Yay!! First part! It's AWESOME!!!! Woo-hoo!!!

Day One Continued…

Starseeker and her traveling companions pulled themselves out of the car, which now looked more beat up than ever. Bookworm had to put Zoey's arm around her shoulder to help her out. Jimmy o the other hand, seemed absoloutely elated. He hopped out of the car and stretched.

"Aaah, there's that old beauty!" He exclaimed, holding his arms out towards the castle. "Welcome to the hotel, kids!"

"Uuuuugh."

"Mmmmrrr."

"Ooowww."

"Are you okay, Jimmy? After that crash landing its amazing you're uninjured." Asked Elementgirl.

"Sweetheart, I've had more crash landings than a blind goose! Thats one of the advantages about being someone like me, you don't got to worry about nothin' hurtin' me, cause I'm already dead!" Jimmy burst out laughing again, slapping his knee. "This is where I leave you girls. The front door is just stragiht ahead. Go and bang on hte door, and it will open up. Then go down the first hall on your left, then take two rights, a left, another left, one more left, then turn around and go back aways, then take a right, and that'll take you right to the dining hall. Oh, and also make srue to try the frog fritters. Now THEM some good eatin' right there. Enjoy your stay at the Hallow's Eve Hotel!" With that, Jimmy's form blurred, and with one more booming laugh, he disolved into mist and dissapeared.

Bookworm pointed at the hotel. "Grrblemrph-glbenshwitt-meep." That was all that needed to be said.

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The dining hall was almost identical to the one you might see at Hogwarts. There were two long tables running the span of the room. At the end there was a large stone podium, and huge ornate windows overlooking the forest behind the castle. Huge chandeliers hung from the ceiling, castign a bright light over the diners, providing plenty of light, and meal orders were taken by ghosts in waiter's outfits, an teh meals were brought out on platters by small green goblin lookign creatures. At first it was weird for Starseeker to see all of these strange creatures walkign freely around, but soon got used to it. She even liked it. Starseeker, Zoey, Elementgirl, and Bookworm, all sat together at one of the tables next to some of the other guests, talking and laughing together. They were almsot done with there meals, whe all of a sudden….

KAPOOOOW!!! There was a huge explosion that came from the stage. Everyone jumped in their seats and looked towards it.  There, standing in the midst of the haze, in all of his grandeur and weirdness, stood The Phantom himself.

"WELCOME MY FRIENDS, TO THE HALLOWS EVE HOTEL!" he called out into the crowd. Everyone erupted into cheers. "Thank you, thank you! Now, I will now give out room assignments." The Phantom reached up his sleeve, pulling out a scroll. He then flicked his wrist, causing the scroll to unroll dramatically. "Let's see, mhm, mhmm,  ah yes, here we are. Room One will be, Leafpool, Pepper Star, Kate-The-Great, Zoey, and Joy. Room two will be, Mudge, Cilantro, Bookworm, Starseeker, and Kitten. Room three will be Jarnen, Sopranotwo, Lilycat, and Cockleburr. Room Four will be Zoey, Elementgirl, Tahki, and Willow. Acitivities will begin first thing tomorrow. GOOD NIGHT FRIENDS!"

With that, The Phantom disappeared with an explosion and the vacation at the hotel officially begun. 

@Everyone, if I have forgotten someone, LET ME KNOW. I accidently deleted part of my guestlist. I tried to rewrite it, but I could've gotten it wrong.

Day Two-  

Kitten woke up with a start and sniffed the air. Oooo breakfast! She thougth to herself. She quickly got up, put on a pair of dress robes she had brought, and threw on her invisibility cloak. Now invisible, she went around to each of her roomates and start poking them until they woke up. Mudge took a little longer than the others, and eventually Kitten had to go into the bathroom, find a cup, fill it with water, then come back a dump it on Mudge. With that, Mudge woke up ith a squeal.

"Ghosts!" She yelped. Kitten chuckled sadistically, taking off her robe. Mudge growled, throwing her pillow at her.

