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Post by LS [ohai I'm back] on Mar 11, 2009 15:33:41 GMT -5
CHAPTERS
x.--Prologue--.x
The Game Begins
HF stepped into his lair, a dark, deeply-running cave, stretching for miles below the earth. He smiled slightly. Only he knew the extent of the passages. Secrecy was a lifetime bond for HF, as nobody could find his secret without getting lost in the caves, even if they found his lair.
He turned left, right, left, middle fork, and as he was doing so he was subconsciously thinking. Oh, what a plan this makes, oh what a beautiful...game for the Wishers to play this time...
He finally reached his destination, a balcony above a few cells, naturally formed from the rock. HF smirked. His one prisoner would not be sleeping tonight. He turned to the cast-iron spiral steps to his right, and slowly padded down them, each step creaking as he did so.
He arrived in front of the only occupied cell. Inside was a familiar face. She had jet-black hair with a few damp blue streaks,and dark brown eyes. HF hissed to her from the safety of a few feet away from the bars, "Enjoying your stay, dearie?"
Blizz lunged forward, crying as she did so, "You MONSTER!" HF stepped a few paces back and laughed his cold, evil laugh. "Your precious Wishers will never find you now, Blizz. Dearie, you are my pet, for my convenience. I hope you enjoy being a lapdog, dearie." HF ignored Blizz and stepped away as she launched a volley of curses and threats at his back.
A few minutes later, the behemoth was in his computer lab. It held monitors that showed many different angles of everywhere in Wish. Last game, he had put the cameras in place after running from what would soon be known as The Original Rebels, aka the persons he had summoned to...Gloometh's shop, he thought it was. No matter, HF thought casually. Wish will be in chaos once again in the morning.
A few agents of his were typing away at a few computer screens. One screen said, "ARE YOU SURE YOU WISH TO SHUT DOWN 'warriorswish.net/forum2'?" Another one said, "Booting all population out of 'warriorswish.net/forum2'." The final, and most horrible of all, said, "'HF' is now the admin of 'warriorswish.net/forum2'."
HF smiled evilly and cackled, "Good job, dearies. We have shut down Wish, booted everyone out, and established me as the administrator, or ruler, of Wish. All my dreams are coming true." And HF laughed and laughed and laughed.
Chapter One
Kicked Out
Pinefur looks around her new surroundings, puzzled. She wasn't in her apartment in Wish. In fact, she wasn't in the great city at all. All she could see was a ton of fog everywhere. The only clear thing to see all around was a giant, black screen about 50 feet in the air and really, really big.
For Pine, this did not bode well. She had a...thing for screens. A few months ago, Sunneth and her mods had taken over Wish, but been stopped by LS and her army of rebels. Except that the evil Sunneth was also a robo-Sunneth, with a screen in her chest among the nest of wires and cables. From this screen, HF had broadcast his evil explanation and told them all the killing and warring was a game.
But now Pine could see nobody in sight. She tried calling out a few times. "Hello? Anybody there?" Soon, she got a response. "Pine? Is that you?" A figure stepped towards her, and Pine recognized it as LS. "Hai Lessy." she said, grinning. LS grinned back. "Hai Pineh. Doing well after being booted out of our homes?" Pine smiled. "Not well at all, my dear friend. Let's see if we can find ourselves a couple more people in this gloom."
Soon, they had gotten Splashy, Gloometh, Squirrelflight (two more from the original Band of the rebellion) and Leafeh. After they all called into the fog for a few more minutes, Leafeh looked at everyone. "I don't think we're going to find anyone else." she declared matter-of-factly.
LS looked at the giant screen, then her watch. "Say, didn't HF just love odd times?" she asked quietly. Most nodded. Pineh said, "Why are you asking that?" HF was a sucker for weird stuff, everybody knew.
LS stared at Pine for a few seconds, then replied in a straight tone, "Because my watch, which is wired to the central Ww Network, says that the time is 13:13 on February 31, 2021." Everyone gasped. Pine was shocked. How had HF gotten into the central network? Everything was mysterious these days.
Suddenly, the screen flickered to life. Everybody looked up as the giant face of HF entered the screen. He grinned. "Hello, dearies. Like what I've done to your city?
Chapter Two
The Warning--and the Beginning
Squirrelflight glared at the giant screen. In Game 5, so long ago, she had impersonated HF, and done very well at it too. She knew him inside and out. But even this she hadn't predicted from the criminal mastermind.
