It began with a fine morning in our high school where I determined to find Austin- but only to give him his weapon that he left in grandma's place. We all were in the end of the class when the bell rang and everybody rushed out whilst Austin only stood up, forming a chatting session with few of his friends left. Sir went out at first so we could stay in the class according to our wish.
Nervously, I chewed my lips and somewhat forwarded towards them. I knew I was never really liked by them so a good response from them would not be expected.
I refused to make eye contact, gulped and simply requested, "Um-hey Austin. Uh...can you come over here a bit? I-uh have to give you something."
Out of the blue, all his friends gaffowed and thats what I feared. But after all those petty lil adventures, at least he would respond right?
"Why would I come with a girl like you? You are far away from my league outcast." That time I was seriously pricked with irritation and anger cause he was actually just like everyone. It was stupid of me to expect something from someone like Austin, even for a moment.
"Oh okay fine. Then I'll gladly return your gladius sword and don't you dare step into our group. Get it?" My forehead creased as I exited the class, anger still seething inwardly.
"Wait! Re-Rebecca , okay no stop!" But obviously I didn't. I simply went towards the cafeteria in the circular table where our newfound group sat for a while.
We gossiped and chattered certain topics but my attention was mostly towards Austin's demeanour. Why did it even matter so much?
"Maybe you find forelsket in him." Casper uttured in thin air.
"Fore-what?"
"Never mind. The thing is you are paying too much attention on that playboy, which you really shouldn't, said as an advice from your friend."
His words made me recall of what wrong I actually was doing and I tried to defend myself ASAP, "Haha, what? No way I'm doing that! You can't just know what- okay whatever you can read my mind pfft."
After eating my burger and talking to Casper for a while in my mind, I noticed Austin moving towards probably the washroom as if his stomach was being tore off. He looked like his legs would just minimize any moment, which made me chuckle a bit. Which I soon had to regret because of the abrupt stomach ache and however it was my belly to burst.
I excused myself from the table and rushed to the washroom when similarly my feet stumbled upon a whatsit roll. I almost tripped but swung my hands clockwise to balance my weight, soon getting the hang of it.
Angrily, I looked down to see the obstacle only to perceive it was Austin on his knees, clutching onto his stomach.
"Wha-what's wrong? " I inquired, feeling my ache deteriorate, both of us in the same state. Except he was the one on the floor.
"Take me to the washroom please. I-I can't really bear it."
And seemed like I had to hate my generousity. Being in agony myself, I decided to help that bastard but then again he was in the floor- I thought in a sing song way.
Left him outside the washroom, I went to the girl's one and satisfied with my body's relaxation , I came out to see if that elderly's health got okay.
I knocked a few times but maybe he was still in the toilet. I shrugged and turned on my heel but instantly felt something twitch around my ankle. I shook my leg casually, taking that thing to be a mosquito or some other insect. But as the poke on my calf got more force, I bent down to take a look- for what I saw was astonishing and colours drained out of my face.
"Austin? I-Is that yo-you?" I stared widened with my jaw hung open as he waved his hands in front. At first I couldn't believe my eyes and thought it to be one of Casper's hallucination pranks but when he uttered in a tinker-bell voice, "Yass it is me! Me! But I don't know what happened, my stoma-" I barely controlled my laughter, bursting into an inferno of giggles, making his face red of rage and more hilarious to now barely stop my enjoyment of his damn player situation.
"Now what's popping , eh? Tiny little Austin. HAHAHA."
He slapped my leg again, harder than before and I controlled my laughter.
"Stop it dude! For god damn sake. I've been...minimised by...by I don't know! Help me Rebecca! Puhleez." He hopped with his little feet with his eyes heavenward , forehead puckered to an almost crying state.
Taking adavnatge of the situation, I held him with my hands and shook for a while before his shout silenced me.
"But who would do this?"
"I don't know but my spirit told me it was the mischievious act of some dark pixies! But why me?!"
Confused myself, I called out to Casper, "Camouboy, you know 'bout these pixies?"
After a few seconds, he answered, "UH-Yeah. And not really the easy ones to play with. "
"But why me?!" Austin cried out again.
"Firstly, you have to stop the fake cry and second, you are not the only one. Oh shoot it.! Reccy, go to the other three members of your team, ASAP! The-They might be affected with it fro-from the cafeteria food contaminated by those puny pixies. Ju-Just go!"
