Author's Note: The "long-waited" sequel to On The Other Side! XD Just kidding! I originally wasn't going to write this, but I thought 'What the heck?' I consider On The Other Side my best WT work, so I decided to continue it. I was gonna wait 'till I was completely finished, but I decided to give ya'all a sneak preview. Here's chapter one of the continuation in the Other Side saga. ;
Additional note: I decided to merge this story with On The Other Side
and Poisoned Lies. ; Since they're all one long story, though it'd be
better to merge 'em together.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Soundtrack:
1. Want-Disturbed (used in Hybrid)
2. Don't Judge This Book-The Moffatts (???)
3. Get Off My Back-Bryan Adams (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron)
4. Back in Time-Huey Lewis & the News (Back To The Future)
Notice: The soundtrack info may change.
BASIC INFO:
Alternate Title: Revenge of the Dark Dimension
Rated R: Strong violence scenes, disturbing images, blood, and scenes
not suitable for young children.
RETURN TO DARK DIMENSION
DarkHououmon
It swirled. It never stopped. The black darkness emptiness of it would make anyone's heart stop. The swirl was like a whirlpool. It descended down on the plains of Africa, searching and searching. It seemed to have glowing red eyes, and shifted its shape to match the surroundings. Everything through its eyes was distorted and dark. The mass of darkness just kept going and going. If it stopped spinning it would die. It had to find some volunteers to go inside it. The thing was a vortex, a dying vortex. The object spun across the plains. The dead grass kicked up into the winds swirling. The vortex stopped, and eyed what possibly be the solution to its problems. A young girl was walking next to an even taller girl. The vortex seemed to smile, and hid itself away in the tall grasses of the African plains.
The two girls continued their walk. They weren't going far. After the recent incident, their parents had warned them not to go too far. The tallest one growled in annoyance. Blonde hair swayed in front of her face as she remarked, "This wouldn't have happened if it weren't for that stupid alternate dimension thing…" She had actually meant Eliza, but she didn't feel like outright saying it now. They were also sent on a little mission.
"Stop complaining, Debbie, and help me carry back this firewood."
"I wonder how we even managed to find some branches." The teenager scoffed. "You don't see many trees on the Savannah." Eliza slowly shook her head. She clung the branches close to herself, and started to walk back over to the Commvee. It wasn't too far from them, but Debbie would complain every step of the way. Sometimes the red-haired girl wondered how long she would be able to stand it before she finally snaps. She stopped. She noticed that she could no longer see her sister's shadow. She turned back, and slapped herself mentally.
Debbie had stopped to try and get something off of her. It would've looked like she got some dirt on her, but in reality a small bug had crawled on her pants. Eliza couldn't help but laugh at her sister's reaction to a harmless beetle. "Ew! Ew!" Get this disgusting thing off of me! Gross!" She managed to swipe the small beetle off, and it flew to the ground. The teenager shuddered at the mere thought of having the insect on her. She turned to her sister laughing, and said, "It wasn't funny!"
"Oh yes it was," Eliza sneered, "For your information, that beetle you just flicked off was as harmless as a feather."
Debbie growled. "I don't care! I think bugs are disgusting and wrong." She remarked. Eliza narrowed her eyes in disgust, and quickened her pace. The older girl soon found herself being slowly left behind. She started to pic up her pace, and run towards Eliza. "Hey! Wait up!"
The winds began to pick up very quickly. Darwin, who had tagged along and disappeared, reappeared by Eliza's side. He shivered, his gray fur standing on end. "Eliza, what's going on?" Debbie stopped dead in her tracks when she saw what Eliza was looking at.
A dark cloud had formed above them. It looked almost like a storm cloud, but it had a swirl to it, and it was pitch black, not dark gray or blue. It seemed to rotate. Eliza's eyes widened. "It's the vortex!" She dropped her wood. Debbie yelped in surprise.
"Eliza, what do you mean by….vortex?" But her sister never responded. Instead the child took off running towards the Commvee. Debbie never had a chance to react when she felt herself fall to her side. She brushed off the dust that had collected on her legs only to feel the gigantic pull of a vacuum. "ELIZA!!!" She screamed in terror.
