you know that story

that i wrote that i said i would have to post sometime? i just remembered that, so i'm going to post it now. actually i'm going to post one section of it now, i don't want to overwhelm you by posting all of it at one time (well, that makes it sound REALLY long. it's a few pages, but it's not like a book or anything =). the characters are me (elizabeth), erin, matthew, and jacob. and i didn't bother making up names for all of us, so i just used our own names. well, here is the first section of my story (it doesn't have a name yet =):


Elizabeth sprinted up the stairs to the palace. She pushed open the enormous doors, she had to find her father quickly. She hurried to the royal officials’ meeting room. Elizabeth knew she was not supposed to interrupt these meetings, but this was very important. She took a deep breath and quickly gathered her swarming thoughts together, she had to give her father the news in a neat, orderly fashion. She opened the door and slipped into the huge room. Everyone looked at her disapprovingly. She darted over to where her father sat, at the head of the long table.
The King looked at her questioningly, "Elizabeth, what are you doing in here?"
She took another deep breath, "Father, Jacob has been kidnapped! A small band of soldiers from Ymbrai attacked the village. Jacob and I were trying to fight them off, but they overpowered us and captured Jacob! I escaped and came here as fast as I could to tell you!"
The King stood up, "How many soldiers were there?"
"About thirty," Elizabeth answered.
The King looked at one of the men at the table, "Mayloc, gather our troops. We must go rescue my son."
Elizabeth laid her hand on her father’s arm, "Father, I think it would be wise to use stealth to rescue him. You should send someone to the castle of Ymbrai. They can sneak into the castle and locate Jacob and then somehow smuggle him out with them."
The King thought for a moment, "Maybe that would be a good idea. But who would go? It would have to be someone that the guards wouldn’t suspect."
"I can go. He is my brother. And the guards certainly wouldn’t suspect a girl!" Elizabeth said.
"No." the King refused. "I am not going to let you just walk into such danger. Especially by yourself."
"I can take Matthew with me! He is Jacob’s best friend, I am sure he would insist on going anyway." Her father sighed, "Mayloc, send for Matthew."

"Matthew, do you think we’re almost there?" Elizabeth asked. "How far is it from Azmi to Ymbrai?"
"I think it is about two hours," Matthew replied. "We took off from Azmi an hour and a half ago. We are going to have to land soon so that no one will see us from the castle. Actually, we should probably land right now, your dragon seems to be getting tired."
They found a big open field where they could safely land. Once they were on the ground again, Matthew got out his compass.
"Ymbrai is North of Azmi, we’re facing North right now and Azmi is South of us. So obviously we just need to go north."
Elizabeth laughed, "That is exactly what I was going to say!"
So they started walking north. Soon they could see the castle in the distance. It was very large and imposing.
Matthew suddenly stopped, "Elizabeth, we have not thought of a plan yet."
Elizabeth stopped too, "I did think of one. I do not suppose it will work to try to sneak in a window or anything. It is too obvious. So somehow we need to convince the guards to let us in. I decided that I need to have an injury, and then you can act like we need help. So maybe if we both act desperate enough, they will let us in."
"What kind of injury?" Matthew asked. "It would not be very convincing if you just acted sick or in pain. They would have to be able to see something."
Elizabeth sat down on the grass, they were in a little grove of trees where no one should be able to see them from the castle. "I know, so I am going to give myself a cut with my sword." She rolled her pants leg up to her knee.
Matthew shook his head, "No Elizabeth, I am not going to let you do that. Your father told me to take care of you, and watching you hurt yourself would not be considered doing that. Your plan is very good though, so maybe I can cut myself instead."
"That would not work," Elizabeth said. "Whoever has the cut will need to lean on someone, you are quite a lot bigger than me and it would be difficult for me to support you. Plus, I would be better at looking helpless."
Matthew sighed, "Fine, but make sure that it is not too deep."
Elizabeth was about to draw her sword, but decided to use her dagger instead. She pressed it into her calf and drew it across quickly. It definitely hurt, but it didn’t feel too terrible.
"Do you have something to wrap around it? I should have thought of that before!" she said.
Matthew ripped a strip of his cloak. He knelt beside her and wrapped it around the wound. Then he helped her to her feet.
Elizabeth laughed, "I am not going to have any trouble limping!"

