his eyes off of Lisa.
"Who Is 'she'?" Charon asked Double F, referring to the thing Isaac was trying to pull through the door.
"Oh, come on!" Lisa smacked Isaac out of the way with her wing and brutally threw a cloth sack over her shoulder. Wait...
"Sally!" It was now Double F and Charon's turn to cram their hands over Jack's mouth. It was Sally Lisa had slung over her shoulder, her wrists bound together and her mouth running at full speed.
"You let me go!" Sally shouted as Lisa turned around, facing the never ending hall. "As soon as Jack realizes I'm gone, he'll hunt you down like a dog!"
Lisa scoffed like a deadbeat teen and snapped, "Jack this, Jack that, that's all you ever talk about. Worry about yourself for once! Be your own woman!"
"What?!"
"Lisa, I still don't think this is a good idea!" Isaac took Sally's side, unexpectedly. "She doesn't want to be here!"
"Who asked you?" Lisa curtly hissed. "Now, come on, or Riku'll eat all of the Cheez Its."
Isaac sighed and followed his former friend, ignoring the numerous cries from Sally.
***
"So, which one of you thought it would be funny if that gargoyle monster kidnapped Sally?!"
Charon and Double F looked at eachother futilly. "Neither of us!"
Jack growled, making sure that his pace didn't slow.
Yes, they were running, struggling to keep up with Lisa and Isaac, who would often just disappear around a corner just as the tiny group came into eyeshot of them. They had been running aimlessly for a long time now, each of the loosing their breath at a faster and faster pace.
"So, WHY has that thing kidnapped her?"
"I dunno!" Double F gasped.
"I wrote Lisa's character so she was a feminist, but she was never like this!" Charon began to explain.
The Pumpkin King growled inwardly. "Oh, just wonderful! Huh- WOAH!" Jack slammed on the brakes as he turned the next corner, making the Charon crash into him. Double F missed him and fell onto the floor.
It was a young girl, younger than Double F or Charon. She had short brown hair, a white shirt, and pink shorts. And ridiculously huge shoes. Her large blue eyes stared at the group until Double F called out her name.
"Kairi?"
"Yes?"
Double F regained her feet and began to talk to Kairi, leaving Charon and Jack to collect their thoughts and begin to breathe again.
"Did you see two gargoyles go by here?"
Kairi asked, "Do you mean Lisa and Isaac?"
"Yeah."
"Yes, just a few seconds ago." Kairi let her eyes drift towards the ceiling, her voice dreamy and unfocused. "They had a person with them. She was screaming a lot."
"That was Sally!" Jack lunged forward and grabbed Kairi by the collar of her shirt. "Where did they go?!"
"Through the door... in the wall." Kairi waved her hand, and a red wooden door fizzled into view, appearing in the wall.
"Thank you!" Jack put Kairi back down and wiped his brow. "We can get Sally back now!"
"Sally is supposed to stay here."
Jack startled, then snarled in anger as Double F situated herself directly in front of Kairi. "Why?!" whistled the angry griffon girl.
"Sally has to stay here, and learn to think for herself," Kairi breathed, looking Double F in the eyes now. "She has to stay."
"Oh, puh-lease," Charon sighed. She reached for the door handle, Jack following close behind.
"She has to stay!" Kairi shouted, her eyes flaring and her fists clenched. She took a fast, threatening step towards Jack and Charon.
"HI-YA!" With one quick, masterful move, Double F had flipped Kairi over her shoulder and onto the ground. She made some fast hand movements, slammed her arms to her side, and bowed. "Hai!"
"Alright, Double F!" Charon hollered.
"Excellent, Gina!" Jack gasped, his fingers clenched together.
"Double F!" Charon and Double F shouted together.
"Yes, whichever, that was amazing!" squealed Jack, wringing his hands together, surveying the unconscious Kairi. "This could be useful later!"
"Jack, the door!"
Jack turned to see that the door Kairi apparated was starting to disappear. "YA! Hurry girls, run!"
