Miniscule Masters [flex animous/SoothingSolace]

[PinkGinger]

I was the first week of summer and Laurie Anderson was already bored, bored, BORED!! Her closest friends had all gone away for the summer and everyone left just didn't seem worth it. So the seventeen year old girl was wandering around her local downtown area, not really looking for anything. She could probably have found something to do if she really wanted, at least a couple boys wanted to date the curvy, blue-eyed, redhead. Especially dressed like she was, in denim shorts and a v-necked black t-shirt, her wavy hair pulled back in a ponytail.

With a frustrated sight Laurie slumped back against a brick wall. There was nothing to do in this town! Her gaze slide over the scene around her. The girl gasped softly when she spotted the unusual store across the street. How had she never noticed it before? After a quick glance up and down the street, Laurie hurried towards the store. It seemed out of place somehow. When she went inside Laurie found what seemed to be an occult store. The were lots of book, many of them looked really old and a few looked a little newer. Bottles and jars lined shelves behind the glass counter guarded buy a sour looking man in black. He frowned at her but didn't say anything.

Laurie wandered over to the books and began browsing. Nothing jumped out at her so she picked a random book and flipped through it. It was a book of spells! A smile spread across Laurie's face. She'd always sort of believed in a magic. She let the book fall open on a traveling spell. The girl grinned mischievously. Just what she needed! She went towards the counter with the book. "I want this." She set the book on the counter and the clerk raised an eyebrow at her. "Twenty." She replied gruffly rolling his eyes at her. She handed over the money and hurried out with the book.

When Laurie got home she was happy to find her parents were out. She went up to her room and lit a few candles. After she'd created the right mood lighting she made herself comfortable on her bed. Laurie carefully opened the book on her lap, the smile appeared on her face again. She new that logically this couldn't be real, but the part of her that still believed in magic just had to give it a try. She found the traveling spell and ran her hand over the page scanning the words. Laurie took a deep breath and closed her eyes. The she spoke the words out loud.

As soon as she spoke the last word Laurie felt the extremely unpleasant sensation of being jerked through the air. It felt as if someone had grabbed her by the head and was pulling her along at a hundred mile per hour. Laurie didn't open her eyes again until she came to a stop. Her eyes blinked open to the sight of blue sky. She slowly sat up, feeling a little disoriented and looked around. She was in a... field!! The spell had actually worked!!

Laurie suddenly felt queasy and she laid back down in the short grass. Her eyes closed against the bright sky.

 

[SoothingSolace]

The sun was just coming up over a far away hill, basking the world in a dawnish glow. The sound of a hunting horn echoed across the plains, like something you'd hear in an old medieval adventure movie. The sound of horse feet reached her a few moments later and over the next hill she could see a tiny red flag waving about. Slowly the flag rose into view followed by a figure on a horse, then two, five, and before long a dozen armed knights were galloping her way.

As they drew closer their size didn't seem to increase as one might expect of a distant object. Instead, as they drew nearer she'd realize that they were tiny. Miniature horses that would come only to her chest and the metal-clad women atop them, and she could see now that they were women, even smaller than their mounts. They were practically the size of small children. "Halt, beast!" One of them called up to her. The rasp of steel reached her ears as she drew a sword no longer than her forearm and pointed it at her. Several of the nights held crossbows the size of nerf guns while others pointed shinning lances that caught the sun's refleciton at her.

 

[PinkGinger]

By the time Laurie heard the hoof beats her stomach and mind had almost recovered. She sat up carefully and squinted into the distance at the approaching group. It didn't take er long to realize that there was something weird about them. She stood up as they came near. They we're so short! This place was beginning to get weird.

When one of them spoke she was surprised to hear a normal voice, she sort of expected a squeakier voice to come out of that mouth. Laurie almost laughed and a smile tugged on the corners of her lips. "What the hell is this?" The girl asked, sounding a defensive and a little disbelieving. Despite their small size those weapons looked serious. She didn't really thing she should test it.

 

[SoothingSolace]

The one who spoke to her wore a half cape of crimson silk over one shoulder. She had flecks of white salted through her shortly cut brown hair. "Beasts do not question human beings," the diminutive woman shouted up at Laurie. She waved her sword at the massive woman and narrowed her eyes. The remaining soldiers formed a circle around the lost woman, some of them shouldering crossbows to their tiny bodies while others pointed long steel-tipped lances up at her. Despite their short height she could see that most of them were corded with muscle that spoke of long days of hard labor and time training with the weapons they wielded.

The one with the cape, obviously their leader, spoke once more. "You are now the property of the Empire of Angelus. You will be lead back to the capital to work on the palace. Wheather you wish to walk there on your own two feet or have my men drag you is your choice beast."