CHAPTER TWO

Chapter 2 The drogs It looked at me with its bright green eyes, and then it started yelling out strange words, which didn’t seem to be words at all. I could see shadows getting closer. Jesse said “hold on to me!” I did just that and we blended in with the sticks, in fact I think we were sticks, because I couldn’t talk but I could still see. One of the drogs started grabbing sticks off the bushes. He grabbed me. I wanted to scream Jesse! But I was a stick so I couldn’t have screamed Jesse. Oh I hope Jesse got away, I also kind of hope they got Jesse too cause I really want him to be with me rather then be by myself. It took a day and a half to get to there camp. I was in a bucket the whole time so it seemed like forever. The good thing about being a stick is you don’t get hungry. They were talking in a different language the whole time, so to me it was all giber jabber the whole way there. When we got there they threw all the sticks into a building with all kinds of other sticks there were about fifty thousand other sticks. I was slowly transforming back into a girl. I hid under a pile of sticks, because I was a girl now and the drogs kept coming in and getting more sticks so I would kind of stand out a little. I broke a whole in the wall and crawled out and was trapped in a net. A smaller drog said “what are you and what is on your nose?” I put my hand on my nose, and it was a stick “I’m a……a human being.” “A human being what?” it asked me. “I’m just a human.” I answered. “What’s a human?” it asked me “I’m a human” I answered getting annoyed. “No you aren’t! Humans don’t have noses like that.” it replied “well I’m a different kind of human. Now can I go?” I asked. “What ever. MOM!” It yelled. I whispered “No no no no no no no. we’ve got to be quiet, lets play a game, the one that can be the quietest and fall asleep first wins.” “Yeah! Let’s do that! I can make myself fall asleep!” it hooted. “Yeah you do just that and you’ll win, I’ll try my hardest to beat you. 1...2...3 go! The little drog fell asleep almost instantly. I climbed of the gigantic net and fell on my head. I ran away from that horrid place with out even turning back once. I didn’t even get to see what it looked like before they threw me in to the building. But I really, truly and honestly I didn’t want to see it. I ran till I couldn’t move any more. My legs were killing me and I give any thing for something to drink and something to eat. I sat down under a willow tree, which was surrounded by at least twenty hawthorn trees. I sat there for a few moments when the willow tree opened up into a room. It didn’t surprise me much because I’ve realized anything is possible in this place. I went in and I was floating, sort of like I was under water only this time I could breathe. It was cold, and seemed to give me back some of my energy. I walked and walked for and an extremely long time. Then I came out in the same spot the same hawthorn trees, same willow, same everything. I reached into my pocket because it seemed to be heavier than it was when I first entered the willow tree, and I found a solid gold key with engraved markings, and diamonds welded into it. My eyes widened with amazement. The only word I could get myself to say was “wow, I guess anything is possible.” The willow tree leaned over me and whispered “run” I jump in astonishment that the tree just talked. I ran as fast as my feet could carry me. The hawthorn trees started pulling needles off there branches and throwing them at me, two of them went into my left ankle five into my right leg, ten in my back. I was getting slower and slower, because my body was getting torn to pieces by hawthorn needles. I fell over and landed on my back. The needles sunk in deep beneath my skin. I hollered ohwwwwwwwwwww! The trees started moving closer to me I started trying to crawl away, but the pain was unreal. I saw a young man come running out of the forest with a bow and arrow. He started shooting the trees back with his arrows. They started throwing needles again. Three hit me in the chest I screamed only this time I screamed “Jesse!” the young boy looked at me and turned his head while blocking the needles with his knifes. He came over to me and picked me up and we ran into the woods. I woke up in the back of a wagon about an hour later. I could hardly move. I had needles all over my body. I reached up to see if my nose was still a stick, it had gone back to normal. I saw the young man in the front of the wagon driving. I asked “who are you?” he said “my name is Ben, and you are Taylor, am I correct?” “Yes, do you know jessssss, I mean do you know a young boy about my age? Or, did you see a young boy?” “Only one, his name is Jesse, is that who