Chp7: Black fer and hard skin

As they walked to their rooms, The hair on Amara's arms had grown thinker and darkened to a black.

Chapter 7

Black fer and hard skin

Ellin looked at herself, She couldn't see anything different. Amara was the first that showed any signs of change. Her short red brunet hair was turning black.

"The change will take some time." Commander Kaplan said as he stood up.

"Will we be able to save Kacey and find this wall in time, Commander Kaplan?" Ellin asked

"it's Just Kaplan, I'm no longer commander till your friend is saved and I can get back to my army." Kaplan said "The witches nose is two days time from here and the wall of hollow hills is one days journey more."

"What are we going to be?" Michel asked. She started to worry. She looked down at her hands again, she could feel a tingle at the tips of her fingers and toes. Her skin looked a little pale. She looked up to Ellin, she had a way of calming the emotions. Ellin smiled, placed a hand on Michel's back for comfort. Michel soon forgot anything was happening to her.

"It would be cool if we turned into dragons." Parker said. He easily grasped what was going on but just wouldn't take anything seriously.

Scar, the snake, came into the hall "I will take you to your roommzs."

Kaplan said "I will prepare our supplies for tomorrow. Be ready before the crack of dawn." he then left.

As they walked to their rooms, The hair on Amara's arms had grown thick and darkened to a black. Her face was looking furry. Ellin's skin was stinging. She could see her hands had little black blotches and they were growing! The tips of her fingers were the first thing that started to harden, like calluses. She scratch but the black blotches were hard and slick like polished steel.  She was getting scared and sick to her stomach, what was she becoming? Ellin looks over to Parker, he had turned red and he too was scratching. "man, It itches." he said

They all walked up a spiral staircase to a hallway with four rooms, two on ether side. At the end of the hall was a narrow arched window. Scar spoke "Here are your roommzs, you will find a night gound on your bedzs and a bowl of water on the table to wassh. I will have one of the Dryads wake you in the morning. May you all ssleep well... tonight." 

Ellin looked at herself in the poorly polished mirror in her room. Her face was almost completely black. Her cheeks were completely black. The rest of her face was a dark gray and getting darker. Each of her features quickly became more defined as it blackened, Her cheek bones, the curve of her noes and the small point of her chin. Her face was slightly stiff as she moved her mouth. She pulled her right sleeve down to look at her shoulder, it was already black and it shined like polished stone. She lift up her shirt, what she saw frightened her and she pulled her shirt back down. She had few guesses what she could be turning into like an iron women or maybe a dragon, she could be anything, the creatchers of this world were unknown to her, but what she feared the most become reality when she lifted her shirt the second time to confirm the red hourglass shaped mark, the size of her palm, were her belly button once was.

There was a knock at the door, Ellin jumped then quickly pulled her shirt down. "Who is it?"

 Michel peaked her head through. "I can't sleep alone, May I please sleep with you tonight?" Her face was a pastel green color and she had a diamond shaped gold mark on her forehead. Two other smaller same marks were on her neck.

"Of course, I wont be able to sleep alone either." Ellin said and they hugged.

"Ellin, what have we done?" Michel said then looked up into Ellin's eyes.

Ellin could see now that Michel was covered in scales. "I don't know Michel, but you still look as beautiful as ever." She didn't want to scare Michel with her guesses. The door creaked open.

"Can I use your mirror? Mine isn't very good." Amara said looking in from the doorway. Ellin and Michel didn't recognize her at first. She was completely coverd in fur. Her dark red lips and the palms of her hands were the only thing of her body that wasn't covered in short fur.

"It's not a very good ether, I think it's polished mettle." Ellin said, her hand gesturing toward the mirror.

Amara walked in and stood in front of the mirror. She looked in the mirror and gave a worried sie. "Do you think we are all done changing yet? I better be. All this fer is making me hot." She lifted her shirt looked at her back and gave a slight grown with a big frown on her face. Then She gasped and looked closer at her teeth, She practically leaped over to Ellin and Michel who were now on the bed She leaned up close to Michel "Are my teeth growing?"

"They look normal to me." Michel said

"It will freak me out if I started growing fangs. This better be all of it. I couldn't live with myself if I turn out to look like Commander Fur Ball. I swear, I'll kill myself!" Amara then jumped on the bed. "So who wants to tell ghost stories?"

"What? no, I want to get some sleep tonight." Ellin said

They heard a trip, a slam on the door. The girls squealed. A grown echoed threw the halls, it sounded like Parker. He knock on the door. The girls started laughing.

"Come in." all three girls said through their giggles.

Parker walked in and said "They blew out the lights in the hallway. I heard you all talking and thought I should join."

Parker was covered in fiery red scales. The scales reflected the light like little red jewels. Parker started to twitch.

