Hooray! Chapter eight of Xanna! I wonder how many chapters there's gonna be for this story... Oh well, we'll just have to wait and find out. Anyways, enjoy!
It took a day to get to Stranglethorn Vale. Xanna stared at the island as the zeppelin approached it. It was very amazing that she was staring at something other than the book she got from the library.
"Wow. Stranglethorn Vale looks so...jungle-y." Cosmo said.
"Uh... I believe that 'Jungle-y' is not a real word." Gishezpak said.
"So? That's not gonna stop me from using it." Cosmo stuck his tongue out at Gishezpak. He laughed at the confused look on Gishezpak's face.
Ixxy had her arms folded over her chest, she rolled her eyes and sighed. 'Idiots. Everywhere I go, there's idiots.'
When the zeppelin stopped at the tower, Xanna and the others got off. Xanna was reading the book as she walked.
"Wow, this place looks so cool." Makaza said as he wandered around the camp.
The others did the same. Dethiam looked at the skulls; Cosmo and Makaza looked at the beach, Mittens stayed in the camp so she wouldn't be near the water; Akazil was looking at everything in the camp and Mokoki and Gishezpak walked over to the cook of the camp because they smelled something they liked.
Xanna was standing next to the campfire in the middle of the base. She looked up from the book and began to look around. But only for a moment, when she was done, she continued to read again. "Looks like we follow..." She looked up again to look at the exit by the mailbox. She then looked back at the book. "That road...and go...left..." Xanna said as she began to walk toward the road. Still reading the book, of course.
She stopped when she realized that no one was following her. She turned around to see everyone wandering around the camp. "Guys? Guys, we gotta go this way for our road trip." None of them heard her. They just continued to look around the camp. Even when Cosmo accidentally set his pants on fire. Xanna sighed and sat down by the mailbox, waiting for her group to stop looking around the camp and get with the program.
'You can always ditch them. You know that, right?'
'Yes, but I'm not a heartless bitch.'
'True. You're an idiot.'
Xanna rolled her eyes, ignored Ixxy and read her book while she waited for the others to stop looking around camp.
After about three hours, everyone finally stopped looking at the camp. They all walked over to Xanna. She stood up and looked at some of the things they got from the camp.
Dethiam had a necklace made of tiny skulls wrapped around her neck; Mokoki and Gishezpak were stuffing their faces; Makaza had little pinches on his legs, probably from crabs; and Cosmo and Mittens had little crowns made of shells on their heads. Akazil didn't get anything. Xanna figured that he was the only one who actually just looked around.
"We're ready to go." Akazil said.
Ixxy woke up from her nap she was taking. 'Huh? What?' She looked at the group. 'Geez, it's about freakin' time. What's it been? Three days?'
'Hours.'
'Same thing.' Ixxy waved her hand passively. She was still very tired. And just to be nice, Xanna popped a nice comfortable bed in her mind for Ixxy to sleep in. Ixxy didn't argue or anything. She just hopped in the bed and fell back asleep.
'Guess I kept her up all last night with reading the book and the thirty-six cups of coffee.' Xanna quietly thought.
"So, where to, cap'n?" Mokoki asked as he munched on something he got from the camp's cook.
"We follow this road and make a left, eventually." Xanna said, looking at the book and pointing to the road behind her with her thumb.
And so they did. After Mokoki and Gishezpak were done eating. Xanna wanted to make sure that they didn't draw any attention to themselves because of the food.
"Oh my gosh! Look at the cute little monkey!" Cosmo said, pointing to a cute little baby monkey.
Cosmo ran over to it and picked it up. "Oh my gosh! It's so cute!" He started to lightly throw it up in the air. Everyone laughed at the cute sight. Until Cosmo threw the monkey up and it didn't come back down.
The only reason it didn't come back down was, it was eaten by a raptor. Everyone's eyes widened in horror and their mouths dropped to the ground in shock. Except for Dethiam's; she enjoyed things like this.
After the raptor was done munching on the baby monkey, it glared down at Cosmo. He backed away slowly back to his group. While he was backing away, more raptors came to join the first one.
'Why does it have to be raptors?' Xanna thought.
"What do we do, Xan Xan?" Cosmo whispered to his friend.
'Run!'
'You're right!' Xanna put the book in one of her bags and looked at her group. "Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She yelled.
None of them hesitated to run. Mittens hopped on Cosmo's back and everyone began to run. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" They all screamed.
"Daisy!" Mokoki yelled.
"Misha!" Gishezpak yelled.
"Who are those people?" Cosmo asked, Mittens still on his back.
"Our mounts." Mokoki said.
