Spoilers: not much.........
Disclaimer: Bizzare Saga is copyright of Jordan and Calvin. All art, characters and scenario are joint projects by Jordan-chan and Calvin-sama ~ (Project Alternate Reality)
Author`s Note: Hi guys, it`s my turn, Selkie.I`m sorry if the last chapter was boring but it was vital. I would like to thank my friend Stephen-chan for reading all my chapters and Nitney of course too! Thnx guys! :: winks :: As a reward they will be featuring in upcoming chapters! In fact, Stephen will be in this story......heehee! I also want to thank Cally for his help in the story! Cheers! There will be more action in this one, so anyway.....enjoy!
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` The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ` ~ Elanor Roosevelt
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Chapter 6 – Fire, Trees and Howls
"Are you lost?" the tree boomed to the four. They stood shaking in there boots. Rosu spoke up.
"Erm...w - well no. Not really" he stammered his cute brown eyes staring into the tree`s seemingly carved eyes. It`s face was scarred but still looked like a face. It was scratched and cut all over the place but Karyuu and his friends could still make out his features.
He had those carved eyes. Friendly, carved eyes and a mouth which looked like it had a wooden tongue in it too. It had a lump where it`s nose should be and had a spiral shaped cut where it`s right cheek should be.
"We`re trying to get to the city of Ezembark" Leah spoke up. It had been her first proper convorsation since the insident in Amelian.
"Oh, yes" the tree said "I can help you there!" It had long legs and a small part for a torso and long spindly arms. They looked thin, but due to his towering height, they were actually quite thick. On his 'head' branches upon branches stuck out with a few leaves here and there.
"You could? Oh thnk you ever so much erm........tree......." Calvin said wondering what the being actually was. The gang jumped when the tree shouted.
"I am no tree!" it boomed, obviously offended. It`s face swisted from a frown into a look of proudness "I am an Ent!"
Karyuu gasped. That line. He remembered it. Yes! It was from Lord of the Rings, a book and movie back in his world. Ents were tree creatures that lived for thousands of years. They lived in colonies and were very close. At least thats what Karyuu could remember from the film.
"My name is Ttosc. I am from the colony of Ents in the Ezembark Forest" it said. It`s face turned sad "Well, I was...."
Leah walked up to it, gingerly though determined and patted it`s leg.
"What happened?" she asked beckoning for her companions to come over. The walked over too.
"Well. I was banished. You see, I don`t like following the Ent Rules. They`re stupid" the Ent said in a much less booming voice. It even sounded like a childish whine. "So eventually, I was banished. Today infact" It made a huge sound, like a sigh.
"I`m sure we can work something out. We`ll help you" Calvin said looking into the carved eyes "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
Ttosc nodded it`s torso/head and Calvin cleared his throat.
"I am Calvin till Alexan........" he was cut off.
"He`s Cally" Leah said glaring at Calvin. Karyuu giggled. "I`m Leah, that over there is Rosu and that`s Karyuu. He`s from another world!" Then the tree froze.
"Another world?" it said as through it`s hearing aid had failed or something.
"Yeah" Rosu piped up. The tree backed off.
"No, no, no......... not another world" it said in it`s small voice "Get away from me! You other world scum!" It backed off further, nearly in the forest.
Karyuu pouted and frowned. "What`s so wrong with that?" he roared, bearing his teeth. He rarely showed his aggressive side.
"Filthy little..." the tree began.
KABOOM!
An explosion shook the forest, birds flying away into the distance. These explosions were getting more and more frequent to Karyuu. This time, however the explosion sounded much worse and little did he know, would change his group formation.
"What the?" Rosu yelled over the noise of more Ents calling and trees crashing to the floor. Suddenly without warning, an animalistic howl shook the ground and a beautiful light grey wolf jumped out of the wilderness. It landed on top of Karyuu with a thump and looked around dazed.
Without another word, Ttosc disappeared into the thick trees.
"Oh, don`t mind him. He`s a psycho" a voice said. This voice was different to any of the group`s and to Karyuu, it was also familiar. Different but familiar, wierd.
