A/N: Hello! I hope you will enjoy this story, as much I enjoy writing it.
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Chapter I
The conversation of the dog and cat
As a child Ileana liked to roam the wild areas around her home in a small town on the outskirts of Austin, Texas,
She would always be sure to carry her umbrella, a small wooden sword, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a bottle of fruit punch koolade, for as you know all brave adventurers need sustenance when journeying into the unknown.
For, Ileana's journeys took her many places, once entering the reeds by a pond she found herself on the barren waste of mars, the first female astronaut to journey to mars and the first person ever to discover water, and strange beings with four legs, purple horns on top of their heads and pink fur, drinking water on the other side of the pond, on mars.
At another time, Ileana discovered a time traveling cave; unfortunately the time cave was blocked off by strange bars of metal.
Ileana was sure the metal was from another time or planet as the metal was a strange green paint like substance. No matter where Ileana was she was always accompanied by her two imaginary friends, Alice and Jack, and if she found herself in a spot of trouble, about to be cursed by an evil witch, or kidnapped by a dragon, her prince in shining armor was always there to save her.
Somehow, no matter where she was, Mars or China, Ileana would always find herself back home for dinner.
Then along came elementary school. Then middle school, at the age of eight her family moved to a small town in England. By the age of nine her friends and her prince had become but a distant memory.
Until the day she turned 11.
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There it was, lying on the floor of the hallway. A letter written in bright green ink, addressed to Miss Ileana D. Shire, though it would not be found till later that night, as Ileana was celebrating her birthday with her family at the movies.
The letter sat on the floor lazily floating a few feet off the ground. The cat came by, hissed when it saw the letter and quickly ran the other direction. The family dog heard the commotion and found the cat clinging to the carpet under the couch in the room across from the door.
If human ears could hear the conversation, they would hear something like this,
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"What is going on my dear Watson?" asked the shaggy old sheep dog (Watson was the cat's name)
"Hisssssss….."
"Watson, stop that infernal noise and tell me what is going on!"
"There's something strange at the big human door, and I daren't go outside for fear of it. I do not trust it, it's too strange…to strange I say, to strange, my dear Comrade." (I say, you should know that Comrade is the dog's name.)
"Watson, you stay right hear and I shall go check it out. Be brave my dear friend, I really do think you are overreacting again, remember last time, you thought you saw strange small green humans like creatures in the toaster?"
"Oh, yes….the human woman made that infernal screech when she saw it and killed it with her big flat food thing."
"Yes, it turned out to be only a beetle."
"Well, that's what it looked like to you, but I daresay it was not. I saw it creeping out the back door, through your small dog door. Anyway Comrade, I'm not joking around this time, I never joke around, one of those things that come from that slot in the human kitty door is not on the floor, but in the air."
"Yes, yes my friend, I shall go check it out."
Comrade went to the door, but as the letter had gotten tired of floating around, it was on the floor again.
"Nothing is wrong my dear Watson and I am so tired, I daresay I shall lay down right here and sleep till the Humans get home, goodnight my friend, goodnight."
And so Comrade the dog fell asleep to await his master's arrival. While Watson continued to sit under the couch until he too fell fast asleep.
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