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The five friends walked together downstairs to the dining hall and got their breakfast. The were serving fresh cockatrice eggs and bacon (no one asked where the bacon came from), with raisin toast and scream cheese.

"So what do you guys think we'll be doing today?" Asked Starseeker.

"I heard someone say soemthing about a corn maze." Mused Bookworm. "Mudge, what do you think? Mudge?" Mudge wasn't paying attention to the conversaton. She was bent over her plate, staring at her food, very focused. 

"Whatha looking at over there, Mudge?"

"Hmm?" Mudge said, looking up. "Oh, nothing." She looked down at her plate again. "Is it just me, or does the bacon look like its twitching a bit?"

Everyone glanced down a thteir plate and shook their heads. "Eh, probably just the light." Mudge mumbled.

"Oh wow! Look out the window!" Someone shouted from the crowd. There was a series of gasps and cheers as everyone looked. There, right out in front of the window, a huge, red, scaly dragon was hovering. It looked insiude at the gueasts, let out a roar, and then flew out of sight. Right on cue, there was another explosion, and The Phantom appeared in a a cloud of purple smoke on the stage in fornt of the window.

"GOOD MORNING FRIENDS!" The Phantom called out. "As you are probably thinking, what is a dragon doing flying around here? Well, the answer to that question is the activity we have planned today. We're going dragon riding!" Everyone cheered and applauded. "Now, when ready, please meet me on the front lawn and we will get started!"

Mudge looked back at her plate one last time ad let out a yelp. Her bacon had inchwormed its way off her plate and was trying to crawl away.  

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A few minutes later, everyone was assembled outside. There were about seventeen dragons, each about twelve feet in length, all lined up on the lawn. One for each guest. There were four different species of dragon for each of the four rooms. One type was  the kind that they'd seen this morning. Red with a tannish chest and stomoch, completely covered in alligator like armor, with four legs and two larrge, batlike wings and small, round horns running from its snout all the way down its back. Smoke drifted up from its nostrils. The next down the line were about the same lenght, but were bright turqoise with black stomachs and long white spikes all over its back. They were a bit on the bulky side and had short, wide wings. Occationally they would open their mouths and cough out what looked like snowflakes. There were also longer, thin dragons with six legs and two sets of wings. These were a dark gold color, and weremore serpentine with longer snouts. The last were two legged, purple and black striped dragons with huge wings. They had two small eyes pointed forwards on its large, round head, close to its snubbed snout. It had two tusks sticking out of side of its face.

"Here, we have four different types of dragons for each of our rooms, and one dragon per person. We will send out each room separetely for airspace purposes. Each room will participate in a different activity and type of flying based on what on what type of dragon you are riding. Room one will be riding the Double-winged Lightninglider." He waved to the purple and black dragons. "Room two will have the Shortsnout Shadowflapper." The elongated gold colored dragon. "Room three will have the Spiked Frostspitter." The blue, snowflake barfing dragon. "And finally room four will have the Nubbyhorned Flamelicker." The red dragon. Each room will be participating in a different activity based on their species of dragon. After we saddle and bridal the dragons, we'll get started and meet back here by sundown. Have fun!"

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Kate-The-Great gripped her reins tightly as she flew through the air. She was leaned over her dragon, wind blasting agaisnt her body. Her serpentine dragon whipped and twisted through the air, intent on speed. They were flying over a large river, cliffs surrounding them on each side, cutting right through the woods. Room one had traveled with their dragons (along with a ghost to instruct them on riding) to the valley about five hours ago, and since then had been learning basics on flying. Rein work, riding position, commands, etc. After they had done that, their instructor had taken them to the valley, and after some discussion, the room agreed to a race. The race would be a thirty mile race through the valley, trhough the river's end into a lake, tehn from there, they would race over the woods back to the hotel, take two laps around the tallest turret, then fly back to the start of the race. They had just started the race.

