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Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - The Lost Global Mod - 07-20-2009
Okay guys today is the 20th and now we can start with the voting
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Reaper (Click to View)
In the dark
While the moon shone onto the tops of the trees, the way beneath them laid in deepest darkness. The dense walls of leaves swallowed every sound. Anyway, there wasn't any sound at all. The whole forest was completely silent. Not even a bird was flying around.
A shadow began to stand out against the gloominess. Slowly he became bigger and bigger and put on human-like shape.
Cen was carefully shifting from one foot to the other. It was about midnight while he was walking home from a party. To be home faster he took the way through the forest, but now he was regretting it.
He tried to distinguish the different shadows from each other, but it was just too dark. He could only rely on his feet to stay on the way home.
Suddenly a tree appeared in front of him. At some point a lightning had created a knothole now looking at him like a yap full of canines.
A scream came out of his mouth, breaking the silence for a moment, then vanishing slowly and painfully.
He was trying to compose his mind. What was he in fear of? Slowly he started to walk on again, looking around even more. From somewhere a raven cried with a sad and dolorous voice. Cen turned his head into the direction the scream came from.
Suddenly another raven cried, now from behind him. He closed his eyes and began counting. Then he took a decision. He began running not looking back and not trying to think about anything. And after some minutes of running the trees became less and less and he arrived at the end of the wood. In front of him he could see his house with light coming out of the window.
He ran up the hill, straight into this light when he heard a noise from behind. He turned his head and saw the trees chasing him. One of them was catching his leg and he fell to the ground. But where once has been the ground was now a dark hole.
He fell deeper and deeper, the hole above him was as of now only a point in the dark sky, covered by dozens of trees. He fell and feel and fell until the whole world around him was completely dark and he woke up.
While the moon shone onto the tops of the trees, the way beneath them laid in deepest darkness. The dense walls of leaves swallowed every sound. Anyway, there wasn't any sound at all. The whole forest was completely silent. Not even a bird was flying around.
A shadow began to stand out against the gloominess. Slowly he became bigger and bigger and put on human-like shape.
Cen was carefully shifting from one foot to the other. It was about midnight while he was walking home from a party. To be home faster he took the way through the forest, but now he was regretting it.
He tried to distinguish the different shadows from each other, but it was just too dark. He could only rely on his feet to stay on the way home.
Suddenly a tree appeared in front of him. At some point a lightning had created a knothole now looking at him like a yap full of canines.
A scream came out of his mouth, breaking the silence for a moment, then vanishing slowly and painfully.
He was trying to compose his mind. What was he in fear of? Slowly he started to walk on again, looking around even more. From somewhere a raven cried with a sad and dolorous voice. Cen turned his head into the direction the scream came from.
Suddenly another raven cried, now from behind him. He closed his eyes and began counting. Then he took a decision. He began running not looking back and not trying to think about anything. And after some minutes of running the trees became less and less and he arrived at the end of the wood. In front of him he could see his house with light coming out of the window.
He ran up the hill, straight into this light when he heard a noise from behind. He turned his head and saw the trees chasing him. One of them was catching his leg and he fell to the ground. But where once has been the ground was now a dark hole.
He fell deeper and deeper, the hole above him was as of now only a point in the dark sky, covered by dozens of trees. He fell and feel and fell until the whole world around him was completely dark and he woke up.
zab (Click to View)
A Day in my Life…by Zabobula
What is a day in the life of someone like me? Of course its not all fire and brimstone as portrayed in the stories I write, or in the drawings I create, or in the music I produce. It’s very…lively….
Not a usual day…but one in particular.
It’s a wonderful day outside; the sun is shining and the sky is clear with some clouds overlooking the city. I spend a fair amount of time on the computer before heading out on a new adventure. Ever since I’ve moved up here, I’ve developed a habit of wanting to walk all over. It always begins in “El Barrio” and can sometimes extend all the way downtown. I usually venture through the Park. As a matter of fact I’ve done it so much it becomes a routine. And when you keep walking through, it starts to seem…well….smaller.
After I’ve left the Park, the trip can extend down to the west side on Broadway in the heavy tourist attraction known as Times Square where the billboards are huge and the people try to sell you anything from watches to tickets to a comedy show featuring some local or well-known talent. After I’ve made my way through the crowd of aimless image capturers, I end up on the end of the West Side. I love going to see the Hudson River. It’s a lot more…interesting than the East River frankly because it’s vaster in comparison.
After avoiding bikers, runners, skaters, and power-walkers, I end up Downtown: the financial district where all of our money is being toyed with. I don’t really care about the top two “streets” so I make my way to Battery Park to see the Statue from afar. By this time I don’t have the physical endurance to walk 7-8 miles back from where I started…so I take the 6 back home ending a nice long journey. I come back with my legs feeling like Jell-O as if I was squatting twice my body weight. And the day ends from there…
What is a day in the life of someone like me? Of course its not all fire and brimstone as portrayed in the stories I write, or in the drawings I create, or in the music I produce. It’s very…lively….
Not a usual day…but one in particular.
It’s a wonderful day outside; the sun is shining and the sky is clear with some clouds overlooking the city. I spend a fair amount of time on the computer before heading out on a new adventure. Ever since I’ve moved up here, I’ve developed a habit of wanting to walk all over. It always begins in “El Barrio” and can sometimes extend all the way downtown. I usually venture through the Park. As a matter of fact I’ve done it so much it becomes a routine. And when you keep walking through, it starts to seem…well….smaller.
After I’ve left the Park, the trip can extend down to the west side on Broadway in the heavy tourist attraction known as Times Square where the billboards are huge and the people try to sell you anything from watches to tickets to a comedy show featuring some local or well-known talent. After I’ve made my way through the crowd of aimless image capturers, I end up on the end of the West Side. I love going to see the Hudson River. It’s a lot more…interesting than the East River frankly because it’s vaster in comparison.
After avoiding bikers, runners, skaters, and power-walkers, I end up Downtown: the financial district where all of our money is being toyed with. I don’t really care about the top two “streets” so I make my way to Battery Park to see the Statue from afar. By this time I don’t have the physical endurance to walk 7-8 miles back from where I started…so I take the 6 back home ending a nice long journey. I come back with my legs feeling like Jell-O as if I was squatting twice my body weight. And the day ends from there…
Lord Anubis (Click to View)
MIND OF THE WARRIOR
In far land… In great kingdom called Litia, there was small village, near the sea. One young boy lived there with his mother and sister. The boy got a black, long, steeply hair and deep black eyes. His clothes was always lacerated… White long pants and white t-shirt. His name was Ryan and he got one special talent. He could always see good in creatures, peoples, animals, no matter how evil their deeds were, or how agressive they were. Ryan always helped his mother and sister Lea with the jobs in the morning. After noon when Ryan and Lea finish with their jobs they go on the meadow near the village. Ryan would usually pick up some stick and train with Lea fencing. Lea was usually girl with long yellow hair bearing the same clothes as Ryan.
- What is with you brother? You're somehow slow today.- says Lea to Ryan while they was training the fencing.
- Well… I was thinking about something while we was fighting now.-
- About what? You finally find a girl?-
- No sister. Well… -
- Haha my brother is in love!- Lea yells.
- I can't stop think about Isabel… I helped her today with some barrels,. and I think all the time about her smile. I just can't focus on fight…-
- Then I guess the training is over brother.-
- No, no! I can still fight you…-
- No, you can't! If you're not focused on your sword and moves, then you cannot fight!-
- What's wrong with me sister?-
- There is nothing wrong with you… It's usually for men to think about womans sometimes. We won't have training until you don't forget about girls in our village and start to think about combat. You know how our father died in battle near the city of kings.-
- Yes… -
- Well brother… I don't have to remind you that we are going to evange our father and kill the dark king Draco. You have to wake up from your dreams! Come on let's go home Ryan!- Lea says and pulls Ryan for his hand. Ryan was very tired at the night, but he couldn't sleep… He was thinkign about Isabel, girl from his village. He get out of his bed and decided to go to the Lake near the village. When he get there he saw Isabel, siting on one rock. He started to feel nervous, but he didn't stop walking.
- Hello? Isabel?-
- Oh Ryan! W-what are you doing here?-
- I just can't sleep…-
- hehe I see.-
- You are often here?-
- Yea. Every night. Then I sleep long time in the morning. The moons reflection is beutiful on this lake at the night.-
- Yea, but I didn't coem here to watch moons reflection. I come here to get some wather and then I meet you. Why… Why you can't sleep Isabel?-
- Why you can't sleep Ryan?-
- Well I wasn't tired.-
- And I wasn't tired.-
- Huh ok… I am training fencing with my sister Lea. And… I wasn't good today. I was thinking about something and that bothered me.-
- Something?-
- I was thniking about… about…-
- About who?-
- About my father. He really miss me.-
- Oh… Ok. Sorry Ryan. When I come here first night… I was in love.-
- Ok. Well Isabel, somehow I am tired now. I should go sleep.-
- Yea me too. Let's go.- says Isabel and them two went back to village. When they should separate Ryan was stopped. He call Isabel and she returned. He was looking into her eyes. She feel nervous. And after some time of peaceful silence they kissed each other. After that Ryan left her and go to sleep. Tomorrow in the morning Ryan was so much great with fencing. He beat Lea 5-0.
- Wow! You are great Ryan! I never see you fight like that. You finally get over with Isabel.-
- No. We are together now!-
- What?!-
- You heard me!-
- You know that womans are destroying the mind of warriors!! You can't get married or have a woman that you will love!!-
- I can't! I finally fell in love and the feeling is great! I won't throw it away!-
- You have to!!! Any woman can be pretty! And then you won't kill her!! That's what all the man do! Dieing for womans they don't even know!- Then his sister sit and started to cry. Ryan come to her and whisper something.
- I can't… I'm sorry Lea.- When he said that he left her alone. The days, months and years were passing… Ryan and Lea stop with haveing fight about womans and focused on fencing. After hard years of great training on the small meadow Ryan and his sister Lea reached a very great skill, speed and strenght. Ryan was in love, in Isabel, and she was in love too(in Ryan). After some time Ryan and Isabel married. Lea was very angry. Soon the whole kingdom of Litia were attacked by evil army from the east. King Draco was attacking the city of kings on the west side of the river Eboyne. He failed to capture the city of kings, but his army was marching in the kingdom of Litia from the evil south across the river Eboyne. Draco's army started to burning villages and small towns. Takeing prisoners, and torture mans and wifes. King Legolas couldn't do anything… He was fighting with his army and catapults at the city of kings, but his kingdom was in terror and sorrow. Some places stayed untouched… The places on the far west, near the sea. Ryan's village stayed untouched and some other places. They didn't know anything about terror on the east. Soon one injured soldier come in Rynas village from the east. His name was Kronus. Kronus tell the story about great evil and war on the east to the people in village. Everyone was shocked. Ryan, Lea and Isabel started to packing. They wanted to go to the city of kings tomorrow. Kronus started to feel better and he wanted to go with them 3 too. Next day come… Morning was wet and fresh. Ryan, Lea, Isabel and Kronus were ready to go. They leave the village in secret… 4 Friends were moving fast. They come to the Dark_Forest. The whole desert of dead and dense trees with no end.
- Here is good place to have peaceful night. Here we will sleep!- Kronus says.
- What!? Look at this place! This is good place to have sleep!?- Isabel yells.
- Beleve me… I am good soldier! Nobody comes on this place of doom. We are alone here with trees. And trees are not alive…-
- Kronus are you sure that Draco's army didn't followed you?- Ryan asks.
- I'm not sure Ryan. But this is the best place to have a little rest. You guys go to sleep… I will guard in the dark.- Kronus answers.
- All right… You guard the camp.- Ryan says and started to preparing the tents.
The night come fast. Whole that Dark_Forest was quiet. You could hear only the sharp wind and ravens on the black sky with big red moon and no stars.
- The moon is red… something terrible happend this night.- Kronus whispers on the one hill.
