Song of the South

Chapter One

Spot's POV

"Snicker doodles," I muttered under my breath as a waited at the bottom of the Manhattan Newsboys lodging house. After a few more minutes Jack Kelly sauntered down the stairs.

He was dressed in a clean shirt since we were invited by Medda to a party at Irving hall. After a few more seconds his whole gang, Racetrack, Mush, and Kid Blink came banging down the stairs also dressed in their best, which isn't much.

We headed out into the streets while babbling like fools.

Kid Blink's POV

Walking. Walking. Walking. Walking.

Talk. Talk. Talk.

Ooooohhhh. *spots shiny portal in the sky*

SHINY!

Mush's POV

As I'm walking along talking to Kid Blink he isn't really saying much which is normal because I always talk and he always is listening. At least I think he's listening…

Well, he just randomly screams, "SHINY!" and points to this circle thing in the sky, and I do have to admit, it is pretty shiny. And I like shiny things.

When Kid Blink screams "SHINY!" this also gets Racetrack, Spot, and Jack's attention also. So then all of us stand and stare and the shiny thing coming out of the sky.

Then breaking the silence Jack says, "Uhh. Umm…der?"

Then Spot screams "OH MY GOD JACK! YOUR SPEAKING IN TOUNGES! YOU'RE POSSESED!" and tackles him to the ground which would have been really funny if Spot hadn't tackled Jack in the direction of the shiny swirly thing in the sky.

The two of them were whisked away into the shiny swirly thing in the sky, lets call it a portal, portal sounds much better than swirly shiny thing in the sky. Anyway on with the story.

Then as soon as Kid Blink sees Spot and Jack jump through the shiny—oh portal I mean, Kid Blink screeches and leaps into it too. Then, Racetrack and I both look at each other and we leap through it too. Well, this should be interesting.

Present Day in Alabama

Emmeline's POV

I stepped out of my small house and onto the porch where I preceded to walk into the woods and onto a small path. I looked back once at the house, it was quite petite and was painted a pale yellow color with a white porch. I then turned back to the path that I was on and hummed to myself as I walked along.

Then my hum began to turn into me quietly singing to myself and then I was singing at a slightly loud tone, and then I screeching the words of the song.

"IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE! AND IT MOVES US AL—" But suddenly I cut myself off because I had tripped and landed on someone.

"Oof." I said still on top of my landing cushion. I rubbed my head and then apologized to whoever or whatever I had landed on. As I was muttering an apology to whatever I landed on and after I brushed my self off I finally stood up and examined my surroundings.

"Holy Toledo!" I exclaimed, there was a whole crop circle of young men dressed in 19th century clothes in front of me!

"God has finally answered my prayers." I whispered to my self as I smiled a wide grin. It was then that I realized for my prayers to be fulfilled these people had to conscious. So I attempted to wake them up.

The first thing I did was yell into their ears, which did nothing to them. Then I whispered into their ears about a delicious cake that was apparently waiting for them, that also did nothing. Running out of ideas I sat down on a log and tried to think. Then suddenly out of no where I felt it rising in my chest, it was almost there, I could feel it inching closer, and then it was there. I burped.

Then as if a miracle happened all of the boys started to awaken. A couple of them sit up and groan while the rest of them just look around all confused like.

After a while they notice that I'm there and one of them stands up to introduce himself. "I'm Jack Kelly." He says holding his hand out for me to shake. "We're from New York and I think we're a little lost so maybe you could help us out."

I stare at him for a minute bathing in the beauty of his face, his cowboy hat is especially enticing. Then I regain my stable sense of mind and reply to him. "Oh. So you're from New York, well you're a long way from there. You're in Alabama now." I say. "So what were you guys doing out here? Performing strange cult rituals? Tying to lure aliens to earth? Throwing a chloroform smelling party?"

"Uhh…no we just landed here after falling into a large shiny swirly thing."

"It's called a portal Jack." One of them corrected.

"You're kidding right." I replied.

"No. We are dead serious."

"So you're saying that you jumped into a portal and landed here."

"Yes." Jack said. "I just told you that."

"A portal…lands in these woods…" I repeated the words over and over again trying to make sense of this little piece of information that Jack gave me.

"Is she going to do this all afternoon?" One of the boys said to Jack. He had on red suspenders and looked quite grumpy. "C'mon Jack lets go I think this girl is crazy."

"Crazy?" I said. "You're calling me crazy? Well that makes sense coming from the boy who says he fell out of a portal!" I yell.

"Why I oughta!" he starts before I cut him off saying. "You oughta what?" I said my face close to his were staring each other angrily in the eyes imagining all of the ways we could kill each other. Or at least that's what I was imagining.

"Spot stop it!" Jack yelled at his friend. Spot looked away and so did I. "Okay" I said trying to make peace. "Lets all just agree that none of us are crazy, alright?"

The boys nodded. "Okay now I think the best thing we can do is take you to my friend, she's smarter than me when it comes to things like this anyway."

All of them looked at each other deciding whether or not to trust me finally Jack said okay and the boys listened to their leader and followed me down the rest of the path and to my original destination, Savannah's house.