"No!" I yelled, running towards Eema. Googoo grabbed me, and kept me there. "Don't go back there! You'll get hypnotised too, you idiot!" I stopped. Googoo said: "We can come back later with more people and save them all. Right now, we need to get out of shee worshipper's land and back to the swamp. Maybe we can get the Boney Grendels to help." I listened in amazement to Googoo. I realised that Googoo was right. We were the only hope for Eema, Etnetn and the others."Come on." I said. We walked over to the elevater and got on. When it stopped, we were in a crowd of shee worshippers. I worried a lot that they'd notice we weren't shee worshippers. They never glanced at us, intent on getting on the cage swing. We got on as well and ran over to the splicer control room, just ahead of the shee-worshippers. "Attack!" I cried, "Etnetn and many others are hypnotised. We must fight off the shee-worshippers, who are coming to save Koo!" Googoo just sat, exhausted from running. "Koo is gone." An elder told me. "We don't know where he is. I assumed he went back to the shee-worshippers somehow."
Some of us went to the cage swing to help Bubu and the little ones fight off the shee worshippers while the others went to get help from the Boney Grendels. They agreed. They didn't care whether the shee or the hand created them, but they loved a fight with someone weaker than them. So they came and attacked at the cage swing. Meanwhile I ran to tell some mernorns where Eema was."Do you know Eema's parents?" I asked a male mernorn. He said he did. Then I told him what happened, and he dove into the water to tell Eema's parents. I was hungry and tired, so first I ate coconuts and then I fell asleep. When I woke up I went tho Acima Albia and told the Angel and Air Norns what happened. They told me that if we lured the shee-worshippers up to the island they'd attack them. Then I went down to the island again and Eemetn came to tell me that they were going to sneak past the shee-worshippers to rescue the hypotnised and would I like to come? I said yes.
We went to the cage swing and found that the shee-worshippers were fighting in the splicer control room. The cage swing was empty, and no one was on the platform. We took the cage swing, along with some Amphibinorns and Boney Grendels, and I showed the way.
"Don't enter the room. Try to grab someone younger than you from the hall." I warned. A boney grendel picked up Etnetn, and many others picked up other creatures. I was too young to pick up anyone, since no child ettins were there.
"Have you got an adolescent mernorn yet?" I asked.
"No, there are none. I don't know where she'd be."
I looked and discovered that not only was Eema gone, but the shee-worshipper's leader too.
"We can safely enter the room actually. Their leader isn't here." Someone said.
We rescued everyone and brought them out. Only Eema was gone.
"I should never have left her." I cried. Etnetn said: "Don't worry. She might have escaped on her own."
"But what about their leader? Maybe she took Eema somewhere else."
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Alima, a shee worshipper norn, currently at the splicer control room, fighting Boney Grendels and Swamp Ettins
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"Ouch!" I was being pummeled by the Boney Grendel, who seemed to have gotten in the battle-frenzy my parents had told me about. I felt dizzy, and all I could do was lie groaning. Suddenly someone pushed a button, and a machine came. As they pushed the machine, it picked me up. Then it tossed me in another room, which I'd heard stories about. The splicer, I thought, then fell asleep.
When I woke up I saw that I was alone, although there was no way out of the splicer room. Maybe the other creature pushed the splicer, I thought, and shuddered. I listened and could hear creatures going 'ouch!', and grendels hitting. Then a distinct voice, neither norn, nor ettin, nor grendel, saying:
"Stop! What is this fight about?" and everyone fell silent. The voice of the hand, who was created by the wonderous shee, I thought.
At once, the grendels, swamp ettins, and my people all realised the hand had asked a question and said at once:
"Koo tried to steal our book."
"The swamp ettins needed our help."
"They kidnapped Koo, and it is believed he was spliced."
To which the hand said:
"Koo wasn't spliced. I'd know about his egg if he was. I don't know if he tried to steal the book, or if he was kidnapped, but I saw him at this room. Then I went to deal with other matters. Then I noticed a death and came back here. It angers me that you have gotten into a fight that has resulted in someone's death. You are a young society, which is missing many bad things from my society, but it seems that you have already started a religious strife."
"What's a religous strife?" A female norn said.
"It's a battle caused by two groups who beleive different things about how the world and it's inhabitants were created. Neither of your books are hoakes, by the way. Both were written before I went away."
"Who wrote the shee/hand book?" Many creatures asked.
"I wrote the hand book. As for the shee book, that will be revealed later. What is important is that you not fight. I can't exactly stop you from fighting entirely, although I can make it very hard to do so, so I'm wanting you to keep yourselves in check. Okay?"
There was murmered agreement. Everyone was tired of battle.
"I have great plans." The hand said. Then it came to me.
"It seems you've gotten trapped here." The hand said. Suddenly a teleporter appeared attached to it.. I pushed the teleporter and found myself in Acima Albia, with the hand next to me. I blacked out, and then it woke me up. I felt stronger than before. The hand led me to an elevator, and I took it down. I met some pale white ettins who were about to order me out, but the hand conviced them to let me go to the biopods. Then I sat next to the water thinking about how the hand had saved me. What clever creatures the shee must have been, to have made such a wonderous machine as the hand. After a while I went and ate some fruit from the beelocanth. In the crowd, I noticed a golden colored norn being carried by a norn who looked pure shee. That norn went up a lift.
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Bubeta the swamp ettin
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We went up and saw some swamp ettins and boney grendels among shee worshippers. They told us we were under orders not to fight, told so by the hand. I asked various creatures whether they'd seen a golden colored adolescent norn. A mernorn.
"I saw one." An adolescent norn with a shee body said. "She was being carried by an elderly female norn who looked full shee. "
"Do you know the elderly female?" I asked.
"No."
"Maybe it's their leader. She looked full shee." I muttered to a boney grendel member of my group.
"Why wouldn't they recognise their leader?" She asked.
"The shee statue affects those who look at it so they can only see it. Many would probably recognise the voice but not know what she looks like because she's usually by the statue." I responded. "Where did they go?" I asked the norn again. She said: "They went up that lift." and showed me which lift. Our group went up, and she jumped on the lift with us. When we had got to the top, we saw a pale colored ettin, that looked very small and bald.
"Stop where you are!" The small ettin said. He was about my age, I saw, but he was as small as a baby. He looked quite nornish.
"Why?" I asked.
"It is forbidden for anyone to pass except my people, or the shee leader. That's the rule."
"We wish to speak with the shee leader."
"Go to her statue then."
"She's not there."
"Well then look for her somewhere else."
"We were told she's here!"
"By who?"
"I'll tell you if you let me pass."
"No."