Soon the silence disappeared and Kronus heard somebody. He climbed on one black tree. He saw a lot of warriors in black uniforms with big sabers and flares. He started to runing and soon he arrived to their camp.
- Ryan wake up!! Lea, Isabel!!! Come on, hurry!! Black warriors are coming!!- Kronus yells.
- We cannot avoid them?!- Ryan asks.
- No! They are everywhere!! There is so many of them!!-
- Oh come down Kronus! At least you will die fighting with friends!- Lea yells.
Kronus finally be quiet. Kronus pulled out his bow, Lea dragged out 2 knifes, Ryan pulled his sword, and Isabel dragged out small magic mace. Black warriors were crossing the hill and soon they were in front of 4 friends. Ryan, Lea, Kronus and Isabel started fighting. Ryan was breaking heavy shields with sword, Isabel was backup to Ryan breaking shields too with magic, Lea was so fast that she killed all the soldiers that stayed without shield and Kronus was hitting some warriors far on the hill with sharp arrows. They 4 were great team, but there was a lot of warriors and they started to getting tired. They started to takeing small wounds and sctraches. Kronus got 1 arrow in his shoulder. 4 friends started to retreat. And then… when ther was no hope for surviving… Then arrived 300 men with brown and black horses. They started to crushing and killing the black warriors. One of them stepped out of the horse and started to killing a lot of warriors with 2 swords. Soon the battle finished. The best fighter of 300 men came to Kronus.
- Is he okay?- asks unknown soldier.
- I think I will be fine! Aaahh!!!- Kronus yells when he puled out arrow from his shoulder.
- Thanks for your help… Who are you?- Ryan asks.
- I am Spyro… commander of the west army from city Hawk. You sure heard for me.-
- No we didn't… Who are you? Big boss?- Lea started to evoke.
- No my lady. Only commander. One peasant from unknown village came to our city Hawk and reported that they send 4 heroes to save the city of kings from king Draco. He said that whole the east side of kingdom Litia is captured by Draco's black army.- Kronus explain.
- Well… Thanks for your help. Very kind of you.- Lea says and go up the hill.
- Forgive her Spyro. She is a little rough with the men.- Ryan says.
- It's ok… I know with the womans like her.- Spyro answers and them 2 started to laugh. Lea was watching from the hill far in the deep black forest. The new day come, and the sun started to get out.
- Look at the sunrise… It's beutiful.- says Isabel while she ws walking with Ryan, Lea, Kronus and Spyro…
The rest of Spyro's army was behind them. And so… The 5 heroes go to the far east. When they get out of the dark forest, they began to moving by secret paths through the kingdom of Litia. Soon they arrived near the city of kings. It passed 3 days since the battle in the Dark_Forest. They decided to go and sleep on the small meadow near the city of kings. In the morning they shuld capture the city of kings and banish the king Draco and his black army over the river Eboyne. That night Ryan and Isabel talked in their tent.
- Ryan. Will you tell me… h-how your father died?- Isabel asks.
- He… he was trying to save one woman. She was detained in one house. He tryed to save her, but then a lot of black warriors came and kill him. It happend in one city, near the river Eboyne. What he was thinking about?! He didn't even know her!-
- Come down Ryan! Come down… Everything is all right.-
- What if I do the same mistake as my father?-
- Men have instinct to protect womans… It's in every man, every warrior, every monster… even and animals got that instintc. You cannno't change it. It's in your mind… does not matter if you're a great warrior, or an ordinary villager.- Isabel explain.
After their little talk they all go to sleep… Tomorrow in the morning Spyro come into Lea's tent. He wake her up gently. She smiled to him, but she said nothing. Kronus and Spyro started to blow with horns to wake up whole the army. Soon they was ready for attack on the city of kings… 5 Heroes with army of 300 men with horses came in front of the city of kings. The catapults started to shoot the big fire balls. Horses started to run directly on the city. The gate of the city was big and from the hard wood. Isabel do one magic and one fire ball from catapult turned in the air and smashed the gate. After that Isabel lost consciousness, but she was on the 1 horse with Ryan. Spyro's army get into the city and then the real battle started. Kronus stepped out of the horse and started to hiting black warriors with his bow and arrows.
- Kronus what are you doing!?- Spyro yells.
- You 4 go!!! Your army need help out there Spyro!! I will manage myself!!- Kronus yells.
4 heroes listen to him and leave him. They go to the castle... Isabel started to feel better and she woke up. When they enter in main chamber black warriors attacked them… Spyro and Ryan were pushing and slaying them, while Lea and Isabel were colse to each other and killing one by one. Soon the king Draco appeared.
- Well done! Well done!- Draco yells while he was claping.
- 5 heroes! But where is fifth? Nevermind! I heard for you! You killed a lot of my soldiers in the Dark_Forest. Do you know what happend that night? I killed king Legolas. But I don't want to kill you… You're too much skilled and good to be killed. Join me and be my dark knights! And we will rule over the world together!-
- You are a cruel king Draco!! You don't know nothing about justice and honor! Killing armless peasants and their wifes is so poor and stupid for a king with such power!!- Ryan yells.
- Speak careful boy! My patient have limits! Even for stupid warrior like you!-
- We are not interested in your offer!! Tke your power with you when you finish in the black grave!!-
- You will die for your nasty, dirty words!!!- Draco yells and jump on the Ryan with his black sword. Ryan set his sword horizontally and defend himself. Them 2 started fighting to death and Spyro, Lea or Isabel couldn't do anything because they were busy fighting with black warriors. After some time Ryan started to getting tired, but Draco had the same strength as at the beginning. Soon Draco broke out Ryan's sword from Ryan's hand. Ryan fall on the floor with bloody hand. Draco wanted to stab him, but then Isabel has collapse all the black warriors on her way and she jumped on king Draco. Dracop stab Isabel insteda Ryan. Then Draco started to laugh, but Spyro and Lea attacked him. Soon Kronus arrived in the chamber with Spyro's army and started to shooting black warriors. Ryan was looking some time at Isabel's dead body and then… his eyes became red. He stand up and collapse everyone on his path and then he push the Draco on the wall with his sword. Then he put his sword horizontally in front of Draco's neck.
- Hahahahaha!! Look at yourself boy! You became same as me!-
- Shut up!!! You're not worthy to reduce me!!!- Ryan yells and cuts Draco's neck.
Then Ryan took Draco's crown and put it on his head. Kronus, Spyro and Lea came to him.
- Brother! What…-
- Don't say anything Lea! Please take the control over the kingdom Litia! I will go across the river Eboyne in Dark Kingdom of king Draco! That's the only way for me to forget the Isabel!! If I stay here I will start to love some other woman! I must become evil king and killer to stop feeling love!!-
- But I never said that you can't love someone!- Lea yells.
- It doesn't matter now!! It will be peace between our 2 kingdoms!! I will stay in my Dark Kingdom with my black army… From there, I can't hurt anyone. God be with you all…- Ryan says.
After that Ryan pulled his new dark sword and then he dissapeared together with his black army. Years were passing… Lea and Spyro got married. Spyro became a new king, and Kronus… He became very powerfull archer and white knight of Litia Kingdom. But Ryan… He could saw the ghost of Isabel every night in his dreams… They were talking… about life and death, happiness and sorrow… And every day, Ryan cried. His mind was cleared now… Ryan had a truly mind of warrior. Warrior who could love…
In far land… In great kingdom called Litia, there was small village, near the sea. One young boy lived there with his mother and sister. The boy got a black, long, steeply hair and deep black eyes. His clothes was always lacerated… White long pants and white t-shirt. His name was Ryan and he got one special talent. He could always see good in creatures, peoples, animals, no matter how evil their deeds were, or how agressive they were. Ryan always helped his mother and sister Lea with the jobs in the morning. After noon when Ryan and Lea finish with their jobs they go on the meadow near the village. Ryan would usually pick up some stick and train with Lea fencing. Lea was usually girl with long yellow hair bearing the same clothes as Ryan.
- What is with you brother? You're somehow slow today.- says Lea to Ryan while they was training the fencing.
- Well… I was thinking about something while we was fighting now.-
- About what? You finally find a girl?-
- No sister. Well… -
- Haha my brother is in love!- Lea yells.
- I can't stop think about Isabel… I helped her today with some barrels,. and I think all the time about her smile. I just can't focus on fight…-
- Then I guess the training is over brother.-
- No, no! I can still fight you…-
- No, you can't! If you're not focused on your sword and moves, then you cannot fight!-
- What's wrong with me sister?-
- There is nothing wrong with you… It's usually for men to think about womans sometimes. We won't have training until you don't forget about girls in our village and start to think about combat. You know how our father died in battle near the city of kings.-
- Yes… -
- Well brother… I don't have to remind you that we are going to evange our father and kill the dark king Draco. You have to wake up from your dreams! Come on let's go home Ryan!- Lea says and pulls Ryan for his hand. Ryan was very tired at the night, but he couldn't sleep… He was thinkign about Isabel, girl from his village. He get out of his bed and decided to go to the Lake near the village. When he get there he saw Isabel, siting on one rock. He started to feel nervous, but he didn't stop walking.
- Hello? Isabel?-
- Oh Ryan! W-what are you doing here?-
- I just can't sleep…-
- hehe I see.-
- You are often here?-
- Yea. Every night. Then I sleep long time in the morning. The moons reflection is beutiful on this lake at the night.-
- Yea, but I didn't coem here to watch moons reflection. I come here to get some wather and then I meet you. Why… Why you can't sleep Isabel?-
- Why you can't sleep Ryan?-
- Well I wasn't tired.-
- And I wasn't tired.-
- Huh ok… I am training fencing with my sister Lea. And… I wasn't good today. I was thinking about something and that bothered me.-
- Something?-
- I was thniking about… about…-
- About who?-
- About my father. He really miss me.-
- Oh… Ok. Sorry Ryan. When I come here first night… I was in love.-
- Ok. Well Isabel, somehow I am tired now. I should go sleep.-
- Yea me too. Let's go.- says Isabel and them two went back to village. When they should separate Ryan was stopped. He call Isabel and she returned. He was looking into her eyes. She feel nervous. And after some time of peaceful silence they kissed each other. After that Ryan left her and go to sleep. Tomorrow in the morning Ryan was so much great with fencing. He beat Lea 5-0.
- Wow! You are great Ryan! I never see you fight like that. You finally get over with Isabel.-
- No. We are together now!-
- What?!-
- You heard me!-
- You know that womans are destroying the mind of warriors!! You can't get married or have a woman that you will love!!-
- I can't! I finally fell in love and the feeling is great! I won't throw it away!-
- You have to!!! Any woman can be pretty! And then you won't kill her!! That's what all the man do! Dieing for womans they don't even know!- Then his sister sit and started to cry. Ryan come to her and whisper something.
- I can't… I'm sorry Lea.- When he said that he left her alone. The days, months and years were passing… Ryan and Lea stop with haveing fight about womans and focused on fencing. After hard years of great training on the small meadow Ryan and his sister Lea reached a very great skill, speed and strenght. Ryan was in love, in Isabel, and she was in love too(in Ryan). After some time Ryan and Isabel married. Lea was very angry. Soon the whole kingdom of Litia were attacked by evil army from the east. King Draco was attacking the city of kings on the west side of the river Eboyne. He failed to capture the city of kings, but his army was marching in the kingdom of Litia from the evil south across the river Eboyne. Draco's army started to burning villages and small towns. Takeing prisoners, and torture mans and wifes. King Legolas couldn't do anything… He was fighting with his army and catapults at the city of kings, but his kingdom was in terror and sorrow. Some places stayed untouched… The places on the far west, near the sea. Ryan's village stayed untouched and some other places. They didn't know anything about terror on the east. Soon one injured soldier come in Rynas village from the east. His name was Kronus. Kronus tell the story about great evil and war on the east to the people in village. Everyone was shocked. Ryan, Lea and Isabel started to packing. They wanted to go to the city of kings tomorrow. Kronus started to feel better and he wanted to go with them 3 too. Next day come… Morning was wet and fresh. Ryan, Lea, Isabel and Kronus were ready to go. They leave the village in secret… 4 Friends were moving fast. They come to the Dark_Forest. The whole desert of dead and dense trees with no end.
