A/N: New Chapter! And Response time!
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Natasha Sunderland: I love Rebecca and I'm happy you think she's cute! And Enrico the Singing Sword reminding you of Prince Charming? Well, let's just hope Enrico doesn't be an arrogant prick like that Prince Charming fellow. I feel like Chris is the real Prince Charming in this little fairytale of sorts. ;D
Stardust4: Thanks! I love making Rebecca the crazy lady. XD Thanks for reading!
CapcomGirl: Now I know I have to pull out all of the stops to impress you in coming chapters. The Greatest Witch in the World in Training thanks you too. And I couldn't help but add the all to awesome Jill Sandwich joke. XD Thank you and happy reading! ;D
Welcome to Wonderland
Chapter Eleven: Fear the Angry, Yoga Enthusiast Gnome
Jill was at the back of the pack next to Chris, following after their new friend Rebecca the "Greatest Witch in the World in Training". Barry followed after her with a disgruntled look on her face. Ever since Rebecca agreed to show them where the tower Enrico the Singing Sword was and decided to lead the group, she was talking non-stop to her acclaimed idol, Barry. Jill was shocked at how different the girl acted in this world compared to how she acted back home. She only met Rebecca a few times for interviews but she was pretty reversed and shy. This Rebecca was why more outgoing and never seemed to shut up.
Jill sighed and looked up the sky. The sun was beginning to sink lower into the sky, the bright ball just barely above the trees. Clouds were also beginning to gather around it. Then, Jill felt something warm touch her shoulder. She looked over and saw that it was Chris' hand. She looked over at his face and he wore a concerned expression on his youthful face.
"Something wrong Jill?" He asked quietly.
Jill shook her head. "No. I'm fine."
Chris narrowed his eyes. "Jilly Bean…I can tell you aren't. I can read you like a book, you know."
Jill chuckled. "And that is why you piss me off sometimes."
Chris joined in on the chuckling and wrapped his arm around Jill. "But I'm still lovable, right?"
"Hm…I'll have to think about that," Jill muttered, punching his shoulder playfully.
Jill and Chris' laughter became louder. Barry and Rebecca looked at the two of them with a brow raised expression but shrugged it off and continued walking on. But then, Barry stopped walking. Rebecca stopped when Barry stopped, but Chris and Jill continued laughing and walking, running right into Rebecca and Barry.
"Hey! What the big ide-"Chris said angrily
"Sh!" Rebecca interrupted.
"What are you-"Jill was about to ask before Rebecca shushed her too. "Don't you shush me! What's going on?"
Barry's ears pinned to his skull and a snarl came across his lips. "Gnome…"
"Gnome?" Jill asked, instantly thinking of the cute little garden ornaments that people put on their front lawn. "What do you have against them?"
"Gnomes took my money once," Barry growled.
Rebecca gasped. "No one dares takes my idol's money! I will go and burn him to a crisp."
As Rebecca took out her broom, Jill placed her hand on Rebecca's shoulder, stopping her. "Easy there, Pyro…Maybe we should think this through or-"
"Sorry Jill," Barry broke in. "As much as I love agreeing with you, I want to kick this gnome's ass." He looked at Rebecca. "Let's do this!"
Rebecca giggled and shimmied out of Jill's grasp. She hopped on her broom and smiled at Jill and Chris.
"Won't be long!" Rebecca said cheerfully before ascending into the air on her broom. Barry followed her down river, running as fast as he could to keep up with her. Now, Jill and Chris were alone.
Jill looked at Chris. "Should we help them?"
Chris shrugged and sat down on a rock. "I'm sure they can handle it themselves. But let's give them five minutes."
Jill sighed and sat down in the grass, listening to the sound of the river. Well at least they were heading in the right direction and not upstream because the last thing we need is some backtracking.
"So what should we do while their gone?" Jill asked.
"I don't know," Chris answered. There was silence before Chris asked, "Wanna make out?"
Jill looked at Chris and laughed. "No thank you, Mr. Lovable…"
Chris rolled his eyes. "What's up with women and never wanting to make out with me? I'm cute and huggable and just so damn lovable!"
