"Hello handsomes... Still sleepy??"
"Arise and shine cause the festival is about to begin......"
"I think we should let them be. When they wake up, they would locate their way.."
"Should I repeat that they are new here and cannot be allowed into the Kingdom? Nevertheless, let's take this cute tiny thing along... Haven't seen it nowhere. It looks so cute and fluffy..."
"Shhhh!!!... Let's go now.... We will awaken these souls. You dropped the scroll?"
"Sure did. They'd read it when they arise. Alright Queen Avalon... To you we ascend!!.. Hurry up Mia and quit with the admiration... Oooh .. you do not want to be given to the Helluvians."
"Oh no! I have told you I forbid such pessimistic statement of yours oh Pippie... I do not want to be chuckled..."
"Ooh, so I suppose Ivan now owns the full ordersity to chuckle and flatter you.."
"Uugghh... Will you quit with the act and fly on? You don't want me to report you to Rons.."
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"Harry.... Are you there??" Nathan struggled to say as he was now very weak and tired with his eyes still shut.
He tried getting up but felt very weak, and so, he allowed himself revive energy a little.
When Nathan successfully managed to open his eyes, everything was blur, he must have suffered from a severe and excruciating headache.
He managed to get up. And sat down with his eyes still half way shut. Surprisingly, his alarm had not rang. And he didn't feel very comfortable sleeping as his soft bed allows him too...
He reached out for his eyes and rubbed them gently causing him to yawn loudly.
"What??!??" Nathan screamed as he looked up and saw a red round roof causing his three friends to spring up hastily from where they passed the...NIGHT??
"Aaahhhh..." Harry screamed as he saw his three friends.
"Ahhhhhhhh..." Orcus and Sindra yelled as they both faced each other as well...
The four creeps were left shouting loudly for about a minute or two as they saw their appearances.
"What happened to your ears and your eyes...??" Orcus still screaming asked Sindra who was already asking the same thing.
"Where are we and what happened to us? Can someone explain something to me??" Harry who's emotions were already reading fear and worry yelled out.
"This is a dream and I'm going back to sleep..." Sindra said and bumped into the giant leaf he woke right up from closing his ears as hard as he could...
"Can someone tell...."
"What is going....... "
"Are we dead or.........." The three kept arguing as Nathan stood up and gently and carefully walked towards the wiered looking unusual door. He then went to the little window that was bored throw the ball which Nathan has obviously agreed to be the inn of a pumpkin.
"What in the world!!??" Nathan screamed as he gasped sight of what he saw when he peeped outside through the window.
He then turned back and asked..... "anyone, someone, what was the last thing we did before we came here? Can you remember??" He looked happily and curiously at three startled men.
"Came here? Where? What happened..? Where in the world are we?" Harry now trying to calm his fears asked.
"Yeah, where are we? Cause the last time I checked, I was healthy, my ears were normal, my eyes were not big and we were all average height painting on a very..."
"Yes,! That... Painting. That's it! We were painting and somehow we.... We got into our painting.." Nathan cut Orcus.
The three men looked at him with a usual eerie look. The one they always display when he comes with a bright idea. They blinked faster, all eyes gazed Nathan.
"Alright... Here's the thing. We were painting on a very big canvas when we got immersed into it and we were drawn right into this world through the art work.... Yay it finally worked." Nathan gestured sheepishly just to enable the three understand...
They kept their gaze still fixed on him with their mouths now open, trying to comprehend the scenario.
"I know you guys are confused, you'll understand everything later, but for now welcome to a new....." Nathan said and tried pushing the door which didn't open...
"Okay, we'll try that one more time... Nathan smiled in a mirth "....Welcome to a New World....." He repeated and pushed the door hardly making it open.
"Woaaahhh...!!" The four men stood up as they were caught in the scene they saw. A landscape that was extremely awe inspiring. Beautiful flowers that were very mighty, big leaf, tons and tons of beautifully built pumpkins that looked very much like the one they just ejected from.