"Come on, we're cathcing up to them!" Shouted Kate to her dragon. She could feel the dragon's muscles flex under her, then the dragon flapped its wing even harder, launching them forwards. They were just ahead of Leafpool and Joy, even with Pepper Star, and Zoey was just ahead. They flew down through they wide valley, ducking and didging obstacles. Kate steered her dragon along, gaining slowly on Zoey. She steered her dragon aorund a randomly pertruding boulder and around a bend in the valley. They were right on Zoey's tail now. Kate made her dragon loose a little altitude, now only twenty feet above the water's surface, her dragon flapping as hard as his wings could. All of a sudden, a shadow passed over Kate. Startled, she looked up and let out a startled yelp. Zoey was glaring down at her and steering her dragon straight down on top of Kate's. Kate quickly pulled back on her reins, making her dragon slow down and letting Zoey fly ahead of her. Zoey laughed and gave the princess wave to Kate. Kate gave a wry grin, slapping her reins. Her dragon surged forwards again, placing itself right behind Zoey's dragon again. Kate tried to pass Zoey a few times, but every time she did, Zoey would block her. But suddenly as the two of them were having their mid air battle for the lead, there was a flash from Kate's left, and Pepper Star's dragon pulled in front of both Kate and Zoey. Kate slapped her bridal in frusteration.

Zoey leaned over her dragon's neck and slapped her reins. All of a sudden they flew out of the valley and over the lake. Kate looked over her shoulder and saw Leafpool and Joy quickly catching up to them. They were now at top speed, flying low over the water, spraying it up all around them. It was almost a mile long stretch of lake, which they covered swiftly. Kate looked ahead and saw the treeline of the woods getting closer, so she and the others, (now all in a tight group now) flew upwards and over the trees. Just then an idea sprang into Kate's head. She once again slapped her reins, again, directing her dragon under the Zoey's. Once again, Zoey looked down, and steered her dragon downwards, and once again Kate slowed her dragon down and let Zoey get in fornt of her, but as Zoey was still losing altitude, Kate jerked the reins to slow down, but then flew upwards at a forty-five degree angle, flying above Zoey, barely missing the top of her head. Kate then flew in front of Zoey and then dropped in front of her. Kate turned her head and waved back at Zoey. Zoey stuck her tongue out.

The next obstacle was the hotel itself. It loomed over the forest, casting a dim shadow over the trees. They approached it swiftly, and all five of the group successfully made it around the castle's turret and started making their way back towards the lake. But suddenly, out of nowhere, there came a huge roar from behind them. Kate looking behind her and almost fell out of her saddle. There was a sixth dragon now in the race, but it was completely unlike ay of the others. It was a almost neon shade of green, its body was three times the size of the others, and it had six muscled arms and a set of huge wings.  its green, pupilless eyes gave off a dim glow s it stared at the group. It opened its mouth again, and let out out another roar.

"FLY DOWN! FLY DOWN!" Joy screamed. Everyone heeded her advice and steered their dragons downwards right in the nick of time. The dragon spat a huge ball of flame into the air right above their heads, just off target.

"SCATTER!" Shouted Kate. Everyone scattered, trying to get away from teh beast. The dragon chased them, spitting fire, almost killing Joy and Pepper Star, who both managed to get away. They kept flying away from the creature in separate directions, which confused it for a moment, until it locked onto one target. Pepper Star. The brute flew off after her. She tried to lose him by flying in a zigzag around the castle's turrets, but the creature kept up with her. He was opening his mouth to blast her, when all of a sudden there was an flash and an explosion. The green dragon roared and jerked sideways, its side smoking. Then the air was filled not only with room one's dragons, but also room four's. One of the Nubby-horns that ws being ridden by them had shot a fireball at the green dragon and narowly saved Pepper Star's life. Room one followed suit, turning their dragons around and into the fray. The green dragon snapped at its assailants and launched fireballs at them, but couln't seem to hit his mark. They flew up and down, weaving in and out of the beasts range. But all of a sudden the beas t lashed out with his tail, crashing it into Elementgirl, sending her and her dragon plummetted into the ground. The green dragon reared its head up, opened its mouth, and was about to deliver teh killing blow, when one of the red, Nubby-horned dragons and its rider flew directly in front of its face.