- Here is good place to have peaceful night. Here we will sleep!- Kronus says.
- What!? Look at this place! This is good place to have sleep!?- Isabel yells.
- Beleve me… I am good soldier! Nobody comes on this place of doom. We are alone here with trees. And trees are not alive…-
- Kronus are you sure that Draco's army didn't followed you?- Ryan asks.
- I'm not sure Ryan. But this is the best place to have a little rest. You guys go to sleep… I will guard in the dark.- Kronus answers.
- All right… You guard the camp.- Ryan says and started to preparing the tents.
The night come fast. Whole that Dark_Forest was quiet. You could hear only the sharp wind and ravens on the black sky with big red moon and no stars.
- The moon is red… something terrible happend this night.- Kronus whispers on the one hill.
Soon the silence disappeared and Kronus heard somebody. He climbed on one black tree. He saw a lot of warriors in black uniforms with big sabers and flares. He started to runing and soon he arrived to their camp.
- Ryan wake up!! Lea, Isabel!!! Come on, hurry!! Black warriors are coming!!- Kronus yells.
- We cannot avoid them?!- Ryan asks.
- No! They are everywhere!! There is so many of them!!-
- Oh come down Kronus! At least you will die fighting with friends!- Lea yells.
Kronus finally be quiet. Kronus pulled out his bow, Lea dragged out 2 knifes, Ryan pulled his sword, and Isabel dragged out small magic mace. Black warriors were crossing the hill and soon they were in front of 4 friends. Ryan, Lea, Kronus and Isabel started fighting. Ryan was breaking heavy shields with sword, Isabel was backup to Ryan breaking shields too with magic, Lea was so fast that she killed all the soldiers that stayed without shield and Kronus was hitting some warriors far on the hill with sharp arrows. They 4 were great team, but there was a lot of warriors and they started to getting tired. They started to takeing small wounds and sctraches. Kronus got 1 arrow in his shoulder. 4 friends started to retreat. And then… when ther was no hope for surviving… Then arrived 300 men with brown and black horses. They started to crushing and killing the black warriors. One of them stepped out of the horse and started to killing a lot of warriors with 2 swords. Soon the battle finished. The best fighter of 300 men came to Kronus.
- Is he okay?- asks unknown soldier.
- I think I will be fine! Aaahh!!!- Kronus yells when he puled out arrow from his shoulder.
- Thanks for your help… Who are you?- Ryan asks.
- I am Spyro… commander of the west army from city Hawk. You sure heard for me.-
- No we didn't… Who are you? Big boss?- Lea started to evoke.
- No my lady. Only commander. One peasant from unknown village came to our city Hawk and reported that they send 4 heroes to save the city of kings from king Draco. He said that whole the east side of kingdom Litia is captured by Draco's black army.- Kronus explain.
- Well… Thanks for your help. Very kind of you.- Lea says and go up the hill.
- Forgive her Spyro. She is a little rough with the men.- Ryan says.
- It's ok… I know with the womans like her.- Spyro answers and them 2 started to laugh. Lea was watching from the hill far in the deep black forest. The new day come, and the sun started to get out.
- Look at the sunrise… It's beutiful.- says Isabel while she ws walking with Ryan, Lea, Kronus and Spyro…
The rest of Spyro's army was behind them. And so… The 5 heroes go to the far east. When they get out of the dark forest, they began to moving by secret paths through the kingdom of Litia. Soon they arrived near the city of kings. It passed 3 days since the battle in the Dark_Forest. They decided to go and sleep on the small meadow near the city of kings. In the morning they shuld capture the city of kings and banish the king Draco and his black army over the river Eboyne. That night Ryan and Isabel talked in their tent.
- Ryan. Will you tell me… h-how your father died?- Isabel asks.
- He… he was trying to save one woman. She was detained in one house. He tryed to save her, but then a lot of black warriors came and kill him. It happend in one city, near the river Eboyne. What he was thinking about?! He didn't even know her!-
- Come down Ryan! Come down… Everything is all right.-
- What if I do the same mistake as my father?-
- Men have instinct to protect womans… It's in every man, every warrior, every monster… even and animals got that instintc. You cannno't change it. It's in your mind… does not matter if you're a great warrior, or an ordinary villager.- Isabel explain.
After their little talk they all go to sleep… Tomorrow in the morning Spyro come into Lea's tent. He wake her up gently. She smiled to him, but she said nothing. Kronus and Spyro started to blow with horns to wake up whole the army. Soon they was ready for attack on the city of kings… 5 Heroes with army of 300 men with horses came in front of the city of kings. The catapults started to shoot the big fire balls. Horses started to run directly on the city. The gate of the city was big and from the hard wood. Isabel do one magic and one fire ball from catapult turned in the air and smashed the gate. After that Isabel lost consciousness, but she was on the 1 horse with Ryan. Spyro's army get into the city and then the real battle started. Kronus stepped out of the horse and started to hiting black warriors with his bow and arrows.
- Kronus what are you doing!?- Spyro yells.
- You 4 go!!! Your army need help out there Spyro!! I will manage myself!!- Kronus yells.
4 heroes listen to him and leave him. They go to the castle... Isabel started to feel better and she woke up. When they enter in main chamber black warriors attacked them… Spyro and Ryan were pushing and slaying them, while Lea and Isabel were colse to each other and killing one by one. Soon the king Draco appeared.
- Well done! Well done!- Draco yells while he was claping.
- 5 heroes! But where is fifth? Nevermind! I heard for you! You killed a lot of my soldiers in the Dark_Forest. Do you know what happend that night? I killed king Legolas. But I don't want to kill you… You're too much skilled and good to be killed. Join me and be my dark knights! And we will rule over the world together!-
- You are a cruel king Draco!! You don't know nothing about justice and honor! Killing armless peasants and their wifes is so poor and stupid for a king with such power!!- Ryan yells.
- Speak careful boy! My patient have limits! Even for stupid warrior like you!-
- We are not interested in your offer!! Tke your power with you when you finish in the black grave!!-
- You will die for your nasty, dirty words!!!- Draco yells and jump on the Ryan with his black sword. Ryan set his sword horizontally and defend himself. Them 2 started fighting to death and Spyro, Lea or Isabel couldn't do anything because they were busy fighting with black warriors. After some time Ryan started to getting tired, but Draco had the same strength as at the beginning. Soon Draco broke out Ryan's sword from Ryan's hand. Ryan fall on the floor with bloody hand. Draco wanted to stab him, but then Isabel has collapse all the black warriors on her way and she jumped on king Draco. Dracop stab Isabel insteda Ryan. Then Draco started to laugh, but Spyro and Lea attacked him. Soon Kronus arrived in the chamber with Spyro's army and started to shooting black warriors. Ryan was looking some time at Isabel's dead body and then… his eyes became red. He stand up and collapse everyone on his path and then he push the Draco on the wall with his sword. Then he put his sword horizontally in front of Draco's neck.
- Hahahahaha!! Look at yourself boy! You became same as me!-
- Shut up!!! You're not worthy to reduce me!!!- Ryan yells and cuts Draco's neck.
Then Ryan took Draco's crown and put it on his head. Kronus, Spyro and Lea came to him.
- Brother! What…-
- Don't say anything Lea! Please take the control over the kingdom Litia! I will go across the river Eboyne in Dark Kingdom of king Draco! That's the only way for me to forget the Isabel!! If I stay here I will start to love some other woman! I must become evil king and killer to stop feeling love!!-
- But I never said that you can't love someone!- Lea yells.
- It doesn't matter now!! It will be peace between our 2 kingdoms!! I will stay in my Dark Kingdom with my black army… From there, I can't hurt anyone. God be with you all…- Ryan says.
After that Ryan pulled his new dark sword and then he dissapeared together with his black army. Years were passing… Lea and Spyro got married. Spyro became a new king, and Kronus… He became very powerfull archer and white knight of Litia Kingdom. But Ryan… He could saw the ghost of Isabel every night in his dreams… They were talking… about life and death, happiness and sorrow… And every day, Ryan cried. His mind was cleared now… Ryan had a truly mind of warrior. Warrior who could love…
Magnamancy (Click to View)
~James's Party~
I flicked the car's headlights on.
I could still see some light from the sun, struggling through the dark clouds, but the
road's visibility was becoming dangerously thin.
It was going to be very dark soon.
My sister sat in the front passenger seat, blissfully engaged in a conversation with my
girlfriend, who was sitting in the rear seat behind her. I took a moment to gaze into my
rear-view mirror, catching her eye. She smiled. I couldn't help but smile too.
My sister caught me looking in the mirror, and began scolding me "Keep your eyes on the
road you daft twit! You can stare at her all you like once we get to James's party."
I didn't respond, and kept smiling to myself as street lamps flashed passed overhead.
I could see a roundabout approaching, and my sister started talking again "We turn left up
here, don't we?" at which point I nod, and my girlfriend chimes up "Yeah, James lives just
down there" indicating the darker street.
I parked the car around the corner from James's, and walked down the street with the
two girls. The were still chattering happily as we turned the corner, as we passed a group
of people on the other side of the road, and as we walked into James's front yard.
Something bothered me about that group, but I couldn't pin-point it.
So I stopped worrying about them, they were a way away from the party anyway...
We walked through the gate into James's backyard, where James was standing. I handed
him the card and wished him a happy birthday as both girls gave him hugs. We then
proceeded to greet and talk to people as the night went on.
It is now really dark, and James's party has spilled out into his front yard, where I'm
having a chat with a resonably large, but friendly, bloke. My girlfriend is inside James's
house, taking turns at Guitar Hero, and my sister is in the front yard too, talking to her
friends.
I'm still talking to this guy, Daniel he tells me, when I hear someone yell. It doesn't sound
bad, more like from a drunk person who fell over. I didn't pay it much attention, and I was
about to keep talking with Daniel when a look of shock covered his face. I turn around,
manuvering past people, trying to see what's going on.
There's a man, probably 19 year old, standing in the headlights of the car, and a girl is
stumbling away. It takes me a moment to register the blood dripping between the fingers
of her hands over her nose and mouth. he'd king-hit her in the face.
My stomach drops as I hear a new voice while I'm trying to figure out what to do.
My sister is standing between him and the fleeing girl.
I hear the guy's voice, angry and menacing "I'll f*cking hit you."
My sister explodes with anger "STOP SAYING YOU'LL HIT ME BECAUSE YOU WON'T!"
I can hear my sister losing the plot as she screams, and I'm frozen in shock as
the man advances on her, the look in his eyes...
He was going to kill her.
I don't remember moving ...
I just remember standing in front of the man, my sister behind me.
He told me to move, so he could stab her.
I told him I couldn't, because she was my sister.
He look at me, for a moment ...
I was told later that we both walked away from each other, because
the next thing I remember is comforting my sister back in James's front yard.
We left shortly after, but I'd never forget that night.
The night I'd been the most scared in my entire life ...
I flicked the car's headlights on.
I could still see some light from the sun, struggling through the dark clouds, but the
road's visibility was becoming dangerously thin.
It was going to be very dark soon.
My sister sat in the front passenger seat, blissfully engaged in a conversation with my
girlfriend, who was sitting in the rear seat behind her. I took a moment to gaze into my
rear-view mirror, catching her eye. She smiled. I couldn't help but smile too.
My sister caught me looking in the mirror, and began scolding me "Keep your eyes on the
road you daft twit! You can stare at her all you like once we get to James's party."
I didn't respond, and kept smiling to myself as street lamps flashed passed overhead.
I could see a roundabout approaching, and my sister started talking again "We turn left up
here, don't we?" at which point I nod, and my girlfriend chimes up "Yeah, James lives just
down there" indicating the darker street.
I parked the car around the corner from James's, and walked down the street with the
two girls. The were still chattering happily as we turned the corner, as we passed a group
of people on the other side of the road, and as we walked into James's front yard.
Something bothered me about that group, but I couldn't pin-point it.
