A Tale of Worlds
Part One
Chapter 1
Madison Holl trudged down the hallway of Southerthen Middle, to the door at the end.
Her day hadn’t been great, most of her days weren’t. She had no friends, because everyone thought that such a shy girl that talks to no one except when spoken to, was a little weird. So no one bothered to be friends with her. She was an exellent student, all A’s. But no one found that exciting except her teachers. Madison always dressed in black, because she blended in better that way. But it did stand out her blonde hair which was always in a black head band.
As Madison walked down the hall with her back pack loaded with books from the school library. Three girls came down the other end. They all had there hair in ponytails. And were all wearing coats with fur lined hoods. There names were Clara, Belle and Katlyn.
“Oh look!” Clara cried, the leader of the trio. “It’s little miss shy!”
The other girls laughed with Clara as Madison passed by them.
“Oh! And where did you get those clothes?” Belle said. Which she’s said the same thing to Madison at least everyday.
“None of your business.” Madison would say. And walk on.
As Madison walked out of the door, she could still here the girls laughing behind her.
When she got home she stopped by her Grandfather’s office. But he wasn’t there.
Probably off golfing somewhere, Madison thought.
She went into the kitchen and dumped her backpack on the floor by the kitchen table.
“Hello, Miss.” Katy the cook said. “How was school?”
And Madison was give the same answer she always did: “Hello, Katy. It was fine.”
“Would you like some ice cream, miss?” Katy’s Irish accent always made Madison smile.
“Yes, chocolate please.” Madison answered.
After Madison got her ice cream, she grabbed her backpack and ran upstairs to her room.
As she ate her ice cream she tried to figure out what the square root of 49 was. But before she could, she heard a loud noise coming from outside.
She went to the window and looked out. There was a boy with black hair wearing a black leather coat and jeans lying at the foot of the driveway and a skateboard rolling down the road on its own.
Madison flew down the steps, and grabbed her coat off the hook.
It was winter, so there was ice all over the driveway. She could tell why the boy was now on the ground because his skateboard probably slipped on the ice and he fell off.
Dumb boys, Madison thought, always doing something stupid.
When she got to the end of the driveway without falling down and breaking something, the boy was already getting up.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked. She usually didn’t talk to anyone, but the boy just fell down, he might be hurt.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” The boy grumbled. He went over to where his skateboard was a picked it up. “I just slipped.” He looked about Madison’s age, 12 or 13.
“Uh…W-would you like to come in for s-some hot coco?” Madison asked.
The boy’s light blue eyes looked like ice when the sun hit them. “I can’t right now. Bye.” And he skated boarded away.
Madison went back up the driveway, looking back at the boy when she got up to the porch.
Her house was like something right out of the 1800’s history book. Since her grandfather was rich. She got all nice things. DSI’s MP3s, cell phones. But she wasn’t happy being rich. She wanted to have a normal house and a normal life. Just like all the other kids in the 20ith century. She felt like Bruce Wayne from Batman. Always lonely. She was lonely even if her grandfather was there. He just sat in his office reading about golfing or something else that old people do.
When she got inside, Sara the housemaid was coming down the stairs.
“What was all the commotion outside, miss?” She asked.
“Oh, a boy fell off his skateboard on our driveway.”
“Goodness! He should be more careful! You could go breakin’ somethin’ on those horrid things!” Sara’s Irish accent was so funny when she talked.
“I asked him if he wanted to come in for hot coco, but he just raced off.” I hung up my coat on the coat hanger.
“Well that’s boys for you! Always rushin’ into things.” Sara went down the hall to the laundry room.
But that wasn’t what was bothering, Madison. She was so close to having a friend.
Chapter 2
The next day at school, Madison looked for the boy with black hair. She didn’t see him anywhere.
On her way home from school, she looked for him too.
When she got home, she kept looking out the window, in hopes that he would come skateboarding by. He didn’t.
“Madison!” her grandfather called.
Madison came running down the steps, she ran into her grandfather’s arms.
“Oh my good girl!” her grandfather said.
“Grandpa!” Madison said. But then she pulled away from his grasp. “Where have you been? It’s been a whole night!”
“Oh, just golfing, I had to get that last whole just perfect!” He looked down at his granddaughter’s worried face. “Oh, nothing to be worried about, now, how about I take you out to dinner?”
Madison stood there a moment before answering. “No thanks.” And she walked up the steps to her room.
She felt like bursting into tears. Why would her grandfather care more about golfing then her?
Just then, she heard a noise outside. She looked out the window, and there was the same boy on the skateboard!
He was wearing that same black leather jacket and jeans, he stopped in front of Madison’s house, and started coming up to the door.
Madison ran down the steps and to the door. Just when the door bell rang, she opened it.
The boy looked startled for a moment, “Uh, I just…um…”
Madison smiled. “Yes?”
“I just wanted to say I’m sorry for running off yesterday.” He said, he looked down at his shoes.
“I-it’s ok, w-would you like to come in for some hot coco now?” Madison said.
The boy looked like he was going to run off again, it was that look in his eyes again, it looked like lightning. “Um…Sure…” The boy didn’t seem to be too sure of himself.
He’ll get used to me. Madison thought
Madison led the boy through the long hallway to the kitchen.
“Katy, could you make us some hot coco please?” Madison asked.
“Well of course, miss. It’ll be my pleasure.”
“Miss?” the boy asked. Then he looked ashamed he had said anything.
“Oh, we have a cook and a maid, they call me miss.” Madison said.
“Oh.”
“So, what’s your name?” Madison asked, once they had their hot coco.
“Leon.”
“Mine’s Madison. Do you like to skateboard?”
“Yeah, it’s cool.”
“Do you go to school here?”
The boy looked confused for a second but then he said, “Um…No, I go…uh…somewhere else.”
“Oh. Where do you live?”
Again, the boy looked confused. “I’m visiting here from…Uh…somewhere…” He was trying hard to think.
“It’s ok, if you don’t remember. Would you like to see my room?”
“Um…sure.”
They climbed the stairs to her room. When they got to her room, Leon said: “It’s very…uh…nice up here.”
“Thanks, I try to make it look nice.”
“Doesn’t your maid do that?”
“Well, um…”
“Oh I’m sorry, didn’t mean to pry.”
“I-it’s ok.”
Leon looked at his watch. “I have to go, my…uh…grandma will be worried.”
“Oh ok, bye! It was nice talking with you, see you around.” Madison led Leon to the door.
“Bye.” She said.
“Bye.” Leon said, and he skateboarded down the road.
There’s something strange about that boy, Madison thought.
Chapter 3
That night, Madison thought over the day’s events. She tried to figure out what was so strange about Leon.
I mean, boys are shy sometimes, so that couldn’t be it. And stuttering isn’t new. But, the way her answered when I asked him where he lived. He didn’t seem to know, or something. That’s what was weird…
“BANG!”
Madison sat straight up in bed.
What was that!? She thought.
Just then, Sara came into the room. “Sorry about that, miss. I dropped somethin’”
“That’s ok, Sara, glad you weren’t hurt.” Madison laid back down in bed.
She fell asleep. She started dreaming that she had friends and everyone at school didn’t tease her anymore.
But then her dreams were interrupted.
Someone had put their hand over her mouth.
She jerked open her eyes, she grabbed the hand that was on her mouth. She tried to scream.
“Shhhhhh!” the person whispered. “Relax, it’s just me.”
The person turned on a flashlight.
It was Leon!
Leon took his hand off, Madison’s mouth. “Sorry about that, I didn’t know how else to wake you.”
Madison stared at him. “W-w-what, h-h-how?” She stammered. When she finally got control of herself she said: “What are you doing?!”
“Shhhhhh! Not so loud!” Leon hissed.
“I have a pretty good reason to be loud! You snuck into my house and into my room! For what?! Just to say hi?! What is the meaning of this?!” Madison cried.
Leon covered Madison’s mouth again. “Please be quiet! I don’t want anyone to know I’m here! I need your help.”
“To what? I think you already know how to break into—“
But before, Madison could finish, there was a loud noise outside.
Leon rushed the in window, his eyes got wide.
“We have to go, now.” He said.
“What?—“ Madison started.
“No time to ask anything, we have to go, now.”
Madison didn’t know what else to do, Leon seemed to be a bit crazy, but also, that noise didn’t sound good either, it sounded like something roaring…
She grabbed her robe and boots and her purse.
“Ok. Let’s go.”
Chapter 4
“Ok, let’s go outside.” He started towards the window.
“No, no, no. I am not going to climb out of a window.”
“ROARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Madison, now!” Leon grabbed my hand and we ran through the door that opened into the hall.
They flew down the steps. And out the front door. But before they could get out onto the road, something landed infront of them.
“Well, look what we have here.” The thing said. It’s voice was deep and gravely.
It was at least 8 foot tall, it looked human but it had hair almost everywhere and it’s eyes glowed red. It had a brown leather thing on it’s chest with a seal on it, but Madison couldn’t tell what the seal was.
Leon pulled Madison behind him and starting backing up to the house, but another one of those things landed behind them.
“L-l-leon…w-w-what’s g-g-going on?” Madison’s voice barley worked.
“Oh dear, we have upset the, little lady.” The thing in front of them said kindly.
Leon stood up straight. “What do you want, Morvid?” He said.
“The thing has a name?” Madison whispered.
“Oh my dear prince, I’ve only come to take you home! Your father is so worried about you!” Morvid said.
Prince?! Madison thought
“Father isn’t worried, all he wants is to lock me up until I’m 18 and then he’ll probably kill me. All he wants is my throne!” Leon seemed to be getting angry.
Madison had read plenty of stories about evil kings who wanted their heir’s throne. She’s read plenty of stories about evil monsters too. But this wasn’t a story, it was real.
“Leon, we have to get out of here.” Madison said. She had to idea where she got the courage to say that.
“Oh, I see, you aren’t going to be come willingly, well, we have other ways of getting you too come. Like…” Morvid nodded towards the thing behind Madison and Leon.
The thing reached for Madison.
“No!” Leon, pulled Madison aside and pulled out, what seemed to be a handle of a sword.
The thing started the laugh. “You think you can stop me with that?”
But then something started to grow out of the sword, it looked like water and Jell-O.
But when it was done growing, it wasn’t water and Jell-O, it was a medal sword.
The thing laughed again and lunged at Leon, but Leon drove the sword through the thing.
The thing stood still as stone, and then it did turn to stone and crumpled to stone in the grass.
Madison stared at Leon in awe. Leon put the sword back in his leather jacket it melted back to just the handle.
“Now, you can tell father that we had other things to do.” He said the Morvid.
Morvid looked angry. “I will.” And then we turned into silver light and disipeared.
Leon helped Madison up. “You ok?”
“I-I’m fine, thanks.” She replied.
“You still want to help me?” he smiled.
Madison thought for a second and said: “Yes, but I have to change clothes first.”
Leon laughed. “Alright, but hurry, we have to get going. I’ll fill you in on the way.”
“Are we walking?” Madison asked.
“No.” he whistled and a car came but not like in a normal car way, it came like the sword did, like water and Jell-O.
“Awesome, but, we can’t drive!”
“What do you mean? I got my papers to drive when I was 10. Now hurry up, we got to go.”
Madison didn’t understand any of what was happening, but she went inside and changed into jeans and a black shirt and a black hoodie. She put in her normal black headband and ran down the steps. But before she went out the door, she left a note telling her grandpa that she went out with some friends and would be back soon.
I hope, anyway. Madison thought.
And she ran outside.
Chapter 5
As Madison and Leon drove along in the car, Madison had to keep telling Leon what side of the road to drive on and what signs meant, while he told her about himself.
He said that we was a prince of the country Ilone in the world Imagine. Ever since he was 3 his father had kept him in doors and made sure, that we would never escape. Because his father wanted to keep him until he was 18 and then he could kill him, so that his father would be king forever.
“Thanks horrible Leon…LEFT SIDE!...I’m so sorry! And I thought that my grandpa was bad.”
“It’s alright. Why don’t you like you grandfather?” Leon asked.
“ I like him, it’s just…STOP! THAT SIGN MEANS STOP!...All he cares about is golfing, sometimes he goes golfing and stays at a hotel because he wasn’t to finish the game. And he doesn’t even tell me! It’s so unfair!”
“I see what you mean, where are you parents?”
“There, gone.”
“Oh I’m sorry.”
“It’s ok, they died a long time ago in a car crash…THAT’S A FENCE!”
Leon swerved the car away from the fence. “Oh goodness! In Ilone, everything just melts away when you come so close to it.”
“So how old are you, Leon?” Madison asked.
“14 going on 15.”
“Cool, I’m 12 going on 13.” Madison giggled.
Leon laughed. “I’m still trying to figure out how people of this world talk. It’s different from Imagine.”
“How do you talk in Imagine?”
“Well, we talk like people from the your 1700’s you could say. We also have English accents too.”
“Wow, you hide your accent well.” Madison smiled.
“Thanks, but it’s not so hard to hide it.” He spoke it in a perfect English accent.
“Wow, that’s so cool!” Madison said.
Leon’s cheeks turned a little red “Thanks.”
“So, you haven’t told me where we are going yet.” Madison said.
“We have to drive to New York, and then will get a plane I took here from Ilone and we’ll fly to the other world.” Leon answered.
“Oh. Sounds cool. But what…” Madison said.
“SKREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“W-what w-was th-that?” Madison’s voice started to shake.
“Volasaeagles” Leon said. He started to pick up speed on the dirt road they were taking.
“What?” Madison’s voice was coming to end.
“They’re half Velociraptor and half eagle.” Leon swerved the car around a sharp turn. Madison could tell by his face, that they had better loose these things.
“What are we going to do?”
“Try to loose them, and if we don’t then we’ll have to fight them somehow. But don’t worry, they probably just want to take me back to Ilone.” He swerved the car into a field and started across.
“Or me.” Madison whispered.
“What was that?” Leon asked.
“SHREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Sharp talons started to tear off the roof of the car.
Madison screamed. She’d watched Jurassic Parkmovies, when dinosaurs would just come running at you.
“Grab the wheel!” Leon shouted.
Madison vowed never in her whole life would she drive a car. She would ride bikes to work. She didn’t want to drive because that’s how her parents had died, in a car crash.
“Madison! Now!” Leon yelled.
Madison mustered all the courage she had left and grabbed the wheel.
“Just keep steering, and make sure we don’t hit anything. The gas and brake are on automatic. You don’t need to use them.” Leon yelled over the sound of tearing medal.
He stood up in the seat and pulled out his sword. Madison moved over to the driving seat, as Leon got into her seat. He started slashing at the talons.
Madison just kept consternating on where the car was going, she saw an opening in the fence, probably where the farmer when in and out with his truck. She aimed for that spot.
Just relax, when you go to turn on the road, just keep driving, everything will be ok. Madison told herself.
Leon kept slashing at the talons, but it wasn’t working.
“Do they have a weakness?!” Madison shouted.
“Nothing on Earth will stop them!” Leon shouted back.
Then the car roof came off.
“SHREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The animal was the most horrifying thing Madison had saw in her entire life. It had the head of a dinosaur and the body of an eagle. Madison wanted to run away. She looked into the animals horrifying eyes. The animal stared back.
“MADISON! LOOK OUT! FENCE!” Leon screamed.
But Madison didn’t hear Leon, the animal’s eyes seemed to swallow her up.
Then she felt it, the air bag, and then, nothing.
Chapter 6
When Madison woke up, she felt cold and pain. Mostly the pain, the pain was in her legs and arms. But nothing seemed to be broken.
She trying to get up, but it hurt too much.
She could tell that she was in a field. And then she remembered the birds and Leon and their mission.
“Leon?” Her voiced cracked.
“Shhh. Lie still.” Leon said.
“What happened?” Madison asked.
“There was a fence, and we hit it. But the bird flew away. I guess he was afraid of loud noises.”
“I’m sorry! I just couldn’t get away from the birds eyes!” Madison choked back a sob.
“It wasn’t your fault, I shouldn’t have asked you to drive.” Leon’s smile made her feel better.
“Oh. Well, is the car ok?”
Leon laughed. “Yes it’s fine.”
“Are you hurt?” Madison asked. She didn’t need to ask why the car was ok, it’s a car from a different world.
“When we hit the fence I was on top of the car so when we hit it, I flew off and landed on a bail of hay, which is quite soft actually.”
Madison laughed. “Really?”
Leon’s face got solemn. “Do you hurt?”
“Yes. But I don’t think anything broken.”
“I tried to put a Wello wall around you. Maybe it worked; I’m not so good at it.”
“Wello?” Madison asked.
“Yep, that’s what my sword is made of. It’s like water and Jell-O, in your words.” Leon answered.
“I think it did work, because no one could survive a crash like that and live.” She shuttered at the thought.
“Well, your ok, and that’s all that matters. Can you stand?”
“I think so.” Leon helped her stand up. It hurt to walk, but she could live with it.
They got back into the car and sat for awhile.
“Wow, so far, we’ve faced mean guard things and crazed birds, in two days.” Madison said.
“I know, I’ve been thinking, maybe it’s too dangerous for you.”
Madison couldn’t bear leaving Leon and going back home and explain where she’d been.
“No. I want to help you.” She said.
Leon took a good long look into Madison’s dark blue eyes. Madison looked away; she didn’t like it when his light blue eyes flashed like lightning.
“Alright, but you must promise me to be careful. I didn’t know people from this world could get hurt so easily.”
Madison managed a weak smile “and I didn’t know that people from your world could fly off cars and land on a hay bail and not even hurt a little bit.”
Leon smiled. “Alright, we need to get to New York, but driving isn’t going to get us there fast enough…”
“Leon?” Madison suddenly asked.
“What is it, Madison?” He asked.
Madison wanted so much to tell him that he was like a big brother she never had, and felt safe with him, but she couldn’t.
“I-I just wanted to know what the mission plan was when we got to Ilone.” She said.
“Well, I haven’t actually figured that out yet…” He said and little sheepishly.
“Ok. Well, then go ahead of what you were saying about ‘driving that being fast enough’.”
“Well, I see now, that more things can get at us when we’re so close to the ground, I think flying there would be faster and safer.”
Madison didn’t like cars she didn’t like big fair rides and most of all, she hated planes.
“Um…D-do we have to fl-fly?” She stammered.
“That’s the safest and fastest thing.”
“Where are we going to get a plane out here?” She asked. Maybe Leon would change his mind, once he knew that you couldn’t get a plane from out here.
“Oh, no, no planes, a horse.”
Madison had read the Percy Jackson books when Percy would ride on his pegasus. But Madison never wanted to try it.
Just then, someone’s phone rang.
Leon sat still for a second and then he said: “Is that your phone?”
“Nope, is it yours?”
Leon went down to his side pocket very slowly, and then he pulled out his phone.
“How did they reach me?” Leon whispered.
He hit the answer button and put the phone to his ear.
“Hello?” he had his English accent on.
“Leon! How good it is to finally talk to you!” Came the English reply.
“Father?”
“Oh Leon! I’m so worried about you!”
Leon’s face became dark. “You are not worried!”
“Now calm down, son, why didn’t you go with Morvid when he came? Everyone here is missing you terribly!”
“Because if I come home, you will just lock me up again! I ran away from home because I knew what you were going to do, and it’s not right!” Leon got out of the car.
“Leon, you’re so homesick, you’re not making any sense! Now come home my boy, where it’s safe.” The king said.
“No, it is safer where I am, then it is in the castle tower, locked up.” Leon said.
There was a pause. “If that’s how you want it, I’ll have to find another way to get you to come home. And Morvid’s already told me about that little girl you have with you.”
“No! Do not even think about touching her!”
“I see you care for her, then the plan will work nicely. Good bye, Leon, I hope to see you soon!”
The line went dead.
Leon ran back to the car. “I have to call the horse.”
“Who was that on the phone?” Madison asked.
“My father, h-he’s going to try a different way to get me to come home, that’s why we must hurry.” He hit a button in the car and a shrill whistle sounded.
In a couple of minutes one of the most beautiful horses Madison had even saw, landed in the field beside the car.
“Oh my. What a beautiful horse!” Madison said in awe.
“Come on, we must hurry.” Leon grabbed Madison’s hand and they ran to the horse.
“This is Shrill, Madison, my flying horse.” Leon forced a smile.
“She’s so pretty!” Madison cried.
“Shrill, I need you to take us to Ilone and fast.”
“I thought we were going to New York?” Madison said.
“Change of plans, if just go straight to Ilone, it will be…uh…faster.”
“Oh.” Madison said.
When Leon got on Shrill, he helped Madison up.
“Go Shrill! And hurry!” He commanded.
And they flew off into the clouds.
Chapter 7
When they lifted off, all Madison could do from not screaming was grabbing on to Leon and shutting her eyes really hard.
They flew over towns and cities, it was also very cold, Madison was glad she had her hoodie on.
Her arms and legs still hurt from the crash so it was hard to hang on.
Leon didn’t talk at all, through the ride. He was too busy worrying about what he was going to do, when someone tried to take Madison. If they took her, then he would have to go into the tower again, and probably never escape, but Madison is more important then never getting out again.
“Leon, how are we going to get to your world?” Madison asked, interrupting his thoughts.
“We got through the time space continuum, and take a portal to my world. If we don’t take the right one, well, it’ll be awhile before we find the right one.” Leon answered.
“Well, let’s hope we take the right one then.” Madison said.
And then, they heard it.
“ROAR!!!!!!!!!!”
“N-not them again.” Madison said.
“Hang on! We’re coming to the time space continuum. We’ll fly in and try to find the portal!” Leon yelled over the wind, which was picking up.
They flew higher and higher until Madison thought her lungs would burst from no oxygen. And then they burst through a cloud that looked blue and into a tunnel, it was like something from Alice in Wonderland.
“Whoa.” Madison said.
“Now I just have to find the right portal…” Leon said.
The whole tunnel was just lined with portal after portal. They went on for forever it seemed.
Then Madison felt something tugging on her hair, she looked behind her and saw one of those things with red eyes.
Madison screamed, as the thing pulled her off Shrill and on to his flying horse.
“Madison!” Leon yelled. “Let her go! I command it!” He had his English accent on.
“Your formal speech won’t help her, my prince.” The thing said.
“What do you want?” Leon demanded. He already knew what the thing wanted, but he was trying to stall it so that we would think of a way to save Madison.
“All the king wants is for you to come home. Come with me, and I’ll return her to her world.”
“No Leon! Don’t. I-I have a plan.” Madison told Leon.
The thing laughed. “A plan? Really? Ha! Humans are so stupid!”
Then, the thing’s horse started to fly off into the tunnel. Leon charged after it, but he didn’t know what Madison was going to do.
She used all her strength and threw herself off into one of the portals.
“MADISON!” Leon jumped off Shrill and fell after her.
Madison closed her eyes as she went through one of the portals. It felt warm and soft like a puppy.
But when she fell on the ground, that didn’t feel warm and soft.
“OW!” She yelled, as she hit some bushes.
When she got up, she looked around, she was in a large field.
Hmmm, Maybe I landed in my world again. She thought.
She looked around and she saw a city close, she started towards it. She deiced that maybe she would find Leon if she went into the city. She had landed in a field but there were some trees and bushes.
When she got into the city, people were rushing around trying to get to work and school on time.
She was too shy to ask anyone where she was, because someone might think she was dumb or something and call the police. She just kept walking, looking for signs that might tell her where she was.
Then she heard something, someone laughing, she looked up and there was a man dressed in white and light blue on a hover board, I guess you could call it. And the man had a gun.
“Dear citizens of Lagross! I am Freezo the Cold and I have come to bring you misery!” And he fired his gun, which was an ice gun and froze some people walking.
Madison ran to the nearest building to her and found a telephone and dialed 911.
“Hello? Um…I’m called to report an emergency,” Madison said the lady on the line.
“What’s the emergency, honey?” the lady asked.
“Th-there’s a man with an ice gun, freezing everyone by the newspaper office!”
“Oh goodness! I’ll get right on it! Thank you honey!”
Just as Madison hung up they building’s doors burst open.
Freezo the Cold came hovering in.“Ah, the bank! Just where I was going!” Then he eyed Madison.
“Oh! We don’t want anyone to tell the police there’s a robbery, now do we?” He pointed his freeze gun at Madison.
Madison froze.
Just as Freezo pulled the trigger someone swung in and grabbed Madison.
When they landed, Madison saw who had rescued her.
“You ok?” The girl asked. She had an all black outfit on and a mask that had triangles that pointed up on it.
Madison was too shocked to speak. “Y-yes.” She managed to say.
The girl smiled, she looked about Madison’s age.
Then she turned around and faced Freezo. “I thought I melted all your ice, Freezo! What are you doing out of jail?”
“It was to warm for me back in jail, so I thought I would steal some cold hard cash and get myself an ice castle, and maybe some statues to go in it, starting with you!” He pointed his freeze gun at the girl and shot, but the girl did a black flip and threw some medal things that meowed when they hit Freezo. The medal things turned red and started to melt the ice on Freezo.
“NO!” Freezo yelled as his blue and white suit melted and his freeze gun and hover board melted too. “I’ll get you for this, Claws!” he said.
When the police got there, they wrapped a blanket around Madison and gave her some hot coco. The girl known as Claws stayed with her.
“What are you doing out of school, so early?” Claws asked.
Madison thought of the first thing that came to mind. “I’m home schooled.”
“Oh! I’ve heard of that, is it fun?” Claws asked.
“I-It is.”
“I’ve always wanted to try that.” Claws said, she put her elbows on her knees and sighed.
“I-I have a problem.” Madison started to say.
But she was interrupted by a police man running over to talk to Claws.
“We have Freezo all locked up, we were wondering if you would come along, just in case he tried to break out.” The police man said.
“Of course.” Claws said. She broke out of her childish like pose and stood up.
“Sorry, Madison, duty calls.” And she ran off.
Madison sat there for a second, and thought. Then she was wondering how she was going to find Leon again, then she had an idea. She remembered that in the Batman cartoons the police had a way to contact Batman, maybe this world did too.
She went into the police station and asked the police man at the front desk.
“Is it an emergency?” The man asked. He looked bored and tired.
“Yes, I need to talk to Claws right away.” Madison replied.
“What do you need to tell her?” The man asked.
“I need to tell her, not you, I’m sorry, but I need to talk to her.”
“You tell me first, and then I’ll tell you if it’s an emergency.”
Madison stared at the man, and then said. “Thanks anyway. Bye.”
And she walked out of the police station.
She sat down at and bench and sighed. She felt like bursting into tears, she didn’t know where Leon was and she didn’t know how to get back home even if she wanted to.
She looked down the street, and then she saw a couple of boys walking in her direction.
Madison always steered clear of boys who went to the high school section of her school, they always teased her. So she pulled out her cell phone and pretended to text.
As the boys got closer, they started to whisper to each other, and then they kept walking.
“Hey, pretty, you lost or something?” The middle boy asked Madison.
Madison looked up from her phone and said. “Don’t c-call m-me p-pretty. And n-no I-I’m not l-lost.”
“Aww, she’s scared of us, boys, that’s too bad.” The boy grabbed Madison’s cell phone.
“Hey! Th-that’s mine!” She protested.
“Mine now!” The boys laughed as Madison tried to get it back.
“Hey! Back off!” Someone yelled.
Madison turned and saw Claws sitting on the bench. Madison didn’t even know how she had sat down so quietly.
The boy, gave Madison back her phone and ran off with his friends.
“Th-thanks.” Madison said, sitting back down.
“No problem. I was trying to find you earlier; you said you had a problem.”
“Y-yes, I do.” Madison said. She told Madison about how she had lost Leon in the tunnel and how she had to find him and fast before someone else got to him. Madison didn’t think that Claws wouldn’t think she was crazy for talking about flying horses and portals, I mean, she’s a super hero!
After Madison had finished, Claws thought for a second. “I’ll help you, but I can’t leave this world here, the citizens need me here, but I’ll help you look here. Ok?”
Madison nodded.
“I’ll look in the city, and you look in the field out there.” Claws said. “We’ll meet back here, oh let’s say, 8:00?”
“Sounds good, and thank you!”
So Madison and Claws split up and tried to find Leon, before his father did.
Chapter 8
Leon didn’t know, what had happened to Madison once she had fell into that one portal, he didn’t even know why she jumped off the horse. He didn’t even know where he was.
He had landed in a forest, that’s all he knew.
“This is horrible! I’ve lost the girl I was trying to protect and I have no idea where I am!” He said out loud.
He started to walk through the forest, hoping that he would meet someone that could tell him where he was.
As he was walking through, he heard a whistling sound, like something cutting through the air. And he heard it again, but this time, if was much closer. Then something cut through his shirt sleeve pinning him to a tree. It was an arrow! Three more arrows pinned him to the tree one by his other shirt sleeve and the bottoms of his pants.
“Who are you?” He called out.
He heard laughing.
“It’s not funny! People don’t go around pinning people against trees with arrows!” He had put on his English accent.
“Sorry, but I’m bored, and no one comes around these parts of the woods.” A voice said.
“Who are you? Where are you?” Leon called.
“Well, if you must know.”
And then someone jumped out of the trees in front of Leon. The boy was dressed in all green, he had brown hair and a bow and arrow in one arm and a pack of arrows on his back.
“Names, Eon.” The boy said, putting out his hand. “Oh right, your pinned to the tree, my mistake.”
“Young man, take these arrows off this instant.” Leon commanded.
“Young man? Who do you think you are? My father?” Eon laughed.
“Would you just please take these off?” Leon sighed.
“Sure, why didn’t you say so in the first place?” Eon took the arrows off.
“Thanks.” Leon said.
“No problem, so what are you doing out here?”
“I’m lost actually, trying to find a village.”
“There’s one just at the end of these woods, I’ll take you there if you like.” Eon said.
“Thank you that would be great.” Leon said. “So what are you doing here?”
“Looking for a blonde.”
“A what?” Leon asked.
“A blonde, you aren’t from around here are you? I can tell from your clothes.” Eon said.
“No I’m not, I got lost. Why were you looking for a blonde? Aren’t there plenty of blonde people in the villages?”
“Blondes are scarce, that’s why people have them as slaves, it’s a sign of wealth.” Eon talked like this was any everyday thing.
Leon was getting a little scared.
What if Madison landed here? She’s probably a slave somewhere! He thought.
They walked in silence until they got to the village; there were tons of people bustling around. Leon looked around for Madison, but he didn’t see her anywhere.
“If you want to know how to get home, just ask the guard of the town. He’s by the village gate.” Eon said, pointing.
“Thanks for your help Eon. Oh and, if you find a blonde that’s…uh…not a slave, ask her what her name is, I’m looking for my…uh...friend, Madison Holl.”
“Sure, but how will I find you? I can’t send her off by herself, someone will catch her.”
“Just tell her to sit by the tree you pinned me on.” Leon smiled.
“Got it, bye!” And Eon ran off.
As Leon walked through the town, he continued to look for Madison, he saw some blondes running around with baskets full of food and they all had medal arm bands on.
I guess that means there a slave. Thought Leon.
He kept walking until he saw the village guard. The guard was talking to a boy and girl who were blonde, well yelling really.
“What were you thinking?! A slave does not leave this town without his or her master, it’s the law! I ought to tell your master about this!” The guard yelled.
“Please, sir, beg your pardon sir, our master gave us time to ourselves, w-we didn’t know we weren’t allowed.” The boy said timidly.
The guard grabbed the boy his arm. “Didn’t know?! Everyone one knows that! Even a dumb animal like you should know that!”
Leon thought maybe he could put his acting skills to good use right then.
“Excuse me sir, but why are you treating my slaves so badly?” Leon said.
The guard looked up and let go of the boy’s arm. “I-I’m sorry sir, but they were trying to leave the town.”
“I was coming with them, just like the law says. Good day to you sir.” Leon pushed the two kids out the gate.
They look about 5 or 6, the girl had a light blue dress on and the boy had a white shirt and brown trousers on.
“If you please sir,” the little girl said timidly. “But why did you do that?”
“Because, where I come from, people don’t treat people so badly.” Leon answered kindly. “And we don’t have slaves either.”
“Thank you sir, thank you!” The boy said. “How can we ever repay you?”
“If you would please tell me where I am, I’m lost you see, and I can’t find my friend.” They had made it pretty far from the town and they stopped.
“You’re in Bearsville.” The little girl said.
“I’m sorry you’ve lost your friend, what does your friend look like? We’ll look for you.” The boy added.
“Well, she’s a blonde like you two.” Leon ruffled the boy’s hair. “And she has dark blue eyes and she wears black.”
“Black? Why?” The little girl asked.
Leon thought for a moment. “I’ve never asked her why.”
“We’ll look for you, sir.” The boy said.
“Thank you, and please, call me Leon, and also, do you know what the ruler of the town lives?”
“We have a mayor.” The little girl piped up.
“Thank you, now run along.” Leon said. And he started back to town to find Madison, before his father did.
Chapter 9
Madison had been looking for Leon all day. She had looked high and low, near and far. But he was no where to be seen. She went to where she was going to meet Claws. It was 7:00pm so Claws wasn’t due to meet her until 8:00pm, so Madison sat down at a bench and waited.
Oh Leon, where are you? She thought.
Chapter 10
Oh Madison, where are you? Leon thought.