"Willow, NO!" Elementgirl from the ground, but it was too late. Willow had placed herself in front of Elementgirl, who was laying on the ground next to her injured dragon, watching in horror as Willow put herself in bewtween the green dragon and Elementgirl. Willow's dragon shot one last fireball directly into the green dragon's open mouth. There was a huge explosion and the otehr dragons were blown backwards, though they recovered before their riders fell off. When the smoke cleared, the green dragon had fallen into the forest, smashing through the trees. He lay on his back, unconcious. The two heroes, Willow and her dragon, were nowhere to be seen.

R.I.P. Willow. 

Captcha says Borc. BORC, BORC, BORC! 

@Cockleburr, thank you so much! You just made my day!

@Everyone, I forgot to mention I'm in the mountains and can't write. If it's possible for me, I'll try to get one out tomorrow.  

Hey Candy! I dont know if you saw my earlier posts, but if its not too late, I don mid one bit if you wnat to write your own ski lodge.

@Evergreen, thnk you sooo much! 

Day 2~

"AAAARRRRGGGG!!!" Cockleburr shouted at the top of her lungs. She sat straight up in her bed, where she had been asleep not a moment before. She looked down at herself in confusion. Her face, hair, and shirt were soaking wet. It was then that the rest of her senses woke up, and she heard laughter coming from her left. She looked over off the top of the bunk bed she was lying on and saw Lilycat, hugging her middle, rolling around on the floor and cackling with laughter. Her other two bunkmates, Jarnen and Sopranotwo, were both laughing so hard they were having to lean on each other. It was then that Cockleburr noticed a bucket, still slightly dripping from the water it had held up to five seconds ago, that Sopranotwo held in one hand.

"SOPRANO!" Cockleburr hollered, kicking off the sheets and jumping out of the bed. Soprano let out a yelp and took off running towards the front door of the room. Soprano tore it open and began to run down the hallway, Cockleburr close behind, waving her arms and shouting random insults. 

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The friends from room three were all down in the dining hall eating a fine fbreakfast of over-easy cockatrice eggs, goatmeal, and something that looked like jello. No one asked uestions though. Lilycat had just gotten herself a nice spoonful of goatmeal when all of a sudden The Phantom appeared with his usual explosion of smoke. Lilycat squealed and dropped her spoon.

"GOOD MORNING ONCE AGAIN, FRIENDS!" The Phantom shouted."Before I get to the announcements of today's activities, we found someone's hobgoblin wandering around the property. Its tags said its name was Buster and it belonged to someone within the staff. We wanted to alert you that Buster has been found, and you can pick him up when you can. NOW, onto announcements. Today's activities will be secret passage exploration! There are many old passages inside of this castle that no one has yet discovered. Like last time, we will break you up into teams based on rooms. The team that has discovered the most passages in three hours wins. Now, we will begin in…NOW! GO!" The Phantom laughed merrily as all the occupants of the tables jumped to their feet and charged off out of the dining room, and immediately Cockleburr, and Sopranotwo ran to the left, and Lilycat and Jarnen ran two to the right. They realized their mistake though and ran back. After some brief discussion, they agreed they should head to the right. They ran along, checking the walls, behind paintings, under tables, and rugs. This had been going on for about an hour, when Jarnen finally threw up her hands.

"This is ridiculous, we've been at this forever and we STILL haven't found anything." She said.

"Well, you got any other ideas?" Asked Lilycat, annoyed.

