THE CRONICLES OF RAVY AND ARTY
Chapter 8
Authors Note: Helllllooooo readers! How's life?
Disclaimer: Foaly: Rose owns nothing! Thank God! Are any of you angry with the way this stories turning out? Hello, she turned me into an elf! And Foalonious? That's not my name here people!
Rose: It ain't your story so deal.
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Every one on the Hogwarts team was exhausted. Harry and Draco were trying to hex each other while everyone else was having fist fights.
The Gothic Academy students were watching while eating some of their candy from Dylans.
Raven was talking to her sisters, Fell and Hannah.
"….So if that were true, then the sky would be orange." Raven really thought she shouldn't have to explain everything.
Don't ask.
Rose who was just a moment ago throwing Smarties up in the air and catching them with her mouth, walked over.
"Then why is the sky blue?"
It was Beans turn to talk.
"Because the ocean is blue."
Artemis decided it might be a good idea to join in.
"Really? I thought the ocean is blue because the sky is blue."
Just so you know, I have no idea if that's true or not, I'm just trying to make this interesting.
Eva stopped trying to blow up all the other teams stuff.
"Where did the color blue come from anyways?"
Before anyone had a chance to respond, the Chinese dude came over.
He did the weird bow thing, and then spoke.
"Good job with the game. Now, your next task is simple. Get to the highest tower on the Great wall and clime it to find your next clue as to where to go to."
He pointed to the Great wall, and it went up a steep hill to a tower with a dragon statue on it.
"Get there before the other team does, because if not you have to pay for your fight tickets, and it will take much longer."
And, lo and behold, the stupid Chinese dude (he really should have a name) told the Hogwarts students first about the task.
"How are they getting there?" asked Artemis hurriedly.
"On foot," replied Rain. "They should be pretty slow."
"But they're already half way there! Remus is going to beat you! Yay!"
The G. University people glared at Hannah.
"Oh, come on! I can't help it. You know I don't like those Hogwarts students, just Lupin, right?"
By that time, no one was listening to her. They were to busy trying to find a way to beat them.
Suddenly, by miracle of chance, Artemis looked over and saw a sign.
It was stapled to a tree.
It read:
HELICOPTER TOURS OVER THE GREAT WALL
Ride a helicopter over the great wall
Children under 7 pay $50
8 and up pay 150
(It read this in Chinese of course; Artemis spoke a lot of languages)
"Hey guys, I think I may have a plan…"
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The Hogwarts students were feeling very proud of themselves. They were finally ahead of those Gothic's.
They ran farther up the great wall. Almost there.
Suddenly, a helicopter hovered by. It was flying extremely low to the ground.
'Hmm…' thought Harry. It was almost as if it was heading toward the same place as we are.
The copter lowered it's self to the tip of the statue of the dragon.
Someone dressed entirely in black climbed out the door of it.
The Hogwarts students stopped dead.
The gothic grabbed a blue envelope that was caught inside the dragon's mouth.
As Neko climbed back into the plane, the helicopter pilot lowered the plane onto the great wall.
"Thanks for the ride!" Shouted Raven over the roar of the helicopter.
Draco marched up to Raven, his wand drawn.
"Listen you, I don't know how you keep this up, but you are going to lose."
Then Fell stepped forward.
"Raven, may I handle this situation?"
Raven nodded. She was going to enjoy this.
As did everyone else.
Fell grabbed Draco by the collar, and flung him off the great wall.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Neko clapped. "Well that takes care of that. Now to be ever we need to go next."
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Holly, Root, Foaly, Hannah, And Rain were all sitting at a picnic table.
"So were are's we all gonna go to next?" Rain is a redneck; the bad grammar is on purpose.
"I don't know yet." Raven pulled out the envelope from her pocket and smiled.
Artemis starred at her.
"Where are we going?"
"London."
Silence.
"Isn't that were the queens palace is?" asked Bob.
"That depends, which queen?"
