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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 11:35 AM Post #1 |
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Okay. This is one of two forum based stories that I'm working on for another site at the moment, but I thought you might like to read it. And interestingly, it's a Sailor Moon Abridged forum. Anyway, I hope you enjoy and feel free to complain. Till the End of Time By: InuKun Dedicated to all the members of the Sailor Moon Abridged (SMA) forum (Except InuKun). Prologue Hard to believe that it’s been this long, yet here I am, an old man seemingly about to retire from this universe. It seems like only yesterday that we managed to gain control of the Cosmos and declare it all in the name of King KrisRix and Queen WhipOfAlchemy. My great-granddaughter always enjoys it when I tell her stories of the adventures we had long ago, and of the trials each of us faced in our lives. From the collapse of the Empires on earth, to fighting alien monsters bent on resisting our might, everything we did, was for the honor and glory of the crown. I suppose some of you are wondering what the purpose of these stories I’m sharing with you are. Well, perhaps it will provide some insight into the actions of those who were loyal to the King and Queen, as well as for me anyway, a chance for closure with some old wounds that I never had the courage to face up to in person. But above all, I wanted it to be in writing, that I am proud of everyone whom I looked upon as comrades, because they gave me support when I needed it most, and never turned a blind eye to each other. After all, they were the best friends I could have ever asked for, and they always knew how to bring a smile to the faces of everyone. There are many in the immediate court who’re not only loyal to the crown, but indeed, loyal to the friendships they had acquired. I think it was Eric, the Court Jester, who had made everyone laugh the hardest in those early days, especially to his mistakes, which started the craze of “I made an Eric!” whenever someone made a mistake in a discussion. He currently still serves as Senior Court Jester, and though I’m not to be on the Court much longer it seems, everyone is still going strong, and enjoys the bonds that feel like a family, in many respects. For me though, time is running down, like the springs of a clock which hasn’t been wound in ages. I warn you. The stories found within contain horrifying details of events that happened along the way, and of the battles we fought so bravely and nobly. Therefore, if you have a weak stomach, please don’t continue. However, if you are a member of a resistance group, please turn yourself in so that we may educate you on the truth of your false ideals using hypnosis. You’ll find yourself to have been enlightened after just a couple of hours with an educator in our services team. If you want to learn more about the Royal Court and its beloved leader King KrisRix, then please continue along. You’ll find that as you read each story, which has been given it’s own section, you’ll have a chance to look at history through the eyes of one who was there, rather then second-hand accounts and thoughts by so-called “experts” on what we meant by any particular action or statement. Our first story, will look at when the entire group which formed the Original Royal Court, found themselves by an unusual set of circumstances, on a flight from New York’s JFK Airport, bound for London. It follows the theory of Steven King, regarding time travel, and the truth of the problems faced with traveling through time. The flight itself, would start a pact which eventually would lead to the formation of the monarchy, and an alliance between its members. For those of you who purchased the children’s read-a-long version, you will know it is time to turn the page, when you hear a member of the Court pronounce with delight “I made an Eric!” Let’s begin now… |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 11:37 AM Post #2 |
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Story Number One Chapter One In the Beginning Megami33 sat on her suitcase in line, bored due to the overwhelming number of passengers still ahead of her waiting to check-in for their respective flights. "Shit! I’ve got better things to do than stay in this line just to check-in.” she thought to herself. She’d already been in line for over an hour, and by the looks of things, she had at least another hour to go, just to be able to check-in for her flight to London Heathrow. But she had to be at the conference the next day, as she’d been informed that the series she’d been working on; was to have a pilot airing on Cartoon Network in the UK, before airing in the States. However, she would still have to convince the UK board of directors, to give her show a chance. As she sat there trying to run over the meeting in her head, she felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning to look, she saw KrisRix and WhipOfAlchemy standing there with their cases, and many irritated passengers behind them. “Kris, just for the record, I don’t have any Funyun’s on me. So, don’t try taking them, as there’s none to take in the first place.” “WHY DOES EVERYBODY THINK I’M GOING TO TAKE ALL OF THEIR FUNYUN’S?!” KrisRix said out loud in a strained voice. “Probably because you’ve been known to take my Funyun supply in the past.” Megami answered calmly, whilst angrily glaring at Kris from behind her shades. “And you don’t need to yell. I’m right here.” “I WASN’T YELLING AT YOU! I WAS JUST TALKING OUT LOUD!” Kris then took a deep breath, and Megami and WhipOfAlchemy both covered their ears, knowing full well what Kris was about to do. “THIS IS YELLING!!!” Megami just sat there, wondering why the police hadn’t shown up yet, given the ruckus that was forming in front of her. “Okay! I get the idea. Just stop it before you get us all in trouble!” “As if we aren’t in trouble already” she then muttered under her breath. “Just as long as you understand.” Kris grinned, rubbing her hands together. “Say Whip, don’t you think it would be easier for us to lighten our loads?” WhipOfAlchemy, who’d been trying to stay neutral, looked over at Kris with a puzzled look in her eyes. “What do you mean?” “I mean, let’s give Megami our cases and have her carry them whilst we go and get something to drink at Starbucks.” “Great idea! Hey, thanks Megami for volunteering to carry our bags.” With that, Whip took her 74 pound case, and put it on Megami’s lap, who immediately struggled to get the case off her legs before her legs were crushed. Kris then turned to Megami. “Would you like us to get you anything?” “Well, besides getting this case off of me, can you get me a Venti Strawberries and Cream Frappuchino?” Megami’s voice sounded really strained. However, Kris simply put the other case down on top, resulting in Megami having two heavy cases on her lap. “We’ll be back in a bit with your drink Megami. Thanks again.” As KrisRix and WhipOfAlchemy walked off, Megami began to wonder if it had been such a good idea for her to have invited both of them along to accompany her to London. That thought didn’t have long to ponder, as she still had the issue of the cases being on her lap, slowly crushing her beneath. This would pose a problem, as the line was starting to move quickly as 12 new bays opened up at the counter. Given she couldn’t move, and was receiving the wrath of the passengers behind her for holding them up, she wondered just what she’d done in life to deserve this. An individual who’d been ahead of Megami in line, and had taken on the full onslaught of Kris’ yelling, turned when he heard the latest commotion behind him of passengers yelling at someone to “MOVE IT!”. He noticed that Megami was having a hard time with all the cases, and decided to offer some assistance. Walking over, he lifted up both bags that had been weighing her down, and put them on the floor, before extending an arm to help her stand up. “Are you alright?” he asked. Megami looked up. “Thanks. Yeah, I’m good. Just couldn’t move with those cases on me.” The young gentleman picked both cases up again and moved them forward to where she should have been at that point, setting them down and grabbing his own case and carry on wheeler again. “Don’t worry. You don’t have long to wait now before you can be free of the cases.” With that, he gave a nod. “Well, if you’ll excuse me, I’m up now. Enjoy your flight though, miss.” Walking over to the check-in counter, the gentleman handed over his passport and proceeded to get checked in for his flight to London. Just as he finished checking in, having received a Departure Management Card and given his bags to the TSA for screening at the CT-X machine, the gentleman turned around to see Megami was now struggling to get all the bags over to the counter. He turned to the TSA agent. “Excuse me for a moment.” Walking straight over, he picked up the two heavy cases that KrisRix and WhipOfAlchemy had dumped with Megami, and helped carry them up to the counter for her. “Thanks again.” She said as she tried to catch her breath from all that lifting. “Don’t mention it.” Turning, he went back over to the TSA checkpoint and grabbed his carry-on bag, much to the annoyance of the TSA, who told him off for leaving his carry-on bag unattended. “Sorry about that, but at least it helped an individual out. Besides, you saw me the whole time and I didn’t go out of sight of it.” As Megami handed her passport over to the lady at the counter and told her where she was headed, the agent informed her of something unexpected. “Miss, there are three individuals tied to this ticket group. I’m going to have to ask that you wait until they arrive, as I need to check you all in at once.” “Well, they’ve gone to get a drink from Starbucks, so they should be back soon.” Megami was hoping that the agent would cut her a break. “Miss, I’m sorry, but those are the rules. If you like, you can go look for them, and then join the line again to check in later on. Though you’d have to take all the bags with you. We can’t allow the bags to be left unattended for security reasons.” She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. “Oh come on. That’s unfair!” As luck would have it though, Megami would get a little bit of good luck at this point, for Kris and Whip had returned. Seeing her up at the counter, they made their way over and handed the agent their passports. “Sorry we’re late. Megami here had insisted that we go and enjoy a nice drink at Starbucks.” Kris explained. “Good news Megami! We’re back!” “And how is that good news, exactly? Other then knowing I don’t have to walk around the whole airport searching for you in order to get checked-in.” She gave a quick sigh of relief. “So, where is it?” Whip looked at Megami questionably. “Where’s what?” she asked. “Where’s my Venti Strawberries and Cream Frappuchino?” Kris and Whip exchanged worried glances with each other. “Wait! When did you ask us to get you something?” Kris was trying to remember if Megami had asked them for a drink at Starbucks or not. “Y-you mean, you forgot my drink?!” She pretended to get all teary-eyed, hoping the two of them would feel guilty for having forgotten her drink. “Don’t you have a heart?” she asked. Kris and Whip stared into Megami’s teary eyes for a moment, unable to say anything. Perhaps a feeling of guilt was flowing through them. “Nope! I still don’t recall you having asked for anything when we went to Starbucks. In fact, I could have sworn that when I asked, you politely declined; saying you’d rather wait here with the bags in line, then go with Whip to get the drinks. I’m sure I offered to stay here whilst you both went, but you simply insisted that you stay here. You should have told us when I asked that you wanted something, instead of telling me that you didn’t!” Kris explained, serving only to annoy Megami that much more. However, the complaint would have to wait, as the ticket agent was trying to get their attention. “Okay folks. You’re checked-in on Vacation Airlines Flight 918 with service from JFK to London Heathrow. You’re in 35A, B, and C respectively in Freedom Economy, so you’ll get a little extra legroom for the flight. The flight will depart from Gate 12 at 6:40 this evening, currently scheduled to depart on time. Be sure to check the Departure Monitors for any changes though. Now, I’m just going to need you all to take your checked bags over to the TSA crew over there and drop them off for screening. After that, feel free to head over to the line for security before heading to your gate. Enjoy your flight now.” As the three of them gathered their bags and took them over to the TSA crew, Megami muttered under her breath. “I’ll get you for this Kris.” Another headache was about to hit the three of them, as given the afternoon rush of passengers getting ready to fly that evening, the line up for security was massive. Megami almost wept simply from thinking that she once again, had to line up for an hour or more. “Don’t worry Megami.” Whip whispered in her ear. “We can tell you all about what happened at Starbucks and how we got coupons for free drinks on a future visit as a result, while we wait in line.” That did it. Megami looked over at Whip and told her “I don’t care! Just don’t talk to me right now!” Meanwhile, the same gentleman from before was just walking out of Starbucks, having gotten a Hot Chocolate, and was headed past the line, walking alongside of it, pulling his carry-on case behind him. He walked right passed Megami and the others, and though she noticed him, she didn’t say anything. He made his way to the front of the line, and went over to a set of screeners who weren’t serving anyone it seemed. “Wait! How did he?!” she thought, only out loud. “What?” Kris and Whip had both heard her, and wondered just what Megami was talking about. “Well, I was wondering why there are screeners up there who aren’t screening passengers, unless they walk up to them out of line.” “What do you mean?” Kris asked. “Up there, to the right side. See? There’s a screener there who isn’t screening anyone unless they walk up to them out of line!” Whip looked in interest, as another person walked up out of line and managed to get screened. “Hang on. I’ll go check.” she said. It was a good distance to walk, and seemed much shorter visually, then it actually was. When WhipOfAlchemy arrived at the front, she got her answer right away from a sign posted there. Walking back over, she got back in line and gave a straight face. “Well?” Megami asked. “What?” “What’s the verdict?” “Ah, well you see, it’s a checkpoint; but it’s not a checkpoint for people like us. It’s just for Airport and Airline Employees.” Darkgargos who was standing behind the trio, looked over the boarding pass. “So, they bumped me up to Business. That was certainly nice of them.” Just over an hour later, Megami finally could sit down at the gate and rest her legs. Looking around, she saw quite a large crowd of people at the gate, seemingly preparing for the flight to London. A couple of Gate Agents arrived and logged