Anella rushed to Ulysses’ place, and knocked seven times, in groups of two. The last knock was the loudest. The knocks signaled that she needed help. Ulysses answered it. She told him her predicament. In Fandigger’s head(as he was in the house), he thought, Conflictious. Ulysses said that he had thought about a scene he had seen in his cup of water all morning. He showed her the paper which he wrote the vision on.

Ulysses saw pretty ladies all in a row, bickering madly. Not very lady-like, he thought. But one of them kept looking at him that sent tremors down his spine. No, not in a flirty way. Like a way when.  .  .  . Fandigger looked at him. Unless.  .  .  . they WERE the mancers! He knew it. He decided to trick them, by letting them think he was tricked. On the other side, Fandigger knew that he knew so he pretended that he didn’t know Ulysses was tricking them. But at the end they knew what the other knew, and Rednaxela said after a few nervous minutes that they were to fight, they knew what each other was thinking, so just fight! Rednaxela earned a big smile from his mates, but a scowl from Fandigger. Ulysses smiled at Rednaxela, like a truce. But it only lasted a second, when Fandigger raised his bouquet, which instantly turned into a sword. Luckily, Eloise did have a small army ready, and she saw what had happened. And she let the army fight. Soon after, everyone fought the mancers. And they gave up and lived in the far side of SpringParadise. But Eloise had her own problem.  .  .  .

TO BE CONTINUED.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

This is very short.

Fandigger grabbed some wheat and a poahk stick and some dimre leaves, and ‘borrowed’ a weaving woman from the leaf shack next toadstool house, and told her to make twenty-four gowns. The woman was scared, so scared that she obeyed( although she was a mancer, talking to the boss is a whole different story.). Amazingly, she finished within seven hours, earlier than Fandigger’s planning with his strategist. Fandigger dressed his team into the costumes, and began his plan.  .  .  .

Anella wrote that all down when she got home. But for once, she was stuck.

TO BE CONTINUED.   .   .   .   .   .

In the tree house, where Ulysses were, he thought about what exactly had happened. He wanted to blame Anella, but he told her to write all what she heard, or saw, etc. When she walked in the door, Ulysses gestured for her to go to the attica of the tree. There, he told her  about the mancer. It was Fandigger, but in real life, like the other characters, they were all nice, but still, your old enemy is still, well, a rival.

Eloise’s army idea was turned down. And Fandigger was ready to fight. Except he didn’t want to waste good lives of young mancers. So he decided to disguise his team. Not the DYLBAR part of the team. He chose the disguise of a group of well mannered young women. Which he didn’t realize till the last moment that mancers were not well mannered. Absolutely not.

TO BE CONTINUED.   .   .   .   .    .

At school, Anella just couldn’t concentrate. She tried to read the reading book, but she couldn’t even do that. So she grabbed an extra piece of paper, and copied her ideas for the fight between Ulysses and Fandigger.

Ulysses, although he was weak, he was sly. And that was what mancers aren’t. Holding a shovel in his hand, Ulysses hacked the mancer. Fandigger was stunned, and his discomfort gave Ulysses enough time to hurt him, but not enough to kill him. But it sure did make Fandigger and his group back down.

Meanwhile, Eloise had found out what happened, and now decided to lead a entire army to scare all the mancers away.  The mancers, at the time, were debating either to have the great Ulysses to themselves, or DYLBAR/ Drop your leaf-powered bayonets and run. Most of the MParliament picked DYLBAR, but Fandigger was convinced, that they would get Ulysses, and he was stubborn. They would do as he would say, and plainly, die.

After Anella copied it down when she got home from school, Eloise was at her house, with an invitation to a lunch at the island. Anella, though surprised, agreed. Deliberately, she walked to the island, and was absolutely stupefied. To see a mancer at the door.

TO BE CONTINUED.    .     .     .    .

Ulysses went back home, when Anella fell asleep. But before he left, he added to the story:

Ulysses finally woke up, to everyone’s relief. But there was just one problem. Eloise had also killed Girgon, their best fighter. And the mancers wanted revenge.

