Epic Story Of Randomness

[ghostrider51]

Ok, this is my first time in a while writing fictional stories
so comment and critique
i know its long
but so far my friends on facebook as well as my english class like it
Im still not completely done with it though
I am currently working on the third part little by little on my itouch
If you see any grammatical issues or something that doesnt make sense
Please leave a comment
Also
Please lock your A.D.D. in a closet and enjoy my very long story :]
Ill try and break it up into different sections so it can be easier to read

“Dude, you should really stop messing around with the cables, you might bust it.” One of the guys in the room said. There are five guys that are in the room. The one that just spoke is Julio, he has been known for hacking since he was in diapers. He is the oldest of the five and can program any computer to do anything he wants. He is also the sound engineer and effects manager for the band. In the middle of the room is the Jonathon, who we all call by his last name, Cobo. He is currently the main vocalist on the group, yet he does only maybe 50% of the actual song writing. To his left towards the back of the room on the bean-bag chair is the third oldest of the group Edelio, who we call Eddie for short. He is the bands lead guitarist and whenever we need some strings added to a song we usually go to him. All the way to the right, napping on the table is the second oldest of the group Malcolm. He is our drummer and usually the guy we go to whenever we need something drawn, he is one of the most amazing artist you will ever encounter. And on the floor, messing around with cables, switches, and knobs of the super computer is me, Ferdie. I am the bassist and supposed founder of the band. “No man, I think I finally got the wiring down packed, it should work.” I said to Julio. I have never been much of a technological kind of guy, but for some reason I have the most amazing luck figuring out where every wire goes and what activates what without even looking at the manual.

Julio looked at the odd antenna that was attached to the main cp unit of the computer as it lit up. “Here comes the moment of truth.” I turned on the main switch and all of the monitors and consoles connected to it turned on. On the screen there were many commands and controls that work with. As Malcolm finally woke up from his nap, we all looked at Julio who was looking at the computer with his usual emotionless stare. Malcolm scratched his head and said lazily “So, can you do it?” Julio went over to the computer and picked up a stack of CDs that he had brought with him and put them all in one of the many CD slots it had. “Gentlemen” he said in his usual wiser than God tone “Give about three to five hours, and you guys will soon be the first to play the world’s first and most amazing, virtual reality video game!” He quickly began to type in commands and move things from here to there. “Five hours? What can we do for five hours while he’s doing that?” Jonathan and Eddie said at the same time. Malcolm looked over to me and went over to one of the doors in the room that led to the garage “Go get Eddie’s guitar and your bass with the amps from the studio; I’m going to go get the drums to jam through this.” I quickly went up to the studio and got the guitar and bass and went back to drop them off so I can go and get the amps. By the second trip back to the room, Malcolm was almost done setting up the drums, and Cobo was drinking some water. I quickly gave Eddie his equipment and started setting up my bass and tuning it as well. When we finished, I looked over to the rest of them and we all realized that we were looking at the each other with same thing in mind “What can we play?” As soon as I looked over to Cobo, he began to sing the opening two lines to “The Pot” by Tool.

Who are you to wave your finger?
Ya' must have been out your head.


As soon as he finishes the second line, I start off with the bass line to it.


Eye hole deep in muddy waters.
You practically raised the dead.
Rob the grave, to snow the cradle.
Then burn the evidence down.


After that, the rest of the instruments gradually begin to join in. As we do this, Julio is doing his thing to the beat of the song.


Soapbox, house of cards, and glass,
So don't go tossin' your stones around.
You must have been high.
You must have been high.
You must have been.
Foot in mouth, and head up a*****e.
Whatcha talkin' 'bout?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'til you pull it out, boy!
You must have been, so high.
You must have been, so high.
Steal, borrow, refer, save your shady inference.
kangaroo done hung the juror with the innocent.
Now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo
Got lemon juice up in your...EYE!
When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must have been HIGH, HIGH
You must have been HIGH, HIGH
Who are you to wave your finger?
So full of it.
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
********' hypocrite.
Liar, lawyer, mirror, show me.
What's the difference?
kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent.
NOW!!
You'll weep or, change the cozened indigo.
Got lemon juice up in your high eye.
When you pissed all over my black kettle
You musta been!
So who are you to wave your finger?
Who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
You must, have been, out your, mind!
Weepin' shades of indigo
Shed without a reason
Weepin' shades of indigo
Liar, lawyer,
Mirror for ya,
What's the difference?
kangaroo be stoned
He's guilty as the government
NOW!!
Will you weep or, change the cozened indigo
Got lemon juice up in your, EYE!! EYE!!
Now when you pissed all over my black kettle.
You musta been HIGH, HIGH, HIGH, HIGH.
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Your balls deep in muddy waters.
Ganja, please, you must have been out your MIND!!!!

We continued to play random songs for a while. After like six hours, Julio turned around and put his fist up in the air, which in the music business, means to stop what you’re doing and listen to him. We stopped and looked at him, and judging by the look on his face, he had succeeded.

“Guys, I give you the greatest game in the world!” He exclaimed.
“Did you give the game a name yet?” I asked curiously.
“Nope, I was hoping we could think of that as a group.”

We all looked at each other, and tried to think of something that could be a great title for the greatest game in the world.”I can’t think of anything” Cobo said with a sigh, and by look on Malcolm and Eddie, they didn’t have anything either. “Well let’s just try the game out first, and then we can figure out the title.” Julio suggested. As we all went up to the computer, Julio had installed five controllers for each of us to use. The first thing we can see on the screen is a base model of a human, and tabs next to it giving options to how our character can look. “As you can see, there are many things that you can do to create your character, but since this thing does have interactive software, it scans a picture of you, and recreates it as the base for your game character” As he said that, he pushed a button and the satellite fixed on top of the main computer unit shot a green light out at us and began to scan us, we then looked at the screen. There it was a perfectly digitalized 3-D version of us. We all looked amazed as we then continued to add new clothes and weapons to our character.

“Now, after we do this, we send out our newly created characters into the game world, where they could live a perfectly normal life in any of the cities in the world, which I did the liberty of basing the entire world on our planet. Every single city, state, province, country, and continent, is straight from the real world!”

He exclaimed at us we all looked at him in shock. A game based on real life? That sounds pretty cool and all, but what about the violence? “Julio, isn’t there any fights, monster battles, or anything that we can do to destroy the cities and what not?” Malcolm asked. “I almost forgot, you can live in the cities, but you can have legal fights in the coliseum, illegal fights anywhere, or go into the forest on the outskirts of any city or province to fight monsters, people, or machines. Plus you have a little scanner on you that keep track of all of your stats, achievements, and biography if you choose. I have done my best to create the most realistic video game I can make. And this machine has enabled me to do it with ease.”

He said all high and mighty. “So how do we start this thing?” I asked with enthusiasm “Do I have to press this button…?” I said as I pressed the big red button in the middle of the machine. “No you idiot don’t do that!!!!!!!” Julio screamed at me. But it was too late, suddenly; the machine went crazy, the satellite blasted a beam towards the sky. The ground where we were standing began to open, as a black hole like portal sucked us and the rest of the world in with it.