He had walked into town and had asked where the mayor’s office was. When he found the mayor’s office, he took a deep breath and walked in.
When he got into the door, there was a desk with a woman at it.
“Excuse me,” Leon said. “I’d like to see the mayor.”
The woman looked up from her work “Well sure, honey, just through that door.” She pointed to a door behind her.
“Thank you.” Leon was puzzled, usually when you ask to see the mayor; you have to sign a waver or something.
When he walked into the office there was a stout man at an oak desk, he had his reading glasses on.
“Excuse me.” Leon said.
The man looked up. “Oh hello there! What can I do for you, son?” He had a Western accent.
“I’m looking for my friend, Madison Holl, and I don’t know if she’s in this world or another one.”
“Yes, yes, we get people looking for people and they don’t know if there in this world or another. We’ll help you look in this world if you like. Just tell me what your friend looks like.”
Leon didn’t know what to tell the man, if she said that Madison was blonde, they might take her away, or maybe he could just say that Madison wasn’t his friend and slave instead so that they wouldn’t take her away.
“Um well, she’s my slave, so she’d be blonde and she has dark blue eyes and she wears black all the time.”
“Runaway slave huh? Well we’ll help you look.”
“Thank you sir,” and Leon walked out.
“Hey, you look new around here. A guard reported that a fella that looked like you pretended to be a master of two slaves. Have you seen him?”
“Uh…um…”
Just then, a guard came in. “Mayor, we haven’t…” The guard stopped and looked at Leon. “That’s him!” the guard cried
“Well, get him then!” the mayor snapped.
Leon ran out of the building before the guard could catch him. He ran into the woods.
Chapter 11
Madison had fell asleep on the bench. When she woke up, the people were out again, bustling around.
Madison didn’t see Claws anywhere.
She probably got sidetracked. Madison thought.
She got up and looked around. Then she saw a little girl getting picked on by those boys who had taken her cell phone the day before.
She gathered all her courage she had and went up to them.
“Knock it off!” She told the boys.
The middle boy laughed. “What are you going to do?”
“Well, for one thing, I see a cop right over there, I could tell him right now what your doing.”
The boys ran off.
“Thanks.” The little girl said.
“Your very welcome.” Madison said and she walked on down the road.
Then she saw Claws jumping from building to building.
“Claws! Claws!” Madison yelled.
Claws stopped and looked down, she jumped down to where Madison was.
“Sorry I didn’t meet you last night, bank robbery.”
“Did you find Leon?” Madison asked hopefully.
“No but I found something else, come with me.”
Madison followed her to the newspaper office and they climbed to the top.
And there was Shrill!
“Shrill!” Madison cried, she ran to the horse and hugged her.
Shrill whined a hello.
Madison started to climb on.
“What are you doing?” Claws asked.
“I’m going to find Leon. Bye Claws! And thank you!”
And she flew off.
“Bye, Madison.” Claws said.
Chapter 12
When Madison and Shrill reached the time and space continuum, Madison tried to figure out which tunnel Leon was in.
“What do you think Shrill? Do you know where he went?”
Shrill wined and shook her head and dove towards a portal.
“Whoa girl!” Madison cried.
And they dove into the same portal that Leon is in.
When Madison landed, she couldn’t find Shrill.
The portal might have separated us. Madison said to her self.
She sat where she was, wondering what to do next, when she heard laughing.
It scared her to pieces.
“W-who’s th-there?” she said.
“Yes! Finally! I’ve found a blonde!” And Eon jumped out.
Madison stood up; she was a good four inches taller than Eon. “What do you mean, you’ve found a blonde?” Madison asked.
“Hey, you’re wearing all black, and your eyes are dark blue, what’s your name?” Eon asked.
“Um…Madison Holl.”
“I’ve found you! Yay! That kid with black hair will be happy! Come with me.” And he grabbed Madison’s hand and ran off into the woods.
…
Meanwhile, Leon was sitting near the same tree he had been pinned on, he wondered if he would ever see Madison again.
Then he heard a rustling noise, he looked up and out jumped Eon and Madison.
Leon jumped up. “Madison!”
“Leon!” Madison looked like she was going to burst into tears.
Leon walked over to Madison and gave her a hug. Then he backed up quickly. “Um…Where’ve you been? I’ve been so worried!”
“Your one to talk, I told you I had a plan. Why didn’t you listen?”
“Well I didn’t know jumped into a portal was a plan, its suicide most of the time!”
“Speaking of portals, where are we?” Madison asked.
Then Leon remembered where they were. “Eon, do you have anything that flies?”
“Flies? You could go ask the old inventor. He lives not far from here.”
“Well he can’t go taking Madison places.”
Eon didn’t understand for a second and then he said. “Oh, right, well I know a back path to his house that no one takes anymore. Follow me.”
They followed Eon for awhile until they talked again.
“What did you mean, ‘can’t go taking Madison places’?” Madison asked Leon.
“Um…you see, in this world, well um…Blondes are rare, so…um…There used as slaves.”
Madison stopped walking. “What? That’s insane! So that’s what you meant when you said you’ve finally found a blonde, Eon.”
“I didn’t want to scare you, Madison, I didn’t want you to know.” Leon said.
“Scared?” Madison said “Scared?! I’ve been scared ever since I lost you! I’ve been scared Leon! And right now, I don’t think I can take much more of being scared!” Her knees buckled and she fell and burst into tears.
“Shhhh, its ok, Madison.” Leon came up slowly to her and knelt beside her. “Just calm down, everything’s going to be ok.”
Madison looked up, “really?”
Before Leon could answer, they heard people on horses coming.
“Hide!” Eon hissed. And he plunged into the forest.
Leon helped Madison to her feet and helped her to the forest. They made it inside just as the horses came up.
“This is waste of our time; we’ve been down this road three times now! And we still can’t find that one boy the mayor wants found!” one solider said.
“I know.” The other solider said.
They rode on.
When the soldiers were far down the road, Madison, Leon and Eon came out of the forest.
“I thought you said no one came down this road?” Leon snapped.
“Hey, like I knew there looking for someone!” Eon shot back.
“There looking for me.” Leon said.
“You? Why?” Madison asked
“Because I pretended to be someone I’m not.” Leon said. Leon looked at Madison, she looked pale. “What wrong?”
“I-I’m just tired. That’s all.” Madison started to fall again.
“We need to get her somewhere safe, she needs food and sleep.” Leon said.
“The Old Inventor’s house is really close. How about you carry her?”
Madison shook her head. “N-no, I-I’m fine.”
“No, Eon’s right, you don’t have enough strength to walk.” He picked Madison up and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
And they started walking again.
Just as Eon had said, the Old Inventor’s house was close.
It was more of a shack then a house.
Eon walked up to the door and put his hand up to knock.
“Wait.” Leon said. “How do you we know he won’t call the guards on us for having a…” Leon didn’t want Madison to faint or something by mentioning blonde.
“No, he’s against the whole thing, that’s why he lives out here. He got chased out of town.” Eon knocked on the door.
An old man that looked like Einstein came to the door. “Eon, is that you, my boy?” He sounded very old.
“Yes it is, and I brought some friends, who need your help.” Eon said.
“Well come right in.” The Old Inventor opened the door wider for them. Before he closed the door, he took a quick look out side to make sure no one was watching.
When he shut the door he said: “Well, what can I do for ya folks?” Then he eyed Madison and how pale she looked.
“I see, put the little lady over here.” He came over to a bed. “I’ll get some soup for ya. I’d reckon you’re hungry.”
Leon set Madison down on the bed, immediately; Madison fell down on the pillow.
“Ahhhh, it’s good to be in a bed again.” she said.
“Here you go.” The Old Inventor came into the room with some soup.
Madison sat up against the back of the bed and ate the soup. “Thank you.” She said through mouthfuls.
“Your very welcome.” The old man smiled. “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
“Yes, we were wondering you have anything that flies. We came from a different world and we need to get back to it.” Leon said.
“Anything that flies? Hmmm.” The old man scratched his beard and walked out of the room.
There was a loud noise and some mumbling and then the man came in again.
“Here ya go.” He handed Leon a little medal box.
Leon stared at it. “Does it fly?” he asked.
“Oh right! Yes, hit that red button.”
Leon hit the button and the box started to turn into a robotic horse with wings.
Madison looked up from her soup. “Wow.”
“It’s my robotic horse with wings! It works, I’ve tested it myself.” The Old Inventor said proudly.
The horse wined for effect.
“Thank you sir very much, how can we repay you?” Leon said.
“Your company is all that I can ask. Do you have anywhere to sleep?”
“No we don’t.” Leon said. “But I’m sure we can find somewhere…”
Then he looked over at Madison and she was sound asleep.
“I reckon you’re staying here tonight. I’ll make up the guest beds.” and he walked out of the room.
“I’m not staying sir,” Eon said. “I have my own place.” He shook hands with Leon, “It was a pleasure working with you.”
“And you.” Leon nodded.
“Tell her good bye for me, when she wakes up.” Eon said as he slipped out the door.
…
That night while Madison was sleeping, someone crept into the house.
The man had all black on and he had a black hat and a black cape.
He slipped inside the door like a mouse and he went over to where Madison was sleeping.
“Ah, this is the girl the king wants so badly.” He whispered.
Then he heard someone coming from the next room.
He slipped behind some boxes and waited.
Leon came into the room to check on Madison. When he saw that she was fine, he went back to his room.
“That was the prince. I must be at the right place.” Whispered the man and he went back over to Madison’s bed.
We waved his hand over her eyes, he had the power to make people sleep deeper.
He picked up Madison and put a black cloak around her, and he walked outside to where his flying horse was waiting. And he flew off.
Chapter 13
When Madison woke up, she stretched her arms and legs and snuggled back under the silk sheets.
Silk sheets?!
Then her eyes jerked open. She sat straight up. She wasn’t in the Old Inventor’s house anymore, she was in a room with toys and dolls and books and pictures big enough to fill up the Old Inventor’s house with just one. Her bed was like the ones that people back in the 1800’s had, with like a ceiling on top.
Madison was still wearing her black clothes.
Where am I? She thought.
Just then a maid came rushing in. She had a black dress on with a white cap and apron.
“Good morning, miss. How did you sleep?” She had an English accent.
“G-good.” Madison replied.
“Here’s your breakfast, nice and hot.” The maid set out a wooden tray table filled with toast and eggs. “Do you need anything else?”
“Y-yes, if you please, where am I?”
The maid laughed. “Why you’re in Ilone, in King Luther’s castle.” The maid started towards the door. “One of the royal Blacks will be here to escort you to the king’s throne room, soon.” And the maid left.
Ilone?! How’d I get here?! I hope nothings bad happened to Leon. Madison thought.
She ate some of the eggs and toast, and she got out of bed to see if you she could find a way to escape. She went to the door and looked out, there were guards posted at each end of the hall. She couldn’t go that way. She went to the window. It was locked.
This is terrible!
She climbed back in the bed.
Don’t cry, don’t cry, everything will be ok. She told herself.
“One of the royal Black will be here to escort you to the king’s throne room, soon.” A maid stepped into her room.
Madison nodded. The maid left.
Madison stood there for a moment, trying to think about what she was going to do. Then she decided to look inside the jewelry box and put on some jewelry, when she found a necklace and went to put it on and tie it in the back.
Someone grabbed the back of the necklace and started to clasp it together.
“Let me help you with that.” It was a boy, about 15 or 16 he was wearing all black he had a black poncho and a black hat.
“Th-thanks.” Madison said.
When the boy was done and she turned around, the boy bowed. “I am Mark Shiverlus, one of the royal Blacks.”
“Um hi, I’m uh…Madison Holl.” She smiled. “Just Madison Holl though, nothing else.”
Mark smiled. “Very nice name.” He held out his arm. “I am here to escort you to the king’s throne room.”
“You know, I don’t want to go to the king.” She stepped back from Mark.
Mark looked puzzled. “Why?”
“B-because, h-he’s mean. H-he’s trying to kill my friend!” Madison stammered
Mark took a step forward. “The king wants to you come see him.”
“But I don’t want to see him.” Madison said.
“You will go to the king, he commands it.” Mark said his English accent made his words even scarier.
“No thank you.” Madison started to back up faster towards the bed.
Mark walked towards Madison. “The king commands it!”
“I said no!”
Mark quickly walked up to Madison and grabbed her by the arm. Walking towards the door.
“No! Let me go! Stop!” Madison yelled.
Mark didn’t say anything, he just kept walking
“LET ME GO!” Madison shouted
“I will not let you go; you’re going to see the king.”
He dragged Madison all through the castle until they made it to the king’s throne room.
Madison kicked and screamed, all the way there. She didn’t want to meet the king.
“The king told me, if you would not come to see him willingly, then you would probably not stay and talk to him willingly, that is why I am going to see that you do.” Mark ordered the guards to open the large oak doors and he dragged Madison in.
Chapter 14
Leon had had a good day yesterday, he had found Madison and he was going to bring her back to her world, if she liked it or not, and he would fight his father.
But when we woke up that morning and Madison was gone again, he felt like her would die.
“I’ve lost her again!” He yelled.
The Old Inventor put his head in his hands. “This is just terrible.” Then he looked up. “Wait! Take my horse with wings! Fly and save her!”
“But I don’t know where she is.” Leon said.
“Didn’t you say that your father was trying to get, the little girl?” The old man asked.
“Yes.”
“Then go to where your father is, and your bound to find her!”
“Your right!” Leon grabbed the medal box and pushed the bottun, he jumped onto the horse and flew up and up…
“Thank you!” He called down to the Old Inventor.
The Old Inventor waved. “Good luck, my boy.”
Chapter 15
Claws sat on top of the newspaper office. It had been a quiet day, no body trying to steal anything. She just sat there thinking. All of a sudden she thought of Madison.
“I wonder if she’s ok, wherever she is.” Claws said to herself.
Then she had an idea. She stood up. “I’ll go and find out!”
She climbed down the newspaper office and ran to her house. She went into her room and hit a button, and room appeared and she went and got her hover board.
“Ok, let’s go.” She hit another button and the top of the room opened up and she flew up into the sky.
Chapter 16
Eon was bored, bored, bored, bored.
He went over to where he had pinned Leon the other day.
“I hope they got away ok.” He said.
Just then, he had an idea, he ran to the Old Inventor’s house and asked him if he had anything else that flied.
“Well sure, I have a board that flies. Here ya go, good luck!”
Eon took off into the sky.
Chapter 17
Mark dragged Madison inside the throne room.
There was a man in a black robe, he had black hair and a long beard and blue eyes that flashed like lightning, it was Leon’s father.
The man stood up. “Why, it’s Madison Holl! I’ve heard so much about you.” He started to walk towards her.
Madison tried to pull away from Mark’s grip, but it was too strong.
“Why do you fight us?” The king asked, he voice was full of mock sympathy.
Madison didn’t say anything.
The king turned to Mark, “I see she didn’t come willingly.”
“She did not, your highness.” Mark replied.
“You may leave us, Mark. I can handle her.” The king said.
Mark let go of Madison and bowed, and walked out the oak doors.
Madison had fallen when Mark had let go. She sat there.
“Come my dear, I only want to talk.” The king looked at her.
Madison felt a little shock, like you do when you go down a slide.
“N-no thank you.” She said.
“Come now,” The king reached down and gently put his hand around Madison’s arm and pulled her up.
Wow, he’s really strong; I wasn’t even trying to stand up. Madison thought.
The king led her over to a table, where there was tea and cakes set out. He pulled out a chair for her. She reluctantly sat down.
She looked around her, there where people dressed in black.
Maybe they’re guards. Madison thought.
The king poured her some tea. Madison pushed it away.
“No thank you.”
“Well, if you’re not thirsty, let’s just talk.” The king leaned forward. “When did you meet Leon?”
Madison didn’t say anything. The king looked at her, Madison felt another shock, but this time it hurt more.
“When did you meet Leon?” the king repeated.
Madison didn’t say anything.
The king looked at her again, and this time it hurt a lot when the shock came.
“Ow!” She cried.
“When did you meet, Leon?” The king asked.
The shocks kept coming.
Don’t…tell…him…anything… Madison told herself.
Then one of the shocked was so terrible, Madison pushed against the table and fell to the floor, clutching her stomach.
“Stop! STOP!” She cried.
“I’ll stop if you answer my questions.” The king said. “When did you meet, Leon?”
“Th-three…days…ago…” Madison panted.
“Where?”
“A-at m-my h-house.” Madison felt sick, the shocks were unbearable. “STOP!” She cried. “PLEASE!”
“What do you know about him?” the king said.
“Nothing…OW...Just that he’s a prince…OW...And you’re trying to…OW... Kill him.” Madison couldn’t take it anymore. She used all her might and pushed the table over, and shocks stopped as the king fell over.
“Ahhh!” The king cried. “Guards! Seize her!”
Madison hurt too much, she felt sick, she couldn’t move. She felt someone pulled her up by her arms. She cried in pain.
When the king got up he said. “I’ve tried to be nice, but you don’t seem to want to corporate. Take her to the dungeon!”
The guard pulled her out of the room.
Everything started to get blurry, and then, everything went black.
Chapter 18
Leon was in the time and space continuum, he was looking for the portal that led to Ilone, when he someone came into the tunnel too.
“Who are you?” Leon asked.
“The name’s Claws, I’m trying to find my friend, Madison Holl.”
“Madison? I’m trying to find her too!”
“Then you must be Leon. It’s nice to meet you.” Claws smiled. “Do you know where she is?”
“Yes, my father has taken her to Ilone, I just need to find that right portal…”
Just then, Eon entered the tunnel, he was wobbling all over his board.
“Eon! It’s good to see you!” Leon cried.
“I’ve come to help you guys!” Eon said. Trying to keep is balance.
“I’m glad I have people to help me, I don’t think I could have done it by myself.” Leon smiled.
Just then, someone else came into the. It was the Old Inventor!
“I’ve come to help ya!” the old man said.
Leon smiled; he was going to save Madison!
Chapter 19
When Madison woke up, she was on a stone floor with straw all over it.
She hurt everywhere.
She tried to sit up, but the pain was horrible.
She lay there. I’m giving up. It’s all over! She thought to her self.
Then she heard an explosion.
She jumped so hard that she stood up.
“OW!”
She grabbed on to the bars of her cell for balance.
She saw guards (which were the royal Blacks) running past her cell she saw Things running past and some Volaseagles, fly past also
Must be something big. Thought Madison.
She sank to the floor. She didn’t care what happened anymore, she was cold, hungry, wet and hurt everywhere.
Just then, Mark ran past. He stopped.
He looked at Madison with sad eyes.
He actually looks sorry for me. Ha, like he really cares.
Then Mark took out for keys from behind his poncho and unlocked Madison’s cell’s door.
“Come on, it’s not safe, people have broken into the castle.” Mark helped Madison up.
She didn’t fight him, she was too weak.
“What kind of people?” she asked.
“I’m not really sure, the other guards said that there’s one girl with a mask and she’s dressed all in black and another boy that’s all in green with a bow and arrow. That’s all I know though.” Mark answered.
“They’ve come to save me!” Whispered Madison.
“What was that?”
“Uh…nothing…” Madison said.
Mark eyed her, and then they kept walking.
They walked into the king’s throne room.
Mark set her down in one of the thrones.
“Thank for helping…me.” Madison panted.
“Your welcome.” Mark smiled.
Then, the huge stain glass windows in the room burst open as a medal horse burst through them.
Madison screamed. Mark covered her with his poncho from the glass.
When the medal horse landed, it eyed Mark and Madison.
Mark waved his hand and a bow and arrow appeared.
“Don’t move.” He told Madison.
Madison nodded; she was too scared to move.
Mark stood up and held his bow and arrow at the down position; it had an arrow in it, just in case the horse started to attack.
Just then, someone came sliding down a rope, Madison and Mark didn’t hear.
The person grabbed Madison by the waist and started climbing back up.
“MARK!” Madison screamed
Mark whirled around, that’s when the medal horse started to attack. It charged towards Mark, Mark had to roll out of the way, he waved his hand and a sword appeared.
Madison had closed her eyes, she was a afraid of heights. She didn’t used to be, but after awhile of falling from high places, you get scared.
When the person had stopped climbing they set down on a roof.
“You ok, Madison?”
Madison opened her eyes.
“Claws!” She hugged the other girl. “I’ve been so scared.”
“It’s ok now. We’re here to rescue you.”
Just then, someone laughed in the distance.
“You guys are so slow! Come and get me!” more laughing.
“Is that…?” Madison said.
“Yep, Eon.” Claws said. “Can you walk?”
“I think I might be able to.” Madison groaned.
Claws helped her up. “Come on, Leon’s waiting for us.”
And they started to walk across the roof.
Claws opened a window and they climbed inside, it was a bedroom.
“Leon will be in soon, I have to go help, Eon. He’s so immature.” And Claws climbed back out the window.
Madison was so happy.
They’ve come to rescue me! She said to herself.
Just then the door opened. And in came a royal Black.
Madison started to scoot back towards the window.
The royal black turned around.
“Leon!” Madison cried.
Leon ran and picked her up. “Madison!”
They stood there for a second while they hugged.
“I’ve been so worried!” Leon said. “I’ve lost you too many times!”
“I’ve been so worried about you!” Madison cried.
Just then the door was thrown open and the king and Mark and another royal Black came in.
“Aww, how touching.” The king said.
Leon put Madison down, he pushed Madison behind him.
“Leon, my boy, it’s been so long! I’ve been so worried!” Kind Luther said.
Leon glared at him “You weren’t worried.”
“Now, now. Calm down.” The king said.
Leon started backing up towards the window. “We have places to go, father.” He said.
The king glared at Leon. “Seize them!” he commanded the guards.
The taller royal Black seized Leon, he pulled his hands behind his back.
Madison leaned against a wall. She didn’t want Mark touching her anymore. “L-leave me alone.” Mark grabbed Madison.
“Now, that we’re all ready to corporate, let’s go. Sir Justin, take the prince to the tower. And as for her,” The king walked up to Madison and put a finger under her chin and lifted it up.
“Father! No!” Leon yelled.
“Shut up Leon!” the king snapped.
The king’s eyes started to get really light blue. Madison closed her eyes, she prepared for the worst.
Then there was a scream. But it wasn’t Madison’s
Madison opened her eyes the man that was holding Leon was on the floor, he looked unconsciousness.
Leon was breathing hard; his eyes were really light blue.
“We are leaving!” he said.
As he walked up to Mark, Mark let go of Madison and ran out of the door. The king was just staring in horror.
“Your powers are stronger then I thought.” He whispered. He backed up from Leon and ran out of the door.
“Come on.” Leon panted.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked.
“Yeah I’m fine. You?”
“I’m doing ok.” Madison smiled.
Just then, Eon, Claws and The Old Inventor ran in the room.
“You guys done? We have to go!” Eon said.
“Yes, we’re ready, let’s go.” Leon said.
And they all jumped out the window.
Part Two
Chapter 20
Ever since they got away from that castle, they have been working on a battle plan to completely get rid of King Luther. The real reason the king wanted to kill Leon was because Leon’s powers were getting too strong, so if the king killed him, he would get Leon’s powers and would be able to destroy entire worlds.
Since Leon’s powers had been growing, he didn’t know really how to control them, so when he got mad, they would just pop out. It also made him tired, and sometimes sick.
It had been a year since they had escaped from the castle and Madison and Leon had gathered up people from all worlds to meet in a deserted world, where they could prepare for the coming battles.
Madison’s outfit had changed completely, she was wearing jeans and leather battle gear. She looked like the demigods looked like in Percy Jackson books. She didn’t like being the quiet and shy girl anymore.
Leon hadn’t changed much, he still wore his black leather jacket and jeans.
One day after Madison had been gathering troops for the army, she came back to the camp and saw burned tents.
Oh no! Leon! She ran to his tent.
She opened up the flap of the tent.
“Leon?” She whispered.
No reply.
She looked inside the tent and saw Leon, head in his hands on his cot just sitting there.
“Leon, what happened?”
“I can’t control them!” Leon cried. He looked up. His eyes were dangerously light blue. Then, lighting hit right where Madison was standing; she jumped out of the way.
“Leon! Calm down! Breathe!” Madison said. She went over to him and put her hands on his shoulders. He shocked her, but she didn’t care, she had to help Leon.
“Just breathe, what happened?”
“I was just checking on the progress of people we had in the army, but then all of a sudden they just appeared! And I couldn’t control them!” Madison could feel the electricity building up inside him.
“Leon! Calm down! Breathe! This will pass, people with asthma in my world have attacks like this too, but they have medicine for them. But your powers are just growing that’s why there hard to control, it wasn’t your fault, it’s just your body trying to get rid of the electricity that’s inside your body. You have too much of it.”
Madison could feel Leon calm down he started breathing normally again, his eyes went back to his normal light blue color.
“Th-thanks.” He said.
“Your very welcome. How many people do we have in the army?”
“980, when we get 10 more, then we’ll be ready.”
“I just got back with 10 more people. I think we’re ready now.”
Leon stood up. “It’s time.”
Chapter 21
After everyone had gathered, Leon, Madison, Claws and Leon, stood on top of Battle Rock.
“Attention, everyone!” Leon called.
Everyone stopped talking and looked up.
“First, I want to thank all of you for volunteering to be in this army. As you all know, my…King Luther is trying to take over all of the other worlds, we must prevent me for doing so.”
Everyone started cheering.
Leon held up his hands for silence. “We will split up into four groups. You already know what groups your in. Madison…”
“All you with the number one’s are with Leon. All of you with the number two are with me. People with three’s are with Claws and people with fours are with Eon. Everyone got it?”
More cheering.
“Alright!” Leon said. “Everyone in their groups. And…FOR FREEDOM!”
People started running into there groups and cheering.
Leon started to look tired.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” He walked away.
Madison went up to Claws. “He’s not fine.”
“I know, he just won’t admit he needs help, he needs to rest.” Claws said.
Madison sighed. “I worry about him.”
Claws put her hand around Madison’s shoulders. “He’ll be fine, as long as he has us.”
Madison smiled and went to join her group.
“Alright everyone, when you address me, it’s Captain. Alright? Now, does anyone know where we’re going?” Madison said to her group.
A bunch of boys started to snicker.
“You have something to say?” Madison asked. She’s become braver then she used to be.
“Uh…We were just…” one of the boys said.
“When you figure out what you were soupossed to say, tell me.”
“Sure, whatever.”
Madison eyed him. Then she continued. “Now, we’re going to Bearsvile. There have been reports of Things and Volesaeagle attacks. We have to go and put it to an end. Come on!”
They marched off to the hover boards.
When Madison had gotten on her hover board, the boy that had spoken earlier came up. “I…um…just wanted to say…”
“Yes?” Madison said.
“Um...never mind.” And he walked away.
Madison rolled her eyes. Boys. She thought.
And she started to fly up.
When her group got to the time and space continuum she said: “Now, the mission plan is to rid Bearsville of anything that works for the king. But, if you happen to get humans that work for him, that’ll help us very much. So prinsoners are ok. And try to protect the towns folk. Now, let’s go!”
And they dove into the portal to Bearsville.
Chapter 22
When Madison and her group arrived in Bearsville the town was a mess, people running from Things and Volesaeagles.
Madison ran into the battle, she had a bow and arrow.
She started attacking Things and Voleseaeagles. She down anything in her way. She often wondered if that shy girl she used to be was just a dream.
Then that boy ran up. “I just wanted to say…that I was sorry.” He said.
“I accept your apologies, but now isn’t the best time.”
The boy stopped fighting, “I was wondering, if you could…”
Madison stopped too. “Yes?”
Then an arrow came flying right in between them.
“Look out!” Madison shoved the boy out of the way.
When she got up she turned around and saw there attacker.
Mark.
He was wearing his same old black outfit.
“Well, well. So isn’t Madison Holl.” He said.
The boy got up. “You know him?”
“Yes, a long time ago.” Madison narrowed her eyes. “What are you doing here, Mark?”
“Just doing what King Luther told me too.” He smiled a sly smile. “I see you’re not as shy as you used to be.”
“Being shy isn’t always a good thing.” Madison snapped.
“I guess it’s not.”
“Why does he have an English accent like the Leader?” the boy asked Madison.
“He’s from the same world.” Madison said.
“The Leader? You aren’t still with the prince are you?” Mark said.
“Shut up Mark. We’re here because we’re going to put an end to King Luther’s rule.”
People from Madison’s group came closer to see what was happening.
The boy whispered into Madison’s ear: “What are your orders, Captain?”
Madison stood there for a second. Mark’s stare made her uncomfortable
She nodded towards the boy.
The boy nodded towards a couple of other boys behind them, they started to advance on Mark.
“You really think your going to capture me? I’m a royal Black. They don’t come easy.” He walked right up to Madison.
The boy started to get his sword ready. Madison moved her hand in an ok motion.
Mark started to stand a little too close for Madison.
She had learned from Leon how to do a Wello field.
She gathered all her strageth and made one, pushing Mark away and on the ground.
“You were too close.” Madison said.
Mark sat up. “So I see.” Just then, the other boys advanced towards him.
“Another time perhaps?” And Mark vanished.
Madison turned away angrily. She hated it when someone would embarrass her like that. And flirting wit her! She had had enough of Mark, to last a lifetime. She thought back to the day when he had dragged her out of that room just to meet the king, she flinched as she remembered the shocks the king had given her. She shook her head to clear it and ran back into battle.
Chapter 24
When Madison’s group returned to camp, Madison had gone right to her tent.
She down on her cot and sighed.
Why can’t I ever do anything right?
Just then, Leon came in.
“How’d it go?” He asked.
She sighed. “Ok.”
Leon sat down beside her. “Everything ok?”
“Truth? No.”
“What happened?”
“It was Mark! He was there and he’s just so…”
Just then, Leon felt a twinge of selfishness. Mark was always trying to get Madison.
“Don’t worry about it; he’s not here now is he?” Leon said.
Just then someone burst into the tent: “There here! There here!”
“Who’s here?” Leon asked.
“The enemy! The enemy!” and he ran out of the tent.
“Tell me why me why we let him in the army, he says things twice, it gives me a headache.” Leon said as he walked out of the tent.
Madison laughed.
When they got out of the tent, they saw Mark coming up.
Madison tried to blend in with the crowd when they approached. She bumped into that boy.
“Oh, sorry.” Madison said.
“It’s alright,”
“I never got your name, what is it?”
“Justin.”
“Cool, mine’s Madison.”
The boy smiled, just then, Mark appeared right in front of Madison.
The crowd started to move away from Mark, in fear.
“Not as brave as I thought.” Mark sniffed.
“Just go away Mark! Ok?” Madison said.
“Why?” Mark leaned in close. Then he was lifted into the air by something. Madison looked and saw Leon, using his powers lift Mark off the ground.
“Leave. Her. Alone.” Leon said.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you two were together…”
“What? No! We’re just friends.” Madison said quickly.
“It’s ok if you don’t want to admit it, I understand.” Mark said.
Then, Leon started to shock Mark.
“Leon! Stop!” Madison started to run up to Leon, but his power seemed to take over his entire body, she was thrown across the ground, she hit the ground so hard, she passed out.
Justin ran to her. “Madison!”
When Leon got himself under control, he dropped Mark on the ground, gasping.
When he saw Madison his eyes got wide, and he ran away.
Mark was speechless for a change. He just stared at the unconscious Madison on the ground.
“She needs help.” Justin said.
Since no one was moving, Justin yelled: “Take him to a holding cell!” he pointed to Mark. “And help me get her to a doctor.” People broke out of there shock and did what they were told. It took four men to drag Mark to a holding cell. Justin and another boy carried Madison to her tent.
When doctor had come and gone, Claws and Eon showed up.
Justin stood up. “Where’ve you been?”
“We were walking, and when we came back, everyone was in a panic. What happened to Madison?” Claws ran up to the cot.
“Mark came and Leon got mad, when he started to talk to Madison and Leon started to shock Mark, and when Madison tried to stop Leon, his powers took over him and threw her across the ground and she hit her head.” Justin said.
“Where’s Leon?” Eon asked.
“He ran away when he saw what had happened.” Justin replied.
“I’ll send out search parties.” Eon went to leave.
Claws caught his shoulder. “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Leon’s powers are making him sick, he needs to calm down. We all know the only person who can help Leon now.” She looked at Madison.
Eon nodded. “I’ll go talk to Mark. We might get some information out of him.” And he left.
Claws went over to Madison’s cot. She took Madison’s hand.
“Come on Madison, Leon needs you. We all need you.” She whispered.
Chapter 25
Leon ran through the forest.
He was trying to run from himself, he was tried of his powers, he wanted them gone. He had hurt Madison, they only person he counted as his friend.
When he got to a large rock. He stopped and sat down.
Oh Madison, I’m so sorry. He thought.
Leon, why do you mourn?
Leon looked around but couldn’t see the person who had spoken.
I asked, why do you mourn.
“I-I…”
Speak up boy!
“I’m sad because I hurt my friend with my powers.” Leon buried his head in his hands.
What powers are these?
“I can use electricity to do what I please.”
Ah. Yes, I thought so.
“You thought so?”
Yes, I am one of the Electrics. There are two of us, we channel your power and who ever else contains it.
“Like my father…” Leon whispered.