My head was literally entangled with all the newfound knowledge topics and asking me to rush into something more new made me go more scatterbrained.
However, putting Austin in my thigh pocket I hurried to see my other somewhat friends but guess I was too late.
"Oh holy guacamole, you have to find them instantly before they come into someone else's sight!"
"But why didn't the food affect me?"
"Cau-Cause_ yo-your uh.., it doesn't matter right now. Just freaking find those other tiny inhabitants of this world bruh."
To drag the matter more out of my stupid nervousness, I forced a chuckle, "That was sarcasm right? Like the last part?"
Before Casper could add whispers, I spotted a miniature appealing insect- which now looked more of a human.
"Found one." I ran to her direction but she went towards the staircase that leaded to the principal's office plus a few teacher rooms. Thinking it to be Joey, I slapped my forehead for her stupidity.
After I went to the the second floor, she was nowhere to be found. Again thinking her to be downstairs and all my search to be a waste- oh wait. There a glitching sound coming from the store-room. Without any haste, I glanced around before approaching there but then something poked my head, "Ow, what the hell?"
"Now I thought that would shake the stupidness from your head."
"Whaaat?"
"Look, whoever is there you have to peek or overhear. If you open the door, they will disappear. And I can't get in, they'll see me- the-" Abruptly, his voice vanished into thin air and I was on my own. Taking a deep breath, I was determined to follow his instructions and put my ear against the door. I heard the same tinker bell voice but doubled .
"Hihihi, Chumbell. They have been hihihi- tricked and now be easily defeated by the Devourer. Hihihihi."
And that was the only statement I could hear properly.
As I stood down fatigued with the entire tiny malady, I heard someone calling my name out loud but as if far-away. From where the sound was coming, I glanced up towards the stairs just when I perceived a tiny Joey sliding from the banister. Known of what might happen, my brows drew together with broadened eyes but did she stop?
Hiting me straight on the nose, she stuck to my face with hands and legs spread over and I fell over, somehow throwing Austin on the ground from my pocket.
We might have laughed at that but it did really hurt.
We did a quick reunion session and set off in the search of the two boys. Joey mentioned both of them got into the washroom and I simply didn't dare to go there and just assumed they already got out.
Furthermore, at one point I just stood to rest for a while and it felt like there was a some sort of crumpled whatsit under my feet, pulling it up. I looked down only to sadly witness a tather crumpled human- Travis.
My tongue pulled out in instinct for my stupidity and I steadily pulled him up.
"Sorry nerd brother. "
With me regreting my unknown action, Joey seemed to laugh fully with her tiny voice, earning glares from both of us.
However in my astonishing discovery, I witnessed a similar fuzzy, beige haired jovial girl running to hug me.
"Addeline? What- how-"
She separated from the tight hug and jumped in joy , starting her quacks. And girl I say, I felt a glimmer of happiness at seeing my best friend.
"Omaigod! I missed you! I missed you a lot! You know what? I'm shifting to Glasgow for like ever! Oh and before all our chatty convos bruh, lemme tell you what I found!" She took something up from her pocket and what I saw was horrible than seeing a sun at a nightfall.
I was left awe-struck with seeing the tiny creature in her had and was speechless.
"I know right?? Like serio, this is something unimaginable! This tiny human was found outside the boys washroom - under a cloth. Weird but okay. Like omaigod again!" Her expression was more exhilaration than horror. What can I say- that's Addy.
But what would happen next was the thing to be horrified about. Like what could I possibly answer to her? I couldn't lie to be best friend about my another best friend- which was right then minimised like hell.
With the escuse of observation, I took Clayton from her hand and whispered hopeful words to him for the time being.
"So do we show to this to the police...o-or to any scientist?" She continued blabbering for a while when I only focused on how to get away from her. Truly I was delighted with her arrival but there were more life-saving works to complete.
Thankfully, her phone rang and though she could see me from the corner of her eye after going to a side for the call, I ran away from there as fast as I could to the open empty field.
I rested , pressuring my hands on my knees and panted.
I took out each of my friends and sat under the shade of an oak tree for a fine discussion.
"THIS IS INSANE-LIKE WHA-"
"Oh god! My luck doesn't seem to end- I mean start! Like why me???"