"I don't know." Jarnen gave a small stamp of her foot in frustration, but as her foot hit the floor, there was a creaking sound and her foot started sinking into the floor. Jarnen let out a yelp and jumped back. She looked down at where she had placed her foot and there was now a small, circular section of the floor sinking slowly. Then suddenly there was a cracking sound that came from within the walls, and with a loud creaking sound, a section of the wall beside thm swung outwards like a door.

"Well, better by luck than not at all." Jarnen said. Everyone "

"All right who's going first?" Asked Lilycat. Everyone took a step backwards, leaving Lilycat. She groaned and walked through the entrance. The others followed.

The passage was dark, and obviously hadn't been used in some time. The group walked further into the passage, where suddenly it forked, heading two directions. After another heated conversation, they agreed they should go left. The passage remained unchanged. Old, dusty, and bare. After awhile of walking and a few sharp turns, the group found themselves in front of a dead end.

"Well that's just great. Okay guys, start tapping the walls and see if you can find any sort of a leaver or toggle of some kind." Said Soprano. Everyone went around the area, poking the brick walls on either side of them, stamping the ground, and Lilycat even tried licking the wall. Nothing happened.

"Hold on a second." Said Cockleburr. She went over close to the wall and put her ear to it. She could hear a very small hum on the other side, like far off voices. She knocked on the wall. The voices stopped. She knocked again, this time she heard a faint knock on the other side.

"There's someone on the other side of this wall, we need to figure out how to get through." Said Cockleburr, straightening up. "Maybe we should-" CRASH! Before Cockleburr could finish her sentence, a square section of the wall fell away, revealing another passage and revealing the occupants of room two, Cilantro, Bookworm, Starseeker, and Kitten.

"Whoa! How did you guys open the passage??" Exclaimed Soprano.

"I don't really know actually, it was really odd. Mudge just went over to the wall and licked it, and it opened. Weird, huh?" Kitten said. Lilycat let out a low growl.

"Oh good grief we don't have time for this. The passage is getting ready to come down. We can hear the walls crumbling behind us. If we hadn't gotten through, we would be dead. We need to go!" Starseeker said.

"Do what now?!" Lilycat yelped.

"Let's go!" Said Cockleburr. Together, the group ran back through the passage.

"Oh shoot, guys, I hear it!" Said Cilantro. Sure enough, they could hear the faintest sound of falling bricks, rapidly getting closer. They ran faster, stopping every once in a while if they hit a fork. Finally, the group stopped cold.

"Guys, we didn't pass a three passage fork when we last came through here." Said Soprano, fear in her voice.

"Uh…let's  go through the one to the right." Said Starseeker.

"Why do you want to go right?" Asked Cilantro.

"I DON'T BLOODY KNOW, OKAY? JUST GO!"

"The group charged through the passage to the right, running as hard as tehy could. Finally, a few turns later, they hit a dead end. Mudge put her ear to the wall.

"Guys, I think this opens into the castle itself! Find a leaver or something to get this open!" The friends, frantic to get out, started punching, kicking, licking, and tapping every brick visible.

"Guys hurry, the walls are getting ready to fall!" Shouted Mudge.

Sure enough, the passage was starting to shake. Finally, Cilantro shouted, "I found it!" She pressed a brick with her hand, and all of a sudden, the wall fell away and revealed the inside of the castle's dungeon. Everyone ran out of the passage and ointo the safety of the castle, and not a moment too soon. The passage behind them gave one last groan, and then collapsed with a loud crash, sealing  the entrance.

"Is everyone okay?" Asked Bookworm. There was a chorus of "i'm okay's. 

"Wait, guys, do yall see Starseeker anywhere?"

"I don't see her, where do you…" Kitten said, her voice dying away as she looked back at the collapsed passage. All was silent.

