The Portal Written By Actual Students
A story of suspicious classmates
TABLE OF CONTENTS Session 01
FIELD TRIP
Session 02
HEY THERE CAMPERS!
Session 03
AMNESTY
Session 04
SYLVAIN
Session 05
THE BLAZE FORCE
Session 06
THE BOOK WYRM
Session 07
PLANS AND COMPLICATIONS
Session 08
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE LIBRARY
TABLE OF CONTENTS Session 09
A TEMPORARY PEACE
Session 10
KICKING THE HORNET'S NEST
Session 11
THE CHASE
Session 12
A SECRET NO MORE
Session 13
THE BATTLE BEGINS
Session 14
THROUGH THE PORTAL
Session 15
SEEKING THE TRUTH
Epilogue
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thank you, To all of my wonderful students, whose incredible imagination and beautiful enthusiasm enabled the success of this class. And to Linkedkey, for taking a chance on such a bold and bizarre program
- Matthew thompson
Authors Anthony Dai Caleb Mou Cindy Shui Colena Shan Eason Wan Lucas Yu Xiang Fan Eric Zhang Katie Chai
SESSION ONE
Field Trip
We ride on the bus with Art Goodfriend, a supply teacher which is a very good friend. We arrive at camp but we hear a weird sound in the woods. Oh no, a monster !!!x3408673094 We got to camp but the monster was approaching. The monster had arms. It also grew more arms. The monster is practically invincible but is weak to fire.
Colena Shan
Date: February 1, 2022 Location: 324 Meadow Lane, Canada Hello…there. My name is Colena (which you would know if you read the name at the top right corner of the page). I’m just this random girl who was born in 2005 (so I’m 16, as my birthday’s in June), who quit school at age 14, because most of the kids at my school were dramatic, stupid, careless, or all three. (And also because I didn’t have that much money, as my parents died the year before.) The rest of my life I spent as a monster hunter, travelling to different places when I was called, with my trusty bow and (very occasionally) some of my friends. Also, when I say “monster”, I don’t mean abnormal beast with claws and/or tentacles. It could turn out to be a “fake”, a human (because if mortals can dream up monsters, why can’t they be one themselves?), or just a bunch of odd hallucinations (and the occasional bigfoot or kraken sighting). After I successfully solve the mystery, I often don’t have time to celebrate and relax; instead, I book a flight to the next city with a monster problem. As I said before, I go to many places. I travel so much that I don’t think I have a citizenship in any country anymore—I’m just a permanent resident of Canada… This year, I was planning to take a break and stay at my place in Canada, and watch the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing, China (because like most people, I want a goddamn break for once after not slacking from work for a single day for over two years and COVID forced me to travel by foot, bike, car, or the risky public transport for a while, mind you), when I got a call from this woman who identified herself as “Louisa Flores”. She said that she lived in Kepler, Virginia (sorry, West Virginia), which was located inside the National Radio Quiet Zone, which limited the usage of radio, cellular, and wi-fi service. “Then how are you calling me?” I asked her.
She went on to explain how she had walked a couple miles just to find a town outside of the Quiet Zone, where calling long-distance was possible. Then she said that I should come to Kepler, then asked me to promise that I would keep what she’d continue to tell me secret… … “Fine,” I said impatiently, “get on with it.” She explained that she was the owner of Amnesty Lodge, a great place to chill for exiled magic creatures called sylvans, and the exiled creatures came from a different world (she was very vague on that part) and yeah, basically, I should go there and hunt down another monster from that “different world”, [insert stuff that confuses me]. Then she told me to get there by February 22. A mere three weeks away. “Okay,” I replied. I’ll admit, I was curious to see this “Amnesty Lodge” place and some sylvans. I’d never actually seen real monsters before. Usually it’s just humans making ridiculous costumes and machines.
Date: February 21, 2022 Location: Amnesty Lodge, Kepler, West Virginia Louisa turned out to be an old lady who ran a decent lodge for sylvans, exiled magic creatures. She explained each sylvan had…uh, some other form during the full moon. If my memory didn’t suck, the next full moon was in March, on March 18, a bit over three weeks away. “Hello,” she greeted me as I finally found this Amnesty Lodge place after asking a couple passerby. “Are you Colena?” I nodded. “Nice lodge,” I mumbled. “But why did you call me here? You said something about a monster?” Louisa put a finger to her lips. “Shh! Come inside. Have some soup.”
I don’t know why the heck she was being so confidential, but I just went inside and let her lead me to a large room where a few human-looking creatures were sitting around a table, chatting and laughing. They didn’t look a bit like an abnormal creature. I guess I would have to wait for the full moon. A guy dressed like a lumberjack approached Louisa and I. Louisa asked him to get some soup for me, and he nodded and disappeared behind a door which I guessed led to the kitchen. “Who’s that guy?” I asked. “Cal,” Louisa replied. “He’s our cook. Um…his only specialty is soup, and he makes a passable smoothie, but if you ask him to make anything else that’s edible for humans, especially ramen, he’s clueless.” “Tell me why you called me here. I guess all these, uh, inhuman people?—know about it?” Louisa hesitated. “Maybe tomorrow. Why don’t you get to bed? I’ll have Aubry show you your room.” “I want some sort of explanation,” I said. “Besides, I’m not sleepy.” “Well…remember Cal? The cook?” (Seriously, how could I forget him? I saw him a few minutes ago.) “When he was younger, many years ago, he was spotted in his monster form by some hikers a long way from here, but, uh, it’s kind of a sensitive subject for him. The hikers posted it online, along with a caption that said, ‘Is this bigfoot?’ Many sylvans don’t like to talk about their forms either…so let’s discuss it later, when they’re asleep.”
Date: February 22, 2022 “So, I called you here to hunt down a monster that I believe is in the nearby forest.” Louisa and I were sitting on couches in her room, and Louisa was explaining my “job” here to me. “What does this monster do?” I asked. She shrugged.