into the computer, programming the information screen behind them with the flight information, just before the crew arrived to be let down to the aircraft. Outside, the rays of sunshine from the setting sun, could be seen reflecting an orange hue against the nose of the 747 outside; which was currently being loaded with cargo and fuel. Megami looked out and thought of the meeting the next day, running potential questions and answers in her head. “Damn, how many people do you think will be on this flight?” Kris asked, impressed seemingly at the large crowd hovering by the gate. Up at the podium, passengers were continuously walking up, asking for upgrades, and being issued new boarding passes. When the Gate Agent was finished with the upgrades, she picked up the intercom phone. “Paging stand-by passenger InuKun. Please come up to the podium at this time.” Megami looked over to see the gentleman from earlier walking up to the podium. “Here’s your ticket Mr. InuKun. You’re in seat 1A.” “Cool, First Class again. I’m glad I can use the benefits in this job.” He put the boarding pass away in his jacket pocket, before showing her his company ID badge. “Well, we’re just about to start boarding.” As InuKun started walking over to the gate, he saw Megami and her traveling companions sitting down. He quickly walked over to the Gate Agent. “How full is First for the flight today?” he asked. “Let’s see. Including you, there are 3 passengers for First on the flight. So it’s still got room for 9 more.” InuKun glanced one more time in their direction. “I was wondering if you could do me a favor?” he asked. “What do you need?” InuKun then explained to her his request. As Megami continued running over thoughts for the meeting tomorrow, Kris and Whip were busy watching anime on Whip’s portable DVD player. They paid no attention to the pre-boarding announcement, or to when the announcement came that the airline was ready to board all First and Business Class passengers. As Darkgargos and InuKun both boarded the flight, they made their way to their respective seats, with Darkgargos having to climb upstairs to the upper level section of Business Class. It wasn’t until one of the Agents walked up to the three of them and asked if they could follow her up to the podium for a moment, that they became concerned. “Is there something wrong?” Megami asked. “Oh no, there’s nothing wrong. I just was going to offer the three of you some new seats.” Shrugging their shoulders, the three of them followed her up to the podium and handed her their boarding passes. Entering some information into the computer, she waited as the printer issued three new boarding passes. As she handed them over, she smiled. “There you are! Seats 1F, 2A, and 2F. You’ve been upgraded to First Class for tonight’s flight.” “WHAT?!” the three of them exclaimed out loud, in complete shock at the news. “Wait! Why have we been upgraded?” Whip asked. “Does that even matter?” Kris replied. “We’re going to travel in First!” As they regained their composure, the three headed over to the gate and proceeded to board the flight. Turning left at the door of the aircraft, they came upon a wide, open space with giant, leather flat-bed seats inside individual private bays; each with a 32 inch TV screen at the front, and a sliding electric door to ensure privacy in flight. “Welcome aboard.” The purser smiled as they walked into First and looked for their seats. InuKun, who was already seated, was busy looking over the menu with the door open, but not visible to them right now. As they took their seats, they each were handed a menu for their meals, and gave their orders to the purser. It was as this was completed that the screens in front of then came on, to show the airline’s safety video. Whilst the video played, the doors were latched closed and soon afterwards, the aircraft began to push back from the gate. Throughout the airplane, people waited with anticipation as the aircraft completed the push, and soon got underway, taxiing along until it lined up, ready for take-off. Within 20 minutes of pushing back from the gate due to congestion, the aircraft finally positioned itself on the runway and began to increase power to the engines, before rolling forward and increasing speed until it rotated and left the ground. As the aircraft climbed over Queens and changed course ready for the trans-Atlantic flight, little did anyone know that the aircraft would be returning a short while later to JFK, but to a New York different to this one. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 11:50 AM Post #3 |
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Chapter Two Scary sometimes tastes sweet. It had been only a few minutes since the aircraft had taken off, and was currently climbing through the thin cloud layer over the Long Island, as it passed over Republic Airport; and in Economy, PointImpact was already regretting the seat assignment given, as a young 5 year old sat behind her and proceeded to continuously kick the seat, seeming to enjoy kicking something for the flight. “Great. I’ve got an annoying brat behind me.” she thought. It would only take a couple more kicks, before she got mad and undid her seat belt, and turned to look at the young boy behind her. “Listen you little snot-nosed brat. If you kick this seat one more time, I’ll make sure you don’t have working legs anymore in your life. Do you understand me?” Sitting there, wide-eyed with fear, the child simply nodded his head, before burying his head in his hands and started crying. “And stop crying, dammit!” As if scared by her, the young boy screamed and wailed even more. PointImpact looked at the middle-aged gentleman beside him, hoping that he was the kid’s father. However, he saw the expression on Impact’s face and before a word was spoken, intervened. “He’s not my kid. Not sure who the parents are, but they aren’t here. In fact, they probably just decided to ship him off because they couldn’t love and care for someone so horrid.” He turned his attention to the young boy. “Look kid! If you don’t stop crying, I’m going to introduce you to my fist. Now stop crying and act like a man!” The young boy paused in his sobs for a moment and looked up at the strange guy. “My mommy said I should never talk to strange men.” PointImpact nearly laughed, given the thought of such a thing. “I think the only thing he wants is for you to be a good little boy. So do us both a favor. Sit still and shut up, so that we can relax. I doubt he wants to treat you to anything naughty.” she answered. The gentleman glared daggers at the young brat, before glaring at her over the insinuation that he was a pedophile. “Do you mind? I don’t think that’s funny.” he calmly replied. As the young brat calmed down, the flight attendants came around in Economy with drinks for everyone. As PointImpact ordered an Orange Juice for herself, she introduced herself. “I’m PointImpact, by the way.” The gentleman nodded as he took a sip of coffee. “Maxskate2001.” “Rather unusual name, isn’t it?” “It does the job. Besides, it’s really just a cover name for me. I would tell you my real name and all, but then I’d have to kill this little kid to make sure he doesn’t squeal it to everyone.” “Well, if that’s the case, go ahead. I’d love to see you shut him up for good.” “SSHHH! Too many witnesses.” Meanwhile, up in First Class, Megami was trying to figure out how to work her seat, whilst Kris and Whip walked over and started talking to her. With Kris taking a sip of her water and Whip already on the fourth glass of champagne from her own private bottle of Pol Roger champagne, Megami pressed the bed button. All of a sudden, she heard a motor kick in as the foot rest swung up and her seat started moving forward. After traveling a few inches, the back started to drop, and after about 45 seconds, she lay down flat, as the motor stopped running. “Okay, how do I get this back up?” she asked, given she couldn’t see the controls any more which were on top of the armrest. InuKun overheard the question, due to being only 6 feet away along with the somewhat loud voice it was asked in, and took out his remote and began typing a text message, which he sent over to Megami’s screen. However, they couldn’t see him as he’d closed the door to his seat. Have a friend press the release button above the remote, and get them to hand you the remote. Then just press the bed button again, and that will return the bed to it’s upright position. The message had appeared without warning on Megami’s screen, and Whip noticed and reached over, pressing the release button and handing Megami the remote. The screen however, didn’t say who the message was from. Once she was sitting upright again, Megami took her Coke that had been brought over, and started to drink away. She looked over the various array of buttons on the remote and elected to hit menu. The screen popped up with a selection of options, which included watching videos, listening to music, Internet access, and communicating with other passengers on the aircraft. “Who was that message from?” Kris asked teasingly. “Heck if I know. It didn’t say.” “Select your inbox. It probably will tell you there.” Megami selected her inbox, and whilst it did state that she’d gotten the message, it didn’t say who the message was from. Over in 1A, InuKun sat back and got ready, knowing that his appetizer would be arriving shortly. Indeed, one of the flight attendants walked over and let Kris and Whip know that they were about to begin with the meal, to which they took their seats. Megami just kept thinking that this was the life. She’s never traveled in First Class before, and figured that she could get used to it very quickly. As she relaxed, she pressed the door button, and watched as the door slid closed, and grinned. “A chance to get those two to leave me alone.” she thought. A moment later, Megami heard a knock and opened the door, to see the Flight Attendant there. “Good evening Miss. I’ve come to get you ready for dinner.” “Ready how?” “Napkin, table cloth and cutlery.” “Oh, thanks.” She watched as everything was prepared, along with a salt and pepper shaker set being put down for her. “And now, your appetizer of peppered beef in endive.” The young lady handed her the large dish, with what normally would be construed as a main meal to her. “Wait! This is an appetizer?” “Yes.” Megami pondered in her mind what the main course would look like. “I’ll be back shortly with your salad.” With that, the flight attendant left and Megami picked up her knife and fork, and Megami dug in. Kris had elected not to eat anything, but Whip was busy enjoying her appetizer of Brie cheese in a filo purse. Both InuKun and Darkgargos had selected the sautéed stuffed shrimp with water chestnuts, carrots, and zucchini, though in different portions due to the class each was traveling in, yet Dark was comfortable none the less. As the full plate salads were distributed in First, Whip was quick to ask that hers not have the peppers included and Caesar dressing, which was no problem. In the Business and First Galleys, each purser went over the order one again. Both classes had the same items, but with Business having smaller portions. TO BEGIN Join us in a sampling of appetizers: Sautéed stuffed shrimp with water chestnuts, carrots, and zucchini Peppered beef in endive* Brie cheese in filo purse Apple vinaigrette dressing SALAD Fresh seasoned greens with tomatoes, peppers and hot gingered scallops Caesar or soy vinaigrette dressing MAIN COURSE Filet mignon with béarnaise sauce* Lemon grass breast of chicken with red curry sauce The above entrees include your choice of: Oven-roasted paprika potatoes, chicken rice, or steamed rice Stir-fried Oriental vegetables or sautéed green beans and carrots Hawaiian-style steamed snapper with shiitake mushroom Blanched broccoli and steamed rice DESSERT International cheese selection Camembert, Bavarian Blue and Gouda cheese Fresh seasonal fruit Häagen-Dazs ice cream with sundae toppings Warm bread and butter pudding PRIOR TO ARRIVAL Ham, cheese and scrambled eggs in egg crepe with pork sausage Hollandaise sauce or Fresh seasonal fruit with creamy yogurt *Today's menu features beef from Australia. FEATURED WINES Your flight attendant will inform you of today's selections. Some of these wines may only be available on selected flights. CHAMPAGNE Billecart-Salmon 1997 Pol Roger 1996 WHITE WINE Joseph Drouhin Rully 2002, Chardonnay Pierre Sparr Alsace 2002, Pinot Gris Reserve Kunde Estate Sonoma Valley Kinneybrook Chardonnay 2001 Hogue Columbia Valley Pinot Gris 2002 RED WINE Chateau Rauzan-Segla Margaux 1999 Sacha Lichine Nuits St-Georges 2001, Pinot Noir St. Supery Napa Valley Merlot 2000 Estancia Pinnacles Monterey Pinot Noir 2001 Sandeman's Porto will be offered during the main meal's dessert. STARBUCKS coffee will be available throughout the flight. Megami had made an interesting order for dessert, however, the purser was able to get her request seen to with very little difficulty. “Right, so Megami will be having a Filet mignon with potatoes and greens, Whip would like a lemon grass breast of chicken with stir-fried vegetables, KrisRix has requested nothing, and InuKun will be having the lemon grass breast of chicken with chicken rice and Oriental stir-fry. For dessert, Whip requests the fruit, InuKun would like the ice cream, and Megami will be having a sinful triple-chocolate cake. Let’s get these orders ready then.” Up on Business, Dark’s purser reviewed the order. “Lemon grass breast of chicken with potatoes and ice cream sundae for dessert.” If any of you are getting hungry just from reading this, I haven’t finished yet. ;) As each finished off their salads, the flight attendants came round and collected their plates. Megami turned in utter shock as a large plate was set down in front of her, with a very large portion of Filet Mignon on it. “There’s no way I can finish this!” she thought to herself. Still, she started, and as soon as she took a bite, forgot about the size of her portion. She trembled as the taste traveled from her taste buds, to her brain, and shuddered. “Damn, that’s the best I’ve had in a long time! I don’t know if I’ll have enough room for dessert.” Still, she continued eating without hesitation. By the time she was done, she had only a few moments to relax before the flight attendant returned and asked her if she was ready for dessert. “Probably in a few minutes. I’m still getting over just how large the portions were.” “Yes, the portions are rather large. Well, let me know when you’re ready.” Throughout the flight, shutters started to close as the sun set beyond the horizon, and nightfall hit. The pursers dimmed the overhead lighting to allow everyone to relax. Although most of the passengers weren’t willing to relax after the Captain suddenly came on the intercom with an odd, yet rather special announcement. “Ladies and Gentlemen, a very good evening from the flight deck. This is Captain Reynolds speaking. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve had reports from Air Traffic Control along with other flights in the area, that an aurora borealis has been seen along our flight path up ahead, and we’re expecting to fly right into it on our current flight path. So, if you’d like to enjoy, feel free to look out the windows when we reach it. Normally, the aurora borealis isn’t visible this far south, so it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for many of you.” Megami however, was starting to feel tired from all that eating, and closed her door, before dropping her seat down into bed mode. Several people throughout the aircraft decided to take a nap, rather than watch the aurora borealis event outside, and in just a few short hours, those who had slept, would be in some respects, ever so glad that they had. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 11:55 AM Post #4 |
