"Where am I? Who's there? SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I AM!" A shape started to emerge from the distance, it had took the body of a rodent "What are you? Some sort of large mouse?" He wore a long blood-red cape and his fur was black and oily "Oh please, I am a Norwegian Saber-Tooth Rat."
"I never heard of one of those before."
"They're very rare... Can only do certain.... Important jobs." Barny nodded
"Well what is this place?" The rat paced around, it looked like the Willow Garden, but with no grass or flowers, just bare trees that made a black sillhuoette at night. "This is The Shadow Garden and I am Hughbert." Barny sniggered
"Hughbert? I thought you'd have a better name than that, like Shade or Dax?" Hughbert walked around, he had an eerie silence to his manor "Haha, some people call me Rex though... That means king, I am king of the shadows, and you, you are just a boy..." Barny scowled, he had heard that so many times coming from his Dad. (Not the king of the shadows part.) "I am NOT just a boy. What have you done with my friends!?" Rex laughed again
"I haven't got ALL your friends, in my cells, I have E, Eppy and Franny." Barny seemed confused
"How did you get Franny!?"
"After you went searching for E, she wandered back into the garden to find you, unfortunately, I got to her first... Look, I'm going to set you a challenge, you have ten days to save them, otherwise you have no chance... Boy..." Rex faded away into the distance. Barny stood, for a couple of minutes, thinking about wht he had just heard, it was so twisted, Rex had locked up a four year old, just to spite Barny and The Willow Garden
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The Daisy Garden
Teen FictionWhen 12 year old Daisy and Barny venture into The Willow Garden everything seems perfect for the imaginative couple, but everything takes a turn for the worst when they're ushered into the stone castle.