It now dawned on them that they are....no longer on Earth, in a sense, but in another world. Kinda a kingdom or something like it. The four of them looked sooo.....'not them', as their appearances changed alot, from head to toe.
The four men stood outside still gazing and looking at whatever their eyes could stumble upon.
"Hey hold this" Sindra handed the piece of wood he picked from the floor and handed it to Orcus.
"Hit me..." He requested.
'Thud'... Orcus did not delay in hitting him hard.
"Ooww... Not that hard...." Sindra cried.
"So, this....this is... real?" He ended taking a deep breath while scrubbing his head in pain...
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"....and now, we Arthorans are proud to have won this battle. Thanks to the highly extoled trained warriors we are blessed with... We keep conquering our enemies on every side and corner." Queen Avalon sipped into her cup of pressed fig drink and continued...
"We have now been freed from our enemies on the west and east. This, therefore, Arthorans, is to cause no fear in your hearts and minds. Now, I may make reference to our fastidious northern enemies.... The wolves. The alphas and lunas. They have been our worst enemies over the years." Queen Avalon sipped again!
"The wolves have been a very big threat to the dear people of Arthora. I keep getting reports of our travellers and gound pickers keeps getting killed. And I feel your pain my dears. I therefore command that no travellers or tourists will be allowed to move without a Ron or a mighty warrior..." Queen Arthora said and sat on her throne that was before the thousands of creatures hanging in mid air. "Now, oh Arthorans will you be given the opportunity to ask your questions. This month, the selected questionnaires should please separate themsleves from the crowd and come forward as you will now be permitted to ask your questions." The secretary announced to the crowd. "Don't go out there and say anything stupid Mia. I know you more than the depths of Helluria..."Pippie scolded Mia, pushing her forward. Mia flew along with other Arthorans but she looked different as she was so prepared for her question. "Greetings oh people of Arthora..... So, I've been wanting to ask oh Queen .......
As soon as the two fairies got to their house, the door was left open. The four of friends were gone. They both panicked as all sorts of thoughts began to flood through their minds. Have they been caught? Have the Queen heard? Are they in prison, or worse in Helluva?They both sat down on the sofa allowing silence rule over them for some time. "So, what are we going to do now?" Mia broke the silence. "Where could they be? They do not posses wings as a matter of fact, how would they escape the Rons?" "If the Queen or any of her guards sees those creatures, they are doomed! We are doomed!" Pippie lamented with intense fear in her eyes. The house looked scattered like it was robbed. They quickly packed some stuffs up and put them in order. As Mia bent and looked beneath the bed, she spotted a leaf with paint in it. She sniffed it and, Alas! It was from one of the four, they must have dropped it, when painting. "Let's go Pippie, we need to search for those creatures before it's too
"Hellu... what?" Where the hell is that? Sindra asked curiously. "Ooohh.." Pippie shrugged. "You do not want to know.." "It's a place where any Arthoran who breaks the rule of the Kingdom are thrown and left to suffer..." "It's also a place where humans are sent if they are caught here in Arthora!" Mia complimented."And so, what happens after they are thrown there?" Harry asked with eagerness. "Anyone who is thrown into Helluva has their safety right on their palm. Down there, you will see things and hear things that torments you!" Mia no looked scared as she continued speaking.."You will come face to face with your greatest fear and you will be tormented by it for days. If you are able to pass the trial, then, the sun has shone upon you. You are indeed lucky, I tell you no one has ever come out alive!""What kind of punishment is that? Doesn't make any sense, literally. In all of this so-called kingdom of yours, punishment has to be there and that way? That's shitty!" Orcus was