The group turned to the source of the voice, only to be staring at the wolf. Karyuu looked into it`s eyes and it stared back with dark, dark eyes. Not evil dark, colour dark. Also the eyes were familiar too. But how could they be? He had never saw a real wolf before.
To the gangs shock, the wolf`s face started changing. It`s legs started changing, and it`s body started changing. Before anything could happen, the wolf had transformed into a human boy. He was a werewolf.
The boy was around Karyuu`s age and Karyuu`s height. Except his features were totally different from Karyuu`s. He had short, dark hair, almost black and tanned skin. He had a slim build and his eyes were the darkest eyes Karyuu had ever seen. Actually, that was a lie. He had seen this boy before. And those eyes. He was looking at this world`s version of his friend, Shouri.
The boy was wearing a tight green t-shirt and black trousers, with boots similar to Karyuu`s. He had a dark chest-plate too. All in all, he looked quite cool.
All of the gang, Calvin, Leah, Rosu and Karyuu stared at the boy in disbelief.
"Hi" he said in a quiet, yet cheerful voice. His dark eyes were glinting in the bright suns` light.
"Hi" Calvin said. Once again he introduced the lot of them, calling himself 'Cally' for once.
"Cool. My name`s Sidifen. As you guessed, I`m a werewolf" the wolf-boy said. He smiled ear to ear "So, what you guys doin` here?"
"Well, I`m from another world and we need to get the Wondes so that I can go home" Karyuu explained. The sun was still beating down on them.
"Oh yeah, I`ve heard of the legend. 'The sibling angels will come forth......and change the world for good'. Is that how it goes?" Sidifen said.
The gang went to nod but before they could another deafning KABOOM echoed through the forest. The five young adventurers were all blown onto the floor.
"What the hell?" Leah shouted. Crashed sounded inside the wilderness, indicated more trees falling. This time, sparks flew above the outline of the forest and a raging fire began.
"We need to get in there! The Ents are in trouble!" Sidifen shouted already running into the forest "Plese help me! Will you?"
"Yes. We`ll help you!" Calvin said as though the sentence would change everyone`s lives for the better. He started running after the wolf-boy, closely followed by his companions.
As Karyuu looked up, the bright sun disappeared behind the thick layer of branches and leaves, the only light now, the fires.
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Finally, after what seemed like hours of frantic running, the group reached the Ent Village. It was huge.
It was simply a gigantic clearing, with lush trees (non-walking ones) surrounding the outside of it. But the trees were slowly being burned by a massive fire, which sweeped over the plain like someone was drawing on them with a florescent pen. Also, amid the madness, huge, towering Ents fled this may and that, some on fire and some snapped at parts.
"Ttosc!" Sidifen yelled as the Ent they saw earlier ran by. It saw the wolf and came over ignoring Karyuu..
"This is a diaster!" it boomed "Nnogna and Xcerta have been killed! We have to stop it!"
"Well, I`ll help you and these guys wanna help too" Sidifen said, his dark eyes shining with fear.
"No, I`m not working with another-worlder!" Ttosc said. His carved face was twisted into a frown again.
"No, please. It`s to save your village!" Sidifen pleaded. Finally, after a minute of thinking, the Ent slowly nodded and agreed.
"Ok, let`s go!" Rosu said, army-major-like "Calvin, Ttosc and I will go to the east. Leah, Karyuu and you erm....."
"Sidifen. Call me Fen" the new boy said.
"Right, Fen. You, Leah and Karyuu head over that little house" Rosu said nodding towards and small house, which was burning "Let`s go!"
Rosu, Calvin and the Ent ran to the east, just as the old/young boy/man said. To Ttosc`s delight, Karyuu ran the other way, towards the house with Fen and Leah.
Karyuu drew his sword and Leah conjured up a small pink sword with a turnip emblem on the handle and made her wand disappear. Fen took out a big dagger type thing called a sai. Karyuu had seen them in his Tae Kwon Do club, back home.
Suddenly a screaming sound filled the air and a group of bodies jumped out of a burning bush. They were Button Men. They hobbled over like sandbags with their two buttons pinned awkwardly to their so called 'faces'. Their tufts of stuffing hung out of the numerous rips over their bodies and they badly stitched smile spread across their face, scarily. Always smiling.
