Hehe. I'm officially becoming a humour writer. This story is about my friends and I, and how we get sent to the world of Arthur Penhaligon, of the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. This is Part 1 of several stories, where we get sent to various different books, or TV shows. Anyway enjoy! And don't forget the mushrooms that will invade if you don't review!
Because of certain reasons, I will use the names that my friends and I normally use for obscuring our true names. And oh yeah, this is written in third person…and it's from back when we were all in Year 6…and we hadn't split up gone off to different schools…(well, four of us went to the same school, but two others ran off to others.)
Location: Sindenham Station, onboard.
One carriage of the morning train to Martin Place Station in the city of Sydney, was full of noisy children. Half of the carriage was devoted to females, and the other to the guys. The girls were yabbering on about who-knows-what and the guys were clowning around and getting out of their seats and getting yelled at by the substitute teacher. It was an excursion. Unlike other excursions, it was going to be boring- they were going to a MUSEUM. And of course, most museums are boring…and this one was pretty much about Australia. And these kids had been learning about Australia ever since Preschool.
One group of six girls had bagged two three-seaters for themselves. Two girls, one Chinese with short, layered hair, the other Japanese-Macedonian and with wavy, dark brown hair that got paler as it neared the bottom of her long ponytail; it was dirty blonde at the bottom, were talking about their stories they were currently writing on Fanfiction. One girl, sitting next to the Japanese-Macedonian, was also Chinese, and looked a bit like a Chinese hobbit with a ponytail and a light green headband. She was swaying on her seat and singing, "JELly, WOBboly JELly, YUMmeh on my PLATE. JELly, WOBboly JELly, makes me feel HAPPY," with the girl sitting opposite her, ANOTHER Chinese girl who looked like a Chinese hobbit with a ponytail, but with glasses. (HA! That's me!) The girl sitting next to that girl was…wait for it…partly Chinese…and partly Vietnamese…(Our school is super multi-cultural. Nods)
She was trying to ignore the two crazy girls singing the Jelly Song. The Song, had in fact, been composed by the one with the headband. Miss Glasses thought it was plain spiffy and joined in. And next to THAT girl was ANOTHER Chinese girl who was reading a book.
It continued basically like this for the rest of the trip, except the two singing girls switched to the Llama Song. It went like this:
"I'm a llama,
Yes I am,
I'm a true llama,
I'm a llama and I hope you'll understand
I'm a llama, yes I am,
And I'm proud to be part of this chicken coop…"
At least I think that's how it goes.
The crazy class had been together for over one and a half years, and were all pyschobabbling freaks.
They got off at Martin Place, and continued on to the Museum. Now, we skip to the interesting part.
"OOH!" the headband girl said, running at a computer. They were SUPPOSED to be looking at paintings about the Rainbow Serpent, but Miss Headband was a computer nut so she liked computers. "COMPUTER!"
"ARGH!" the one with layered hair arghed. She ran after Miss Headband. "Get back here Blu!"
"COMPUTER!" came the reply. Since this group of girls, (Also known as the Reading Group to others, but to themselves, they were just the Gang. How original.) were bloody good friends, they ran after Blu, just to see what she was up to.
Each and every one of them committed a Blu- which is running into something slap bang. (It's called this because Blu was the first one who did it. She crashed into the library door for some reason or another and then got majorly pissed off about it.) The thing they all crashed into was Blu herself.
They picked themselves off the floor, laughing like they always do, which makes them the healthiest group in the class. (Laughter is the best medicine, remember?)
"COMPUTER!" Blu yelled again, as if nothing had happened. She poked the computer screen, which went gazoonk. "YAY!" Blu shouted, and started hacking into the mainframe.
"NO MORE HACKING!" The Peacemaker with layered hair yelled at Blu, trying to get her away from the computer.
"MEANO MAIGE!" Blu screamed, trying to get at it. The author of this story, and also the one who likes singing with Blu, thought this was absolutely spiffy and that it would be fun to just see what was in the mainframe of a museum, so she jabbed Maige around the waist, giving her an electric shock. Maige jumped, releasing Blu, and started on a telling-off for the author: "Don't do that Via! NOW SHE'S GONNA HACK AGAIN!"
In case you were wondering, the rest of the class had wondered off to a soundproof room. They were going to stay there for the next one and a half hours.
"HA!" Blu yelled, and Via stared at the screen. It was all just a jumble of nasty symbols. "That's it?"
"NOW I CAN GET ANYWHERE I WANT!" Blu yelled, jabbing her finger at the screen.
"Okay…" Miss Long Hair With Blonde Tip.
"Let's go to the Keys to the Kingdom website!" Via shouted in Blu's ear, since she was absolutely mad about Garth Nix's books.
"OKAY!" Blu screamed back at her. She started poking the screen again, and suddenly, this swirling black vortex appeared, and then it became all these pretty colours. "Pretty colours," Blu said in her baby voice.
"NO!" Via yelled. "NO MORE BLACK! I MUST FIND BLACK!" She was becoming a very angry little hobbit, and she's also a very sadistic hobbit. She punched the screen, not expecting a reaction at all. Instead, the screen went black again, and she got pulled through, dragging along the rest of her crazy friends.
Location: the House, Suzy's home
"So, are these all of the Piper's children?" Arthur asked, looking around. "Doesn't seem like a whole lot."
"They haven't all arrived yet," Suzy said impatiently. "Just wait. They'll start pouring in from all directions."
Just then, there were several loud yells, and a moment later, Arthur disappeared under the weight of six girls. "You got the all directions part right," came his muffled voice.
"Hey, who are you?" Suzy asked. "I haven't met you guys yet. And I thought I knew all of the Piper's children."
