The Lost City

Damion

He missed Tanya. It was a relief to see her, though he wouldn't admit it.

"Have fun at you're...sleepover," Damion rolled his eyes. Tanya looked so pitiful that he considered staying.

"Please!" She whispered. "I've missed you so much. Don't leave." Damion pursed his lips.

"Maybe you shouldn't have left us," he replied, bitterly. "It's not just you who have suffered."

Tanya's bottom lip trembled. "I know. It's just, I can't go back to the Lost World. It's better if I stay here."

Damion couldn't stand it. He kissed Tanya on both cheeks and sighed. "I'll be back soon," he told her. "You're like my sister, you know. I wouldn't be able to stay away from you."

Tanya looked to the ground. "Come back soon?" She asked.

"Sure," Damion sighed.

"And, Damion?" She called as he started downstairs.

"Yeah?" He answered.

"Don't tell anyone you saw me. I'm trying to keep this a secret. I want to see them...just...not now."

Damion nodded and left quickly, heading for the Lost World.

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He pounded on Laurie's door. He had met her through Tanya and since then they had become good friends. He knew how much she missed her.

She opened the door, smiling at Damion. "Haven't seen you in a while. What've you been doing?"

Damion gave a small smile in return. "Can I come in?" He asked, excited.

Laurie cocked her head to the side. "Something wrong?"

Damion shook his head. "I've...I've found Tanya," he blurted out.

Lyanna walked out of the bathroom in time to hear Tanya say, "I know. It's just, I can't go back to the Lost World. It's better if I stay here."

Lost World? She thought.
A moment later Tanya turned to her, and smiled. "Would you be up for pizza? You must be starving."
Lyanna nodded. "I've never had it before, but I'll try it." Tanya shook her head and went to the phone. She's sixteen and hasn't had pizza. She thought.

Gillim

He ducked his head in the hopes that the shopkeeper wouldn't see his face.

"YOU! What are you doing here?" The man's eyes narrowed dangerously behind his glasses.

Gillim flashed a wide smile. "Oh! Jerome, you've opened your own shop! How lovely!"

"Don't you talk to me like that," Jerome snapped.

"Like what?"

"Like we're old buddies or something!"

Sharonda looked very confused. "Am I missing something?"

"Yes." Jerome turned to Sharonda. "DON'T stick around this guy, he's bad news."

"Oh Jerome, you're so funny."

**Still waiting on Laurie's response. Is Pudin still in this?**


Tanya

She ordered the pizza and made sure to have it delivered to her house. She returned to Sadie and Lyanna.

"So?" Tanya asked. Sadie and Lyanna looked up.

"So..." Sadie said, shyly. Tanya smiled at her as warmly as possible.

"I'm not really good with this whole sleepover thing, so I'm leaving the schedule up to you guys. What should we do first?" Tanya asked.

sorry for taking so long,I wasn't home.

Laurie
I opened the door and it was Damion. What he told me left me open mouthed.Tanya, I thought, he found Tanya.I took out a small lock of my blonde hair out of my face and stared at him with shock.
"What...I mean-how-when?" I said, trying to make a complete sentence.
"Yes" he said breathless."I went to-well-to the human world today, I don't even know how, but...puff, she was suddenly there with a bunch of human girls"
I was shocked, how could she be in the human world? I then realized Clotho was inside, so I went out and left the door ajar. Her reaction might have been too extreme like wanting to go look for her in the middle of the evening or so.
"But...she was fine?" I asked.
"Yes, but you got to keep the secret" he replied.
"What, I mean why? we miss her so much we have to go look for her, how..." but he interrupted me midsentence.
"Yes, just not now, you've got to wait."

Clotho


She browsed Laurie's dresses trying to see if she could find anything she liked. Laurie was taking an awful lot of time answering her door. What was taking so long? They had to get ready for tonight's party.

When Laurie came back, she looked alittle flushed."Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied.

"Who was at the door?"

(sorry its so short, I'l post more later. Can someone in the mortal realm bring in Dylan?)

Sharonda watched the two men argue for a while. They seemed to have no intention of stopping.

Then seven bells tolled across the city.

Sharonda screamed. The two looked at her, startled. "The gathering is in a half an hour! I can't go dressed like this!" Her clothes were covered in dry mud.
She was close to going into a panic attack. "I need to get home. Right now! I'm never going to make it in time..." She grabbed Gillim's hand and led him out of the shop. She darted out of the building, running home, almost dragging Gillim along.

She stopped outside her door, gasping. She opened the door. "Come on, I can make you some hot chocolate or something..." She didn't wait for him to answer, but pulled him inside. She put a kettle over a roaring fire. "Wait here." Sharona ran into her room, shut the door, and began frantically going through her drawers. It's got to be in here somewhere. She thought. After a moment longer she sighed in relief. She pulled a red dress from the drawer. Her mother had made this for her, before she dissapeared.