PLANE TO LONDON
The plane had just landed in the London Airport
(For those of you who don't know, London's in England, not Britain. I had trouble with that.)
"So… what's our first task in London?" Artemis didn't like London, for obvious reasons. Butler was nearly killed there!
Speaking of Butler…
All of a sudden, a 7 foot tall man walked into the first class area of the plane.
Artemis turned around.
"Okay, either you are following me, or you are constantly showing up in random parts of the world that I am going to."
Okay, I know I could have done better on that sentence.
"Actually, Holly, Root, and Foaly recently invited me along."
"Butler, how recent could it have been if you were just in China?"
Butler looked guiltily at Artemis, and then sat down in an entirely empty row on the plane.
"So, what is your next task?" It was obvious Butler was determined to change the subject of spying on Artemis. Even if it was to keep him safe.
"Well…" said Raven. "We have to make one of the guards at the queen's palace laugh."
Figures, thought Artemis.
"So… How are we going to do that?"
When the plane landed they all retrieved their luggage and ran to Buckingham Palace. (Hey, I don't know which palace is which. I'm not even entirely sure that there is a palace in London.)
They saw to guards standing there, completely still. They only blinked now and then.
They were in red uniforms, with those black, weird fluffy hats on their heads.
They all looked at each other.
Raven spoke.
"Any ideas as to how to make them laugh?"
So over the next hour they all tried to make the guards laugh, all with no success.
Artemis was trying to think of witty jokes while Rose and Evil did a bunch of random skits. Raven and Fell eventual started to kick the poor guys.
"I know! Let's ask Butler how to do this!" exclaimed Bob.
Bob was trying to get the stuffed chicken to peck the guard a second ago.
Artemis turned to him.
"Uh, Bob, Butler isn't exactly the most humorous person in the world."
"I know! But he was trained to stay serious all his life, and yet he laughs once in a while."
Artemis looked at Raven. She just shrugged. They walked over to where Butler, Holly, Root, Foaly, Rain, and Hannah were sitting.
"How's it going?" asked Foaly.
"Any luck?" added Holly.
"No." They said it all at the exact time.
"Hey, Butler. You were trained all your life to act seriously, but you laugh sometimes? So, do you have any ideas as to how to make them laugh?" asked Evil.
Is that an insult or just an odd way for asking for help? Thought Butler.
Butler told them that he couldn't help them. They went back to the guards.
They tried for a little longer until Artemis lost it.
"Look you! I have been having a hard time here? So why can't you just forget your job as a security guard for just one minute? I just got accepted into a school were not everyone immediately hate's me. My teacher's a Gothic, as is everyone else in the school. We are trying to win this tournament against these stuck-up Brits; we came from Yankee Stadium all the way to China to here, and now all that stands in our way to the next clue is some robot without a clue as to what goes on around him! Ironic, isn't it?"
Suddenly, the guards face twitched into a smile. Them he started laughing. He fell to the ground laughing so hard that he couldn't breathe.
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!" screamed Artemis.
Everyone pulled him back as he tried to kill the guard.
"So," said Raven. "Can we have our clue now?"
He nodded, still laughing. He reached into his hat and handed Raven a blue Envelope.
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Dracomalfoyus: I like you. Sorry, but I kinda made Fell through you off the great wall.
Ph33r the island ona: Look, I'm sorry if I was rude before. And I'm sorry, but I like Artemis OOC now and then. He sometimes is smart in this fic. As for the Hogwarts thing, I don't know anymore as to what I'm talking about. I like Raven to be invincible, and I do know what the books say. We cool?
Gus: You have a very very very very very very, long review. I won't answer all your questions, but most of them. I'm trying to work on the spelling and grammar issue. As for the chicken flu, I can be clueless sometimes, so I got rid of that part of the fic and replaced it. I'll work on the tenses. Artemis is OOC. Thanks for reviewing. And just for future reference, don't tell the author when you have only read one chapter. Just a thought.
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