"I'M NOT ONE OF THE PIPER'S CHILDREN!" The one with Macedonian and Japanese blood yelled at her. "I AM THE ULTIMATE RULER OF THE FLUTES!"
"AND I'M SUZY TURQUOISE BLUE!" Suzy yelled back at her. "Oh, and here's my friend Arthur…Night Black. I think you've already met him…"
"Really?" the girl looked around, and downwards to see what the squishy thing she was standing on was. It was Arthur's face. "Ow," he muttered.
"Oops," she said, and started laughing her head off. Via was already beyond that. She was holding onto her stomach with tears streaming down her face. Being a complete sadist, she thought that this certain boy was in a lot of pain. And for her, pain is cool. And very funny. (She had once burst into hysterical laughter while reading a story where this dude had a girl who had a major crush on him, but he turned her down, and she got pissed, and since he was a shape shifter, and shape shifter blood is very good, she stuck him on a table and dropped a big stone SLOWLY onto him. Then she collected the blood.)
"So why haven't I met you before…? I was positive I knew all of the Piper's children…"
"I'M NOT ONE OF PIPER'S CHILDREN! I AM THE ULTIMATE RULER OF THE FLUTES!"
"So what," Suzy said scornfully. "The Piper can play…duh da duh da! The pipe!"
"Cool!" Blu said, looking at her intently. "Who the heck are you?"
"I already said I was Suzy Turquoise Blue," Suzy said in a kind of irritable voice because she had to say her name twice.
"And I'm Blu-"
"Yeah, you're Blu…Blue," Via said, chipping in. She knew full well what was going on because she's typing this right now, and because she's making herself the crazy person she really is, she needed to make sure that her friends had proper names. She was the only person who had actually read the Keys to the Kingdom series in the whole Gang, and apparently, the Piper's children's last names were all colours. And she wasn't exactly feeling creative.
"I'm n-" Blu started, but Via whacked her on the head, saying, "Oh, Blu! You have a fly on your head!"
"There's no flies around here," Suzy said, looking at Via strangely.
"Then it was something that looked like a fly!" she said, trying to bluff.
"I'm Sierra Lavender Purple," the Ultimate Ruler of the Flutes said. She was one of the more clever ones and was catching on.
"Maige Sapphire Blue," the one with the layered hair said.
"Pixie Blood Red," said the Vietnamese/Chinese one.
"Glade Lime Green!" said the second-last, the one who had been reading the book on the train.
"AND I AM VIA OBSIDIAN BLACK! HA! I GOT BLACK! BLACK IS COOL!"
Everyone stared. "But I'm Arthur Night Black," Arthur protested feebly from underneath the girls' feet. "Oh sorry!" Maige exclaimed, and got off him. She was an extremely nice person who is…extremely nice?
Via looked down and started laughing again. She bounced a bit on Arthur. The other girls except for Blu got off, since they felt a titchy bit sorry for the poor Arthur. Via was still laughing. Blu joined in, using Arthur as a trampoline since she loved bouncing. Via thought this was plain spiffy so she started bouncing too.
Blu stopped suddenly and inspected her left leg. "What?" Maige asked in a concerned tone. "Did you hurt yourself?" She pulled out a first aid kit from her pocket.
"No," Blu said. "But I think my leg just got stronger!" She started bouncing again.
"Okay," Maige said, and stuck the kit back in her pocket and pulled out a flower and stuck it in her hair. "Peace, girls and boys, peace."
Blu stopped jumping again and inspected her left leg again. "What?" Maige asked in a concerned tone. "Did you hurt yourself?" She pulled out a first aid kit from her pocket.
"Whoa," Blu said, ignoring the offer of first aid. "I think my ankle just got stronger!" She started bouncing again.
"Okay," Maige said, and stuck the kit back in her pocket and pulled out another flower and stuck it in her hair, only above the other ear. "Peace, girls and boys, peace," she said again, only doing the peace sign this time.
"Owee," Arthur moaned. "Stop it! Or I shall be forced to use my great powers!" (A/N This is for after Grim Tuesday. I haven't been able to get my hands on Drowned Wednesday yet. )
"What great powers?" Blu looked at him closely. "You mean like Harry Potter?"
"Whose Harry Potter?" he replied, brandishing a little silver thingo that looked a bit like a fork. Blu likes eating, so she grabbed the little silver thingo that looked a bit like a fork, and started swishing it through the air. "I NEED FOOD!"
"Here," Sierra said, giving her a Styrofoam cup of coffee she had gotten from nowhere.
"STYROFOAM!" Maige screeched, and grabbed the coffee, dumping the hot contents on Arthur's face. "This is evil, I tell you, evil!"
"Blimey, have you been taking drugs?" Pixie asked. (Don't ask me where the name came from)
"DRUGS ARE EVIL!" Maige started brandishing the Styrofoam cup above her head, swinging it around and dripping the remaining bits of coffee all over the real Piper's children which had all arrived and were watching the coolest 4D movie ever made. "Whoa, this is so real!" one kid said to his neighbour.
"NO MORE POLLUTION!" Maige screamed, and threw the cup at him. It bounced off his head, and hit his neighbour on the head. It bounced of his head, then off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head, then it bounced off his head, then it bounced off his neighbour's head. So forth.
"Wow, that's majorly 4D," one girl said to her friend. "It's so real!"
Just then, there was the sound of masculine screaming, which just like feminine screaming, only more…feminine.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Glade screamed, grabbing all the girls and pulling them away. Pixie tried to linger either because a) she wanted to have a look at Arthur again or b) she wanted to see the guys falling out of the ceiling.
They all fell out of the ceiling and landed on top of Arthur, who said, "Ouch. Is this a football game?" There were a complete total of 16 guys that were all still screaming their masculine screams that sound even more feminine than feminine screams.
Who were the newcomers? Find out in the next chapter of '6L in the House'!
