Truly Nolan

By HamClover

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Chapter three- Careful What You Wish For!

Nolan tossed and turned in his woodchips, but just couldn't manage to doze off that night! Maki's quote still echoed in his head, that wish she had made. It had been hours since the words left her mouth, but ever since she said that, a strange feeling was fluttering in Nolan's stomach. It seemed to be beckoning him.

BAM!

Nolan rose abruptly from his bed, his ears quivering.

"What.was that.?" He said nervously to himself. He glanced to see if Maki had heard the loud noise also. She only stirred.

Nolan snuck over to the edge of his cage and listened closely. The house suddenly was enveloped in an eerie silence that made Nolan shiver.

Someone was coming.

"Who- who's there!?" Nolan shouted, trying to intimidate whomever was approaching.

No answer. Everything was quiet, except for the light tiptoes of somebody approaching the room! This made Nolan panic slightly as he paced in his cage, thinking of what to do.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" He whined, his head low. Little did he know, that someone was standing right in front of his cage! And when Nolan turned around, "AHHH!!!!"

There stood a humble little hamster, not much smaller than Nolan! She looked innocent enough, her blue eyes shining, a big smile on her face, whiskers well groomed, but something about this girl-ham was unreal.

"Hello!" The girl-ham exclaimed, ignoring Nolan's fright.

Nolan blinked. "She seems nice enough," Nolan though to himself. ".she's kinda cute.."

"HELLO!" The girl-ham now screamed, thinking Nolan was ignoring her.

Panicking, Nolan rushed over and covered the hamster's mouth.

"Shhh!" He croaked, slowly removing his hand from her mouth. "The last thing I want is Maki waking up!"

The girl-ham smirked. "Oh no worries ! Maki can't hear us no matter how much you make a scene!" She announced.

".what!?" Nolan said.

"Maki can't hear us, I froze time."

"Oh you froze time-" Nolan said, ".YOU FROZE TIME!?"

Looking around him, the hamster wasn't lying, everything was at a standstill! The leaves outside were in midair, and the clock's hand on the wall was halted to a stop.

".whoa."

The hamster put her paws on her hips, proud of herself. "Yup!" She stated, "All by myself! Quite nice, isn't it..oh what am I saying!? I'm s'posed to be granting your owner's wish!"

"...."

The hamster stuck her paw out.

"I forgot to introduce myself! I'm Artemis! I'm a Wish Mage!"

Nolan clutched her paw and stiffly shook it.

"Okay, so.you've come to grant Maki's wish?" Nolan asked, still totally dumbfounded on what was going on.

Artemis pointed her paw at Maki. "Bingo! But.there are come regulations and rules." She stated.

Artemis suddenly pulled out a huge pile of papers and a pen. Pointing to a line on the paper, she told Nolan, "Okay, so, sign here," Nolan signed, Artemis flipped the page, ",and here, and here, and here, and here, and-"

"Am I done!?" Nolan whined.

Artemis laughed. "Oh no need to go on! There was no point for all those silly papers! I just felt like messing with you!"

"Gah!" Nolan whined. "I don't have all night!!"

"Oh, sorry," Artemis apologized, putting the papers and pen away and taking out a strange wand-like thing, "Going on, okay Nolan, put your arms out now."

Nolan sighed and put his arms out. Artemis muttered some type of chant he couldn't understand, tapping the wand on his paws.

"Okay Nolan, now, here are the rules, you ready?"

Nolan nodded.

"Here are the rules, rule #1- Don't eat Mexican food, it always backfires these spells, rule #2- Don't go ANYWHERE near those Gucci shoes! They do some freaky things also, rule #3- Don't pet chickens, starting tomorrow morning, you are allergic to them, and finally, the most IMPORTANT rule of all! DO NOT TELL ANYBODY, I MEAN ANYBODY, ABOUT YOUR SECRET!"

Nolan's head spun, but he agreed.

"There's only one exception to this rule; you can only talk about this wish- granting thing with your advisor, whom I have no clue who that's gonna be so don't ask me about it."

Nolan's head titled to one side. ".advisor..?"

"I said don't ask."

Artemis raised the wand high up into the air.

"You ready?" She asked.

Nolan glanced over to Maki. "It's for her," He thought, his heart racing.

Artemis grinned.

"Just be careful what you wish for."

".wuh??"

"Okay! Here we go! POOF!"

Nolan squeezed his eyes shut and felt the cold wand land on his head. Suddenly, everything seemed to go even darker. An aching pain fell over Nolan as he lost consciousness.

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Wow.for some reason that chapter took me forever to type! It seems pretty long.hm. Okay, this is off topic but I hafta let this outta my system. I HAD A SNOW DAY TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!! THE FIRST SNOW DAY OF THE YEAR!!!! BOO-YAH!!!!!! IT ROCKS!!!!! SNOWMOBILING ALL DAY, SLEDDING, SNOWBALL FIGHTS, PUSHING YOUR NEIGHBORS IN THE SNOW. oh I can just go on and on!!!! Okay, I'll shut up now...blah.

P.S.

I understand that the secondary genre of this story is humor. It ain't that funny now, is it? Well as the story goes on (I'm not gonna spoil it for you, but it gets real twisted towards the end!) it gets TONS funnier!

Hang in there!

XOXO, HamClover ;)