Telling The Others

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! This time, it was pretty much my fault. I couldn't think of an ending forever, so, for once, don't blame 'Mouse.

Yay! For once it's not my fault! But don't blame Mary either, we've all had writer's block before, right?

Anyway, why don't you read the chapter? There's a very interesting scene in there. I think it's 'Mouse's fave. XD

Because of it's spectacular awesomeness! Duh!

Whatever you say 'Mouse! Anyway, enjoy!

The two younger girls sighed. "Well, that's what we were trying to figure out when we found you at the door." Mary explained. "We didn't really come up with anything before that, though."

"Well if some weird guy got you here, there's got to be some way to get you back." Astrid thought out loud.

"I'm almost scared to go back." Silkmouse groaned "Just think about how much trouble we'll be in. Our parents will ground us until we're 40."

"Well a life time of grounding or no life time of grounding, we still have to go back." Mary Penelope replied. She didn't have the heart to tell Astrid that 40 years wasn't exactly a life time; she didn't think Astrid could handle the idea that people lived longer in their universe.

"But the question right now is whether or not we should tell Hiccup." Silkmouse sighed.

"Tell Hiccup what?" asked Hiccup, who (with Toothless) had just come in the door.

The girls looked at each other. "Crap." Silkmouse said. "Well, there goes that."

Mary sighed. "I don't want to have to explain this more than twice... So, go and get your dad, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and Gobber and we'll tell you everything."
Hiccup looked at Astrid, confused, but she just motioned for him to go as well. So he went, leaving Toothless to stare at the girls funny.

"You knew something didn't you Toothless." Silkmouse said, crossing her arms. It wasn't a question.

Toothless nodded his head a little, looking slightly ashamed.

"Well it's not his fault." Mary Penelope remarked "It's not like he knew exactly what was going to happen."

"Well it was hard enough explaining it to just Astrid. No offense." Silkmouse was quick to add. "But imagine telling half a village full of superstitious Vikings."

"Me, Hiccup, and Toothless will do our best to control them." Astrid offered.

"How do we know Hiccup won't be against us too?" Silkmouse groaned.

"If Astrid didn't chop us to pieces as soon as we told her, Hiccup most definitely won't. S'not like he could any way." Mary Penelope sighed.

"True." Silkmouse giggled slightly at the thought of Hiccup, of all people, trying to hack them apart.

"Not to mention, he's been persecuted before because of what he's like. I don't think he'll turn on us just because we're not from here. It's not his style."

"You got that right." Astrid agreed dreamily. Mary shook her head and bonked the Viking.

"Hey, stay awake! We still need your help!" She cried.

Astrid just scowled.

After about an hour of waiting, Hiccup finally came back with all the requested people. "Okay, we're all here. What was it you wanted to tell us?"

Silkmouse and Mary exchanged glances. "Y'all might want to sit down." Mary told them, adding a bit of a country twang into her voice. "This is going to come as a shocker."

They all sat down as well as they could in the tiny room, and the two sighed and began.

"You know we're not from around here. We said we were from the Bog-Burglar tribe, but the truth is, we didn't even know it existed until I asked Astrid when I first met up with her." Mary started. There was some mild confusion and a few gasps, and Silkmouse continued.

"We came from a place that's reallyfar away – So far, in fact, that no matter where you travel to in this world, you won't be able to find it. Also, where we come from, you're all just a fairy tale, for lack of a better word. You don't exist."

This time, when the group began muttering, someone spoke up. "But we do exist! Otherwise, we wouldn't be here!"

Silkmouse smiled softly. "Of course you exist." She told him with a secretive grin.

"But you just said-" Snotlout started.

"Let me explain." Mary stepped up. "Here, you do exist. You're real, you have coherent thoughts, you make your own decisions, and you marry, have children and die. But where we come from, you're just a story, something we call a 'movie'. You don't really exist."

"But that makes no sense!" Stoick complained. "We can't exist and not exist at the same time!"

