YO! Well I know I haven't posted my stories recently but I decided to give you all a small preview of a horror story I'm working on. IT's the first page and kinda slow, but, enjoy! STORY TIME!!!! The Story is Called: The Demons of Rashford
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The Demons of Rashford
Halloween, usually that name brings the thought of dressing up in silly costumes and going to get candy, followed with the thought joy, candy, and cavities. But let me tell you what… Halloween doesn’t always have a bright side. Halloween in the past was usually the day the devil and his minions would break from the underworld to terrorize humans. Of course, this story of mine isn’t just a history lesson; you get enough of that in school. This story is something more sinister then just a simple joyous Halloween tale of little kids running form house to house to get their share of candy; it’s about the dark side of Halloween, the day the Devil plays.
It was a normal October day in the small, sleepy town of Rashford, New Jersey. The sky was covered in overcast giving a darkened mood to the town a normal October day; except, it was October 31st, I started it like a normal day getting up lazily getting ready for school, simply tossing on clean clothes not caring what I wore, that day I wore a plaid shirt buttoned up to the third button and underneath I wore a gray undershirt. I pulled on some blue jeans and tossed on a backpack. I walked out to see my friend, Jeremy, waiting outside for me. He was dressed in his normal get-up, blue jeans a long sleeved t-shirt with some logo on it. He smiled and ran up next to me.
“Good morning buddy!” Jeremy said in a deep voice. “I see you are as enthusiastic as always to go to school!” I shot a glare at him. “Well something seems to have your underwear in a knot… Oh! Halloween… I see.”
“Yep, you know me too well…” I said blankly as I continued to walk down the street.
“Well this year, Randy, I want you to come to my costume party! It will let you forget about your bad memories of this day; after all, Halloween is meant to be fun.” Jeremy said swatting my back.
“Yeah, it sure beats taking my little brother trick-or-treating. Ok, I’ll come!” I said smiling as we walked into our school yard. The sharp screeching sound of the bell shot through our school symbolizing the start of a boring school day.
The day rolled by going into every class. Each lesson of my class had to do with Halloween, I hate Halloween. In English we wrote a short three paragraph paper about “Our Greatest Halloween Adventure.” In Geometry we solved some silly Halloween problem. In Biology we conducted experiments on how to change this one solution of chemicals to make the solution turn into a “Jack-o-Lantern” orange, it just looked like plain orange to me. In French we learned a whole bunch of Halloween related words in French; and finally in History we learned the true history of Halloween, the true dark side of it. Finally the final bell rang and everyone streamed out of school to start off a supposedly exciting Halloween night.
Yeah, even though I'm not getting any feedback probably because I can't post chapters up one at a time, on the main page... so I'll just continue with this until I either complete a short story and post it up. So anyway, this is my newer series called The Twilight Crystal. This Book features a young boy named Rilros Remat, he is a normal kid who lives in a world call Grissh. Oh, It'll just explain it self in the first chapter... so... STORY TIME!
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Chapter 1
The Tamer Returns
A bang in the night shatters the silence of a peaceful small village in the Trackin Mountains in the Rock Region of the world Grissh. All of the startled villagers opened their flaps of their small shacks. All of the men walked out with their weapons like scythes, swords, scimitars, and etcetera. A bright light suddenly erupts from the crater making everyone squint and suddenly a huge terrible monster crawled out of a medium sized meteor. It let out a terrible roar that made all of the villagers cover their ears.
“Well villagers, I am Tineg. I’m just here to… Well take over this world!” The monster said, stepping into the moonlight. He had a giant spherical head but was flat on top, there was two slits under the flatness in the slits were two red eyes that shimmered in the darkness there were two cat like pupils showing too. After the head were many tentacles each having a special “claw” if that is what you could call it. A few had pincher type “claws” others had a drill type “claws.” “Now, surrender all your valuables to me!” Tineg glared around.
“No, we need our treasures and money to support our families! You probably didn’t notice this alien man but this village is called the Village of All Beginnings!” A man that had black hair and green eyes and was very muscular and was about the age of twenty ca-lled up to Tineg. Tineg turned his eyes to that man whose name was, Ghale Monstrcatch.
“You dare confront me puny villager?” Tineg said glaring at Ghale.
“No, but our families are just beginning!” Ghale yelled up and pointing out the many pregnant women.
“Give me your valuables!” Tineg repeated, “Before I have to do something… Unfortunate.” The village was quiet, “Fine, monsters of the dark abyss come forth and wr-eak havoc on this world of humans that do not deserve to live!” Tineg then walked into a portal that suddenly appeared. Then all over the world portals of monsters from the realm of all shadows appeared especially in that village a mass amount of portals appeared sen-ding many monsters to slay that entire village.
Ghale though didn’t give up easy, he and all the men in that village fought valiantly. They triumphed over the monsters, but did Tineg give up? No, no he didn’t he still tried to rule. Ghale then studied magic from the world’s greatest wizard, Rilen; Rilen was a wise wizard who have lived for many years. Supposedly many monsters have come from met-eors, the nether realm and many other shadow realms. But Rilen was the only person to ever conquer one and he knew a spell that would allow you to capture monsters and use them as your allies; “The act of capturing monsters and using them as your allies is called ‘Taming’ and the people who do are called ‘Tamers’” Rilen explained to Ghale. Rilen never used it, but gave the knowledge of capturing monsters to Ghale. Ghale thus became the first ever Tamer. Ghale then tamed a group of powerful monsters and successfully defeated Tineg. Even though Tineg was defeated the monsters kept appearing and no one knew why.
That was over 1,000 years ago. Now a new story is about to un-fold one of an un-expecting fourteen year old boy named Rilros Remat. Rilros was a normal fourteen year old boy, going to his school to learn about the history of Grissh and many other classes like Mons-tology (the study of monsters) Math and P.E. since Rilros was a strong boy he aced P.E. with flying colors and also Battling Rilros’s weapon was a whip he loved the whip. He was a popular boy that had a dirty blonde hair color and blue eyes he wore clothes that were traveling clothes with many pockets on it. Over the shirt was a black colored jacket, and he wore jeans all the time everyone wore those kinds of clothes but he was part of the royal family very high classed. Rilros was also a very smart kid he has aced every class, there was one subject, History, which really caught his attention. His class has recently learned about Ghale how he was the first tamer and since then there were many Tamers, but none of the Tamers had to go through the trouble like Ghale did. But something was strange there was no tamer for this generation of the human race. That really confused Rilros.
“Hey, Rilros!” Rilros’s best friend, Tanok called to Rilros from across the hall after History class, Tanok was the same age as Rilros and had black hair with green eyes he wore a plain blue shirt. “So I’ll see you after school at my place right?”
“Yea, so what are we even going to do at your house?” Rilros asked closing his locker and starting to walk to his next class.
“Hmm… I don’t know maybe go exploring the forest near my house maybe we’ll run into some monsters.” Tanok said hopefully.
“Yea and maybe we’ll discover the Tamer,” Rilros said sarcastically. “You know monsters don’t live near civilization.”
“Hey, enough of your sarcasm I can hope can’t I?” Tanok said lightly punching Rilros in the arm.
“Ok, you can well this is my Monstology class see ya at your house.” Rilros said walking in. Today it was normal boring Monstology class, but today Rilros’s class learned about the Ultimate Beast it supposedly lives on a far off unknown continent called Reshons. The bell that ended that class sounded so good, because Rilros’s favorite class was next, History (Rilros’s school needed to have two different periods of history for the distract to keep giving them Guk, the worlds money source.) Today the class learned about the most powerful artifact called the Twilight Crystal it is placed somewhere in the world in a mag-ical cave called Twilight Cavern. The bell rang which meant today was over and the week-end was here.
Rilros ran home put all his stuff away and started walking over to Tanok’s house which was a few miles away. Rilros always carried his whip just incase some rabid monster came by and started attacking him or worse attacking his friends. When he got to Tanok’s house Tanok’s mother made them a huge array of snacks for them to eat. After that indulgence the two started to walk through the forest.
“You know how this school year is almost over?” Tanok asked plopping down on a sandy beach which Rilros and Tanok found one day they were exploring the forest.
“Yea why?” Rilros said sitting down next to him.