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As my mind finally came back into focus, I realized I was lying down on my bed at my mom’s house. “I guess it was just some crazy dream.” I silently said to myself. I begin to get up from my bed and realized I had perfect vision without my glasses. I looked around for my glasses to see if I could really see without them, when I realized there was something else in my case for them. It was half of a set of shades that looked like it belonged in the future. It had a Bluetooth like headset to it, but it covered my right eye, and had a small microphone sticking out of it. I placed it on my right eye to further examine it, when I realized that it had a bunch of numbers, words, and an image of a man’s body on it. When I focused it on it some more, it said my name on the top screen and had a mess of statistics on it, it almost looked like a video game stat window.

“What the hell? I think that blast was real, and we it sent us into…. MAMI!!!!!”

I screamed out, to prove to myself that I’m going insane. She walked into the room, with one of those glasses on her eye. “Yes?” she asked me. “How long have you had that?” I asked her, slightly nervous. “No se, probably since I was like 12 or 13 years old, why do you ask?” I almost lost it. How could she have had that since she was so young? I checked my phone and realized that I was still in the same year, month, but it was the day after we had created the game. I finally remembered the scanner that Julio had described to us when we created our character, then I looked up at my mom, “No reason, hey I’m going to go out for a little bit ok?” I asked her. No problem, don’t forget your car keys though.” She yelled out at me as she locked herself in her room. Car keys? I have a car?! I looked around franticly for something that looked like car keys. I quickly got dressed and grabbed what I guessed to be my car keys and walked outside of my apartment and up to the parking lot.

I looked around and tried to guess which one of the many cars is mine. I grabbed the keys out of my pocket and pressed the button for the alarm. The second it sounded, I quickly looked around for the car that sounded. I almost lost my mind. My car, or fake car, however you want to consider it in this weird world, was my dream car. It was the 1969 Dodge Charger, all black, and the front grill and back bumper chrome. I got into the car and turned it on like if I’ve been doing this all my life. I pulled out my phone and dialed Cobo’s number to see if he is as confused as I am. “Cobo, do you have any idea what the hell is going on, I’m about to crap my pants on how weird this is.” I asked him. “No clue, I called the rest of the band, we’re all going to meet up at the woods, don’t ask why there are woods in Miami, and just follow the directions Julio sent to your car.” Almost as soon as he said that he hung up. I looked at the GPS on the dash board and Julio did send me directions to get there. I put the car and drive and followed the directions.

As I looked around the town, everything looked completely different in this world. There were people walking around with weapons I would most likely find in the game Call of Duty, some were not even earthly. Every five to ten blocks there were people fighting in allies, and halfway to the woods, there was a huge coliseum were legal fights take place. “Wow, Julio did a real good job making this game, but I wonder why everyone got turned into a character and the world its game arena.” I said to myself as I slowly arrived at the woods. Everyone of the band members were there, Malcolm, Eddie, Cobo, and Julio in the middle, who is looking at each of their scanners. I pulled up next to the other cars; apparently everyone else also got a car. There was a corvette, an original army style hummer h1, a Harvey Davidson chopper, and a Yamaha sports bike. I walked up to them and sat on a stump. “Ok, who wants to explain to me what the hell did that red button do to the earth?!” I exclaimed at all of them. Julio continued working on the scanners and the rest of them didn’t know what to say.

After about a minute of silence, Julio grabbed my scanner from my face and started working on it as well. He hooked his up to mine and the screen turned blue then red then back to its transparent brown. “What’s that suppose to do?” I puzzled. “Its going to give you the basic skills your suppose to know to survive in this world, how to fight someone, rules of the woods, and how to use the weapons you have.” He said as he handed us all our scanners back. “It also gives you a tracking device, so if any of us were to be in any kind of danger, the rest of us would immediately know about it and be able to help you out.” He got up and walked over to the opening to the woods. I looked around at the rest of them, and before I could say anything, Eddie walked up to Julio and told “Sorry to ask but, what weapons? Last time I checked I woke up in my bed with a scanner and un-armed.” Julio looked back at us and then to the cars. “Check the trunk of the Hummer, that’s where I put all our weapons when I programmed the game, after you take them out, Malcolm your going to have to figure out where to put your sword, I don’t remember giving your chopper a holster for it.” He said. We all went up to the truck, which I figured was Cobo’s since he had the keys to it, we all grabbed a weapon. Malcolm had a red sword, about 4 feet long, Eddie had a shotgun that looked like it belonged in Halo. Cobo had a couple of revolvers and a mini gun that had to be placed on top of the hummer. I Had a huge black sword that looked like a demons head with edges around it. I looked over at Julio who looked seemingly un-armed.

“You have no weapon?” I asked him.

He laughed and looked over to the tree and closed his eyes. Suddenly, the tree began to peel itself like a banana and catch on fire. I looked over to the rest of the guys and they had the same shocked “what the ********?” look on their faces. Eddie suddenly got super pissed and stomped over Julio “Does this little freak show make you the strongest b*****d in the game?!” Julio looked over to the rest of us, and walked over to the Yamaha bike, “We all have special abilities in the game, I just happen to know how to use mine, and no I‘m not the strongest in the game, WE are all the strongest in the game, ability wise, but since no one is actually at a good level to start fighting any of the other people, considering we’re all at level 10 and the rest of the world is level 70 and up, we should all stick to training in the woods for the next year or so. We can all meet up here after a good year has passed. Ill sees the rest of you in a year.”He got on his bike and zoomed by the rest of us and disappeared into the woods.

“Well?!” Eddie exclaimed at us.
“What are we suppose to do?”
“I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m taking Julio’s advice and heading out into the woods.”

With that, Malcolm got on his chopper and went into the dark woods as well. I looked at Eddie and Cobo, who didn’t know what to do, Eddie jumped into his corvette, and Cobo got into his truck. “I guess this is it for now, ill talk with the rest of you in a year.” I told the rest of them. Eddie had already drove up to the opening and disappeared. Cobo followed him, leaving me to stand there alone. I quickly gathered my thoughts and told myself “What is this world going to lead me to?” I got to in my car, turned on the radio, and stomped on the pedal, and blurred into the woods to see what waits in this year long training.

[ghostrider51]

One Year Later

"Ugh, where did that stupid thing go to?" I murmured to myself as I ran through the woods blindly looking for something. Suddenly, my scanners alarm goes off. I press a button on the top of it and read why it had sounded. As I leaned on a tree, I sighed in relief.

"Finally, the year is over, I think I've done good. I'm level 111 and currently in the top five of the rankings of the game. Plus, last time I checked the other 4 were my band members, which are a good sign i guess." I silently mumbled to myself.

After a year of hard training, I had finally reached the strength and abilities Julio was talking about. I had quadrupled my strength, I can run almost as a fast as a tiger, plus, my sword has gone through various upgrades that made it, and me, much stronger. I looked over my shoulder toward the right and saw a shadow disappear behind a tree. I quickly griped the handle of my blade and crouched behind the tree ready to attack. From above, something lunged at me and snarled, I dodged the attack and got a good look at the demon. It was this demonic looking wolf, with spikes coming out of its spine, and wings. I pulled out my blade and charged. As i sliced threw the bastards head, blood and what looks like its brain splattered all over the nearest tree and me. I tried to wipe some of it off but it still left a pretty nasty stain on my armor and pants. "Damn it." I mumbled to myself. I looked at my scanner to see if I gained any experience. "Ugh, barely anything, I need to fight someone to get to the next level, but first I better go see if any of the guys are at the meeting spot. Well... That is if any of them even remember."

