After what Happened, Can I Still Win?

By: Lightening 816

Rating: PG-13 (for violence, language, and harsh actions)

She walked down the dusty street of London. She thought he was dead, but she was all wrong. It turned out he grabbed a near pole and slid down. Her name was Arden. Her fur was tan colored. She wore a Scottish dress. The top was white. Brown lace was tied on the front side. She had long white sleeves that were puffy. The bottom was a red plaited dress. On her head was a tiny red bow. She just escaped from pure torture. She thought it was over. But she was wrong. She remembered how her parents used to work at The Rat Trap. Thinking about it made her angry. She was making her escape. Her head ache was created when she was harmed. Blood was on her face. "That rat's got quite harmful side." she thought. She looked up at the sky. It was raining. The streets were bare and empty.

She looked at her necklace. It was a star shaped locket that held a crystal; A special crystal. This crystal had the power to unleash evil through out its surroundings. That's the reason her parents worked there. If they didn't, he'd use it on Arden. Thinking Ratigan's name made her mad. As she walked through the empty streets, she took out a paper that said to look for Basil of Baker Street. Arden tried to keep a straight face. She felt pain in her back. But that was only because she had an arrow in her back. The air was moist and windy.

She was pierced with one. Her head always slumped down. Her lips were bleeding. Her breathing was raspy. She could here all these voices. The fog surrounded her. It was dark but she could still see the street signs. She was one of the special few that could read. She can see a little building. It turned out to be a shop.

Arden looked at the ground and watched as her feet carried her. She bonked into a few poles.

"OH! This is hopeless!" she said mournfully in a Scottish accent. "Why do all these things happen to me?" she asked. She kept walking. She tried to pull the arrow from her back. She looked up and saw nothing. Arden still kept her eyes on the shop. She ran to it. It turned out to be Mr. Flaversham's toy shop.

"Oh I've heard about this place." she said cheerfully. When she walked up to the door, she heard footsteps. She turned around.

"What the!" she asked herself.

"Hey guys I think I heard something over there!" yelled a mouse. Arden looked closely and automatically saw that it was one of Ratigan's thugs looking for her.

"I should have known!" she thought. She ran away. One of the thugs spotted her.

"Professor! There she goes!" yelled the thug that was the lizard. Ratigan came out of the shadows and saw the necklace.

Arden was already running around the corner. When she went around the corner, she kept quiet. She found a big trash can that was rolling towards her.

"Now there's an idea." she whispered to herself. She jumped in and just held on. The trash can rolled out and was charging toward Ratigan and his thugs. Suddenly the trash can stopped.

"Look in to that trash can! She's probably in there!" demanded Ratigan. The thugs looked in side. It was too dark for them to see Arden. They couldn't see her. When the thugs left, they turned to Ratigan and told him that they didn't find her. Arden pressed her ear onto the inside and heard them leaving. Arden peeked out of the trash can. She looked right, but when she looked left, Ratigan turned to see her there.

"Get her!" he yelled. The thugs ran to her. When she turned around, Fidget was there. She turned around.
"Give me your necklace, child!" demanded Ratigan.
"No freakin' way! The necklace stays with me!" replied Arden. Fidget came out of nowhere.

"Oh no! Not you again!" said Arden. Fidget ran and attacked her. Arden threw him off and started to run. Arden ran in a full complete circle. Everyone followed her. Arden came across a dead end.
"You've got to be kidding!" she said. The Rat Trap was right behind her. Arden found a hole in a building she was right next to. She hopped in and landed in a laundry room. She scurried to the other side of the room. She found another hole and hopped in. She found herself outside again. When she was about to move, there was a pulling on the arrow in her back. She turned around and saw Ratigan pulling on the arrow in her back. Blood came out of her back. Arden pulled herself away and kept running. By the time she got back to the toy shop. She was no longer in sight. She was about to take another step. Unfortunately, she fell to the ground. She was too weak to move. Blood still came from her back. It stopped went outside to play. She saw a trail of red liquid. She followed it but yet she was terrified but what she saw. She could hear Arden breathing. She also noticed the arrow in her back. Olivia picked her up and brought her into the shop where she found her father working on something.
"Daddy?" she said innocently. Her father turned around and was horrified by what he saw.
"What happened?" he asked.
"We have a problem." replied Olivia.
"We better talk about it to Basil. Quickly we need to go to Baker Street!" said her father.