A/N: I forgot to say in the last Author's Notes that I'm having them start junior high in sixth grade, instead of when Celes, Bennifred and I did, in seventh. Mrs. Coyne was my Area Studies teacher last year, and we actually did take that walk in the woods to see the hobo's rock pile and stuff. Also, Anya's name here is elvenwolf123321. --; What else would it be? Jk, Padfoot, jk. There are a few chapters after this, but I have to wrap it up quickly, because the due date for the final copy will be soon, and I'm not even done with the story!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEE!!!!
Something Sakura says a lot in these situations and stuff in the CCS stuff. It's really spelled H-O-E, but I exaggerated it. Ya, blah, w/e. --;
Pop!
The four of them stepped out of an Elfin sized fireplace and into a warm room that smelled of cookies. They felt very welcome.
Then Ewan began to flail his limbs and flip out, running here and there, bouncing off the walls. Everyone but Anya sweatdropped at him in confusion. She just said, "Oooo, look! It's the ritual the African tribes do before they make a sacrifice to their almighty god! We learned about that in school!"
Celes looked at her in disbelief that she actually learned something. Remy did too, then asked, "Wasn't that the day you thought you were a bear?"
Anya suddenly grinned with an odd, mad expression and made a clawing motion with her hands and said, "Rrrrooooaaaarrrr!" The other two who were sane for the moment sweatdropped.
"WE'RE BLOODY TINY!!!!!!!!!!!!"
All the girls turned to Ewan in frightful surprise as he jumped in their faces. Celes got all up in his face and hollered back, "NO WE'RE NOT, STUPID-HEAD!"
Ewan looked even more energetic, in a bad way, over this. "NO, YOU STUPID GITS!!! WE'VE BEEN SHRUNK!!!!!!!!!" The girls sweat dropped.
Remy was the first to side with him. "OH MY GODDESS! YOU'RE SO RIGHT!" The other two looked confused, but Remy asked in explanation, "How could we fit inside a regular sized hollow tree if we didn't shrink down to Elfin size?" It took the other two a few moments before they screamed and all four of them began to bounce off the walls again.
Ernest J. Keebler, the head elf, hurried into the room, followed by Elfwood, the sandwich cookie blaster, and a small party of worker elves. The elves looked confused and scared as they saw the human children. They looked especially fearful when the whole group ran towards them without meaning to. "LOOK OUT," some one howled Milliseconds later, the group crashed into them, creating a big heap. Anya had stopped immediately when she heard the warning, but when she saw the mound of bodies, she couldn't resist. "Puppy pile," she cried happily as she leaped into the air and onto the top of the mountain. The person directly beneath her groaned in pain.
It was several quiet, and quite awkward moments before a worker elf said, timidly, "Excuse me, but would who ever has their heal in my ear, please remove it?" The pile separated quickly after that.
Ernie asked first, "Who are you, and what the heck are you doing here in the hollow tree?"
Celes yelled, "SOUND OFF!"
The elves watched as they formed a single file line behind one another. The sound off went as follows:
"Remy Falcon, 13, Hufflepuff!" She did a cartwheel to the right.
"Anya Jacobs, 13, Slytherin!" She did a cartwheel to the left.
"Celes Moon, 13, Gryffindor!" She did a cartwheel to the right.
"Ewan Weasley, 13, Ravenclaw!" He tried to do a cartwheel to the left, but fell on his head, so he just got up and walked to his place in the horizontal line.
Suddenly the cancan song started playing from out of nowhere, and the four all linked arms and started, going to the right first. To this tune, they sang, "Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger badger, badge— MUSHY, MUSHY MUSHROOM! Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger badger, badge— MUSHY, MUSHY MUSHROOM! Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badge— MUSHY MUSHY MUSHROOM! Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badge— SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE SNAKEY SNAKE SNAKE!" Just as abruptly as they had started, they stopped. Randomly, during the moment of uncomfortable, Celes randomly said, "Pickle car."
Elfwood sweatdropped, then yelped with surprise, "HEY, THAT'S MINE!!!" He was dramatically pointing to his blaster gun, which had fallen out of Celes' pocket on arriving, and thank goodness, because it had returned to regular size and was lying next to Ewan's bike, which was funny because they were almost the exact same size inside the tree.
Celes grew defensive at this statement. "What are you talking about it?! It's mine, bucco!"
The growled at each other and were about to spar for it, but Ernie asked quickly, "Where did you get the blaster, Celes?" He would forever know their names, in addition to forever being mentally damaged by their opening act.
Celes became all innocent suddenly with angelic wings and a halo as she turned to Ernie. Elfwood fell backwards anime style. Sweetly, she replied, "My brother picked it off him behind the Keebler cookies at the grocery store where he works."
The elder elf nodded. He asked a harder question, next. "Why are you here?"
Ewan, Remy, Anya, and Celes all thought for a moment. Finally, Anya said, "We don't know." The elves fell backwards anime style.
"Well," started the head elf, "we're going to have to send you home. We're very busy this time of year, making all the cookies for the school cafeterias, and the ones for the mothers to put in the brown bag lunches." The worker elves nodded enthusiastically, but Elfwood still glared at Celes.
"We can't go home," said Celes suddenly. The rest of the humans looked to her in question, but she said quickly, "Our parents and/or guardians have gone to Bermuda!"
Remy and Anya gave big convincing grins identical to their other female friend's. Ewan looked confused and said mater-of-factually, "My parents aren't in Bermuda! Their—"
He was cut off when Remy angrily kneed him below the belt. He curled in on himself immediately, falling to his knees. Celes kicked his back to get the fib she wanted out. Painfully, he barely managed to squeak, "Their in Australia." The girls seemed content with this fib and returned to being little angels, whilst Ewan fell onto his side.
Elfwood gulped as Moony gave him a devilish grin and hid in the back of the Elfin group. The elder elf seemed slightly turned off by the fact that the only place for them to go was there. Finally, he ordered to two worker elves, "Show the girls to their room, and bring the young man some ice." They left immediately, Remy pulling her trunk-on-wheels, Anya pulling the wagon, and Celes pushing Ewan's bike as he staggered after them.
When the elves in the room were positive they were long gone, Elfwood ran to his blaster and began to cry tears of joy. "My baby," smooch, "my sweet, beautiful babe," smooch, "I'll never leave you again!"
"Get a hold of yourself, soldier," snapped Ernie. He kicked the younger man in the ribs before turning about angrily.
"Sir," an elf began timidly, "Don't you think that the humanoids will foil the plan of revolt?"
Another elf agreed, "Ya, with them here, Albus Dumbledor is bound to be on our tails!"
"DON'T YOU THINK I REALIZE THIS YOU BLOODY HALF-WITS?!?!" Ernie roared with acidic anger. They all cowered in fear behind Elfwood. Ernie counted to ten before smiling maliciously. "They will only make the victory even more sweet," he informed them.
They elves listened carefully as he explained the new plan.
Yes, the chapter was short, I'm sorry!
PDMD
