Chapter 3: On Top of the Beanstalk
At dawn, Luke, Han, and Galen woke up to find themselves on top of a giant bean stalk starring up at a huge castle sitting on what appeared to be a floating island hidden by clouds.
"Hey, I was right." Luke said with a smile.
"Yeah you were." Galen said. "Look Luke, I'm sorry."
"It's alright." Luke said. "It's not like this happens every day."
"No kidding." Han said.
They then headed out and wondered who lived there. Man or monster? Friend or foe? A princess or a dragon?
They all knew one thing. Three things drew the three boys to the castle. Hunger, desperation, and a love of adventure.
It was a fantastic experience as there were caterpillars as big as dogs and butterflies as large as eagles.
"Wouldn't it be amazing if mortal man never set foot here before?" Luke asked.
"Well somebody did." Galen said as Han fell into a large foot print.
"Oh boy." Han said as he got out. "Who could have made those?"
"Well it wasn't Cinderella." Galen said calmly. Hopefully it was something friendly.
Soon they arrived at a moat that surrounded the castle, so they took a peapod and made it into a boat as the three took some willows and rowed towards the castle.
Then suddenly without warning up in the sky dragon flies the size of fighter planes arrived.
"Wow!" Luke called out. "What whoppers."
"No kidding." Galen said. "Hey, I got an idea! Hey, long noise! Over here!"
"Galen!" Han began before the dragon fly dove in, and all three boys ended up right at the steps of the castle. "Smart thinking."
"Okay, how are we gonna climb these steps?" Luke asked.
"How about you get on my back, and we'll hoist Galen up? Then he can pull us up and so on and so forth."
Everyone agreed to this and began to slowly make their way up the stairs. This was the most exciting part of their journey so far. Forgotten was their hunger. Forgotten was their fear. The young boys never faltered and eventually made it to the top step.
They then wondered two things, what mystery lay behind the cold walls of the castle, and what dark spell hovered over this gloomy place.
Luke then went up and knocked on the door, but no one came. They wondered if they should go in, but eventually they decided to risk it. They walked in and found themselves in an enormous entry hall, easily twenty times as big as any normal room. It was also as silent as a tomb. Han was the last to go through and ended up having to spend a few moments putting his pants back on.
In an enormous dining room, they looked up to see an enormous pile of food.
"FOOD!" Galen called out in joy. "Let me at it!"
They then ran up the winding carving on a table leg and began eating whatever they could find. Han began eating peas the size of basket balls and moved to Jell-O that he could swim through. Han then crashed into a thing of walnuts as he came out.
"Who's there?" A very familiar voiced asked from a chest.
As she said that, a girl with long brown hair that wore a maid's outfit walked out.
"Is anyone here?" The girl asked.
"That's Princess Mara's voice!" Luke called out. "And that maid's Leia!"
"Yahoo!" Han called out.
"How'd you two get here?" Luke asked as he looked in through the keyhole and saw Mara's beautiful green eyes and red hair.
"We were kidnapped by a wicked giant." Mara said.
"Oh." Luke said before it sunk in. "A giant?!"
"A giant?!" Galen cried out.
"A giant?" Han asked, incredulously.
"A giant." Leia confirmed.
Well... Things look bad, don't they?
