An Unknown Adventure
‘Are you sure we should be doing this’ asked Laya as she stroked her gingery cat Fiddles. Laya was an extremely kind and gullible girl who had dark blue eyes and short wavy black hair and she wasn’t too tall either, although she had an unusual gift for understanding animals. On the other hand, Zia was a brave and mischievous girl who didn’t like bugs or being told what to do, she was about just an inch taller than Laya and she had a black belt in karate. ‘I mean, we snuck out of school so you could put a bucket full of slime on Aunt Rosa’s door.’
‘We’ll be fine as long as we don’t get caught.’ replied Zia.
‘But what if we do get caught!
‘Look raining meatballs!’
‘Where?’
‘You’re so gullible.’ Said Zia in a highly amused tone.
‘I am-’
‘Oh no they’re coming after us we better run.’
Laya and Zia hurried into the nearest shop which was filled with strange and weird balloons. ‘Oo can we go in this one it has a door and windows and everything, it even looks like space!’ asked Laya excitedly.
‘Sure why not.’ Replied Zia. As they clambered into the hole that was supposedly the door.
‘Gjjsadwerukkudopavvsifell’ exclaimed the balloon.
All of a sudden there was a loud BANG and the balloon started to lift into the air and Fiddles gave a loud shriek but soon enough they were looking down onto the city and they could see everything.
The sisters could see their school the carnival games and their friends flat from here, they were even higher than some of the lower clouds from here.
A door in the compartment of the balloon-ship opened, in came a scruffy blonde woman, her eyes bulging with anger, surprise, and a kind of fiery mist. ‘Who are you and what are you doing here.’ Said the woman, her voice was cold and commanding. ‘Oh well we um were hiding and this balloon seemed like a good spot and we um are now in this balloon-ship and we’re in the air now.’ Laya finished.
‘Well, you are now on this ship and there is no turning back now, my name is captain Mariana, and this ship is the Skyhope. Oh, so sorry I almost forgot, and what are your names?’
‘I’m Zia and this is Laya.’ Answered Zia before laya nudged her hard in the arm and added ‘And this is Fiddles.’
‘Well, I am-’ BANG! They were toppling downwards and hit the ground, bounced a bit and then all was still. ‘What happened?! Asked laya as she picked up fiddles and getting to her feet.
‘Dragons.’ Replied captain Mariana simply. ‘They try to attack the ship but never really succeed to rip it since it’s coated with olive oil and their claws slip off so now, they just lean on the ship until we hit land or come near to water, and we always rise again.’ This was definitely true as they were slowly floating up and soon back in their previous position up in the sky. ‘You will not be trusted with a duty but will follow every command I tell you.’ Laya and zia were pleased to stay on the ship and not been thrown off, but no one knows what the future holds so they would have to wait and see.
Part Two
Creeeak! BOOM!
Zia rushed to the window and found herself looking out onto a haunted forest, leaking with ghosts when laya joined zia to escort her outside.
Outside they could hear terrified shrieks from the distance, tasting the bitter air, dry, cold and small, far far away there was a gleam of a chestnut tree the tiny etching of lavender strewn in the murky air.
At that moment, a plat of enchanted brambles grasped their legs, twirling past their ankles to their knees, like a snake, but then, most peculiarly, a blood coloured blackberry came from the bush of brambles and started to wrestle the brambles and very unusually the red blackberry was winning. Laya and Zia slowly backed away, minds set on getting to the great chestnut tree… the leaves of all the trees but the ones on the chestnut fell, laya jumped, fiddles also jumped, they were now racing to the chestnut tree, the only one with leaves, the wind was howling and everything went dark. Someone was coming…
All of a sudden the wind stopped and the leaves jumped back onto the trees, a light shone from the distance, as it got closer zia could make out that it was a torch light retained by captain Mariana. ‘The ship crashed into a tree but don’t worry, it will be fixed in the morning. Also you need to make dinner come on this way.’
‘Captain,’ ‘why did the storm stop when you came?’ asked Laya thoughtfully.
‘As you probably won’t know this is the forest of ember, and its only fear is light. Now, please come, there is a long night ahead.’
And with that fiddles leapt out of the tree she was hiding in and they followed Captain Mariana to the campsite, but halfway there fiddles heard a rustling in the bushes, there it was again. This time all three of them heard it. They were not alone…
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