Adventure
The Book of Fate Part 2: Preparations
Meanwhile in a faraway place, Jekyll is slowly opening his eyes. His whole body hurts everywhere. He attempts to move his body but fails. Some weird lady with odd blue skin appears and grabs his legs dragging him to a pool of water. Once his body is submerged up to his neck, she stops right before turning into water herself and falling back into the source. Jekyll thought he must be going crazy because water ladies didn’t seem plausible even in their super-powered society. He moved his arm to scratch his head in confusion. He then realizes that he can move his arm. He looks at it and notices the damage is slowly fading away. He cups his hands together and splashes water on his face. He looks at his reflection seeing his body slowly return back to normal. The water in the center suddenly rises up and forms a humanoid shape showing a larger version of the blue woman with sea-green hair. She opens her coral eyes and speaks in a tranquil, melancholic voice with a lot of ambience towards it, “You are the one who wishes to stop the power of fate?”
By Jeremiah Ellison3 years ago in Fiction
The Book of Fate Part 1: The Map
In a dark room only lit up by a slew of computer monitors, many people are typing. Above them, beyond a small staircase, somebody sat in a grand chair, staring at the flowing data in front of him. The door leading to the hallway abruptly opens. More light shines into the dark room as a male employee with dark hair in a business suit enters the room. He walks up to the individual seated in the grand chair.
By Jeremiah Ellison3 years ago in Fiction
Locked away
The alarm blares throughout the factory, signaling the end of my shift. Instead of the almost cheerful one that starts and ends our occasional lunch break, this one is harsh and angry. When I was younger, my dad would joke around and tell me it was just mad we were going home, but as a now seventeen year old who spends a good fifty percent of my waking day in the factory, it didn't feel as much of a joke. Shouldering my bag as I followed my co-workers out, I took one last glance at the camera above my station, the little blinking blue light an indication it was watching. I stifle the urge to show it my middle finger and hurried to catch up with my section. I didn't feel like being stopped by the Locked Army on my way out.
By Audrey Resch3 years ago in Fiction
Absense (The original edit)
It is said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Her name is Tracy. She is fourteen years old in this picture. The picture in the heart-shaped locket on a gold-plated chain. Her long, brown hair is parted in the center and cinched up in two pigtails. Her big, brown eyes sparkle and the curl of her smile makes me wonder what mischief she is up to. I think as I walk through unfamiliar forests, will I recognize her if I find her, no, when I find her. How will she react when she sees me? I continuously practice what I will say to her as I tramp through fallen leaves and weave my way around twigs and branches and other detritus, my ears keen to hear anything of danger to me. I have little to steal: A bedroll, a knife, an air rifle and a few sundries that make the journey a bit less of an ordeal. The most valuable item is, of course, Tracy in a locket. She is the only thing keeping one foot in front of the other.
By Mark Coughlin3 years ago in Fiction
Winter's Silent Wings - Chapter 1 "Barn Owl"
Chapter 1 "Barn Owl" Darkness had surrounded the girls, with only the faintest starlight sifting through the cloudy sky and down between the trees. Cold and tired they stumbled on, the younger girl’s sobs fading into cold exhaustion. Behind them they had briefly heard anguished screams, fading as they plunged farther into the woods. The younger child tripped, sprawling across the stony ground. She cried out.
By Jack Drake3 years ago in Fiction
A Fractured Paradise
The scent of thick iron carried upon a warm breeze. Swords clanged, muffling the cries of battle. Get back. Caeli sent five assailants back while the tip of her sword slid across the throat of the enemy beside her. Her comrades subdued those she blocked while she joined her general's side. Though his helmet shielded his face, she knew he was smiling. Like him, this is what she lived for.
By Kiara Brae3 years ago in Fiction
Winter's Silent Wings - Prologue
"Winter's Silent Wings" by John Robert Harvey -- Prologue -- A quick bundle slung upon her back, the woman urged her two daughters to go faster up the wooded hill above their village. Smoke and screams rose as their home was consumed by flame and marauder. Somewhere, back down below, what was left of her husband - and their father - was being trampled into the late autumn snow that dusted the earth.
By Jack Drake3 years ago in Fiction
Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City
Jet Black and the Escape from Culver City Starshipwriter. The asteroid didn’t have a name, only a number: a number four times as long as the locker code of the most security minded miner. The number wasn’t the product of some bureaucrat's finger strokes; it had a rationale, and was intended to specify a co-ordinate; but deep in space co-ordinates were just a bureaucratic fantasy, and to every single roughneck the number was superfluous: all they needed to know was that it was Culver City.
