• The sun had begun to set when we finally begun to see the castle come into view. Romeo had begun to run faster, but before he could get past , Mark pulled hit by the back of his callor, sending him flying back to where A.J. and I were.

    "Can we do that again?!" Romeo asked excitedly at the thrill of being thrown back.

    "No unless you want to be almost sizzled by the force field protecting the castle," Rachel said. "A.J." Rachel ordered. Walking up to the spot Romeo was thrown from, A.J. raised his staff, then waved it in front of the force field. The ringing of the bell resonated through all our ears. A blueish glow came from infront of A.J. Then an opening, opened up so we could walk through to the inside of the dome like force field.

    As we were about twenty feet inside we noticed we were missing someone. A.J.'s family began to turn around, and I yelled at Romeo.

    "Romeo don't even touch the force field!" I could hear the dissapointed whinning of Romeo come next.

    "But I want to touch it............." He dragged on catching up with us.

    "Well like Rachel said, I don't want you to be flombade," He went silent again.

    "I'd smell good though," romeo said trying to make a comeback, as he began to skip infront of me.

    "Yes you would," I told him to make him feel better. "But you'd loose al your gorgeous hair from being burnt," That comment would bring his ego down. I turned my head to Romeo holding his head in a protective way. Romeo loved his hair, just like a model doesn't want to cut theirs off, he didn't want it to dissapear. An awkward silence had come whle Romeo was being a drama king about is hair. As the awkward silence continued, we could feel a tremur coming from a small building where we could see bright explosions from the windows.

    The explosions got even louder, then the top of the building blew off, like a pop bottle with to much pressure. A.J. stuck up a force field that kept debris from hitting us.


    "Tai once again another failed machine," Mark said about this new person. He sounded like an aspiring machanic to me.

    "Oh dear, A.J. please catch him so he won't break sonething again," Rachel was pointing to the black dot. As I watched it, it it was becoming bigger. It didn't look like this supposed Tai person, but a giant machine. A.J. looked at the descending object, and could tell that his force field could only slow it's velocity.

    "Mommy, dearest, Yeah I can't stop that," he told Rachel with pleading eyes.

    "just try to stop it, please," She was rubbing her temples now. Just the idea of Tai hitting the ground was making her head ache. A.J. nodded, while he pointed his staff to hwere Tai and his machine would land.
    We could hear the engine running, right before it hit the force field . But instead of hearing it slam we heard the engine rev. Everyone ducked expecting it to hit them. It went flying off into the distance while we heard a faint, "WooHoo!"

    "What's wrong with him?" Romeo questioned.

    "Sounds like you when you rode the penny pony in the store," I could here A.J. and his family muffle their laughs at this.

    "When he was five?" Mark rose an eyebrow.

    "No just last week!" Romeo explained running around like he was riding a horse. Everyone just starred at him.


    "Well............." A.J. paused still watching Romeo. "Tai is the mechanic here and he ussually messes up his machines. But seems like he's gotten one at least to move," We watched as the giant machine pulled up next to us. I thought it looked kind of like something out of Star Wars. It's the Dream Realm wehat did I expect.

    Tai had jumped from the top of it, and bent down to pick up a pair of glasses. "I've been looking for thes!" He sais. We watched as he limped over to us. "So you finally got her, and the big goofball too?" Tai was examining his glasses, and cleaning them. "Hop on my flying machine please. Wouldn't want you guys to get tired ," Tai began scooting us over to the machine , when he pushed Romeo a bit to hard, causing him to fall and Romeo to hit his head.

    Romeo began to groan in pain his hands on his head. "By the way don't let Tai touch you his clumsiness kind of reverses on people when he touches them," A.J. said pressing a button which made a latter pop out of the side. I was about to climb up, but Tai scurried up so fast that he looked like a squirrel. My eyes widened at the inhuman climbing abilities he had.

    I turned to A.J. intending to ask a question, but he was tending to Romeo's head, so I decided on Mark instead. "What's the matter with Tai, Mark? He seems sort of unusual to me," He looked back to me then to the top of the twenty foot tall machine , and sighed.

    "Well he's human like us, but he doesn't sleep, so that's why he's squirrley. He also like I said earlier had had bad luck. When he tocuhes anyone they might fall into a hole, get locked in a room with a hobo that has tones of spoons, ect. You get my idea," he said shrugging. My mind wandered back on the hobo with spoons comment, but it soon went away since I didn't want to know about it.

    Once everybody was on, Tai started his new toy up. "Sorry no seatbelts, hold onto eachhother, and try not to fall out or you'll be ran over," He didn't even seem to care about us! The engine started p and everybody was bouncing up and down from vibrations, Tai looked back at us. "Ha I still have some kinks in it sorry." Putting his goggles on over his glasses he hit the gas. We flew back into our seats from the force.

    "This seemed alot more exciting when Tai was falling from th sky!!!" Romeo yelled. I swear I blew an eardrum from him yelling. In time we passed Tai's workshop, and we could see the Lightshade's castle in sight.