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Story

WARNING: Annoyingly long

Okay. It all started when I was only about nine years old. Seven years ago for those who are mathmatically challenged. Like Skie is. Sky-Nu uh!! I can do math just fine *pouts* Riiiight...Anyway, seven years ago I was just a regular white lupe. Yup. Only I had my orange paw, and the tip of my tail was orange. For some reason, Skie felt like dying my fur. I don't know why. She's nuts. Although my ears were naturally orange on the inside. No idea why. BACK TO THE STORY!!

One of my favorite places to explore was The Endless Plains. Even though there wasn't really a lot to look at, it was still a really neat place in my book. After a bit of walking around, I started approaching the ravine thing. And like I said before, you can only see it from that hilltop or if you were right on the edge. So there I was, right on the edge, looking down into this fifty foot deep ravine. And of course, as you'd expect, I was so startled, I stumbled forward and fell right down into it.

Skie-*gasp* The story's really heatin' up!! Will you just shut up and let me tell my story?! Skie-Oh fine. If you're gonna be that way. Good. Well...luckily for me I landed in the ten foot wide river, and even more luckily for me it was pretty deep, I don't know how deep but deep enough for me not to crash in to the bottom. But...unluckily for me, the current was really strong.

Sooo, I was pulled along with the current for a while, luckily, my head stayed above water the whole time. But finally, after about ten minutes I spotted a large rock/island. It was pretty small, only about the size of a mini-van. Skie-Minie-vans are evil!! Whatever. Anyways, I basically crashed into it, which was a pretty good thing because it prevented me from falling off the waterfall that was only about twenty feet down the river from the rock.

I sat there on the rock for a while, partially to dry out my fur, and partially because I had no idea how to get onto the shore from the rock, since the shore was fifteen feet away from the rock on either side. "Crud." I probobly said that like, fifty times before I finally figured out a way to get across. There was a large tree, actually, it was more like a huge tree with vines all over it. I had only noticed that there was a vine hanging over my head after a half hour on that rock. I really don't take in my surroundings very well.

Since I don't have opposable thumbs like my owner...I- Skie-HA!! I do!! *wiggles thumbs* ...Shut up. ANYways, before I was so RUDELY interupted, I couldn't crab onto it with my paws, so I jumped up and grabbed the vine with my teeth. I felt kinda stupid, just hanging there, because I couldn't swing from side to side like that. So I let go, backed up a bit, and jumped to grab it, this time when I grabbed it, I swung from side to side a little.

I was able to really start swinging by kicking my legs like a human would do on a swing. Skie-I love swings...*sigh* They're so awesome. If you say one more word during this story, I'm gonna...uh, bite you. Yeah. So shut up. So I was going at like, a forty five degree angle, and let go when I went as high as I could, somersalting to a stop on my stomach in the sand. I sneezed a couple times, getting all the sand out of my nose, and shook it out of my fur.

When I got all the sand off me, I was finally able to look around and study my surroundings.

I looked up and saw that the way I had come in, was at least 60 feet above my head, and impossible to climb. The valley was actually like a cave with a giant crack at the top, becuase the sides curved in, making the valley huge in width. And I still don't know how long it is exactly. And and it was very dark, it was like midnight blue tint everywhere. It's really awesome.

That's when I started thinking, Skie-OMG!! you? THINKING?! It's a miricle! *hands trophy with tears in eyes* *looks at trophy then slams ontop of Skie's head so she is now WEARING the trophy* Idiot. *mumbles* Anyway, I started wondering how the top of the valey wasn't caving in, then I noticed that there were lots of little lights, underneath where it curves right next to the entrance. They looked like lots of little stars, and they looked like they were pulsating. I hate that word 'pulsating', it's gross.

They weren't moving either, well, they were 'pulsating. It kinda scared me at first because I was like "What the heck are those things?!" So I gathered up all of my courage and started yelling at them to see what they would do, to find out if they were hostile or not. After yelling, burying my head in the sand and yelling some more, I finally realized that there weren't gonna come and get me. Thank goodness. So I just ignored them and turned to the forest. It was so thick, you couldn't see two feet into it. Plus, it was dark in there, even darker than the rest of the valley. But it had little patches of light in it from where more of those little light dot things were.

But I noticed that some of the LightDots were moving, darting behind one tree to another, or from the ground onto a branch, casting their light in many diffrent directions, creating huge distorted shaddows here and there. That freaked me out too. But I shrugged it off and walked along the edge of the river, not wanting to go into the forest. About an hour later, it was a really cool hour by the way, the whole valley is beautifull to look at...I could stare at it forever... But I won't cuz I gotta tell you the rest of the story.

Anyways, up ahead there was another opening in the valley, like a fork in the road, only it met back up again with the main part about a mile down. In one, it's just all clear, no forest or anything, just all the LightDots lighing the walls and whatever you'd call the 'ceiling'. And the other way was all forest. So of course, I wanted to go down the path with no forests.

So of course, I had to get across the river first, which also split down into two diffrent flows for a while. And lucky me, there was a line of rocks leading across the river where it split. So I pranced over and jumped on the first one, and it wobbled a bit. I thought it was just loose or something, so I jumped to the next one, and that one wobbled too. So I kept jumping until I made it all the way across, and when I looked back, the stones were gone.

-ta be continued after Skie is done bein' lazy-