The three monsters on a mission each bolted through the quickly disappearing door, leaving it to slam quietly behind them.
***
"You see, Sal? This whole world is at your disposal, you just have to learn to control it yourself!"
Lisa waited for Sally's response, didn't get one, sighed, and looked down upon her flock of minions.
She, Isaac, the the aforementioned Sally all stood atop a giant pulpit in the middle of the northern wall of the main room of the castle, one which shot straight up from the floor. Thirty feet below them, the thousands of drawings that had sprung from the minds of the teens were dancing to Big Band music, happily chomping down food and sucking down Welch's grape juice. The ballroom was mostly a brown marble, and it smelled of peanuts, giving the impression that the place was made of tiger butter. Lisa took a quick glance out of the corner of her eye. In the left corner of the pulpit was a spinning white dust devil. As she watched it, a Shadow heartless jumped from the tornado and off of the pulpit to join the festivities.
"Boring. Hey, Isaac, find any cool looking monsters in that book yet?"
Isaac sat next to Sally, who was sitting on a box, crying her eyes out. He leafed through Charon's fairy book, reading dazedly and not hearing Lisa's question. Sally sobbed mournfully; he stretched a wing over her shoulders and patted her arm comfortingly.
"Isaac!"
"Whu?" Isaac jumped and dropped his book on Sally's knee, making her cry out in pain. Lisa picked up the book and saw the fairy enblazoned on the page.
"Oo, Peg Powler! This looks interesting!"
And with that, Lisa ripped the page out of the book and threw it into the dust devil.
"Charon's going to be mad when you give her a book with no pages," Sally remarked snidely.
"Charon won't be getting her book back, thank you," Lisa accentuated the words evilly, watching as a green skinned, snaggletoothed woman crawled from the tornado. "Ew. Go- go find Sora, lady, get yourself some clothes. Ech."
Lisa turned once again to Sally. "Look, Sally, I like you. That is the reason that I have brought you here; to teach you that a woman does not need a MAN to feel complete, okay? So, just admit that Jack has been treating you like a dog, and-"
"NO, NEVER!" Sally cried, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"See, that's your problem!" Lisa yelled back, bending down to Sally's level. "That guys got you TOTALLY under his control! You need to think for yourself! Speak your mind!"
"I'm speaking it NOW!"
"Girls, girls, stop!" A black wing with skeleton fingers seperated the gals from eyesight. "Lisa, can I talk to you?"
"Grrrr... fine, whatever!"
Isaac stood up, put his arm and wing around Lisa's shoulders, and slowly led her away from the ragdoll. "Lisa, please, just send the girl home. She was fine back there; all you're doing is making her miserable."
"Did I ask for your opinion?" Lisa snapped.
Isaac pulled back his wing, backing away from Lisa. His face fell to the ground. "Well, no, but..."
"Then why are you telling me what to do?" Lisa poked Isaac in the chest painfully. "I'm trying to teach this girl a lesson; if I start doing what you say, I'll be going back on my word!"
"But, it's not an order, it's a sugge-"
"Just be quiet and find more monsters, Isaac!" hissed Lisa through gritted teeth. She grappled his neck and began to strangle him. "Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Lisa!"
Lisa pushed Isaac away from her, paying no mind that he had fallen off of the pulpit entirely. "Now, Sal, you see how painless that was?"
"For you," Sally argued back. "Isaac's in pain. I don't want to hurt anyone."
"Well, baby, sometimes you have to," Lisa said as she placed her gigantic foot on Sally's lap, crushing Sal's legs under her weight. "Now, I'm going to hafta start hurting YOU if you don't start shaping up!"
"Ow!" Sally flinched. "That hurts!"
"Tell me that, when I let you go, you'll dump that King Guy and make your own life away from him!"
"NO!"
Lisa stepped off of Sally, shaking her head. "Poor little braindead dolly. You're gonna hafta be kept under constant conditioning. No stopping until you learn to think the right way; LIKE ME!"
Oo, man, Lisa's mean! Good; it's all setup for the end. Just about two more chapters, and we'll soon be done.