Eliza stopped, and turned around. She gasped. "Debbie!" She told Darwin to stay low. The girl ran back to her sister, but the powerful pull of the vacuum proved too much, and she slowly found herself gripping the ground. Darwin chattered excitedly, and made his way towards the sisters in an effort to save them. He slipped on his face, though, and couldn't regain his balance.
"Eliza, hang on!" Debbie shouted as she reached out to grab her sister's hand. Eliza turned around and grabbed Darwin's hand as well. The 3 soon found themselves being pulled through time and space. The vortex moved and shifted. It displayed countless formulas and futuristic viewings. It pulled the 3 at light speed. Debbie looked ahead. "There's the light!"
She pointed, a smile on her face. But something wasn't right….. "There's a possibility that we might…." Eliza never finished her sentence. They all were spat out of the vortex, and landed on what appeared to be the same land as they were on before, but it seemed different.
The wind wasn't a friend that day. It blew bits of sand everywhere, and made it harder to see. Debbie shielded her eyes from the hot sun. "Do you know this place?" Eliza shook her head, both from confusion and disorientation. 'What a bump…' She slowly rubbed a raised area on her head. She looked back at her head, and saw tiny dots of red. She pressed harder, and winced at the pain. She looked at her hand, and there was a few larger areas of red. It didn't seem like much at first, but if she had a head injury, it might be serious.
She looked up at Debbie, who had her eyes glued on the strange and yet familiar lands. "Yeah." The girl finally said. "This does look similar to what I have seen in the other dimension. If it was a vortex that took us, this might be the same dimension." A thought crossed her mind.
"But if this is the dimension, then…why isn't there any signs of destruction?" She asked herself. "I mean, after that fight, there should still be some damage, and it doesn't take days to fix up a natural disaster. Something is wrong….." She looked back at her sister. Oh how right she will turn out to be.
They got their answer. Well sort of. They looked up as they heard the sound of a gunshot being fired into the air. Eliza yelped as she felt something graze past her, just barely missing her shoulder. The girl shielded her eyes to look up. Something dark and shiny was hovering above them, but they probably weren't the targets. As Eliza peered closer, she noticed that the darkness was the black of the helicopter flying above them, and the shiny part was just light reflecting off of it. "It's a helicopter." She said to Debbie.
The teenager rolled her eyes. "Yeah, thanks for stating the obvious!" 'But…that looks like Bree and Sloan's helicopter. But why are they shooting?' Eliza looked to the ground. 'Perhaps this isn't the same dimension as I thought it was….' Another gunshot. Debbie pushed Eliza to the ground. They hit the ground pretty hard, and looked back up.
They could barely see the outline of a man hanging from a rope ladder. Judging from how he was holding the rifle in his hand, he wasn't aiming to hit them, but make them move or something. 'Why would he do that?' Eliza wondered as her older sister held her down for safety. "Debbie, you can get off of me now."
"How do we know that's not the evil Sloan?" Debbie asked, not taking her eyes off of the approaching figure, who was holding the rifle threateningly. The helicopter lowered down. Darwin screeched with surprise and hid behind Debbie and Eliza. The 3 finally moved back quickly as the flying machine landed right in the spot where they were previously standing. The man jumped off the rope ladder, and another person, a woman this time, leaped out. There was no mistaking.
"Sloan? Bree?" She asked in wonder, but also in fear. She really didn't know what dimension she was in, or if she was even in another dimension. If these were the same Blackburns she had met when finding Tally, she was in big trouble.
The man narrowed his eyes. "I see you remember us, Elizabeth." He spoke darkly.
'Elizabeth?' "Why did you call her that?" Debbie was confused. "Her name is Eliza."
The woman said something this time. "And hello, Deborah. Debbie Thornberry." Anger was present in their voices.
Eliza leaned towards her sister. "I don't like this at all…"
"Neither do I, but I don't know what to do!" Their voices were low and harsh.
Sloan looked at the chimpanzee. He scratched his chin. The chimpanzee, Darwin, looked up at him in fear. Sloan looked back at the kids. "And how long have you Thornberrys have kept that chimpanzee captive?"
"CAPTIVE?!" Debbie screamed in anger. She formed a fist with one hand, and pounded it into the palm of the other repeatedly. "Do you know how long he's been with us? 2 YEARS!" She grabbed her face in frustration. "And Eliza INVITED HIM no less! If I see another hair in my…..OUCH!!"