The front Button reached onto his left arm stump and ripped it off, spilling stuffing onto the slightly charred grass floor. The other dozen did the same and immediately a ripping sound sounded as long knife blades cut through the ripped limbs.
Fen glared at them and shouted, leaping forward with his sai swinging. Karyuu also flew up into the trees and plunged down, ripping a hole in a Button`s stomach. It gave a screech and fell into the others, making a domino-effect.
Menawhile, Leah swung her turnip sword at various places and seeing that it didn`t do alot of damage, brought out her wand again and shot a ball of energy at the crowd of ugly sandbags. They all collapsed in a heap of material and fluff.
Karyuu was swinging his sword around and sriking the Button Men with some force but sooner or later he began to realise something. They weren`t dying. The kept coming back up and regenerating their ripped limbs.
"They aren`t dying!" he shouted to Fen and Leah. They looked up and Leah swirled her wand.
She was swirling her wand like she was doing a martial art and by mistake hit one of the Button Men`s face, ripping of the button-eyes. It stumbled back, screamed, and fell to the floor in a heap of dust.
"Go for their eyes!" Leah yelled as another swarm of Button Men came screeching in.
Karyuu raised his sword and smashed it into the ugly creature`s faces, ripping not just the eyes, but the whole head. Fen then gasped.
"Watch out! I`m turning into a......... a............" he said, struggling to get the words out. He then arched his back and jerked up to look at the leafy sky. He let out a wolf-like howl that rang through the forest like a siren. Even the Button Men seemed to forget what they were doing.
Fen then turned back to a normal human posture and winked at his companions.
Although he had a human posture, he had a tail now, and sharp teeth. He looked half transformed. Surely enough, Fen started shrinking until he was on his wands and knees. A blinding flash erupted breifly and when Leah and Karyuu looked at their friend, he was a beautiful grey wolf, just like when they first met.
His dark, dark eyes narrowed and he dived at the group of Button Men, biting as much as he could. In a few minutes, half the swarm were taken down. They kept swinging their blade arms but none of their blows was recieved by Fen.
"Let`s help!" Karyuu said to Leah, who nodded and rushed towards Fen to help. Karyuu was wondering what time it was, as he couldn`t see the sky. He was beginning to get hungry, because he hadn`t ate since the pancakes. Pancakes....
SMASH!
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Meanwhile, in the east, the others were also getting attacked by half burnt Button Men, but they were faring better as they had an 11 foot Ent helping them.
Calvin managed to control his vampire side and Rosu also helped by swinging his sword at various Button Men. Ttosc just ran around stamping on huddles of sandbags and shouting things like "Die, evil scum!" or "Get out of my village you ugly teddy bears!"
Calvin was now struggling to contain his feindish side because Rosu had been cut a tiny bit on his arm and frsh blood was trickling out of it.
The young prince bit his lip, standing away from Ttosc and Rosu.
"No! Your not getting out!" he said to himself "You killed the guard back at the castle!"
Rosu turned from the battle to see his friend.
"Cally?" Rosu siad in a worried voice "What`s wrong?"
"No! Keep away! My vampire side is trying to come out!" Calvin warned, making Rosu stop approaching him "I can`t....... can`t........"
Suddenly the Button Men froze and slumped to the floor.
"Where are the rats?" Ttosc said, obviously enjoying the slaughtering.
"Ah, the young Prince is here after all!" a voice sounded, a cold voice, coming from behing a tree.
"Who`s there?" Rosu yelled.
"Me, of course" the voice said and almost immediatly after, a tall black figure jumped out of a tree and landed in the middle of the Ent, the boy and the vampire. It was the Button Man himself.
"Miss me?" he sneered, swirling his cane around.
"Get away from me!" Calvin shouted his eyes flickering from chocolate brown to crimson and back. He screamed and gave way, his vampire finally free.
"You will not take me!" he said with a hiss to the Button Man, who just laughed. He ran full tilt and jumped onto the Button Man, aiming for his neck.
The Button Man swore and beat Calvin with his cane, but Calvin still hung on. He snarled and bit deep into the Button Man.
"Aaaaaaaaargh!" the man in black shouted finally throwing the boy off him. Calvin then turned normal, exhausted. There was a bit of blood on his lip, which he licked off.