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Chapter Three It’s Your Lucky Day At the rear of the Economy section, Belldandy had just woken up and couldn’t see her brother next to her. “He must’ve gone to the bathroom.” she figured. But after a few minutes, he hadn’t returned. Getting up, she looked around to see the once full cabin, was now entirely empty it seemed. “H-Hello?” she called out, hoping someone would hear her. She heard no response. Pressing the page button to try and get an attendant, nothing happened when she did. Other then the roar of the engines outside, it was completely quiet. She left her seat and began walking around, to see such an odd sight. Headphones, wallets, keys and other items were on the seats, but she saw no one sitting there. She came upon one seat that was able to send her falling backwards, screaming. PointImpact and Maxskate, who’d both been asleep, got up and ran back to the rear section, failing to notice that even the young boy wasn’t there anymore. As they reached Belldandy, PointImpact asked her what was wrong. “Where is everybody?!” Belldandy asked. “What are you talking about?! They’re all right-” His words were cutoff as Maxskate looked around, and saw that all the seats were apparently empty, save for personal belongings in the seats. “What the hell? What’s going on here?” He glanced at one of the screens which showed their current position, which was about 300 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. “You two wait here.” Maxskate ran to a galley, finding it empty save for food and personal belongings of what he assumed were the flight attendants. He then ran forward, screaming out to anyone who could hear him. Which at this point, was everyone still on the aircraft. “What do you want?” Another gentleman asked as he stood up, rubbing his head, annoyed that his nap had been disturbed. The tall, muscular figure just looked at Maxskate, waiting to hear what his problem was. “Okay, where is everyone?” Maxskate asked. “Dude, what the hell are you asking such a dumb question for? They’re right here as you can plain-” He looked around, as a few others popped up their heads amongst the rows of seemingly empty seats. “What the?!” As everyone back in economy wondered what was going on, Darkgargos was upstairs in the upper section of Business wondering not only where everyone was, but why there was no answer to the continuous knocks on the flight deck door. Finally, hearing the noise from below, Dark elected to go down and see if anyone could explain just what was going on. Up in First, things were no better, with Megami, Kris and Whip all wondering if anyone was still there after Maxskate had come rushing in all hysterical. InuKun woke up and pulled out his earplugs before releasing the door and getting out of his seat. “Okay, what’s going on?” he asked. After being told that almost everyone on the flight had disappeared, Inu thought that this was just some kind of joke, and walked into Business Class’ lower cabin, only to see that what Maxskate had been telling him, was seemingly quite accurate. He popped his head back into the First Class Galley, to see personal belongings all over the floor, including something that got his attention. He walked over and picked up a silver double-edged key from the floor. “Why the hell is this out on the floor?” he wondered to himself, knowing all too well what the key was to. “What is it?” Kris asked, having looked into the galley. “What did you find?” “If what I found is what I think it is, then I’m wondering just what the hell has happened here.” he answered. “I’ll explain in a moment what it was I found.” With that, he went back into Business and looked at Maxskate. “How many are in Economy?” he asked. “I don’t know. But why are you so interested.” “Get everyone to the Upper Level Business, which is up those stairs. I’ll explain everything that I can, once we’re up there.” InuKun then watched as Darkgargos came down the stairs. “Hey, what’s going on? There’s no one upstairs.” Dark explained. “There’s very few down here, by the sounds of it. You might as well go back up, because everyone’s coming upstairs.” Inu answered quickly, before coming over to the stairs and making his way up them. As InuKun got upstairs, he saw that indeed, no one was in the galley or in any seats. Just personal items strewn about. He made his way to the front to a solid door marked NO ENTRY and took the key he’d taken off the floor and inserted it into the lock. At that moment, Megami, Whip and Kris got up there. “Hey! What are you doing? Why are you trying to break into the cockpit?!” Whip asked out loud. “I’m not trying to break in.” InuKun reached into his jacket pocket and took out his company badge, which identified him as a pilot, and handed it to them. “My name is InuKun. I’m a First Officer with Vacation Airlines, though most would know that as a co-pilot. That item I found in the galley downstairs was the Purser key to the cockpit. It allows the purser access when the door’s lock is in the Locked, Key Accessible position. With that, he heard a click and took hold of the plate sticking out of the door, before opening it outwards. The cockpit was running off of autopilot and flight director, but with no crew at the controls. An oxygen mask sat on the Captain’s seat, along with their ID’s and company wings. As InuKun walked inside and sat down, he looked over everything, noting that none of the readouts showed any irregularities. “What the hell happened here?” he asked out loud to himself. He proceeded to put a headset on and listened for a moment on the radio, hearing nothing on the current frequency, he made a hail. “This is Vacation nine eighteen. ATC, do you copy?” There was no response. He then switched to 121.5 and repeated the call, with again, no reply. After 4 tries, he switched to the second radio and tried again with no response. He then set radio one to speaker and transmitted over radio two, only to hear himself over the speaker in the cockpit. “Well, I don’t know what the hell is going on. We’re transmitting, as the second radio is picking it up. But someone else should have gotten it on this frequency.” “Maybe the person is away from their desk?” Megami and Darkgargos had made their way into the cockpit. “No, that’s impossible. I’m transmitting on 121.5, which is a worldwide distress frequency. Every air traffic control facility and military base, regardless of nationality, worldwide monitors this frequency 24 hours a day.” “Do you have any suggestions then?” Dark asked. InuKun sighed. “Well, If we keep going as we are, we’ll reach London, but if no one is answering on any frequencies, I don’t want to be entering London’s Class B airspace blindly like this. It would be like walking across a 24 lane highway that is heavy with traffic, but with each of those vehicles still doing an impressive speed and without time to stop before hitting you. And apart from Boston Logan and Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the closest airports we can land at are JFK, Newark, Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier, Toronto Pearson, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington Dulles. All of which even at this hour, are heavily congested.” InuKun grabbed a small binder from a case and started looking through it. “But I’m going to have to limit that a bit more, so we only have a choice of JFK, Newark, Philly, Baltimore and Dulles.” “Um, just out of curiosity. Why are you dropping those other airports?” Megami asked. InuKun held up the binder. “The reason is that I’ve only got Instrument Approach plates for those airports in here, save for Logan, which I wouldn’t touch if my life depended on it.” InuKun then picked the headset up again and switched the console to PA mode, before pressing the Push To Talk (PTT) button on the yoke. “Attention everyone. I’m sure that like me, you’re all wondering just where everyone has gone, and just what exactly is going on here. Before I get into that, I’d like to say that my name’s InuKun, and by some odd turn of events, I’ve gone from being a passenger on tonight’s flight, to being your pilot. Now, I am certified to fly this aircraft, and indeed, I only flew this very one this morning back from Tokyo. But what I need is for everyone to understand that you aren’t alone. Look around. There are others in the same situation at the moment.” Inu paused for a moment to regain his composure. “I would like each of you to, one at a time, take this chance to introduce yourselves to each other. I think in the long run, it’ll help each of us keep some sense of calm. In the meantime, I do have something that I do need to say. I’ve been getting no response to hails on the radio, even from an emergency frequency that is manned 24/7. I’ve crosschecked the radios, and they are working properly. However, in light of this, I have to make a decision. Because London Heathrow is a very heavily congested airport, second only to Atlanta worldwide, I’ve decided our best option, is to turn around and return to JFK. We don’t know what the situation is yet, and although I’m sure you all had things to do in England, they’re going to have to wait. I don’t want to risk everyone’s safety with flying blindly into London’s Triple Class B airspace. JFK I can handle even with Radio problems, as all three airports are close to each other, whereas London’s three airports are spaced apart in such a way that you can’t see aircraft approaching or departing the other airports. It will take about 3 hours to turn around and land at the airport, so just sit back and talk amongst each other. I apologize for what has happened, and I assure you once again that if I had an answer as to what was going on, I’d tell you. For now though, just hang tight.” Inu then released his finger from the PTT button and looked over the controls again. Megami, who wasn’t exactly thrilled to hear that she was going to miss the meeting, just sat down in the seat behind the Captains and started crying. Inu turned around and put his hand on her shoulder. “Hey listen. I know you must be scared and all, but I’m going to need you to stay strong.” He reached into the case and pulled out a packet of Kleenex, offering them to her. “I know it’s not much, but it’s all I can offer up here.” She took one of the tissues out and started to wipe away her tears. “It’s just, I had a very important meeting that I needed to attend in London.” She explained in between tears. “Well, do you want to talk about it? It’ll hopefully get your mind on other things.” Dark sat down in the chair opposite Megami to listen as well, given he agreed with Inu on that, and keeping their minds on other things would certainly help. “Well, I’m an animator, and I’d just finished producing my own anime called Tamer, and I was going to have it shown on Cartoon Network in the UK before having it air in the US.” Inu and Dark both looked on as she described what the story of Tamer was about. As she finished, Inu looked on. “Do you have a copy with you?” he asked. “Yeah, I’ve got one on DVD. Why?” “I was wondering if the others might like to watch it whilst we’re on our way back to New York. It’ll help keep their minds somewhat at ease, I think.” Inu then twisted a dial on the dash until it read 250. Dark looked over and asked what that was. “Oh, that’s the heading selector for the autopilot. It tells the autopilot what heading to fly.” As Inu answered, the aircraft started into a slight roll, and Dark and Megami both watched a screen as it showed the aircraft changing course until the compass needle was at 250 degrees. “Right, all that’s left is to dump some of this fuel, and start preparing to land.” “Dump fuel?” Megami was a little concerned. “Isn’t that bad for the environment?” “Well Jet A Fuel, which is what this aircraft runs on, will break up and evaporate before it reaches the ocean. It’s just really a high grade kerosene. But unless you want to hold for a while before landing at Kennedy, it’ll have to be dumped so that we can safely land. Otherwise, we risk the aircraft being out of balance and breaking up upon touch down. Unfortunately, there’s no way to remove the balance issue since what causing the balance problem is all the cargo in the hold. We can’t dump any of it because the cargo doors won’t open in the air. And the only way to open them is from the outside.” Whip and Kris suddenly walked in. “Hey Meg, I hope you don’t mind, but we took the liberty of introducing you to everyone on your behalf.” Whip mentioned as she came in. Megami looked over at her. “Please tell me you didn’t say anything bad or embarrassing about me.” Whip and Kris both looked hurt at that comment. “Aww, come on Meg! You know we would never treat you badly.” “It’s because I know how you two treat me, that I’m worried.” Megami answered sternly. InuKun then muttered an addition to that. “No, you just leave two heavy bags on her lap and leave her alone after making a scene in front of everyone at check-in.” Kris looked over at InuKun. “I’m sorry. Did you say something?! Cause if you’ve got something to say, then say it to my face!” InuKun held up his hand. “Alright, I think everyone here needs to just calm down, and certainly I won’t be able to calm down with all this commotion.” He then went back to looking over the controls, whilst Whip took Megami’s arm and started tugging on it. “Come on Megami. You’ll be safer with us than with this creep.” As the three stooges left, Dark looked around the cockpit as Inu rubbed his eyes to try and help clear his mind. Dark then saw something that caught his eye. A traveler’s Chess Set. “Um, hey. You wanna play a game of Chess while we wait?” Inu looked over as Dark pulled the small board out. “Yeah, the autopilot will be fine for the next few hours. But I don’t know the rules.” “It’s okay, I’ll teach them to you.” Out in the cabin, Maxskate2001 and Belldandy both walked up to Megami. “Um, we were just wondering if what your friends had told us about you was true.” Belldandy asked. Megami suddenly got a cold chill up her spine. “Crap. What did they say?” she asked, almost dreading the answer. “Well, Whip said that you’d been living in a cardboard box all winter until you finally went up to her and begged for mercy and asked Whip to let you stay with her.” Megami clenched her fist and grinded her teeth. “Why that little…” “So I