I gathered my stuff that I had hidden in a nearby tree, and walked off towards what you can consider a road. A narrow strip of gravel which I had found that leads to the darker parts of the woods, and since no one else seems to know where this place is, I can park my car without worrying that someone might steal or attack it. I pressed the alarm button of my car keys and I quickly found my my vehicle. I got in and put it in reverse to drive back to the main road that leads to the opening. I quickly sped through and realized I had wandered out into the deepest part of the woods for training, which is where the strongest of all the monsters and machines are. After about an hour of being in reverse I finally reached the main road. I spun the car around and turned on the turbo to get there as fast as I could possibly go. I finally saw the opening to the woods and stomped on the break. As the car skid out the opening, I made a hard right and parked it in front of the same tree Julio had destroyed a year ago. I got out of the car and realized that nobody but me was there.

"Well hopefully they'll be here soon." I sat down on a nearby stump and pulled out my iPod.I began to listen to Aerosmith when out of the opening came a speedy black corvette with dirt all over the tires and bottom part of the car. It swerved a little and parallel parked next to my Charger. I instantly got up and tackled the hell out of Eddie as he got out of the car. "Damn it that hurt, I see your strength has gotten much stronger than it was before, but did you really have to ******** tackle me?" he said as he got up and shook off the dirt from his leather jacket and pants. "Just bringing back old memories. By the looks of it you've been training hard too, you look like you barely felt that." I said jokingly to him. "When do you think the others are coming?" Eddie said as he walked over to the side of the entrance. "Soon hopefully, I can't wait to see the rest of the guys again" I exclaimed. I crouched down next to my car and sighed as I watch the leaves fall from the trees.

In the distance the motor of a very large vehicle can be heard as it runs through the forest. "That’s probably Cobo" I told Eddie. Almost instantly a hummer popped out of the entrance, covered in mood, leaves, and what looks to me like a monsters arm and blood. He drove around Eddie's car and parked on the other side of mine. Eddie and I got up right on the spot and greeted Cobo, who had gotten taller like me and got slightly buffer with a small goatee."Looks like someone finally cut down a tree." Eddie said laughing. "How was your training dude?" I asked Cobo as I inspected the arm, I was right, dead guys arm stuck to the grill of the truck. "It was pretty intense, I got to the part of the woods where it's just constant waves of zombies and god knows what running at you with all sorts of weaponry. It was ******** intense!!!" he exclaimed, looking all accomplished. I grabbed the arm from the grill and threw it into to the woods. "Thing was driving me crazy" I said to the guys who were no longer paying attention. I looked in the direction they were looking and realized that Malcolm just appeared from the entrance. His chopper is so far the only vehicle that isn't dirty, except for the tires that were covered in a yellow looking substance. "What is up my compadres?!" he exclaimed in his joyful deep voice. Eddie tried to tackle Malcolm the same way I tackled him, with no luck though. Malcolm grabbed him by his throat and slammed him on the ground. "Nice try Eddie, but even before the training you couldn't do that!" he said playing around. Eddie got up and sighed. "What is with you guys and hurting me?" Eddie asked sarcastically. I looked towards the woods again to see if Julio is coming.

"Looks like Julio's going to be the last one to get here." Cobo said to the rest of us.
"Well Malcolm? How was your experience in the woods?"
"It was fun!
I kicked some serious a** the entire year I was there!
By the way, don't mess with the purple squirrels....."
He said in a scared tone.
"I don't want to know dude" I said chuckling.

As we all stood there waiting for Julio to show, we each started telling stories about our one year training experience. "so there I was, sitting in front of the lake eating my sandwich, when this cute little purple squirrel just comes up to me and starts looking at me with its big eyes like if it was asking me for a bite of my sandwich" Malcolm said. "Let me guess, you don't give it a piece of the sandwich and the evil purple squirrel rapes you!" I exclaimed at Malcolm as the rest of them laugh at my joke. "No man, that thing was a psychopath! I gave it a piece cause I felt sorry for it, but that thing jumped on me and stole the rest of the sandwich, then it turned into to this huge bear like monster, then it tried to rip off my head!" he told us, looking like he just got traumatized. "My opinion, don't ******** with squirrels." Cobo joked. As we continued our little story telling sessions, I couldn't help but worry that something might have happened to Julio. "Guys, Julio is not a guy that forgets about a meeting, I think he's in trouble." I argued with a worried tone. "Your right guy, someone go check for his location on the GPS of the scanner." Malcolm exclaimed.

I quickly looked for his location on mines, and then sent it to the rest of the guy’s car. "Ok guys, he's about 20 miles from here, his scanners been damaged, something is definitely wrong." everyone got in there car hoping for the best. We all made a line with our vehicles in the order of me, Malcolm, Cobo, and Eddie. Little did we know that we were about to put all of our training to the test.

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We quickly sped through the seemingly empty woods, passing other players along the road who looked like they were also training. After about 20 minutes of driving, we arrived at where Julio's signal came from. It was this huge opening that looked liked something an over sized helicopter could only make when it lands and the strong force of the propellers parts all of the grass. We got out of our cars and franticly looked around to see if we could find our friend. We looked around like crazy for a good minute or so until I finally saw something glittering in the distance. I quickly ran over there and found Julio lying on the ground beaten to the point of death. "Julio! Get up man! Come on man get up! Don't die on me man!!!" I screamed. He grabbed part of my armor and pulled himself up enough to sit down.

"Ferdie....ugh.....dude we have to get out of here....it's a trap....." he whispered. "A trap? What do you mean a trap?" as I said that, the rest of the guys finally caught up to me and stood over me. The second they did, the sky began to get dark and a roar could he heard from far away. I looked up into the sky, trying to find the source of the roar. Julio slowly hoisted himself up with my leg. He reached my shoulder and stood very uneasy and looked like he was about to collapse. Malcolm quickly went on the other side of him and grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Malcolm, take Julio to Cobo's truck and put him in the back seat, I have a bad feeling about this!" I exclaimed at Malcolm. I looked toward the rest of the guys and before I could even say anything, they prepared themselves for a fight. Cobo went back to his hummer and pulled the 1 ton mini gun and strapped it on his person. Eddie grabbed his shotgun, which looks like he had upgraded it along the way. Instead of the basic single barrel, it now has 4. I drew my sword and powered myself up with my abilities. My strength doubled, my speed increased, and for some weird reason my hair got longer and had red highlights.

As the rest of us stood there waiting for Malcolm to get back, who like myself had somewhat transformed (bigger Afro). We also waited for the beast that probably had something to do with Julio being so injured.

"I bet it's just another psychotic squirrel" Eddie joked.
"Hey man, those things are ******** crazy!" Malcolm protested.
"Can both of you just shut the hell up! This is serious! I really doubt Julio got attacked by a crazy squirrel. Only something way stronger could have done that much damage to........ Ummm...... Guys........." I said slightly panicking.
"What?!" they all replied.
"I think I see what hurt Julio" I said still freaking out.
"Well?" Eddie asked.
"Where is it?!"

