The Sleepover

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"Rida you're digging that thing in my leg!" Rayyana grumbled as the carriage rumbled underneath her feet. After many protests Alejandro had sent Balisto and the guards to drag them into a carriage and sent out to the woods.

The girls tried causing noises and protesting in hopes the carriage driver would get tired and abandon them somewhere. Honestly, anywhere was better than the palace and the woods.

"Sorry, this thing is just so big and there's no room." Rida said adjusting herself again. "God I'm so sweaty." Rida mumbled pulling on her collar. The girls had been given a very basic outfit with a black full sleeve shirt and camouflaged cargo pants to "blend in" the outfit was comfortable though and very different from the maid outfit they've been wearing ever since they were appointed as maids. 

The carriage came to a stop making the girls lurch forward. Rayyana and rida who were across from each other bumped heads hard making them both yelp. "Ha!" Marium laughed at them.

The door opened and the very grumpy driver grumbled out a "get out." The girls one by one exited the carriage and gathered their surroundings. Unfortunately, while the woods was very beautiful they could see nothing but trees for miles.

The man pulled out a cigar and lit it eyeing the woods boredly "okay I'll be back later to get you." He turned around to climb back "wait! When is later?" Rayyana asked already scared.

The man shrugged "Before dinner time...or something." Without another word he snapped his whip on the horse and they rode off leaving 4 trembling girls alone with the crossbows.

"So what exactly are we hunting?" Fatima asked struggling to hold her crossbow. "Anything really, just some animal that will give us steak." Rayyana said panting. It was very hot out in the woods and not to mention damp.

"Honestly could they not have dropped us off at a farm or something? We could have gotten a cow!" Marium said waving her hand around herself. They're were a lot of mosquito's, in fact what season even was it?

"For real." Rida said sighing. The girls had been out for god knows how long travelling around the woods. They had lost the beginning of where they started a long time ago but they were too tired to go back and retrace their steps.

"Do any of us even know how to use a crossbow?" Fatima asked in the quietness. Rayyana had thought that but then Rumaisa had distracted her. "We did archery in gym class." Archery and crossbows weren't that different...were they?

"So you know how too!" Rida said perking up, hope in her eyes. "Well yes and no."

"What do you mean no?" Marium asked with an eyebrow raised. Rayyana also noticed how deflated she looked which was rare, she didn't remember the last time she saw Marium so deflated. "Well the difference is that archery was with a bow and arrow and this is with a crossbow. A crossbow is much heavier and requires a lot of strength. Other than that it should be the same."

Rayyana and the others didn't have strength. That was the huge problem besides the fact that it was getting dark and they had no idea where they were.

Before anyone could say anything a snap was heard. "What was that?" Fatima asked. Everyone shushed her and watched the bushes where the sound came, they all watched as the bushes moved again signalling that something was there. 

"Move!" Rayyana whispered pushing the girls towards a log. They ducked down and watched as a bison emerged from the woods. The bison didn't look like a normal bison though, its eyes were glowing yellow with his fur being purple. His hooves were a light pink and his tail was a stripe of blue and green.