Lets see if we can write the longest story ever!!
The rules are quite simple, just write a small paragraph following on from the person before you...trying as hard as you can to follow and names/places that have already been used so that the flow of the story is continuous...but of course you can be as dramatic and imaginative as you like ;)
So I shall start and you carry on :D
"Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Daventry, in the small town of Muir there lived a young girl named Alarah. She was just your average, dreamy 17 year old farmer's daughter who longed to one day marry her Prince Charming and true love, therefore becoming a Princess.
One stormy night..."
"...she gazed at the majestic Lake Maylie and watched the raindrops bounce off of them. Suddenly, she saw the last thing she expected--King Graham and Queen Valanice swimming in the lake! She wondered why and decided to..."
"...call out to the King and Queen. But before she could ask what they were doing, a huge whirlpool formed in Lake Maylie, swallowing the royalty up. She hurried to the castle to..."
"...tell Princess Rosella what had happened, but she was stopped by..."
"...the worsening storm, which forced her to take shelter in a nearby cave. She decided to venture deeper into the cave, and soon she reached..."
...a mystical glowing orb sitting deep within the gloom! :o
As Alarah looked at the orb she felt a strong urge to touch this mysterious object (against her better judgement) as she did, it began to pulsate and all of her senses were overwhelmed; Sweet music to her ears, exotic smells and the cave took on a twinkling purple hue. It suddenly all became too much for Alarah and she collapsed...
"...The storm was bad when Alarah had entered the cave, but now it had worsened tenfold. Soon, water came rushing into the cavern, flooding it. The girl still lay unconscious on the floor when..."
...the orb formed a protective globe around Alarah! The water rushed around her, but she remained dry inside the orb, floating gently along the raging currents of the flood until...
"...the King and Queen rode in ona giant gushing wave. At the sight of the girl floating in her orb, Valanice gasped. "We must do something!" she exclaimed. Graham nodded, and opened his mouth to say..."
"...something to get the girl to wake up. 'Wake up!' he cried, but she could not hear him through the bubble. The current soon took the three back to the surface, where they were surprised to find..."
...Cedric the owl sunbathing on a piece of debris. With a casual glance at the sopping wet trio, Cedric gave a little hoot of a chuckle, ruffled his feathers and said...
"At last, I can reveal my evil masterplan! Fools! Did you really think I followed King Graham around all that time for *fun*? I was gaining his trust! Now, finally, I can release my true power." He raised one wing with comic direness and began to speak a devilish incantation when...
...a hideous (yet strangely attractive) harpie swooped down, crying, "I will get you this time, stupid owl!" But she did not do so, for Cedric finished his incantation and shot a beam of strange dark energy at the winged creature.
"Why didn't you just do that on Harpie's Island?" Graham asked, still trying to fully grasp the whole "evil Cedric" concept.
"Because," Cedric spat back, "I knew you would save me then. But no one will save you now..."
... At that moment, a serpent that had escaped from the moat of Castle Daventry lifted its head from the water. "A POOOOOISONOUS snake!" Cedric screeched in terror. That's when...
...Alarah woke from her enchanted slumber and realized what chaos was unfolding around her. Desperate to rescue her monarchs, she reached for said piece of debris that Cedric was using. Unfortunately, she realized she was still in her protective orb. Banging on the walls of the bubble thing, she yelled...
"Why must everyone think a beautiful damsel such as myself needs to be wrapped up in cotton wool...or a protective bubble to be saved?? I want to be a heroine!"
And with that, she sliced through the protective layer with her rather emmaculate yet razor sharp fingernails and set about trying to put things right. She started with....
...the serpent.
"You're not a real moat monster," she sneered. "You're just some freak from the remake!"
The serpent, saddened by the fact that he was just a product of a remake, skulked away to join the alligators in the moat. Next, Alarah...
...turned her attention to Cedric.