take it, she wasn’t quite correct in her story.” Maxskate replied calmly. “Not quite correct? She’s nowhere near correct! I never did any such thing!” Back inside the cozy cockpit, Dark and Inu had set the board up in the center block underneath the thrust controls, and Inu was looking over everything. “Right! Let’s just go over the rules one more time, and then we can get started.” He then picks up on of his knights. “Now, how does the racehorse move again?” Dark sighed before volunteering his answer. “It’s not a racehorse. It’s a knight!” Inu looked over the piece again. “Well, where’s the knight then?” Dark was getting annoyed at this point. “Well, he must’ve fallen off!” “He’s not much of a knight then, is he?!” Inu then put the knight back down on the board, of which he then pointed at one of his rooks. “And that one’s called a Rook?” Dark was clearly annoyed, as anyone could tell upon walking into the cockpit at this point. “Yes.” “Why, does it nest in trees?” “No, it’s a castle.” Inu pointed at it again. “But it’s called a rook.” “Yes, some people call it a rook.” “Well, which people? Blind ones?” After thinking for a moment, Dark decides “What the hell?” “Yes.” “Oh, I see. But the castle can move, right?” “Yes.” “Even though it hasn’t got any legs.” Dark just shook his head in disbelief at where this was leading. “Yes.” “It’s not very likely, is it?” Inu then holds up a Bishop. “And this… This is also a Bishop, you say?” “Correct.” “And he bends sideways.” Dark sighed once more. “Correct.” “Well, there’s no surprise there. Wonder what the Church is coming to these days. Right, now let me get this sorted out. Now the bent priest, stands next to the Queen.” Puts the Bishop down and picks her up. “And the Queen, goes in every direction.” “That’s right.” InuKun then put the Queen down and gave a very concerned look to Darkgargos. “And they let children play this, you say? I mean, it’s pretty strong stuff, isn’t it Dark! I mean, Knights taking Pawns, and apparently if a Pawn goes all the way, he turns into a Queen!” Dark had just about had enough at this point. “Shut up Inu, and play the game!” “Oh, okay. Sorry about that.” Dark sighed, putting his head in his hands. “Hey I know! Let’s pretend that I’m James Bond. And you can be one of the Bad Guys from the films, like Q or someone, and if I loose, I have to die!” There was a moment’s pause, before Dark’s head slowly rose up with a smile on his face. “Fair enough.” he answered with a nod. Just what will happen on their way back to New York, and will InuKun have to die should he loose the match against Darkgargos? Tune in next time to find out. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:02 PM Post #5 |
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Chapter Four Awesome is as awesome does Megami stood dumbfounded over the insinuation that Whip claimed she had spent the past winter in a cardboard box. She was even more shocked that anyone could have even believed the story in the first place. “Whip, why did you tell everyone something that wasn’t true?” Whip turned and looked at Megami with a puzzled look on her face. “Uh, what are you talking about? I didn’t actually introduce you, Kris did.” Discovering the error, Megami apologized to Whip before turning her attention to Kris, who was sitting there with a facial look of pure innocence and trust. “Kris, not only did you fail to get me the drink I wanted at Starbucks whilst we were waiting in line, but you also made me deal with your luggage. To top it off, you fabricated such an obvious lie to everyone here, and made it seem as if Whip had said it.” Kris gave her a smile as she looked up from her seat. “It was actually Whip who said it, but I told her to say it as a joke, so I’m not the guilty one here.” Kris tried to correct Megami’s opinion of the situation, but it didn’t quite go as planned. “But you still told her to say it!” At that moment, a muscular gentleman intervened. “Alright ladies. I think at the moment, this isn’t really the time for such things. We still need to be able to get down safely and that’s going to take everyone being calm and trusting each other. Not only that, but I honestly think that the guy at the controls right now must be under enough stress without getting anymore stress added to him right now.” Moonlight Knight wasn’t himself, in the best of moods right now, given he had a connecting flight for Athens, in order to partake in a sporting challenge in three days time. “I think for now, we should at least put some trust in the work of our new pilot, since he seems to be the only one here who can fly this plane. So until we’re back on the ground, could you save the arguments?” InuKun and Darkgargos had yet to actually start the chess game however, as InuKun was still just glancing at the board, being completely silent and appearing to be in deep thought. Finally, the tension broke, with a question from Inu. “Am I black, or white?” Dark’s reply to the question, reflected the annoyance in his tone of voice. “YOU’RE WHITE!!! YOU’RE THOSE ONES THERE!!!” He pointed to the rows of white pieces. “THE ONES NEXT TO YOU!!!” “Oh, right.” “NOW MAKE YOUR MOVE!!!” Dark then sighed once more. He was, quite honestly, nearing the point of willingly wrapping his hands around Inu’s neck and squeezing with all his strength. Inu looked over at Dark. “All right, all right. Don’t hustle me now.” He then leaned over and looked over his pieces and spoke out loud to himself, whilst keeping one ear listening to the dead silence coming through the headset, just in case a transmission got picked up on. “Okay, right. This is it. What would Napoleon do? Loose the Battle of Waterloo, that’s no good to me! Right, this is it. Only one thing for it.” He then took hold of one of his Pawns, and got ready to make the first move. In a strong and powerful voice, Inu made his very unusual move. “Attack, attack, attack! Over the top boys!” He started randomly moving his chess pieces around the board whilst making machine-gun noises. “Argh! I’m hit!” He said as he dropped a Pawn and took hold of another. “Oh, the blood! Oh, the horror! I’m getting out of here!” He started hopping the Pawn along with his left arm off the board. “Shoot that Pawn!” To which he shot at it with his right hand, shaped into a pistol. As the mayhem on the board continued, Dark just watched, with a completely emotionless expression on his face. “Right, everyone! Follow me!” Inu said as he picked up the Queen and started moving her forward. He then put her down and picked up the Queen’s Bishop. “I can’t follow you! I’m a bishop! I can only go sideways!” With that, Inu continued the machine gun antics with his voice for another moment before stopping. Dark, just sat there watching. When InuKun had finally stopped and gestured the board to Dark, it became apparent that Dark for some reason, wasn’t at all bothered by what had just transpired. “That’s your move then, is it?” he asked. “Yep. Get out of that one, Patraeus!” InuKun said with confidence in his voice. Dark simply nodded and looked over the board for a moment. He then took hold of his Queen, moved it to the side of the board, then forward, then sideways. He continued moving in an erratic fashion for a few more seconds, before finally putting his Queen back down, and scooping up all the pieces, except for InuKun’s king, which remained untouched. He then looked at InuKun with a large grin on his face. “Checkmate!” he said triumphantly. “Darn!” Inu said, whilst snapping his finger and thumb. “Well, shall we play something else now?” “What would you like to play?” Dark asked. InuKun thought for a moment, and then got an idea. “Hey, what about Poker?” Dark shrugged. “Yeah sure.” He didn’t feel like holding InuKun to that bet right that moment, due to the situation they were in. Back in Business, things had seemingly calmed down once more, much to the relief of some passengers. Megami had apparently forgiven Whip and Kris for the wrongs they committed in her intro as well as the Starbucks incident a few hours earlier at the airport, and was busy getting a coke from the galley at the rear of the cabin. Moonlight Knight was busy chatting with outlaw star and WhipOfAlchemy about how he’d been planning on going to a sporting event in Athens, whilst Kris snuck downstairs and into the First Class cabin to grab something. It wasn’t until Megami walked back into the cabin and glanced around, that she noticed Kris was missing. She just shrugged it off, figuring that Kris was either in the cockpit or in the lavatory. Either way, it would be some peace and quiet for now. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite what Megami had hoped it was. Down in First Class, Kris walked through the open door to Megami’s suite, and opened the overhead bin. Taking out Megami’s case, she opened it and took out both Megami’s laptop and a DVD. With a grin, she put the case back and booted up the computer. “Great! It still works.” She thought to herself. She loaded the DVD and made sure the disc was what she hoped it was, before taking the disc out again and shutting the laptop down. She then headed over to the First Class galley and noticed on the wall, a cupboard door marked Audio/Visual. “Perfect!” She opened the door and looked inside at the various electronics. A DVD Player mounted within was labeled Channel 1 All. Opening the tray, she took the DVD that was in there out and replaced it with the DVD she’d taken from Megami’s case. Once the player had loaded the disc, she was about to hit Play, when she noticed a button on the player marked Master. “I wonder what this does?” she wondered as she pressed it, followed by the Play button. Up in Business, everyone was talking when all of a sudden each of the video screens came up with the same video feed, and sound for the feed was broadcast over the PA system. When Megami heard the sounds and glanced at one of the screens, she nearly dropped the coke that she was drinking. The animation project that she’d been working on for Cartoon Network, the very reason she’d been travelling to London in the first place, was being somehow broadcast throughout the entire aircraft for everyone to watch. There was only one possible explanation. “KRIS!!!” she yelled as she turned to run back downstairs. Meanwhile, InuKun and Dark were busy getting into their game of poker, with several bills of various amounts, sitting on the center console. “Right. I’ll wager another five bucks.” Inu said as he took a five dollar bill out of his wallet and put it down. “I’ll see your five dollars, and I’ll raise you another fifty.” Inu looked over his hand. Well, that’s cleaned me out.” Dark nodded in understanding. “Right! What have you got?” Inu looked at Dark for a moment. “Three pairs.” With that he put all 6 cards down. This just served to confuse Dark yet again. “What do you mean ‘Three Pairs’?! You’re only allowed five cards!” InuKun then discovered his error. “Shit! Er, two pairs. Well, two and a half pairs.” He took one of the cards, stood up, put it down on the seat, and that sat on it. Dark, having noticed, sighed. “Stand up!” “No.” “Why not?” Dark wasn’t in the mood for this. “I can’t stand up, because I’ve got a hernia!” Inu’s reply, shallow though it was, he hoped would work. “No, you haven’t.” “I have. You see, all this excitement has given me a hernia!” “LOOK! STAND UP OR I WILL GIVE YOU A HERNIA!” Dark shouted. “All right, all right!” Inu then stood up and took the cards he was sitting on, and put them down on the console. “Shoes.” “Oh, don’t be ridiculous Dark.” “I saw you fold them up and put them in there! Besides, I’m not angry. It’s just we’re playing with only a partial deck here.” “Fine!” Inu took his left shoe off and held it upside down in order to allow gravity to pull the pair of folded cards out. “Right! Let’s get on with the game!” Dark said as Inu sat down. “Right. So, what have you got?” Inu asked. Darkgargos looked at Inu with a smirk before laying his hand down. “Five kings!” InuKun looked at the cards for a moment, before admitting defeat. “Damn! You get me every time!” As Dark giggled and took his winnings, he asked Inu what he wanted to play next. “So, what’s next? Seven card stud, or Crazy Eights?” Inu shrugged. “It makes no difference to me! I don’t know the rules!” Dark quickly shuffled the deck. “Right! One card slam it is then.” He took the top card from the newly shuffled deck, and put it down. As they looked at the card, Dark gave out a gasp. “Twelve bucks!” He then held out his hand, waiting for InuKun to pay him the twelve bucks that he apparently was now owed. Posted Image “Good grief! It’s no wonder that they tended to shoot each other on those river boats!” Inu said as he took out his emergency $20 and waited for Dark to give him change. More to come, so keep reading. *Gets strangled by the readers.* Also, what will Megami do with this latest troublesome incident at Kris’ hands? Keep reading to find out. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:06 PM Post #6 |