"Shut up morons. Mourning over your tiny selves won't make you gigantic again." Joey rolled her eyes and I agreed.
"Okay look, calm down at first. I know this is like worst tha the time when the bathroom door doesn't fit but you really need to go. UH! Oh god. "
I took a deep breath before fulfilling my duties as the only unaffected one, "First we got to know that these...dark pixies minimised us but only to make it easy for our destruction- ooh. Second, we need to go to Grandma ASAP to prevent the further troubles the pixies might gift us. Lastly, we have to escape, means I have to , from my best friend, no offense to Clay_" I quickly mentioned, "Cause she can be one heck of a _"
"We could really see that ." Travis scoffed and I opened my mouth to talk but closed it eventually.
I could hear Adeline's voice from far away but sadly, she had to be ignored until this malady gets solved.
I took all of them adjusted in both of my pockets and hurried my steps to my cycle.
Suffocated, Clayton demanded for air and I kept him in my cycle basket.
On the way, Casper guided me of the road to Organa's house and on the contrast, Clay blabbered about his 'tiny drama,' creating a great laughing session midway.
"You won't believe how that girl BFF of yours literally killed me. It started with me sitting on the toilet. Just when I was getting up, I just shrunk and dude was it easy. It was the edge of the toilet where I was freaking hanging out almost falling to my poop man! Unfortunately my shoe fell, damn, " he faked a cry before continuing, "It was my fav, so however it's weird but with unknown dope gymnastics, I ....kinda got it out but when I saw the gross poop , I threw it so hard it fell on Adeline...uh which I realized later. And not to mention she literally tasted it for it was Nutella for her, oh god! Geez nuts! Like after I got out, i perceived her before she could and without her spotting me, I quickly covered myself with a cloak-like handkerchief on the floor and slowly moved out. Then the nightmare emerged.
She probably saw me swarm and bent down, literally talking to herself. I was frozen still but that douchebaggette just poked me on the butt! That to with her toe! Though unknown but seriously? She did it continuously bruh. That was my pretty cute ass ! And later for the final round, she picked me up, squeezing me through in the belly. Horrendous situation to be short!
I couldn't bear her poking torture anymore and I hopped from her hand , uh...kinda making it more complicated and ways for her to see me. She eventually overrun me. And lolz , I just kept pushing my legs through with crap closed eyes even in her captive until I realised I got caught. And that's my happy ending."
"Hats off to you, Clay."
***
"Puny dark pixies. One of the slyly mischievous attendants of the Dark Lor- I mean uh...someone you wouldn't want to mention."
"Who?"
"Nevermind that. But you will never want Him to get out from what he is trapped in. Yet there are spirits who desire his escape, among which lies these pixies. As I mentioned before, you guys have to be vanquished by a certain weapon known as the Sepphire Crystal which is kept with every spirit in this universe. But only the evil uses it against you all. Pixies mostly thought that minimizing you would be easy for them to kill you _"
"WHEN?! OMAIGOD, I DIDN'T EVEN GRADUATE!"
"Calm down Clay. No need to overreact. And please learn to know that every problem has a solution. So_" Charlotte got interrupted by Joey saying , "Of course."
"Listen children. And along with you, your spirits got minimised plus visible which would be easier for being attacked by them. And to snatch the six spirits' Sepphire Crystals."
"How do we defeat them?" I finally asked.
"I...uh don't know."
Her answer left us all perturbed but we asked again, "What do you mean Organa?"
"I...only know that they live in Epoxy trees which is ...quite impossible to find. And that_"
"They are obsessed with horses, they perform a ritual of wrestling at night of every full moon and they have only one Sepphire Crystal among them which stays in the main Epoxy tree of the queen. And to defeat them we definitely have to destroy their crystal to trap them into the Neverland Realm. " I said, kept my jaw dropping cause I myself, didn't know where those even came from.
"Wha-a-a - where did you get to know about that?"
"I-I am not aware. I am quite shocked myself as if someone inside me said those words like-"
"Oh god. It's happening." I heard Grandma pant from some tensity which arose my tension as well, "What is happening?"
She quickly came up to me and held my shoulders firmly and suddenly began to plead, "You-you will never betray your moral compass, your friends, your- Casper and your mudita, your generosity. Please don't, sweet pea. Always be yourself."
Without any clue of what she was exactly referring to, I simply nodded after which she exited the room.