The Eclian

The eclian is a story I wrote years ago and never finished, it has a later part added in a retelling on the blog titled the fall of prosporo, but the eclian is the story that sprung after my attempt to write the story of the bible in a modern form. It bares little resemblence and is a story I write just as I stop being Pharath and trying to be jesus, where I have become Sam and talk to Mazer in my mind trying to fix issues without debate and the same kind of hypocrisy.

These characters do not look like those who are in the original version of eden, who appear as below:

Today they look very different in some respects:

It should be said here that their is something on the other end of this story, which is not done in itself, but which reveals after it a truth of my soul.

The Eclian

The end.

Wrote Sam, he sat at the edge of Aerth having written his book and it was done, the story was long and arduous but it was finally done. So he got up and walked over to the bus stop at the edge of the universe and waited for the bus home, most had already gone home , it was late and school was over.

The sun was setting on that last day, all the lessons learned all the tales written and all the adventures done, a bittersweet ending to the Aerth on the edge of time itself, where all things had been done a thousand times. The people bored would go home now, either quickly or slowly, preparing the way. Sam would go both ways.

He took the bus home, saying goodbye to his family he prepared for the way as all men were doing, selecting their root and journey to the earth. He would go both ways as he knew he would remember his way in the dreams, a final time through the whole world. So Sam was off, he took the bus with many more of his friends.

It would be a long drive…

Chapter 1

A crystal for three.

The city of Ivory and ebony stood tall around the mountain, born naturally from the fall of snow that fell from the sky and the black wood that grew from the ground, together forming the halls and rooms of Ivon. It was known as the city of Light, for the sun shined eternally.

This city dwelled in the bottom of eternity, a round circle from which all life known sprung, there was nothing but a golden fence surrounding the city, passed that waters so clear you could not see your own reflection.

The people and characters of this land dwelled happily, eating the fruits of the trees growing in their homes and drinking water that dripped from those same trees. They had always lived there and there was no evil, for they were innocent and ignorant. Following a simple faith and believing only one thing.

“One day this world would change”

Said the simple piece of paper that had fallen on the first day, on the other side it said:

“Do not mine the rock of the mountain”

That is all it said and all they followed, waiting peacefully for the change of their world, discussing their imaginings and hopes for this mysterious change. There was no known answer and the people waited.

Entertaining themselves with a simple videogames, books and knowledge.

However, this was only one side of the circle. For their was another side to any flat circle, this was another city, very different from Ivon, for this place was made of ash, that fell from the sky. That and the stone of the earth they mined. This was Stash the city in the dark, lit by screens of television.

Stash was a different world, ruled by a king who ruled with an iron fist. All did as he commanded and all did his vile bidding, but none complained, not because they had no choice, but because they liked it. This was unlike Ivon, which had no king.

The people of Stash would eat the ash that lay around them and would often take a drug that would only get worse after being better. This was life in Stash and none really complained of the suffering, for it was like that forever and they liked it that way.

So we see now, that Stash was not given a note for a reason, but for now it would be peace in the dual land of Ivon and Stash. For innocence was a beautiful thing. They had lived like this for a thousand years, and the people of Stash believed they would forever.

For in both Ivon and Stash, the people lived forever, they were immortal, living eternal lives of pleasure and simplicity, living daily lives of sweet entertainment. Even when they had so little, it was all they knew.

But one day, they would meet the other side.

Let us now look at the heroes of our story. Beginning with those living in Ivon.

Vane was chilling in his room, drinking the water of the tree. He was tall and had orange hair and eyes. He wore glasses and was rather rational, thinking of the world in a skeptical and knowledgeable way. He did however like to lift weights and would do this every couple days. When he wasn’t doing this he would be busy pondering life and the mystery of his world, trying to understand it with a fiery passion, he did not believe in God. But today he was going to see his girlfriend, Sugu.

Vanes theory of reality is that the circle was born from the center out and that it arose naturally by some means he doesn’t know, he assumes the seeds of the trees arrived at the same time and that the snow descends from the sky because there is something above them producing it, likely related to the light. Vane believes the note was written by someone and that it is simply a joke.

Sugu was a sweet girl, who had brown hair and blue eyes, she almost always wore blue as well because she thought it went well with her eyes, she also liked wearing a witch hat. Today she was waiting for her boyfriend and was eating an orange, but unlike her boyfriend, she did not like rational thought. Instead she greatly enjoyed the spiritual and would often make rituals and light candles which she got from the bees. This was because she believed in god and liked celebrating him by saying prayers of kindness. Vane thought this absurd, but she was very fond of it so he let her do it.

Sugu believes that God made the world because he loves his creations and that in time things will change because they will go on an adventure into the great sea, that one day they’ll visit another land. She also believes that god holds up the world with his hands, stopping it from sinking in the waters and that by lighting candles, she can give thanks to him every day for his creation and blessings. Vane and his logic says there is nothing past the sea, but Sugu chooses to believe.

Hilisa was sugu’s friend, she was also on her way to hang out with Sugu and Vane. Hilisa has black eyes and hair, which is poufy and curly in an afro. She tends to wear pants and pink tank tops and has a tendency not to wear shoes because she feels like it. Hilisa is rather promiscuous and enjoys large amounts of sex. She is often not interested in long term relationships and would rather just be friends. She also is easily scared of certain things, such as spiders or bees and will run screaming from them at the mere sight of one. However, at other times she is quite brave, enjoying climbing trees and even buildings. She does not care much for knowledge or faith, actually finding it quite boring.

Finally we have Pharath, who is rather crazy and sporadic. He’ll say something completely insane just for fun and enjoys coming up with jokes that are strange and often crude, he is however never mean or rude. Preferring to be nice and respectful. He has purple eyes and blond hair with streaks of black. His favorite color is purple and so he often wears that color. When it comes to his thoughts on reality, he thinks that God might exist, and that knowledge is important but that it’s fun to make things up. However, he is not a studious as vane, to vanes annoyance. However they get along swell because of their similarities, as they both enjoy video games, reading and knowledge.

Now there was Sam, Who was at the top of the mountain, living alone in a temple. He had written the note long ago, and knew the plan of what would happen. He spent his time playing videogames and reading, while he waited for the events below to transpire. He knew what he had to do and he knew it was almost time for he was getting bored and he knew so were the people below.

He was placed there so as to not spoil the show, for he would be important only later on.

Now we move on to Stash, the city on the other side of the circle.

Trixie was a tricky and lanky girl, who was rather kind and nice. Sweet as a button. She often wears yellow shirts and blue jeans. Keeps her hair in pig tales and wears bright blue lipstick. She believes in god and thought it was a god who gave her pleasure in suffering and gave her the drugs she would deal to the many people of Stash. She enjoys the many pleasures of her drug and is secretly very masochistic. She is a very kind girl, who makes jokes and keep the people happy or insulted. She does not even like eating the ash but she eats it anyways for “fun”. She also likes slapping people in the face, suddenly with no warning or reason, as a joke.

Lucius is short, but he makes up for it with his strength. He is often very serious and humourless, not taking lightly to insults at his height and attacking anyone who dares to insult it. Other than that he is quite good at taking control of a group and leading them in fights. He’s power hungry and so desires ever to rule, but he is only friends with the king. He is second in command, but really he is an equal since Mazer lets him do whatever he wants. He is a stern atheist and finds the thought absurd and useless. Often making fun of people that do believe for being dumb. However, he doesn’t do this to Trixie, since she would slap him and is way taller than him. He tried once, and fell flat on the ground. Embarrassing.

Scarlet is a very attractive women, who prefers the color of her name, but has black hair which complements the scarlet dress she wears. She’s seductive but not very promiscuous preferring to simply be a tease. She only really sleeps with mazer, who is not her boyfriend per say, since there is not much romance in the relationship, preferring to keep it at that. Her job in Stash, is to sneak up on people and whip them with her whip. Scarlet loves cats and has three, a white one, a black one and a tabby who she cares lovingly for, even though she’s a snob to other people. Her perfume also attracts butterflies to her demise. She just doesn’t believe in God or care.

Mazer is the King, he rules his city well, offering suffering to all people as he sits in his castle and watches the whole thing, sometimes coming down to take part in the fun. He always has a crude and prideful smile on his face and loves inflicting suffering on the people. He enjoys the colors black and brown and so wears that. His hair is black with red streaks and he is bond by no one, he won’t do a thing you tell him, preferring to act on his own. Although he knows no emotion but pleasure, he does have a soft spot for Scarlet. He would like some form of romance, but to his dismay she is not interested. He spends his day’s high and eating people up as custom in his city. His left eye twitches when he’s angry and he enjoys popcorn with an absurd amount of interest, but doesn’t know it yet. Mazer does believe in God, and God is precisely like him.

Obviously, there are other people living in both Ivon and Stash, but these are our characters. In both cities, people also spend great time building houses and architecture.

Sam, who sits in his temple. Knows the time is approaching so he takes the last of his special pills which got him high without withdrawals, to ensure that he had a good time while he waited for the coming turmoil, which he knows is coming. He would be quitting after that.

He knows this and set this up, for he said to one not to touch the mountain while the other is mining into the earth and will one day reach the other side. Looking on his screen, he sees it is almost time for the two sides to meet

So he looks on the second screen at what the city of Stash is up to today.

Lucius was beating up a random man for calling him short, he’d punched him in the balls and when he’d fallen over he kicked him a few times before jumping on him and punching him in the face rapidly. The man didn’t mind, he just wanted to get beaten.

Another man approached them and said:

“uhm, Lucius, we’ve found something strange while mining.”

Lucius got up, walked over to the man and punched him in the jaw, then said:

“What do you want, can’t you see I’m busy?”

The man rubbed his jaw and said:

“There’s just this weird thing going on in the hole we mined this tonight, the one Mazer told us to dig for his castle.”

They knew what time it was by the television sets littering the city, not that it mattered, there was no rest, except for Mazer because that was funny.

So Lucius went to see Mazer in his castle, to which he told there was a mystery in the city now. Mazer was excited, that had never happened before. So they went to the mined hole and discovered it was infact very strange. Because the people mining were standing sideways, as if the gravity was bent in the deeper part of the mine.

Mazer thought this fascinating, since not only was that strange, but they had never been able to mine that deep before, the rock too hard. Mazer demanded they keep mining, since he wanted to know what lay passed the rock. So Lucius and Mazer watched the men and women mine the still decently hard rock.

Mazer felt a sharp pain on his back, he’d been whipped. He turned around to find Scarlet laughing, he smiled devilishly and said:

“Look what we fucking found!”

Meanwhile, Trixie was busy helping out her customers with their addictions.

“Here you go, another fix!” she said.

The drug they used was a mix of ash and the wings of the brown butterflies that fluttered about the city. Trixie was the only person who knew how to make it, and the only one to give it out. She would do so periodically to ensure proper suffering and withdrawal.

She was getting bored however, so she took a bit of her drug, ate some ash and wandered out of her shop.

“Closed for the day.” she said to the line of people waiting outside. They shouted in anger and so as she passed by them, she slapped each one silly until they ran off.

She would go see what Mazer, Lucius and Scarlet were doing in the mines, but before that she turned to a random man and kicked him.

Sam turned to the other camera screen and saw:

Three of the heroes, who were hanging out and chilling at sugu’s, a place where there were candles littered about, some were pretty much done others were just lit. Sugu and Vane sat on the couch, Vane with his arm around Sugu. Hilisa was the third wheel at this point because Pharath was late, as per usual.

Pharath had taken the long way through the city, he wanted to see the trees and new buildings being built from snow and trees. It was a warm day and the snow doesn’t melt, because it is actually ivory. He was almost at Sugu’s however and so he was excited.

Pharath was in a good mood today, because he had finished reading another book, but now he didn’t know what book to read and would ask Vane for suggestions. The book he’d finished reading was about a hero facing a dragon.

He knocked on the door, which could lock and so he wasn’t going to bother trying to open it. Hilisa answered the door and said:

“Hey Pharath, come on in.”

Both smiling, they walked back to the living room. The couches were made of water and ivory, wich turned squishy when wet. Pharath said:

“Hey Vane, I finished that book, got another one to suggest”

“ Uhm , no. I haven’t found a new one in a while.” Said Vane.

“Let’s watch TV !” said Sugu excitedly!

So they turned on the television and flipped through the channels, however they found nothing to watch, everyone had seen the shows before. Tv was a natural by-product of the trees, like a fruit it grew out of a trunk of wood.

“Well this is boring!” said Hilisa.

They sat there for a couple seconds in silence. Then Sugu said:

“You know, I’ve never lit a candle by the mountain, we could do that.”

“Sure” Said the rest in their ways.

So off they went to light a candle by the mountain. She grabbed one and they went outside, heading outside they saw the snow falling down from the sky and walked through it towards the mountain, which they could not see the peak of.

Sugu lit the candle and said a prayer, Vane felt a little awkward.

“What are we going to do now” He said.

“We could draw!” said Pharath

This is when there was a crack in the rock of the mountain then another and another. They looked at it in confusion and wondered what it was, was the change happening now?

Out of the hole that was made, four people arrived covered in blood and ash. Both groups were shocked by their discovery. Those of Stash were amazed by the white and black city and its hundreds of denizens. They had also never seen that much light but it did not blind them. Those native to Ivon were shocked simply for seeing people come out from the mountain. They looked at each other confused and then Pharath spoke, but Mazer did too. Mazer was about to hit him, but he noted that no one was getting beaten here. So he did not. Mazer spoke again:

“Where is your king?”

The four of Ivon had no idea what a king was. They said:

“What’s that?”

Mazer was surprised, he spoke and said:

“I’m a king, its sweet. Anyways, if you don’t have a king, what on earth do you people do?”

“We live.” Said Pharath, he continued “We could give you a tour!”

Mazer and pals said sure, and the 8 of them went off to look at Ivon. They showed them the bees, houses and mountains, as well as TV. Mazer was interested in television, it was different from where he was from. They tried the fruit and water and found it delicious, but Lucius found it boring, preferring the spicy ash.

After this Mazer invited them to visit Stash, so they went into the caves and around the bend. People did not attack the 8 of them because they would do only what Mazer commands.

Sugu and Hilisa were immediately shocked by the amount violence and labour the people of Stash went through, they wondered why it was like that, they didn’t want to offend the people of Stash, but they didn’t want to stay. This annoyed Mazer, but he kind of understood their fear of the alien, it made him snicker and Scarlet followed suite.

With Sugu and Hilisa gone back to Ivon, accompanied by Trixie, who had been bored and wanted to make new friends. The four boys and Scarlet explored Stash, Vane and Pharath were offered drugs, with Mazer saying:

“This will make you feel great, but it gets worse!”

Vane tried it, but he did not like the come down as much. Wouldn’t do it again. Pharath wasn’t as fond of that idea so did not try, Mazer politely respected it to his disappointment. Then he asked:

“Do you guys fight in Ivon at all?” pointing to a group in the distance.

“Nope, we read books about it though, but never done it.” Said Vane.

“You should try, it’s fun. Why don’t you try on each other, just for the sake of it?”

They had a fight, Vane tried to punch Pharath and Pharath Dodged. Mazer tried not to laugh, he was way better at it. After a while of this, he said:

“Alright, alright, I gotta go back to my castle, we’ll chill later or something.” He was bored.

Pharath and Vane returned to Ivon, with some bruises. They’d gone easy on each other. Sugu was unimpressed but Hilisa didn’t really care, thinking it was kinda funny.

For a time, the two worlds were at peace with each other, they even moved from one place to the other. Some went to live in Stash and others left Stash for Ivon. Mostly however it was from Ivon that the people left, because apparently they had always liked that kind of thing.

Mazer and friends asked Pharath and friends if they would help mine, but they responded they weren’t allowed because of a note. Trixie had bursted out laughing at this, thinking it incredibly absurd. Hilisa joined in and a friendship was made between the two.

They hung out and got along swell, Hilisa found her jokes funny, but Trixie had to restrain from slapping her. Because they were still different

One day however things changed, as Mazer had been getting his people to mine the mountain, ensuring it didn’t collapse, when his people found something strange yet again.

Mazer, Pharath and Vane had been hanging out in Ivon when it happened, Lucius came over to them and said:

“We found something in the mines again.”

So they went over and saw two crystals sticking out of the ground. Immediately, Pharath and Mazer wanted one. Pharath took the white one and Mazer the black one.

Sam went and took his crystal, wich sat at the top of the mountain in his temple.

Then what happened is rather simple, Pharath grew fearful of Mazer and said:

“Wait a minute, you’re going to kill me!”

Mazers face wich was happy, grew dim. He said:

“ No. “

Pharath felt awkward as shit, Mazer turned to leave, walked a few feet and turned again and said:

“I’m not going to kill you, I just want to chop you into small pieces.

The crystal had gotten to both of them, they had seen something in each other they did not like, and so the two went separate ways and the war began that day.

Sam up on the mountain, knew things were going to change fast after that, he would wait till the right time to come out of hiding, this was going to be good he thought, but also knew it would be violent as shit.

As the two groups parted ways and walked back to their city to start the war, Mazer had not killed him on the spot because it was fun to scare his prey, his eye twitched on the way back. Word spread quickly through the city. They didn’t know when the great battle would take place, but they had to prepare.

Those who didn’t want to fight in Ivon would lock themselves indoors.

In the cave, where no one was, a small drop of red liquid dripped from the ceiling, it had begun.

On that same day, the snow of ivory and ash ceased and the sky grew darker and brighter, the first night for Ivon and the first day for Stash.

Hilisa had heard of the battle and so had Trixie, she had said:

“Sorry darling, killing you sounds more fun, see you tomorrow at dawn.”

Hilisa was shocked and betrayed, she went back to Sugu’s rather sad and even scared, the four met up there. Sugu spoke and said:

“ What are we going to do, they want to kill us and we have no means of defending ourselves.”

“Perhaps their’s a way to get that” said Pharath, who was angry, he’d wanted to be friends with Mazer.

“How?” said the rest.

“We could summon something like in the books, maybe a more powerful being could protect us.”

Vane, who theorised that there were greater beings of natural origin ran to get his book on the subject. Inside he found a recipe for summoning a being, by taking the things that it most symbolised and mixing them together by candle light, before performing a prayer to the said being.

So the four prepared the ritual, they took the honey and ivory and mixed it together in a bowl. Placed it by the fire light of the candle and spoke a prayer:

“Patypa, the great and good, come to us in our time of need and aid us with our turmoil, let your soft light illuminate the night and give us hope once again.”

First there was nothing, then a ray of moonlight shined down from the window and a women dressed as a nurse, with a bee abdomen faded into existence. She spoke and said:

“I shall help you with the war, for you are good and innocent. You will all be given a weapon.”

A sword, a bow, a wand and a spear appeared before them, they glowed with soft white light and each contained a symbol of a bee. Its then that sugu said:

“Couldn’t we just make peace with them?”

But pharath said:

“No, it’s like in the story books Sugu, they won’t stop, their evil.”

“We could try to get them to change!” said Hilisa

But the queen bee Patypa said:

“They are evil, the darkness can only be defeated with light!”

Before she vanished the same way she appeared.

Meanwhile, in Stash, the people were preparing for war by making swords out of the stone they had, the same way they made pickaxes, and they thought the battle would be easy with Ivon not having any weapons. They would be in for a surprise the next day.

As dawn broke in Ivon, the people, who all had a weapon either hid or awaited for the coming of Stash.

In Stash, Mazer had an idea for a good show, so he told Lucius to go get him a civilian from Ivon, one that had moved to Stash. He did so and that person was brought forth, before king Mazer.

So then the army departed for Ivon, the whole city of Stash moved out to kill their enemy, the good people of Ivon.

Out of the cave they came, into the dawning city of Ivon. It was quiet that morning, the people of Ivon hiding in the city awaiting their arrival. Mazer was disappointed with the lack of an audience, so he killed the prisoner they had on the spot. He heard a whimper coming from behind a building. Someone had seen what he’d done. He sent out people to go and kill them, he waited and watched with a crude smile.

This is when hundreds of arrows came flying from various directions, they had weapons!? The men reacted and ran back into the caves. Some of the men died, but most did not. Mazer would have to rethink his attack.

So he sent out small groups, hoping to dwindle the arrows. This plan worked after a while. Which made Mazer very annoyed. How they had gotten better weapons then he was beyond him, he wondered this as he prepared to send out the next rank of soldiers.