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Chapter Five Final Approach to Hell Megami reached the bottom of the stairs and looked around, a hunting instinct within her having fired up. She knew her target, but she just had to find it. Her blood boiled with rage and the only thing which could calm that rage was getting her hands on Kris’ throat, and she was intent on finding Kris, no matter the consequences at this point. She went up to First Class and scoured the cabin, looking for any sign that Kris had been there, and she found it once she got to her seat. Her laptop case was sitting on her seat, and when she looked, she discovered that the DVD of her program Tamer* was indeed missing. “Well, at least she didn’t burn a copy.” Kris on the other hand, had heard Megami charging down the stairs and had quickly looked for a place to hide. Noticing a latched panel in the floor, Kris quickly lifted it and got inside, not knowing just what was beneath, apart from luggage. After closing the panel, Kris felt around and found a small box next to the ladder. The lights came on to show Kris was standing just a few feet away from a set of luggage containers which were locked down to the floor. Upon reaching the floor, a quick glace around had Kris eying a small electrical box with ‘DANGER! Maintenance Access Only.’ written on it. Curious, she looked over the box before deciding to open it. Inside, a barrage of wires going in different directions could be seen, each with a bar-coded tab attached to it. She looked at the wires and wondered just how Maintenance could tell a single wire from another before she reached her hand in and gave a gentle tug on a rather thin wire, which broke off in her hand. “Whoops! I hope that wasn’t anything important!” she muttered as she shoved the wire back in and closed the box up again. Megami however, had just arrived at the galley and noticed that the latch handle for that floor panel was stuck upwards. Knowing that Kris was probably hiding from her at the moment, Megami lifted the panel up and noticed the lights in the hold were on, with Kris’ shadow appearing in one corner. She watched from above for a second before poking her head down. “Kris! I found you!” Kris turned around after cringing her shoulders and saw Megami’s head poking down through the hole. “Ah, crap! Uh, hi Megami! Nice day today, isn’t it?” Kris tried to sound cheerful and innocent; however it wasn’t going to work this time. “Cut the crap Kris! Why did you show everyone my project?” Megami asked furiously as she started to make her way down the ladder. “You knew damn well that it wasn’t meant to be shown by anyone until after it was reviewed by Cartoon Network, which was the whole purpose behind me travelling to Britain, not to mention inviting you and Whip along! So, why did you do it?!” As Megami reached the bottom of the ladder, she slowly started walking towards Kris, who was still smiling and acting as if she had done nothing wrong at all. “Why did I do what?” Kris replied. “Why did you show everyone Tamer?” Kris then looked at Megami with a puzzled look. “What are you talking about? I haven’t done anything of the sort!” Whether or not Kris had considered any potential problems with having pulled that out wire, one was quickly developing which everyone was unaware of. Up in the cockpit, a circuit breaker popped, unnoticed at first by InuKun, who had finished the games with Darkgargos and was busy trying to use a handheld E6-B to calculate data for the flight computers, given he wanted a back up plan just in case, for his selected approach to Kennedy for when they arrived. Darkgargos had left the cockpit for a moment to get a drink from the galley, seemingly alright with knowing the aircraft was under InuKun’s control. InuKun, having completed entering the information, tuned into New York Approach to see if any of their frequencies were active. Again, they weren’t. With a sigh, he contacted the passengers in the cabin. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I just wanted to let you know that we’re currently about 20 miles east of Kennedy, and given the fact I have still no contact with Air Traffic Control or anyone for that matter, I’m going to do a low approach into Kennedy signaling that we have an emergency. Once we’ve landed, we’ll use one of the escape slides to exit the aircraft. Hopefully then we can figure out what happened. For now though, I ask that you all start taking your seats and buckling up. This may be a little bumpy. Thanks.” Kris and Megami faintly heard the transmission through the access panel and looked at each other. “Truce until we’re on the ground?” Kris offered. Megami sighed, knowing that she probably would be calmed down by the time they were back in New York. Extending her hand, Megami shook hands with Kris. “Truce, for now.” With that, they made their way to the ladder and quickly back up into the galley. Closing the floor panel shut behind her, Megami then ushered to Kris to start walking, as they needed to get upstairs before anyone got worried, particularly Whip, who was wondering just where the two of them had gone. As Kris and Megami got upstairs, Whip saw them and waved them up front. “Where were you two?” Whip asked. “Down in the hold, trying to kill Kris.” Megami answered, glaring at Kris. The 747 began it descent as InuKun took control away from the autopilot. He, along with everyone else on board, would soon be in for a shocking surprise. As everyone finished buckling up, InuKun lined the aircraft up with the Initial Approach Fix for the approach, a fix in Oyster Bay, which would bring the aircraft in for a smooth landing at Kennedy. He turned on the Landing and Taxi lights, then reached over to lower the landing gear. As he released the lock and pushed the Gear Lever down, he watched in surprise as the system reported that the main gears were down, but that the nose gear hadn’t dropped. “Huh?” he thought, before retracting the gear to try again. Once the gear lights signaled that the gear were once again retracted, InuKun tried again, still with no success on the nose gear light. Normally this would require him to do a fly over of the airport to allow tower officials to inspect the aircraft, but given it was nighttime and the lack of radio communication, it would be difficult. Not to mention that just because the gear is down, doesn’t mean it’s locked and will hold the weight of the aircraft upon landing. A risky decision lay before InuKun, and one in which he knew the lives of everyone on board depended on his judgment. Should he risk a nose gear collapse and drag the nose along the runway, or abort the approach and hold somewhere for a while. He re-checked the fuel levels, which showed all tanks had around an hour and 20 minutes remaining before starvation. Electing to gamble on a faulty sensor for now and see how things go, InuKun passed the Final Approach Fix and began the descent to the runway. Having no radio ability, InuKun opted for a visual approach at first, but that proved problematic as he got to 3000 feet, and saw nothing but pitch blackness everywhere. Not even Manhattan was lit up, which was unusual. He glanced out towards LaGuardia and Newark Airports, to see they were pitch black as well. He could not see anything, let alone a runway or airport beacon. “What the hell?!” he muttered, before electing to abort the landing and travel to the holding point he’d selected, at the DUNBO Intersection, located over Glen Cove on Long Island. The passengers, who’d been hoping to get on the ground, became disappointed as they first heard the engines increase power, and they felt themselves climbing back up. Outlawwolf cried out “What is going on? Why aren’t we landing?!” Judgement915 explained to everyone that they should keep calm and that InuKun probably would have a good excuse made up shortly for everyone as to why they didn’t land. “It’s probably weather in Chicago.” He joked. No one laughed, especially when InuKun came back on to explain the seemingly grim situation to all the passengers. “Okay everyone. I’m at a complete loss for words. There’s no airport, no nothing out there. No Manhattan, no JFK, nothing! It’s like civilization has disappeared from the tri-state area. I’m currently holding just a short distance north east of where Kennedy should be, and if you look outside, there’s nothing there. No lights, no aircraft, no moon. And we aren’t in clouds, so I can’t dismiss it as a cloud problem. It looks like we’re back to square one. But I have some more bad news. When I was lining us up to land at Kennedy, as I lowered the landing gear, the nose gear unit, which sits up front, came back as not having lowered properly. So there is a chance that the nose gear is malfunctioning and when we do land, it’ll be a hard nose landing. However, there is also the chance that it could just be a faulty sensor on the gear which is causing the problem. Either way, we can’t tell until we do land.” As InuKun explained it, fear took over and everyone’s faces reflected a grave concern that they might not get out of this one alive. “The problem is that we are holding right now so that I can discuss this with you all, however, we are now limited on time due to fuel. I want you all to understand that once I commit again, that will be it. There won’t be another go around the next time. If I’m to land, it’s a one-shot, because I’m flying blindly towards JFK. I’m going to hold for a few more minutes in order to finish setting everything up and recalculating the approach and landing speeds, but I wanted to let you all know the current situation as it stands right now.” With that said, InuKun disengaged the PA system and sat back to clear his head. An aircraft which is designed for a two-member crew to land it, and he’s going to have to not only land it on his own, but with no way of knowing whether he’s at the runway or not. PointImpact suddenly walked into the cockpit, having undone her seatbelt. “Hey.” She said, rather calmly. InuKun turned around and nodded whilst taking a deep breath. “Can I ask you something?” PointImpact was rather nervous at this point and unsure as to what would happen. “Yeah, go ahead.” InuKun wiped some sweat off his brow and glanced at the instruments quickly before turning back to her. But the question PointImpact was going to ask was something InuKun couldn’t know the answer to. “Are we going to crash?” InuKun just exhaled and took another breath. “I don’t know. I’ll do my best to get us down, but with nothing to see and no radio beacons to guide us in, it’s going to be tricky. I honestly have no idea if this will work or not, but we’ll see. If I can just get something on the ground to show me a runway or even just a long enough highway at this point, we’ll be good. But I can’t-” InuKun paused for a moment as a thought passed his mind. “It just might work.” He said aloud. “What? What might just work?!” PointImpact was curious to see just what InuKun had in mind. He quickly looked up at PointImpact and smiled. “We’re going to skud-run into Kennedy.” She had no idea what skud-run meant, but like everyone else, she would soon find out. InuKun turned the PA back on. “Everyone, I think I have a solution to our latest problem. But I’m going to need everyone’s help. I need a volunteer in the cockpit and everyone else to buckle up and assume the brace position in their seats. This maneuver is risky, and could be deadly, but given the situation, it’s our best option. I’m going to do what we pilots call a skud-run into Kennedy. Put simply, we’re going to be flying only a short distance, about 100 feet, above the surface. That will give me a better look out with the lights, and I’m going to have us in slow flight at the same time, in order to get the aircraft to move safely at such an altitude. But I need a volunteer up front to help me out with some of the work that is needed to carry out this move. Do I have any volunteers?” InuKun looked to PointImpact who glanced back in the cabin, to see that as of yet, no one had made a move to volunteer. In fact, everyone was more uncomfortable with the idea. But then, as if to get back at her for all the trouble she’s caused earlier on, Megami suddenly stood up and nominated KrisRix for the job, which seemed to get the winning approval of everyone else on board, except Moonlight Knight, who felt Kris shouldn’t be subjected to such torment. “Why are you picking on Kris?” he asked. “She’s been picking on me since before we even got on the flight! Besides, it’s her punishment for showing Tamer without my permission!” “FINE! I’LL DO IT, IF THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY MEGAMI!!!” Kris then stormed forward as PointImpact got out of the way and entered the cockpit. “Alright, so what do you want me to do?” she asked as she looked over at InuKun. He cringed for a second before motioning to the empty seat next to him. As Kris sat down, he instructed her on how to fasten the four belt harness and then explained what he needed her to do. “I need you to flip the gear lever here when I tell you to, and let me know when the gear lights go from red to green. At the same time, I want you to keep an eye out the windows for any buildings or lights that you can see, I’m going to be looking constantly up and down to make sure we don’t loose too much altitude and that we don’t hit any terrain. Start from the left side, and just run your eyes along the horizon, then sweep back. If you see anything, let me know. Understand?” “Yeah, I understand.” InuKun then nodded and began the sharp descent, until they were 500 feet up. At that point, the terrain warning alarm came on, and InuKun slowed the descent until they were only 120 feet above the ground. Kris scanned the horizon but couldn’t see anything save pitch darkness outside. After a couple of minutes, InuKun asked Kris if she could see anything yet. “Nothing yet.” “Alright, but let’s go ahead and drop the landing gear, as we should be close by.” Kris nodded and pushed the lever down, before she continued scanning. Suddenly she thought she could see something reflecting the light off the aircraft, on the right side. “WAIT! I think I see something off to the right!” InuKun looked quickly over and saw it as well. He banked the aircraft a little to let more light shine there, and the sight was something to behold. It was the Main Control Tower of Kennedy. He tilted the nose down a little to look around, and saw 31L painted below them to the right. With a quick turn of the rudders, avoiding the wings dropping, InuKun lined the 747 up with the runway and brought it down to 8 feet, at which point, he put the engines at idle and pulled back slightly on the yoke to allow the 747 to safely stall and drop down softly on the runway, before bringing the aircraft to a crawl. As he exited the runway and stopped for a moment, he looked around to see that no one was around, and no emergency vehicles were even to be seen coming towards them. In the cabin, everyone cheered when they realized that the airplane had safely landed. But InuKun wasn’t paying attention to the applause. His concern related to the fact that no one was there, which for Kennedy Airport, would be unheard of, no matter what time of day or night. “Where is everyone?” he wondered. He brought the power back up a little and began taxiing the aircraft back towards the terminal they’d just left from earlier that day. What made things even more confusing for InuKun, was that even when they arrived at the terminal, it was empty of aircraft, which he knew was impossible given how there are flights constantly in and out of JFK 24/7 with Vacation Airlines. As they pulled up to Gate 12, InuKun turned the handle next to him sharply, in order to steer the aircraft into the gate without any marshal assistance. “Same gate we departed from as well.” He commented to Kris as he proceeded to park and shut down all four engines. Undoing his seat belt and whilst showing Kris how to undo hers, InuKun then walked into the cabin and looked around. “Right. Let’s go downstairs and use one of the emergency escape slides to get off this bird. As you can all see, it’s pitch black out, so we’ll use this flashlight to look around. Everyone stick together though inside the terminal. For some reason, I’m not really comfortable at the moment here.” “Why would you say that?” Maxskate asked. “Look outside and tell me what you see, or rather, what you don’t see.” InuKun replied. “Well, apart from no lights anywhere, I don’t see anything wrong.” Whip explained. InuKun’s response got everyone worried again. “We just landed a 747 into a major international airport which is constantly congested, without saying anything to the airport or air traffic control, and made our way nonchalantly here to this gate, without anyone coming to check up on us and see what the problem is. Normally, you’d find police, fire and rescue vehicles clamoring to the scene. Yet, as you can all see, nothing. No one’s out there. No aircraft, no ground vehicles, no ramp employees walking around. Hence my concern about being here right now.” |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:09 PM Post #7 |
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Wishing the very best to all.