“Causes destruction, makes flowers wither, stuff…I don’t know,” Louisa replied. “We just have to hunt it down. And kill it.” “How do we kill it?” I asked. “I don’t know,” she admitted. “We’ll have to figure it out.” “How do we find the monster?” I asked. “I…I don’t know that either,” Louisa muttered. “So…are you up for the job?” “What job?” I asked. Louisa searched around her very messy desk, finally drawing up a sheet of paper with tiny words. “Here’s the contract. You want to know more? Sign it.” In short, the contract said that if I signed it, I’d work for Amnesty Lodge for a few months and keep the secret of the sylvans. I signed it—and it doing so, I made the worst or best decision of my life. It’s up to you to decide which you think it is. But anyways, signing it meant the beginning of my most interesting adventure yet.
What happened in the story? -Went on a field trip to Camp Wanna-Go-Home with a substitute teacher(Art Goodfriend) -A monster came and kidnapped Art Goodfriend -Random screams coming from the forest -Started raining What I/my character did / thinks in the story -Thinks Art Goodfriend is suspicious -Says nothing when teacher asks class how they were doing -Tells Art Goodfriend that his buddy is his pet potato -Tells Art Goodfriend to not look over his shoulder when a dark figure appears behind him
Eric Zhang I walked out the ranger tower into my favorite place, the forest I walked down the road. It was silent like always. I was listening to a song but then I heard a scream. I just walked faster than usual so I wouldn’t have to deal with it. I convinced myself that an animal screamed. But I knew that it was a person. I got to a building so I went in and finished my patrol but then a lady came and started banging on the window. I just turned around and blasted the music in my ears. After that I continued and I saw a camping group then suddenly a clawed beast took their teacher. I am a park ranger scientist so I am smart and have a big brain. My character is not afraid and thinks in battle I am afraid of walking with my eyes closed. I like win. I like booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom guns
Writing class #1 Katie Chai
In class we were talking about how the class was going to work and what we were doing after explaining Matt told a story to us about a monster that was in the woods and the students were going on a field trip to camp with their substitute teacher “Art goodfriend”. And also before the story began we just had some fun answering questions and also talked about what our character will be good at and stuff that will - your points well we continue in the class.
What we did today is that all of us went inside a bus to go somewhere and we had a supply teacher that is called Art Goodfriend.So all of us went onto the bus so that we can go to a camp that we are supposed to go to.Once we got to our camp we went to go and explore inside the woods that our camp was near and everyone agreed to go.Once we got ready all of us went inside the woods to check and see what is in there.So then we walked for a bit until we met a monster in the woods.Then the monster started attacking us and that was the end.
My Character Caleb Mou
-My character is smart but gets scared easily. -He studies robotics and biology -According to a IQ test he took his IQ is 10000000000000000 -He lived New york and made this robot and went to virginia to test his creation -He has a robot made of 2%Moissanite 3%Diamond 20%Titanium 12%Copper 12%Zinc 10%Steel/Silver 2%Gold/Aluminum 5%Mirror 20%Fireworks/Gunpowder/InjectionNeedles/Lego/ Explosives 10%Electricity/Energy 5%Other Materials -The robot has a satellite in space that creates a map of its surroundings -The map has a radius of 10000m-100000000m -The robot has x-ray, infrared and ultraviolet -The robot also is water resistant so rain can’t harm the robot -It also con make a loud sound to hurt the thing’s ears
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-M aker/ https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Oscillato rs/ (For this one make sure to turn your volume way down) -He could also use this I guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXc Q What Happened Last Night They created a small wall and my character Derp climbed a tree, he used some rope and some twigs to make a network of tree houses and put his tent there. Everybody was fine other than _________(Not Derp) who climbed a tree and fell down and got hurt but luckily climbed on the tree again. They survived night 1.
Xiang Fan
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It was a normal day in the town of Kepler, West Virginia. It was the average town you would find as a dot on the right map, of no real importance except for one thing: the great Kepler radio telescope, built by the U. S. government to detect radio waves in outer space. This was also a disadvantage to this instrument; since the telescope used radio waves, there was a “radio dead zone” within a few hundred miles’ radius from the telescope, meaning that all phone, radios, televisions, computers, tablets, the Internet, et cetera are strictly forbidden within this area, with certain strict exceptions. Basically, it was the only town in the U. S. whose communication system was the same as it was a hundred years ago. Sheriff Jefferson, of the police force, was starting his morning patrol. ___(description of Jefferson here)___. He was just putting his car into drive when he heard horrifying, bloodcurdling, scream! The old officer was stunned, petrified by this, and came out onto the road to potentially locate the source, but he thought that it was just some animals, such as foxes; he had heard that they could do that.. Also, it didn’t even sound wholly human. But, he thought, the right thing to do was to tell the other officers, but what can he do? He didn’t know where it came from, and there could be a million places where the scream came from. He should just leave it for the end of the day. Meanwhile, Annabelle Abrams, a park ranger in the national park not far away from Kepler, was starting her work for the day. ___(description)___. She was very used to the wilderness, having been working here after graduating from college, 5 years ago. It was very sunny that day, with few clouds. What remained of the snow was slowly melting away. She was walking peacefully, breathing in the fresh air, when she too, heard the petrifying scream. Her heart practically skipped a beat, And knowing the park like the back of her hand, and being a professional, she knew that no wild animal around her location was able to make such a noise. and her immediate reaction was to use her two-way radio to communicate with the other rangers (two-way radios are allowed, though strictly controlled to only pick up and transmit very, very precise frequencies), but they seemed as horrified as her. They met together, in cold sweat, at the entrance of the park. They were used to high-pressure situations, and agreed that erratically searching would be fruitless. They, instead, marked the places where they had heard the scream on a map, triangulating the source. But even searching the location thoroughly for almost a whole hour didn’t yield any results, and it was decided that they should report this to higher authorities at the end of the day.. It is worth noting, though, that the people that heard the scream the loudest (Annabeth included) was somewhere near some of the larger campsites, around the place schools on a camping trip would normally stay… Louisa Hernandez, the owner of a local ski resort, the Amnesty Lodge, was waking up with a cup of coffee. She had lived in Kepler for fifteen years, and was quite popular and well known person in the town. Strangers called her Mrs. Hernandez, friends (half the town belonged to that category) called her Louisa, and the guests at the Lodge called her Mama. She was admiring the view of the sunset when, she too, heard the scream. But she simply sighed and proceeded to dress up and pack up to go into the woods. It was the time to exercise her actual occupation; another side to her that she had never revealed to anyone before… *****
