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Halloween
Leo
Three days later, and we were an hour out of a city called Mud. Leo, you may be asking, how does a city earn such a horrid name? It is really quite simple. A horrid place deserves a horrid name. Elementary!
First off, the area in which Mud is situated is the closest thing Ooame has to a desert. By that I mean that if it would ever cease raining the mud that gave the city it's name would become sand. In this horrid city are equally horrid people. Angry, thieving, conniving people known as Muds. Creative people, truly. The oppression they live in has given all of them a characteristic slump, hunched back, and ultra pale complexions. They all reminded me of aged vampires. Their houses are built of fired mud-bricks, and although the firing does make them more durable, the incessant rain leaves almost all the buildings in a state of disrepair.
The only structurally sound buildings I could see as we entered were the Pokemon Center and Mart, the League regulated these buildings and had certain construction requirements. As we started towards the Pokemon Center I asked myself yet again why we were stopping here. Terra answered as if she had read my thoughts.
"We need to stop to heal and rest. We all don't have the stamina of pokemon here." She said, making a face unconsciously putting a hand to her stomach. Probably hungry. None of us had really eaten recently.
"Just you and Scar," I said, "And we have offered assistance only to be turned down." Terra merely growled, warning me to shut up. "Whatever, I'm gonna walk around after we stop at the Center." Terra grunted and trudged on, lifting her legs high above the mud with each step.
I was gone the soonest I could leave, marching my way bravely through rain, mud, and overall rude people. I made my way to a small shop which seemed to be mostly intact. I was happy to walk in and find a dry haven. The shop owner looked at me strangely, but not in any abnormal way thanks to my human shape, which has become almost second nature to me. I had entered the small shop in hopes of finding a calendar, for I realized I had no idea what month, let alone day, we were in. What I found in the store, however, took my breath away.
Adorning the walls were hundreds of masks, all filled with color and fear, for they were all made to look terrifying. Hand carved from wood, some showed faces melting right to the ground, and others malicious creatures of death and torment. One section drew my eye more so than the others. These masks were smaller, and not nearly as horrible. Many showed happy faces of pokemon from squirtle to Arceus, and everything in between. There was a pikachu, and it made laugh, imagining meeting someone on the street wearing that mask.
Finally, my curiosity fulfilled, I turned to the owner. He staring at me again, probably exactly how I was staring at him.
"You're not from around here." He said. It was exactly what I was thinking. He met non of the criteria for Muds. He was tan, a golden brown from head to toe, and his hair was a spiky mane of fiery red. His glowed gold, a shade lighter than his skin. He wore a trench coat, appropriate for the weather, but he filled it, standing up straight and tall. There was a confidence about him, a sense of ability. He was not your average Mud, for sure.
"And neither are you. Do you have a calendar?" I said skipping the formalities. He nodded and jammed a thumb behind him. I walked past him and up to the back wall, where among the colorful masks hung a stark white calendar.
First I checked the month, October, my favorite month, the beginning of Winter, and the end of Fall. I scrolled down the X's in the days, looking for the first unmarked day. Then I found it, and I nearly shouted for joy. It was my favorite day of the year today, the only day I could walk free as myself and have no one laugh, be scared, or run from me! I just love Halloween!
My thoughts quickly turned to the sinister side of the holiday. I just had to scare Terra, and how glorious it would be...
Terra
Everyone had gone out to do whatever, and I was left in the Pokemon Center alone. I was grateful for the room Nurse Joy had offered us, and equally glad for the silence while everyone was in their pokeballs.
My thoughts turned to the joke Nurse Joy had tried to pull on us, saying the room was haunted, but she later explained it was all in the spirit of the season. Who knew it was Halloween today, my least favorite holiday of them all?
My imagination began to get away from me as images of monsters flashed before my eyes, and I immediately regretted turning the lights off. I sat up, holding my face in my hands, trying to dispel the irrational fear I had.
"Terra..." I heard whispered. I lied back down with a sigh, annoyed at my own inability to control my thoughts.
"Terra... I want you..." I shot up again, certain that wasn't my imagination. I looked around, but nothing was there, no one to be trying to scare me.
"Right here, Terra..." I spun around and stood up, and there, on the bed where I was sitting was a skull. It didn't move, it didn't speak, but that hardly diminished the creepiness. Suddenly the head lifted back, opening the mouth wide. Out of the gaping maw came a billowing white creature, unlike anything I had ever seen.