This time he would kill them for sure and so the real battle began.

Pharath and his crew, were in mid battle, he had used his bow and was now using a sword against an opponent, while this happened, Vane stabbed his opponents with his spear. Sugu blasted away with her ice magic, that she got from her wand and Hilisa too slashed at soldiers with her sword.

The other four too were in battle and in search of the four heroes, they cut their way through opponents like crazy, letting blood soak into their clothes. They were enjoying the slaughter with a passion. Lucius cut through his opponents with precision, Scarlet too. Trixie danced and pirouetted around the ice balls that flew in her direction and Mazer, who had two swords, was on a bloodthirsty rampage, laughing devilishly every time he killed someone.

Sam sat in his chair, at his computer watching the action. This was going so well he thought sarcastically. He felt bad for them, they were dying all over the place and it was quite the tragedy. He clutched his crystal with one hand, his was black and white. It would make him forget how to fix this problem for years to come. He did not know this anymore than the rest for the crystal had a way of effecting people.

Pharath said to vane who was fighting alongside him:

“They just keep coming! When do you think it will end?”

“I have no idea!“ said Vane

Mazer was incredibly jealous of their weapons, they were so much better than his stone ones, but he still kicked ass with them. He knew they had done something to get them, and so he would figure out what that was.

He noted that there was a bee on each one.

He still had no idea about the spirit they had summoned, but he would find out eventually.

Vane was shot in the head with an arrow, stolen by the enemy, he had gone back to protect Sugu. Sugu screamed:

“Noooo!”

He fell to the ground, dead. Still she had to fight on and defend herself from the same fate. A tear ran down her cheek. She had never felt sadness before.

In the battle the next to die was Trixie, whose dance of dodging and slicing could only go on for so long, hit clean with a ball of ice in her breast, she froze and was shattered by an attacker. The people shrieked, no more drugs.

Pharath was busy fighting and still did not know Vane was killed, Hilisa however knew because Sugu was trying to regroup with the rest of her friends. Sugu and Hilisa moved through the city, Sugu said:

“Even after summoning Patypa, we’re losing too many, I fear we won’t win this war”

She said this as she saw three more people fall.

“Don’t say that, we will win this war!” responded Hilisa.

Both sides were losing massive casualties, about an equal portion of the cities were falling to each other.

Mazer was searching for Pharath, he had to fulfill his promise after all. He could not find him, however he continued to take great pleasure at the demise of his enemies.

Lucius was in mid battle, slaying three men at once, he did this by running around them with great speed and swiping at their legs, making them fall from their cut tendons, then he would stab them in the back as they lay in pain.

As all of this happened, the cities walls were melting, forcing those in hiding to come out and fight or flee for their lives, this was due to the removal of the crystals, which kept the world in stability and once removed caused the melting of Ivon and Stash. The liquid that dropped onto people and leaked off walls was of various colors, would harm anyone who touched it and was a symbol of the degradation of the cities into violence.

Sugu and Hilisa ran into Lucius, who came charging at them. Sugu stood back and shot iceballs at him, while Hilisa ran to the left and towards him , Hilisa and Lucius were now in battle, swiping their swords in attack they met in places, changing direction, Hilisa did a back flip as she was given a small cut on her leg, then she ran back in, charging and sliced Lucius’s head clean off.

Hilisa was rather shocked at what she had done, her and sugu looked at each with a bit of sorrow and went back to the battle, as three more men came around the corner.

Pharath was nearby and had just killed another person, he heard the yell of Sugu and Hilisa as they battled and started heading in that direction.

Pharath met up with the girls and asked:

“Where’s Vane?”

“He’s dead…” said Sugu.

The anger in Pharath grew tenfold, his friend was dead, and he would not die in vain (no pun intended.)

The battle continued, with Mazer slaying but another opponent. This is when a man on his side approached and said:

“Uhm sir, I overheard something”

Mazer was annoyed, he was interrupted. He said:

“What the fuck was it then?”

“ The people of Ivon summoned something and it gave them the weapons”

Mazer smiled, then he killed the man for interrupting him. He called for Scarlet and the two set out to figure out how to do that too, if Mazer could summon a being too, he could win the battle.

He assumed it had been Pharath, so they set out to search Sugu’s home, the place they knew they hung out at. Mazer was planning something evil, if only he knew how to summon a being.

It was easy to get into their house , the door had melted away, inside they found the book. Opening it to the page that had been folded, he found the instructions and smiled. Perfect he thought, it was so easy.

So Scarlet and Mazer headed back to Stash, slaughtering people on the way, they took the bowl and emptied its contents before leaving. When they got to there they gathered shards of glass from a television, the ash and Trixies drug. Mixing them then they brought it back to Ivon.

Pharath and the girls were there, they’d fought their way near the entrance of the cave. Most of the cities people were dead at this point. They saw Mazer and Scarlet lighting the candle by the mountain and began chanting:

“ Oh Frague, come and relieve the enemy of their weapons so that we may murder them easily.”

“ No! “ said Pharath and his friends

Smoke rose from the ground and before them appeared a twisted figure whose body was covered in cracks that glowed red, the being had sharp teeth and a crooked smile. It spoke, laughing and said:

“ Or I could take everyone’s weapons away, because I don’t abide to your commands!”

And with that Frague and the weapons of every person in the city were gone. With a rage building in Mazer he tossed a rock on the ground and it hit Hilisa in the head, killing her on the spot. Sugu, who was tired of having the people she loved killed wanted revenge, but she knew she couldn’t fight Mazer, so she attacked Scarlet instead. Pouncing on her, she began to beat the living crap out of Scarlet, Mazer would have killed Sugu, if it wasn’t for Pharath who came charging at him.

Everyone else began to fight with their fists too, the war was now a battle of rocks and punches.

Scarlet, who was surprised by the sudden rage of Sugu, did not have time to react and was beaten to death. Scarlet didn’t mind the pain, actually asking for more as she passed into death. Sugu’s dress was stained with blood and she got up, partially regretting what she’d done.

She looked to her right, and saw Pharath and Mazer swinging at each other.

It was now time for Sam to act, so he flipped the lid of a button and pressed it, this is when the temple began to illuminate, and it shined a light that was both white and black. All saw it below, radiating down from the mountain peak.

For a moment the people paused and looked up, but then they returned to beating each other. War was not to be made peaceful by a light in the sky.

Mazer and Pharath were still fighting.

Sugu however, was done with the war, she was tired of the fighting and wanted it to end. She didn’t know how, but she decided that perhaps the light would help her. So off she went to climb the mountain, saying to pharath:

“ Pharath! I’m going to climb the mountain, I think God is up there and I’m going to ask him for help.”

Pharath nodded as he punched Mazer in the face. Mazer jolted back but was able to get his balance. He charged at Pharath and tackled him to the ground. Saying:

“Please, I’m God!” as he punched Pharath in the face.

Meanwhile, in the temple. Sam was laughing, he was most certainly not god, for god was not a man. He would ensure to make that clear as soon as she got here. Easy mistake.

Sugu tossed a rock at Mazer, the hit knocked Mazers balance and Pharath was able to move him.

She began to climb, hoping Pharath would be alright.

As she climbed, Pharath and Mazer rolled on the ground, trying to be on top. Throwing punches and generally trying to kill each other. Mazer said:

“You know, I wasn’t originally going to kill you, didn’t know what that even was till you gave me the idea.”

He smiled devilishly and went straight for Pharath’s throat, with his mouth. He bit down and pulled, taking a bite out, he then swallowed. Pharath tried to screamed, and with his dying breath, struck Mazer in the temple with a nearby rock, they both died, laying on the ground together.

Let us now introduce Sam officially. Sam as we know, had lived in the temple his whole life, fed by pizzas which he loved. He was a fan of video games like Pharath and Vane, but he also liked fighting like the people of Stash. Sam was a strange guy, who liked many things, but had no favorite color. He even considered black and white a color and generally loved life. He enjoyed reading but often didn’t finish a book. He wore a hoodie of a different color every day and had eyes that changed color from blue, to green and gray. His hair was a light brown and he had a ring and bullet necklace. He would usually spend his days drawing pictures.

Today however Sam was getting ready for his part of the story, he had already forgotten most of what he needed to forget. Still he felt bad for the people below, because he used to know how to fix it all. That however was not part of the plan as this was but the beginning of the battle. He looked onto the screen and saw that Sugu was making great steps towards the mountain peak. She didn’t know Pharath was dead. The rest of the people were still killing each other below. He looked at the jewel, the cause of all of it.

Sugu was half way up the mountain, she looked down and regretted it. Screaming, she clutched the edge of the rock. Now scared for her life. She could see tiny people below, beating each other.

“Stop looking down” she told herself.

She was however still scared and kind of paralysed. But she kept going after a while, because she had to get to that light. She hoped it would spare the few who were still alive and maybe even bring her boyfriend back to life.

This is when the mountain began to also melt, liquid paint of many colors began to leak down it, the whole mountain even began to sink, melting into a puddle. Sugu felt a drop, it burned her and she almost fell.

Sugu could not climb much further and liquid was beginning to leak towards her, she was terrified.

Sam got out of his home carrying a rope, whistling a soft song, he knew she needed help. He attached it to a machine in place and tossed it down to where Sugu was. Sugu saw the rope and thanked God who she believed was helping her.

She began to be pulled up.

Below the people were beginning to stop fighting, they had heard that Mazer was dead and noted that the entire freaking place was melting rapidly. The survivors were shocked and confused, how had the world come to this. They looked around, stared at each other and at the bodies littered about. Evil had only stopped because they no longer had a king or a kingdom. Both had lost the war.

Sugu arrived at the peak of the mountain and saw the glowing temple and Sam standing there. She said:

“Thank you, God.”

Sam frowned and said:

“I am most certainly not god. Don’t call me that, for I am your equal and a man.”

She looked a little disappointed, she said:

“What are you doing at the top of the mountain?”

Sam smiled and said:

“Long story, let’s go inside and I’ll explain.”

Sugu said:

“But there’s a war going on below. I need help.”

“I know, but they’ve stopped now.”

She looked over the edge and saw people standing about and avoiding the liquid.

She followed Sam inside, where she saw a computer with screens showing different parts of Ivon and Stash. Sam said:

“Sorry for the mess.”

“ I don’t understand.” Said Sugu as she looked at the computer, confused. She continued:

“Why did you live here?”

“Because I don’t belong in either city. “ said Sam

“ Did you write the note?” asked Sugu

“Well, yes, but technically your still right, since God controls everything.” Said Sam.

“ Did you know this would all happen?” asked Sugu.

“Yes.”

Sugu was shocked and said:

“Why didn’t you warn us?”

“I kinda did with the note, but I was only aloud to do that.”

“Where’s Pharath?” asked Sugu, noting she couldn’t see him among the people.

“He’s dead.“ Said Sam

Sugu began to cry, but Sam said:

“It’s okay , he’s fine. We’ll see him in a bit.”

“ Wah?” said Sugu sniffling.

Sam smiled and said:

“Trust me, you’ll see. Got another question for me?”

Sugu was in disbelief about what had happened. She wanted to know why it had to happen. So she asked why. Sam said:

“Well, it’s part of the story. I could have fixed it, but I don’t remember. Their needed to be a reason for the story. The events of today will be engrained in history for a thousand years.”

Sugu grew angry, she didn’t want war and she wanted to stop it.

She said:

“Why? I don’t want to fight people, look at what happened.”

“I know, but the lesson is simple, Man got bored and you and the survivors saw the futility of war.” Said Sam.

“Yes I agree, but I want to stop this from happening again.” Said Sugu

“Well, it is going to happen again, but we are going to stop it.” Responded Sam.

“How?” asked Sugu

“You’ll see. It’s going to be an adventure. It’ll have a good ending though, I promise.” Said Sam.

The mountain had melted away, leaving nothing but paths to the now lowered temple. The people grew curious and went inside. They were informed of their questions, similar to the questions Sugu had.

“So we’re going on an adventure?” said Sugu.

“Yes” answered Sam “and you the survivors have an advantage because you know the futility of war and murder. Just look at the melting city, made such by the mistrust of a few. “

“So where are we going?” Said Sugu

“Follow me” Said Sam.

Sam led the people to the second floor of the temple, where there were many staircases leading downstairs, even though there was one way up. In a corner were lockers with everyone’s name on them and change rooms. Sam said:

“Everyone grab your backpack, get change into your uniform and go down one of those stairs.”

They were surprised and confused, but they went with it and did what they were asked. Sugu was wearing a blue kilt and white dress shirt now. Sam was wearing dress green pants and a white dress shirt, both with a tie.

“Where on earth are we going” asked Sugu as she and Sam went down the stairs.

“To school!” said Sam.

When they reached the bottom of the stairs, Sugu got a text from Vane and said:

“Hey Sam! Vane wants to chill before class.”

Remembering nothing from before, they headed out to meet him. Another average day at Hillside High-School.

Chapter 2

Days and Nights at Hillside

Hillside High school was a school on the hills, the only building that existed. In fact if you were to walk to the edge of the hills it would simply loop back to the School.

Hillside was a rather large school, which had room and bored and a cafeteria. There were over a 2000 students attending. The school itself was blue and yellow and was made up of two campuses, both of which were rather large buildings. Both buildings third and fourth floor were dormitories where the students would sleep at night.

Years ago the students were left there by the parents, who promised they would one day come back, when it was time for them to graduate.

There were no adults at Hillside, the students dwelled their on their own but hell did not break out because most were well fed, but there were bullies, the children were still rather innocent however, uncorrupted by the outside world, they were only mean to each other.

The violence of Ivon and Stash lay dormant in them however, to surface sometimes as teenage frustration and pubescent anxiety. They had forgotten the word murder, so as to protect the children from the idea. The adults would judge them by their innocent behavior, without contamination from the truth.

In three days, there was the last test for class A, who were in their final grade at the school. They would soon be graduating the class and enter the adult world. Where they were free to live their lives as they wished, with the consequences of their actions. They would be informed through their age.

The class had been together since the beginning and so the students knew each other and had a liking for each other, they did not know of sex yet, this would be an education for the adults, the children were kept pure.

If anything would happen that was not acceptable, the students would be sent to their rooms and face discipline of a typical kind, this was done through a speaker which observed the students actions. To ensure they listened, their shoes would walk them to their room by magnets in the floor. If they didn’t wear their shoes they could not leave their room.

The 9 characters we know have known each other since they arrived 5 years ago, it had been a long time at school. They spent their days studying or skipping. The students each had their own uniform, which was similar but designed to fit them and their personality. This was to encourage them to feel alike, but also unique.

Sugu and Hilisa often hung out together, Sugu was dating Vane, kissing was aloud, the rest not even known. Boys weren’t allowed in the girl’s dorm and there was no place of complete privacy. Vane a Pharath shared a room and studied often. Mazer and Lucius had separate rooms and roommates since they got into to trouble, Trixie and scarlet were drug dealers, who discovered that the flowers got you high, this was like that to see the child’s behavior, and it was mildly addictive. But there would be consequences and they weren’t told it was there, Trixie figured it out on her own by smelling the flowers one day. Trixie got her drugs during the five minute power outage every few weeks, with competition.

Sugu and Sam were heading to the school lounge to hang out with Vane. They’d been talking about their plans for the evening on the second floor. Sam and Sugu got along well, but Sam had a tendency to travel about a lot. Talking to many people and groups at the school. Sugu had friends, but preferred to hang out with her group of friends, Vane, Hilisa and Pharath. Sam joined the group sometimes.

Vane and she had started a relationship a year ago, because they had kissed and danced one night at a school ball and loved each other ever since.

They arrived at the lounge and met with Vane, who was sitting there studying. Sugu said:

“Hey Vane, how are you?”

“I’m good, just been studying for the upcoming test in three days.”

Sam and Sugu smiled, then Sam said:

“Where’s Pharath?”

“He’s sleeping in, in our dorm.” Said Vane.

Meanwhile, Hilisa was walking around the School, talking to Scarlet and Trixie. She didn’t overly like Scarlet , who was a bit of a snob but hung out with her because she liked Trixie. Scarlet said:

“I really want a cat. Their fucking adorable and way better than people. Oh yeah, yesterday I saw a girl making out with a fat guy, that was gross.”

Hilisa said:

“ Uhm, that’s not nice, people have the right to kiss whoever they want.”

Scarlet said nothing and gave a dirty look. Trixie laughed and said:

“Like you, Hilisa? “

They all laughed because it was true. They were also on their way to the study lounge.

Mazer and Lucius were talking:

“Hey look at that girl’s ass.”

They looked and enjoyed the view, typical of them to do this. Lucius went up to her and asked for her number, smiling. She said:

“First of all, look at my face, second, your way to short.”

Lucius said:

“Just looking. “

And walked away. Mazer laughed his ass off as he leaned against the lockers. That’s when Lucius’s shoes began to move on their own and dragged him off to his room. This made Mazer laugh even more.

Pharath, finally awake went downstairs, texting his friends to see where they were and when he learned that, went to the study lounge.

Pharath, Hilisa, Trixie and Scarlet arrived in the study lounge around the same time. They went over to Sugu, Sam and Vane.

“Hey guys” said Hilisa.

The group sat around and talked, some studied, specifically Pharath, Sugu and Vane. Sam looked through his own study book for a bit before getting bored and tossing it at the wall because that was fun. This made the rest of the group laugh.

Trixie said:

“Hey, I have an idea. Let’s smell some flowers before class.”

The group agreed, except for Pharath and Sugu, who did not smell flowers. They simply weren’t interested in it and didn’t really want to do a drug. But Scarlet said:

“ Mazer isn’t here, someone go get him so we don’t piss him off.”

So Sam and Pharath went to go find Mazer. Who was a lone wolf and wandered the halls of the school causing trouble and shoving people about. Most people were only nice to him because he wasn’t nice to them and were intimidated by him.

They found Mazer staring at girls from his usual spot by some lockers. They went up to him and Sam said:

“ Yo, Mazer, were going to smell some flowers, want to join.”

Pharath said nothing, he didn’t do it, and so he didn’t want to encourage it. Mazer smiled and said:

“Hell yeah, these ones better be better than the last batch.”

So they went back and sat on the couch, Mazer tried to wrap his arm around Hilisa, but she got up and said:

“Nope.”

Scarlet gives her a dirty look, even though she did nothing. Pharath cracks a joke:

“ A flower that won’t make you bloom is like a man who tries to get a girl when he has one, useless.”

Sugu, Vane, Trixie and Hilisa laughed, but Mazer gives Pharath a dirty look too.

After this Trixie pulls out a few flowers and passes them around, they smell them and breath out happily while hiding in the bathroom of the lounge. Taking in the mild and refreshing high. Vane, Scarlet, Trixie, Sam, Mazer and Hilisa’s eyes immediately dilate. They’ll be high for about an hour or two.

“ Im hungry” says Vane, who had stopped studying now that he was high.

The rest agreed and went to the cafeteria, Trixie and Hilisa dancing excitedly on the way. Everyone could tell they were high.

At the cafeteria, they get their food each unique and customized to their tastes, some had fruit, some eggs and Sam had pizza and cereal and Mazer, popcorn.

They finished their food just in time for the school bell to ring, it was time for class. They were all in the same class and so they walked there from where they were and met up with Lucius, who was pissed he missed out on the flowers.

They spent the next hour and a half in class, either talking, studying or both. It was History class.

Mazer was literally making out with Scarlet in the back, where there was a couch. Mazer said:

“Hey babe, could you help me study later.”

“Ugh, its always like this, you don’t work in class and just get help from me later.” Said Scarlet

“But I’d rather…” cooed Mazer

“We talked about this, no love stuff.” Answered Scarlet

She got up and left, she was not interested in that because that’s how she was, she thought it icky.

Mazer sat there and was a little disappointed. But quickly he straightened his face and even smiled, he didn’t actually care. He got up and said:

“Fuck this, I’m out.” And walked out of class, he walked off down the hall and wandered. He hated school, it was sooooo boring.

Meanwhile, Pharath sat studying, he didn’t want to fail. He was a little distracted though because Vane was stoned and wanted to talk about life. He said:

“Hey Pharath, why do you think the adults care so much about kids.”

“Probably because people like Mazer exist” said Pharath

Vane bursted into laughter, Sam sitting next to them was getting fidgety, but he’d studied for a while now. So he got up and left. He didn’t realize that was just like Mazer. They didn’t hang out often, maybe he’d talk to him today.

