Chapter two - Pancakes
He felt the warmth of the sun touching his cheek affectionately. Yawning and stretching he turned around intent on catching at least a few more long seconds of sleep before he had to get up again. He had spent way too many long hours the day prior training in the fields and his body was begging for a little bit more rest.
The world continued to wake as the sun was getting up again, birds were cheering happily in the distance. Children were squealing and laughing as their tiny feet were running through the house. The clutter of pans and plates below and the smell of a well cooked meal reached his nostrils. He smiled; all was rather peaceful not a foul thing in the air and what smelt so deliciously good?
BANG!
Uub jumped up and fell straight out of the bed the moment he heard something really hard crash in with a wooden floor, the sound was immediately followed up with a loud ear piercing scream. He covered his ears as he abruptly stood up. Looking around to find the source of the crash and cry.
He blinked for a couple of times as he heard the rumble below the floor he was on started to continue. A child crying as loud as it could and a female voice spoke in a soothing voice.
Wait a minute…
A child… child laughter, tapping of tiny feet…
Clutter of pans and plates and, he sniffed the air, the smell of a well good cooked breakfast? His stomach roared.
The loud crash… a child in tears.
He stopped breathing as he looked around and found that he was not in his own bedroom. There was a bed that wasn't his, at least, he couldn't remember ever getting into it the night before. It was a huge bed, fluffy one with a lot of pillows. Two night stands with lamps on it stood on each side of the bed. The whole room was covered in white wallpapers that had little colourful patterns in it. The bed was seated on a fluffy piece of carpet yet the rest of the floor was made out of dark hard wood. He looked around at the walls again and found pictures were hanging on it. There was one window in the room that stood slightly open, creamy white curtains gently floating about around it.
Where in the world was he?! This wasn't his room!!
Before he could even begin to think how he had gotten there he suddenly heard the feet of two children rushing up the stairs. "We have to wake him!" one squealed and the door burst open revealing two young boys with wide grins on their faces. Their happy eyes settled on him, "Daddy!!" the tiny one screamed and rushed over to him.
Uub stood frozen on his two legs as one of the tiny children rushed up and crashed against him. Wrapping his arms around his legs, "Daddy, mommy made this huge breakfast, we had to get you so we can go and eat it!" the other one who had by now jumped up on the bed exclaimed.
Uub was even more frozen.
"Pancakes daddy, pancakes!" the one attached to his legs said happily, the moment he said pancakes the other one started to jump up and down even harder. Squealing and giggling the whole time.
"Come on daddy! Pancakes!" the taller one said and jumped of the bed, rushing down the wooden stairs.
His eyes stared at the open door, ears fixated on the floor below him.
"Daddy?" he flinched realizing the other one hadn't let go of his legs yet. Looking down his eyes landed on the face of the young child, "You awake yet?"
He shook his head and moved his hands to the child's tiny arms, gently making him let of him. "I... I have to go… now…" he mumbled and looked around in a daze, "Yes pancakes!!" the boy squealed happily as he started to run around him in circles.
The running and squealing intensified as Uub tried to walk as slowly as he could to the door, the child never once moving away from him.
How the heck did this happen?!
When in the world did this happen?!
How did these kids end up here?!
No, wait how did –he- end up here?!
Where the hell was he?!
He walked down the stairs, his eyes wide as he looked around the tiny wooden house he was in. The smell of breakfast ever so strong, a happy child telling many tales of dinosaurs as the other one rushed down past him and ran into the next room.
"Is he up yet?" he heard an amused female voice ask.
"He's coming, daddy! Come now, pancakes with syrup!"
His heart started to slam against his chest, his palms turned sweaty as his legs were walking in shaky steps down the stairs.
"My, what's taking him so long huh?" he heard the same female ask.
He had made it down the final steps, his eyes still wide as he looked around the house. Every where he looked he saw pictures, pictures of… him?!
He backed away the moment he saw a picture of him holding up the two boys who had burst in to the room just a few minutes ago. He was smiling on the picture as he easily held up the two boys on his arms. It was obvious that the Uub on that picture knew exactly who those children were...
He gulped hard.
What the hell was going on?!
"Uub?" he froze, "What's wrong? You don't look so good." He turned around to the owner of the same female voice he heard earlier. His eyes widened when he saw who she was, her familiar wide blue eyes starring back at him with concern. Her blonde hair pulled back in to a pony tail with a few loose strands falling down from it. She was wearing an apron and from the looks of it she was trying really hard to make pan cakes, her face and hands were covered in flour.
"M-Marron?" he asked stammering.
"Yes?" Marron raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms, "What's wrong Uub?"
He moved to the side and saw the two children appear by Marron's side.
"Mommy, what's wrong with daddy?" one asked and Uub fell to the ground.
"M-m-mommy?!" he sputtered.
"Uub what on Earth is wrong with you?!" Marron raised her voice and came to his side, taking his arm in her hands.
"M-mommy and you're… I mean I am… daddy…" he looked at her hand and saw a golden ring wrapped around one of her fingers. He quickly looked at his own hand and nearly fainted once he saw the same type of ring wrapped securely around his finger.
"Yes Uub," Marron looked at him with worry, "I think you would remember being the daddy and me being the mommy… right?"
He looked at her worried face, "I-I-I don't…" two tiny heads appeared over Marron's shoulder both looked at him in curiosity.
"I have to go!" he jumped up and rushed out of the door, ignoring Marron's calls for him as he burst up in to the sky intent on leaving the racked house far behind him.
What the hell was happening here?!
He took up more speed as he flew through clouds going up higher and higher. The faces of the children appearing in his mind, the word 'Daddy!' echoed in his ears.
And Marron, -Marron-!
He sped up, this just couldn't be happening. He looked at his hand again and saw that the ring was still safely wrapped around his finger. She was the mother of those two children, those two boys…
And he was the daddy.
And he had the same ring as hers.
This meant…
Oh crap, this meant…
Wait this couldn't be happening, he would have remembered getting married! He would have remembered having two children! He would most definitely have remembered making those children!
Holy crap!
With out realizing it he had descended down the Earth, and suddenly crashed straight in to one of the tall tree's sticking out of the forest. A bunch of loud cracking sounds emerged immediately followed up by a 'Whoa!' through the tree's as he ended up sprawled against the rocks.
"Ouch…" he mumbled and kept his eyes shut.
'Daddy!' he heard the same voices of the children ring in his mind, his eyes flew open and he jumped up. Shaking his head forcing the voices to leave his mind.
This couldn't be happening; someone was playing mind tricks with him. Could it be that there was actually an enemy out there, out to get him and placing mind tricks of some weird illusions in his mind and torturing him with the thought of having a wife and chi-
Right, -that- would be a terrifying nightmare. Instead of placing the illusion of dropping Uub in to a pool of hot steaming lava, his new found enemy decided to give him a family instead.
Sure, he has Bebi make a run for his money on that one.
He shook his head and sat down.
He had decided that no enemy would put him in this kind of illusion. So however he had gotten there, it was not by some evil guy.
Thinking hard an image of an old tiny woman floating around on her crystal ball appeared in his mind.
"Babba…" he mumbled and stood up.
To Be Continued…
A/N : Wooohooo! Zero reviews for the first chapter! I am on a roll here, but I should not and will not care! For this story is posted for other reasons then getting reviews.
This is for you, Alex!