HF only chuckled his famous, cold laugh. "What, so upset that your city is gone? That Blizz has been...retired?" He laughed again. "You'll never find her, dearies. However, you will have to solve a puzzle."
A few people groaned. Squirrelflight facepalmed. Pine started stepping towards the poles that held up the giant screen. In a few minutes, she had climbed to the narrow ledge right in front of HF's giant face. She smiled. "HF, you have a pimple." Everyone tried to keep a straight face. HF was also a sucker for his appearance.
HF, startled, said anxiously, "Where? WHERE?!" The last "Where" he screeched, causing Pine to step backward half a step at the force of the speakers, wherever they were.
Squirrelflight grinned. She knew what to say next. "We'll only tell you where the pimple is if you tell us the first clue to this game!" she shouted. Other cheers of, "YEA!" and "Nice one, Squirrel!" were heard. LS stepped up to her and gave her a high-five, and grinned.
HF shouted, "Anything, anything!" Squirrelflight could see Gloometh's smirk. Gloometh was an expert of sabotage, and what Pine and Squirrelflight had did gave them an extra month before she tried poisoning and killing them again.
HF sighed. "Fine. The first clue is,
I was of Wish,
I used to mod,
I had to quit,
And so I'm gone.
Find my site, and you will see
Who I am, and your reward shall be,
The second clue for you."
HF grimaced. "Now, tell me where the friggin' pimple is!"
LS glared at the screen. "Hey, that's my catch phrase! For that, you don't get to know! Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go figure out a clue." Everybody, in a group, stomped away, except for Pineh, who stuck our her tounge and spat at HF, and then climbed down the pole and ran off after the rest of the group.
HF shouted into the fog, "You'll rue the day, Wishians! You'll rue the day!"
Chapter Three
The First Clue
Leafeh squinted as the group of Wishers stepped into a dark building. It happened to be Gloometh's lab, conveniently located outside of Wish, so it wasn't affected by whatever HF had done to the once-great city. Standing on one of the tall towers of the lab, Leafeh looked around, but could only see fog. No Wish. No more Wishers. Just a bunch of small figures walking towards the lab. Wait, what?!
Leafeh focused her binoculars that Gloometh had lent her for the day on the arriving figures. She swore that two looked like Sunneth and Hail, the two kind mods of Wish, but she couldn't she who the other were. And why was one half their height, and seemed to be going on all four legs...?
She jumped down the stairs three at a time and ran into the living room, where everyone was having some food (not poisoned, Gloometh assured, but nobody really wanted to eat anything all the same). Panting, she leaned against the wall behind her, and through short breaths, she explained, "Figures. Coming. This way. Two. Look like. Sunneth and. Hail. Can't recognize. Others. One looks like. A person on. Four legs." She then lay down on one of the unoccupied couches in the room.
While Leafeh caught her breath, LS animately explained. "They could help us, and maybe find the second clue! Also, maybe they know a way into Wish. I mean, we called and called. What if the mods were still inside our city? Maybe we can find a way back in without having to solve all these clues!"
Squirrelflight interjected. "What if they're robots from His Majesty?" she mocked. "We won't be able to trust them without slicing them in half!"
Pineh said quietly, "What about this figure coming on four legs? I doubt that it's a human."
LS sighed. "Okay. Who votes that we go out to meet Sunneth and Hail and the rest?" LS raised her hand, along with Splashy and Gloometh.
"Who votes that we stay here?" Pine and Squirrelflight raised their hands.
"Well, Leaf hasn't voted yet." Pine said sullenly. LS sighed again. "I suppose you're right. Leafeh, do you want to meet the mods or stay here?"
Leaf looked from Pine and Squirrelflight, to LS, Splashy and Gloometh. Finally, she decided. "We're going to meet them."
Chapter Four
Meeting the Strangers
Of course, Squirrelflight and Pine stayed behind, and LS let them. After all, they had voted against going, and she respected their wishes. Nonetheless, Splashy was now beginning to wish that everybody had come, as the fog was worsening away from Gloometh's lab.
Up ahead, LS and Gloometh walked, swaying their flashlights from right to left. Ahead of them, Leafeh led the way, making sure they stayed on the path. Occasionally Splashy could dimly see her arm rising, then falling again quickly as she looked through the binoculars.
Everybody was calling. "Sunneth? Hail? Anybody there?" The shouts echoed around the fog, and LS had hypothesized that through the fog echoes, maybe it would reach the two mods.
