The white door swung open, creaking slightly on it's hinges.
Sabrina gaped. Inside was ……………another door!
"Puck – I – what?"
Chuckling, Puck said, "Believe me, you'll get it."
The oddest part about the other door was that it was not immediately inside the white door. It was set slightly backwards, and the space in between the two doors was completely black, even when the light from Mirror's hallway hit it. Afraid to step into the perfectly still blackness, Sabrina told Puck to go first.
Puck stepped out into the blackness, which supported him like any other floor. "Its fine Sabrina. I don't know what it is, but it'll support you."
Puck nodded encouragingly as she took a sheepish step into the inky gloom in front of her. It supported her as well, however, and her courage mounted as she walked the 5 paces towards the second door. The second door looked as though it had been beaten up by an angry rhino – it was covered in "battle scars." The wood was worn and old, and Sabrina was afraid that it would fall onto her if she touched it, but Puck was waiting by the door.
The look of him made Sabrina's heart flutter in her chest as though it sprouted wings. His blonde hair was mussed, and his blue eyes were shining with excitement; Sabrina wondered at what. Probably at what was behind the door.
"OK, 'Brina, now, just stay close. You'll like it – I hope."
Although a sassy retort rose like lemon juice to Sabrina's tongue, she bit her lip to keep from speaking. She didn't want Puck to become The King of Juvenile Delinquents again. Not right now, anyway.
Taking a deep breath, Puck pushed open, with some difficulty, the large, wooden door. Sabrina gasped.
Inside was an enormous mountain, the largest Sabrina had ever seen, and it lay almost immediately in front of her – it couldn't have been more than 100 yards away. Although it was not snowy, the wind was blowing fiercely, and it tore at Sabrina's white jacket, making it fly out behind her like angel wings. It wasn't the wind that made Sabrina breathless. The mountain, although it was beautiful, had an aura about it that was fascinating and captivating – unnaturally so.
"Puck, wh-what is it?"
Looking over towards Puck, and saw that he had been staring at her. A small smile played at the corners of Puck's mouth, a smile that made Sabrina want to smile back.
"It's The Mountain." When Sabrina looked at him quizzically, he smiled affectionately (Weird! Sabrina thought) and followed up on his answer.
"Sabrina, it's where the fairies come from."
Sabrina gasped for breath now. "What?! Fairies from here? Or all fairies?"
"I think all fairies in Fairyport Landing come from here, and some of the ones from other places have come from here too. Come on, I'll show you."
Taking her hand, Puck led her down the rocky slope on which they had been standing and let her brace herself against him.
"What are you going to show me?"
"I'm going to show you their cave. But be careful, they might not like you coming here. The pixies I mean, they guard the nests."
Sabrina became quiet all of a sudden.
"Puck, did you come from here?"
Puck's brow furrowed, and her didn't meet her gaze as he replied, "No, I don't think so. I don't know where I was born."
Sabrina did not question him.
It took them ten silent minutes to reach the base of the mountain. Looking up, Sabrina saw what a very long way it was to the top, and sighed inaudibly.
"Erm, Puck?"
When she glanced over towards Puck, she saw that he was already looking at her, amused.
"Sabrina, take my hands."
"What?"
"Just do it, 'Brina."
She took both of his hands and so that her back was to him; they might have been dancing, judging by their position.
"OK, hold on tight!"
"What?! Puck!!!"
But Puck was already fluttering his huge pink wings and hovering about a foot above the air, carrying Sabrina. She didn't seem to weigh him down a all, he was smiling when he kicked off the ground and zoomed off down the rest of the hill that they had climbed down.
After several minutes of kicking her feet and screaming over the wind to Puck, she settled down and began to enjoy the ride up the mountain. However, she was uncomfortably aware that she was wearing low-rise jeans and that her shirt had come up to her belly button. Of course, she was powerless to pull it down; Puck was holding both of her hands. Please don't look down, Puck, thought Sabrina furiously. However, as if in defiance to her plea, he looked down at her, smiling. She looked up at him in response, glaring at him. He laughed, and made Sabrina nearly melt through his hands.
It must have taken them 25 minutes to make it the whole way up the mountain at high speed, but finally Puck, lowered Sabrina onto a small dirt ledge only 50 feet from the mountain's summit. Terrified that she was going to fall off, she pressed herself against the mountainside behind her. Puck landed next to her, chuckling.
"Here, come on Sabrina, I'll open the cave."
Bemused, Sabrina followed Puck across the ledge, and round a large rock that was sitting at the edge of it. Although she had to inch her way along the edge of the ledge, (sorry a bout that rhyming-ness, but I couldn't help it!) Sabrina finally made it to the other side of the boulder.
Puck was crouching near he edge of the mountainside, wings beating rhythmically. After only a few moments, there was a loud crunching noise, and the large boulder fell away, tumbling down the mountain. The rock created such a bang that the dirt on which Sabrina was standing fell away quickly, making Sabrina slip onto a tiny rocky outcrop that was only just large enough for her to put two feet on. She had to clutch the mountainside to keep from falling.
"Puck!" Sabrina screamed, and Puck was there, holding her tightly around her waist, and flying her back up to the top.
When he had set her down, he landed, whirled around, and clutched her shoulders.
"Sabrina Grimm, don't you EVER scare me like that EVER again, you hear me?"
Much shaken from her fall, Sabrina nodded, her head wobbling.
Shoulders sagging, Puck sighed, and gave her a quick hug before returning to the place where the boulder had fallen away. In it's place was a large hole in the mountain, which looked like a small cave. Gesturing for her to follow, Puck took one step into the hole and was instantly swallowed up unnaturally quickly by the gloom inside. Seconds later she heard a loud thump and an twisted scream.
"PUCK!"
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Sorry about the cliffy, I just LOVE cliffies! Read and Review or I will not follow up on it, and I won't write any more, and then you will never know what happens! (Heeheehee……) No, I love to write, but I will give it up if you don't review! NO excuses. Ever.
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