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NTAG Adventures: Through The Glass Mirror

Trouble

"Dragonfly? Hello? Dragonfly! Are you here?" Mashy wandered through a wrecked room.

A worried expression donned her face. Papers were every and chairs were overturned. There were scratch marks on the wall and signs of a fight. Just then, whimpering could be heard from another room. Mashy quickly jogged to the source. In a corner Nithe, Dragonfly's red lupe, was whimpering and crying in a corner. Something that was extremely unusual for Nithe, a macho lupe, to do.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Mashy asked, patting him to comfort him.

Nithe didn't say anything. He turned towards Mashy. When he opened his eyes, they were red. Totally red. Mashy let out a small gasp. Nithe was morphing into a Werelupe. Mashy backed away, and soon found herself running through the house. She was looking at the monster Nithe chasing after her. She didn't notice the change in her surroundings. Mashy seemed to be getting farther ahead of him. Then she realized that he had stopped moving!

Mashy looked infront of her. Instead of daytime, it was night. She was out on a lonely, faerie-forbidden field. The clouds overhead blocked out the moon, so there was little light. The plain seemed to go on forever. Mashy looked back over her shoulder. Nithe had disappeared, only to be replaced by more grass. Even the grass was dark and gloomy, though.

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"Dragonfly you really got to come here."

"But, Nut, I'm meditating."

"NOW!"

Dragonfly sighed. She had been meditating out side on a trampoline. She was actually hovering off the trampoline. But, then again, she was Leader in the Air Tribe, so it's not unusual. But, Nut had come floating to her in a panic. At first Dragonfly refused, but Nut had that sort of authoritive figure aurora and Dragonfly was forced to go.

"So, what's the problem, Nut?" Dragonfly asked as was rushed through many halls.

"Your door is the problem! I didn't think you needed that much security on your door, Dragonfly!" Nut floated, as the words rushed out of her mouth.

"Well, I... uh... the person who sold it to me was very persuasive," Dragonfly said, slightly blushing.

"Mmmmhmmm. Anyways, Sage came and got me. Or rather I found him asleep on his beloved pillow. Scary that thing. Frightens away all the meepits. But he had wrote a note explaining things. Ah! Here we are!" Nut exclaimed as she and Dragonfly approached one of the many dorm hallways.

Sage looked up. He currently had his pillow held in front of him, as a few Rabid Shadow Meepits walked by. Dragonfly looked over at her door. It wasn't the glass-liquid-mirror it had been. It looked like a regular door now. Once the Rabid Shadow Meepits passed, Sage stood up. Sage came up, just a little taller than the elven warrior maiden. But you really couldn't compare height difference at NTAG. Not many members there are human.

"Okay, Mashy went in to apologize. It's been five minutes. Is that a bad thing?" Sage told Dragonfly.

"FIVE MINUTES! That must be about two hours in the dream world. Has anyone else gone through?" Dragonfly asked.

"Uh, I don't really know," Sage replied.

"I guess, I'll just check it myself, manually," Dragonfly said as she started to walk to the door.

"Now, wait just a durn minute here, missy. What does manually mean?" Nut asked, before Dragonfly could touch the door.

"Well, normally I would just punch in the code to get it. But, to find Mashy I have to go through the dream world. It's alright, I know all the secrets to it, so I'm ready. Plus, I have my sword and bow with me. I'll be back in a few minutes! See ya!" Dragonfly said and stepped through the door before Nut could protest anymore.

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"DRAGONFLY! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Mashy ran down the beach as an extremely hungry skieth chased after her. the skieth was amazingly fast. Two red grarrls ran behind the skieth. Mashy didn't realize that she had been circling the island twice now, for it was extremely small.

"Alright, alright I'm coming." A voice penetrated Mashy's surroundings.

Dragonfly appeared right before Mashy's eyes.

"Ah, I see we are on the forever running island. I guess that skieth and those grarrls weren't hungry after-all," dRagonfly commented, watching the skieth and grarrls slink off into the jungle.

"Dragonfly! I found you!" Mashy cried in delight and glomped Dragonfly, harder than usual.

"Actually, it's the other way around, Mashy. I found you! You see, I decided not to go to my room, but go outside on a trampoline and meditate! Kind of funny, right?"

Mashy did not find this funny, and her face immediately became red.

"WHAT? You mean I was chased down by weirdo-Nithe, ate a ton of fungus to find my way out a a cave, was pecked at by a ton of mutant weewoos, and ran around this island twice being chased by a skieth and two red grarrls for absolutely NOTHING!" Mashy shouted.

"Well, they wouldn't have hurt you anyways. I mean, you would feel the pain, but once you got through all of this you won't have a scratch on you!" Dragonfly said, trying to cheer Mashy up.

"Yeah, whatever. Just, how do we get OUT of this thing?" Mashy asked, rather annoyed.

"Well, you actually didn't go that far. There's a short cut, that I designed, to get out of here. Unless, you want to go through one hundred other dreams before you end up outside my door," Dragonfly quirked.

"I think I'll take the short-cut. So where is it?" Mashy asked.

"We have to plunge into the ocean and find the vent. That is a magical portal that will take us to the center room in my dorm," Dragonfly answered.

"But there's man-eating Jetsams in that water! That's the reason I'm still on this island!" Mashy retorted.

"That's why there's Jetsam-repelent herbs on this island, Mashy! Oh, and you see that palm tree over there?" Dragonfly pointed to one. "Yeah, up in that tree is snorkle gear. I'll go get the herbs."

Dragonfly ran off into the jungle while Mashy busied herself by getting the snorkle-gear.

Ten minutes later Dragonfly and Mashy were swimming out into the ocean. Jetsams steered clear of them once they got near enough to sniff the pungent smell. Soon they entered murky water and they were swimming through kelp.

"This stuff is disgusting!" Mashy whined.

"Well, we would be out of it faster if you didn't stop every five seconds to complain!" Dragonfly shot back.

"HEY GIVE THAT BACK! THAT'S MINE!" someone yelled, yes yelled, in the water.

Dragonfly and Mashy took a second to look at each other before swimming off madly to the voice. It was one they recognized by the couldn't think of who it belonged to. Dragonfly and Mashy exited the Kelp and looked upon a very interesting site.

To be continued...