"How dare you!" she said, "Graham saved you so many times even though all you did was pester and annoy him! Haven't you been enough of a burden on this family?"
Cedric...
...gave several hooty profanities in response (which in turn made Valanice blush ;]) and then *POOF* cedric was gone in a puff of smoke and a few singed feathers.
"I wonder if he learnt that from Chrispinophur?" remarked Valanice.
"From Mananan more likely" growled Graham. "I think some of my old enemies have been siding with each other, seemingly with old friends too" he sighed.
Suddenly...
...Rosella came rushing in to the scene.
"What happened here?" she wondered.
As her parents explained to her what had just happened, Alarah noticed that Cedric had dropped something. She crawled over to the debris he had been sitting on and picked it up. It was...
...his monocle. Picking it up and placing it over her eye, Alarah laughed.
"Hey, look, I'm the Monopoly guy!" she yelled, flapping her arms around like a madwoman. "Go directly to jail!" Graham and Valanice exchanged looks. "Alarah," said Valanice....
..."You'd best put that thing down."
"Yes," Graham agreed. "If Cedric had it, it might very well be curs--"
Before he could finish his sentence...
...Alarah began to transform into an owl in a blue vest!
"Oh no!" Rosella exclaimed, "Not Cedric!"
Valanice moved to shield her child. "Yes, it seems so! He wants to create multiples of himself to annoy the entire world!"
"A nefarious scheme indeed!" Graham said, leaping into action...
Weird. Alarah went to pick the monocle up, Rosella picked it up and put it to her eye, and Alarah transformed into Cedric...
Eh heh. I'll fix that...
(lmao this is great ;) :suffer:)
...he leaped at the now fully tranformed Alarah, trying to knock the monocle off of her in hopes of reversing the process. But she flew just out of his grasp and deeper into the forest. Graham ran off after him, and Rosella and Valanice followed.
Soon, they reached a clearing by a log cabin. To their horror, hundreds of blue-vested owls had now surrounded them....
...so they sought shelter inside the cabin.
"HELPUSHELPUSHELPUS!" screamed Rosella, clawing her face in terror. "There are hundreds of blue-vested, monocle-wearing owls outside demanding that we look out for POIsonous snakes!" To their surprise, however, a sallow-faced young man looked up at them sadly from his seat on the bed.
"We have nothing to offer you, Sir Knight, for my wife is starving. I fear she may die soon," says the woodcutter mournfully. Graham scowled at him and said...
..."Another product of a remake!"
"And shouldn't you still have that magic bowl?" Valanice wondered.
The woodcutter, ignoring Graham, answered Valanice...
"An owl came in and stole it from my hands, now we've been forced to eat vegetables and my wife is wasting away!" weeped the Woodcutter
"Hardly!" Snorted Rosella looking at the rather obese lady lying on the bed
Suddenly a though occured to Graham "THE BOWL, OF COURSE!...Take the "B" away from Bowl and what do you get?"
"OWL! Oh my, Cedric has been cloning himself with the magic bowl" gasped Valanice!
Suddenly a noise caught their attention...
...and they were startled out of their conversation with the starving woodcutter and his wife. To their utter horror, the monocled faces of dozens of blue-vested owls appeared at the window, pecking at it madly. As everyone watched in terror, the woodcutter's wife (whose name was Maud) raised her head from her pillow and said...
"FOOOOOOD!"
Miraculously she heaved herself out of the bed and ran at the door, knocking many of the clone-cedrics flying into the air in a cloud of feathers. Like a demon she devoured several of the feathered critters before anyone could stop her and before long, there were only a handful left.
"Well that's cleared up that problem, looks like Cedrics army has been taken care of" chuckled Graham
Meanwhile, feeling somewhat ignored, Alarah...
...who had transformed back into herself when Maud knocked the monocle off her in her owl-feasting frenzy, walked back into the hut.
Trying to clear things up, Alarah asked the King and Queen, "Why were you swimming in the lake?"
