Mossflower

Animal Adventures Chapter 4

Chapter 4: At the Park

Ivey couldn’t wait! The car seemed to creep along as she waited impatiently to get to the park. Finally she got out Salamandastron and found her place. Two pages and they were there! Ivey tucked her book under her arm, grabbed a Wal-Mart bag and ran to the pavilion where the church had gathered for a picnic lunch. Ivey set down her bag and peeked into her grandmother’s. It was chocolate chip cookies and chips, yum. After lunch, the playground saw a group headed for the castle. Claire, Ivey, Jessica, Allie, Aaron, Lauren and Adam (Ivey was babysitting the little mouse) had become, in the same order, Shieldmaiden, Eowyn, Princess Arwen, Queen Mariel, King John, Princess Belle and “Bonny Prince Charlie” (Adam’s name had come from Claire). “We need a bad guy,” said King John decidedly. Everyone agreed, but no one wanted to be the bad guy. “They can be invisible pretend bad guys. That’s how we do it when nobody wants to be the bad guy at our house,” said Princess Belle. Eowyn had gone to the top of the castle. “Bad guys approaching! Do we stay and fight or take the little princess and prince somewhere else, or both?”

“Both,” said Queen Mariel. “Princess Arwen, take Belle and Charlie to the rocket ship and wait for John and I. Eowyn and Shieldmaiden will fight them and catch up with us.” It must have looked funny – if any one had seen it. For the bad guys had conveniently chosen to try and ambush them on the swing side of the castle, where there was no one but a little five-year-old, who looked at them and walked off. Two knights fought thin air and went to the rocket ship, where the others had spent most of their time trying to make sure that the prince did not wander off. He had finally escaped them and was going down the steps as Eowyn and Shieldmaiden came up. “Prince Charlie,” said Eowyn, “you should be with everyone else – going back to the castle.” The prince knew how to win himself back into Eowyn’s favor. He gave her a hug and got her to pick him up. Inside everyone was debating what to do next. Princess Belle wanted to be captured, King John wanted to go to sea, Princess Arwen said she seconded that, Queen Mariel said she was bored and wanted to go to the pond, Shieldmaiden and Eowyn were both in favor of Belle being captured, and Charlie ran from one to the other looking puzzled. Finally Belle was to be captured (Belle, Shieldmaiden, Eowyn) by searats (John, Arwen) and Queen Mariel would have not gone on the voyage (so she could go to the pond). They went to the boat. A “pirate ship” came sailing by and the pirates boarded the ship. Eowyn, Shieldmaiden and John fought valiantly, and Prince Charlie ran around waving his arms and saying “arrrrrr!” but they carried off Princess Belle and added princess Arwen as a bonus. So the rest of the crew sailed after them and found a tall tower. Inside were the princesses. Eowyn and Shieldmaiden snuck up on the guards, tied them up and threw them over the playground fence (good thing there weren’t any real guards!) and went in. Princess Belle was very dramatic. “You saved us! If you were boy knights I would marry one of you!”

“Yuck,” said Eowyn. Princess Arwen made a face in agreement. They all went back to the castle, where Mariel had waited. Then Eowyn’s dad found them. “Ivey, Allie, Lauren, time to go.”

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8:15 PM, Sep. 9, 2005 .. Posted by The Shieldmaiden

Ahhh, yes. Good times we have had.
All that was left out was the part where the pirates come in and, on the request of "John" got blown up to the moon.

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9:50 AM, Sep. 10, 2005 .. Posted by Anonymous

Oh my! Such adventures. I agree with Princess Belle-- being captured and rescued is the best! Can you tell I like the dramatic parts? Princeses in disguise, captures, runaways, cruel stepmothers, hiding in the woods from bad guys....such fun!

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9:50 AM, Sep. 10, 2005 .. Posted by Anonymous

Sorry, that last post was from Caitlin the Hare. :-)

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9:32 AM, Sep. 17, 2005 .. Posted by Eowyn

Ha ha ha. I don't think we could have done that. Dynamite wasn't invented back in the Middle Ages, was it? ..... I think maybe "John" would have rather used a rifle that fighting at sea. He likes cowboys...

Edited by Eowyn on Sep. 17, 2005 at 9:35 AM