In toadstool 4563, Fandigger, the boss, was holding a meeting. Fandigger told the rest of the mancers to prepare. For what, asked a mancer. For war, he answered.

Meanwhile, Ulysses was well. He had a scar, but that was no problem. But, as usual, bad things were to happen. He was walking to the plake leaf to get the leafcutter, when all of a sudden, the strangely fat tree morphed back into it’s true shape:a mancer. Again Ulysses tried to fight back. But the mancer(which was Fandigger)was gaining in on him.  .   .  .

It was morning, and Eloise went to school.

TO BE CONTINUED.    .    .    .    .

Short story part.

At night, Anella set of for the island. She didn’t know that Ulysses was having dinner with the couple and Eloise in the tree. Anella pulled up her riding boots, and rode her horse all the way there. She halted and knocked onto the door. A lady opened the door. It was Eloise, and she let Anella in. There, they had dessert. Then Ulysses followed her home, to check on her story. As soon as Anella opened the door, Gardiz(Her brother) looked at her and asked her who the guy behind her was. She was going to respond when Ulysses waved his arm and green confetti-like things scattered from his hand, unto Gardiz. He looked stunned, and mechanically went to his bed. With quick glances at each other, they hopped up the stairs and looked over the paper.

She added this: Afterwards, Eloise took the mancers out of the bag( she was out) and killed them. She kept their blood in a large jar. Their blood was turquoise, and there was alot of turquoise around the floor. Later, Nanny bathed Ulysses in the blood, and he started to come out of his mind, and.   .   .   .   .   .

TO BE CONTINUED.     .     .     .     .     .

At night, when everyone was asleep, Ulysses, climbed up to Anella’s window and peeked in. She was awake, and she was writing this: “Perfect! This bag, do you see it? Capture them with it!”, urged Ulysses. Eloise tried to run outside, but then she remembered that there were guards outside. Ulysses wordlessly handed her boy clothes. As soon as she put it on, she felt herself turn into a young mancer. Smart disguise, she thought. Stepping out, a huge mancer stopped and looked at her. He grunted, and she quickly put him in the bag. An hour later. . . .

Ulysses climbed through her window for a better look. And he scared Anella.   .   .   .   .   .

TO BE CONTINUED.    .     .     .     .     .

Quick note: This part of the story is very short.

Ulysses, the sheep boy, grabbed a sheet of paper he had in his pocket, dipped his stick into some berries, and wrote this: I am Ulysses. I like your story. Meet me at the island. Drawing the last stroke, he put it near her story. This time, he left a tiny piece of wood from his stick.

Anella, back from skating, and after eating, went up into her room. She saw the paper. Obviously, she read it. The paper slipped out of her hands and fell to the floor. Anella, was shocked. She rushed to her desk, and saw the stick of would the ‘Ulysses’ boy used as a pen (she could see that) , and she saw the juice-ink dripping onto the floor, out the window, and it led to the island, like what the note said. She decided to go to the island after dinner. And so, she resumed her story.

When Eloise returned to Ulysses, he was looking grave. He told her that she could not kill all of them. Even if she kept returning to kill one, they will come back. He told her to capture them and bring them out into the World. And then kill them. She said she will, and sudden;y, the heard a loud noise. It was a mancer game of football.

Anella, as usual, was cut off, and went to dinner.

TO BE CONTINUED.   .   .   .   .   .

The person reading Anella’s story was a boy called.  .  .   . Ulysses! He was the sheep boy next door, and he always went through Anella’s window each day to read her story.

Specifically, he was magic. The day she began writing, he was created, appearing out of the giant oak in the swampy, marshy, pond-like, island-ish place in the middle of the pond. There he lived, until he got this job. He got it because he wanted to read ‘his’ story. He did.

Once, when he was reading, he left a fingerprint. It was blood, his own blood. He had tripped earlier, and scraped his knee. Why it smelled mystical; he was always smelled like that. Ulysses liked the story, he wanted it to keep going on, cause if it stopped, he would disappear. So, he started sending notes.  .  .  .

I will continue it; keep reading!