Chapter 9.
A/N: Ah! I can't believe how long it's been since I've updated! So sorry
all. Anyhow I hope this next chapter was worth waiting for, please R&R.
Disclaimer: I no own okay? Good now that's that's over with on with the story... **************************************************************************** ********** Jon sat in shock as he looked around him. Panicking he thought to himself okay, so I'm in the past. Must not change the past, bad things could happen, oh but if I'm in the past then this has already happened, so I'm not changing things... Ah! Too confusing, okay must be calm. Calm. I wonder how people would react if I got up and strangled Alex now... No! calm, right... calm, okay now what was that Yamani thing, right. I am stone. Stone, a nice big stone to bash Roger No! Find a happy place... Okay I am calm, I am a calm... oh what can't hurt anything... butterflies! I am a calm butterfly, butterfly... Yes a happy little butterfly.
Alanna sat on the other side of the room with Gary, Raoul and Buri (Alex) quietly figuring out how to keep the ruse up. When they had worked out the perfect plan, one that should change Jon back to the way he used to be, she slipped back into her seat beside him, only to hear him muttering " I am a happy little butterfly." Oh dear, she thought to herself, I think this is a bit much for him.
"Uh, Jon? " she said, poking him, "are you o-kay?" "Wha? Oh yes fine-I'm fine." He said quickly.
Then Jon look at her and went back into shock. In fact, he was so out of it that when Sir Myles was asking questions about history he answered things like "The great Market Riot" or "the Immortals War" and received odd looks. In fact when he was asked who the last female knight in Tortall's history was , and when she was knighted he answer Keladry of Midelan, 459 he. At this Myles asked him if he wished to go see a healer, while the rest of the class sniggered and Alanna said, "Uh, Jon, you do realize that's about 20 years from now?" "Uh, Oh. Sorry I'm really out of it today. " He said. "Yah I noticed." And so that day continued. By the end of the day Jon was having fun. He had forgot how great it was just to hang out with his friends. He had lost that in the future, but here, in the past, why everything was different. At the end of the day the old group was all back in Jon's room. He sat on the bed gratefully, remembering his closet from the future. Everyone chatted of all sorts of things, remembering fun times, and thinking of things to do on the upcoming weekend. Eventually everyone had drifted off, except for Alanna. "So Jon "she said what do you think you'll do when you grow up and become king? I know it's not for a long time, but have you got any ideas?" she asked. Jon sighed and thought of what would happen in the next couple years. Then he responded. " I'm going to have a great kingdom, where women are allowed to be knights, and are allowed in the army." He said. "I'm going to try and make peace with all the surrounding countries, I'll have mages research the Immortals, change laws to give commoners more rights and I'll see Tortal into the golden age." "Wow," replied Alanna, "That sounds great! More women warriors." "Just don't forget me while your off on famous quests." He laughed. "Don't worry Jon. We'll always be friends. Well it's getting late I'll see you in the morning." Jon sigh as Alanna left. He wished they would always be friends. It was all his fault. If only he hadn't been such a prig. As he sank down into a troubled sleep, He didn't realize outside, a bunch of his friends had been reading his thought, and were now giving each other high fives and congratulating themselves on their brilliant plan to make him realize the error of his ways. Soon they set to work in rearranging furniture back to the way it used to be, dismantling illusion spells, and putting Jon into a deep sleep as they dragged him back to his closet. They quickly finished up so they were ready for morning. It had taken the cooperation of almost the entire palace, but it was worth it. Quickly they headed back to their own rooms. **************************************************************************** ********** Jon woke up stiffly and sat up quick, thumping his head on the low ceiling of his "room". Wow, had it all been a dream? He wondered. But it had seemed so real. He got ready carefully so as not to bump his head and shoved the door open, heading for breakfast. **************************************************************************** ********** The