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A quick heads up to everyone.
I figured I'd explain for anyone who might have wondered. When an aircraft is at or above 14, 000 feet Mean Sea Level (MSL), the FAA and other government entities worldwide require, regardless of whether it is a pressurized or non-pressurized (Commercial airline jets are pressurized) aircraft, that one crew member at the controls be on supplemental oxygen. The reason for this is that if there were to be a sudden, rapid change in pressure in the aircraft, as a passenger, you'd probably want one of the crew alert and not suffering from hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain), in order to bring the aircraft down safely to a lower altitude, without being knocked unconscious within a few seconds. Also... E6-B Computer: A handheld (yet primitive) flight computer which can calculate your ground speed (how fast you're going over the ground), your true airspeed, your calibrated airspeed, true heading (versus magnetic), time, speed and distance to a point, wind correction, fuel consumption, density altitude, pressure altitude, etc. Posted Image Front side Posted Image Back side Fixes: Fixes are just points which either intersect two-three radials from different transmitting stations (VOR stations) or are a set distance from a station. On an approach chart, fixes are identified by a triangle and their five letter name. Posted Image A VOR Station, which transmits two radio waves on the same frequency at different strengths. By comparing the two waves, on board computers can determine where you are in relation to the station. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:12 PM Post #8 |
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Wishing the very best to all.
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The second of the forum-based stories for Sailor Moon Abridged, this one is a little more of a horror story. It's based on nightmares I had continuously growing up. The Baroung Prologue 5 Years Earlier… Rick sat in his basement lab working on building a new creation. A mess of computers sat along the walls, with a king-sized bed in the center of the room. Cables ran amok, and he was having a difficult time just getting to one computer, let alone all of them. Every time he went to a computer it seemed, he would become entangled and most likely trip onto the bed, but this didn’t deter him. In fact, it was a boost for his determination to get the experiment ready and give him a chance at fulfilling his goal. “Finally! It’s all ready to go!” he cried out as the last of the computers was booted and loaded it’s programming. At that moment, his sister walked down the stairs and looked over at him. “Oh? And what exactly is all ready to go? A mess? A fire hazard? Mom and Dad when they see what you’ve done down here?” She looked around. “And how on earth did you get all these computers?!” He just started typing commands into the keyboard for the Master Computer. “Simple. I borrowed them from classmates and friends.” he replied, not looking fazed or anything. He was too busy typing away to even think really about her. “FRIENDS?! You of all people have got FRIENDS?!” Claire acted as if she was in total disbelief and shock. “These friends of yours, they wouldn’t be imaginary friends, would they?” That had gotten his complete attention for a moment. Turning to look at her, Rick scowled at his older sister. “No Claire. They aren’t imaginary. You’ve met them! Remember when Raghu, Chris, Evan and David all came over last week?” Claire thought for a moment. “Oh yeah. So those are the friends you were talking about. Still, how did you manage to get the computers from other classmates? You’re only 9 for crying out loud.” Rick went back to typing away commands. “None of your business!” was his answer to that. Curious though, Claire hung around on the stairs. “So, what is all this supposed to be, exactly?” “A Dream Visualizer for the purpose of visualizing one’s dream in order to re-write the whole thing in order to ensure that the dream is what you want it to be.” Claire looked over at Rick, completely dumbfounded. “What?” “It allows you to make a recording of your dream so that you can change it in real time or later on to whatever you want. In other words, you can change a nightmare into something wonderful, or vise versa.” “Whatever! I’m going to bed. Goodnight!” With that, she walked back up the stairs. Two minutes later, all was ready. Rick grabbed a bunch of wires, connecting them to electrodes on a helmet, which he then slipped on his head. “Well, it’s now or never.” he thought. Turning off the lights and hitting the enter key, he proceeded to lie down on the bed and slowly allowed himself to drift off to sleep. It would be a night to live in the minds of many around the world, for years to come. His dream had started out peaceful as always, and the computers had begun recording it with no error ratio present. He has simply sitting down in the basement watching TV, when the TV would simply go haywire and a snowy screen appeared. A moment later, the screen brought up an image of a landscape, with a hill in the distance. Rick could see a small speck on the top of that hill, which the camera seemed to zoom in on. When he saw what it was, his body froze with fear in the dream. For many times had he seen this creature. Short, furry, with a round head and unmistakable eyes. Indeed, if the eyes hadn’t been visible, he might have mistook it for something else. But what manner of creature has eyes that are in a curved tear-shape? Especially with a deep voice from seemingly nowhere telling Rick that he has 30 seconds to flee, or he would be eaten alive. Well, you can imagine how even in the dream, Rick wanted to escape. So he quickly got up and started making his way over to the stairs, not tripping over any wires as in the dream, his computer set-up wasn’t there. Music started playing from the TV, as if helping countdown the time remaining that Rick had to live. The TV was clearly visible from the stairs, and he could see the eyes of that creature following him as he moved to the stairs and started climbing them. He reached the top, and turned. A keyboard had suddenly appeared at the bottom of the stairs. Rushing back down, he picked it up, and ran back up the stairs. Once again, he turned, this time to see a mouse there. Rushing back down, he grabbed the mouse and started his way back up the stairs. He was halfway up, when the song came to an end. Turning to look, he saw a quick flash as the screen went snowy again. But unlike the last time, he now was in dire trouble. For in an instant, what had been facing him through the TV, was now standing in front of his TV, looking right at him. The voice quickly rang out “Time’s Up!”, before it charged at him. It was at that moment that Rick managed to wake up with a jolt. Trying to catch his breath, he looked around and realized that it was just a nightmare, and that he was safe in bed. Or, he would have liked to believe that he was safe. Turning to look at the monitor on the master computer, something caught his attention. Looking outside a storm window in the top corner of the room, he could see that a thunderstorm had arrived. Getting carefully up and out of bed, he walked over to the computer. It was processing the information it has gathered from that dream, so he figured he’d try to re-write it into a nice dream for his memory. As he finished the instructions however, he failed to comprehend that being as exhausted as he apparently was mentally, he had somehow simply made it even more horrific a nightmare. Yet, that was a moot point now. For a bolt of lightning somehow had managed to enter the room and cross the tower which was serving a master computer, as well as the TV which had 2 computers sitting on top of it. As Rick went for cover, he failed to see that as the bolt changed direction from the tower to the TV, it seemed to have changed to a blackish tone of colour. Walking over to another computer, he noticed something odd. The dream, which was stored on each computer in segments in order to help processing, it seemed to have recovered all of it’s segments right before the master went offline due to the lightning strike. “That’s odd.” he thought. In the next 4 hours, 428 people throughout Canada and the US were killed, as the creature which Rick had dreamed of, multiplied and ran through cable and satellite communications to find those who were awake, and could easily be eaten. It was the start of a war humanity couldn’t win without those willing to fight, and who had courage to do so in the face of death… |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:13 PM Post #9 |
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Wishing the very best to all.
