AN: Extermely sorry for the long wait for chapter 4 to the story. Our floppy on the computer needs to be replaced and I got tired of waiting for it to be replaced, so I went ahead and typed it up off my labtop. The next chapter you will find out about Taylor and Saige and the whole fighting thing. I know someone asked about that, so stick around and you will find out why.
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Chapter 4
Saige looked up at the warrior and screamed again. She freaked and quickly turned from him and ran to the small table where her clothes and weapons were at. She grabbed one of her Sais, turned around to face the man that stood at her doorway and pointed her weapon at him.
But soon dropped her weapon to the floor with a loud clatter as the room began to spin out of control. She reached her hand out for the table to catch her self from falling over. Her head pound painfully as it felt like tiny needles were being poked in her brain. She felt sick to her stomach, as she thought she was going to be sick. Her eyes began to water and cloud over with fog, her body began to feel extremely warm…hot…her skin started to damp with perspiration as it felt as thought her skin was on fire.
With her other hand she pressed it against her forehead and temples, waiting for the dizziness and pain to subside. She tried taking big deep breaths, knowing that it had helped in the past, but not this time.
"I shouldn't have done that," She told herself. She let go of the table and stumbled her way over to the bed. She lay down, bringing her knees up to her chest as she covered her face with her hands, as the pain began to intensify. Tears made their way down her cheeks, stinging her sore, red eyes. All sounds faded from her mind except the loud beating of her heart.
She moaned out a cry of pain as she could no longer with stand the throbbing pain that cradled her body like a blanket of hot pokers, taking their chance at poking and slicing her flesh.
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Taylor slowly came out of her slumber sleep. She brought a shaky hand to her face, whipping the fogginess tat clouded her head once again. She slowly opened her eyes, blinking them a few times as she tried adjusting them to the morning sunlight that broke through the white curtains that hung above the windows.
She pushed herself up in bed, pulling back the thick Burgundy colored comforter and to her surprise…she felt relaxed, every muscle that was stiff, sore or cramped was no more, "That must have been some powerful drink," She said, as she ran her fingers through her tangled dark brown hair, pushing a few strands away from her face.
She swung her legs over the bed, taking a deep breath before standing, shivering as her bare feet touched the cool floor. Slowly she started making her way towards the doorway.
She had to go find Saige and make sure that she was all right and then figure out where the hell they were at because from the looks of it, as she made her way out the doorway and started walking down the stony hallway, was not home or anywhere near it.
As Taylor made her way down the hallway and close to the next room, she heard the soft whimpers coming from inside the room. She poked her head inside and could see her friend crawled up in a ball at the end of the bed. Taylor quickly went to her.
"Saige?" Taylor spoke softly, placing a hand on her shoulder, sitting down next to her, "Saige?"
Saige moaned as she looked up and met Taylor's eyes, "Taylor?" She asked as tears began to fall.
Taylor nodded her head smiling as she pushed a lock of Saige's hair off her face.
"I'm so glad to see you," Saige cried, throwing her arms around her best friend, "Everything is so fuzzy to me. I can't remember much…"
"Shhh," Taylor said soothingly, feeling her own tears wanting to be released, "It'll be okay. You got a bump on the head. Everything will come to you once your head heals."
"Good," Saige said, pulling away and looked at her again and whipped the tears off her face, "I woke up and I didn't even know where I was at. There was some strange man or at least I think he was a man at my door. I screamed and ran and grabbed one of my Sais but before I could do anything, I was over come with dizziness and pain. It had just past right before you came."
"I'm glad you're okay. You took a nice hit to your head when you fell and for a minute there, I thought…" Taylor started, swallowing the lump that rose up in her throat, "…I thought something really bad had happened to you."
"I'm okay now," Saige told her, hugging her friend again, glad to see that she too was okay, "My head just hurts a little bit. I shouldn't have moved too fast."
"Maybe we should go find someone," Taylor said standing to her feet, "Maybe find out where the hell we are because I don't think we are in Maple Creek anymore or any place that we know of."
"Where do you think we are?" Saige asked, slowly standing to her feet, "All I remember is being sucked into something and having my insides being ripped apart."
Taylor looked at her friend and shrugged, "I don't have the slightest clue where here is, your guest is as good as mine. Wherever here is, it's really strange looking. Nothing that I've ever seen before. It looks like something you would read out of a book."
"Yeah, real strange," She said as she looked around at her surroundings. Saige shook her head, a little scared at the fact that she didn't know where she was or what happened to her. Things were still rather confusing to her, her head still hurt and her body still ached with pain, but not as terribly bad as before. She sighed deeply before grabbing the light blue cloak off the chair and wrapped it around herself. She grabbed the leather strap that sat on the table and tied her hair back.
"Ready?" Taylor asked.
Saige nodded and the two girls left the room.
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Saige and Taylor headed their way down the stony hallways in search of someone that could help them, stopping occasionally to look at the many strange things that were in the place, nothing that was more beautiful or anything that they have ever seen before.
"Hey Taylor, who do you think lives here?" Saige asked as she picked up the weird object that sat perfectly on the stand and started to look it over, seeing how different and unusual it was, how it glowed when the light from the sun hit it in a certain way or the changing of the color…something she didn't see often.
"Who knows," Taylor said as she turned and looked over her friends shoulder at the object she held carefully in her hand, "Someone who must be rich to be able to have such beautiful things."
"Beautiful isn't the word," Saige said, as she placed the object back on the stand, "I've never seen such extraordinary stuff."
"Mmm hmm," Taylor agreed.
