Afternoon Adventure Part 2

Once again Kate has been up to here writings and has left out some very important information to our little adventure. So here's the story:

So there the girls stood looking fabulous in their cloaks, (why any of them is single is still one of the greatest mysterious of the universe.) Sorry back to the story....So there stood the girls in the midst of a storm, the sky a shade of black that would make fashion designers drool. Kristen being of the curious nature knelt down to the chest that had just been given to them by the sinister figure and started to pick the lock (one of her many talents). "NO!!" screamed Heidi as she flung herself dramatically across it. "What the...?" Kristen exclaim as she jumped back chest. "Something tells me we should wait. Unless it contains the still-beating heart of a divine aquatic legend, we'll have no clue what to do with anything inside." stated Heidi in her matter of a fact voice. Though Kate was excited about any possibility that something could be connected Jonny Depp's character Captain Jack Sparrow....they agreed it was highly unlikely ( Kate somewhat begrudgingly). But since it was in line with the Damsels in Distress Code (DDC) written in the early 80's they were to avoid opening an enchanter's kit since it would give them an unfair advantage and thus scare off any knights in shining white armor seeking to rescue them (not to say the couldn't save themselves from most situation with their many talents...its just nice to be rescued sometimes).

So off the girls set with the chest in hand. It did not take long for the girls to come across the Flirtatious Frenchman ( who oddly enough had a English accent...) leaning against a fence post in a nonchalant manner. "Hello Ladies," smiled slyly the Frenchman "and where would you three be off today on this stormy afternoon?"

"Oh....um well we are off to visit an old friend" stated Kate feeling abit uncomfortable because she was so unsure of what to think of the Flirtatious Frenchman other then he was eccentric.

"Oui? Let me escort you there, since it is most dangereous for you to be out on your own in this weather...you never know who you may run into, my darlings." Heidi and Kristen being wise in the ways of the Frenchman (and had once seen him in a pink shrit which in Kristen's mind was one of the top signs to be wary of such an indivdual) were able to resist his charm having had lots of experience with him. "Why thank you for your kindness but we must insisted that we go on alone," Heidi said nudging the other girls to get moving.

"Very well...till we meet again" the Flirtateous Frenchman bowing to the girls.

The deeper they moved into the woods, the darker it got. Luckily for them, Heidi (being the prepared one) had brought a lantern. Suddenly Kate screamed "heaven help us!!!" for out of the shadows (can you have shadows on exceedling stormy days?) came a band of about eight screaming robbers who had an unusally advanced ability in Kung-fu (later we found out they all belonged to the local King-fu Film society and had learned all of their moves from the movies). Heidi, who rarely worries about anything, stated calmly, "Well this is a problem." Kristen agreed with the whole inconvience of the situation. And while Kristen and Kate distracted with moves they had learned in their Belly Dance Arobic Classes, Heidi got her stun bow and arrows out ( the girls dislike any type of violence) and shot all the men with the exception of the leader, whom Kristen and Kate had managed to tie to a tree.

"Who are you? And who sent you?!!" Heidi being highly trained in interrogation methods

asked the robber.

"Tim the Enchanter!" cried the Robber to the puzzlement of the girls.

"Something is not right here," whispered Kristen to Heidi and Kate, who looked at her with agreement.

" Tim sent you to waylay us?" asked Kristen doubtfully

" No! No of course not. He sent us to deliver a message," said the robber as he shook his head trying to reach for something in his pocket.

"He sent a band of robbers to deliver a message" stated Kate with another look of puzzlement on her face.

"Well what can I say? The robbing business has been a little slow lately so we have a had to do moonlight on the side, doing some temp work," the robber said with a forlorn look on his face.

"What's the message?" Asked Heidi impatient to get on with the task at hand.

"Here!" The robber handed them what appeared to be a gum wrapper.

"Come to the field behind the old castle ruins. Bring hostess gift."

"What on earth?" Kate mumbled. "A hostess gift? Are we going to an evening affair?" "That's going to require a change in wardrobe," Kristen said, and the others heartily agreed.

One Hour Later

The girls looking even more stunning than usual in ballgowns and walked gracefully towards the old castle ruins. Candles lit up the area (the storm having temporaily stopped since the girls had changed into their ballgowns which Heidi had brought in her cloak...what can we say she comes prepared) and a string quartet played soft music. The girls having been on many adventures where well aware that this was a trap (reason to be explained later).

"Enchanté" purred the Flirtateous Frenchman as he came up behind the girls.

"Ladies Ladies" cried the sinister figure coming toward them and the Frenchman gave him a nasty look which he ignored. " You made it...splendid!!"

"What is going on here?" Kristen on able to restrain herself (again curiousity gets the best of her) from finding out what excuse they were using for the trap.

"Why, we are celebrating of course!" cried the sinister figure with a huge grin on his face.

"Celebrating? Celebrating what?" said Heidi who had remained silent till this moment.

"Why, Tim the Enchanter has been found!!" Said the Flirtateous frenchman, who had been annoying Kate to the point she deleted him out of her online journal (the worst of punishments in Kate's mind).

At this point some menial character in this story brought them goblets and they drank (know of course that it was poisoned...but each had built up an immunity to poisons from around the world).

"Let's dance in celebration," cried the handsome sinister figure grabbing Heidi, the Frenchman grabbing Kristen and some other menial character who might have been one of the robbers grabbed Kate.

"Yes let's!" stated Kate looking at her partner who had an intriging scar on his chin (a scar always is attractive in Kate's books).

It wasn't until the watlz had ended that the men realised the girls had tricked them and now had them at stun bow and arrow point (you can fit alot under the skirt of a ballgown).

" No Fair!!" cried the sinister figure.

" Nothing is fair in love and war, darling" Said Kate with a smirk on her face. "Don't be too cross"

"How did you know it was a trap?!"

"Who in heaven's name has an outdoor ball in spring..in England!!!!" Kristen pointed out.

Heidi concurred, then said with a laugh, "Because it looked like a set up and felt like a set up. When a perfect stranger invites you to an evening affair in an eerie location when you ought to be on a mission, it's usually a good sign that something's afoot."

"Rats! I thought the enchanter's kit would have done you in, but you did not open it," said the sinister figure. "It wasn't until the Flirtateous Frenchman reported that you were still on the way that we had to go to plan B."

"It was a good try though," said Kristen. "Maybe we could give you some pointers for the future."

Suddenly they heard a thumping sound and a cry came from behind a tree "Help!!!" the girls securing the menial character, sinister figure and the Flirtateous Frenchman with rope. They ran over and found Tim the Enchanter tied to the tree. Heidi, pulling out her army knife, cut Tim free.

"Thank goodness your here just in time. If you had arrived any later I was not going to make it home for Ugly Betty!" Tim cried.

"Ugly Betty!!" Kate shouted. Kristen looked at her watch and hit her head with her hand, saying, "girls we have to go! It's on it ten minutes. Let's go!"

So off the girls set, and that ended another adventure