“Well next year I may move to the Rock Region… This will pretty much be the last time we’ll be able to hang out like this.” Tanok said, since the Rock Region was half way across the world from the Forest Region (where they live now).
“That is not cool, we won’t be able to sit here by this lake and skip rocks into the sunset!” Rilros said taking a flat rock and skipping it across the lake.
“Yea that is what sucks about it!” Tanok said taking a whole handful of rocks and throwing them in the water forcefully.
“You know, that is no way to skip a rock.” Rilros said trying to cheer up Tanok.
“Thanks for trying to cheer me up Rilros, but that isn’t going to work.”
“Worth a try right?” Rilros said getting up and brushing off the dirt that was on his jeans. Then a bush that was near them started to rustle. Rilros turned sharply and pulled out his whip. “What was that?” Rilros asked speaking to nobody in particular.
“I don’t know,” Tanok said turning and walking up next to Rilros. The bushes all around them rustled. This time really made Tanok jump he reached for his sword. “Dang it! I forgot my sword in its scabbard at home!” Tanok said dropping his hands to his side. Vines flew out of the bushes Rilros stopped all the vines heading for him, but Tanok who was defenseless got caught and pulled back in to the bushes.
Then out from the bushes walked a monster. It was a Treeser a monster that was common to the Forest Region, but they were usually peaceful monsters. “Why are Treesers here? They are usually peaceful! They never attack humans. Something must be controlling them.” Rilros thought. “Monsters! Why are you attacking humans?” Rilros asked in his most heroic voice he could make. Tanok started laughing at him though.
“Because…” A voice from faraway said, “I told them to! The tamer is back and that means I waited too long…”
Rilros lowered his guard, “What? You’re saying the Tamer has come?” Rilros called out.
“Yes, you didn’t know?”
“No, I didn’t know; who is it?”
“You, you fool! You’re the new Tamer!”
Shock struck Rilros. Then the monsters looked at him and started to walk forward, Rilros stepped back shakily. Pretty soon there was a ring of Treesers around him, he grabbed his whip with both hands and swung at the Treeser holding Tanok. The Treeser didn’t have time to react and got struck right in the face. It released Tanok and fell back and a puff of purple smoke signaled that it was dead. The others saw their ally die and came after Rilros and Tanok. Tanok also used his fists as a weapon but his sword skills were better. A Treeser charged toward Tanok, Tanok jumped up and came down on top of the Treeser with his feet crushing the monster and killing it.
Rilros struck a Treeser that was near him with his whip it didn’t cause much damage, but made it wobble back Rilros finished it off by striking it once again right where the weak point of that monster was in the bushy leaves on the top of its head. He fell back and poof purple smoke signaled it was a goner. The fight was over and Tanok and Rilros won.
“Wow, good job.” The voice rang out, “I guess the Tamer lives up to the legends.” The voice died down as he finished its last sentence.
“Wow, you the Tamer! Wait till everyone at school hears about this!” Tanok said smiling happily hearing his best friend was the Tamer really made him better. Then a bright light flashed up nearly blinding the two. In front of them stood a frail old man who wore purple robes and a pointed hat in his hands was what looked like a little stick probably used for walking.
“I hear there is a Tamer around here.” The old man said in a weakened voice, “Who is it?”
“Ummm… me.” Rilros said raising his hand; Rilros stared at the little old man wondering who he is.
“Ahhh… so the Tamer is indeed young…” the man shuffled over and grabbed Rilros’s right hand. “I see… well, looks like you’ll need to come with me.”
“Huh?” Rilros said. “Who are you?” Rilros said looking at the little old man.
“I’m sorry I forgot to introduce my self… seems my memory is giving away faster than I thought! Well my name is Rilen I’m the wizard who taught Ghale, the first Tamer. And ever since then I’ve used my magic to check for the current Tamer. I thought the Tamer has seized to exist but then as I was taking my nap today my magic started to go crazy and it showed a picture of you and your friend fighting off the Treesers then I knew it was you. I tried to come to help you out but it seems my magic has gotten old and worn out like yours truly.” Rilen said letting out a little laugh, “So, would you and your little friend care to come to my castle and study on how to capture monsters?”
Rilros was about to answer but Tanok barged in the conversation, “Would we ever!” Tanok looked back a Rilros who was giving him a piercing look. “Of course it is up to Rilros.” Tanok stepped behind Rilros and started to pray that Rilros would say “yes.”
“Well, since it is my destiny to help save this world from utter chaos I guess it wouldn’t hurt.” Rilros said nodding at Rilen.
“YES!” Tanok said jumping up with joy. Tanok ran up next to Rilen and said, “Come one Rilros! We need to get you to Rilen’s castle so you can learn how to capture monsters and help save Grissh!” Rilros walked over next to Rilen and nodded.
“Cover your eyes my boys there will be a bright flash!” Rilen said holding up his staff. Rilros and Tanok covered their eyes and Rilen’s staff started to glow and in a few seconds there was nothing their but some feet prints to show they were there. “You can open your eyes now boys.” Rilen’s voice rang out.
Rilros opened his eyes to see he was on a nice and soft couch. Rilros for a second thought he had fallen asleep on the couch in his living room and dreamt he had been told by Rilen that he was the tamer and he only dreamt up fighting the Treesers but soon Rilros found out he wasn’t dreaming. He sat up on the couch and saw Rilen making some kind of liquid in a pot that he had hung over the fire. “That was a quick trip.” Rilros said walking over to Rilen at a small circular table.
“Yes, because teleportation is a quick way of transportation. But unfortunately teleportation has its down sides, sometimes you can be caught by a Shadow Line which will immediately destroy you and whoever is traveling with you, also you could end up anywhere in your desired place luckily we all landed in my room. Also you can land in any direction your friend wasn’t as lucky as you he appeared and crashed to the floor head first I put him on a couch he is still passed out.” Rilen said looking up to Rilros.
“Is Tanok okay!?” Rilros asked in anxiety.
“Yes, but he needs to sleep this was an eventful day for him being caught by a Treeser hearing Zarkx…”
“Zarkx?” Rilros asked sitting down next to Rilen.
“Yes, Zarkx he is an evil monster who thinks humans are inferior.”
“Oh,” Rilros looked around the room it was a medium circular sized room with windows and some paintings. There were couches doted through the room and on the far side was a door that Rilros thought lead to Rilen’s room. But what caught Rilros’s attention the most was a strange symbol and in it looked like Rilen at younger ages and with him were other people some men some women, but then he looked at the very top of the symbol and saw something that shocked him. It was Ghale, the very first Tamer. Then Rilros realized it was a timeline of some sort showing all the different Tamers that helped save Grissh.
“Who are those people?” Rilros asked pointing to the timeline. He already knew the answer but he just wanted to make sure if he was right.
“Ah, those are the past Tamers.” Rilen said smiling brightly. “So I must talk to you about what you’ll encounter through your journey.” Rilen placed his hand on the table which Rilros now saw it had a star shape on it and Rilen had his hand on the middle of it. The star on the table started to grow bigger and bright and then an orb flew off the table and expanded Rilros’s first thought was to jump up and run out of the room. But he knew that wasn’t the right thing to do, the bright orb covered Rilros and Rilen and in the orb Rilros saw little television type things. Rilros noticed something that shocked him. Each square shaped screen showed him!
In one of the screens he saw himself and nine monsters three were orcs which he realized right away and the other ones he didn’t know what they were. But he was too fre-aked out to remember this stuff. Another one he saw he was in the desert with some oddly colored orcs and two pairs of monsters he had no clue what they were, in the television he saw the camera switch in a behind view of him and barely visible through the sand was a Castle and a wall. This confused him he remembered in History class about a kingdom in the desert that was often referred to as the Mirage Kingdom he didn’t think twice about it. There were some many other televisions that showed different stuff Rilros and his monsters were doing this was too much for him, luckily Rilen saw this in Rilros’s eyes and started to explain.
“Don’t worry young one this is showing us what great adventures await you as a Tamer. This is normal I did this with Ghale and all the other Tamers sure it may seem like a lot but it truly isn’t. Like this one!” Rilen pointed at the one of Rilros in the orange cavern, “This is your adventure that is about to unfold your first one who knows maybe it is something small like stop a monster invasion or something big like saving Grissh…” Rilen was cut short by a loud whine.
“What is that!?” Rilros asked nearly screaming.
