CHATPER 2: The Princess of Hallmark
And so Pan traveled to the Town of Hallmark just as The Spirit Ant had told him. The Town of Hallmark was a town kept separated from the outside by a moat and a very large stone wall. At night the bridge that gave entrance to the town would shut. Pan did not make it in time sadly. He was forced to stay outdoors until morning.
During the night he was attacked by other children who had hit puberty. They wore dark, dirty, rags and constantly tried to give him drugs. When the sun came up they screamed and disappeared into holes in the ground. Luckily they hadn't gotten Pan...
Pan entered the castle quickly and looked around the large town. There was snow everywhere but it wasn't cold. People dressed up like characters on a christmas card and skated on a frozen fountain. The women wore dresses and bonnets and the men wore three piece suits. Pan felt out of place...
A girl dressed up like a doll saw Pan walk by her. She giggled and greeted him. She then told him her life story, her address, told him that she was all alone, in a place that was not familiar to her, and the password to her father's bank account as well as her social security number. Fortunately enough for her Pan didn't understand a word she said; because he wasn't paying attention.
Happy to make a new friend the girl, who's name was Tiffinar, took him to the castle gates.
"My dad is somewhere by the castle probably sound asleep and he left me all alone! So, what do you want to do? Huh? You want to see the Princess of Hallmark? Oh my GOSH I do too! But I know she shoud be nice because everyone thinks so.. but I would probably totally hate because she might be prettier than me. But my dad says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. But like.. he's my dad and that's weird and doesn't count! Hey where you going?" Pan started to climb the gate that kept out all the commoners. The guard standing by it looked up and watched him struggle to get over. It took twenty minutes but Pan did it. The guard turned away after he had.
The other guards stood and watch Pan sneak by them with small interest. It had been a long time since they had been home. They had forgotten their purpose in life and who they were. Only that they all looked the same and had no personality. There really didn't seem a point in living anymore for them.
Pan made it all the way to the courtyard and saw the Princess of Hallmark standing by a window and looking in it. He approached quietly and slowly.
"Hey Ferick? Why do we have this random bomb with us?"
"I don't know.. maybe it has to do with the twenty dollars I have in my pocket, Ginger."
"Huh.. let's toss it out of the window," Suddenly twenty dollars and a bomb landed on Pan and he was DEAD. But a fairy from out of nowhere brought him back to life.
After the explosion the Princess of Hallmark turned around looked down at the boy named Pan.
"Who- What- Why- How did you get past the guards?" She asked him. Pan pushed himself off the ground and dusted off his clothes. As the Princess watched him in shock he stood, adjusted his clothes, and shook around to make sure everything was in working order. As he shook the Tinsel of the Forest slipped out of his pocket and floated to the ground.
"Is that- the Tinsel of the Forest? No... WAY!" So the Princess of Hallmark told Pan her life story, her strange dreams, tales of mysterious men, why she hated her daddy, how cool green clothes were, how she totally trusted Pan with her life, and ancient secret tales that should only be shared between royal family members. Somehow Pan agreed to save the world for her.