Hysteria in the Hidden World teaser

Chapter 0

Snoring filled the spaceship as a blanket-covered lump wiggled on one of the couches. Next to the couch, a flesh-eating orchid was also napping.

"So what now?" Red asked as he shoved some leftover popcorn into his mouth.

"No clue," Maniac shrugged from behind the steering wheel. "We'll probably need to find a place big enough to house Vikings and dragons."

"Why can't we use the cavern again?" Red asked.

"Isn't that a bit cliche?" Maniac asked. "We're going to be doing the last movie."

"True…. And… WATCH OUT!" Red suddenly screamed as the ship careened out of the way of an asteroid. "Where did that come from?!"

Maniac looked at the navigation console and frowned. "Weird. There is supposed to be a solar system here."

"AGAIN WATCH OUT!" Red shouted again as the ship entered an asteroid belt. There was turbulence as the ship zipped through the belt.

"How old are those maps you've been using?" Red asked with suspicion.

"They shouldn't be that old!" Maniac defended. "I got them at an intergalactic yard sale and the guy assured me they were one of a kind!"

"One of a kind indeed." Red muttered and then looked back at the sleeping lump. "She sleeps through anything huh?"

"Can you blame Vala? She had too much fun on Felucia." Maniac grinned.

"We all had too much fun on Felucia." Red stated. "Also why aren't we moving?"

"Huh…. weird….." Maniac mumbled. "Let me enable long-range sensors."

Maniac flicked some buttons and then gulped before turning as white as a sheet. "Uh Oh….."

"That did not sound like a good Uh Oh!" Red groaned.

"I think I know what happened to that solar system."

"Oh really…." Red muttered with a raised brow.

"One very big black hole… check." Maniac stated. "So… uhm…. Any last words?"

"That's it. I'm waking the witch!" Red exclaimed before going over to the sleeping lump. "Yooooooo!" he called out and poked said lump only to get a groan in response.

"NO FOOD UNTIL YOU HELP US OUT HERE!" Red then threatened, causing the sleeping lump to shoot up and shout "WHO DO I TURN INTO A FROG?!"

"Not that!" Red facepalmed. "We have a problem." He then pointed towards the scanners and the sleepy witch clambered from the couch. "If we don't get out of this gravity field then we won't be able to do the third movie."

"Right… uhm… cut the engines." Vala told them.

"But we'll be sucked into the black hole then." Maniac exclaimed.

"And we'll blow up if you overheat them." Vala grumbled.

Maniac reluctantly cut the engines and the witch snapped her fingers causing a portal to open between the ship and the black hole.

"You could have told me you were going to do that!" Maniac shouted as they twisted through the portal until they were spat out into a very large glowing cavern.

"Where did we land?" Red asked as he was in the arms, or leaves, of the flesh-eating orchid.

"Who knows." Vala shrugged. "But we should get this place ready for our guests."