Chapter 9.5

This is a chapter dedicated to all you Wings of Fire fans out there who are reading this story. If you have read the Hive Queen and/or the Poison Jungle, then you will know who these characters are. Note, I wont put any spoilers in here; at least not obvious ones. Enjoy!

Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the Forest of Laughter...

As the sun began to rise over the World of Imagination, the creatures and many strange life forms that thrived in the Forest of Laughter let out their calls and cries out into the air. One could mistake this forest for being more of a jungle or something. On what looked like a dusty pathway on the forest floor, a small lizard looking thing stepped out of a bush and looked around, searching for food.

As the lizard was approaching a large tree, the sound of what could only be described as an airplanes engine starting up very loudly. All of a sudden, a large portal opened from above the tree and two large dragons fell to the forest floor. The lizard approached cautiously as one of the creatures lifted its head up.

"Ow, that really hurt." A female dragon said as she got up and rubbed her head.

"You see, I told you this was a bad idea, Sundew." The other dragon said as she got up as well.

"Whatever, now where are we-OH MY GOSH THERE'S A SCARY LOOKING MONSTER!" Sundew cried as she saw the lizard looking at her and she raised her talon to crush it.

"NO!" the other dragon yelled as she prevented Sundew from crushing the lizard.

"Willow, what are you doing?" Sundew asked.

"Sundew, you can't just randomly teleport into a new world and kill the first living thing you see!" Willow said. "Plus, look how adorable this little guy is." Willow said as she tried to pick the lizard up.

Then, as if a defensive switch had been flipped, the lizard stood on its feet and its neck opened up to reveal large scales flapping around like a dilophosaurus and the lizard hissed loudly at Willow.

Willow screamed and then Sundew crushed the lizard with a branch.

"(Gasp) What have you done!?" Willow cried.

"See, I told you it was a scary looking monster." Sundew said.

"It was so cute..." Willow said.

"Willow, come one, we have to get moving. If Cricket, Blue and the others were sent here, we have to find them and bring them back home." Sundew said.

"I know, but let me ask you this, do you even know where we are?" Willow asked.

"I don't know the name, all I know is that we are in a strange realm where a lot of crazy stuff can happen." Sundew said.

"Well, you got us here, so what do we do now?" Willow asked.

"Like I said, we are going to look for our friends." Sundew said.

"Okay, lets go!" Willow said as she walked down the path.

"Just be careful, we don't want to make too much noise-"

All of a sudden another portal opened and then...CRASH!

"Oof!" Willow yelled as someone landed on top of her.

"Willow, what happened!?" Sundew stopped as she saw another dragon had fallen on top of Willow. Sundew recognized this dragon and she was kind of annoyed to see this male dragon.

"Mandrake! What are you-!?"

"Now, hold on, hold on! Before you get mad, I just wanted to say that this is not my fault! You two are the ones who are trying to travel dimensions like crazy people. I was just trying to stop you from doing that, and I accidentally fell in with you guys, just a little late." Mandrake said quickly.

"Oh, hi Mandrake, how's life?" Willow asked.

"It's going fine but now its gone crazy." Mandrake said.

"Okay, the first thing you're going to want to do is get off of Willow." Sundew said.

"Oh, shoot sorry." Mandrake said as he got off of Willow.

"Thank you, I was having trouble breathing there for a second." Willow said.

"Okay, normally I would yell at you and act very mean. But, me and Willow have something important to do. So, Mandrake, I'm going to give you a choice: You can either help me and Willow on our mission, or you can stay here and get devoured by whatever lives in this forest. What will it be?" Sundew asked.

"I'll help you guys! I don't want to get eaten." Mandrake said.

"Oh, boy! Now we have back up!" Willow said excitedly.

"What are you guys up to anyway?" Mandrake asked. "We are going to find Cricket and the others and bring them back home." Sundew said.

Mandrake now understood why Sundew and Willow would try something like this. But then a question popped up in his head.

"Don't worry, Mandrake, I can see you have a question. I'll gladly ask it for you. So, Sundew, how are we going to get back home?" Willow asked.

Sundew froze as she realized that she had no clue how to transport everyone back home, which meant they were stuck.

"Sundew? Is there a way?" Willow asked.

"Oh, yes, uh, well, oh yes! We'll cross that bridge when we get there. For now, we have to find our friends. Let's go." Sundew said as she walked down the path.

"She doesn't know how to get back does she?" Mandrake asked.

"(Laugh) No, no she doesn't!" Willow said.

Mandrake said nothing as he felt a bit nervous.

"Sundew, wait for me!" Willow called as she ran to catch up with Sundew.

"Were all going to die." Mandrake said.

"Mandrake! Are you coming or not!?" Sundew called.

"Oh, yeah! Coming!" Mandrake said as he ran to catch up with the girls.

So, what did you all think? Sorry for not posting for a while, I was in South America for 2 weeks and I only got back today and made this for you guys. Chapter 10 will be here soon, don't worry. Hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you guys later and have a nice day! :)