'Knock, knock', Nathan knocked as hard as he could on Harry's wooden door, of about 7 feet tall with the broadest smile he displays when he is about to pass on a goodnews. 'Who's there?' replied a tiny voice. Should probably be Harry's sister. 'Why does it always have to be her answering the door?' Nathan angrily thought. As he then changed the tone if his voice, trying to copy that of John's. "Tell Harry it's John and that I want to see him now". Nathan said, but this time, hiding his face from the tiny hole that bored through the old door, so, the little girl won't know it is him. After waiting for about 10 seconds, Harry burst the door open, smiling as hard as his pink lips could reach his ears. "Are we in?" He asked Nathan as though he had been praying all night for a goodnews, which he probably was, telling from his dull eyes that he barely had a proper night rest. "Well,...." Nathan said halfway as Harry grabbed his hand and pulled him over to a nearby parking lot. "Come on
Harry met up with Sindra and Orcus at the spot where they bought their first Acrylic paint. Harry was on a customized T-shirt that had the write up 'I Sleep At 01'. That should probably be the reason why his eyes looked dull when he met with Nathan. The three set of to the little cottage where 19years old Nathan Hendrix lived alone with Popsicle, his fluffy Chihuahua that Uncle Ford passed on to him on his graduation. Nathan rushed to his door as he heard the bell rang. His friends could tell, he had been sketching ideas that they would use for the upcoming competition. "Come in" Nathan welcomed the three, as they took their places and bumped into their favorite part of the house - the bed where Popsicle was lying soundly. Nathan's bed was so soft that one could literally swim in it. "Coffee?" Nathan rhetorically asked as he brought 3 teacups and presented it to his friends to sip so they won't fall asleep as they always do while having a conversation. Especially Harry. The young
As Harry shoved the door to his home open, he was aback by the scene he stumbled upon. "Whaaaaat???!!! No, no, no, no...." Harry screamed running towards the broken glasses and woods and torn pieces of cloth that lay helplessly on the unkept floor. Tears rolled repeatedly from his eyeballs down to his beautifully rounded cheeks and onto the already soaked piece of canvas. "It can't be....!!!" He wept profusely as he sat helplessly on the floor, his back leaning against the thin air that wasn't enough to hold the young man. At this point, he became unconsciously confused, trying to determine whether it was his heart or his art that has been shred apart. "You will all pay... I'll kill you all..." He screamed as loudly as his mature voice could go after he had successfully gathered the huge amount of remains, and then, dashed towards the direction of his room. Mr. Adam had taken the rest of his family which definitely excluded Harry to Bolton's park in town with his Ferari 250 GTO
"Boys! Getting ready for the competition? It's a few weeks away huh?" Uncle Ford said as his two boys who looked like birds with different colour splashes were quietly applying paint onto their canvasses blindfolded. "What are you up to this time? I see you're painting Jane, Sindra" Uncle Ford said amusingly which caused Sindra to quickly take off his blindfold as well as Orcus. "Ooooohhh.... Sindra c'mon dude. Approach her already. Your connection is stronger than you think you know" Orcus jested his brother who was now looking unusually at the work he just did which indeed portrayed some features of Jane. Like her thick eyebrows, her blue eyeballs and her majestic hair curl which were not clearly visible. "Ugghh... Why can't I concentrate?" Sindra lamented as he reached out to take another piece of canvas and attempted to try again. "Why don't you take a break and join me in the sitting room while I confer you a few tips?" Uncle Ford said to his sons as he smiled his way through
"I'm not your sweetheart and I'm not sitting anywhere. Infact, I'm not having your stupid meal. You know what? Take this..." Harry pulled the shirt and the sneakers he wore on his feet and threw it to the ground right next to his older brother. Then with the shorts he wore and the singlet on his broad looking body, he turned to take his leave when his father stopped him. "Harry, look here young man, it's your choice to make. You're a man now and I will not make choices for you. If you think being an artist and painting for years with those fuckin' brushes of yours, will make you succeed, which of course you never will, then SO BE IT! Have it your way" His father said in attempt to scare the young man showing him the harsh reality of life in just 5 minutes. Then took two steps and sat on a log of wood beside the fire they had set. Harry who was now looking emotionless took two more steps away when his mother called "Harry baby, please, listen to your father. There's a better life for