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As the two girls made their way down the hallway, the closer they got to the Council, getting more curious about where they were and the things that they saw.
Out of the corner of Saige's eyes, something caught her attention. Something sparkled and she walked away from Taylor to check it out. She leaned forward a little ways and starred at the small glass box. Her eyes wandered on the box, she could see small letters that were carefully scripted into the glass in an unknown language, something that she never heard or learned in high school. Wondering what the words had said, she tried to pronounce the wording, "Ed'…I'…Ear…Ar…Ele…Ele…Elen…Elene…ne…a...Elene…ah…No, that doesn't sound right," She said shaking her head as she tried once more to pronounce it.
She soon gave up when what she was saying wasn't coming out right…the sound of the words were funny to her ears. She turned the box carefully and examined it more, more writing was scripted but she dared not to try and pronounce it, the last words she had found on the box gave her a headache. She found designs and small pictures of clouds and birds and what looked to her as water, a lake front she had thought but she knew she could be wrong as well. Studying the object, Saige was lost in her thoughts, wondering who could have done such an awesome job making it look perfect, not a scratch or chipped. Clear and shinny and it sparkled in the sunlight. Whoever did, she gave them props for making such a beautiful creation.
"What you lookin at?" Taylor asked as she came up and stood next to her friend who looked to be dazed by whatever she was looking at.
Saige jumped, nearly having the crap scared out of her and bumped the stand with her arm, "You scared the crap out of me," Saige said as she quickly grabbed the stand and box to steady the rockiness of it, praying that it wouldn't fall and shatter to pieces. When the stand was still and the box was placed back in its rightful place, she turned around to face Taylor who was smiling at her, "Are you trying to give me a heart attack here?" She glared and smacked her friend playfully on her arm, "You've almost made me knock over the stand. They'd kick our asses if it would have broken and I personally would like to keep my ass from getting stomped by people we don't know."
Taylor chuckled, lightly rubbing the spot that was now turning a light shade of red where Saige had smacked her, "Owe, that hurt," She said, "You weren't suppose to hit me."
"Well next time you will think twice about scaring the bejeezes out of me. Lesson learned."
Taylor stuck her tongue out at her, "Blah, blah, blah. That's what it sounds like to me, blah, blah, blah."
Saige glared at her once more again, "If I wasn't so sore I'd kick your ass."
Taylor laughed, "Yeah right, I'd like to see you try…" But her words trailed off as she caught sound of something, "What was that?"
Saige opened her mouth to speak but was stopped by her friend's hand covering her mouth. She looked at Taylor weird.
"Shhh…" She said quietly as she turned her head and looked down the hallway, "I thought I heard something."
"Yeah, your big head letting out some air," Saige said, as she removed Taylor's hand away from her mouth.
"Ha ha, funny. No seriously, I thought I heard someone talking."
Saige listened carefully, but as she listened, she heard nothing. Not a single sound except the beating of her own heart, "Tay, I think you've lost your marbles. You should go get you're…" But could not finish as Taylor smacked her hand over her mouth to silence her.
"There it is again," Taylor said, "I'm telling you, I'm hearing someone, possibly more then one but they are to far away to understand what they are saying. Come on."
She grabbed Saige's arm and pulled the girl down the hall.
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Taylor and Saige walked down the hallway and the closer that they got, the more clearer the sounds were. It had led the two girls outside. Taylor had indeed heard voices.
"See, I told you so," Taylor whispered, being careful not to speak to loud, as they stopped behind the bushes.
"Okay, you were right," Saige whispered back, "So what?"
"So, maybe one of them could tell us where we were," She said, as she slowly inched her way towards the edge of the bushes. She leaned forward slightly and poked her head out to get a glance of those who were talking and quickly leaned back, "There's at least six that I see, but I can't see anymore without giving myself away, but I did recognize one from last night, possibly two and the others I have no clue."
"I wanna see," Saige said, as she wanted to be nosey. She tried to lean forward and look, but in the process she got tangled up with Taylor's feet and tripped. Grabbing Taylor to stop herself from fall, but Taylor lost her footing as well and the two girls came tumbling down, crashing down to the floor, making a lot of noise too.
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Lord Elrond and the members of the Fellowship turned just in time to see the two girls fall. Crashing down and knocking over one of the plants that got in their way.
Taylor landed first with a thud and yelped when she landed hard on her butt, Saige crashed down on top of her, knocking the wind out of her and cried out that she hurt herself.
"Saige, get your big bubble butt off me," Taylor said as she gasped for air, as she tried to push her friend off her.
"Owe, I think I hurt my foot," Saige whined as she rolled off her friend and grabbed her foot that started to throb with pain.
"You are just a dope, you klutz, you should watch where you're stepping," She said standing to her feet and dusting herself off.
"I wanted to see too," She told her, as she started to rub her ankle, "Why should you get all the fun?"
"Well, I was trying not to get us noticed, but I'm sure by now they know that we're here."
Saige looked up to see Taylor but her eyes never made it to hers. Her mouth dropped open when she saw all those eyes upon her. She reached out and grabbed Taylor's leg and pointed.
Taylor looked and saw what Saige saw. She felt her face grow hot and her eyes fell to the floor.
Saige pulled herself to her feet and both girls met each others eyes and gave an awkward smile before turning to those who were there, "Rout Ro Shaggy," She said, "I think we're in trouble."
Taylor gave a muffled laugh as she tried to stay calm, "You think."
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Translation-
Ed' i' ear ar elenea- By the sea and stars (the scripted letters on the box)