The girls were definitely studying, since they had been so bored all of today, not enough gossip.

Lucious, was a studier but he would only do it alone, because he didn’t want to be distracted. It was necessary for him to listen to music for that very reason. So he was jamming out to tunes while writing away.

In the halls, Mazer was kicking garbage bins around. He was waiting for class to be over.

Sam walked over to him and said:

“Hey man, what’s up.”

“Kicking a garbage can, obviously.”

Sam didn’t know what to say, Mazer didn’t answer but they passed a glance at each other. Neither did Mazer, then Sam found paper in his pocket and tried tossing it into the bin as it moved.

It missed, but Mazer thought it funny. The bell rang, class was over.

They went to three more classes that day, but Mazer skipped all of it, the rest went. Last class, Sam skipped because he was ahead in art class. Sam was hanging out with Mazer, who took out his phone and was playing rock music, Mazer was angry however because of Scarlet, who earlier had once again refused to help him study later. So he wanted to go to the gym and asked Sam if he did. Sam didn’t play sports or really go to the gym, he liked drawing more so than that.

But he went anyways, because why not? Mazer could definitely lift more than Sam, to his amusement. Sam however didn’t seem to care, which surprised him. Mazer said:

“I don’t know why you came, you obviously don’t lift.”

Sam said:

“So?”

“So you should either do it or not.” Answered Mazer.

“Come on man, it doesn’t matter”

“Yes it does” said Mazer with a smirk, you won’t get any girls looking like a twig.

Sam said:

“True. If I cared.”

The bell rang, school was over. All the students left class. So mazer started to leave saying:

“I’m out, see you around.”

Later that night, Sugu, Vane and Pharath were studying some more since Vane had to catch up. However, he’d taken another whiff of a flower. Just a bit he’d said, because it distracted him but wanted more.

“You did flowers again didn’t you?” asked Sugu. Who knew it was true and was disappointed.

Vane was often distracted in this way, and even though he was good in school, his marks were going down because of his frequent use.

They were sitting in the study lounge on the first floor, when Sugu looked up from her book, she looked out the window and started screaming.

Because outside the window, was a creature with two mouths and no eyes, looking blindly in their direction as it chewed its arm and picked at its eye sockets.

The sudden scream made Vane and Pharath jump, she pointed at the window, but when they looked it was gone, having moved away from the window.

“Theirs nothing there Sugu, is that a joke?”

“No, there was a thing looking at us, it didn’t have eyes.” Screamed sugu.

“You sure you haven’t been smelling flowers?” Said Pharath?

“ NO! There really was something there “Answered sugu.

Chills ran down their spines, Sugu wouldn’t make that up. They decided to leave the study lounge and go to bed, because she was freaked out. They walked her to the girl’s dorm.

The next day, Sam, Hilisa and Pharath were walking and talking. Hilisa said:

“ I woke up this morning and saw Saliva on my pillow, I don’t drool in my sleep though. I’m kind of creeped out.”

Pharath didn’t want to mention the thing that happened to Sugu, who was still in her room. She was freaked out and had not told Hilisa for similar reasons.

“ Aaaaaaaah!” screamed Hilisa.

A spider was dangling from the ceiling in front of her. Pharath went to kill it, but Sam said:

“No! I wanna keep it.” Then he grabbed it and said:

“ Ill be back.” He walked away, going to put the spider in a jar in his room.

Hilisa said:

“Sam is such a weirdo. But he’s cool.”

Pharath agreed, that’s when they saw Mazer picking on someone with Lucius. Pharath went over and said:

“Hey Mazer, that’s not nice.”

“Leave him alone” Said Hilisa, referring to the guy cowering in the corner.

Mazer sighed and said:

“Why?”

“Because you’re being a dick.” said Pharath.

Mazer smiled, and walked away, shoving Pharath out of the way. He appreciated the irony of being called a dick. Lucius followed Mazer. Pharath didn’t get it saying:

“Why did he smile?”

“ I don’t know…” said Hilisa.

Sam came back and said:

“The spiders name is Fred.”

Hilisa couldn’t help but laugh, even though she was absolutely terrified of Fred, it was a funny name.

“ Hey Pharath, wanna chill after class.” Said Sam

“Hey what about me?” Said Hilisa.

“I wanted to watch a horror movie.” Said Sam

Vane was waiting for Sugu, texting her, trying to get her to come out of her room. She was scared.

Scarlet and Trixie were walking through the lit halls of the school, talking. Scarlet said:

“ Hey Trixie , do you think Sugu is annoying?”

“ Not really, why do you?” asked Trixie.

“Because she’s always with Vane, and she’s so lovie dovie with him.” Said Scarlet.

Then they saw the creature with two mouths limp by with its one broken leg, moaning.

They screamed and ran away.

Everyone heard the scream and they looked at each other. This made Sugu skip class and the two girls lock themselves in their rooms.

The rest went to class, having yet to see the creature. In class they noticed that some of the other students, other than our cast of characters, were missing.

Mazer sat in the corner, with his arms crossed. He looked at the whole class and thought to himself, thinking:

Why do they love school so much, I don’t care, why can’t I just do what I want?

Mazer smiled at the thought of what he wanted, a fist fight. But he couldn’t because school wouldn’t let him.

After classes the students went to do their own thing, Hilisa went to see Sugu and Lucius went to bed, but Sam, Pharath and Vane had signed in the Video room to watch a movie. They made popcorn, and guess who smelt it but Mazer. Who sniffed out the source like an animal? When he found the three starting their movie, he barged in and said:

“Where is my popcorn?!”

He came over to Pharath , grabbed some and happily started stuffing his face. Pharath said:

“Get your own damn popcorn.”

Mazer took more and said:

“What yeah watching?”

“Haunted house of cards!” said Sam. “You can have some of my popcorn by the way. I didn’t actually want any.”

Mazer smirked and walked over to get his popcorn. He sat and watched the movie, not asking if he could to Pharath’s annoyance.

The movie was about a haunted magician’s house, where a ghost was making cards move and the magician had to perform an exorcism.

Mazer really enjoyed the horror, he was looking happily at the screen.

Sugu was so disconcerted by what she saw that she and Vane were more quiet than usual. Vane said:

“I think I’m going to quit smelling flowers. I don’t wanna do it anymore.”

“ That’s good” said Sugu.

That when they heard moaning outside, looking out the window, there was that thing yet again. Sugu clutched Vane and he looked at it in shock. It chewed its arm and picked its eyes. They immediately shut the blinds. That night they slept in the lounge.

The next day, was the day of the final exam.

Everyone was so nervous, they did not notice they were alone in the school and Lucius was missing.

Sam was hanging out by the class with everyone else, it was their last day at school. Sugu said:

“I’m so nervous.”

“You’ll be fine.” Said Vane.

The bell rang and everyone took a deep breath, they went in and sat down, the papers were already on their desks. Pharath sat down and Mazer casually sat next to him. Vane was sitting next to Sugu. The rest sat at their desks around the empty class.

The test begins and everyone starts, but Mazer had not studied much so he peeked over at Pharaths test, stealing the answers. He did this multiple times. Pharath noticed and said:

“Are you cheating on the test with my answers? Hell no.”

Then the creature came barging into the class moaning and limping.

Everyone freaked the fuck out, the thing came moving towards Scarlet and grabbed her and she vanished. Vane and Sugu ran for the door, Trixie was gone next, Hilisa so terrified didn’t move and was also taken. It was just Mazer, Sam and Pharath. The thing moved towards Pharath, but Mazer and Sam stepped in the way and were taken just as Pharath was minutes later.

Vane and Sugu ran as fast as they could, but the thing was fast and soon Sugu was all alone. She turned and the thing grabbed her.

She woke up sweating from a nightmare, at home in her house. That had been the scariest dream of her short life. She was stressed with exams, since it was her last day at school.

She got up and said bye to her parents before taking the city bus to her school by the hill. The teachers handed out their tests and she and the rest of her friends Vane, Sam, Pharath, Scarlet, Trixie, Hilisa and Mazer did their test.

Vane and Pharath got A’s , Sam had gotten a B just like her and the rest of the class and Mazer failed completely.

After that, they all graduated except for Mazer, who decided to drop out. Lucius had graduated early.

It would be at the graduation party that things changed for this group of friends.

At the party, the group was talking about their plans for the summer and school. They were all drinking and getting drunk.

Pharath said:

“I can’t wait to learn more about music at college next year.”

“ Im not going to school , just doing artwork instead.” Said Sam.

“Yeah , your pretty good at that” said Sugu “ I can’t wait for my career as a nurse after School.”

“Math is great, but who knows what I’ll do with it.” Said Vane.

“ I can’t wait for the parties, boys and my psychology classes” Said Hilisa, Trixie said:

“Im not gonna do much with my degree, but we all know what I’m gonna do.” She smiled, thinking of all the money she already made with drug deals.

“Scarlet, what about you?” asked Trixie.

“Oh, not much, just gonna chill out for a while. Maybe get a tan.”

“Wow, that’s pretty boring, I’m gonna have fun.” Said Mazer, who was smoking a cigarette.

Sugu said:

“Let’s get some music going, I want to dance.”

So music began to play, pop songs on full blast and the group danced outside in the forest where they had planned their end of school party.

Mazer grinded with Scarlet, Vane and Sugu just danced and Hilisa joined in dragging Pharath and Sam with her. Trixie danced a strange jig.

Later they drank shots and partied the night away.

Mazer was getting bored, he hadn’t talked to someone in a while and he hated that. So he looked for someone not distracted and saw Hilisa. So he walked over and said:

“Hey girrl, whats up.”

“Uhm, not much, just chilling” answered Hilisa.

“What do you think Lucius is doing these days at school?” she asked.

“Oh, he’s studying something, it’s probably something smart, but I forget. He may have switched classes though. Last I heard.”

This conversation bored Mazer, he didn’t really wanna talk about that. Lucius had gone first for medical school, but switched to politics.

Sam was also smoking a cigarette, which got Mazer thinking about drugs. He called Trixie and said:

“Yo , Trixie got any of that sweet black dust.”

“ Yeah, I def do.”

She took out a bag from her pocket, containing a black dust. She tossed it to Mazer, since she owed him a bag anyways. Mazer said:

“Hey Vane, lets do some.”

“Nah man I quit.” Answered Vane

“Awe come on, its fun” Said Mazer

“He said no Mazer.” Says Pharath

“Who are you to decide?” Answers Mazer

“Come on, y’all are getting boring.” Said Mazer.

“Drugs are bad anyways” Answers Pharath

“So?” Said Mazer

“So their Bad.” Answered Pharath

“How?” Said Mazer

“Look where they got you.” Said Pharath

“Oh really, please what makes you think youll succeed in Music.” Chirps Mazer

“Guys.” Says Sugu

“I passed.” Answers Pharath

“Alright, fight me and see if you pass that.” Says Mazer

“Woh, woh , woh, calm down Mazer.” Said Vane

“Yeah, stop fighting.” Says Sugu

“Oh were not even fighting yet.” Answers Mazer

“Alright.” Says Pharath

Pharath got up. Mazer got up.

“Don’t even bother you two.” Said Sam, “Y’all were bound to end this way.”

“What do you mean?” Says Pharath

“Your clearly different people” says Sam

“Why are you such an asshole Mazer.” Says Pharath

“Im not.” Says Mazer

“You are, man.” Says Vane.

The friendship between the guys was over, Pharath, Vane, Sugu went home first. Followed shortly by Hilisa and Trixie. Mazer left with Scarlet. Sam looked at Mazer as he left. Then he went home.

After that the group was split in two, those with Pharath and those with Mazer, but Sam and Hilisa were torn they didn’t want that because they liked having Mazer and Trixie as friends. So that summer, Sam hung out with both groups as they waited for college and Hilisa with Trixie.

Pharath, Sugu, Hilisa and Vane were hanging out one day, they invited Sam over to chill. While they waited they watched Tv, specifically the news because they thought they should be more mature.

“That is really sad, I hope it gets better one day.”“I’m sure God will do something one day. Like get rid of the bad people.” Said Pharath.

“I wish that was true man, but I think that we have to do it, because God doesn’t exist.” Said Vane.

“We?” asked Sugu.

“Not actually, we just have to be good people” Said Hilisa.

They heard a knock at the door, it was Sam. They let him in and he said:

“What are you guys up to?”

“Talking about when evil will leave.” Said Sugu.

Sam said:

“Hmm, that’s a good point, I’m not sure how we could do that, but someone will figure it out.”

“Same” said Pharath and Vane.

“It’s good to think about it though” Said Sam.

…awkward silence.

“Hey, let’s go for a walk” Said Sam.

“Sure” Said Sugu.

So they went outside into the city, where they walked about and talked. They ended up at a park and Hilisa said:

“Remember when we were all kids?

“Yeah.” said Sugu

“We were so innocent back then.” Said Sam.

“Except Mazer.” Said Pharath.

They kind of laughed, but they did miss their friend.

On a different day that summer, Mazer, Trixie and Scarlet were hanging out. Mazer was content hanging out with two girls. He said:

“Let’s get the drug thing on the way.”

“ Alrighty, you going to pay me back later Mazer.”

“Yeah, definitely.”

So she took out the black dust and they snorted it, after that they talked, Trixie said:

“Ive been making so much money off this stuff, it’s great.”

“Its good stuff too.” Said Mazer.

“Yeah, I’ve had practice.” Says Trixie.

“ Did I just see a lizard crawl up the wall?”Says scarlet.

They laughed.

They hear footsteps, Mazer’s mom comes down stairs, and they panic and hide the drugs.

Mazers mom says:

“Mazer , your friends at the door.”

“Okay, let him in would yeh.”

“ You still hang out with Sam?“ Asks scarlet?

“Yeah, sometimes.” Answers Mazer.

“He’s so weird though.” Says scarlet.

Sam walks downstairs, hearing what Scarlet said, Sam smiles. Sam likes being weird.

Sam sits down and says nothing.

Trixie says:

“Want some powder.”

“Nah. Not today.”

“Why?”

“Because Pharath and Vane would get annoyed later.”

“Screw them, have some powder. You’re going to regret the come down from yesterday.”

“ Meh. Tomorrow man.”

“ Alrighty, then.”

“ On that subject, can I buy some of you Trixie?”

Meanwhile at College. Lucius was getting laid with a girl.

He’d finished his homework for the day and wanted to do something fun and that’s what he got. After they were done, he sent her home because he wanted to think about his plans and maybe go out for a drink.

He hadn’t seen Mazer in a while, they had sort of lost touch because he went to school. He missed the guy, but he had bigger plans and didn’t want to be associated with him either, because he wanted to be a politician and Mazer was in fact an ass. Not that he cared much about that, just that it was bad for his image.

Back at Mazers place, they’d spent about two and a half hours chilling, then Trixie and Sam left to go somewhere else. Giving Mazer and Scarlet some privacy. You can guess what those two immodestly did.

Trixie was going to hang out with Hilisa , Sugu was busy that day with her parents, so it would be just the two of them. They’d go shopping.

“I miss hanging out as a group” Said Hilisa.

“Yeah same, but Mazer and Pharath pretty much hate each other now.” Said Trixie

“Yeah…” said Hilisa.

Meanwhile, Sam went over to Pharath’s place, he said:

“Hey guys.”

“Sup, Sam.” Said Vane

“Was hanging out with Mazer.” Said Sam

“You still chill with that ass.” Said Pharath

“Yeah.” Said Sam

“Why, he’s not a nice guy.” Asked Vane

“Because he might come around.” Said Sam

“Sure he will.” Said Pharath , sarcasticly.

“He’s probably just lonely, man.” Said Sam.

“Cause he’s an ass.” Answered Pharath

“Exactly.” Said Sam.

“Hmm, maybe he’ll learn from you.” Said Pharath.

Thar night, Sam went to bed late, he’d drawn a picture of a skull and spiders before bed. He was nervous these days, because school was going to start again and Vane and Pharath would probably not be around as much.

Plus they always hung out together.

That night Sam had a dream:

It was just a normal day at church, Sam sat sitting on the pews watching the ceremony at play.

In another world, Mazer, a mad scientist, had finally formed his perfect crystal and plan. He swallowed and morphed into an abomination. His flesh expanded and his bones came out, he had morphed into Malum, the eater of worlds.

Back at the church, the priest that stood before the people was immediately killed by a crystal that irrupted from his chest, in fact hundreds of crystals appeared across the land. All black and radiating a black light.

The people were confused and shocked, for a time no one knew what had happened. Soon however things in life returned to normal, only now there were crystals.

A faith was born in those days, one that was dark and bleak. One in which they believed that soon a king would come and take them to a new world and the old world destroyed. At first this seemed fine with most, it explained the crystals. However, Sam soon noticed one day while walking that all the people were headed to church. He followed and saw in the church a horrific sight, the people were sowing themselves together!

Sam knew not why they did this, but did not want to be a part of that,

“The flesh of a thousand people as one” they screamed.

The people turned to Sam and smiled, they wanted him sown too. Sam ran away, but the people followed. Limping and moaning, they were all sown as a mob of naked flesh, their skin beginning to rot.

Sam ran up the mountain near the city, with the millions of people following.

However, Sam was captured by them and dragged back to the church, screaming. Where he was placed before the crystal he had seen, it burst open and Mazer was there, he the abomination smiled and began to sow Sam to him, as this happened Sam he began to feel extreme pain.

In another world, a cave world where things were upside down. The people were excited, for the great Chrysalid that was promised to one day hatch was going to hatch today and take them to paradise. A girl sat waiting for its opening.

When it opened, Mazer and Sam, sown to a thousand people and races came pouring out and swallowed that whole world, just as they had countless times before. Sowing the girl named Hilisa to their head.

The abomination swallowed all worlds, and the great serpent was god. It swallowed all worlds and sent them to hell. Where they would suffer for ever and ever. Billions of years later, the serpent decayed and the world went to nothingness. Before, the God head started the whole thing again.

It was just a normal day at church, Sam sat sitting on the pews watching the ceremony at play.

He woke horrified, it was a nightmare. It wasn’t true though so he was okay.

Chapter 3

Worms.

The city that the cast dwelt within was rather large, it had all the modern utilities and was a bustling city. However, this was all that was, for it ended at the edge with a wall that looked like a greater distance, but was solid. It was a dome without exit and none knew what dwelt outside its walls.

There were troubles in this city, but rarely anything major. Things were average to a modern world. The food was farmed on the edges and brought into the city and the city was full of roads and cars, tall building and a capital building which was the tallest building at the center. The city was called Limn.

There was a college and school and there were hills, the grass was a brilliant green and the sky shined with a sun that moved around the dome. The people had always lived here. There was some divide on how they got here however, but it drew no major difference between them. They dwelt happily as one people in the city.

The beleivers believed that God had built their world by raising the sky from the earth and filling it with day and night.

The only difference with the theists was that this was a natural phenomenon.

People grew older in this city and none knew where they went in death. They simply believed things would be good after, as either a long nap or another life in the city.

Our hero’s lived about the city, in various parts that were each a little unique but mostly the same.

There were also animals that lived here, birds and small rodents. As well as cats.

However, on this day, something strange happened on the edge of the world. A small crack formed and a worm came through the wall. It dug into the earth and disappeared. None noticed and it was completely irrelevant to the events of the city.

Yet this worm would have dire consequences in the year to come.

The school year had begun and all the friends went to college except for Scarlet, Sam and Mazer. Sam would usually spend his days drawing while Mazer and Scarlet spent their days doing drugs and having sex.

Mazer had moved out of his house, because even though his parents were nice he didn’t want to live with them.

Scarlet moved in with him.

Sam lived at home and the rest lived in residence at the school.

The friends still spent time together and they were generally happy, it was a pleasant time.

Much like the days of Ivon and Stash however.

Things would begin to change for them.

Drastically.

At school, Vane and Pharath were chilling in their dorm. They had been friends a long time, Pharath said:

“A sky with no end would be trippy.”

“That’s a cool idea, you should toss it to Sam, he could draw it. When he gets here.” Said Vane

“That’s a good idea.” Said Pharath

“He’s cool.” Said Vane

“I don’t know why he chills with Mazer though.” Said Pharath

“Yeah Mazer is sketchy, I think Sam is trying to help sort his life out tho.” Said Vane

“That’s cool, but Mazer’s always been like that.” Said Pharath

“He’s going to get into trouble, because that’s what he does.” Said Vane

“Yeah, I told him to stop so often in High school, it was bad.” Said Pharath

The door gets a knock, it opens and Sam walks in. Saying:

“Yo, wassup, the day is going great!”

