"Uuugh," Chase moaned as he rolled over onto something that didn't feel like the floor he fell on. It felt like grass. "What the…?" he said as he sat up.

"Oh good, he woke up." A familiar voice said from somewhere nearby.

"Huh?" Chase yelped as he jumped up from the ground, with a sword that wasn't there before in his hand.

"Calm down hun." Said a second voice.

"Hun?" Chase thought. "Not that many people call me that." After a slight pause, he called out, "Lara, is that you?"

"Damn. How did you know it was me?" she asked as she stood up out of the grass a couple of feet away. The grass was so tall you could barely see her eyes.

With a grin, Chase told her, "You're the only person in the world that calls me hun."

"Damn, now I have to do my "too bad you guessed who I was" dance. But anyway, you got me, but can you guess who's with me?" she asked slyly.

"Are they standing up?" Chase asked her.

"Yeah, they're standing." She replied.

"Shorty" He said immediately.

"Damn it Chase, that's mean. " Shorty said, still invisible in the tall grass

"Mean, but still true." Chase said to the Shortness. "The grass is pretty damn tall if you didn't notice."

Laughing, Lara told him, "stop fighting and come here, we have something to show you."

"Fine," he said back, "stay there." And began the tedious work of making it through about twenty feet of grass.

A couple minuets later, he hacked his way to the small clearing where Lara and Shorty had been. Shorty was jumping up and down as high as she could on a medium sized rock trying to see something.

"What are you doing?" Chase said as she jumped surprised, and fell off the rock, and her ankle twisted to an odd angle.

"Aaaaarrrrggghhhhh!" she screamed as Chase ran to her, surprisingly, she was barefooted.

"Hold still so I can see what I'm doing." He told her, as his hand started to glow a light blue around the edges, and around her ankle.

"Hey, that feels good." She told him. "What are you doing?" and gasped when she saw his hand and his face drenched in sweat.

When his hand and her ankle both stopped glowing, Chase gave a sigh and slumped up against the rock behind him. "I don't know what I did, but I had to concentrate really hard for it. Now then, what were you doing on that rock?"

"Nothing." She said hurriedly

"You look pretty tired for doing nothing," he told her

" She was trying to see over the grass, but I'm not so sure it worked out since she's on the ground." Lara said as she stepped out of the grass.

"Shhhhh. He doesn't need to know that." Shorty snapped.

"It's not exactly unobvious you know." Chase said.

"Silence you." She told him.

"You can't do it like I can Shortness, it just doesn't sound the same. And anyway, what did you have to show me?" Chase wanted to know.

"Well, you should know, you've been staring at Shorty for a couple of minuets now. When we came here, our clothes transformed, and we all got something new. I got this," Lara told him and held up a wooden rod about 4 ½ feet long, with a multicolored jewel in the top.

"Yeah, I got this awesome dagger." Shorty told him, and held up a shiny new dagger.

"And I got a sword." He said.

Taking a look at their clothes, he saw immediately what happened. Lara now wore a long blue robe; a pair of leather boots, there was a pointy straw hat on her head, and gauntlets that came up to her elbow. Shorty had a Green bandana wrapped around her head, a green, loose fitting shirt with many hidden pockets, and loose pants with even more pockets than the shirt. Her pants were held at the waist by a belt with a sheath on it for her dagger. Now that he thought about it, his clothes had to have changed, but they didn't seem any different on the outside. After looking very closely, he found that his favorite shirt now had feather light chain mail stitched into it, and then covered with another thin layer of cloth. His pants had been filled out with another layer of padding and leather, but still looked the same on the outside. The pockets were still the same, and he now had a sheath on his back for a sword.

"Cool" was all he had to say.

"Yeah," Lara said, "it is pretty sweet."

"Now that we've established the obvious, does anyone know where we are?" Shorty asked.

"I might have an idea," Chase said, "but I won't be sure until I see something else. When he finished his sentence, he trailed off and started to stare in to the distance.

After a little while, Lara remembered, "Oh, you dropped this. I found it when you found Shorty on the rock. I went to where you were cuz you told me to stay put." She said and reached into her overly large sleeves. After about a minuet of digging around in there, she said, "Ha! Found it! You wouldn't believe how many pockets are in here or how big they are." She finished talking, and pulled out the book from the bookstore.

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