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"MMFF MMF MFF!" She tried to yell to the goblins. Leora was walking with the goblins who were guarding her as they walked through the forest. One of the goblins sighed, "She won't shut up! Can't we just kill her already?" "No!" Protested the leader. "She wants us to keep her alive. It's out duty as her royal goblins to keep that promise. When she says we can kill her, we will!" Leora's eyes grew wide. "Well, can we at least shut her up? She's been muffling for hours!" The lead goblin groaned, rolling eyes his. Then, he turned around and knocked Leora out. She fell to the ground, and at once the muffling stopped.
The lead goblin turned and began walking again. The other two picked up Leora and one of them whispered, "That's much better!"
"Wolf! Can we stop? We've been running forever!" Virginia panted as she tried to keep up with Wolf. He looked up at the darkening sky and said, "It's almost nightfall. I'm sure they'll stop soon to sleep. That'll be our opportunity to get Leora and get here out of here!" They kept on running, and Virginia wished that they could stop; she was exhausted.
But soon enough, her wish was granted. Trying to catch up to Wolf, she turned around a tree and bumped right into him. Stopping and taking a breath, she asked, "Why did you-" He put a finger to her lips and pointed over his left shoulder. One hundred feet away, Virginia could see a fire starting to build above the trees. "Now we can stop running." Wolf whispered.
He then started looking around at the ground below him. He sniffed through the woods as Virginia followed him curiously, "What are you looking for?" She whispered to him. "As far as I can tell, we're in the Fourth Kingdom. But very, very North!" Virginia was confused, "I don't understand, what does that have to do with anything?" And he told her, "There is a certain plant that grows in the Fourth Kingdom, aha!" He knelt down in front of a small bush and ripped some of its leaves off. "It's called fairygrass, it's used to help people get to sleep. When they consume it, they'll sleep for quite a while, a day, two perhaps." "How are we going to feed this to the goblins? I'm not too sure they would want to meet anybody on their journey!"
Taking a few biscuits out of his pocket, Wolf told her, "Oh, don't worry. They won't even see us!"
Waking up, Leora opened her deep green eyes to see that it was already night. And her head hurt horribly. She tried to lift her hand to her head, but she realized she was chained to a tree. She sat there and looked at the gruesome display in front of her. The goblins had pulled off their hoods. She couldn't even describe how ugly the three were, and they were such pigs. They sat around the fire eating what looked like onions and beanstalk.
"I can't stand it!" Said one of the goblins. "We haven't eaten a decent meal for days. All it's been is these horrid vegetables!" He tossed a beanstalk down and spat out his mouthful. "You'll have to eat it, there aren't many wild animals around this part of Wendell's kingdom. Lousy king he is!" The three agreed and continued eating.
Then, all of a sudden, there was a faint noise. Leora could barely hear it. The goblins stood up and looked around. Then, finding nothing was there, they slowly sat back down. And then, one of them noticed something. "Look!" He said to the others. "It's biscuits!" He leaned over to the edge of their bonfire and picked up one. And before he could grab anymore, the other two ran over and took them. "I haven't had biscuits for weeks!" One stated. One of them looked at Leora and said, "Hey, shouldn't we give her one? She looks starved!" "No! That little brat can starve for all I care!" And they gobbled down their biscuits in just a couple of bites.
As time passed, they sat and talked, laughing with each other over how they torture their victims. Then, the leader stood up, and walked over to Leora and bent down, looking into her eyes. "When our Queen meets you, you'll wish you were never born! She...she..." The goblin made a big yawn, and Leora grimaced from the smell. Then, the other two began to look tired, and suddenly, they all fell to the ground.
All of a sudden, Leora heard a noise from the tree beside hers. And with a crash, her rescuer jumped down from the tree. It was Virginia's fiancée! "MFF! MMF! MM!" She muffled. "It's okay now, you're safe!" He came over and took the cloth out of her mouth, "How did you get here? How did you know I was here?" Taking the key from the head goblin he went behind her tree and unlocked the chains. "Virginia and I followed you here through the magic mirror. We, uh, saw you leave your apartment and followed you."
Getting up, Leora went over to one of the goblins who was snoring and took back her book bag and swung it around her shoulders. "Where's Virginia?" "Waiting, now come on, we have to get out of here!" He took her hand and they ran away from the sleeping goblins and the fire.
Sitting on a rock, Virginia thought about Leora and her aunt. 'Why would they want to kidnap her? Why murder her aunt and leave her alive? How is she important to goblins from this dimension?' Clearly, there was more to Leora Corlett that meets the eye. Virginia came out of her thoughts when she saw Wolf and Leora running towards her. "Virginia!" Leora exclaimed. She ran up and hugged her, "I'm so glad you're alright!" "You know me, I get into loads of trouble!" Leora responded. They laughed, and Wolf interrupted them, "Ladies, I'm sorry to say this, but we have to get out of here! Since these guys know where we live, we have to stay in the Fourth Kingdom!" "What are you proposing Wolf?" Virginia asked. "We have to get to Wendell's castle!"
"Hold on just one minute!" Leora protested. She looked at them both bewilderedly, "Goblins? Magic mirrors? Castles? And your name is Wolf? Could somebody please enlighten me, because I am very confused!" Virginia and Wolf looked at each other, and decided they could take a little bit to explain everything to her.
"And that's the last thing that's happened to us involving this place! Up until now that is, and its only been a few weeks!" Virginia and Wolf finished explaining everything to her, and all Leora could do was say, "You're saying that fairytales are real? And that we're not in America anymore? And you're a werewolf?" They nodded guiltily.
"I'm shocked! And excited! And scared out of my mind! Why were those goblins trying to kidnap me?" "We don't know. We've never seen them before. Did they say anything to you at all?" Leora thought a moment, then she remembered, "Yes! Before they went to sleep, one of them told me that they would take me to the 'Queen' and I will 'wish I'd never been born!"
"That can't be possible! The last Queen was my mother! She's dead." Virginia suddenly was overwhelmed with sadness. Leora saw her pain and got up and sat next to her. "I'm sorry. I know what it's like to loose your family." "God, why should I be upset! You just lost your aunt, and you never knew your parents!" Leora nodded, "Yeah, well, that's life. It comes in many different flavors."
"We should go to Wendell, he'll know what do to about your situation. Come on, we need to get a move on!" The two girls rose and followed Wolf, who didn't run this time, but stayed and walked with them.