“Are you high?” said Pharath

“No, pffft yeah.” Answered Sam

“Trixie got you some stuff eh?” said Vane

“Maybe.” Said Sam, he’d gotten it off of Mazer.

“It’s a bad idea to do drugs man.” Said Pharath

“I know, I don’t do it often.” Said Sam

“When’s the pizza getting here?” Said Vane

“Soon.” Said Pharath

“Cool, let’s watch the horror movie.” Said Sam

So Sam, Vane and Pharath sat down and watched:

“A killing on Patters street.”

“Thank god mazer isn’t here, he’d take the popcorn.” Said Vane

“Don’t jinx it.” Said Pharath

They laughed.

They spent the rest of the day watching that movie, eating pizza and talking. Sam felt ad for Mazer because he was alone. He hung out with him all week though.

Mazer was alone.

He sat in his house, his eye twitching.

He was angry these days. Scarlet had moved out, she didn’t like him. She’d wanted a place to stay and she just wanted sex. He didn’t care much more that he told himself. He didn’t have any girl now.

Because Trixie too had left, she had left because he never paid her back.

He’d annoyed so many people, he had lost them all.

He sat there and thought about that.

He had a friend though who didn’t mind, yet.

Sam.

He smiled.

Meanwhile there was Hilisa and Sugu.

“Who do you find attractive” said Sugu.

“Probably Pharath, but don’t you dare tell him. I’m scared he’ll say no. He’s too good.”

“Awe but we could go on double dates.”

“ that’s true.”

“You should.”

“I might.”

“ Great ill text him!”

“What? Not now!”

“Yes now” said Sugu, who dialed her phone “Hey Pharath Hilisa has something to ask you.”

“ What?”

She passed the phone.

“Do you like me?”

“Yeah.”

“Like. Like, Like.”

“Yeah.”

Hilisa blushed.

So from that day on they went on double dates.

Sam was now also alone.

Except he had Mazer.

When Sam found out about the two couples, he knew he wouldn’t be seeing them very often. He wasn’t mad however, just bored and boredom is annoying. So Sam spent more time drawing, one day he was invited to chill with them, so he went over.

“Hey Sam, How are you?”

“Good”

“Let’s watch a movie!”

So the two couples and Sam watched a romantic comedy. Sam was not a fan of that kind of movie, he found them boring.

“ Hahaha, that’s just like Pharath.” Said Hilisa.

They were cuddling on the couch, Sam sat on his own couch, silent.

When the movie was over, the girls wanted to get ice cream, so they headed outside to go for a walk. Vane and Pharath were walking with their girlfriends and Sam was next to them, he said:

“ How’s you guys is relationship?”

“Good, Hilisa is great.” Said Pharath, Hilisa smiled.

“Awe Pharath you’re so sweet.”

´Yeah, they’re a cute couple.” Said Sugu.

“We went on a date last week and they came along, it was fun, we went to the fair.” She continued.

“Remember how Vane couldn’t ride the rollercoaster, he was scared.” Said Hilisa.

They laughed.

They arrived at the ice cream parlour. They got their ice cream, but Sam didn’t have any money on him and didn’t want to ask. He didn’t plan to get ice cream, not that he cared.

So they had their ice cream and then went home, but Sam was getting bored, so he left.

On his way back home sam thought to himself.

“ Man, I’m gonna be more lonely these days than I thought. I’m like the fifth wheel in that relationship now, at least before,When Pharath and Hilisa weren’t dating, they talked to me more.”

This annoyed him slightly. He didn’t want to be rude and he didn’t feel like telling them he felt left out. He was happy for them, but conflicted in his loneliness.

He did have things to do though, his art and he could hang out with Mazer.

He hadn’t talked as much with Mazer in High school though, so he didn’t know him as well. He’d have to get to know him better. So that was his plan for the coming lonely days.

The next he texted Mazer, and went over to his house.

Mazer was chilling in his living room, smoking a cigarette. Sam said:

“Yo, man, got an extra one?”

“You still smoke? Nice.” Said Mazer

He tossed one at Sam, Sam caught it between his fingers.

“So what yeh wanna do?” said Mazer.

“We could watch a horror movie.” Said Sam. Who really enjoyed them?

“Heh, sure.” Said Mazer “This one better be scary.”

It was called:

Slaughter house.

“Man, this shit is violent.” Said Sam.

“Yeah.” Said Mazer.

He was chewing on popcorn and staring intently at the screen, smiling and entertained. Sam was also eating popcorn and just watched the movie, apparently they had horror movies in common.

“It’s the weekend, why aren’t you with Pharath” He said with a sneer.

“Pharath is dating Hilisa , they’re busy and its boring being fifth wheel”

“ Pfffft.” Said Mazer. Thinking: that’s gonna last long.

Later that week.

Sam was again hanging out with Mazer and this time they went to a bar, Mazer wanted to meet some girls. Sam came along.

Mazer and Sam were chilling at the bar, when Mazer saw an attractive girl and said:

“Look at her ass Sam”

“Nice.”

“Im going over there to get her”

He walked over and said:

“Hey girl, that ass of yours though.”

She gawked at him and said:

“Uh buy me a drink first.”

Sam looked on and smiled, well for Mazer he thought, as they talked. So Mazer went home that night with that girl, Sam went home after spending a bit of time at the bar alone.

Sam was gay.

But not completely.

He was walking home, chuckling to himself because no one had a clue he was gay. He liked to keep it a secret because it was funny to sneak around like that.

Plus it kept the straight guys un-awkward. Sam had a smirk.

He stumbled home, drunk.

Sometimes he’d tell people later just to see their surprised faces, since he didn’t act gay at all.

Just one of his tricks he thought to himself. Like his capacity to whistle like a bird.

When he got home, he drew a picture. He liked drawing cute things sometimes and today was that day. So he drew a small rabbit, with cute and large eyes.

Then he got an idea.

He made a plant grow through the rabbit, piercing its skin and taking out its heart. Its eyes where bleeding and it was dead.

Sam smiled then put it with the rest of the papers under his bed.

The next day, Sam hung out with Pharath and Vane, one of the few days they weren’t with their girlfriends. Sam had candy, and he gave them some, they thanked him and they began to have a conversation. Pharath said:

“Heard about the murder last night? I freaken hate evil.”

“No, what happened?” asked Sam

“They found someone dead in an alley!” said Pharath

“What the fuck, that’s fucked up!” Said Sam

“Yeah…” said Vane

“When I’m done with school, I’m writing songs about being good.” Said Pharath

“Yeah, that’s a great idea man.” Said Sam

“Yeah it’ll help encourage peace.” Said Vane

They continued to talk for the rest of the time they chilled, Pharath didn’t want to watch TV because Pharath was pretty clear he wasn’t in the mood with the violence that went down. It made him angry.

Mazer was pleased with what he did last night.

He was also excited to hang out with Sam, they’d been getting along and he didn’t feel lonely.

He didn’t like being lonely, they’d go back to the bar.

Mazer made a devilish smile.

So Sam and Mazer went to the bar, and they spent a night there before going back outside, they were outside walking drunk. When they saw a worm crawling along the ground.

Mazer said:

“I bet you can’t eat that worm.”

“I bet you can’t.” said Sam.

So they took the worm and cut it in half, each taking a part, they ate it.

Then their veins turned to worms, and their blood black lie their eyes which turned completely that color. They felt some pain in the process, recoiling at the sudden feeling it would cause.

They could now move their veins like arms and disconnect them, Mazer moved one, it stuck out of his arm, and he smiled. He wasn’t expecting that. Sam tried too and they both kind of looked at each other before releasing many worms and plunging them into each other. All it did was make more come out of the holes.

Shocked, because they both had tried to kill the other, they went for the neck and tried chocking each other, but when their heads fell off they reattached. At this point they were confused.

An onlooker turned to run, but Mazer pulled her back with his worms and dug them into her, she was dead in seconds.

Mazer smiled.

But there was no one else around.

He turned to Sam and to his surprise, he had a smirk with wide eyes.

“I knew it.” Sam said.

“You really are a monster!”

Mazer smiled and said:

“Says the one who tried to kill me”

Sam shot a worm through Mazer.

“Why?” he asked, half kidding.

“Cause its fun.”

Mazer smiled and said:

“What we gonna do now?”

“I have a few ideas” said Sam.

“Me too buddy, let’s get away from the body”

So off Sam and Mazer went to Mazers place.

Sugu, Vane, Pharath and Hilisa were hanging out when they decided to turn on the TV. They were shocked to hear of a dead person once again. This time filled with hundreds of holes, no one knew how this had happened.

“What the fuck.” Said Hilisa, “that’s disgusting.”

“Yeah, who would do something like that.” Said Pharath.

“ I don’t know, but someone should figure it out.” Said Vane.

“I don’t wanna watch TV anymore” Said Sugu.

So they decided to go to the bar, because they wanted to get their mind off of things. They walked over and as they crossed the street they realized the next street over was where the killing happened. They were creeped out. Sugu said:

“This is around where it happened, that’s scary.”

“Yeah, it definitely is.” Said Hilisa.

“I wonder what caused the…” began Vane

“I don’t wanna talk about it!” said Sugu.

“…Holes.” He finished.

“ Sorry.” Said Vane

“Its okay, lets just hurry to the bar.” Said Sugu

When they got to the bar, they were surprised to see Sam and Mazer there. Sitting at a table with numerous girls, chuckling away and talking.

“Hey is that Sam and Mazer?” said Sugu

“Sam looks different somehow.” Said Hilisa

“Yeah, he’s talking more than usual.” Agreed Vane

“He never talks to any girls but us.” Said Sugu.

“Should we go say hi?” asked Hilisa

“You wanna talk to Mazer?” said Pharath.

Sam noticed them sitting across the room, he waived.

They waived back.

“At least he didn’t ignore us.” Said Vane.

Across the room Sam said to Mazer:

“Look who’s here.”

After a while the four friends saw Mazer and Sam go home with two girls, to that Pharath said:

“Since when does Sam get girls?”

“Awe, he’s so cute.” Said Sugu

They continued to drink and have fun, Hilisa said:

“I miss high school, haha.”

“Same, less studying.” Said Sugu

“I don’t, it was so easy.” Said Vane

“Yeah. “ said Pharath.

Late that night, they returned home. Sam and Mazer fed that night, unbeknownst to Sugu and the rest. Since now, normal food was boring to the two worms.

The next day…

Sugu and Hilisa were chilling together, talking about their boys.

Vane and Pharath, meanwhile were talking about the murder from the night before, they were thinking about doing something about it, perhaps making signs about why murder was wrong and having some sort of protest at the school.

That night Sugu and Hilisa went for a walk, they would see something this night that would shock them.

They had gone out shopping late and were buying new clothing from the store, Sugu said:

“Oh, I love this dress.”

“Yes it looks good on you.” Answered Hilisa

“You think so?” said Sugu

“Yeah, Vane will love it.” Said Hilisa

“Do you think these pants make my ass look fat?” said Hilisa.

“No they look great on you Hilisa.” Said Sugu.

After they had found their clothing, they walked back home, it was a dark and gloomy night and it was even a little chilly. Sugu and Hilisa walked with the bags down the street. Hilisa spoke and said:

“It’s cold.”

“Yeah I know right.”

“It’s also a little creepy tonight.

“Yeah.

This is when they spotted something strange in the distance, it was Mazer and a girl. They were kissing.

That wasn’t the strange part.

What they saw was that a worm came out of mazers arm and dug into the girl, then another and another and another. They began to eat her alive, she could not scream because when mazer pulled back from kissing her, her mouth was filled with worms.

Sugu and Hilisa’s jaws dropped, but they covered their mouths not to scream, they turned around and ran away as quietly as they could.

When they got home, having taken a different root, Hilisa said:

“Oh my god, oh my god, my god, it was mazer!”

“We need to call the cops and tell Vane and Pharath.”

That’s what they did, Vane and Pharath came over and said:

“So you’re saying there are worms in Mazer and he’s digging into people and eating them.”

“Yeah!”

“What in the honest fuck!”

“We have to warn Sam before he gets killed.”

Meanwhile, Mazer had finished eating and was walking back home, he knew that Sugu and Hilisa had seen him and was amused, he also knew they’d call the cops.

He’d followed them with his girl all night and they hadn’t noticed.

It was all going well and according to the plan, their perfect plan to eat the city.

Mazer snickered evilly and smiled.

He texted Sam, to let him know and then went to bed.

“Should we go now?” Asked Hilisa.

“Probably best to do so.” Said Sugu.

“I agree, who knows when Mazer is going to kill Sam.” Said Pharath

They texted him, but they weren’t getting an answer. So they went out into the night, to go see if Sam was at his house.

Sam was in fact at his house, when he got texts from both Mazer and Pharath.

Sam was drawing.

He burped, that guy had been tasty.

He would follow through with his plan, because Sam had an idea.

He would wait for Pharath and the rest to come over, he smiled.

He heard a knock on the door, he answered and said:

“Sup, I was just about to go to bed.”

“ Can we come inside?” said Pharath

“I guess.” Said Sam

They went inside and upstairs into Sams room, the carcase lay hidden beneath his bed.

Sam said:

“Why are you guys coming over so late?” asked Sam

“Because we saw Mazer kill someone with worms and we want to warn you.” Said Hilisa

“Well, to be honest, I knew about the worms. But didn’t know he was killing people.” Said Sam

“How did you know?” Asked Sugu.

“Because we ate one a while back and it gave us both that power.” Said Sam.

Sam showed one that came out of his arm. He said:

“I’m actually pretty pissed though, because I don’t want this.”

“Oh my god, Sam!” said Hilisa.

“I know right, it’s fucked up.” Said Sam

“If Mazer is killing people though, we have to do something.” He continued.

“But we can’t die from cuts or bullets.” Sam said.

“Still, I can’t eat salt anymore because it burns.” Said Sam.

“So maybe you could do something with that.” Continued Sam.

“So Mazers weakness is Salt? That makes sense I guess.”

“Yeah. Thanks for telling me though. Ill avoid him from now on.”

“ Okay, we should get going. Wanna come with us Sam?”

“No, I’m disappointed in Mazer, he was my friend.”

“Yeah that makes sense.”

“See ya Sam.”

Sam walked them to the door, it shut and then Sam made a devil Smile.

He went upstairs and texted Mazer. Saying

“They took the bait.”

Then he went to bed.

The next day, Pharath went to the store and bought salt.

However as he was walking back to meet with Sugu, Vane and Hilisa to stop Mazer. He heard screams coming from a few blocks down the street. Curious he snuck over to take a peak and what he saw horrified him.

Mazer was using his worms to destroy and devour people, anyone who got close to him would be full of worms in seconds. No one was being left alive. Mazer would sometimes make them suffer other times he’d just kill them immediately. The tangles of worms everywhere feasting on people was horrifying.

Quickly Pharath ran in the opposite direction. Mazer almost saw him as he turned to get out of there.

He could still hear screaming as he left, Mazer was on the move.

Mazer thought to himself:

“I see Pharath, well that’s convenient, good thing he ran away, or I couldn’t help myself.”

He smiled and continued feasting on the flesh of innocence.

When Pharath arrived at Sugu’s dorm room where his friends were waiting, he said:

“We have a problem, Mazer is on a rampage. If we get close to him, were dead.”

“Fuck “ said Hilisa.

“What are we going to do” said Sugu.

“I have an idea” Said Vane.

“We could make the salt a gas and spread it throughout the city, that ways Mazer will fail.”

“How do we do that?”

“Well I learned in chemistry class that Salt is capable of becoming a gas when mixed with those leaves in the park.”

Different world then yours, reader. Some of the laws are different then earth, since salt does not do that here on Terra. I imagine chlorine could work if we ever have the problem here on earth.

“But that will kill Sam!”

“Let’s go talk to him, text him and ask if we can come over.”

They could hear the screaming outside.

Sam answered and said they could come, but to be careful on the way, he knew what Mazer was doing, he could hear it.

Sam sat at home, watching the news and the bloodshed, trying not to smile and laugh.

He had gotten rid of the body that morning, it’s easy to move an empty shell.

He heard a knock at the door and turned off the television.

“Hey guys…” He said in a sad tone.

“Hey…”

“I’m guessing you saw the news, we can’t throw salt on him.”

“I thought so. What are we going to do?”

“We were going to make it a gas and fill the city!”

“But that would kill you wouldn’t it?”

“It would…”

They paused in silence, it was sad, but Sam said:

“It’s okay. I believe theirs life after death anyways and Mazer has to be stopped.”

Sugu cried, she didn’t want to do this, but they had no choice.

So they went to get people, salt and leaves, avoiding the chaos mazer was doing.

“I’m going to miss you Sam.” Said Sugu.

Sam said:

“I’ll see you again, I hope.”

Sugu smiled, she believed in god. So she hoped he’d bring him back one day.

They had gotten the leaves, hundreds, now all that was left was the salt, screaming could be heard in the distance.

They ran to every store and home, begging for salt, the people listened and gave them as much as they could, soon an army walked down the street carrying salt and leaves.

They stopped in a park, Sam with them. They said goodbye to Sam, hugged him and began to cry. Then they dropped the leaves into the salt and clouds of smoke rose out of the containers.

Sam screamed in pain and began to fall apart as worms, which squirmed for a time, then stopped moving. When the cloud approached Mazer and touched him, he too dissolved in the same way.

But Sam and Mazer were still alive.

The people buried to “dead” worms in that park. Lucius came to the funeral and so did everyone else.

After the burial they said a few words, while Sam and Mazer dug deep underground.

“Why did this have to happen” said Sugu, who was crying.

“Where did the worm come from.” Said Vane.

“How could Mazer do something like this?” Said Scarlet

.

Things went back to normal after that, for a time.

Chapter 4

The drug, Bust.

In the weeks that followed the “death” of Sam and Mazer, not much happened.

The city was now constantly foggy because of salt gas that clouded the dome, it smelt like the sea. This was done to stop worms from getting in the city and starting it all over again.

Trixie sold her drugs, Lucius studied, Scarlet was lost in the crowd, Sugu and Hilisa slept and studied and Pharath and Vane did too.

Sugu would cry often, she missed Sam.

Vane counselled her, even though he didn’t believe in the afterlife.

One day, Vane remembered the conversation about peace and doing a rally of sorts about it, so he talked to his friends and they decided it was a good idea. So they rallied the people and together they went off to do this in the streets.

Signs read things like:

“Peace is better than fighting.”

“God is peace, we need more”

“If you like cake, have Peace.”

At the rally, Lucius made an appearance, he came up to the four and said:

“I heard about Sam, I’m sorry to hear.”

They nodded.

“Haven’t seen you in a while.” Said Vane

“Yeah, I’ve been studying.” Said Lucius

“I still can’t believe Mazer would do that, I mean he was a jerk but still.” Said Sugu

“Yeah, it’s fucked up.” said Lucius

“ Peace would be better, don’t you agree.” Said Hilisa

Lucius smiled and said:

“Yeah!”

“Do you have another sign that I could have?” he continued

“Yeah.” Said Sugu

So Lucius joined the protest, it would be good for his political career they thought.

Mazer and Sam dug tunnels underground…

After the rally, Pharath and Vane invited Lucius to come study with them. He did.

And so they studied, it was a good time as they worked on their projects, they felt a small rumbling and thought it was construction or cars.

“I wonder what that is” said Vane

“Probably construction” Said Pharath.

“Yeah, or cars” said Lucius.

After they finished up, Lucius said:

“Did you hear about the costume party at school?”

“Yeah, you going?” said Vane

“Yes.” Said Lucius

“Cool, might see you there.” Said Vane.

Lucius went to leave, but Pharath said:

“ Hey Lucius.”

“Yes?”

“Where the heck have you been?”

“I had a girlfriend for a while and you know me, I study.”

He left, thinking to himself with his hands in his pockets as usual, a guy on the way home called him short. He punched them in the balls and walked away.

Hilisa was with Trixie, they were talking about black powder:

“So get this, when you grind up the plant it changes color.” Said Trixie.

Hilisa was interested in the conversation, listening to Trixie explain some of the drug making process.

“And you have to mix…”

She slaps Hilisa, Hilisa is a little surprised and says:

“Owe, why do you always do that?”