Your father has been trying to get all our power to himself. We are glad that you are not like him.
“I am like him! I have a temper just like him. That’s how I hurt Madison.” Leon said.
Who is this Madison?
“She’s a…friend.”
How much do you care about Madison?
“I l.—“
Love yes? Well you shouldn’t let your feelings get the best of you. Bad things can happen to those who’s feeling get in there way.
“I don’t understand.”
You will in time, my prince. Now, you must got back and take responsibility for your actions.
“I-I can’t.”
Why?
“I don’t know! I just can’t that’s all.”
You must go back.
“Why?”
Because I can feel this Madison’s spirit weakening. She is hurt not just on the outside but in the inside.
Leon was silent for a while. “I understand.” He stood up and ran back to camp.
Chapter 26
When Leon got back to camp, he went straight to Madison’s tent.
When he walked in, he saw Madison still laying on her cot. Her eyes were closed, but she was still breathing.
Claws and Justin were in there too.
Claws stood up. “Leon, are you ok?”
“I’m fine. How’s Madison?”
“Not well, we’ve already had the doctor come and look at her. He said he can’t do anything. She was already still weak from the last time she got shocked, so when it happened again and she got thrown against the ground. It made her even weaker.”
“All because of me.”
“No, it’s not your fault. Your powers are still growing. Everyone knows that. No one blames you.” Claws said.
Justin stood up. “No, no one does.”
Leon made a little smile.
Justin walked out of the tent, followed by Claws.
Leon went to the cot and sat down on the chair beside it. He took Madison’s hand.
“I’m so sorry, Madison.” He whispered a tear trickled down his cheek. “I couldn’t control them. Madison, please come back. I need you, everyone needs you.”
Then Leon forced some of his power into Madison’s body.
Madison’s eyes shot open. She sat straight up.
She screamed in pain. And she fell back down on her pillow.
“Madison, are-are you ok?” Leon asked.
“Leon?” Madison looked at him. She smiled. “Leon! I’m so glad you alright! I’d hug you, but it hurts too much.”
Leon laughed. “I’m glad you’re alright.” Then his same become serious. “How do you feel?”
Madison smiled. “This is just like the time when we got into that wreck.”
Leon smiled.
“I think some of my ribs are broken and maybe an arm.”
“I.—“
Madison interrupted him. “No, it’s not your fault. It’s my fault, for caring about Mark in the first place. I should have hit him or something.”
“Do you care about him?” Leon asked.
“Leon, I know it’s hard to understand this, but I love everyone. Because that’s what God tells us to do. ‘Love thy neighbor as thy self.’ So I don’t hate anyone really. Do you understand?”
Leon nodded.
“But someday, when I’m eighteen I’ll meet that special boy that we date and get married.” She sighed. “I’ve dreamed about that.” She looked at Leon’s confused face and laughed. “I know. It’s weird.”
“I’ll got get the doctor to fix you up.” Leon said.
She smiled. “Don’t go running away, ok?”
Leon smiled. “Ok.” And he walked out.
Chapter 27
The doctor told Madison that she must stay in bed for a week before she can get up and walk around. Three ribs were broken and so was her right arm.
Madison protested. But the doctor was firm. No getting out of bed.
When the doctor had left, Leon came in.
“What did he say?”
“He said I can’t get out of bed for a week.” Madison grumbled.
“Well, we don’t want you to get hurt even worse.” Leon said.
“Yeah. But I want to get up!” Madison protested.
“I’m sure we have something that will keep you occupied.” Leon said.
“Did you guys get anything out of, Mark?” Madison asked.
“Nothing. He just won’t open up.”
“All that would open him up is probably hurting him in some way. Which, we don’t want to do that.” Madison said.
“I could.—“
“No. No more shocking anyone.” Madison said firmly. “I’m surprised Mark isn’t in a coma.”
“He’s strong. That’s for certain.”
Just then, Justin came into the tent. “We broke through!”
“How?” Leon and Madison asked.
“I don’t know. But Mark said something that King Luther wanted to get all the power of some weird things and then he could take over the world! I don’t know if he’s lying or what.”
“The Electrics.” Leon whispered.
“What?” Justin asked.
Leon told them all about the voice that he had heard and what it had said. He didn’t say anything about loving Madison though.
Justin and Madison thought for a second. “Well, if two people or whatever that other thing is, know of the king’s plan, then it must be true. We can’t let King Luther destroy these Electrics.” Madison said.
“Agreed.” Justin said. “What are your orders?”
Leon looked at Madison. Madison nodded.
“We need to attack the castle. We need to stop King Luther, before he strikes.” Leon said.
“I’ll tell Claws and Eon, when do we attack?” Justin asked.
“As soon as possible.” Leon said. “We want this world, Ilone, to be free again.”
Chapter 28
Days went by before they were ready to attack the castle. Leon’s powers seemed to calm down, and no one got shocked.
Mark was still imprisoned, and he wasn’t happy about it. Throughout the camp, you could hear his loud protests.
Madison was allowed to start walking around again. It hurt to walk but at least she could. Her right arm had a cast and a sling on it and she had to walk with crutches. She couldn’t go on the invasion because her state. She told Leon she could but Leon told her that she must stay at camp.
The day before they were to attack the castle Madison went with Eon to talk to Mark, and see if they could get anything else out of him.
As they neared the prison, they could hear Mark yelling: “REALESE ME AT ONCE!”
When they got inside Madison yelled over Mark’s protests: “SHUT UP!”
Mark stopped, “Well, well, if isn’t is Madison.—“
Madison put up her left hand, “Enough. I haven’t come here to talk about your feelings, Mark. We’re here because we need more information.”
Mark sat down in a chair and propped his feet on a table. “Well, sorry, but I’m going to tell you anything.”
“I advise that you do.” Eon said, only eleven, but could scare almost anyone.
“Or what?”
Madison was tired of his English accent always making her feel hooey gooey inside. She didn’t like him. “Unless you want us to tell King Luther that you gave away his big plan, I advise that you tell us what we want to know.” Madison said smirking.
Mark’s eyes got wide. He didn’t want the king to find out; he’d do something really bad to him.
“What do you want to know?” He said, trying to pull himself together.
“We want to know, where are the weak spots in the castle.” Eon said leaning in close to the bars of the cell.
Mark hesitated. “There’s one on the right side, near the stable and one on the left, by the king’s bedroom. Is that all?”
“Yes, thank you. And if those aren’t the right spots, we’ll tell the king.” Madison said, walking out.
When they got outside, Eon said: “Smooth.”
Madison smiled. “Thanks.”
Chapter 29
That night while Madison lay in bed, she thought all about the boys she had in her life.
There was, Leon, Eon, Justin and Mark.
Everyone of them except Eon cared about her in that protective way. If you get what I mean.
“There all just my friends, that’s how I want it to be. No love from them, it wouldn’t work out right if I married one of them. They would either start attacking each other for me or something.” Madison whispered. “I need to marry someone in my world.”
She thought over this. She just wanted to be friends.
“I’m just thirteen. I have a long way to go before I start dating, no reason to think about this now.”
And she went to sleep.
Chapter 30
It was still dark outside when Leon woke up.
Everyone was getting up, even Madison.
“How’d you sleep?” He asked her.
“Good, you?”
“Fine I guess.”
“Your going to be fine.” Madison smiled.
“It’s not me I’m worried about, it’s you.”
“Why me?”
“Well, with everyone gone your going to be alone, with that Mark.”
“I’ll be fine.” Madison reassured him.
“You sure?”
“Positive.” Madison smiled.
Leon smiled and gave her a hug. And ran to march off to the castle.
“Please God, bring them all back safely.” Madison prayed and she waved as they marched off into the sunrise.
Chapter 31
Madison sat alone in her tent. She was so bored.
“I wish there was someone to talk to!” She said.
Then she remembered Mark. “No. I am not going to go talk to that-that-that…”
Then she got up and went anyway.
When she got in there, Mark wasn’t in his cell.
She felt stiff with fear. What if Mark got to her?
She went as fast as she could out the door and out into the row of tents. She walked slowly and with caution, she didn’t want Mark to catch her by surprise. He did anyway.
“I see you’re out and about.”
Madison whirled around and there was Mark.
“How did you get out?” Madison demanded.
Mark walked around her, Madison turned as he walked.
“I was only holding off for so long.” He said.
His voice was always so soothing. Madison hated that.
“Go back to your cell. Or-or.” Madison stammered.
“Or what?” Mark leaned in close to Madison’s face. “You’ll tell the king?” he laughed.
Madison thought for a second about what to say next. “You remind me of someone I read about in a book.”
“Who?” Mark asked, suddenly interested.
“Ian Kabra. He had an English accent and acted just like you. But in the end, he turned good.” Madison said. “I liked him.”
“Well, I’m not going to turn good.” Mark said.
Madison had failed. He didn’t fall for it.
“Now, let me tell you something,” Mark said. “I could make all this go away.”
“Make what go away?” Madison asked.
“The pain and everything that’s happened to you, you could live a normal life again.”
Madison had hoped for the longest time that her life would be normal again. “No. I can’t leave all my friends. They need me.” Madison said.
“But why make yourself hurt? When it could be gone?” He touched her broken arm. It immediately felt ten times better. Then he stopped touching her arm, and the pain returned.
“N-no. It wasn’t Leon’s fault, h-he.”
“He didn’t mean to. But what if he did?”
His voice was so persuasive that Madison almost gave in. “No. He didn’t mean to! He didn’t!” Madison yelled at Mark. She started to advance on him. He started to back up.“Leave me alone!” She used all her strength to lift up her crutch and bring it down on Mark.
Mark grabbed it and tore it from Madison’s hand. “Don’t go that again.” His voice was loosing its soothing touch.
Madison backed up the best she could without her crutch.
“Now, you’re coming with me.” Mark said, getting his voice back together. He brushed himself off.
“Never.” Madison said.
Mark walked right up to Madison and looked her in the eye. “Are you going to come with me willingly? Or not?”
“I’m not going at all.” She said firmly.
“Well then, you forced me into this.” Then he did something that Madison thought was the worse thing a boy could do to any girl before marriage. He kissed her!
Madison tried to pull away, but she couldn’t.
When he let go, she felt very sleepy, and she fell asleep.
Chapter 32
Mark had to carry Madison all the way to the castle, luckily, he got a horse from the camp’s stables.
Mark felt a little tinge of guilt about kissing her. He flinched about what she might say to him when she woke up. He thought that maybe Madison would like him, just like every other girl he’d met. But Madison didn’t. He didn’t like Madison anymore. If she didn’t like him, then he wouldn’t like her.
There, that was easy. He told himself.
The only reason he was taking Madison to the castle is because the king wanted her there. The king didn’t tell him exactly what he wanted her for, just that he wanted her.
When they got to the castle, he carried Madison inside. He tried to be careful of her broken ribs and arm.
Madison started to wake up. Her eyes fluttered open and then she struggled and fell out of his arms.
She screamed in pain. “Gosh! You could have held on better!” Madison yelled at him. She stood up. Her arm and ribs in total pain. She walked up to him and said: “And don’t you ever kiss me again!”
“Well, if you would have come willingly.” Mark said.
“Well I’m not stupid you know.” Madison said brushing herself off. “I’m only thirteen! You don’t go around kissing thirteen year old girls! Not until your married, that’s when you should kiss!” Madison yelled.
“Madison, shut up.” Mark said.
Madison glared at him. “You shut up.”
“No, you shut up.”
“No! You!”
They continued this conversation until a loud explosion sounded.
It shook to the ground, knocking Mark and Madison off their feet.
“That hurt.” Madison groaned.
“Whatever.” Mark said.
“Now look who’s grumpy!” Madison said.
“I am not grumpy! You’re grumpy!” Mark shot back.
They stopped when a bunch of royal Blacks came running towards the explosion.
“Mark, where have you been?” one of them asked.
Then they saw Madison. “Oh, got it. What took you so long?”
“I got.—“ Mark started
“He got taken captive at our camp.” Madison said, standing up.
“Did not! I let you!” Mark yelled.
“Did too!” Madison yelled back.
“Now calm down, the king wanted to see this girl, and now he’ll have to talk with you about being captured.” The royal Back grabbed Madison and started to escort her away.
Mark mumbled something about: “stupid girls.” and followed.
When they got to the king’s throne room, the royal Black who had a hold of her told Mark to take her inside, while they went to see what that explosion was.
Mark took Madison in.
Madison was mad and she hurt.
When they got in, the king stood up from his throne.
“Ah, Mark. I hear you got captured by these lowly people.” He eyed Madison.
“Y-yes sir.” Mark stammered.
Madison had never heard Mark stammer before.
“Well, my royal Blacks can’t go getting captured now can we?” The king said.
“N-no sir.”
“I’ll give you one more chance.” The king said, and he walked right up to Mark. “If you mess up again, it’s over.”
“Y-yes sir, I-I understand, s-sir.”
“Good.” The king said. “Now leave. I have to talk with Madison.”
Mark didn’t hesitate to leave.
“I don’t want anything you have to offer.” Madison said, once Mark left.
The king started to walk around the room, as if he hadn’t heard Madison at all.
“What happened to you?” he asked.
“I got hurt, what do you think?” Madison snapped.
“I can see that, but how did it happen?” the king said.
“I got thrown to the ground.”
“I see, by whom?”
“Leon, but it wasn’t his fault! It was his.—“
“His powers? Yes, yes I see.” The king said thoughtfully. “I wonder if anyone could stop his powers.”
“No one that I know of.” Madison said.
“Well, I know some one.” The king said “You.”
Madison was stunned for a moment. “Me?”
“Yes, now hold out your hand.”
Madison did, but slowly.
The king created a ball of electricity in his hand. “Now, think really hard about how you want to absorb this in your hand.”
Madison thought hard.
Then the king put the ball in her hand. It shocked her but she kept thinking and then, it did absorb in her hand.
Madison looked at her hand with disbelief. “W-what, h-how…” she stammered.
“Amazing isn’t it? There’s only been two others that can do that.” The king said. “Now there are three.”
“But I don’t understand how did I do that?” Madison asked.
“No one knows really, but I knew it was you because of how you took those shocks I gave you a year ago, those were supposed to kill you.”
Madison glared at him.
The king put up his hands. “Now calm down. I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to help you.”
“Help me?” Madison said skeptically.
“Yes, I will heal you right now.”
“What’s the catch?”
“No catch.”
Madison thought for a moment. “Alright. But don’t you dare hurt me.”
“I promise I won’t hurt you or kill you.” The king said. He went a touched Madison and she was healed.
It felt good to move un-painfully again.
“Mark!” the king yelled.
Madison knew what was coming; he was going to try to lock her up again.
She touched were she kept her hunting knife, still there.
Mark came in walking slowly.
“Don’t doddle boy! Come here!” The king commanded.
Mark walked faster up to the king. “Yes sir?”
“Take her to the dungeon, Leon will want her back sometime.” The king answered waving his hand.
Mark walked up to Madison, Madison had to think fast, she saw the door was still open. She ran for it.
Chapter 33
Leon was worried about Madison.
“She’s fine.” Eon assured him.
“I know, I’m just worried.” Leon said.
They were inside the castle trying to avoid being seen. But that explosion probably didn’t help them much.
“Tell me why we blew a hole in the castle again.” Eon had said.
“To get inside it, but now that you mention it…” Leon had answered.
Eon and Leon were traveling to the throne room to attack King Luther.
Then they heard someone running. They backed up to a corner. Swords and bow arrows at the ready.
Leon looked over to where the footsteps were coming from.
“Get her! You fool!” Someone yelled.
Then Madison ran down the hall.
But Leon and Eon didn’t know it was her, Eon fired an arrow at her.
She ducked. “That’s a nice way to say hi.” She said.
“Madison! What are you doing here?” Leon said.
“Mark. That’s all I need to say.” Madison answered.
Then Mark and the king turned the corner too. They stopped. The king smiled, “Well, well, so it isn’t Leon and his friends.”
Leon’s eyes narrowed.
“Now, don’t we all go in my throne room and have some tea?” The king said.
“No thanks.” Leon said.
Just then six royal blacks came in, three by the king and three on the other side of Leon, Madison and Eon.
“This isn’t good.” Eon said.
“You think?” Leon said. He pulled out the hook that throws it’s self out of his belt.
He grabbed Madison and shot off the hook, the others did the same.
And they went up to a window below.
No he doesn’t! Mark thought, he ran to the stairs and climbed to the roof.
When Leon and the others got to the roof, they started for the hover boards which were on the roof.
Then something started to pull Madison back, it felt like a magnet.
“Ahhh!” she yelled.
She was thrown onto the ground. She looked up, Mark had done it.
“Mark! Just leave us alone!” She yelled.
“No, not until I have you Madison.” Mark said. Mark had forgotten that he was mad at Madison, his feelings had taken over.
“Have me? What?” Madison said, she tried to stand up but Mark still had a hold on her.
“Let her go, Mark!” Leon said. He had told the rest to go and get help.
“No.” Mark said. “Do you care about her?” Mark’s smile was cold.
Leon was tied between his feelings and what was right to do. “I-I…do.” He stammered.
“How much? Like me, I like, like her, as people in her world say.”
“Yes.” Leon said.
Madison was mad. She was being fought over as a toy.
She screamed. Scaring Mark and his grip was gone. “I’ve had enough of the two of you!”
Leon and Mark said: “What?”
“You’re always trying to get me! I am a human being. I’m not someone’s thing.” Madison yelled.
“I’m only trying to protect you.—“ Leon started.
“Protect? You’re just trying to get me away from Mark so you can have me instead!”
Leon tried to walk up to Madison but Mark blocked his path.
Mark got his grip back on Madison. “Let me go!” She screamed.
“Leave her alone!” Leon’s anger got control of his powers again and he shot a lighting bolt at Mark.
Madison got loose and jumped in front of Mark and thought really hard about how she wanted to absorb that lightning bolt.
She did, but it shocked her, a lot.
Mark and Leon stared at her in disbelief.
“How-how.—“ Leon stammered.
“Shut up. It’s nothing, now, if you two don’t leave this rooftop right now. I will go back to my world, and never, ever, come back.” She let her last words sink in.
Leon and Mark glared at each other. Madison saw this and said: “Oh, if you two can’t get along, I am leaving.” She started to walk away.
“Madison! Don’t please!” Leon begged.
Madison put up her hand and kept walking. She got on a remaining hover board, and flew off to the time and space continuum.
Chapter 34
Leon and Mark stood there.
“Now what?” Mark said.
“I-I don’t know.” Leon said. “Mark, do you really like doing what King Luther says?”
“Not really,” He grabbed his head in his hands. “I-I…”
Leon walked up to him and put a hand on Mark’s shoulder. “Think, Mark. Why did you join up with him?”
“I-I was walking, and then two men…in black…got me and took me to…the king…and he…did…something…to my…head…and…” Mark was feeling sick.
“Yes, yes, you’re doing it!” Leon said.
“MARK!” King Luther came up the ladder to the roof.
Mark’s head was throbbing.
“This is wrong Father. You brain washed Mark just so you could have him for your army. That’s wrong!” Leon yelled. He stood in front of Mark to protect him.
“Come now Leon, there isn’t a reason why we are fighting…” the king started.
“Yes there is!” Mark said. “You are trying to hurt Leon, just to get his power.”
“Silence, Mark!” the king shot a lightning bolt at Mark, Mark fell to the ground.
“Father, this is wrong!” Leon yelled. His powers were getting worked up; he shot a lightning bolt at him.
The king blocked it with his own lightning.
The fight was on. The king and Leon took turns throwing lightning bolts at each other.
Mark lay there, and then he felt someone trying to help him up. It was Madison!
“Madison…your…back.” He groaned.
“Yes, and I’m here to help. What happened to you?” Madison said.
“I guess I’ve been brainwashed…this whole…time.” Mark said.
“Well that’s good.” Madison smiled.
Mark smiled back.
Just then, lightning hit Madison, knocking her down.
“Madison! Your back!” Leon said.
“I’m going to get rid of you, once and for all!” The king bellowed. He gathered all his power and shot it at Madison.
“NO!” Mark jumped up and blocked Madison.
The lightning hit him. He fell to the ground, motionless.
“Mark!” Madison yelled. She got down beside him. “Oh Mark, don’t die, it’s going to be ok!”
Leon looked at Madison and Mark, and a voice in his head said: “Look how she runs to him, get rid of him, once and for all.”
Leon wanted to so badly, but he couldn’t, that was the person Madison liked or seemed to.
“No, Father!”
“What? I didn’t do anything.” The king said, he put up his hands.
“You did too!” Leon yelled, he shot a huge bolt of lightning that the king. It hit King Luther. He fell to the ground.
Leon ran over to Madison and Mark.
Madison was crying. Leon put an arm around her.
“All this time, I’ve hated you Mark, but, now that I know you were brainwashed, I feel terrible.” Madison sobbed.
“It’s…alright…” Mark’s breathing was labored.
“Please, don’t go. We can start over.” Madison said.
“Yes.” Leon said. “We can all start over, I’m sorry too.”
“I forgive…both…of…you.” Mark said. “And…I’m…Sure…If I…did…through…this…we’ll…be…best…friends.” Mark said.
“No! Don’t die!” Madison sobbed.
Mark laughed. “No, I’m not going to die.”
Leon and Madison smiled at each other.
Same old Mark. They thought.
Chapter 35
They took Mark back to the camp.
Madison sighed, “Now, there’s only one problem…”
“My dad.” Leon finished.
“Yep. And he’s a big problem.”
“Agreed. I want you to stay here.”
“What? No! I want to.”
Leon put up his hand. “Stay here and help Mark, try to get him to reamember his family. I want you to stay here I don’t want you to get hurt.”
Madison knew that he was incharge, she balled her fists and went to where Mark was.
Leon sighed, and went to gather troops for the attack.
…
When Madison went into the tent, she saw that Mark was sleeping, she started to back out.
“No…wait.” He said, his voice sounded raspy.
He was still wearing his royal Black outfit, he had a bandage on his head and one on his arm.
“Y-you feeling ok?” Madison asked.
Mark smiled. “Yes, I guess.”
Madison smiled back, “Um…” she shifted from foot to foot, she still on nervous around Mark. “Leon wanted me to help you remember you family.”
Mark looked like he was in pain, once she said that.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Madison looked down at the ground.
“No, it’s fine. I just, don’t have a family.”
“Well, you could try to reamember your friends, then.” Madison tried to sound up beat to cheer up Mark.
“I don’t have any of those either.”
“Pets?”
“Nope.”
“Toys?”
“Nada.”
Madison started to feel sorry for him. He had no friends, to pets, no toys, no family. She went and sat down on the side of the cot.
“Well, you have friends now.”
Mark smiled. “Yes, yes I do.”
They were queit for a long time.
“What’s wrong?” Mark asked.
Madison looked up. “What?” She was shocked that he knew she was troubled.
“Royal Blacks can read some people’s feelings.”
“Oh…well...Leon won’t let me go with him to defeat the king.”
“I don’t blame him. The king is dangerous.”
“I know that, but I want to help.”
“I know you do, but it’s safer for you here.”
“You sound just like Leon.” Madison’s voice was low.
“I’m sorry, but we care about you.”
So even when he’s not brainwashed, he still cares. Madison thought. “I um, have to go.” She stood up went out of the tent.
Madison was too stubborn to admit her feelings. She cared about Leon as a brother. But there something else there that Mark had…
She didn’t get to finished thinking when she ran into Claws.
“You coming?” She asked.
“Where?” Madison asked.
“To defeat the king or course.” Claws said agitated.
“No, Leon told me to stay here.”
“No he didn’t, now come on.” Claws grabbed Madison by the hand pulled her towards a ship.
“We don’t own any of these.” Madison said. She started to back away; she had her bow and arrow with her. She got an arrow ready.
Claws had gone behind the ship, but when she came back, she wasn’t a she anymore.
Madison shot a arrow at the man.
He flicked it with his hand, out of the way. That didn’t surprise Madison at all, she’s seen a lot of weird things.
“What do you want?” Madison growled. Then she bumped into something, she looked around, it was another man.
“Your royal Blacks aren’t you?” Madison tried not to sound afraid. “Mark’s not coming back with you.”
“That’s not what we want.” The man behind her said. He grabbed her by the arm and waved his hands over her eyes. Madison fell right asleep.
“Let’s go,” the man who had pretened to be Claws said. They carried Madison inside the ship.
Chapter 36
When Madison woke up, she wasn’t excepting to be chained to a wall.
She looked around. “Hellooooo?” She called.
A rat scurried across the floor, scared by Madison call. She was in a dungeon like place.
“Homey.” She said.
Just then, two royal Blacks came into the room with King Luther.
Madison glared at him.
“Now, now, don’t be unhappy.” The king said.
“Your kind voice is fake, I can tell.” Madison said.
“Children, so annoying.” The king yawned.
“What do you want?” Demanded Madison.
“You probably already know about my plan to steal the powers of the Electrics.” The king said.
“Yes…” Madison said.
“Well, it’s fake.”
Madison was shocked; two people had told them that King Luther had wanted to Electrics’ powers. How had that not been his plan the whole time?
“What is it then?” Madison snapped.
“The Electrics have given me the curtisery of letting me take them, but you see, they don’t like just giving there powers away, they like something in return.”
Madison didn’t like how where this was going.
“They like sacrifices.”
Madison really didn’t like the conversation now. “No, no, no, no!” Madison said.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes!” the king mimicked her voice.
“So, that’s you. Also, it’s a good way to get Leon to come.” He laughed, and started to walk out of the room. “Guards, tie her hands, we’re going now.”
The royal Blacks unhooked Madison’s hands and tied them with rope, and pulled her along.
She tried to fight them by not walking, but they were just too strong.
Madison kind of wished that Mark was the one doing the pulling. They made it outside, they dragged her inside the same ship they had brought her in.
They pushed off to the side right infront of where King Luther was sitting.
He looked down at here, with those eyes that looked so much as Leon. She felt like crying.
“So the Electrics are just going to give you their powers?” Madison said.
“Yep. Aren’t they sweet?”
“No not really.”
No one talked for at least ten minutes.
“When we get there,” the king said “I want you to corporate.”
Madison sniffed. “Yeah right.”
“So brave, that’s probably why Leon liked you in the first place.” The king said, looking at his fingernails.
“W-what are you talking about?” Madison stammered.
“Leon liked you, that’s what I heard from the Electrics.”
“W-we’re just friends.”
“Is that so? Well, you can ask, Leon yourself then.” And the conversation was over.
Madison thought about what the king had said. She tried not to belivie it, but the facts were so true. Then she thought about Mark.
Oh LORD, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. She prayed silently.
When the ship stopped, the royal Blacks pulled her out of the ship. They had landed by a mossy old cave.
“What’s in there?” Madison tried to sound brave.
“Where the sacrifice is to be made.” The king said it as if he said stuff like that all the time.
When they entered the cave, there was a stone pipe running up to the top of the cave, and behind it, were some bars, like a cage.
“W-what’s in there?” Madison was loosing it.
“The Electric Tiger.” The king said, yawing. “tie her to the poll.”
“NO!” Madison screamed. “Let me go!” She kicked and screamed. She stopped moving entirely.
One of the royal Blacks had to carry her.
This wasn’t happening. Madison thought to here self. I’m going to be home in a minute.
They tied her hands to the poll.
“Now, we have to wait until the moon is fully out and then, we can release the tiger.” The king laughed an evil laugh.
Then one of the royal Blacks, pulled a lever and a giant stone door closed Madison inside the room, where a tiger was going to kill her.
Chapter 37
Leon and the army were at the castle, but when the stormed into the king’s throne room, he wasn’t there.
“Where is he?!” Leon yelled.
Eon put a hand on Leon’s shoulder. “It’s ok, we’ll find him.”
Leon pulled out his cell phone and called Madison.
The phone picked up, but instead of Madison’s voice, the king answered it.
“Hello, my boy.” The king said.
“What have you done with Madison?” Leon growled.
“She’s part of the plan, now, if you want to see her ever again, come to the old cave by the river.” The line went dead.
Leon stormed off, towards the hover boards.
Eon had to run to keep up with him. “What are we going to do?” He asked.
“Save, Madison.” Leon said.
Eon walked in front of Leon and stopped. “Not even you can do this on you own, you need someone with experience with the king.”
“I can do it myself.” Leon said.
“No, you can’t.” Eon looked him in the eye.
“Fine, but who?” Leon asked.
“Mark.”
…
Madison decied she wasn’t getting out anytime soon, so she sat down where the rope had enough slack so she could be comfortable.
“Sigh.” She said. She looked up at the sky, where there was bars to block her ecsape, but she could still see the sky. The sun was still up, but she didn’t think it would up much longer.
She heard a faint growl come from the cage. She shivered.
“Oh Leon, do you really care about me that way?” she said.
…
Leon and Eon ran into Mark’s tent.
“Mark!” Leon yelled.
Mark sat right up in his cot, startled.
“Sorry, I just, uh…”
“He needs your help rescueing Madison.” Eon said.
“Madison’s in trouble?” Mark started to get up.
“Wait, are you well enough to get up?” Leon asked.
“Fine, royal Blacks have special healing powers.” Mark rubbed his once sprained wrist. He was a good 3in taller that Leon and a year older. “Where is she?”
“In a cold cave by the river, my dad has her.” Leon said.
Mark’s face darkened. “I know what he’s going to do to her.”
“What?” Leon asked, they started to walk outside, Eon left to talk to Claws.
“That plan I told you about King Luther taking the Electrics’ power. It’s a fake, the Electrics are going to just give him the power, but they want something in return.”
“What do they want?”
“They want a sacrifice.”
Leon’s eyes got wide, he quickened his step. “We have to get there fast.”
“It won’t happen until the moon is out, but yes, I agree, we must hurry.”
“So how are they going to…you know…” Leon asked.
“The Eclectics have an Electric Tiger, when he bites its victim, then he or she will instantly go to the land of the Eclectics.” Mark answered.
“Could we ever get Madison back, if that happened?” asked Leon.
“Yes, but it could be dangerous.”
“I’ll do it for Madison.” Leon said, determined.
Mark didn’t say anything. They made it to the hover boards and got on.
“Do you want to lead the way?” Mark asked Leon.
“No, you can.”
Mark lifted off and they flew off, to save Madison.
Chapter 38
Meanwhile, Madison was in the cave wondering what was going to happen.
She tried to bite at the ropes, but they were just too thick, the rope was hurting her wrists. She decided to try to call for help.
“Hello! Help! Help!” She yelled. No answer.
She looked up at the sky, the moon was almost up.
She tired one more time to call for help, this time, someone answered.
Why do you call for help? A voice said.
“W-who are you?” Madison looked around her cell, no one was there.
I am an Electric.
“A what?! How dare you give King Luther your power!”
Now, now young one, King Luther needs the power so he can rule the world better.
“You could at least give him your power without me involved.”
I didn’t know who the king was going to get, but I like who he chose.
Madison was feeling uncomfortable.
Now, now, no need to feel uneasy, it’s nice up here in our world, and we’ve been needing more servants around here.
“Wait a minute; no one said anything about, a servant.” Madison said.
When our tiger bites you, your spirit will come up to my world, where you will live, forever.
The Electric’s words didn’t have any emotion in them, but Madison could tell he was very, very happy.
See you soon, young one.
And he didn’t speak again.
Chapter 39
“We have to hurry!” Leon called to Mark.
Up ahead, Mark was going as fast as he could, he was trying not to get mad at Leon. The two still didn’t get along very well.
When they got to the cave, the moon was almost up.
They rushed inside.
“Madison!” the both called.
“Leon? Mark?” Madison’s voice shook.
“It’s alright, we’re to rescue you.” Leon said.
No you won’t.
The Electric whacked Leon out of the way with his power.
Mark rolled out of the way, as lightning flashed where he was standing.
“Madison! How did they lock you in there?” Mark called.
“There was a lever I think.”
The Electric laughed. The moon is full.
Mark looked around franticly for a lever. He tried to remember what the king had said about the plan.
“Leon, can you keep him occupied while I get to the lever?”
Leon groaned. “Sure, no problem.” Leon tried aiming at where the lightning was coming from, he threw lightning bolts.
Madison screamed as the cage started to open.
“HELP!” She screamed.
“Hang on, Madison!” Mark climbed up to where he knew there was a lever. There were at least four of them in the whole cave.
He pulled it.
Madison saw the tiger come out, it growled at her.
“N-nice k-kitty.” She backed away, but something pushed her towards it.
“MARK!” She screamed.
The tiger lunged, and bit Madison’s leg.
“MADISON!” Leon and Mark screamed.
The Electric laughed an evil laugh. She’ll be mine a couple of minutes.
If tigers could smile, the Electric Tiger would did. He backed up back to his cage, and bars came down.
Mark and Leon ran to Madison.
It’s too late, you cannot help her.
Madison was lying on the floor, she was breathing hard.
Mark examined her bite. “It’s no use.” He lowered his head.
“Madison! Don’t go!” Leon said.
“I know, you guys will…find a way to save me.” Madison smiled. “I’ll wait.” And her eyes closed. And she shirmered and she dispipeared.
Chapter 40
.A tear slid down Leon’s face. Mark’s face was covered by his black hat, Leon couldn’t tell if he was crying or not.
“How do we save her?” Leon asked quietly.
