Fables

chapter six

I was getting ready to turn the door handle when theres a knock.  I relize that it is the front door so I open it.  Standing there is Bigby Wolf. "Bigby? I was just going to see you.  What brings you here?" He gets ready to answer but stops when he sees the others looking in to see what was going on."Follow me there is something you need to see."  "Ok?" Just as he is about to leave he sees Enderlox and says"You also follow me."  I can hear Jeff whisper"What did you guys do?" "Nothing!" he whispers back.   We follow Bigby back to the tree and go though the portal.  When we get out I am dizzy but not like last time.

Enderlox and I dont say anything.  We make it to what looks like and apartment complex.  A sign outside of it says "Woodlands."  Bigby opens the gate and we go though.  There is a women standing by the front door there seems to be something on the ground.  The women was very pale had blackhair into a bun with a few strands hanging out framing her face.  She was dressed for buisness.  She had on a skirt that was beige and a deep blue button up shirt with snowflakes on it.  She also had a coat on thats was beige she was in blue heels.  She looked happy to see Bigby but confused to us.  "Snow relax they might be able to tell us what happened or maybe they saw something." Bigby says.  Wait does he mean Snow as in Snow White? I think to myself.

"What happened? " I ask.  Bigby points to the jacket with the word Sercuity on it. Enderlox and I walk over to the jacket and crouch down.  We give eachother worried glances as I lift up the jacket.  I gasp and fall backwards causing me to take Enderlox and the jacket with me.  We were looking at a dead girl. Well atleast the head of a dead girl.  She looked familer but then I placed her.  She was the girl that put the axe in that guys head.

"Oh my god. Do you any idea who did this?" I ask in a whisper. "It could have been Woody." Bigby says."Whos Woody?" I ask. " He was the guy that threw me out the second floor and was beating on this poor girl." "We didnt see anything if we did we would've gotten you ." Enderlox says. "What do we know about her?" Snow askes.  " All we know was that she was a hooker." Bigby says.  I kneel down by her to get a closer look.  Whatever it was that decapitaed her it made a clean cut.  Her eyes were still open.  There was a creepy calm in them. I remeber that she was wearing a purple ribbon.  "Hey Bigby wasnt she wearing a ribbon?" "Yeah she was." "It looks like she has something in her mouth." I say.  Bigby kneels down to look.  He then reaches in her mouth and pulls out her ribbon.  He then closes her eyes. Bigby was holding up the ribbon there was a ring attached to it.

"Do you guys reconize the symbol on this ring?"  He passes it around and they say no.  I am the last one to get it.  I barely touched and it felt lik me hand was on fire.  I gasp in pain and drop the ring.  There is a burn mark on my hand were it touched me.  "What was that about?" "I dont know!  I barely touched it! It hurts so bad!" I gasp.  Bigby picks it up by the ribbon and presses the ring to his arm.  He also gasps and drops it in pain his burn makr wasnt as bad as mine."Yep its a sliver ring." He confirms.

"So what do we do? We have to tell Crane about this." Snow says."No not yet. Not until we learn more about what is going on." Bigby says."Ok yeah your right. Listen I got to go do some paperwork.  You guys see if you can find anything else." With that she walked inside.  We spread out.Bigby went to the left. Enderlox went to watch the gate.  I went to the right.  It was dark enough because the sun wasnt quite up yet.  I looked on the ground and it looked like there was some fabric.  I picked it up and it felt like jeans.  There was a little blood by it it was still wet.  I kept walking and saw a trail of blood that looks like it was dripped.  I walk a little way and find an rustic fence with spikes on the top blocking off the alleyway.  I look at one of the spikes and it has fresh blood on it.  So it looks like whoever it this person was climbed the fence and cut themselves and left a blood trail.

We all meet back up outside the front door."I didnt find anything. Did you have any luck?"Bigby asks. "Yeah, I found a trail of blood from the fence. Looked like someone cut their leg on it." "Ok lets head inside. We need to  find out who this girl is."  We go inside the lobby and Bigby presses the elevator button that was pointing up.  The door opens and we all step into the elevator.  It goes up slowly and we listen to the annoying elevator music.

We walked down a hallway and make it to a door that says I. Crane.   We could hear muffled voices threw the door.  Bigby opens the door and we see Snow and some old guy in a fight.  "........ and it was your guys job to keep something like this from happing! A great job you did!" The old guy was saying. "Hey Crane calm down. We were going to tell you but we needed more answers." Bigby says."Whatever I got an appointment that I hope you got settled." He says glaring at Snow then he walks out slaming the door.

"Who was that?" I ask."That was Icabode Crane the mayor of Fabletown." Snow sighs.  "I got to make a call you guys find something about our case."  I follow Bigby over to a huge mirror. A face appears that is green.  I walk away to give him some space.  I walk over to Enderlox and whisper"So what do you think is going on?" "Your guess is as good as mine ." He whispers back.  Snow hangs up the phone and says"Well thats done lets start.Buffkin?"A second later a monkey that was green with huge green wings.  "Yes Miss White?" "Can you get the first three books about Fables and symbols?"

He flys off. Did I just see a flying monkey?  A second later he came back with a stack of thick books.  He drops them on the table."Well lets start this or we will be here for a while."  Bigby opens the book then groans in frustration."I cant read a damn word of this its in a different language." "Maybe I can help." says Buffkin.  "I think this is the symbol."  "I dont know this family name let me look it up."  Snow looks at the book and says" Well in German it means 'all animal skins'."  "I think I found it.  Her name was Donkeyskin girl.  She mostly went by Faith.  Her story is: Once in a kingdom long a go there was a king and a queen. One day the queen fell deathly ill.  She made the king promise to marry a women just a pretty as her.  After the queen died he searched far and wide only to find that the only person as pretty was.........their daughter ......Faith.  She had a cloak made of Donkeyskin to hide her beauty and leave the kingdom.  A prince could see though the cloak for her true beauty and they married and lived happily ever after.  Do I mark her Miss White?""Yes."

Buffkin takes out a stamp and stamped her as Deceased.  "What is the name of the husband?"Bigby asked."Prince Lawernce." "So I guess Ender and I are done here so we will go home.""Nope we are not done here.We need to see which Fable you are.""How do you do that?"I ask."First we look at one of the books and see if any spark your memory. Second we look inside your head to see if we can some light on your story.""Ok I guess we can do that."I walk over the book.  It is a picture of alot of common Fables like Snow and the Headless Horseman.  My eyes draw to a huge wolf and a man with a huge axe getting ready to hit him.  I seen this before.   Then I see the girl a little farther away from. She is in a red cloak. The hood is down she was wearing a blue dress.  I looked closer at her face to see she looked alot like me.  Her hair was different.  It was short like mine but more tamed.(If you have seen Tyler Oaklys hair it looks like that.) It was pure white.

"Her."I say as I point at her."Well that is Red Riding Hood. Its time to see into her memory. Enderlox can you do that?""Yes but she has to be sleeping.""We can put a sleeping spell on her. Buffkin?" "On it."he says.  A minute later he has a bottle of powder.  "Ok so you will want to sit down. I will warn you there are side effects they wont happen instantly but it may happen.  You may get super hungry and have the effect of laughing gas or like a drunk so just be careful when we are done."Snow explains. I am sitting in one of the chairs. "You ready?"Enderlox whispers to me."Do it."I say.  He sprinkles the powder on me and the world around me goes black.

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