It's currently the 21st century in the strange planet we all call the ' Earth '.
So. What do you want to do?
Nothing.
Nothing?
Nothing.
Alright, well, nothing bores me, how about we go out and have some fun?
Alright. What do you guys think?
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
This simple conversation set passion for magic ablaze for a group of five young men
ablaze on the year of 2009, none of them truly sure what ' fun ' would actually
define as until they had found themselves with loose - change women inside a local
club.
The young men partied, drank from not at all to a lot - differing from which brother did what,
danced, talked, they practically just had a good time aside from the small, abandoned
casino set off to the side of this said club. None of the young men ever expected the
eldest of the group, the head honcho, the elder brother, to spot a rather stoic man
peeking around one of the run - down machines and beckoning for him.
Confused and curious, to tell the truth, the eldest brother got off his drunken bottom
and stumbled over to the man who held out a large quarter, the size of a normal
human's hand, and pressed it onto the young man's hand, the elder brother not
really seeing the size of the strange quarter - or even the right dimensions of the man's
face to tell the truth - and thus easily complied by the man's orders when he said that
in order to please ' master ' that the elder brother was to put this quarter into the slot
of the machine. Drunk, but sober enough to know the quarter kept bumping against
the coin slot of the run - down machine, the elder brother had looked to the man for
an answer, but once he turned . . he found no one.
Confused and deciding it was just the last martini getting to his head, the elder brother
stumbled back to his brothers and wasn't really questioned as the boy was truly
overly drunk to think straight and the palm - sized quarter was dropped on the floor near
the machine to be found by the middle brother later on while the club was being closed
down and the brothers had stayed over, saying their goodbyes to their lustful companions
for the day.
All the brothers stared at the coin in wonder, all but the elder brother who fidgeted slightly
as if to say ' I don't want to get involved in this but, hell with it ' as he reached to the coin
and pushed it into the machine, the coin seemingly growing smaller in front of all the young
males' eyes and the youngest brother, the most carefree human you would ever know,
pulled on his handsome smile and pulled down on the crank of the machine, the strange
figurines displayed on white rows flashed before the brothers' eyes, the second and
fourth brothers staring at each other as if it was the best thing in the world when the
strange images of nothing but skulls seemed to give way to a straight row of 7's in which
signaled jackpot in the males' minds.
Grinning from ear to ear, all the brothers leaned over the spot in the machine where
they expected their not-so-hard-earned-cash to be and found that a red sign had
appeared on the face of the machine, the fourth brother reading it aloud for all the brothers
to hear. ' Error : Congratulations! Here's your prize ' . . what could that mean?
The brothers soon found their answers in a sudden flash of light, and then they were
all knocked out.
It had been days since the ' incident ' which changed all of the males' lives
had happened and now they all are sitting down, having light conversation until
the ever so potent question ' What happened that night . . ? ' arose.
Silence filled the table.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
Oh, but this was not nothing as the males had each gained a certain special
technique in which made the group of men famous amongst their ' fellow ' humans
who just lacked their magical talents.
Though some of the brothers enjoyed of the attention, some were against or
didn't really care much for it. Heck, the man who had given the eldest brother
the quarter was considered a hero as well as a demon. Whatever. It doesn't
change the fact that they were popular beyond belief, especially amongst the ladies.
Any woman would fall head over heels in love with the brothers if they were to merely
breathe in the same airspace as them. That is . . except for the ' Fervent Five '.
This group of five young women would always giggle and joke about the brothers
whenever they happened to glide by them with pride or trying to hide their face depending
on the brother and what they felt like that day.
Even though the Fervent Five didn't really fall for the brothers as easily as the other women,
they did have their favorites and they would sometimes compliment the men and even
talk to them, their own fans which craved their ever so abundant passionate enthusiasm left
weeping somewhere in the background whenever the two most popular groups collided.
Even though the two groups had talked to each other a bit and some of them
even became friends with one another, it was a surprise when the eldest of the
group, some may even call her the self proclaimed ' leader ', had decided to
invite them to perform at her ever so anticipated birthday bash of the year.
The males, of course, attended and performed their flashy magic tricks,
random coins falling out of peoples' pockets, a courtesy of the eldest brother,
birds of large arrays and even common alley cats coming out of nowhere and going
along bidding of them, courtesy of the middle brother, even illusions before the very
eyes of the Fervent Five, a courtesy of the youngest brother. All of this was just practically
an apetizer to their main - course trick . . the puppet spell.
All the males had to do was hold hands, say a few words as the participant for the spell
was standing in the middle of the ring of magical males and then poof! They were supposed
to be willing to bend to their control. This was all practically good and done as the
leader had been first to go, easily being controlled to walk in place, bend backwards, forwards,
stretch, and the like, simple tricks, right? Well, once the elder brother had asked for
the girl to speak of the youngest in the group's dead dog who had been run over that morning
and the words flew out fluently from the elder girl's mouth, the girls were left in awe and they
all clapped. They all partied for the rest of the day and at the end seeing as it was only the
girls and the brothers in the party, the brothers gave their own ' personal ' goodbye to one
of the girls of his choosing. They had sealed their ' puppet ' with a simple kiss, a kiss of
possesion over the one female, a kiss of passion, a kiss of lust, a kiss of . . what do you
think? Ever wanting for the one girl to be with them. Then again, maybe it wasn't?
The girls got up the next morning, all of them suddenly finding themselves stiff and picked
up their phones, all of them in their five way meeting on the phone as they did most mornings
only to find that each time that the males would come by them in school, most of the girls
could feel their heart beat faster and faster, some of them even felt themselves dragged
by an invisible force to approach the male in which the force had pulled them to, the males
only left to smile and enjoy the time they had with the women seeing as it is all part of their
little twisted enjoyment though it may lead to much deeper things such as the thing stated
before. What was it now . . love? Ah, yes, el amor.
Now the young gentlemen are about to tour the world when they call up the girls,
the females not expecting the sudden phone calls one bit until they all came at once
and heard the simple words spoken in unison by the five brothers. ' Welcome, puppets '.
Now the girls are touring the world with the one male that they belong to, no way
to break the spell other than the male who had casted the spell on them to call it off
and break it by kissing another puppet or even human, it being impossible to re-cast
ever again on the same person.
What problems shall arise? Shall love persist in the hearts of those who had based
their kiss off love? Shall the puppets grow hateful towards their ' puppeteers ' ?