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The Baroung Chapter One It had been 5 years since that night which started a war against monsters. Humanity was dwindling faster than it ever had before. 5 years earlier, just over 6 Billion inhabitants worldwide. Less then 1 million known to still be alive now. On what was once Lower Manhattan, a group of individuals had gathered for a very important meeting. KrisRix, WhipOfAlchemy, Megami33, MonkeygirlSMA, Benihime, Belldandy, Moonlight Knight, limeygirl714, Darkgargos, maxskate2001, Borinyukami, Judgement915, Kuro-chan, RememberJiraiya, CanadianEh, Badfoo, Crystal_Zoi, DinoHunterJ, Resa, Roll002, Starshine, PointImpact, BradenLovesSMA, and Ashestoashesjc all stood around a staff. Kris was getting somewhat impatient. “Where the hell is that damn InuKun?! He asked us to meet here, and yet he’s late! ‘Come Meet me at the old Manhattan site on the 1st at high noon.’ It’s 2:11 and he’s still not here!” Kris mentioned, getting more and more agitated by the minute. Grabbing the hilt of her Katana, she squeezed the handle. “Calm down Kris! Just calm down! Think Happy Thoughts. That’s right.” she said to herself as she started to control her breathing rate. Moonlight Knight looked at Belldandy next to him and gripped tighter onto his AK-47. “He probably has a good reason for being late.” Bell explained. After all, he did have to evade a checkpoint the Baroung had set up in the old town of Newark, where he sent us that message.” “Indeed, with the Baroung hunting our group constantly, we cannot afford to take chances. He said though that this was possibly an opportunity to strike back against them.” added Moonlight Knight. “Hence why I came. Those bastards took almost everything away from me!” They were suddenly interrupted, by a voice behind them. “You will all have a chance at revenge for what has been done in this world!” Turning, they saw InuKun standing there, removing the hood of his cloak. “I wish to apologize for the delay, however I needed to get some civilians out of harms way at a shelter which was compromised. Thankfully, none have been reported missing from the shelter, and they have been moved elsewhere for now. Though time is of the essence. We must not stay longer than needed. I fear the Baroung may find out soon about this place.” Heading over, Kris and WhipOfAlchemy scooted over to allow him past, where he placed his hand against the staff, which glowed a neon green as he chanted something in an old tongue, which then dropped into the floor. “It is good to see you all were able to come. Let us head to the lower chambers and discuss what needs to be discussed, and then move on.” At that moment, the ground shook, and the floor began dropping, like an elevator, into the core below. It was a long 2 minute trip to the bottom for some, but when the floor finally stopped moving, they stood before two large titanium doors. InuKun, KrisRix, WhipOfAlchemy, and Megami33 each inserted a key into a lock on the doors, whilst Moonlight Knight and BradenLovesSMA lifted a handle on either door. “Let this be the dawn of a future, bright with hope to all.” InuKun quickly said, before all four keys were turned in the locks, releasing the doors. Due to the risk of the Baroung, who traveled by electrical current waves, getting the chance to attack, the doors would have to be manually opened. Getting out of the way, they waited upon Moonlight Knight and BradenLovesSMA, who were cursing before heaving the doors. Now, one might suppose that such doors would be a challenge to open, but thanks to something rememberJiraiya had installed, they swung open with relative ease. The problem was that whilst Moonlight Knight remembered this, BradenLovesSMA had apparently forgotten. The left door, which BradenLovesSMA was operating, swung open with such force when he gave a hard tug, that the door squashed him against the cave wall. A few seconds later, the door swung back out, with BradenLovesSMA now seemingly pressed against the wall, flat. “Ow!” he said calmly, yet dejectedly. Fighting back the urge to laugh, Ashestoashesjc walked over and gently peeled him off the wall. “It’s okay buddy. You have done well.” Holding up a shaking arm, BradenLovesSMA smiled as he wobbled. “Still, at least I did my part for the country!” Ashestoashesjc looked at him with an odd expression. “What? You stayed in the City?” “Absolutely.” RememberJiraiya walked over. “If you two are quite done, we would like to get this meeting underway.” With that, he made his way inside and took a seat. After everyone had made their way inside, Moonlight Knight and InuKun, who dared not let BradenLovesSMA near the doors right now, gently brought them back to a full close as MonkeygirlSMA pulled the interior rods across to lock the door from the inside. Glowing moss reflected the interior well enough for everyone to see quite clearly. Standing at the head was of course KrisRix who had founded the organization known as SMA. A group of mercenaries who had banded together to free the world of the threat from the Baroung. “Welcome everyone. Well, since InuKun was the one who called us all here for this meeting, I guess the best thing right now is to let him explain what is going on.” InuKun, who was seated about halfway down on the left side for those facing into the room from the door, gently stood up. “Thank you Kris. As you know, for the past 5 years, we have been at the mercy more or less of the Baroung. We know not how they came into existence, but we do know this. They travel through electrical current waves, primarily those used for television and the internet. When they find a target, they somehow teleport out of the screen, and attack. Once the attack is complete, they retreat back through the screen. Beyond that unfortunately, very little is known about them. Or should I say, was known. Indeed, I think we may have a way of fighting back now. It will take time, I assure you all of that, but it we can do it, then we stand not only to be heroes, but the franchise rights to our actions will net us more fame and fortune then even our great-great-great-great-great grandchildren could ever hope to spend in their lifetimes.” Moonlight Knight and Badfoo both jumped. “TELL US!” they said in unison, both remembering what had happened to their families and friends. InuKun lowered his head and sighed, not quite sure about whether everyone was quite ready to hear it, but decided that given Moonlight Knight and Badfoo’s reaction, that he’d be best to tell everyone, before all hell broke loose in there. “Very well. Here is what I know.” (Or at least, what he was willing to say) “As you are all aware, the Baroung first appeared five years ago, and began the hunting spree that they have been on ever since. I say hunting spree because it seems to be a hunt for them, rather then just random killing, given the profiling that experts gave of them when they were first discovered.” He grabbed a paper document out of his sleeve. “I came across this a short while ago. It’s a letter describing a dream someone had many years ago, which might be of interest to everyone.” Kris scoffed. “Just how is such a letter going to be of value to us?! No offense, but that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of in my life.” Belldandy and WhipOfAlchemy quickly told Kris to be quiet. InuKun looked at both Belldandy and WhipOfAlchemy for a quick second and raised his hand outward. “It’s alright. If she doesn’t wish to hear it, that’s fine. I’m not asking anyone to decide anything here.” Kris calmed down again, although part of her was still clearly annoyed at InuKun’s late arrival earlier. “No, it’s fine. Go ahead and read it, if you want to!” she replied, though harsh in her tone. “Well then, does anyone else wish to not hear this?” InuKun asked, and looked around. Whilst it was clear on the faces of several members that they felt they had better things to do then listen to something like this, they stayed their thoughts and didn’t show any interest in stopping InuKun. “Very well.” With a flick of his wrist, he opened up the letter and began to read it aloud after clearing his throat. September 1st, 1987 I find myself continuously perplexed at these recurring nightmares I have been having on an almost daily basis for the past 6 years, and yet I cannot find a way to explain them. It seems less and less likely that any significance can be seen by them, especially given the contents of the nightmares, but I find myself seeking answers none the less. Why am I having these dreams? What is the meaning behind said dreams? How come no one feels even the slightest bit sympathetic towards the dreams that I’ve been having, and insist that there is no meaning to them. I find myself being pressured daily into trying to forget those nightmares, and yet I find that I cannot. Here are a couple of examples of such dreams, still vivid in my mind, even if in some cases, such dreams happened far too long ago. In the first example, I was 4 years old and indeed, it was about this time that the nightmares of this sort began to happen. I would be watching TV downstairs in the basement, and we had both a colour TV in the main room, and a small black and white TV in the study. Both TV’s were playing the same ending to Sesame Street, and after the main show ended, a special as it were, came on. In that special, two creatures somewhat identical to Cookie Monster, but with upturned edges to their eyes, appeared and started a contest. As contestants lost rounds, they were eaten. I couldn’t find myself being able to get away, because the TV in the main room, seemed to be having those characters watching me, to ensure I didn’t head for the stairs. At the end of the show, the creatures teleported themselves out of the television sets and proceeded to eat me. At that point, I had woken up.” Benihime looked up in horror, as if it was déjà vu to her, and both limeygirl714 and Crystal_Zoi appeared as if they were going to be sick with shock. However, InuKun continued without hesitation. ”In the second example, indeed, much more recent, I was heading up the stairs from the basement of our bungalow, when I looked back down to the bottom of the stairs and saw what appeared like a duck’s beak, but much larger, move into my sight. I rushed to my room and closed the door behind me, locking it and pressing my back against the door. Then, as if looking at myself in third-person, I watched as a meat hook came crashing through the wooden door and run up through me along my back, ripping ribs and all until it reached my skull and lifted me off the ground. Then the door blew open and a furry creature with a duck-style beak came into the room, and proceeded to eat my body, as blood poured onto the floor as a large puddle.” InuKun looked around to see that not only were Benihime, Limeygirl714 and Crystal_Zoi looking awful at this point, but so were Megami33, Belldandy, WhipOfAlchemy, BradenLovesSMA, Judgement915, and Resa. “I assume from your looks that though I haven’t finished, you all seem to be aware of something. Perhaps you all have experiences just like these?” Megami33 summed it up for everyone with a gentle nod. Indeed, she’d watched as her entire family had experienced such a horrific tragedy. “I must apologize for this but I figured it was important that you all know this.” He explained before continuing to read the letter. ”I was about to give up all hope, when something came to me in a dream a few nights ago. In that dream, I learned that such creatures, have a general weakness of their own. They are loyal to the one who controls them, so I dreamt that I managed to kill the one controlling them, and they all vanished as a result. But in order to discover who was controlling them, I would have to infiltrate their empire, and disguise myself as one of them. But how does one do that? It’s one thing to say you are willing to do such a thing, but it’s against the laws of physics to be capable of such a feat. Or so I thought. For last night, I managed to come up with a solution. Build a device that could record and rewrite dreams. It’s a risky challenge, but it should be a good one to undertake, regardless. I’ve decided to devote my time outside of school, to working on such a device, and hopefully have it all set up and ready within a few years, pending experimental set-backs. And I know now tat they will bleed, if it in the right spot, although I can’t remember the exact location. It might be under the right armpit, or it’s underneath the left ear about half an inch back. Still, I’m certain I’ll be able to pull this off, and be free of these dreams once and for all.” Lifting his head, InuKun looked around the room at everyone. “That is all there is of this letter. If there was more originally, it’s not there now.” He put the letter down and took a deep breath. “However, I do believe that we have something to go by know. And it seems that the author, seems to have struck a chord with at least some of those here in this room. So, for now, I’ll rest, since I want to hear other people’s opinions, as well as give this a chance to sink in with everyone.” Sitting back down, he grabbed his glass and poured some water into it, waiting to see just what everyone else would have to say on the matter. If nothing else, this would prove an interesting challenge to undertake, if everyone decided to give it a shot. “My only question though with the letter, would be his reason for doing all that, if the one controlling them in his dreams, was technically his own mind.” Judgement915 mentioned. “True, even I cannot say what the reason for that was, as I’m only reading the letter as it’s written.” In actuality, that was only the first half on the letter, but InuKun didn’t want to let anyone know the other part, for some reason. “So, what do we do?” Kris asked. “Find the “individual” who is controlling these things and kill them?! Are you retarded?! Whoever is controlling them must be heavily guarded. Besides, we don’t even know where they are! They could be anywhere!” Megami suddenly stuck her hand in Kris’ face. “Quiet! Listen! Do you hear something?” Everyone remained absolutely still as a faint sound was heard. It was like a soft scratching noise. InuKun looked at Darkgargos and Moonlight Knight, who both quickly stood up and walked over to the doors. A small shielded peep hole was there, and Dark quickly looked into it for only a brief second, before closing the cover again and slowly turning around. A cold sweat on his face. No one dared speak a word, nor move. The tension lasted for several moments as all eyes remained fixed on Dark’s expressionless face. Finally, Resa broke the silence with a quiet whisper. ”Well?” “There’s nothing out there that I can see.” he answered calmly. Everyone was rather tempted at that point to hit Dark for toying with them like that, however InuKun was still concerned about the noise, as was Megami, since they’d both noticed how the sound had gotten somewhat louder. “Everyone, stay quiet. It’s getting closer, whatever is making that noise.” Megami announced with fear and concern in her voice. Indeed, the sound continued to get louder and louder, until a look of fright was on every face which was looking at the doors. For it soon could be heard right outside the doors, just before it stopped. After a moment of silence, a dull knock was heard, as someone, or something knocked on those doors. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:16 PM Post #10 |