So I stopped worrying about them, they were a way away from the party anyway...
We walked through the gate into James's backyard, where James was standing. I handed
him the card and wished him a happy birthday as both girls gave him hugs. We then
proceeded to greet and talk to people as the night went on.
It is now really dark, and James's party has spilled out into his front yard, where I'm
having a chat with a resonably large, but friendly, bloke. My girlfriend is inside James's
house, taking turns at Guitar Hero, and my sister is in the front yard too, talking to her
friends.
I'm still talking to this guy, Daniel he tells me, when I hear someone yell. It doesn't sound
bad, more like from a drunk person who fell over. I didn't pay it much attention, and I was
about to keep talking with Daniel when a look of shock covered his face. I turn around,
manuvering past people, trying to see what's going on.
There's a man, probably 19 year old, standing in the headlights of the car, and a girl is
stumbling away. It takes me a moment to register the blood dripping between the fingers
of her hands over her nose and mouth. he'd king-hit her in the face.
My stomach drops as I hear a new voice while I'm trying to figure out what to do.
My sister is standing between him and the fleeing girl.
I hear the guy's voice, angry and menacing "I'll f*cking hit you."
My sister explodes with anger "STOP SAYING YOU'LL HIT ME BECAUSE YOU WON'T!"
I can hear my sister losing the plot as she screams, and I'm frozen in shock as
the man advances on her, the look in his eyes...
He was going to kill her.
I don't remember moving ...
I just remember standing in front of the man, my sister behind me.
He told me to move, so he could stab her.
I told him I couldn't, because she was my sister.
He look at me, for a moment ...
I was told later that we both walked away from each other, because
the next thing I remember is comforting my sister back in James's front yard.
We left shortly after, but I'd never forget that night.
The night I'd been the most scared in my entire life ...
phil (Click to View)
Summer Love
Loud clangor disturbed my peaceful sleep. I slowly opened my eyes and tried to find out from where the clangor came. The source was my mobile phone with the built in alarm bell. My hand moved on its own and pressed the right button to stop it. I quickly looked around me. “Where am I?” I said myself. The bed I was lying in wasn’t mine, the very same was the room. I couldn’t even recognize a single detail. As I stood up I noticed a small paper under my feet: a ticket. All of the sudden I remembered where I was. I was in the middle of the sports week in Croatia. My wristwatch showed me “7:00”. “sh*t, got to hurry now” I silently said to myself. I quickly changed my clothes and was already on the way to the restaurant. My feet were moving pretty fast and I could hear them pad on the asphalt. I was nearly there when I bumped into something soft. I looked up and saw a girl with brown hair, beautiful green eyes and tanned skin stumbling back. Instantly I grabbed her hand and dragged her towards me. She smelled like the ocean breeze combined with a little bit cinnamon. I quickly let go of her. “You jerk, can’t you watch your steps?” she said with her soft and nice voice. “I am sorry! “ I replied nervously. She looked into my eyes with an intense look. I simply looked back. Her mouth opened and closed again several times as if she wanted to say something. “Now or never” I said to myself silently and then raised my voice: “Can I repay you with a drink at the evening?” She looked at me again and wrinkled her forehead. “Okay, we will meet here again” I heard her saying as time passed. She then moved onwards and I still couldn’t get my eyes off her. In a moment of shock I remembered what I was about to do. I quickly ran to the door of the restaurant and already saw the waitresses cleaning up the buffet. “That means no breakfast today” I cried.
Time passed and finally the sun set down. I was standing at the same spot, waiting for her. My feet were carrying me around in a circle because of my jumpiness. Finally I heard steps behind me. She appeared in a deep-blue dress and I was simply enchained by her looks. She looked at me and then we both were going to the next bar. As promised I bought her a drink there. We both didn’t say much. I simply looked at her and she just looked back. All of the sudden she took my hand and dragged me with her. I didn’t even want to resist and found myself at the beach again after she let go of me. “Isn’t it beautiful?” she asked me. “Yeah” I answered. We both were sitting in the soil of the beach next to the deep and dark sea. Something was touching my hand. I looked at her and saw that it was her hand again. She looked at me with her deep, green eyes and moved towards me. Her face was only centimeters away from me. She was getting closer and closer. Her lips touched mine and I felt like I was in heaven. My body felt so light and my feelings exploded. Finally our lips let go of each other. We were smiling at each other and she now was lying in my arms. She and I looked at the sea again which now looked like a firework of colors to me.
Loud clangor disturbed my peaceful sleep. I slowly opened my eyes and tried to find out from where the clangor came. The source was my mobile phone with the built in alarm bell. My hand moved on its own and pressed the right button to stop it. I quickly looked around me. “Where am I?” I said myself. The bed I was lying in wasn’t mine, the very same was the room. I couldn’t even recognize a single detail. As I stood up I noticed a small paper under my feet: a ticket. All of the sudden I remembered where I was. I was in the middle of the sports week in Croatia. My wristwatch showed me “7:00”. “sh*t, got to hurry now” I silently said to myself. I quickly changed my clothes and was already on the way to the restaurant. My feet were moving pretty fast and I could hear them pad on the asphalt. I was nearly there when I bumped into something soft. I looked up and saw a girl with brown hair, beautiful green eyes and tanned skin stumbling back. Instantly I grabbed her hand and dragged her towards me. She smelled like the ocean breeze combined with a little bit cinnamon. I quickly let go of her. “You jerk, can’t you watch your steps?” she said with her soft and nice voice. “I am sorry! “ I replied nervously. She looked into my eyes with an intense look. I simply looked back. Her mouth opened and closed again several times as if she wanted to say something. “Now or never” I said to myself silently and then raised my voice: “Can I repay you with a drink at the evening?” She looked at me again and wrinkled her forehead. “Okay, we will meet here again” I heard her saying as time passed. She then moved onwards and I still couldn’t get my eyes off her. In a moment of shock I remembered what I was about to do. I quickly ran to the door of the restaurant and already saw the waitresses cleaning up the buffet. “That means no breakfast today” I cried.
Time passed and finally the sun set down. I was standing at the same spot, waiting for her. My feet were carrying me around in a circle because of my jumpiness. Finally I heard steps behind me. She appeared in a deep-blue dress and I was simply enchained by her looks. She looked at me and then we both were going to the next bar. As promised I bought her a drink there. We both didn’t say much. I simply looked at her and she just looked back. All of the sudden she took my hand and dragged me with her. I didn’t even want to resist and found myself at the beach again after she let go of me. “Isn’t it beautiful?” she asked me. “Yeah” I answered. We both were sitting in the soil of the beach next to the deep and dark sea. Something was touching my hand. I looked at her and saw that it was her hand again. She looked at me with her deep, green eyes and moved towards me. Her face was only centimeters away from me. She was getting closer and closer. Her lips touched mine and I felt like I was in heaven. My body felt so light and my feelings exploded. Finally our lips let go of each other. We were smiling at each other and she now was lying in my arms. She and I looked at the sea again which now looked like a firework of colors to me.
-multivoting is allowed (it's hard to vote just for one
)-voting for yourself is not tolerated (allthough i can't stop you from doing it)
-you have at least one week for voting (depends on the activity)
Now happy voting
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - LutiChris - 07-20-2009
sh*t forgot the contest was today...
Here is mine if Accepted? (It's unfinnished though...)
The Chronicles of Joshua (Click to View)
Mourning
In the mid-summer time a young boy crept out of his home and peered out into the sky. He daydreamed about all the time and wonders he had fantasized about. He peered from under his coat to daydream in the middle of the flowing sky till he sensed the shades of his next door neighbors window’s go up. He looked at his peculiar watch which had been dropped by a man with a very cryptic appearance. He laid back to relax for a moment and covered the coat over him.
Joshua felt the cold air run up his skin which made him feel goose-bumps, the ground was the only thing he could grasp onto when this happened. Now this is what he usually did to stop the cold in the mourning. The cold but smooth grass ran through his fingers covering what was left of it blocking the rest of that cold breeze. He started trying to rest again but knew he couldn’t. The sun rose but was blocked by the clouds which made the breeze feel worse. It didn’t even feel like summer, like it used to be from the other years he’d been outside in summer. Joshua dragged what seemed to be some sort of coat and brought it over his head for protection against the cold mourning breeze.
He finally got up because his feet were just to cold from sleeping late at night getting up and cracking his back made a good sensation in his spine, yet another chill ran down his skin, which stunned him for a moment. He remembered that there was a nice home in the horizon, and he imagined a blurry house in the distance, and that house was his. Of coarse it wasn’t because when he rubbed all the sand out of his eyes it was gone. This really came to him. His mother and father were fighting and he felt like he was in the middle of it. Everywhere they went it always seemed like both of them were unhappy whether they went to a park, carnival, and even at the local grocery store where they used to go every week to buy food.
Joshua always lined up first for free samples - he was usually the first one there when they went shopping. He loved food it was his savory addiction. He concealed his pleasure usually in his room with drawings he was also pleased with. His drawings were plain and simple not really much to look at since he was only little and all that. Nobody really expected much out of him. As he got older he soon came to realize that he was losing his parents. His craving for food increased to something more than just the pleasure of it.
Joshua was hungry he was always hungry but his slim fourteen year old body never gave away. His peers sometimes wondered why he was never fat like most people who eat as much as he did. He always felt hungry because he felt empty but never seemed to fill it quite as good as when he was a younger. Now he couldn’t feel a thing since he was alone but at times he was always aware of being lonely but of coarse when he was hungry there was a place he could go to. Food for Others a food shelter that Joshua always stayed close to when he needed too.
One day his father took a restraining order against his mother. Now Joshua knew this wasn’t going to end well and as he could see his mom refused to hand him over. Depression had misery had invaded the fun loving boy. Two months had passed by and he still was eating the same Potato Chips - that he had stacked up in his room. He soon lost his interest in drawing little doodles all over his sketch pad. Joshua didn’t know what was happening at that time everyone made such a big deal out of everything, wherever they went.
The next day his mom took Joshua by the wrist and was pulled along into the minivan. His mom rode up to the side of the curb next to where they lived but not close enough to be seen by any of the neighbors “Please stay here, honey. Mommy will be right back…” and with that she gave him a kiss, after waiting what seemed like an hour in the car he couldn’t handle it much longer and planned to run away for all he cared. He thought that would stop the fight and bring more attention to him instead. He knew he would hear about it later but dared anyway to risk it.
He got out of the car slammed the door behind him and rushed back home to get his stuff. When he got home he felt like this should be rushed so he took out his sleeping bag, a flashlight, his backpack, his dads coat (he wouldn’t really need it anymore since the right of the sleeve was torn out). He thought he had everything but he remembered he was hungry again, so brought home two pop tarts to save the trip to go back home again as planned. He also brought his switch blade knife the one he countlessly kept on spinning in the air for fun when he was locked into his room, this was just a concept because he was scared to go out in the middle of the night by himself in the woods. As he was walking he heard an overwhelming burst of fire behind him, he immediately turned around to see his house in flames. Joshua just couldn’t help but stare for a long time.
[Here is what you didn’t know]
Fortunately, he saved his own life when this happened. Unfortunately, his parents were presumed dead after the incident. Supposedly, his mom must have came back to the house to find her son but never did and soon both parents were trapped in the scorching fire. There Joshua left a couple of papers to fit in his backpack next to the oven which was in fact on! The papers burned and fell in the trash. No one realized what had started that huge massive fire in the first place. It seemed last week his dad was filling a carton of gasoline in his car… The place suddenly burst with a blaze of fire.
With no where to go (which was not a good idea at all…) he turned and took most of the belongings in his house which most of them were burned by now. No one saw him get in or get out. This boy was not smart, well you couldn’t blame him he was still a child when this happened. Now at the age of fourteen he wandered around place to place seeking shelter. He knew he couldn’t leave. He didn’t know anywhere to go from there on in and didn’t really know anybody because his parents kept him isolated from the rest of the world.
