The Ice Witch. Chapter 2. Trying To Leave.

"M-Maria!", Chenchi called after the poor white haired girl. "Leave me be!", she shrieked back angrily. Chenchi followed after her, growling angrily. Taking note of this, Maria quickened her pace until she was running to the front gate of the property, the only thing that kept her in that terrible place. "Maria, please don't go!", the demon fox yelped desperately.

He must have really wanted her to stay on the estate for some reason. "Why should I?", Maria said as she turned to look the demon fox. "Because, I don't want you getting hurt, the outside world isn't all rainbows and sunshine. It's a cruel an terrible ace that'll take advantage of anyone the doesn't know it's rules and unfair games!", he said slowly, obviously not lying, but, hiding something  from the girl in front if him.

"But, that can't be true! I've wanted to leave, even if it's only a little while, my whole life!", she sighed and sat down the old suit case. "I-I suppose I could let you out if you promised you'd come back here.", Chenchi trailed off before he finished speaking. "Really!?", Maria's voice became a delighted squeak when she heard what her guardian had said. "Of course Antartica.....", he said sadly.

"But, what was it you were going to say, you trailed off before you finished.", Antartica spoke curiously. "It's nothing, Maria, just be careful when you choose to go outside.....", the demon fox trailed off again.

He was hiding something, though, he didn't seem to want to lie very much to the girl standing in front if him, completely oblivious to the dangers she would faced once she left the the safety of her home.

 "Bye Chenchi! See you soon!", Antartica called to her friend from the gate. Chenchi waved his tail, mentally hoping she didn't get hurt, or have to use any of the magics she had studied while she was younger and innocent. "Be careful Maria!", ha called after her.

 Maria looked turned, facing the gate, and gulped slightly, becoming nervous all of a sudden, as though, she was forgetting something, she had always felt as though she were forgetting something important. She had been hearing faint voices, telling her to wake up. Asking her if she could hear them, she always tried ignoring them, but, she couldn't, the voices sounded familiar to her, but, she just couldn't remember where she had heard them or who they were.

These voices began telling her to find the gate, she figured they meant the front gate of her home. It was the only gate on the property aside from the gate in an old mausoleum at the very back of the garden in the estate. "Okay then, here I go.", And with Maria having said that, she opened the gate and stepped through.

"This is what was outside my home?", she said, not seeming to impressed by the empty, old, road the snaked up to her home that was on the flattened top of a hill. Something was missing. Maria could have sworn that something was missing on the old road she was looking at.

"Where did that pesky dog go!? I could have swore he went this way!", somebody close by spoke, female by the sounds of the voice with a heavy southern accent. "Who's there?", Antartica spoke rather bleakly. "Lousiana.", the girl spoke confidently. She stepped into view, she was wearing denim overalls, black shorts, a grey tank top, and mud boots. She had short red/brown hair, green eyes, and tan skin. "Howdy there Antartica!", Lousiana spoke, grinning all the while.

"Uuh, Hi?", antartica replied, obviously confused. It sounded more like a question. "What's wrong dude?", Lousiana asked. It seemed the Lousiana girl knew Antarctica. "Just confused, I didn't know anyone aside from my guardian knew my name.", After saying this, Maria noticed the confused look on Louisiana's face.

"Dude, are yah alright, yer actin' like yah don't know me!", Lousiana said, hoping not to be thought of as crazy. "W-what!? I don't know you, I've only just left me home!!", Maria said quickly, her voice growing rather upset.

"How can that be, I just saw yah, like, last week!", Lousiana said, seeming annoyed now. "Not possible! I've always lived here and never left the estate!", Antartica Said, holding a faint growl in her tone of voice. "But I thought you said you only just left your house.", Lousiana said calmly. "Wha-I know what I meant!!!", Antartica growled back, clenching her hands into fists from stress.

"So, you really don't remember me?", Lousiana asked, frowning slightly. "Afraid not. I'm truly sorry miss Lousiana.", Antartica mumbled, sighing quietly.

"Oh man! Ozel and Sonia are going to completely flip their already nutty lids!", Lousiana said, now sounding spooked. "I'm sure they won't completely flip out, they don't even know me. Or, I don't know if they know me.", Maria said, huffing slightly at the fact that she didn't know, or rather, didn't remember the girl who said she was friends with her

. "Alright then, but, I'm going to need to explain some things you'll need to know before we do anything.", and with that being said, Louisiana began explaining the important thing she though Antartica wouldn't remember. All of which the Ice Witch didn't remember at all, but, found familiar.

After some time of talking, the two girls came to a decision.  They would find Sonia and Ozel. "So, where do we start, Lousiana?", Antartica asked curiously. "We need to call the  first. That's the easy part. The hard part is getting them here or going to where they're at.", Lousiana said with a huff. "Oh, well, why not call them?", Antartica asked, looking confused.

" 'Cause, those two almost never answer their cell phones, and they never use their house phone!", Lousiana said with a faint groan. "Well, what about finding them?", Anartica asked curiously. "Uh, it's kinda problematic doing that, those two live in London, and that's all the way across the ocean.", Lousiana said, laughing nervously.