Capital Girls: Game On!

Dreamtalia Pt. 7

The landscape soon began to change from that of a beautiful, flower field, to a farm-like state with fences that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

"What is this?" Chen asked.

"We must be entering a different section of the dreamscape," Amelia explained. "It must be someone else's state of mind. Since Italy is the main host, these other places belong to different people trapped here."

"I wonder who this dream-rearm berongs to then," Naomi wondered.

As the girls walked along the fence, they saw that pastures were coming up and in them were cows, chickens, horses, lions, goats- wait lions?!

"What the- lions?!" Emma said with shock.

"Whoever is here must love animals," Amanda said.

"Yeah."

Rose sighed as she looked at the animals. She loved seeing animals but not as much as her cousin, Noa. Noa loved animals just as much as she loved anyone else.

That's when Rose saw a sign. It said, Do Not Climb the Fence. Please use the gate. Then there was a lock-pad on the gate opening. It said If You Want to Come Inside, Answer the Riddle: Old McDonald had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm he had a _ _ _ _.

"What a weird riddle," Rose pointed out. "It sounds like Old McDonald."

"Hmmm," Amelia looked at the lock-pad. "We might want to get this right the first time."

"But what could it be?" Amanda asked. "There's so many different animals it could be; lion, bear, duck, goat-"

"Try bull." Rose suggested.

Everyone turned their attention to the little Italian. "Why bull?" Natie asked.

"Well that's Noa's favorite animal. Maybe it will work."

"Werr, Rose-chan has been right so far, so why not try it?" Naomi suggested.

Amelia shrugged and typed in the animal's name into the keypad and then hit ENTER. There were two buttons, one green and one red, and the green one began to glow and then the gate unlocked itself.

"Nice one Rose!" Amanda congratulated Rose, patting her on the back. "You've been right-on about everything so far."

"Thanks Amanda," Rose giggled.

"Let's go in and see who's in here," Emma slowly pushed the gate open and walked inside with the others following behind. As they walked, they noticed all the animals that were all over the place. They ranged from mammals, to birds, to even a reptile here and there. One animal that seemed to be everywhere though were bulls. They were either found sleeping on the ground or grazing the field. What was surprising though was that none of the animals approached the girls.

"This is definitery not normar animar behavior." Naomi pointed out. "None of them want to even attempt to approach us."

"Well this is a dream world after all." Amelia restated. "These creatures are not going to act like they do in our world."

"But who's dream realm could zhis be?" Allison questioned.

Everyone thought about it for a moment until they heard some giggling; "Ha, ha~, that tickles~."

"I know that voice!" Rose ran to where she believe she heard the giggling but was stopped midway by someone suddenly appearing in front of her. The tiny Italian crashed into the person and then fell down, just like before with World, and looked up to see who she had bumped into; he looked a lot like Aurel, sporting a strange outfit that looked to be a Teutonic Knight's uniform, except he didn't have on a helmet, and a key replaced the cross on the outfit. This Aurel also had a look on his face that said, "Step any closer and I'll cut you!"

The others soon caught up and gasped at the person who blocked their way. "Aurel?!" Allison gasped upon seeing the young man.

"No, this isn't Aurel," Amelia said. "I think it's an arcana."

"I am Key, guardian of Door, and I order you to leave at once before I make you!" The Aurel doppelganger announced.

"Key?" Naomi questioned. "That is quite a strange name."

"It's a fine name!" Key declared with an embarrassed red face. "Now leave!"

"We're not leaving without helping whoever is trapped here!" Amanda declared.

"Trapped?" Key questioned, calming down a bit. "But, Door is not trapped. In fact, she is very happy here. I'm sworn to protect her."

"If you really want to protect her then you'd let us take her out of here," Amelia stated.

"Silence!" Key shouted, pulling out a sword that was strapped at his hip. He had a tight grip on it as he glared at the intruders. "You shall not pass!"

"Hey you're ripping off Gandalf!" Amanda protested.

"Amanda, this not the time!" Amelia criticized Amanda before turning to Key. "Now Key, please we-"

"I vill not hear anymore from you intruders! Master told me vhy you're all really here; to ruin Door's happiness! He said you all vant to take her to a place vhere no one vould notice if she disappeared. Vell, I'm not going to let you ruin her happiness; you're going to have to kill me before you can even get the chance to do that!"

"Woah, we don't want to kill you," Emma insisted. "We don't want to make Door unhappy either. We just want to help her."

"Da. We are only looking to help her," Natie added.

Key still wasn't buying it. These were intruders who just wanted to ruin other people's happiness. Well Key wasn't going to let them do that, especially not to Door. Besides, if he failed, Key knew he would suffer the same fate as World. "LEAVE!"

"Non!" Allison shouted, stepping out from her spot and going to the front of the group, against everyone else's wishes. She stopped and stood in front of Key, staring at him for a long time before she spoke, in a calm voice; "We are just trying to rescue our friends and family. We 'ave gone to much effort to try and save zhem from zhis place, risking our own lives in order to rescue zhem. If we did not care as your "Master" proclaims, zhen why would go zhrough all zhis trouble? Answer me zhat."

Key opened his mouth to speak but he immediately closed it, unable to come up with a good enough rebuttal. This girl made a point; if what she said was true, then they were only trying to do good while his Master was doing the opposite...wouldn't that mean that everything he knew was a lie?

While he was thinking, he didn't notice Rose was sneaking right past him and running ahead to where she had heard the giggling. She soon came to a farmhouse, where someone was one the front porch. There sat a girl with nice, brown hair, green eyes, and little curls here and there. She was petting a bull that was laying down right next to her side, which seemed content with lying there. Rose smiled when she realized who it was; it was her cousin, Noa.