“I-I don’t know! This has never happened before!” The table that made the orb started to crack and the whine grew to a screech.
“Rilen!” Rilros was yelling at the top of his lungs. The table then shattered sending glistening rock shards in every direction. Rilros dove to the ground covering his head and neck from the sharp shards. Soon the disaster ended, Rilros hesitantly got up and saw that the dome he was in was now gone and he was back in Rilen’s room. The dust that was thrown up from the ordeal was now settling but was still pretty thick.
“Rilros? Rilros my boy are you okay?” Rilen’s voice rang out, “Rilros follow the sound of my voice. Wait better yet,” Rilen stopped then a huge gust of wind ripped through the room clearing the dust.
“W-what has happened Rilen?” Rilros asked shaken.
“I have no clue I have never seen my table shatter like that while showing a Tamer his destiny and what he must do.” Rilen said going over all the possibilities as what could’ve happened. “Unless,” Rilen dashed over to the rubble of the table. “I knew it. You, young Tamer, have a massively long journey ahead of you it will take you to every corner of Grissh getting monsters to help you out and to stop a disaster of catastrophic proportions! It will take along time to save Grissh and keep it peaceful for many years to come maybe even destroy monsters so nothing like what is about to unfold may happen again.”
“This is a little much don’t you think? I’m only fourteen how am I supposed to save Grissh from a disaster that could destroy it!” Rilros said skeptically.
“I don’t know young one, but what I do know is that you are the only hope to save this world.” Rilros didn’t say anything he was still wrapping his mind around what was about to happen, or maybe, what has already begun. “First young one, I must teach you the technique that will allow you to capture monsters and use them as your allies, this is a very simple task actually.”
In Rilen’s room Tanok was up probably before even Rilros he heard everything how it is up to Rilros to save Grissh and how only he can do it. Tanok probably didn’t want to say it or even tell himself it but he was jealous. Ever since he had met Rilros Rilros had gotten everything from going on dates with the prettiest girls in school to acing every test Tanok was happy for Rilros until he heard he was the Tamer that pushed him over the edge. Tanok secretly wanted to be the Tamer he has always read about the great things they can do and how they can get monsters to fight beside them. Tanok was happy for Rilros deep down inside him but his happiness was being covered up by jealousy and anger. Then he heard it a voice.
“Aww, poor little boy your best friend has become the Tamer and that is something you’ve always wanted to be is it not?” The voice said then out of no where a guy that was about six feet tall walked out. He wore black cloaks and his eyes were a blood red color and coming off from the pupils were black tear drop shapes he had long jet-black hair that went down to his shoulders. He had a muscular build and with the tight black robes on he looked pretty intimidating.
“Who are you?” Tanok said standing up (he was sitting on the wall by the door listening to Rilros and Rilen speak).
“My name is not important but was I right?” Asked the man.
“Y-yea.” Tanok stuttered. “But I have to be happy for Rilros he is a great guy.”
“Yes, but ever since you’ve known him he has taken almost everything away from you the pretty girls the grades, you wish you could be Rilros am I right?”
“I guess, but I’m happy for him.” Tanok repeated.
The man smirked, “Let’s say I know how to make you like him what would you do?”
Tanok looked at him suspiciously, “I’d ask how you could do that.”
“Well all you need to do is come with me, and I’ll teach how to be a Tamer just like your friend.” Tanok got really excited and smiled happily. The man then held out his right hand.
“Okay!” Tanok ran towards the man in the black cloaks and grabbed his hand Tanok felt a pang of pain rush though his body, Tanok ignored this and vanished with the man with no sign he was ever there.
“That’s all?” Rilros asked looking quizzically at Rilen.
“Yes, my boy, did I not tell you it was simple?” Rilen asked smiling a little.
“Okay I think I’m ready!”
“I have no doubt in you! You will bring peace to Grissh for many years to come! I do not know what you must first do but I’m sure like everything else, your destiny will unravel it self to you as time goes on! If I find out anything I’ll get you here in five seconds!” Rilen smiled.
“Okay, better get Tanok and leave. I see it is getting late it is nearly at sun down!” Rilros said. “Where’d you put Tanok when we got here?”
“In my room straight ahead.” Rilen pointed to a wooden door with many carvings embedded in it. Rilros opened the door slowly just incase he was sleeping or something, but he didn’t find Tanok it was like he was never there.
“Rilen!” Rilros yelled out, Rilen ran as fast as he could to get to Rilros and when he did he gasped.
“Tanok is gone!?” Rilen said astonished, “I remember placing him right on my bed and it doesn’t even look like he was there!” Rilen was totally confused.
“Where is Tanok!?” Rilros asked to no one.
“I’m sorry my boy, I’ll send you home maybe he already went home you never know!” Rilen said looking on the positive side of things.
“Okay,” Rilros said depressed.
“Okay, close your eyes remember blinding flash.” Rilros did this and before he vanished he heard Rilen say: “I’ll call you back here when I find something out either about your friend if he isn’t home or what you’ll need to do.”
Next thing Rilros knows he is back home on the beach where he left. Rilros walked a little and collapsed, on the soft grass. One question kept popping into his head: “Where is Tanok?”
Tanok sat eagerly awaiting his master to teach him how to catch monsters and use them like Rilros was learning to do. Tanok asked himself once, “Wonder if Rilros even knows that I’m gone.”
“He probably doesn’t young one, he is probably to busy learning about catching monsters that he doesn’t even noticed you have been gone,” came his master’s deep voice he then walked out of a corner he was standing in. Tanok jumped up a little shocked.
“Were you listening in on my conversation with myself?” Tanok rolled his eyes at himself it sounded as if he was a psychopath.
“No, I just heard you ask that to yourself. Now do you want to learn how to capture monsters?”
“YES! Yes, I do!” Tanok said enthusiastically.
“Then come here.” Tanok walked up to his master and his master held out a sword. This looked like Tanok’s sword he had at home but this sword was black all over not one ounce of silver or steel just all black. “Take this sword and you’ll be able to capture monsters no need for explanation once you touch this sword you’ll never be the same, you’ll know how to catch monsters and your destiny will reveal it self to you.” Tanok hesitantly grabbed the sword and once he did he was over come by power so big that he nearly fell to the ground. After that Tanok was never the same his jealousy towards Rilros took over and was overcome with dark powers.
“This feels great so now, master tell me my destiny!” Tanok then bowed to his new evil master. Feeling great hatred for everything even his once best friend he was a changed man never to be the same again.
The next few days at Rilros’s school were sad ones, most of his favorite teachers were quitting never to come back and being replaced with horrid substitutes. The school’s lunches were worse then normal, but what really brought these days down were not seeing Tanok, his best friend he has known since first grade. Rilros’s grades were also taking a steep dive, too much worrying about Tanok. Also Rilros’s once favorite subject, History, has been becoming his least favorite. His old History teacher quit and was replaced by a long term substitute that was very dull and very fat and everything about that substitute freaked Rilros out. He was so happy there was only a week left of school. Finally after what seemed like an eternity the final bell rang.
Rilros was walking through the hallways when he heard a small voice calling form behind him. Rilros turned and to his surprise he saw it was Sarvina a girl that was his age that had brown hair that went down to her shoulders she wore navy blue shorts and a black shirt that had a strange logo that couldn’t be read. “Rilros, wait up!” Rilros stopped and waited for Sarvina to catch up to him.
“Hi.” Rilros said waving and smiling warmly to her.
“Hi. Mind if I walk with you?” She asked holding her books across her chest.
“Yea, sure I’m juts going to my locker.”
“Okay,” Sarvina smiled and started walking at a slow pace. Rilros did the same. “So what has happened to Tanok?”
Rilros lowered his head he didn’t feel like talking about his best friend who mysteriously had gone missing when they went to Rilen’s castle. Rilros hated to lie, but he came up with one quickly. “Uh, he’s sick, a very bad illness.”
“Tell the truth.”
“I-I-I am!”
“No, I can tell you are lying!”
“Okay, to be honest I have no clue where he is! He just magically vanished!”
“Sure didn’t take much to break you down, anyway you don’t know where he is?”
“Not a clue.”
“RILROS!” Rilen’s voice said ringing through Rilros’s head.
“Huh?” Rilros said looking around to see who made the voice.