Debbie felt something sharp smack her. She turned and saw that Eliza had hit her, her eyes narrowed. "Not one word about that little incident."
"Little incident? I had to wash my hair in the RIVER for 2 weeks!"
Bree cleared her voice to get their attention. "Now you girls, let's forget about that petty little argument, and worry more about what's going to happen to you."
Eliza backed up in surprise. "Just why are you after us?"
Debbie jumped in. "Yeah. What did we do?"
Bree and Sloan looked at each other, as if they were wondering why they didn't know. They turned back. "You know why…poachers." Bree said in a low voice, full of hatred. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her pistol and pointed it at them. The girls' eyes widened. "Hand over the chimp and get into the helicopter." She ordered the girls. Eliza and Debbie looked nervously at each other, and back at the Blackburns. They still bore the look of hatred on them. Their guns never left their positions. They had no choice.
Slowly, the two girls walked over to the helicopter and walked in. Darwin followed and was soon beside Eliza in the flying machine. Sloan and Bree climbed in. "Don't try anything funny." Warned Sloan.
'Why would we?' Eliza asked herself, and held onto the seat as they began to take flight. 'Where are we being taken to, and what's going on?' Were the questions being asked by the 2 captive girls.
Eliza peered out of the window hours later after they had taken flight. The ground looked like patterns on a blanket. She could barely make out dots running across the plains. She figured they were some antelope or something. She sighed deeply and turned her attention towards her sister. Debbie wasn't looking at anything but the two people up in the front. The teenager, for once, looked lost and confused. She turned to her younger sister, a single tear coming from her eye.
"Eliza…" She whispered hoarsely. "Where are they taking us?" A set of darkish eyes answered their question.
Sloan shifted his gaze to them. "Come on, you can't be that stupid, can you?" He glared at them, and then looked at Darwin. "You still hadn't handed over the chimp." He noted them.
Eliza looked back at Darwin, who had fallen asleep on the ground. "His name is Darwin, and he isn't yours."
"Well he's not yours either." Sloan snarled, but didn't say anything more. 'We'll discuss some issues with those poachers once we land.' He thought as Bree continued to pilot the aircraft.
Eliza felt her head. She was surprised that Sloan and Bree hadn't noticed before. On her face was a dark black eye patch. She shuddered at the memory. Sloan had…..she gulped. She didn't want to remember. The whole sequence seemed like a dream to her, yet it had happened. She had almost wished it was a nightmare, but she knew deep down that she couldn't change what had happened. She felt the eye patch as she looked around with her one good eye. 'I can't believe I believed the evil Sloan.' She sadly looked at the floor. 'Then again I did have amnesia at the time. How was I to know?' She smiled gravely. At least Debbie was able to stop her. But sadly, Debbie regretted it, because as she had stopped Eliza, she had….stabbed Eliza in the eye. The redhead looked at her reflection, and slowly removed the patch. She winced as she saw what was left of her other eye.
A jagged scar snaked across the eye, while the lids themselves were sown shut. She recovered the eye, and looked to the ground again. She let out a deep sigh. Her gaze slowly turned towards the window. She could barely make the outline of a building. They were getting close to landing. She turned to Debbie.
Debbie didn't look at anyone. She just sat there, almost like she had read Eliza's mind. She looked back at her little sister, and remembered what happened earlier. Debbie still felt remorse for what she had done, but Eliza and the family knew that she hadn't meant it.
Eliza was about to say something, but then she felt a thump. The whirling of the helicopter slowly ceased. "We're here, Sloan." They heard Bree say as she took her hands off the controls.
"Good." Sloan replied coolly, and rose to his feet. The Blackburns looked at the girls angrily. "Come on, you two." The man said, "And if you try to run…" He pulled out his rifle and pointed it at them. The girls didn't need to be told twice. They rose up to their feet, and walked out side by side. They did not take their eyes off the Blackburns. And the Blackburns didn't take their eyes off the girls.
The group marched towards the entrance of the building, which seemed familiar to Eliza somehow. 'I wonder if Kip and Biederman are there…' She thought with slight worry. But she was still wondering why Sloan and Bree thought she was a poacher. She had met these Blackburns before….did they forget? 'Maybe they….' Then they were in a hallway, and before Eliza could finish her thought, she caught a glimpse of the calendar. 'What?!' Now she knew why the Blackburns didn't remember her as a good person. The calendar read May 23, 2002…which was exactly 6 months before their time period. 'We've gone back in time…in another dimension…' Eliza thought in shock.