Trixie bursts out laughing.

“So anyways, did you hear about the costume party?” said Trixie.

“Oh yeah!” Said Hilisa, rubbing her cheek.

“I forgot that it was in two days.”

“Yeah, what you dressing up as?”

That night two things happened, Scarlet was out a the bar meeting with boys, she talked to one and said:

“Hey , cutey.”

“Hey girl.”

“Can I feel your muscles?”

“Sure…”

She does so.

“So what brings you to the bar?”

“Oh, not much, I like the food.”

She smiles and continues:

“I’m also looking for boys.”

“Oh, you are? “

She giggles.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the city of Limn, a man has just gotten a hold of a new drug. Bust. He will be injecting it into his body in a few minutes, he’s been craving it all day and he really needs it to keep doing what he enjoys doing.

It didn’t used to be this way.

He started it a few months ago, he tried it from a friend and enjoyed it so much he bought more the next day.

That was months ago, after day binges and night binges he became dependent on it and lost his job, wife and house.

Now he lives on the streets begging for change, in hopes of getting the one thing that still loves him, Bust, but even that fun is beginning to leave, replaced with an addiction he’ll never solve.

He drinks the drug, and is immediately filled with feelings of pleasure.

It doesn’t last long, it used to but slowly the time of the high dwindled.

He was told it would never end at zero, but now he was addicted to it and loved and hated it.

He hated it because of the withdrawal, which was the opposite, making him feel like he was going to die. He’d puke and shiver after doing it, but the high was worth it.

This has been the tale of one of the victims of Bust, the new drug on the streets.

Many had tried it, many wanted it.

But none had yet died from it, like the man who lay dead in the alley.

Tonight was the night of the costume party, almost everyone who went to the college would be attending and it would be a blast, on the way there Sugu said:

“I’m so excited, this is going to be so much fun.”

“Yeah!” said Hilisa.

They arrived dressed in their costumes, it was packed, the large gym was filled with people and the decorations littered the room, there was a food table in one corner and bathrooms in the other. The people danced and listened to music, talked and made out. This was your average college event, filled with youthful hormones and wild attraction.

They met up with Lucius and Trixie at the party (Scarlet was absent because she didn’t go to school), they hadn’t been a group in quite some time, Sugu saying:

“Oh my God, we haven’t been together like this since that last party!”

“Yeah, too bad Mazer, Sam and Scarlet aren’t here.” Said Lucius with a sad tone.

“Well, I’m sure we’ll see Scarlet around one of these days and Sam and Mazer in another life.” Said Sugu

Lucius and Vane kinda chuckled, they didn’t believe that to be the case.

“What?” said Sugu.

“I’m going to get punch” said Hilisa.

“Well, I don’t think there’s an afterlife.” Said Lucious.

“Of course there is, why would I think there is, if their wasn’t one “Said Sugu.

“Because Pharath is dressed as a penguin and there is no such thing as a penguin, or a Crow for that matter.” Said Lucius.

“Well, maybe somewhere else.” Said Sugu.

“There’s no evidence for either.” Said Vane.

Sugu said:

“Well… I believe there is one, because it’s there. What do you think Pharath?”

“Maybe, this world has lots of stuff, so it’s possible. Like a world without ducks.”

They chuckled, ducks was such a randomly specific thing to be absent from life.

Hilisa came back with her fruit punch and said:

“This shit is delicious.”

They laughed again and then Sugu said:

“Why don’t we dance, that’s always fun.”

So they danced the night away. While Sam and Mazer rotted some fruits with their worms.

Later at the party.

Trixie and Hilisa were dancing, when another girl approached and said:

“Hey Trixie got some of that sweet Bust.”

Trixie who always had drugs on her, since they were legal in this way, said:

“Oh of course!” said Trixie

“Can I buy?” said the girl

“Yes.” Said Trixie

“What’s Bust?” asked Hilisa

“Come, I’ll show you.” Said Trixie

So the girls went to the washroom.

In the washroom she pulled out a vial of Bust and makes the money trade with the girl, who immediately drank it and was soon high as a kite.

She hopped about and danced, the music barely audible from inside the washroom.

Trixie said:

“Wanna try some?”

“Uhm, idk its new and looks scary.”

“Awe come on, it’s fun.”

“Nah, Trixie.”

“Awe, okay.”

They went back outside, soon after another person went into the washroom with Trixie.

Apparently she’s working tonight, thought Hilisa.

Lucius was talking to a girl and she rejected him as being too short, but Lucius didn’t mind, soon things would change. They’d have fun.

He wondered how much longer Mazer and Sam would be.

He hoped soon, because they were running out of time, with Trixie and all.

Pharath went to see Hilisa, who was now alone. He said:

“Hey, Hilisa what’s going on.”

“Oh, just dancing, Trixie left.” Said Hilisa

“Why?” said Pharath

“Bust” said Hilisa

“What’s that?” asked Pharath

“A new drug” said Hilisa

“oh.” Said Pharath “That’s… interesting.”

Meanwhile, Scarlet was walking back from the bar with a different and older guy, they stumbled back to Scarlets place where the man thought they’d be sleeping together. Scarlet was not a slut however and had other plans.

“ How far till your place?” Said the Man

“ Not too far, just around that corner?” said Scarlet.

“Cool.” Said the man

“Do you wanna watch a movie when we get there, or me?” she said with a smile.

“ You.” Said the man

“Okay, honey.” Said Scarlet

Scarlet’s phone vibrated and so she said:

“ Gotta answer my friend one sec.”

She texted Mazer back and said:

“Outside with a guy, be back soon.”

Then she turned to the man and said:

“We have to turn down this corner, my house is two houses down from here.”

So they did and they arrived at Scarlets basement suite, where they would be spending the night.

Meanwhile, Lucius and Trixie were taking Bust after the party, Trixie saying:

“That was fun, this is fun.”

“ But not as fun as what were planning.” Said Lucius.

“Yeah, that’s going to be a blast.” Answered Trixie.

“ I hope scarlet is doing well, I have to drop off her Bust tonight.” Continued Trixie.

“ Yeah, this stuff is good.” Said Lucius” Where’s the plant being grown.”

“ Just outside the city, by the solid sky.” Said Trixie

“Perfect.” Said Lucius.

“Too bad Hilisa didn’t try some.”

The next day, Pharath, Vane, Sugu and Hilisa were hanging out and went to the park, it was a pretty normal day. The sun shined through the fog of salt and the people went about their business unconcerned as usual, some were repairing the damage done by Mazer. Pharath said:

“What do you think the meaning of life is?”

“I don’t think there’s a meaning” Said Vane.

“I think we’re just supposed to be kind to each other.” Said Sugu.

“Partying and drinking is the way.” Said Hilisa, who was half kidding.

“I think we are supposed to live our lives and do the right thing, while having fun. Obviously we need a good world for it to continue. The most important aspect I think is staying unified. “

They nodded, irrelevant of the meaning that was probably the right thing to do.

Pharath had a tendency to do this, ask a question and listen to the answers, before answering himself. He greatly enjoyed keeping people entertained with ideas, so he continued by saying:

“How do you think this world was formed?”

“God rose up the sky from the earth, forming a bubble which then sprung life and humans from his love.” Said Sugu.

“The process by which that happened is unknown, but I think it probably has to do with the plants, which some scientist believe existed before the world as we know it.” Said Vane.

“I have no idea” Said Hilisa.

“What if it’s that the plants grew and overtime, released gas, which solidified on the edges and caused the bubble?” said Pharath.

“That’s possible, but it doesn’t explain the bubble itself and why it contains a sun, moon and stars.” Answered Vane.

“Either way, that’s trippy.” Said Hilisa.

“It was definitely God.” Said Sugu.

“So if it was God, where is the evidence?” asked Vane

“Your theory proves it was God.” Said Sugu

“No, it proves a natural process.” Said Vane

“It could be god manifest as a natural process.” Said Pharath

“But that’s not evidence.” Answered Vane

“Yes it is.” Said Sugu, giggling.

“I like chocolate.” said Hilisa.

They laughed.

“ Aaaaaaaah” Screamed Sugu.

The ground was shaking, there was an earthquake and the whole city was shook. Nothing collapsed since it wasn’t that bad but the people had never experienced one before so they were shocked about what had happened. Further sinkholes appeared throughout the city, mostly on roads and some people fell into them.

No one knew the cause, which was in fact Mazer and Sam. Digging tunnels.

“What was that?!” said Hilisa.

“God.” Joked Pharath, then in all seriousness said:

“I have no idea.”

“Weird” Said Vane: “Perhaps it’s an unknown natural phenomenon.”

Concerned by what happened they went home to watch the news to see if they knew anything about it. No one did.

A few days later and that night, they were watching the news once more, the reporter saying:

“The new drug, Bust, has killed many people, we suggest it best be avoided. The source of this new drug has yet to be discovered. The police however are working on it.”

Trixie knew full well it was poisoning people, she put the poison in the drug on purpose. She drank her last vial.

Back at the two couple’s location in Pharath and Vanes room, Hilisa said:

“Wait, doesn’t Trixie know where to get Bust?”

“Yeah you mentioned that at the costume party.” Said Pharath

“Does she know it’s killing people? We should go talk to her!” Said Sugu.

So they went to Trixie’s dorm room. Where Trixie was crying. She was faking it. She said:

“I didn’t know it was poison.”

“Awe, Trixie, I’m so sorry.” Said Hilisa.

“I’ll stop selling it and I’ll take the consequences.” She said.

Lucius arrived saying wondering the same thing.

“Can you help me destroy the crop so it can’t be used again?” Asked Trixie.

“Yes” Said the five friends.

So they left to go destroy the crop, which was passed the farm.

It would be a long walk.

Meanwhile, Scarlet, who hadn’t seen anyone except Lucius and Trixie drank her vial of Bust.

Scarlet let a guy into her house and they sat on the couch, making out. She said:

“Want me to tie you up and tease you?”

The guy’s eyes widened and he said:

“Sure, I’ve never done that before.”

So she took his hand and brought him to her bedroom, he undressed and noticed a backpack in one corner, Scarlet still dressed in her scarlet dress pushed him onto the bed. She began tieing him up and when she was done she said:

“Sorry honey, I can’t watch this, its gross” and walked out of the room, locking the door behind her. He said:

“Hey, what the fuck, untie me!”

Then worms came crawling out of the walls, hundreds of black worms crawled up onto the bed and crawled onto the man, he tried to scream but they went into his mouth. Choking and shaking he tried to get free, but soon there was nothing left but a shell of skin and bones. The worms had eaten him completely. They receded and took the form of two guys, who were Sam and Mazer. This is they’d been feeding these past few weeks. They both laughed. And said:

“Hey Scarlet, were done!”

Scarlet came back in and was disgusted by the shell left over. She said:

“Ew, I didn’t want to see that.”

“Is it ready?” She asked.

“Yup, Trixie and Lucius are on their way with the others. “Said Sam

“Okay, let’s get going.” Said Scarlet.

She grabbed her back pack and Mazer removed the panel from the secret tunnel they’d built in her house. It lead out of the city.

They’d take a long journey through this tunnel.

Mazer had a smirk, thinking of their plan. He said:

“There gonna be in for a surprise, haha.”

“Yeah, this is gonna be great.” Said Sam

“It’s so evil” Said Scarlet with a smile.

“Yes.” Said Mazer with his devil smile.

“How long is the walk?” Asked Scarlet.

“Quite a while, but we’ll get out before they make it to the edge.” Said Mazer.

“Ugh.” Sighed Scarlet.

Hilisa, Pharath, Sugu, Vane, Lucius and Trixie walked for an hour headed to the outskirts of Limn where there were fields full of various plants, the farm was massive to support an influx of daily food. It was full of people who worked at the farms. Trixie pointed in a direction and said with a sad tone:

“Its that way.”

So they went and found the crop, small bushes of plants, red in color with velvety leaves. This was the plant Trixie discovered could be made into Bust. So together they began tearing out the plants. This is when their was another earthquake.

Only this time much worse, from their distance they saw the city begin to crumble and heard screaming. The city sank into a hole coming their way and the sky above cracked, beginning to collapse and fall on the people below.

Luckily a hole opened up near where they were and the group was able to escape the city just in time, followed by many other farmers and people who had gone for walks. Behind them the whole dome collapsed into rumble, killing hundreds or even thousands of people.

Luckily, the group had survived and were now outside the city dome, in a massive cavern. Since it was night they had brought flashlights and this was their only light. Sugu and the rest soon realized their families were dead, crushed inside the city and they all burst into tears.

“What do we do now?” Said Sugu after a while of crying.

“I don’t know, but this is fucked up” Said Vane.

Chapter 5

A ray of faith.

It was chilly and dark in the cavern, the people could barely see without the light of the cavern and none knew what to do, their city destroyed and they left outside its rubble, in the darkest of places both literally and metaphorically. Gas was naturally produced from the rocks when broken.

Still the people went on, since now all they could do was explore the cavern.

The group went forth into the darkness, not knowing it was dug out by Mazer and Sam.

The people did so and walked a long distance through the cave, in sorrow.

They had faith there was a way out of here. That they would find a new home, beyond the darkness of this cavern, a place with light and food.

Soon they found water, which many drank as the walk was difficult to trek.

Soon, Vane who was curious of the caves existence said:

“So this is what lay outside the city”

“I’m scared.” Said Sugu, clutching Vane.

“Yeah something doesn’t feel right.” Said Pharath

They heard dripping of water. Vane said outload:

“If anyone feels a breeze, theirs an exit!”

“True.” Said Pharath.

Hilisa was quiet walking with Pharath, the two were holding hands and Hilisa was looking around.

Lucius and Trixie were behind them, trying not to laugh. They texted Mazer and Sam to tell them where they were.

Somewhere else in the cave, Scarlet, Sam and Mazer were laughing. It had worked so well, they didn’t even know what was going on. Mazer said:

“They’re going to be so fucked in a few hours.”

“Yeah, they won’t see it coming.” Said Sam.

“Why didn’t we just kill them again?” saying it sarcastically.

They laughed, soon was coming a dire time, for the villains knew there was no way out of the cave.

Still, on the surface, the Nomads felt an earthquake, they were concerned since that could only mean one thing. A worm would be the only possible cause. They kept worms as fertilisers. If it had dug too much underground it would cause collapse.

If this were true, there must be life underground as they had theorized due to hollow spots.

The Nomads began to mobilize.

Meanwhile below the surface, the group discovered a forest of stone, plants that grew naturally in pockets of the cave, it was however dark and there was no light. Except for the lights of phones and flashlights.

They could see many paths from here, leading in various directions all of which contained some trees, which bared beautiful fruit and so sustenance for the people. Vane spoke again saying:

“I knew it was plants that created our world.”

Sugu bit into one and said:

“These are delicious, Vane try one.”

They ate the fruits and where content with the taste and filling of their stomach. They were ripe and sweet.

People went about the cavern picking portions of fruit and eating them, they had not eaten in a few days. Since they had been in darkness for that long.

Lucius and Trixie said to the group:

“Were going to explore further in the cavern, see if we can find a way out.”

They carried with them some fruits. They left and the group was now the four again, they were happy with food and Hilisa said:

“Can we stay here a while, it’s not so bad!”

“Imagine if phones ran out of energy, we’d be screwed!” said Pharath.

They laughed, the world they lived within was not like ours. This was just one of the strange features.

“What’s this?” said a man.

He was holding a black fruit, he took a bite and immediately burst into laughter, then morphed into a horrifying monster with no humanity. These things were controlled by Mazer and Sam, so it quickly snuck off down a tunnel without being noticed.

All the people heard the maniacal laughter however and grew scared as they heard shuffling away.

“What was that?!” asked Sugu.

“I don’t know, but it doesn’t sound good” said Pharath.

That’s when fruits began turning black and people who ate them morphed into monsters, usually for mere curiosity, or later because they wanted to be monsters. Sugu screamed as she witnessed the transformation of people. Each monster ran off into the dark. Vane opened a fruit and found a worm.

“Don’t eat the black fruit!”

“Oh my god, theirs a worm in it!” said Hilisa.

Then from the walls came worms, crawling out they gathered before the four friends, who immediately screamed in shock. The worms came together as two people, Sam and Mazer, who smiled and said:

“Haha, missed us?” said Sam

“You’re alive!” said Sugu

“Obviously.” Said Sam

“Why?” asked Hilisa

“Because Sam lied aout the salt.” Said Mazer

“Sam why are you helping him?” asked Sugu

“Because it’s fun.” Said Sam with a smile

“Whats wrong with you, you’re a nice guy.”

“Sure I am.” Said Sam

He kills a random citizen. The jaws of the four friends drop in shock.

“What are going to do to us?” asked Sugu

“Give you a choice.” Said Mazer

“Either eat the black fruit and join us, or we’ll eat you.” continued Mazer

“No, that’s evil.” Said Pharath

Others went with them and ate the fruit because they were scared, turning into monsters.

“Come on, you know evil is going to win.” Said Sam.

“Yeah, if it didn’t why do you think evil exists. “ Said Mazer

“Gods evil.” Said Sam

“No he’s not, he’s good.” Said Sugu.

“He doesn’t even exist, but I still know evil is wrong.” Said Vane

“Please, we’re way stronger than you.” Said Mazer

“We will never join you.” Said Pharath.

“Yeah!” Said Hilisa.

Then from behind them there was a flash of light and it glowed and Sam, Mazer and the monsters shrieked and ran off into the dark. The light had scared them off for it must have burned them.

When they’d made some distance they turned to each other and laughed.

A little while earlier, Lucius and Trixie had met up with Mazer, Sam and Scarlet and they had eaten a black fruit, but because they had taken Bust, it gave them a power instead of turning them into monsters.

Pharath and friends turned to the light and saw a tall figure in white wearing a mask, this being was glowing. It stood there and spoke:

“I am Holixion, the faith.”

“Thank you for saving us.” Said the group

“I come to help you out of the caverns and away from the evil, you must follow my light out of the cavern.” Holixion continued.

Before them, Holixion turned into a ball of light that hovered and moved, it would guide them through the caves and offer them salvation.

Its voice spoke and said:

“No monster shall harm those in the light, for my purity outshines them.”

The group made a sigh of relief, they had finally found their way to hope, by a fluke of a being stronger than them, who promised to offer them a way out of this nightmare.

“ I can’t believe Sam is evil.” Said Pharath

“Yeah, he was such a nice guy.” Said Vane

“Why do you think he turned?” asked Hilisa

“I don’t know…” said Sugu

“Maybe because he hung out with Mazer.” Said Pharath, angrily

“He said it was fun though, like he always was that.” Said Vane

“I guess people aren’t what they seem sometimes.” Said Hilisa

They sighed, this was painful for them, and they had lost another friend. They really like Sam

“Do you think that Lucius and Trixie are okay?” asked Hilisa

The voice of Holixion rang out:

“They were killed by monsters!”

Sugu bursted into tears, she didn’t like all this bloodshed. Vane counselled her again saying:

“We won’t let them die in vain.”

Sugu couldn’t help but laugh and say:

“That’s your name.”

He also laughed, but it was sad times.

They followed the light for hours. They got some fruit in the maze of tunnels and did not eat the black ones, making sure to take out the worms, which seemed weakened by the light. It was such a walk they thought, and it was taking a long time.

Mazer and Sam’s work was lazy, there was only some paths that went anywhere.

So the group walked on with quite a few others, sometimes they’d see a monster recede into the night.

“What do you think Holixion is?” asked Sugu

“Probably some powerful being from somewhere else.” Answered Vane

“It’s helping us, which is nice.” Said Sugu

“I wonder why?” said Pharath

“Because its faith incarnate, I assume it is good like faith is.” Answered Sugu

They kept walking, pausing to get fruit and eat them. The light kept moving at a mediocre pace.

“ I hope we get out soon” Said Sugu.

“Me too.”

After a while, people began to get tired of walking, but the light moved on through the cave, so the people had to keep walking.

People fell behind and some even were consumed by the monsters, the walk was becoming too long and the voice of Holixion spoke out:

“Those who are strong in faith will make it out of the cave!”

So the people rose in spirit and kept working at it, walking as quickly and as fast as they needed, but the walk was rough, on a rocky terrain that seemed never to end.

On the surface, the Nomads were ready to dig, they hadn’t done this in a long time, as the rock was too hard for their small hands and they would easily get tired. Still, they needed to investigate the earthquake and possibility of life below the surface.