“What’s wrong?” Sarvina said looking at Rilros oddly.
“I found out what Zarkx wants to do with Grissh!” Rilen’s voice boomed in Rilros’s head. “I’m teleporting you here!”
Before Rilros could warn Sarvina a bright flash lit up the hall. Since Sarvina and Rilros were the only ones in the hall they were immediately taken from the hall. In only a few seconds Rilros and Sarvina were in the all too familiar room (to Rilros that is).
“Rilros where are we?” Sarvina asked shaking.
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Not the best first chapter but whatever... hope you enjoy!
The Heroes of Light in:
The Shadow Tyrant
Chapter 1
The Last Day
Torrado jolted awake his senses on overload. He scanned his room from one corner to the other taking in every detail; his room was the same, medium sized a large window on the wall across from him a shaggy carpet with a few stains here and there his closest on the far wall with his door nearby, he even looked at the wall that his bed was prodded against his antique sword collection glimmering in the moonlight that poured from the window. His adrenaline rush finally declined and he collapsed back on his bed running his hands through his dirty blonde hair feeling the now cool sweat. The moon made his deep blue eyes shine.
“Why do I have this same dream? EVERY night . . .” Torrado said talking to himself. He remembered his horrible dream. It was of him and his two best friends, Farin and Ziyran, there was this man covered in total darkness a sword glimmering in the dim light that was around the area they were. His eyes were blood red he was tall and very muscular the sword he was holding was slender with a deadly shimmer to it. The man’s left hand was glowing with a strange aura. The man then laughs and dashes at Ziyran, Ziyran quickly tries to counter but fails and the man slices his sword through Ziyran making him collapse and a stream of blood coming from a wound. Torrado then sees Farin pull out a bow and shoot arrows at the mysterious assassin. The man quickly calls upon a force field and then blasts a large red beam with a spiral of black mist spinning around. Farin gets launched back and flies off a nearby ledge.
That is the end of the dream since Torrado jolts awake after the man kills Farin. Torrado shrugs it off seeing as he has never seen the mysterious man in his dream. Torrado smiles thinking it was just some dream he turns on his side trying to get more sleep he opens his eyes and right in front of his face are the blood red eyes. “Whoa!” Torrado said pulling back from the menacing eyes he gasped Torrado rolls off his bed and pulls one of the swords from the wall and he starts holding it in front of him in a battle position.
“Silly boy.” A deep malevolent voice said coming from the corner where the two eyes were. “I have no use in killing you now, no sense of accomplishment.”
“Killing me!” Torrado exclaimed looking at the two eyes he saw that the one corner where the eyes came from was completely engulfed in shadows.
A sinister laugh was heard and then he heard the voice say, “You’re totally clueless aren’t you? Funny how you’re the one who is destined to stop me...”
“STOP you? Stop you from what?” Torrado said lowering his guard but still ready for any sudden movement.
There was another laugh and the voice said, “Pathetic, I’ve told you enough already, you’ll just have to wait and see... have a nice last day of school, Torrado. Oh and say hi to Farin and Ziyran for me. They both sleep like rocks they never notice me unlike you. Oh well more fun for me . . .” the shadows suddenly subsided taking the pair of eyes with them. The corner that was covered in shadows now was as bright as the rest of the room. Torrado stared at the corner for awhile then put his sword back in the scabbard that was hanging on the wall.
Torrado rolled back in bed and stared at the ceiling thinking of what happened. He finally let it go and rolled on his side and fell asleep for what seemed like only a minute when he heard his door open. He opened his eyes and saw his dad walking towards him. “Wake up time son.” he said, he was tall and lanky he had blonde hair and wore wire frame glasses. His dad was an inventor, he created many new gadgets and gizmos, Torrado would call his dad a nerd more then an inventor, but he loved him. “Today is the last day of seventh grade buddy!” He said sitting down next to Torrado.
“Can’t I just stay home, or something? It’s the last day nothing important happens . . .” Torrado said rolling away from his dad.
“Son, you have to go.” His dad said sighing and pushing his glasses back up on his nose.
“Why? Like I said nothing important happens.”
“Just go!” His dad said getting a little impatient.
“Fine!” Torrado said finally giving in. Torrado rolled off his bed onto the floor and walked towards his closet. “I’ll meet you downstairs in a few.”
Torrado said opening his closet. Torrado grabbed his normal outfit, blue jeans and a deep blue shirt with a few abstract symbols on it. He also grabbed a towel that was nearby and walked out the door whistling. Torrado walked out of his small cozy room into a huge hall with a grand staircase made of oak and mahogany to his left across from him was a railing that was painted with a hazel type color the floor was just hard wood, running down the middle was a large red carpet. On Torrado’s right side were a lot of doors. Torrado walked down to the one closest to him and opened it walking into a plain bathroom. The floor and wall was covered with blue tiles.
Within a few minutes Torrado was downstairs in his kitchen dressed and ready for the last day of seventh grade. “I still don’t see why I have to go to school today, dad.” Torrado said sitting in a chair at the dining table.
“Well, I have to go to work, and no one will be here to watch you.” His dad said putting down a medium sized stack of pancakes in front of Torrado.
“I’m not five any more, dad, I can watch after myself.” Torrado said grabbing the syrup. “And besides if you let me stay home Ziyran and Farin would come over and they would keep me busy.”
“But I talked to their parents yesterday while I was at the store, and they said they were going to school today.” His dad countered fixing his glasses.
“Ugh,” Torrado said annoyed. “Fine, I’ll go.” Torrado then grabbed his fork and started eating his pancakes. After awhile Torrado put his fork down and jumped down off the chair and starting heading for the door. Torrado, out of habit, grabbed his backpack that was hanging by the door and headed off to his bus stop. It was bright out already the sun glimmering in the sky like some gem; Torrado saw some of his school friends dragging themselves to the bus stop not wanting to be one of the few kids who were forced to go to school on the last day.
“Torrado!” Came a soft soothing voice, Torrado smiled and turned to see Farin, one of his long time friends, Farin was the same height as Torrado and had bright luscious blond hair, she was wearing her hair in her normal ponytail. She walked gracefully towards Torrado her bright red shirt tucked into her tiny shorts. Torrado welcomed her with a big hug; even though Torrado never admitted it he has had a crush on Farin since they were in first grade. She pulled back and smiled her bright green eyes glimmering in the morning sun. “Ready for the last day?” Farin said going off to Torrado’s left side.
“Yea, ready for it to end.” Torrado said smirking. Farin let off a small giggle and the two of them came upon their stop.
“Yo! Torrado, Farin!” A deep, cocky voice said from behind the two.
“Ziyran!” Farin and Torrado said in unison. They turned to see their other best friend running up. Ziyran was a tall rather strong young man; he had dark brown hair and bright purple eyes he wore blue jeans and a black t-shirt with a red line running across the middle, he wore a thin gray long sleeved shirt under the t-shirt. He ran up to join his two friends. Ziyran and Farin climbed onto the bus that had just pulled up, while Torrado stopped right before the stairs he turned to see a man that was about six feet tall he was muscular with velvet red cloak strapped on his back, he was wearing a small shirt with gems encrusted on it, his pants were long and also encrusted with gems, but the thing that caught Torrado’s attention the most were the blood red eyes and a scabbard that was blue with a dragon head on the bottom crafted out of metal. He smirked and gave Torrado a small salute.
“Kid, you getting on?” An annoyed voice said snapping Torrado back to reality.
“Huh? Oh yea . . .” Torrado said a little embarrassed, he stumbled up the stairs and sat down next to Ziyran.
“What was that about, Torrado?” Ziyran asked looking at him.
“Yea, you just stopped at the bottom of the stairs and looked off down the side walk.” Farin said turning around in her seat.
“I just saw something that kind of freaked me out . . .” Torrado said.
“Like?” Ziyran said. Torrado shrugged and for the rest of the bus ride Torrado told them of his weird dream he has been having about them dieing and the strange encounter last night, Torrado left out no detail explaining everything with in depth details.
“So . . . I die?” Ziyran exclaimed once he climbed off the bus Farin was speechless.
“It was just a dream, it won’t happen for real!” Torrado countered. “Anyway wanna come over to my house after school? We can hang out in my backyard maybe train a little for the Summer Tournament!” Torrado said quickly changing the subject.
