Inkling of Magic

Prim~

I stared up into the trees, squinting as the sun hit my eyes. Running towards the tree Jason was in, I began to climb towards the top scratching my hands on the way up.

“What is it?” Alis asked from the ground. Tyson walked towards the trunk placing his hands on the thick wood.
Alis reached for his shoulder pulling him back. “I don’t think you should go up” she whispered.

Tyson shook his head, “No I’m fine really Alis. I can do this trust me!” He said trying a smile. Chris began to laugh, “Tyson can’t climb a tree! Oh god that is hilarious!”

I jumped towards the closest branch swinging my body up to a higher branch. Letting go I swung upwards grabbing on to the leaves above. Squealing I jumped up towards Jason almost pulling him down with me.

“Don’t your going to make up fall” He said grabbing on to a branch. I laughed nervously peeking over his shoulder.

“What…” I stopped suddenly, large castles stretched into the sky above the clouds. I could see people or things…bustling through wide streets. Caravan stood on either end, merchants stretching over the sides offering things of purchase.

Blaire~

“Would you like some cheese little child”, I turned at the sound of a grindy voice. An old fey stretched her long body towards me pulling a sack of foul smelling cheese behind her.

“No thanks” I managed jerking away from the foul stench. She grabbed on to my hand, “No deary don’t go, Maybell have more for sale. You like Maybell’s things” She began to nod eagerly her thin white hair dancing around her gaunt features.

I pulled away from her grip stumbling over towards another cart. “Sorry Maybell” I started, “I have to go!” Turning quickly I began to sprint through the busy streets pushing people away from me as they tried to sell more stuff.

“Hey Blaire!” I heard an excited voice hiss at my elbow. I looked down to see two muddy looking boys staring up at me.

“You wanna see what I looted?” The tallest said flashing his rotting teeth.
“Alf!” I groaned, “You promised you wouldn’t steal anymore”
“Me and Kito couldn’t help it! Some wierdos dropped out of no where with these weird clothes on” Alf said pulling out a heavily studded necklace. I whistled grabbing at the largest diamond.

“Dropped out of no where you say?” I frowned.
“Aha!” Kito laughed, “Had a lot of nice things!” Kito pulled out a small yet sharp knife.

Chris-


I began to run as Prim screamed out loudly of the castle. I watched as she slid down the tree pulling Jason with her. He cursed as they both fell to the floor. Alis pulled a strand of hair out of her eyes,

“A castle?” Cass muttered dragging her feet through my drawing. I gasped at her, “You know how long it took me to do that!” I squealed.
“Yeah about two minutes, now let’s go see this castle?” Cass muttered walking away from the mess she had made.

“What about Alis’s jewels?” Tyson asked.

“They probably went their anyway, the thieves” Prim said. I looked up into the sky. Clouds rolled across the setting sun casting a long shadow over the ground.

Casilda:

I stood back and watched the others talk. Now what were we going to do? We were in a strange land, with strange things hanging around and strange people chasing us.

Alright, I admit it. We were lost. Very, very lost.

"So," I asked and stepped forward, butting into the conversation. "Now what are we going to do? Go too the castle or try to find a way back to camp?"

Jason sighed and slung an arm around my neck. Everyone else just stared at me. I decided to ignore to Jason and his antics for a moment.

"What?" I asked. "We need a plan... Don't we?"

Jason spoke up from beside me, "She's right, you know."

Alisanne
I had ran, climbed a tree, fell down the same tree but nothing mattered once I saw that majestic castle ahead of us. After a while of thinking a getting nothing of it, we sat down, letting us god down because of how tired we were.'

"We should go back" I said, breathing heavily because of the immense pressure I felt against my lungs and ribs preventing from breathing right.

"We should explore more, really. Dudes this is exciting" Chris said grinning. Sometimes it was quite amazing watching Chris say silly things one after another, but what could we do? Nothing, we couldn't prevent him from being silly.

"Chris, why don't you leave the thinking part to us for a while?" Cass said, pursing her lips as she finished.

Jason

"This is pretty exciting though," I couldn't help but grin. I'd just seen a castle! And what a castle it had been. "Besides, was it just me or did you get the feel that Earth could very soon meet with an untimely demise? I'd rather be here and alive than there and being killed by fairy folk."

"Do you think that's what they are?" Prim mused. I shrugged. What did it matter what sort of weird creatures they were?

"Okay, votes for going back?" Alis stuck her hand up very quickly. She was the only one.