I looked up and pointed at the beast. It was a four headed black dragon about the size of a 5 story building. It had 2 sets of wings, one on top of the other. Its heads were literally the size of at least 2 hummer combined. I was almost at the point of shitting my pants. As the dragon slowly descends, we all leaped backwards a few yards. We all stared in awe at the black dragon, in all of its evil and destructive glory. I looked at the creatures main head, and something caught my attention. There was a small person standing on top of it. I focused on him some more when I finally realized it was someone I knew.

"Ricky?! Is that you?! What the ******** man?!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. He laughed maniacally and replied "yes it's me! And this is my pet Idragonacorn! Now feel my evil wrath, and you will soon be worse than your buddy there! Muahahahaha!!!!!!!" I stared at him shocked. I use to be good friends with him. I guess strength changes him. I looked over to my band mates who were ready to attack at any time, waiting for my call. I looked back at Ricky who was also ready to give his dragon the signal to attack. I gathered my thoughts and made my decision. I gripped the handle of my sword and screamed as I leaped at one of the dragons head. I thrusted my sword through the dragons second head.

Blood began to gush out of the wound I had made on its head as the other 3 heads cried in pain. I glided down back to where the rest of the guys were, covered in the dragons blood. Suddenly everything shifted. I could barely move, all I could do was move in the little area I was. The rest of the guys seem to have the same problem but they looked like they knew why. I looked over at Ricky and his dragon, which also couldn't move. "Before I forget! When more than two people are fighting, the game doesn't let everyone attack at the same time! It lets you attack only in turns. Since Ferdie is the strongest, it's defaulting to letting him attack first. The next should be the dragon!" Julio screamed through the bullhorn in the hummer.

"Well that makes sense, ok Ricky! Hit me with your best shot!" I shouted at him. "Well if you say so!" Ricky pointed down at Malcolm and shouted something in a weird language. One of the dragons head cocked his head back and spewed a huge black and red fire ball. Malcolm pulled his sword in front of him and the fire ball split in two right before it could touch him. "No fair! You have something that protects you! Well no matter, I'll just get the guy with the big cannon next." he screamed with an evil smirk on his face. Cobo suddenly got a worried face on him. He quickly charged the mini guy and aimed it at the first head. Ricky spoke in that weird language again and pointed at Cobo, but this time the third head attacked. He spewed a much smaller fire ball than the first one. Since he wasn't expecting an attack from the third head, he was caught off guard and got directly hit with it. He stumbled back some, but quickly regained balance and stood his ground. He didn't look to badly hurt, but he did take the full hit.

"That’s it you little b*****d! I’m going to wipe one of your heads off for good." screamed Malcolm. He grabbed his sword and split it right down the middle and made two blades. He sprinted across the plain and stopped in front of the dragon. He then jolted straight up and sliced the second head completely off. The slice was so powerful and overwhelming that part of the first head got sliced as well. The dragon began to roar and thrash its heads violently. It almost knocked Ricky off of him. Ricky jumped back on its main head and smacked it.

"Bad dragon! Never throw me around like that!" he screamed at it. It whimpered and controlled itself immediately. As Ricky was arguing with the dragon, Cobo had charged the mini gun fully and began to fire wave after wave of bullets at the dragon’s body. It began to thrash again, spewing more and more blood from its stomach. It whipped around and slid its tail at all of us, knocking us back a few yards. I had landed in a bush near where the woods start again. This time the dragon couldn't stop raging. Ricky tried to calm it but the dragon was no longer under his control.

Malcolm and Cobo had run over to where I was. "I think we should kill it now while it’s going crazy!" Malcolm exclaimed. I pulled out my sword again and pointed it at the beast. "All right, I and Malcolm will take care of Idragonacorn or whatever its name was. Cobo, you take care of Ricky, but don't kill him." I ordered them. I wanted to keep an eye out for him and the rest of my old friends from middle school. It's possible that they might hate me and my band mates for no reason too. As Ricky ran away like a little girl, Cobo got into his hummer with Julio and drove after him.

Malcolm and I stood there looking at the dragon which had finally calmed down a little. It looked down on us and roared violently. "Ok, you want to attack first?" Malcolm asked. I looked toward him and nodded. I quickly charged at it full speed and jabbed him in the stomach. With the blade still in his stomach, I ran up the dragon and sliced his stomach wide open. Malcolm then jumped into the air about 10 feet over the dragon and took a hard dive down with his blades crossed in front of him. He cut off two heads clean off and with that, the dragon died in a one last cry of agony. We stood on top of its dead corpse, covered in the blackish red blood all over. "I think we killed it" Malcolm joked. I poked it with my sword to check if it really was dead. Thankfully it didn't budge. I looked over my shoulder and saw Cobo dragging Ricky's unconscious body through the mud, dirt, and the blood of his own dragon. "So what do you want me to do to him?" Cobo asked. I thought for a moment and replied. "Tie him to a tree; let him figure out how to get out of this place." I got a rope from my trunk and tied him to the tree furthest from the exit. "This should teach you to mess with us." Malcolm exclaimed.

I got a sharpie from my key chain and started to draw a mustache and inappropriate things on his face. "Talk about adding insult to injury!" Cobo shouted. We all laughed and ran back to our cars before he woke up.

We quickly drove out of the woods. Thankfully Julio had gotten a hold of the relief potions in the back part of Cobo's car, so he almost fully recovered on the drive back. We assembled ourselves near the entrance of the woods, to figure out what to do now. Julio got out of the car, in a bit of a daze, but managed to walk to the center of where we were. "All right guys, I think it's safe to say we're strong enough to handle almost anything. Now, we should go back to what we did before all of this start. This for everyone who forgot is going to gigs and getting money for cool s**t."We all sighed in relief. "Thank god!" I exclaimed. "I haven’t played or even come close to touching a bass in a year!" I quickly got into to my car and turned it on.

I looked toward Julio and asked "so where should we meet to practice?" The rest of the guys looked at Julio with a face asking him the same thing. Julio scratched his head and thought for a while. "Let’s all go to......... My house. I need to find out if there's any request for a performance and that way while I figure that out, you guys can practice." he said. The rest of the guys nodded and got into their vehicles. "All right, the plan is to go get your equipment and meet at his house. Nobody pick a fight with anyone. Even though it's obvious we can kick anyone’s a** with both our hands tied behind our back, I don't want the risk of what happened to Julio happen to the rest of us. So go straight to your houses and straight to Julio's house." I said to them.

They all gave a nod and hauled out. Only Ones left was Cobo, Julio, and me. Cobo was putting Julio's bike in his trunk, since he still wasn't strong enough to be driving around out in the open. I waited for them to leave to make sure that nothing would happen to them. "You guys are going to be all right getting around?" I asked them. "We’ll be fine, you worry about yourself. Since that kid was your friend, none of us know if the rest of your ponce buddies will come after you or the rest of us. Keep your eyes peeled and we'll meet you at Julio's." as he said that, Cobo turned on his hummer and drove away.

I powered down and got in my Charger. I could barely contemplate what could have driven Ricky to do that, let alone the thought of everyone else being against me. I turned on my car and put in my address. After all this time I had forgotten the way back to my house.