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Later in the day, at the local middle school, Kepler Middle, Xiang Fan, ____(description)____was just getting ready for the annual camping trip. It was February the 23rd, and the cool breeze was blowing into his hair and face. Nearby, the loud chatter of students can be heard. He should be very excited and relaxed for this; after all, it wasn’t every day you’d get to go camping with your whole class, most of which were pretty good friends with him, in the nearby national park. But somehow, he felt underprepared, though he had a sleeping bag, a flashlight, a large water bottle, coats, boots, et cetera, all that was required and some extras. It was because the outdoor activities teacher, Mr. Olson, who was teaching them on surviving in the woods, how to build a shelter, how to tie knots, how to set up a tent, among other things for a few months, was absent today. Everyone thought that this was because he caught Covid, but it was announced that it was actually because his wife was having a baby, and he needed to go with her to the hospital. Chosen for the substitute was a certain Art Goodfriend, who was the owner of a camping supplies rental place several kilometers away, for a lack of other people available in the rather small town. The class got on the bus a few minutes later, after everyone got their supplies in the trunk of the bus. Along the way, Mr. Goodfriend (or Art, as he prefers to be called), tried to entertain the class with talking and some pretty bad jokes, but the class wasn’t really in the mood, for their teacher who had taught them so much in preparation for this was absent, and naturally, they were pretty disappointed. After almost an hour spent on the road and a few minutes at a gas station, they arrived. *****
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_________________(before monster scene with hernandez)_________________ The monster looked like it was made of condensed darkness. It was at least four feet tall and various animal heads seemed to be growing out of it, and it absorbed Art by its waist. As it lumbered towards the campers, the students were running towards the forest. *****
Xiang’s body seemed to be full of adrenaline. He ran like never before. He and the class were barely taking notice of the branches around them that are shredding their clothes. Finally, they were too tired to move, and they fell to the ground, gasping for air. Then, the thing they least expected to happen happened. Appearing before them was Louisa Hernandez. “What are you kids doing here? Is everyone all right? Aren’t you supposed to be with your teacher?” she asked. She seemed to be more muscular than before, and she wore a beige trench coat and pants. She also had a large backpack and a shotgun on her. Everyone was relieved by this. Eason answered, “We.. got chased.. by monster…. Ran altheway … here”. – “Okay, now calm down. What did this monster look like?” – “He had animal heads” – “He was so, like, dark!” – “I think it was afraid of the fire” – “Its weak spot was its eyes” Louisa quickly told everyone to stop talking, and announced, “Okay, everyone calm down. You’re safe now. So, let me introduce myself. My name’s Louisa Hernandez, and I own the Amnesty
Lodge. You can call me Louisa. So, now, tell me what did this monster look like? One by one.” Colena answered, “It was hard to see it, it was like, made out of darkness, and it had all sorts of these animal heads everywhere, and it just, like, absorbed our teacher! From its stomach!” Eric also said, “I think it’s afraid of fire, because it avoided the campfire!” “Anything else?”, asked Louisa. “No”, Xiang answered. “Okay. So we’ll have to fight it with fire. I have a flare gun here that could be used to blast at the monster. Also, we could light fires to limit the places it can go to.” They all agreed to this.
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– “So, this is our plan. You two (she pointed at Kaleb and Matt), you’re going to get these. These are matches, and it would be part of your job. You'll go to the campsite and try to attract it on purpose. I’d normally never include children in this, but (she sighed and shook her head), I’ll have to make an exception.” – ”What?”
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– “Oh, don’t worry. We
SESSION TWO
Hey There Campers!
Colena Shan Date: February 22, 2022 Location: Amnesty Lodge “Great.” Louisa put the contract aside. “Um, we won’t go looking for that monster right now. Not today, not this week…hm…listen, I thought it’d be good for you to explore Kepler a bit more. Get yourself used to this place. Just return by sunset and we can provide you with food.” “Your monster killing group is called Blaze Force?” I asked. (Sorry, it just sounds horribly cringe, but seeing as The Global Immunity Association and I Dislike Monsters were considered 30 years ago, I guess I shouldn’t complain.) “Yep. Any questions?” “So after a week or two, you’ll start providing me with actual information?” I asked. “Mhm…” Louisa waved me off. “See you later.”
Date: March 15, 2022 Location: Amnesty Lodge “We’re going tomorrow.” It was late in the evening (11:24 o’clock to be precise), and I was just getting ready for bed. Louisa had come into my room (WITHOUT knocking, how rude). “What?” I asked. “We’re going to look for the monster tomorrow,” Louisa said. In her hands, I noticed two large knives. She set one on my table. “Arm yourself. And I’ve got some flares.” “Flares?” “Yep. Road flares. They should do.” Louisa reached into her bag (which I had not noticed before) and brought out seven road flares. There was a green side and a red side. “Point the red part away from yourself,” she instructed. “Right.” I nodded. I am not using those flares, I thought darkly, I am just going to mess up. My bow will do. And that cool knife. Louisa placed them on my table, moving aside several papers to make room. “Oh, and by the way, I think it’ll rain tomorrow.”
Date: March 17, 2022 Location: The Forest Near Amnesty Lodge (I don’t know it’s name after 3 weeks of exploring, sorry) Skipping over the boring part of packing and wearing stuff that makes me look mysterious and creepy. Louisa and I were in the forest. Cal, the cook (honestly, who brings cooks to a monster hunting mission?), had gone on ahead, also seeking the monster. He’d gone for a long time, and I didn’t see him in the forest that day. I counted to 3533 seconds (67 seconds short of an hour) in my head before Louisa stopped me and murmured, “No birds.” “So something loud and noisy is this way,” I whispered to her. She nodded, and we proceeded a little more stealthily than earlier. After a couple minutes, it started to rain. A faint drizzle at first, but then it grew steadily into a downpour. What an amazing idea to go looking for a monster during a rainy day! I thought sarcastically as Louisa and I picked up speed and headed for a couple bigger and older trees that would hopefully and most likely provide more shelter from the rain. At least the rain might mask our footsteps if we made a slight noise, though. More time passed. I lost track of time, and I didn’t want to get my watch wet. I felt water make its way into my shirt. Soon, I felt cold and uncomfortable, but I hurried on. Eventually, Louisa suggested we split up but still keep in sight of each other. The plants and trees around us looked decayed and rotten, a sign that the monster was near. I drew my bow, but Louisa shook her head. “Your flares,” she said, pointing to my backpack. I’d packed them, of course, but I had never intended to use them. I glared at her, but I took one out, making sure the red part was pointed away from me. I stuffed my bow back into my bag and continued on, moving to the right, while Louisa advanced to the left, taking out her big knife. Peace and quiet ruled for a few hours.