“Sure why not?” Ziyran said shrugging off the story Torrado just told them.
“Yea, I have nothing better to do.” Farin said also forgetting. The three walked into the hallway of their junior high for the last time until next year. They walked into their first period and began the day. The day crept by slowly, every class they either watched a movie or did some brain teaser worksheet. Finally the last bell rang signaling the end of the school year, and the beginning of summer vacation. The three friends burst out the front doors and let out a loud cheer.
“Ok. Off to my house and onto training. Don’t worry guys, Farin I have an archery set at home, and Ziyran I’m not sure I know any spells.” Torrado said.
“Don’t worry; we magicians always know basic spells.” Ziyran said.
“Good lets go!” Torrado said climbing on the bus followed by his two friends. The bus ride home was fast and in a matter of minutes Torrado, Farin and Ziyran were walking down the sidewalk towards the large house on the end of the road, Torrado’s house. In another ten minutes Torrado and his friends burst through Torrado’s front door. “DAD! I’m home Farin and Ziyran are here too! We are going out to the back to train up for the Summer Tournament! If you need me I’ll be back there.” Torrado then lead his friends through his large living room and kitchen out to a lush green backyard. There were a few large trees dotted around the yard along with a large jungle gym. Also there was a sand pit that had rows of wooden dummies in it. That is where Torrado usually trained with his swords.
“Be right back gotta get my sword. Farin, the archery set is right in that shed.” Torrado said running off back into the house. Torrado ran into his room and grabbed a sword off his wall; Torrado attached the sheath to his belt loop and started to head back down. Suddenly the door slammed shut and locked, Torrado pulled at it but it was futile it felt like someone was holding the other end of the door so he couldn’t open it.
“Might as well get rid of you know before you even try and stop me.” An all-to-familiar voice said. Torrado whipped around to see the same man that was on the sidewalk standing about ten feet from him. “Funny how you’re so clueless.” the man said smiling sinisterly.
“Who are you?” Torrado said grabbing the sword and slashing it out.
“Might as well tell you, since you won’t be living for long.” The man said walking over to Torrado’s window and peering outside. “I am Cravil, the evil god of Zeelox, and I want to take over that world. Supposedly you and your two other friends are the destined heroes of light.” The man let out a small laugh. “But you’ll learn more later on... if you survive that is.” Cravil then turned his velvet cloak whipping around elegantly.
“Why are you dressed like a king if the whole world, Zeelox or whatever hates you?” Torrado asked his sword out front ready for an attack.
“I appointed my self king, my foolish brother, Ghaled, the god of light, chose you three; way back in the day, before I even tried to take over the world. Sad how he chose you little weaklings to over throw me. Guess Zeelox will be doomed to darkness forever.” Cravil quickly slashed his sword out Torrado quickly jumped back and in a split second the sword slashed right where Torrado was. Torrado was in shock, without thinking he turned and quickly pulled on the door again but this time it swung open Torrado sprinted out into the massive hallway. Cravil smirked and opened his left hand his nails clattered together and suddenly a ball of black energy formed he turned his palm around and aimed the dark energy at the frantic Torrado. “Pathetic!” Cravil yelled letting loose a beam of black energy with a few lines of red swirling around.
Torrado turned and saw the beam coming straight at him he had no time to react the beam hit him square in the chest Torrado launched back and over the railing he dropped two stories and landed on a couch luckily his room was overlooking his living room. Torrado quickly got his wits back and saw Cravil staring at him from over the railing. Torrado glared at Cravil while he charged up another shot. Cravil let it loose and Torrado quickly did a backwards somersault over the couch and in a second the couch blew up sending balls of cotton all over the room.
“Nice agility!” Cravil said with a smirk of cockiness. Torrado suddenly realized that Cravil wasn’t trying to kill him or not yet, he was just toying with him. Torrado turned and ran for the door that led to the back he needed the back up of Ziyran and Farin. He kicked the door open and dove out somersaulting to dodge yet another one of Cravil’s beams. “Oh and senses like a fox!” Cravil’s voice called from in the house. Torrado quickly regained his balance and sprinted to the battleground Cravil in hot pursuit.
“Guys!” Torrado yelled running up to his two friends training on the dummies.
“Torrado?” Farin exclaimed dropping her bow and running at Torrado who was panting. “What’s wrong?” Farin said grabbing Torrado.
“There’s a mad man chasing me!” Torrado said looking back to Cravil who was floating towards the three. “Look!” Torrado pointed and Farin and Ziyran looked up and saw Cravil speeding towards them.
“Who is that?” Ziyran said pointing at Cravil.
“That’s the man! He’s the one in every one of my dreams the one who kills you guys!” Torrado said breaking free of Farin’s grip. “We need to find a place to hide!” Torrado turned real fast but the loose sand made Torrado trip. He collapsed into the sand but instead of soft sand he hit something hard. Torrado quickly brushed away the sand and found a wooden plank with a metal ring attached. He grabbed it and pulled it back, it opened smoothly it was a trap door and their only means of escape from Cravil. “Hurry guys! Down here!” Torrado said signaling his friends to go down.
“Ok...” Ziyran said he quickly ran in followed by Farin and then Torrado, Torrado closed the trap door behind him and crawled in.
“Have fun in Vritaul, you three... and I’ll see you there!” Cravil lifted his cloak and covered himself and vanished.
“Its pitch black in here...” Ziyran’s voice said annoyed.
“One second let me feel for a light switch.” Torrado said putting his hands out and feeling for the wall. After awhile Torrado hit the wall, he then grazed his hands across the rough wall feeling for a switch of some kind, after fumbling around for awhile Torrado felt a small switch. “Hope this is it...” Torrado flipped it and the corridor they were in sprang to life, the light coming from the lights hanging on the wall was so bright the three of them had to squint until their eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness. After there eyes adjusted they looked around to get their bearings.
They were in a long corridor they looked back and saw the stairs that lead them down here. The walls were covered in wires of all colors and multi-colored buttons there were also multiple levers dotted along the walls the corridor all together was just rock the ground that they were standing on was smooth. They looked up and saw large lanterns hanging from the ceiling. They also heard a faint beep beep noise.
“Should we head further in?” Farin asked. “You know, just incase that mad man finds our hiding spot.”
“Cravil,” Torrado said abruptly.
“What?” Ziyran asked. “Is that like a disease or somethin’?”
Torrado shot Ziyran a ‘look’ and then said, “The man’s name, Cravil.”
“Oh...” Ziyran said feeling embarrassed.
“He seemed like a psycho...” Farin said. “I think it would be safer to head further in to get away from the entrance.” The other two nodded in agreement and started following the long corridor. The rocky hallway made several twists and turns leading them further into this labyrinth. After awhile they walked through a large archway and into a humongous corridor, the walls were covered in wires still but the wires on the wall of the corridor where huge, they were about three feet in diameter and entwined with each other the wires were also in a plethora of colors. There were more levers but this time the levers made a circle around the room they were close together and larger then the levers they saw when they entered. But the multitude of wires and levers didn’t surprise the three but in the center of the room were capsules large capsules each had a large compartment on the bottom. There were three capsules and they formed a circle, in the middle of the circle of capsules was a large tower that expanded up to the ceiling several feet above. A few feet to the right of the capsule closet to the three there was a large red button.
“What... is this place?” Ziyran said in awe.
“I don’t know. I never have seen this place before.” Torrado said staring at the huge tower.
“These capsules, how odd they are just placed here in the middle of the room.” Farin said carefully walking to the capsule closest to the group. When she got to the capsule she started examining it.
“This place, I wonder how I never noticed it before, I practiced out there enough.” Torrado said puzzled. Torrado walked up next to Farin and started examining the capsule too.
Ziyran ran to one of the nearby levers and, out of curiosity, pulled it down. The place sprang to life buttons started flashing ravenously and the calm beep beep sound turned into a frenzy of beeps. “AH!” Ziyran exclaimed he tried to pull the lever back up but it was useless, the lever was jammed. “Torrado!” Ziyran yelled over the frenzy of beeps. The whole area seemed to quaver and it seemed like the walls of wires would crumble down on top of them at any moment.
“What did you do?” Torrado yelled.
“I pulled this lever down...” Ziyran said raising his voice so he could be heard.