"Terra... I want you to die..." It rushed at me suddenly cackling evilly as it rushed through my body then the wall. I screamed, running for the door. It was locked.
"There is no escape, my play thing, you are mine now!" I turned slowly to see Leo, standing there. He wasn't smiling, but rage took over.
"You asshole! That wasn't fucking funny!" I stopped screaming when he said nothing. He didn't move, it didn't even look like he was breathing. I walked up to him slowly, reaching out to brush his shirt.
He turned to ash, falling to the floor in a pile. I screamed again, scrambling back to the door. I couldn't pull my eyes away. Two large foot prints formed in the ash, leaving large indents in Leo's body. Then they took a step, and another, and another coming towards me, leaving gray footprints in their wake.
I screamed, the force hurting my throat. The ash was blown away lifted into a tornado building in the center of the room. Spirals of gray built pictures. Of my death.
Then Leo was there again, but moving this time. I didn't yell at him, he looked as scared as I did.
"Terra!" He cried, "Fight him, Terra! Don't let him take you! He already has me!" A swirling red hole appeared in the floor, swallowing Leo and the dust.
He was gone. Everything was quiet, eerily quiet. I shut my eyes and began to cry, for he was gone. My Leo was gone. I couldn't make sense of what he had said. Don't let who take me?
"Me." My eyes shot open, staring into the laughing face of a giant skull. It was massive, filling the room. From its temples spiraled two massive goat horns, brushing the ceiling and leaving long gashes. That was the only constant. The skull shifted shape every few seconds, taking on another form time and time again.
"Who are you?!" I screamed over his laughter.
"Me? I am Death!" He roared. The floor opened into the same swirling pool of red. Out came hideous creatures built of tentacles and slime around single eyeballs. They slithered towards me, attempting to grab me with powerful arms. I fought it, but more came.
They dragged me, kicking and screaming to the pit, the ugly skull laughing the whole time. I screamed as I was drawn down, down into Hell and eternal darkness...
Then I woke up, sweating and screaming. Leo was on the floor, laughing and rolling. It didn't take me long to realize what had happened. I quickly grabbed a shoe and threw it.
"Son of a BITCH!"Chapter End Notes:Another chapter was supposed to be done for Christmas, but family vacations can be a bitch
Three days later, and we were an hour out of a city called Mud. Leo, you may be asking, how does a city earn such a horrid name? It is really quite simple. A horrid place deserves a horrid name. Elementary!
First off, the area in which Mud is situated is the closest thing Ooame has to a desert. By that I mean that if it would ever cease raining the mud that gave the city it's name would become sand. In this horrid city are equally horrid people. Angry, thieving, conniving people known as Muds. Creative people, truly. The oppression they live in has given all of them a characteristic slump, hunched back, and ultra pale complexions. They all reminded me of aged vampires. Their houses are built of fired mud-bricks, and although the firing does make them more durable, the incessant rain leaves almost all the buildings in a state of disrepair.
The only structurally sound buildings I could see as we entered were the Pokemon Center and Mart, the League regulated these buildings and had certain construction requirements. As we started towards the Pokemon Center I asked myself yet again why we were stopping here. Terra answered as if she had read my thoughts.
"We need to stop to heal and rest. We all don't have the stamina of pokemon here." She said, making a face unconsciously putting a hand to her stomach. Probably hungry. None of us had really eaten recently.
"Just you and Scar," I said, "And we have offered assistance only to be turned down." Terra merely growled, warning me to shut up. "Whatever, I'm gonna walk around after we stop at the Center." Terra grunted and trudged on, lifting her legs high above the mud with each step.
I was gone the soonest I could leave, marching my way bravely through rain, mud, and overall rude people. I made my way to a small shop which seemed to be mostly intact. I was happy to walk in and find a dry haven. The shop owner looked at me strangely, but not in any abnormal way thanks to my human shape, which has become almost second nature to me. I had entered the small shop in hopes of finding a calendar, for I realized I had no idea what month, let alone day, we were in. What I found in the store, however, took my breath away.
Adorning the walls were hundreds of masks, all filled with color and fear, for they were all made to look terrifying. Hand carved from wood, some showed faces melting right to the ground, and others malicious creatures of death and torment. One section drew my eye more so than the others. These masks were smaller, and not nearly as horrible. Many showed happy faces of pokemon from squirtle to Arceus, and everything in between. There was a pikachu, and it made laugh, imagining meeting someone on the street wearing that mask.