***** I heard a crashing and the sound of leaves being trampled on Louisa’s side. My first instinct yelled, Trouble!, so I hid behind a leafy bush and glanced in her direction. Some kid had apparently ran into her, panting and gasping. I strained my ears to hear what they were saying, “Thank goodness you’re here!” a boy who might’ve been in high school (oh, right, that makes him a teenager) gasped. I was confused for a sec, then I realized. A few days ago, I heard some people in their forties talking about the local high school (I think the school’s name was Kepler’s High School of Achievement or Kepler’s Institue of Excellence and whatever crap) planning for the grade nines to go on a two-day camping trip (March 16-18, WHICH IS THREE DAYS). Their teacher had most likely gotten COVID, probably because he was too stupid to get a frickin’ vaccine and spent too much time in crowded pubs and never wore a mask when he went to teach the high schoolers, so they’d sent a substitute guy, Art Goodfriend, a.k.a. the guy with the most suspicious name ever, and also someone I very much disliked with an estimated IQ of 22 (even lower than an idiot’s, which is 50-70, random fact). I assumed the boy was one of the campers. And he had seen the monster Louisa and I were hunting. “I’m being chased—gasp—by a monster! I need some help, really, it’s urgent!” the boy stammered like a little kid. “I-I’m being chased by a monster right now. I really need help.” He broze off, wheezing. “Calm down, boy,” Louisa said, gripping him firmly by the shoulder with her knife-free hand. “Where did this thing come from?” “I-it came f-from the fire pit but…[indistinct],” the boy stammered. “Stay close, or you’ll be easy prey,” Louisa said over him. Then she started pulling him by the edges of his shirt towards the place he had just run from.
So the campfire is nearby. Is that where the grade nines decided to camp? I guessed. I followed Louisa and the kid, sneaking silently. About 15.32 seconds later, another boy burst from presumably the camping place and ran into Louisa. “Settle down,” Louisa said to him. She also grabbed him and dragged him along, me trying not to laugh and following quietly after them. The piercing screech of an eagle made me pause for a moment. It definitely came from the place the two boys ran from. Finally, after two more minutes, Louisa and I and the two kids burst into the clearing where the grade nines had made their camp. Their chaperone, Art Goodfriend, was nowhere to be seen. I assumed (pretty accurately, as a matter of fact) that Art was either consumed by the beast or that he had run away like a coward. The former turned out to be correct, and I glanced around, just in time to see the monster eat Art Goodfriend up. Its eyes seemed to glow faintly brighter, and its monstrous body (which seemed damaged, good job to the campers staying behind) seemed to heal pretty fast. Its body was made of animal heads, and it really was so gruesome that I don’t want to write anymore about its appearance. Louisa signaled to me, and yelled, “EVERYBODY GET ON DOWN!” (Seriously, “DUCK!” would’ve been much quicker), and a flare went up. I copied her, and I must’ve done something right since the flare flew at the monster’s chest. Louisa’s flare blew up the face (I don’t know why it was so satisfying to say that). The monster let out a cry of pain (at least, I’m assuming it’s pain and not, “I’ll get my revenge you miserable, tiny creatures”), turned, and fled. I heard trees crashing (poor trees L ). I hissed in annoyance and chased after it, bow in hand. Even injured very badly, the creature moved faster than a bear who smelled honey. So I lost it a billion times, but it’s not really hard to track a monster that kills wildlife with its presence when you’re in a very large forest. Splashing noises.
There must be a river nearby, I thought. Or a lake. I hid behind a withered bush and watched the creature drink—all of its heads. It sounded normal, but looked absolutely disgusting. “HEY THERE, CAMPERS!” I recognized the voice of Art Goodfriend. The heck? After a lot of thinking (which took precisely 12.422 seconds), I figured that those were probably Art Goodfriend’s last words or something and that the monster wasn’t talking to me. “WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO—!!” A girl’s voice drifted towards me on the breeze. I can assure you it was terrible singing. “NO-NO-NOOO!” Oh for ****’s sake. At this, the monster stopped drinking and the heads all cried out loudly and ran back towards the campsite, towards the singing. Seriously, what monster is attracted by screechy singing? Sighing, I ran back after it.
***** I missed out on most of the action, but I arrived in time to figure out almost nothing but fire worked against it. I shot an arrow in its eye and it barely affected it. During the battle, a lot of the ninth graders did stuff but only two boys did much damage. The first guy, whose name turned out to be Caleb, had this epik robot thingy which attacked the monster pretty decently. Another kid, Xiang, the guy who’d run into Louisa first, did some damage with one of Louisa’s flares. The young girl who had been screeching/singing like an ***** earlier (her name was Katie, but after the battle, she insisted that everyone call her Bruno, and, predictably, nobody listened) tripped over a flare and landed on her back rather
painfully. Eason and Eric had sustained minor injuries, and Louisa was swearing in a very old-fashioned way (seriously, who says horse when they’re cursing these days?). Finally, we managed to kill the beast, and it dissolved into a pile of black slime, which I immediately noticed sucked up all of the flora. So I yelled (to enlighten the more dim-witted ones), “Get away from the black puddle!” and Louisa echoed my shout. After leaving the clearing and arriving at the edge of the forest, Louisa gathered us all together and said, “Alright! Everybody okay? Mostly?” She looked at Eason. “Somebody shot you in the face with a flare gun? Well, that’s pretty rough. Let’s collect this stuff up.” There was a loud boom of thunder, and Louisa, glaring at the sky, said, “Oh, great, more rain, just what we need.” “It could wash the goop away,” I pointed out. “Uh, and also make it way worse.” “Yeah…so, listen. I think y’all deserve an explanation of what happened tonight,” Louisa said. “My friend and I are more than happy to answer whatever questions we are able to, in whatever ways we are, um, allowed to answer. So why don’t you follow me up to the lodge—you’ll be safe there tonight—safer than most places in town.” At this, she glanced at the night sky, a full moon. “J-just stick close and tomorrow we’ll get you on back home.” “And we won’t be as irresponsible as your chaperone or whatever,” I put in. “Yeah—Colena, that’s not nice, the man just died,” Louisa muttered. “Um—” “I don’t care,” I replied.
