A/N: Hi everyone! Here I am again with the next chapter in this installment! :D This chapter will finally be on the Bradys getting an introduction into why they have been summoned into the storybook as well as what mission they will have to accomplish. I really do hope to tie in everything here so there will not be any confusion moving on with the story! :D So please, review to let me know what you think because I always love any type of feedback. And two, please enjoy! :D
The blinding light was still emanating from Cindy's room, and the Brady kids had no idea what was going on. They did not even think to wonder what was going on because they were too distracted by the bright light.
Finally, after a few moments that somehow felt like an eternity, the blinding lights stopped.
Peter rubbed his eyes and was the first one to speak. "What happened?" he asked.
"I don't know," Marcia said groggily, still recovering from the bright light.
"I don't know what happened, but I do have one question. Where are we?" Greg asked.
At his prompting, all the other Brady kids began looking around themselves in every direction. Where were they? they all wondered.
They could tell one thing for sure, they were not back home in their house. They were smack dab in the middle of a wide green field. It looked like they were in some village of some sort, but definitely nowhere near back home. It did not even look like America.
"Wait a second…" Jan wondered out loud. "Why do we all look like this?"
This prompted the Brady kids to all begin looking themselves over with the sudden realization that: They were animated! The kids were all super shocked to see that they all now looked like some sort of caricature illustration version of themselves.
"Ahhh, What happened to me!" Bobby exclaimed.
"What happened to me!" Marcia joined in.
Soon the echoes behind were just all of the Brady kids reactions to their animated selves.
"My head feels so big!" Peter exclaimed. "Cool!"
"Cool? I feel like I'm going to fall down!" Jan countered.
"I'm starting to feel dizzy," Greg agreed.
"What I don't understand is why our clothes also look animated?" Marcia wondered.
"Yeah, and our hair, too!" Cindy chimed in.
"I feel like I'm straight out of a cartoon!" Bobby added.
After the initial shock, surprise, excitement, and confusion of their realization about their transformation into animated versions of themselves, the Bradys knew that they needed to plot their next move.
Besides this realization of seeing themselves being animated, the only other thing they could see were a few sheep grazing off somewhere to the distance. However, somewhere in the distant horizon, they could lightly make out the outline of some type of city. Except it was not the type of city they were used to seeing back home. The kids could faintly make out the outline of a tall structure adorned with sharp, triangular turrets topped with flags. Not that any of them recognized the flags or the castle or the place they had landed, though.
That is, no one except for Cindy. She had done her fair share of reading in her time, and she could not help but think that this whole scene seemed familiar somehow. Not to mention the fact that their whole animated dilemma reminded her of one of her story book's illustrations. She just wasn't sure which one, and from which story book. Maybe she was just imagining things because she was not sure where exactly she had seen this setting before. All she knew was that something about the green grass and the outline of the castle off in the distance looked familiar.
"Ahhh, what's that!" Bobby screamed, pointing.
The kids all veered their heads to look to where Bobby was pointing. Sure enough, they could see exactly what he was talking about.
It looked like slightly larger version of a rag doll.
"Wait, isn't that your doll, Cindy?" Jan asked.
"Yeah," Marcia echoed in.
Even Cindy was surprised. Sure enough when she looked over, she could see her rag doll Becky standing plain as day on the grass besides them. Except, she was standing up. She appeared to be moving, nothing like the non living doll she was meant to me.
"It's Becky," she said.
Greg rubbed his eyes. "What is going on?" he said dumb founded. "I must be studied too hard," he shock his head.
The other Brady kids all nodded in agreement.
"We must be going crazy," Peter said.
"You are not going crazy," Becky said.
The kids all jumped up in the sudden shock and surprise of hearing Becky actually talk.
"What is happening?" Cindy just murmured.
"You have all been summoned here intentionally," Becky announced as a matter of fact. "I can see that what you all need now in all of your lives is some guidance. You all have been struggling with problems in your lives, and you all need to accept the fact that you are all in dire need of some courage."
Before Becky continued, Cindy could not help but notice that her voice was not at all how she would have imagined Becky's voice to sound. Her voice sounded much more like that of a tour guide at some museum.
"I still don't know what is going on," Greg said. "But what do you mean by we need courage?" he asked.
"I'm glad you asked," Becky resumed her explaining. "I will start with you Greg. You need courage to pass your Biology final coming up. Marcia, you need the courage to ask Adam out to the dance. Jan, you need the courage to make some friends while you, Peter, need the courage to ask your Basketball coach to put you in his lineup. Bobby, you need courage to overcome your stage fright to give your presentation to your class. And lastly, Cindy, you need the courage to confront your bullies on the bus," she explained. "In totality, you all need to learn to be more courageous. That's why you have been brought here to complete your mission and hopefully learn your lessons in courageousness."
"Mission?" Marcia asked.
"Yeah, what mission?" Bobby echoed whilst all the other Brady kids also looked on in wonderment.
"Ah, I'm glad you asked," Becky said. "You can't tell it from here, but that kingdom you see in the distance over there is in vile danger. There has been a great dragon terrorizing all of its citizens, causing them too much death and destruction. Some of the shops have completely been burnt over. The King and Queen are very dear to their people, and they do not want to see their subjects suffer. My belief is that if you slay this dreadful dragon, you will be able to restore peace to this once beautiful and happy kingdom. Perhaps you will even learn a little thing or two about courage somewhere along the way. This, my children, is your mission… if, you choose to accept it."
At Becky's words, the Bradys were all too stunned to even utter a single word. It was almost as if time had stopped while they were all trying to file away their thoughts from being overwhelmed at all this new information and everything that had been happening to them.