Chapter 3: On Top of the Beanstalk
At dawn, Clark, Oliver, and Bruce woke up to find themselves on top of a giant bean stalk starring up at a huge castle sitting on what appeared to be a floating island hidden by clouds.
"Hey, I was right." Clark said with a smile.
"Yeah you were." Bruce said. "Look Clark, I'm sorry."
"It's alright." Clark said. "It's not like this happens every day."
"Cool." Oliver said.
They then headed out and wondered who lived there. Man or monster? Friend or foe? A princess or a dragon?
They all knew one thing. Three things drew the three boys to the castle. Hunger, desperation, and a love of adventure.
It was a fantastic experience as there were caterpillars as big as dogs and butterflies as large as eagles.
"Wouldn't it be amazing if mortal man never set foot here before?" Clark asked.
"Well somebody did." Bruce said as Oliver fell into a large foot print.
"Oh man." Oliver said as he got out. "Who made those?"
"Well it wasn't Cinderella." Bruce said calmly. Hopefully it was something friendly.
Soon they arrived at a moat that surrounded the castle, so they took a peapod and made it into a boat as the three took some willows and rowed towards the castle.
Then suddenly without warning up in the sky dragon flies the size of fighter planes arrived.
"Great Krypton!" Clark called out. "What whoppers."
"No kidding." Bruce said. "Hey, I got an idea! Hey, long noise! Over here!"
"Bruce!" Oliver began before the dragon fly dove in, and all three boys ended up right at the steps of the castle. "Smart thinking."
"Okay, how are we gonna climb these steps?" Clark asked.
"How about you get on my back, and we'll hoist Bruce up? Then he can pull us up and so on and so forth."
Everyone agreed to this and began to slowly make their way up the stairs. This was the most exciting part of their journey so far. Forgotten was their hunger. Forgotten was their fear. The young boys never faltered and eventually made it to the top step.
They then wondered two things, what mystery lay behind the cold walls of the castle, and what dark spell hovered over this gloomy place.
Clark then went up and knocked on the door as he pulled off his mask, but no one came. They wondered if they should go in, but eventually they decided to risk it. They walked in and found themselves in an enormous entry hall, easily twenty times as big as any normal room. It was also as silent as a tomb. Oliver was the last to go through and ended up having to spend a few moments putting his pants back on.
In an enormous dining room, they looked up to see an enormous pile of food.
"FOOD!" Bruce called out in joy. "Let me at it!"
They then ran up the winding carving on a table leg and began eating whatever they could find. Oliver began eating peas the size of basket balls and moved to jell-o that he could swim through. Oliver then crashed into a thing of walnuts as he came out.
"Who's there?" A very familiar voiced asked from a chest.
As she said that, two girls, one blond and one auburn, who both wore maid outfits, walked out.
"Is anyone here?" The blond girl asked.
"That's Princess Lois's voice!" Clark called out. "And those maids are Princess Tess and Princess Laurel!"
"Yahoo!" Bruce called out.
"How'd you two get here?" Clark asked as he looked in through the keyhole and saw Lois' lovely hazel eyes and brown hair.
"We were kidnapped by a wicked giant." Lois said.
"Oh." Clark said before it sunk in. "A giant?!"
"A giant?!" Bruce cried out.
"A giant?!" Oliver called out.
"A giant." Tess and Laurel confirmed.
Well... Things look bad, don't they?