Splashy squinted at Leafeh again as she lifted the binoculars up, and saw her jump up and down excitedly, then run towards LS and Gloometh. At the same time, Splashy ran ahead to the three. No use getting left out.
Leafeh said in a rush, "I saw them! I saw people in the distance! Come on!" Somehow finding energy, the band of four ran straight ahead.
In about ten minutes, they stopped running, and used the rest of their breath to call out. Fortunately, their efforts were not in vain. After another five minutes, a head poked through the thick gloom. It was Hail, who was smiling from ear to ear. "Hi!" she waved. "We knew that the only safe place all around was the lab, so we were just heading there. Mind if you join us?"
Splashy jumped up. "We were just from there! Leafeh saw you and Sunneth and a couple of other people through some binoculars!" Hail laughed. "Well, me and Sunneth weren't booted out of the city, along with a few other people, so we gathered everyone up, and we climbed over the Gates. HEY GUYS, COME OVER HERE!" she shouted.
Soon, a few other people joined Hail, them being Sunneth, Flameh (the four-legged thing was her dog), Stoneclaw, Aspire and Ripplepelt. LS gasped when seeing Ripple, then quickly ran over to her. They just looked into each other's eyes for a few minutes, exchanging unspoken words.
Three hours later, everyone was back at the lab, all having hot cocoa (no, it wasn't poisoned) and Cheez-Its. Splashy looked around at everyone. Ripple, LS, Pine and Squirrelflight were talking and laughing, just like they did before. Aspire and Gloometh were debating over better ways to kill someone ("POISONS!" "EXPLOSIONS!"). Leafeh, Flameh and Flameh's dog (which was named Midnight) were relaxing on the couch.
LS rapped her glass on the table a few times, and then started speaking. "I think it's about high time that we start trying to figure out the first clue." At the ex-strangers, she said, "We tricked HF into giving it to us by telling him he had a pimple." Giggles and guffaws all around.
LS repeated the clue to everyone, then looked inquisitively at Sunneth, who had a look of dawning recognition on her face. Sunneth said, "I know what he was talking about."
Chapter Five
Solved--Or Is It?
Sunneth exclaimed, "It's Gorse! Gorse used to be a mod of Wish, but she quit. So now she's gone."
Flameh looked from Sunneth to LS, who had a puzzled expression on her site. "Then we're supposed to go to her...?"
Squirrelflight interrupted, "SITE! We're supposed to go to her Warriors Encyclopedia! It's her site!"
LS, along with everyone that hadn't gotten it until just now, facepalmed themselves. "The we're supposed to go to the Encyclopedia. Come on, everybody!"
Everybody ran out of the building, except for Flameh, who first refilled Midnight's bowl. "Stay her, Midnight, and be a good girl. Don't wreck anything. Don't drink any potions. Try not to drink out of the toilet bowl either." The dog growled lightly, which was her way of laughing.
Flameh smiled. "Good girl." She then ran after everybody else.
Chapter Six
The Crossing
As the motley party headed towards the small little abode that housed Gorse and her Encyclopedia, just across the River Writing that separated one side of Wish from the rest of the great land called the Internet by some, LS looked back at the great cloud of fog that had formerly been the great city of Warrior's Wish.
Will we ever go back to our city? she wondered silently. Her train of thought, however, was broken off by a yelp from Gloometh. LS looked ahead as Gloometh wailed, "Where's the boat? We won't be able to cross the river without the boat!"
The Boat had been towed at one side of the River Writing since it was discovered, with a sharp, pointed end at the very front, a thin body, and a rounded end. But now it wasn't there, and the great River flows incessantly, burbling occasionally, as if to say, You'll never get there now!
LS ran ahead, and said calmly, "We'll find another way across. I think I have an idea." She took a bow and an arrow ("Hey!" said Hail), tied some spare rope to the end of the arrow, and shot the arrow and rope across. The fateful arrow got caught behind a rock, fortunately. Cheers and whoops went up, except from Pine, LS noticed quietly. Pine seemed agitated.
She stepped up to LS anxiously. "Um, Lessy?" she asked. "I'm kinda epic fail at balancing. So if I don't make it across, you'll rescue me, right?" LS smiled. "Duh, Pineapalooza." she said. Pine smiled back. "Great, Lessy."
Gloometh went across first. Naturally being a good gymnast, she easily walked across the sturdy rope, then jumped the last few feet.