"You little............ I will get you!" the Button Man said trying to escape.
"No you don`t!" Ttosc said, lifting him up "Bye bye!"
He did a pose like a baseball played and flung the evil man as hard as he could. He went flying through the trees and into the distance, screaming all the way.
"Thank you!" Rosu said. Ttosc blushed, if a tree can blush.
"Look!" Calvin said, breathing deeply. The three looked up and the fire was being doused by water. Leah appeared in the air, with a bubble round her. She had a hose in her hand.
"Howday!" she said smiling.
"Where is Karyuu and Fen?" Rosu said looking around.
"We`re here" Fen`s voice said and he emerged from the wood, Karyuu slumped over his shoulder.
"What happened to him?" the Ent asked. They all noticed that the Ents had stopped running about and screaming.
"He got hit by one of the Buttons, trying to save your village!" Leah said, landing beside Fen "I think you should respect him a bit better!"
Ttosc looked guilty as Karyuu`s head peered over Fen`s shoulder.
"I`m sorry" he said "It`s just that I was brought up to hate other worlders, you see. And thank you, all of you for saving my village"
They all smiled, Karyuu`s one a half smile. He was really pleased, but his face still hurt.
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"We thank you, all of you for saving our village!" a voice boomed in the Ent`s clearing. The gang, now including Fen were surrounded by hundreds of trees and moving trees too. In front of them was the biggest Ent of them all, the leader of the tribe who was now thanking them graciously for putting out the fire and getting rid of the button men.
Karyuu was touching his face where there was now a small scar where the Buttons hit him. Leah was smiling ear to ear and Calvin was standing very attentive. Rosu was looking around at the massive beings around him and Fen turned round to look at Karyuu. He winked at him and Karyuu grinned back.
"Can we help you in any way?" the Leader Ent said "We will try to help as best we can"
"Well, we need some kind of transport to the town of Ezembark" Calvin said.
The Ents shuffled a little.
"We can give you one of our own to transport you. You will find that an Ent`s head is rather comfy" the leader said "Ttosc! Come here. You will help them to Ezembark"
Ttosc emerged from the crowd of trees and smiled a carved face to the leader.
"Yes Master. I will take up this task" Ttosc said. He turned to Karyuu.
"I`m sorry about before" Ttosc said.
Karyuu smiled "It`s alright. I`m sure you`re a nice person. Or tree"
Everyone giggled and gave a cheer as the adventurers left the forest and waved to the Ents. Fen looked on as they left. He slowly slipped in after them, hiding in the shadow of Ttosc.
Karyuu, Leah, Calvin, Rosu and Ttosc all walked out and were immediatly bathed in the red colour, to match the evening sky. Rosu froze.
"What`s that sound?" he asked looking back to the forest entrance. Fen emerged.
"Fen, what ever are you doing here?" Cally enquired as the others looked on.
"Well........" Fen said shuffling his shoes "I was wondering........could I come along with you? I could help you and I promise not to be a bother"
Karyuu laughed "Of course! The more the merrier!" Fen grinned as a thank you.
Ttosc kneeled to the floor and lay down his hand as a bridge.
"Climb aboard! Just sit on my head and hang on. It shouldn`t be too cramped because I cut my branches yesterday" he said in his smaller voice, trying not to wake the sleeping birds in the trees.
Karyuu clambered up the Ents arm, happy to have made friends with two new people. The gang was starting to feel like a family, except Leah was the only girl. He hoped she wouldn`t mind. Rosu climbed up next, then Leah, then Fen and finally Cally.
"Ezembark is near. We should be there in about 3 hours. Let`s go!" Ttosc said, starting to walk, trying not to shake his head.
The family headed into the distance, hanging on to their branches and wondering what would happen to them in Ezembark.
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Wow! I hope that made up for the action-less last chapter. Yay! New characters! Poor Leah, she`s the only girl. But that will change in a few chapters as the last member joins. Nitney!!!
