Magical Children: In Between the Lines

Chapter 3: Madi's P.O.V.

I hear my alarm go off and slowly wake up to turn it off. It was a bad idea for me to stay up last night until about three in the morning talking to people online but I couldn't help it. I jump out of bed and start to get ready for the day. Luckily school doesn't start until tomorrow and I won't have to stop using magic just yet for another one hundred and something days pretending to be a normal human. I walk into the kitchen to get me a bowl of cereal for breakfast when my Siamese cat decides to run into my room and under my bed hissing. "I will never understand you." She has been like that ever since we got her; hissing at nothing and hiding every second of every day. As far as I know nothing is in our house, I can't really sense things like Gwen can, I'm not there yet. I close the door behind me and walk to the kitchen to fill my stomach with food. My communicator watch thingy rings from my room and I rush to get it before anyone else hears it. I answer it and Zinnia is on the other side. "Hey you need to come to the GSD right now because something bad is going to happen. Bring Gwen with you, she isn't answering me." She hangs up as quickly as she called and I question what could be going wrong at such an innocent place like the GSD. Okay so maybe that is a lie. A dimension full of Giant Spiders big enough to swallow six grown men at once is not as innocent as we would like it to be. Not to mention Gwen is always yelling that one of these days she's gonna freeze up in front of one and get eaten or something.

I leave a note saying where I am and what I'm doing for my mom and step dad just in case I don't come back before they get up and I search for my necklace that the Magic Council gave Gwen and I. It was a pretty long chain with a small door charm hanging from it. For just a small piece of heavily decorated metal it was able to store a lot of magic. We never knew how much magic it held but we knew it held a lot on account that it allows you to travel to any dimension you want if you just ask it and then walk through the nearest door. I find it under my bed and hold it up near my mouth. I whisper to it asking for it to take me to the Giant Spider Dimension then walk through my bedroom door. 

When I enter another door I find myself in a room that I have never seen before. It's very dark and I can't see much but what I can make out is a large stone table in the middle of the small 7x7 room. Once my eyes adjust to the darkness I see a figure lying on the table. I have no idea where you took me door, but this is not the place I wanted to go. I feel behind me for the door handle but can't find it. I feel as if the figure is a dead person but can't tell in the darkness. Across the room I can see slivers of light in the shape of a vertical rectangle and guess that to be the door. And you spat me out at the other side of the room. Great. I start walking around the table and freeze when I hear clothes rustling. I freeze where I am and quiet my breathing. A low and gravely voice cuts through the dark air. It sends shivers down my spine. "Who is there?" It asks. I stay quiet and wait for the figure to think that nothing is in the room with them when I see it stand up. I slowly back to the wall and hold in my fear. "I can sense you." the figure says. "You have magic. Lots of it." the figure turns to me and it seems as though the room gets darker than possible and I can feel eyes staring through my soul. "Give it to me." it says. "Give it to me!" the voice gets louder and louder until all I hear is ringing but I know that the figure is still yelling. 

I run to the door trying to ignore the bursts of wind grabbing at my back and soul, I can even feel it grabbing at my magic. "Take me home! Take me home! Take me home!" I yell at my necklace. I reach the door and throw it open, slamming it shut behind me. I open my eyes and realize that I had been crying but everything is okay now, I'm back home where I need to be. But something doesn't look right. "Wait, what?" I look around me to see that I am in my bedroom at my dad's house. My familiar pinkish carpet and large bed bringing back memories of my childhood. I wipe my face and walk to the window. "Dad must be at work. I don't see the semi." I walk back to the door way and grab my necklace from my chest. Why was I crying? And who or what was that thing? I think about what had just happened and decide not to trust the door."Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not trusting you ever again. Just gonna fly." I tear it from my neck and throw it under the bed never to be seen again, hopefully.

I open my bedroom door and remember that we have a special door in the top of the barn that can take us anywhere we want to go. "That sounds a lot faster than flying." I walk over to Gwen's house through the path and run to the barn behind her house. I climb the rickety and broken ladder to the hay loft and walk where I see nails so as not to fall through the floor. Once I get to the back I hold my hand to the panel of wood covering a large hole and a simple door appears. I open it and walk inside to the familiar fort that we have spent many days in thinking of missions and recuperating from large fights and battles. The fort was actually not all that big and only had a few rooms like a kitchen area, a living room type area, a bathroom, and two bedrooms for Gwen and I. I take a look around at the familiar setting and realize that it has been some time since I have been in the fort. The last time I remember coming here was at the beginning of summer vacation when we had to rest after a few days of being in another dimension fighting some angry cult or something I don't really remember that part.

I take a quick re-tour of the small place and then end in Gwen's room. She always had this one strange key that allowed us to travel anywhere we wanted just in case something went wrong. Scenarios I never like to think about. I pull out the key from her small chest on her desk and close the door. I put the key in the lock and give it a twist to the right. I open the door and all I can see is light. A quick look behind me at the familiar room and I enter the light, hoping that I don't die. When I step through the door I close it behind me and feel a warm breeze on my face and in my hair. I look around and see the much more delightful view of the GSD than that creepy room. I shiver at the thought and walk ahead. I walk past a bunch of large trees and find the smallest one with the funky branch. Now I know where I am. It doesn't take long to find the old path to the decrepit old house that we also use as a hideout from Giant Spiders. It's always good to have a place to hide when something twenty times bigger than you is chasing you around trying to eat you or just kidnap you. We were never sure why the Giant Spiders chase us,but it isn't fun.

Walking just a few surprisingly peaceful miles the house comes into sight and I am suddenly not trusting of the house. I don't do anything to stop and just walk right in, thinking that this is a bad idea but I have nothing better to do today. It was a bad idea. Turning a corner I'm ambushed by three of the smaller spiders. Small meaning still about ten feet tall. The first one attacks with a simple wave of punches. Luckily I dodge most of them but not before the other two help the first one. "I hope you know that this isn't fair." I say between dodges. "Do you think we care?" I'm not sure which one of them said that because I was punched in the face and disorientated for a second or two. I fall down but realize it wasn't my fault. One of them used their web to pull me down by my feet.