Chat room adventures

Alice groaned and pulled out her claymore, "if we can't find our ways out of the wall maze we'll just break through."

"That's a dumb idea," Rick said.

Alice put the point of the sword on the ground and glared at him, "you got a better idea?"

"Let me do it then."

"No, its my sword, I am perfectly capapble of breaking a wall with it."

"Whatever you say."

"If anybody else has any better ideas speak now."

"How about we use this, "Adam says waving a tine computer in front of Alice. "Just our luck you bust a wall into space and we all die."

Alice sighed and put away her Claymore. No destruction this time. Adam clicked a few buttons before leading the way again.

"Are you sure this time?" Asks Alice.

"Of course!" It only took a few seconds for them to find the Shuttle. "See! told ya! Let's get outta here."

"Thank you," Alice agreed and ran in front of Adam.

"You don't know where you're going!" Adam says.

"Point me in the right direction!"

"Left." Alice started to feel cocky and turned left. There was a sliding sound, a scream and a bang. Everybody went to see what had made the noise but found only an empty hall.

Alice sat up and wondered where she was, it was dark, maybe it was the place Bella was. But it wasn't as cold as she had discribed it. She stood up and shouted for help, "GUYS! HEY GUYS HELP!"

"They can't hear you," a cold but sexy(only word i could think of) said from behind her.

She spun on her heel and drew her sword, "who are you?" She demanded.

"Just call me Scipio."

"Scipio? Like from Venice?"

"Venice? Never been there, I picked the name out of a book."

"Thats how I reconized it. Where the hell am I?"

"I'm not all that sure either but I know how to get out." He extened his hand and she took it.

"Crap!" said Adam, "I wonder if we'll ever get out of here.

Adam illuminated the hall. no signs of struggle, no apparent trap doors. He stepped a foot out seeing if the floor would cave but it didn't.

"Come on," said Bella, "We have to find Alice!"

"Do you know where you're going?" Alice asks.

"Yeah, I think," Scipio replies.

"You think? Dear with me you better be damn sure."

"Fine I'm damn sure I know where this goes."

"Then where does it go?"

"An air ship hanger."

"That's where the highwind is!"

"The highwind?"

"Its the ship I came in on, I can radio my friends from there!"

Jabs Alice, We came in on a shuttle! The highinwd is staying away from the ship. you can still do what you said though.

"We should try and get back to the shuttle," said Adam, "Alice might be headed there anyway."

"Sounds Good," said Rick.

"Perhaps we should rethink that," said Nutty.

"Why?" asked Adam.

"Cause Rick thought it was a good idea." Adam snickered as Rick frowned at Nutty. Everyone got a lovely laugh from it as they headed for the shuttle.

Rick walks around looking for Bella, until he sees her with everybody. "stupid Rick" Rick says to himself. Then Rick just realizes that Alice is missing. "Alice!" Rick screams, then runs down the hall. "Alice where are you?" "I should never leave Alice alone" Rick thinks to himself. Rick finds a door but its locked. So Rick tries to kick the door down. But when he kicks it, he ends up back where Bella and everybody else is at. "Oh my god!" Rick thinks to himself. "What happened?" Rick wonders as he gets up and walks over to Bella. When Rick reaches Bella, Adam grabs Rick to drag him to the ship.

"Why are you and your friends here anyways?" Scipio asks.

"We were looking for another friend. Something took her here."

"Tell me... were these somethings invisible?"

"Yeah why?"

"OKay, um... run!" Scipio grabs Alice's hand and takes off running down the passage way. Alice's eyes finally adjust to the dark and it makes it so much easier to run.

"What are these things?" Alice asks as she runs.

"Weird creatures that like to eat girls."

"Then why are you running? You're not a girl are you?"

"No but I don't want you to get eaten and I can't slow them down!" They turn two corners and Scipio pins Alice against the wall so the things can't see/find her.

