Welcome to my story website
The first story is THE WORLD IS UP FOR GRABS
To James, Tom, and Nico, my best mates in school. Thank you for your inspirations guys.
Contents
Prologue
When the lights go off at the start of twilight, the world darkens. In everyone’s mind, the world fades away to place where dreams come true, but for some their lives fade away to a place where they can take their minds for a walk. Minds can be complicated. Minds are endless thoughts coming in and out like a train arriving at a station. All those people getting off the train are thoughts that don’t need to be in the mind anymore. Though the people getting on the train, they’re the new thoughts coming in. But not in everyone’s minds are like trains. Some minds are like going out for fishing. The thoughts are the fish, the mind is the fisherman. There are plenty of thoughts somewhere but the mind picks out the thoughts randomly and normally the mind’s proud of the ‘thought’ it got sometimes regardless of what thought the mind got. Ko’s mind is like the fisherman. And he thinks every thought is a really good thought.
Chapter 1 It Starts Somewhere
“When life gives you lemons, you ask where the fish and chips are.” stated a poster stuck to Ko’s front door. There was a new seafood shop opening down the road. Normally everyone would be excited and demand that they get discounts on prawns from the manager for no particular reason but this seafood shop was not the case. The seafood shop was replacing the well known Mr Pizza restaurant. Now this restaurant caused a protest by the entire street for discounts on pizza and the manager decided to hold a ‘make your own pizza day’ which ended up in a massive food fight. Day after day the street protested, for a higher discounts. The manager then finally let in and gave every street two large ham and cheese pizzas. This wasn’t enough. After about a few months of more protesting they saw the big words ‘MOVING’ on the front door. This caused an outbreak and now the street is craving for pizza. Seafood isn’t going to bring pizza back. And it won’t bring back the protests for a long time.
Ko was at home, lying on the couch thinking of something to do. He was bored out of his mind as he his parents were out buying new furniture for the house. He decided to call his friends Fom Tarugia and Sames Jaliba, both whom he had met in Kindergarten by accident. Sames was playing with action figures with Fom but Sames kept using healing powers to heal his character. Fom (who always like winning) decided that his character had extreme fighting powers. And the game went on with Sames having infinite health and Fom having attack skills that no-one could beat. Anyway, Ko happened to be walking by when suddenly Fom’s action figure broke into a million pieces which went flying everywhere. There was silence in the room and for a moment it looked like the world had just stopped. Until the reality bomb dropped in; Fom starting crying so loud that the windows shook, teachers were coming from all directions to help in this situation, but Ko and Sames just stood there, mouths wide open and looking like they just had the same idea. Ko looked at Sames, then at Fom and said, “Wanna be friends?” From that day Sames, Fom and Ko hung out with each other and never touched another action figure again.
So, Ko got his phone out and dialled Sames. He picked up almost instantly and Ko was actually shocked.
“Hey,” said Sames over the phone.
“Hey,” responded Ko. Then there was a bit of an awkward silence as Ko remembered why he had called. “Oh, are you busy right now?”
“No,” replied Sames.
“Then want to come over?” Asked Ko with a bit of hope that he would say ‘sure’.
“Okaay, as long as we don’t watch The Basement Doll Returns for the second time, it gave me nightmares for 2 weeks!” Answered Sames.
“We won’t, I promise you” Ko said with a reassuring tone that must’ve been convincing, because Sames hung up and arrived in the next 10 minutes, but with Fom.
“I brought Fom along so we definitely can watch horror films” said Sames.
“That’s good” replied Ko who was busy trying to figure out now what to do. Ko looked at the television, at Sames, at Fom and then back at the television
“NO, were are NOT watching horror films!” Screamed Sames with such a loud voice that surely his neighbour would’ve heard. “You cannot make me, Fom help me stop Ko from getting us to watch horror films. Fom made no effort to help;
“Ko, let us not watch horror films. Sounds like a plan?” Fom responded not even looking at Ko.
