Story (Krissy #4)

Allistar

Allistar started at the boy with the yarn. "Hey you're a puppeteer, Ive read about your kind in demon books, i never knew it was real... do all puppeteers wear professional like clothing like you?"

Allistar began to compare his white loose shirt and his rather dark brown pants with the puppeteers clothing. His own clothes seemed to look rather pathetic next to the smartly coated young man. The boy stared at Allistars clothing with a strange look on his face.
"So plain" he said.
"You know, i don't get what ya mean by different worlds"
" I think the old man means we each come from a universe"
"Whats a universe?"
"...the world is a sphere and lots of differen-"
"The world isn't a sphere, its flat" Allistar insisted. He came from the medieval times so he really wasn't up to date with astronomy.
The young girl had stopped struggling in the boys arms and stared at Allistar.
"The moon is a sphere, don't you think the earth should be the same? She said.
"No, every morning god creates the sun then creates the moon" Allistar replied stubbornly. He would not accept someone telling him that the world was a sphere.
"God isn't-" she began but was immediately shushed by the boy next to her.
"So we wait for the other so called heroes" Scarlette said as they all sat down on the floor staring in to blank space like bored toy less children. The boy had began to show Allistar and Scarlette tricks with his strings. Allistar was quite amazed and was assured by the boy it was not sorcery.
"Where did you find such a fine coat young lad"
"I made it" he replied.
"Ah, the son of a seamstress, fine talent"
"No i just do it as a hobby, fun making shirts"
"Could you make me some clothes?"
"I can't be bothered"
"I thought  you said it was fun"
"Requires a lot of work though"
The conversation went on about different types of fabric and sewing techniques. Allistar thought he was beginning to make a new friend. He found this young boy very useful. Could sew, could entertain people with puppetry and Allistar thought he could make a man out of this teenage puppeteer.

Story (Claire #3)

Kai Tyrathem & Icarus Johnson

Kai and Icarus looked at each other before glancing back at the two other ‘Heroes’ that stood before them. They both seemed to understand the situation. These two people had no intention of befriending them. She knew she didn’t want to make friends with them either. “Well hurry up and give us the quest. My master will be wondering where I am. Isn’t it the same for you Icarus?” she asked, tugging at her sword impatiently.

Icarus shook his head and grinned. “There’s no one at home for me. This will be fun.” he said in a sing-songy way. She looked at him in disbelief. Was there really no one for him to go back to? She wondered where he had come from.

The old man that seemed like the less cranky one stood forward to talk. “Icarus was it? Well, Icarus clearly understands what is going on right now. Each of you has been brought from different worlds to this one. Well, with the exception of you two siblings that is.” he explained carefully. Kai’s mouth dropped open. She couldn’t believe that she was so slow! That would have explained why they each were wearing different types of clothes. She was wearing her usual training robe with rips, Icarus was wearing some sort of black jacket and black pants with a striped red tie and the other two were wearing some sort of weird clothes she didn’t know how to explain.

“But I need to get home! I—“ Kai started before the old man interrupted her. “Enough. I shall explain the rest when the others arrive. Keep in mind this – we will not let you leave and clearly none of you can cross dimensions. You can try and run, but this place is now hostile to strangers now that… now that that event has occurred. I have some business to attend to. Come, Xyrus.” he said, motioning the other man. They turned to leave.

Kai couldn’t take it. They were not telling her that they took her out of her own world to do… to do this! What idiots! Fools! She hated them. She loathed them. She wanted to kill them. “You think that I would really just accept this? Don’t take me for an idiot!” she yelled, unsheathing the sword in her hands, the sword on her back and the dagger in her pocket. Placing the dagger in her mouth, she lunged towards the two. Slashing at them, she tried to hit them. Even though they were old, they were good at dodging. She managed to get a few scratches on them though.

“That’s enough!” Icarus shouted. He threw his strings at her arms and wrists. Kai felt as though she wasn’t in control of her arms or hands anymore. It was like they didn’t exist. But they were there! And they were moving on their own! “What are you doing Icarus?!” she demanded, “Let me hit them! At least let them suffer the pain of losing an eye or a leg!”

Icarus pushed the strings forward and she flew straight into the wall. Blood streamed from a wound on her forehead. She was tired and she was weak. Her arms dropped and her swords fell to the floor with a clatter. “Stop controlling my arms you bastard.” she said weakly, cutting the strings with the dagger in her mouth.