By Starshipwriter3 years ago in Fiction
The take over
I remember having a dream, it was one of the craziest dreams I ever had. It all started as I was driving down Highway 183 in a brand new Dodge duly and I noticed on the side of the door is JB construction. I knew I was headed to a construction site and I was the boss and I had problems that came up in the blue prints and I was in a hurry to get there. Then the phone rang I picked it up as I was driving and it was my wife, she was a the head administrator of a major hospital. The only existing hospital within 5000 miles. She said that she had some problems at the hospital so she had to head in, she then said that Angela our daughter would watch her sister Sadie but I would need to hurry back home if I could as soon as possible. So then I called my main man James. Who I could always depend on, I got things worked out on the phone so I could turn around and head home to watch the kids. Then about that time Angela called and said dad when are you gonna come home? She sounded stressed and she said that a bunch of men in suits came knocking on the door asking where is your father and when will he be back and how much money does he make, and how much money can we take. That really got me shook, so I punched it giving it as much throttle as I could, to head home because I knew in my dream my oldest daughter was only 13 years old, but a deeper darker secret was hidden in my gut, almost like I was a fugitive or outlaw. My brand new house was the only house on the block in the subdivision that was whole. I was building the whole subdivision over 250 houses but across the street from us. There were a few houses with just the frames up, covered in plastic and behind one of those houses was several unmarked cars they look like cops or federal agents. My gut feeling turned into a panic as I got off the truck and ran into the house. About that time my wife pulled up, she must’ve known also and got the phone call from our daughter, because she ran into the house. My daughters were also panicking for some reason they were getting backpacks together loading them up as if they were going on the run. When I looked out the window, I could see several men in suits peeking through the plastic. I said out loud in my house, I wish these guys would just come the hell over here and tell me what the hell they want or what the hell they need! Exactly at that moment I saw them cut the plastic and several of them came out with guns in their hands headed towards my front door to kick it in. My wife looked at me and I looked at her she said it’s time, those words echoed in my head several times. Then she grab my 10-year-old daughter Sadie and I grabbed Angela as we ran down to the basement. Where a trap door that lead to a under ground tunnel that came out to the woods, we ran about a quarter mile. It was crazy because I still didn’t know what was going on but I was going with the flow and I was not gonna let anything happen to my family no matter what, I felt so much love them to die for. We came to a camouflage barn hid under the trees. Inside a deck out fully armed jeep was in it, we all jumped in with our backpacks, there was a satellite phone in it and I called my brother. In my dream my brother was a coach of a football team a very popular football team, that one the movie Rudy was made about. I yelled at him it’s time! Again the words echoed through my mind, not even knowing myself what its means, but feeling like I’m gonna find out. I heard him take a breath, like a -oh my God breath and then he said meet me at my crib downtown. I was driving this jeep like I stole it, and my family was not even afraid I looked in the mirror and seen my kids, praying underneath my breath. It was as if they were ready for it, like they been trained for this day all of their life. I still didn’t know what was going on but I knew it was something major. We then got to my brothers place. It was a house on stilts, that you could drive under and the stairs leading up to the door, up on the second floor and cameras everywhere’s all around it. I saw young children playing jump rope about a block away I started to get a secure sense of feeling again as my family rushed up the stairs. I had the key and the moment I unlocked and opened up the door. I felt a hesitation as if someone was sitting down behind it and sure enough there was a man behind it. Maybe he was leaning asleep against the door and didn’t realize I was coming in but when he pushed against the door, I smashed him between the door and the wall and I saw his gun drop and then we started to fight I hit him with my elbow and then I hit him with my fist, but it took several other hits to knock him out. He was very well trained in some form of martial arts. I then grab the gun as my family ran back downstairs. We could hear someone rummaging through the house, headed are way. The children that were down the street playing jump rope, we’re now walking our way shooting with machine guns. My brother and some of the football team pulled up. They started firing back, the small children that were shooting they looked so innocent when we pulled up. Then a bullet struck me in my arm knocking me down, my brother had to pull me behind the suv as he fired several shots telling the girls to stay down. Several different vehicles pulled up, it was my brother’s whole team and they were getting out fast as they could surrounding me protecting me, possibly saving my life and my families life. My brother asked if I was ok and I said yes, with bullets in the air still, my brother smiled at me and said I’m proud of you, then he looked at me very seriously and said don’t worry your family‘s gonna be ok with me, do what you have to do bro and god be with you. He then hugged me and kissed me on the cheek with tears in his eyes as if he would never see me again, it really scared me because I still didn’t know what the reason or the purpose, what is happening. All of this was happening in my dream, it was blowing my mind, but didn’t reveal the