Chapter two
Waking up the next day threw Natalie in for a surprise because she went to bed in her apartment and now she is waking up in a forest in the middle of nowhere with three of her friends and her cousin Chris. Sitting up fully she noticed that she had her duffel bag was with her, why would that be with her especially if the scenario was that someone kidnapped her and her friends for some odd reason.
"Nat, holy shit do you have any idea how we ended up in this place, I mean wow-" Ella said and started rambling off some incoherent things.
Natalie gave Ella a look and clasped her hand over her mouth, "I couldn't understand anything after wow," she said and smiled a bit given the situation though it wasn't very meaningful. "I don't how we got here why does everyone always ask me?"
Ella shrugged at that, "No clue you just woke up so decided to ask you if you knew but obviously not, oh well." she said to her. "But anywho Katie, Becky and your cousin Chris are here too and have no idea how they got here."
"Yeah and how the fuck did we all get in one place," Becky said confused. "We don't even live in the same states."
All Ella did was shrug, "I have no idea how any of us got here, I was getting ready to go to the studio and then BAM I'm here." Ella said making dramatic hand gestures and what not. "Wherever this place is it feels weird and eerie, like something, well I don't know exactly but I feel something."
Katie looked at Ella weirdly but said nothing about it, they were all very confused wondering why it was they were there. The forest like Ella said is very strange and they are unfamiliar of it, they have no idea which way is which or if they would get in trouble to go in one way or another. To put it simply the forest was plain creepy; trees taller than any they've ever seen before and were a gold/silver color and there is no tree where they are from of that color.
"So what are we going to do?" Ella asked.
"I have no clue," Chris said finally speaking out for the first time since Natalie woke up. "but I don't think staying in one place is really gonna help us, I don't see that there's any civilization around that can help us." Chris said looking around them and only seeing tree's as far as he could possibly see.
Becky gave him a look, "Yeah and wandering around in an unknown freaky looking forest is a smart thing right?" she said sarcastically. I mean seriously we could be randomly attacked by some crazy tree hugging people."
Ella and Natalie both looked at each other and snickered quietly, "I have the urge to go hug a tree how about you?" Ella asked whispering so that no one could here them, the others wouldn't have been so happy to hear that statement. Smirking Natalie nodded at Ella as if saying she was thinking the same thing.
"Don't get angry at me," Chris said to Becky glaring. "I didn't do this to us, so don't you dare try to fucking blame me for this." he told her.
"God can't you even try to be nice," Katie said to him. "We're all freaked out and have no idea what to do or say so just don't argue okay." Katie said softly.
Just one look at Katie and it would be obvious that she was freaked out and just wanted to go home; since they've all been awake and talking she has gotten a lot paler and quieter than her usual self. "I don't think Katie is taking well to this-" Becky said to Natalie motioning to the area around them. "situation."
"That obvious," Natalie said sarcastically. "Becky take into consideration that she's never been out of Minnesota alone before; the only other time she left was with me to go and visit Chicago when she graduated from school. What do you expect her to be like; besides what would you do in a situation like that?" she asked her.
After a lot of yelling, arguing and some yelling on Becky's part they decided to go further into the woods; hopefully to find some people to help them find their way back home or something like that. Becky and Katie weren't too keen on the idea but went along with it since everyone else agreed to it but them, hopefully whoever they found wouldn't try to kill them or anything.
Natalie, Becky and Ella were all in the front talking about what happened and Chris and Katie were behind them talking quietly to each other. The girls were wanting to know how they got there together, seriously how can three people who were from Chicago, Florida and New York end up in one place when the last thing they knew they were home in their perspective states.
"We were captured, that's the only answer." Ella said out of the blue.
That made Natalie and Becky look at her, "How do you explain us not having Captures then? They all decided to run off or something?" Becky asked her.
"No but we were really captured and just don't know it and still don't know it yet because they gave us something and ran off before we could realize what they had done." Ella said and when Becky looked at her weird she just shrugged.
"I see the messed up logic in that statement but barely," Natalie told her. "I'm so proud, you've taken on a few of my traits." she told her laughing.