“How much longer?” Asked Sugu

“A great distance” answered Holixion.

The villains were following them, and Sugu knew this, since she could see their figures in the distance. She was concerned that the people would be too tired to make it and the light never stopped, so she asked why and received an answer:

“Faith is about walking to the end, faithful and true, this is a test from God.”

All heard this and they pushed onwards.

Still as time went on the energy, even in the power given by faith, dwindled. People were dying and so Pharath said:

“We can’t go on like this, we have to do something.”

“But faith says we should go on.” Said Sugu

“Yes but faith is deceptive, we should take things in our own hands!” said Vane

“Still that would mean getting that light into our hands.” Said Pharath

“How do we do that, these people are going to die if we don’t.” said Hilisa

“But there’s nothing wrong with faith!” said Sugu

“Yes Sugu, but faith isn’t slowing down to let us rest.” Said Vane

“I have an idea, but I hope faith is okay with it.” Said Sugu

“What is it?” asked the rest

“We could wet the light, since water slows light down.” Said Sugu “I’m not against taking faith into our hands, but it’ll make exploring the cave harder.” She continued.

“That’s true, we should also ask people.” Said Vane

“Yes.” Said Sugu.

So the group walked over to various people who were walking and asked them if it was a good idea.

They liked the idea.

So the four friends took a drink of water and together they spat at the ball of light.

It fell straight to the ground, then there was a sound and a strange women walked into the light of the cave, she had three rows of teeth, long black hair and wore bandages, the women spoke and said:

“I am Pavoriess, fear incarnate and you have conquered me by taking faith into your hands, this was a test of God, who wishes for you to be safe and find your way out of the cave.”

Then she disappeared into the darkness.

“Another being? “said Vane.

“I think their gods.” Said Sugu

“No such thing, these must be powerful natural beings.” Said Vane

“But they talk of God!” said Sugu

“They say God, so they themselves believe in God. Since God has yet to make an appearance.” Said Vane.

“Ugh, you wouldn’t believe God if you saw him!” said Sugu

“What does God even look like?” asked Vane

“True.” Said Sugu

The people rested for a time, now that the light lay on the ground, they drank water and ate some of the fruits that lay about the stone forest. Then when everyone was ready they got someone to carry the light, so the people walked through the cave, sometimes reaching dead ends and retreating to find another path. So the people could now walk at their own pace and it was all good.

Until the light electrocuted the man carrying it and killed him on the spot.

“ What on earth just happened?” asked sugu.

They heard hysterical laughter and all the monsters came walking into the light unharmed. The light rose up into the sky and transformed into Lucius, now taller and handsomer, radiating a light. 

Pavoriesse came out of the dark and took off her own mask revealing a happy Scarlet, smiling evilly. Worms came out of the walls and turned into Sam and Mazer who immediately burst into laughter. A stretched hand reached out of the darkness, slapped the four friends in the face and receded then Trixie walked out of the night. Also smiling.

“Hahahaha, we got you good.” Said Mazer.

“We’re responsible for all your suffering and hope.” Said Sam.

“We told you evil would win.” Snarked Scarlet.

“We even gave you a chance.” Said Lucious.

“How the fuck did you get so tall Lucious? And your powers?” asked Pharath.

“Why the hell should we tell you, I’m hungry let’s eat!” said Mazer.

Lucius descended from his floating position and said:

“Oh and my name is now Leon!” he said with a prideful smile.

Hilisa shrieked and the group wanted to run, but they were surrounded by monsters and walls of the cave.

Mazer and Sam turned to worms which went out to consume them all, even their allies, which surprised even them. Scarlet screamed with that realisation. Hilisa did too saying:

“Oh God why.”

Then a crack formed in the wall and light slipped through, revealing tens of small cute creatures with big eyes, standing on their hind legs. They waved the people over, most did not see them, some did not believe but Sugu said:

“Quick, let’s run to the light!”

But Hilisa said:

“No wait, what if it isn’t true!”

So the three remaining friends ran to the light, Hilisa was scared and paralysed, and was promptly devoured by the worms. Evil could not even see the light, for the worms were blind to it and so the fruits also blinded the sinners. Vane, Sugu and Pharath escaped and the rest were eaten alive.

After Sam and Mazer had consumed all the people, animals and fruit, they starved to death in the caverns, they were content with what they did and died happily. They could not find their way to the surface because their minds blinded them to the surface. It is as if the cavern went on forever and looped back on itself for them. While the three heroes escaped.

After their death, they awoke in a small room, with Scarlet, Trixie, Leon and Hilisa. They were all awake except Hilisa who slept softly. At the center of the white room was a telephone. They sat there for hours, unable to speak or move. Until the phone began to rang, at which point Hilisa woke up and confused answered the phone saying:

“Hello?”

The walls and ceiling of the room flew away, revealing two giant beings looking down at them, the sky was black and white, glowing and the two beings looked like the costumes, one with three rows of teeth and one with a mask, fear held a weighing scale ( a symbol of the balance of fear ) and faith a bow alone ( as symbol for no weapon of faith ). Pavoriess spoke:

“Look at these humans, pretending to be gods.”

“Yes, they are great sinners” answered Holixion.

“What shall we do with them?” Asked Pavoriesse.

“Hmm, they have insulted us.” Said Holixion

“Yes, they pretended to be us.” Said Pavoriesse.

“But I am proud of their lessons.” Said Holixion.

“ Uhm, what the fuck is thi…” said Mazer

“Silence.” Said both beings.

“ As punishment for your crimes, you shall be cast into fire.” Said Both.

The four villains burst into laughter, looking at Hilisa who was innocent.”

“ But that’s not fair for me” said Hilisa.

“ This is true.” Said Holixion.

“I shall bestow you a power for your protection.” Said Pavoriesse.

Hilisa was given the power to shield herself, by turning anything that wasn’t earth into a solid.

The group of villains frowned.

The floor disappeared and the group fell towards a burning and massive fire below, it burned them all except Hilisa. They screamed in pain and in torture, moving their arms and legs in motion of dance.

Because they actually really enjoyed being burned alive. Trixie winked at Hilisa as she screamed and waved her arms.

Hilisa was shocked, her murderers where taking pleasure out of the fire, enjoying its eternal burn, she grew curious to its experience and slowly she receded her shield, feeling the heat build slowly as if getting into a very hot tub, she began to enjoy the painful fire as well.

But this “torment” was cut short.

Pavoriesse and Holixion spoke and appeared once more, saying:

“That wasn’t the punishment. That was a prize.”

“Now you will be punished. But before, Sam and Mazer’s power shall be weakened.“ Said Pavoriesse.

And they all disappeared in a flash of light. They awoke remembering nothing somewhere on the surface of their world.

Chapter 6

The Surface.

Our two parties found themselves on separated continents of the surface, a strange new land for both. The planet, if you would call it that was flat and triangular. Its edges becoming the sky as it rotates. The sky was in the shape of a rotating tetrahedron, whose four corners where stellar objects similar to suns and moons, only triangular. The cave that existed underground was completely absent from the flatness, for it was curved into another dimension.

The first continent, which was where Vane, Sugu and Pharath were, was rather diamond shaped, its grass was a bright yellow and its surface covered in various plants, who were mostly pink or green. This land was inhabited by the Nomads, a race of small squishy creatures with advanced technology, they had big round eyes and were of many different colors, each had two antennae’s on their heads and they spoke in high pitched voices.

There was a great forest here as well, from which many animals lived, all small and adorable.

Surrounding this continent was a sea of greenish blue water, that was rather calm but not completely, it was unlike the water below the surface which was clear and blue, unlike that water this water could e walked into as if it was air and could be breathed as such as well.

A distance away from this continent , which was called Nama. There was Mont, the mountainy continent wich was generally in the shape of a circle with tall mountains surrounding it.

This is where Scarlet, Trixie, Mazer, Leon, Hilisa and Sam ended up. It was known by the Nomads as the prison continent because there were many things imprisoned there and they knew not where they came from.

There was a great forest within the valley of the mountains, whose trees seemed crooked and bent and spread out like hands with hands on their fingers.

This was the surface, whose atmosphere was its edge and could only be pierced with advanced technology, for that is where the Nomads had come from long ago. For the nomads travel through the cosmos and live in places for long times, before departing once more. They do not have a homeland, but always treat their world well.

On Mont there are many things, but there are especially Mobles, a race of violent and strange creatures who look like a long haired and tall thing, with a large mouth and eyes below them, they have small hands and are not particularly intelligent. However they are tall and so scare the nomads away from that continent.

None know the origin of the Mobles, for they are strangers too to the land of Monama, the name given to this triangular world by the nomads. They know the Mobles are strangers here, for they often poof into presence onto the landscape.

There is more to discuss about this world, but it will be revealed in time, for the secret mistake was in the sacred heart of the land, which sustains it with its two halves.

On the surface of Nama, Pharath looked around and said:

“Where’s Hilisa?”

Then realizing she was still in the cave, began to head back in, but the nomads stopped him and said:

“Don’t go back in there, you’ll be eaten.”

Pharath began to cry, he knew Hilisa was gone and he was in torment, crying out:

“Why!” and continuing said:

“Sam and Mazer are monsters. They killed her and ate her. Why didn’t I grab her and bring her with me.”

He slopped on the ground, he felt guilty for her death. Sugu said:

“Pharath it’s not your fault, they did it. “

“ I could of done something” he answered.

At this point, because they were safe, they waited by the surface and cried. The whole affair had been horrible. The nomads were told of the events below the surface and they grew sad too. They spoke and said:

“If you are the kind of species to believe, then it is likely Hilisa is still alive!”

Pharath kind of did, he nodded in his sorrow. They then performed a little ceremony for those who had passed on.

After a while, the trio walked with the many nomads, who sung a soft song and led them to their city. It was much smaller than the human’s world and so Vane, Pharath and Sugu were taller than the buildings.

The nomads city was large for them and was full of sparkling lights as it was sunset, they drove little vehicles and walked about, buying fruit at their little supermarkets and going about their business, some talked on their small watches, but most turned in shock to see the giant humans, some grew curious and approached others were afraid and went home.

Of in one corner of the city was a massive spaceship, it seemed old and dysfunctional as no light glowed on. Some of the nomad children played in fires which the trio learned was like cool water to them. Apparently the nomads were impervious and enjoyed fire, it did not make them suffer.

The nomads who approached where curious as to where the trio had come from and so they were told their story, learning this the nomads politely gave their condolences. Saying:

“My God, that is horrible.”

“Those bad people will suffer.”

Sugu said:

“What do you mean they’ll suffer?”

“We believe that bad people are given punishments for their crimes and the good are spared.” They answered.

“Yes, praise to Nom, who guides us to new worlds every thousand years!” another said.

The Nomads did a little dance to praise their god. Sugu was confused, this was a different idea from her concept of God, but she seemed to agree with it, it wasn’t fair for her friends to die in vain.

The trio were exhausted and needed a place to sleep, so the nomads suggested they sleep on the soft grass by the ship. So off the trio went to lay there for the night.

Now the other group awoke on the other continent that morning, Hilisa was first to wake up and was immediately surprised by a little girl staring at her happily. Hilisa remembered nothing of the events underground, only her name.

The rest awoke and the little girl recognized them and ran to Hilisa, screaming:

“Ah, bad people.”

They did not remember anything either. This was because the spirits had taken that away. Mazer said:

“What is she talking about?”

“Yeah, I don’t remember anything.” Said Lucious, he was short again.

“You were bad people in Fana.” said the little girl. Scared and clutching Hilisa.

“What did we do?” asked Sam.

“Well, you did bad things like steal people’s blood” she pointed at Scarlet.

“And you took a drug that was really bad.” She pointed at Mazer.

“You I’m not sure, but you kept doing weird things.” She pointed a Sam.

“I remember you Leon, you were a bad king.” She said

“You were always trying to summon monsters!” she pointed at Trixie

“But Hilisa helped stop all of you!” she said innocently.

Mazer smiled, he wanted to know more. He said:

“Where’s Fana?”

“In another world, but we are stuck here, my daddy put me here.” She said.

“Why did he do that?” asked Hilisa. The little girl says:

“Because daddy made a sticky thing I thought was candy and I ate it and now I can do this!”

She turns into a ball of slime. She transforms back and says:

“It makes me really hungry, I ate my dad’s house, and he got scared and sent me here.”

“That’s really weird.” Says Scarlet “I don’t remember that.”

“How old are you and what’s your name? “Asks Hilisa

“I’m Buggles and I’m twelve.” Said Buggles.

“Why do you think we’re here?” Asks Scarlet.

“I think it’s because we were bad.” Says Sam.

“Hmm, what about her?” asks Mazer. Pointing to Hilisa.

“Hey, I probably did something bad too.” Said Hilisa.

The group of six looked around them, the forest was awfully creepy with its outstretched hand-like trees. They heard a strange sound and looking in its direction they saw a Moble staring at them and licking its jaws. It made a senseless noise and came running, plenty more appeared and did the same, yelling gibberish.

The group ran as they had no weapons, they were scared and defenceless, but scarlet tripped and hurt her finger, making it bleed. This is when she realised she could control the blood of her open wounds. She turned back and using her blood as a whip, she whipped the Mobles coming her way.

The rest of the group looked on and realized they also had powers, Hilisa shielded herself and Buggles. Mazer and Sam still had their worms, except now they could only extend them from their fingers, not turn into all-consuming worms. Lucius turned into Leon and hovered into the air, casting lightning bolts and Trixie slapped the Mobles from afar with her stretchy arms

The Mobles were shocked but kept coming. Each time one was defeated it would poof out of existence, still yelling random gibberish

“What are these things.” Screamed scarlet.

“I don’t know, but their kind of cute.” Said Trixie.

“Ha!” Said Sam.

After a while, the onslaught of Mobles died down, they seemed to have grown scared and fearful of the group, who had killed many and who had powers beyond the comprehension of Mobles.

“This is so cool, we have powers!” Said Hilisa.

“Yeah, I can stab bad guys.” Said Mazer with a smile, he didn’t really care.

“Where do you think we got our powers from? “ asked Sam.

“Uhm, everyone has powers in Fana, mine was summoning gerbils.” Said Buggles.

“Should we explore this place? I’m hungry” asked Sam

They nodded and off they went to explore the strange land of Mont, they would find something unexpected in the midst of the forest. Looking over a hill, Leon said:

“eh, what’s that?”

Meanwhile, Vane, Sugu and Pharath awoke that morning to small nomads playing by them and a festival taking place inside the city. They went over to see what it was about and the nomads welcomed them into their midst, saying:

“Great is Nom, who has saved these people from the worms, great are they for they are tall.”

“Praise the lord and law, for the good shall inherit all. “

“What your god like” asked Sugu, who had never heard of another god before, other than evil from the bad guys.

“He is great, for he wrote us a code long ago, a code for our spaceship, one that takes us to a new home when the thousand years are over.”

“Yes he came as a nomad and he taught us to build our great technologies, he taught us to travel through the worlds, for we had always loved moving around.”

“That’s really nice of him” Said Sugu.

“Where did you come from?” Asked Vane, who was looking at the sky and wondering how it worked.”

“We come from a distant world, where things are very different, we walked each day down a long path, gathering fruits and living with the animals, but this was aeons ago, since then we have been to many worlds, we grow bored of worlds often.”

“When do you leave next?” asked Pharath

“Regrettably we were supposed to a few months ago, but we have a proble…” said a nomad.

A great beast came out of the sea, it looked like a questing beast and walked on all fours, it had a snake like head with frills on either side of its large head, its pronged tongue stuck out and it walked with an animal gait. Quickly it ran into the city and grabbed a few nomads and ate them, moved on and did it again. The nomads screamed:

“Oh god , the lionsnake is back.”

The nomads ran screaming in horror, trying their best to hide from the lionsnake. Pharath yelled at it, telling it to leave the nomads alone. It looked at him and made a shriek, before grabbing a few more nomads and running back into the sea.

“What on earth was that?” asked Sugu in shock.

“That’s the lionsnake, it lives in the ocean and comes to eat us sometimes.” Said the nomad

“That’s wrong.” Said Pharath.

“Yes and we are too small to defend ourselves, we’ve tried.” Said the nomad.

“We should do something about it, since we’re bigger.” Said Pharath.

“Yeah” said Vane.

“ We can help make it easier.” Said the Nomads.

“ We’ll give you a power so you can fight the lionsnake.”

“I don’t want one.” Said Pharath.

“Why” Asked sugu.

“Because a power corrupted the rest of our friends and I don’t want that to happen to me.” He said “Its okay if you want one”

So the nomads went and got some ripe fruit fertile from the well done ground full of worms. Sugu and Vane ate the fruit and with a sudden burst of energy, gained a power. Sugu blew a bubble from her mouth, it was made of glass. She could also spawn them from her fingers, made of water. Vane could light anything he touched on fire and was impervious to fire.

So the two practiced using their powers to be well prepared for the battle, Pharath practiced using a sword.

When they were ready, the followed the lionsnake’s footprints into sea, which they learned from the nomads was like air, in that it was passable, un-swimmable and breathable. They descended deep underwater, where they saw fish who could swim, swim by.

Sugu spoke with a slightly fearful tone:

“Why are we even doing this, I’m scared.”

“Because we need to prove that good win, redeem the people who died and that lionsnake is doing something wrong.” Said Pharath.

They nodded, this was true, they had lost so many because of evil and desperately needed proof that good would and could win.

“I still can’t believe this all happened, those poor people crushed or eaten by worms. “Said Sugu

“I know right, the world is way more messed up than I once believed.” Said Vane

“You know why I think good will win? Because we are still alive and their dead.” Said Pharath

“Further the world is too beautiful to be evil and the nomads are like a way to redeem ourselves.” He continued.

“I wouldn’t say that relatively the world is perfectly good, but that good is simply naturally superior, because people who do bad things go to jail.” Said Vane

“No! Life is perfectly good, there’s so many good things in it, and it can’t be relative.” Said Sugu.

“Well you know I have my own opinions, and I’d say that the existence of bad things is proof that some people like to do more naughty things, like drugs for example.” Answered Vane.

“Yeah, but drugs are bad.” Said Pharath.

“Still, I don’t think that just because evil exists that its relative, I think were supposed to be good.” Said Sugu.

“Hey, what’s that?” said Pharath. Pointing to a strange striped serpent like creature swimming away from them, holding a skull in one of its clawed hands.

Meanwhile, on Mont where the trees were hand like. The group looked up at the sky and saw the same creature swimming in the opposite direction.

This was Raveth, persomnia of Punishment and Revenge. His duty was to overlook the guilty and ensure they were given proper justice by the order of Pavoriesse and Holixion.

“I have no idea what the heck that was.” Said Sam.

“Meh, it’s not bothering us, let’s go check out that boat in the distance. “ Said Mazer,

who was slightly annoyed at having the same power as someone else while everyone else had an original power, he didn’t know why either. Sam was also annoyed but less so because he didn’t care, he liked having the worm power.

So they walked down the hill to the clearing in the midst of Mont, where there sat a pirate ship half sunk into the ground. As they approached they noticed a strange group of fish men pirates, each unique and each a different kind of fish. They sat and lounged around on beach chairs and chuckled to themselves while drinking beer, they even had a barbecue and were cooking sausages.

Our group approached them and said:

“Uhm Hello? Would it be possible to have some food.”

A pirate turned to them and said as he finished his beer and tossed onto the ground with the others:

“ Arr, who be you people.”

“ Uh, Im Hilisa , this is Buggles.”

“Im Trixie, this is Scarlet.”

“ And you boys” said the pirate.

“ Leon.”

“Mazer.”

“Sam.”

The pirates started to laugh, one fell off his chair in amusement. Another said:

“Where be the captain?”

“ We don’t have one” Said Hilisa.

The pirates laughed again. Saying:

“ Not you, our captain. “

Out of the ship came a large shark like pirate with a captains hat and long coat, he had a hook for a a hand and seemed curious at the laughter outside. He came over and said with a gruff tone:

“Arr, I see we have some fresh shrimp with us today.”

“We’ll have to welcome them our way.” He continued.

The pirates got up smiling and began to flex, the captain saying:

“New comers to our midst must fight one of us, if you win we’ll make you part of our crew, if you lose ye be in davey jones’s locker. Yarr get to choose who to fight. We’ll let the wee girl go free though, we ain’t no jerks.”