Nutty summons her trusty dire wolf Ravara.
"Look, guys, shall me and ravara go find her?"
They had all looked around the shuttle. Alice wasn't there.
"By yourself? Forget it!"
"Less people risked out there, the better." Nutty shrugged. "We must have a tracker somewhere, I could keep in contact."

"Mattster, listen." says someone.

"Who said that?" Mattster says out loud. Everyone stares at him.

"It's me... Ned."

"Ned??" Mattster says to himself, silently this time.

"Yes, Ned." The voise sighs. "Mr Knight, then."

"Mr Knight! Where are you?"

"Listen. I've embedded myself inside your mind, so that -"

"You've WHAT?" Everyone stares at Mattster again.

"Keep it down!" Ned hisses. "Remember when I came to get you to take you to Jamland? That really happened. Everyone else has forgotten due to Jay's magic, but you've remembered because I'm in here. I still need your help to track Jay and destroy him for good."

"Uh-huh," thinks Mattster, "and how am I meant to do that when no one knows who Jay is?"

"You'll find a way."

"Is Mattster crazy by any chance or do you all hear voices in your head?" Heather asks sarcastically.
"Not as a general rule but Alice can communicate that way. Maybe it's Alice," Nutty replies hopefully.
"Huh?" Mattster mutters, "Oh yeah. Yeah, it was Alice."
"What did she say?" Demands Rick.
"That she's uh... looking for us," Mattster bluffs.
"Nothing else?" Bella prompts, "Then I guess we should split up."
"Oh no. When is that ever a good idea?" Heather disagrees.

"What are these things?" She whispers.

"Shh, they're still around here." Alice waits in silence and finally gets a glimpse of Scipio's face, he's cute. "Okay they're gone, come on we've got to go faster!" He grabs a hold of he hand and runs twice as fast.

"How many friends do you have here?"

"Um lets see, Adam, Bella, Nutty, Matt, Rick, and Kitty. Oh and theres that girl Heather."

"Heather?" he froze, "you found my sister?"

"I guess so, she's with my friends now." Scipio quickly hugs Alice. "I've been looking for her for weeks." They start to go faster.

"Knowing my friends they're going to try to split up." Guys don't split up! Alice thinks to them.

"I like that idea," Nutty states.
"Sounds good to me," Adds Adam.
"I'm in," Roy adds.
"Why not," Rick grins.
"Then it's decided," Mattster decides, "And Alice would have totally agreed with us splitting up."

Heather sighs as they begin to sort themselves into groups. Mattster and Nutty go one way, Roy and Rick another. That leaves Bella, Adam and Heather.
"Okay, let's try the left path," Adam suggests.
"Didn't Nutty and Matt go that way?" Wonders Bella.
"That's right and the othrs went straight ahead." Heather confirms.
"Let's go right then," Adam declares and they set off into the dark.

"Oh no," Scipio says, "they know you're here now! Run!"

"We are running!"

"Crap they're gaining on us!" Scipio hits the wall and the floor opens up again. Alice falls through and Scipio jumps in after her. The floor/ceiling (as it is the ceiling now) closes up.

"OKay where are we now?"

"I have no idea."

"Perfect." Alice kicks the wall and sits down.

"You know I never asked before, what's your name?"

"Alice."

"Well Alice, welcome to wonderland."

Adam, Bella and Heather wander down the corridoor, calling Alice's name. Amidst the shouts and the thud thud of their steps, Heather's phone begins to ring.
"How do you get a signal out here?" Demands Bella.
"My brother is a technical genius," Heather replies as she presses the answer button.
"Hello?"
"Hi Heath. How are you?" Heather's sister's voice echoes around the room.
"Hey Claire. I'm good thanks. I guess you noticed I was missing?"
"Of course! Scipio was able to trace your path and has gone after you. Has he found you yet?"
"No. I haven't seen him."
"Drat. Well I've done some research. The creatures are called Opats and they eat girls so watch out."
"Okay, thanks for the advice. I'll be in touch," Heather and Claire exchange farewells and then Heather slips the phone back into her pocket.