“We have to fly through thousands of worlds to get to her. Madison took the easy way.” Mark answered.
Just then, King Luther and two royal Blacks came into the cave.
“I see the plan worked, I’ll soon have all the power—“ then we yelled and threw his head back and fell to the ground.
Leon and Mark started at the king’s body on the ground.
The two royal Blacks turned and ran out of the cave.
“What happened?” Leon asked after a moment of silence.
“They Electric killed him.” Mark reiplied, looking over the king.
“The Electrics tricked him. All they wanted was Madison.” Leon clutched his fists.
“So it seems.” Mark was walking around the cave. “We have to prepare for our long journey.”
“What do we do when we get there?” Leon asked.
Mark turned to Leon and looked him in the eye. “Stop asking questions. We have to go.”
And they walked outside.
Chapter 41
Madison floated up to the land of the Electrics. It was something like from the movie Enchanted when all those blue things appeared on them. So when Madison landed, it was blue dots and then it turned into body.
Madison looked around, she wasn’t wearing her battle armor anymore, she was wearing a blue toga and gold bracelets on hr arms. In her hair was a gold reef around her head. And she was wearing gold colored sandals on her feet.
She rubbed her head. “W-where am I?”
“I can answer that.” Madison turned around and saw boy about 13 or 14, he had blonde hair and blue eyes and he was wearing a white toga.
He held out his hand and helped her up. “You’re in the land of the Electrics’.”
“Oh, that isn’t good.” Madison said.
“Got sacrificed too huh?” the boy asked.
“Um…yeah…How do I get out of here?”
“You can’t get out of here.”
“Well, that’s not good news. You could of said: ‘Hi!’ or ‘Welcome!’”
“Sorry, but like, no one has ever escaped.” The boy started walking. Madison followed.
“That’s horrible. So, who are you?” Madison asked.
“Matthew. You?”
“Madison.”
“Oh! You’re the one they’ve been expecting.”
“Who’s expecting me?” Madison was feeling uneasy.
They had entered a huge city, it looked just like Greece in it’s golden age.
“Woah.” Madison said.
“The king is. Of this land anyway, there is one more, who are dying to meet you.”
Madison finalley understood where she was now; she was in the land of the Electrics. She was thinking about running from Matthew right then, but then, she underestimated Mark. And Matthew couldn’t’ be any different. She kept walking with him. They entered the city, and a bunch of a people starting staring at her.
“W-why are they staring?” she asked Matthew.
“They know you’re the one.”
“The one…?”
“I’ll let the king explain.” He led her to the end of the city to wear the castle was. He led her inside.
The guards apparently knew Matthew because they just let me come in.
They entered a huge hall. Madison suddenly had flashbacks of the first time she was in King Luther’s castle. She really wanted to run now. They entered a huge throne room. There was a man, with a white beard was sitting on a throne, his eyes had actual electricity in them.
“King Lightning, this is Madison, the one you’ve been excepting.” Matthew announced.
The king stood up, he was wearing a golden toga. “My, so it is. I’ve been expecting you.” King Lightning said. He waved his hand, and Matthew bowed and left.
Madison was really scared now, last time she got left in a room with a king, things didn’t go well.
“My dear, how was your trip here?”
“It was…um…”
“Oh forgive me, but I have not told you my name. I am King Lightning of the first kingdom of the land of the Electrics.
“So you’re a…Electric?” Madison’s voice shook.
“Why yes, now, let me show you to your room.” He offered his arm and Madison reluctantly took it. He led her to another hall with rooms by the dozen. They made it to the end of the hall and there were two double doors, the king opened them and led Madison inside.
“This will be your room.”
Madison didn’t understand, the voice had told her that she would be a servant, not treated like royalty.
“I sense you’re confused.” The king said
“Y-yes, I am. One of the Electrics told me I was going to be.—“
The king raised his hand. Madison stopped talking. “That would be my brother Electricity. He’s mean my dear, he was mad when he learned that you would be living here, with me. You’re the next princess of the First Kingdom.” The king waved his arm as if he were showing the whole world to her.
“But, I’m not that special.—“ Madison started.
“Yes you are, you are an Absorber. You can absorb our powers, that is special.”
“But.—“
“But what?”
“But, I want to go home.”
The words hung in the air like a bad odor.
The king rubbed his beard “Well, um…I’m sorry, Madison but your new home is here, you’re going to like it. Now, I must be going, I have to address the populace.” And with that, he left Madison to her self.
Chapter 42
Madison lay on the bed in her new room. She had been crying for sometime. Then she felt a rush of wind and a little shock went through her, she sat up and leaning against the post of her bed was a man about 18 or 19. He looked a lot like Matthew to Madison, but she told herself that she’d been crying and she was seeing things. The boy had a black leather jacket on with a red and black striped shirt, and black jeans. His blonde hair seemed to spark, red.
“W-who are you?” Madison asked.
“Name’s Electricity.” The boy answered. “And you must be Madison. I’ve been dying to meet you.”
“Your that-that…” Madison stammered. She got out of the bed.
“Yes, I’m that mean Electric.”
“Yes, you are.” Madison glared at him. “you said.—“
“Yes, that servant thing, but now that I can see you better; I think another thing would be better.”
“Like what?—“
“Well, queen or something.”
“You know what, I hate being interrupted, and it’s happened a lot today!” Madison snapped.
Electricity never had anyone talk to him like that, he didn’t like it. “Excuse me? No one is allowed to talk to me in my kingdom!” He yelled.
“Well, we aren’t in your kingdom, now are we?” Madison yelled back.
“Well, maybe if I could take you to my kingdom then you couldn’t take to me like that.”
“If you think your just going to take me off to your kingdom, you have a huge problem.”
“Oh really?” He grabbed Madison by her arm.
“No you don’t!” Madison threw him on the ground. “Wow, I didn’t know I could do that.”
Electricity, rubbed his head. “I guess my brother was right.”
“Right about what?”
“That the more you absorb the stronger you get.”
Madison looked at her hands. “Wow, that is kind of cool.”
“Tell me about it.” Electricity got up. “Now, I would like you to come with me.”
“No thank you. I’ve had enough of boys dragging me off somewhere.” Madison said. She ran out the doors. Electricity ran after her.
Just as she was going to turn the corner, he popped up in front of her.
“How did you do that?” Madison asked, backing up.
“I’m made of electricity, sweetie.” He winked.
“Ew! Don’t do that.” Madison said. She ran back the other way. He popped up again. “Stop that! I am not coming with you!”
Electrcicty grabbed Madison by her waist before she could do anything to stop him, and he snapped his fingers. Then the next thing Madison knew, she was in a red tunnel of light she felt shocks going up her body. Even though she highly disliked Electriciy, she hung on to him, so that she wouldn’t fall.
When they got out of the tunnel they were in a stone castle, and two thrones with red materiel on them, everything was either, stone, black or red.
“Where did you take me?” Demanded Madison. She tried to pry his grip he had on her arm now.
“To my castle.” Electricity dragged her across to floor to the thrones. “Now, I want you to by my queen.”
“No! I won’t go around marrying, when I’m only 13!” Madison yelled.
“No marriage required. Immortals don’t marry, it’s too mortal.” He said. “Now, yes or no?”
“Never!”
Electriciy’s eyes narrowed. “I didn’t want to do this…” He snapped his fingers a collar appeared on Madison’s throat.
“This is a punish.—“ she couldn’t finish because the black collar prevented her to do so.
“You can only talk when I want you to. Now come with me.” He pushed Madison through a door and into a hall, he led her to a room. He pushed her inside.
“Now what do you say?” he snapped his fingers.
Madison replied: “I’m not saying thank y.—“ He cut her off again. He closed the door and with an evil laugh, locked it. Leaving Madison alone.
Chapter 43
Madison didn’t know how she got into this mess, she didn’t know how she was going to get out of it. Every boy she’d met had done something mean to her. Why was she so easy to pick on? Madison didn’t know. She tugged at the collar around her neck, it wasn’t any fun not being able to talk. She hoped that Electricity wouldn’t do anything even more horrible to her to get her to be his queen. While she was alone, she tried using the power she had absorbed to do things.
After about two hours, someone came and unlocked the door and came in.
“His royal highness, wishes you to come.” The guard said.
Madison wanted to protest, but she couldn’t talk, so she went with the thing, the shocks she took she absorbed so the thing didn’t hurt her when she touched it.
The thing took her into the throne room, where Electriciy was sitting on his throne, his head in his palm.
He must be bored. Thought Madison.
“Aw, Madison! How have you been taking the silent treatment?” he asked, once he noticed she had entered. He snapped his fingers.
“Well, it sure is quiet.” Madison said, rolling her eyes. “What do you want?”
“I thought you might want to take up my offer again.”
“N.—“ she got cut off.
“That’s what I thought you’d say, but look here,” he waved his hand and a screen popped up and the picture was of two people talking by some tents. Leon and Mark.
Madison wanted to yell out to them so bad, but she couldn’t.
“Now, I could zap them and they would die or you could accept my offer and they live.” He snapped his fingers.
“I don’t know the.—“
“Sure you do, that’s Mark and Leon isn’t it? Now what do you say?”
Madison didn’t know what to do, she couldn’t’ let her friends die just because she didn’t want to do something. “Yes.” She said, she lowered her head.
“Lovely! Now…” He snapped his fingers and Madison’s outfit changed: She was now wearing a black leather jacket with a red and black striped shirt; she had on a black skirt and black leggings with black boots. Also, on her finger was a black ring.
He snapped again and the collar disappeared. Madison also felt stronger somehow.
“Now, you can go around freely, but I’ll be watching you. Oh and also, becoming my queen that gives you some of my power. Now have fun!” and he disappeared.
“This is horrible! Just horrible! I look, horrible!” she sobbed and ran down the hall and into the room she was in, and cried.
“Oh, Leon, hurry, please.” She stayed in the room for two hours, and decided that she could go look around.
She walked down the halls playing with her new power as she did. She found she could snap her fingers and do stuff like Electricity could, she just couldn’t change her outfit, which she found annoying.
She entered a room full of pictures. One picture had a boy that looked so much like Matthew on it.
“I wonder why Matthew’s picture is in here.” Madison mused. She leaned forward to read who was in the picture, when someone pulled her back.
“What are you doing?” A maid was standing there.
“Looking.” Madison said. The maid was a little shorter than Madison.
“The king doesn’t like anyone in here.” The maid looked around the room, like Electricity was expecting him to pop up anywhere.
“I’m sure he doesn’t mind me in here.” Madison said.
“He minds anyone bein in here.” The maid said. “And if I were you miss, I’d get out before.—“
The doors swung open.
“What are you doing?” Electricity’s lightning for eyes flashed in anger.
“Sorry, your highness.” The maid bowed as she walked out the door. “Sorry, sir.”
Madison didn’t know why he was so angry, It’s just a room!
“I-I was just looking.—“
“Well no ‘looking’ in this room.” He pushed Madison out the door.
“It’s just a room!” Madison snapped.
“It’s a ‘room’ that I don’t like anyone going into.” Electricity said. “Now come, the royal speaker will tell about the kingdom and its people.” Madison followed him to the throne room.
She sat down in her throne. And sighed.
“Why do sad, sweetie?”
“Don’t call me that.” Madison snapped.
Electricity started to say something, but the royal speaker came in.
“Your highnesses.” The speaker began. “The Second Kingdom’s reports are good. 20 people have been reported dead.”
Electricity smiled at this. Madison was really freaking out. “Dead? That’s terrible! What caused it?”
“My lady, we have plenty of torture houses. That is why people have died.” And the speaker continued talking about the horrible things.
“I-I need some air.” She told Electricity and she left the room. She snuck out the back door, and she had her first look at the Second Kingdom: There was no sun, but lava everywhere, and the trees didn’t have any leaves, they were burnt black and the ground was too. There were screams coming from everywhere, it seemed.
“Oh my gosh.” Madison breathed. She walked into the town. People were cowering by their houses. And in the middle was a guard shoving people into a wagon.
They were just kids, younger than Madison. The parents were trying to get there kids back, but the guards pushed them back.
“You know the drill people! New people every week for the torture houses.” One of the guards said.
“No! Take me instead! Not my baby girl!” one women cried.
“Today is children, women.” The women got pushed back by one of the guards.
“Hey! Don’t do that!” Madison walked up to the guard shoving people in the wagon. The guard went to slap Madison, but she grabbed the man’s arm, electricity went through her arm into the guard’s.
The guard screamed in pain. And he fell to the ground. Madison turned to the other guards. They ran.
Madison helped the kids out of the wagon. They ran to their mothers when they got out, saying quick ‘thank you’ are they went. After all the kids were out Madison tried to talk to the parents and ask them about what this kingdom was like, but everyone looked frightened. Madison didn’t understand why, then she looked behind her and there were four guards coming and Electricity was right behind them, and he didn’t look happy.
Madison turned to run, she almost ran into a women.
“Come with me, he is angry because you have helped us. Come, I will hide you.”
Madison tried to tell the women that it was too dangourus for her, if Electricity found Madison hiding in the women’s house, the women would be in so much trouble.
But the women was firm, she would help Madison. They entered the women’s house and the women opened a closet and told Madison to go inside, and she told her that the stairs to the roof were just outside the closet, just incase Madison had to run. Madison nodded and thanked the women. She did her best to hide in with the coats.
There was silentness for the longest time, and then Madison heard Electricity’s voice shouting out orders.
“I want her found! Look in every house! NOW!”
Madison prayed very hard that the guards wouldn’t come inside the nice lady’s house. Then she heard the door being knocked down. The women tried to tell the guards that Madison wasn’t in the house, but the guards ignored her. They walked up to the closet and flew open the door.
Madison screamed and let out red electricity out on the guards. She ran to the steps and up to the roof. When she got up there she didn’t think about how high the roof was, she felt sick, so was deathly afraid of heights, ever since falling into the portal so long ago.
She tried not to look down and so tried to think straight, then she felt something pulling on her skirt. She looked down, it was a little girl, in a once white dress and dirty brown hair.
“Who are you?” the little girl asked.
Madison breathed deep and said: “My name is Madison. Who are you?” She remembered how she had talked to little girls when she helped at her church in the nursery.
“Morgon.” The little girl said. She looked about 4 or 5, but she was so thin, Madison wasn’t sure.
“What are you doing up here, Morgon?” Madison asked.
“I was hiding from the bad men that were taking my friends away.” Morgon replied.
Then the building began to shake, Madison scooped up Morgon and tried to protect her from the rocks that were falling everywhere. Madison didn’t want to think about who had done that.
“Ah, there you are Madison.” Electricity said. He was floating on a hover board made of red electricity.
Madison didn’t say anything, she put Morgon down, and held her hand, she was deitermined to take the little girl with her.
“Why did you run away?” Electricity asked.
“I didn’t run away, I told you I was going out for some air.” Madison answered.
“Well, I didn’t hear you, so it still counts as running away. Also, you don’t go running out, without me or my guards. Understood?”
Madison didn’t like being treated like a child, she looked down at the ground, she felt Morgon shaking. “Yes.”
“Good, now let go of the girl and we’re going back to the castle.”
“No, I am taking Morgon with me.” Madison said.
Electricity sighed, everyone else listened to him, just not Madison “Fine. Let’s go.” He floated down onto the building so Madison and Morgon could get on. The little girl stood behind Madison the whole way, trying to get as far away from Electricity as she could. He scared her. She had heard so many scary stories from the older kids about the king, how he had taken her parents away to the torture houses. But she had always heard that someday a queen would come and save the kingdom and its people. She hoped Madison was that queen.
When they got to the castle gate, Electricity landed and snapped his fingers, the hover board disappeared and the gates opened, he pushed Madison and Morgon in. When they got inside the castle, Madison took Morgon to her room. She snapped her fingers and created a bed beside hers.
“Here you go, sweetie. Now get some sleep, I’ll see you in morning.” Madison smiled at Morgon.
Morgon smiled back, and she closed her eyes. And went to sleep.
Chapter 44
Meanwhile, Madison was trying to avoid Electricity best she could. She tried pulling that ring off her finger, she knew it had to do with something about her being queen, and she didn’t like it. She wanted to figure out that room she had seen. She wanted to know why Matthew’s picture was in there. She didn’t dare ask Electricity.
While she was walking, she practiced snapping her fingers a disappearing and appearing a few feet ahead of where she was.
She snapped her fingers and disappeared, when she came back Electricity was right in front of her. She turned her back and starting walking back the other way.
“Come back here.” Electricity commanded.
She turned around. “What?”
“We have to talk about the girl.” He said.
“She’s staying with us, if you like it or not.” Madison said. Oops, I said us. Not a good sign.
“It’s not good for her to live with us, this castle is for us. Not for mortals.”
“For your information, I am still mortal, just a mortal with power.” Madison snapped.
“I just.—“
“You just what? You just want me all to yourself? Or are to too selfish to care about anyone else, but yourself?” Madison looked him in the eye.
Electricity’s eyes glowed. He was fighting the fact that he did care about the little girl and Madison. And the fact, he still had to keep his reputation as a mean king. It makes for good news.
“I’ll think about it. Meanwhile, go to bed. We’ll take about it in the morning.” And Electricity snapped his fingers and vanished.
Madison wanted to zap something with her powers. But she controlled herself and went to her room.
He acts like I’m his wife or something! ‘We’ll take about it in the morning’ that’s what Mom and Dad used to say to each other.
Madison choked back a sob at that last thought. And curled up in bed, and went to sleep.
Chapter 44
Madison woke up the next morning and didn’t know where she was. Then all the terrible thoughts came back to her. She tried not to cry, for the sake of Morgon, who was already up, exploring the room.
Madison sat up and yawned. “Did you sleep well, Morgon?” she asked.
“Ok I guess.” Morgon answered.
Madison didn’t know how she was going to convince Electricity of letting Morgon stay here. She couldn’t say she was cute, like that was going to convince an Electric. And he didn’t care about anyone but himself, so she couldn’t say that it wouldn’t be nice to throw out a little girl who was all alone in the world.
Madison sighed and got up, she tried changing her clothes, she manged to get rid of the skirt and leggings and just had on black jeans instead.
Morgon had been watching Madison do this and asked: “Could you change my outfit? Please?”
“I can try.” Madison said, she snapped her fingers and Morgon’s dirty white dress changed into a black dress with black tights and a black shoes and hairban in her hair. Morgon’s dirty brown was cleaned and shone in the morning light.
“Wow.” Morgon said.
“It’s the best I can do for now.” Madison addmited.
“No, it’s great! Thank you.” Morgon said, twirling around. “Only the rich girls in town wear this.”
“Morgon, how old are you?” Madison asked.
Morgon stopped twirling “Five I think. Or is it six. I can’t remember.”
“Six is a good age.” Madison smiled. Morgon and Madison smiled at each other until someone started to call Madison’s name.
Madison groaned. “What does he want now? I wish he’d go away.” Madison opened the door of the room and looked down the hall and saw Electricity walking towards her room.
“There you are, what’s taking you so long?” he asked.
“Well, mortals sleep. Unlike you.” Madison said. “Are we going to eat something? I’m starving.”
“Me too!” Morgon skipped to the door, to see who Madison was talking to. Then she backed up in fear and went back to her bed.
“I’ll be right back, Morgon, I’ll bring you some food, ok?”
“Ok.” Morgon nodded.
Madison closed the door behind her and said a silent prayer. “She’s scared of you.” Madison said to Electririty as they walked back down the hall.
“She should be.”
“Well, she’s only five or six. They usually don’t have to deal with people like you. No offence.”
“She’s probably heard all about me. That’s why she’s scared. That’s not my fault.”
“It is, because if you were nicer, people won’t tell little girls about how scary you are.”
Electririty didn’t say anything.
“Anyway, are you always in that form?” Madison asked.
“Yes. I like looking younger, it suits me.” He smiled a sly smile.
Madison rolled her eyes. “So are we having breakfast? Because I’m really hungry.”
“Yes. Just down here.” He led her to a long table; it looked like a table from a Star Wars movie to Madison.
Madison sat down at her end of the table and Electricity sat down at hers.
“Now, about the little girl.” Electricity said.
“I can’t let you take her away. It’s not fair.” Madison blurted out.
“But I’m a bad guy. And I can’t let her live in my house, under my care…”
“I’ll take care of her! I can teach her school.”
“No.”
Madison was angry. She didn’t care if he was a king she wasn’t going to be queen of a town that people are tortured and kids are left orphaned because of it. “I don’t have anyone either, in the world.”
Electririty’s face softened. He thought had been thinking about something he hadn’t thought about it years. Then he snapped out of it. “What do you mean? ‘you don’t have anyone either?’”
“Just what I said. I have no one. My parents died in a car crash.” She hadn’t told Leon the truth about her parents because she thought it was too embarrassing to talk about. “I just have my grandpa. But he doesn’t care about me. He just cares about golf.”
“Golf?” Electricity asked.
“Your not getting the concept of what I’m talking about.” Madison snapped. On the verge of tears.
“Oh sorry.” He thought about the thing he hadn’t thought about in years. Then he said: “Alright, you can keep her. Just keep her in line.”
Madison wanted to jump up and hug him. But then she thought better of it. “Thank you, thank you!”
“Your welcome, Madison.” He smiled. Not an evil smile or a sly one, but a kind one.
Madison grabbed some bread and jams off the table and ran back to her room to tell Morgon.
Chapter 45
Mark and Leon were arguing as usual. They had just made it to the mountains in Ilone.
“I thought you said we were going to use the hover boards!” Mark yelled.
“We were. But we can’t because hover boards can’t ‘hover’ in the mountains.” Mark said. “Duh.”
“UGH!” Leon and Mark kept arguing. They ran into an old man.
“Hey sonnies, don’t go getting wilded up now. Wait until you get to the Second Kingdom.” The old man said.
“Who are you?” Leon asked.
“I am a villager in the First Kingdom.” The old man said.
“Which is?”
“That’s where king Lightning lives.” The old man answered. “Everyone knows that.”
Leon ignored the old man’s last words. “He wouldn’t be an Electric would he?”
“Why yes.”
“Have there been any visitors, lately?” Mark asked.
“Why yes, but then king Electricity came and took her away.”
Mark and Leon looked at each other. “Madison!”
“Wait there’s another Electric?” Leon asked.
“Yes. Lightning is good and Electricity is bad.”
“Figures.” Mark said. “Well, thank you for your help, sir!”
“Your welcome, sonnies! Be careful! Jesus is with you.” And the old man disappeared.
Chapter 46
Madison told Morgon about what Electricity had said. Morgon was happy about staying with Madison, but she was also scared of Electricity.
“Now just don’t go into the room down the hall on the right. He doesn’t like anyone going in there.” Madison continued.
“Why?” Morgon asked.
“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out. Some how.” She told Morgon to avoid going into the throne room because that’s where Electricity spent most of his time.
Morgon nodded and was left alone in her room. She decided to go exploring her new home, she went down the hall and looked around. She came to the room that Madison told her not to go into, but curiosity got the better of her. She entered the room and looked at all the pictures on the walls. She looked at the one that Madison had looked at the last time she was in here. She couldn’t read very well, so she couldn’t see who was in the picture.
Then she saw a door in the room, she opened it and walked inside, the door closed behind her. Morgon tried to stay calm. But there wasn’t much air in the room. She screamed for help.
Madison was walking to the throne room, when she heard the cry.
“Morgon!” she yelled and ran to her room. Morgon wasn’t there, she ran down the halls calling: “Morgon! Keep yelling so I can find you!”
All the noise got to Electricity who was in the throne room being bored by his advisors. He got up in the middle of one of his advisors speeches and walked down the halls.
“Madison?” he called.
Madison ran down the hall and stopped when she saw him.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
Madison didn’t know what to say, if she told him that she had lost Morgon, he would defiantly throw Morgon out. But if she didn’t, she would probably never see Morgon again.
“It’s Morgon! She’s trapped somewhere, and I can’t find her!” Madison started to cry.
Electirirty put an arm around Madison’s shoulders and tried to calm her. He could hear the cries for help.
“We have to find her!” Madison sobbed.
“Come. I think I know where she is.” Electricity still trying to calm Madison, he led her to the room that he had told no one was allowed into.
Madison had calmed down enough to get out of Electricity arm and walked in. “Morgon?” she called. “Are you in here?”
“Madison!...I’m…in…here!” Morgon could barely get the words out. There was barely any air left in the hole.
Electricity tried not to let his temper get the better of him. “She’s in the room, where I…keep special things, but only I can get into once locked.”
“Why wasn’t it locked in the first place?” Madison asked, trying to pry open the door.
“I don’t’ know. Now move.”
Madison moved away from the door and Electricity snapped his fingers and the door threw open, and a gasping Morgon came out.
Madison caught Morgon in her arms, as she began to fall. “I told you not to come in here.” Madison picked up Morgon and carried her out the door.
Electricity stood in there a moment thinking, then a laugh came.
“Hey master! Did you see that! Hahahahahaha!” an imp came jumping out of nowhere.
“I did.” Electricity said.
“Aren’t you happy master?” the imp said. He jumped up and sparks flew everywhere.
“No, I am not! Why didn’t you scare her away? That’s your job!”
“Sorry, master. I just couldn’t scare away those pretty girls.” He let out a sigh.
Electricity grabbed the imp. “Why are you Shocks so annoying?!” The electirty in his eyes was deathly red.
“Sorry, sorry. I’ll do better.” The Shock said.
“You’d better. I don’t want them to find out.” Electricity put the Shock down. He went to leave.
“Have you ever thought that your new queen could be the one?” the Shock said.
“The one?”
“Yes, the town’s people are always talking about a queen will restore peace to the Second Kingdom. And how else will the queen do it, without over throwing you off the throne?”
Electricity’s eyes flashed.
“Just saying, master.” And he disappeared.
Electricity had thought about it, but he didn’t want to believe it. He liked Madison, she kept him busy. Unlike the other queens, who would just sit around (he had blasted those to bits). He had always been trying to fill the hole in his heart, since his wife had died twenty years ago. He hoped that Madison would be able to fill that hole.
He walked out of the room.
Chapter 47
Madison and Morgon where in their room, Madison was talking soothingly to Morgon trying to calm her down. Morgon was still gasping.
“Why did you go in there? Electrisity is going to be mad with me.” Madison said. She gave Morgon some water.
“I-I’m sorry. I just had to find out. I wanted to help you.” Morgon said.
“I appreciate you wanting to help, but it’s too dangerous.” Madison laid Morgon down in her bed and put a wet wash cloth on her forehead. “Now, go to sleep.”
Morgon nodded and closed her eyes.
Madison walked out of the room, and closed the door silently behind her. She turned around and jumped. Electricity was right there. “Don’t do that! You scared me!” Madison said, trying to get her heart to stop beating hundred miles an hour.
“Sorry, but we have to talk about what just happened.”
Madison almost fainted on the spot, she couldn’t think anymore things to say that would convince him to letting her keep Morgon.
They started walking down the hall. “As queen I think I-I should tell you why.—“ Electrirty had finalley built up enough courage to tell Madison why he didn’t want anyone in that room. When a guard came running.
“Your highnesses! The town’s people are starting to protest outside! What will we do?!” the guard yelled, he was jumping from one foot to the other, as if he had to go to the bathroom.
“Sound the alarm! What else? Get to it!” Electricicty yelled.
“What’s happening?” Madison asked.
“They’ve never done anything like this before…” Electricity said, he quickened his pace and went to the stairs to the tower.
“Done what?” Madison demanded.
“Protest. I never thought they’d try.” They had made it to the top of the tower and all the town was yelling and trying to break or climb over the gate.
Madison’s hand covered her mouth. “Oh my.” She breathed.
“I have to kill them off.” Electririty said.
Madison grabbed his arm. “No! Don’t! They won’t trust you at all if you kill them!”
Electririty considered this. “Alright, but we have to fight or something. They’re going to try to get to me, through you. Now get the girl, we have to get out.”
Chapter 48
Madison had read about the Grand Duchess Anastasia and how her family was assinanted. She had always thought that that would be scary to happen to her. And now it was.
She ran down the steps and ran into her room, scaring Morgon.
“What’s wrong?” Morgon asked.
“We have to get out.” Madison grabbed Morgon’s hand and they ran out the door. They ran to the throne room.
“What do we do now?” Madison asked, Electricity.
“Come.” They followed him to the room they weren’t allowed into.
“Shock!” Electririty shouted.
The imp came bounding out of no where. He saw Madison and Morgon and shot sparks in there direction. Madison blocked them with her hand.
“Do you want me to scare them away, master?” the Shock asked.
“No.” the king sighed. Take them to the secret tunnel. We’re under attack.”
“Sure thing, master, follow me ladies.”
Madison and Morgon followed him, but Madison stopped and saw that Electricity wasn’t following. “You coming?” she asked.
“No, I have to defend our castle.”
He said ‘our’ he cares. Madison thought. “You can’t! Come with us!”
“I have to stay here, Madison. Take Morgon and go! Hurry!”
Madison started back to where Morgon and the Shock had disappeared to, when she turned back and gave Electricity a big hug. And a kiss on the cheek, and she ran to catch up Morgon and the Shock.
Electricity stood there for a moment. She kissed me. He thought. She cares.
He went back to the throne room. And prepared for the people to come crashing in.
…
Madison tried to find where Morgon and the Shock had gone, but she couldn’t. She was getting scared.
I should of stayed with him! Queens stick by there kings no matter what! How stupid am I?!
She ran through the tunnels calling Morgon’s name. No reply.
“MORGON!” She screamed. Finalley she sat down, and shivered. She heard the people storming the castle now. She thought about Electricity. He does care. He does.
Then she heard Mark’s voice in her head. I care about you Madison. I like like you.
Then Leon’s: You scared me Madison! It’s happened too many times!
She didn’t know if they were all telling the truth, or they were lying. She grabbed her head and screamed. Tears streamed down her face.
“NO ONE CARES! IF THEY HAD CARED! THEY WOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF ME!” She yelled so loud her voice become hoarse and she cried so hard, she could barely breathe. “OH JESUS! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! HELP ME!”
Then she felt like she was being shook. The whole ground shook. She covered her head, preparing for the worst. Then the shaking stopped. She opened her eyes. Sun light streamed in from the window, she was in her own bed, in her own house.
“Miss? Are you alright? I heard some yellin’ in here.” Sara the maid came into the room.
Madison just stared at Sara.
“Are you ok, miss? Should I call the doctor?”
Madison shook her head. “N-no, I’m ok. I just…”
“You just what, miss?”
Then Madison burst open, she told Sara all about what had happened. Leon, Mark, Electricity. Everything. When she had finished. Sara said:
“You must had some dream, miss. Are you sure your alright?”
“Yes I’m fine.” Madison smiled. She go up and started to get dressed.
“I’ll tell the cook to get breakfast ready for you.” And Sara left the room.
Madison started to get dressed. She knew what the dream had meant. All along, she had thought no one cared about her, but all along they did. And God was trying to tell her that. Madison smiled to herself and went downstairs. She went straight to her grandfather’s office. He was at his desk.
“Grandpa, I’m sorry.” She said.
“Sorry about what?” Her grandpa asked.
“About thinking you didn’t care about me, when you did.”
“Oh my good girl! I love you!” and they hugged eachother, Madison didn’t want to let go. It was the best moment of her entire life.
Chapter 49
At lunch at school, Madison passed two boys sitting at a table, she caught a whiff of what they were saying:
“Last night, I had a dream that I was trying to save a girl named Madison.”
Madison stopped. She looked back at the boys. And she could of sworn that they were Leon and Mark. She almost ran and gave them hugs. Then, another boy passed her. And she could of sworn it was Electricity. Madison almost fainted. She got to a table and sat down, trying to listen to the three boys conversation. When the boy that looked like Electririty came and sat down, next to the boys that looked like Leon and Mark.
“Hey guys. I had a crazy dream last night. I was like mean. It was totally spooky.”
“I know! I had a weird dream last night, it was about a girl named, Madison.” The boy that looked like Mark said.
“Yep! I reamember I was like mean to her or something, and then she turned me nice or something.”
“That is just weird, Alec.” The boy that looked like Leon said.
“Totally, Leon.”
So they all have the same names just not Electricity, which makes sense, because no one has a name like Electricity. Madison thought. She ate her food quietly.
Then she heard her name, she looked up and saw a girl with blonde hair. “I know this is going to sound weird, but I’m Claws!” the girl said.
Madison stared at her for a second and then jumped up and gave her a hug. The action got the boy’s attention too.
“So your Madison, and Claws? That is totally awesome!” Alec said.
“Yeah.” Madison was still very shy, she didn’t look him in the eye.
“You know, I’ve been a jerk to all the people in this school and I just want to say I’m sorry, to you.”
Madison looked him in the eye. “I forgive you.” She smiled.
After school, Leon, Mark, Alec, Claws (or Annabell) and Madison all walked home together. They laughed and talked about how crazy their dream was, when they saw a boy and a girl running towards them. Madison couldn’t believe her eyes. It was Eon and Morgon! (Morgan here).
“Hi! You guys were in our dreams last night! It was totally cool!” Eon said.
“Yep!” Morgan said.
Everyone gave everyone a hug and they continued to walk back to Madison’s house, where they would indeed, have hot coco.