For next time, it`s Cally writing so expect a good chapter. The gang reach Ezembark and meet the Temple Guard who sets a few troubles for them. Also there will be a troll assault! Kepp reading Bizzare Saga!!!!
comments and criticism welcome
Disclaimer: Bizzare Saga is copyright of Jordan and Calvin. All art, characters and scenario are joint projects by Jordan-chan and Calvin-sama ~ (Project Alternate Reality)
Author`s Note: Hi guys, it`s my turn, Selkie.I`m sorry if the last chapter was boring but it was vital. I would like to thank my friend Stephen-chan for reading all my chapters and Nitney of course too! Thnx guys! :: winks :: As a reward they will be featuring in upcoming chapters! In fact, Stephen will be in this story......heehee! I also want to thank Cally for his help in the story! Cheers! There will be more action in this one, so anyway.....enjoy!
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` The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ` ~ Elanor Roosevelt
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Chapter 6 – Fire, Trees and Howls
"Are you lost?" the tree boomed to the four. They stood shaking in there boots. Rosu spoke up.
"Erm...w - well no. Not really" he stammered his cute brown eyes staring into the tree`s seemingly carved eyes. It`s face was scarred but still looked like a face. It was scratched and cut all over the place but Karyuu and his friends could still make out his features.
He had those carved eyes. Friendly, carved eyes and a mouth which looked like it had a wooden tongue in it too. It had a lump where it`s nose should be and had a spiral shaped cut where it`s right cheek should be.
"We`re trying to get to the city of Ezembark" Leah spoke up. It had been her first proper convorsation since the insident in Amelian.
"Oh, yes" the tree said "I can help you there!" It had long legs and a small part for a torso and long spindly arms. They looked thin, but due to his towering height, they were actually quite thick. On his 'head' branches upon branches stuck out with a few leaves here and there.
"You could? Oh thnk you ever so much erm........tree......." Calvin said wondering what the being actually was. The gang jumped when the tree shouted.
"I am no tree!" it boomed, obviously offended. It`s face swisted from a frown into a look of proudness "I am an Ent!"
Karyuu gasped. That line. He remembered it. Yes! It was from Lord of the Rings, a book and movie back in his world. Ents were tree creatures that lived for thousands of years. They lived in colonies and were very close. At least thats what Karyuu could remember from the film.
"My name is Ttosc. I am from the colony of Ents in the Ezembark Forest" it said. It`s face turned sad "Well, I was...."
Leah walked up to it, gingerly though determined and patted it`s leg.
"What happened?" she asked beckoning for her companions to come over. The walked over too.
"Well. I was banished. You see, I don`t like following the Ent Rules. They`re stupid" the Ent said in a much less booming voice. It even sounded like a childish whine. "So eventually, I was banished. Today infact" It made a huge sound, like a sigh.
"I`m sure we can work something out. We`ll help you" Calvin said looking into the carved eyes "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
Ttosc nodded it`s torso/head and Calvin cleared his throat.
"I am Calvin till Alexan........" he was cut off.
"He`s Cally" Leah said glaring at Calvin. Karyuu giggled. "I`m Leah, that over there is Rosu and that`s Karyuu. He`s from another world!" Then the tree froze.
"Another world?" it said as through it`s hearing aid had failed or something.
"Yeah" Rosu piped up. The tree backed off.
"No, no, no......... not another world" it said in it`s small voice "Get away from me! You other world scum!" It backed off further, nearly in the forest.
Karyuu pouted and frowned. "What`s so wrong with that?" he roared, bearing his teeth. He rarely showed his aggressive side.
"Filthy little..." the tree began.
KABOOM!
An explosion shook the forest, birds flying away into the distance. These explosions were getting more and more frequent to Karyuu. This time, however the explosion sounded much worse and little did he know, would change his group formation.
"What the?" Rosu yelled over the noise of more Ents calling and trees crashing to the floor. Suddenly without warning, an animalistic howl shook the ground and a beautiful light grey wolf jumped out of the wilderness. It landed on top of Karyuu with a thump and looked around dazed.
Without another word, Ttosc disappeared into the thick trees.
"Oh, don`t mind him. He`s a psycho" a voice said. This voice was different to any of the group`s and to Karyuu, it was also familiar. Different but familiar, wierd.
The group turned to the source of the voice, only to be staring at the wolf. Karyuu looked into it`s eyes and it stared back with dark, dark eyes. Not evil dark, colour dark. Also the eyes were familiar too. But how could they be? He had never saw a real wolf before.