"You're right, of course, Stoick." Silkmouse cut in. "You can't exist and not exist in the same world. The problem? We're not from this world. Here, in your world, you exist. In our world, you don't. You're just pictures moving on a screen, voiced by other people, created from our imaginations."

There was short silence. "So you're saying that we don't really exist? That we were made? That everything we know is a lie?" This was Hiccup, and he sounded both mad and upset. Mary was quick reassuring him.

"No, no, it's nothing like that. You see, people in our world – and other worlds as well – think that the things coming from their imagination are completely fake. But they're not. Every world they 'create' has already existed before they thought of it. They're just using the idea, and telling the world's story." She stopped and turned to Silkmouse. "Does that make sense?"

Silkmouse shrugged. "It does to me, but I know what you're talking about. They don't." Mary considered this.

"True." She decided, and then continued. "Anyway, basically, in our world you guys are just an awesome story. So awesome, in fact, that hundreds of people love you. Me 'n 'Mouse are two of those people. We got a chance to come here when I found out about a man who's called 'The Guide'. He's sort of like a wizard, and he was looking for an apprentice. One night, I left my house and went to the woods by my school – a place of learning – and managed to enter his domain by speaking three simple words. When I spoke with him, I asked to be able to go here, to this world, and offered, in return, to become his apprentice. He agreed, and sent me off. Later that day, or at least, what seemed like a day, Silkmouse came, and now we need to go home. You see, time passes by much faster in our realm, and so we've been missing for a while now. Our parents are sure to be worried!" Mary finished. She looked at the group beseechingly. Can you help us?"

There was a brief pause, and then Snotlout spoke up "Prove it." He said.

"What?" Silkmouse asked.

This time it was Tuffnut who answered "You say you're from this weird place where we're supposedly not real? Show me some evidence."

"I hoped it didn't have to come to this." Mary sighed "Alright let's see what we have." She said reaching for her backpack. She dug around for a moment and brought out something long and yellow "This is a pencil." She told them.

"We use it to write with." Silkmouse informed them, and dug a piece of lined paper out of her bag.

"See?" Mary said, writing her name on the paper.

"What are those weird squiggles on it?" Ruffnut asked, scratching her head.

"Oh." Silkmouse realized "I forgot that Norse letters are different from ours."

"Me too." Mary added "Anyway you can see how it's different from what you guys use."

"While you guys use a piece of charcoal tied to a stick, this is made of wood and graphite." Silkmouse told them "Let's see what else I can find in here." She said, bending over and reaching into her pack. She brought out something small but covered it with her hand "Now this is a really big step from the pencil, but I don't really have anything else, so…" she uncovered the small object "This is a cell phone."

The group looked at the small plastic piece of technology in amazement and fright.

"What in Hel?" Stoick whispered softly. Hiccup looked like he wanted to pull it apart and see what it was like inside, while Snotlout looked like he was going to smash it. Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked at it in interest. It looked like a great thing to play pranks with. Gobber also seemed shocked, and was muttering under his breath about witches and trolls and spells. Even Astrid, who already believed them, looked pretty shaken.

Mary, meanwhile, looked at Silkmouse reprovingly. "'Mouse! You had your cell with you this whole time?"

"Well... Yeah. Why?" Her friend asked a little nervously.

Mary smacked her head and groaned. "We could have tried calling home, that's why!" She snapped through gritted teeth. Silkmouse looked downcast.

"Oh. Right. Sorry."

Mary hated making her friend feel bad and took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. She sighed. "Don't be. It probably doesn't even work. It's not like we have a signal out here, anyways."

Silkmouse thought about this, and then flipped it open. She was surprised to see her menu flash onto the screen. The Vikings all yelped in fright, and Snotlout yelled out, "Witchcraft!"

Mary rolled her eyes. "Not quite. It's called science. But you're close enough." She moved closer to 'Mouse. "Do you have any bars, or whatever it is you people use for cell phone lingo?"

"I'm not sure." Silkmouse frowned. "Let me check." She fiddled with the device for a few moments before, suddenly, her face lit up in surprise and excitement. "Mary! Mary, it's working!"