“Only you, Ziyran!” Farin yelled in a hostile tone.
“Hurry look for some sort of button to turn this frenzy off! Ziyran look around that area! Farin, go over there!” Torrado said pointing to the left. “I’ll look on the far wall.”
The three began pressing buttons and moving levers around, all the buttons and levers failed. Finally they ran back and met in front of the capsules. “Torrado, we’ve tried everything!” Farin yelled. “And after all we’ve done it seems to just have gotten worse!”
“There is one thing we haven’t tried!” Ziyran yelled. Torrado and Farin looked at him confused. Ziyran made one gesture, he pointed to the large red button on the pedestal, Torrado and Farin followed his gesture and saw their only hope. Ziyran ran over to it and slammed his palm down. The whole room seized in the ruckus and calmed down.
“That was close.” Torrado said. The other two nodded.
“Well hopefully that Cravil person is gone, want to head back?” Ziyran said.
“Sure.” Torrado said nodding Farin nodded too. The three turned and started to walk towards the archway that they entered from when something unexpected started to happen. The serene beep beep turned into a sharp hum. The three stopped short and turned to see the capsules oval lid burst open and two claws come from each. The claws jumped at the three. Torrado, Farin and Ziyran quickly rolled off to the side barely escaping the claws. “What is happening?” Torrado exclaimed getting back on his feet. Torrado went for his sword but the claws turned sharply and grabbed his biceps, he was jerked and pulled into the capsule that faced the entrance. Once Torrado was in, his whole world blurred and turned into a whirlwind of different shades of blue. Then the blue whirlwind shattered into blackness. Farin saw what happened to Torrado and was frozen in shock, unfortunately the claws were just as fast as Torrado’s and they quickly turned in a Farin’s direction. Farin snapped back to reality but it was too late the claws grabbed her biceps too and pulled her into the one off to Torrado’s capsule’s right. Farin’s world blurred into a tunnel of different shades of red. Then her tunnel of red shattered into pure blackness.
Ziyran was the only one left, unfortunately the only pair of claws left were just as quick as his two friends’ Ziyran quickly jumped away from another lung from a claw and rolled up back to his feet. “Guys, I’ll come back for you!” Ziyran said to his unconscious friends. The set of claws retaliated and dove at Ziyran. Ziyran was grabbed by his triceps and pulled back towards the final capsule. Ziyran jumped off the ground and he started to levitate, he then tried to fly off towards the archway but it was futile. The claws pulled Ziyran back and he was brought to the third and final capsule. He was thrown in and he felt a sudden shock, suddenly his world melted away. He found himself in a whirlwind of shades of green, and then his world suddenly shattered and he fell into the darkness.
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Torrado was awaken by a sharp burn on his face. Torrado slowly opened his eyes and he saw the sun brightly shining he squinted and stretched. Torrado smiled, he thought he was outside in his backyard, it felt like he had just awoken from a nap that he took after he and his friends were done training. He got up and stretched he rubbed his eyes and a shock came upon him. He wasn’t outside in his backyard asleep; he was in a vast desert lying on the sand. He did a quick three-sixty and saw the desert stretched on for miles on either side of him, he also saw his friends still unconscious.
“It wasn’t a dream?” Torrado whispered to himself. “I’m really somewhere far away in some desert?” Torrado yelled in disbelief.
“What’s wrong?” Farin said jolting up.
“We’re in a desert nowhere near home!” Torrado said turning to Farin who was standing up. “We are in some strange place! Those capsules must have done it!”
“But how?” Ziyran said cutting in, Ziyran got up and joined his friends. “If it IS the capsules doing, then this place must be... virtual!” Torrado ran up and punched Ziyran in stomach. Ziyran fell to the ground catching his breath.
“Did that hurt?” Torrado asked.
“Of course! You socked me in the gut!” Ziyran said aggravated.
“Then it’s not virtual! We are in a real place! This whole area, this whole world all together must be real! The capsules must have just transported us here!” Torrado said with force.
“Like... a portal...” Ziyran and Farin said in awe.
“If we die here, in the desert, then we will never make it back home... You better believe it!” After Torrado said that the three fell silent.
Hey all! Grant here and I changed the title of my story once again! This time it is called: Heroes of light in: The Shadow Trant. Seeing as my final copy had NOTHING to do with a virtual world, even though a virtual world has me inspired to make an actual story IN a vortual world. Oh well we will see where that takes me... Anyway STORY TIME!!!
PS: This MAY be the only chapter I post up of this story seeing as I'm paranoid and worried my horrible idea will be taken. This like I said is for secruity reasons, look forward to chapter 1 of THE TWILIGHT CRYSTAL coming soon to a commputer near you ;) just tried to be witty.
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Chapter 1
The Last Day
Torrado jolted awake his senses on overload. He scanned his room from one corner to the other taking in every detail; his room was the same, medium sized a large window on the wall across from him a shaggy carpet with a few stains here and there his closest on the far wall with his door nearby, he even looked at the wall that his bed was prodded against his antique sword collection glimmering in the moonlight that poured from the window. His adrenaline rush finally declined and he collapsed back on his bed running his hands through his dirty blonde hair feeling the now cool sweat. The moon made his deep blue eyes shine.
“Why do I have this same dream? EVERY night . . .” Torrado said talking to himself. He remembered his horrible dream. It was of him and his two best friends, Farin and Ziyran, there was this man covered in total darkness a sword glimmering in the dim light that was around the area they were. His eyes were blood red he was tall and very muscular the sword he was holding was slender with a deadly shimmer to it. The man’s left hand was glowing with a strange aura. The man then laughs and dashes at Ziyran, Ziyran quickly tries to counter but fails and the man slices his sword through Ziyran making him collapse and a stream of blood coming from a wound. Torrado then sees Farin pull out a bow and shoot arrows at the mysterious assassin. The man quickly calls upon a force field and then blasts a large red beam with a spiral of black mist spinning around. Farin gets launched back and flies off a nearby ledge.
That is the end of the dream since Torrado jolts awake after the man kills Farin. Torrado shrugs it off seeing as he has never seen the mysterious man in his dream. Torrado smiles thinking it was just some dream he turns on his side trying to get more sleep he opens his eyes and right in front of his face are the blood red eyes. “Whoa!” Torrado said pulling back from the menacing eyes he gasped Torrado rolls off his bed and pulls one of the swords from the wall and he starts holding it in front of him in a battle position.
“Silly boy.” A deep malevolent voice said coming from the corner where the two eyes were. “I have no use in killing you now, no sense of accomplishment.”
“Killing me!” Torrado exclaimed looking at the two eyes he saw that the one corner where the eyes came from was completely engulfed in shadows.
A sinister laugh was heard and then he heard the voice say, “You’re totally clueless aren’t you? Funny how you’re the one who is destined to stop me...”
“STOP you? Stop you from what?” Torrado said lowering his guard but still ready for any sudden movement.
There was another laugh and the voice said, “Pathetic, I’ve told you enough already, you’ll just have to wait and see... have a nice last day of school, Torrado. Oh and say hi to Farin and Ziyran for me. They both sleep like rocks they never notice me unlike you. Oh well more fun for me . . .” the shadows suddenly subsided taking the pair of eyes with them. The corner that was covered in shadows now was as bright as the rest of the room. Torrado stared at the corner for awhile then put his sword back in the scabbard that was hanging on the wall.
Torrado rolled back in bed and stared at the ceiling thinking of what happened. He finally let it go and rolled on his side and fell asleep for what seemed like only a minute when he heard his door open. He opened his eyes and saw his dad walking towards him. “Wake up time son.” he said, he was tall and lanky he had blonde hair and wore wire frame glasses. His dad was an inventor, he created many new gadgets and gizmos, Torrado would call his dad a nerd more then an inventor, but he loved him. “Today is the last day of seventh grade buddy!” He said sitting down next to Torrado.
“Can’t I just stay home, or something? It’s the last day nothing important happens . . .” Torrado said rolling away from his dad.
“Son, you have to go.” His dad said sighing and pushing his glasses back up on his nose.
“Why? Like I said nothing important happens.”
“Just go!” His dad said getting a little impatient.
