A Day Alone
Arden sat quietly in the Flaversham house on a brisk fall day. The temperature was low, it was raining, and ice had appeared on the ground. She wanted to go outside, but she knew she could not, for she had a painful ache inside from the poison spike that infected her three days before. Hiram Flaversham, her guardian, realized this and saw that Arden should stay and wait until the pain died down. Arden's infection came to mind.
FLASHBACK:
Just then, she felt something thorny and sharp. It scratched the skin within her fur until the sharpest of them all. Arden yelped in pain. Hunter heard it.
"What's wrong, Arden?" he asked.
"Something really sharp went into my skin," replied Arden. Everyone stared at her.
"The feeling of losing?" asked Daren. Arden glared.
"NO!!" she yelled.
"Let me see," replied Angel. Angel looked at the blood running down Arden's back. Angel gasped.
"A poison spike!" she cried.
"A what?" asked Hunter.
"These get into your body, spread through your body and causes dizziness, makes you feel nauseous, cause pain and makes you bleed," replied Angel. Blood came trickling down more. Arden felt a bit of pain. She looked as the football field which had now turned into muddy puddles. She heard her blood drip to the ground.
END FLASHBACK
Arden started reaching inside the pocket of her red plaid skirt and found mouse-sized British money. She started counting it.
"One pound…two pounds…three pounds…," she counted. Suddenly, she felt the horrible pain again. It made her hiss with pain. A knock came from the door.
"It's open!!" cried Arden. Suddenly, Nathan and Beatriz came in with a poster with writing in red and blue. The two came in blue pants, straw hats, one cane for each of them, and red and white stripped vests. "I've got a feeling I'm not gonna like this," thought Arden. Beatriz and Nathan started taking their canes in their paws and the two mice started dancing. They kicked their feet and danced like drunken men. Arden sat there looking angry and confused. Nathan and Beatriz ended with taking off their hats and shouting "Olay!!" Arden was glaring.
"What's all this, then?" she asked stern.
"Will ya help us with our science project? Mr. Moore packed us up with it! Here's the information on this poster!" cried Beatriz.
"I can't. I have to stay home and wait for the pain from the poison spike to heal," replied Arden. Beatriz and Nathan's smiles faded a bit.
"Well, we can do it right here at your house!" replied Beatriz. Arden went bright red with anger. She suddenly felt an urge to yell.
"I would like to be left alone," she replied.
"Please?" asked Nathan.
"No," replied Arden.
"Please?"
"No!"
"PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE???"
"GET OUT!!"
Arden kicked them out of the door literally out into the pouring rain. She threw their poster out with them. Beatriz's head peered back in.
"But?" she asked with a stretched out smile. Arden turned at her and glared at her menacingly.
"That glare scares me," said Beatriz.
"Good! I don't feel well, I can't do anything today, so please go," begged Arden. Beatriz sighed and disappeared.
Afterwards, Arden went back to counting her money, as the pain from the poison spike spread through her back.
Arden finished counting, and just lied on the couch. She sighed deeply, and closed her eyes. She tried to look deeply into her past. As she did, she felt her locket...her locket. That necklace around Arden's neck was the reason for everything. It was powerful. Inside it was power, power that, within the wrong hands, could create mass destruction. Her life flashed before her eyes.