Eliza turned to look at Debbie, then looked ahead, and continued walking. Her mind was still in the state of shock. How could she have gone back in time as well? Was there something that she missed while they were in the vortex? 'If I've gone back in time, then I might have to face the poacher Thornberrys again…oh man. They almost killed me the last time!' She mentally hissed to herself. She knew she had to get away from here…She didn't know how she could convince these Blackburns that she wasn't the enemy. The eclipse hadn't started just yet. But she couldn't tell the exact time, though. She moved her position slightly so that she was standing next to Debbie. She leaned in close to her, and whispered in the lowest voice she could muster.
"Deb…we've gone back in time. 6 months, to be exact." The blonde took a moment to digest this new bit of information. She swallowed and widened her eyes. 'That explains a lot.' She wanted to run….but the Blackburns still had their guns out. They still had them pointed at the kids. If they run, Sloan and Bree might shoot them! But they couldn't just stand there…well walk around. They had to do something!
Unfortunately, Bree had overheard part of their conversation. She didn't hear much…In fact the only thing she did hear was them talking. She growled and tightened her grip on the pistol in her hand. "Just what are you two doing?!" The woman advanced on them a little.
Eliza and Debbie looked at each other nervously. "Nothing." They said quickly as they sped up their pace a little to try and get away from the woman. 'Sheesh, what a grouch!' Debbie said to herself. They kept walking in the hallway. One left turn and Eliza suddenly knew where they were. They were in the same place that Kip and Biederman had taken her! She recognized the door ahead. It was where she was temporarily held captive. She believed that was where she and her sister were being taken.
Darwin chattered nervously and sped up his pace to keep up with Eliza. He said something in chimp language. "Eliza, what's going on?" The redhead, however, didn't respond. She was too worried about how they were going to escape alive and all in one piece. 'That's easier said that done!' She didn't dare look behind her. The menacing looks that the Blackburns were giving them were chilling Eliza down to the bone. She didn't notice her sister, Debbie, breaking little bits of sweat of fear. Soon they were at the door. Sloan walked in front of the others, and pulled something out of his pocket. It was a key. He slowly unlocked the door, and opened it up. Bree walked behind the too, and grabbed them by the back of their shirts. They yelped in surprise as Bree shoved them into the containment room. Before the Blackburns could do anything the chimpanzee jumped inside with the girls as the door was shut and locked up.
"Now you two will remain in there until we figure out just what to do with you…" Sloan said in a dangerous tone, but his mind was plagued with confusing questions. He couldn't understand why the chimpanzee jumped in with them. Didn't he know they were using him for their own entertainment? 'Doesn't he know they are poachers?' Sloan asked himself. He turned to his wife, Bree, and asked, "Did you notice how that chimp…Darwin I think is what Elizabeth called him…jumped right into the room to be with those…killers?"
The woman nodded in agreement. She also found it strange that the primate would do such a thing. She just couldn't understand it. For all they know, they just took him out of the wild and kept him with them as target practice! "And that's not all I noticed."
The man cocked his head to the left. He lowered his rifle to the ground. "What is it?" Bree sighed, and scratched her head.
"I could be just being…I don't know…." She sighed again, and started to twirl her dark blue hair. "But I don't recall Elizabeth having an eye patch." She turned her gaze up at her husband, eyes full of confusion. "Do you?" She asked softly.
"Eye patch?" Sloan cried in surprise. "Yes," she added, "Didn't you see it? There was something black covering her left eye." She pointed back towards the containment room where Eliza, Darwin, and Debbie were locked up in. "If you want to take a good look, you can. But be careful. We don't know what else that Thornberry girl is capable of!"
"Of course…of course…" The man cracked his knuckles, and brought out his rifle again just in case. He walked back towards the door.
Inside, Debbie and her sister were discussing on how they should get out. "I don't know if we can even get out this ROOM without one of them shooting us!" Debbie screeched, pulling on her blonde hair.
"Well we certainly can't stay in HERE." Eliza pointed towards the ground abruptly. "We have to get out of here!"