Each of our heroes chose a crew member, but Mazer looked straight at the captain and smiled saying:

“I wanna fight you and if I win, I be the captain.”

“Bwahahahaha, ye be brave, if you win you might be captain.” Said the captain.

First up was Scarlet, who faced a smaller pirate with a dagger, quickly as the battle began she bit her finger which had healed from earlier and blood came out, with it she began to furiously whip the pirate using nothing but the hardening blood of her body. The pirate couldn’t even get close and soon he said:

“ Arr, I give up!”

Next was Trixie, who with her elastic arms did a similar thing, slapping the pirate silly from a far, Trixie was laughing the whole time, sometimes doing backflips as she did this and doing plenty of gymnastic poses. This pirate also gave up because it was getting ridiculous.

Hilisa just stood inside her shield and couldn’t help but laugh at the fact the pirate couldn’t break though, he grew angry and eventually gave up. It was actually possible to shatter her shield but it took a lot of force, more so than the flimsy arms of a skinny pirate. Worse still she could and did toss frozen air at her opponent all while he tried desperately to break through.

Leon also had an easy time, the moment he floated into the air, in his tall form and sent out balls of lightning the pirate simply gave up completely, this was starting to be ridiculous to the prates, who had not anticipated powers to be part of the battle.

At this point the captain stepped in a said:

“By davy jones is locker, ye be too strong for us, do you two have power too?” Pointing to Sam and Mazer with is hook.

Sam and Mazer released their weakened worms, the captain was shocked and a little intimidated. He said:

“Erm, y’all be too strong for us, but that was not fair, so you cannot be part of our crew without a true test of your pirate skills. So go and defeat the land kraken that bothers us so often.”

“What?!” said Hilisa?

“Go defeat the land kraken and we will let you have sausage.”

Pharath, Vane and Sugu had walked for about an hour, down the cliff like slope towards whatever lay ahead of them, there was surprisingly a path likely formed by the lionsnake. At the base of this cliff the three saw a strange temple made of blue rock which stuck out in the midst of the green water, the temple was full of tiny holes and seemed built of tiny houses. Hurrying along, they went into the temple with Vane saying in wonder:

“Who the heck built this?”

“I don’t know, maybe another race on this world.” Said Pharath.

“Yeah but what happened to them? Asked Sugu.

Shivers kind of ran down their spine, the world was full of mysteries. What had happened here?

In the temple were strange jars full of red straws, all of the same length and a perfume, different wafted from each. It was a large maze like temple, full hall ways, the group explored them together, smelling the wondrous concoction of perfume.

They wandered for a while before Sugu said:

“We aren’t getting anywhere and I think were lost.”

Sugu walks over to one of the straws and pulls it out of its jar, a sound is heard and walls begin to shift, moving to separate Sugu from the two guys, but suddenly stops leaving an entrance for her to go around. She meets up with the boys and says:

“That was close, we should stay together from now on.”

“Wait a minute , if we pull a straw it changes the maze, so let’s see if it opened a door.”

So they went and looked and spent a while searching but found nothing. So then they pulled another straw, looking for a way out. Then they started to realize that wasn’t working either. So Vane said:

“what if it’s because the jars are still full?”

So they wandered around and knocked over all the jars, and the maze moved around until wherever they went in the maze the jars were knocked over.

“Uhm, Vane , I think that did nothing, we’ve been everywhere.”

Vane tried to put the straws back in, they did nothing. Vane said:

“Well it was worth a shot. Damn.”

So they walked around hoping to find a way out, then Pharath realized something. He said:

“What if we weren’t supposed to remove all the straws?!”

“Aaaaaaaaah Fuck it!”

Sugu and Pharath heard an explosion behind them. They saw smoke and Vane. With a giant hole in the wall. He seemed a little annoyed, but turning to see what was inside the hole made him laugh, their sat the next room.

“You know I could just kill you right now right?” Said Mazer.

Hundreds of cannon came out of their hiding holes on the pirate ship, the captain said:

“Arrr, which be a bad idea. Those be explosives matey.”

The cannons pointed at the barbecue. Mazer frowned, raised his hands and said:

“Alright, we’ll kill that kraken.”

So the group left the pirates behind, in search of this strange beast. The pirates didn’t know where it lived, since they stayed by their ship all day long. All they knew was that it came from the north. So they headed that direction.

“ I wonder what a land kraken looks like” said Buggles “ Whoa a butterfly”

Buggles chased after the butterfly, which had been attracted by Scarlets perfume, to her annoyance. With a sudden gulp, Buggles ate the butterfly, giggling. Scarlet’s jaw dropped in disgust and shock.

Then Buggles took a bite out of a tree, she said:

“ I’m hungwy.”

Suddenly hundreds of mobles appeared and Sam said:

“ Ugh not this again.”

So they faught them once again, only this time Buggles ate all of them in her slime form.

Hilisa said to Sam:

“Im concerned about that little girl.”

“Yeah she’s weird, it puts even me off.”

Mazer comes over and says:

“I don’t know if you’re going to help us, Hilisa.”

“Why?” asked Hilisa.

“Because you’re too nice, the pirates won’t welcome you as a pirate and you care too much for that little girl.” Said Mazer.

“ Says the one who was trying to kill pirates and doing drugs, you should learn to be more nice.” Said Hilisa

“oh really, well your right , I should be nice. Yet I cant.” Said Mazer

“Why?” Asked Hilisa.

“Because it’s too much fun being mean.” Said Mazer

“That’s going to get you into trouble one day, maybe it already has.” Said Hilisa.

“Okay, enough guys, I’m hungry and we can’t eat wood like Buggles. Let’s find that land kraken.” Said Sam.

Meanwhile, the three friends went deeper into the temple full of tiny holes and little windows, they arrive into a long and wide hall, as soon as they entered, a switch below their feet was activated, and out of various holes throughout the hall came a deep blue liquid that defied gravity and floated around.

Some surrounded Sugu’s head and she began to choke as if she was drowning, quickly she moved out of the way.

“Shit, were going to drown, unless we get to the other side quick enough.”

Sugu had an idea, she could make helmets out of her bubbles, but the glass dissolved into the water as soon as she blew one. Those made of water wouldn’t work because they were full of water. So the group ran for their lives as quickly as they could, avoiding the darker water and holding their breath when they had no choice.

They were running fast and they almost didn’t see the large hole hidden by perspective until they got close, Vane and Pharath stopped suddenly, but Sugu couldn’t slow down and with an acceleration and went tumbling towards the edge, as she got to the edge she tripped and began to fall toward the bottomless pit below, she screamed…

And landed on the glass floor.

For a second the group burst into laughter, before quickly running across the glass and into the next room.

This room was small and circular, with a hole at the top and an entrance and exit into another deeper chamber of this strange temple full of anti-climactic wonders. They walked through it about a third of the way, relieved that there wasn’t much in this room.

And that’s when Ravesh fell from the hole in the ceiling, up close you could see that his mouth was sown shut and that he looked mostly like a snake with arms, one was missing a hand and the other held a skull.

Ravesh thought to himself, he would warn the group of the upcoming danger, the group themselves looked at this creature and being with curiosity and some terror.

Ravesh raised his skull, began to shake and made mumbled and incomprehensible sounds, he did this for a long time, and the group looked at him in confusion and then said:

“Uh, okay… I think we’re just going to walk around you.”

So they did. Leaving Ravesh to mumble incomprehensibly behind them.

Ravesh was amused, this was how it was meant to go, for no one looking for revenge would listen to a warning anyways, so he swam up and out of the room, through the hole and of towards Mont, where he would meet with the punished and punish them.

He swam out of the water and into the sky, over the sea he traveled the distance to the other island and swam down towards where the other group awaited.

They were nearing the entrance of a cave, having fought many easy to defeat Mobles and searched for a few hours for this place in the north.

Ravesh thought to himself, he would ensure the group was properly punished, he descended and hovered in front of them. Then he shook the skull in the air and made mumbled and incomprehensible noises.

The group stood there in confusion, then started to laugh at it, but Ravesh continued. They laughed harder, and Ravesh mumbled even louder.

Then the group got bored and walked around him, they were hungry after all.

Ravesh thought to himself, this was good, he had made them relaxed so the punishment would be greater still. He also knew they were bored from such easy enemies.

Into the dark cavern they went, Leon summoned a ball of lightning to ensure they could see.

“Hey Buggles” asked Hilisa.

“What? “Said Buggles.

“So it’s that candy that made you so hungry?” asked Hilisa

“Yeah, I can eat so much and I’m so hungry, but food sustains me more.” Said Buggles

“Do you miss your dad” asked Hilisa.

“Yeah, he told me he woved me before he sent me away. He cried.” Said Buggles.

The group continued onwards, avoiding the stalactites and stalagmites. Sometimes bats would fly by and this made both Scarlet and Hilisa scream.

“Ew these things are gross.” Said Scarlet.

“I think their kind of cute and cool” Said Sam

.

Mazer looked at Sam funny and said:

“You’re weird.”

“Yeah and you’re an ass.” Said Sam, with a smile

Mazer said nothing, and they all continued through the cave.

Mazer thought to himself, thinking that he didn’t like having Hilisa around, because he knew from Buggles that she had tried to stop or even defeated him before. This was not pleasing to Mazer, who didn’t like the concept of being defeated, it just wasn’t his style.

“Hey Buggles, tell me more about Fana.” Said Mazer.

“Oh it’s a magical place, and it’s so pretty.”

“What happened to me? “ He asked

“I donno, you did something very bad, my daddy wouldn’t tell me.” She answered.

Pharath walked into the next room first, it was strangely arranged, taking no particular shape except that at the center was a watery hole, full of clear water. The three journey through its various levels towards the center well. They looked in and were shocked to see 5 familiar faces, looking up at them.

They seemed hungry and had yet to notice them, but Pharath, as soon as he saw Mazer and Sam, with Hilisa and a little girl, said:

“Hilisa! You okay?”

They looked up at the well and saw the three looking down at them from the room. Hilisa didn’t remember Pharath but recognized her name. She stood up from where she sat and said:

“Who are you?”

It is now that I should mention that they are not in the same place, one is deep below the sea, and the other is deep in the mountain caves.

Pharath was confused, he knew it was Hilisa, he said:

“Don’t you remember me?”

Mazer got up and looked up the hole, then turned and said:

“I don’t think we should stay here, that weird hole is screwing with me”

Mazer was getting a sick feeling from the water reflecting onto the cavern walls and he felt like screwing with whoever was at the top. So the group who didn’t trust the illusions of this cave left the lighter part of the cave behind. With Pharath, Vane and Hilisa saying:

“No wait!!”

They still kept going, but Buggles turned and made a face, sticking out her tongue.

“Their alive ?!” said Sugu.

“What the fuck, poor Hilisa.” Said Pharath.

“She didn’t and doesn’t even remember, do you think Mazer does?” Said Vane.

“Ugh, I’m so tired of people dying and coming back to life unexpectedly, especially Mazer.” Said Pharath

“We should go find them after we defeat the lionsnake, we can’t get to them from up here.” Said Sugu

“Its probably an illusion Sugu, this place is full of traps and Hilisa is dead for sure.” Said Vane, trying to rationalise the coming back to life aspect.

“Hmm, well both of you are right, we don’t know and we gotta get going, well figure it out later.”

“If they are alive, it’s probably a property of the rocks in the cave or something.”

They continued into the temple going through another door that lay in that room.

They arrived in a vast hall, full of pillars, everything was covered in holes that fit well with the blue rock and greenish hue of the translucent water. The hall was massive and beautifully architectured.

“Wow, this is beautiful.” Said Sugu.

They walked through the hall, this temple had seemed far smaller on the outside at this point, they wondered at how this could be.

This is when they heard a squeak.

“What was that?” asked Vane.

They saw something small and white in one of the holes. Taking a closer look, the three discovered a small and adorable creature with big black eyes. It squeaked and came out of the hole, hovering in the air.

“Maybe this is what built the temple?” said Pharath.

Another appeared from another hole, then another and another.

Soon there were hundreds of these things, each unique in shape, all adorable.

This is when the group grew a little concerned and started heading towards the next room, trying to avoid them, every time one came in contact it squeaked.

More kept coming out of the holes and they began to surround the group, trying to stop them from getting out of the room, pushing in large groups against the three friends.

More squeaking.

It was getting harder to push through the gathering of cute things, Pharath was getting annoyed , he did not have time for this, so he tried poking one and it vanished with a chime.

Soon Pharath, Sugu and Vane were poking the cute things into vanishment.

Finally most were gone and they could get through the room once again. Sugu said:

“That was weird , cute and annoying.”

“What do you think those were.”

“ Cuttles” resonated a voice inside all three.

Had the small creatures just spoken to them? Sugu said:

“Why are you trying to stop us?”

“Because our God wishes not to see you.” Said the cuttles

“The lionsnake is your God?” asked Sugu.

“Yes , he came a long time ago and made us build his home.” Said the cuttles

“That’s not very nice!” said Pharath.

Meanwhile , deep in the cavern of Mont, Scarlet, Leon and Trixie were walking behind the rest of the group, with Mazer leading, followed by Hilisa, Buggles and Sam. Sam was having fun pointing out the spider webs for Hilisa, both because he was being nice and because he wasn’t being so.

“Ugh, how long is this gonna take.” Said Scarlet.

“You know darling, patience is a virtue.” Said Trixie.

“Oh shut up, I’m hungry.” Said Scarlet.

“Girls, come on now, don’t be whiny.” Said Leon.

“ I can whine if I want to.” Said Scarlet.

Trixie rolled her eyes.

“Anyways, I’d guess we’re almost there, we’ve been in here for a few hours now for sure.” Said Leon.

“Yeah, but we still don’t know how we’re gonna defeat the land Kraken.” Said Trixie.

“We should throw Hilisa into its mouth and poison it with her goodness.” Said Scarlet.

“Wow, guess you aren’t fond of Hilisa.” Said Leon.

“Look at her, she’s so nice, she annoys and offends me.” Said Scarlet.

“Does it put you to shame?” joked Trixie.

“Aaaaaaaaagh *choke*” screamed Scarlet.

“Oh shit!” said Leon.

Trixie kinda giggled, Hilisa and the rest turned around and saw the horrifying sight before them.

Stalagmites had raised out of the ground and punctured Scarlet who stood limply and dead on the spot, reacting quickly Hilisa shielded the group and covered buggles’s eyes, since she assumed there were more and knew a child shouldn’t see that There were hundreds of spikes coming in and out of the ground.

“Awe man, I was gonna fuck her.” Said Mazer.

“That’s so inappropriate! We should say a few words.” Said Hilisa.

So they did, saying this like:

“Im so sorry Scarlet.”

And

“You were a damn good looking girl.”

They walked away from her corpse using Hilisa’s shields to protect themselves, Buggles already knew about death, but luckily hadn’t seen a thing.

So the remaining 5 walked through the cavern a little shaken by the events, they decided to take a break below a hovering pool of water far above them, they wondered how and why that was there.

“I wonder how that got there” said Trixie “ Looks like something you’d see while high.”

She smiled at the mysterious thought of drugs.

“Yeah, it’s probably some sort of mirage” said Leon.

“Hey Leon, why are you short when you don’t use your powers?” asked Trixie.

“How the fuck should I know.” Said Leon, a tad insulted.

“Your so cute when your tiny, its adorable.” Said Trixie.

Leon gave her a glare and said:

“Fuck off.”

Trixie giggled and said:

“Awe are you going to hit me?”

She slaps him.

“Nah, you’re a girl.”

But he did give her a shock, to her contentment. (That’s what she wanted all along.)

It is here that they heard the voice of the three other characters from above and left with Mazer’s suggestion and fuckery.

“I wonder who those people were.” Said Hilisa.

“Probably another trap, girl.” Said Leon.

“Did you recognize them?” said Hilisa to Buggles.

“No!” she responded quickly.

They kept going.

Trixie yawned, she was getting bored. She said:

“ This is one deep cave! Also Leon got an explanation for those spikes?”

“Hmmmm, I’d say it’s either some sort of pressure in the rocks, or the land kraken.” Said Leon.

“Oh, that could mean we’re close.” Said Trixie.

“Hey , Hey Hilisa ! Lets talk.” Said Trixie.

Hilisa turned around and said:

“Okay, about what?”

Meanwhile, Pharath, Sugu and Vane finally arrived into the final chamber of the temple, a large domed room with pillars. They could see the Lionsnake sleeping at the center of the room and quickly hid behind a pillar to make a plan.

Pharath had a sword, given to him by the nomads, he said:

“So what are we going to do?”

“Kill it obviously.” Said Vane

“How?” asked Sugu

“I don’t know, but I don’t want Sugu taking part.” Said Vane

“How about I sneak over there and cut of its head while it sleeps.” Said Pharath.

“True.” Said Vane.

So Pharath snuck over with his sword, and with a quick and clean slice cut off the lionsnakes head. Immediately the Lionsnake began shaking, still alive. Kindof like a chicken with its head cut off.

Pharath turned to head back , the job done. Yet Sugu screamed:

“Pharath look out!”

He turned to see the lionsnake had grown two more heads, it made a roaring sound before pouncing onto Pharath and eating him on the spot. Pausing every few seconds to let out a howl and lick its chops.

Vane and Sugu were shocked, Sugu wanted to scream but Vane covered her mouth.

They didn’t watch the feast, but I assure you not even the bones were left. The lionsnake liked crunchy bones. The sword lay on the blood stained floor of the temple.

Now , once the lionsnake was done, it set out to find the source of that voice that had screamed and the two realized that this was happening.

Quickly, Vane blasted the pillar of the room in the lionsnakes direction hoping to harm or slow it down.

“Don’t cut anymore heads” said Vane.

Sugu and Vane ran around the room being chased by the Lionsnake who let out snarls and strange reptile noises. Vane clutched Sugu’s hand and they ran about doing their best to avoid this monster.

The rocks and fire were ineffective and Sugu could still do nothing with her powers. (Wich were beginning to feel like a waste of time)

So they ran for quite a while around the room, hoping to tire each other out.

Meanwhile at the corpse of Scarlet, blood dripped onto the floor and a mouse skittered along the ground, it walked onto the blood and made a trail of tiny footprints deeper into the cave.

Following the mouse into its hidey hole, we see a long tunnel to a small and comfortable home for any mouse and the remnant bones of some creature who had likely been a cat…

In Sourisia, a land of wondrous forests plains, a strange event was bound to occur. A portion of the sky turned red and stormy and the plants below died, then a castle made entirely out of bones rose up from the ground. Inside were various halls and rivers of flowing blood. The whole castle was made of skulls and various kinds of bones, some stained red and others white as snow.

Deep within this castle, there was a marvelous heart, hovering. It began to beat and as it did so, Scarlet faded into being, laying in front of it.

Scarlet awoke and was surprised by the castle she was within, she could still remember the events of Mont and remembered the sharp pain that had killed her. She got up and looked around.

She said to herself:

“What the fuck? Where am I?”

She looked around, she was all alone in a massive castle, she found herself in the basement. So she walked up the stairs to the first floor, a great hall with a double staircase leading to the second floor.

Exploring the castle, she found a library full of books, an empty garden on the upper deck. She also saw in a large and well decorated bedroom, full of red fabric a beautiful bone mirrored vanity table. The whole castle was dimly lit by the glassless windows.

Scarlet smiled, she may be all alone, but at least she had a wondrous castle.

She decided to go outside, to explore the world beyond her new home, so she walked down the long staircase out of her castle and into the waist land that was her front yard and backyard. This disappointed her.

“Hmm, what shall I do?” she said to herself.

She walked further away from her castle, looking up at the red and turbulent sky.

Soon she arrived at the edge of the dead plants that littered the surroundings, where she discovered a vast forest of beautiful green trees and vegetation. It was a deciduous forest full of leafy trees.

Some bore ripe oranges and plums, to Scarlets content, since she was still hungry.

She reached up and picked a few of the ripe fruit, taking a bite she greatly enjoyed their sweet taste and the excitement of peeling a fresh orange.

Venturing deeper into the forest, she saw many beautiful flowers, creeks and even some wildlife.

Small birds flew about and of course the butterflies flew around her.

“Ugh! Fuck off!”

She swatted at the butterflies, which she had learned to despise.

“Maybe you should try a different perfume.” Said a small and squeaky voice.

