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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:41 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:24 pm
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An utterly insufferable noise had been going on for at least an hour. Things could be crashing, or falling, or breaking, one could really not know without seeing it. But few things could be deciphered through the shadowy veil of sleep. Shattering glass, people running and screaming. Lots of screaming. And that was precisely what woke him up.
The sun was bleeding down the horizon of a strange new land. Not altogether new, no, but more of a hybrid of worlds that had once been apart. This was the world that Chris was now being rudely jerked back into as he woke up from his pleasant sleep. He yawned and stretched. He opened his eyes and was immediately forced to shade them with his hand against the harsh sun. What the heck? He wondered. Why are my curtains open so wide? He opened his eyes wider to see that the sun was above him.
What on Earth?!? He thought. No, not Earth. Something more. Suddenly he heard a crash and he sat up abruptly, totally awake and alert. Around him was a world he had never seen before and yet, in some ways, it was oddly familiar. The world around him was foreign and messed up. He now found that he was lying in a grassy field, dusted slightly with a pale white sand. In front of him, there was nothing but rolling hills, an ocean of sandy field as far as the eye can see. But behind him, there were fireworks going on.
Chris now whipped around to see what looked like a large lizard, no... A dragon fighting with some other kind of beast. Around them, there was a mess of debris and creatures of all shapes and sizes scattering in all directions. Chris couldn't believe his eyes. He stared, not knowing how to respond. It was as if he was watching the Sci-Fi channel on the biggest television known to man. He was terrified while at the same time he was in complete and total awe. Thankfully, he was at a safe enough distance that he wouldn't be spotted by them.
His first thought was that it had to be a dream. He was sick with very high fever, maybe, and this was a side effect. Or, maybe he had eaten something bad. A hallucination, right? That is what all of those boring health teachers had called those drugs that made people see things right? Well, that is what he was experiencing now, for sure.
Now, he noticed that there was something beside him there in the field. To his surprise, it was his backpack. He had packed it the previous night in preparation for the vacation that his parents had planned. It was filled with everything that he usually used, a notebook, his iPod and his cell phone, which was now probably completely useless, among other things. None of his clothes, however, those were in a suitcase which he had left somewhere else in his house which was now... Not around. And with it, his family seemed to have disappeared as well. He was confused and his head hurt now.
Suddenly, he saw something glittering beside him. He turned to his left and saw it. It was a sword. He'd never actually seen one before. He lifted it into his lap and moved the strap aside. He slid it out of his sheath and looked at it. Its shiny metal blade glinted in the sun. He hugged it to his chest without a second thought. This would soon be immensely helpful to him very soon. He didn't know why, but he knew that it was the truth. Something just told him.
Now, the stood up. He slid the long sword back into its sheath and put the strap across him and stood there for a minute with it across its back. He then put his backpack on over it. He now wanted to go somewhere, to meet someone who could tell him what was going on. But really, there was no one to go. The only place he could go was the town in front of him. But he couldn't go there. He'd be murdered if he went down there, sword or not. He didn't know what to do. Or where to go. He was stuck. Stuck there in the middle of that odd little sandy field in a world that he had never seen before. What could he do?
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Chris recalled the events of that morning with little comfort. He had hoped that this strange world he had woken up to was nothing but a mirage and that it would slowly fade back into the normal and simple world that he had fallen asleep in last night. A world where animals were animals, people were people and everything made some kind of sense. He had held on to that hope for about an hour until he finally came to terms. He wasn't dreaming and he wasn't going to wake up. This odd dreamy realm that he had woken up to was where he was going to remain for as long as it wanted to hold him there.
He found himself to be rather sullen and almost annoyed by his present situation. He didn't know where he was, he didn't know anyone and everything confused him. It was rather trying to become utterly baffled by everything he encountered. He found himself actually wishing, praying that he could be back in school where at least he knew the people around him and he knew enough of the surrounding geography to get him from his house to the video store and back.