The nicer elder clapped happily. “Yes, you two will do just fine.” he smiled.

Story (Krissy #3)

Scarlette 

"Ask the ugly un kiddo" her brother responded to the rather small snappy girl.

The old man began to grumble, a bit like the sound of a dog not getting its lunch.

"Well I'm Scarlette sender field, and this is my brother Allistar" She said confidently.

"Are you two... this mans grand children?" She questioned.

The two younger children began to laugh, then shook their heads politely, although their weapons were still in defence mode. Pomegranate stood next to Scarlette and the children appeared rather interested in... a black unicorn.

"I never knew they were real" the boy pointed out.

"Wha.. whats not real boy?"

"The unicorn... and do they come in pink too?" he mocked.

"A range of colours but I'm not sure if there are any pink coloured ones that suit your taste" Scarlette responded grimly

The boy pouted and the smaller girl giggled.Scarlette turned away with a disgusted look on her face. "So, if hes not your grandparents, then who is he"

The boy and girl replied that they did not know why they were here.

"You shall wait until other heroes come" The old man snapped. "Until there are eight of you , you aren't going anywhere"

"I'm sorry? but i have to go home" Scarlette responded.

"You shall go on a quest and we will further explain when the others arrive" another old man had appeared right besides the grumpy man.

The other children had looked at each other with shock and confusion. "Even if we are going to go to a quest, my brother has forgotten a battle horse and we have no clean clothing, could we at least-"

With the snap of the gentle old mans fingers, Allistars horse appeared right next to him and their clothes were automatically changed. "We must have no delay" he proceeded.

Story (Claire #2)

Icarus Johnson

Icarus observed the building he was on top of. He was on what he believed was called a battlement. It was probably a watch tower since there was a circular room in the centre of it. Checking the room, and all around the battlement he made another observation – the castle seemed to be completely empty. Or perhaps they were all just inside. He tried looking for the door or a drawbridge and it took awhile until he finally found it.

“I’ve always wanted to do this!” Icarus giggled in delight. He got a ball of what looked like yarn from his pocket. Wrapping a few layers of the string over his hand, he got ready to sling the rest of the ball to the other battlement. As soon as he was about to throw it, he heard a piercing scream coming from the opposite direction. He needed to help whoever that person was. He threw the ball over to the battlement in the opposite direction and started swinging like Spiderman.

Kai Tyrathem

Kai was screaming as loud as she could. Well, there wouldn’t be many people who wouldn’t be shrieking their lungs out if they were dangling over the edge of a sheer building. Not to mention, at the bottom was a base of water that seemed about two metres tall and she couldn’t swim. “Help me!” she screamed.

Only seconds later, it her knight in shining armour appeared. Except he was more like a cat swinging off a ball of yarn. Nevertheless, she hoped that he was there to save her.

Luckily for Kai, he was. However, the strangest thing happened. His left arm… broke off his body and picked her up. She screamed even more. “Let go of me! Let go of me you monster!” she shrieked, hitting him on the head with the back of her sword. “Ow. That hurt!” he said, dropping her. The sensation (however strange) felt familiar to her (from training) and she gained some of her strength again. Just as she was about to use her swords to perform a technique that manipulated wind, the boy that saved her before swooped down to save her again.

“Phew. That was close!” he grinned. Kai blushed. “Uh… sorry for hitting you on the head before.” she muttered. She realised it was quite rude of her to hit someone on the head for saving her. He landed on flat ground in front of a huge door. “Um. I’m Kai Tyrathem, daughter of Lucian Tyrathem.” she introduced herself, bowing. The boy looked a bit flustered. “I’m Icarus Johnson. It’s nice to meet you I guess?” he said, a little confused.

“Do you know where we are?” Kai asked Icarus. He shook his head. “But there might be some people in there who might know.”

She nodded and slashed the door into pieces with a quick flick of her arm. They walked past a long hallway and at the end was a wide room where there was an old man and two people. She changed to a defensive stance again. Icarus did the same, only with his strings up and ready. She wondered what those strings were anyway. “Who are you people?! Why are we here?!” she demanded.

Story (Krissy #2) Entering the Castle

Allistar and Scarlette stepped in. The castle looked far more prettier then the inside, they were greeted by a rather young dwarf, who looked a bit like a flattened lemon by the roadside, but they did not comment. A much more taller and old man walked in.

"I SEND YOU, TO FIND THE EIGHT WONDERS OF THE WORLD, AND YOU BRING ME, DIRTY PEOPLE, AND A BLACK UNICORN" he yelled.