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Chapter Two Um…What?! As the first round of knocks bellowed throughout the room, no one inside dared to even breathe. All eyes were fixed on the doors, save Dark, who was trembling nervously as he glanced over at InuKun, as if to ask “Do I really need to look again?” InuKun saw the expression on Dark’s face and quietly nodded, somehow guessing just from the expression, as to what Dark was questioning. “Great, just my luck!” he thought as he turned slowly towards the peep hole again. He hesitated for a moment, before the second wave of knocks could be heard from outside. After a quiet gulp, he closed his eyes and leaned forward, opening the shield before taking a deep breath and opening his eye to look through. On the other side, a pair of shadowy figures could be seen. At first, Dark thought they could be Baroung members, but then he saw a cherry blossom logo on both their arms, the logo of the Japanese counterpart of their alliance. With a sigh, he closed the peep hole once again and turned to face everyone. “It’s alright. It’s the Japanese group.” He said calmly, before turning to start pulling the bars away. Inu frowned. “Why would the Japanese Alliance be here?!” he wondered. Apparently, he wasn’t the only one who was suspicious. KrisRix pointed at Dark. “Dark, don’t release the bars just yet. We need proof that it’s really them.” Turning to WhipOfAlchemy, Kris continued. “Whip, what is the code word for the Japanese Alliance if visiting us?” Whip took out a pocket book and skimmed through it. “Let me see. Japan, Japan… Ah, here we are.” She paused as she looked at it for a moment in disbelief. “You have got to be kidding me!” Whip then said as the password registered in her mind. “What is it?” Kris asked. Not wanting to say it out loud, in case the individuals outside could hear, Whip showed Kris the entry in the book. “What kind of password is this?!” Kris yelled out. “This has got to be the stupidest password that I have ever heard in my entire life!!” As everyone returned their hands down from having covered their ears during the second half of that outbreak by KrisRix, Megami advised Kris to calm down and ask them for the password, no matter how stupid it may seem. Given that currently, only Kris and Whip knew the password, everyone couldn’t say for themselves just how bad a password it could be. “Fine!” Kris said sternly, before getting up out of the chair and walking over to the doors. Knocking back on the door, to let those on the outside know that people were there, Kris gave the opening to the password, to which the persons outside responded with their portions of the password. (Japanese team will be depicted in Red) “BLOODY, DAGGER; MY ONLY TRUE FRIENDS. OH CRUEL WORLD!” “WHAT WAS THAT?” (Singing) “I’M A LITTLE TEAPOT, SHORT AND STOUT!” “THAT GOOD FOR YOU. NOW LET ME TALK TO THE SANE PEOPLE IN ROOM.” Kris muttered something about killing whoever came up with this password. Roll002 and Maxskate2001 simply giggled softly in the background. “I’VE BEEN COMPLETELY USELESS THIS WHOLE EPISODE!” ”DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AFTER YOU? CAN I SEE THEM PLEASE? “I MADE AN ERIC!” “SPEAK ENGRISH!” With that last line, Kris knew that they were legit. “Open the doors for them Dark.” Dark then proceeded to open the doors slowly, as two individuals walked in, before he closed the doors again and locked then tight. They approached the gathering and bowed gracefully towards everyone as Darkgargos, KrisRix and Moonlight Knight returned to their seats. Each stood there in a hazmat outfit and as they removed their helmets, one of them looked to InuKun and bowed once again. InuKun returned the bow respectively, before clearing his throat. “So, to what do we owe the pleasure of your company today?” InuKun asked. “We come to join forces with you. Japan has been taken over. We only survivors from all Japan. It horrible. Baroung eliminate all of remaining Japanese resistance in under 5 hours.” The tall one commented whilst shaking over the mental images of what they had seen before leaving. “We were getting ready for a full evacuation, when they struck. In the confusion and chaos that followed, only we were able to get on one of the pods and escape. That was a month ago. We spent a week just sitting there, wondering what to do, when we remember that InuKun had built alliance in North America.” InuKun nodded, but was concerned about the obvious issue. Namely, how did the Japanese Alliance know about this meeting place, given that the only ones who should have known about the meeting were those already in attendance. As the Japanese members went to take their seats, InuKun held out his sword at the one in front. “Don’t move!” InuKun said in a rather commanding voice for one usually so quiet and timid. Everyone looked on in shock and disbelief. They couldn’t believe that InuKun was acting in such a manner. “Who are you?!” InuKun then asked more calmly. The Japanese Alliance were completely taken by surprise over what had just transpired. “What you mean?! You know who we are!” The Japanese Alliance were getting scared, as was everyone else in the North American Alliance. InuKun however didn’t waiver, and held firm. “I’ll ask you all again one more time. Who are you all, really?!” By this point, Megami33 had had enough of this and looked over to KrisRix and Darkgargos and motioned with her right hand to them that they should do something to stop InuKun’s actions. There was no telling what InuKun could do to the Japanese Alliance, or even perhaps everyone, at the moment. As KrisRix and Darkgargos slowly approached InuKun, PointImpact and limeygirl714 did the same from the other side. Surely four on one would be acceptable given the circumstances. When they were all but a foot away from InuKun, a question came from InuKun’s lips that stopped them in their tracks. A question that would seem sensible when thought of from a logical standpoint. “If you are who you claim to be, then how did you know about this meeting? ONLY members of the North American Alliance knew of this meeting, as it was only for members of said alliance!!!” The Japanese Alliance members showed a look of concern in their eyes, to which PointImpact drew back and exposed her brass-knuckled fists, before taking on a fighting stance. Everyone else in the North American Alliance soon followed suit and prepared for the trouble they were now seemingly in. The leader of the Japanese Alliance dropped his head and started laughing in a deeper voice than he’s been speaking in before. It started out soft, but slowly increased in volume until his laugh bellowed throughout the chamber. “Well done sir. I commend you on seeing through our disguise. But I’m afraid that you’re too late!” With that, the face deformed as the mouth opened up and was stretched over the entire head, allowing a furry head to become exposed. The other followed and soon, what had been seen as the last of the Japanese Alliance, were exposed as Baroung creatures of varying heights. “You see, we did intercept your message, and prepared for this showdown. Whilst the main forces know nothing about what is going on here, imagine how they’ll react when we tell them that not only did we have the chance to intercept a message of the North American Alliance, who were planning to overthrow the Baroung, but we also managed to get into their meeting and wipe them completely out. We’ll be heroes amongst all the Baroung forces. It was fortunate that we had this book of passwords that we found on a traveler in Japan. Otherwise, we’d have never been able to fool you all into allowing us in here.” InuKun continued to watch but didn’t move his sword away. “I shall commend you all for having intercepted the message and for showing up here, however my commendation ends there.” He said sternly. “You see, there is another reason as to why you raised my suspicion. If you really had been members of the Japanese Alliance and had travelled here in the mole unit that you were using, you would have melted long before you reached here, as you’ve have had to pass through an active underwater volcano in order to reach us.” As InuKun explained, Darkgargos, limeygirl714 and Megami33 shifted over to the left a little, hoping to try out a move they’d been discussing at a private meeting two months earlier. The tension in the air was thick, but not quite thick enough just yet to be able to cut it with a knife. No one now dared move, as everyone waited for the other side to strike a move against them. Although the North American Alliance clearly outnumbered the Baroung here in this situation, that wouldn’t mean very much against flesh eating creatures which were known to eat an adult human entirely (save bones) in under 5 seconds. Both Baroung suddenly gave a rather toothy smile, baring knife-like razor teeth towards the Alliance members in the room, who whilst scared, were all putting on a brave face it seemed. It’s unclear as to whether it was Moonlight Knight suddenly having a sinus irritation which caused him to sneeze suddenly, or whether it was Crystal_Zoi knocking over a cup of water on the table, but suddenly, the Baroung moved forward, seemingly both trying to gang up on InuKun, who in return, was giving their teeth some unexpected dental work with his sword, all the while fighting to keep his limbs away from their jaws. PointImpact jumped into the fray with a strong upper cut to the leader, who stumbled backwards for a second, before regaining his footing. KrisRix and Whip suddenly exchanged a quick glance, before screaming “CHARGE!!!” As Alliance members started to team up on each of the Baroung, it seemed victory was more likely to be with them. Within a couple of minutes of the fight beginning, the Alliance had showed the upper hand, however, it would be very short lived. Far above, another member of that Baroung group was meeting with several key members of the Baroung forces in the old New York City area, and was informing them that the Alliance base had not only been discovered, but that the Alliance were there and ripe for taking out. She had been sent to see the Baroung officials by the pack leader who was also the one most keen in killing InuKun, regardless of what would happen to him in the long run, for he didn't want the truth of InuKun to be discovered. As she informed the officials, they grinned menacingly before summoning the entire armada from the eastern shores of North America. “Now we can have our revenge on him.” One of the officials mentioned softly whilst looking about the place. Once the armada was ready and accounted for, the order was given for them to have a pair of moles send down the shaft, a single portable television set, which the armada would use to teleport into the target location and do away with the Alliance resistance. The armada was prepared for its role in the battle ahead. What will become of the Alliance? And just what is the truth behind InuKun? Well, I'm sorry to say that you'll have to wait in order to find out for yourself. |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 12:45 PM Post #11 |
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Okay, the object is to tell us three things about yourself that the forum members may not have known. Hmm, what dirt about me is safe to say here? :unsure: 1. When I was living in Guildford, England, there was a large pond at the end of the road from my school. One day we had a Surrey County Police helicopter circling overhead whilst we were playing football (also known as soccer in North America). One of the guys asked what it was there for, and I jokingly mentioned "Oh, it's probably regarding the dead, chopped up woman in a duffle bag in the pond." He grabbed my by the lapels and told me never to joke about things like that. Well, the next day during Math class, one of my classmates was late to class, but as he stormed in, he announced "Hey. They just found a dead, chopped up woman in a duffle bag, out in the pond!" For the record, it was entirely a coincidence. :ph43r: 2. I've run away from home before on three occasions. 3. I once fell on stairs whilst carrying a thick glass bowl, which shattered with my hand landing on a large shard. It cut all the way to the bone by my thumb in the palm of my left hand. B) |
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| Artemis | Jun 3 2008, 01:06 PM Post #12 |
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1. I ran away from home too xD came home though because it was dark, wet and I was kinda hungry >.< god, I suck at running away! 2. Ok, this is the first time I will EVER post this publicaly, but I am bisexual ^^ Only my very close friends know...not even my parents xD 3. I once fell down the stairs at school and right into a teacher...a cute one at that o//////o that was embarassing |
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| Starlight_Embrace | Jun 3 2008, 04:16 PM Post #13 |
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I think running away is a pre-requisit to being a teenager :P lol.anyway onto me ^_^ 1.Im extreamly clumsy..I mean really clumsy..Like not watching where im going or constantly getting hit with things.In my old house,I've ran into almost every wall,fence and tripped over so many diffrent things including falling down 20 concret/metal steps when I was 8.God that hurt..Not to mention i've been hit in the face with a basketball,baseball,football,golf ball,whiffle ball,soccer ball..the only ball I've never been hit with that comes to mind is a bowling ball *Crosses fingers*..so yeah im clumsy. 2.My friends know this but no one in the family does so your not the only one Artemis.Im Bi,Have been sence I was in my early teens.So your not alone on that boat.^_^ 3.Last but not least Im an occasonal Smoker of Mary Jane.but tons of people in my family knew that lol.Personally I don't care who knows about that. |
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| Artemis | Jun 3 2008, 04:21 PM Post #14 |
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Honto!? :-O Uuwwaahh~ Yatta~ |
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| InuKun | Jun 3 2008, 04:36 PM Post #15 |
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1. Growing up, I was constantly looked down upon by peers and told that I was worthless and that I would never have friends. :D 2. When I was 8 years old, I went to a science museum with my parents and sister, and we saw a video exhibit on volcanoes. My mom didn't feel like watching it, so she sat out in the hallway. Well, after my dad, sister and I watched the video, we went back out and saw my mom sitting there. So I rushed over and in a loud and excited voice, called out... "Mom! Mom! Guess what?! That vocano just had a HUGE erection!" Apparently, everyone in the vicinity started to laugh as my dad muttered "You mean, erruption." 3. I support the right of people to live their lives as they choose, and disagree with society trying to belittle people for not following the norm that society makes for itself. Follow the path you wish to take and know that you have those who will support you. |
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| AJ | Jun 4 2008, 02:18 AM Post #16 |
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1.I realy wanna live in England or Scottland im not picky lol :P 2.I want Hilary to win as president :o 3.Im prego OH YES LOL :lol: |
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| dominoprincess | Jun 4 2008, 10:24 AM Post #17 |
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1 ~ I am straight, you may have known this about me before now but, I cant figure out if ive ever covered this subject before! Currently boyfriendless because Im picky due to past experiances but, I do have a few people that I like very much but, telling people for me is difficult! Im just so old fashioned!!! 2 ~ I have freaky dreams a lot XD! Freaky, because they tend to come true. Strange, I know. Thats why Ive never told anyone. 3 ~ Im very superstitious. I beleive in a lot of paranormal things and things that are really crazy to believe in. But, thats just a part of me, I couldnt imagine me without it. Ive never tried to run away from home. Probably, because Im never sure where I would go. And, Ive never really felt like running away, I just strop up to my bedroom and write in my diary! |
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| InuKun | Jun 5 2008, 03:16 PM Post #18 |
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1. Dateless all these years. Though it doesn't really bother me. 2. Currently without power at home (and thus no internet) and Virginia Power says that due to the storm yesterday, it could be upwards of a week before the house gets power again. I'm just logging in from my sister's condo, given she has power. 3. I would like to say thanks to all my friends on here for being the truly wonderful friends that they are. |
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| AJ | Jun 6 2008, 03:17 AM Post #19 |
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1.I am a very deep and can be a dark person when im writein anything i get realy into it. 2.I dont trust easy 3.I wanna go to College over UK |
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| Artemis | Jun 7 2008, 01:53 PM Post #20 |
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1. I wanna move to America when I'm old enough ^^ 2. I was a twin. Yes, it's true! Unfortunately they died during the process of...growing inside the womb (does that make sense?) but I survived ^^ Imagine what it'd be like with two of me O_O 3. BUNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY |
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