Eventually, the two reached the castle. The whole way there, Matthew had been practicing acting frantic. Elizabeth didn’t have to act like she was in pain, though.
They were at the door now, there were two sentinels posted there. They drew their swords when they saw Matthew and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was leaning heavily on Matthew.
Matthew held his hand out to signify that he came in peace. "Please let us come in! My friend has a bad wound and she needs medical attention."
The guards looked at each other and then one of them said, "Do you have any weapons?"
Matthew helped Elizabeth sit down on the ground, then he took his sword out of the sheath on his back and laid it on the ground. Elizabeth took her dagger and sword and put them next to his. Matthew had a dagger hidden in his cloak, but they needed to have some kind of protection, so he kept it.
The first guard nodded and said, "Come with me."
They followed him inside the castle. He led them to another man, and told him to take them to the physician. Then the guard left. The man signaled for them to follow him.
When they were in a corridor with no other people and only a few doors, Matthew helped Elizabeth lean against a wall, and then sneaked up behind the man and hit him in the back of the head. The man slumped and Matthew let him down gently to the floor. Then he went back and got Elizabeth. They went back to the entryway and started to look for the dungeon. They figured that was most likely where Jacob was.
Elizabeth and Matthew were starting to get worried, they had been looking for at least an hour and they could not find the dungeon.
"I think we have been wandering around for six hours!" Matthew exaggerated.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes, "Matthew, it has only been one hour! But seriously, I think I really do need some medical attention."
"You cannot find the physician?" a voice said.



well, i hope you enjoyed it! don't worry, i will post the rest of it, i won't leave you hanging, lol. i should make it more exciting:

who is the owner of the mysterious voice?
will Elizabeth and Matthew ever find Jacob?
is Jacob even alive?
find out tomorrow in the next episode of 'unnamed story'!

there. now are you dying to read the rest?! lol =)

oh yeah, ok, this has nothing to do with the story, but i would just like to say that, chris rice is now my favorite singer! i just love his music!!!! i'd like to point out a few of my favorite songs by him that i have on my playlist:

'lemonade'
'smile'
'everything's ok'
'smell the color nine'
'the face of christ'
'the best song ever'
and then this song isn't written by chris rice, but he sings it 'come to Jesus'.

ok, sorry, i know that was random, but i've had his song in my head for like, a week. i just love him!

anyway, um......let's see......ok, i don't have anything else to post about....wait! i just remembered, flannel and frappucino is on friday nite!!!!!! i'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!! i've been looking forward to it ever since last year! ok, just in case you weren't reading my blog last year at this time, the 'flannel and frappucino film festival' is a youth group activitiy we do at our church. we are supposed to wear flannel pants, and we watch a movie. but it's like a drive-in theater b/c if you want to, you can make a cardboard car. and they make 'parking spots' with tape on the gymn floor. it's even a contest to see who has the most creative, most functional, and cutest cars! i think those are the categories, not sure though. i'll have to see on friday. last year, mine was pretty lame. but it was also pretty big, so erin and i both sat in it to watch the movie. it was kinda comfy! and i liked the shape of it, but i didn't like the colors. this year i'm making a suitcase. ok, i know that's not a car, but hey, last year someone made a BANANA! so a suitcase isnt' that big a deal. and since erin is gonna be going to it with us, we wanted to make a car together, but she didn't have time to come over. but then we found out that she was coming over after school on wednesday! i've already gotten alot done on my car though, so she's gonna make another suitcase to go inside it (you know how suitcase sets come like that, a bunch of suitcases inside each other)! i'm not positive it's gonna work though, b/c first i have to finish the big suitcase, and then i'm gonna have to draw the design on the other box so we can just paint it when she comes over. but the thing is, the box was the one that my dad's leaf blower came in, and it's bright red with 'troy-bilt' written all over it (i think that's the brand). so yeah, idk if the red will show through the paint or not. we'll see...
ok, sorry that was so long! =)
ipmt!!!

~beth