"Castle, yeah!" Chris yelled. "Come on guys, hands up!" His excitement ebbed a little when the others didn't agree.

"Sorry mate," I said with a grin. "Okay, let's head off in the direction the thieves took. They weren't hiding their tracks so we might be able to follow where they went or at least take a wander and keep an eye for them."

Casilda:

I looked around at everyone, ignoring Jason's arms around my shoulders.

"So, we follow these tracks?" I said out loud. "To where, Jason? The Castle? I don't think so."

Jason sighed and shook me a little.

"Why not?" he asked, looking at everyone else.

"Alright," I muttered and shrugged off his arm. "We'll go look for Alis's precious necklace."

Can I join?

Yeppums, you can join!

Sorry everyone, but I went away for a while so I couldn't post but I will right....now!

Prim~

I jogged after the group as they followed the light tracks in the sodden earth. The fresh smell of leaves met my nose making sigh with happines. This place was beautiful I had to admit, and even though I was so excited I was almost crying I couldn't help but feel a little home sick.

I looked up into the sky trying to see the sky lines of the castles fortress walls brimming around its large and exotic foundations.

"What do you think will happen when we get there!?" Chris began to jump on the spot, "Do you think they'll give us food, water and the royal treatment?"

Tyson scoffed, "Yeah right!" He began to laugh squinting when he stepped on his wounded leg. "Just like those thieves who were only taking our stuff for safe keeping!"

Chris pouted his lips crossing his hands across his chest sulkily, "I didn't ask for you to be sarcastic Tyson, I just wanted to know what they would do with us!"

"And he answered! Most probably kill us, slaughter us, and make us in to mince meat" Cass said planily moving a branch from our path. I stopped suddenly, the tracks had died away.

"The tracks-" I began before being interupted by Jason.

"Can you hear that! It sounds like horse hooves." Alis surged forward staring out from behind a large boulder.

"The castle!" She hissed with excitement, "It is right in front of us!"

Casilda:

"No way," I said and joined Alis. She was right. The castle was right there.

I didn't look away as Jason joined us, throwing an arm over my shoulders. I shrugged it off and grabbed Alis when she surged forwards. I pulled her back.

"Alis!" I hissed, holding her back. "You can't just rush in there! See the guards?" I was refering to the dozen or so Haec' guards lurking outside the castle gates. "They'll probably kill us on sight!"

"She's right," Prim whispered from behind me. I looked back over my shoulder at her.

"None of us can just go rushing in there," I muttered and pulled everyone out of sight. "We need a plan."

**Is it alright if I make a character for Alphia?**

Prim~

"I think I have one!" Chris hissed eagerly placing his hands up in the air. Cass grabbed at them and pulled them back down to his sides, looking around to make sure the Haec' Gaurds hadn't seen.

"No more of your plans!" Tyson said sourly, "You are the one who got us in this mess." I bit the insides of my lips are Tyson and Chris began to quarrel. Closing my eyes I began to think. There had to be a way to get into their without being seen.

I froze suddenly. I could hear the loud noise of horse whinnies behind me. Looking up I watched as a horses tail whipped behind me the sound of a gruff voice receding towards the gates floated towards me.

I looked out to see a wagon attatched a stocky golden shire horse. His feathers man bounced across his golden white skin as it shook its buly head majestically. I gasped as the horses black eyes met my own.

Sitting back down I grinned, "Follow me" I said quickly standing to my feet. "But be quiet" I said warningly creeping out from behind the bushes. The horse whickered softly raising its head into the sky. Moving towards the wagon my eyes fluttered in all directions making sure I wasn't spotted.

"What are you doing!" Alis hissed, I turned to see her behind me following stealthily in front of the others. Pressing a finger to my lips I lefted myself carefully up into the wagon falling into what smelled like food waste. Slipping through potato peels I landed on the bottom, the strong smell making me gag.

I felt someone drop in next to me. Telling from a disguested sound the others had also dropped into the bottom of the wagon.

"Look Morran this food is for the poor. As the Snow Queen ordered I am bringing scraps for those disgusting vermins on the streets and intend to leave it for those scavangers!" I felt the wagon tip slightly as someone climbed into the seat.

Keeping my head down, I tried not to breathe.

"Yip yip carmen!" The same voice said as the wagon began to roll towards the front gates.

Casilda:

I tried not to breath too deeply as the wagon rolled forward. This was the most riduclous idea Prim had come up with... Okay, maybe it was one of the better ones but still, it stunk!

