Chapter One
EMMA
My Name Is Emma. And Please don't ask me what my last name is Because I don't Know what it is. For all I know it's Miller or Jackson. Or BrocksDotter. I don't who I am. I don't remember my parents at all. Its as if I never had any. But then something inside me tells me I do. Gosh I am starting to sound like Moana. Yes Even if the only friends I have a raccoons I know who Moana is. But this is my story not Moana's. I live under Mrs Pine. And no she ( At least I think its a she" ) is not a married lady. She is a giant pine tree. I use her needles as a bed. And her branches as shade in the summer, And shelter when it rains or snows. When it is really cold out don't ask me what I do. The poor tourists I have sabotaged will tell you though. I'm your ordinary extraordinary orphan. 12 year old animal communicator long Red curly hair that is all tangles orphan. I Lived in an orphanage till I was 8 that's when I escaped. I was one of the ten girls that escaped 8 got caught and brought back for a severe beating. But the two others me and my best friend Holly escaped Holly went to go find her aunt who lived all the way in Brussels Boro. Ages and ages away form MullBerry where the orphanage was. I ran to knowhere in particular but I decided not to go with Holly because living with a LONG LOST aunt it hardly living freely. Don't ask me why Holly was not given to her aunt long ago. Ask Mrs Brocolini The head orphanage keeper. She knows. Oh yes she does. I soon had found myself at a huge tourist attraction (Well huge for the tiny town of Mullberry) It was called Mulberry Mansion a huge stone building with gargoils and statues. And miles of perfect green lawn. The Royal Cole family had lived there long ago. The mother and father where duchess and dukes. Their One child Ada, Who might I add looks practically exactally like me. I know for her stone carving is in the back of the mansion the safest place to go snooping and tourist coat stealing. The Rangers can't find you there. Well not easily. If you are plump and round it would be easy but I am not exactly round and plump in fact I am quite the opposite. You might wonder what I eat but I would really appreciate it if you stop wondering. Just ask the raccoons and the garbage can or occasilonly the picnicking tourists. The mansion had closed for tours for the day. but the rangers are still here. They are always here. Today I am feeling especially hungry. The Raccoons had most of the feast yesterday night. I look around for any tourists with food. But unfortaunlly the only people eating lunch are the rangers. I looked harder and I see something crazy. The key to the back door to the mansion was in the lock. The rangers had accedentily left the key there. I could not believe it. In the four years I have lived on the Mansions grounds this never had happened. Then again they had just hired a new ranger named Buli. This was my chance to get a good look inside the mansion while the rangers ate. The only problem was no matter how slyly I sneaked bye they would most likely see me. Especially Cara the one ranger who was always looking and seeing me. Of course I ran away and every time I made it. Buli the Ranger who most likely left the key in the door, Would not see me but one ranger seeing me was One too many. I quickly thought up a plan. I admit it is not the brightest plan but its the best one I have. If I don't look at the rangers then I won't see them and If I can't see them they can't see me. its a stupid plan I admit but the orphan in me made me make the dash. I ran faster than I ran when I race the rabbits which let me tell you is fast. Thats another thing about me. I am very very fast. The rangers caught sight of me right as I reached the door. It was probably stupid to make a dash I should of slyly walked. They where running at me fast all of them except Buli. Buli sat at the wooden picnic table eating a sandwich. I quickly turned key to the right. Nothing. I did not know which way to turn the lock but I guess I do know. I can practically smell Cara's perfume. Or at least I think she wears perfume. She looks as if she does. I turn it left click it unlocks. I rush in inches before Cara. Who of course is ahead of all the other Rangers. I search the room seconds where all I had to make my move. In the nick of time I spotted a small white door in the wall. it was just past a huge fireplace. It most likely had been long long ago a laundry shoot. I started to run toward it but a icy hand grabbed my shoulder. "I finally got you little red head gall" Cara's voice iced its way into my ear. "Not for long Cara" I said cooly right back at her. Then I whistled a loud clear shrill whistle. She started pull me out the door when Good old Mongoose Johnny and Piper appeared at the front of the door. Blocking Cara. "Shew you ugly rascals shew" Cara cried her voice shaking. For as tough as Cara seemed to be. Under all that makeup there was fear. Fear of raccoons. I had found out this fear a long while ago when she had run away form Mongoose in the night. I laughed "Cara don't be scared these are just my good friends. Might I add my only friends, Mongoose, Johnny and Piper." Piper the smallest of the raccoons made the first leap into attack. she and her brothers bit and tore at Cara till Cara screamed and let me go. The other rangers had all just stood and watched the scene in fear. Apparently they had fear of Raccoons too. Or of a girl who talked to them. Because when Cara ran away they all ran away too. I Nodded my head to Mongoose Johnny and Piper. "Thanks guys!" "Anytime Emma! We are sorry for eating most of your dinner last night!" They apologized to me guiltily "Its okay guys see ya around!" I said this as they bolted off. How wrong I was when I said that for I would not see my beloved friends for a long while after that. I knew that the rangers would be back sooner than later. So instead of exploring the mansion I crawled into the small white laundry Shute. It turned out it was a small room. Which was odd. What could such a tiny room been used for? back in the days? a small skinny 5 foot girl like me could barely do a turn in it while on her knees. It is very costerfobic here. I am so used to sleeping and living in the open air that suddenly being in a tiny room really brings you to your senses. My imagination started to run wild. I locked the tiny white door from the inside. Which was also odd that you could do that. But just as I finished locking it I heard voices I heard Steven the ranger and Ben the ranger. I even heard Cara. They had come back into the room and where muttering something about the three rascals being gone. I had been so caught up in Imagining things about the room, that I had not even looked around fully. The room was dark but there was enough light through the cracks under and above the tiny door to see that one of the walls had a handle on it. which meant that there was a passage way behind it. This was getting odder and odder. I heard footsteps coming closer to the door. And then some one soon grabbed the handle probably Cara.
