Here's chapter 2 of my story. Last time, the Calico, Godzooky, and Godzilla had been sucked into a time portal and the witch's evil brother was in DunBroch's forest, wanting to avenge his "dead" sister. What will happen in this chapter? Only by reading will you find out.
Carl let out a small grunt as he opened his eyes and got back on his feet. He had been thrown to the floor of the bridge by the winds. Before he could check to see if everyone was alright, the view outside the ship caught his eyes. No longer was the Calico floating in the Pacific Ocean, for it was floating beside a dock on what appeared to be a landmass of some sorts. Returning his eyes down to the others, he checked to make sure they were okay, waking them up. Once they were back on their feet, they noticed the view.
"Wow, only a few seconds ago we were in the Pacific Ocean and now we're near a port," Brock said.
"But if this is a port, where are all the people?" Pete asked.
"That's a good question. We better go out and search for someone so they can tell us where we are," Quinn said. "Plus, I'd like to get a much better look at this place."
With that being said, Carl led the group out onto the dock. Godzilla was nowhere to be seen and Godzooky, who had been laying on the top deck of the ship, flew down to the others and was told of what they were going to do. Earlier, before the Calico had arrived, Godzooky saw a strange place he saw when he flew around the forest, searching for his friends. He let out some roars and grunts, telling Pete about his discovery.
"Godzooky says that he saw some strange-looking rocks in the forest Aunt Quinn. Maybe something there can help us find someone," Pete said.
"Well, it's as good a place to try as any," Quinn said before turning to Godzooky. "Lead the way."
With a nod and a happy grunt, Godzooky was happy to comply. Flapping his arms, he flew up into the sky, but not too high up so his friends could follow him, and started leading them into the forest.
It wasn't long before the group came across the large stones. Standing in a circle were various sizes of large stones. However, one stone was cracked in half with the top half laying on the ground a few inches from its base. Everyone looked around for any sign of human life.
"Wow, what do you think these were built for Aunt Quinn?" Pete asked as he gazed up at the tallest of the stones.
"I don't know, maybe for some form of worship. They appear to have been here for thousands of years according to the way the stones look," Quinn answered, getting closer looks at the stones. "Seeing as how one of them broke, you have to be careful and not touch any of them."
Godzooky nodded his head in agreement as he began to walk forward, not watching where he was going. Bumping into one of the stones by accident, he roared in surprise as it started to topple over, but he quickly ran behind it and pushed it back into place, wiping his forehead in relief.
Quinn examined the broken stone carefully. "This one hasn't been broken for too long, maybe two days or less. I think we should split up and search the area around here for any clues."
While everyone went off in their own direction, Godzooky went just northwest of where he and the others came. His search for something that could help his friends was interrupted when all of a sudden, this blue flame appeared out of nowhere in front of his face. Falling on his behind, Godzooky let out a roar of surprise and started scooting back away from it quickly, watching as the blue flame just floated there, making a 'come here' motion with its arms. Godzooky roared again, this time everyone came over to him.
"What's the matter 'Zooky?" Pete said, but he, as were the rest of the Calico's crew, were shocked when they say the blue flame.
"Does anyone know what that thing is?" asked Brock.
"I can't believe it. That's a Will-o-the-Wisp. I always thought they were just legends," Quinn answered.
"What are Will-o-the-Wisps, Quinn?" Carl asked.
"They are supposedly entities that lead you to your fate."
Suddenly, the will-o-the-wisp disappeared for a brief second before a whole trail of them appeared. They appeared to be going in the northwest direction. "Do you think they're showing us the way to civilization?" Brock asked.
"Only one way to find out," Carl replied and started to follow the trail of wisps, the others following closeby. "Be on your guards everyone, we don't know where these wisps might lead us to."
"Don't worry Captain Majors, Godzooky will protect us if something happens," Pete said reassuringly.
Godzooky nodded and grunted determinately, punching the air with his fists before coughing out black smoke rings as he walked.