I gave Prim narrow eyed look and tried not to gag. Prim looked like she was trying not to do the same. Alis had her eys closed and looked like she wanted to yell at something-or was it someone?-while Tyson was leaning against me and wincing a lot. It seemed like his leg was really getting to him.

Chris was bouncing up and down with the rhythm of the wagon, grinning like mad. He didn't even seem to notice the filth he was sitting in.

This is so disgusting, I thought, looking around some more. Jason was sitting opposite me, smirking. I zipped my jacket up and looked away.

Suddenly the wagon rolled to a stop and tilted as someone got down off it.

Jason

The wagon rose and fell as it bundled into the castle. The rhythm would have been almost soothing if it wasn't for the stench of potato peelings and rotting scraps of food. This stuff wasn't edible! Especially after it had been sat on by five human teenagers. They couldn't have fed it to pigs in my opinion.

There wasn't opportunity for talk in the wagons but I pulled faces to keep myself amused. I wasn't trying to make the others laugh of course, I was just bored. As far as amazing new worlds went, this wasn't my ideal mode of transport.

"Woooah Carmen," the driver said loudly. I heard him step down and the sound of his feet receded along a passageway. Now was our chance.

"Out and hide!" I hissed. I wanted to see what these aliens looked like. If we were going to blend in we had to have a better idea of what we needed to do. We also didn't want to stay on this wagon when they were ready to off-load.

Prim took the lead again, climbing out first and the rest of us followed. Tyson was having trouble with his leg so I gave him a boost over. We were in a small room that looked to be used for storage. Fortunately there were a lot of sacks of food, enough to hide us. I wedged myself between two so I could look out but not be seen. Chris climbed inside an empty sack with an excited grin. Idiot.

Casilda:

We were all crouched in an alley now, watching a few of the weird people as they went about their business.

"What are doing?" I whispered, looking around.

Tyson was holding onto his leg while everyone else was watching the street. I moved to Tyson's side.

"How bad is it?" I asked and Tyson let me check. I winced and covered the wound again. It looked really nasty. So nasty I almost gagged. "It's bad," I announced and looked towards everyone else.

"Now what do we do?" Alis asked, frowning.

Yeah! It hasn't died, cool beans! There are still places if others are interested but it will have to be an Alphian character.

Prim~

Using all my strength I lifted myself from the cart and fell into the alley way where the others were perched. My leg muscles were stinging, my arms were heavy as lead, my eyes kept fuzzing up making it hard to see...this was not what the Camp's brouchue had said would happen.

It turned back to see Tyson and Cass talking softly and staring at his wounded leg. This was just great! I heard a few loud voices walk past, and than dissapear. I crept up towards the wall and stared out to watch the people.

Covering my mouth I tired not to scream, we are definietly not in Kansas anymore, Toto!
A group of fey crowded around the wagon sniffing loudly at the food scraps. One grabbed at the food but to have it swatted away by the wagon driver.

"One dime to eat!" He shouted loudly. The fey let out a cry of defeat, it was definite they were under fed. Their skin stretched over their skulls disgustingly showing every dip.

Blaire~

I walked back up towards the city gates sighing in defeat. The humans had vanished without a single trace. Their tracks and scent, all of it gone as if they were never there. I began to doubt the little thieves.

They obviously hadn't come back to the gates because of the traders flocking into Arpen Vale a town just west of here, you could get good things from Traders....that is, if you aren't caught.

I was also going to go to Arpen Vale, though, I had decided to hang around the Gates for awhile. Beggars crowded around the Wagon looking greedly into the mass of foul smelling peels.

I felt sorry for them. Who wouldn't! The Snow Queen sat in her fancy ice palace using her food scraps to feed "lowly" fey who kissed the floor she walked on. How I hate the Snow Queen! I stared away to see a number of potato peels leading into an alley way. I frowned, that was wierd.

Pushing past the wagon driver I ignored his numerous curses and walked towards the peels.
"What are we going to do!" A voice hissed, "If I knew do you think I would be sitting here waiting to be caught by Haec' Guards!" A voice heavy with frustration snapped.

Pocking my head down the alley way I gasped.
"Humans!" I gasped my hand flying towards the sword at my side. I heard one of them scream and another speak wildly of death. I stopped, humans do have a high bounty on their heads.

Okay very very long post but all well! Blaire wants to turn the humans in but make it seem like you guys don't know okay. (I mean the humans)