Ch. 9- Not what you expected

H-How long has it been?! Like... over 50 days!? I should be shot for not writing anything.

CURSE YOU WRITER'S BLOCK! *Raises fist up into the air*

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything... blah, blah, blah...

ENJOY!

Let's recap, shall we?

Hi.

My name is Isabella Garcia-Shapiro.

Earlier today I woke up to find myself in a strange new world; where apparently, I'm a princess, (cliché, am I right?). All of my friends are pretending to be different fairytale characters and so far, no one but I suspects anything out of the ordinary.

And where am I right now, you may ask?

Oh. I'm in the middle of Sherwood forest, completely and utterly lost, staring at a group of my girl friends, (who are laughing their butts off), with 'Prince Charming', 'Red-Riding Hood', 'the Big Bad Wolf' and 'Robin Hood'.

Yeah. Welcome to my life.

"Is it just me, or does it feel like they've been laughing for over a month?" Red pondered out loud.

"Yes, it does feel like that doesn't it?" Charming agreed.

"Ugh, this is getting ridiculous!" Isabella shouted while she stomped over to Milly and began to shake her shoulders back and forth. "M-i-l-l-y! Come on! Snap out of it! That's enough!"

Milly didn't seem to be phased at all, which only made Isabella shake her harder. Suddenly, the raven-haired girl spotted something small and red fall out of Milly's pocket.

"Huh?" She released her tight grip on Milly's shoulders and bent down to pick the object up. It was a pure red rose hanging on a silver chain. 'How pretty...'

As Isabella stood back up and lifted the charm up closer to get a better look, she noticed that it began to glow. She furrowed her eyebrows and placed the necklace in her palm. As odd as it was, the charm only seemed to glow brighter and she could feel it slowly heating up. Eventually, it reached a point when it began to sting her hand, and Isabella dropped the necklace as she let out a cry.

"Ow!"

Eight heads whipped around to look at the princess.

She clutched her right hand in pain and breathed out, "It burned me." Having now calmed down, the girls began to whisper among themselves.

Adyson stepped forward and softly said, "Let me see."

Isabella bit her lip, and slowly stretched out her hand. Squinting, she noticed that the necklace left a tiny scar going diagonally across the bottom of her palm.

Once Adyson noticed the mark, her eyes widened. As she grasped Isabella's wrist and picked up the necklace, she started to drag the girl into the forest. "Come with me..."

"W-wait..." Isabella stuttered as she removed the half eaten apple from her mouth. "So you're telling me that I'm some kind of savior from an old legend, that was sent here to fight the evil witch and bring back 'happily ever after's?"

"Yes," Ginger, (or at least, Isabella thought she looked like Ginger), groaned, "For the millionth time, YES."

Isabella looked down in confusion to stare at her apple. After being dragged about a half a mile to a small cottage in the middle of a forest, and being told some insane story about her having to liberate this land from an evil snake-haired lady that wanted to destroy happy endings forever, Isabella was still finding it hard to take in. As if things couldn't get anymore crazy.

"But-" She breathed out, "How do you know it's me?"

"The necklace." Adyson, (or- whatever, you get the point), blurted out. "It's almost like a homing device. It's charmed to glow when next to the savior. We knew you were here when it glowed this morning for the first time. It was confirmed that it was you when you picked it up."

"Then... why in the world did it burn me?"

"That was the confirmation. When I saw the scar on your hand I knew, because the charm is only fully activated at the savior's first touch. It leaves a scar on the person's hand to symbolize how their destiny is inescapable and unavoidable; just like an old scar, you can't just simply make it 'go away'."

"O-k-a-y... But who are you again?"

"Oh! I forgot that we were never properly introduced." Adyson smiled a bit sheepishly, "We are the five dwarfs."

"What?! But aren't there supposed to be seven?!"

"Huh? Where'd you get that idea from?"

"Uh..."

"Anywho," Adyson began, "I'm Adyson, and those are Milly, Ginger, Holly and Katie."

Isabella smiled tenderly, "I'm Isabella."

"Nice to meet you," Holly grinned. "I take it you're a friend of Robin's?..." She pointed to the corner of the room where Robin, Red, Charming and Pinky were all snoring loudly.

"Umm... Not exactly..." She mumbled.

"Well, anyways," Katie yawned loudly, "I don't know about you guys, but I think it's time we hit the hay. I'm beat."

"Good idea." Milly nodded while the others headed upstairs to their bedrooms. "Good night."

"Night," Isabella muttered back and leaned over to blow out the candle.

She let out an exhausted sigh as she flopped down onto her 'bed', (which was really only a stack of hay). Her mind buzzed from the day's events and she found her self unable to fall asleep.

She was the 'savior', as they called her. The 'legend'. The 'hero'. The 'liberator'.

But it made absolutely NO sense. She was just a typical teen from a small town, with no special powers, no amazing talents and no clue where she is.

"You must go to find the oracle. She will explain everything. She will reveal the prophecy." That's what they told her.

'Perhaps she can finally explain all of this to me.' The girl thought.

Isabella was beginning to get a feeling that she was loosing it. As if Prince Charming and The Hood's weren't bad enough... now the FIVE dwarfs?!

That definitely could make anyone shout 'HUH?!'. Weren't the dwarfs supposed to be men? Weren't they supposed to be short- hence "DWARFS"-?! Weren't they supposed to be named after feelings and be extremely messy?!

'But then again...' Isabella stopped herself, 'After this messed up day, I really should'nt be so surprised... Plus, it not like life could possibly throw any more surprises at me.' The raven-haired girl sighed once more as she closed her eyes and drifted off into sleep...

But boy was she DEAD wrong...

SUSPENSE! It'll be the end of us all! RUN IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIVES!

... Nah, I'm just kidding.

I really don't know when I'll have time to update. Life's only been throwing 10 ton cinder blocks.

I also apologize for the 'no guessing' thing... I REALLY gotta start doing it again. *Bangs head on table*

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