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Hilda and the Eversing Mirror

Written by Jt and Newgame+ LD

Chapter 1

The Day that it all Happened

Scene 1

Daytime

The Library

"Hmm, where is it?"

Within the local library, Hilda seemed to be having a bit of a problem as she had been spending nearly ten minutes looking for something while being unaware that she was throwing books onto the ground.

Her friends were with her on this fine day. David was mostly sitting at a table next to an unopened book while Frida was simply looking at Hilda's struggles as she was unsure as to what was going on.

"Hilda, what exactly are you looking for because you've been doing this for ten minutes and you do realize that you're leaving a mess right?"

"Sorry about that Frida but I'm just having trouble looking for a specific book." her friend responded before throwing another book onto the ground.

Frida, placing the tossed book onto David's table wasn't sure as to what her friend had meant when mentioning a specific book.

"What kind of book are we talking exactly. One for Sparrow Scouts? Trolls? The History of Trolberg?" She questioned.

"Not exactly," Hilda replied before climbing off the ladder she was using before continuing. "Recently I heard of a rumor."

This caught Frida's attention as she haven't seemed to heard of anything going about throughout town.

"Hold on, what kind of rumor are you referring to here?" she asked

A flashback soon begins as it shows Hilda walking throughout town, simply minding her own business. That was until she heard two men discussing about something.

*Earlier today, I heard two men talking as I was heading towards here. What managed to catch my attention was that one of them heard a rumor about a mirror that's located in the library and that this mirror could somehow, open a portal to somewhere else depending on the type of spell that a person would perform should they happen to find this mirror. The man's friend didn't exactly believe this, but I did.*

The flashback then ends as Hilda takes a short breath of air before finishing her sentence with: "And that's why I'm looking for a spell book that could help me find this mirror and see if that rumor is actually true."

"You think we should ask the Librarian about it?" David suggested right before the Librarian showed up.

"You're not going to find a book about that out here. And please clean up that mess before you go." The Librarian said before leaving the scene.

"Oh, that's right. The Hidden Room. I forgot for a moment." Hilda remembered. "C'mon."

"Hidden Room?" David inquired.

"I'll show you. Follow me." Hilda responded as she went offscreen.

Frida and David had finished stacking the books in an orderly pile and began following Hilda.

Twig began following as well, but something got his attention. Twig noticed something near the Librarian's desk. It had a tarp over it.

He got close for a moment, but then suddenly began growling.

The Library - Hidden Room

"I never knew that this room existed." David mentioned.

"It's where I found that spell book. Surely the book we're looking for is here." Hilda pointed out.

"Now… how are we gonna find this book?" David asked.

"Let's divide and conquer. I'll take the middle. Frida, you take the left. And David, you take the right." Hilda suggested.

They began searching for quite a while. But all to no avail… They were all exhausted.

"You all searched every single shelf?" Hilda asked.

"Yep… but of all the books there, nothing matched what we're trying to find…" Frida answered.

"Maybe it could be in the Nowhere Space." Hilda replied just as Twig entered the room. "Oh. Twig. Where have you been?"

Twig looked a tad distressed.

"C'mon, boy. Let's get out of here." Hilda beckoned.

They exited the Hidden Room and arrived at the main floor. Twig was fixated on the object underneath the tarp.

"What is it, boy?" Hilda asked Twig.

Twig didn't exactly respond and soon began biting on her skirt in order to make sure she knew what he was looking at.

"Hmm."

After a bit of examining, they suddenly saw movement underneath the tarp. Twig twitched as he wasn't sure what seemed to be moving. Curious, Hilda decides to grab the tarp and pull it off revealing what appeared to be a mirror.

They were surprised to see that there was another Deerfox right in front of it. (It looked like a beta design of Twig)

"Another Deerfox?!" Frida remarked.

Twig, confused as to what he was seeing began to examine this similar looking deerfox before the look alike did the same thing.

"But why here of all places?" David asked.

"That I'm not so sure of. Surely something could've caused this to happen." Hilda pondered as the doppelganger looked towards somewhere, their jaw visibly dropping.

"... Leaf! Leaf, where are you?!" A voice echoed. Strangely, it sounded as if it were coming from a boy about Hilda's age.

"Hello? Whoever said that, where are you?" she questioned. But the echoey voice eventually became inaudible.