"What?" She snatched the phone from Silkmouse's hands, ignoring her friend's shout of protest. Mary's eyes shone as she realized the phone did indeed work. "No way..." She murmured breathlessly. She then became aware of everyone's eyes on her, and her fellow traveler's sulking frown. "Oh. Whoops. Sorry about that." She handed the phone back to the other girl, rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly. "Guess I got a little carried away there. But do you think we'll actually be able to call home?" She asked seriously.

Silkmouse sighed. "Probably not. Remember, time moves faster back home. I don't think it would be able to work because of that." Mary's eyes were downcast. "But we could try."

Mary looked up abruptly and grinned. Both girls had forgotten the Vikings in the room, and as Silkmouse began punching in her home number, Hiccup spoke up.

"Um, not to interrupt, but... what exactly are you guys doing?" They looked up, startled, and Mary explained as Silkmouse put the phone to her ear.

"Where we come from, a type of energy allows us to power devices such as 'Mouse's phone. Using this device, we can talk to people miles away from us! Even if they're half-way 'cross the world!" The Vikings looked confounded as Mary looked at her friend, who was concentrating on the ringing on the other line, hoping it would be picked up. Mary continued. "Right now, Silkmouse is trying to call home, as we say, so that she can talk to her parents. I'm not sure if it'll work, since time moves differently in both dimensions, but - !"

"Hello?" A weak voice came from the phone. The Vikings jumped, but Mary and Silkmouse's eyes just widened, and they froze in disbelief.

"Hello?" The voice was a little louder this time. "Is anyone there?" It suddenly turned angry. "If this is someone's idea of a joke -"

Silkmouse cut her off, finally snapping out of her daze. "Mom! Mom, don't hang up! It's me!"

"Celeste?" the voice, startled at first, turned angry once more. "Do you know how worried I've been; thinking you had been kidnapped, or worse, dead? You have-"

"I know!" Silkmouse interrupted "I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to be gone for this long!"

"Where in the heck ARE you?" her mother asked, still pretty shaken.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Silkmouse answered "Could you put Asumpta on the phone?"

"Your sister's name is Asumpta?" Mary asked her quizzically.

"And I thought my name was weird." Hiccup commented.

"Shut it!" Silkmouse snapped, glaring at him "Asumpta are you there?" she asked.

"Yeah, where the heck are you weirdo?" said another voice.

"You're not gonna believe this, but I'm in the How to Train Your Dragon universe." She told her sister.

"Is this another one of your pranks?" her sister asked angrily "Because-

"Asumpta, I swear to God I am not kidding! And the last time I pranked you was in third grade, get over it!"

"How'd you get there? And why have you been gone so long?"

"It's a long story." Silkmouse sighed "And time runs differently here. Anyway, the only reason I called was to demonstrate how to use a cell phone."

"Why would you teach Vikings to use a cell phone?" she asked "It's not like they can actually use one, dummy."

Silkmouse rolled her eyes "I miss you too. I gotta go now, tell Mom not to worry and that I'm getting home as soon as I can. And try to be tactful when you tell her where I am."

"She probably won't believe me anyway." Asumpta huffed "Bye weirdo."

"Bye small fry." Silkmouse replied and flipped the phone closed.

There was a short pause as they all considered with awe the miracle that had just occurred. It was only for a few minutes, but the time seemed to stretch over an eternity. Then, a small voice said the words all the Vikings were thinking.

"I believe you."

See? Inter-dimensional talking on the cellphone-ness. I'll admit, I sort of stole the idea from KicsterAsh's 'The Seer'. But it was such a good idea! And we needed to show how a cell works anyway, so...

It was useful for solid evidence too, what best proves the future other than technology?

Anyway, I'm a little stressed right now, with mid-terms in a month, and a French project due Friday, plus a whole bunch of tests coming up, so the next chap might take a while.

And I still have a lot more assignments to turn in and stuff.

And with that, we say R&R! See ya!

Penelope, over and out!