He now began to remember how helpless he had felt earlier that morning when he had seen some odd beasts fighting with one another. How he had been afraid to come into town in the first place and how he had waited for them to leave before he had proceeded to do so. Now, glancing out the window of the restaurant, he saw that yet again, there were storybook beasts duking it out in the square. People, or creatures around him seemed to be utterly terrified and on the inside, he was too. It wasn't that he was afraid that they would kill him, no. He was afraid that they might kill him before he even found out what the hell they were.
But, at least, he had found someone that seemed to have a rough idea of what the hell was going on. He turned to his compatriots, the two women... women - things that he had just met. He hadn't really confessed his absolute misunderstanding of the situation yet, but he sort of had the feeling that no one really had all the pieces of the puzzle just yet. They had woken up, just as he had, to the same bizarre, upside down world.
Now he stared at the bowl on the table in front of him. The kitchenware was the same, a spoon of some kind and a bowl. But what it was filled with was as unknown to him as anything. He picked up the spoon and mixed it absentmindedly as he stared out the window at the chaos.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:50 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:03 pm
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Suddenly, the vehicle that Far'eh had acquired screeched to an ungraceful halt. "What's the big idea, brainless?!" she shrieked, thoroughly disoriented, from the floor. She hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. Of course, she certainly had no idea what a seatbelt was used for. She straightened herself up, brushing back a few strands of hair and looked through the window at the scene going on around them. "Why'd we stop here?" she asked. "There is a fight here. I can't get through." The young sea demon blinked at him, disbelievingly. "This is a flying car!" The man stoically stared forward, not answering her statement. Far'eh groaned to herself. She didn't feel like explaining the third dimension of travel to someone who had minimal control over their brain.
Far'eh pressed a few of the buttons on the door, figuring that one of them would open the window. It slid down after a few tries, and she stuck her head out, looking around. It seemed fairly hectic here, but there wasn't quite enough confusion for her tastes. "I changed my mind," she said, breezily, to her driver. "I think I'll hang around here for a bit. Seems fun. Now, one last thing before I send you on your merry little way." This time, the Orchem native turned his head to look at her, which pleased the demon to no end. Unfortunately, that didn't help him at all. "Give me all of your money and valuables~!"
Without the slightest bit of hesitation, the man dug through his wallet and his pockets to pull together a fair amount of money and handed it to her. Then, he took off his watch and a ring, giving those to her as well. "Ooh... A wedding ring!" she squealed, cheerfully. "How's the wife?" "Gone." "Oh, how nice!" She gave him an impish grin and a peck on the cheek, stuffing everything he had given her into a rather fancy purse she'd taken from one of her earlier mindless drones. "Okay. Take this hunk of junk down. And, when I step out, you turn right back around and fly off, and forgetting you ever met me." The man complied, landing the car in a clockwork manner. Far'eh opened the door, and took a step out. Unfortunately for her, the Orchemian took her words a little too literally, and immediately took off, leaving her in a heavily swearing heap on the ground.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:59 pm
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Kaminari leaned forward, laying her head on the bar table as she sat on the bar stool. Two empty martinis were next to her head as she listened into a conversation of two men fighting over something involving the clash. One of them talking about the prophecy, the other yelling that it wasn't true and that God was punishing them. She knew they were both drunk, and it didn't concern her really. She just had nothing better to do. She sighed and sat up and pulled out some cash, laying it on the table, thus paying her bill. She hopped off the seat and proceeded out the door.
Her green eyes glanced around the small village, and she yawned. She put her hands into her pockets and walked down the dirt road. She stopped right before leaving the edge of town. "I feel like I'm forgetting something," she shrugged and then began walking again. She could hear talking in the distance, but it wasn't clear to her on what the voices were saying. Thought roamed through her head as she walked, the demons who attacked her village had burned an image in her mind. She shuddered a bit at the thought of her friends dying. She sighed and shook her head, "Don't dwell on bad things." Kaminari could see in the distance two people fighting. She stood back and watched, what was this all about? Some argument? She shook head, Whatever it was, it didn't concern her, yet at least.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:49 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:48 pm
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