pages and squires were treated to a very unusual sight that morning. When they entered the mess hall they were greeted by the sight of one very disgruntled looking King sitting next to his wide awake cheerful looking prime minister, who was sitting next to a dozing Raoul, who was sitting next to an uncomfortable-looking Buri who happened to be sitting next to one VERY grumpy looking lioness whose hand was fingering her sword hilt with longing and her purple eyes were so intense they made most of the pages and squires gulp. A few of the braver squires went and took seats at the tables farthest from the group. Others hurried to do like wise. When a extremely nervous page took one of the last seats in the hall, which happened to be by Alanna, he eyed her nervously and she snapped "I don't bite you know." Gary smiled encouragingly at the youngster and said "Alanna move your hand away from your sword. And your daggers, and your knives, and whatever other weapons you're carrying. Don't worry she won't hurt you. She's actually in a good mood." This earned Gary a hard kick in the legs. He should have known better then to move to a seat beside her and then tease her. She was defiantly NOT in a good mood. Meanwhile Jon was thinking, Oh no I think that really DID happen, because this seemed very familiar. "Don't worry," she told the page " I'm not angry I'm just not a morning person." She informed him. The page just stared at her. And Jon stared too, that was definitely different. " What's your name?" she asked " D-d-darren of W-w-ellam m'lady uh, baroness, uh Lioness uh Sir?" he replied nervously. " Well Darren of Wellam, don't worry about us, we'll be here for a week. We got in trouble because we played this great prank. Duke Gareth, not Gary, Duke Gareth the Elder, he was our training master, he sent us here for punishment." She told him. Was he imagining things? This seemed to be going in a whole other direction. " You can still get in trouble from the training master when you're a knight?" Darren asked astonished. Raoul groaned. "You never escape it. Jon even tried to pull the royal command and get us out of it, but he just got himself and extra mathematics." The idea of anyone talking back to the King seemed unlikely to Darren. "Yah, it was a good try Jon, too bad it didn't work" she said. At this Jon just stared. Wasn't she going to yell at him, or hurt him or something? Breakfast when on nicely, with no fights and everyone getting along fine. Well what do you know, he thought, it looks like I've been given another chance. This seemed like the beginning of a bright future. Alanna then stopped listening to his thoughts. Excellent. She thought. Now things are just how the should be , except she thought with an inner groan, she had to go to mathematics. Ugh! Well, at least she had a brilliant new plan. With a smile she made sure the frog was still safely in her pocket, and laughing, followed her friends to class. A bright future indeed...
A/N : The end! I think... I might do some kind of sequel, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I hope everyone's liked this story, and I'd like to give a big thanks to all of my reviewers. Loads of Laughs, Kate.
Disclaimer: I no own okay? Good now that's that's over with on with the story... **************************************************************************** ********** Jon sat in shock as he looked around him. Panicking he thought to himself okay, so I'm in the past. Must not change the past, bad things could happen, oh but if I'm in the past then this has already happened, so I'm not changing things... Ah! Too confusing, okay must be calm. Calm. I wonder how people would react if I got up and strangled Alex now... No! calm, right... calm, okay now what was that Yamani thing, right. I am stone. Stone, a nice big stone to bash Roger No! Find a happy place... Okay I am calm, I am a calm... oh what can't hurt anything... butterflies! I am a calm butterfly, butterfly... Yes a happy little butterfly.
Alanna sat on the other side of the room with Gary, Raoul and Buri (Alex) quietly figuring out how to keep the ruse up. When they had worked out the perfect plan, one that should change Jon back to the way he used to be, she slipped back into her seat beside him, only to hear him muttering " I am a happy little butterfly." Oh dear, she thought to herself, I think this is a bit much for him.
"Uh, Jon? " she said, poking him, "are you o-kay?" "Wha? Oh yes fine-I'm fine." He said quickly.