"Uh, I-I can't hear you." She continued, but there was no response at all.

"I'm going to assume that this Deerfox is called 'Leaf'?" David suggested.

"You're probably right because I haven't seen any other deerfox other than Twig." Hilda stated. "But whatever it's name is, we gotta bring it back to its rightful owner."

"How exactly do we plan on doing that?" Frida inquired.

"We're gonna discover the secret of this mirror!" Hilda concluded.

"Shoot…" The Librarian groaned nearby. "I cannot find that book for the life of me!"

Hilda looked up to see the Librarian visibly confounded. "Well, we don't have it." She mentioned.

"Then where could it be? I'm certain it was in that room for years and I never moved it." The Librarian explained.

"I'm pretty certain I know where it might be." Hilda stated. "We'll be right back."

Hilda leaves with the kids, Twig, and Leaf.

[Commercial Break]

Scene 2

Late Afternoon

Hilda's home

Within their household, Johanna wasn't really doing anything. She seemed to be sitting on the couch while having a little drink. Luckily, time would soon continue as she heard the door open.

"Hi mum!" Hilda greeted.

"Oh Hilda." Johanna responded, pulling Hilda into an embrace. "So, how was the library?"

"It went well, I suppose."

While talking, Leaf came in which caught her mother's attention.

"Hilda, did you get another Deerfox without my knowledge?"

"Not exactly. Rather, we came across this deerfox while me and my friends were at the library. None of us are sure who its owner is yet. Apparently, its name is Leaf." She stated.

"Well, it does look nice. Though, do you know if it's a male or female?" her mother had asked.

"That I'm not so sure of. Anyway, I'm gonna go to my room now." said Hilda before she began heading towards said room, with Twig and Leaf following her from behind.

Once inside her room, Hilda began to think of questions regarding Leaf when a slight little psst got her attention.

"Hilda, why is there another Twig in here?" questioned the little voice revealing to be Alfur.

"I-I can explain." Hilda stammered. Leaf was still shocked at what was going on as she saw Alfur. "Did you hear of the rumor about a mirror that could open a portal to an alternate world?"

"I can't say that I have." Alfur admitted.

"Well I found this Deerfox underneath a tarp that covered a mirror. I have the feeling that the rumor is true."

"Interesting." Alfur remarked.

"The problem is that the Librarian couldn't find the book on it. But that only proves that she knows about it. All we gotta do is find it." Hilda explained.

"If the Librarian can't find it, who can?" Alfur asked.

"Well, we're in good hands." Hilda reassured. "Hey, Tontu!"

"Yes?" Tontu acknowledged as he poked his head out of a wall.

"We're gonna need your help. We need to get to the nowhere space inside the library." Hilda instructed.

*Sigh* "Roger that." Tontu agreed.

Late Afternoon

Library

Hilda arrived with her friends, Leaf and Twig, and Alfur.

"Now, where's a good spot to jump in?" Tontu asked.

"Near the Hidden Room. It can't have gotten far." Hilda replied.

Tontu dragged Hilda behind the bookcases into Nowhere Space. It was a pretty big space with plenty of exits, but a huge pile of books was the first thing they saw.

"Ah no…" Tontu complained. "We'll never find that book…"

"The Librarian might." Hilda suggested.

The Librarian was at her desk when Hilda suddenly popped out nearby. "Ack! Don't scare me like that." She shrieked.

"Sorry, but, we need your help." Hilda requested.

*Small Time Skip.*

Having spent a few minutes of running around, the group eventually makes there way to the Hidden Room. Some were surprised while Hilda wasn't given that she has been in the room before.

"Not bad for a hidden room I must say." Alfur stated.

"Oh, you're all here. I should've known you'd find me here." said the Librarian who was busy looking through several books.

"Well now that we found her, I'll be opening up the entrance." Said Tontu

The Nisse then open up a hole that should be able to fit in everyone.

"Now are you all coming in or not?" he stated before jumping in.

Everyone soon followed pursuit and after going through what felt like forever, they all soon fell onto some type of squishy floor meaning that everyone was now in the Nowhere Space.

The Librarian notices the huge pile of books in the distance. "Just how many books went missing?" She remarked shortly before she began rummaging the pile. "Oh my, these books were due more than two years ago. Ah, there we are." The Librarian found the book that covered information about the Eversing Mirror.