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As the GPS started speaking the directions, I couldn't help but look back at the woods one more time, just for precaution. I looked around from inside my car and sighed in relief noticing nothing was coming at me. I pressed down on the pedal and drove away. As I drove by the once familiar streets of Miami, everything seemed perfectly normal, well by normal there were still people fighting around the streets and in the coliseum. After about an hour of driving, I finally arrived at my apartment. I stepped out of the car and closed the door when I realized something "I've been away from home for a year and my mom has no idea why!" I quickly ran up the stairs to my apartment, when I realized there was a note on the door. I grabbed it and it read: "Mijo, I and the rest of the moms from your music group have joined together to help the cause of music for the disabled. Unfortunately, the state has required us to live in Tallahassee for two years before they can accept our plan. I was going to wait for you to get back, but after three days I assumed you were starting to do missions again. I know your old enough to take care of yourself which is why I didn't leave anyone at the house to look after you whenever you got back. Take good care of the apartment and remember to brush your teeth and floss after you eat. Love, mama" I looked at the note and thought to myself "how lucky and convenient for me." I went into my apartment and got all the stuff I needed to play. I made myself a quick sandwich before I left and locked the apartment. As I was walking back to my car, I realized there was a couple of guys across the street looking at me like there were about to jump me. I ignored them completely and started to drive away. When I drove past them they gave the "wassup" nod, and to prevent anything I did it back and drove away like it was all good. I typed in the address to Julio's house on the GPS and drove over as fast as I could. I turned on the radio and started listening to The Killers song "When You Were Young" when a thought hit me. What happened to the super computer? We had chosen to hide it in Julio's house to prevent any of us from tampering with it. Now that the game world exists, does that mean the computer is gone? Or if it isn't, then maybe there's a way to reverse its effect and go back to the real world. As I was thinking this, I really wasn't paying attention to the road and almost ran over a fire hydrate. Thankfully I saw it before and quickly made a hard left and continued my drive to Julio's. Once I got there, I did my usual look around to see if anything that could possibly kill us was anywhere to be seen. I looked around and saw nothing but the houses next door, some kids playing in the their front yards, some guy washing his car, Eddie and Cobo's car, and a girl sun bathing on a beach chair her front yard. I whistled at her and knocked on the door. She looked up at me, waved and gave a little wink. I was about to walk over there when Malcolm arrived. "Are they in there" he asked as he walked up to where I was standing. I nodded at him for a quick second then went back to checking out the hot blonde across the street. "Snap out of it dude, Julio says she's a whore" I gave Malcolm a face after he said that. I looked back at her and she was already flirting with another guy. "Oh well, let's go inside and wait for Eddie." I knocked on the huge door that led into Julio's house. It was almost castle like. The door swung open and I expected to see some huge creepy looking butler. Instead, we saw Julio's short dad, Julio senior. “Compadres! Como estan? If you’re looking for my son, esta arriba! If you guys want anything to drink, there's juice in the fridge." he gestured for us to go in, and then went back to whatever it is that strange little man does. I went over to where the stairs that led to Julio's room were and got up there quickly. I knocked once and went inside, with Malcolm in back of me with a carton of OJ in his hand. Inside of the room, Julio was sitting down on his bed, and Cobo was doing something on the computer. I smacked him in the back of the head when I realized what was on the screen. "Dude, you’re letting Cobo watch porn on your computer?" I said shocked at Julio. Cobo got off of the site and turned the spinning chair around. "He forced me to watch." Julio argued. "Forced? You know you wanted to watch some of...” “Ok I don't want to know!" I exclaimed. I sat down in one of the many bean bag chairs that were in the room. I looked up at Julio and asked "so do we have any gigs or not?" he picked up a clipboard from the table next to him and he handed it to me. "We have one party, but I really doubt you want to do this party." he pointed out the circled name on the list of potential parties. I read the name and scratched my head. "I still don't get why I wouldn't want to do this par.... Oh" I said in a bit of disappointment. The party was for some of the kids from ponce. I grunted and dropped the clipboard. "Ok, forget about the fact that it's for them. I mean, do we really know that they have it out for us? Maybe it was only Ricky that had power hunger and took it out on you. If anything, we can easily take them down!" I exclaimed. As I was arguing why we should do this, Eddie had finally gotten here. He sat down in the bean bag next to me and listened patiently until I was done. "So are we going to do gig or not?!" I asked them all. They all looked at each other and answered at the same time "hell yea!" We quickly began to practice all our songs for the rest of the day. Since most of us really weren't the type to write music, we stuck to being a cover band. We practiced a few Red Hot Chili Pepper songs, which all of us know by heart. We also did a couple of stuff by The Killers, Jimmy Eat World, Trapt, Stained, and Nickelback. We even did Korn's version of "Another Brick in the Wall". After we had enough material down for the show, we all decided that it would be best to stick around until the show. We all choose a place to crash in Julio's house. Cobo decided to get the guest room, Eddie got Julio's childhood playroom, Malcolm got the garage, and I got the couch. We all stayed up until midnight watching some special on Comedy Central while eating fried chicken and drinking some drink there called Propane! After everyone went back to whatever they were going to sleep on, I finally fell asleep on the couch. After about 10 minutes of being asleep, whatever dream I was having, went wrong. I began to move uneasily on the couch and literally dropped to the floor. I instantly woke up and sat there for while trying to calm myself down. I went to the bathroom and relieved myself. Afterwards I washed my hands and face. "Crazy nightmare" I mumbled to myself. I rubbed my head a little and almost went crazy. "Is that a horn?" I said to myself. I rubbed my head again and felt nothing. "I could’ve sworn I felt a horn" I splashed some more water on my face and went back to the couch. I couldn’t sleep so I just sat there until morning. I started looking through my scanners screen to past the time. "Oh how nice, I earned almost enough experience to get to the next level, all I need is one more battle and I'll reach the supposed highest level in the game." I said to myself in the darkness. As I watched the sun go up, I continued to think about that nightmare and the imaginary horns. Right as I was about to fall asleep again, the rest of the guys woke up and walked into the living room. Julio went straight to the kitchen with Eddie and Cobo. Malcolm went outside to get some fresh air. I walked over to the kitchen and heated some of the leftover chicken from yesterday, then went back to the sofa and watched some TV. Nobody really talked in the morning, so the entire house was silent the entire morning. I continued to lay on the couch eating my chicken until maybe 2:00, then like clockwork everyone started getting ready for the show. I walked over to Julio and asked "dude where’s this party anyway?" he looked at the clipboard and then looked at me. "It’s in some chick’s grandma’s house, last name Ibarra." I looked at him and almost laughed. "Damn, this just gets better and better for me." I said sarcastically. "What could possibly be wrong now?" Julio asked me. I took the clipboard to check if I was right. "Ok this is definitely her; the person hosting this party is my ex." I told him as I handed the clipboard back. Julio looked back at me in disbelief. I laughed and sat down in the chair near me. Julio gave me another look and started to laugh too. "maybe this gig really is a trap and everyone you once knew and loved is out to get us, since we are the strongest of all the people in this world." he joked as he went up the stairs to go get ready. I went over to the couch and got my clothes to go change in the bathroom. "Maybe your right Julio!" I screamed so he can hear me from downstairs. "If this is a trap, maybe we shouldn't go armed? If we go armed, they might think we're doing this gig just to get them off their guard and they might pull out some secret wea... Ugh! You got any aspirin? I've got this major headache and it won't go away!" Julio came back from his room and handed me two aspirin. I swallowed both pills and continued getting ready for the gig. Eddie and Cobo had already gotten into their nice show clothes; dress pants, white long sleeve shirt with a black vest, one of those caballero dress hats, and Converse. Malcolm finally came out of the garage, in what he considers to be nice clothing; Dragonball-Z t-shirt, jeans, and Nike's. I ended up wearing something very casual like Malcolm, but it looked like a destroyed version of what Julio and Cobo were wearing; black jeans, AC/DC t-shirt, one of those black denim vests, and the same type of hat as Cobo and Eddie. Julio came out wearing a black dress shirt and black dress pants. "We look like a bunch a ******** weirdoes looking like a group of half professionals and half hobos. Eddie, Cobo, Julio, we're going to a party with a bunch of teens! Go find something that doesn't make you guys look like you’re going through your mid-life crisis already." I told them. Eddie chuckled a little and went to go peruse Julio's closet. Cobo and Julio soon followed after them. Malcolm and I then started to load stuff onto Cobo's hummer. After about ten minutes, the rest of the guys finally came back down. Julio had a Pink Floyd t-shirt with black jeans and black converse. Eddie had a Led Zeppelin t-shirt, blue jeans, blue and white converse, and a beanie hat. Cobo was wearing a purple Lynird Synod shirt, purple jeans, and purple converse. I stopped what I was doing and looked at Cobo. He looked back at me and gave a face. "What?!" "Nothing, just get the keys to your hummer and let's do this already so we can get paid and go on with our lives. Since we really don't need that many cars to go over there, let's leave the bikes here and only take the hummer, the charger, and the corvette." they all nodded in agreement and got the rest of the instruments into whatever car they were going to ride in. Malcolm rode with Eddie, and Julio rode with Cobo, leaving me to ride alone. "Ok guys, before we get there, make sure none of you have weapons on you. The slightest indication that we're ready to fight could provoke them to attack us. If they decide to attack us anyway, we can easily use whatever special ability we have and wipe the floor with them." they all looked at me uneasy after I said that. "And if Ricky's there?" Julio asked. "Then we avoid him as much as possible, he still probably wants to kill us after we killed his dragon and tied him to tree. Plus I don't think that drawing on him helps us much either. So keep your eyes peeled, and play like you've never played before!" I exclaimed. The rest of the guys calmed down and started the cars.

