Chapter 5 - Telling the Family
Lincoln and the fairies walk toward their home as they hurried to tell Lincoln's family about their experience with Aslan. Although how can they accomplish such a big task?
"This is a very big task," Tinkerbell said, puzzled and shaken from the experience. "I never build anything as big as the ark Aslan told us to do." Then Fawn spoke up saying, "And not to mention all those animals are scattered everywhere around the world."
"True it might seem Impossible," said Lincoln. "It will take a long time, But I have to do this to save everyone so we can do this."
As night fell over the Loud House, the voice of the Loud's mother was heard. "Hey, kiddos, it's late. Time to get ready for bed." Lori is texting, and Leni is painting her nails, in their room when they heard their mom, "Last one has to take out the garbage!" Luan is reading a joke book, and Luna jumps down from her bunk. Lynn and Lucy are in their room as they stopped what they were doing. "For the rest of the month!"
Hearing this sends the siblings into a rush-induced frenzy; Lynn and Lucy cat-fight each other, the twins are stuck at their doorway as they wrestle for firsties, Lily is chewing on her rattle as Lisa, who had heard the announcement, drops the chemical she's working on without looking, starting to cause an explosion. She notices and starts her own rush. "Uh-oh!" Lisa grabs Lily "A suburb time to evacuate the premises!" She rushes out her door, with Lily in tow, as the others exit to the bathroom.
"I get the mirror first!" Shouted Lori, "Not happenin', dude!" Luna refuses as Leni exits her and Lori's Bedroom Luan makes a pun as she heads to the bathroom. "You can't brush me off!" As she laughs, Lynn and Lucy are still cat-fighting each other, and the twins have finally exited their room as Lisa and Lily run towards the bathroom. "Quickly! Let's skedaddle!" Lisa Exclaimed as all four sisters were able to make it as the chemical exploded.
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Lincoln was in his bedroom when he flips over his bed mattress which is revealed to be a planning bulletin board this is where the Man with the Plan comes up with his ideas. First Lincoln drew out a warm-up sketch, then himself being seen as someone special, and then Tinkerbell and Lincoln played tic tac toe with the fairy winning.
Finally, Lincoln starts sketching a blueprint of the ark. "Let's see a length of 300 cubits, width of 50 cubits, and height of 30 cubits." He gets a dictionary, turns to the C-Section, finds Cubit, and reads, "Cubit, an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It is typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm."
Then Lincoln, Tinkerbell, Vidia, and Silvermist using pencils started sketching the ark; they added three decks, a large door, and a window. Then Rosetta, Fawn, and Iridessa joined in drawing the food storage rooms, bedrooms, the people, animals, and themselves on the ark. Ending withdrawing the waves of the flood and rain pouring down.
Then Lincoln stopped, how would his family believe that he was not lying about the flood, the ark, and his talk with Aslan? "I'm not sure about how everyone will react. How will they believe in me?"
"Lincoln, remember what Aslan said he will be there with you even if he isn't here, and trust him." Said Tinkerbell. "That's why I must have faith."
"Not to mention trust." Said Iridessa as all six fairies placed their hands together in unison. "And Pixie Dust!"
They all turned to Lincoln as if he wanted to join in too. "Yes, and Pixie Dust too." Due to Lincoln's large hand, he only placed his right hand Index finger in the hand circle.
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Later, everyone is in the bathroom brushing their teeth, except for Leni, who is brushing her hair, Luan, who is flossing her teeth, Lily, who is taking a bath in the sink, and Lynn Sr., who is trying to pluck out his nose hairs. "Um, I'm literally trying to brush my teeth here." Lori snapped at Leni angrily.
"We all are, honey." Said Rita as Leni replied telling them to shush. "Shh, I'm trying to brush my hair and you keep making me lose count." Then Lynn Sr. their father butted in, "Yeah, well, I'm plucking nose hairs and I lost count too!"
Soon Everyone else starts arguing. Lincoln and the fairies who missed what Rita said left them the last ones late as they entered the Bathroom and popped up from behind. "Mom! Dad!" As Lincoln tried to get their attention only for his fourth older sister to laugh and joke about him being the last one late. "Lincoln has to take out the trash for a month!"
"Does this include us? I don't like getting dirty." Said Rosetta before Lincoln to Luan. "I don't care." As Lincoln turns to his parents, grunting "I got something to tell you all?"
"Hey! The boy is trying to talk here?!" shouted Vidia, "Careful Fawn!" cried Iridessa as Fawn bumped into one of the sisters, which turned out to be Lynn who saw toothpaste on her left sleeve and asked. "Who spit toothpaste on my arm?" Fawn apologized, "Sorry!"
"I figured out what my vision is!" Said Lincoln. "Well, that's nice, honey." His mother replied before his dad spoke up. "I'm not sure if this vision is so important?"
"Tough crowd," Said Silvermist as she turned to Tinkerbell. "Tink, I think Lincoln has to tell everyone about Aslan." Tink nodded. "Agreed, Lincoln told them the truth."
"Alright, " Said Lincoln. "It turns out my vision revealed to me how we can be saved from the end world and Aslan spoke to me" That gets the family's attention, and the girls ramble amongst themselves, mostly to their parents.
"Aslan?!" Said Lana. "Linky, are you not making this up?" Lola said wondering if he is lying to them.
"You need to understand when I was heading back home from Clyde's house, I was in the forest and It's gonna be hard to believe, but I saw a lion and not just any lion," Lincoln explained. "The Great Lion God Aslan! He has spoken to me and wanted me here for him to tell him what the vision was and the task he told me."
"So a Lion spoke to you?" Asked Leni as Lisa replied. "I normally don't go into religious beliefs, but what happened male sibling when you were with the Panthera leo?"
"What was he like?" Said Lori. and soon the girls joined Lincoln in convincing their parents into finding out what happened to him until Rita stopped them. "Okay, let's just slow down, everyone. Now Lincoln what did Aslan say?"
"Aslan, He was majestic and powerful, But caring and compassionate. I felt touched by him through his eyes and his words." Then Lincoln quoted what Aslan told him, He explained to them what was to happen and what they had to do by the Lord's command. "He told me he had seen the wickedness and sin of humanity on the earth and warned me that he was going to bring a Great flood of waters to destroy every living thing, But he decided to spare us and our community. Our salvation from the flood was that he told me to construct a huge boat called an Ark in which we'll be saved along with all our friends, their families, and the community too along with many animals, two of every kind of Bird, Beast, and Creeping Thing."
"An ark?" Questioned Luna before Lana spoke, "And you want it to fill it with animals?"
"Lincoln, An ark of that size will take many years to build," said Lynn Sr. "This is too much."
"I know it is Dad." Lincoln replied, "This is all true, Aslan would have chosen anyone for this job, but he chose me for my loyalty, willingness to help, and faith. Since this is a big job, I need everyone's help to build it."
"I wanna help." Said Lana, "I could help with the construction and rounding up the animals."
"Count me in too, Stink-oln!" Lynn Jr. Replied. "We'll all help you Lincoln!" Lori said to her little brother and soon all the sisters agreed to help and seeing how their kids wanted to do this the parents agreed as they will all help Lincoln with this task.
Lincoln Noah did everything just as the Lion God Aslan commanded him.