*****
Welcome to Amnesty Lodge The by now familiar sign comforted me slightly. Now I just had to get inside, say hello to all those exiled sylvans who had the potential to become powerful creatures during the full moon capable of breaking down my room and killing me. That’s a very bright way of looking at it, don’t you think?
Anthony Dai Art Goodfriend has now turned into Art Godfriend, and has alot of arms. We try to fight Art Goodfriend, and plan on how to defeat him. H EY YH WEHTEHRE GACcampers, some guy I dont remember said, I run into the woods, and the some of the others stay, and some run as well. Art Goodfriend approaches us, and grows more arms (wow im dying of shock!1!11!1). We see a flaming log, and throw it at him. It seems like his weakness is combustible lemons, aka fire so we find a flare gun at camp!!1! wait theres no flares, and then coincidentally, we find a flammable barrel of things. I wonder what that could be. I think the flare missed and hit our friend.
I ran after (i forgot his name) and saw Louisa, she told me to calm down. I crafted a helmet when I was there. I followed Lousia when she shot the flare gun. I told Louisa that the monster may be an alien or man made biological organism. During the battle I commanded my robot to shoot a rocket and a direct hit. Then I got a road flare and a monster exploded, then it started to rain and we went to Louisa’s cabin thingy.
Robot thing
Eason Wan What happened in the story -Monster came in the front of park ranger Eric -Luisa and her colleague Colina came to help -Monster ate / swallowed Art Goodfriend -Monster ran away -Colina started chasing the monster -Started discussing the monster’s abilities and weakness -Monster came back because of someone's singing -Someone threw a road flare into monster’s mouth and monster died -Went to stay at Luisa’s house for the night What I did to get involved in the story -I set a stick on fire using the campfire and threw it at the sound / wolf howl -Said that the monster can absorb thing when we were discussing the monster abilities and weakness -Said that Art Goodfriend was telling a story when the monster first showed up -Tells everyone to tell a story around the same campfire to get the monster’s attention -Tells Luisa that Art Goodfriend told them to sing a song to scare off wildlife -I grabbed a torch when the monster came -I got squeezed by the monster when I tried to hit the monster(but missed). Gets picked up by the monster in the process -I get hit in the face by a flare but I get dropped down by the monster -I scramble to get some rope
Eric Zhang The monster approached me. I backed up thinking of running but I knew that I couldn’t run away without it attacking me so I grabbed gravel and threw it at the monster's eyes. It seemed gravely affected so it grew another head. I took a stick and jabbed its eye. Taking it down it ignited and I got a torch I started attacking with the torch hoping it would connect. I missed once then a stranger came and flared the monster so we fought with the stranger and the monster ran away. Some girl ran after it while we waited and made a strategy well we didn’t. They started singing but I got prepared at the first glance of it. It came rushing at us. I took a swing and missed. Then someone sent a flare in the sky lighting up everything. After that someone hit another person with a flare. The mysterious lady shot it and killed it. Leaving the scene we walked back in victory.
Katie Chai Today Matt continued the story of the class and the substitute teacher in the story. In today's class we fighted a monster and we had to see what it did so we could find an attack that could work so we wrote down stuff about him/her. Today we also said what our thing we are good at and stuff that will - points for our story. Most of the time we listened to Matt say the story and we just wrote on his screen about the monster.
What we did in class today is that we got to choose where our points go for our character and then when we entered the story we all started to plan for a battle against something so we took time and planned a plan to defeat this creature.After it got planned we went to go fight the monster and then we went to find and fight the creature.So we went to find it and then we found the monster.
Cindy Shu We were fighting a monster that is weak when it comes to fire and my character ran away.
SESSION THREE
Amnesty
Anthony Dai After the incident with Art Goodfriend, we went to Amnesty Lodge with Mama. The lodge guy gave us food and space to relax. I didn’t really do anything in Amnesty Lodge. We had very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very etc. delicious soup with Cal and Aubry. Mama told us, if we wanted to hear a secret. We voted and the majority said yes. She said bla bla bla gateway, and we saw a real gateway. It was stone. Thats all I remember about the gateway. Sylvain goat people arrived and we entered the palace. Now we are falsely charged (i swear) for doing absolutely nothing.
Caleb Mou It was mostly chill. I ordered some soup and went to bed. I pranked some people and also hiked and upgraded my robot. I went in the portal and was just following louisa
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Laser Shocky shocky Firework Lighter LEGOOOOO Trap wifi
Session 3 Eason Wan
It was basically midnight when we finished defeating the monster and were getting ready to go to Luisa’s lodge, which was called the Amnesty Lodge, to stay for the night. We spent around 30 minutes walking to the Amnesty Lodge, which felt like forever and I was tempted to start yelling that this was pointless because it was taking forever when the Amnesty Lodge appeared in my sight. It looked old but actually kind of cozy. We went into it slowly. Some people walked into it so slowly that it looked as though they were scared of the Amnesty Lodge. When we went in, there was a large kitchen that looked pretty used and a living room with a red, brick fireplace with a fire inside that heated the room to a warm temperature. A little too warm… Suddenly, a large man appeared out of nowhere and greeted us. He said his name was Cal and he asked us if we were hungry. I replied no when he asked us if we were hungry at the same time as Katie asked “Do you have any ramen?”