"We women have far superior senses than men like you," Jill said proudly, holding her head up in the air.
"Yeah sure," Chris laughed.
Suddenly, a scream broke into the air. It sounded like Rebecca's. Then, a scream that sounded like Barry followed. Jill looked at Chris with a worried expression on her face.
"C'mon!" Chris said as he stood up. He helped Jill up off of the grass and the two began running downstream.
After about two minutes of running, Jill could finally see something up ahead. It was a bear and a little girl standing next to each other, doing some weird posing. It didn't take a second glance to know that it was Rebecca and Barry. But why were they doing Advanced Yoga at a time like this.
"Rebecca!" Chris shouted.
"Barry!" Jill shouted after Chris. "It's us."
"Stay back!" Rebecca shouted. Jill and Chris listened, although confused by the command, and slid to a stop. "Get out of here as fast as you can!"
"Huh? What's wrong with you?" Jill asked.
"That bastard gnome got us," Barry said. "Now get out of here while you still can."
"Too late!" A gruff voice said. Jill and Chris looked over by the riverside and a rock seemed to come to life and move. It walked up to them and narrowed his eyes. He had on the traditional garden gnome outfit but his beard and hair was black and his skin was darker. He was also about three feet tall. As Jill thought about it, his voice and his appearance seemed familiar to that of Kenneth Sullivan.
"My name is Kenneth," The gnome growled. "And you are now part of my class and prisoners, a long with these two morons who thought they could attack me when I was eating a banana."
Jill rolled her eyes. Great…I just meet Kenneth in this world and now I'm a prisoner.
He took out his long cane, that was about as tall as Chris, and WHAP!-hit Jill and Chris over the head with it. "Get in line with those two!" Kenneth shouted.
"What if we don't want to?" Chris asked, earning a hit to the stomach from the cane. He fell to the ground, holding his stomach.
"I feed you to the river monster," Kenneth growled.
"Come on Chris," Jill mumbled, helping him up from the ground. She helped him over to the line and held him up until he was able to stand by himself.
"Alright, morons!" Kenneth shouted. "Today, we will be doing the human pretzel."
"Do your worst!" Rebecca sneered, earning a hit over the head from the cane.
"Don't talk!" Kenneth shouted. "Anyway we'll-"
"I'm a bear; I can't do yo-OW!" Barry complained after getting hit in the head by the cane.
"You will and you will like it!" Kenneth shouted. "Now what were we going to do again? Damn…now you morons made me forget what we were going to do!"
"We were going to do the Warrior pose," Chris said.
"Oh yeah!" Kenneth said. "Now the Warrior pose is…"
"How did-"Jill was trying to ask in a whisper.
"Gnomes have horrible memories," Chris whispered and winked at her. "They can easily be thrown off by anything, including a conversation such as we just had."
Jill smiled and nodded. "Now I understand."
"Hey!" Kenneth shouted. "No talking during my class!" Kenneth slammed the end of his cane on Chris' foot, making him scream in pain, and he used the other end to hit Jill over the head.
"Come on!" Jill shouted. "This is cruel and very unusual punishment!"
Kenneth shrugged. "I know…I just love hurting people. Now…DO THE WARRIOR POSE!!!"
Jill and the others nodded and did as he said. Jill glanced over at Barry and he did have trouble standing on his hind paws, at first, but he seemed to do just fine. Jill didn't enjoy yoga and thought it was pretty stupid, but she'd do anything just to stay away from the angry lawn gnome yoga enthusiast Kenneth.
"Now, we'll do the human pretzel," Kenneth said.
"Oh, I just love pretzels!" Rebecca said cheerfully.
"I don't…I know like them with the good ol' moonshine," Barry grumbled.
"Gasp!" Rebecca looked at Barry. "You drink?"
Barry quickly began to think of something else to say. "Did I say 'moonshine'? I meant to say…Barry's Happy Drink!"
"Oo! That sounds good!" Rebecca giggled. "Can I have some later?"
