Artemis woke up in the moonlight outside somewhere. She sat up looking around for a while. She scanned her setting. Where was she? She thought about it for a while. This wasn't possible, but it happened somehow.
She sat there for a good ten minutes trying to figure out some kind of conclusion she could comprehend. Artemis stood up. She was in a dark almost majestic forest. It was beautiful, but she still didn't know how she got there. The moon was full and bright. 'The moon isn't suppose to be full for another thirteen days.' She thought to herself. She stayed in the same place for another ten minutes trying to figure out why she was in this forest all of the sudden. She came up with two solutions.
1. She was drugged and pulled out of her house and into a forest.
2. She was in a really realistic dream.
She looked down and saw she was wearing different clothes. She was wearing a white button up shirt with a darker collar, also lined with white. She wore a dark grey skirt, the same color as the collar. She had black long socks and brown shoes. She didn't give it much thought, she thought this was a dream.
She saw a book lying near her, so she picked it up. It had weird letters/characters on it. She opened it to the first page and read, "Glacies Obstructionum." A patch of grass near her turned into a block of ice. "What the hades.." She said lamely looking at the ice. What a weird dream...It was kind of cool, though.
She looked at the ice block in detail. Who knew a dream could be this detailed. She could see the blades of grass, frozen, and still vibrantly dark green. The moonlight was shining through the ice so she could see it perfectly. Since the ice block was small, she tried to pick it up. It was frozen to the ground, so that didn't work.
After abandoning the ice block she decided to walk around. It was nothing but forest.
Suddenly, a window popped up like in smash bros, and had typed out: "WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. TO COMPLETE THE CHALLENGE, YOU MUST DEFEAT EVERY OTHER CHALLENGER YOU COME ACROSS AND COLLECT THEIR TROPHY. IF YOU SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THE CHALLENGE, YOU WILL GAIN THE TITLE OF THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGER AS WELL AS BEING ABLE TO RETURN TO YOUR HOME. GOOD LUCK." Artemis paused. 'Wait...This is just like in that one video game I was playing before… Makes sense that I'd dream about it.' Artemis sighed. It briefly crossed her mind that she actually isn't dreaming and this reality now… But that makes no sense.
"When am I going to wake up… I have a test to study for." She was carrying the spell book. 'Is it normal to study for a test in a dream?' She thought to herself and gave herself no amusement with her 'joke'.
She kept walking through the pretty moonlight forest until she could meet an end to it. She kept walking, and couldn't even see a pathway to the end of the forest. She looked around, not showing a hint of weakness that she wants to be near civilization.
She paused as the noisey forest silenced.. The only thing she could hear was her own footsteps on the patches of grass that were scattered amongst the forest. She stopped, holding her spell book close to herself. She felt as if she was being watched. 'This must be a nightmare..' She thought to herself. She could feel her heart beating faster. She tried to calm herself down by reciting facts that were on the next test in her class. She could at last hear something other than her quick breathing.
She turned around to see 2 dark beasts. She took a closer look to see they were both Shadow beasts from Legend of Zelda. She stepped back only to see a third shadow beast behind her. Their faces were replaced with what looked like an artifact; a shield maybe. They had long limbs and slouched over. They had glowing red marks on them as well.
Artemis froze in her footsteps, thinking of a solution. She quickly realized the book in her hand could work to her advantage. Before she could even open the book, one of them grabbed her and threw her to a tree, knocking the breath out of her lungs. They cornered her against the tree. She coughed for a bit and stood up slowly, unaccustomed to pain.
She opened her spell book and read outloud, "Glaciem Tempestate." Nothing happened. She paused, not knowing what she read. They came closer. One of them swung it's arm towards her, making her put her arms together as a shield. As the shadow beast hit the girl's arms, it flew back, slowly freezing over. She stared at the shadow beast that tried to attack her as it turned completely into ice. She understood the circumstances and continued reading random spells to prevent the other beasts from attacking her. As she read them, she kept note in her mind of what each does.