[ghostrider51]

We all drove out of the drive-way and parked one next to each other on the road. "Ok Julio, where the hell is this party anyways?" Julio checked the clipboard and looked back at me from the hummer. "Miami beach." I stared at him for a minute then looked back to my steering wheel. I thought to myself why would the party be in the beach if she lives in south Miami. I looked back at Julio and motioned for him to drive in front so I could follow him. After about 10 minutes we got to the express way that leads to Miami Beach. Since there was no speed limit to be seen, we decided to have a little fun. I drove my car up to Eddie's corvette and lowered the window. "Dude, let's see how fast these things can really go." Eddie nodded and stomped on the pedal and took off like a rocket. I did the same but stayed a good ten feet in back of him. Cobo and Julio were way in back of us by now, but since it was a long trip, we all knew which exit to get out on incase this would happen. Eddie was still in front of me and didn't let me pass. I looked around the controls of the car and found a button saying "super turbo; do not press under any circumstances." I decided to take my chances and slowed the car down so I could be about 20 feet from Eddie. "Don’t fail me now button." I pressed it and I thought I was driving a rocket. The front wheels on the charger lifted up and made it fly for about five seconds. When it touched the concrete, I turned the car and passed Eddie like he was an old lady on a wheel chair. "woohooo." Was all I could say when I realized Eddie was more than 50 feet in back. I decided to tease him a little, I sped up a bit more and swerved the car about- face and threw it into reverse. Now, not only was I driving faster than him, but I was doing it backwards. When I got a good look at his windshield, I could tell that he was swearing at me for being a show off. I looked in back of him and saw that Cobo had almost caught up, and that the next exit was ours. I sped the car up a bit more and swerved back into drive as I exited the highway. All of us got stopped by the next red light and Eddie stopped next to me. "What the hell is wrong with you?! What would’ve happened if that didn't work?!" I laughed at him and smirked. "Chill out man! I was just having some fun with you." once the red light turned green, Cobo took his position in front of us once again. After 15 minutes of twisting and turning around the winding streets of Miami Beach, we finally reached a huge beach house that the backyard was literally a tiny private beach area. You could hear the people conversing in the background as all of us climbed out of our cars. I grabbed a pair of shades from my glove compartment as a precaution. Julio walked up to the door and knocked a few times, and no one answered. "They’re probably outside, maybe they forgot they were having a band perform?" just as Malcolm asked, the door opened, revealing a small boy about seven or eight. "Who are you people?" he asked us in his squeaky voice. He was still too young to start fighting so he didn't have a scanner on him, and I didn't sense any powers. "We’re the band that’s supposed to be performing for the party outback." Julio finally replied. He looked at the rest of us and then back at Julio. "I'll call my sister over. Michelle!!! Your band for the party just got here!!" he yelled towards the back of the house. I tapped Cobo on the shoulder and got close enough so only he could hear. "Come and help me unload the stuff." he nodded and went back to the hummer, just as Michelle had gone to the door. "Thank god you guys came, I was wondering if you guys were lost." she said in her shy somewhat innocent voice. "We would’ve gotten here earlier, but we woke up late, so where do we setup?" Julio asked, suddenly realizing that Cobo and I had gone back to where the hummer was. "Just drive the car with all your equipment through the gates over there and then I'll show you guys where the stage is. It's just you 3?" "No, the other two are PUTTING EVERYTHING IN THE HUMMER!" Eddie screamed at us so we can hear. I jumped on the bumper of the hummer and looked over it towards them. "Gotcha!" Cobo and I then began to take the stuff that was in the charger and corvette and placed them in the hummer. Julio had collected the first half of the pay from Michelle and came back to where we were and gave us our share of the pay. "Damn, $100 each? That means she's paying $1000 for the whole gig!" I exclaimed. Malcolm stuffed his pocket with his share and climbed in the back of the hummer. "Not only that, but she's letting us chill and enjoy the party." I closed the trunk of my car and skeptically looked at Malcolm. "If she is, then we might need to pay extra attention, I'm still paranoid that this could be a trap." We all looked at each other, and Cobo went into the driver seat of the hummer. "Then let's just keep an eye out for anything suspicious, and not look like we are. They might catch that and make us sleep with the fish’s right on the spot!" I laughed a bit and climbed in the back of the hummer along with the rest of the guys and the equipment. Right before we closed the trunk to it, Cobo had already started driving. We went through the gate and parked near some sort of stage. I looked out the window and noticed how many people were around. "There’s not that many people, maybe we're in the clear?" Julio suggested. I continued to scan the surrounding area. I got out of the car and suddenly I became weary, my sight became blurry, and my state of mind unstable. To everyone else, I looked like I was just staring out at the beach. In reality, my soul had literally left my body, and transported into someone else’s. I could see everything this person can see, they still had complete and total control. It was like watching a movie through the main characters eyes. I quickly realized that the body I was in was Ricky's, and he was giving orders to my other friend Jason. "All right, after they're done setting up, they're probably going to rest and hang around for a while before performing. That's when you’re going to go up to the roof and mount the sniper. When you see that they're all settled and have their guard down, you aim for Ferdie's head." he ordered Jason. Almost instantly, I returned to my body in a gasp. Julio, who was closest to me at the time, noticed me gasp and looked at me concerned. "Dude, you look like you just saw a ghost, what's wrong?" I stared at the back of the hummer who still has most of the gear in there, and once again my actions were uncontrolled. All of the gear came floating out and set itself up. "Ok seriously man your freaking me out! What wrongs." I pulled him close and looked around to make sure Ricky was not around. "Dude, Ricky is going to try to kill me after we have everything set up and started to relax! I don't know if what I saw in my daze was true or not, but I think it's better for us to go on now and relax later. That way we could see the roof easier while we perform, and it will be hard for him to aim through the crowd. After the first set, we take him down. You got to believe me man!" I looked at Julio and gave him the most serious face I can do. He nodded and went over to tell the rest of the guys the plan. He also went over to Michelle to ask her if it was all right if we went on earlier. By what I saw form the distance, she agreed and went onstage to announce us up. I got onstage with the rest of the guys and picked up my bass which I had somehow setup, along with the rest of the guys equipment, with my mind. As I tried to put 2 and 2 together, Cobo signaled me to start any song I wanted. I thought for a second and began to play the intro to Stand's song "Mudshovel."



