The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 23.5: Time Paradox

Part 3/11

“Wahhhh, wew wew wew wew,” Neddy snored. He twisted and turned, until he noticed that he felt a large, scaly snout on his legs. He blinked his eyes, looked back, and his eyeballs nearly popped out the sockets at the sight. Even without his glasses, he saw a Sarcosuchus sleeping peacefully atop his legs.

“Uh oh-”

“Neddy, OMG thank goodness you’re awake, I thought you were done for!” a voice whispered. Neddy looked up to see a girl wearing an elegant red dress adorned with gems with her hands placed on her mouth.

“Uhhh, Ruby??” Neddy guessed. Ruby smiled.

“Yeah, yeah it’s me,” Ruby smirked as she leaned against a doorway.

“Are you going to help me out?” Neddy asked, “I think I’m trapped beneath the snout of a very very dangerous, possibly hungry man-eater. I’d prefer to get out of here as soon as possible!”

“Of course, of course,” Ruby whispered back. She tippy-toed over to Neddy’s legs, crouched down, and gently lifted the beast’s snout off Neddy’s legs. He wiggled away, and Ruby laid its snout onto the floor.

“Whew, thanks for that Ruby,” Neddy thanked Ruby, “Now should we get out of here?”

“Yes, I think we should.”

The two quickly creeped out the doorway and into a dining room. The walls were made of glass panes and they could see out into a gentle man-made river. They were in a boathouse.

“Hey this house is pretty nice,” Neddy commented as he blinked rapidly.

“It’s dark, huh? It’s even a little hard for me to see,” Ruby realized, “I want to make a torch, or anything really but for some reason, I can’t fathom the idea of even making one.”

“What do you mean? You can make anything!”

“Neddy, I don’t know what was happening to us in our sleep, but when I woke up I saw we were traveling through this weird void. I saw four other people falling too. Aurora, Samuel, Ben, and the girl with orange hair.”

“So we’re not alone in this. But where else could they be?”

“I don’t know, but we’re going to have to find out. Maybe we can find some people, they’ll know if they saw any emo girls and emo boys and orange-haired girls and, well, you get the point,” Ruby declared with closed eyes.

So with that plan set, the two headed out the presumably front door, and noticed a large gathering of people walking toward a large manor. They were all wearing formal attire.

“Hey, I think they’re going somewhere,” Neddy pointed at them, “I guess we should follow them.”

There were a few lamp posts that followed the stone paths, and Ruby noticed that Neddy was wearing a white dress shirt and black bowtie. He was also wearing black dress pants. Neat.

“I don’t know if you look like a gentleman or a nerd,” Ruby said as she looked Neddy up and down. Then she grinned, “I guess you look more like the former.”

“HA HA,” Neddy laughed boisterously, “Wait, really?”

“Yeah dude, you look snazzy!” Ruby said while slugging his shoulder playfully.

The two continued to laugh the night away. Even with this crazy situation going on, it wasn’t that bad if the two were together in it. It would never be that bad.

Yeah, it was pretty nice, actually.