The blonde laughed mockingly. "Yeah….right…so how do we get out, Sherlock Holmes?" Eliza Thornberry glared at the teenager harshly, then turned her head towards the door. She heard the slight sound of footsteps approaching. She slowly approached the door.
"What are you doing?" She heard her sister ask, and responded quickly with a harsh, "Shh!" She lowered her back, halfway crouching down. She pressed herself against the steel door, and slowly raised herself up to level with the small window. She could see Sloan Blackburn headed their way with a gun. 'A gun?!' Her mind yelped. She looked at her sister with fear in her remaining eye. "It's Sloan and he's got a gun…a rifle!" She whispered.
Debbie snapped her eyes wide open and she brought her hands to her mouth to keep herself from screaming. "A rifle?!" She almost shouted, but was able to lower it to a low whisper.
Eliza looked back towards the door, and then backed away. She knew they couldn't run anywhere now, and she wasn't about to use the same trick she had before on Sloan. She and her sister stood in their places as they were, waiting for Sloan to open up the door and kill them, or whatever he was about to do. Darwin shook in fear and dove under the bed that was in the small room. The redhead looked at him sympathetically, then suddenly heard the clank of a key opening a lock, then the squeak of a door opening.
The man stepped inside, the rifle loaded, and studied the girls. More specifically, he looked at Eliza. He gasped when he saw what Bree had noticed that he didn't. The eye patch was indeed there, as Bree described it! He pointed at the girl, "Why are you wearing that?"
The girl blinked in confusion. The teenager shrugged. "Why do you ask?"
"Because that patch wasn't there before!" He screamed in anger, but soon calmed himself down. 'If you want information you can't lose your temper all the time.' He told himself, and glared at the girls once again. "If you two try to escape…We won't be so nice…"
It wasn't much of a threat, and Eliza's heard better, but the message was clear enough to get the idea that Sloan didn't want them to try and leave. Debbie rolled her eyes. 'Like we can even escape.' She didn't say that out loud for fear that the man might do something to her. She still remembered the last time she had faced him, and she does not want to relive that again! Sloan rubbed his head and seemed a bit tired. 'No..he looks depressed.' Eliza's eyebrow wrinkled a bit in concern, but the man never saw that. He disappeared behind the closing door and locked it. Without thinking, the young redhead rushed towards the door and tried to turn the knob. It was stuck. It was locked, she knew.
Debbie shook her head. "Now what do we do?" She asked, sitting on the bed now, looking at her fingers. Eliza looked at the locked door, and looked around the room. There was no other way out…No window…no other door…no nothing. She shrugged fearfully. "I don't know, Deb, I just don't know…"
In another part of Africa, near the same location as Eliza had met the evil Thornberrys, the sound of cutting could be heard. The glinting blade raised up in the air, the light of the sun shining off of it. The hand gripped it tightly and it slowly lowered down. The tip of the blade cut under something soft, furry, and thin. It then thrust upwards, creating a thin opening. The furry thing was sliced open, and inside there was a lot of bones and muscle, blood vessels…It was an animal's skin being sliced open! The blade was pulled out, and then continued working down across the animal's stomach. The animal seemed to be a cheetah cub, adolescent, female. The blade was finally set aside, the blade itself slightly stained with the animal's dried blood. The person, Elizabeth, smirked, and pushed her fingers into the animal's body, right under the skin.
She then tightly gripped the skin between her fingers, and pulled outward. The cheetah's skin peeled off quickly, revealing the muscle structure underneath. Ignoring the gruesome sight, she continued to pull across, and then finally ripped the skin from the body. She set the fur aside, and then started working on the legs. She pushed the knife into the front right leg, and cut a thin opening, careful not to damage the valuable fur coat. She heard footsteps coming. She turned around.
"Oh, hello…Debbie." She hissed lightly. "What are you doing here? I thought you didn't like the sight of skinning."
The teenager scoffed, and slowly turned to the side. She adjusted her scarf, made from leopard skin, and said, "I only came here to tell you that mom and dad just got another assignment." She looked down at her little sister, who was still busy taking off the skin of the cheetah cub that they had captured previously. There were 3 others, and they plan on finding them quickly.
Elizabeth put the knife down, and was busy pulling off the fur off the leg. "Interested?" Debbie inquired, smirking slightly.