Who knows - he thought to himself. If he turned himself in they would have to put him off for adoption or foster care. Joshua never wanted to image himself in that position. The thought of having to replace his parents would utterly sicken him. Nobody in right mind could take that from him. If it was to wander about alone he could manage. As long as he would never forget them this way.
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Pursuit
Well, he packed up the rest of his stuff that was left scattered on the dried-up ground. The cold wind blew in his face and it was enough to get him exhausted but awake. The sensation on his face made him jerk up for a moment, he covered himself with the long coat he was just sleeping with. He jumped on the pavement and dashed all the way to the other side, there were no cars to slow him down. The cold just kept on getting inside his clothes and he sensed the presence of the overwhelming cold prickling onto his skin.
I better get closer to another shelter, he thought to himself. So off he went, onto another driveway. As he was walking, he didn’t know that the front of his right-shoe was torn open when suddenly he stepped off the sidewalk and into a puddle of filthy water. The sock inside his wet shoe stuck on his bare foot as it made a bulging squeaky sound as he walked down the street. At this scene he quickly took off his shoe, sat on the side of the curb, and inspected it for further analysis. He immediately found the hole but found other tiny bristles that he soon found out made his skin irritate.
He walked around the block and noticed a squirrel biting a nut. This amused him so remembering how cute they were scratching there fur and all. Joshua loved almost every single animal he could gaze his eyes upon. He remembered when a guy let him pet his dog, he liked how the smooth fur rubbed against his moist fingers & how it’s tongue came out panting. Noticing another squirrel, Joshua stared at both of them at a safe viewpoint. The other one suddenly attacked the other and as the both scampered up the tree. Joshua left.
After walking for what seemed like a whole days worth of walking to his place where he grew up in. The sewer was where he chucked pebbles off that bounced off each rock and into the stream. A flashback streaked through his mind of how relentless he was of going there almost every mourning of feeling tired and drowsy, it felt like nobody cared about his existence, he sometimes could feel his heart pulsing and glanced back at the settled stream flowing into the narrowed rocks. There he could forget and clear his mind for the day. And there he was again turning around and looking at the nothing that used to be his home.
He sat down alongside the wall and preceded to throw some pebbles into the standing water. He smirked back down at the stream and threw another one. He took a big breath and slumped upright, hearing a faint pant behind him he turned around in a perplexed way, suddenly out of the corner of his eyes it pounced on him. Startled and fumbled he got up and brushed himself noticing a cute little face that dragged along his coat. It was a dog, a very small dog. It was mostly black but streaked with thin brown fur but something about him was a little different.
“Hey!”, without warning, the dog swiftly scampered down the block where a car nearly hit him. Joshua dashed to the other side to get his coat back. As Joshua nearly caught up to him he immediately scurried under a neighbors hole in the fence. Joshua stopped for a moment, the fence was taller than him but then again his coat was on the other side. He jumped up pulling his weight on top of the fencing, I never been over a fence before, he thought. He saw the little dog just sitting there, as he came down the first thing he did was grab part of his coats sleeve, the dog growled as he tugged as well. Suddenly, the dog dropped the coat and made Joshua plunge toward the ground. The dog yelped and started to get out quickly the way he came out.
Fine but Puzzled, Joshua examined his coat for a tear. Aware that somebody was behind leaving a huge shadow above him. He turned around, it was a man with a cup of coffee in his left hand and a newspaper on his right in a blue bathrobe. The man had almost no hair on his head and he didn’t look like he had shaved in awhile.
“Get Out!” he yelled out, “You have no right to be here, go on get out…” he continued. Joshua quickly jumped on to the guys patio table & leaped over the fence. The patio obviously fell on the floor and the glass broke. “What the Hell did you just do that for…?”he called out, “Come back here you little brat and apologize for what you just did…” he yelled again. Joshua was afraid of what would happen next without warning a newspaper flung out over the fence and whacked Joshua on top of his head. The man continued to curse at Joshua.
Joshua grabbed the newspaper and stuck it inside his backpack for further use and pursued the little dog which waited for him a couple houses away. As soon as Joshua was within a few feet from him, the dog ran away. Joshua stopped and hesitated for a moment, not knowing if he should chase him for what all that trouble it caused him so far was worth it but he gave it a shot to try anyhow since he noticed it didn’t have a collar. So he walked around the house as cautious as he could be, there he peeked around the corner, he couldn’t find the little puppy, he had gone but where? All hope seemed lost to make a friend, he slumped against the brick tiles of the house and sat down.
Resting for a few minutes, watching the sun settle down he would need to find shelter soon. He got up and decided to settle beside the stream and into the sewer. The hole was big enough to crawl through, if he had a skateboard it would be perfect for gliding through the tunnel. Once he got to a place where the light was dim he settled down among the outer wall. He got out his backpack and out popped the little dog.
“Wow, you startled me there for a sec…” Joshua whispered and held onto him. “Promise me you won’t run away?” he whispered “okay…”.
After they both rested together. The little dog opened his eyes and barked out at the rushing filth coming out from the other hole. Tons of water was explosively flooding the entire tunnel. Trickled drops from the manhole flowed along with the stream. Some landed on Joshua who slowly woke up after the annoyance. Joshua snatched up the dog, and softly tucked him under the covers and over his head, and afterward they both slept.
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The Woods
An unpleasant licking was too much to take after a few hours of sleep. The rain had stopped overnight, so Joshua got up scratched his dog’s furry head, packed his stuff into his bag and set it aside and looked down through the tunnel.
“God, the walls are all sticky and wet…” Joshua hollered out through the tunnel that made a faint echo sound. “Well, I guess we’ll have to get out through the manhole…” he said to the dog. Joshua pushed upward and very slowly the manhole was lifted to the side, lots of particles of dirt fell from the side and fell inside the hole. “sh*t!” Joshua blunted out loud, a spider fell onto his jacket and so did the rest of the creepy crawlers that were unnoticed last night.
The dog barked around Joshua while they fell out one by one and crawled or jumped away. Joshua jumped out of the Manhole along dragging his stuff along and bent down to pick up his dog.
“Boy, I really have to give you a name or something, don’t I…?”, As they both headed out Joshua lead the way while his dog umm - wandered off? After walking for several countless minutes, he noticed that the dog wasn’t with him anymore. Retracing his steps as fast as he could to the last place they were together he was stumped he didn’t know where the hell the little mischievous dog went.
A thought came into mind, what if he went into the woods while I turned the other direction but where? He didn’t know exactly where the troublesome dog was up to or where he was but he ran to the other side of the street and into the woods. After an hour of looking Joshua was getting hungry. The only reason he was looking for him because he liked it in the first place. He grew fond of it anyways he was a stray - they both were. It didn’t seem like he had to go anywhere else so he thought it was time to visit the food shelter, so he walked back toward the street if he could find the street in the first place. Joshua was lost in the thick woods all alone by himself.
Knowing he wasn’t going to get that far ahead, or even the slightest idea of getting out, he knew that he didn’t even remember where he first came from. He set his stuff down and hung his foot up a branch of a tree. It was just like jumping over the fence except easier. He continued to climb till he could peer out of the rest of the leaves on the tree. He found out that he was close to the outer part of the city where a barbed wired fence blocked the whole other side.
“Wow, that’s really far then I remembered…” he said to himself, he carefully crawled down from one branch to the next and plunged the next twenty feet carelessly on the ground. Most of the leaves fell down with him as well, he quickly headed out where he assumed he would get out of the woods. As he was walking admiring the bright colored leaves on the trees, “This isn’t a bad place to stay - Augh!” The Dog jumped out on top of Joshua and was chasing a squirrel instead. “What the Heck…” and as fast as he could he tried to catch up to the dog.
Continuing to run after a period of time, shouting and calling the dog, he finally got fed up and knelt on the ground holding the cramped area on his chest, and looked out. Joshua took a deep breathe and walked slowly to find his dog. “God, where did that stupid dog, go…?”. He stopped and looked around and laid back against the tree to await the dog’s return but that was a stupid idea knowing the dog was very mischievous and sooner or later forget where he was. Walking around the corner of the tree he saw that the dog already had stopped, not for him but for the squirrel, the squirrel managed to get up the tree without the grasp of the dog, he continued to bark up the tree until Joshua picked him up tightly in his arms.
When there seemed like they were close to getting out of the forest, the little dog sniffed the air and looked around intently. “Bark!” “Ugh, no come back…”, the dog kicked out of his arms and dogged right for another squirrel. Joshua attempted yet another chase. Within a matter of seconds they were out of the woods & ended up in a child’s playground. Joshua tripped at a sudden disruption from the ground, a tree root that was hidden under the mulch made Joshua surprisingly hit the ground, face first.
A young beautiful girl his age giggled, she was sitting on a bench hands & legs folded, her hair was a dark brown and it moved as graceful as the evening wind as it went by, her face looked soft and smoother than his, and her eyes were dark green as lush. Her face had light freckles but she looked divine yet there was something about her that scared him a bit. Her eyes were very drawn to him and she stared intently at his, her malicious presence was one he could feel yet he couldn’t tell unless this was his instincts or his subconscious. Feeling foolish just gazing at her from were he was unintentionally he got up embarrassed and picked up his dog.
“Hi, my name is Melina…” she said, “Mine is Joshua…” he hesitated, the dog barked with enthusiasm. “You have a nice dog, what’s his name?” “Oh! I didn’t give him one yet…” he said. She paused for a brief moment “I noticed he doesn’t have a collar around his neck…?” she remarked “…why is that?” “He was a stray when I found him…”. “You can come over to my house to pick one up, I live just around the corner, over there…” she pointed out. “Ugh, that’s nice…?” “But I must really go, I’ll come by tomorrow…” I hadn’t eaten even from yesterday and my mouth is way too dry he told himself. “Well, come by soon, ok?” she asked. And with that, off they went on the same path toward the food shelter caring his dog, so that he wouldn’t run off again.
After a long tiring walk they cut a corner that led them to the back of the food shelter. They went around the side so they could get some food. He set his dog on the ground assuming he wouldn’t want to miss the food there. There was enough food to fill up a whole houseful but of course there was still way more than that. Since the people already knew who he was because of the frequent arrivals every mourning and night he would come.
A black man came out front and greeted him,
“How you doing man, you didn’t come over yesterday, what happened?”
“Awe, nothing much…”. “So, same thing as usual?” “Nope, I have something I want to show you, he picked the little dog up and placed him on the platform. “Wow, cool man…” he nudged Joshua and chuckled. “But I’m afraid we don’t give out dog food but I do have something he can have, wait here…”, when he got back he assured Joshua there was nothing left except “A bone, here…” he tossed it too Joshua, “That’s all I could fine but don’t worry I’ll make sure we’ll get some by tomorrow, I’ll get some later, ok?”
Joshua got up on the platform to get scraps of food that were still there in some of the boxes. The dog waited laying across the floor chewing and gnawing the left over meat that was hanging from the bone. Joshua packed some junk and stuffed that into his backpack and signaled the dog to come.
“Bye Joe!” Joshua waved back.
“Tell your dog to let him come with you. I don’t want to pick up his mess….” he chuckled. Joshua grabbed the dog by his arms and headed off into the night.
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Hostage
As night was getting nearer, Joshua hurried to find some shelter this time he would try the woods, he never went to sleep in the woods before. He remembered ever since he was little and ever since his parents died he always had the knack of surviving but in most places he had the fear of being kidnapped or even killed in the dark. He thought he got over that but the woods made him think otherwise. “Well, since were already here lets begin building a shelter.”, his dog could get the notion of what Joshua was up to, so it scurried around for some twigs to bring back with him.
They brought the twigs and branches to a tree that was crooked and held on a side of a tree. The crooked tree was obviously dead because the roots were shown and there were no leaves on that tree alone surprisingly it looked like it could hold. Joshua carefully placed each of his sticks onto the dead branches and took the rest of the twigs the dog found against the trunk and roots. After they finished it looked like a big tent on it’s side. There were gaps between the sticks that didn’t look right, if it was going to be cold or windy while he was resting, he wouldn’t get any sleep.