One by one, everybody else walked across. Pine was last. She held her arms out, then carefully took a small step forward. Taking itty-bitty steps each time, she inched her way across. She was a few feet away from the rock when she jumped. And landed right in front of the rock. On top of the rope.
The rope snapped from the force of the jump, and Pine was plunged into the river.
Chapter Seven
Rescue
Pine struggled against the current, but it was no use. She was swept down the stream, crying, "Help! Help! Help me, Lessy!" LS just stood in shock for a few moments, her jaw open wide, then ran after her, along with a few others who were going to also try and help the drowning Pine.
Suddenly, a figure in black whooshed up, right next to where Pine had scrabbled onto a receding rock. The figure said simply, "Jump." Pine, feeling secureness in the stranger, did as she was told, and was soon standing on the bank, shivering but not altogether sad.
LS looked carefully at the stranger who had recused her friend. He had taken off his black cloak and hat. He appeared to have messy brown hair and amber eyes. LS now noticed he looked a lot like...HF?!
LS quickly took her sword out of its sheath. "HF," she growled menacingly, the point of her sword at the newcomer's neck.
The stranger only laughed. "Don't worry, I'm not your enemy."
LS dug in the point of her sword a little deeper, causing a faint trickle of blood to slide down the throat of "HF". "Then who are you?" she questioned.
The stranger looked slightly puzzled. "Well, I suppose you could call me...R. Patience." Patience smiled at the gasps and shock from the little group. "Now, as it's somewhat of a given I come with you to help defeat HF, howsabout we head towards the Encyclopedia?"
Chapter Eight
An Old Acquaintance
Finally, after a few more days, the merry band (with R. Patience, yes) reached Gorse’s Encyclopedia. It was a small cottage, next to a stream that they had followed after crossing the River Writing and the harrowing escape from death Pine had had, and was surrounded by tall, green leafy trees in full color.
As R. Patience reached up to knock on the inordinately carved door knocker on Gorse’s green and yellow door, it suddenly swung inward, and into the door frame walked Gorse herself, standing a few inches shorter than R. Patience and having bright green eyes and long, brown hair, with a few golden streaks. She scowled at R. Patience. “You again?” she grumbled. “HF, I’ve had enough of your stupid games. Leave me alone.” She tried to shut the door once again, but R. Patience held it wide open.
“I’m not HF.” R. Patience said carefully. “I’m R. Patience.”
Gorse startled. “Th-the R. P-p-patience?” she stammered. When R. Patience only smiled back at her incredulous stare, she started to mutter incomprehensible gibberish and had a dazed look in her emerald eyes.
LS glanced at Gorse, then looked back at R. Patience, who was now grinning profusely. After a few silent minutes, she said, “Is…is Gorse…okay?”
R. Patience replied, “I know a little bit of medical things myself. I think she’s just in a state of shock.” His grin grew a bit wider. “Probably because of my appearing at the door.” he added.
Gorse suddenly stopped talking her gibberish and looked back up at R. Patience. “Well, I suppose you want that scoundrel HF’s second clue, don’t you?” She sighed. “You’d all best come in for tea and crackers,” Gorse reluctantly said. “You’re probably going to need it.
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After many cups of tea and many plates of Ritz® crackers, Gorse cleared her throat suddenly. The entire room went totally silent, as if HF himself had stepped into the room to give the Rescuers (as the band was called now; the name was given to them by R. Patience) the second clue to his barbaric, demonic game.
Gorse said, “Well, a few weeks ago, Hairy Feet—“Giggles and guffaws filled the room. “Hairy Feet,” Gorse continued after it was silent in the room once more, “opened the door, shoved a little slip of paper into my hands, dashed out the door and ran off before I could even pick up my sword or send a barb back at him.” Gorse held up a small piece of paper with some hardly legible writing on it."The clue reads as follows:
“Dearies, if you’ve truly made it this far, you must actually have at least a small portion of a brain to share between yourselves. Here is your second clue.
Follow my lead,
And I’ll take you to see
The great movie stars
Of YourTunnel
Pass the great city of Books
Forward by the Great Dump
And through the Sea of Media
Then find my show
And it’ll be
The third clue for you, dearies.”
Gorse looked around at the Rescuers, who were all thinking deeply. “Any ideas, anyone?” she asked.
Pine stood up, and looked steadily at Gorse. “I know where we need to go.” She said solemnly.
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Hopefully soon more people will join and allow me to put more people IN. 
I like writing about people. xD
Hopefully soon more people will join and allow me to put more people IN. 
I like writing about people. xD
Thanks Springums!