Scarlet looked around for the source of this voice, looking down she saw a small mouse, dressed in old timey clothing, carrying seeds in a basket.

The group had ventured in the cave for so long now, it was getting ridiculous.

This is when they began to notice the tentacles, sticking out of the ground, wriggling around and grabbing various stalagmites, stalactites and rocks.

“Omg! We finally found the land Kraken.” Said Trixie.

Leon tried electrocuting one of the purple tentacles, it reacted and wacked him across the room. Knocking into a wall. The group burst into laughter, Leon was fine, but he had turned back into Lucious.

Lucious would lose his height when struck too hard, but this made him faster anyways. Yet he hated being short.

“Hey shorty, you okay?” said Mazer.

Lucious got up, nodded and walked back to the group then kicked Mazer in the balls.

“Don’t call me short.”

Clutching his package in pain, Mazer couldn’t help but laugh.

After a short break, they continued into the cavern, going deeper and closer to what they hoped would be the land Kraken.

They arrived at a deep crevice, filled with hundreds of coiling tentacles, looking cautiously over the edge they could barely see the outline of a large and intimidating octopus like creature, softly asleep.

They had to get it to come out of that hole, so they tried tossing rocks, but it didn’t react.

“Well fuck, what do we do? “Said Lucius.

“Hmmm, we could try a lightning bolt.” Said Sam.

“I can’t do that right now.” Said Lucius. Who was weakened from earlier.

Mazer tried poking it with his worms, but they could not reach to his frustration. He said:

“Trixie , slap it.”

“That’s a good idea.” She answered.

So she stretched out her arm and tried to reach the bottom, but even her stretchy arms had a limit.

“ Gaaah.” Said Mazer.

They decided to wait around , hoping it would wake up.

For quite a while.

Mazer literally punches a rock wall, his fist bled. He said:

“This is fucking stupid.”

“Actually, I was thinking of something that might work.” Said Lucius.

Scarlet followed the mouse, who had invited her to her city. The mouse said:

“Welcome stranger to Sourisia, the land of mice. My name is Elia, best mouse baker in the city, I am.”

Scarlet surprisingly wasn’t afraid of mice, instead she found them cute.

Arriving at the small city, built under the brush and bushes of the plants around them. It was literally full of mice people, doing various things, living out their lives and singing happily.

Turning to see scarlet , they welcomed her into their midst with great kindness, saying things like:

“Welcome.”

“Wow, your beautiful.”

“Such a giant beauty.”

Scarlet was flattered by the kindness of the mice.

Then one of the mice asked politely if he could take her measurements, and to Scarlets shock they offered to make her a new dress with their tiny and intricate hands.

Scarlet was extremely pleased, this was so much of an improvement compared to that musty cave.

She watched the mice scurry around as they gathered fabric, made from the string the seemingly had never ending supply of. Surprisingly the mice worked very fast, building a wondrous dress, full of different shades of red, which grew darker at the base and was detailed with intricate patterns.

Then they offered it to her as a gift.

She quickly got changed, behind a tree for privacy and was blown away at its perfect fit.

Afterwards she learned the mice were also avid miners, and that they had a whole mine dedicated to the mining of small multicolored jewels. Which they offered her a necklace of. Scarlet said:

“Why are you being so nice to me.”

“These are the mice ways.” Said Elia.

However, this was all the mice could offer her, they had no other gifts for her to Scarlets mild disappointment.

It was getting late.

She offered to take them to her home, but the mice declined for they were busy, but as a group the mice walked her back to the edge of the forest, where the mice left her behind for they had work to return to.

Scarlet walked home dressed in beautiful clothing.

She had had a wonderful day.

But she wanted more.

Vane and Sugu were still running away from the lionsnake.

Yet Sugu was getting tired , so Vane desiring to protect her grabbed the sword that lay on the ground. Quickly he tried stabbing the lionsnake, cutting a portion of its skin. This angered the lionsnake and it raised its tail before charging towards Vane, Vane dodged the lionsnake and quickly as it passed cut off its tail.

The lionsnake roared in pain before falling over dead.

Vane and Sugu caught their breath, they had killed the monster and could finally morn pharaths death. They cried and were in torment, but they knew they had to go back see the Nomads. So after a while they went out of the room, where they met with the cuttles.

The voice of the cuttles resonated within them saying:

“Thank you for freeing us from our God, we were forced to worship him.”

“We are sorry for your loss.”

Vane and Sugu nodded. They may have lost their friends, but they had done some good.

So the lovers walked through the temple passed the dome room and ran across the long hall with fake pit. Then they arrived in the perfumed maze where they now had to figure out how they would find the entrance.

The way they did this was blowing up the walls with vanes fire.

Finally they found their way out and looking back at the temple Sugu said:

“I hope Pharath is happy wherever he is.”

“I hope so too.” Said Vane with a bittersweet tone.

They walked up the side of the cliff, when they noticed something strange about the surface of the waters.

They weren’t moving, it appeared uneven and stationary.

“Something weird is going on” said Vane looking up at the surface.

“Yeah let’s hurry up there, I hope the nomads are okay.

So they rushed up the side slop of the abyss.

The surface was awe fully moist, humid and sticky. It was also very foggy and blue.

Exploring further into the forest that was incredibly quiet and empty, they headed towards the nomads city.

They were shocked to eered discover the city was gone!

In the empty field where the city once stood was a monument, with many words and a large title saying:

“ Dear, Vane , Sugu and Pharath.”

Scarlet was back at the bone castle, she was bored so she went to explore the library, which had a cauldron in the center.

She walked around the library, looking at the various books. Each seemed to be magical knowledge on various topics, the titles read things like:

“ The art of Spells.”

“Looking glass of beauty.”

“ Malum in the night.”

And finally a book that caught Scarlets interest, called:

“The ancient art of summoning Schrodinger cats.”

It was a book about summoning zombie cats to do your bidding, all you needed were bones and blood, which she had plenty of. Excited she gathered the supplies and went to the cauldron.

Pouring the bones into the bloodfilled cauldron,mixing in a drop of her blood, Scarlet chanted as she stirred, singing with a smile of excitement:

“Alive and Dead but both, come my kittens, rise up from the blood and do my bidding”

There was silence for about half a minute, then the blood began to boil and Scarlet backed away to avoid it staining her dress.

“Mreooooow!”

Out of the cauldron poured hundreds of cats, some missing flesh, bones sticking out and some missing eyes. Further each cat was of the kind Persian. Scarlet smiled in glee at the sight, she almost liked these cats over the typical cats and quickly she began walking about petting with sublime excitement. This place was getting better and better.

She told the cats to sit and they did so at her command, then to her shock one spoke and said:

“ My blood queen, what shall we do for you?”

Scarlet hadn’t really considered what she’d do with the cats, but then she got an idea, she said:

“There are mice far from my castle, I want them to make me more dresses. Could you go and get them for me? I want them to be my slaves.”

“ May we eat them” asked the cat.

“ Only those who misbehave and disobey.” Said Scarlet with an evil smile.

The cats were mildly disappointed but they had a blood deal, so they said together:

“Yes my blood queen, we will do as you command.”

And with that the cats went off to hunt for the mice of the forest, Scarlet would wait for their return and prepare the dungeon in the basement.

“We could send Hilisa down there, she could wake up the Kraken.” Said Lucius

“But... but then she’ll die” Buggles who liked Hilisa.

Hilisa was a little shocked, she hadn’t considered she’d have to sacrifice herself to get the rest to have food.

If you’re wondering why the Holixion and Pavoriesse would allow this, it’s a test, since the punishment was intense hunger, death of a loved one and boredom. The persomnia wish to see if suffering that is personal to Mazer and Sam will cause them to have a change of heart.

“Definitely” Said Mazer, who moved to push Hilisa over the edge.

“No its okay, I’ll do it myself.” Said Hilisa, who was actually okay with it, if it helped Buggles she was happy. She moved towards the edge and prepared to jump, when Trixie yelled out:

“Wait ill come with you.”

Trixie had wished she was eaten by the kraken since she’d heard of it.

So the two jumped off the edge, Hilisa shielded them both and they fell to the bottom where the kraken lay sleeping, as soon as they hit the ground, it made a noise and the kraken awoke with a roar. It immideatly swallowed the two girls incased in stone, without chewing. It rose up out of the pit, making gurgling noises.

Revealing its large octopus like form, with hundreds more tentacles, a large black beak and plenty of eyes. It fell over dead, having choked and been impaled on Hilisa and Trixie, crushing the girls with its deadweight.

Mazer was quite disappointed, he had wanted to kill the monster and had been excited, but now he was going to be able to have food.

So the group walked as fast as they could out of the cave, luckily the dangers had receded with the death of the kraken, spikes had stopped and Scarlet lay now dead on the ground. Mice crawling about her body. Suprisingly, Sam covered Buggles eyes.

As they approached the surface, they smelt smoke and thought the pirates were cooking, they salivated and were shocked by what they discovered; The whole forest was on fire, mobles running around screaming giberrish and no sign of the pirates.

Mazer said:

“Awe Fuck, what the fuck happened here.”

They heard a laugh coming from the sky, above them were the pirates , eating sausage and lauging.

 The captain said:

“Yee be fools, this was punishment for your crimes. It was yee who burnt to forest by killing the heart of it. Yee shall starve.”

The pirates sailed off into the distance, before crashing into the solid sky and plummeting below the horizon.

Buggles made a pouting face and said:

“First you threatened to kill pirates, then you wouldn’t have a funeral, then you killed Hilisa and an innocent beast. Now I’m hungwy and you won’t like what I’m going to do. You people are bad!”

Then buggles morphed into a ball of slime and swallowed the whole world, rather quickly as her words echoed:

“This will be your last punishment!”

The world was now moist, foggy and slowly dissolving, with the boys saying:

“Fuck.”

As they remembered everything about the worms and slowly faded away, starving and wet. It was the most boring and slow death imaginable. Wasn’t painful at all, just boring.

Meanwhile, Sugu and Vane read their note , left by the Nomads who had all but disappeared. It read:

“ We apologize greatly for leaving, but we discovered that a young girl would consume the world because your friend died once again, we could not come get you because of time dilation in the water which we were unaware of, if your reading this it’s likely been sometime since this happened.”

Sugu and Vane huddled together as they slowly faded away, with Vane sad to the coming oblivion and Sugu praying to God.

Then in slightly different time periods, they were all gone.

Meanwhile in Sourisia, scarlet was having the time of her life, commanding Mice to do her bidding as they begged for their freedom. She would almost always say:

“CATS, eat that defiant mouse.”

And they would.

She had them make her plenty of dresses, with fabric and then when she grew bored she locked them up in the dungeon. Then she chose the cutest cats and brought them to her room for a petting. This is how she fell asleep, surrounded by cats with a soft smile on her face.

“ Pavoriesse?”

“Yes Holixion?”

“What do you think we should do with these humans, their so sinful.”

“Hmm, perhaps we should let them meet once more and see how the act first, give them one last chance.”

“Yes this is a good idea, let us do this.”

So the whole group awoke in a room with glass walls and ceiling, with the persomnia watching carefully.

The 9 of them looked around remembering the whole fiasco, and when Mazer met eyes with Pharath he smiled evilly saying:

“Sup.”

Before casually walking over to him, hoping to punch him but Pharath swung first and everyone ended up in a fist fight screaming and yelling at each other.

Then the persomnia stopped them by breaking the glass and lifting them up with nothing but their minds.

“Look what we have here.” Said Pavoriesse.

“Hmmm, yes it appears they did not forgive each other.” Said Holixion.

“Are they perhaps afraid?”

“You aren’t real” said Vane.

“Yeah, I’m hallucinating and I dying.“ Said Lucious.

“Bwahahahaha.” Laughed the two persomnia.

They continued:

“Should we punish them again?” Asked fear incarnate.

“No, I grow bored.” Said Holixion.

“As do I.” said Pavoriesse.

“Then let us leave them to their consequences. Let us watch how long they take to learn.”

“That’s not fair. You could tell us how to fix this” Said Sugu.

“We could, but we did, forgive each other.” Said Pavoriesse.

“Bwahahahaha, forgive them for what. “ Said Mazer.

“Why should we forgive them? They were horrible!” said Pharath.

“See, these humans don’t want it.” Said Holixion.

“Well I hope they have fun learning.” Said Pavoriesse.

“The lesson is simple, work together.”

“Yes it’ll be a show.”

Lights and music appeared, as if in a game show. Distant cheering could be heard.

“Why the heck…” said Pharath

“Nah, Im gonna…” said Mazer

Chapter 7

The Blood Queen

Hilisa awoke in a cave, she looked around the purplish rock and saw many jewels in them, the jewels reflecting barely any light, coming from beyond the cave walls. Hilisa couldn’t see much at all.

She had a cellphone, given to her by the gods or whatever they were. On it was the numbers of everyone else she knew.

She remembered the whole events up to Sugu’s dream. She was rather shocked, for she had died twice. She texted Pharath right away. He answered and she found out where he was. In a totally different place.

Pharath was in a massive tropical forest, he’d been there a few minutes now. He answered, saying:

“Hilisa, you okay?”

“Yeah, I miss you.” Said Hilisa

“I’ll come find you.” Said Pharath

Trixies phone was buzzing constantly, she woke up and looked at it and saw all of Pharath and Hilisa’s conversation. She typed:

“Hey, I can see your texts.”

She was in her own place, a strange place at that, a great cavern illuminated by a soft light, enveloped the whole area and originated from and unknown source. The place was covered in grass, which was green and fresh. Looking around she was all alone, but could see the ends of jewels jutting out of the cavern walls, covered by dust.

Trixie’s name was read by Pharath and Hilisa, both were a little scared because of what had happened, but Hilisa remembered that she’d come with her when she’d died the second time.

She said:

“Trixie, are you okay?” trying to be nice because the gods had said they should forgive each other.

Pharath wasn’t so nice and said:

“Great.”

They talked for a bit describing where they were, when Hilisa mentioned how dark it was , Trixie noted that they were in similar spaces. She said:

“Im going to try something, one sec.”

So Trixie rubbed the dust of the jewels in her area, meanwhile Hilisa’s space grew brighter as the jewels dust were removed.

The eclian is the story of 9 heroes who disagree and blame the other for problems, but I have not read this story in a long time and thus can only guess as such. What I can say of the three main characters ( Pharath, Sam and Mazer ) is that only one of them is alive in me today. The other two were other parts of myself which had to go. This however needs to be explained:

Pharath is the mask of sanity, which poses as a good person and has the habits of a perfect soul.

Sam is the moments where I fail to hide behind that mask, that part confused between me and mask. Mazer is just me, he's the one at the center of myself that I set out to kill, then join only to actually be Mazer as what other way could I hear myself in my own mind.

Pharath is what I pose as in public and is the friendly fellow who has unfortunate things happen to him or strange adventures of dreams, writing and work which I appear to be doing at all time. He is what people in life meet most of the time, unless I am angry. He speaks with a higher pitched voice and sounds like a child.

On the internet I have an alter ego, who is named SamofEclia most often if I am not using a different account cause I'm bored. SamofEclia is the person who pretended he was something more and less then evil and claims things about reality while not taking no, or insult as an answer. He is not me, as I move beyond the pages of the posts or the self people see in person.

Mazer is that internal ego which forms most of my behavior, which while willing to do the right thing, is often only for the wrong reasons he will rarely acknowledge unless his hand is on his dick or he's bored of fixing things, which I add I fix because of a two fold reason. It makes things worse and it makes things better for me and others who are not like me.

Mazer once talked to pharath, but Pharath his mask is falty and thus when the time came Mazer stopped using his mask as medium for justifying his beleifs with God and Christianity, as he while of that origin is not a wise decision for the one who beleives it is everything, of which my personal selection is hell. Pharath fears hell, because he needs t pretend he's normal.

Sam is more honest, but he's a virtual alter ego that runs around on the internet and remains within the rules I set for him, meaning he always says something absurd, while I learn what the other person has to say and apply it to the macrocosm of my world, which while not ruled from above by fury or force like kings of politics is built from the world around me and so I am a king of well, once middle and likely now below.

Notice how much more of an ego I have when I speak in the reality of what I am, rather then the paths of mazes to hide myself from most, including a different voice that is softer and cuter to be less intimidating as a guy whose 6.3. It's only one of the two voices I use and one is the real one where I'm less highpitched and farther less interested in what you have to say.

Bluntly, I rarely understand the reason for most peoples retention of beleifs or complaints regarding politics as they are rarely actual problems, such as the one in this story and find that most of my time as Sam is spent yelling about why its not going to work that way. People tend to desire telling you your wrong and I find that funny because that very act leaves no one convinced anymore then beleiving them or atleast on the internet, ever meeting in the middle.

So I simply use your reasons and do it myself, applied in reality at the best of my ability. At which point my own knowledge has surpassed the majority of people who I encounter, because I beleived that last person who said the same thing and applied it. Your inability to understand and your assumptions on a given subject are not my responsibility especially when you fail to try and understand and have already decided for yourself what I stated to be. 

So while Pharath died years ago and became a seperate character for protecting the good people in my best of ability and my latter acknowledgements that I can say it's hell as much as I want, but it's still all things and this means its also heaven for someone. Pharath then is my best ability to show my knowledge of morality, while failing to practice it. Pharath is better then me, but he is the one who decieved people the most in those good acts.

Sam died two days ago, because I got bored of pretending I wasn't a bad person and got bored of having him chatter to me constantly, so while I like my work, it is none the less the work of myself and that is Mazer. Then one asks who Logan is?

Logan is the empty shell which I wear that walks about mindlesslessly as I sit far off in the tendric realm and once talked to Sam until I killed the pretention that was his behavior like Pharaths but still not as honest as myself and my real "feelings" which are no more then feelings of pleasure and rage, usually for fun.

Logan is also just my body and the name I am called when people try to talk to me, but I must admit that Mazer is my name written backwards and aspects of its lettering written differently as though in a different faunt. You ask why I would bother helping myself if I am no more a good person then a cockroach stealing scraps and I respond because it's funny to watch people realize a bad person can actually be good in another way, a mostly evil way.

And it pisses me off that people like myself are hated constantly even when its not a large majority who end up being the worse thing, it's usually the ones decieved by well intentioned masks who do the most damage and this is why I like the bible, because it says straight of the bat:

• They were naked in the garden of eden, innocent of all things corrupt.
• They were not supposed to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

And I'll be blunt, I am trying to be as naked as I can, rather then Pharath the wolf in sheeps clothing who doesn't realize that's what he is doing. Further, I can think I'm evil while knowing I know no evil or good as I cannot find something which is not comforting to me at any time.

This doesn't mean its not for you, but I have explored countless places of mind and find most to be either pleasant or terrible to my liking. So here I leave this page, for the one in Caven.

Just a picture of a pig monkey dog thing.

I know it looks like muslim calligraphy art.

I don't know the language so it is not that.

Infact when drawn I didn't know about...

Islam's dislike of dogs, nor why pigs are bad.

I still don't really know, not businesss.

I'm just a lowly dogape, who sees pigs.

I'm not the same thing as someone else.

I don't care if you want me to be you.

I cannot be you as then I wouldn't exist.

People live differently, leave them alone.

The picture is my own art, its not connected.

I should add after that, this is true, my perspective at times intentional and not, shares resemblence to aspects if Islam and christianity, sometimes without my knowledge until later, like this below:

This is the ceround, it is the symbol of the dog deman city once written long ago where jars of sinners are kept in virtual space. It is the gatekeeper of hell. Myself, Mazer the sinner cerounds the city. Heh.

These similarities, are intentional and unintentional because I read the book of revelations too many times and it started inflecting on my artwork and this formed a seperate parrrelel world to that of those ones where it is all things and still none the less just my part of that all. 

I just like monothiesms, but my God isn't a perfect being as most call him, my God I also know not whom they are and would deny any who claim it so, as no man except God could know who he is without first meeting another who has a God complex, seeing as half the time I can't find anything stronger in mind then me and have an ego the size of arbitrary value.

I don't doubt though, that in these two cases, one may be true:

• Their is one God who is all things, come as smaller angels.
• Their is more the one God, but only one is your own in truth.

While I could add one more:

• Their is one God who comes as many Gods, of which one is yours.

So yes, the two angels in the story of the Eclian are meant to represent the two angels you meet in the grave when you die, who will torment to sinners and send them to the real God.

But this is not the same one as that of Islam, as Umbra are not Djinn.