R.I.P. Starseeker 

Day 3~

It was morning in the dining hall. Everyone was eating their breakfast, when the all finiliar purple explosion came from the stage, and The Phantom was there. "GOOD MORNING FRIENDS!"  He boomed, waving his cape dramatically. Everyone cheered, and a pie flew randomly through the air and splatted against the wall. "I hope that you all had a restfull night's sleep last night. I apologize for the strange moaning sound you probably heard coming through the walls, we had a ghoul get stuck in a secret pasage, but it has been removed. As for the secret passages, my most sincere condolences for the loss of our two dear friends, Willow and Starseeker. They were good friends, and will be missed. Anyway, on to the announcements. Today's activity will be a very interesting one indeed. We will be participating in Gnome hunting today. Unlike what you have probably heard about gnomes, they aren't exactly the social, make homes in your garden. Actual gnomes prefer the deep woods, very secluded, and very hard to find. You will be looking for them today. Catch one, and bring it back. We will start shortly. Enjoy!"

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Zoey was lying on her stomach, watching and waiting. The gnome was sitting only a few feet from her face. Elementgirl and Tahki were hiding in the bushes on either side of the gnome, ready to catch him if he tried to run. The gnome was aboiut six inches tall, had teh steriotypical tall, blue hat. But it was wearing a blue, spider silk shirt an ornate cloak made of leaves. Other than that, it was very humanlike. Zoey glanced at the bushes concealing Tahki and Elementgirl. She could just see the two of them, faces painted with camo, like hers. Elementgirl rasied her hand slowly, eyes on the gnome, which at the moment was bent over collecting small berries. Elementgirl clamped her hand into a fist, the sighn. All at once, Zoey, Elementgirl, and Tahki, all pounced out from behind their hiding places at the gnome. When she was still in midair, Zoey saw the little creature's eyes widen in fear, and it gave a small yelp, throwing its berries. They landed on top of it at once, all grabbing at the gnome. The creature jumped into the air, hopping onto the three friends as they frantically tried to catch him. With a squeak of triumph, the little creature ran off into the woods.

The three of them jumped back to their feet and charged off after him. They ran through the trees, which were widely spaced, but the gnome was still hard to track. He would run along the groudn for short distances, then climb a tree and travel through the treetops. But the group were able to track him well enough.  All of a sudden, Tahki, who was leading the group, stopped suddenly. She held her hands up for the others to stop. Confused, Zoey looked to where Tahki's eyes where looking. Zoey's jaw dropped open in shock. All around teh base of the trees, and up in the tops, were placed little houses made of leaves, twigs, and other forms of folliage. There were little pebble walkways and small gardens around the homes. It was then they realized they had found where the gnome lived. Or gnomes, that is.

"Its…Gnometown?" Tahki said.

Ack I must depart now, I wil finish this along with the next installment of the story tomorrow. Thsi time hopefully before midnight so yall can actually read it XD

Phantom?!?! You're back!!!!! Yay, though I think I'm too late. . .

Not Starseeker too! But wow, really good writing, Phantom! (And you write so fast- 2 parts in three days would be a world record for me!)

@September, its great to see you! Of course you can join in, I'll throw you in!

Day 3 continued….

The gnomes, all similar in appearance to teh one they had been chasing, had been goin about their busness, some had been collecting flowers and berries from their gardens, some had been sweeping or cleaning in some way, and some had been making repairs to homes. But now they all stood frozen in shock, staring up at the three humans in stark terror. Then all at once, it was chaos. The gnomes threw whatever they were holding and started running around. Running inside houses, jumping behind trees and bushes, and one little gnome even jumped into a gnome sized pond and hid under a lilypad.

"Awww don't be scared little fellows, we're not going to hurt you." Elementgirl cooed, bending down. "Come here little- OUCH!" She yelled, grasping her hand. Zoey looked towards the little town and saw one gnomehidingbehind a tree holding a tiny bow. It appeared that it had just shot Elementgirl in the hand. "That sorry little-"

"OW! One of those little demons just shot me too!" Tahki said, jumping up, holding her knee. "Okay, we found them, let's go now!"

The three girls started running back through hte woods, little arrows flyign past them, occationally hitting one of them. "Wait guys! We need at least soemthing to prove we found all these gnomes."

