After dinner, Lisa went upstairs to her bedroom to go to sleep. While she was sleeping in her room, the tv in the living room turned on by itself and showing nothing but static. Her mother, on the other hand, saw this and thought there must be some logical explaination (like a faulty wiring or something). She tried to turn it off, but the remote wasn't responding. Then the static on the tv went off, showing the animated film that Lisa was watching. It shows a young girl falling from the sky and landed in the middle of the forest, then meets a woodcutter. At first the movie seems normal, until the girl in the film introduced herself to the characters as Lisa. It sent shivers down her spine, before brushing it off as a coincidence. The scene where Frederick saves Lisa from the clown like toy cuts off, then changes to another scene where it takes place at the castle.
"What is this? Is this the film that Hank got from a friend of his? If so, then why did Lisa find this?" Lisa's mother asked herself, before seeing the scene of the throne room.
It shows the king, appearing as a silhouette, and is furious. Then the clown like toy enters the throne room, looking already scared as the rest of the circle looked at him in contempt.
"Clown-a- round, I already seen that you have failed in capturing the girl. Not to mention that you lost the peridot key I entrusted you, no less!" Said the king.
"Forgive me, your majesty!" Said Clown-a- round.
"I would have had you melted down and make you into pot holders, but now's not the time" said the king.
"Hmph! Perhaps this is my time to shine, I will be the one capturing the girl!" Said Sherry Jubilee smugly.
"Since you were beaten by this boy who saved the girl, I will give you one more chance. I want you to partner up with Sherry Jubilee, who is the governess of the dessert region. However, there's a chance that the girl might go to the eastern region, home of the ninjas. If that is the case, I already sent Enju to that region" explained the king.
"Who? That witch who casts fire magic and revive the dead from ash and clay? I don't know about her, she creeps me out" said Walter (as in, the man with the features of a walrus).
"The very same. If the girl enters the eastern region with the boy, then they will have no chance against her nor her puppet soldiers" the king responded.
Lisa's mother walked towards the tv to turn it off manually, but when she put her hand on the screen, she was pulled into it. Next thing she knows, she is now in the film within the throne room.
"You're majesty! A woman has appeared from thin air!" Sherry jubilee pointed out.
"Judging by her appearance that is similar to the girl that was in the toy region, I assume this woman is her mother" said Walter.
"Perhaps she can be useful, as a hostage" the king said with glee.
The next morning
Lisa got up from bed and yawning, she changed from her bed clothes and into a different outfit. After that, she came down stairs to eat some breakfast. Unfortunately, her mother isn't in the kitchen preparing breakfast.
"That was odd, mom should be up by now" she said to herself.
She came to the living room, and turned on the tv. It shows her a map of the land in the film, which it has the toy region highlighted while the rest of the regions is black. Then two regions glow in a blue light, but she doesn't know what to do. Out of curiosity, she touched the screen where the eastern region is and she got sucked in. She looked around, and she can tell that this isn't the same region due to how the sky is black and the trees looked different. There was a dirt road to the left from her, so she walked down the road. Also, she realized that she's back to wearing the same outfit she wore in her first time entering the film.
"Maybe there's magic in this film...? I don't know, I'm wondering if Frederick could be here" she said to herself.
The wind blow through the trees, making a whistling sounds. As she continued down the road, she heard footsteps in the distance, as if someone was running through the leaves. She looked around, but no one was there. Before she knows it, she bumped into someone and fell on the ground on her back. When she sat up to see who it was, there stood a ninja in front of her. He is dressed in a stereotypical ninja outfit (black cowl, cloth mask that covers the mouth and nose, black ninja outfit, etc), but besides wearing a piece of metal that covers the top part of his feet, it exposes his toes and the bottom of his feet.
"You must be Lisa, correct?" He spoke in a Japanese accent.
"Y-yes, why?" She replied, feeling unsure about speaking with a stranger.
"Enju was expecting your arrival, so she sent me to look for you" he answered as he reaches his hand out for her.
She held onto his hand and he helped her up.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"Does it answer your question? My name is Kurotsuki" the ninja replied (kurotsuki is in Japanese for "black moon", it could refer to the new moon phase).
Then the ninja had her get on his back, and he dashed while jumping from tree to tree to where Enju lives in.
Authors note: Sorry for the delay, having a rough time in coming up with this chapter.
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