A/N: This chapter is for you people to know the ways of the world over the
Divide. Okay, they never told in the book the world, so I will make the
name up as best as I can. Thanks for the reviews. I got a lot. And the
author of the book 'The Divide' is Elizabeth Kay. The hardback cover is a
funky looking one too. And none of the characters are mine in this book but
Mika. She is mine and you will know more about her as the story goes on.
Hope you like the chapter. Please R&R. Thanks!
For you to understand the rest of this chapter you will have to know some terms about the people and animals in this world. I don't want to confuse you people so I'm taking the terms in the book and putting them in this chapter. Some of them are a bit confusing at first, but when I tell you about them later on you might want to come back to this.
Brazzle- Griffin. Front part of body hawk. Second half lion.
Brittlehorn- Unicorn.
Cuddyak- Buffalo with rhino horn.
Fire-breather- Dragon.
Japegrin- Pixie
Lickit- Elves that cook sweet stuff for a job.
Shreddermouth- Crocodile with longer legs.
Sinistrom Devil- Hyena
Tangle-person- Elf.
Wise-hoof- Centaur
Worrit- dog with a comic appearance and kills its prey by making it laugh to death.
Okay, on with the story. Don't think you are stupid if you forget this list. It took me forever to get it. You can come back to this chapter if you forget. Now, READ!
Chapter 5 Almost Laughing to Death
Raven woke up in total darkness around her. She noticed she was in some forest. She did not even try to get up from the soft ground. The trees above her were so peaceful and it must have been fall in this new world because the leaves slowly fell to the ground when a soft night wind went by.
Then she started to sweat and she felt so weak and helpless as her body went cold. She so badly wanted this kind of sickness to end. But she knew that the next sickness was going to be worse than the one she already had.
Unexpectedly Raven smiled. She was a bit confused why she was smiling, but her smile went wider. Then she started to giggle a little at a time still wondering why she was even doing it.
Raven during a giggle fit sat up from where she was laying on the ground. She noticed all her friends around her sleeping. She then looked around the darkness sweeping around her and saw a movement. She giggled again and it echoed around the forest. She stopped and tried to get her head together to stop laughing.
The something in the woods came out of its place behind a bush. Raven now laughed as she saw him. It was a dog with jet-black fur and hair knots in its big think coat. Its eyes were like out of a comic and its ears were one was standing up as the other one was floppy and was always in his eyes even though he tried to push it back with its over large feet. Raven now started to laugh more as the dog smiled.
Raven was having a laughing fit. She rolled on the ground giggling and holding her sides till they ached. Then it got scary. She could not stop laughing and her lungs were pleading for her to breathe again. Raven started to freak as she looked at the dog again and started to laugh some more.
She had heard of laughing to death, but she never knew that you COULD laugh till you died. She was going to die if she did not stop. She tried to stop, but when she looked at the dog it made her laugh harder. Finally she closed her eyes tight shut and tried to think.
"Stop!" Raven yelled through a giggle. She was starting to calm down.
"Oh yippee!" the dog said and tried to do a flip but failed because his huge feet got in his way. (a/n: in this book some animals can talk. That is why the dog/worrit can talk.) "You can talk. And I thought you were some poor person who was mute. Silly me!"
Raven opened her eyes in wonder that this dog could talk. But when she opened her eyes she started to laugh again. She was now making a huge effort to hold it back and subside to only giggles.
"What kind of soup do brazzles like? Don't know? Okay, I'll tell you. One with plenty of body in it. Come on, laugh. You know you want to," the dog said with a funny looking grin.
Raven had no idea what any of the joke meant, but she burst out laughing anyway. Her lungs started to sting again. After what seemed like forever Raven gave up on trying to not laugh.
Suddenly, something flew down and hit the dog on the side and made it skid a few feet away from the laughing Raven.
"Go on! Get out of here!" the giant thing in front of Raven yelled. The dog paused then took off through the forest never to be seen again.
It took a long time for Raven to stop laughing and come under control. The huge creature in front of her stood there watching her every move. When she stopped laughing she looked up at the creature and she tried to get into her head that a half bird half lion creature was standing before her.
"You almost lost that battle with that worrit there," the huge thing said. "Good thing they don't like brazzles too much or you would be a goner."
Raven just sat there in total shock as the animal spook to her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Before Raven could answer there was some shuffling of leaves behind her where her friends were laying. A moan escaped one of her friend's mouths.
"What happened?" she heard Beast Boy whisper as his vision got used to the pitch-black forest. Suddenly, she heard him jump to his feet and yell, "Whoa! What the heck is that?"