"She's locked the blasted thing from the inside! she has get the back up key! I knew we should of sealed up this little odd room years ago!" I heard more footsteps. going away from me. I needed to act fast. So I did what any 12 year old animal communicator orphan curly red head girl would do. I Opened the door in the wall. A long passage way is what greeted my eyes. It looked like it was very long. And it was very dark. There was barely enough room enough for me to squeeze into it. And I am practically as skinny as a stick. Once however I had squeezed in it was so catastrophic and slim in every way it felt as though I was being squished. And that was not even the worst of it on top of being pitch black dark and super slim. The tunnel was getting smaller and slimmer not wider. Just when I thought I could not move another inch or I would get stuck Sudden light came out of nowhere and shone into an entrance into a large cozy room. The only problem was I had to squish myself flat if i was ever to make it there the hole was just so small and even though you never saw a thinner girl than me the hole was just to small for me but I could not go back and I would starve to death if I just stood here. It was agony in its most deathly form seeing such a large warm cozy room right in front of me and not being able to get there. I never stopped to think about the fact why there was a giant room under the Mulberry Mansion. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that this room was not under mulberry mansion it was in the middle of it. The tunnel never went down or up the more I thought I realized that this room was a secret room in the heart of the Mansion. But why would you build such a large room in the middle of the mansion it made no sense. The closer I looked at the room the more no sense the this situation became the fire was burning as if someone had just tended to it there was no dust anywhere and the lights where all on someone had just been in this room. But who? nobody could ever get to it the way I had. And I doubted there would be another entrance I could get to without getting stuck again or one of the ranger's seeing me. I looked at that room and gave one last push. Just a little push not enough to get me through. I could not believe my eyes after that one push the small tunnel entrance grew just enough for me to squeeze perfectly through. As tumbled into the room a tingle stretched itself across my back. The fall was not more than a couple inches off the ground so It did not hurt. I walked around the room inspecting it. It was well furnished but something other than it being just tended was Erie about it. For some reason It felt old. Not the normal old feeling of old in new era. It felt like old in old- A sudden thud sounded inturpting my thoughts. I turned and looked at the tunnel entrance where the sound had come from. I gasped at what I saw the thing I saw gasped back at me too. The thing I saw was actually a girl. And that Girl was Ada. Ada Cole.
Chapter Two
"Who are you?" "Why hello to you too"
My Name Is Ada. I live In Mulberry Mansion.
you could say I have an Imagination.... But not even my wild Imagination could have Imagined this. Today started out ordinary. My Best Maid Bess dressed me in an ordinary dressed I read my school books with the help of tutor Terry. I played with Dime and Coin my too pony's. And I rode Galaxy My Pitch black white socked mare. I rode her on the usual path. And other than a fawn and it mother seen in a merry meadow nothing unusual happened. When I got home back form riding Galaxy I had Lunch and then It was time to go to the Paramount Palace. Don't be deceived by Paramount Palace's name. Paramount Palace is actually the heart of the mansion it is a single medium sized room built in the exact center of the mansion. And only I know about it. Its my own secret room. You see everyone in the Mansion used to know about it. But Desia wiped the whole mansions memory of it away many years ago. But her magic did not work on me. And to this day I don't know why. However I do know that I love Paramount Palace. Such a cozy room it is!! The secret entrance to Paramount palace Is actually disguised to look like a laundry chut.
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