It was a breath-taking day in the small middle class town of Endsville, a young dreary looking blonde girl wearing a pink dress and black headband walked down the street with a dull minded boy and Death. Grim was walking Billy and Mandy to school, billy was rambling on about chocolate covered pickles and mandy tried hard to ignore him. Grim sighed, his arms hung low and he held losely on to his scythe. Stopping he waited for billy to move ahead a bit and swung at the boy, knowing it wouldnt hit him, but grim lost his grip on his scythe, it spun through the air and sliced a portal into the air and sucked mandy into it and dissappeared. The scythe stood piont down in a crack in the ground and Grim's jaw dropped.

"Dat's not good!" he said walking over to the weapon and removing it from the ground. Billy kept talking for about two minutes before he noticed mandy gone.

"Mandy? Come out, come out where ever you are!" Billy called looking around, through bushes and trash cans.

"Where could she have gone?" Grim asked himself with his fists on his hips.

Meanwhile...

Mandy fell out of the portal on to a dirt road infront of a 18 year old girl wearing patched up rags.

"Oh my gods, where did you come from, dear?"she dropped the basket she was holding and ran to mandy's side. Rubbing her head mandy looked up at the older girl.

"Where am I?"

"About a short walk from London." the girl answered.

"London? Why are you wearing rags? Havent you ever heard of jeans?" she asked.

"Je-ens?" the girl sounded the word out. "No I cannot say I have. Come, you can find yourself again at my home. We are nearly there." She helped mandy up and grabbed her basket of fruit before heading on. The house was small with only one room, the ground was pounded dirt covered with rugs and pillows. A large cauldron hung in the fire place cooking something the smelt like roses and raspberries. The kitchen area had a small ebony table and fine knifes and spoons. Hearbs hung from everywhere and books were piled up in every corner. 'For such a shabby outside the inside is beautiful.' Mandy thought to herself. The girl placed her basket on the table and then flopped down on a pillow, Mandy sat across from her.

"I should introduce myself, I am Miss Nadia Valentine, and you are?"

"Mandy. I was going to school when that portal opened and sent me here. Oh by the way, I know this is a weird question but what year is it?"

"Well that is an unusual question, its 1531, why?"

"Well when I fell into that portal it was 2001."

"gosh thats far into the future!" Nadia said getting up and stirring her cauldron, Mandy followed her.

"Arent you scared? I thought people from this time where terrified of the supernatural, witchcraft and stuff." she commeted, Nadia raised an eyebrow and Mandy clicked in.

"Your a witch, arent you?" she asked.

"Indeed I am."

"that smells nice, what is it?" mandy asked changing the subject.

"Soap." Nadia answered simply. "So how did a portal open up? It normally takes a fair bit of power to make one."

"You probably wouldn't belive me if I told you.

Nadia crossed her arms and leaned against the wall.

"Try me." she challenged.

'Well here goes!' Mandy thought. "I won a bet with the grim reaper and he has to be my best friend forever. While he was walking me and my other friend to school he must have dropped his scythe and it made the portal." She explained.

Nadia raised her eyebrow again. "Interesting, so if you are indeed friends with the grim reaper, than all we have to do is to get him here and ask him to send you to your time." Nadiasaid thinking hard about something as she pulled back a curtain and looked out her widow. "Maybe I could come with you." she thought out loud.

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Back in Endsville

Billy's house

"Oh man, where could she have gone?" Grim asked himself as Billy ran in little circles beside him. "She could be anywhere in any demention, or underworld or time!"

"She should go to Asgard its fun there!" Billy laughed, as he ran into the wall.

"No if she went to an underworld whoever she replaced would have come here, dat only leaves every demention and time." he sighed resting his head in his hands. "Maybe da portal was triggered on something dat was on her mind. What could mandy have been tinking of at the time? What are you working on in school, billy?"

"Independent study, Im studing pie!"

Grim sighed and stood up. "come on billy maybe deres a clue in mandy's room."

They left billy's house and crossed the street to mandy's. Up in mandy's room grim searched through her things till he found something helpful.

"It seems dat mandy was studying witches in 16 century England. Well its a start. We'll have to go to Father Time and see if he'll help."

"we're going back in time? Cool! I love going back in time!" Billy cheered.

Grim suddenly remembered the last time billy went through time. "On second thought how about you wait at your house and I'll go find mandy."

"But I wanna help, and go through time grim. Oh please cant I come? please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please pleeeeaaasssseeeeeee?"

"Billy I tink deres a cherry pie at your house."

"Pie!" billy said before shooting off home.

"Phew!" he sighed and taking her scythe sliced a portal to the halls of time.

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It had been 3 days since mandy had came here, and being in the past with the fresh air seemed to brighten mandy's mood, though she hasnt smiled she stopped threatening. Nadia made a dress for her so she didnt stand out when they went to the market or to pick flowers. Nadia liked having mandy around and started calling her 'Little sister' seeing as the name mandy hadnt been invented yet she re-named her Dee. Mandy enjoyed being in the 16th century, though there were things about her time she missed, such as toleits and running water, but she was getting use to the outhouse in Nadia's yard.

Nadia's neibours, who already thought she was weird, belived that 'Dee' was Nadia's younger cousin whom she had to adopt. Mandy was no longer worried about when Grim was coming to find her, she relaxed in the peaceful world. Working on her independent study project, since after all who knows better about 16th century witchcraft than a 16th century witch. Nadia taught Mandy some spells and tricks, like making smoke screens and becoming invisible, which mandy could only do for about 30 seconds and Nadia could stay invisible for 10 minutes.

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Grim arrived at the halls of time and was greeted by father time.

"Ah the grim reaper, welcome! What can I do for you?"

"I need to see a century of time, one of my friends has gone missing and I belive she may be dere, or den."

"Certainly, right this way! Which century do you want to see?" Father time lead grim to a room full of television sets each playing different moments in time.

"16th century England, please."

Father time turned a dial and the screens turned to cities and town of England in the age. Grim began to scan the many tvs.

"Good luck with your search!" Father time waved as he walked away.

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