Raven got to her feet with the creature staring at both of them with confusion on his hawk like face. His feathers puffed up as three other people on the ground woke.
"What!" Raven heard Robin ask with alertness.
"What is going on B.B.?" Cyborg asked.
"Someone got a light?" Mika asked, as she got to her feet in a sleepy motion.
Suddenly, there was light in the darkness as Cyborg got light from his shoulder flashlight and shined it on the ones awake. Raven and Beast Boy shielded their eyes as it passed them. Raven looked behind her to see the creature in the light, but he was gone. Maybe it was a dream.
"Yo!" Cyborg yelled frustrated. "What happened here?"
"I swear there was some kind of huge creature here!" Beast Boy said pointing to the spot the creature was. He looked at Raven and she nodded in agreement. "See! Raven saw it too. It was going to eat her!"
Now the others were awake also and Felix was looking at the spot where the creature was. After a few minutes he stood up with a golden feather. It glistened in the light as he turned it around in his fingers.
"What is it?" Starfire asked a little confused as always.
"A brazzle," Felix answered with a tiny smile crossing his lips. "It's really a griffin, but they call them brazzles here."
"Are they dangerous?" Robin asked taking the feather out of Felix's hand and looking closely at it.
"Yeah, but not to us," he answered. "Really that was the thing that saved my life."
A soft wind came by and only Raven shivered. Felix noticed this and asked, "You seem startled. Did anything happen before you saw the griffin?"
Raven was too scared to speak. She just sat down on the ground as she was hit with another case of cold sweat that made every bone in her body go limp. Then the creature flew over them and the group gasped as the moon above went black for two seconds.
The creature landed a few feet away from the group. The standing Teen Titans braced themselves for the worst as Mika took a step back and was about to rub her hands together to make an earthquake but was stopped as Felix yelled, "Ironclaw!"
"Felix!" Ironclaw said surprised and took a step closer. Robin put down his fists to tell his team that there was no danger. The griffin walked over the Felix and Felix hugged the creature. When he let go Ironclaw whistled as he looked at Felix in the light. "My, have you've grown from that day you left! You're all well fit and strong." The griffin shook his head as he looked at Felix some more.
"This is Ironclaw," Felix announced to the whole group. "He is one of my friends who helped me the last time I was here. I think we will get far with him here."
A/N: Sorry for the cliffhanger. I love putting in those! Next chapter will come up soon. Please give a review. Thanks!
For you to understand the rest of this chapter you will have to know some terms about the people and animals in this world. I don't want to confuse you people so I'm taking the terms in the book and putting them in this chapter. Some of them are a bit confusing at first, but when I tell you about them later on you might want to come back to this.
Brazzle- Griffin. Front part of body hawk. Second half lion.
Brittlehorn- Unicorn.
Cuddyak- Buffalo with rhino horn.
Fire-breather- Dragon.
Japegrin- Pixie
Lickit- Elves that cook sweet stuff for a job.
Shreddermouth- Crocodile with longer legs.
Sinistrom Devil- Hyena
Tangle-person- Elf.
Wise-hoof- Centaur
Worrit- dog with a comic appearance and kills its prey by making it laugh to death.
Okay, on with the story. Don't think you are stupid if you forget this list. It took me forever to get it. You can come back to this chapter if you forget. Now, READ!
Chapter 5 Almost Laughing to Death
Raven woke up in total darkness around her. She noticed she was in some forest. She did not even try to get up from the soft ground. The trees above her were so peaceful and it must have been fall in this new world because the leaves slowly fell to the ground when a soft night wind went by.
Then she started to sweat and she felt so weak and helpless as her body went cold. She so badly wanted this kind of sickness to end. But she knew that the next sickness was going to be worse than the one she already had.
Unexpectedly Raven smiled. She was a bit confused why she was smiling, but her smile went wider. Then she started to giggle a little at a time still wondering why she was even doing it.
Raven during a giggle fit sat up from where she was laying on the ground. She noticed all her friends around her sleeping. She then looked around the darkness sweeping around her and saw a movement. She giggled again and it echoed around the forest. She stopped and tried to get her head together to stop laughing.
The something in the woods came out of its place behind a bush. Raven now laughed as she saw him. It was a dog with jet-black fur and hair knots in its big think coat. Its eyes were like out of a comic and its ears were one was standing up as the other one was floppy and was always in his eyes even though he tried to push it back with its over large feet. Raven now started to laugh more as the dog smiled.