“Fine!” Torrado said finally giving in. Torrado rolled off his bed onto the floor and walked towards his closet. “I’ll meet you downstairs in a few.” Torrado said opening his closet. Torrado grabbed his normal outfit, blue jeans and a deep blue shirt with a few abstract symbols on it. He also grabbed a towel that was nearby and walked out the door whistling. Torrado walked out of his small cozy room into a huge hall with a grand staircase made of oak and mahogany to his left across from him was a railing that was painted with a hazel type color the floor was just hard wood, running down the middle was a large red carpet. On Torrado’s right side were a lot of doors. Torrado walked down to the one closest to him and opened it walking into a plain bathroom. The floor and wall was covered with blue tiles.
Within a few minutes Torrado was downstairs in his kitchen dressed and ready for the last day of seventh grade. “I still don’t see why I have to go to school today, dad.” Torrado said sitting in a chair at the dining table.
“Well, I have to go to work, and no one will be here to watch you.” His dad said putting down a medium sized stack of pancakes in front of Torrado.
“I’m not five any more, dad, I can watch after myself.” Torrado said grabbing the syrup. “And besides if you let me stay home Ziyran and Farin would come over and they would keep me busy.”
“But I talked to their parents yesterday while I was at the store, and they said they were going to school today.” His dad countered fixing his glasses.
“Ugh,” Torrado said annoyed. “Fine, I’ll go.” Torrado then grabbed his fork and started eating his pancakes. After awhile Torrado put his fork down and jumped down off the chair and starting heading for the door. Torrado, out of habit, grabbed his backpack that was hanging by the door and headed off to his bus stop. It was bright out already the sun glimmering in the sky like some gem; Torrado saw some of his school friends dragging themselves to the bus stop not wanting to be one of the few kids who were forced to go to school on the last day.
“Torrado!” Came a soft soothing voice, Torrado smiled and turned to see Farin, one of his long time friends, Farin was the same height as Torrado and had bright luscious blond hair, she was wearing her hair in her normal ponytail. She walked gracefully towards Torrado her bright red shirt tucked into her tiny shorts. Torrado welcomed her with a big hug; even though Torrado never admitted it he has had a crush on Farin since they were in first grade. She pulled back and smiled her bright green eyes glimmering in the morning sun. “Ready for the last day?” Farin said going off to Torrado’s left side.
“Yea, ready for it to end.” Torrado said smirking. Farin let off a small giggle and the two of them came upon their stop.
“Yo! Torrado, Farin!” A deep, cocky voice said from behind the two.
“Ziyran!” Farin and Torrado said in unison. They turned to see their other best friend running up. Ziyran was a tall rather strong young man; he had dark brown hair and bright purple eyes he wore blue jeans and a black t-shirt with a red line running across the middle, he wore a thin gray long sleeved shirt under the t-shirt. He ran up to join his two friends. Ziyran and Farin climbed onto the bus that had just pulled up, while Torrado stopped right before the stairs he turned to see a man that was about six feet tall he was muscular with velvet red cloak strapped on his back, he was wearing a small shirt with gems encrusted on it, his pants were long and also encrusted with gems, but the thing that caught Torrado’s attention the most were the blood red eyes and a scabbard that was blue with a dragon head on the bottom crafted out of metal. He smirked and gave Torrado a small salute.
“Kid, you getting on?” An annoyed voice said snapping Torrado back to reality.
“Huh? Oh yea . . .” Torrado said a little embarrassed, he stumbled up the stairs and sat down next to Ziyran.
“What was that about, Torrado?” Ziyran asked looking at him.
“Yea, you just stopped at the bottom of the stairs and looked off down the side walk.” Farin said turning around in her seat.
“I just saw something that kind of freaked me out . . .” Torrado said.
“Like?” Ziyran said. Torrado shrugged and for the rest of the bus ride Torrado told them of his weird dream he has been having about them dieing and the strange encounter last night, Torrado left out no detail explaining everything with in depth details.
“So . . . I die?” Ziyran exclaimed once he climbed off the bus Farin was speechless.
“It was just a dream, it won’t happen for real!” Torrado countered. “Anyway wanna come over to my house after school? We can hang out in my backyard maybe train a little for the Summer Tournament!” Torrado said quickly changing the subject.
“Sure why not?” Ziyran said shrugging off the story Torrado just told them.
“Yea, I have nothing better to do.” Farin said also forgetting. The three walked into the hallway of their junior high for the last time until next year. They walked into their first period and began the day. The day crept by slowly, every class they either watched a movie or did some brain teaser worksheet. Finally the last bell rang signaling the end of the school year, and the beginning of summer vacation. The three friends burst out the front doors and let out a loud cheer.
“Ok. Off to my house and onto training. Don’t worry guys, Farin I have an archery set at home, and Ziyran I’m not sure I know any spells.” Torrado said.
“Don’t worry; we magicians always know basic spells.” Ziyran said.
“Good lets go!” Torrado said climbing on the bus followed by his two friends. The bus ride home was fast and in a matter of minutes Torrado, Farin and Ziyran were walking down the sidewalk towards the large house on the end of the road, Torrado’s house. In another ten minutes Torrado and his friends burst through Torrado’s front door. “DAD! I’m home Farin and Ziyran are here too! We are going out to the back to train up for the Summer Tournament! If you need me I’ll be back there.” Torrado then lead his friends through his large living room and kitchen out to a lush green backyard. There were a few large trees dotted around the yard along with a large jungle gym. Also there was a sand pit that had rows of wooden dummies in it. That is where Torrado usually trained with his swords.
“Be right back gotta get my sword. Farin, the archery set is right in that shed.” Torrado said running off back into the house. Torrado ran into his room and grabbed a sword off his wall; Torrado attached the sheath to his belt loop and started to head back down. Suddenly the door slammed shut and locked, Torrado pulled at it but it was futile it felt like someone was holding the other end of the door so he couldn’t open it.
“Might as well get rid of you know before you even try and stop me.” An all-to-familiar voice said. Torrado whipped around to see the same man that was on the sidewalk standing about ten feet from him. “Funny how you’re so clueless.” the man said smiling sinisterly.
“Who are you?” Torrado said grabbing the sword and slashing it out.
“Might as well tell you, since you won’t be living for long.” The man said walking over to Torrado’s window and peering outside. “I am Cravil, the evil god of Zeelox, and I want to take over that world. Supposedly you and your two other friends are the destined heroes of light.” The man let out a small laugh. “But you’ll learn more later on... if you survive that is.” Cravil then turned his velvet cloak whipping around elegantly.
“Why are you dressed like a king if the whole world, Zeelox or whatever hates you?” Torrado asked his sword out front ready for an attack.
“I appointed my self king, my foolish brother, Ghaled, the god of light, chose you three; way back in the day, before I even tried to take over the world. Sad how he chose you little weaklings to over throw me. Guess Zeelox will be doomed to darkness forever.” Cravil quickly slashed his sword out Torrado quickly jumped back and in a split second the sword slashed right where Torrado was. Torrado was in shock, without thinking he turned and quickly pulled on the door again but this time it swung open Torrado sprinted out into the massive hallway. Cravil smirked and opened his left hand his nails clattered together and suddenly a ball of black energy formed he turned his palm around and aimed the dark energy at the frantic Torrado. “Pathetic!” Cravil yelled letting loose a beam of black energy with a few lines of red swirling around.
Torrado turned and saw the beam coming straight at him he had no time to react the beam hit him square in the chest Torrado launched back and over the railing he dropped two stories and landed on a couch luckily his room was overlooking his living room. Torrado quickly got his wits back and saw Cravil staring at him from over the railing. Torrado glared at Cravil while he charged up another shot. Cravil let it loose and Torrado quickly did a backwards somersault over the couch and in a second the couch blew up sending balls of cotton all over the room.
“Nice agility!” Cravil said with a smirk of cockiness. Torrado suddenly realized that Cravil wasn’t trying to kill him or not yet, he was just toying with him. Torrado turned and ran for the door that led to the back he needed the back up of Ziyran and Farin. He kicked the door open and dove out somersaulting to dodge yet another one of Cravil’s beams. “Oh and senses like a fox!” Cravil’s voice called from in the house. Torrado quickly regained his balance and sprinted to the battleground Cravil in hot pursuit.
“Guys!” Torrado yelled running up to his two friends training on the dummies.
“Torrado?” Farin exclaimed dropping her bow and running at Torrado who was panting. “What’s wrong?” Farin said grabbing Torrado.