you are looking for?” he answered. “Yes is he alright?” He can’t stand up very good. He tried to fight the drogs and they tore him to pieces. Not literally, but, I don’t want you to freak out when you see him. I mean, it’s not that bad if you think about it, because he just looks bad on the outside. I was staring at him, he looked so familiar. I asked, “Ben, where are we going?” “We’re going to Fronkoso.” He replied. “Fronkoso?” I asked “yes, it’s my village, they will make you better. Jesse will be a little bit better, I think.” These to creatures came running up beside our wagon. They had big eyes, long legs and little arms. One second there was nobody on them, and the next knights appeared on them. Ben said, “Meet me at fronkoso.” They disappeared again. Ben said, “Taylor, those are some of my knights, and their buggles.” I said “what are buggles?” “They are what my knights were riding.” He answered. I said “Ben I can’t breathe.” Ben said “hold on tight!” he whistled very loud, and I saw a dragon fly down. It grabbed the wagon in its mouth. He climbed out of the driver’s seat and ran over to me. He pulled the hair out of my face and screamed “starbeam go faster!” he grabbed a blanket out of the bottom of the wagon and put it over me from my chest down. He pulled my cloths of while the blanket was still on top of me. He pulled the needles out of my chest, arms, shoulders, legs, my stomach and my back. I gasped for air and screamed out like I had never had it before. He tore my shirt into little pieces and set them a slide. He put his hand on my head and said “I was gonna wait to do this until we got to fronkoso, but if I don’t do it now you won’t be here much longer. You’ve got poison and it’s to close to your heart. You need to be strong. He pulled out a knife and a bottle of something from the bottom of the wagon. He pored the liquid that was in the bottle onto my cuts. My skin bubbled and it burned like crap. While it was bubbling he stick the knife into where the needles had just been to get out any little pieces of needle that might still is in there. He pored the stuff on them one more time when they were more opened. Green oos came poring out. He placed the pieces of my shirt onto them and said “don’t move” my skin burned so bad I don’t think I would be able to move even if I wanted to. “It will be best if you try to get some sleep. We won’t be there till morning.” I could hardly breathe, and I feel very weird laying there naked under the blanket. I had never slept naked before. He said “Taylor, try to sleep, nothing can hurt you while you’re with me and starbeam. Don’t worry about anything.” I closed my eyes and fell asleep seconds afterwards. I dreamed about Jesse and his fight with the drogs. They tied him to a pole and scratched his face. They bit his feet, and set fire to his arms. They pulled out a knife and screamed “cut off his hands!” Jesse screamed “do you honestly think that I will tell you where she is if you torture me? I’ll never tell you, ever!” the head drog walked over to him and spit on his face. He said “I am bombgo, the leader of all the drogs. Why do you let yourself get tortured over some silly little girl? Oh, I see by the look on your face. You’re in love with a puny human, aren’t you?” he stuck his fingernail into Jesse’s chest and drug them down to the bottom of his stomach. He turned to the other drogs and said, “Every 30 minutes he doesn’t tell you something about the girl cut off one of his fingers.” He turned back around and gave Jesse an evil smirk, then walked off. The other drogs were eating buggle legs and gnawing on other on bones of other animals. 30 minutes had passed in my dreams. Jesse still hadn’t said anything. Jesse turned into a huge blue monster and broke all the chains. He flew away from them and dropped out of the sky about a mile away from the camp. He was so weak yet he kept moving. The grass got sharp and stuck into his feet to where he couldn’t move. I woke up suddenly. Ben said “finally your awake.” I woke up in a bed with a blanket. I tried to move but my body wouldn’t allow me to. Ben said “don’t move, you need to lie still so the rest of the poison can come out.” I said, “I know what happened to Jesse! They tied him to a pole and tried to kill him and,” “Taylor, Jesse said all that happened was he got scratched up from fighting, and he does that a lot, especially when he knows something they are doing is wrong, he won’t let them get away with it. He brought this to him self.” Ben said “but I had a dream of what happened.” I replied. Just then a knight walked in and said “your highness, you have to come down stairs and help your father plan for the war.” “What war?” I asked “why, the war against the drogs.”