Eric Zhang I was walking to Amnesty Lodge wanting an explanation but she said she would tell us later. So when we arrived at Amnesty Lodge I decided to play some cards by myself. Then I took a long nap. When finished I decided to ask when we were going to get the info. So she asked us if we wanted to see the secret. So most of us decided to go. We walked through an empty place and she told us about the portal and the divider of worlds. Almost instantly a gold portal appeared so we hopped in with ribbons so we won't go crazy. We arrived at Sylvian and met guards, one of them was named Mortimer. We continued walking and met Wilfred and Hubert. Then when we arrived our “Trial” began.
Class #3 writing: Katie Chai Me and my class were walking in the forest and after a few hours passed we surprisingly found a lodge. As we walked in we met a guy named Cal. Then Cal asked if we were hungry. Not many people were but I jumped up in joy saying “I am”. Cal said “ alright what would you like?” “Well, do you have ramen?” Cal was a chef but barely knew anything about making ramen. He said “ I don't think we have that but you know let me go check.” After a few minutes Cal came back with dry noodles. “ Ummm do you have any hot water by any chance?” Cal said that he could try to find some and then I am like “does he know anything about making ramen like he is a chef, and ramen is something you don’t even need a chef to do and you can still make it.” After another few minutes Cal came back with hot water. As I mixed it with the ramen it was still the worst ramen i have ever tasted. Then we met Aubry as well and they asked “ your parents expect you to go camping right? They told us about the strange things that lie upon the forest and the creatures that are in here. After that they showed us to our rooms. I settle in my room and go right to bed. I was the last one to get up the next day but I still got my food. Aubrey and Cal said that we could chill around the lodge for a bit. I was just sitting by the fireplace reading a book. Then Aubery said “I can show you a secret” It was all up to the class to decide if we wanted to go with her. After a few discussions we decided we wanted to go and learn the secret. So we decided to go. We put our stuff on and started to go on a hike. Well we were hiking and we found a portal then all of a sudden we got sucked in. Then all of a sudden we arrived at a whole different place called Sylvain. As we were walking we met some people like the guard and Wilfred and Hubert. We arrived at a palace and then for no reason at all we are going on trial.
V What Happened At The Lodge, Part 1 They arrived at Amnesty Lodge, which was very warm and inviting with its rustic style and warm fireplace almost beckoning the class and Colena and Eric into the building. It was a fairly large wood and brick building, with several couches laid all over the living room. In the room were several people, most of which are relaxing on the leather couches in the living room. The first person you noticed was an exceedingly tall person, who looked as if he were a lumberjack, with a bushy beard, freckles, and hair that's thinning a little, for he was in his forties. He had a tough but friendly expression on his face, all of this enhanced by his checkered shirt. His name was Cal, and one of the co-workers of Colena and Eric. “Welcome back, Mama! We see you’ve got some new friends there!”, he said. Louisa started, “Well, that happens sometimes…” “Students,” interrupted Colena. He cast a wary look towards the students, lowered his voice, and mumbled, “Well, how was the hunt?” He quickly reclaimed his voice, bent down, and said, “Hey there, guys!”, as if the students were many years younger. “Is, uh, anyone hungry? Do you want some soup?” asked Cal. The others were hesitant to respond. “Well, uh, soup. Soup will be fine.” answered Caleb. “Okay! We’ll get some for you right away! It’s already simmering away on the stove.” It was noticed that he spoke with an unusual accent. Mama and most of the other Keplerians spoke with an Appalachian accent, but Cal didn’t. His accent was difficult to place. Midwestern? Californian? It was close, but not quite any of those. Cal went on, “Well, you kids want anything to drink? I’ve got coffee! Anyone want some coffee?” Eason answered, “Well no, I don’t really like coffee…” Another woman, wrapped in a blanket, even though she was by the roaring fire, interrupted, “They’re kids, Cal! Of course they don’t drink coffee!” “No, I’m OK with coffee”, answered many of them, but Cal, after a disapproving look by Colena, said, “Well, I didn’t know what I was thinking, Aubry, it’s right before bed… You know what? I’ll get some water. Yes. Um, water.” “Can I have some ramen?”, asked Katie. He answered, “Well, we might be able to get you something. Yeah, I think we have some.” So he went into the kitchen, then came back with much more soup than people asked for, some water, and a very old- and sad-looking package of instant ramen which he had not cooked. He places the food and drink on a table before the fireplace and tosses the ramen to Katie, who at this looked quite surprised. Colena then whispered to Cal: – “They don’t eat raw ramen!” – “Well, they could… I’ve only eaten once or twice… – “THEY’RE HUMAN!” – “Oh yeah… forgot about that…” Karen instructed Cal: – “You’ll need hot water, and you just pour it in…” – “Hot water! We have a microwave here! I’ll do it.”
– “No, not a microwave, hot water.” – “Oh yeah, OK, I’ll… get some right away.” Mama explained, “Well, I know he’s weird, but he’s an only child and he’s never spent a lot of time around kids. Well, he’s the cook, but ramen isn’t really his thing…” A few moments later, after Katie persuaded Mama to educate Cal on humans and their lifestyle, he came back with a bowl of boiling water. She muttered under her breath, “How can you be a cook when you can’t even cook ramen in the simplest way!?” Then, Katie shook the meat dust into the water, added the noodles, and it was ready a few minutes later. Even though it was the worst bowl of ramen she had ever tasted, it was still ramen. Suddenly, Xiang rang out, “Wait, so why are all of you like you’ve been used to fighting monsters?”