"I'm so sorry sir, but my senses told me-"

"you're senses tell me your going to be sacked"

The dwarf began crying and ran off.

"You rude man, look what you've done" Scarlette said rather cautiously. She didnt know who he was but was pretty sure she could snap him in two.

"YOU LITTLE CRAP LICKER, HOW DARE YOU" He screeched.

Two other people walked into the room, a girl with a sword which was almost as large as her and a boy who was carrying a ball of yarn. Allistar wondered why the boy had such weird clothes, he had never seen a girl so small either.

"Who are em lil kiddies" he said.

Story (Krissy #1)

Allistar Senderfield

Allistar was giving Stormstrider a wash with buckets of clean water. He was wearing a rather dirty white shirt, stained with... horse crap...."Mother's not going to like this." he said rather ashamed.

He wiped his dirty hands on to his pants... ON TO HIS PANTS. "Oh hell first the shirt, now the pants..." he sighed.

Scarlette came towards him "You filthy animal, what are you doing all covered in dirt? Anyway I was going to ask you-".

"SISTER!" he shouted, and hugged her tremendously, in an effort to smudge as much dirt as possible, on her new white laced dress. A shriek followed soon after. "YOU BUM RAG!"

"So what did you need help with?" laughed Allistar.

"Well you see, Pomegranate sort of got her horn stuck in a tree..."

"AHA! WHAT A PATHETIC CREATURE SHE IS!"

"Shes not pathetic." retorted Scarlette, "At least she doesn't spend her life licking her own horse."

"That's because she cant ride one, and also Stormstrider tastes quite nice." he said sarcastically.

Stormstrider was now uneasy and decided to trot off into his field, and shut the gate after giving Allistar a leery expression.

Scarlette Senderfield

"Help me - get her horn out." she said.

"Bli-mey, ain't she a fat one." Allistar replied.

Scarlette ignored the rude comments of her brother as they began to heave the unicorn, out of the tree. Then all of a sudden in a rather bright flash they appeared in front of a castle.

"WHAT THE... THAT BLOODY UNICORN!"

"Hey she doesn't know magic yet... I don't understand why..."

"You know that castle isn't a nice as ours, looks a bit shabby." remarked Allistar.

"Lets go in, maybe someone can help."

Story (Claire #1)

Kai Tyrathem

The dummy fell to the floor, unharmed. Kai had managed to knock it over but failed to damage it in any way. She seriously doubted that there was such a person – or even any magical being – that would escape unscathed after that series of blows. Still, her master insisted that she should train like that so she relented. Even though she was strong, she was only an apprentice. As she went to pick up the dummy, she noticed a glint in the corner of her eye. A sword?!

Kai spun around immediately, changing to a defensive stance. There was nothing. Could it have been her imagination? She noticed it again, this time in another direction. She turned again. This time she could definitely see the light. She could see that it was incredibly bright. She could see that it was no ordinary glint, or even the glint of a sword. She could see that it had aimed straight at her.

“Oh foolish master, this is just like batting practice to me.” Kai murmured with a sly grin on her face. She poised her sword and when it came close enough, she slashed at it. The light flickered for a moment before disappearing. She sighed. “I wish you’d prepare more challenging things than this.”

However to her surprise, the light appeared again. It begun to flicker weakly but a moment later it was strong again. She yelped in surprise but it was too late. As soon as the ball of light reached her body, it seemed to suck her into thin air.

Across all the different worlds, galaxies, dimensions, the exact same thing was happening to seven others.

Icarus Johnson

Icarus fell bottom first onto the edge of a cliff. Well it wasn't really a cliff – more like a gigantic castle. He still had his house keys in hand and he was still wearing his school uniform. What the hell had happened? He scrambled to safety before he tried to remember what events had occurred before he had been dropped onto some castle.

Well Icarus had finished school and he walked home. He helped an elderly lady cross the road and then he proceeded to walk home. When he walked home, he was opening the door when he was dropped in Narnia. How on earth did that make any sense at all?! He remembered distinctively a bright light had been hovering over his arm. Then his body felt hot and cold at once and then he landed in this… weird castle place.

Icarus supposed this is what normal people would call ‘weird’ but he wasn’t sure. Perhaps he should have asked somebody? “Lots of strange things happen I guess. After all, I don’t think I know anyone else who can control people like puppets.” he said aloud before skipping off to find someone to confide his thoughts with.