"Glacies Obstructionum," she read aloud. The shadow beasts were frozen to the ground by a block of ice. They both fell to the floor as trophies, which surprised her. The frozen beast was already a trophy. The trophies were frozen to the ground. She abandoned them after hesitating to somehow get rid of them so they wouldn't attack any bystanders. She decided to continue on within the forest, still in pain from the shadow beast.
She gave a lot of thought to this world. She still didn't know how it was possible, but it happened.
She decided to go ahead and sleep for the rest of the night, figuring out the spells drained her.
She found a patch of leaves and fell asleep.
The morning light shined through the leaves of the trees that Artemis slept by. She woke up and looked up to the bright sky. "Yep… Not a dream…" The girl sighed. She stood up and looked around where she was sleeping. It was covered in Ice. "Weird." She said to herself and walked away like nothing happened.
She noticed she was quite hungry. Her usual breakfast wasn't an option anymore, so she looked around for fruit or something.
She finally came across an apple tree. The tree looked glorious as the light from the heavens shined upon it. She didn't want to climb a tree, though… She stood there, debating whether to give up breakfast or waste energy. She decided that since breakfast gave energy, she would climb the tree.
She started climbing the tree, awkwardly putting her foot on the trunk and hugging the it. Her physical strength was very low; it never occurred to her to build up strength. She kept trying to climb the tree but it didn't work out.
Suddenly the tree started to shake. Artemis backed away slowly to see what was going on. A pink spherical ball like creature popped out of the branches with at least 5 apples in it's mouth. Artemis stared at the creature for about 5 minutes as the creature consumed the apples like it was nobody's business. She blinked and realized that this wasn't any spherical pink creature… This was Kirby. Kirby didn't realize a girl was behind him, and jumped when Artemis slightly moved. Kirby spit out an apple and offered it to her.
"Oh… That's alright…" She told him. Kirby shrugged like she was missing out and threw it back into his mouth.
Artemis kept trying to awkwardly climb the tree to get an apple. Kirby kept eating the apples that were currently in his mouth, as he did not have the slightest idea of what the strange girl was trying to do. Kirby decided to get more apples. As he shook the branches, a few apples fell out of the tree. Artemis paused the climbing and looked at the apples. She picked one up and examined it. Kirby was confused because she rejected his apple before, but now she wants one? Kirby kept shaking the branches until a few more fell out of the branch.
After a few more minutes of kirby stuffing apples in his mouth, Artemis ate the apple for breakfast. She sighed "..I really could go for some green tea right now." She hated having to change her usual schedule.
She started to think about how she would get out of the forest. Since the majority of the night she spent wandering, She knew it wouldn't be easy to find an exit to the forest.
After a good 10 minutes of thinking, kirby got bored and left. Artemis finished her apple and realized that kirby could be her way out of the forest. She quickly found Kirby eating a piece of bark.
Kirby wasn't her favorite nintendo character. She fancied Marth. Kirby could be her way out of the forest, though. She always kind of found Kirby cute, anyways.
Kirby gave her no acknowledgement, as he continued throughout the forest. He would occasionally glance at her out of curiosity, as she silently stayed by his side.
She thought back to when the window popped up out of nowhere, and said something about an ultimate challenge. Ultimate challenge? That's how she can leave? "I'll just have to win the ultimate challenge then." She said to herself. "I wish I could get some answers though…" Artemis looked at kirby, the adorable ball like figure who could not speak. "I'll ask the next person who can speak."
Artemis and kirby walked about, the unreliable plan of hers was the best she had. Will they make it out of the forest? Will they run into another shadow beast?... or maybe someone else! Find out next week!
Hey friends! Tis Boba! Here with your short chapter of Do you accept! Kirby and Artemis will make quite a friendship, hm?
Kirby: Poyo!
Artemis: ehhhhh…
*Pushes artemis and kirby aside* Find out what happens to Leo in chapter 3! Who will she meet? Who will she fight? You'll have to follow along to see !