THE END
Chapter 1
Madison Holl trudged down the hallway of Southerthen Middle, to the door at the end.
Her day hadn’t been great, most of her days weren’t. She had no friends, because everyone thought that such a shy girl that talks to no one except when spoken to, was a little weird. So no one bothered to be friends with her. She was an exellent student, all A’s. But no one found that exciting except her teachers. Madison always dressed in black, because she blended in better that way. But it did stand out her blonde hair which was always in a black head band.
As Madison walked down the hall with her back pack loaded with books from the school library. Three girls came down the other end. They all had there hair in ponytails. And were all wearing coats with fur lined hoods. There names were Clara, Belle and Katlyn.
“Oh look!” Clara cried, the leader of the trio. “It’s little miss shy!”
The other girls laughed with Clara as Madison passed by them.
“Oh! And where did you get those clothes?” Belle said. Which she’s said the same thing to Madison at least everyday.
“None of your business.” Madison would say. And walk on.
As Madison walked out of the door, she could still here the girls laughing behind her.
When she got home she stopped by her Grandfather’s office. But he wasn’t there.
Probably off golfing somewhere, Madison thought.
She went into the kitchen and dumped her backpack on the floor by the kitchen table.
“Hello, Miss.” Katy the cook said. “How was school?”
And Madison was give the same answer she always did: “Hello, Katy. It was fine.”
“Would you like some ice cream, miss?” Katy’s Irish accent always made Madison smile.
“Yes, chocolate please.” Madison answered.
After Madison got her ice cream, she grabbed her backpack and ran upstairs to her room.
As she ate her ice cream she tried to figure out what the square root of 49 was. But before she could, she heard a loud noise coming from outside.
She went to the window and looked out. There was a boy with black hair wearing a black leather coat and jeans lying at the foot of the driveway and a skateboard rolling down the road on its own.
Madison flew down the steps, and grabbed her coat off the hook.
It was winter, so there was ice all over the driveway. She could tell why the boy was now on the ground because his skateboard probably slipped on the ice and he fell off.
Dumb boys, Madison thought, always doing something stupid.
When she got to the end of the driveway without falling down and breaking something, the boy was already getting up.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked. She usually didn’t talk to anyone, but the boy just fell down, he might be hurt.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” The boy grumbled. He went over to where his skateboard was a picked it up. “I just slipped.” He looked about Madison’s age, 12 or 13.
“Uh…W-would you like to come in for s-some hot coco?” Madison asked.
The boy’s light blue eyes looked like ice when the sun hit them. “I can’t right now. Bye.” And he skated boarded away.
Madison went back up the driveway, looking back at the boy when she got up to the porch.
Her house was like something right out of the 1800’s history book. Since her grandfather was rich. She got all nice things. DSI’s MP3s, cell phones. But she wasn’t happy being rich. She wanted to have a normal house and a normal life. Just like all the other kids in the 20ith century. She felt like Bruce Wayne from Batman. Always lonely. She was lonely even if her grandfather was there. He just sat in his office reading about golfing or something else that old people do.
When she got inside, Sara the housemaid was coming down the stairs.
“What was all the commotion outside, miss?” She asked.
“Oh, a boy fell off his skateboard on our driveway.”
“Goodness! He should be more careful! You could go breakin’ somethin’ on those horrid things!” Sara’s Irish accent was so funny when she talked.
“I asked him if he wanted to come in for hot coco, but he just raced off.” I hung up my coat on the coat hanger.
“Well that’s boys for you! Always rushin’ into things.” Sara went down the hall to the laundry room.
But that wasn’t what was bothering, Madison. She was so close to having a friend.
Chapter 2
The next day at school, Madison looked for the boy with black hair. She didn’t see him anywhere.
On her way home from school, she looked for him too.
When she got home, she kept looking out the window, in hopes that he would come skateboarding by. He didn’t.
“Madison!” her grandfather called.
Madison came running down the steps, she ran into her grandfather’s arms.
“Oh my good girl!” her grandfather said.
“Grandpa!” Madison said. But then she pulled away from his grasp. “Where have you been? It’s been a whole night!”
“Oh, just golfing, I had to get that last whole just perfect!” He looked down at his granddaughter’s worried face. “Oh, nothing to be worried about, now, how about I take you out to dinner?”
Madison stood there a moment before answering. “No thanks.” And she walked up the steps to her room.
She felt like bursting into tears. Why would her grandfather care more about golfing then her?
Just then, she heard a noise outside. She looked out the window, and there was the same boy on the skateboard!
He was wearing that same black leather jacket and jeans, he stopped in front of Madison’s house, and started coming up to the door.
Madison ran down the steps and to the door. Just when the door bell rang, she opened it.
The boy looked startled for a moment, “Uh, I just…um…”
Madison smiled. “Yes?”
“I just wanted to say I’m sorry for running off yesterday.” He said, he looked down at his shoes.
“I-it’s ok, w-would you like to come in for some hot coco now?” Madison said.
The boy looked like he was going to run off again, it was that look in his eyes again, it looked like lightning. “Um…Sure…” The boy didn’t seem to be too sure of himself.
He’ll get used to me. Madison thought
Madison led the boy through the long hallway to the kitchen.
“Katy, could you make us some hot coco please?” Madison asked.
“Well of course, miss. It’ll be my pleasure.”
“Miss?” the boy asked. Then he looked ashamed he had said anything.
“Oh, we have a cook and a maid, they call me miss.” Madison said.
“Oh.”
“So, what’s your name?” Madison asked, once they had their hot coco.
“Leon.”
“Mine’s Madison. Do you like to skateboard?”
“Yeah, it’s cool.”
“Do you go to school here?”
The boy looked confused for a second but then he said, “Um…No, I go…uh…somewhere else.”
“Oh. Where do you live?”
Again, the boy looked confused. “I’m visiting here from…Uh…somewhere…” He was trying hard to think.
“It’s ok, if you don’t remember. Would you like to see my room?”
“Um…sure.”
They climbed the stairs to her room. When they got to her room, Leon said: “It’s very…uh…nice up here.”
“Thanks, I try to make it look nice.”
“Doesn’t your maid do that?”
“Well, um…”
“Oh I’m sorry, didn’t mean to pry.”
“I-it’s ok.”
Leon looked at his watch. “I have to go, my…uh…grandma will be worried.”
“Oh ok, bye! It was nice talking with you, see you around.” Madison led Leon to the door.
“Bye.” She said.
“Bye.” Leon said, and he skateboarded down the road.
There’s something strange about that boy, Madison thought.
Chapter 3
That night, Madison thought over the day’s events. She tried to figure out what was so strange about Leon.
I mean, boys are shy sometimes, so that couldn’t be it. And stuttering isn’t new. But, the way her answered when I asked him where he lived. He didn’t seem to know, or something. That’s what was weird…
“BANG!”
Madison sat straight up in bed.
What was that!? She thought.
Just then, Sara came into the room. “Sorry about that, miss. I dropped somethin’”
“That’s ok, Sara, glad you weren’t hurt.” Madison laid back down in bed.
She fell asleep. She started dreaming that she had friends and everyone at school didn’t tease her anymore.
But then her dreams were interrupted.
Someone had put their hand over her mouth.
She jerked open her eyes, she grabbed the hand that was on her mouth. She tried to scream.
“Shhhhhh!” the person whispered. “Relax, it’s just me.”
The person turned on a flashlight.
It was Leon!
Leon took his hand off, Madison’s mouth. “Sorry about that, I didn’t know how else to wake you.”
Madison stared at him. “W-w-what, h-h-how?” She stammered. When she finally got control of herself she said: “What are you doing?!”
“Shhhhhh! Not so loud!” Leon hissed.
“I have a pretty good reason to be loud! You snuck into my house and into my room! For what?! Just to say hi?! What is the meaning of this?!” Madison cried.
Leon covered Madison’s mouth again. “Please be quiet! I don’t want anyone to know I’m here! I need your help.”
“To what? I think you already know how to break into—“
But before, Madison could finish, there was a loud noise outside.
Leon rushed the in window, his eyes got wide.
“We have to go, now.” He said.
“What?—“ Madison started.
“No time to ask anything, we have to go, now.”
Madison didn’t know what else to do, Leon seemed to be a bit crazy, but also, that noise didn’t sound good either, it sounded like something roaring…
She grabbed her robe and boots and her purse.
“Ok. Let’s go.”
Chapter 4
“Ok, let’s go outside.” He started towards the window.
“No, no, no. I am not going to climb out of a window.”
“ROARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Madison, now!” Leon grabbed my hand and we ran through the door that opened into the hall.
They flew down the steps. And out the front door. But before they could get out onto the road, something landed infront of them.
“Well, look what we have here.” The thing said. It’s voice was deep and gravely.
It was at least 8 foot tall, it looked human but it had hair almost everywhere and it’s eyes glowed red. It had a brown leather thing on it’s chest with a seal on it, but Madison couldn’t tell what the seal was.
Leon pulled Madison behind him and starting backing up to the house, but another one of those things landed behind them.
“L-l-leon…w-w-what’s g-g-going on?” Madison’s voice barley worked.
“Oh dear, we have upset the, little lady.” The thing in front of them said kindly.
Leon stood up straight. “What do you want, Morvid?” He said.
“The thing has a name?” Madison whispered.
“Oh my dear prince, I’ve only come to take you home! Your father is so worried about you!” Morvid said.
Prince?! Madison thought
“Father isn’t worried, all he wants is to lock me up until I’m 18 and then he’ll probably kill me. All he wants is my throne!” Leon seemed to be getting angry.
Madison had read plenty of stories about evil kings who wanted their heir’s throne. She’s read plenty of stories about evil monsters too. But this wasn’t a story, it was real.
“Leon, we have to get out of here.” Madison said. She had to idea where she got the courage to say that.
“Oh, I see, you aren’t going to be come willingly, well, we have other ways of getting you too come. Like…” Morvid nodded towards the thing behind Madison and Leon.
The thing reached for Madison.
“No!” Leon, pulled Madison aside and pulled out, what seemed to be a handle of a sword.
The thing started the laugh. “You think you can stop me with that?”
But then something started to grow out of the sword, it looked like water and Jell-O.
But when it was done growing, it wasn’t water and Jell-O, it was a medal sword.
The thing laughed again and lunged at Leon, but Leon drove the sword through the thing.
The thing stood still as stone, and then it did turn to stone and crumpled to stone in the grass.
Madison stared at Leon in awe. Leon put the sword back in his leather jacket it melted back to just the handle.
“Now, you can tell father that we had other things to do.” He said the Morvid.
Morvid looked angry. “I will.” And then we turned into silver light and disipeared.
Leon helped Madison up. “You ok?”
“I-I’m fine, thanks.” She replied.
“You still want to help me?” he smiled.
Madison thought for a second and said: “Yes, but I have to change clothes first.”
Leon laughed. “Alright, but hurry, we have to get going. I’ll fill you in on the way.”
“Are we walking?” Madison asked.
“No.” he whistled and a car came but not like in a normal car way, it came like the sword did, like water and Jell-O.
“Awesome, but, we can’t drive!”
“What do you mean? I got my papers to drive when I was 10. Now hurry up, we got to go.”
Madison didn’t understand any of what was happening, but she went inside and changed into jeans and a black shirt and a black hoodie. She put in her normal black headband and ran down the steps. But before she went out the door, she left a note telling her grandpa that she went out with some friends and would be back soon.
I hope, anyway. Madison thought.
And she ran outside.
Chapter 5
As Madison and Leon drove along in the car, Madison had to keep telling Leon what side of the road to drive on and what signs meant, while he told her about himself.
He said that we was a prince of the country Ilone in the world Imagine. Ever since he was 3 his father had kept him in doors and made sure, that we would never escape. Because his father wanted to keep him until he was 18 and then he could kill him, so that his father would be king forever.
“Thanks horrible Leon…LEFT SIDE!...I’m so sorry! And I thought that my grandpa was bad.”
“It’s alright. Why don’t you like you grandfather?” Leon asked.
“ I like him, it’s just…STOP! THAT SIGN MEANS STOP!...All he cares about is golfing, sometimes he goes golfing and stays at a hotel because he wasn’t to finish the game. And he doesn’t even tell me! It’s so unfair!”
“I see what you mean, where are you parents?”
“There, gone.”
“Oh I’m sorry.”
“It’s ok, they died a long time ago in a car crash…THAT’S A FENCE!”
Leon swerved the car away from the fence. “Oh goodness! In Ilone, everything just melts away when you come so close to it.”
“So how old are you, Leon?” Madison asked.
“14 going on 15.”
“Cool, I’m 12 going on 13.” Madison giggled.
Leon laughed. “I’m still trying to figure out how people of this world talk. It’s different from Imagine.”
“How do you talk in Imagine?”
“Well, we talk like people from the your 1700’s you could say. We also have English accents too.”
“Wow, you hide your accent well.” Madison smiled.
“Thanks, but it’s not so hard to hide it.” He spoke it in a perfect English accent.
“Wow, that’s so cool!” Madison said.
Leon’s cheeks turned a little red “Thanks.”
“So, you haven’t told me where we are going yet.” Madison said.
“We have to drive to New York, and then will get a plane I took here from Ilone and we’ll fly to the other world.” Leon answered.
“Oh. Sounds cool. But what…” Madison said.
“SKREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“W-what w-was th-that?” Madison’s voice started to shake.
“Volasaeagles” Leon said. He started to pick up speed on the dirt road they were taking.
“What?” Madison’s voice was coming to end.
“They’re half Velociraptor and half eagle.” Leon swerved the car around a sharp turn. Madison could tell by his face, that they had better loose these things.
“What are we going to do?”
“Try to loose them, and if we don’t then we’ll have to fight them somehow. But don’t worry, they probably just want to take me back to Ilone.” He swerved the car into a field and started across.
“Or me.” Madison whispered.
“What was that?” Leon asked.
“SHREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Sharp talons started to tear off the roof of the car.
Madison screamed. She’d watched Jurassic Parkmovies, when dinosaurs would just come running at you.
“Grab the wheel!” Leon shouted.
Madison vowed never in her whole life would she drive a car. She would ride bikes to work. She didn’t want to drive because that’s how her parents had died, in a car crash.
“Madison! Now!” Leon yelled.
Madison mustered all the courage she had left and grabbed the wheel.
“Just keep steering, and make sure we don’t hit anything. The gas and brake are on automatic. You don’t need to use them.” Leon yelled over the sound of tearing medal.
He stood up in the seat and pulled out his sword. Madison moved over to the driving seat, as Leon got into her seat. He started slashing at the talons.
Madison just kept consternating on where the car was going, she saw an opening in the fence, probably where the farmer when in and out with his truck. She aimed for that spot.
Just relax, when you go to turn on the road, just keep driving, everything will be ok. Madison told herself.
Leon kept slashing at the talons, but it wasn’t working.
“Do they have a weakness?!” Madison shouted.
“Nothing on Earth will stop them!” Leon shouted back.
Then the car roof came off.
“SHREICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The animal was the most horrifying thing Madison had saw in her entire life. It had the head of a dinosaur and the body of an eagle. Madison wanted to run away. She looked into the animals horrifying eyes. The animal stared back.
“MADISON! LOOK OUT! FENCE!” Leon screamed.
But Madison didn’t hear Leon, the animal’s eyes seemed to swallow her up.
Then she felt it, the air bag, and then, nothing.
Chapter 6
When Madison woke up, she felt cold and pain. Mostly the pain, the pain was in her legs and arms. But nothing seemed to be broken.
She trying to get up, but it hurt too much.
She could tell that she was in a field. And then she remembered the birds and Leon and their mission.
“Leon?” Her voiced cracked.
“Shhh. Lie still.” Leon said.
“What happened?” Madison asked.
“There was a fence, and we hit it. But the bird flew away. I guess he was afraid of loud noises.”
“I’m sorry! I just couldn’t get away from the birds eyes!” Madison choked back a sob.
“It wasn’t your fault, I shouldn’t have asked you to drive.” Leon’s smile made her feel better.
“Oh. Well, is the car ok?”
Leon laughed. “Yes it’s fine.”
“Are you hurt?” Madison asked. She didn’t need to ask why the car was ok, it’s a car from a different world.
“When we hit the fence I was on top of the car so when we hit it, I flew off and landed on a bail of hay, which is quite soft actually.”
Madison laughed. “Really?”
Leon’s face got solemn. “Do you hurt?”
“Yes. But I don’t think anything broken.”
“I tried to put a Wello wall around you. Maybe it worked; I’m not so good at it.”
“Wello?” Madison asked.
“Yep, that’s what my sword is made of. It’s like water and Jell-O, in your words.” Leon answered.
“I think it did work, because no one could survive a crash like that and live.” She shuttered at the thought.
“Well, your ok, and that’s all that matters. Can you stand?”
“I think so.” Leon helped her stand up. It hurt to walk, but she could live with it.
They got back into the car and sat for awhile.
“Wow, so far, we’ve faced mean guard things and crazed birds, in two days.” Madison said.
“I know, I’ve been thinking, maybe it’s too dangerous for you.”
Madison couldn’t bear leaving Leon and going back home and explain where she’d been.
“No. I want to help you.” She said.
Leon took a good long look into Madison’s dark blue eyes. Madison looked away; she didn’t like it when his light blue eyes flashed like lightning.
“Alright, but you must promise me to be careful. I didn’t know people from this world could get hurt so easily.”
Madison managed a weak smile “and I didn’t know that people from your world could fly off cars and land on a hay bail and not even hurt a little bit.”
Leon smiled. “Alright, we need to get to New York, but driving isn’t going to get us there fast enough…”
“Leon?” Madison suddenly asked.
“What is it, Madison?” He asked.
Madison wanted so much to tell him that he was like a big brother she never had, and felt safe with him, but she couldn’t.
“I-I just wanted to know what the mission plan was when we got to Ilone.” She said.
“Well, I haven’t actually figured that out yet…” He said and little sheepishly.
“Ok. Well, then go ahead of what you were saying about ‘driving that being fast enough’.”
“Well, I see now, that more things can get at us when we’re so close to the ground, I think flying there would be faster and safer.”
Madison didn’t like cars she didn’t like big fair rides and most of all, she hated planes.
“Um…D-do we have to fl-fly?” She stammered.
“That’s the safest and fastest thing.”
“Where are we going to get a plane out here?” She asked. Maybe Leon would change his mind, once he knew that you couldn’t get a plane from out here.
“Oh, no, no planes, a horse.”
Madison had read the Percy Jackson books when Percy would ride on his pegasus. But Madison never wanted to try it.
Just then, someone’s phone rang.
Leon sat still for a second and then he said: “Is that your phone?”
“Nope, is it yours?”
Leon went down to his side pocket very slowly, and then he pulled out his phone.
“How did they reach me?” Leon whispered.
He hit the answer button and put the phone to his ear.
“Hello?” he had his English accent on.
“Leon! How good it is to finally talk to you!” Came the English reply.
“Father?”
“Oh Leon! I’m so worried about you!”
Leon’s face became dark. “You are not worried!”
“Now calm down, son, why didn’t you go with Morvid when he came? Everyone here is missing you terribly!”
“Because if I come home, you will just lock me up again! I ran away from home because I knew what you were going to do, and it’s not right!” Leon got out of the car.
“Leon, you’re so homesick, you’re not making any sense! Now come home my boy, where it’s safe.” The king said.
“No, it is safer where I am, then it is in the castle tower, locked up.” Leon said.
There was a pause. “If that’s how you want it, I’ll have to find another way to get you to come home. And Morvid’s already told me about that little girl you have with you.”
“No! Do not even think about touching her!”
“I see you care for her, then the plan will work nicely. Good bye, Leon, I hope to see you soon!”
The line went dead.
Leon ran back to the car. “I have to call the horse.”
“Who was that on the phone?” Madison asked.
“My father, h-he’s going to try a different way to get me to come home, that’s why we must hurry.” He hit a button in the car and a shrill whistle sounded.
In a couple of minutes one of the most beautiful horses Madison had even saw, landed in the field beside the car.
“Oh my. What a beautiful horse!” Madison said in awe.
“Come on, we must hurry.” Leon grabbed Madison’s hand and they ran to the horse.
“This is Shrill, Madison, my flying horse.” Leon forced a smile.
“She’s so pretty!” Madison cried.
“Shrill, I need you to take us to Ilone and fast.”
“I thought we were going to New York?” Madison said.
“Change of plans, if just go straight to Ilone, it will be…uh…faster.”
“Oh.” Madison said.
When Leon got on Shrill, he helped Madison up.
“Go Shrill! And hurry!” He commanded.
And they flew off into the clouds.
Chapter 7
When they lifted off, all Madison could do from not screaming was grabbing on to Leon and shutting her eyes really hard.
They flew over towns and cities, it was also very cold, Madison was glad she had her hoodie on.
Her arms and legs still hurt from the crash so it was hard to hang on.
Leon didn’t talk at all, through the ride. He was too busy worrying about what he was going to do, when someone tried to take Madison. If they took her, then he would have to go into the tower again, and probably never escape, but Madison is more important then never getting out again.
“Leon, how are we going to get to your world?” Madison asked, interrupting his thoughts.
“We got through the time space continuum, and take a portal to my world. If we don’t take the right one, well, it’ll be awhile before we find the right one.” Leon answered.
“Well, let’s hope we take the right one then.” Madison said.
And then, they heard it.
“ROAR!!!!!!!!!!”
“N-not them again.” Madison said.
“Hang on! We’re coming to the time space continuum. We’ll fly in and try to find the portal!” Leon yelled over the wind, which was picking up.
They flew higher and higher until Madison thought her lungs would burst from no oxygen. And then they burst through a cloud that looked blue and into a tunnel, it was like something from Alice in Wonderland.
“Whoa.” Madison said.
“Now I just have to find the right portal…” Leon said.
The whole tunnel was just lined with portal after portal. They went on for forever it seemed.
Then Madison felt something tugging on her hair, she looked behind her and saw one of those things with red eyes.
Madison screamed, as the thing pulled her off Shrill and on to his flying horse.
“Madison!” Leon yelled. “Let her go! I command it!” He had his English accent on.
“Your formal speech won’t help her, my prince.” The thing said.
“What do you want?” Leon demanded. He already knew what the thing wanted, but he was trying to stall it so that we would think of a way to save Madison.
“All the king wants is for you to come home. Come with me, and I’ll return her to her world.”
“No Leon! Don’t. I-I have a plan.” Madison told Leon.
The thing laughed. “A plan? Really? Ha! Humans are so stupid!”
Then, the thing’s horse started to fly off into the tunnel. Leon charged after it, but he didn’t know what Madison was going to do.
She used all her strength and threw herself off into one of the portals.
“MADISON!” Leon jumped off Shrill and fell after her.
Madison closed her eyes as she went through one of the portals. It felt warm and soft like a puppy.
But when she fell on the ground, that didn’t feel warm and soft.
“OW!” She yelled, as she hit some bushes.
When she got up, she looked around, she was in a large field.
Hmmm, Maybe I landed in my world again. She thought.
She looked around and she saw a city close, she started towards it. She deiced that maybe she would find Leon if she went into the city. She had landed in a field but there were some trees and bushes.
When she got into the city, people were rushing around trying to get to work and school on time.
She was too shy to ask anyone where she was, because someone might think she was dumb or something and call the police. She just kept walking, looking for signs that might tell her where she was.
Then she heard something, someone laughing, she looked up and there was a man dressed in white and light blue on a hover board, I guess you could call it. And the man had a gun.
“Dear citizens of Lagross! I am Freezo the Cold and I have come to bring you misery!” And he fired his gun, which was an ice gun and froze some people walking.
Madison ran to the nearest building to her and found a telephone and dialed 911.
“Hello? Um…I’m called to report an emergency,” Madison said the lady on the line.
“What’s the emergency, honey?” the lady asked.
“Th-there’s a man with an ice gun, freezing everyone by the newspaper office!”
“Oh goodness! I’ll get right on it! Thank you honey!”
Just as Madison hung up they building’s doors burst open.
Freezo the Cold came hovering in.“Ah, the bank! Just where I was going!” Then he eyed Madison.
“Oh! We don’t want anyone to tell the police there’s a robbery, now do we?” He pointed his freeze gun at Madison.
Madison froze.
Just as Freezo pulled the trigger someone swung in and grabbed Madison.
When they landed, Madison saw who had rescued her.
“You ok?” The girl asked. She had an all black outfit on and a mask that had triangles that pointed up on it.
Madison was too shocked to speak. “Y-yes.” She managed to say.
The girl smiled, she looked about Madison’s age.
Then she turned around and faced Freezo. “I thought I melted all your ice, Freezo! What are you doing out of jail?”
“It was to warm for me back in jail, so I thought I would steal some cold hard cash and get myself an ice castle, and maybe some statues to go in it, starting with you!” He pointed his freeze gun at the girl and shot, but the girl did a black flip and threw some medal things that meowed when they hit Freezo. The medal things turned red and started to melt the ice on Freezo.
“NO!” Freezo yelled as his blue and white suit melted and his freeze gun and hover board melted too. “I’ll get you for this, Claws!” he said.
When the police got there, they wrapped a blanket around Madison and gave her some hot coco. The girl known as Claws stayed with her.
“What are you doing out of school, so early?” Claws asked.
Madison thought of the first thing that came to mind. “I’m home schooled.”
“Oh! I’ve heard of that, is it fun?” Claws asked.
“I-It is.”
“I’ve always wanted to try that.” Claws said, she put her elbows on her knees and sighed.
“I-I have a problem.” Madison started to say.
But she was interrupted by a police man running over to talk to Claws.
“We have Freezo all locked up, we were wondering if you would come along, just in case he tried to break out.” The police man said.
“Of course.” Claws said. She broke out of her childish like pose and stood up.
“Sorry, Madison, duty calls.” And she ran off.
Madison sat there for a second, and thought. Then she was wondering how she was going to find Leon again, then she had an idea. She remembered that in the Batman cartoons the police had a way to contact Batman, maybe this world did too.
She went into the police station and asked the police man at the front desk.
“Is it an emergency?” The man asked. He looked bored and tired.
“Yes, I need to talk to Claws right away.” Madison replied.
“What do you need to tell her?” The man asked.
“I need to tell her, not you, I’m sorry, but I need to talk to her.”
“You tell me first, and then I’ll tell you if it’s an emergency.”
Madison stared at the man, and then said. “Thanks anyway. Bye.”
And she walked out of the police station.
She sat down at and bench and sighed. She felt like bursting into tears, she didn’t know where Leon was and she didn’t know how to get back home even if she wanted to.
She looked down the street, and then she saw a couple of boys walking in her direction.
Madison always steered clear of boys who went to the high school section of her school, they always teased her. So she pulled out her cell phone and pretended to text.
As the boys got closer, they started to whisper to each other, and then they kept walking.
“Hey, pretty, you lost or something?” The middle boy asked Madison.
Madison looked up from her phone and said. “Don’t c-call m-me p-pretty. And n-no I-I’m not l-lost.”
“Aww, she’s scared of us, boys, that’s too bad.” The boy grabbed Madison’s cell phone.
“Hey! Th-that’s mine!” She protested.
“Mine now!” The boys laughed as Madison tried to get it back.
“Hey! Back off!” Someone yelled.
Madison turned and saw Claws sitting on the bench. Madison didn’t even know how she had sat down so quietly.
The boy, gave Madison back her phone and ran off with his friends.
“Th-thanks.” Madison said, sitting back down.
“No problem. I was trying to find you earlier; you said you had a problem.”
“Y-yes, I do.” Madison said. She told Madison about how she had lost Leon in the tunnel and how she had to find him and fast before someone else got to him. Madison didn’t think that Claws wouldn’t think she was crazy for talking about flying horses and portals, I mean, she’s a super hero!
After Madison had finished, Claws thought for a second. “I’ll help you, but I can’t leave this world here, the citizens need me here, but I’ll help you look here. Ok?”
Madison nodded.
“I’ll look in the city, and you look in the field out there.” Claws said. “We’ll meet back here, oh let’s say, 8:00?”
“Sounds good, and thank you!”
So Madison and Claws split up and tried to find Leon, before his father did.
Chapter 8
Leon didn’t know, what had happened to Madison once she had fell into that one portal, he didn’t even know why she jumped off the horse. He didn’t even know where he was.
He had landed in a forest, that’s all he knew.
“This is horrible! I’ve lost the girl I was trying to protect and I have no idea where I am!” He said out loud.
He started to walk through the forest, hoping that he would meet someone that could tell him where he was.
As he was walking through, he heard a whistling sound, like something cutting through the air. And he heard it again, but this time, if was much closer. Then something cut through his shirt sleeve pinning him to a tree. It was an arrow! Three more arrows pinned him to the tree one by his other shirt sleeve and the bottoms of his pants.
“Who are you?” He called out.
He heard laughing.
“It’s not funny! People don’t go around pinning people against trees with arrows!” He had put on his English accent.
“Sorry, but I’m bored, and no one comes around these parts of the woods.” A voice said.
“Who are you? Where are you?” Leon called.
“Well, if you must know.”
And then someone jumped out of the trees in front of Leon. The boy was dressed in all green, he had brown hair and a bow and arrow in one arm and a pack of arrows on his back.
“Names, Eon.” The boy said, putting out his hand. “Oh right, your pinned to the tree, my mistake.”
“Young man, take these arrows off this instant.” Leon commanded.
“Young man? Who do you think you are? My father?” Eon laughed.
“Would you just please take these off?” Leon sighed.
“Sure, why didn’t you say so in the first place?” Eon took the arrows off.
“Thanks.” Leon said.
“No problem, so what are you doing out here?”
“I’m lost actually, trying to find a village.”
“There’s one just at the end of these woods, I’ll take you there if you like.” Eon said.
“Thank you that would be great.” Leon said. “So what are you doing here?”
“Looking for a blonde.”
“A what?” Leon asked.
“A blonde, you aren’t from around here are you? I can tell from your clothes.” Eon said.
“No I’m not, I got lost. Why were you looking for a blonde? Aren’t there plenty of blonde people in the villages?”
“Blondes are scarce, that’s why people have them as slaves, it’s a sign of wealth.” Eon talked like this was any everyday thing.
Leon was getting a little scared.
What if Madison landed here? She’s probably a slave somewhere! He thought.
They walked in silence until they got to the village; there were tons of people bustling around. Leon looked around for Madison, but he didn’t see her anywhere.
“If you want to know how to get home, just ask the guard of the town. He’s by the village gate.” Eon said, pointing.
“Thanks for your help Eon. Oh and, if you find a blonde that’s…uh…not a slave, ask her what her name is, I’m looking for my…uh...friend, Madison Holl.”
“Sure, but how will I find you? I can’t send her off by herself, someone will catch her.”
“Just tell her to sit by the tree you pinned me on.” Leon smiled.
“Got it, bye!” And Eon ran off.
As Leon walked through the town, he continued to look for Madison, he saw some blondes running around with baskets full of food and they all had medal arm bands on.
I guess that means there a slave. Thought Leon.
He kept walking until he saw the village guard. The guard was talking to a boy and girl who were blonde, well yelling really.
“What were you thinking?! A slave does not leave this town without his or her master, it’s the law! I ought to tell your master about this!” The guard yelled.
“Please, sir, beg your pardon sir, our master gave us time to ourselves, w-we didn’t know we weren’t allowed.” The boy said timidly.
The guard grabbed the boy his arm. “Didn’t know?! Everyone one knows that! Even a dumb animal like you should know that!”
Leon thought maybe he could put his acting skills to good use right then.
“Excuse me sir, but why are you treating my slaves so badly?” Leon said.
The guard looked up and let go of the boy’s arm. “I-I’m sorry sir, but they were trying to leave the town.”
“I was coming with them, just like the law says. Good day to you sir.” Leon pushed the two kids out the gate.
They look about 5 or 6, the girl had a light blue dress on and the boy had a white shirt and brown trousers on.
“If you please sir,” the little girl said timidly. “But why did you do that?”
“Because, where I come from, people don’t treat people so badly.” Leon answered kindly. “And we don’t have slaves either.”
“Thank you sir, thank you!” The boy said. “How can we ever repay you?”
“If you would please tell me where I am, I’m lost you see, and I can’t find my friend.” They had made it pretty far from the town and they stopped.
“You’re in Bearsville.” The little girl said.
“I’m sorry you’ve lost your friend, what does your friend look like? We’ll look for you.” The boy added.
“Well, she’s a blonde like you two.” Leon ruffled the boy’s hair. “And she has dark blue eyes and she wears black.”
“Black? Why?” The little girl asked.
Leon thought for a moment. “I’ve never asked her why.”
“We’ll look for you, sir.” The boy said.
“Thank you, and please, call me Leon, and also, do you know what the ruler of the town lives?”
“We have a mayor.” The little girl piped up.
“Thank you, now run along.” Leon said. And he started back to town to find Madison, before his father did.
Chapter 9
Madison had been looking for Leon all day. She had looked high and low, near and far. But he was no where to be seen. She went to where she was going to meet Claws. It was 7:00pm so Claws wasn’t due to meet her until 8:00pm, so Madison sat down at a bench and waited.
Oh Leon, where are you? She thought.
Chapter 10
Oh Madison, where are you? Leon thought.
He had walked into town and had asked where the mayor’s office was. When he found the mayor’s office, he took a deep breath and walked in.