"Go ahead. I'm listening." Elizabeth said, but never turned to look at her teenaged sister.
Shrugging, the teenager continued to say her message. "Dad and mom have gotten an assignment in Tembo Valley."
"Hmm?" Elizabeth looked at her, rather confused. She asked what kind of assignment.
The blonde chuckled lightly. "It's almost time to catch the elephants, remember?"
Then it hit her. Of course! The elephants! In just a few hours the elephants were going to end up in Tembo Valley. They had worked weeks building a fence by the light of moon, and there was no way anyone would suspect anything to happen in Tembo Valley. It had a reputation of being a quiet place. Thinking that only elephants would be there, the authorities might leave the place alone. The mountains, rigged with dynamite, would explode and frighten the elephants. Then when the beasts were dead and stiff, they'd remove the tusks from the putrid bodies, and leave the bodies to rot. They would be worthless then.
Elizabeth set the cub aside. "Oh, shit, I forgot all about it!" She sprung up, and ran inside the Commvee. "I gotta get ready." She disappeared inside, shutting the door behind her.
Debbie shook her head, and then looked at the dead cub. She shuddered slightly, and backed away. 'Sometimes I wish there was a better way to get a fur coat.' She decided to pick up after Elizabeth anyway, and walked over to the side of the vehicle. She pulled out a large case, colored black. She opened it up, and wrinkled her nose in disgust. A putrid smell filled the air. The bodies of several not-fully skinned animals were inside. She quickly grabbed the cheetah cub, and stuffed it inside, and shut the door quickly.
"Man does this thing stink! If we don't give ourselves up to the authorities, this thing will give us away!" She put the box back, and then walked over to the table. 'Might as well put these up.' She picked up the strips of skin, laced with orange fur, and folded them up. She placed them inside a small containment box where the family hid some of their furs that weren't quite ready for sewing yet. She looked back at the door. Elizabeth hadn't made a peep since she went in there. What was taking her so long? Debbie walked towards the door, and reached for the knob. Then suddenly, the door swung open! Debbie was accidentally hit in the jaw, and was sent falling towards the ground.
"Yeow! Elizabeth! Watch it!!" The teenager screamed as she caressed her injured jaw.
The 12 year old shook her head. 'What an idiot.' "Well next time don't be so close to the door." She stepped out, and was now changed in her poaching outfit. She held a spear, and set it aside. She was wearing her talisman. That was probably what took her so long. The girl always seems to misplace it. Debbie suggested just keeping the stupid thing on, but the redhead wouldn't listen to her. Of course, Debbie never did figure out why her sister wore it in the first place. She just set aside that her sister believed that it brings her good luck.
'What a laugh!' She chuckled in her mind. "I still can't believe I lost track of the time…" The redhead muttered darkly under her breath. Her sister could barely hear what she had just said, so she moved in a bit closer to try and hear.
"What did you say?" She asked softly, only to be interrupted by an abrupt arrival of one of their parents. It was sudden, she admitted. Debbie moved back from her sister and towards her mother, who had returned with a radio in her hands.
"Debbie, did you tell Elizabeth?" She asked, despite the fact that Elizabeth was right there, packing her things. The teenager nodded quickly, and gestured towards the girl, who was now standing there, looking at them. "Eliza, why weren't you getting ready a few hours earlier?" Her mother scolded her daughter, and tapped her foot, waiting for an answer.
The girl snarled. "My name isn't Eliza, okay? It's Elizabeth!" She rubbed her forehead. "And if you must know, I lost track of the time."
"Tsk..tsk…" The woman should her head in disbelief, and placed her hands on her hips. She turned towards the Commvee. "Your father is meeting us in the Timbo Valley. We've gotta leave right away." She hopped inside, and took control of the wheel.
The two siblings looked at each other, and shrugged. "Why don't you take that thing off?" Debbie asked Elizabeth as they boarded the Commvee, carrying the stuff that they needed. Elizabeth was quite annoyed by her sister's questioning. Ever since 2 years ago when she first got the talisman, her sister's been nagging at her about not taking it to so many places. She didn't know the true extent of its power. But Elizabeth couldn't tell her that. It was her little secret. If anyone else found out about it, they'd use it for their own stupid purposes.
