Chapter 1

Mary Katherine or just Mk as she liked to be called was lying on her bed and reading one of her father's boring books. Her father had suggested it for her to read since she didn't have anything better to do, but after a while she just couldn't concentrate on reading anymore. "Oh my god!" She said to herself of boredom and threw the book across the room, not bothering if her father's book got damaged or not.

It had been exactly four years since she had been shrunk and thrown into a whole new world in the forest with adventure and danger. The adventure of helping the leafmen and the Jinn from the Boggans and their leader Mandrake, and protected the pod that the last queen of the forest had given to her to protect until it would be able to find the leafmen's new queen. It had been an incredible adventure, and she had made lots of new friends too. It had been a big exciting adventure for her that had changed her life, but right now compared to that time it felt like the whole world had stopped.

MK just lay in her bed and stared up at the wall, thinking of what had happened in the forest four years ago. She had found love on her adventure too. The young leafman called Nod that had been at the same age as her. When she had been transformed back to her normal size and become what they called a stomper again, she and Nod had been speaking together through her father's cameras. She had talked to Mud and Grub a little too, and of course Mud was trying to flirt with her as he always did. But after some a while it seemed like they just started to talk less and less with each other and now after so long she didn't get to talk with any of her leaf friends, and it made MK a bit sad thinking about it. "Maybe he found someone else…..a leafgirl maybe." MK said and threw the blanket over herself. "NO! Don't think like that!" She thought loudly to herself and shook her head.

In the end she and Nod was from two different worlds. Even if they weren't so far from each other, they still couldn't be together like a normal couple.

She could feel that she was starting to get depressed at the thought and just wanted to sleep, but before she could get some sleep she heard a dog bark right below her bed. "What is it Ozzi?" She said and turned her head towards the dog.

Ozzi, who was a very old pug dog, looked at her happily, with his tongue sticking out of his mouth. MK wasn't sure how old he was, and she probably didn't want to know, but he was still a good dog anyway. He knew how to comfort her, or at least she hoped that he was trying to do so.

"Maybe you want to cheer me up a little?" She said and sat on her bed while she bent down to pat his head. "Probably not," She said and laughed a little. He probably didn't understand the reason why she felt so gloomy at all.

Her dad was downstairs and doing research like he always did on the leafmen. He still was very obsessed with them and wanted to know everything he could get to know about them.

She figured out that she couldn't stay in bed all the day and got up from it, and took a look on herself in the mirror. Right now she was just wearing some sweatpants and an old grey t-shirt since it was Sunday and she felt like being lazy, and she didn't have anyone to dress up for anyway. But she figured out that she probably should change before going down.

She went to her closet and just took the first clothes she could see. And when she was finished she was wearing some blue jeans, and a purple t-shirt under a black hoodie. "At least I don't look like a bum now." She thought and smiled to herself, and groomed her hair quickly. Her hair had grown longer since four years ago, and she preferred to just let it loose so it went down below her shoulders.

"Is that you MK?" Her father asked her when she walked down the stairs. He poked his head out from his room and looked at her.

"Of course dad, who else could it be?" She said with a small smile on her face, and walked over to him and gave him a hug. "What are you doing?" She asked a bit curiously.

Her father gave her a big smile and happily started to explain to her. "Right now I'm working on something that could turn those small leafmen to humans!" He said loudly and with an excited voice.

MK wasn't sure if that could ever work, but tried not to make her dad disappointed. "That's great!" She said and held his hands tightly in her own. "I'm sure it will work one day."

MK didn't want her hopes up after hearing about her father's new experiment, since that could mean that maybe one day Nod could turn into a human one day. Her mind got filled with thoughts how Nod would look like if he became a human. Her dad was good, but she didn't know if he was THAT good. It sounded nearly impossible to turn small people like the leafmen to humans.

"I'm sure it will." Her father said hopefully to her. "Are you going outside?"

MK was drawn out of her own fantasy and got back into the reality. "Yeah, I have been kind of lazy, so I thought that maybe I should get some fresh air." She answered him quickly.

Her father ran inside in his room again and quickly came back with a strange helmet in his hand. The helmet was something he had invented so people could see and talk with leafmen, since humans was too slow to talk or see them. "Here, so you can talk with them." He said and put it on her head.

"Thanks dad, but I haven't seen or talked to any of them in ages now." Her father gave her an unsure smile, but fixed the helmet on her head so she now could see and talk in leafmen speed.

"Well, you never know right?" He said a bit unsure to her.

"I guess you are right" She replied and started to walk out of the house with Ozzi following right behind her. "I won't be long." She said and waved to him, and of course he waved back to her before he went back to his own work. Maybe if she was lucky she would find her friends and go on an adventure again. It was not like she wanted to, but she was allowed to wish for it.