Okay, so finally Chapter 10 is done :D It makes me feel very happy that i'm getting somewhere now X3
Chapter
10
“Ugh,
this is getting annoying… How long are we just going to walk in this rain?”
Shila frowned, as she squeezed out her already drenched fur… Stripes flicked
his ear at Shila, as to silently notify that he was aware while his eyes were
still fixed on the sheet of paper. “I honestly don’t know, this is the poorest
written map that I have ever seen in my life! I mean, it’s bad enough trying to
read this ink map in the rain, but it’s another thing when there are no words
written on it!” Stripes frowned…
It
was then that Lefty stopped suddenly and grunted in surprise; her hood still
on… “Impossible! There…! There were
words written on the map before we
left the village!” Lefty frowned as she faced the group and shook the wet off
of her drenched pelt like a dog would do… Lefty then quickly ran over to
Stripes and placed a paw on the map, looking next to Stripes… Lefty then murmured
in surprise, “Your right Stripes, the words are
gone…” Lefty frowned, “But…” Lefty stammered, her pupils growing huge
inside her hood.
“But…
What?” Cat looked at Lefty with confusion in her eyes… Lefty then rubbed her
eyes, “Does anyone notice that the map is… is changing?” Lefty blinked,
touching the map as if her senses were failing her…
Stripes
looked at Lefty through her hood as he much as he could possible, “Um Lefty?
Are you okay?” Stripes cocked his head as he looked at his best high school bud
weird. Lefty’s eyes started to faintly glow blue… (I’ve only seen her do that one other time up close…) Stripes
thought to himself, as images flooded back into his mind to the point when
Lefty and Stripes had play fought in Toby’s village… Although Stripes had not
told another living soul, Lefty’s eyes had glowed a faint blue along with her
sword before they had started fighting… Stripes had thought it was a fluke at
the time, but now he wondered if his hunches were right and that Lefty was
activating her ‘light energy’, as he had named it, without her own consent…
“Doesn’t
Estyren look sort of like America on this map?” Lefty’s questioned at Stripes as
he snapped back into reality. Lefty then looked at the map with semi- blue glowing
eyes… Stripes looked back at the map as well… It still was the same except for
the words were still missing from it… “Uh… No, I don’t think so… It still looks
like the book’s map description of Estyren to me… You know the one we read back
at home? I don’t understand how you can possibly even relate the two to be
honest…” Stripes frowned, as he gave Lefty a confused look…
“Are
you crazy Stripes?! How could you think it looks anything like Estyren?! After
all, Estyren is just a location in the book! Not in America! In fact I see
where we need to head from here! We are here, walking on route 64! We need to
head east to get back home! It’s not that far really!” Lefty squealed excitedly
as she jumped up in a joyful manner…
Now
Stripes was really worried and
confused, “What? What are you talking about Lefty? Did you eat some chocolate
in your pockets before we left? Because you’re really freaking me out…” Stripes
looked at Lefty concerned…
Lefty
was either ignoring Stripes, or she hadn’t heard him, because she started to
run forward along the path in the rain… “Guys seriously come on! I don’t want
to be having to explain exactly why we are late getting home!” Lefty yelled as
she splashed through the mud puddles excitedly.
The
gang exchanged looks, before Space quickly sprinted ahead and ran through the
muddy puddles to catch up to Lefty… Stripes noticed that Space looked really
concerned, but Lefty had mistaken it for him playing while she gleefully yelped
and sped up along the pathway. Space had other ideas, as he easily dashed up to
Lefty and forcefully grabbed her arm. Lefty squeaked in surprise as he dragged
her over to a tree and threw her down, while in the process accidently causing
Lefty to hit her head on the tree trunk. Lefty bit back a sharp yelp before she
looked up at Space in confusion, her eyes still glowing a bright shade of blue…
“Ow!
Why… Space? What the?!” Lefty murmured, as if she was barely aware of anything
happening around her anymore… From her perspective everything looked blurry and
bleak as she tried to shake her head back into focus… “Lefty snap out of it!”
Space growled at her, making Lefty shrink back to the tree trunk in confusion
and fear… Space eyed Lefty before frowning at her in worry, “Come on! Wake up!
We’re not in America anymore! Let alone earth! For pity’s sake, WAKE UP!” Space
yelled at Lefty…
Lefty
must have heard him, because her eyes slowly stopped glowing blue and returned
to their normal shade of green… Lefty blinked in confusion before noticing
Space was standing right in front of her, looking rather angry and concerned… “…Space?
Why the world am I sitting in a mud puddle?” Lefty stammered as she got up out
of the puddle, wiping herself off with whatever dry fur she had left….
Space
sighed in relief before extending his hand out to Lefty, “Don’t know, you tell
me miss ‘La de dah…’” Space grinned, as he helped Lefty balance… Lefty growled
playfully and whacked him with her ear, making Space utter a small giggle and
gently fist punch Lefty’s shoulder. By now the rest of the gang had caught up
to them… “Oh my GOSH Lefty! Why did you just run off like that!?” Cat screamed
at Lefty, concern filling her eyes… Lefty blinked in both surprise and
confusion, “I… I did what now? Can someone explain to me what happened after I looked at Stripes’ map?! My mind
feels fuzzy…” Lefty sighed wearily, as she rubbed her head and her eyes started
to flicker to a faint blue again… This made her more tired and she began to
wobble and totter a little bit.
Space
had noticed Lefty’s sudden exhaustion, and caught her just in time to help prop
her up as she collapsed totally… “Thanks…” Lefty grimaced, as she tried to pull
herself back up… “Don’t mention it...” Space grumbled, as he pushed her back
up…
Once
that was accomplished, Lefty made sure that everything was still there and then
quickly fixed her ears inside her light hood embarrassingly… “Ok so now that
confusion has been stirred into the pot, let’s look for some quick shelter
before this storm gets worse. Explanations can come later…” Lefty frowned, as lighting
quickly flashed in the sky, soon followed by a loud “BOOOOOM!!!!” as some
thunder followed suit…
Princess
screamed, and hid behind Shila who was closest to her. Shila cracked a small
smile at the drenched little lass, “I agree, perhaps that protection of trees
over there could stand for just tonight?” Shila pointed her finger towards a
small cluster of trees that were keeping a small flat ground area around it
nice and dry…
The
gang looked at the shelter, “Amazing! ... It was just like it was waiting for
us!” Space stared in awe… “Praise the good Lord above us!” Lefty screamed in
gratefulness, as she quickly ran for shelter happily… She was soon followed by
a very confused gang of mostly older teenagers that were now wondering what the
heck they had just gotten themselves signed up for…
*yawn* another mostly dialogue chapter... Don't worry, the next couple of Chapters will have you on the edge of your seats! ^_^ Stay tuned guys, because the next one will come out fairly soon! :D
No comments:
Post a Comment