VI What Happened At The Lodge, Part 2 (or, Explanations On Behalf Of The Monster) “Oh, yes, yes.”, Mama answered, her expression quickly turning very grave, “Like I said, I think you guys are owed an explanation.” At this time, more and more people at the lodge began to go to their bedrooms, as if it was only when Mama, Colena, the class, Cal, and Aubry came and had dinner that they could go to sleep. Maybe it was just because it was almost eleven o’clock. A few moments later, even Cal heads to the kitchen to prepare for breakfast. Aubry also heads off to sleep with her blanket still on her. “Are we going to call our parents?” asked Uka, and someone else questioned, “What did we see today?” “First things first, we are not going to call your parents. They’re expecting you to be on a camping trip, cell phones don’t work, nobody’s expecting a call in the middle of the night. So, how long is this trip supposed to be?” “The whole weekend”, answered Eason. “Alright. So, there are things in this forest that… Well, I’m sure you’ve heard stories. About everyone in Kepler told stories about seeing something strange, seeing something flying over the woods, meeting a stranger without a face, and so on. There’s also the Creepatorium, this monster museum run by this weird guy called Ned. He took over it a few years ago. And it’s actually a decent portion of Kepler’s tourism. In fact, there’s a sort of tension between the level-headed people in town and a whole fringe group that believe, or at least in part believe in monsters, because most of the tourists here are basically people looking for Bigfoot. And once in a while, monsters, just like the one you’ve seen, will appear, and there would be a whole lot more of them if it wasn’t for the work we do at Amnesty Lodge.” There was some uncomfortable shifting among the class. Mama continued, “These monsters, they’ve been occurring more and more frequently over the times, and sometimes, although quite rarely, they do get someone.” Her tone became even more serious. “Are any of you old enough to remember the old Sheriff Walliams?” Eric replied, “Most of these kids are 14 years old, of course they don’t remember!” “Ok. Anyways, he was the previous sheriff. He went missing for some time, when they found him, they said that he’d been killed by an animal.” Nobody said anything. “Alright, alright. I guess it was a bit before your time. Well, every full moon, something will come out here, then, the people at the Lodge will have a limited time to stop it. I could show you where the monster
comes from to you, but it depends if you’d listen. So you have a choice. You could go out with me, and I’ll show you more about this monster and where it came from, or you could just hilke, mountain bike, that sort of stuff for the weekend, and you could leave, just trying to forget the whole thing. I’m not pressuring you to choose any of the two, it’s just gonna be a majority vote, and there will be nobody left behind, either going or leaving, no exceptions. Sounds fair?” Just about everybody nodded in approval. “Ok. I’m gonna leave you until tomorrow evening after dinner to decide. Xiang sank into his bed in the new room he had been offered by Colena. It was cozy, although a little small. In one corner, there was a velvet chair with a lamp and a shelf of reading material beside it, although none of the books seemed very interesting to him. There was a pair of old-fashioned skis near the wall, presumably as a decoration. Above it hung an ornate wooden clock. There was only a small, round window to the room. Towards the left of the room was his bed, simple and wooden. On the bedside table sat an old alarm clock. His immediate thought about the vote was to vote going. He thought that if he didn’t, he would spend the rest of his life thinking about what could’ve been that Louisa was going to show them, and it was also dependent on the others; what if they voted the opposite and had a majority? He tried to sweep that thought from his mind; the vote wasn’t until tomorrow. He should just get some goodquality sleep. Breakfast (pancakes, bacon, eggs, and beans, prepared by Cal) was noisy and full of chatter. Everyone was talking about what to choose to do. Some people, like Karen and Katie insist that they do not know how dangerous it would be and going to whatever place they will goto might have fatal consequences. Others made the same point as Xiang. The rest of the day was relatively uneventful. Xiang was staying in the Lodge most of the time, but went out hiking with some of the others, as he wanted to breathe in the clear air of the mountain. At dinner, people were, as always, convincing others to choose one of the two options, and at the end of the meal, Mama called everyone to attention. “Everyone, we’re starting to vote for either learning more about the creature, or leaving. Those who would like to vote, stand up.” About half of the class did so. Mama then started to count, “One, two, three, … four.” “Well, it seems like we are going to learn about the secret!” Half the class cheered loudly and the others groaned. “So, pack some light supplies, some water, clothes, and stuff, and we are going to leave within a few minutes.” Mama sounded very excited about this. Soon after, the class, Mama, Colena, and Eric left, with some of them very happy about this but some of the students were afraid that the meal they had before might be their last dinner. They walked about 200 meters, until they reached an unusual sort of natural clearing, with no trees within a 2 meter radius. Louisa then started talking, “There are certain things in the world that exist to people who know about them and are invisible to people who don’t, and once I tell you the secret, you’ll sort of… be able to see it. So, welcome to the gateway.”
VII Louisa Hernandez of Sylvain, city 1,000,000 light years or 100 meters away, you choose. A flash of moonlight illuminated the clearing, and appearing before the class was a gateway, an old, ornate, stone arch. “This is where the creatures, no that’s not the right word, abominations come from. Now, the people on the other end aren’t human, which means we’re going to be aliens.” “Does that mean we’re going to be more special, like having powers?” “No, it just means that we are going to be strangers.” The place we’re going to step in is very, very, special. You need something from it to get into it, same thing with them, but not quite the same.” “Otherwise?” asked Karen “Well, you go crazy” was the response. “The thing we are going to use is this.”- Promptly, she handed all of them a piece of bright orange cloth, very silky and soft “Make sure you have it somewhere on you when you step through. So, follow me, Colena, and Eric. Eric then held his piece of cloth, and confidently stepped through, and he disappeared through the gateway. Colena and Mama followed. Xiang, knowing to trust her, walked through first. The best way to describe this sensation is walking through a gentle waterfall, but with say, a cave on the other side. You have a feeling it’s not just walking, but walking through something to somewhere, and once you finish walking through, you just aren’t in the sameplace anymore. Within a few moments, everyone went through, even the ones that were reluctant at first. Xiang looked around, and he noticed some primary differences.
Cindy Shui We went to a cabin and a guy made food, but most of us were eating instant noodles, my character wasn't really hungry tho. Then we basically went into this OK room and slept. And then the next day moma asked us if we went to go with her and my character picked yes and so did most of the other people so we went with her. Then we got into a forest then we found a porte and we met some guards then we somehow went on a trail.
SESSION FOUR
Sylvain
Anthony Dai We go on trial with goat dudes and then join a team with the best 100% organic non-gmo free-ranged name which is “BLAZE FORCE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)”. We then learned about the crystal which is the “core” that keeps the world alive. We went back to earth and stayed at amnesty lodge for the night. We met someone called Ned Chicane, and I think he was a sheriff???????? We flooded his ears with the word gateway until we revealed sylvain to him. We learned that Cal was a bigfoot, and uh I forgot. When I was getting ready for sleep, I meet the childhood ghost thing woman called the “Harbinger”. I think I slept afterwards.
