Disclaimer: Ella, oh Ella, why art thou not my own? How does'th thou lie amongst thyself aware as thy bes of thys existence being the cause of thy Gail Carson Levine and not Lauren? HOW DOES'TH THOU LIE AMONGST THYSELF?!

(Yes I realize I need to see a therapist about this coughobsessioncough… It's been arranged.)

This chapter was totally posted on April 8th or 9th… but since I only replaced the authors note with it… it didn't register that I'd updated. Sorry!

First, I really feel I have to dedicate this chapter to my reviewers, as it was them who helped me overcome the block! So this chapter is dedicated to (in no particular order, I'm just starting from the first reviews):

Babyjayy

Pranksterqueen

Alli Kat

Hip Hop Diva

Who Really Cares?

Bookwormsrock

C.I.

ItakoDream

Arieda

And especially

Dragonfirechick

Firepixie0071

Alright people, let's hear some applause!

Oh and I promise that in the future I will be cutting back on my author's notes… they will not stay 3 pages (look at the one at the bottom of this chapter)… They will go down to a few centimeters… I promise!

There's just ONE last thing… I'm writing a story on fictionpress.com, so when I post that (hopefully this weekend) I'll let you know and you'll go check it out (?) and R&R it. (That's an order… unless you're unwilling to follow it…)

Here's your chapter before you byte me… (Haha, byte… bite… get it? Computer lingo?... Yeah I'm getting corny now… Blame it on the sugar… I'm addicted.)

Forever Elly

Chapter 6

"She's coming to; go get her cook. Mandy I believe. She should be in the kitchens. Hurry now!" An unfamiliar voice filled my ears.

Where was I? What was happening?

I opened my eyes.

"Owww!" I groaned and squeezed my eyes shut again. So bright…

I opened them just enough, so that I was squinting. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I could also make out the figures in my room. There looked to be around 5 of them. Were they all here to see that I got better? They were all women, and seemed to be carrying things from here to there,

"W-whr em i?" My voice squeaked and croaked. Coughing, I tried again.

"Wh-ahem - Where am I?" As soon as my voice broke free, so did the questions.

"Who are you? How did I get here? Where's Mandy? Why am I here?"

I was so confused.

"What's going on?!!" I whined.

"Dear," replied one of the women hovering above me, "I believe t'would be best to wait for Caroline to return from the kitchens. I sent her to fetch Mandy for ye." (A/N Caroline hinthint… if you can't tell yet, she'll be a bigger character eventually)

I sat up, intending to look around the room to try to determine my whereabouts. However, a spell of dizziness overcame me, and the same woman who had told me Mandy was coming shoved me back down. For that I was grateful. But why were these people taking care of me? What was going on? Come on, Mandy, come faster, I silently begged. I need to figure out what's going on…

Sitting high up in a tree, I thought about the occurrences over the last few days.

Mandy had arrived in my room, and after shooing the women out, who glared as they passed through the doorway, Mandy told me what had happened.

She had found me, blacked out, on that bench in the park. When she couldn't wake me, she had transported me by magic to Frell, where I was given the room and women to treat me.

It wasn't so much all the attention and everything that I was concerned with, it was Mandy doing magic on me.

"Wasn't that big magic, Mandy?"

"No sweet, you were unconscious. It isn't big magic if you aren't aware of what's happening. And it was an emergency. Without the doctors who have been making you better, I'm not sure you would have made it. Unfortunately you were too far gone for one of my curing potions."

The one time Mandy does big magic and I miss it…Figures.

Anyway, I'd been unconscious for almost a week. They had barely gotten me to eat enough to survive, since I'd been so unresponsive.

I have a feeling that somehow Mandy had a hand in the food-eating department; that fairy…

They don't know why exactly I was so sick. Their theory is perhaps the mistreatment of the bandits combined with a sickness that had not yet surfaced. Whatever the reason, it was not a pleasant sickness, and I would be ever grateful when I was better again.

That's about all that has happened since she found me.

Oh and I met a very nice servant girl. Her name is Caroline, and she's a bit older than me, 16. She's been helping me a lot since the incident.

Every day I've been getting back more and more strength. Today I managed to climb that tree. Granted, I'm only on the lowest branch, and also, Caroline helped me up there. But I am getting better. That's all that seems to matter.

I was ordered up here to Frell by my father, the King, and may I just point out that I have yet to see him. They say he is away in a foreign land, dealing with the other royalties. Well I was glad to hear that he could wait longer to find his daughter… Not.

Maybe Mandy was right and he really was cruel.

According to the main servant at the palace, he would be back in a fortnight. I was to prepare for him.

I had no idea what preparing for him would be, so I've decided to explore Frell, day by day, as I get stronger.

I started with this tree I'm in. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to the second branch.

Over the next few days, my strength returned in bursts. There were times when I felt almost like myself again, but then my knees would buckle and I'd collapse.

