The Story Stick is Mine

Once there were two girls

They couldn't remember anything, not even their names.

One day they found themselves locked up as captives in a cell. Of course they couldn't remember who put them there or what they were there for, but they knew they were n trouble.

They searched high and low for a reason or a way out, but none seemed to come.

Finally they found an air vent and started to work at it day and night to get it loose and then, finally, off.

They ventured through the vents, walking quietly, because they knew, somehow, that if they were heard, they'd be in even worse trouble.

They crawled through, dodging the random beach ball that came in their way. Then finally they made it to the end of the vents and a screen lay before them.

As they finally got it loosed, they stepped out into a room, but a man was there.

They did not remember if this man was good or bad, so they were scared.

But this man was a good man.

He even knew the girls.

So he was helping them.

He took them to a place to get away from the giant building they were stuck in. They had to lie about where they were from and their ages, but it wasn't hard to lie because they remembered nothing of their past. They didn't even know their names.

But before they could board the ship the evil man came, but he wasn't really a man!

He was the mysterious star of one of Dr. Suess' books: The Cat and the Hat.

This cat came into the room, a blundering bundle of anger.

He had just been informed that his captives had escaped.

He had the whole center on red alert, looking for the two girls. But the man who was helping them told them to run down the hall and take a right into the stairwell and take it all the way down.

The man himself stayed behind to try and keep the cat busy.

So the two girls ran and ran, but they made a mistake.

They didn't take a right, they took a left and it led them into the wrong staircase which didn't lead to the the first floor and freedom, but to the basement and the center of the cat's clutches.

Down in that room the cat had a legion of brainwashed teenage slaves.

They worked day and night as his minions, doing his evil deed which they thought were just games.

They even had to wear weird uniforms

So as the girls ran down the stairs, they stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of a mini-city underneath the earth.

It was a loud bustle of conversations and would seem easy to sneak through, but everyone was wearing the same colored outfit and the girls were in bright clothes that would most definately stand out.

The girls didn't realize their mistake, so they didn't go back up the stairs and take the correct ones.

They decided they should hide and wait for everything to calm down or for people to go to sleep.

So they carefully made their way behind a pile of materials for building as a hiding place.

But it was no good.

They were spotted.

A girl came towards them with a checklist in hand, making sure that all the materials were accounted for.

She gave the two girls a strange glance but then went back to her work.

The two girls thought this was strange, but wonderful, that the other didn't think them too strange. But they didn't know if anyone else would be the same.

But then a group of the teens came towards them, workers most likely. As they came, no one paid much attention to the two girls.

One asked "What are you wearing?" and the blond of the two girls answered, "Um...we just haven't gotten out uniforms yet."

At such an answer the others just went along with their own business and let them be.

So the girls decided that they would go walk out into the crowd since so many already thought they were normal enough.

They got a few strange looks, but that was all.

They then made it into a hall, wondering where they had to go for their freedom, but not finding it.

They thought they must be close to freedom, but just the opposite was coming.

A squad of teen police came through and started to shout at the girls.

They were the ones who were after the girls.....

TO BE CONTINUED....