Her mother had had a way with clothes, and even though she had had it since she was a hundred, it still fit her perfectly. It was plain-looking, with only a small ribbon at the back to decorate it, but Sharonda wouldn't wear another dress for the Lost World. She put it on and came back into the kitchen. Gillim was gone.

Sharonda sighed. Some people... She thought, irritated. She poured herself a cup of hot chocolate. The small clock on the wall said seven ten. She would have just enough time to drink her hot chocolate, and get to the party.

She finished it and smoothed out her dress. She opened the door, closed it behind her, and began walking down the road. The ground was dry now, so she didn't have to worry about slipping. She soon was walking in a crowd of fairies, all of which were going to the same place. There were five minutes left until it started.

Gillim

As soon as Sharonda had left the room, Gillim slipped out of the house. Pushy, Sharonda, very pushy... He grinned. The poor girl seemed very tense and out of sorts. Perhaps all she needed was a vacation from the Lost World.

He watched as she left the safety of her house, and the fairy began chanting under his breath, watching the girl closely. The land around them began to shift subtly as they faded from their own world and appeared in the land of mortals. Gillim's grin widened.

It didn't look as though she'd noticed a thing.

Sadie

"What should we do first?"

I grinned. Well, seeing as Lyanna hasn't had a sleepover before, I think we need to do an initiation rite with her! I turned to Lyanna and smiled evilly,
"So, would you prefer to run down the street naked, or eat dirt?"
Lyanna looked so stricken that I started laughing.
"Ly, I was...joking...sleepovers are... fun!" I wheezed between gulping breaths. Nervously, she smiled back, and soon all three of us were laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. I was so glad the tension had gone that I laughed just that but harder.

Sharonda

It took Sharonda a few seconds to realize what had happened. At first, she had kept walking. Then she had stepped on something that crunched under her weight. She stumbled backwards, startled. She almost kept going backwards. Her back seemed surprisingly light, the usual weight gone. She peered over her own shoulder and nearly fainted.

Her wings were gone.

She almost screamed, but instead stood there, speechless. She saw Gillim a little ways away, looking at her. She hurried towards him, but instead tripped. Her balance was way off. She got up again. "What did you do?!" She shouted.

Gillim smiled. "I brought you to Earth of course. You looked like you needed a vacation." He said smugly.

Sharonda resisted the urge to slap him. "Well, what do we do now?!"

Gillim shrugged. "I don't know about you, but I'm going to have some fun." Sharonda groaned as he walked off. I can't just wander around by myself. She thought. She hurried after him.

Lyanna

It felt good to laugh. Lyanna hadn't laughed in a long while. Even after she was left wheezing and out of breath, she enjoyed it. There was a knock on the door. Tanya opened it. It was the pizza guy. Lyanna sat down on the steps and watched, fascinated, as she brought the pizza in.

Gillim

Glancing over his shoulder, Gillim was pleased though not surprised to see Sharonda following him down the street. "Decided to join me? How nice. Perhaps we can make a time of it together."

"Take me back," Sharonda growled, shivering in the night air. "Right. Now."

"Aw, you're no fun." Gillim was still grinning. "But I intend to change that. We've got this entire realm of dreary little mortals to lighten up. Maybe you'll catch something as we go along."

"I sincerely doubt that." She sounded very cross.

((should they run into a human?"

((Definetely.))

Sharonda sighed. So this is what Jerome meant. She thought crossly. She realized that she was walking on hard ground, harder ground than any she had seen before. She looked down. It looked like a slab of rock, but somehow different. She jumped on it experimentally.

Gillim was getting pretty far ahead, so she hurried to catch up with him. She saw someone else coming towards them. Sharonda was worried. That's a mortal. She thought.

((Okay, trying to bring Dylan into the picture.))

Dylan

Dylan was walking down the street going home from work. Another long day. He looked down at his feet, the feet that had carried him through all of his troubles. Now he hoped they could carry him for abit longer.

He looked infront of him again, seeing a guy and a girl coming toward him, Wow, there's something different about them.

*Sorry it's short,I've got to get busy at school.*

Gillim

Oh joy! A mortal!

Gillim grinned and strode forward briskly. "Hello my good sir! What might your name be?"

The boy looked at him, bewildered. He looked quite weary. "Uh, Dylan. Why...?"

"Dylan, what a lovely name. My name is Gil, and this is Sharon." He extended his hand in greeting, hoping very much that Dylan the mortal would shake it. "We're new in town, and I was just trying to meet some new people."

((so yeah, if Dylan shakes his hand something bad's going to happen to him. Just warning you ahead of time.))

Dylan

He didn't know how to respond to this new guy. He didn't want to come off as stuck up, but he didn't get a good vibe from him either.He looked at Gil's face and tried to see if he was being serious or trying to pull a fast one on him. He wasn't sure, Gil's face gave away nothing. What the heck, the worst he can do is rob me of my twenty bucks in my wallet.

Dlyan reached out and firmly grasped Gil's outstreached hand.