“There’s a mad man chasing me!” Torrado said looking back to Cravil who was floating towards the three. “Look!” Torrado pointed and Farin and Ziyran looked up and saw Cravil speeding towards them.
“Who is that?” Ziyran said pointing at Cravil.
“That’s the man! He’s the one in every one of my dreams the one who kills you guys!” Torrado said breaking free of Farin’s grip. “We need to find a place to hide!” Torrado turned real fast but the loose sand made Torrado trip. He collapsed into the sand but instead of soft sand he hit something hard. Torrado quickly brushed away the sand and found a wooden plank with a metal ring attached. He grabbed it and pulled it back, it opened smoothly it was a trap door and their only means of escape from Cravil. “Hurry guys! Down here!” Torrado said signaling his friends to go down.
“Ok...” Ziyran said he quickly ran in followed by Farin and then Torrado, Torrado closed the trap door behind him and crawled in.
“Have fun in Vritaul, you three... and I’ll see you there!” Cravil lifted his cloak and covered himself and vanished.
“Its pitch black in here...” Ziyran’s voice said annoyed.
“One second let me feel for a light switch.” Torrado said putting his hands out and feeling for the wall. After awhile Torrado hit the wall, he then grazed his hands across the rough wall feeling for a switch of some kind, after fumbling around for awhile Torrado felt a small switch. “Hope this is it...” Torrado flipped it and the corridor they were in sprang to life, the light coming from the lights hanging on the wall was so bright the three of them had to squint until their eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness. After there eyes adjusted they looked around to get their bearings.
They were in a long corridor they looked back and saw the stairs that lead them down here. The walls were covered in wires of all colors and multi-colored buttons there were also multiple levers dotted along the walls the corridor all together was just rock the ground that they were standing on was smooth. They looked up and saw large lanterns hanging from the ceiling. They also heard a faint beep beep noise.
“Should we head further in?” Farin asked. “You know, just incase that mad man finds our hiding spot.”
“Cravil,” Torrado said abruptly.
“What?” Ziyran asked. “Is that like a disease or somethin’?”
Torrado shot Ziyran a ‘look’ and then said, “The man’s name, Cravil.”
“Oh...” Ziyran said feeling embarrassed.
“He seemed like a psycho...” Farin said. “I think it would be safer to head further in to get away from the entrance.” The other two nodded in agreement and started following the long corridor. The rocky hallway made several twists and turns leading them further into this labyrinth. After awhile they walked through a large archway and into a humongous corridor, the walls were covered in wires still but the wires on the wall of the corridor where huge, they were about three feet in diameter and entwined with each other the wires were also in a plethora of colors. There were more levers but this time the levers made a circle around the room they were close together and larger then the levers they saw when they entered. But the multitude of wires and levers didn’t surprise the three but in the center of the room were capsules large capsules each had a large compartment on the bottom. There were three capsules and they formed a circle, in the middle of the circle of capsules was a large tower that expanded up to the ceiling several feet above. A few feet to the right of the capsule closet to the three there was a large red button.
“What... is this place?” Ziyran said in awe.
“I don’t know. I never have seen this place before.” Torrado said staring at the huge tower.
“These capsules, how odd they are just placed here in the middle of the room.” Farin said carefully walking to the capsule closest to the group. When she got to the capsule she started examining it.
“This place, I wonder how I never noticed it before, I practiced out there enough.” Torrado said puzzled. Torrado walked up next to Farin and started examining the capsule too.
Ziyran ran to one of the nearby levers and, out of curiosity, pulled it down. The place sprang to life buttons started flashing ravenously and the calm beep beep sound turned into a frenzy of beeps. “AH!” Ziyran exclaimed he tried to pull the lever back up but it was useless, the lever was jammed. “Torrado!” Ziyran yelled over the frenzy of beeps. The whole area seemed to quaver and it seemed like the walls of wires would crumble down on top of them at any moment.
“What did you do?” Torrado yelled.
“I pulled this lever down...” Ziyran said raising his voice so he could be heard.
“Only you, Ziyran!” Farin yelled in a hostile tone.
“Hurry look for some sort of button to turn this frenzy off! Ziyran look around that area! Farin, go over there!” Torrado said pointing to the left. “I’ll look on the far wall.”
The three began pressing buttons and moving levers around, all the buttons and levers failed. Finally they ran back and met in front of the capsules. “Torrado, we’ve tried everything!” Farin yelled. “And after all we’ve done it seems to just have gotten worse!”
“There is one thing we haven’t tried!” Ziyran yelled. Torrado and Farin looked at him confused. Ziyran made one gesture, he pointed to the large red button on the pedestal, Torrado and Farin followed his gesture and saw their only hope. Ziyran ran over to it and slammed his palm down. The whole room seized in the ruckus and calmed down.
“That was close.” Torrado said. The other two nodded.
“Well hopefully that Cravil person is gone, want to head back?” Ziyran said.
“Sure.” Torrado said nodding Farin nodded too. The three turned and started to walk towards the archway that they entered from when something unexpected started to happen. The serene beep beep turned into a sharp hum. The three stopped short and turned to see the capsules oval lid burst open and two claws come from each. The claws jumped at the three. Torrado, Farin and Ziyran quickly rolled off to the side barely escaping the claws. “What is happening?” Torrado exclaimed getting back on his feet. Torrado went for his sword but the claws turned sharply and grabbed his biceps, he was jerked and pulled into the capsule that faced the entrance. Once Torrado was in, his whole world blurred and turned into a whirlwind of different shades of blue. Then the blue whirlwind shattered into blackness. Farin saw what happened to Torrado and was frozen in shock, unfortunately the claws were just as fast as Torrado’s and they quickly turned in a Farin’s direction. Farin snapped back to reality but it was too late the claws grabbed her biceps too and pulled her into the one off to Torrado’s capsule’s right. Farin’s world blurred into a tunnel of different shades of red. Then her tunnel of red shattered into pure blackness.
Ziyran was the only one left, unfortunately the only pair of claws left were just as quick as his two friends’ Ziyran quickly jumped away from another lung from a claw and rolled up back to his feet. “Guys, I’ll come back for you!” Ziyran said to his unconscious friends. The set of claws retaliated and dove at Ziyran. Ziyran was grabbed by his triceps and pulled back towards the final capsule. Ziyran jumped off the ground and he started to levitate, he then tried to fly off towards the archway but it was futile. The claws pulled Ziyran back and he was brought to the third and final capsule. He was thrown in and he felt a sudden shock, suddenly his world melted away. He found himself in a whirlwind of shades of green, and then his world suddenly shattered and he fell into the darkness.
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Torrado was awaken by a sharp burn on his face. Torrado slowly opened his eyes and he saw the sun brightly shining he squinted and stretched. Torrado smiled, he thought he was outside in his backyard, it felt like he had just awoken from a nap that he took after he and his friends were done training. He got up and stretched he rubbed his eyes and a shock came upon him. He wasn’t outside in his backyard asleep; he was in a vast desert lying on the sand. He did a quick three-sixty and saw the desert stretched on for miles on either side of him, he also saw his friends still unconscious.
“It wasn’t a dream?” Torrado whispered to himself. “I’m really somewhere far away in some desert?” Torrado yelled in disbelief.
“What’s wrong?” Farin said jolting up.
“We’re in a desert nowhere near home!” Torrado said turning to Farin who was standing up. “We are in some strange place! Those capsules must have done it!”
“But how?” Ziyran said cutting in, Ziyran got up and joined his friends. “If it IS the capsules doing, then this place must be... virtual!” Torrado ran up and punched Ziyran in stomach. Ziyran fell to the ground catching his breath.
“Did that hurt?” Torrado asked.
“Of course! You socked me in the gut!” Ziyran said aggravated.
“Then it’s not virtual! We are in a real place! This whole area, this whole world all together must be real! The capsules must have just transported us here!” Torrado said with force.
“Like... a portal...” Ziyran and Farin said in awe.
“If we die here, in the desert, then we will never make it back home... You better believe it!” After Torrado said that the three fell silent.
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That's chapter 1 for you, 13 pages! :o Don't just read it drop a comment and tell me if you like it! :) Constuctive Critism is nice! :D ONLY if it's CONTSRUCTIVE! Anyway see ya!