Joshua got up the tree that was supporting the dead one and plucked each of the leaves onto the ground. The dog was barking and running side to side as they fell on him and the ground. Joshua was planning to place the leaves between each stick so that way the cold and rain wouldn’t get in. He continued to pluck the branches and leaves off the tree, he continued doing this for several hours till night fell. As Joshua was placing each leaf inside the tent-like structure, he heard a noise inside the woods. He jerked his body around, his dog heard it too and growled.
“Sh! Shut up…” he whispered.
The dog went back into the tent and whimpered. Joshua leaned forward with a stick in his hand ready to jab anything in his path.
“Augh!” he fell backward when he saw what had jumped on top of him. The dog jumped right on top of Joshua’s chest to chaise the creature that had attacked him. Joshua got up but fell back down laughing in disbelief that it was a squirrel that had frightened him.
“Oh sh*t…!”
Something grabbed him in the shadows and then covered his mouth and dragged him along. He tried to kick and punch his way out but the man was holding his mouth and body so firm and tight he couldn’t get free. He even tried to bite the man’s hand off but it was no use. The man was wearing black leather gloves that made him loosen his teeth and tongue give up. It was no use but he had to try - he thought to himself. Then came a simple thought. The man made a muffled sound behind his teeth - the sounds of anguish feeling a twinge between his balls.
This was his chance. He loosened the mans grip and kicked out. However, the man was quick himself and suddenly jumped him. The man was still trying to regain his strength after the incident. The man - still on top of Joshua - leaned over and sucker punched him right across his face. Joshua’s head laid there unconscious on the grass. The man got up with a sigh of relief and dragged him along to his van.
The van door opened easily with a familiar faint sound that all car doors give off. The dog, hearing the sound, turned it’s head to find that there was a flash of white light coming not that far from where he was. The man started the van and was off - out of the woods. The dog quickly scampered as fast as his little paws could take him out of the woods. The chase was on and the dog could still see the van, it had stopped at a red light. The dog still managing to catch up dashed the last few feet.
Without realizing it, the light had turned green and so the van sped off. The dog panted and slowed down to a stop. The dog laid his head down on top of his paws exhausted and worn out. It made a slow whimper to itself that everything was going to be alright. It gazed at the van who was at a very far distance than the dog could ever make.
The van went over a speed-bump rocking Joshua back and forth. Joshua was still unconscious, he was still unaware of the events that were about to be sent forth to him. He was in a deep sleep. A very deep one…
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Escaping the Nightmare
Visions of past images of his mom and dad soared throughout his condensed thoughts. Suddenly a train of thought exploited a memory of light into his blind eyes of his. Joshua found himself on a warm summer’s day laying on the grass on a beach. The grass seemed to be softer than he remembered on his legs. A few whiffs of freedom from reality was sure pleasant.
He could hear something familiar in the distance. He opened his eyes and leaned upward and got up. He noticed he was wearing his summer shirt and shorts, instead of his dirty old clothing he was wearing not too long ago. He was also wearing his favorite sandals that had a somewhat Hawaiian feeling to it. Maybe it was because of the furry straps that was around his toes and the fine thick rugged weaving that held his foot. The one thing he most liked about shoes and sandals was that he always checked the bottom of them to feel the texture. It always occurred to him that he wore thick rugged shoes - same with the sandals. Just thinking about this made him feel uncomfortably hungry. He had to think of other things besides food.
He could still hear voices not too far from where he was. In fact, to him it only seemed like they were right in front of him the whole time he was resting in the sun. He got up and rest assured they were his parents. They were dancing in a circle hugging each other as they leapt off the sand. This wasn’t like them at all. They used to fight and made selfish rude conversations with each other; that’s all he ever remembered about them. Yet, part of him knew that this would have had to happen, if he had ever loved them so much as he did right now. He went over to hug them but suddenly he fell onto a heap of sand.
He leaned back on his elbows and stared back in interest. He watched them run around, past him. Now something else caught his attention, in the corner of his right eye he saw what appeared to be his childhood self. Joshua stared in awe at himself. He suddenly got frustrated with it all. He knelt down toward his former self.
“Why aren’t you look at them? Don’t you see what fun they’re having? Just look you freaking dumb a**! Look! Look…”, Joshua grabbed hold of the child and cried. Then he looked at himself. He suddenly saw, before his eyes, it turned into sand. He looked around the beach turned to sand. The seagulls dropped and turned into sand. Everyone else around him turned into sand. All that was left was the miraculous sun.
Joshua got up off the sand and looked around. All he saw were heaps of sand. He looked down and kicked at the sand. A wisp of sand was caught by a sudden soft wind that blew the opposite direction, behind Joshua. Joshua knelt back down holding his knees in front of him, rocking back and forth.
“This could have been prevented…”
“What?” Joshua turned his head slowly around. It was all silent again.
“It was all your fault, your dad wouldn’t have died if you hadn’t done that stupid careless thing, your mom wouldn’t have died if you hadn’t left…” constant negative thoughts echoed the winds and soon the sand picked up. It whirled around him. Joshua’s tears began to form. The voices pushed harder, all around him. Joshua screamed.
“Just stop it! Stop it, leave me alone…”, he fell to the ground crying. His mind cleared up and the sand was gone.
“I wish somebody was here”, he sniffled. He thought of Melina he met at the park and wondered if she could comfort him. His thoughts raced and formed into his mind. He fantasized that he and she were hugging in a beautiful place of their own. Somewhere where they wouldn’t even have to care about life. He wanted to be away from it all.
Pink blossoms fell from the sky as he imagined in some anime video’s he had watched. His clothes were as fine as any prince or rich boy would have in the world. He wore a fine black tuxedo and she wore a stunning white dress. There they entered the palace. He could see the sparkly ball gown she wore made the whole palace fill with light and made the rest of the room shut down by night.
There they danced elegantly for a few minutes around a circle under a spotlight. Both had closed their eyes just for a brief moment to kiss. Joshua squinted with disgust. He was astonished that she had the slimiest lips he had ever touched. He suddenly felt uncomfortable knowing that his mind was playing tricks on him again.
He opened his right eye to find that a snake-like parasite was swerving around his body. Its head only consisted of a drooling mouth with jagged small teeth and a body full of slime and splintered hair lines between each segment. Joshua felt its enormous unpleasant stench that made him choke and cough. The very air itself was heavy and gloomy. The foul creature roused around him tightly and suddenly lunged toward Joshua. Everything shattered into bright light glass. Joshua fell abruptly on a pile of garbage.
Joshua groaned as he lifted his body into a slouch then everything seemed fixated on him alone. Junkyard dogs surrounded him. They growled ferociously even the air was filled with a sneer. The hounds stared at him continued to growl and circled around him. Joshua stood up feeling petrified only looking around dazzled at the sight of it all.
Something caught their attention a few of the hounds chased what seemed to be his dog. It didn’t seemed alarmed, scared, or worried. The hounds stopped once it entered the mountainous pile of waste. It wasn’t long before it had reached Joshua through the top piles of cans, happy to seem him. But something suddenly startled Joshua that made him slip off a bit.
It started to morph and grew bigger and uglier. His dog had turned into one of them and sprang out at his face. Joshua quickly shielded himself from the dog and was hurled downward into the air along with the dog. Joshua realized that the pile seemed to be taller than he thought it was. Both dog and boy smashed right on top of a junkyard car’s windshield. Joshua remained still because of pain gnawing at his backside.
The dog appeared to be shaky but then returned into its unaltered state of anger and slowly edged itself toward him. Joshua realized what was happening. The hounds howled and death lurking near by. Joshua leaned unsteadily away from the dog. He couldn’t help but look down at the hounds which were ready to rip the living day lights out of him. The car screeched and hissed from the rubble holding it. A wire snapped!
Suddenly, a whole pile on top of the car was forced downward on top of him and the dog. The car was taken with them along with the landslide coming and crashing down on everything bellow it. It finally landed to a halt as pieces of metal and waste fell or rolled off the heap. Joshua head popped up with a dirty trench coat on his head. He immediately threw the disgusting junk off if him. Seeing the dog emerge from under the pile he noticed the other blood-thirsty hounds ready to rip him apart piece by piece.
He quickly regained his cowardice grabbed the pile of junk around him and jumped right in to conceal himself. The pack of evil dogs rushed along with their noisy barking. Joshua knowing hiding wasn’t any good so jumped right back out and struggled to get back on the mountain of rubbish. Before he could even manage to hightail it, the dog managed to cut deep into his leg. Joshua screamed for a moment and fell flat on his face, being dragged out on the bare ground.
Joshua’s eyes were closed and filled with soggy tears. He noticed that the terrifying beasts weren’t feasting on him. He turned his frail body around and saw a shack full of light. The main door burst out. Death had taken a new form in his eyes. It was a man dressed in all black, leaving a trail of foggy smoke from his trailer...
...sorry thats the furthest i have gone so far...
I will finnish this later in a different thread...
In the mid-summer time a young boy crept out of his home and peered out into the sky. He daydreamed about all the time and wonders he had fantasized about. He peered from under his coat to daydream in the middle of the flowing sky till he sensed the shades of his next door neighbors window’s go up. He looked at his peculiar watch which had been dropped by a man with a very cryptic appearance. He laid back to relax for a moment and covered the coat over him.
Joshua felt the cold air run up his skin which made him feel goose-bumps, the ground was the only thing he could grasp onto when this happened. Now this is what he usually did to stop the cold in the mourning. The cold but smooth grass ran through his fingers covering what was left of it blocking the rest of that cold breeze. He started trying to rest again but knew he couldn’t. The sun rose but was blocked by the clouds which made the breeze feel worse. It didn’t even feel like summer, like it used to be from the other years he’d been outside in summer. Joshua dragged what seemed to be some sort of coat and brought it over his head for protection against the cold mourning breeze.
He finally got up because his feet were just to cold from sleeping late at night getting up and cracking his back made a good sensation in his spine, yet another chill ran down his skin, which stunned him for a moment. He remembered that there was a nice home in the horizon, and he imagined a blurry house in the distance, and that house was his. Of coarse it wasn’t because when he rubbed all the sand out of his eyes it was gone. This really came to him. His mother and father were fighting and he felt like he was in the middle of it. Everywhere they went it always seemed like both of them were unhappy whether they went to a park, carnival, and even at the local grocery store where they used to go every week to buy food.
Joshua always lined up first for free samples - he was usually the first one there when they went shopping. He loved food it was his savory addiction. He concealed his pleasure usually in his room with drawings he was also pleased with. His drawings were plain and simple not really much to look at since he was only little and all that. Nobody really expected much out of him. As he got older he soon came to realize that he was losing his parents. His craving for food increased to something more than just the pleasure of it.
Joshua was hungry he was always hungry but his slim fourteen year old body never gave away. His peers sometimes wondered why he was never fat like most people who eat as much as he did. He always felt hungry because he felt empty but never seemed to fill it quite as good as when he was a younger. Now he couldn’t feel a thing since he was alone but at times he was always aware of being lonely but of coarse when he was hungry there was a place he could go to. Food for Others a food shelter that Joshua always stayed close to when he needed too.
One day his father took a restraining order against his mother. Now Joshua knew this wasn’t going to end well and as he could see his mom refused to hand him over. Depression had misery had invaded the fun loving boy. Two months had passed by and he still was eating the same Potato Chips - that he had stacked up in his room. He soon lost his interest in drawing little doodles all over his sketch pad. Joshua didn’t know what was happening at that time everyone made such a big deal out of everything, wherever they went.
The next day his mom took Joshua by the wrist and was pulled along into the minivan. His mom rode up to the side of the curb next to where they lived but not close enough to be seen by any of the neighbors “Please stay here, honey. Mommy will be right back…” and with that she gave him a kiss, after waiting what seemed like an hour in the car he couldn’t handle it much longer and planned to run away for all he cared. He thought that would stop the fight and bring more attention to him instead. He knew he would hear about it later but dared anyway to risk it.