Lets sneak back and grab a bow or a broom or something from the village. we're out of range and sight of teh archers now, or should be. I'll flank left, you two flank right." The three girls stooped low, running behind trees every now and then to make sure they weren't seen. Fianlly, after some navigation, they made it back to the village where the gnomes were just starting to cautously come out of their hiding places. Zoey watched from behind a tree. She saw her two companions likewise watchign the town, trying to find an unexpecting gnome to steal something from. All of a sudden Zoey heard a small whistling sound, and looked down. She saw a gnome, carrying a bow slung over one shoulder and a quiver of arrows come walking around the side of the tree Zoey was hiding behind. He obviously didn't know she was there, because as soon as he had come around the tree and saw her, his whistling stopped abriuptly and his eyes widened. He was about to turn and run, when Zoey lashed out with her hand, grabbign him, using one finger to gag his mouth. He let out a muffled squeal as she jerked him backwards behind the tree with her.

"I'll take that bow, thank you very much." Zoey said, using her fre hand to trake his bow away, the gnome let out an angry, muffled curse and grabbed his bow with his one untrapped hand, tring to pull it back. Zoey let out a growl and jerked it out of its grasp. "And this is for shooting at us when we were trying to be friendly back there!" She held the gnome firmly in one hadn and shook him for a few seconds, then stopped. The gnome, now looking verhy green and dazed, stopped struggling, slumped over, and started drooling. Zoey tossed the little beast over her shoulder and looked to where her friends were hiding. She gestured to them, laerting them it was time to go. he saw a bush rustle and Elementgirl's face appeared for a moment. She nodded. Then Tahki's hand popped up out of another bush and gave a thumbs up. The three slowly slunk out from behind their trees and made their way back to the castle. 

"I grabbed a bow from one of teh archers." Said Zoey, holding up her prize.

"I grabbed a broom that was laying around from one of the houses." Said Tahki.

"And I grabbed a gnomes hat!" Elementgirl said proudly, holding up one of the small gnome hats. Except the hat wasn't alone. It still had the gnome attatched to it. Or ta least it had the gnome desparately trying ot hold onto his hat with both hands. It stuck out its tongue at Zoey as she bent down to look at it. "I tried to take its hat and it just wont let go. Those are some mean little creatures." The gnome was at teh moment trying to pull itself up to Elementgirl's hand to bite it. Elementgirl gave the hat one last, good shake, and with a yelp, the gnome fell off and scuttled away, waving its fist at her as it ran away.

"Okay, we ready to head back to the castle?" Asked Zoey. 

"Yeah, let's go-Yow!" Tahki yelped, grabbing her arm. Zoey and Elementgirl went on high alert.

"Are the gnomes back?" Asked Zoey.

"I dont see any…" Tahki said, taking her hand away from her arm, revealing indeed anotehr small arrow. But this one was different, it was longer, and it looked like it had been covered in a strange purple liquid. 

"Let's get out of here, then we'll octor your arm." Said Zoey,pulling the arrow from Tahki's arm.  the three of them ran off throug the woods back towards the castle until they were certain they were otu fo danger. They stopped and took a look at Tahki's arm.

"What was that stuff on the arrow?" Asked Elementgirl, eyeing the strange purple goo. 

"I…don't know…but I'm not feeling so good…" Tahki moaned, sinking to the ground.

"It may have been poison. We need to get her help. Tahki can't go on any further, she looks like death sucking on a bad lemon." Zoey said, gesturing towards Thki, who was white as a sheet and had started to lick a tree sitting next to her. "I'll run get help, you stay here with Tahki. Can you do that?"

Elementgirl nodded. "I got her. Come back as soon as possible." Zoey nodded, got up, and ran off.

It wasnt long before she heard a high pitched scream, and runnign back to check on her friends, she found Elementgirl unconcious with a nasty bruise on the side of her head, and Tahki was nowhere to be seen.

R.I.P. Tahki. The mystery continues….