Finally, my curiosity fulfilled, I turned to the owner. He staring at me again, probably exactly how I was staring at him.
"You're not from around here." He said. It was exactly what I was thinking. He met non of the criteria for Muds. He was tan, a golden brown from head to toe, and his hair was a spiky mane of fiery red. His glowed gold, a shade lighter than his skin. He wore a trench coat, appropriate for the weather, but he filled it, standing up straight and tall. There was a confidence about him, a sense of ability. He was not your average Mud, for sure.
"And neither are you. Do you have a calendar?" I said skipping the formalities. He nodded and jammed a thumb behind him. I walked past him and up to the back wall, where among the colorful masks hung a stark white calendar.
First I checked the month, October, my favorite month, the beginning of Winter, and the end of Fall. I scrolled down the X's in the days, looking for the first unmarked day. Then I found it, and I nearly shouted for joy. It was my favorite day of the year today, the only day I could walk free as myself and have no one laugh, be scared, or run from me! I just love Halloween!
My thoughts quickly turned to the sinister side of the holiday. I just had to scare Terra, and how glorious it would be...
Terra
Everyone had gone out to do whatever, and I was left in the Pokemon Center alone. I was grateful for the room Nurse Joy had offered us, and equally glad for the silence while everyone was in their pokeballs.
My thoughts turned to the joke Nurse Joy had tried to pull on us, saying the room was haunted, but she later explained it was all in the spirit of the season. Who knew it was Halloween today, my least favorite holiday of them all?
My imagination began to get away from me as images of monsters flashed before my eyes, and I immediately regretted turning the lights off. I sat up, holding my face in my hands, trying to dispel the irrational fear I had.
"Terra..." I heard whispered. I lied back down with a sigh, annoyed at my own inability to control my thoughts.
"Terra... I want you..." I shot up again, certain that wasn't my imagination. I looked around, but nothing was there, no one to be trying to scare me.
"Right here, Terra..." I spun around and stood up, and there, on the bed where I was sitting was a skull. It didn't move, it didn't speak, but that hardly diminished the creepiness. Suddenly the head lifted back, opening the mouth wide. Out of the gaping maw came a billowing white creature, unlike anything I had ever seen.
"Terra... I want you to die..." It rushed at me suddenly cackling evilly as it rushed through my body then the wall. I screamed, running for the door. It was locked.
"There is no escape, my play thing, you are mine now!" I turned slowly to see Leo, standing there. He wasn't smiling, but rage took over.
"You asshole! That wasn't fucking funny!" I stopped screaming when he said nothing. He didn't move, it didn't even look like he was breathing. I walked up to him slowly, reaching out to brush his shirt.
He turned to ash, falling to the floor in a pile. I screamed again, scrambling back to the door. I couldn't pull my eyes away. Two large foot prints formed in the ash, leaving large indents in Leo's body. Then they took a step, and another, and another coming towards me, leaving gray footprints in their wake.
I screamed, the force hurting my throat. The ash was blown away lifted into a tornado building in the center of the room. Spirals of gray built pictures. Of my death.
Then Leo was there again, but moving this time. I didn't yell at him, he looked as scared as I did.
"Terra!" He cried, "Fight him, Terra! Don't let him take you! He already has me!" A swirling red hole appeared in the floor, swallowing Leo and the dust.
He was gone. Everything was quiet, eerily quiet. I shut my eyes and began to cry, for he was gone. My Leo was gone. I couldn't make sense of what he had said. Don't let who take me?
"Me." My eyes shot open, staring into the laughing face of a giant skull. It was massive, filling the room. From its temples spiraled two massive goat horns, brushing the ceiling and leaving long gashes. That was the only constant. The skull shifted shape every few seconds, taking on another form time and time again.
"Who are you?!" I screamed over his laughter.
"Me? I am Death!" He roared. The floor opened into the same swirling pool of red. Out came hideous creatures built of tentacles and slime around single eyeballs. They slithered towards me, attempting to grab me with powerful arms. I fought it, but more came.
They dragged me, kicking and screaming to the pit, the ugly skull laughing the whole time. I screamed as I was drawn down, down into Hell and eternal darkness...
Then I woke up, sweating and screaming. Leo was on the floor, laughing and rolling. It didn't take me long to realize what had happened. I quickly grabbed a shoe and threw it.
"Son of a BITCH!"Chapter End Notes:Another chapter was supposed to be done for Christmas, but family vacations can be a bitch