He got out of the car slammed the door behind him and rushed back home to get his stuff. When he got home he felt like this should be rushed so he took out his sleeping bag, a flashlight, his backpack, his dads coat (he wouldn’t really need it anymore since the right of the sleeve was torn out). He thought he had everything but he remembered he was hungry again, so brought home two pop tarts to save the trip to go back home again as planned. He also brought his switch blade knife the one he countlessly kept on spinning in the air for fun when he was locked into his room, this was just a concept because he was scared to go out in the middle of the night by himself in the woods. As he was walking he heard an overwhelming burst of fire behind him, he immediately turned around to see his house in flames. Joshua just couldn’t help but stare for a long time.
[Here is what you didn’t know]
Fortunately, he saved his own life when this happened. Unfortunately, his parents were presumed dead after the incident. Supposedly, his mom must have came back to the house to find her son but never did and soon both parents were trapped in the scorching fire. There Joshua left a couple of papers to fit in his backpack next to the oven which was in fact on! The papers burned and fell in the trash. No one realized what had started that huge massive fire in the first place. It seemed last week his dad was filling a carton of gasoline in his car… The place suddenly burst with a blaze of fire.
With no where to go (which was not a good idea at all…) he turned and took most of the belongings in his house which most of them were burned by now. No one saw him get in or get out. This boy was not smart, well you couldn’t blame him he was still a child when this happened. Now at the age of fourteen he wandered around place to place seeking shelter. He knew he couldn’t leave. He didn’t know anywhere to go from there on in and didn’t really know anybody because his parents kept him isolated from the rest of the world.
Who knows - he thought to himself. If he turned himself in they would have to put him off for adoption or foster care. Joshua never wanted to image himself in that position. The thought of having to replace his parents would utterly sicken him. Nobody in right mind could take that from him. If it was to wander about alone he could manage. As long as he would never forget them this way.
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Pursuit
Well, he packed up the rest of his stuff that was left scattered on the dried-up ground. The cold wind blew in his face and it was enough to get him exhausted but awake. The sensation on his face made him jerk up for a moment, he covered himself with the long coat he was just sleeping with. He jumped on the pavement and dashed all the way to the other side, there were no cars to slow him down. The cold just kept on getting inside his clothes and he sensed the presence of the overwhelming cold prickling onto his skin.
I better get closer to another shelter, he thought to himself. So off he went, onto another driveway. As he was walking, he didn’t know that the front of his right-shoe was torn open when suddenly he stepped off the sidewalk and into a puddle of filthy water. The sock inside his wet shoe stuck on his bare foot as it made a bulging squeaky sound as he walked down the street. At this scene he quickly took off his shoe, sat on the side of the curb, and inspected it for further analysis. He immediately found the hole but found other tiny bristles that he soon found out made his skin irritate.
He walked around the block and noticed a squirrel biting a nut. This amused him so remembering how cute they were scratching there fur and all. Joshua loved almost every single animal he could gaze his eyes upon. He remembered when a guy let him pet his dog, he liked how the smooth fur rubbed against his moist fingers & how it’s tongue came out panting. Noticing another squirrel, Joshua stared at both of them at a safe viewpoint. The other one suddenly attacked the other and as the both scampered up the tree. Joshua left.
After walking for what seemed like a whole days worth of walking to his place where he grew up in. The sewer was where he chucked pebbles off that bounced off each rock and into the stream. A flashback streaked through his mind of how relentless he was of going there almost every mourning of feeling tired and drowsy, it felt like nobody cared about his existence, he sometimes could feel his heart pulsing and glanced back at the settled stream flowing into the narrowed rocks. There he could forget and clear his mind for the day. And there he was again turning around and looking at the nothing that used to be his home.
He sat down alongside the wall and preceded to throw some pebbles into the standing water. He smirked back down at the stream and threw another one. He took a big breath and slumped upright, hearing a faint pant behind him he turned around in a perplexed way, suddenly out of the corner of his eyes it pounced on him. Startled and fumbled he got up and brushed himself noticing a cute little face that dragged along his coat. It was a dog, a very small dog. It was mostly black but streaked with thin brown fur but something about him was a little different.
“Hey!”, without warning, the dog swiftly scampered down the block where a car nearly hit him. Joshua dashed to the other side to get his coat back. As Joshua nearly caught up to him he immediately scurried under a neighbors hole in the fence. Joshua stopped for a moment, the fence was taller than him but then again his coat was on the other side. He jumped up pulling his weight on top of the fencing, I never been over a fence before, he thought. He saw the little dog just sitting there, as he came down the first thing he did was grab part of his coats sleeve, the dog growled as he tugged as well. Suddenly, the dog dropped the coat and made Joshua plunge toward the ground. The dog yelped and started to get out quickly the way he came out.
Fine but Puzzled, Joshua examined his coat for a tear. Aware that somebody was behind leaving a huge shadow above him. He turned around, it was a man with a cup of coffee in his left hand and a newspaper on his right in a blue bathrobe. The man had almost no hair on his head and he didn’t look like he had shaved in awhile.
“Get Out!” he yelled out, “You have no right to be here, go on get out…” he continued. Joshua quickly jumped on to the guys patio table & leaped over the fence. The patio obviously fell on the floor and the glass broke. “What the Hell did you just do that for…?”he called out, “Come back here you little brat and apologize for what you just did…” he yelled again. Joshua was afraid of what would happen next without warning a newspaper flung out over the fence and whacked Joshua on top of his head. The man continued to curse at Joshua.
Joshua grabbed the newspaper and stuck it inside his backpack for further use and pursued the little dog which waited for him a couple houses away. As soon as Joshua was within a few feet from him, the dog ran away. Joshua stopped and hesitated for a moment, not knowing if he should chase him for what all that trouble it caused him so far was worth it but he gave it a shot to try anyhow since he noticed it didn’t have a collar. So he walked around the house as cautious as he could be, there he peeked around the corner, he couldn’t find the little puppy, he had gone but where? All hope seemed lost to make a friend, he slumped against the brick tiles of the house and sat down.
Resting for a few minutes, watching the sun settle down he would need to find shelter soon. He got up and decided to settle beside the stream and into the sewer. The hole was big enough to crawl through, if he had a skateboard it would be perfect for gliding through the tunnel. Once he got to a place where the light was dim he settled down among the outer wall. He got out his backpack and out popped the little dog.
“Wow, you startled me there for a sec…” Joshua whispered and held onto him. “Promise me you won’t run away?” he whispered “okay…”.
After they both rested together. The little dog opened his eyes and barked out at the rushing filth coming out from the other hole. Tons of water was explosively flooding the entire tunnel. Trickled drops from the manhole flowed along with the stream. Some landed on Joshua who slowly woke up after the annoyance. Joshua snatched up the dog, and softly tucked him under the covers and over his head, and afterward they both slept.
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The Woods
An unpleasant licking was too much to take after a few hours of sleep. The rain had stopped overnight, so Joshua got up scratched his dog’s furry head, packed his stuff into his bag and set it aside and looked down through the tunnel.
“God, the walls are all sticky and wet…” Joshua hollered out through the tunnel that made a faint echo sound. “Well, I guess we’ll have to get out through the manhole…” he said to the dog. Joshua pushed upward and very slowly the manhole was lifted to the side, lots of particles of dirt fell from the side and fell inside the hole. “sh*t!” Joshua blunted out loud, a spider fell onto his jacket and so did the rest of the creepy crawlers that were unnoticed last night.
The dog barked around Joshua while they fell out one by one and crawled or jumped away. Joshua jumped out of the Manhole along dragging his stuff along and bent down to pick up his dog.
“Boy, I really have to give you a name or something, don’t I…?”, As they both headed out Joshua lead the way while his dog umm - wandered off? After walking for several countless minutes, he noticed that the dog wasn’t with him anymore. Retracing his steps as fast as he could to the last place they were together he was stumped he didn’t know where the hell the little mischievous dog went.
A thought came into mind, what if he went into the woods while I turned the other direction but where? He didn’t know exactly where the troublesome dog was up to or where he was but he ran to the other side of the street and into the woods. After an hour of looking Joshua was getting hungry. The only reason he was looking for him because he liked it in the first place. He grew fond of it anyways he was a stray - they both were. It didn’t seem like he had to go anywhere else so he thought it was time to visit the food shelter, so he walked back toward the street if he could find the street in the first place. Joshua was lost in the thick woods all alone by himself.
Knowing he wasn’t going to get that far ahead, or even the slightest idea of getting out, he knew that he didn’t even remember where he first came from. He set his stuff down and hung his foot up a branch of a tree. It was just like jumping over the fence except easier. He continued to climb till he could peer out of the rest of the leaves on the tree. He found out that he was close to the outer part of the city where a barbed wired fence blocked the whole other side.
“Wow, that’s really far then I remembered…” he said to himself, he carefully crawled down from one branch to the next and plunged the next twenty feet carelessly on the ground. Most of the leaves fell down with him as well, he quickly headed out where he assumed he would get out of the woods. As he was walking admiring the bright colored leaves on the trees, “This isn’t a bad place to stay - Augh!” The Dog jumped out on top of Joshua and was chasing a squirrel instead. “What the Heck…” and as fast as he could he tried to catch up to the dog.
Continuing to run after a period of time, shouting and calling the dog, he finally got fed up and knelt on the ground holding the cramped area on his chest, and looked out. Joshua took a deep breathe and walked slowly to find his dog. “God, where did that stupid dog, go…?”. He stopped and looked around and laid back against the tree to await the dog’s return but that was a stupid idea knowing the dog was very mischievous and sooner or later forget where he was. Walking around the corner of the tree he saw that the dog already had stopped, not for him but for the squirrel, the squirrel managed to get up the tree without the grasp of the dog, he continued to bark up the tree until Joshua picked him up tightly in his arms.
When there seemed like they were close to getting out of the forest, the little dog sniffed the air and looked around intently. “Bark!” “Ugh, no come back…”, the dog kicked out of his arms and dogged right for another squirrel. Joshua attempted yet another chase. Within a matter of seconds they were out of the woods & ended up in a child’s playground. Joshua tripped at a sudden disruption from the ground, a tree root that was hidden under the mulch made Joshua surprisingly hit the ground, face first.
A young beautiful girl his age giggled, she was sitting on a bench hands & legs folded, her hair was a dark brown and it moved as graceful as the evening wind as it went by, her face looked soft and smoother than his, and her eyes were dark green as lush. Her face had light freckles but she looked divine yet there was something about her that scared him a bit. Her eyes were very drawn to him and she stared intently at his, her malicious presence was one he could feel yet he couldn’t tell unless this was his instincts or his subconscious. Feeling foolish just gazing at her from were he was unintentionally he got up embarrassed and picked up his dog.
“Hi, my name is Melina…” she said, “Mine is Joshua…” he hesitated, the dog barked with enthusiasm. “You have a nice dog, what’s his name?” “Oh! I didn’t give him one yet…” he said. She paused for a brief moment “I noticed he doesn’t have a collar around his neck…?” she remarked “…why is that?” “He was a stray when I found him…”. “You can come over to my house to pick one up, I live just around the corner, over there…” she pointed out. “Ugh, that’s nice…?” “But I must really go, I’ll come by tomorrow…” I hadn’t eaten even from yesterday and my mouth is way too dry he told himself. “Well, come by soon, ok?” she asked. And with that, off they went on the same path toward the food shelter caring his dog, so that he wouldn’t run off again.
After a long tiring walk they cut a corner that led them to the back of the food shelter. They went around the side so they could get some food. He set his dog on the ground assuming he wouldn’t want to miss the food there. There was enough food to fill up a whole houseful but of course there was still way more than that. Since the people already knew who he was because of the frequent arrivals every mourning and night he would come.
A black man came out front and greeted him,
“How you doing man, you didn’t come over yesterday, what happened?”
“Awe, nothing much…”. “So, same thing as usual?” “Nope, I have something I want to show you, he picked the little dog up and placed him on the platform. “Wow, cool man…” he nudged Joshua and chuckled. “But I’m afraid we don’t give out dog food but I do have something he can have, wait here…”, when he got back he assured Joshua there was nothing left except “A bone, here…” he tossed it too Joshua, “That’s all I could fine but don’t worry I’ll make sure we’ll get some by tomorrow, I’ll get some later, ok?”