A giant kodo and another raptor came out of nowhere. Everyone stopped right in front of the giant beasts. "Ah! Another raptor!" Cosmo yelled.
He was about to run away but stopped when Gishezpak yanked on his collar. "No. That's, Misha. She's my mount." Gishezpak said and hopped on Misha's back.
"And this is, Daisy." Mokoki walked up to the big kodo and patted it's side. "She can hold about three people."
"And Misha can hold two."
Xanna heard the raptors screeching behind them. She turned around and saw them in the distance. 'Ah!'
'Get on the mount! Get on the mount!'
Xanna turned back around. "Akazil! Makaza!" The boys turned at her in attention. "You ride on, Daisy with Mokoki!" She turned to Cosmo. "Cosmo! You and Mittens ride on, Misha with Gizzy!"
"But what about you and Dethiam?" He asked.
"We're rogues. We can sprint."
"Or I can just kill all of those raptors." Dethiam said, smiling evilly. It was probably because of the thought of killing something.
'She's so sadistic. If she dies, I'll kill you!'
"Dethiam, this is no time to be sadistic and kill things. We have to run!"
Dethiam scoffed. "You guys can run all you want. I'm gonna stay here and fight." She said and pulled out her daggers. She started to walk towards the raptors.
Xanna smacked her forehead and looked at the guys who were still standing there. "Why are you just standing there?! Get on the mounts!"
Akazil, Makaza, Mokoki, Cosmo and Mittens got on the mounts like they were told.
"What about, Dethiam?" Cosmo asked.
"I'll handle her. Just go."
"But what about you?" Akazil asked.
"I said go!" Xanna yelled and smacked both of the mounts as in order for them to leave.
"Whoa!" All of the guys yelled.
Akazil looked back. "Xanna!"
'Smooth move... Now you're gonna die!'
'Shut up. I know what I'm doing...sorta...'
'That's what I thought.' Ixxy sighed. 'I never even got to see Winterspring!'
Xanna ignored Ixxy and chased after Dethiam. "Dethiam, I'm sorry for doing this, but this is so the raptors won't eat you." Xanna yanked Dethiam's head right off of her shoulders.
"Hey!"
Dethiam's body began to chase after her. "That's right. Follow the head. Good body. Now use sprint!"
Xanna sprinted away. So did Dethiam's body. 'Yes! My plan's working!'
'Yeah...I'm very...impressed.'
'Now to catch up to the guys.'
'If you can even find them.'
"Whoa! Daisy, slow down! I'm about to-" Mokoki was saying and then he fell off of Daisy. "Ah! Oof! Ugh!" He yelled as he bounced on the ground. "Wait... Why is there a porcupine in-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!" Mokoki screamed as he landed on a porcupine. He stood up and quickly pulled it off of his butt. "Ah!" He looked at in, then threw it in a random direction behind him. Not even thinking that the poor thing might be eaten by raptors like that baby monkey.
He looked behind him and saw that the guys were still running. "Hey! What about me, ya bastards?!" He huffed and crossed his arms over his chest. Then he heard a noise. He was to scared to see what it was so he began to chase after his mount and the guys. "H-hey, guys! Wait up!" Mokoki yelled to his friends as he ran. He heard a few more noises. They scared him so much, he caught up with his friends and then ran right past them.
The things that made the noises came out from their hiding places. It was two baby tigers playing with a coconut.
"Running, running, running. Being scared, terrified, horrified, need therapy." Xanna said quietly to herself as she continued to run from the raptors with Dethiam's head and body.
Ixxy rolled her eyes. 'You're tellin' me.'
"You? I'm the one that's headless!"
Xanna was too scared to listen to Dethiam and Ixxy. She continued to run away from the raptors. Who had made some friends on their chase for food.
Some panthers, tigers and murlocs joined. 'Panthers, tigers and murlocs. Oh my!'
'Hey, isn't that line from a movie or something?'
'I don't know and I don't care! Shut up and run!'
'Um... Hello? Don't have a body of my own, remember?'
'Which actually sucks for me, right now...'
'Shut up and keep running. You have no time to get caught up in conversation.'
Xanna didn't argue. She continued to run for her life. And Dethiam's undead one.
'I hope I'm getting close to the guys.'
And after a few minutes of running through bushes and trees and some old ruins, Xanna did catch up to her friends.
"Xanna?" Akazil, Makaza and Cosmo said.
"Shut up! No talking! Must run! Raptors! Panthers! Tigers! Murlocs!!!" Xanna yelled.
"Panthers?" Akazil asked.
"Tigers?" Makaza asked.
"Murlocs?" Cosmo asked.
All three of them looked behind themselves and saw all the things Xanna was yelling about. "Holy crap!" They yelled.