'Why doesn't she shut up?' She mentally inquired as she harshly glared at her blonde-haired sister, who was staring at her for an answer. "I'm waiting." The teenager grew impatient.
Elizabeth gave a few snarls, and then calmed down. "Well, it's none of your business why I keep wearing this, OKAY?!" She snapped at Debbie. Debbie flinched and drew back towards the back of her seat, a bit surprised, but not too surprised, by her sister's sudden outburst. The younger girl settled down, and stared out of the window.
'For someone who hates nature, she seems to like looking out the window …' Debbie blinked in a bit of confusion, but her mind was returned on their mission: to capture the elephants for their tusks.
Eliza and Debbie, the good ones, sat down in the small confinement room. It's been about an hour, and they still haven't seen Sloan or Bree come by the door. Debbie was still a bit shaken up by the threat that Sloan made an hour earlier. The message was ringing through her mind.
Darwin came out from hiding and slowly walked over to Eliza, his hands shaking in fear. "Eliza?" He whispered so they won't be heard by anyone outside. "What's going on?"
Placing her hand over her eye patch, the young girl looked over at her best chimp friend. She let out a sigh, and started thinking on just how she was going to explain all this to Darwin. She hadn't told him much, and he doesn't understand that this Sloan and Bree weren't evil. 'How am I going to tell him? Guess I should have told him before…' She slowly shook her head, snapping slowly out of her trance. "Well, Dar, this is that alternate dimension I mentioned before."
The chimpanzee gasped, "Oh no! What are we going to do?! We'll starve….uh…" The chimp slowed down, and put his hands to his side. "What's an alternate dimension? You never fully explained that…except it was some other world.."
Eliza hit her face with her hand. "Of course! I forgot to tell you!" She stood up, and eyed Debbie, who was backed up in the corner, her scared eyes locked on the door. "An alternate dimension is not just another world..it's sort of an alternate world where some things are different and some things are the same. That's the best way to describe it, Dar."
Darwin slowly blinked. He still didn't quite get it, but he decided to not ask anything further. He knew the seriousness of the situation, though, and knew that they had to get out of there fast.
"Oh, just so you know, Darwin…" The chimp looked at her expectantly. "The 'me' in this dimension…her name is Elizabeth, and she and my alternate family….they're all poachers." She winced at the word. And she wasn't nearly surprised by Darwin's reaction.
The ape looked at her as if she had gone crazy, and then his eyes widened up, and he was about to make a scream, but Eliza jumped on him, and covered his mouth with her hand. "Shh! If the Blackburns hear you, they'll think we're torturing you!"
Darwin slowly calmed down. "So try and be quiet, okay?" Eliza told him, and she slowly got off of his back. Darwin jumped to his short feet and brushed himself off. He told Eliza that the next time she wanted him to be quiet, think of something else, don't jump on him. The girl blushed in embarrassment. "Okay, Darwin." She chuckled, then fell silent. She then heard more footsteps coming towards the door.
Debbie heard them, too, and her whole body stiffened. "Maybe they came here to kill us!" She yelped, but Eliza shook her head.
"If they wanted to kill us, they would have done that back in the Savannah! There must be another reason…" She quieted herself down, and looked at the door cautiously.
Bree yawned as she reached into her pocket and pulled out the keys to the door. She didn't know why, but she just had to check on them one more time. She still wasn't sure if she truly saw the patch or not. But she was cautious. She didn't know what else Elizabeth could do. Just a few hours ago she and her husband learned Elizabeth's true colors, and now they have her right where they wanted her. She stared at the door, barely able to see anyone inside. She wanted to peer inside, but she was afraid to. 'What if they shoot me? Wait…they don't even have a gun with them..do they?' She shook her mind free of the questions that were plaguing her. Yet she still yearned to know.
These were the same kids alright, but they were acting…differently. 'Why is that?' She reached into her pocket to pull out her second item. Her handgun…and she gripped it tightly in her palm, ready to pull the trigger if she had to. 'I'm not taking any chances….especially with Eliza…..' Her eyes hardened as she remembered just what had happened before… And she wished that they had seen it coming….But how could they have? Elizabeth was a great actress. She really had them fooled! 'If only we hadn't been so gullible…' Then Bree's mind wandered to the past….remembering the incident…