Well, now you're all caught up. And yeah we're still in the air racing towards the sky, and there's nothing we can really do about it.
As we're stuck in this never ending race, our clothes are changing. I've never seen these styles before, I'm not all that into fashion, I'm more of a tomboy myself, but I can at least tell that none of these clothes are in an American Eagle line, not even Hot Topic carries these clothes. They are obviously simple, but nothing like the clothes on the store rack in Walmart back home.
I'm paying too much attention to clothes to notice Mary freaking out. Then Dougie, poked me in the back, and I wiped around. Dougie just looked at me with an expression like: What the Fuck?, and pointed at my body. I glanced down, and back up at him, my eyes widen with realization of the fact that my body fat is gone. And I mean GONE, I look like I've never eaten a McDonald's burger in my life, and I eat a lot of those.
My clothes changed too, and why isn't my hair in a ponytail, why is it down? Wait a minute, I didn't put in earrings today, what the hell?
As soon as I open my mouth to ask Mary and Dougie what the hell is going on, we're all thrown through a hole. I land on the ground with a loud thud. Up on my feet I go, I look around and all I see is trees, and.. Oh! Look! A rock.
Everyone else lands on their butts, on roots, their sides, and backs. And one poor kid has the misfortune of landing on his face. I held down a snicker. When everyone was on their feet the class president decides to take charge. Many students asked him where we were and how do we get home. The president can't answer, he's getting flustered as usual. In the corner of my eye I can see Hilary rushing over to calm him down.
"Fiore" I said.
"What did you say, Rebecca?" Hilary asked in a more than confused tone.
"We're in Fiore. And don't ask me how I know that. My head is fuzzy, all I know is: We are in Earthland, we're in the country of Fiore, I'm not sure what town we're close to though." I replied.
They all looked at me like I was crazy.
"Okay, Rebecca. Maybe you should lie down, you probably hit your head when you fell." Diana, a three season, put her hand on my back and tried to steer me toward a nice patch of ground so I can lay down.
"No!" I say with more force then intended " I didn't hit my head, I know what I'm talking about!" I started to climb a tree to get a better view of where we are.
"What do you think you're doing, Rebecca?" Devin, another three season, I hate it when he talks down to me, especially since I'm two feet taller. "Get down, are you crazy? If you fall, we don't know where the closest doctor is, so, we'll have to carry you ALL the way there." Devin said this in a tone that implied my former weight into it.
Giving him the death glare I've perfected over the years, I told him to shut his face if he knew whats good for him. He backed away slowly.
I climbed for what I guessed was a three stories high, climbing carefully so I can't break the fragile branches of the cedar tree. Getting close to the top, I catch a glance of the forest we're surrounded by. Beautiful, doesn't even describe it. Still being summer, the trees are the perfect green, and the still snow-caped mountains on the left were absolutely wonderful. And, for some strange reason, I know exactly where we are, and I know exactly where to go.
I climbed down quickly while saying, "We go south-east, in that direction." I point to the south-east.
"How do you know where to go?!" a classmate screams. Which starts a whole frenzy of loudly asked questions.
I turn toward them all, and reply "I just know, okay? Like I said before, my heads fuzzy, I recognize this place, or at least I do now that I've gotten a look from above."
As soon as I finish, an image pops in my head, giving me a splitting head ache. No, not just an image, a memory? A man with broad shoulders, and loud hair is holding me up on those shoulders. Walking, and laughing, and laughing even harder when my little hands reach up and grab leaves off the trees before I throw them in the air. And- and I remember feeling warm, as I had slipped down and wrapped my arms around his neck, so he would give me a piggy-back instead. Then, the memory stops. Who is that man? Why were we in THIS forest? And, why does he seem so important to me?
My train of thought is interrupted when Mary starts shaking me so hard I nearly fall over.
" W-will you s-stop shaking m-me?" I attempt to utter.
"I will, when you snap out of it!" Mary screams back.
"Uh," Dougie interrupts, "I think she's snapped out of it. You can stop shaking her anytime now, I'd suggest before permanent brain damage sets in."
I have to take a few seconds to recover from the shaking and stop nearly falling over from being so dizzy. As soon as I was capable of walking a straight line without looking like I'm tipsy, we took off south-east, although 60% of the class was murmuring some not-so school appropriate words in the first five minutes of walking.
About an hour or so of walking, and what we've got is 60 High School students complaining about their aching feet and we're standing in front of the Blue Pegasus Guild that I strangely know how to get to. Yeah, life just keeps getting better.