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The Story of Epic 2

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Part 2
March 17, 2012

I had gotten my powers a long time ago. About 4 years. Let me tell you the story.

It was a dark evening. I was walking to 7-11 alone, as I did most of the time. The rain, as I remember, was icy and chilled me to the bone. It seemed like an omen of things to come. Not like I acknowledged it at the time. I turned into an alley, which's dim lighting showed me a big man, roughly 6 feet tall in a long trench coat. I tried to keep walking past him, keeping my eyes down and my hood up. I remember him grinning at me, showing yellowed and rotten teeth.
He grabbed me by the shoulder, turning me to face him. "Hey girly." he started to say. "Do you think you could go into that store over there and get me some more free mango chicken? I'll give you a genuine Woody Doll."
I was shocked, of course. I didn't like Toystory, 1 2 or 3. But Mango chicken was delicious, I had to admit. Sadly, I could not come up with a response in time, and my brain, fuzzy from the rain and lack of sugar, thought of a pun. "You know that airline food?" I said nervously. He had a puzzled look on his face. Good. Time for the punch line. "It flies well at first, but then it crashes and burns!"
The man's lip started quivering. His eyes bulged. His face turned bright red. He dropped to his knees, screaming at the air, "WHAT A TERRIBLE PUN" over and over again. He reached under his coat, pulling out an object. It took my brain a second to realize it was a gun. He fired in the air, screaming as he did. As he ran out of ammo on the 8th bullet, he threw the gun at the ground with amazing power. I hardly knew what happened in the next couple moments. I know the gun bounced off the pavement, hitting me square between the eyes. I fell against the cement walls of a nearby building. I closed my eyes.

Then I opened them. I was in a land of white. A tall bearded man stood in front of me. He smiled in a nice way. I frowned. "Am I dead?" I asked the man. He nodded slowly. "As dead as you'll ever be." he replied. I stood for a second. I frowned harder. "But surely you know that I have much to live for. A family, candy..... Candy..." The man looked up in thought. "Actually, yeah.... I suppose I can send you back. But I'll warn you, it might have some side affects. You've been dead for 15 minutes now." I raised an eyebrow and he shrugged. "Time moves slower here. I know, it's stupid." He waved his fingers, and little rainbow sparks came from the ground and swirled around me. "By the way," he said, "I liked your pun. I gotta use that sometime." he chuckled, and I closed my eyes again.

A wave of pain shot through me. I heard sounds, faintly at first. Just muffled "Mmff's." Then slowly voices came into my consciousness. "Hey!" I heard. That voice. I'd heard it before. It was Joey. I didn't know him very well at the time. I went to his bakery, but only because the donuts they sold there were THE BEST. I opened my eyes. The world was a mat of fuzz. I could barely see his face, it was just a pink blob. I squinted, then blinked again before sitting up. The world became clearer. I saw the man unconscious in the corner. Joey was leaning over me, saying something. I wondered what had happened. I looked at Joey again. He had a relieved look on his face. He was smiling a bit. I blinked again. "Why hello." I said. He smiled a little wider. "Hi." he replied. "You alright?" I nodded, and said that I didn't think I needed an ambulance. I touched my head, and another wave of pain shot fourth. I winced. That was going to leave a heck of a welt. Joey helped me to my feet, and I smiled awkwardly before thanking him again and running to 7-11, because you might as well not waste the trip.

I thought, when that dude had said,"Side Affects," it might mean now I'm stupid or can't eat eggs or kiwis or something. But this turned out to be one awesome-ghostly-tastic super power. I don't quite know how these things work, but I guess being dead can do that. I guess.


On the other hand, you have the people who are born with their powers. Like my brother, for instance. Mitchel, as I previously mentioned, can turn invisible. It took him until he was around 8 to discover his abilities. He figured it out when he was playing hide and seek with his friends. Go figure.

Actually, most of the time, those two groups don't get along very well. The born ones claim that the artificial ones aren't true, whereas the artificial ones say they EARNED their powers. Personally, I don't care that much. At the BOPP, there's plenty of a mix of the lot. Though sometimes you have small disputes over near the vending machine, it's a pretty quiet subject. Actually, Andrea, the boss of the BOPP, (Haha, boss) is a born super. To me, that means she's had longer to develop her powers. I'm still working on mine.

Still.
See Ryan? I didn't really change the pre-story. :)

I do like mango chicken.
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