To the gangs shock, the wolf`s face started changing. It`s legs started changing, and it`s body started changing. Before anything could happen, the wolf had transformed into a human boy. He was a werewolf.
The boy was around Karyuu`s age and Karyuu`s height. Except his features were totally different from Karyuu`s. He had short, dark hair, almost black and tanned skin. He had a slim build and his eyes were the darkest eyes Karyuu had ever seen. Actually, that was a lie. He had seen this boy before. And those eyes. He was looking at this world`s version of his friend, Shouri.
The boy was wearing a tight green t-shirt and black trousers, with boots similar to Karyuu`s. He had a dark chest-plate too. All in all, he looked quite cool.
All of the gang, Calvin, Leah, Rosu and Karyuu stared at the boy in disbelief.
"Hi" he said in a quiet, yet cheerful voice. His dark eyes were glinting in the bright suns` light.
"Hi" Calvin said. Once again he introduced the lot of them, calling himself 'Cally' for once.
"Cool. My name`s Sidifen. As you guessed, I`m a werewolf" the wolf-boy said. He smiled ear to ear "So, what you guys doin` here?"
"Well, I`m from another world and we need to get the Wondes so that I can go home" Karyuu explained. The sun was still beating down on them.
"Oh yeah, I`ve heard of the legend. 'The sibling angels will come forth......and change the world for good'. Is that how it goes?" Sidifen said.
The gang went to nod but before they could another deafning KABOOM echoed through the forest. The five young adventurers were all blown onto the floor.
"What the hell?" Leah shouted. Crashed sounded inside the wilderness, indicated more trees falling. This time, sparks flew above the outline of the forest and a raging fire began.
"We need to get in there! The Ents are in trouble!" Sidifen shouted already running into the forest "Plese help me! Will you?"
"Yes. We`ll help you!" Calvin said as though the sentence would change everyone`s lives for the better. He started running after the wolf-boy, closely followed by his companions.
As Karyuu looked up, the bright sun disappeared behind the thick layer of branches and leaves, the only light now, the fires.
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Finally, after what seemed like hours of frantic running, the group reached the Ent Village. It was huge.
It was simply a gigantic clearing, with lush trees (non-walking ones) surrounding the outside of it. But the trees were slowly being burned by a massive fire, which sweeped over the plain like someone was drawing on them with a florescent pen. Also, amid the madness, huge, towering Ents fled this may and that, some on fire and some snapped at parts.
"Ttosc!" Sidifen yelled as the Ent they saw earlier ran by. It saw the wolf and came over ignoring Karyuu..
"This is a diaster!" it boomed "Nnogna and Xcerta have been killed! We have to stop it!"
"Well, I`ll help you and these guys wanna help too" Sidifen said, his dark eyes shining with fear.
"No, I`m not working with another-worlder!" Ttosc said. His carved face was twisted into a frown again.
"No, please. It`s to save your village!" Sidifen pleaded. Finally, after a minute of thinking, the Ent slowly nodded and agreed.
"Ok, let`s go!" Rosu said, army-major-like "Calvin, Ttosc and I will go to the east. Leah, Karyuu and you erm....."
"Sidifen. Call me Fen" the new boy said.
"Right, Fen. You, Leah and Karyuu head over that little house" Rosu said nodding towards and small house, which was burning "Let`s go!"
Rosu, Calvin and the Ent ran to the east, just as the old/young boy/man said. To Ttosc`s delight, Karyuu ran the other way, towards the house with Fen and Leah.
Karyuu drew his sword and Leah conjured up a small pink sword with a turnip emblem on the handle and made her wand disappear. Fen took out a big dagger type thing called a sai. Karyuu had seen them in his Tae Kwon Do club, back home.
Suddenly a screaming sound filled the air and a group of bodies jumped out of a burning bush. They were Button Men. They hobbled over like sandbags with their two buttons pinned awkwardly to their so called 'faces'. Their tufts of stuffing hung out of the numerous rips over their bodies and they badly stitched smile spread across their face, scarily. Always smiling.
