The Never Ending Story

[Kimmie]

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


"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…"

[Haids1987]

"...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..."

[I_am_so_nifty]

"...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..."

[crayauchtin]

"...tell Princess Rosella what had happened, but she was stopped by..."

[I_am_so_nifty]

"...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..."

[Kimmie]

...a mystical glowing orb sitting deep within the gloom! 

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...

[I_am_so_nifty]

"...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..."

[crayauchtin]

...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...

[Haids1987]

"...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..."

[I_am_so_nifty]

"...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..."

[Kimmie]

...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...

[darthkiwi]

"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...

[I_am_so_nifty]

...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..."

[crayauchtin]

... 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...

[Haids1987]

...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...

[Kimmie]

"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....

[I_am_so_nifty]

...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...

[crayauchtin]

...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...

[Kimmie]

...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...

[I_am_so_nifty]

...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...