"How did she…?" Tontu gasped.

"It's probably best that we don't overthink it." Hilda answered.

*Small Time Skip*

The group, sans the Librarian, were at a table.

"Alright. Now we need to find out how to send Leaf over here back to its own world." Frida informed. The book shook for a moment, then turned to a page regarding transitions between worlds.

"It just flipped to the page we were looking for." Tontu remarked.

"Yep, that's normal." Frida replied. Alfur hopped onto the book and put on his zoom glasses.

"Let's be on the lookout for footnotes. We don't want to make the same mistake we made with the Tide Mice." Alfur suggested.

"So, according to this, it says that the alignment between worlds is strongest at peak hours. From there to here, midday, and from here to there, midnight." Hilda summarized. "But the portal can only be opened from the midnight side."

"How do we open it then?" Frida inquired.

"According to this sidenote," Alfur pointed out. "We simply need to touch it with our hands when the time comes."

"Is there a footnote?" David asked.

"Indeed. 'See Appendix C on page 255 for more information'" Alfur answered.

"Let's see it." Hilda suggested. They turned the pages until they reached… page 254 and… page 257. "Wait. What?"

Alfur pulled himself out of the pages and examined the situation. He gasped. "Oh no!" He cried. "It's torn out! Now we'll never know about any potential side effects…"

"Hmm… we need to know more about this 'Everse World'." Hilda suggested. They read a bit more.

"So, if the Everse World is a near identical duplicate of this world, surely there must be a complete book with the missing appendix." Hilda speculated. "But we probably gotta wait until midnight to find out."

"But the Library closes at nine." David reminded.

"Maybe the Librarian will let us stay here to figure this out?" Frida wondered.

Scene 3

The Library

11:57 PM

David was at the mirror while Hilda and Frida were reading the book thoroughly. David put his ear up to it seconds before the clock struck 11:58. He freaked out when he began to hear voices in there.

"Uh… guys? I'm starting to hear voices in there." David notified them. Shortly before hearing another louder voice. It sounded like a young girl.

"*gasp* Did you hear that?" The voice said. Hilda got up and listened close.

"My instinct tells me that Leaf might have been pulled into this mirror somehow." A familiar young male voice said.

"That voice. That's gotta be the person looking for this lost Deerfox." Hilda remembered. As the clock inched closer to midnight, the voices got louder and more audible.

"Are you talking about that rumor that's been going around Trolberg?" Another male voice asked.

"Uh, hello!" Hilda called to the voices.

"Wait. There it is again." The first male voice said. "Is it… trying to talk to us?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm talking to you." Hilda continued. The clock struck 30 seconds to midnight. The voices were now fully audible. "I think we might have your Deerfox. But we think we know a way to return it to you."

"How's that?" The first male voice inquired.

"In about 15 more seconds, you'll see." Hilda answered.

15 seconds later, the clock struck midnight. Then the mirror suddenly had ripple effects. "Alright, here goes." Hilda continued before she pressed her hand against the rippling mirror. The mirror flashed, continuously emitting a bright light. Then a huge gust of wind began blowing towards the light.

Hilda and a few others screamed as they were being pulled toward the light.

"Aah! What the heck is happening?!" The first male voice yelled in the midst of the insanity. "Whoaa-AAAHHH!" Then it heard like his name was called in the midst of all the noise, but they couldn't hear it. His voice also suddenly got all reverby.

The gust of wind settled, but they still heard the screaming from inside the mirror. Hilda got close to the mirror seconds before somebody suddenly emerged from the mirror and slammed into her. They crash to the ground in a bit of a pile.

While everyone's eyes were adjusting, they noticed that Leaf suddenly went for the new guy and began licking his face. "Mmph. Uh… Leaf? Is that you?" He said. "Where are you? I can't see a thing."

"Hold on, let me turn the lights on." The Librarian said.

"Uh… did I hit someone?" The boy asked shortly before the lights came on. Everyone's jaws dropped. The boy that slammed into Hilda looked almost just like her. Jacket, Beret, Scarf, and all. The main difference was that he was a boy, and he wore denim shorts rather than a skirt.

Once the boy noticed who he slammed into, he blushed heavily in embarrassment. "Uh oh…" He muttered.

To be continued…