The front Button reached onto his left arm stump and ripped it off, spilling stuffing onto the slightly charred grass floor. The other dozen did the same and immediately a ripping sound sounded as long knife blades cut through the ripped limbs.
Fen glared at them and shouted, leaping forward with his sai swinging. Karyuu also flew up into the trees and plunged down, ripping a hole in a Button`s stomach. It gave a screech and fell into the others, making a domino-effect.
Menawhile, Leah swung her turnip sword at various places and seeing that it didn`t do alot of damage, brought out her wand again and shot a ball of energy at the crowd of ugly sandbags. They all collapsed in a heap of material and fluff.
Karyuu was swinging his sword around and sriking the Button Men with some force but sooner or later he began to realise something. They weren`t dying. The kept coming back up and regenerating their ripped limbs.
"They aren`t dying!" he shouted to Fen and Leah. They looked up and Leah swirled her wand.
She was swirling her wand like she was doing a martial art and by mistake hit one of the Button Men`s face, ripping of the button-eyes. It stumbled back, screamed, and fell to the floor in a heap of dust.
"Go for their eyes!" Leah yelled as another swarm of Button Men came screeching in.
Karyuu raised his sword and smashed it into the ugly creature`s faces, ripping not just the eyes, but the whole head. Fen then gasped.
"Watch out! I`m turning into a......... a............" he said, struggling to get the words out. He then arched his back and jerked up to look at the leafy sky. He let out a wolf-like howl that rang through the forest like a siren. Even the Button Men seemed to forget what they were doing.
Fen then turned back to a normal human posture and winked at his companions.
Although he had a human posture, he had a tail now, and sharp teeth. He looked half transformed. Surely enough, Fen started shrinking until he was on his wands and knees. A blinding flash erupted breifly and when Leah and Karyuu looked at their friend, he was a beautiful grey wolf, just like when they first met.
His dark, dark eyes narrowed and he dived at the group of Button Men, biting as much as he could. In a few minutes, half the swarm were taken down. They kept swinging their blade arms but none of their blows was recieved by Fen.
"Let`s help!" Karyuu said to Leah, who nodded and rushed towards Fen to help. Karyuu was wondering what time it was, as he couldn`t see the sky. He was beginning to get hungry, because he hadn`t ate since the pancakes. Pancakes....
SMASH!
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Meanwhile, in the east, the others were also getting attacked by half burnt Button Men, but they were faring better as they had an 11 foot Ent helping them.
Calvin managed to control his vampire side and Rosu also helped by swinging his sword at various Button Men. Ttosc just ran around stamping on huddles of sandbags and shouting things like "Die, evil scum!" or "Get out of my village you ugly teddy bears!"
Calvin was now struggling to contain his feindish side because Rosu had been cut a tiny bit on his arm and frsh blood was trickling out of it.
The young prince bit his lip, standing away from Ttosc and Rosu.
"No! Your not getting out!" he said to himself "You killed the guard back at the castle!"
Rosu turned from the battle to see his friend.
"Cally?" Rosu siad in a worried voice "What`s wrong?"
"No! Keep away! My vampire side is trying to come out!" Calvin warned, making Rosu stop approaching him "I can`t....... can`t........"
Suddenly the Button Men froze and slumped to the floor.
"Where are the rats?" Ttosc said, obviously enjoying the slaughtering.
"Ah, the young Prince is here after all!" a voice sounded, a cold voice, coming from behing a tree.
"Who`s there?" Rosu yelled.
"Me, of course" the voice said and almost immediatly after, a tall black figure jumped out of a tree and landed in the middle of the Ent, the boy and the vampire. It was the Button Man himself.
"Miss me?" he sneered, swirling his cane around.
"Get away from me!" Calvin shouted his eyes flickering from chocolate brown to crimson and back. He screamed and gave way, his vampire finally free.
"You will not take me!" he said with a hiss to the Button Man, who just laughed. He ran full tilt and jumped onto the Button Man, aiming for his neck.
The Button Man swore and beat Calvin with his cane, but Calvin still hung on. He snarled and bit deep into the Button Man.
"Aaaaaaaaargh!" the man in black shouted finally throwing the boy off him. Calvin then turned normal, exhausted. There was a bit of blood on his lip, which he licked off.