Jill and Chris began to chuckle, but ended up exploding into a great laughter. Kenneth the lawn gnome defiantly was not happy now.
Kenneth walked down the line, hitting each of the group over the head with the cane.
"Shut up! All of you!" Kenneth barked. "Now-oh, great! Now I forgot what I was going to make you four do!"
"You are going to make us do the Downward Dog pose!" Chris said cheerfully.
"Oh, yes." Kenneth said. "Now to the Downward Dog…."
"Nice one Chris," Jill whispered. "How do you know all of these yoga poses?"
Chris looked at her with confusion. But before he could answer, Kenneth told them to do the pose. The group did the pose said. As they were doing it though, Jill couldn't help but look at Chris, well more appropriately, his ass.
"Psst! Jill!" Chris whispered. Jill drew her eyes away from what she was looking at and looked at Chris.
"What?" Jill asked, feeling her face get hot.
"You have a nice ass," Chris muttered.
Jill laughed and Chris joined in on the laughing. "I was thinking the same thing, about you though," Jill said as she laughed.
Due to their laughing, the two lost their balance and fell onto the ground, still throwing a laughing fit. Barry and Rebecca looked at each other in confusion, shrugged and began to laugh themselves. But the laughter drew to a close as soon as Jill could feel Kenneth's dark shadow on her.
"What's so funny?" He asked through gritted teeth.
"N-nothing sir!" Jill said as she got up from the ground.
"That's right! Nothing is funny!" Kenneth said. "And now, all of you morons stop laughing. Now we are going to do the human pretzel."
"But I'm not a human!" Barry grunted.
"Fine…for you, it's the bear pretzel," Kenneth growled.
"But I'm not a bear," Barry said "matter-of-factly". "I'm a grizzly bear!"
"Whatever! Fine! Grizzly Bear pretzel!" Kenneth yelled. "Great! You made me forget what I was going to do now!"
"You were going to let us free so we could go find Enrico the Singing Sword," Jill said brightly.
"I was?" Kenneth asked her.
"Uh-huh," Jill said with a smile. She looked at the rest of the group. "Isn't that right, guys and girl?"
The three nodded their heads quickly. "You said you were." "Yep, you were." "Let me out of here!"
"Um…if you say so," Kenneth mumbled. "You guys can go now."
"Thanks!" They said cheerfully.
"Good. Now…get lost!" Kenneth shouted.
"Yes sir…" And without a second thought, the group ran downstream and kept running until they felt they were at a safe distance away from the angry gnome.
"Phew…that was too close," Barry said when the group stopped. He shook his pelt and looked at the group. "You guys okay?"
Rebecca and the other two nodded.
"Good…at least we got out of that predicament," Barry said.
"Hey, Barr-Bear," Rebecca said, walking up to Barry. "Will you let me try some of your Happy Drink later?"
Barry's eyes widened. "Um…ah…I don't know about it. Eh, why the hell not, I guess so when I find some."
"Yippee!" Rebecca squealed cheerfully.
Chris walked over to Jill. "Nice job of helping us out of there."
Jill smiled at him. "You were the one who told me what his weakness was, so I should be thanking you. But Chris…I have a question."
"What is it?" Chris asked with a boyish smile.
"How the hell did you know all the names of the yoga poses we did?"
Chris looked at her with the confused look again. "I was just blurting out random names."
Jill laughed but then noticed that he was serious. "Um…Ah-"
"Look guys!" Rebecca shouted. "I see the tower where Enrico is!"
Jill and Chris turned to the direction Rebecca was facing and, just as she said, there was a large stone brick tower. They had found it! They found where Enrico was! Jill was one step closer to going back home.
"What are we waiting for?" Barry asked. "Let's go!"
The group walked on towards the direction of the tower. Jill smelt the smell of volcanic rock in air for some reason, but shrugged it off. It was probably her imagination and her nerves. She looked up at the sky and noticed that the sun was almost out of site and the moon was slowly rising. Jill smiled and looked onward though. Soon, she'll be able to go home.
A/N: Thanks for reading. Now, you know the drill, read, review no flames, repeat! ^^