  "Are you ok?" Amara said looking worried. Parker didn't answer. He started to growl then looked up at them.

With a scary voice Parker said "I feel hungry." He then smiled an evil smile. All the girls screamed. In a wild panic Amara fell off the bed while Ellin and Michel gripped onto one another, screaming at the top of their lungs.

Parker held his stumick the pain was tomuch from his lafter. He slapped his knee a few times and tried not to fall to the floor from laughter. While gasping for air and snickering he said with a high pitched voice "I got you so good!"

"I'm gonna kill you!" Amara said as she got up off the floor and walked on the bed, grabbing a billow to come after him with. She socked him over the head. Parker finally lost his balance and he fell to the floor still laughing so hard he couldn't breath. The pillow split, Feathers flew everywhere but Amara kepped smacking him with it or what was left of it. Michel and Ellin joined in hitting him with the last pillow and the blankets.

"What is going on here!" Three men burst threw the door stumbling over each other, Their armer clanked against each other. There was an awkward silence as the friends stared at the men with guilty looks on their faces.

"Well Speak up!" The man on the left spoke. The men's armer was dull and slightly rusty in spots. They had horns on their helmits, at least that's what they thought untill the man on the far right took off his helmit, the horns didn't go with it. He fumbled it and it clattered to the floor. The man in the middle nocked him over the side of the head "Way to go horn head."

They were half man and half goat. The man bent down to pick up his helmet he accidentally kicked it away.

"Who are you?" Amara asked.

"I'm Bensoid," The one in the middle answered with a sweeping bow, his helmet going askew. "That idiot chasing his helmet is Cordell!" He said while adjusting his helmet, "and this is..."

"We're the ones asking the questions here!" The man on the far right said. "Sargent! stop chasing your helmet around the room!" It was the third or forth attempt that Cordell finally cot his helmet and hurried back to the other two.

Ellin spoke up "We were messing around, sir." she said "We're very sorry for the mess, We will stop, promise." She hung her head, feeling guilty for all the feathers everywhere.

"Right you are or I'll have all three of you fixing the west wall with the trolls."

"Um... I think they're our guest sir..." Bensoid said in almost a whisper.

"What did you say?" The satyr on the left asked.

"Shhh! You're not supposed to correct him in front of others!" Cordell mumbled, nudging the Bensoid roughly.

"How am I to do my job while watching you two monkey's!"

"Monkeys! what does that make you, a monkeys uncle? You popes windbag."

"Don't talk to your commanding officer like that, I'll..."

Bensoid interrupted "Now your talking about yourself in second tents, only crazy people..."

Suddenly Mishell started to wail, just realizing She was coverd in green scales. Looking at her hands "uuuhh... uhh... Ahhhh!" Then at her legs, her screams grew. "Its... its... scales... AHHHHHHH! I'M TURNING INTO... AHHHHHHHH!"

"Every one, OUT!" Amara yelled with hands in the air "OUT, Get OUT" She began shooing the three satyrs out the door. They hesitated not wanting to move at first. "We're having a women's crisis here, Out!"

The commander was the first to turn for the door, He knew what woman trouble meant, he wanted nothing to do with it. He tripped over Binsort and Binsort backed up on Cordell's hoof making him yelp. More satyrs started coming down the hall. One of them asked "What's going on?"

"OOUT!" Amara yeld once again, The three satyrs falling into the rest of the satyrs behind them as Amara slammed the door.

She turned around, Michel was now balling while Ellin was trying to confert her. Parker was standing in the same spot, still stunned by the unexpected turn of events then burst out laughing.

"You, out!" Amara said pointing at Parker. He didn't notice her anger was now on him. So she grabbed him by the ear and threw him out the door, slamming it once again.

"Don't worry it's not that bad, you're not turning into anything scary. Its alright, its okay." Ellin said as Mishell clung and cried onto her shoulder.

"Yeah! You could be a Dragon or a... Lizard?" Amara said with enthusiasm, Mishell started to cry louder.

"You are not helping Amara."  Ellin said with a glare. Ellin turned her attention back to Mishell.

"What if I'm like this forever?! What if no body ever loves me again?" Mishell whispered in despair.

Amara sighed and knelt down on the feather covered blanket that still lay on the floor. "Mishell. No matter what happens, we are all in this together, we will all get out of this together, and we will always, ALWAYS, love you."  She hugged Mishell and then the three of them climbed into the giant bed. They tried to tell silly stories to get their minds off of the day ahead, but found themselves to exhausted to keep their eyes open. They fell into deep dream filled sleep, full of strange lands and missing friends. 

Author's Note

Character Description
.Ellin the blue and true
.Parker the Red and clumsy
.Michel the white and bubbly
.Amara the yellow and outgoing
.Kacey the orange and smart