"You little............ I will get you!" the Button Man said trying to escape.
"No you don`t!" Ttosc said, lifting him up "Bye bye!"
He did a pose like a baseball played and flung the evil man as hard as he could. He went flying through the trees and into the distance, screaming all the way.
"Thank you!" Rosu said. Ttosc blushed, if a tree can blush.
"Look!" Calvin said, breathing deeply. The three looked up and the fire was being doused by water. Leah appeared in the air, with a bubble round her. She had a hose in her hand.
"Howday!" she said smiling.
"Where is Karyuu and Fen?" Rosu said looking around.
"We`re here" Fen`s voice said and he emerged from the wood, Karyuu slumped over his shoulder.
"What happened to him?" the Ent asked. They all noticed that the Ents had stopped running about and screaming.
"He got hit by one of the Buttons, trying to save your village!" Leah said, landing beside Fen "I think you should respect him a bit better!"
Ttosc looked guilty as Karyuu`s head peered over Fen`s shoulder.
"I`m sorry" he said "It`s just that I was brought up to hate other worlders, you see. And thank you, all of you for saving my village"
They all smiled, Karyuu`s one a half smile. He was really pleased, but his face still hurt.
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"We thank you, all of you for saving our village!" a voice boomed in the Ent`s clearing. The gang, now including Fen were surrounded by hundreds of trees and moving trees too. In front of them was the biggest Ent of them all, the leader of the tribe who was now thanking them graciously for putting out the fire and getting rid of the button men.
Karyuu was touching his face where there was now a small scar where the Buttons hit him. Leah was smiling ear to ear and Calvin was standing very attentive. Rosu was looking around at the massive beings around him and Fen turned round to look at Karyuu. He winked at him and Karyuu grinned back.
"Can we help you in any way?" the Leader Ent said "We will try to help as best we can"
"Well, we need some kind of transport to the town of Ezembark" Calvin said.
The Ents shuffled a little.
"We can give you one of our own to transport you. You will find that an Ent`s head is rather comfy" the leader said "Ttosc! Come here. You will help them to Ezembark"
Ttosc emerged from the crowd of trees and smiled a carved face to the leader.
"Yes Master. I will take up this task" Ttosc said. He turned to Karyuu.
"I`m sorry about before" Ttosc said.
Karyuu smiled "It`s alright. I`m sure you`re a nice person. Or tree"
Everyone giggled and gave a cheer as the adventurers left the forest and waved to the Ents. Fen looked on as they left. He slowly slipped in after them, hiding in the shadow of Ttosc.
Karyuu, Leah, Calvin, Rosu and Ttosc all walked out and were immediatly bathed in the red colour, to match the evening sky. Rosu froze.
"What`s that sound?" he asked looking back to the forest entrance. Fen emerged.
"Fen, what ever are you doing here?" Cally enquired as the others looked on.
"Well........" Fen said shuffling his shoes "I was wondering........could I come along with you? I could help you and I promise not to be a bother"
Karyuu laughed "Of course! The more the merrier!" Fen grinned as a thank you.
Ttosc kneeled to the floor and lay down his hand as a bridge.
"Climb aboard! Just sit on my head and hang on. It shouldn`t be too cramped because I cut my branches yesterday" he said in his smaller voice, trying not to wake the sleeping birds in the trees.
Karyuu clambered up the Ents arm, happy to have made friends with two new people. The gang was starting to feel like a family, except Leah was the only girl. He hoped she wouldn`t mind. Rosu climbed up next, then Leah, then Fen and finally Cally.
"Ezembark is near. We should be there in about 3 hours. Let`s go!" Ttosc said, starting to walk, trying not to shake his head.
The family headed into the distance, hanging on to their branches and wondering what would happen to them in Ezembark.
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Wow! I hope that made up for the action-less last chapter. Yay! New characters! Poor Leah, she`s the only girl. But that will change in a few chapters as the last member joins. Nitney!!!
For next time, it`s Cally writing so expect a good chapter. The gang reach Ezembark and meet the Temple Guard who sets a few troubles for them. Also there will be a troll assault! Kepp reading Bizzare Saga!!!!
comments and criticism welcome
