For standing before them, was the Griffin’s castle.
“You mean to say that we’ve been walking around in circles? We’ve been walking around in circles!” Zac exploded.
“Actually, just one big circle...” Isaac began, but trailed off, seeing the expression on Zac’s face.
“Narrator! Narrator I demand that you show yourself and apologise and send us home – to our real home!” Zac yelled.
“Umm, no.”
“And why not?”
“Because you’re being mean to me.”
“I’m being mean to you? You’re being mean to me!”
“If you’re not careful, the Griffin is going to hear you.”
“Why I ought-” but before Zac could say another word, Taylor and Isaac jumped him and held him down and one hand over his mouth.
Zac struggled madly and ended up biting Taylor’s hand.
“Just you wait! I’m gonna smash you to a pulp! I’m gonna -” his cried where cut off when Isaac put his hand over his mouth.
“Ow!” Isaac yelped when his hand, too, was bitten.
“I’m gonna turn you into Swiss cheese! Why can’t you just let us go home? We’re not your pawns in a fun house you -”
“Fred!” Taylor commanded. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want the Griffin to get us.”
“But… but he’ll bite my hand too.”
“No he won’t,” Isaac answered. “He considers you contaminated.”
“Thanks a lot,” Fred muttered, putting his hand over Zac’s mouth.
There was a booming laugh across the sky – The Narrator. She laughed so hard the sky cracked and down came rain, and lots of it. It came down fast and before they knew it the land around them was flooded and it was creeping up their legs. The current grabbed hold of them.
“Oh no!” Taylor yelled. “A whirl pool!”
The four boys were pulled towards it. They were sucked in and spun around and around and around. They kept swallowing the salty sea water and the whole predicament was making them all very dizzy.
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They woke up stranded on a beach. Isaac sat up and groaned.
“Wow that was some trip.”
“No kidding,” Taylor replied.
“Where are we?” asked Zac. “And more importantly, where’s my surfboard?”