Raven was having a laughing fit. She rolled on the ground giggling and holding her sides till they ached. Then it got scary. She could not stop laughing and her lungs were pleading for her to breathe again. Raven started to freak as she looked at the dog again and started to laugh some more.
She had heard of laughing to death, but she never knew that you COULD laugh till you died. She was going to die if she did not stop. She tried to stop, but when she looked at the dog it made her laugh harder. Finally she closed her eyes tight shut and tried to think.
"Stop!" Raven yelled through a giggle. She was starting to calm down.
"Oh yippee!" the dog said and tried to do a flip but failed because his huge feet got in his way. (a/n: in this book some animals can talk. That is why the dog/worrit can talk.) "You can talk. And I thought you were some poor person who was mute. Silly me!"
Raven opened her eyes in wonder that this dog could talk. But when she opened her eyes she started to laugh again. She was now making a huge effort to hold it back and subside to only giggles.
"What kind of soup do brazzles like? Don't know? Okay, I'll tell you. One with plenty of body in it. Come on, laugh. You know you want to," the dog said with a funny looking grin.
Raven had no idea what any of the joke meant, but she burst out laughing anyway. Her lungs started to sting again. After what seemed like forever Raven gave up on trying to not laugh.
Suddenly, something flew down and hit the dog on the side and made it skid a few feet away from the laughing Raven.
"Go on! Get out of here!" the giant thing in front of Raven yelled. The dog paused then took off through the forest never to be seen again.
It took a long time for Raven to stop laughing and come under control. The huge creature in front of her stood there watching her every move. When she stopped laughing she looked up at the creature and she tried to get into her head that a half bird half lion creature was standing before her.
"You almost lost that battle with that worrit there," the huge thing said. "Good thing they don't like brazzles too much or you would be a goner."
Raven just sat there in total shock as the animal spook to her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Before Raven could answer there was some shuffling of leaves behind her where her friends were laying. A moan escaped one of her friend's mouths.
"What happened?" she heard Beast Boy whisper as his vision got used to the pitch-black forest. Suddenly, she heard him jump to his feet and yell, "Whoa! What the heck is that?"
Raven got to her feet with the creature staring at both of them with confusion on his hawk like face. His feathers puffed up as three other people on the ground woke.
"What!" Raven heard Robin ask with alertness.
"What is going on B.B.?" Cyborg asked.
"Someone got a light?" Mika asked, as she got to her feet in a sleepy motion.
Suddenly, there was light in the darkness as Cyborg got light from his shoulder flashlight and shined it on the ones awake. Raven and Beast Boy shielded their eyes as it passed them. Raven looked behind her to see the creature in the light, but he was gone. Maybe it was a dream.
"Yo!" Cyborg yelled frustrated. "What happened here?"
"I swear there was some kind of huge creature here!" Beast Boy said pointing to the spot the creature was. He looked at Raven and she nodded in agreement. "See! Raven saw it too. It was going to eat her!"
Now the others were awake also and Felix was looking at the spot where the creature was. After a few minutes he stood up with a golden feather. It glistened in the light as he turned it around in his fingers.
"What is it?" Starfire asked a little confused as always.
"A brazzle," Felix answered with a tiny smile crossing his lips. "It's really a griffin, but they call them brazzles here."
"Are they dangerous?" Robin asked taking the feather out of Felix's hand and looking closely at it.
"Yeah, but not to us," he answered. "Really that was the thing that saved my life."
A soft wind came by and only Raven shivered. Felix noticed this and asked, "You seem startled. Did anything happen before you saw the griffin?"
Raven was too scared to speak. She just sat down on the ground as she was hit with another case of cold sweat that made every bone in her body go limp. Then the creature flew over them and the group gasped as the moon above went black for two seconds.
The creature landed a few feet away from the group. The standing Teen Titans braced themselves for the worst as Mika took a step back and was about to rub her hands together to make an earthquake but was stopped as Felix yelled, "Ironclaw!"
"Felix!" Ironclaw said surprised and took a step closer. Robin put down his fists to tell his team that there was no danger. The griffin walked over the Felix and Felix hugged the creature. When he let go Ironclaw whistled as he looked at Felix in the light. "My, have you've grown from that day you left! You're all well fit and strong." The griffin shook his head as he looked at Felix some more.
"This is Ironclaw," Felix announced to the whole group. "He is one of my friends who helped me the last time I was here. I think we will get far with him here."
A/N: Sorry for the cliffhanger. I love putting in those! Next chapter will come up soon. Please give a review. Thanks!