Fantasia

Chapter 5

In sometime, they could see many caves in the horizon. They approached one cave and Ellie read the sign out.

'Welcome to the dwarf caves.' she said, and gulped. 'Looks like we travelled west and landed in the Dwarf caves.' Strokes said, 'Okay, now we need to figure out what Sir Grumpy likes the best.'

They walked in the cave and looked around. It was dark in the cave, but as soon as their eyes got adjusted to the dark, they could see beautiful gems sticking out of the walls. It was something straight out of a dream, and it certainly felt like that.

They travelled in deeper and deeper into the cave, and suddenly found themselves in a room with tons of chairs and tons of people. But no, they were not people. They were much more shorter than that. They were dwarfs.

The throne was placed on a high platform, with steps coming up to it. And on the throne, was a small dwarf (I mean small by dwarf standards too).

He was no taller than a typical 6 year old, and his face was shaped into a permanent frown. The throne was way too big for him, and his feet would barely even hung of the end, let alone reach the footstool kept on the base of the chair.

He frowned even more, and looked over the Dwarfs below him, who were slightly taller than him, and wore a funny kind of armor.

The Dwarf on the throne could not take it any longer, and he shouted in a really childish and high-pitched voice (which surprised Ellie, Vicky and Strokes), 'STOP IT! ALL OF YOU, FREEZE!'

The noise stopped and everybody froze in between of hitting another dwarf, pointing, in the middle of standing up, and so on. The room looked like a room of very funny and realistic statues, and the trio couldn't help but giggle. Their soft giggles echoed in the rooms, and the dwarfs who froze turned their heads towards them.

From the platform, the dwarf yelled, 'I DID NOT SAY THAT YOU COULD UNFREEZE! AND YOU TWO, TAKE ME DOWN!'

Two dwarfs next to him lifted him off the throne and carried him down the platform and under the tangle of dwarfs in the center. It was a really funny sight, and Strokes, Ellie and Vicky's eyes were watering from trying to hold in their laughter. They managed to put a straight face as the Dwarf approached him.

'BEND DOWN SO THAT I CAN TALK TO YOU!' he yelled. 'Yelling must have been his thing.' Vicky thought, and along with the other two, she knelt down so that their face was in level with the dwarf's face.

'WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT?' The dwarf yelled.

'Sir grumpy, we are honored to meet you.' Ellie said, and tried her best to bow (but how, may I ask you, would a person bow if they are kneeling down?) and ended up knocking Sir Grumpy on the head.

'OUCH!' he yelled, and he bonked her on the head with his fist. HOW DARE YOU! IT HURTS!' he was fuming and steam was coming out of his ears. The other two dwarfs sensed the tension and one immediately pulled out a teddy bear from nowhere.

Sir Grumpy snatched the teddy bear from him and cuddled it fiercely, and then after a minute of cuddling, he calmed down to his normal grumpy state.

Strokes, Ellie and Vicky glanced at each other out of their eyes, sending one message; they had found Sir Grumpy's most prized possession.

Vicky made a grab for the teddy bear, and snatched it out of Sir Grumpy's arms. They all ran out of the cave, with Sir Grumpy screaming, 'GIVE BACK MR. ANGRY! GIVE HIM BACK OR I WILL HANG YOU FROM YOUR NOSES!' thankfully, he was a dwarf, and so were the others. As a result, they were too slow to catch the girls.

'Let's fly!' Strokes yelled, and together, they soared above and as soon as they were out of reach of the dwarfs, Ellie stuffed the teddy bear into her bag.

'Where to next?' Vicky asked, and Ellie had a hard job taking out the map from her bag and making sure it didn't fly in the wind.

She unfolded it, and after a moment, she said, 'Let's go to the Elf Empire. From there, we can go to the Troll Territory, then the Lilliput kingdom, then the Goblin Garage, then the Mermaid Bay, then the Pixie kingdom and then we can go to the fairy kingdom.

Vicky sighed and said, 'we are going to be travelling for a lot of time, then. Thank goodness we have wings to transport us and we don't have to travel by foot.'

Ellie smiled at her reassuringly.

They landed in the nighttime, Strokes painted some logs and they made a fire. Ellie took out a notebook and pen. She wrote what they had got so far.

'Cackle - Bloodred ruby that gives her power, check. Sir grumpy, his calming down teddy bear Mr. Angry, check. Now, we have six more rulers' prized possessions to collect.' she said as she wrote.

She looked up and asked, 'Strokes, do you know what Empress Esmeralda's most prized possession is? How about king Greenface? Or Sir smallface? Or King crackhead? Or Queen Oceana? Or Queen pixella?'

Strokes scratched his chin, and said, 'well, empress Esmeralda loves her crown of roses. She's kindhearted, too. She'll let us borrow a flower from it. And about king Greenface, I don't really know. Neither do I know about sir smallface, or queen Oceana. Queen pixella loves her sacred flower that doesn't wilt. We could borrow it, and tell her that we would give it back as soon as we would go and meet lady Iris.'

Ellie nodded, and a loud snore told them that Vicky had fallen asleep. Ellie got up, and curled up next to Vicky, and they all slept peacefully.