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My head is hurting like crazy! This bed is a hard as wood! Why don’t I hear my mom singing or my brothers, sisters and cousins fighting? Why is it so quiet? OH NO!!!
Copper quickly shock herself awake. The room she was in wasn’t her room and the world she was in wasn’t hers either.
Oh God! I’m still here! I thought it was a dream, no, a nightmare! But it isn’t.
“Are you O.K. now, Miss Copper?”
Amelia had walked into the room with a tray of food. It smelled like eggs and toast. Copper could see the honey dripping off the toast and realized how hungry she was.
“You really put out fight with Kalisbar. Not even Lina could have done that!” Copper didn’t even know what happened after the Twist-man grabbed hold of her neck.
“What happen? And who is Kalis...Kalas...er.. what ever his name is?!”
“Kalisbar” Amelia corrected her, “After you fainted Lina Dragon Slaved him. Sorry you got fried too.”
Dragon what?! I don’t even want to know!
But Copper hadn’t noticed the badges on her right arm. She quickly ripped them off only to find she didn’t have a scratch on her!
“I thought you said I got hurt?”
“I healed you with a little white magic; now eat your food before it gets cold,” she said it so casual, like it was the most normal thing in the world.
“MAGIC! You’re kidding right? There is no such thing as magic!”
Then again, what was that bright stuff coming out of their hands?!
Amelia looked at her like she just said the most stupid thing in the world; at least in this world.
I think I got a lot to learn.
Bubble?!
“What a minute! Zelgadiss is the one that was in the bubble! He was fighting with that “K” guy, then I touched the bubble and then...then...”
It finally dawned on her what happened. It was just like in one her books! She.....
“You went through a dimensional gate”
Copper and Amelia turned towards the door to find Lina watching them.
“Exactly,” Copper replied, “It seems way out there but that’s the only logical explanation. That or a magical being sent for me”
That last comment was made to be a joke, but they looked like they were taking it seriously. Suddenly Amelia asked a strange question, “Miss Copper, I thought you said your last name was Anderson.”
“It is,” Copper replied.
“Then why did Kalisbar call you Copper Feather?”
She had forgotten about that, but now it seemed as vivid as ever.
“What do you think, Miss Lina?”
“Well.. I’ve heard of it. And if I’m right, Copperfeather is a magical being that helps the goddess Rainbow Queen protect the four elements, earth, fire, wind, and water.”
“How do you know all this stuff?!” Copper asked.
Amelia answered for her.
“Miss Lina knows everything and anything that has to so with magic. Though she really should get a better hobby.”
Lina’s face turned as red as her hair in anger!
“Shut-up, Amelia!!!”
“But I can’t be a magically anything! I’ve never even seen magic before all this happened!”
Copper’s response was a shocking to Lina.
Never seen magic? How is that possible?!, Lina thought.
“Well, I do know a priest at the temple of the Rainbow Queen. He knows even more than me, we could ask him.”
“I guess that’s where I have to go” said Copper.
“You mean we,” corrected Lina, “You did good handling those trolls, so we sort of owe you.”
“Yeah, justice was really with you!” Amelia said happily, “So hurry up and get dressed, we’ll be waiting for you down stairs!”
After they left Copper had no trouble finding her clothes. And she was happy to get out of the weird nightgown she was wearing. She saw out of the window that it was really warm so she put her coat around her waist and her gloves in her pocket.
No point wearing them if I don’t need them.
She noticed for the first time that she was still holding on to her necklace. When she finally let go her hand was all red from holding it so hard. She decided to ignore it and just go down stairs. But just as she was going down the stairs a man mysteriously appeared in front of her. He had the same weird clothes as everyone else, but he had the same hair cut Copper had, bangs in the front and down in the back coming to his shoulders.
At least someone has some fashion sense around here, sort of.
Yet there was something wrong with his eyes, they were half open as if he was hiding something. Suddenly he laughed and said, “You must be the one they call Copper Anderson, or should I say Copperfeather. I am Xellos the Mysterious Priest.”
“How do you know my name?” Copper asked suspiciously.
For some strange reason she felt that she couldn’t trust him, not one bit!