whole picture to me yet. I was running scared but I wasn’t gonna back down from anything. Then I kissed my wife and girls goodbye as my brother drove away with them and two of the vehicles went with them the rest followed me, as I drove a suv with some of the football team members and people that worked on the team. It was so quiet in that vehicle, you could hear a pin drop. Their were nine of us in the one I was driving, I swear I could see their thoughts in their faces but my thoughts were louder. Finally I caught eyes with one, through the rearview mirror, he was sitting in the backseat and he was shaking his head looking right at me. It was a very weird feeling as if I knew him or he knew me or been watching me. We got closer to the destinations I was driving to, he said in a whispering voice they’re going to get you, you can’t hide from them. Then at that time I pulled up to my old neighborhood where I grew up, a revelation came to my mind when I got off and talk to the people at the gate. It surrounded the whole neighborhood a man and a woman dressed in military uniform but the neighborhood that called M-town they had in M-town on the arm as if they were police or army guards for this small neighborhood but that is now in town. In my dream the revelation told me that neighborhoods will become cities and have their own mayors and laws and this was one of them. We had to leave our vehicle at the front gates and then I told him, the scary words, it is time! The words have been echoing through my mind and I saw that man and that lady that were smiling at me, their faces turn very serious and they said get in the gates as fast as you can as they chambered their machine guns. They pushed me! It scared me, I said their right behind me, I started to panic, then the woman turned around and said Joe thank you for the medicine you gave my grandmother she’s going to live, she then screamed I love you as she pulled the trigger at all white cars pulling up at least twenty or more. At that time as we were running away from the gates I started to realize that were at war with some alternate universe evil government and it scared the hell out of me. While we were running we could still hear the machine guns blazing and it wasn’t stopping. Actually at this point in the dream it never stopped, it felt so life like, so real I can smell the gun powder, it turned into a war zone. We ran several blocks to what used to be a old recreational center. Another revelation, it was a undercover medical center for elderly people because I realize that the government now had fallen through, the cities had their own mayors and no one to care for elderly people. At this time in the future when one aspirin was $250 dollars, there was no Medicare or Medicaid. If you got the common cold, you died unless you were rich. All of this hit me like a ton of bricks it took my breath away. I saw thousands of elderly people outside the building and they all recognize me and they started to surround me touching me thanking me and the people were saying we love you! God bless you! The modern day Robin Hood! Thank you Joe! Then guards yelled get inside the center as we were walking to another house and I realize it was a house where my grandma use to live. She had passed away years before but now this house was guarded like Fort Knox with so many people outside of it with Weaponry I never seen before Getting ready for god knows what and who knows who! People were saluting me, saying god bless this country! The Man that was in the backseat shaking his head saying they’ll get you now looked at me with tears in his eyes. He said I didn’t know that you were saving and helping the elderly, I didn’t know you were doing all of this! He said we were just after you because your construction company was a front for moving illegal drugs for rich people, wait-why? So the poor elderly could live! Elderly people will die if they don’t! If…because…they didn’t have their drugs! their medication, just to live, just to survive! He screamed. He then pulled his wire off of his chest and stepped on it and said because what I seen today, I’ve devote the rest of my life to you. Another revelation was revealed, oh as I walked into my grandmothers house. My wife is the head administrator of the hospital would buy drugs wholesale for the elderly, drugs that they needed like medicine to live, medicine for diabetics and hundreds of more medicines that medicare used to take care of before the downfall. Then we walked into room with a hundred million dollars on the table and then I told Thomas the under cover agent at the same time the revelation told me look at all this money on the table. Nobody steals it, we don’t lock the doors everybody trust everybody here, we all work together as a team, a family. This is blood money, Money that pays off the corrupt government officials, your ex-people. That is why they will never catch me, they will never get me, it’s called love, loyalty and respect. Next we walked into another room where it seem to be endless desk with people on the phones as far as I could see. My grandmother‘s old house had been converted into a big base, with the American flag above everyone that says in God we trust. Again the revelation as I spoke, I also revealed to myself the plan. I yelled listen up people! This is it! This is not a drill! This is the real deal! Everybody was talking on their phones, hundreds of people sitting at computer desk, they all stopped, they looked up at me. I said the words that haunt me til this day. This is real- it’s time! Make your phone calls it’s time for the government takeover! God speed! They started calling neighborhoods like Fifth-ward and Riverside, Bourbon street and thousands more neighborhoods that were now city’s. It’s time to take back what belongs to the people from this corrupt government! I screamed I woke up really screaming in a cold sweat not afraid of what could happen to me but afraid of what could possibly come true. Thank God it was just a dream.
By Joseph Samuel3 years ago in Fiction