You take away

I feel the same



You take away

I feel the same

All the promises you made to me you made in vain

I lost myself inside your tainted smile again



Cause you can't feel my ANGER

You can't feel my pain

You can't feel my torment

Driving me insane

I can't fight these feelings they will bring you pain

You can't take away

Make me whole again



I feel betrayed

Stuck in your ways

And you rip me apart

With the brutal things you say

I can't deal with s**t anymore

I just look away



Cause you can't feel my ANGER

You can't feel my pain

You can't feel my torment

Driving me insane

I can't fight these feelings they bring only pain

You can't take away

Make me whole again



Mudshovel ( X8 )



You take away

I feel the same

All these promises

You promised only pain

If you take away

And leave me with nothing again



'Cause you can't feel my ANGER

You can't feel my pain

You can't feel my torment

Driving me insane

I can't fight these feelings they will bring you pain

You can't take away

Make me whole again



You will feel my anger

You will feel my pain

You will feel my torment

Driving you insane

I can't fight these feelings they will bring you pain

You won't take away

I'll be whole again



Mudshovel ( X8 )

[ghostrider51]

After the first song, we did 4 more and told the crowd we were going to take a 15 minute break. We all sat on top of a rail that was next to stage. I positioned myself in the middle of the group between Julio and Eddie. I looked towards the roof of the house and saw something that looked like a scope. I looked over to Julio and pointed towards it. He looked upward and noticed it aswel. He nodded and closed his eyes. Suddenly the same headache came back and I began to see through the eyes of another person. This time I was looking through Julio's eyes, not the ones on his body, but his soul. Julio had an ability that allowed his soul to leave his body at any time, and attack people with his soul. The only thing he can do though is rip off limbs, which is what he intended to do to whoever was on the roof. His soul glided through the air like if it was invisible, because it was. He flew from the back of the house and then towards where I saw the scope. When he finally landed on the roof, we both could see Jason lying down on the floor loading his sniper. Julio slowly creped over to Jason as he began to aim towards my head, and lightly tapped him on his shoulder. He spun around and screamed "dude can't you see I'm about to... I could’ve sworn that somebody tapped me on the... AGH!!!!!!" just as he was about to say whatever it was he was going to say, Julio ripped his arm clean off and covered his mouth so no one could hear him. He then grabbed his right leg and ripped that off as well. Jason tried to break free from his imaginary killer, but he was in too much pain. He tried to scream one more time but Julio ended his squirming for good and decapitated him. Blood was splattered all over the roof, and no one at the party heard or saw anything. Julio's soul quickly returned to his body, and I was finally able to return to my own sight. As I returned to consciousness, I looked at Julio and gave him a relieved look. "Dude, did you really have to kill him like that?" he shrugged and looked around to see if anybody was going up to the roof. "Only way I could kill him without anyone noticing." after that, the rest of the guys attacked the buffet table and I decided to walk along the water. I looked out into the sea and couldn't stop thinking about how I could look through someone else’s eyes. I rubbed my head and concentrated to see if I can do this on command. Right on the spot, I was able to see through someone’s eyes again,I was able to see through Ricky's eyes like last time. He was looking at me wondering why Jason hadn't taken the shot yet. He ran up to the roof and almost cried when he realized the bloody mess that Julio had left Jason in. He ran back down and immediately told Michelle and they both stared at me. "What do you want me to do? You tried to have him killed" "I only tried to kill him because he killed my dragon and almost killed me! Plus wouldn't it be nice to have the strongest player dead? If I kill him, than everyone else here gets enough experience to raises them up at least five levels!" I quickly switched back to my own state of mind and continued to look out into the sea. As my mind began to wander, my headache got worse, and I started hallucinating. "I could’ve sworn I saw something in the water." I walked back over to where the guys were, who had devoured what was left at the buffet table. "I think we pissed off Ricky." "What makes you say that?" Malcolm replied. "I just saw through his sight again, and he found Jason's body. Now they want me dead for experience and a chance at the number one spot on the charts." Malcolm looked over to Julio and smacked him in the back of the head. "Julio, did you somehow make this game so that all of Ferdie's old friends hate him?" "Sort of." As Julio said that, he backed away defensively. "Julio if I don't die here I'm going to kill you." just as I said that, everyone at the party pulled out some sort of automatic weapon and pointed them at us. "Oh s**t... we're ********." Cobo and I murmured. Among the crowd popped out Ricky with a bazooka under his arm. "I think it's time for you guys to leave this party. Better yet, I think it's time for you guys to leave this Earth!" he exclaimed at us as he lifted up his bazooka and aimed it at us. Just as he did, my headache got to the point that I couldn't handle it anymore. I couldn't control my actions; a sudden red aura covered my body and completely took over. My eyes turned bloodshot red and my hair spiked up. I grew a black devil like tail and fangs. Everyone backed away from me as I went through my transformation. Little to my knowledge, my HP was slowly deteriorating. I roared demonicly and leaped over the crowd and stood in front of the ocean. I growled and suddenly the ocean itself began to transform into a huge water demon, which looked like a more monstrous form of what I had just turned into. Right before the demon even finished forming, everyone except my band mates began to shoot at me wildly. Finally, my water demon had completely formed and roared. It was so powerfully that everyone flew back and crashed into anything solid. It roared upward and a gigantic storm cloud covered the air. It thundered and lightning struck right in front of me. As my demonic body surveyed the land, I didn't notice that Ricky was attacking me from the air. He dropped out of the sky and tried to pierce my face with a machete. I cunningly dodged him and grabbed him by the arm. He tried to break free but my demonic other worldly strength was too much and I swung him across the beach. Just as I did, my headache returned and caused me to leave my demonic form, and right on the spot my water demon collapsed, causing a massive wave to crash on the beach. I fell to the floor, with just one HP left in me. I slowly moved my head on the sand to see the damage I caused in my blind rampage. The house was torn to shreds, the stage was no longer there, all of the cars were covered in seaweed, everyone was either on the sidewalk stumbling to get up, or buried in the sand. My band mates had ducked behind a tree and didn't look to badly bruised. On top of the same tree, Ricky had gotten caught in the branches and was knocked unconscious. I tried to push my body upwards, but the sudden chill of a barrel to the back of my head stopped me from moving. I tried to tilt my head to see who it was, but I blacked out for good. My head slammed to the sand as blood gushed out the bullet hole on the back of my head. Standing over me, Michelle was holding a 9-milimeter and had tears going down her cheeks. She dropped the gun and ran toward where the house was and fell down contemplating the damage. My band mates ran over to my dead body. They placed a black towel over me and carried me to the back of the hummer. They positioned me in one of the cases for the keyboards and closed the trunk. Julio took the liberty of taking my car and they all drove away.