When he got into the door, there was a desk with a woman at it.
“Excuse me,” Leon said. “I’d like to see the mayor.”
The woman looked up from her work “Well sure, honey, just through that door.” She pointed to a door behind her.
“Thank you.” Leon was puzzled, usually when you ask to see the mayor; you have to sign a waver or something.
When he walked into the office there was a stout man at an oak desk, he had his reading glasses on.
“Excuse me.” Leon said.
The man looked up. “Oh hello there! What can I do for you, son?” He had a Western accent.
“I’m looking for my friend, Madison Holl, and I don’t know if she’s in this world or another one.”
“Yes, yes, we get people looking for people and they don’t know if there in this world or another. We’ll help you look in this world if you like. Just tell me what your friend looks like.”
Leon didn’t know what to tell the man, if she said that Madison was blonde, they might take her away, or maybe he could just say that Madison wasn’t his friend and slave instead so that they wouldn’t take her away.
“Um well, she’s my slave, so she’d be blonde and she has dark blue eyes and she wears black all the time.”
“Runaway slave huh? Well we’ll help you look.”
“Thank you sir,” and Leon walked out.
“Hey, you look new around here. A guard reported that a fella that looked like you pretended to be a master of two slaves. Have you seen him?”
“Uh…um…”
Just then, a guard came in. “Mayor, we haven’t…” The guard stopped and looked at Leon. “That’s him!” the guard cried
“Well, get him then!” the mayor snapped.
Leon ran out of the building before the guard could catch him. He ran into the woods.
Chapter 11
Madison had fell asleep on the bench. When she woke up, the people were out again, bustling around.
Madison didn’t see Claws anywhere.
She probably got sidetracked. Madison thought.
She got up and looked around. Then she saw a little girl getting picked on by those boys who had taken her cell phone the day before.
She gathered all her courage she had and went up to them.
“Knock it off!” She told the boys.
The middle boy laughed. “What are you going to do?”
“Well, for one thing, I see a cop right over there, I could tell him right now what your doing.”
The boys ran off.
“Thanks.” The little girl said.
“Your very welcome.” Madison said and she walked on down the road.
Then she saw Claws jumping from building to building.
“Claws! Claws!” Madison yelled.
Claws stopped and looked down, she jumped down to where Madison was.
“Sorry I didn’t meet you last night, bank robbery.”
“Did you find Leon?” Madison asked hopefully.
“No but I found something else, come with me.”
Madison followed her to the newspaper office and they climbed to the top.
And there was Shrill!
“Shrill!” Madison cried, she ran to the horse and hugged her.
Shrill whined a hello.
Madison started to climb on.
“What are you doing?” Claws asked.
“I’m going to find Leon. Bye Claws! And thank you!”
And she flew off.
“Bye, Madison.” Claws said.
Chapter 12
When Madison and Shrill reached the time and space continuum, Madison tried to figure out which tunnel Leon was in.
“What do you think Shrill? Do you know where he went?”
Shrill wined and shook her head and dove towards a portal.
“Whoa girl!” Madison cried.
And they dove into the same portal that Leon is in.
When Madison landed, she couldn’t find Shrill.
The portal might have separated us. Madison said to her self.
She sat where she was, wondering what to do next, when she heard laughing.
It scared her to pieces.
“W-who’s th-there?” she said.
“Yes! Finally! I’ve found a blonde!” And Eon jumped out.
Madison stood up; she was a good four inches taller than Eon. “What do you mean, you’ve found a blonde?” Madison asked.
“Hey, you’re wearing all black, and your eyes are dark blue, what’s your name?” Eon asked.
“Um…Madison Holl.”
“I’ve found you! Yay! That kid with black hair will be happy! Come with me.” And he grabbed Madison’s hand and ran off into the woods.
…
Meanwhile, Leon was sitting near the same tree he had been pinned on, he wondered if he would ever see Madison again.
Then he heard a rustling noise, he looked up and out jumped Eon and Madison.
Leon jumped up. “Madison!”
“Leon!” Madison looked like she was going to burst into tears.
Leon walked over to Madison and gave her a hug. Then he backed up quickly. “Um…Where’ve you been? I’ve been so worried!”
“Your one to talk, I told you I had a plan. Why didn’t you listen?”
“Well I didn’t know jumped into a portal was a plan, its suicide most of the time!”
“Speaking of portals, where are we?” Madison asked.
Then Leon remembered where they were. “Eon, do you have anything that flies?”
“Flies? You could go ask the old inventor. He lives not far from here.”
“Well he can’t go taking Madison places.”
Eon didn’t understand for a second and then he said. “Oh, right, well I know a back path to his house that no one takes anymore. Follow me.”
They followed Eon for awhile until they talked again.
“What did you mean, ‘can’t go taking Madison places’?” Madison asked Leon.
“Um…you see, in this world, well um…Blondes are rare, so…um…There used as slaves.”
Madison stopped walking. “What? That’s insane! So that’s what you meant when you said you’ve finally found a blonde, Eon.”
“I didn’t want to scare you, Madison, I didn’t want you to know.” Leon said.
“Scared?” Madison said “Scared?! I’ve been scared ever since I lost you! I’ve been scared Leon! And right now, I don’t think I can take much more of being scared!” Her knees buckled and she fell and burst into tears.
“Shhhh, its ok, Madison.” Leon came up slowly to her and knelt beside her. “Just calm down, everything’s going to be ok.”
Madison looked up, “really?”
Before Leon could answer, they heard people on horses coming.
“Hide!” Eon hissed. And he plunged into the forest.
Leon helped Madison to her feet and helped her to the forest. They made it inside just as the horses came up.
“This is waste of our time; we’ve been down this road three times now! And we still can’t find that one boy the mayor wants found!” one solider said.
“I know.” The other solider said.
They rode on.
When the soldiers were far down the road, Madison, Leon and Eon came out of the forest.
“I thought you said no one came down this road?” Leon snapped.
“Hey, like I knew there looking for someone!” Eon shot back.
“There looking for me.” Leon said.
“You? Why?” Madison asked
“Because I pretended to be someone I’m not.” Leon said. Leon looked at Madison, she looked pale. “What wrong?”
“I-I’m just tired. That’s all.” Madison started to fall again.
“We need to get her somewhere safe, she needs food and sleep.” Leon said.
“The Old Inventor’s house is really close. How about you carry her?”
Madison shook her head. “N-no, I-I’m fine.”
“No, Eon’s right, you don’t have enough strength to walk.” He picked Madison up and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
And they started walking again.
Just as Eon had said, the Old Inventor’s house was close.
It was more of a shack then a house.
Eon walked up to the door and put his hand up to knock.
“Wait.” Leon said. “How do you we know he won’t call the guards on us for having a…” Leon didn’t want Madison to faint or something by mentioning blonde.
“No, he’s against the whole thing, that’s why he lives out here. He got chased out of town.” Eon knocked on the door.
An old man that looked like Einstein came to the door. “Eon, is that you, my boy?” He sounded very old.
“Yes it is, and I brought some friends, who need your help.” Eon said.
“Well come right in.” The Old Inventor opened the door wider for them. Before he closed the door, he took a quick look out side to make sure no one was watching.
When he shut the door he said: “Well, what can I do for ya folks?” Then he eyed Madison and how pale she looked.
“I see, put the little lady over here.” He came over to a bed. “I’ll get some soup for ya. I’d reckon you’re hungry.”
Leon set Madison down on the bed, immediately; Madison fell down on the pillow.
“Ahhhh, it’s good to be in a bed again.” she said.
“Here you go.” The Old Inventor came into the room with some soup.
Madison sat up against the back of the bed and ate the soup. “Thank you.” She said through mouthfuls.
“Your very welcome.” The old man smiled. “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
“Yes, we were wondering you have anything that flies. We came from a different world and we need to get back to it.” Leon said.
“Anything that flies? Hmmm.” The old man scratched his beard and walked out of the room.
There was a loud noise and some mumbling and then the man came in again.
“Here ya go.” He handed Leon a little medal box.
Leon stared at it. “Does it fly?” he asked.
“Oh right! Yes, hit that red button.”
Leon hit the button and the box started to turn into a robotic horse with wings.
Madison looked up from her soup. “Wow.”
“It’s my robotic horse with wings! It works, I’ve tested it myself.” The Old Inventor said proudly.
The horse wined for effect.
“Thank you sir very much, how can we repay you?” Leon said.
“Your company is all that I can ask. Do you have anywhere to sleep?”
“No we don’t.” Leon said. “But I’m sure we can find somewhere…”
Then he looked over at Madison and she was sound asleep.
“I reckon you’re staying here tonight. I’ll make up the guest beds.” and he walked out of the room.
“I’m not staying sir,” Eon said. “I have my own place.” He shook hands with Leon, “It was a pleasure working with you.”
“And you.” Leon nodded.
“Tell her good bye for me, when she wakes up.” Eon said as he slipped out the door.
…
That night while Madison was sleeping, someone crept into the house.
The man had all black on and he had a black hat and a black cape.
He slipped inside the door like a mouse and he went over to where Madison was sleeping.
“Ah, this is the girl the king wants so badly.” He whispered.
Then he heard someone coming from the next room.
He slipped behind some boxes and waited.
Leon came into the room to check on Madison. When he saw that she was fine, he went back to his room.
“That was the prince. I must be at the right place.” Whispered the man and he went back over to Madison’s bed.
We waved his hand over her eyes, he had the power to make people sleep deeper.
He picked up Madison and put a black cloak around her, and he walked outside to where his flying horse was waiting. And he flew off.
Chapter 13
When Madison woke up, she stretched her arms and legs and snuggled back under the silk sheets.
Silk sheets?!
Then her eyes jerked open. She sat straight up. She wasn’t in the Old Inventor’s house anymore, she was in a room with toys and dolls and books and pictures big enough to fill up the Old Inventor’s house with just one. Her bed was like the ones that people back in the 1800’s had, with like a ceiling on top.
Madison was still wearing her black clothes.
Where am I? She thought.
Just then a maid came rushing in. She had a black dress on with a white cap and apron.
“Good morning, miss. How did you sleep?” She had an English accent.
“G-good.” Madison replied.
“Here’s your breakfast, nice and hot.” The maid set out a wooden tray table filled with toast and eggs. “Do you need anything else?”
“Y-yes, if you please, where am I?”
The maid laughed. “Why you’re in Ilone, in King Luther’s castle.” The maid started towards the door. “One of the royal Blacks will be here to escort you to the king’s throne room, soon.” And the maid left.
Ilone?! How’d I get here?! I hope nothings bad happened to Leon. Madison thought.
She ate some of the eggs and toast, and she got out of bed to see if you she could find a way to escape. She went to the door and looked out, there were guards posted at each end of the hall. She couldn’t go that way. She went to the window. It was locked.
This is terrible!
She climbed back in the bed.
Don’t cry, don’t cry, everything will be ok. She told herself.
“One of the royal Black will be here to escort you to the king’s throne room, soon.” A maid stepped into her room.
Madison nodded. The maid left.
Madison stood there for a moment, trying to think about what she was going to do. Then she decided to look inside the jewelry box and put on some jewelry, when she found a necklace and went to put it on and tie it in the back.
Someone grabbed the back of the necklace and started to clasp it together.
“Let me help you with that.” It was a boy, about 15 or 16 he was wearing all black he had a black poncho and a black hat.
“Th-thanks.” Madison said.
When the boy was done and she turned around, the boy bowed. “I am Mark Shiverlus, one of the royal Blacks.”
“Um hi, I’m uh…Madison Holl.” She smiled. “Just Madison Holl though, nothing else.”
Mark smiled. “Very nice name.” He held out his arm. “I am here to escort you to the king’s throne room.”
“You know, I don’t want to go to the king.” She stepped back from Mark.
Mark looked puzzled. “Why?”
“B-because, h-he’s mean. H-he’s trying to kill my friend!” Madison stammered
Mark took a step forward. “The king wants to you come see him.”
“But I don’t want to see him.” Madison said.
“You will go to the king, he commands it.” Mark said his English accent made his words even scarier.
“No thank you.” Madison started to back up faster towards the bed.
Mark walked towards Madison. “The king commands it!”
“I said no!”
Mark quickly walked up to Madison and grabbed her by the arm. Walking towards the door.
“No! Let me go! Stop!” Madison yelled.
Mark didn’t say anything, he just kept walking
“LET ME GO!” Madison shouted
“I will not let you go; you’re going to see the king.”
He dragged Madison all through the castle until they made it to the king’s throne room.
Madison kicked and screamed, all the way there. She didn’t want to meet the king.
“The king told me, if you would not come to see him willingly, then you would probably not stay and talk to him willingly, that is why I am going to see that you do.” Mark ordered the guards to open the large oak doors and he dragged Madison in.
Chapter 14
Leon had had a good day yesterday, he had found Madison and he was going to bring her back to her world, if she liked it or not, and he would fight his father.
But when we woke up that morning and Madison was gone again, he felt like her would die.
“I’ve lost her again!” He yelled.
The Old Inventor put his head in his hands. “This is just terrible.” Then he looked up. “Wait! Take my horse with wings! Fly and save her!”
“But I don’t know where she is.” Leon said.
“Didn’t you say that your father was trying to get, the little girl?” The old man asked.
“Yes.”
“Then go to where your father is, and your bound to find her!”
“Your right!” Leon grabbed the medal box and pushed the bottun, he jumped onto the horse and flew up and up…
“Thank you!” He called down to the Old Inventor.
The Old Inventor waved. “Good luck, my boy.”
Chapter 15
Claws sat on top of the newspaper office. It had been a quiet day, no body trying to steal anything. She just sat there thinking. All of a sudden she thought of Madison.
“I wonder if she’s ok, wherever she is.” Claws said to herself.
Then she had an idea. She stood up. “I’ll go and find out!”
She climbed down the newspaper office and ran to her house. She went into her room and hit a button, and room appeared and she went and got her hover board.
“Ok, let’s go.” She hit another button and the top of the room opened up and she flew up into the sky.
Chapter 16
Eon was bored, bored, bored, bored.
He went over to where he had pinned Leon the other day.
“I hope they got away ok.” He said.
Just then, he had an idea, he ran to the Old Inventor’s house and asked him if he had anything else that flied.
“Well sure, I have a board that flies. Here ya go, good luck!”
Eon took off into the sky.
Chapter 17
Mark dragged Madison inside the throne room.
There was a man in a black robe, he had black hair and a long beard and blue eyes that flashed like lightning, it was Leon’s father.
The man stood up. “Why, it’s Madison Holl! I’ve heard so much about you.” He started to walk towards her.
Madison tried to pull away from Mark’s grip, but it was too strong.
“Why do you fight us?” The king asked, he voice was full of mock sympathy.
Madison didn’t say anything.
The king turned to Mark, “I see she didn’t come willingly.”
“She did not, your highness.” Mark replied.
“You may leave us, Mark. I can handle her.” The king said.
Mark let go of Madison and bowed, and walked out the oak doors.
Madison had fallen when Mark had let go. She sat there.
“Come my dear, I only want to talk.” The king looked at her.
Madison felt a little shock, like you do when you go down a slide.
“N-no thank you.” She said.
“Come now,” The king reached down and gently put his hand around Madison’s arm and pulled her up.
Wow, he’s really strong; I wasn’t even trying to stand up. Madison thought.
The king led her over to a table, where there was tea and cakes set out. He pulled out a chair for her. She reluctantly sat down.
She looked around her, there where people dressed in black.
Maybe they’re guards. Madison thought.
The king poured her some tea. Madison pushed it away.
“No thank you.”
“Well, if you’re not thirsty, let’s just talk.” The king leaned forward. “When did you meet Leon?”
Madison didn’t say anything. The king looked at her, Madison felt another shock, but this time it hurt more.
“When did you meet Leon?” the king repeated.
Madison didn’t say anything.
The king looked at her again, and this time it hurt a lot when the shock came.
“Ow!” She cried.
“When did you meet, Leon?” The king asked.
The shocks kept coming.
Don’t…tell…him…anything… Madison told herself.
Then one of the shocked was so terrible, Madison pushed against the table and fell to the floor, clutching her stomach.
“Stop! STOP!” She cried.
“I’ll stop if you answer my questions.” The king said. “When did you meet, Leon?”
“Th-three…days…ago…” Madison panted.
“Where?”
“A-at m-my h-house.” Madison felt sick, the shocks were unbearable. “STOP!” She cried. “PLEASE!”
“What do you know about him?” the king said.
“Nothing…OW...Just that he’s a prince…OW...And you’re trying to…OW... Kill him.” Madison couldn’t take it anymore. She used all her might and pushed the table over, and shocks stopped as the king fell over.
“Ahhh!” The king cried. “Guards! Seize her!”
Madison hurt too much, she felt sick, she couldn’t move. She felt someone pulled her up by her arms. She cried in pain.
When the king got up he said. “I’ve tried to be nice, but you don’t seem to want to corporate. Take her to the dungeon!”
The guard pulled her out of the room.
Everything started to get blurry, and then, everything went black.
Chapter 18
Leon was in the time and space continuum, he was looking for the portal that led to Ilone, when he someone came into the tunnel too.
“Who are you?” Leon asked.
“The name’s Claws, I’m trying to find my friend, Madison Holl.”
“Madison? I’m trying to find her too!”
“Then you must be Leon. It’s nice to meet you.” Claws smiled. “Do you know where she is?”
“Yes, my father has taken her to Ilone, I just need to find that right portal…”
Just then, Eon entered the tunnel, he was wobbling all over his board.
“Eon! It’s good to see you!” Leon cried.
“I’ve come to help you guys!” Eon said. Trying to keep is balance.
“I’m glad I have people to help me, I don’t think I could have done it by myself.” Leon smiled.
Just then, someone else came into the. It was the Old Inventor!
“I’ve come to help ya!” the old man said.
Leon smiled; he was going to save Madison!
Chapter 19
When Madison woke up, she was on a stone floor with straw all over it.
She hurt everywhere.
She tried to sit up, but the pain was horrible.
She lay there. I’m giving up. It’s all over! She thought to her self.
Then she heard an explosion.
She jumped so hard that she stood up.
“OW!”
She grabbed on to the bars of her cell for balance.
She saw guards (which were the royal Blacks) running past her cell she saw Things running past and some Volaseagles, fly past also
Must be something big. Thought Madison.
She sank to the floor. She didn’t care what happened anymore, she was cold, hungry, wet and hurt everywhere.
Just then, Mark ran past. He stopped.
He looked at Madison with sad eyes.
He actually looks sorry for me. Ha, like he really cares.
Then Mark took out for keys from behind his poncho and unlocked Madison’s cell’s door.
“Come on, it’s not safe, people have broken into the castle.” Mark helped Madison up.
She didn’t fight him, she was too weak.
“What kind of people?” she asked.
“I’m not really sure, the other guards said that there’s one girl with a mask and she’s dressed all in black and another boy that’s all in green with a bow and arrow. That’s all I know though.” Mark answered.
“They’ve come to save me!” Whispered Madison.
“What was that?”
“Uh…nothing…” Madison said.
Mark eyed her, and then they kept walking.
They walked into the king’s throne room.
Mark set her down in one of the thrones.
“Thank for helping…me.” Madison panted.
“Your welcome.” Mark smiled.
Then, the huge stain glass windows in the room burst open as a medal horse burst through them.
Madison screamed. Mark covered her with his poncho from the glass.
When the medal horse landed, it eyed Mark and Madison.
Mark waved his hand and a bow and arrow appeared.
“Don’t move.” He told Madison.
Madison nodded; she was too scared to move.
Mark stood up and held his bow and arrow at the down position; it had an arrow in it, just in case the horse started to attack.
Just then, someone came sliding down a rope, Madison and Mark didn’t hear.
The person grabbed Madison by the waist and started climbing back up.
“MARK!” Madison screamed
Mark whirled around, that’s when the medal horse started to attack. It charged towards Mark, Mark had to roll out of the way, he waved his hand and a sword appeared.
Madison had closed her eyes, she was a afraid of heights. She didn’t used to be, but after awhile of falling from high places, you get scared.
When the person had stopped climbing they set down on a roof.
“You ok, Madison?”
Madison opened her eyes.
“Claws!” She hugged the other girl. “I’ve been so scared.”
“It’s ok now. We’re here to rescue you.”
Just then, someone laughed in the distance.
“You guys are so slow! Come and get me!” more laughing.
“Is that…?” Madison said.
“Yep, Eon.” Claws said. “Can you walk?”
“I think I might be able to.” Madison groaned.
Claws helped her up. “Come on, Leon’s waiting for us.”
And they started to walk across the roof.
Claws opened a window and they climbed inside, it was a bedroom.
“Leon will be in soon, I have to go help, Eon. He’s so immature.” And Claws climbed back out the window.
Madison was so happy.
They’ve come to rescue me! She said to herself.
Just then the door opened. And in came a royal Black.
Madison started to scoot back towards the window.
The royal black turned around.
“Leon!” Madison cried.
Leon ran and picked her up. “Madison!”
They stood there for a second while they hugged.
“I’ve been so worried!” Leon said. “I’ve lost you too many times!”
“I’ve been so worried about you!” Madison cried.
Just then the door was thrown open and the king and Mark and another royal Black came in.
“Aww, how touching.” The king said.
Leon put Madison down, he pushed Madison behind him.
“Leon, my boy, it’s been so long! I’ve been so worried!” Kind Luther said.
Leon glared at him “You weren’t worried.”
“Now, now. Calm down.” The king said.
Leon started backing up towards the window. “We have places to go, father.” He said.
The king glared at Leon. “Seize them!” he commanded the guards.
The taller royal Black seized Leon, he pulled his hands behind his back.
Madison leaned against a wall. She didn’t want Mark touching her anymore. “L-leave me alone.” Mark grabbed Madison.
“Now, that we’re all ready to corporate, let’s go. Sir Justin, take the prince to the tower. And as for her,” The king walked up to Madison and put a finger under her chin and lifted it up.
“Father! No!” Leon yelled.
“Shut up Leon!” the king snapped.
The king’s eyes started to get really light blue. Madison closed her eyes, she prepared for the worst.
Then there was a scream. But it wasn’t Madison’s
Madison opened her eyes the man that was holding Leon was on the floor, he looked unconsciousness.
Leon was breathing hard; his eyes were really light blue.
“We are leaving!” he said.
As he walked up to Mark, Mark let go of Madison and ran out of the door. The king was just staring in horror.
“Your powers are stronger then I thought.” He whispered. He backed up from Leon and ran out of the door.
“Come on.” Leon panted.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked.
“Yeah I’m fine. You?”
“I’m doing ok.” Madison smiled.
Just then, Eon, Claws and The Old Inventor ran in the room.
“You guys done? We have to go!” Eon said.
“Yes, we’re ready, let’s go.” Leon said.
And they all jumped out the window.
Part Two
Chapter 20
Ever since they got away from that castle, they have been working on a battle plan to completely get rid of King Luther. The real reason the king wanted to kill Leon was because Leon’s powers were getting too strong, so if the king killed him, he would get Leon’s powers and would be able to destroy entire worlds.
Since Leon’s powers had been growing, he didn’t know really how to control them, so when he got mad, they would just pop out. It also made him tired, and sometimes sick.
It had been a year since they had escaped from the castle and Madison and Leon had gathered up people from all worlds to meet in a deserted world, where they could prepare for the coming battles.
Madison’s outfit had changed completely, she was wearing jeans and leather battle gear. She looked like the demigods looked like in Percy Jackson books. She didn’t like being the quiet and shy girl anymore.
Leon hadn’t changed much, he still wore his black leather jacket and jeans.
One day after Madison had been gathering troops for the army, she came back to the camp and saw burned tents.
Oh no! Leon! She ran to his tent.
She opened up the flap of the tent.
“Leon?” She whispered.
No reply.
She looked inside the tent and saw Leon, head in his hands on his cot just sitting there.
“Leon, what happened?”
“I can’t control them!” Leon cried. He looked up. His eyes were dangerously light blue. Then, lighting hit right where Madison was standing; she jumped out of the way.
“Leon! Calm down! Breathe!” Madison said. She went over to him and put her hands on his shoulders. He shocked her, but she didn’t care, she had to help Leon.
“Just breathe, what happened?”
“I was just checking on the progress of people we had in the army, but then all of a sudden they just appeared! And I couldn’t control them!” Madison could feel the electricity building up inside him.
“Leon! Calm down! Breathe! This will pass, people with asthma in my world have attacks like this too, but they have medicine for them. But your powers are just growing that’s why there hard to control, it wasn’t your fault, it’s just your body trying to get rid of the electricity that’s inside your body. You have too much of it.”
Madison could feel Leon calm down he started breathing normally again, his eyes went back to his normal light blue color.
“Th-thanks.” He said.
“Your very welcome. How many people do we have in the army?”
“980, when we get 10 more, then we’ll be ready.”
“I just got back with 10 more people. I think we’re ready now.”
Leon stood up. “It’s time.”
Chapter 21
After everyone had gathered, Leon, Madison, Claws and Leon, stood on top of Battle Rock.
“Attention, everyone!” Leon called.
Everyone stopped talking and looked up.
“First, I want to thank all of you for volunteering to be in this army. As you all know, my…King Luther is trying to take over all of the other worlds, we must prevent me for doing so.”
Everyone started cheering.
Leon held up his hands for silence. “We will split up into four groups. You already know what groups your in. Madison…”
“All you with the number one’s are with Leon. All of you with the number two are with me. People with three’s are with Claws and people with fours are with Eon. Everyone got it?”
More cheering.
“Alright!” Leon said. “Everyone in their groups. And…FOR FREEDOM!”
People started running into there groups and cheering.
Leon started to look tired.
“Are you ok?” Madison asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” He walked away.
Madison went up to Claws. “He’s not fine.”
“I know, he just won’t admit he needs help, he needs to rest.” Claws said.
Madison sighed. “I worry about him.”
Claws put her hand around Madison’s shoulders. “He’ll be fine, as long as he has us.”
Madison smiled and went to join her group.
“Alright everyone, when you address me, it’s Captain. Alright? Now, does anyone know where we’re going?” Madison said to her group.
A bunch of boys started to snicker.
“You have something to say?” Madison asked. She’s become braver then she used to be.
“Uh…We were just…” one of the boys said.
“When you figure out what you were soupossed to say, tell me.”
“Sure, whatever.”
Madison eyed him. Then she continued. “Now, we’re going to Bearsvile. There have been reports of Things and Volesaeagle attacks. We have to go and put it to an end. Come on!”
They marched off to the hover boards.
When Madison had gotten on her hover board, the boy that had spoken earlier came up. “I…um…just wanted to say…”
“Yes?” Madison said.
“Um...never mind.” And he walked away.
Madison rolled her eyes. Boys. She thought.
And she started to fly up.
When her group got to the time and space continuum she said: “Now, the mission plan is to rid Bearsville of anything that works for the king. But, if you happen to get humans that work for him, that’ll help us very much. So prinsoners are ok. And try to protect the towns folk. Now, let’s go!”
And they dove into the portal to Bearsville.
Chapter 22
When Madison and her group arrived in Bearsville the town was a mess, people running from Things and Volesaeagles.
Madison ran into the battle, she had a bow and arrow.
She started attacking Things and Voleseaeagles. She down anything in her way. She often wondered if that shy girl she used to be was just a dream.
Then that boy ran up. “I just wanted to say…that I was sorry.” He said.
“I accept your apologies, but now isn’t the best time.”
The boy stopped fighting, “I was wondering, if you could…”
Madison stopped too. “Yes?”
Then an arrow came flying right in between them.
“Look out!” Madison shoved the boy out of the way.
When she got up she turned around and saw there attacker.
Mark.
He was wearing his same old black outfit.
“Well, well. So isn’t Madison Holl.” He said.
The boy got up. “You know him?”
“Yes, a long time ago.” Madison narrowed her eyes. “What are you doing here, Mark?”
“Just doing what King Luther told me too.” He smiled a sly smile. “I see you’re not as shy as you used to be.”
“Being shy isn’t always a good thing.” Madison snapped.
“I guess it’s not.”
“Why does he have an English accent like the Leader?” the boy asked Madison.
“He’s from the same world.” Madison said.
“The Leader? You aren’t still with the prince are you?” Mark said.
“Shut up Mark. We’re here because we’re going to put an end to King Luther’s rule.”
People from Madison’s group came closer to see what was happening.
The boy whispered into Madison’s ear: “What are your orders, Captain?”
Madison stood there for a second. Mark’s stare made her uncomfortable
She nodded towards the boy.
The boy nodded towards a couple of other boys behind them, they started to advance on Mark.
“You really think your going to capture me? I’m a royal Black. They don’t come easy.” He walked right up to Madison.
The boy started to get his sword ready. Madison moved her hand in an ok motion.
Mark started to stand a little too close for Madison.
She had learned from Leon how to do a Wello field.
She gathered all her strageth and made one, pushing Mark away and on the ground.
“You were too close.” Madison said.
Mark sat up. “So I see.” Just then, the other boys advanced towards him.
“Another time perhaps?” And Mark vanished.
Madison turned away angrily. She hated it when someone would embarrass her like that. And flirting wit her! She had had enough of Mark, to last a lifetime. She thought back to the day when he had dragged her out of that room just to meet the king, she flinched as she remembered the shocks the king had given her. She shook her head to clear it and ran back into battle.
Chapter 24
When Madison’s group returned to camp, Madison had gone right to her tent.
She down on her cot and sighed.
Why can’t I ever do anything right?
Just then, Leon came in.
“How’d it go?” He asked.
She sighed. “Ok.”
Leon sat down beside her. “Everything ok?”
“Truth? No.”
“What happened?”
“It was Mark! He was there and he’s just so…”
Just then, Leon felt a twinge of selfishness. Mark was always trying to get Madison.
“Don’t worry about it; he’s not here now is he?” Leon said.
Just then someone burst into the tent: “There here! There here!”
“Who’s here?” Leon asked.
“The enemy! The enemy!” and he ran out of the tent.
“Tell me why me why we let him in the army, he says things twice, it gives me a headache.” Leon said as he walked out of the tent.
Madison laughed.
When they got out of the tent, they saw Mark coming up.
Madison tried to blend in with the crowd when they approached. She bumped into that boy.
“Oh, sorry.” Madison said.
“It’s alright,”
“I never got your name, what is it?”
“Justin.”
“Cool, mine’s Madison.”
The boy smiled, just then, Mark appeared right in front of Madison.
The crowd started to move away from Mark, in fear.
“Not as brave as I thought.” Mark sniffed.
“Just go away Mark! Ok?” Madison said.
“Why?” Mark leaned in close. Then he was lifted into the air by something. Madison looked and saw Leon, using his powers lift Mark off the ground.
“Leave. Her. Alone.” Leon said.
“Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you two were together…”
“What? No! We’re just friends.” Madison said quickly.
“It’s ok if you don’t want to admit it, I understand.” Mark said.
Then, Leon started to shock Mark.
“Leon! Stop!” Madison started to run up to Leon, but his power seemed to take over his entire body, she was thrown across the ground, she hit the ground so hard, she passed out.
Justin ran to her. “Madison!”
When Leon got himself under control, he dropped Mark on the ground, gasping.
When he saw Madison his eyes got wide, and he ran away.
Mark was speechless for a change. He just stared at the unconscious Madison on the ground.
“She needs help.” Justin said.
Since no one was moving, Justin yelled: “Take him to a holding cell!” he pointed to Mark. “And help me get her to a doctor.” People broke out of there shock and did what they were told. It took four men to drag Mark to a holding cell. Justin and another boy carried Madison to her tent.
When doctor had come and gone, Claws and Eon showed up.
Justin stood up. “Where’ve you been?”
“We were walking, and when we came back, everyone was in a panic. What happened to Madison?” Claws ran up to the cot.
“Mark came and Leon got mad, when he started to talk to Madison and Leon started to shock Mark, and when Madison tried to stop Leon, his powers took over him and threw her across the ground and she hit her head.” Justin said.
“Where’s Leon?” Eon asked.
“He ran away when he saw what had happened.” Justin replied.
“I’ll send out search parties.” Eon went to leave.
Claws caught his shoulder. “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Leon’s powers are making him sick, he needs to calm down. We all know the only person who can help Leon now.” She looked at Madison.
Eon nodded. “I’ll go talk to Mark. We might get some information out of him.” And he left.
Claws went over to Madison’s cot. She took Madison’s hand.
“Come on Madison, Leon needs you. We all need you.” She whispered.
Chapter 25
Leon ran through the forest.
He was trying to run from himself, he was tried of his powers, he wanted them gone. He had hurt Madison, they only person he counted as his friend.
When he got to a large rock. He stopped and sat down.
Oh Madison, I’m so sorry. He thought.
Leon, why do you mourn?
Leon looked around but couldn’t see the person who had spoken.
I asked, why do you mourn.
“I-I…”
Speak up boy!
“I’m sad because I hurt my friend with my powers.” Leon buried his head in his hands.
What powers are these?
“I can use electricity to do what I please.”
Ah. Yes, I thought so.
“You thought so?”
Yes, I am one of the Electrics. There are two of us, we channel your power and who ever else contains it.
“Like my father…” Leon whispered.
Your father has been trying to get all our power to himself. We are glad that you are not like him.
