Chapter 4
"Urgh! What is that? It looks like... eight-bit!"
Vanellope groaned as she opened her eyes.
"Glitching again..." She thought to herself, then her eyes widened.
Standing in front of her was a girl around her age. Her hair was was long and green and she was dressed so beautifully, Vanellope immediately felt self conscious.
"It's so weird... I shall take it to Mirage!"
Vanellope backed up, uneasy.
"Is it even real?" The girl asked, circling Vanellope.
"I am real!" Vanellope snapped, standing up.
"Urgh! Its voice!" The girl exclaimed. "I, Disgust, don't usually deal with things like that but..."
"Urgh! You're talking about me as if I'm not here!" Vanellope snapped. "Get lost!"
The girl, Disgust, smirked. "It's quite touchy too."
"I'm not an it!" Vanellope screamed, "I'm a She! And she is leaving."
With that she stormed off. As she walked away, she heard Disgust still talking about her... following her even.
Vanellope decided to ignore it, until she heard "She's so... ugly. But Mirage will have the final say if I can keep her."
Vanellope angrily spun around. "You're not keeping me! No one is, not anymore. I stand alone!"
With that, she found a small board of wood and climbed onto it. Grabbing a stick, she paddled away.
"With that attitude, you'll always be alone!" Disgust called after her.
When Vanellope heard those words, they stung her hard. Just another reminder that she was doomed to live a life alone... no one to call a friend, no one to love... just her and her shadow.
"Maybe she's right..." was all Vanellope thought, glitching.
Eventually, the raft drifted past a hill. On top of the hill, two toadlike men were peering off the edge.
"What do you see, Frogslip? What do you see?" One asked.
"The usual, Llort, the usual." The other replied. "I don't know why we always have to look up here. There's just the usual animals, the usual flowers, the usual waste, the usual glitching girl floating on a board... may as well go back to our king."
Darkness started to surround them, but stopped.
"A glitching girl floating on a board?!" They exclaimed in alarm.
Meanwhile, Vanellope knew she had to calm down. Pulling out her pendant, she thought of who may have given it to her, what kind of life she could have if she found her home.
Meanwhile, the two men had reappeared on another hill.
"What do you think?" Llort asked.
Frogslip smiled. "I think the boss will be singing our praises."
The two men smirked as darkness surrounded them, taking them away.
(Special Note: If you don't know who Frogslip and Llort are, I did not create them, they're characters from other movies:
Frogslip is from The princess and the Goblin
Llort is from A Troll in Central Park)