Augh! I am such a bad author! Look at these updates! Grrrrr. Okay, I'm gonna say it here and now. My muses, (the sources of my creativity. There are three of them; Crazy, Fangirl, and Sigmund. Fangirl inspires the movie to base the fic off of, Crazy comes up with the plots and Sigmund is there to draw ideas from what other authors have written.) are being unagreeable. They have taken my story ideas hostage and refuse to let them go so I can write them. In English, this means that the ideas are swirling about inside of my head and refuse to jumble themselves into a proper chapter. This new story that I'm writing, The Goalie, is the only story that has muddled its way into print. I'm hoping to maybe write out this chapter and then have a serious chat with my muses about the hostages. I hope this chapter is up to scratch! I also must beg your forgiveness! I got 136 reviews and I didn't update right away! Please forgive me!
Also, I believe that I may have spelled Johnathan's name wrong. Does it have an 'h' in it? Please let me know!
When they got to the castle, Thomas led the three friends into a sitting room. Even though it was the middle of the day, a fire blazed in the grate. Molly promptly went and sat in the chair closet to the fire. Rick sat next to her a moment later. Mia smiled. Molly was always cold, no matter what temperature it was outside.
After a few minutes of waiting where the only noise was the crackling flames, King Johnathan walked into the room. The three stood up and bowed to him. He waved off their courtesy and gestured for them to sit down. When they had done so, he took the seat across from them on the couch. He looked to each of them in turn and then said
"I am told that the three of you can help me defeat these new monsters, even though wizards that have twice your age and who have three times your experience in battle cannot find their weakness. Am I correct?"
Mia nodded and said
"Yes, your majesty. That is correct."
"We have reason to believe that these said monsters are the product of the imagination and dreams of people from our land." Molly explained.
"If they come from your land, why are they here plaguing me instead of back where you come from plaguing your king?" Johnathan asked.
"We don't come from another land in the sense that you're thinking of, your majesty." Rick answered.
"Then what is the sense?"
"The sense is that we are from another world. These creatures are the dreams and figments of the imaginations from people whose world lacks the magic that your world has. Our world doesn't have the Gift. These creatures that your knights learn how to defeat don't even exist except in myth and legend. Thus, they come here to your world-" Mia explained.
"Because the fact that they don't exist in ours prevents them from staying.-" Molly added.
"But we don't know how they come into being." Rick said.
"Or how they're escaping their owner's dreams." Mia finished.
Johnathan stared at the three. Then he grinned and said
"When and how did you figure all of this out?"
Mia shrugged.
"Guess work and comparing what was happening now with what happened in the boo- errr past." She grinned sheepishly at Molly, who have her a stern look for almost slipping up and telling Johnathan that he was a fictional character in their world.
Johnathan nodded and thought for a moment. Finally, he asked
"Have you figured out how to find their weakness?"
There was a silence for a moment, and then Mia said slowly
"We haven't quite reached that stage in our plan yet. We're thinking that we should watch these creatures; study their habits. We need to find out what they eat, how they sleep, all of those things. We're hoping to take the information we gather back to our world and compare it to the information we have there."
Johnathan nodded.
"What will you need for this expedition?" He asked.
"For your best trackers to take us out to see these animals." Rick answered.
"The, we will study them for a week or so." Molly continued.
"After, we will take the information back to our world and research our findings, and then report back to you as soon as we can." Mia finished.
Johnathan nodded.
"It shall be done," He said. "Be ready to leave by tomorrow at dawn."
The three friends nodded in agreement. Then they all stood, bowed or curtsied to the king and walked out. Thomas met them at the door.
"So, how did it go?" He asked anxiously.
"It was all right." Mia said.
"We're going to track the animals tomorrow." Molly said.
"Hey, Thomas, do you know anything about these animals?" Mia asked him.
"Nothing much except that they are terrorizing the villagers and that the knights have been unable to stop them so far."
"That makes our job harder. Now we have to find the best way to kill or trap them as well as studying them to see if they are harmless or not." Rick said sadly.
"Yeah, and we have to study whether or not they harm the ecosystems here." Molly said.
"You three have such interesting accents. Where did you say you were from?" Thomas asked.
"Err, a country very far to the north." Mia answered. She figured that she and her friends would be better off if less people knew that they were from another world right now.
"There is not one city in this entire kingdom that I do not know. It was part of my studies to know. What is your city's name?"
The three friends looked at each other. What would they do now?
"Well, you see, the thing is-"
"Aha! So here you are!" A voice called from the other end of the hall.
The three friends turned to see Dom and Kel walking towards them with big smiles on their faces. When they were closer, Kel said
"We were instructed to invite you to tonight's ball."
"There's a ball tonight?" Molly asked incredulously.
"Yes, there is." Dom said with a smile.
"When?" Mia asked
"At sunset. Can you come?" Kel asked.
The three friends looked at each other. It had been a long times since they had enjoyed themselves. Without saying a single word, the decision was unanimous.
"Yes." The three friends said at the same time.
"Splendid. We will see you there, it is in the ballroom in the West part of the castle." Dom said.
"We wouldn't miss it for the world." Mia said.
Her friends nodded in agreement.
Eh voila! I'm sorry it's not very long. But as I mentioned, my muses are being uncooperative. Please bear with me. I promise to write the next chapter soon!