“I am like him! I have a temper just like him. That’s how I hurt Madison.” Leon said.
Who is this Madison?
“She’s a…friend.”
How much do you care about Madison?
“I l.—“
Love yes? Well you shouldn’t let your feelings get the best of you. Bad things can happen to those who’s feeling get in there way.
“I don’t understand.”
You will in time, my prince. Now, you must got back and take responsibility for your actions.
“I-I can’t.”
Why?
“I don’t know! I just can’t that’s all.”
You must go back.
“Why?”
Because I can feel this Madison’s spirit weakening. She is hurt not just on the outside but in the inside.
Leon was silent for a while. “I understand.” He stood up and ran back to camp.
Chapter 26
When Leon got back to camp, he went straight to Madison’s tent.
When he walked in, he saw Madison still laying on her cot. Her eyes were closed, but she was still breathing.
Claws and Justin were in there too.
Claws stood up. “Leon, are you ok?”
“I’m fine. How’s Madison?”
“Not well, we’ve already had the doctor come and look at her. He said he can’t do anything. She was already still weak from the last time she got shocked, so when it happened again and she got thrown against the ground. It made her even weaker.”
“All because of me.”
“No, it’s not your fault. Your powers are still growing. Everyone knows that. No one blames you.” Claws said.
Justin stood up. “No, no one does.”
Leon made a little smile.
Justin walked out of the tent, followed by Claws.
Leon went to the cot and sat down on the chair beside it. He took Madison’s hand.
“I’m so sorry, Madison.” He whispered a tear trickled down his cheek. “I couldn’t control them. Madison, please come back. I need you, everyone needs you.”
Then Leon forced some of his power into Madison’s body.
Madison’s eyes shot open. She sat straight up.
She screamed in pain. And she fell back down on her pillow.
“Madison, are-are you ok?” Leon asked.
“Leon?” Madison looked at him. She smiled. “Leon! I’m so glad you alright! I’d hug you, but it hurts too much.”
Leon laughed. “I’m glad you’re alright.” Then his same become serious. “How do you feel?”
Madison smiled. “This is just like the time when we got into that wreck.”
Leon smiled.
“I think some of my ribs are broken and maybe an arm.”
“I.—“
Madison interrupted him. “No, it’s not your fault. It’s my fault, for caring about Mark in the first place. I should have hit him or something.”
“Do you care about him?” Leon asked.
“Leon, I know it’s hard to understand this, but I love everyone. Because that’s what God tells us to do. ‘Love thy neighbor as thy self.’ So I don’t hate anyone really. Do you understand?”
Leon nodded.
“But someday, when I’m eighteen I’ll meet that special boy that we date and get married.” She sighed. “I’ve dreamed about that.” She looked at Leon’s confused face and laughed. “I know. It’s weird.”
“I’ll got get the doctor to fix you up.” Leon said.
She smiled. “Don’t go running away, ok?”
Leon smiled. “Ok.” And he walked out.
Chapter 27
The doctor told Madison that she must stay in bed for a week before she can get up and walk around. Three ribs were broken and so was her right arm.
Madison protested. But the doctor was firm. No getting out of bed.
When the doctor had left, Leon came in.
“What did he say?”
“He said I can’t get out of bed for a week.” Madison grumbled.
“Well, we don’t want you to get hurt even worse.” Leon said.
“Yeah. But I want to get up!” Madison protested.
“I’m sure we have something that will keep you occupied.” Leon said.
“Did you guys get anything out of, Mark?” Madison asked.
“Nothing. He just won’t open up.”
“All that would open him up is probably hurting him in some way. Which, we don’t want to do that.” Madison said.
“I could.—“
“No. No more shocking anyone.” Madison said firmly. “I’m surprised Mark isn’t in a coma.”
“He’s strong. That’s for certain.”
Just then, Justin came into the tent. “We broke through!”
“How?” Leon and Madison asked.
“I don’t know. But Mark said something that King Luther wanted to get all the power of some weird things and then he could take over the world! I don’t know if he’s lying or what.”
“The Electrics.” Leon whispered.
“What?” Justin asked.
Leon told them all about the voice that he had heard and what it had said. He didn’t say anything about loving Madison though.
Justin and Madison thought for a second. “Well, if two people or whatever that other thing is, know of the king’s plan, then it must be true. We can’t let King Luther destroy these Electrics.” Madison said.
“Agreed.” Justin said. “What are your orders?”
Leon looked at Madison. Madison nodded.
“We need to attack the castle. We need to stop King Luther, before he strikes.” Leon said.
“I’ll tell Claws and Eon, when do we attack?” Justin asked.
“As soon as possible.” Leon said. “We want this world, Ilone, to be free again.”
Chapter 28
Days went by before they were ready to attack the castle. Leon’s powers seemed to calm down, and no one got shocked.
Mark was still imprisoned, and he wasn’t happy about it. Throughout the camp, you could hear his loud protests.
Madison was allowed to start walking around again. It hurt to walk but at least she could. Her right arm had a cast and a sling on it and she had to walk with crutches. She couldn’t go on the invasion because her state. She told Leon she could but Leon told her that she must stay at camp.
The day before they were to attack the castle Madison went with Eon to talk to Mark, and see if they could get anything else out of him.
As they neared the prison, they could hear Mark yelling: “REALESE ME AT ONCE!”
When they got inside Madison yelled over Mark’s protests: “SHUT UP!”
Mark stopped, “Well, well, if isn’t is Madison.—“
Madison put up her left hand, “Enough. I haven’t come here to talk about your feelings, Mark. We’re here because we need more information.”
Mark sat down in a chair and propped his feet on a table. “Well, sorry, but I’m going to tell you anything.”
“I advise that you do.” Eon said, only eleven, but could scare almost anyone.
“Or what?”
Madison was tired of his English accent always making her feel hooey gooey inside. She didn’t like him. “Unless you want us to tell King Luther that you gave away his big plan, I advise that you tell us what we want to know.” Madison said smirking.
Mark’s eyes got wide. He didn’t want the king to find out; he’d do something really bad to him.
“What do you want to know?” He said, trying to pull himself together.
“We want to know, where are the weak spots in the castle.” Eon said leaning in close to the bars of the cell.
Mark hesitated. “There’s one on the right side, near the stable and one on the left, by the king’s bedroom. Is that all?”
“Yes, thank you. And if those aren’t the right spots, we’ll tell the king.” Madison said, walking out.
When they got outside, Eon said: “Smooth.”
Madison smiled. “Thanks.”
Chapter 29
That night while Madison lay in bed, she thought all about the boys she had in her life.
There was, Leon, Eon, Justin and Mark.
Everyone of them except Eon cared about her in that protective way. If you get what I mean.
“There all just my friends, that’s how I want it to be. No love from them, it wouldn’t work out right if I married one of them. They would either start attacking each other for me or something.” Madison whispered. “I need to marry someone in my world.”
She thought over this. She just wanted to be friends.
“I’m just thirteen. I have a long way to go before I start dating, no reason to think about this now.”
And she went to sleep.
Chapter 30
It was still dark outside when Leon woke up.
Everyone was getting up, even Madison.
“How’d you sleep?” He asked her.
“Good, you?”
“Fine I guess.”
“Your going to be fine.” Madison smiled.
“It’s not me I’m worried about, it’s you.”
“Why me?”
“Well, with everyone gone your going to be alone, with that Mark.”
“I’ll be fine.” Madison reassured him.
“You sure?”
“Positive.” Madison smiled.
Leon smiled and gave her a hug. And ran to march off to the castle.
“Please God, bring them all back safely.” Madison prayed and she waved as they marched off into the sunrise.
Chapter 31
Madison sat alone in her tent. She was so bored.
“I wish there was someone to talk to!” She said.
Then she remembered Mark. “No. I am not going to go talk to that-that-that…”
Then she got up and went anyway.
When she got in there, Mark wasn’t in his cell.
She felt stiff with fear. What if Mark got to her?
She went as fast as she could out the door and out into the row of tents. She walked slowly and with caution, she didn’t want Mark to catch her by surprise. He did anyway.
“I see you’re out and about.”
Madison whirled around and there was Mark.
“How did you get out?” Madison demanded.
Mark walked around her, Madison turned as he walked.
“I was only holding off for so long.” He said.
His voice was always so soothing. Madison hated that.
“Go back to your cell. Or-or.” Madison stammered.
“Or what?” Mark leaned in close to Madison’s face. “You’ll tell the king?” he laughed.
Madison thought for a second about what to say next. “You remind me of someone I read about in a book.”
“Who?” Mark asked, suddenly interested.
“Ian Kabra. He had an English accent and acted just like you. But in the end, he turned good.” Madison said. “I liked him.”
“Well, I’m not going to turn good.” Mark said.
Madison had failed. He didn’t fall for it.
“Now, let me tell you something,” Mark said. “I could make all this go away.”
“Make what go away?” Madison asked.
“The pain and everything that’s happened to you, you could live a normal life again.”
Madison had hoped for the longest time that her life would be normal again. “No. I can’t leave all my friends. They need me.” Madison said.
“But why make yourself hurt? When it could be gone?” He touched her broken arm. It immediately felt ten times better. Then he stopped touching her arm, and the pain returned.
“N-no. It wasn’t Leon’s fault, h-he.”
“He didn’t mean to. But what if he did?”
His voice was so persuasive that Madison almost gave in. “No. He didn’t mean to! He didn’t!” Madison yelled at Mark. She started to advance on him. He started to back up.“Leave me alone!” She used all her strength to lift up her crutch and bring it down on Mark.
Mark grabbed it and tore it from Madison’s hand. “Don’t go that again.” His voice was loosing its soothing touch.
Madison backed up the best she could without her crutch.
“Now, you’re coming with me.” Mark said, getting his voice back together. He brushed himself off.
“Never.” Madison said.
Mark walked right up to Madison and looked her in the eye. “Are you going to come with me willingly? Or not?”
“I’m not going at all.” She said firmly.
“Well then, you forced me into this.” Then he did something that Madison thought was the worse thing a boy could do to any girl before marriage. He kissed her!
Madison tried to pull away, but she couldn’t.
When he let go, she felt very sleepy, and she fell asleep.
Chapter 32
Mark had to carry Madison all the way to the castle, luckily, he got a horse from the camp’s stables.
Mark felt a little tinge of guilt about kissing her. He flinched about what she might say to him when she woke up. He thought that maybe Madison would like him, just like every other girl he’d met. But Madison didn’t. He didn’t like Madison anymore. If she didn’t like him, then he wouldn’t like her.
There, that was easy. He told himself.
The only reason he was taking Madison to the castle is because the king wanted her there. The king didn’t tell him exactly what he wanted her for, just that he wanted her.
When they got to the castle, he carried Madison inside. He tried to be careful of her broken ribs and arm.
Madison started to wake up. Her eyes fluttered open and then she struggled and fell out of his arms.
She screamed in pain. “Gosh! You could have held on better!” Madison yelled at him. She stood up. Her arm and ribs in total pain. She walked up to him and said: “And don’t you ever kiss me again!”
“Well, if you would have come willingly.” Mark said.
“Well I’m not stupid you know.” Madison said brushing herself off. “I’m only thirteen! You don’t go around kissing thirteen year old girls! Not until your married, that’s when you should kiss!” Madison yelled.
“Madison, shut up.” Mark said.
Madison glared at him. “You shut up.”
“No, you shut up.”
“No! You!”
They continued this conversation until a loud explosion sounded.
It shook to the ground, knocking Mark and Madison off their feet.
“That hurt.” Madison groaned.
“Whatever.” Mark said.
“Now look who’s grumpy!” Madison said.
“I am not grumpy! You’re grumpy!” Mark shot back.
They stopped when a bunch of royal Blacks came running towards the explosion.
“Mark, where have you been?” one of them asked.
Then they saw Madison. “Oh, got it. What took you so long?”
“I got.—“ Mark started
“He got taken captive at our camp.” Madison said, standing up.
“Did not! I let you!” Mark yelled.
“Did too!” Madison yelled back.
“Now calm down, the king wanted to see this girl, and now he’ll have to talk with you about being captured.” The royal Back grabbed Madison and started to escort her away.
Mark mumbled something about: “stupid girls.” and followed.
When they got to the king’s throne room, the royal Black who had a hold of her told Mark to take her inside, while they went to see what that explosion was.
Mark took Madison in.
Madison was mad and she hurt.
When they got in, the king stood up from his throne.
“Ah, Mark. I hear you got captured by these lowly people.” He eyed Madison.
“Y-yes sir.” Mark stammered.
Madison had never heard Mark stammer before.
“Well, my royal Blacks can’t go getting captured now can we?” The king said.
“N-no sir.”
“I’ll give you one more chance.” The king said, and he walked right up to Mark. “If you mess up again, it’s over.”
“Y-yes sir, I-I understand, s-sir.”
“Good.” The king said. “Now leave. I have to talk with Madison.”
Mark didn’t hesitate to leave.
“I don’t want anything you have to offer.” Madison said, once Mark left.
The king started to walk around the room, as if he hadn’t heard Madison at all.
“What happened to you?” he asked.
“I got hurt, what do you think?” Madison snapped.
“I can see that, but how did it happen?” the king said.
“I got thrown to the ground.”
“I see, by whom?”
“Leon, but it wasn’t his fault! It was his.—“
“His powers? Yes, yes I see.” The king said thoughtfully. “I wonder if anyone could stop his powers.”
“No one that I know of.” Madison said.
“Well, I know some one.” The king said “You.”
Madison was stunned for a moment. “Me?”
“Yes, now hold out your hand.”
Madison did, but slowly.
The king created a ball of electricity in his hand. “Now, think really hard about how you want to absorb this in your hand.”
Madison thought hard.
Then the king put the ball in her hand. It shocked her but she kept thinking and then, it did absorb in her hand.
Madison looked at her hand with disbelief. “W-what, h-how…” she stammered.
“Amazing isn’t it? There’s only been two others that can do that.” The king said. “Now there are three.”
“But I don’t understand how did I do that?” Madison asked.
“No one knows really, but I knew it was you because of how you took those shocks I gave you a year ago, those were supposed to kill you.”
Madison glared at him.
The king put up his hands. “Now calm down. I’m not going to hurt you. I just want to help you.”
“Help me?” Madison said skeptically.
“Yes, I will heal you right now.”
“What’s the catch?”
“No catch.”
Madison thought for a moment. “Alright. But don’t you dare hurt me.”
“I promise I won’t hurt you or kill you.” The king said. He went a touched Madison and she was healed.
It felt good to move un-painfully again.
“Mark!” the king yelled.
Madison knew what was coming; he was going to try to lock her up again.
She touched were she kept her hunting knife, still there.
Mark came in walking slowly.
“Don’t doddle boy! Come here!” The king commanded.
Mark walked faster up to the king. “Yes sir?”
“Take her to the dungeon, Leon will want her back sometime.” The king answered waving his hand.
Mark walked up to Madison, Madison had to think fast, she saw the door was still open. She ran for it.
Chapter 33
Leon was worried about Madison.
“She’s fine.” Eon assured him.
“I know, I’m just worried.” Leon said.
They were inside the castle trying to avoid being seen. But that explosion probably didn’t help them much.
“Tell me why we blew a hole in the castle again.” Eon had said.
“To get inside it, but now that you mention it…” Leon had answered.
Eon and Leon were traveling to the throne room to attack King Luther.
Then they heard someone running. They backed up to a corner. Swords and bow arrows at the ready.
Leon looked over to where the footsteps were coming from.
“Get her! You fool!” Someone yelled.
Then Madison ran down the hall.
But Leon and Eon didn’t know it was her, Eon fired an arrow at her.
She ducked. “That’s a nice way to say hi.” She said.
“Madison! What are you doing here?” Leon said.
“Mark. That’s all I need to say.” Madison answered.
Then Mark and the king turned the corner too. They stopped. The king smiled, “Well, well, so it isn’t Leon and his friends.”
Leon’s eyes narrowed.
“Now, don’t we all go in my throne room and have some tea?” The king said.
“No thanks.” Leon said.
Just then six royal blacks came in, three by the king and three on the other side of Leon, Madison and Eon.
“This isn’t good.” Eon said.
“You think?” Leon said. He pulled out the hook that throws it’s self out of his belt.
He grabbed Madison and shot off the hook, the others did the same.
And they went up to a window below.
No he doesn’t! Mark thought, he ran to the stairs and climbed to the roof.
When Leon and the others got to the roof, they started for the hover boards which were on the roof.
Then something started to pull Madison back, it felt like a magnet.
“Ahhh!” she yelled.
She was thrown onto the ground. She looked up, Mark had done it.
“Mark! Just leave us alone!” She yelled.
“No, not until I have you Madison.” Mark said. Mark had forgotten that he was mad at Madison, his feelings had taken over.
“Have me? What?” Madison said, she tried to stand up but Mark still had a hold on her.
“Let her go, Mark!” Leon said. He had told the rest to go and get help.
“No.” Mark said. “Do you care about her?” Mark’s smile was cold.
Leon was tied between his feelings and what was right to do. “I-I…do.” He stammered.
“How much? Like me, I like, like her, as people in her world say.”
“Yes.” Leon said.
Madison was mad. She was being fought over as a toy.
She screamed. Scaring Mark and his grip was gone. “I’ve had enough of the two of you!”
Leon and Mark said: “What?”
“You’re always trying to get me! I am a human being. I’m not someone’s thing.” Madison yelled.
“I’m only trying to protect you.—“ Leon started.
“Protect? You’re just trying to get me away from Mark so you can have me instead!”
Leon tried to walk up to Madison but Mark blocked his path.
Mark got his grip back on Madison. “Let me go!” She screamed.
“Leave her alone!” Leon’s anger got control of his powers again and he shot a lighting bolt at Mark.
Madison got loose and jumped in front of Mark and thought really hard about how she wanted to absorb that lightning bolt.
She did, but it shocked her, a lot.
Mark and Leon stared at her in disbelief.
“How-how.—“ Leon stammered.
“Shut up. It’s nothing, now, if you two don’t leave this rooftop right now. I will go back to my world, and never, ever, come back.” She let her last words sink in.
Leon and Mark glared at each other. Madison saw this and said: “Oh, if you two can’t get along, I am leaving.” She started to walk away.
“Madison! Don’t please!” Leon begged.
Madison put up her hand and kept walking. She got on a remaining hover board, and flew off to the time and space continuum.
Chapter 34
Leon and Mark stood there.
“Now what?” Mark said.
“I-I don’t know.” Leon said. “Mark, do you really like doing what King Luther says?”
“Not really,” He grabbed his head in his hands. “I-I…”
Leon walked up to him and put a hand on Mark’s shoulder. “Think, Mark. Why did you join up with him?”
“I-I was walking, and then two men…in black…got me and took me to…the king…and he…did…something…to my…head…and…” Mark was feeling sick.
“Yes, yes, you’re doing it!” Leon said.
“MARK!” King Luther came up the ladder to the roof.
Mark’s head was throbbing.
“This is wrong Father. You brain washed Mark just so you could have him for your army. That’s wrong!” Leon yelled. He stood in front of Mark to protect him.
“Come now Leon, there isn’t a reason why we are fighting…” the king started.
“Yes there is!” Mark said. “You are trying to hurt Leon, just to get his power.”
“Silence, Mark!” the king shot a lightning bolt at Mark, Mark fell to the ground.
“Father, this is wrong!” Leon yelled. His powers were getting worked up; he shot a lightning bolt at him.
The king blocked it with his own lightning.
The fight was on. The king and Leon took turns throwing lightning bolts at each other.
Mark lay there, and then he felt someone trying to help him up. It was Madison!
“Madison…your…back.” He groaned.
“Yes, and I’m here to help. What happened to you?” Madison said.
“I guess I’ve been brainwashed…this whole…time.” Mark said.
“Well that’s good.” Madison smiled.
Mark smiled back.
Just then, lightning hit Madison, knocking her down.
“Madison! Your back!” Leon said.
“I’m going to get rid of you, once and for all!” The king bellowed. He gathered all his power and shot it at Madison.
“NO!” Mark jumped up and blocked Madison.
The lightning hit him. He fell to the ground, motionless.
“Mark!” Madison yelled. She got down beside him. “Oh Mark, don’t die, it’s going to be ok!”
Leon looked at Madison and Mark, and a voice in his head said: “Look how she runs to him, get rid of him, once and for all.”
Leon wanted to so badly, but he couldn’t, that was the person Madison liked or seemed to.
“No, Father!”
“What? I didn’t do anything.” The king said, he put up his hands.
“You did too!” Leon yelled, he shot a huge bolt of lightning that the king. It hit King Luther. He fell to the ground.
Leon ran over to Madison and Mark.
Madison was crying. Leon put an arm around her.
“All this time, I’ve hated you Mark, but, now that I know you were brainwashed, I feel terrible.” Madison sobbed.
“It’s…alright…” Mark’s breathing was labored.
“Please, don’t go. We can start over.” Madison said.
“Yes.” Leon said. “We can all start over, I’m sorry too.”
“I forgive…both…of…you.” Mark said. “And…I’m…Sure…If I…did…through…this…we’ll…be…best…friends.” Mark said.
“No! Don’t die!” Madison sobbed.
Mark laughed. “No, I’m not going to die.”
Leon and Madison smiled at each other.
Same old Mark. They thought.
Chapter 35
They took Mark back to the camp.
Madison sighed, “Now, there’s only one problem…”
“My dad.” Leon finished.
“Yep. And he’s a big problem.”
“Agreed. I want you to stay here.”
“What? No! I want to.”
Leon put up his hand. “Stay here and help Mark, try to get him to reamember his family. I want you to stay here I don’t want you to get hurt.”
Madison knew that he was incharge, she balled her fists and went to where Mark was.
Leon sighed, and went to gather troops for the attack.
…
When Madison went into the tent, she saw that Mark was sleeping, she started to back out.
“No…wait.” He said, his voice sounded raspy.
He was still wearing his royal Black outfit, he had a bandage on his head and one on his arm.
“Y-you feeling ok?” Madison asked.
Mark smiled. “Yes, I guess.”
Madison smiled back, “Um…” she shifted from foot to foot, she still on nervous around Mark. “Leon wanted me to help you remember you family.”
Mark looked like he was in pain, once she said that.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Madison looked down at the ground.
“No, it’s fine. I just, don’t have a family.”
“Well, you could try to reamember your friends, then.” Madison tried to sound up beat to cheer up Mark.
“I don’t have any of those either.”
“Pets?”
“Nope.”
“Toys?”
“Nada.”
Madison started to feel sorry for him. He had no friends, to pets, no toys, no family. She went and sat down on the side of the cot.
“Well, you have friends now.”
Mark smiled. “Yes, yes I do.”
They were queit for a long time.
“What’s wrong?” Mark asked.
Madison looked up. “What?” She was shocked that he knew she was troubled.
“Royal Blacks can read some people’s feelings.”
“Oh…well...Leon won’t let me go with him to defeat the king.”
“I don’t blame him. The king is dangerous.”
“I know that, but I want to help.”
“I know you do, but it’s safer for you here.”
“You sound just like Leon.” Madison’s voice was low.
“I’m sorry, but we care about you.”
So even when he’s not brainwashed, he still cares. Madison thought. “I um, have to go.” She stood up went out of the tent.
Madison was too stubborn to admit her feelings. She cared about Leon as a brother. But there something else there that Mark had…
She didn’t get to finished thinking when she ran into Claws.
“You coming?” She asked.
“Where?” Madison asked.
“To defeat the king or course.” Claws said agitated.
“No, Leon told me to stay here.”
“No he didn’t, now come on.” Claws grabbed Madison by the hand pulled her towards a ship.
“We don’t own any of these.” Madison said. She started to back away; she had her bow and arrow with her. She got an arrow ready.
Claws had gone behind the ship, but when she came back, she wasn’t a she anymore.
Madison shot a arrow at the man.
He flicked it with his hand, out of the way. That didn’t surprise Madison at all, she’s seen a lot of weird things.
“What do you want?” Madison growled. Then she bumped into something, she looked around, it was another man.
“Your royal Blacks aren’t you?” Madison tried not to sound afraid. “Mark’s not coming back with you.”
“That’s not what we want.” The man behind her said. He grabbed her by the arm and waved his hands over her eyes. Madison fell right asleep.
“Let’s go,” the man who had pretened to be Claws said. They carried Madison inside the ship.
Chapter 36
When Madison woke up, she wasn’t excepting to be chained to a wall.
She looked around. “Hellooooo?” She called.
A rat scurried across the floor, scared by Madison call. She was in a dungeon like place.
“Homey.” She said.
Just then, two royal Blacks came into the room with King Luther.
Madison glared at him.
“Now, now, don’t be unhappy.” The king said.
“Your kind voice is fake, I can tell.” Madison said.
“Children, so annoying.” The king yawned.
“What do you want?” Demanded Madison.
“You probably already know about my plan to steal the powers of the Electrics.” The king said.
“Yes…” Madison said.
“Well, it’s fake.”
Madison was shocked; two people had told them that King Luther had wanted to Electrics’ powers. How had that not been his plan the whole time?
“What is it then?” Madison snapped.
“The Electrics have given me the curtisery of letting me take them, but you see, they don’t like just giving there powers away, they like something in return.”
Madison didn’t like how where this was going.
“They like sacrifices.”
Madison really didn’t like the conversation now. “No, no, no, no!” Madison said.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes!” the king mimicked her voice.
“So, that’s you. Also, it’s a good way to get Leon to come.” He laughed, and started to walk out of the room. “Guards, tie her hands, we’re going now.”
The royal Blacks unhooked Madison’s hands and tied them with rope, and pulled her along.
She tried to fight them by not walking, but they were just too strong.
Madison kind of wished that Mark was the one doing the pulling. They made it outside, they dragged her inside the same ship they had brought her in.
They pushed off to the side right infront of where King Luther was sitting.
He looked down at here, with those eyes that looked so much as Leon. She felt like crying.
“So the Electrics are just going to give you their powers?” Madison said.
“Yep. Aren’t they sweet?”
“No not really.”
No one talked for at least ten minutes.
“When we get there,” the king said “I want you to corporate.”
Madison sniffed. “Yeah right.”
“So brave, that’s probably why Leon liked you in the first place.” The king said, looking at his fingernails.
“W-what are you talking about?” Madison stammered.
“Leon liked you, that’s what I heard from the Electrics.”
“W-we’re just friends.”
“Is that so? Well, you can ask, Leon yourself then.” And the conversation was over.
Madison thought about what the king had said. She tried not to belivie it, but the facts were so true. Then she thought about Mark.
Oh LORD, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. She prayed silently.
When the ship stopped, the royal Blacks pulled her out of the ship. They had landed by a mossy old cave.
“What’s in there?” Madison tried to sound brave.
“Where the sacrifice is to be made.” The king said it as if he said stuff like that all the time.
When they entered the cave, there was a stone pipe running up to the top of the cave, and behind it, were some bars, like a cage.
“W-what’s in there?” Madison was loosing it.
“The Electric Tiger.” The king said, yawing. “tie her to the poll.”
“NO!” Madison screamed. “Let me go!” She kicked and screamed. She stopped moving entirely.
One of the royal Blacks had to carry her.
This wasn’t happening. Madison thought to here self. I’m going to be home in a minute.
They tied her hands to the poll.
“Now, we have to wait until the moon is fully out and then, we can release the tiger.” The king laughed an evil laugh.
Then one of the royal Blacks, pulled a lever and a giant stone door closed Madison inside the room, where a tiger was going to kill her.
Chapter 37
Leon and the army were at the castle, but when the stormed into the king’s throne room, he wasn’t there.
“Where is he?!” Leon yelled.
Eon put a hand on Leon’s shoulder. “It’s ok, we’ll find him.”
Leon pulled out his cell phone and called Madison.
The phone picked up, but instead of Madison’s voice, the king answered it.
“Hello, my boy.” The king said.
“What have you done with Madison?” Leon growled.
“She’s part of the plan, now, if you want to see her ever again, come to the old cave by the river.” The line went dead.
Leon stormed off, towards the hover boards.
Eon had to run to keep up with him. “What are we going to do?” He asked.
“Save, Madison.” Leon said.
Eon walked in front of Leon and stopped. “Not even you can do this on you own, you need someone with experience with the king.”
“I can do it myself.” Leon said.
“No, you can’t.” Eon looked him in the eye.
“Fine, but who?” Leon asked.
“Mark.”
…
Madison decied she wasn’t getting out anytime soon, so she sat down where the rope had enough slack so she could be comfortable.
“Sigh.” She said. She looked up at the sky, where there was bars to block her ecsape, but she could still see the sky. The sun was still up, but she didn’t think it would up much longer.
She heard a faint growl come from the cage. She shivered.
“Oh Leon, do you really care about me that way?” she said.
…
Leon and Eon ran into Mark’s tent.
“Mark!” Leon yelled.
Mark sat right up in his cot, startled.
“Sorry, I just, uh…”
“He needs your help rescueing Madison.” Eon said.
“Madison’s in trouble?” Mark started to get up.
“Wait, are you well enough to get up?” Leon asked.
“Fine, royal Blacks have special healing powers.” Mark rubbed his once sprained wrist. He was a good 3in taller that Leon and a year older. “Where is she?”
“In a cold cave by the river, my dad has her.” Leon said.
Mark’s face darkened. “I know what he’s going to do to her.”
“What?” Leon asked, they started to walk outside, Eon left to talk to Claws.
“That plan I told you about King Luther taking the Electrics’ power. It’s a fake, the Electrics are going to just give him the power, but they want something in return.”
“What do they want?”
“They want a sacrifice.”
Leon’s eyes got wide, he quickened his step. “We have to get there fast.”
“It won’t happen until the moon is out, but yes, I agree, we must hurry.”
“So how are they going to…you know…” Leon asked.
“The Eclectics have an Electric Tiger, when he bites its victim, then he or she will instantly go to the land of the Eclectics.” Mark answered.
“Could we ever get Madison back, if that happened?” asked Leon.
“Yes, but it could be dangerous.”
“I’ll do it for Madison.” Leon said, determined.
Mark didn’t say anything. They made it to the hover boards and got on.
“Do you want to lead the way?” Mark asked Leon.
“No, you can.”
Mark lifted off and they flew off, to save Madison.
Chapter 38
Meanwhile, Madison was in the cave wondering what was going to happen.
She tried to bite at the ropes, but they were just too thick, the rope was hurting her wrists. She decided to try to call for help.
“Hello! Help! Help!” She yelled. No answer.
She looked up at the sky, the moon was almost up.
She tired one more time to call for help, this time, someone answered.
Why do you call for help? A voice said.
“W-who are you?” Madison looked around her cell, no one was there.
I am an Electric.
“A what?! How dare you give King Luther your power!”
Now, now young one, King Luther needs the power so he can rule the world better.
“You could at least give him your power without me involved.”
I didn’t know who the king was going to get, but I like who he chose.
Madison was feeling uncomfortable.
Now, now, no need to feel uneasy, it’s nice up here in our world, and we’ve been needing more servants around here.
“Wait a minute; no one said anything about, a servant.” Madison said.
When our tiger bites you, your spirit will come up to my world, where you will live, forever.
The Electric’s words didn’t have any emotion in them, but Madison could tell he was very, very happy.
See you soon, young one.
And he didn’t speak again.
Chapter 39
“We have to hurry!” Leon called to Mark.
Up ahead, Mark was going as fast as he could, he was trying not to get mad at Leon. The two still didn’t get along very well.
When they got to the cave, the moon was almost up.
They rushed inside.
“Madison!” the both called.
“Leon? Mark?” Madison’s voice shook.
“It’s alright, we’re to rescue you.” Leon said.
No you won’t.
The Electric whacked Leon out of the way with his power.
Mark rolled out of the way, as lightning flashed where he was standing.
“Madison! How did they lock you in there?” Mark called.
“There was a lever I think.”
The Electric laughed. The moon is full.
Mark looked around franticly for a lever. He tried to remember what the king had said about the plan.
“Leon, can you keep him occupied while I get to the lever?”
Leon groaned. “Sure, no problem.” Leon tried aiming at where the lightning was coming from, he threw lightning bolts.
Madison screamed as the cage started to open.
“HELP!” She screamed.
“Hang on, Madison!” Mark climbed up to where he knew there was a lever. There were at least four of them in the whole cave.
He pulled it.
Madison saw the tiger come out, it growled at her.
“N-nice k-kitty.” She backed away, but something pushed her towards it.
“MARK!” She screamed.
The tiger lunged, and bit Madison’s leg.
“MADISON!” Leon and Mark screamed.
The Electric laughed an evil laugh. She’ll be mine a couple of minutes.
If tigers could smile, the Electric Tiger would did. He backed up back to his cage, and bars came down.
Mark and Leon ran to Madison.
It’s too late, you cannot help her.
Madison was lying on the floor, she was breathing hard.
Mark examined her bite. “It’s no use.” He lowered his head.
“Madison! Don’t go!” Leon said.
“I know, you guys will…find a way to save me.” Madison smiled. “I’ll wait.” And her eyes closed. And she shirmered and she dispipeared.
Chapter 40
.A tear slid down Leon’s face. Mark’s face was covered by his black hat, Leon couldn’t tell if he was crying or not.