Then Jon look at her and went back into shock. In fact, he was so out of it that when Sir Myles was asking questions about history he answered things like "The great Market Riot" or "the Immortals War" and received odd looks. In fact when he was asked who the last female knight in Tortall's history was , and when she was knighted he answer Keladry of Midelan, 459 he. At this Myles asked him if he wished to go see a healer, while the rest of the class sniggered and Alanna said, "Uh, Jon, you do realize that's about 20 years from now?" "Uh, Oh. Sorry I'm really out of it today. " He said. "Yah I noticed." And so that day continued. By the end of the day Jon was having fun. He had forgot how great it was just to hang out with his friends. He had lost that in the future, but here, in the past, why everything was different. At the end of the day the old group was all back in Jon's room. He sat on the bed gratefully, remembering his closet from the future. Everyone chatted of all sorts of things, remembering fun times, and thinking of things to do on the upcoming weekend. Eventually everyone had drifted off, except for Alanna. "So Jon "she said what do you think you'll do when you grow up and become king? I know it's not for a long time, but have you got any ideas?" she asked. Jon sighed and thought of what would happen in the next couple years. Then he responded. " I'm going to have a great kingdom, where women are allowed to be knights, and are allowed in the army." He said. "I'm going to try and make peace with all the surrounding countries, I'll have mages research the Immortals, change laws to give commoners more rights and I'll see Tortal into the golden age." "Wow," replied Alanna, "That sounds great! More women warriors." "Just don't forget me while your off on famous quests." He laughed. "Don't worry Jon. We'll always be friends. Well it's getting late I'll see you in the morning." Jon sigh as Alanna left. He wished they would always be friends. It was all his fault. If only he hadn't been such a prig. As he sank down into a troubled sleep, He didn't realize outside, a bunch of his friends had been reading his thought, and were now giving each other high fives and congratulating themselves on their brilliant plan to make him realize the error of his ways. Soon they set to work in rearranging furniture back to the way it used to be, dismantling illusion spells, and putting Jon into a deep sleep as they dragged him back to his closet. They quickly finished up so they were ready for morning. It had taken the cooperation of almost the entire palace, but it was worth it. Quickly they headed back to their own rooms. **************************************************************************** ********** Jon woke up stiffly and sat up quick, thumping his head on the low ceiling of his "room". Wow, had it all been a dream? He wondered. But it had seemed so real. He got ready carefully so as not to bump his head and shoved the door open, heading for breakfast. **************************************************************************** ********** The pages and squires were treated to a very unusual sight that morning. When they entered the mess hall they were greeted by the sight of one very disgruntled looking King sitting next to his wide awake cheerful looking prime minister, who was sitting next to a dozing Raoul, who was sitting next to an uncomfortable-looking Buri who happened to be sitting next to one VERY grumpy looking lioness whose hand was fingering her sword hilt with longing and her purple eyes were so intense they made most of the pages and squires gulp. A few of the braver squires went and took seats at the tables farthest from the group. Others hurried to do like wise. When a extremely nervous page took one of the last seats in the hall, which happened to be by Alanna, he eyed her nervously and she snapped "I don't bite you know." Gary smiled encouragingly at the youngster and said "Alanna move your hand away from your sword. And your daggers, and your knives, and whatever other weapons you're carrying. Don't worry she won't hurt you. She's actually in a good mood." This earned Gary a hard kick in the legs. He should have known better then to move to a seat beside her and then tease her. She was defiantly NOT in a good mood. Meanwhile Jon was thinking, Oh no I think that really DID happen, because this seemed very familiar. "Don't worry," she told the page " I'm not angry I'm just not a morning person." She informed him. The page just stared at her. And Jon stared too, that was definitely different. " What's your name?" she asked " D-d-darren of W-w-ellam m'lady uh, baroness, uh Lioness uh Sir?" he replied nervously. " Well Darren of Wellam, don't worry about us, we'll be here for a week. We got in trouble because we played this great prank. Duke Gareth, not Gary, Duke Gareth the Elder, he was our training master, he sent us here for punishment." She told him. Was he imagining things? This seemed to be going in a whole other direction. " You can still get in trouble from the training master when you're a knight?" Darren asked astonished. Raoul groaned. "You never escape it. Jon even tried to pull the royal command and get us out of it, but he just got himself and extra mathematics." The idea of anyone talking back to the King seemed unlikely to Darren. "Yah, it was a good try Jon, too bad it didn't work" she said. At this Jon just stared. Wasn't she going to yell at him, or hurt him or something? Breakfast when on nicely, with no fights and everyone getting along fine. Well what do you know, he thought, it looks like I've been given another chance. This seemed like the beginning of a bright future. Alanna then stopped listening to his thoughts. Excellent. She thought. Now things are just how the should be , except she thought with an inner groan, she had to go to mathematics. Ugh! Well, at least she had a brilliant new plan. With a smile she made sure the frog was still safely in her pocket, and laughing, followed her friends to class. A bright future indeed...
A/N : The end! I think... I might do some kind of sequel, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I hope everyone's liked this story, and I'd like to give a big thanks to all of my reviewers. Loads of Laughs, Kate.