There were two night elves walking side by side down the road on their giant tiger mounts.
"You know, I heard that Stranglethorn Vale was one of the most monster infested places ever, but I haven't seen one single monster." The night elf on the right said.
Behind them, a tauren, a raptor mount that had a troll and a blood elf and a cat on it, a kodo that had two orcs on it, another blood elf carrying a head and a headless body ran by. They were all being chased by raptors, panthers, tigers and murlocs.
"I know. I haven't seen any monsters either." The other night elf said.
"Man, this sucks!"
Daisy was slowing down in her running. So was Misha. "Why are they slowing down?!" Makaza screamed.
Gishezpak was petting Misha's head. "They've been running to much and now they're exhausted."
"But we still have monsters chasing us!"
"Then, we'll have to continue running on foot."
Everyone hopped off of the mounts. "Go on you two. Go get some rest." Gishezpak told Daisy and left.
"Great! Now we're gonna die!" Makaza yelled.
Mokoki slapped him. "Get a hold of yourself!"
Makaza rubbed his cheek and slapped back. The two got into a slap fight.
"Akazil, hold this, please." Xanna said as she handed Dethiam's head to him.
Xanna walked away and toward Makaza and Mokoki. As she walked away, Dethiam's body came over and tapped it's foot. "Put my head back on my body!" Her head yelled.
"Are you gonna run away and fight if I do?" Akazil asked.
"Yes."
"Then, no."
Dethiam growled and had her body kick Akazil. "Ah. Cut it out." It continued to kick him. Dethiam was smiling. "I'm serious! Knock it off!" Akazil began running away from the body as it continued to try and kick him.
While that was going on, Xanna was breaking up the slap fight. "Guys, no time to fight. We gotta get away from the-"
Everybody turned around when they heard a huff. It was the raptor that ate the baby monkey and his friends. "Aww, crap." Xanna said. The raptor and his buddies smiled. "Run!" Makaza yelled.
Everyone started to run again. They ran and ran and ran for what felt like hours. When, really, it had only been thirty seconds.
Cosmo stopped running. "Wait!" Everyone stopped, even the monsters. "Gotta fix my hair." Cosmo said. He pulled a mirror out of nowhere and began to fix his hair. And a third arm came out of nowhere with some hairspray.
While it sprayed the hairspray on him, a forth arm came out of nowhere, so Cosmo would have one arm for hairspray, another to hold the mirror and two to mess with his hair. While Cosmo was fixing his hair, the others were standing there, tapping their feet.
He continued to fix his hair. The others sat down on the ground with the monsters. They were all playing some sort of card game."Got any 'three's?" Makaza asked the monkey eating raptor who was wearing some sort of weird poker playing hat. It shook it's head.
"Okay, done." Cosmo said. He smiled, it gave off a little twinkle.
The others stood up and tried to find the place they were at before Cosmo had stopped the chase. "No, wait." Xanna said and grabbed the raptor. "You were here." She grabbed Mokoki. "And you were here." She did this a couple more times and returned to her spot. "There. Now, three, two, one... Go!" She said and they all began to run again.
After five more hours of being chased by monsters, Xanna and her friends were able to lose them. They stopped to take a breath. "So...uh... Whatcha guys think of the road trip so far?" Xanna asked in an attempt to make a nice little conversation.
"This is the-" Akazil was saying.
"Best road trip ever!" Mokoki, Gishezpak and Makaza cheered.
"Yeah, what they said." Akazil said.
'...I am absolutely speechless about that...' Ixxy shook her head. 'I'm just glad that Dethiam's okay. She's like a sister to me and if she was eaten I would've killed you, Xanna.'
'But you're stuck in MY head. That practically makes US sisters! I mean, c'mon! You've only known her for a couple days!'
'Stop being jealous. You knew what this was.'
Xanna blinked at Ixxy, speechless, dumbfounded, and a little jealous. But she ignored that.
"Who votes for taking a break?" Cosmo panted.
Everyone raised their hands.
"Cool. That's okay with you, isn't it, Xan Xan?" Cosmo looked over at Xanna. "Xan Xan?" She was already passed out on the ground.
Dethiam's body snatched her head from Akazil and put it back on her shoulders. "She's got the right idea."
The others nodded in agreement. After that, they all passed out.
'Thank God we're in a safe spot.' Ixxy heard a noise. A very familiar noise. A noise that sounded like a raptor. 'Eep.'
That's all for now guys! Sorry if it's kinda short. I'll work on making the next chapter longer.
Note: The two night elves thing was my little brother's idea. Lol.
Another note: I wonder if Xanna and the gang are gonna wake up in a raptor's belly. O.o