“How do we save her?” Leon asked quietly.
“We have to fly through thousands of worlds to get to her. Madison took the easy way.” Mark answered.
Just then, King Luther and two royal Blacks came into the cave.
“I see the plan worked, I’ll soon have all the power—“ then we yelled and threw his head back and fell to the ground.
Leon and Mark started at the king’s body on the ground.
The two royal Blacks turned and ran out of the cave.
“What happened?” Leon asked after a moment of silence.
“They Electric killed him.” Mark reiplied, looking over the king.
“The Electrics tricked him. All they wanted was Madison.” Leon clutched his fists.
“So it seems.” Mark was walking around the cave. “We have to prepare for our long journey.”
“What do we do when we get there?” Leon asked.
Mark turned to Leon and looked him in the eye. “Stop asking questions. We have to go.”
And they walked outside.
Chapter 41
Madison floated up to the land of the Electrics. It was something like from the movie Enchanted when all those blue things appeared on them. So when Madison landed, it was blue dots and then it turned into body.
Madison looked around, she wasn’t wearing her battle armor anymore, she was wearing a blue toga and gold bracelets on hr arms. In her hair was a gold reef around her head. And she was wearing gold colored sandals on her feet.
She rubbed her head. “W-where am I?”
“I can answer that.” Madison turned around and saw boy about 13 or 14, he had blonde hair and blue eyes and he was wearing a white toga.
He held out his hand and helped her up. “You’re in the land of the Electrics’.”
“Oh, that isn’t good.” Madison said.
“Got sacrificed too huh?” the boy asked.
“Um…yeah…How do I get out of here?”
“You can’t get out of here.”
“Well, that’s not good news. You could of said: ‘Hi!’ or ‘Welcome!’”
“Sorry, but like, no one has ever escaped.” The boy started walking. Madison followed.
“That’s horrible. So, who are you?” Madison asked.
“Matthew. You?”
“Madison.”
“Oh! You’re the one they’ve been expecting.”
“Who’s expecting me?” Madison was feeling uneasy.
They had entered a huge city, it looked just like Greece in it’s golden age.
“Woah.” Madison said.
“The king is. Of this land anyway, there is one more, who are dying to meet you.”
Madison finalley understood where she was now; she was in the land of the Electrics. She was thinking about running from Matthew right then, but then, she underestimated Mark. And Matthew couldn’t’ be any different. She kept walking with him. They entered the city, and a bunch of a people starting staring at her.
“W-why are they staring?” she asked Matthew.
“They know you’re the one.”
“The one…?”
“I’ll let the king explain.” He led her to the end of the city to wear the castle was. He led her inside.
The guards apparently knew Matthew because they just let me come in.
They entered a huge hall. Madison suddenly had flashbacks of the first time she was in King Luther’s castle. She really wanted to run now. They entered a huge throne room. There was a man, with a white beard was sitting on a throne, his eyes had actual electricity in them.
“King Lightning, this is Madison, the one you’ve been excepting.” Matthew announced.
The king stood up, he was wearing a golden toga. “My, so it is. I’ve been expecting you.” King Lightning said. He waved his hand, and Matthew bowed and left.
Madison was really scared now, last time she got left in a room with a king, things didn’t go well.
“My dear, how was your trip here?”
“It was…um…”
“Oh forgive me, but I have not told you my name. I am King Lightning of the first kingdom of the land of the Electrics.
“So you’re a…Electric?” Madison’s voice shook.
“Why yes, now, let me show you to your room.” He offered his arm and Madison reluctantly took it. He led her to another hall with rooms by the dozen. They made it to the end of the hall and there were two double doors, the king opened them and led Madison inside.
“This will be your room.”
Madison didn’t understand, the voice had told her that she would be a servant, not treated like royalty.
“I sense you’re confused.” The king said
“Y-yes, I am. One of the Electrics told me I was going to be.—“
The king raised his hand. Madison stopped talking. “That would be my brother Electricity. He’s mean my dear, he was mad when he learned that you would be living here, with me. You’re the next princess of the First Kingdom.” The king waved his arm as if he were showing the whole world to her.
“But, I’m not that special.—“ Madison started.
“Yes you are, you are an Absorber. You can absorb our powers, that is special.”
“But.—“
“But what?”
“But, I want to go home.”
The words hung in the air like a bad odor.
The king rubbed his beard “Well, um…I’m sorry, Madison but your new home is here, you’re going to like it. Now, I must be going, I have to address the populace.” And with that, he left Madison to her self.
Chapter 42
Madison lay on the bed in her new room. She had been crying for sometime. Then she felt a rush of wind and a little shock went through her, she sat up and leaning against the post of her bed was a man about 18 or 19. He looked a lot like Matthew to Madison, but she told herself that she’d been crying and she was seeing things. The boy had a black leather jacket on with a red and black striped shirt, and black jeans. His blonde hair seemed to spark, red.
“W-who are you?” Madison asked.
“Name’s Electricity.” The boy answered. “And you must be Madison. I’ve been dying to meet you.”
“Your that-that…” Madison stammered. She got out of the bed.
“Yes, I’m that mean Electric.”
“Yes, you are.” Madison glared at him. “you said.—“
“Yes, that servant thing, but now that I can see you better; I think another thing would be better.”
“Like what?—“
“Well, queen or something.”
“You know what, I hate being interrupted, and it’s happened a lot today!” Madison snapped.
Electricity never had anyone talk to him like that, he didn’t like it. “Excuse me? No one is allowed to talk to me in my kingdom!” He yelled.
“Well, we aren’t in your kingdom, now are we?” Madison yelled back.
“Well, maybe if I could take you to my kingdom then you couldn’t take to me like that.”
“If you think your just going to take me off to your kingdom, you have a huge problem.”
“Oh really?” He grabbed Madison by her arm.
“No you don’t!” Madison threw him on the ground. “Wow, I didn’t know I could do that.”
Electricity, rubbed his head. “I guess my brother was right.”
“Right about what?”
“That the more you absorb the stronger you get.”
Madison looked at her hands. “Wow, that is kind of cool.”
“Tell me about it.” Electricity got up. “Now, I would like you to come with me.”
“No thank you. I’ve had enough of boys dragging me off somewhere.” Madison said. She ran out the doors. Electricity ran after her.
Just as she was going to turn the corner, he popped up in front of her.
“How did you do that?” Madison asked, backing up.
“I’m made of electricity, sweetie.” He winked.
“Ew! Don’t do that.” Madison said. She ran back the other way. He popped up again. “Stop that! I am not coming with you!”
Electrcicty grabbed Madison by her waist before she could do anything to stop him, and he snapped his fingers. Then the next thing Madison knew, she was in a red tunnel of light she felt shocks going up her body. Even though she highly disliked Electriciy, she hung on to him, so that she wouldn’t fall.
When they got out of the tunnel they were in a stone castle, and two thrones with red materiel on them, everything was either, stone, black or red.
“Where did you take me?” Demanded Madison. She tried to pry his grip he had on her arm now.
“To my castle.” Electricity dragged her across to floor to the thrones. “Now, I want you to by my queen.”
“No! I won’t go around marrying, when I’m only 13!” Madison yelled.
“No marriage required. Immortals don’t marry, it’s too mortal.” He said. “Now, yes or no?”
“Never!”
Electriciy’s eyes narrowed. “I didn’t want to do this…” He snapped his fingers a collar appeared on Madison’s throat.
“This is a punish.—“ she couldn’t finish because the black collar prevented her to do so.
“You can only talk when I want you to. Now come with me.” He pushed Madison through a door and into a hall, he led her to a room. He pushed her inside.
“Now what do you say?” he snapped his fingers.
Madison replied: “I’m not saying thank y.—“ He cut her off again. He closed the door and with an evil laugh, locked it. Leaving Madison alone.
Chapter 43
Madison didn’t know how she got into this mess, she didn’t know how she was going to get out of it. Every boy she’d met had done something mean to her. Why was she so easy to pick on? Madison didn’t know. She tugged at the collar around her neck, it wasn’t any fun not being able to talk. She hoped that Electricity wouldn’t do anything even more horrible to her to get her to be his queen. While she was alone, she tried using the power she had absorbed to do things.
After about two hours, someone came and unlocked the door and came in.
“His royal highness, wishes you to come.” The guard said.
Madison wanted to protest, but she couldn’t talk, so she went with the thing, the shocks she took she absorbed so the thing didn’t hurt her when she touched it.
The thing took her into the throne room, where Electriciy was sitting on his throne, his head in his palm.
He must be bored. Thought Madison.
“Aw, Madison! How have you been taking the silent treatment?” he asked, once he noticed she had entered. He snapped his fingers.
“Well, it sure is quiet.” Madison said, rolling her eyes. “What do you want?”
“I thought you might want to take up my offer again.”
“N.—“ she got cut off.
“That’s what I thought you’d say, but look here,” he waved his hand and a screen popped up and the picture was of two people talking by some tents. Leon and Mark.
Madison wanted to yell out to them so bad, but she couldn’t.
“Now, I could zap them and they would die or you could accept my offer and they live.” He snapped his fingers.
“I don’t know the.—“
“Sure you do, that’s Mark and Leon isn’t it? Now what do you say?”
Madison didn’t know what to do, she couldn’t’ let her friends die just because she didn’t want to do something. “Yes.” She said, she lowered her head.
“Lovely! Now…” He snapped his fingers and Madison’s outfit changed: She was now wearing a black leather jacket with a red and black striped shirt; she had on a black skirt and black leggings with black boots. Also, on her finger was a black ring.
He snapped again and the collar disappeared. Madison also felt stronger somehow.
“Now, you can go around freely, but I’ll be watching you. Oh and also, becoming my queen that gives you some of my power. Now have fun!” and he disappeared.
“This is horrible! Just horrible! I look, horrible!” she sobbed and ran down the hall and into the room she was in, and cried.
“Oh, Leon, hurry, please.” She stayed in the room for two hours, and decided that she could go look around.
She walked down the halls playing with her new power as she did. She found she could snap her fingers and do stuff like Electricity could, she just couldn’t change her outfit, which she found annoying.
She entered a room full of pictures. One picture had a boy that looked so much like Matthew on it.
“I wonder why Matthew’s picture is in here.” Madison mused. She leaned forward to read who was in the picture, when someone pulled her back.
“What are you doing?” A maid was standing there.
“Looking.” Madison said. The maid was a little shorter than Madison.
“The king doesn’t like anyone in here.” The maid looked around the room, like Electricity was expecting him to pop up anywhere.
“I’m sure he doesn’t mind me in here.” Madison said.
“He minds anyone bein in here.” The maid said. “And if I were you miss, I’d get out before.—“
The doors swung open.
“What are you doing?” Electricity’s lightning for eyes flashed in anger.
“Sorry, your highness.” The maid bowed as she walked out the door. “Sorry, sir.”
Madison didn’t know why he was so angry, It’s just a room!
“I-I was just looking.—“
“Well no ‘looking’ in this room.” He pushed Madison out the door.
“It’s just a room!” Madison snapped.
“It’s a ‘room’ that I don’t like anyone going into.” Electricity said. “Now come, the royal speaker will tell about the kingdom and its people.” Madison followed him to the throne room.
She sat down in her throne. And sighed.
“Why do sad, sweetie?”
“Don’t call me that.” Madison snapped.
Electricity started to say something, but the royal speaker came in.
“Your highnesses.” The speaker began. “The Second Kingdom’s reports are good. 20 people have been reported dead.”
Electricity smiled at this. Madison was really freaking out. “Dead? That’s terrible! What caused it?”
“My lady, we have plenty of torture houses. That is why people have died.” And the speaker continued talking about the horrible things.
“I-I need some air.” She told Electricity and she left the room. She snuck out the back door, and she had her first look at the Second Kingdom: There was no sun, but lava everywhere, and the trees didn’t have any leaves, they were burnt black and the ground was too. There were screams coming from everywhere, it seemed.
“Oh my gosh.” Madison breathed. She walked into the town. People were cowering by their houses. And in the middle was a guard shoving people into a wagon.
They were just kids, younger than Madison. The parents were trying to get there kids back, but the guards pushed them back.
“You know the drill people! New people every week for the torture houses.” One of the guards said.
“No! Take me instead! Not my baby girl!” one women cried.
“Today is children, women.” The women got pushed back by one of the guards.
“Hey! Don’t do that!” Madison walked up to the guard shoving people in the wagon. The guard went to slap Madison, but she grabbed the man’s arm, electricity went through her arm into the guard’s.
The guard screamed in pain. And he fell to the ground. Madison turned to the other guards. They ran.
Madison helped the kids out of the wagon. They ran to their mothers when they got out, saying quick ‘thank you’ are they went. After all the kids were out Madison tried to talk to the parents and ask them about what this kingdom was like, but everyone looked frightened. Madison didn’t understand why, then she looked behind her and there were four guards coming and Electricity was right behind them, and he didn’t look happy.
Madison turned to run, she almost ran into a women.
“Come with me, he is angry because you have helped us. Come, I will hide you.”
Madison tried to tell the women that it was too dangourus for her, if Electricity found Madison hiding in the women’s house, the women would be in so much trouble.
But the women was firm, she would help Madison. They entered the women’s house and the women opened a closet and told Madison to go inside, and she told her that the stairs to the roof were just outside the closet, just incase Madison had to run. Madison nodded and thanked the women. She did her best to hide in with the coats.
There was silentness for the longest time, and then Madison heard Electricity’s voice shouting out orders.
“I want her found! Look in every house! NOW!”
Madison prayed very hard that the guards wouldn’t come inside the nice lady’s house. Then she heard the door being knocked down. The women tried to tell the guards that Madison wasn’t in the house, but the guards ignored her. They walked up to the closet and flew open the door.
Madison screamed and let out red electricity out on the guards. She ran to the steps and up to the roof. When she got up there she didn’t think about how high the roof was, she felt sick, so was deathly afraid of heights, ever since falling into the portal so long ago.
She tried not to look down and so tried to think straight, then she felt something pulling on her skirt. She looked down, it was a little girl, in a once white dress and dirty brown hair.
“Who are you?” the little girl asked.
Madison breathed deep and said: “My name is Madison. Who are you?” She remembered how she had talked to little girls when she helped at her church in the nursery.
“Morgon.” The little girl said. She looked about 4 or 5, but she was so thin, Madison wasn’t sure.
“What are you doing up here, Morgon?” Madison asked.
“I was hiding from the bad men that were taking my friends away.” Morgon replied.
Then the building began to shake, Madison scooped up Morgon and tried to protect her from the rocks that were falling everywhere. Madison didn’t want to think about who had done that.
“Ah, there you are Madison.” Electricity said. He was floating on a hover board made of red electricity.
Madison didn’t say anything, she put Morgon down, and held her hand, she was deitermined to take the little girl with her.
“Why did you run away?” Electricity asked.
“I didn’t run away, I told you I was going out for some air.” Madison answered.
“Well, I didn’t hear you, so it still counts as running away. Also, you don’t go running out, without me or my guards. Understood?”
Madison didn’t like being treated like a child, she looked down at the ground, she felt Morgon shaking. “Yes.”
“Good, now let go of the girl and we’re going back to the castle.”
“No, I am taking Morgon with me.” Madison said.
Electricity sighed, everyone else listened to him, just not Madison “Fine. Let’s go.” He floated down onto the building so Madison and Morgon could get on. The little girl stood behind Madison the whole way, trying to get as far away from Electricity as she could. He scared her. She had heard so many scary stories from the older kids about the king, how he had taken her parents away to the torture houses. But she had always heard that someday a queen would come and save the kingdom and its people. She hoped Madison was that queen.
When they got to the castle gate, Electricity landed and snapped his fingers, the hover board disappeared and the gates opened, he pushed Madison and Morgon in. When they got inside the castle, Madison took Morgon to her room. She snapped her fingers and created a bed beside hers.
“Here you go, sweetie. Now get some sleep, I’ll see you in morning.” Madison smiled at Morgon.
Morgon smiled back, and she closed her eyes. And went to sleep.
Chapter 44
Meanwhile, Madison was trying to avoid Electricity best she could. She tried pulling that ring off her finger, she knew it had to do with something about her being queen, and she didn’t like it. She wanted to figure out that room she had seen. She wanted to know why Matthew’s picture was in there. She didn’t dare ask Electricity.
While she was walking, she practiced snapping her fingers a disappearing and appearing a few feet ahead of where she was.
She snapped her fingers and disappeared, when she came back Electricity was right in front of her. She turned her back and starting walking back the other way.
“Come back here.” Electricity commanded.
She turned around. “What?”
“We have to talk about the girl.” He said.
“She’s staying with us, if you like it or not.” Madison said. Oops, I said us. Not a good sign.
“It’s not good for her to live with us, this castle is for us. Not for mortals.”
“For your information, I am still mortal, just a mortal with power.” Madison snapped.
“I just.—“
“You just what? You just want me all to yourself? Or are to too selfish to care about anyone else, but yourself?” Madison looked him in the eye.
Electricity’s eyes glowed. He was fighting the fact that he did care about the little girl and Madison. And the fact, he still had to keep his reputation as a mean king. It makes for good news.
“I’ll think about it. Meanwhile, go to bed. We’ll take about it in the morning.” And Electricity snapped his fingers and vanished.
Madison wanted to zap something with her powers. But she controlled herself and went to her room.
He acts like I’m his wife or something! ‘We’ll take about it in the morning’ that’s what Mom and Dad used to say to each other.
Madison choked back a sob at that last thought. And curled up in bed, and went to sleep.
Chapter 44
Madison woke up the next morning and didn’t know where she was. Then all the terrible thoughts came back to her. She tried not to cry, for the sake of Morgon, who was already up, exploring the room.
Madison sat up and yawned. “Did you sleep well, Morgon?” she asked.
“Ok I guess.” Morgon answered.
Madison didn’t know how she was going to convince Electricity of letting Morgon stay here. She couldn’t say she was cute, like that was going to convince an Electric. And he didn’t care about anyone but himself, so she couldn’t say that it wouldn’t be nice to throw out a little girl who was all alone in the world.
Madison sighed and got up, she tried changing her clothes, she manged to get rid of the skirt and leggings and just had on black jeans instead.
Morgon had been watching Madison do this and asked: “Could you change my outfit? Please?”
“I can try.” Madison said, she snapped her fingers and Morgon’s dirty white dress changed into a black dress with black tights and a black shoes and hairban in her hair. Morgon’s dirty brown was cleaned and shone in the morning light.
“Wow.” Morgon said.
“It’s the best I can do for now.” Madison addmited.
“No, it’s great! Thank you.” Morgon said, twirling around. “Only the rich girls in town wear this.”
“Morgon, how old are you?” Madison asked.
Morgon stopped twirling “Five I think. Or is it six. I can’t remember.”
“Six is a good age.” Madison smiled. Morgon and Madison smiled at each other until someone started to call Madison’s name.
Madison groaned. “What does he want now? I wish he’d go away.” Madison opened the door of the room and looked down the hall and saw Electricity walking towards her room.
“There you are, what’s taking you so long?” he asked.
“Well, mortals sleep. Unlike you.” Madison said. “Are we going to eat something? I’m starving.”
“Me too!” Morgon skipped to the door, to see who Madison was talking to. Then she backed up in fear and went back to her bed.
“I’ll be right back, Morgon, I’ll bring you some food, ok?”
“Ok.” Morgon nodded.
Madison closed the door behind her and said a silent prayer. “She’s scared of you.” Madison said to Electririty as they walked back down the hall.
“She should be.”
“Well, she’s only five or six. They usually don’t have to deal with people like you. No offence.”
“She’s probably heard all about me. That’s why she’s scared. That’s not my fault.”
“It is, because if you were nicer, people won’t tell little girls about how scary you are.”
Electririty didn’t say anything.
“Anyway, are you always in that form?” Madison asked.
“Yes. I like looking younger, it suits me.” He smiled a sly smile.
Madison rolled her eyes. “So are we having breakfast? Because I’m really hungry.”
“Yes. Just down here.” He led her to a long table; it looked like a table from a Star Wars movie to Madison.
Madison sat down at her end of the table and Electricity sat down at hers.
“Now, about the little girl.” Electricity said.
“I can’t let you take her away. It’s not fair.” Madison blurted out.
“But I’m a bad guy. And I can’t let her live in my house, under my care…”
“I’ll take care of her! I can teach her school.”
“No.”
Madison was angry. She didn’t care if he was a king she wasn’t going to be queen of a town that people are tortured and kids are left orphaned because of it. “I don’t have anyone either, in the world.”
Electririty’s face softened. He thought had been thinking about something he hadn’t thought about it years. Then he snapped out of it. “What do you mean? ‘you don’t have anyone either?’”
“Just what I said. I have no one. My parents died in a car crash.” She hadn’t told Leon the truth about her parents because she thought it was too embarrassing to talk about. “I just have my grandpa. But he doesn’t care about me. He just cares about golf.”
“Golf?” Electricity asked.
“Your not getting the concept of what I’m talking about.” Madison snapped. On the verge of tears.
“Oh sorry.” He thought about the thing he hadn’t thought about in years. Then he said: “Alright, you can keep her. Just keep her in line.”
Madison wanted to jump up and hug him. But then she thought better of it. “Thank you, thank you!”
“Your welcome, Madison.” He smiled. Not an evil smile or a sly one, but a kind one.
Madison grabbed some bread and jams off the table and ran back to her room to tell Morgon.
Chapter 45
Mark and Leon were arguing as usual. They had just made it to the mountains in Ilone.
“I thought you said we were going to use the hover boards!” Mark yelled.
“We were. But we can’t because hover boards can’t ‘hover’ in the mountains.” Mark said. “Duh.”
“UGH!” Leon and Mark kept arguing. They ran into an old man.
“Hey sonnies, don’t go getting wilded up now. Wait until you get to the Second Kingdom.” The old man said.
“Who are you?” Leon asked.
“I am a villager in the First Kingdom.” The old man said.
“Which is?”
“That’s where king Lightning lives.” The old man answered. “Everyone knows that.”
Leon ignored the old man’s last words. “He wouldn’t be an Electric would he?”
“Why yes.”
“Have there been any visitors, lately?” Mark asked.
“Why yes, but then king Electricity came and took her away.”
Mark and Leon looked at each other. “Madison!”
“Wait there’s another Electric?” Leon asked.
“Yes. Lightning is good and Electricity is bad.”
“Figures.” Mark said. “Well, thank you for your help, sir!”
“Your welcome, sonnies! Be careful! Jesus is with you.” And the old man disappeared.
Chapter 46
Madison told Morgon about what Electricity had said. Morgon was happy about staying with Madison, but she was also scared of Electricity.
“Now just don’t go into the room down the hall on the right. He doesn’t like anyone going in there.” Madison continued.
“Why?” Morgon asked.
“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out. Some how.” She told Morgon to avoid going into the throne room because that’s where Electricity spent most of his time.
Morgon nodded and was left alone in her room. She decided to go exploring her new home, she went down the hall and looked around. She came to the room that Madison told her not to go into, but curiosity got the better of her. She entered the room and looked at all the pictures on the walls. She looked at the one that Madison had looked at the last time she was in here. She couldn’t read very well, so she couldn’t see who was in the picture.
Then she saw a door in the room, she opened it and walked inside, the door closed behind her. Morgon tried to stay calm. But there wasn’t much air in the room. She screamed for help.
Madison was walking to the throne room, when she heard the cry.
“Morgon!” she yelled and ran to her room. Morgon wasn’t there, she ran down the halls calling: “Morgon! Keep yelling so I can find you!”
All the noise got to Electricity who was in the throne room being bored by his advisors. He got up in the middle of one of his advisors speeches and walked down the halls.
“Madison?” he called.
Madison ran down the hall and stopped when she saw him.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
Madison didn’t know what to say, if she told him that she had lost Morgon, he would defiantly throw Morgon out. But if she didn’t, she would probably never see Morgon again.
“It’s Morgon! She’s trapped somewhere, and I can’t find her!” Madison started to cry.
Electirirty put an arm around Madison’s shoulders and tried to calm her. He could hear the cries for help.
“We have to find her!” Madison sobbed.
“Come. I think I know where she is.” Electricity still trying to calm Madison, he led her to the room that he had told no one was allowed into.
Madison had calmed down enough to get out of Electricity arm and walked in. “Morgon?” she called. “Are you in here?”
“Madison!...I’m…in…here!” Morgon could barely get the words out. There was barely any air left in the hole.
Electricity tried not to let his temper get the better of him. “She’s in the room, where I…keep special things, but only I can get into once locked.”
“Why wasn’t it locked in the first place?” Madison asked, trying to pry open the door.
“I don’t’ know. Now move.”
Madison moved away from the door and Electricity snapped his fingers and the door threw open, and a gasping Morgon came out.
Madison caught Morgon in her arms, as she began to fall. “I told you not to come in here.” Madison picked up Morgon and carried her out the door.
Electricity stood in there a moment thinking, then a laugh came.
“Hey master! Did you see that! Hahahahahaha!” an imp came jumping out of nowhere.
“I did.” Electricity said.
“Aren’t you happy master?” the imp said. He jumped up and sparks flew everywhere.
“No, I am not! Why didn’t you scare her away? That’s your job!”
“Sorry, master. I just couldn’t scare away those pretty girls.” He let out a sigh.
Electricity grabbed the imp. “Why are you Shocks so annoying?!” The electirty in his eyes was deathly red.
“Sorry, sorry. I’ll do better.” The Shock said.
“You’d better. I don’t want them to find out.” Electricity put the Shock down. He went to leave.
“Have you ever thought that your new queen could be the one?” the Shock said.
“The one?”
“Yes, the town’s people are always talking about a queen will restore peace to the Second Kingdom. And how else will the queen do it, without over throwing you off the throne?”
Electricity’s eyes flashed.
“Just saying, master.” And he disappeared.
Electricity had thought about it, but he didn’t want to believe it. He liked Madison, she kept him busy. Unlike the other queens, who would just sit around (he had blasted those to bits). He had always been trying to fill the hole in his heart, since his wife had died twenty years ago. He hoped that Madison would be able to fill that hole.
He walked out of the room.
Chapter 47
Madison and Morgon where in their room, Madison was talking soothingly to Morgon trying to calm her down. Morgon was still gasping.
“Why did you go in there? Electrisity is going to be mad with me.” Madison said. She gave Morgon some water.
“I-I’m sorry. I just had to find out. I wanted to help you.” Morgon said.
“I appreciate you wanting to help, but it’s too dangerous.” Madison laid Morgon down in her bed and put a wet wash cloth on her forehead. “Now, go to sleep.”
Morgon nodded and closed her eyes.
Madison walked out of the room, and closed the door silently behind her. She turned around and jumped. Electricity was right there. “Don’t do that! You scared me!” Madison said, trying to get her heart to stop beating hundred miles an hour.
“Sorry, but we have to talk about what just happened.”
Madison almost fainted on the spot, she couldn’t think anymore things to say that would convince him to letting her keep Morgon.
They started walking down the hall. “As queen I think I-I should tell you why.—“ Electrirty had finalley built up enough courage to tell Madison why he didn’t want anyone in that room. When a guard came running.
“Your highnesses! The town’s people are starting to protest outside! What will we do?!” the guard yelled, he was jumping from one foot to the other, as if he had to go to the bathroom.
“Sound the alarm! What else? Get to it!” Electricicty yelled.
“What’s happening?” Madison asked.
“They’ve never done anything like this before…” Electricity said, he quickened his pace and went to the stairs to the tower.
“Done what?” Madison demanded.
“Protest. I never thought they’d try.” They had made it to the top of the tower and all the town was yelling and trying to break or climb over the gate.
Madison’s hand covered her mouth. “Oh my.” She breathed.
“I have to kill them off.” Electririty said.
Madison grabbed his arm. “No! Don’t! They won’t trust you at all if you kill them!”
Electririty considered this. “Alright, but we have to fight or something. They’re going to try to get to me, through you. Now get the girl, we have to get out.”
Chapter 48
Madison had read about the Grand Duchess Anastasia and how her family was assinanted. She had always thought that that would be scary to happen to her. And now it was.
She ran down the steps and ran into her room, scaring Morgon.
“What’s wrong?” Morgon asked.
“We have to get out.” Madison grabbed Morgon’s hand and they ran out the door. They ran to the throne room.
“What do we do now?” Madison asked, Electricity.
“Come.” They followed him to the room they weren’t allowed into.
“Shock!” Electririty shouted.
The imp came bounding out of no where. He saw Madison and Morgon and shot sparks in there direction. Madison blocked them with her hand.
“Do you want me to scare them away, master?” the Shock asked.
“No.” the king sighed. Take them to the secret tunnel. We’re under attack.”
“Sure thing, master, follow me ladies.”
Madison and Morgon followed him, but Madison stopped and saw that Electricity wasn’t following. “You coming?” she asked.
“No, I have to defend our castle.”
He said ‘our’ he cares. Madison thought. “You can’t! Come with us!”
“I have to stay here, Madison. Take Morgon and go! Hurry!”
Madison started back to where Morgon and the Shock had disappeared to, when she turned back and gave Electricity a big hug. And a kiss on the cheek, and she ran to catch up Morgon and the Shock.
Electricity stood there for a moment. She kissed me. He thought. She cares.
He went back to the throne room. And prepared for the people to come crashing in.
…
Madison tried to find where Morgon and the Shock had gone, but she couldn’t. She was getting scared.
I should of stayed with him! Queens stick by there kings no matter what! How stupid am I?!
She ran through the tunnels calling Morgon’s name. No reply.
“MORGON!” She screamed. Finalley she sat down, and shivered. She heard the people storming the castle now. She thought about Electricity. He does care. He does.
Then she heard Mark’s voice in her head. I care about you Madison. I like like you.
Then Leon’s: You scared me Madison! It’s happened too many times!
She didn’t know if they were all telling the truth, or they were lying. She grabbed her head and screamed. Tears streamed down her face.
“NO ONE CARES! IF THEY HAD CARED! THEY WOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF ME!” She yelled so loud her voice become hoarse and she cried so hard, she could barely breathe. “OH JESUS! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! HELP ME!”
Then she felt like she was being shook. The whole ground shook. She covered her head, preparing for the worst. Then the shaking stopped. She opened her eyes. Sun light streamed in from the window, she was in her own bed, in her own house.
“Miss? Are you alright? I heard some yellin’ in here.” Sara the maid came into the room.
Madison just stared at Sara.
“Are you ok, miss? Should I call the doctor?”
Madison shook her head. “N-no, I’m ok. I just…”
“You just what, miss?”
Then Madison burst open, she told Sara all about what had happened. Leon, Mark, Electricity. Everything. When she had finished. Sara said:
“You must had some dream, miss. Are you sure your alright?”
“Yes I’m fine.” Madison smiled. She go up and started to get dressed.
“I’ll tell the cook to get breakfast ready for you.” And Sara left the room.
Madison started to get dressed. She knew what the dream had meant. All along, she had thought no one cared about her, but all along they did. And God was trying to tell her that. Madison smiled to herself and went downstairs. She went straight to her grandfather’s office. He was at his desk.
“Grandpa, I’m sorry.” She said.
“Sorry about what?” Her grandpa asked.
“About thinking you didn’t care about me, when you did.”
“Oh my good girl! I love you!” and they hugged eachother, Madison didn’t want to let go. It was the best moment of her entire life.
Chapter 49
At lunch at school, Madison passed two boys sitting at a table, she caught a whiff of what they were saying:
“Last night, I had a dream that I was trying to save a girl named Madison.”
Madison stopped. She looked back at the boys. And she could of sworn that they were Leon and Mark. She almost ran and gave them hugs. Then, another boy passed her. And she could of sworn it was Electricity. Madison almost fainted. She got to a table and sat down, trying to listen to the three boys conversation. When the boy that looked like Electririty came and sat down, next to the boys that looked like Leon and Mark.
“Hey guys. I had a crazy dream last night. I was like mean. It was totally spooky.”
“I know! I had a weird dream last night, it was about a girl named, Madison.” The boy that looked like Mark said.
“Yep! I reamember I was like mean to her or something, and then she turned me nice or something.”
“That is just weird, Alec.” The boy that looked like Leon said.
“Totally, Leon.”
So they all have the same names just not Electricity, which makes sense, because no one has a name like Electricity. Madison thought. She ate her food quietly.
Then she heard her name, she looked up and saw a girl with blonde hair. “I know this is going to sound weird, but I’m Claws!” the girl said.
Madison stared at her for a second and then jumped up and gave her a hug. The action got the boy’s attention too.
“So your Madison, and Claws? That is totally awesome!” Alec said.
“Yeah.” Madison was still very shy, she didn’t look him in the eye.
“You know, I’ve been a jerk to all the people in this school and I just want to say I’m sorry, to you.”
Madison looked him in the eye. “I forgive you.” She smiled.
After school, Leon, Mark, Alec, Claws (or Annabell) and Madison all walked home together. They laughed and talked about how crazy their dream was, when they saw a boy and a girl running towards them. Madison couldn’t believe her eyes. It was Eon and Morgon! (Morgan here).
“Hi! You guys were in our dreams last night! It was totally cool!” Eon said.
“Yep!” Morgan said.
Everyone gave everyone a hug and they continued to walk back to Madison’s house, where they would indeed, have hot coco.
THE END