Rebecca shook her head at the two, "Are you guys always this way around each other or are you just torturing us?" she asked them.
"We can't help it, Katie's kinda like this too when she's a bit more upbeat." Natalie said looking at Katie before turning back to the two on each of her sides.
"How do you think we got here?" Becky asked her.
Natalie thought a moment before replying, "Magic, most definitely magic there's no other way." Natalie told them simply and very convincingly.
"What?" Becky asked as if she thought Natalie had gone completely insane; only more so then she was already.
"I think magic did it, we somehow arrived here by magic." Natalie said to them. "I think it makes sense there isn't any other way that seems possible."
"I think your on something," Rebecca said to her doubtfully.
Natalie shook her head at Rebecca," That's what everyone says when they know it's true but don't want to believe it," she told her. "Denial." Natalie said to her in a singsong sort of voice.
"Yeah whate-" they were cut off by really tall guys pointing their bow and arrow's at them, they were most definitely surrounded and they didn't even hear anything at all.
A tall blond headed man, though they were all blond and tall but this one seemed to be the leader of the tall blond people stepped up to them and glared. "Man carel le?O man dôr túliel le?" he said to the five of them threateningly.
They all looked at him confused, but Chris decided to take action and stepped to the front as if he was protecting the girls from the gazes of the people who surrounded them. Chris didn't say anything to the man but just glared back at him, he was just a bit shorter than blondie and the two were having a battle of wills AKA staring contest. The man said something else waiting for one of them to answer him; obviously they couldn't answer him since they had no idea what he was saying to them, him speaking a different language and all sort of hinders that.
"Who the hell are you thinking you can poke damn arrow's at people?" Chris asked the man in a demanding sort of way.
"I am the march warden of this Kingdom, you are trespassing on the Lady's land and no one is allowed in the Golden wood without the Lady's permission. " he told them coldly with the arrow's still pointing at the five of them.
Chris glared at him before he replied back, "Fine we'll leave since we aren't able to come here, we'll find someone else to help us then," he said and was about to turn around when Blondie interrupted Chris' plan of leaving.
"You cannot leave until the lady says you shall, you must come with us now." he said to them.
That just pissed Chris off even more, "You can't fucking tell me what to do, who the hell do you think you are the president?" he asked.
"I do not know who this president is but I am the March Warden and I protect and make sure that people who are not supposed to be in these lands are immediately sent to see the Lady and that is where we are going. This is her kingdom that you are in and you will obey the rules that she has set for them, not many humans get to see the elven kingdom so be thankful that you are even allowed sight of it and the Lady and her Lord." he told him stepping closer. "Come it is almost a day's walk to Caras Galadhon." he said and motioned for them to follow him, there were elves on each side of the group and two behind so that they could not escape if they tried to.
Chris was about to say something else that was most likely rude but Natalie pulled him beside her and slapped him upside the head, "Chris just don't alright, I'm not exactly wanting you to get a knife in your gut for being an irrational idiot so stay calm and just go with the flow." she told him. "Please Chris I don't want any trouble I'm stressed as it is."
he sighed and nodded at her, "Fine but I'm not going to pretend I'm happy cause I'm not and I don't trust them, any of them at all." he said whispering. "They think they're elves Natalie." he told her.
The 'elf' that was next to them glanced at them raising an eye brow and smirked in Natalie's direction before turning back to looking straight in front of him. "I get that Chris but seriously do you think arguing with them and yelling will get you anywhere?" She asked him and he was about to reply when she cut him off with a glare. "That was a rhetorical question, but Chris not being an idiot will keep you alive so don't be an ass." she said and ignored him the rest of the way to wherever it was that they were going to.
Becky was trying to keep Katie from not freaking out, but it doesn't mean that she wont freak out at all. About the people who were forcing them to go along with them, the people who had swords, and bow and arrows, these same people who were taking them to wherever Caras Galadhon is. None of them knew what the leader/Blondie's name was so Natalie had dubbed him 'stone gaze man' or Blondie depending in the mood she was in; she gave it to him because one he had ultra blond hair and two he had a cold stone like gaze when he looked at someone it seemed. Hopefully they will be able to see this lady soon so that she could possibly help them.