[ghostrider51]

I slowly regained consciousness, and I was blinded by a white light. The appearance of Cobo's dad appeared before me. "Harold? Is that you? Where am I?" he grabbed my arm and helped me up. I looked around and realized everything around me was white and glowing. Harold scratched his beard and gave a serious face. "Ferdie, I'm sorry to say this, but you have passed away. This place that we are in, this is heaven." I looked at him then around me. I started laughing hysterically. "You're kidding me?! Right?!" I tried to convince myself that what he just said wasn't true, but then I remembered what happened to me right before I blacked out. "Harold, if this really is heaven, then what are you doing here?" Harold chuckled and patted me on the back. "Well, you probably won't believe this but, I'm god." I almost died again from laughter. "That’s a good one Harold! Does this make Tony the devil? And is Cobo Jesus?" he looked over to one of the chairs and it instantly turned into water. Right before I even said anything, the water turned into a Grail full of wine right before my eyes. "Now do you believe me?" I almost lost it, I couldn't believe that Harold was god, I could barely comprehend that Tony is the devil, and Cobo being Jesus? "Ok Harold, your god, Tony is the devil, and Cobo is Jesus. Right?" "Almost, see when Cobo was born, me and his mother looked into the future and saw what would happen if Cobo had that much power in his hands. Need I say anymore?" I chuckled and nodded. "So, we decided to choose someone else that would be more suited. We choose you." "Huh?!" "Ferdie, you are the Son of God." "Is this why I can see through someone else’s eyes? And what about what happened to me at the party? Was all that demonic crap part of some sort of crazy initiation?" "Well, Tony and I had a coin toss to see who gets to train you, and he won. So instead of somewhat goodness in you, you will follow a path of evil and demonic pleasures. I know it sounds bad, but it's nothing compared to what my son would’ve done with that much strength and power!" "Let me guess, worldwide control of all sexual activity?" "Exactly, and that would be a bad thing." "So, if I'm supposed to train with Tony, wouldn't that mean I'm suppose to go to hell?" I wondered. Harold sighed and grabbed my head. "Your right, you ARE suppose to be in hell!" he exclaimed. Right before I could even answer him, he smashed my head against the wall and I was once again knocked out. This time when I woke up, I knew where I was. "Tony, is that you?" I pulled myself up with the nearby piano. It was a pretty average size studio; it had 3 computers, one grand piano, a sound booth, and a huge equalizer. Tony turned around on his spinning chair and looked at me surprised. "Ferdie, there you are! I was wondering where you were. I'm guessing that you got sent to heaven by mistake, and that my brother already explained why you are being sent here." I nodded and sat down on the black piano bench. "That’s right, so if you’re the devil, aren't you and I suppose to be in hell, not your Lighthouse studio?" he stopped what he was doing and walked over to the sound booth and knocked 13 times. He signaled for me to walk over to where he was. He opened the door to the booth and motioned for me to enter, when I realized it wasn't a sound booth anymore. "Why is there an elevator in here?" I mumbled. He walked into it with me and closed the door. "See, transporting yourself from earth to heaven then to hell, then back to earth takes a lot of energy out of you. So I and my brother built a magical elevator that transports us between the 3 realms." I looked on the buttons on the elevator to see which one takes me down. I slowly pressed the button to make sure it doesn't burst into flames or anything like that. As soon as I did, the elevator dropped like a bomb. It went down at a speed that I'm pretty sure most cars can't even reach. When it stopped, it threw me off my balance and I almost fell out the door when Tony opened it. He walked a few steps in front of me and looked back. "Welcome to hell." I looked up and saw where my training was suppose to be. There was one huge center area that looks like a sumo fighting ring. As the stereotypical picture of it portrays, there were rivers of lava streaming around. It was basically one big horrific cave, with lava and a road that led to where the other hell mates were. Tony jumped up and glided down over to a throne in front of the ring. I followed and landed on the ring itself. "All right, since you are now under my training, this is where you will be doing all of your fighting. Whether it's one of the many demons I send your way, or one of the other people that were sent to hell, you must fight in this arena, or you won't learn much about your powers." I skeptically looked at him for a minute. "How long do I have to stay here?" I murmured. He thought for a long time then yawned. "Just one year, then I'll send you back to earth under a couple of conditions." I nodded in agreement and rubbed my head. "and what would those conditions be?" he got off of his throne and pulled out a little black book from his back pocket and put on his reading glasses. "Ok, says here you have to stay here a full year before returning back. It also says you have to kill whoever killed you, and that you have to do it before one year passes." I gasped and sat down on the ground. "So you’re telling me I have to kill my ex?" "That’s right." "Fine, when does my training start?" "Right now!" suddenly, 5 burst of fire jumped out of the surrounding lava rivers and turned into ghost like figures. They all lunged at me with incredible speed and surrounded me. I pulled out my sword which had somehow caught in fire, and sliced threw all 5 of them. They separated in two and regenerated to their original form. And so a year long training begins, but this time, the training might choose whether I live or die.

[Shafweh]

Jesus Christ! Have you ever heard of the enter key? Use it!
Every time there's a new speaker: NEW PARAGRAPH!

[ghostrider51]

yes i know that
just read it before you get all
"DO THISFIX THAT DELETE THERE" on me
please?

[SilverRinehart66]

Shafweh

Jesus Christ! Have you ever heard of the enter key? Use it!
Every time there's a new speaker: NEW PARAGRAPH!

So many walls of text... my eyes.... they're melting... gonk

[ghostrider51]

SilverRinehart66

Shafweh

Jesus Christ! Have you ever heard of the enter key? Use it!
Every time there's a new speaker: NEW PARAGRAPH!

So many walls of text... my eyes.... they're melting... gonk

Ok
I get it
I need to learn to use the enter key :/

[Shafweh]

We can't read it as a wall of text. How is that hard to understand? Paragraphs, then people will read it.

[ghostrider51]

Shafweh

We can't read it as a wall of text. How is that hard to understand? Paragraphs, then people will read it.

you just dont wanna read it cause your lazy
ive had a good twenty someting people read it as ONE big block of text
so if you dont wanna read it
move on and dont come back

[Shafweh]

Everyone who will give you a good review will tell you the same thing. You want to waste your time? Go ahead. I'm not stopping you. I'm just telling you how to format your work to get readers.