Arden Diane Morgan Takamashi Pattison Flaversham was born in 1885 in the Forests of Dean to Julian Morgan Pattison and Emily Diane Takamashi Pattison. Her father was Professor Ratigan's best thug, leaving Julian's twin brother, Oliver, as second best. Julian turned good immediately after he met Emily. Fidget found out and told Ratigan everything he found out. Before running away with his lover, he told his best friends, Bill and Bartholomew, about ever coming across his offspring, Arden. He left Bartholomew to be her godfather. After evacuating, vowing not to come back, he built a house for his new family. In 1885, Arden was born, and it was agreed that Julian and Emily will do all they could do protect her. Six years later in 1891, Arden's family was invaded. Ratigan found where they were. Julian sent Emily and Arden, leaving Arden with the powerful locket. Emily and Arden took a narrow road to a place near London, not knowing it, and lived there for another six years. In 1897, at the age of twelve, Arden was sent out to find some food. When she returned, her home was in ruins, Emily could not be found, and Arden had no where to go. She traveled to London, where she was intercepted by Fidget and was trapped. This was when The Flaversham Case had just taken place. Through out the whole movie, she was held hostage, and even had an arrow pierced in her back when she upset Ratigan, because instead of being eaten by Felicia, she could only be beaten, because her locket could only be touched by those related by blood to Julian, unless they were wearing some sort of coverage, like gloves for example. She was able to live, but escaped later by tricking Bill and Oliver. The Flaversham Case had ended by the time she escaped. "After what Happened, Can I Still Win?" the story that starts it all, has just begun. As she walked through out the streets of London, she had thought that the arrow in her back was going to kill her, but she was wrong. After escaping Ratigan one last time, Olivia Flaversham found her knocked out, and she and Hiram Flaversham took her to Basil and Dr. Dawson. Arden woke up, and told them everything they needed to know. Afterwards, she and Olivia talked with one another, which led to boarding on wooden planks trying to escape Fidget, which they did. After getting into a beg fight, Arden runs away, but bumps into Felicia. She is taken back to Ratigan's lair, where she takes on a battle using her powerful locket. Basil and Dawson rescue her. Arden and Olivia peer into the locket, and find a map to Julian and Emily. They go on a journey to find them. On the way there, they pass by predators, "The Haunted Alley", which ends up using the locket for one final battle. Arden finds her parents bloodied, and wounded. Julian rips off the arrow that was stuck on Arden's back, and she uses it to pin Ratigan, sadly not killing him. Toby arrives with the Flavershams and, of course, Basil and Dawson. They all go back to the Flaversham house where Arden has a nightmare about how life will be like if Ratigan steals the locket, and takes over London. In the nightmare, Julian and Emily are dead, Basil is poor and ruined for life, Olivia is a victim to attacks, Hiram and Dawson are burned to death, and no one can feel, see, or hear Arden except Ratigan. Arden wakes up, gives Olivia one final goodbye and leaves. Julian and Emily find that Arden is gone, and leaves to find her. Then, everyone, including Mrs. Judson gives their final opinion on the nightmare Arden tells Olivia who tells everyone else. Meanwhile, Arden is lost in London, believing her death is closer than she thinks.
"Arden's First Love" begins as the sequel. After a couple weeks, Ratigan and Arden get into another fight on the roof of a tall building. Arden falls through the roof, and is rescued by Kanaka, who later becomes Arden's best, and very first, friend, for Arden had always believed that her having friend was impossible All she had even known was death, chaos, and misery. That was all her life was before Kanaka, the Flavershams, Basil, Dawson, and the friends she will meet.
Kanaka brought Arden to her boarding school where she meets her friends, and her new admirer, Hunter. Hunter tries to get her attention until Arden has a conversation with him. As they talk, Arden talks about her life, and how Hunter was at the Diamond Jubilee earlier that year. A connection builds between them. The following night, Arden finds a parcel that had a tag which said "From Hunter, To Arden", but it was all a terrible trick, and she ends up working for Ratigan knowing that if she messes up, her new friends will pay. Like her father before her, she does a wonderful job at it. She becomes evil and starts to cooperate with Fidget, until her friends try to save her, and Hunter comes. When Hunter comes to save her, Arden immediately forgets her evil, they share an embrace, and leaves with him. Unfortunately, Bill and Fidget find out, and Ratigan is told about her action. As Hunter and Arden travel through the night, they get into trouble, and fire the boarding school burned, all the students and teachers dead, except their friends. Kanaka is found on the ground, and informs the two about Ratigan's attack. She dies, and Arden becomes angry.
Arden and Hunter find their friends in the burning school, and as they are about to leave, they run because Ratigan was on their tails. They hid in a closet. Arden's friends escape through an open window, leaving her to face him alone. She summons her father's sword from her locket, and fights with it. Ratigan breaks it, but gets stabbed. He does not die but Arden escapes, leaving her alone again and walking through the town. She comes across the Flaversham house, and Hiram and Olivia are happy to see her. They go to Basil's to celebrate. Everyone finds the friends there, and Arden told them what happened. Afterwards, Hiram decides to take Arden in. This makes Arden happy!!
Later that night, Olivia and Arden are dancing and playing when a knock comes at the door. It is Hunter, alive and well! Arden and Hunter share one final embrace! That is when "Under The Flaversham Rooftop" begins! There is a Christmas adventure, a New Years adventure, a Halloween adventure, where Kanaka comes back to life (remember that her English name is Allison), and life changes more and more each day!
END FLASHBACK
Arden was shaking by the time all of this was over. She smiled, even with the pain running through her veins.
Arden felt the shaking fade away. The rain had stopped, and she fell into deep slumber.