Adventure of Someplace Else

Chapter 5 - Library Tussle

I slumped my head burying it in between my arms.

"Come on now Junior" Ted said consoling me.

We managed to get out of Lush forest and escaped into Joy village. ... And Cole wasn't much help with that regard.

"What's with that look?" Cole sulked as I glared at her.

Now the three of us are hiding in the library.

"I hate libraries, it's always so quite... I can hear my thoughts 'cuz of that" Cole said as she stared into an abyss.

Cole is scary when she's serious.

Ted rolling his eyes "Good, so you can hear of how much of a douche you are" Ted said with a big smile on his face.

Cole slowly turned her head towards Ted's grinning face. "Burn in hell red head. Skin cancer's isn't far off sun colored hair idiot" Cole shot out overly exaggerated insults.

Those two just can't catch a break with their fighting. Trying to escape Ted and Cole's verbal fight and my  own thoughts I busied myself by looking at the vast selection of books in the library.

I ran my finger along the wooden frame of the bookshelf skimming through the books available...

What the hell? Why the books here are have such a long and convoluted name? Take this one for example, its name is "waiting for the world to end whilst I get my coffee" I took another look at another book... no use it's the same long and ridiculous name as the last one...

"Surely this can't be an *actual* book"

I opened one book, and lo and behold my eyes weren't met with the sea of beautiful and painted words but the crude lines that create a pictures! I was horrified that instead of a book, I got a picture book...

I frantically put the book back and took another...

No good, another one...

I kept on taking another, and another and another...

I fell to the floor defeated... dropping the book I held.

"These aren't real literature...! They're just fodder for brain dead people!" I said aloud rolling over the floor.

I noticed a shadow hang before me... it was Emily...

Both of us locked eyes.

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"w-what are you doing here?" I softly said

"There SHE is!" Cole rushing in the aisle. Ted right behind her... "How'd YOU get in here" Ted panting from disbelief said.

"The book" Emily said with a soft and calm voice.

"So you appeared in the springs then?" Ted asked.

"Yes"

"How did we not notice you" Ted asked.

"I saw you three sleeping on the ground... so I just walked into the woods" Emily said calmly...

"Dis girl is crazy bro" Cole said stepping away.

So Emily just went to the woods, after waking up? So Mrs. Primrose didn't get to meet her. But seriously this girl is gutsy to just waltz into the woods alone...

"How about Beta?" I asked...

"Beta?"

"A robot person" I elaborated

"No such person appeared" Emily replied.

"The obstacles in the road?" Cole asked...

Y-yeah how'd did she pass the obstacles we had to go through, like the pack of wolves, the bear, and the bloody wall in the middle of the path!?
"The road was clear" Emily said

What the fu-

That means Beta just put those there after learning about us! What the hell so you're telling me Beta built a whole wall, lured a pack of wolves and a bear just to toy with us?

"How about Mr. Flamingo?" Ted asked.

"Too annoying, I ignored it" Emily said with a smile.

"How about the joy villagers???" Cole added.

"They didn't notice" Emily said...

The three of us were stunned to the core, I didn't exactly know why we were shocked, is it because that this girl just non-chalantly pass a whole boss level and a zone level without facing anything? Or is it because she just said all those things with a blank face?

Emily looked at me with a stone stare, it wasn't a glare, just a stare... "You"

"W-what?" I asked.

"Follow me" Emily said beckoning me and the others to come as well.

She walked to a door across the library... the plaque with the name 'the art room' was hung on it.

"Enter" Emily instructed.

We opened the door, the door creaking as it swung open showing the well-lit art room from the huge windows.

Emily went ahead of us approaching the only person in the art room, and tugged on her.

"Rary" Emily called to the girl who. "He said that this isn't real art" Emily handing her the book that I dropped that I completely insulted...

"What?!" Rary taking the book...

"I-I did'nt say it wasn't art! All I said it was..." I said trying to backpedal... I WAS trying to until I was cut off by emily:

'These aren't real literature... they're just fodder for brain dead people' Emily said quoting me... "Is that not what you said? J u n i o r ..." Emily said, a small grin crept into her once expressionless face as she uttered my name with condescending nature.

I was speechless ...

"T-this is MINE! I DREW THIS MANGA!" Rary said gripping onto the book...

"'fodder for brain dead people'" Emily repeated...

"A-Ah! N-no I didn't mean it like t-that!" I said...

"Hey Ted" Cole called out to Ted...

"What..." Ted replied...

"Is junior's ass about to be handed to him?" Cole asked...

"Huh- Seems like it" Replied Ted.

Rary slowly approached me, each step heavier than the last.

"Kid you really need to keep your thoughts to yourself before you get hurt" Rary said...

Emily was still grinning in the back 'heheh this too easy' Emily thought herself...

Cole suddenly putting herself between me and Rary, "Now, now, I am sure Junior didn't mean whatever he said" Cole reasoned...

'What's she doing?' Emily thought.

Ted appeared behind Emily... "I didn't know you were such an instigator." Ted said with a smile, emanating an attractive and handsome charm...

"Well then, if that's the case" Rary said, withdrawing, calming down... "Then be sure to look around my art room! And eat your words...!" Rary said... "I-I am very sorry" I said bowing my head.

"What's the harm in it? These paintings and drawings look good Junior..." Cole said.

Rary's expression lit up. "That's the spirit!"

Jeez, I really am sorry... next time I really should watch my mouth in public... But there's more to watch than my mouth right now... I glance at Emily's flustered face as Ted was trying to scold her... There's also THAT girl.