“Uhh, was that supposed to help?!” Cried Sames. He sounded desperate. Then all of sudden the house shook. Ko looked outside the window to see if it was another one of those random, outrageous protests but all he saw was the sky darken. The house shook again then a soft murmur in the distance
“Come and get it…” it said.
“NO, NO, NO this cannot be happening!” cried Sames louder than ever. “How could a horror film come to life!”
“Can you just be quiet!” Screamed Ko over Sames wailing.
“Hey, anyone else see that black figure out there?” Fom said with such calmness.
“What!” Cried Sames “A black figure! Ko, I’m sorry but if I live past this moment I will NEVER come back to your house! NEVER.” Sames was crying in mixed emotions, sad, angry, scared and overwhelmed.
“Fine with me!” responded Ko but he wasn’t focusing on what Sames had said. He had seen the black figure Fom had seen. It was moving closer and closer to his house. It started to rain and thunder shook the house again. The sky was dark, it was cold inside and the black figure was picking up its pace moving towards the house.
“Sames, we may not live past this moment..”
Chapter 2 A New World
“WHAT!” Screamed Sames. Sames face was red and he looked like he had eaten a chilli. The black figure, now everyone had seen it, was ever so close to Ko’s house. Suddenly, the house shook once more and the loudest crack made Ko, Fom and Sames fall to the floor. Then a bang and ever so slightly Ko could see light. He got up to his feet and screamed in horror. The black figure was in front of him. There was no face, no sign of any human life in it. It breathed cold and suffocatable air out of a hole in the hoodie it was wearing. There was also smoke coming out from his feet. There was a weird scent emitting from this creature and he could hear little feet crawling inside the body. The black figure took out a stick and whacked Ko, which made him fall again to the floor.
“AGHHH!!” Screamed Sames who had realised that this mysterious creature was now standing right in front of him as well. Fom got up and tried to punch the figure but his hand went right through. Surprised by his hand going right through the body, Fom was too late to react to the stick that whacked him. He fell unconscious. Sames was horrified. Then smoke filled the room and with a very loud crack and a bang, the black figure had disappeared. Ko was the first on his feet. He helped Sames up, who was utterly mortified by this happening. Ko and Sames then looked at Fom who was bleeding from his head, eyes closed and mouth wide open.
“We need a doctor!” cried Sames. Ko looked outside but still it was dark and stormy. The house shook with another bang of thunder.
“WE NEED A DOCTOR!” cried Sames. Suddenly a white light appeared in the middle of the living room. Ko and Sames looked inside the white light and saw a reflection, of themselves. Ko looking like he had lost a fight with a tiger, Sames looking like he had seen a ghost, and Fom lying on the floor bleeding, unconscious. Ko reached into the light and suddenly he was sucked in. Sames looked in and saw that the Ko standing in the reflection was mouthing ‘Bring Fom with you’. Sames was confused but obeyed the reflection. Pulling Fom by the legs, he reached inside the bright light like Ko did and he got sucked in with Fom. Now the three of them (Two alive, One Kind of alive) were staring back into the empty living room in which they had their most frightening experience in their lives. But little did they know, things would get so much more scarier.
“Where are we?” Asked Sames.
“How the hell am I supposed to know?” responded Ko “First a massive thunderstorms hits our town. Then some out of this world creature comes into MY living room, and we all nearly get killed and then now I’m staring back into the room where all this chaos erupted with a half dead friend.” Ko said now breathless.
“You win.” Said Sames.
“Euh?” says a voice beneath them. Sames jumps back in fear but realises it was Fom.
“Fom, you’re alive!!” cried Sames with joy
“Euh!?” muffled Fom
“Not for long…” hollowed a deep voice behind them.
“AHHH!” Screamed Sames “Another one of those creatures!!!!” He was kind of right, there was something behind them but it wasn’t a scary creature, it was a human and this human was no ordinary.