"Well," Valanice answered...
..."Alexander's been getting on everyone's nerves now that he's a king. Letting it go to his head and all that. Last time we went swimming he got kidnapped, so we were hoping it would happen again and bring him down a notch."
"To be fair," Graham added, "It was Cassima's idea."
Alarah....
...looked at them in horror. "Who's this Cassima person?" she asked suspiciously, narrowing her eyes. Rosella stared at her in amusement.
"Seriously?" she asked. "She's Alexander's wife!" Alarah's mouth dropped open in astonishment. "WIFE?!" she screamed. "He's married?!" Valanice rolled her eyes. "Where have you been?" she asked. "It happened like three games ago!"
Rolling up her sleeve, Alarah showed them the tattoo emblazoned all down her arm, the word "ALEXANDER" prevalent in bright red ink.
"I WAS SUPPOSED TO MARRY HIM!" she screamed. Graham, who had been silent all this time...
...decided to make a mental note to help the woodcutter later and then bid them farewell. "I promise I will retrieve that bowl, if I can. If you are in need of food, and can make it, you are welcome to come to the castle for dinner."
The woodcutter thanked him for this. As they departed from the cabin, Valanice turned to Alarah. "We'll be heading to the castle. On the way, why don't you explain this whole ordeal with Alexander."
Alarah nodded, "Well," she began...
...when I first met him he went by the name of Alejandro and he was so completely out of it, he was talking Gaga-Giberish, he must have hit his head really hard during the shipwreck.
I was working on the Isle of the beast at the time and we got to know each other from his island-snooping habbits. He'd be gone for days at a time and I wouldn't hear from him, now I realise he must have been with this Cassima. He said he loved me, asked me to marry him...I can't believe he was two timing me all along! >:(
"Perhaps he has amnesia" suggested Valanice
Just then Alexander strolled around the corner...
...with Cassima on his arm. Alarah's face darkened and she took off running towards Alexander. Fortunately for him, Rosella grabbed the back of Alarah's dress before she could get farther than a couple feet.
"Hold your undead flying horses, you." she said calmly. "That's my little brother there." Alexander looked at her in surprise.
"I thought we were twins, Rosie!" he whined. Rosella answered...
"I was three minutes before you!"
Alexander sneered, "Yeah, well, mother always liked me best anyhow. And with good reason, I'm a king now and you're only dating a fairy!"
Rosella let go of Alarah. "You know what? Why don't you have a go after all."
"You're a two-timing trouble-monkey!" Alarah swore, "That's all you'll ever be!" With that...
...she ran back to her hometown of Muir, fighting the tears in her eyes. She cried herself to sleep that night, but was then awoken by a knock at her door. She got up, groggily walked over to her door, and opened it. Standing in the doorway, she found...
...a hideously ugly baby with a Pope-like hat sitting at the doormat, hugging an equally ugly puppy who had a distinct "save me" look in his eyes.
"Uhhhh....hi?" said Alarah, rubbing her eyes to be sure that she was actually seeing what she thought. The baby grinned toothlessly at her, a string of babble erupting from her mouth. "Ugh enth skcn siemnw m Malicia wo usnee ncnk."
Alarah blinked. "Malicia?" she asked suspiciously.
The baby took her hat off, and a book came sliding out of it. Alarah picked it up and started flipping through the pages.
"Let's see...Two dulcimas raised to the degree of forty halfdulcimas, divided into equal parts by the third of a cackle of grouse geese, put over the result of ten finemackels (albeit small finemackels), stretched over the total of fifty-three and an eighth bottles of wildebeast lard...."
..."indicate a fabrication or deprivation sufficiently broad enough to exacerbate..." Here, she yawned. "...the conclusions... uncovered, in due... course, with regards to the..."
With this, Alarah sulked to the ground and fell asleep. Baby Malicia then crawled into the girl's house, bumbling around with her hideous dog as though she was searching for something...