The trail of wisps ended at the edge of the forest. Carl and the others looked out and saw a wide open valley covered in green grass. From there he could see the Calico, still by the dock, but other than that, it appeared that there was nothing here. Seeing as there weren't any other wisps to continue the trail, the group looked at each other in confusion.
"I wonder why the wisps stopped here, I mean, it's just a big, empty valley," Brock said.
Pete was about to agree with his friend when he saw something far off in the distance. "Hey, look at that!" he said, pointing to what he saw.
As everyone started to make out what the objects were, they discovered it was a woman with long brown hair riding a white horse while a curly redhead girl was riding a black horse beside her.
"So there are people here," Quinn said, glad that there were.
"Come on, maybe they can help us," Carl said before heading down to where the two women were, the others following behind. Godzooky was told to stay back out of sight because these women wouldn't know what he was or that he meant them no harm, and the others didn't want him accidentally frightening them away. Once they were in listening range, Carl shouted to them. "Hello! Over here! We need some help!" He saw the two women turn in their direction and rode over to them. As they got closer, Carl waved a 'thanks' to them. "Hello there, we were hoping you could tell us where we were. We're a little bit lost."
"Well, you're in the kingdom of DunBroch lad," the woman said in a Scottish accent.
"Wait, what century is this?" Quinn asked.
"It'd be the 10th," the woman replied.
The Calico crew gave each other surprised looks. Somehow, they've been transported back to Scottland in the 10th Century.
"Who might you people be? I don't think I've seen any of you before," the girl said, also in a Scottish accent.
Carl gave the introductions. "I'm Carl Majors, this is Dr. Darrian, her nephew Pete, and my first mate Brock."
"I'm Queen Elinor," the woman said. "And this is my daughter, Princess Merida," she pointed to the red haired girl. "How did you get here if I may ask?"
"Our boat brought us here," Carl answered.
"You came here by boat?" Merida asked, looking at them suspiciously. "Our kingdom has been attacked by people from the sea before."
"We don't mean you any harm, we just want to try and find a way back to our home," Quinn said.
Elinor and Merida glanced at one another, uncertain as to whether to trust these people. They had no way of even knowing if they were telling the truth. They were a strange bunch of people, that was for sure. They were even wearing strange-looking clothes. Finally after a couple of moments, Elinor spoke. "Alright, come with us and we'll try and help you."
"Thank you Elinor. We greatly appreciate it," Carl replied.
"Come on out Godzooky, they know we mean them any harm!" Pete called out.
The strange name Pete called for made Elinor and Merida look at one another. "Godzooky?" they said at the same time. Their answer to who this 'Godzooky' was came in the form of a big surprise. Their horses winied in surprise as they saw a green reptile-looking creature the size of two horses stacked ontop of each other come over to the group of people. Merida quickly wipped out her bow and put an arrow in, pointing it at the approaching creature. "What be this thing?" she asked.
"Wait, Godzooky doesn't mean you any harm, do you boy?" Pete said as he got in front of the small monster.
Godzooky shook his head rapidly as he agreed with Pete, grunting in fright at the arrow being aimed at him.
"You sure?" Merida asked, still aiming her arrow at the creature.
"He's not going to hurt you, we promise," Carl said.
Merida lowered her bow after that, looking at her mom. "You sure, we should be taking them back to the castle?"
"Yes Merida, we must help these lost travelers... who have quite the unsual pet with them... find their way back to where they're from." Using her feet, Elinor got her horse to start walking back in the direction of the castle before turning around to the Calico crew. "You can get on your Godzooky and follow me and my daughter back to the castle." With that, both her and Merida's horses gallopped away.
Not wanting to be left behind, everyone got on Godzooky's back and with a couple of running leaps, Godzooky took off into the air and flew above the two Scottish women, who looked up at the amazing sight. "How is that thing able to fly?" Merida asked, dumbfounded. Unfortunately for Merida, she never got her question answered as she, her mother, and the new people returned to DunBroch castle.
End of Chapter 2
A/N: In the next chapter, we finally find out what Deragado is going to do to have his revenge, but what could possibly be in the Ring of Stones that is of interest to him? Find out in Chapter 3.