However, one day I felt so much more alive. So much like my spirit had returned. I wished to run through a meadow with the long grass swishing against my legs.

But I couldn't quite run yet, so I settled for hunting out the Frellan waterfall. There were, of course, bodyguards after me. On the contrary though, I made sure they were to stay far behind and hidden, unless I was in danger.

Finally locating the waterfall, I felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

Not surprisingly, it reminded me of that fateful day 5 years earlier. And Bree.

I stood transfixed. This waterfall. It was amazing. Even more so than the Ayorthan. The water sparkled even more in the sunlight. The water fell in an even more perfect arch. It was so beautiful. I had to get closer.

It was calling to me.

I crept closer, and closer, and closer.

Step by step.

Standing by the waterfall, right next to it, I stood as its alluring presence relaxed me.

But maybe that was a bad thing.

My knees chose that moment to collapse.

And suddenly, there was nothing to catch my feet, and I began to fall.

Swiftly, a strong pair of arms grabbed me around the waist and pulled me back.

My knees were not yet cooperating, and I fell back into the arms of my rescuer. They weren't expecting it however, and we went crashing to the ground.

I was sitting in the lap of my rescuer now, and try as I might, I couldn't move.

I slowly turned my head.

The rescuer. It was a young boy, about my age.

I could see dark blue sparkling eyes.

I knew those eyes. They were one of a kind. It could only be…

It was Bree.

(A/N) Okay so there's your chapter. It's kind of short, but you get reintroduced to Bree. Well actually you technically don't… but whatever. She will TALK to Bree in the next chapter. Hopefully I'll be able to update soon. There's still a whole weekend for me to possibly write… (Thank god for Easter and Passover… everyone loved all the Jewish people in my school because they had Satyr (or something… I'm not Jewish) so the teachers weren't allowed to give us homework due on Tuesday or Wednesday… And then we got to miss Friday… Plus Easter… so our teachers were wary about giving weekend homework too. So I have time to write this weekend! Yay! And my writer's block is over! (Anyone want to read my paragraph that cured it? Heh;) it's definitely… interesting)

Caroline… she'll be more in future chapters, don't worry. I was just introducing her in this chapter.

Reviewers:

Babyjayy – heh ;) bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, bay- gul… I'll be chanting this all day… bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, yeah okay I'll chant in my head now… Thanks for reviewing!

Areida – Awesome name… couldn't think of a better one… besides like Ella or something ;) But I'm sure that's already taken… sooooo of course you can be in the contest… and u can win too… everyone can win… that way everyone is happy! (and I get lots of names for upcoming characters ;) hehe) So lookout for Twilight. Thanks for reviewing! Oh, and don't worry… I lied about Bree in the first chapter ;) hint hint

C. I – OoOoOo nice long reviews that made my day! Okay I'm going to try to answer all your questions and comments and stuff… here goes…

Oh I know what you mean with the virus thing… my computer has done that in the past… really annoying.

Ari isn't going to be a carbon copy of Areida; I was just establishing that she was her great granddaughter and all. You'll see more of her and her character will develop more then.

About romance between Bree and Elly, no comment (wow isn't that a big hint). Thanks for telling me her eye color… I had a gut feeling it was green, I just couldn't remember exactly. And don't worry about your character; you'll meet her in time as long as you keep reading ;)

Oh and yeah I know about the movie. I'm disappointed in the way they've like completely changed it from the book… All that's the same is Ella, her obedience, and… and that's about it… everything else is different in some way. I ended up going to see it anyway though and the book is like a million times better… well at least more people might decide to read Ella Enchanted because of the movie… Spreading the love of Ella Enchanted is an important thing… I'm not too upset, because I thought the movie will probably distort my version of Ella Enchanted (the one in my head), like movies always do to books… like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings… but since it was soooooo different, I still picture Ella Enchanted my way… There was so many things that were so wrong in it though. They shouldn't mess up Mandy like that… she's not supposed to be young and inexperienced… she's supposed to have been the fairy godmother of like the whole entire Eleanor line or something… And Slannen… so didn't happen. Oh wait, I'm like giving away the movie now…

Yeah so anyway…….. Off the movie topic…….. Okay so you're wondering why I'm criticizing snow… well I live in Connecticut, and we've had so much snow this year that they have already extended our school year as far as it can go (we end at like June 25th or something, and they aren't allowed to make it go farther back)… So… we had so much snow that they had to extend it to the limit… and THEN… we had more snow… so they decided, 'oh, we'll just take away their April vacation now' evil smile(I didn't actually see that part, though I'm sure it happened.) Sooo… then it just kept snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing and snowing… etc… and pretty soon, our April vacation, which was supposed to be from April 19 – 23… but nooooooo… it has to KEEP SNOWING and I really hate snow now because our 9 day (including weekends) vacation is 3 days… THREE LOUSY DAYS… That is a Friday off… Like this week… With Good Friday and Easter and all that. Do you understand why I hate snow yet? I mean believe me I understand when you say you never get snow… I lived in Australia and the last time it snowed there was like never. Most of the kids there had never seen snow before… but I'm back in snowy Connecticut (you normally don't say that… this winter has been extra crappy) and I say snow sucks so just agree with me and nobody will get hurt. Actually since I wouldn't hurt anyone anyway (have you read about the poking thing yet?) there's nothing to worry about but just say yes and nod.