Joshua got up on the platform to get scraps of food that were still there in some of the boxes. The dog waited laying across the floor chewing and gnawing the left over meat that was hanging from the bone. Joshua packed some junk and stuffed that into his backpack and signaled the dog to come.
“Bye Joe!” Joshua waved back.
“Tell your dog to let him come with you. I don’t want to pick up his mess….” he chuckled. Joshua grabbed the dog by his arms and headed off into the night.
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Hostage
As night was getting nearer, Joshua hurried to find some shelter this time he would try the woods, he never went to sleep in the woods before. He remembered ever since he was little and ever since his parents died he always had the knack of surviving but in most places he had the fear of being kidnapped or even killed in the dark. He thought he got over that but the woods made him think otherwise. “Well, since were already here lets begin building a shelter.”, his dog could get the notion of what Joshua was up to, so it scurried around for some twigs to bring back with him.
They brought the twigs and branches to a tree that was crooked and held on a side of a tree. The crooked tree was obviously dead because the roots were shown and there were no leaves on that tree alone surprisingly it looked like it could hold. Joshua carefully placed each of his sticks onto the dead branches and took the rest of the twigs the dog found against the trunk and roots. After they finished it looked like a big tent on it’s side. There were gaps between the sticks that didn’t look right, if it was going to be cold or windy while he was resting, he wouldn’t get any sleep.
Joshua got up the tree that was supporting the dead one and plucked each of the leaves onto the ground. The dog was barking and running side to side as they fell on him and the ground. Joshua was planning to place the leaves between each stick so that way the cold and rain wouldn’t get in. He continued to pluck the branches and leaves off the tree, he continued doing this for several hours till night fell. As Joshua was placing each leaf inside the tent-like structure, he heard a noise inside the woods. He jerked his body around, his dog heard it too and growled.
“Sh! Shut up…” he whispered.
The dog went back into the tent and whimpered. Joshua leaned forward with a stick in his hand ready to jab anything in his path.
“Augh!” he fell backward when he saw what had jumped on top of him. The dog jumped right on top of Joshua’s chest to chaise the creature that had attacked him. Joshua got up but fell back down laughing in disbelief that it was a squirrel that had frightened him.
“Oh sh*t…!”
Something grabbed him in the shadows and then covered his mouth and dragged him along. He tried to kick and punch his way out but the man was holding his mouth and body so firm and tight he couldn’t get free. He even tried to bite the man’s hand off but it was no use. The man was wearing black leather gloves that made him loosen his teeth and tongue give up. It was no use but he had to try - he thought to himself. Then came a simple thought. The man made a muffled sound behind his teeth - the sounds of anguish feeling a twinge between his balls.
This was his chance. He loosened the mans grip and kicked out. However, the man was quick himself and suddenly jumped him. The man was still trying to regain his strength after the incident. The man - still on top of Joshua - leaned over and sucker punched him right across his face. Joshua’s head laid there unconscious on the grass. The man got up with a sigh of relief and dragged him along to his van.
The van door opened easily with a familiar faint sound that all car doors give off. The dog, hearing the sound, turned it’s head to find that there was a flash of white light coming not that far from where he was. The man started the van and was off - out of the woods. The dog quickly scampered as fast as his little paws could take him out of the woods. The chase was on and the dog could still see the van, it had stopped at a red light. The dog still managing to catch up dashed the last few feet.
Without realizing it, the light had turned green and so the van sped off. The dog panted and slowed down to a stop. The dog laid his head down on top of his paws exhausted and worn out. It made a slow whimper to itself that everything was going to be alright. It gazed at the van who was at a very far distance than the dog could ever make.
The van went over a speed-bump rocking Joshua back and forth. Joshua was still unconscious, he was still unaware of the events that were about to be sent forth to him. He was in a deep sleep. A very deep one…
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Escaping the Nightmare
Visions of past images of his mom and dad soared throughout his condensed thoughts. Suddenly a train of thought exploited a memory of light into his blind eyes of his. Joshua found himself on a warm summer’s day laying on the grass on a beach. The grass seemed to be softer than he remembered on his legs. A few whiffs of freedom from reality was sure pleasant.
He could hear something familiar in the distance. He opened his eyes and leaned upward and got up. He noticed he was wearing his summer shirt and shorts, instead of his dirty old clothing he was wearing not too long ago. He was also wearing his favorite sandals that had a somewhat Hawaiian feeling to it. Maybe it was because of the furry straps that was around his toes and the fine thick rugged weaving that held his foot. The one thing he most liked about shoes and sandals was that he always checked the bottom of them to feel the texture. It always occurred to him that he wore thick rugged shoes - same with the sandals. Just thinking about this made him feel uncomfortably hungry. He had to think of other things besides food.
He could still hear voices not too far from where he was. In fact, to him it only seemed like they were right in front of him the whole time he was resting in the sun. He got up and rest assured they were his parents. They were dancing in a circle hugging each other as they leapt off the sand. This wasn’t like them at all. They used to fight and made selfish rude conversations with each other; that’s all he ever remembered about them. Yet, part of him knew that this would have had to happen, if he had ever loved them so much as he did right now. He went over to hug them but suddenly he fell onto a heap of sand.
He leaned back on his elbows and stared back in interest. He watched them run around, past him. Now something else caught his attention, in the corner of his right eye he saw what appeared to be his childhood self. Joshua stared in awe at himself. He suddenly got frustrated with it all. He knelt down toward his former self.
“Why aren’t you look at them? Don’t you see what fun they’re having? Just look you freaking dumb a**! Look! Look…”, Joshua grabbed hold of the child and cried. Then he looked at himself. He suddenly saw, before his eyes, it turned into sand. He looked around the beach turned to sand. The seagulls dropped and turned into sand. Everyone else around him turned into sand. All that was left was the miraculous sun.
Joshua got up off the sand and looked around. All he saw were heaps of sand. He looked down and kicked at the sand. A wisp of sand was caught by a sudden soft wind that blew the opposite direction, behind Joshua. Joshua knelt back down holding his knees in front of him, rocking back and forth.
“This could have been prevented…”
“What?” Joshua turned his head slowly around. It was all silent again.
“It was all your fault, your dad wouldn’t have died if you hadn’t done that stupid careless thing, your mom wouldn’t have died if you hadn’t left…” constant negative thoughts echoed the winds and soon the sand picked up. It whirled around him. Joshua’s tears began to form. The voices pushed harder, all around him. Joshua screamed.
“Just stop it! Stop it, leave me alone…”, he fell to the ground crying. His mind cleared up and the sand was gone.
“I wish somebody was here”, he sniffled. He thought of Melina he met at the park and wondered if she could comfort him. His thoughts raced and formed into his mind. He fantasized that he and she were hugging in a beautiful place of their own. Somewhere where they wouldn’t even have to care about life. He wanted to be away from it all.
Pink blossoms fell from the sky as he imagined in some anime video’s he had watched. His clothes were as fine as any prince or rich boy would have in the world. He wore a fine black tuxedo and she wore a stunning white dress. There they entered the palace. He could see the sparkly ball gown she wore made the whole palace fill with light and made the rest of the room shut down by night.
There they danced elegantly for a few minutes around a circle under a spotlight. Both had closed their eyes just for a brief moment to kiss. Joshua squinted with disgust. He was astonished that she had the slimiest lips he had ever touched. He suddenly felt uncomfortable knowing that his mind was playing tricks on him again.
He opened his right eye to find that a snake-like parasite was swerving around his body. Its head only consisted of a drooling mouth with jagged small teeth and a body full of slime and splintered hair lines between each segment. Joshua felt its enormous unpleasant stench that made him choke and cough. The very air itself was heavy and gloomy. The foul creature roused around him tightly and suddenly lunged toward Joshua. Everything shattered into bright light glass. Joshua fell abruptly on a pile of garbage.
Joshua groaned as he lifted his body into a slouch then everything seemed fixated on him alone. Junkyard dogs surrounded him. They growled ferociously even the air was filled with a sneer. The hounds stared at him continued to growl and circled around him. Joshua stood up feeling petrified only looking around dazzled at the sight of it all.
Something caught their attention a few of the hounds chased what seemed to be his dog. It didn’t seemed alarmed, scared, or worried. The hounds stopped once it entered the mountainous pile of waste. It wasn’t long before it had reached Joshua through the top piles of cans, happy to seem him. But something suddenly startled Joshua that made him slip off a bit.
It started to morph and grew bigger and uglier. His dog had turned into one of them and sprang out at his face. Joshua quickly shielded himself from the dog and was hurled downward into the air along with the dog. Joshua realized that the pile seemed to be taller than he thought it was. Both dog and boy smashed right on top of a junkyard car’s windshield. Joshua remained still because of pain gnawing at his backside.
The dog appeared to be shaky but then returned into its unaltered state of anger and slowly edged itself toward him. Joshua realized what was happening. The hounds howled and death lurking near by. Joshua leaned unsteadily away from the dog. He couldn’t help but look down at the hounds which were ready to rip the living day lights out of him. The car screeched and hissed from the rubble holding it. A wire snapped!
Suddenly, a whole pile on top of the car was forced downward on top of him and the dog. The car was taken with them along with the landslide coming and crashing down on everything bellow it. It finally landed to a halt as pieces of metal and waste fell or rolled off the heap. Joshua head popped up with a dirty trench coat on his head. He immediately threw the disgusting junk off if him. Seeing the dog emerge from under the pile he noticed the other blood-thirsty hounds ready to rip him apart piece by piece.
He quickly regained his cowardice grabbed the pile of junk around him and jumped right in to conceal himself. The pack of evil dogs rushed along with their noisy barking. Joshua knowing hiding wasn’t any good so jumped right back out and struggled to get back on the mountain of rubbish. Before he could even manage to hightail it, the dog managed to cut deep into his leg. Joshua screamed for a moment and fell flat on his face, being dragged out on the bare ground.
Joshua’s eyes were closed and filled with soggy tears. He noticed that the terrifying beasts weren’t feasting on him. He turned his frail body around and saw a shack full of light. The main door burst out. Death had taken a new form in his eyes. It was a man dressed in all black, leaving a trail of foggy smoke from his trailer...
...sorry thats the furthest i have gone so far...
I will finnish this later in a different thread...
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - The Lost Global Mod - 07-20-2009
oh noes.. i am sorry but the contest is already over.. now we are already in the voting phase..
hm how about posting your story in the stories section? the next contest will come for sure..
just make sure you are in time at the next contest
.gif ";)")
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - LutiChris - 07-20-2009
(07-20-2009, 04:37 PM)just_a_phil Wrote: oh noes.. i am sorry but the contest is already over.. now we are already in the voting phase..
hm how about posting your story in the stories section? the next contest will come for sure..
just make sure you are in time at the next contest
I am always too late...
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - Magnamancy - 07-22-2009
Done, I've made my vote
I voted for Zabobula's,
and at the time of this post all the entries have 2 votes, 'cept
just_a_phil's, who has 5
Ah well, a day of voting so far, I wonder what will happen in the next six?
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - snorsorbet - 07-22-2009
I vote for Magnamancy...
It's just so good :P
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - The Lost Global Mod - 07-22-2009
ah finally some activity
i voted for
reaper, magnamancy and zab btw
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - Reaper - 07-22-2009
voted for phil. Seeems to get interesting. Well, I guess phil will win, but who is going to be second and third?
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - The Lost Global Mod - 07-22-2009
3: 2: 4: 2: 6
wow.. that seems quite interesting
Reaper Wrote:Well, I guess phil will win, but who is going to be second and third?don't say that.. if i win.. i will be surprised.. personally i think my story is the worst of all the entries..
so... 17 members have voted up to now.. come on guys vote !
RE: Contest #5: Writing Challenge (voting) - Lord Anu - 07-22-2009
I voted for Phil's and Reaper's stories...
Even if I don't like Phil very much, but I like his story