Where Are We?
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Crash! Bang! Boom! Twigs flew as three girls fell from a tree. They landed inches away from a young ghost and its mother.
"Geez! Watch it!" scolded the mother. She pulled her son closer to he as they walked on down the sidewalk.
"Ow..."
" Where the hell are we?" Alanna said.
"I don't," Kel was cut off as a knight walked towards them across a strange black river.
"Aha! Knights from afar!" said the small warrior. " I challenge you to a duel!" He pulled out a short, odd, dagger.
Kel and Alanna quickly reached for their weapons, that they had discovered were leaning up against the tree they just fell out of. Alanna reached for her sword to find that it must have been enchanted for it wasnow very paper-like. Kel's glaive was dull and extremely light weight. This tiny challenger must be skilled in trickery to pull off such a feat. They prepared to defeat him with their hands when a strange figure ran across the black river. She wore clothes the likes of which they had never seen.
" SAM!" This strange girl yelled. "I told you not to wonder off!" The small knight didn't respond yet, she appeared to be talking to him.
"Sam! Are you even listening to me?" He still didn't respond. "Fine I'll just have to tell mom that you weren't listening!"
The knight rolled his eyes but still did not turn to her. " So?"
"Oh yea, and about that lovely family heirloom that you broke the other day...not my problem if you're never let out of the house again!"
" You wouldn't dare!" he turned his head to her.
"I would!" His eyes widened at her response.
"Awwww! Com' on, sis, don't! I'll do anything! Whatever you want!" He now turned completely towards her.
"Come 'ere then!" He trudged over to her. " Go to the next house, I'll be there in a sec'!" He quickly did as she ordered.
"I'm really sorry about this," she said after he left. " He gets carried away with the whole knight thing!" She rolled her eyes. "Well, cya!"
" Well," Alanna said after a long silence. " We should probably find shelter. "Daine could you fly up and see if you can find anything?" Alanna watched as the brother and sister walked on to the next building.
There was no response. " Daine?" Alanna and Kel turned to face Daine only to find that she was unconscious.
"Oh, no!" They both yelped. They knelt down beside her.
"Daine! Daine!" Alanna shook her. When there was no response Alanna said, " Kel, help me lift her up. We'll take her..." She looked at her surroundings. To her left was the strange black river, they didn't know what would happen if they tried to cross it. On each side of the river there was rows of mysterious buildings. She looked behind her. The river met another like it, but as she got closer she saw a very flat, white, bridge. This "bridge" led to another path much like the one they were on now. Beyond that there was grass and a strange structure. It looked as if metal rods had been wielded together to form the thing. Then she saw something she recognized, swings! Although they were made of an unique material and attached to another weird structure, they were swings. Finally something familiar!
" Kel."
" Huh?" Kel turned from tending to Daine.
" I think I found a place we can stay...for now." She pointed, to what she assumed to be a play area.
" Okay, okay how should we get her over there?" Kel asked. She and Alanna had setDaine down while Alanna was figuring out what to do.
" I'll get her head and shoulders, you get her feet."
Theylifted her up and carried her to the bridge. After working out a system to get Daine and themselves over safely, they stepped onto the bridge.
" Careful of the gaps," Kel pointed out noticing the gaps between the planks. She concentrated on the end of the bridge, her true emotions hidden.
" Got-" Alanna jumped out of the way as a strange...carriage(?) zoomed by. Alanna swore at the thing as they retreated back onto the path.
" What was that?" Alanna exclaimed. Kel didn't answer.
" Kel?" She seemed rather dazed. "Are you all right?"
"Huh? Oh yea I'm fine. I was just thinking...nevermind"
" Go on"
" Did you notice how there was no ripples in the water when that...er...boat went by?" Silence.
"Doesn't that seem strange to you?"
" Well, this is a strange place," Alanna noted.
"Yes, but not that strange!" Kel got a stick that was on the side of the path. She went to the edge of the 'river' and stuck the stick in the river. With a normal river the stick would have bounced back out, the stick wouldn't even go in.
"See?" Kel asked after she finished her experiment. Alanna cautiously tapped her foot on the river, when nothing happened she stepped out into the street. She jumped up and down.
"Its solid!" Alanna proclaimed.
Daine sat on a tree. Next to her were two girls who she had never met before. yet, she felt like she had known them her whole life. They laughed and she along with them., though, she new not what about. They headed down off the tree when suddenly there was a FLASH!
She now stood in a tent. It looked much like a Bizhar tent. She looked around and realized this was her tent. She saw her extra clothes, her bow and arrow, and her other personal items. She gave a little jump when someone came in. She relaxed when she realized that it was Numair. He was carrying someone, but who?
" Numair! Numair who is it? What's wrong? Who's hurt?" He didn't answer, he didn't even acknowledge her. "Numair?" She walked closer to him. She looked over his sholder as he placed this mysterious figure down. What shesaw not at all what she expected. There eyes closed, was herself. Flash! Her world spun! She was falling into nothing, confused, lost. Flash! Those same girls, only now there was a third in her place. They lay in a desert. Flash! Incantations. Her world kept spinning. Flash!
"Is she awake yet?"
" I don't know, don't think so"
Daine heard voices. Her eyes wouldn't open. she tried to move, to sit up. Her body wouldn't comply. She forced her eyes open. at first they would only open up tothe finest slit. Slowly they pried open the whole way.
" Daine?" Alanna asked. " Are you okay?" She leaned over her, worriedly.
Daine replied with another question. "Where are we?"