Okay new topic… Why I don't like the Odyssey… Hmm… I could make this extra long… however my fingers are getting tired… I suppose the main reason I don't like The Odyssey is because since I have to read it in English class and whenever you have to read something in English class, you have to chop it into so many pieces and butcher it over and over and over again until your hair falls out. cough sorry… I bet if I read it on my own I'd like it a lot more than in English class (they ruined Romeo and Juliet for me too… they being the system - or English teachers if you want to get technical) And I don't really like all the mythology stuff… it gets so confusing for me… I can't tell who's who or who is the god of what… plus it's all confusing and I guess I have more of a logical mind because I can't make myself believe/picture it. And what I meant by 8 books was… you know how the Odyssey is divided into like 24 books I believe (basically books= chapters, except they're called books, so I'm calling them books too… see how that works?) yeah… so I left about 8 books/chapters for me to read and write 2 pages about (each) that night… not fun. And about reading it in elementary school… I don't think I'd ever heard of it in elementary school… Hmmm… another new topic (by the way I realized I'm not going in order here)…

Okay, why's a rickety old building near a park… well technically, at least the way I picture it in my mind, the rickety old building was in one neighborhood, and from the roof of that neighborhood she could see the park, but it was far away… so in a different, nicer neighborhood (I know what I mean in my head… that's sort of how my town is… the town next to us isn't so nice…) so imagine from that rooftop she could see long and far…(if you don't see how this would work then pretend it's the work of the fairies… and stop laughing at me).

And about the time period… well I'm not sure exactly… it's whenever Ella Enchanted was set… there are the nice places (i.e. where Elly is headed) and the not so nice places (i.e. where the rickety old building is). In Ella Enchanted, Ella was basically always in the nice places… However Elly isn't so lucky.

Bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, gotta remember, bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul, bay-gul… I'm assuming since 2 people told me it's so, that it's so (bay-gul).

Last 2 things (finally ;) heh)… 1.) Dialogue… I love writing dialogue… It's fun… however Elly has been… trapped up and doesn't really have anyone to talk to, so it's hard to do dialogue unless she's talking to herself… and if I make her talk to herself, you will begin to question her sanity (at least based on the way I write). ;) Sooo… when I add more characters, I'll also add more dialogue… No worries! ;) (I like - ;) -smiley faces if you haven't noticed yet;)… hehe)

Last thing…….. WILL THERE BE ROMANCE? I would like to point out that this story is in the romance section… so that being said… YES THERE WILL BE ROMANCE. (That's not meant to sound mean or anything… just stressing my point. I realized that the romance has been kind of slow so far… in fact there really hasn't been anything you could call romance. Don't worry though, that will change… Soon… As soon as possible.

Wow really long response… holy cow it's like 2 pages… Okay well I'm sure you Southern Californian's don't have a weird accent ;)… and if you do it's probably not weird, just different and awesome! Australians definitely have awesome accents. (I love their accents… I could just listen to them talk for hours without absorbing a word because I'm listening to the accent… muhahaha… I wouldn't though, that would be mean.) So… thanks for the compliments in those longggggggggggg reviews amongst all the questions… (long is good, don't get the wrong impression)

Thanks soooooo much!!!!!

Wow, this review answer is like 10 times longer than the chapter… real smart Lauren… whacks myself in my head with my science textbook.

Firepixie0071- Thank you very much ;) And I love your story… It's awesome, update it soon! And thanks so much for all the encouragement and talking to me and filling up my review section with reviews all about yourself (I'm just kidding… I love it when I go check to see if anyone reviewed and your name is there along with a long review… It's the best feeling!) Here is the long-awaited chapter… sighs I told myself I wouldn't be one of those authors… See how that worked out…?

Dragonfirechick – Thank you sooooooo much… So much encouragement and praise… It was truly touching… bringing a tear to my eye… oh wait sorry that's just my contact… been bothering me all day. ;) Thanks sooooooooo much also for the 'Writer's Block Curing Paragraph' (from now on it's being called the WBCP). I emailed it to you like you said… Sorry for making you wait!!

Okay so R&R! And check out my other story… If I don't update again this weekend, I will next weekend… another 3 day weekend. And if I don't update again this weekend, it's probably because I was writing my other story.

Okay looking back a bit over this chapter… I'm not very satisfied… And it's so short. Only like 4 pages… barely. I may very well end up rewriting it… however I'm too tired now… so lookout for it later.

R&R!

Thanks

Lauren