Legend of the Seven Lights

B-13. The First Expedition

So this is the start of the Original Worlds Arc in the Side Stories... kinda. Well, this Wendy scene happens during Chapter 19, but the chapter is meant to be read after 20. This arc is actually meant to be pretty long, too.

Chapter B-13: The First Expedition

Unknown basement

"Come on, how does this thing work!" Wendy demanded as she felt around the chest's bottom. "Do I need a spell or something?!"

"Chelia probably already destroyed the other one like she said." Carla stated. "Quit wasting your strength trying to make it work, she wanted you to escape!"

"But I could've helped her!"

"As a matter of fact, why did you save THIS lunatic? !" Carla pointed accusingly at Floop—he was curiously searching a dusty cardboard box, then flinched at the mention of himself. "You brought Wendy to your castle in the first place to hand her to your master."

"Look, it's true that my master put Wendy on the wanted list," Floop said, "but I had no intention of handing her over immediately. Granted, I found it curious that she would want a tour of my castle, but I planned to have Wendy and Chelia on my show! You think it's easy to make robotic children behave like REAL children? I wanted real child actors from the start, but no reasonable child would want to climb up that secluded mountain every day. A couple of airbenders wouldn't have had trouble with that, however. Besides, you children are a riot!" he yelled excitedly. "Almost summer and those two are STILL wearing parkas!"

"It's not summer in all places." Sonny said with a glare.

"You dunno where we're from." Donna followed.

"We need to find out where we are." Carla said. "Come on, Wendy, let's go."

"Sigh... All right." Wendy shut the chest and followed her friends.

Once the group found some stairs up, they appeared in a living room of an average house. "W- bobble-gibble now who the heck are YOU kids?" an old African-American man asked them with an... odd way of talking. "What're you doing in our basement, with the dust and the poor lighting and the- d'aww, you know what Ah'm talkin' about, be-babbly goo."

"It's Bill Cosby!" Sonny exclaimed.

"No, it's Kevin Michael Richardson!" Donna contradicted.

"Oh, zey must be ze people my brother said vould pop out of that old box in ze basement!" his wife said with a French accent.

"Brother? Miss, are you talking about Dr. Facilier?" Wendy asked.

"Yes, I am Harvey's sister, Clarice. He and I used to play with zose boxes all ze time, with ze magic and ze poofy smoke and ze, aww you know what je parle de!"

"It's nice to meet you." Wendy smiled. "I'm your brother's student, Wendy. This is Carla, Sonny, Donna, and-"

"Fegan Floop, nice to meet you!" The show host shook Clarice's hand.

"Say, haven't we seen you on the tele?" Dr. Lincoln asked. "You had the Fooglies and the Booglies and the Oompa-Loompas...?"

"His show has hit a snag in production." Carla mentioned. "We'd love to stay and tell you about it, but we must be going."

"We're sorry for disturbing you." Wendy bowed as they headed out. "We'll tell your brother you said 'hi'!" They shut the door as they left.

"...Garret, did zat cat just talk?" Clarice asked.

"Mum-bum, Clarice, our children have gihugic 50-foot treehouses on the moon." Garret replied while reading his newspaper (the tagline read Chaos in Dressrosa). "I think it's best not to question things and be the oblivious adults we've always been."