Session 4 Eason Wan
“SILENCE!” declared Hubert when Colina tried to speak, or more like yell.
Eriz Zhang We met the court of Sylvain who charged us because we entered with no permission. Then Mama said that she was a blaze force and she could, so we joined the blaze. So then we walked around and some of us stared at the crystal. When we arrived at the portal Colina and I stayed with Mama. Colina now rushed to the crystal and asked us to scale the walls but I just left eating my grilled cheese sandwich . Mama watched bright lights and screaming till it all stopped and me and Mama realized what happened.
Katie Chai Once we came to Sylvain we met their council and he was telling us alot about Sylvain. The council told us about the blaze force. We went to join. We also met Ned and he told us about the portal that we got sucked into to get here. They said that the portal is not always in one spot. Then we stumbled upon a crystal that we found with guards all around. Colena and Eric were very interested in the crystal and wanted to investigate. We decided to go to bed and try finding our way out of Sylvain though. When we woke up we packed our bags and were ready to leave. Luckily we went home alive and had no problems. Well we were out of Sylvain Colena and Eric were miserably failing to get the crystal and finally gave up. Colena also climbed the wall, tried to attack the crystal and got caught by a few guards. She went back though and reached for the crystal! As she touched it lightly….. She passed out. Well we went back to the lodge and slept.
VII The Trial Upon entering the courtroom, you see several types of animal folk sitting on the benches. One of them was reading from a large book, and on the throne was a girl, looking only about 15 years old.
SESSION FIVE
The Blaze Force
Anthony Dai After 1 month, we see someone has recorded Cal (the bigfoot) fighting an abomination. A population that is greater than 1 person has went into the store??? and some guy was fighting and saying: “I DROVE FOR 1 METER AND WHATEVER THINGAMAJIG AND I HAVE TO WAIT THIS LONG OF A LINE!!???!!!!”. Cal throws “tiny” rocks with “minimal” force at our windows and we get up. Oh hey “Can I get a sandwich, *wastes thing with one hour cooldown* *nods* mmm this sandwich tastes like sandwich”. Man called Calvin I don’t remember apparently gets attacked by an abomination. Blaze force reunite!!1! (the audience is blinded by the cheesiness) we get back to amnesty lodge and do a “Friendly Interview” with Calvin.
Caleb Mou 1 month passed and Katie went and asked if I wanted to go to blaze force and said go f yourself. I was forced to go, I asked what happened to calvin. We went to save the seniors, they were too early.
Eric Zhang Ned Chicanes' video went viral. All the people in town went to see him because of his bigfoot video. Sleeping in my house without a sound someone knocks on my door so I walk over and close my curtains then they knock again so I open the door and get prepared for the blaze force. We all drive to the amnesty lodge then Colena comes back as a ghost after a month this is creeping me out. After that we interviewed Calvin, the man who got attacked.
Katie Chai ONE MOTHER LATER- I was sleeping peacefully when all of a sudden I heard knocking on my window. It was Cal! From the Amnesty lodge! He said “ hey we are reuniting the blaze force!” Without a word I came outside with him and helped get the others. We all came back to the Amnesty lodge with a little damage to our “force”. Colena became a ghost and now has special abilities(why can’t we all-) We interviewed Calvin and he got attacked by a monster….
SESSION SIX
The Book Wyrm
Anthony Dai I missed like 99% of the class so… There was a crying woman and uhh she cried. What is a hamlet? Is it a hamlet or Hamlet as a name? Or is it the meaning of life? Introducing the new Gatbsy Mobile! It does absolutely nothing at all! Smaug is the same with hamlet. Everybody is in quotation marks so im going to assume that “everybody” is a person. Fire does stuff to the bookwyrm im guessing??? Man impales himself with own harpoon then dies mabye perhaps possibly conceivably feasibly???? Katie gets carried away by im assuming that bruno person she spams in the chat?? Id never thought I’d see the day where I get saved by hornets. Also yellow light thing.
We learned that the bookwyrm goes asjkasjkjas to fire I don’t know what im planning for so uh
Caleb Mou Before going into the library Katie pulled the fire alarm and someone turned off the lights. During the investigation, Katie said stuff to the dragon when it laughed. I almost died and was practically half-dead during part of the investigation when the car drove by Gatsby's mobile. I open a lord of the rings book and Smaug came out? And also the monster was weak to fire. The monster could summon goons from a book. I also realized that ghosts like knocking pizza off someone's hand and Cal is kinda corny.
Eric Zhang When we arrived inside the library and had everyone leave. We noticed a girl who only had a mouth but the mouth was more circle shaped then Hamlet appeared and stabbed me while saying to be or to not to be that is the question. So I lit a book on fire and threw it and I heard a dog whimper. Then a giant machine came and rammed me partially but someone got sent far away. Then there was a Moby dick book and a captain came out so I read that he flipped people's caps so he flipped Hamlet's hat then I wrote he harpooned himself so he did and died then the sprinklers went off. After that they all disappeared and a dragon rushed away by us.
THE BATTLE Katie Chai There was a monster in the library and we had to get a plan to get all the people out safely. I had a plan. I got inside and pulled the fire alarm and everyone headed outside. I was a HERO. then this lady came up to me and said “what was that for?” ma’am i am sorry but its none of your business after a long fight…. MA’AM WHY DON’T YOU JUST GET YOUR LITTLE FEET OUT OF THE WAY. After the blaze force went into the library. The door closed… We heard a low laugh surrounding us. It was from every direction. A book opened and then we saw a girl come out of it. She seemed to have a big mouth with very sharp teeth. But no eyes… Colena was a ghost but it makes sense that she could feel the motion since she has no eyes. Colena climbed up a bookshelf but she climbed following behind. After some random car drove past running EVERYONE over. And I got kidnapped by the car/ drove me away. No one was concerned though that I got totally driven away from a random car. After that, I tried getting a plane to escape the car. It was risky but the only way to escape. I burned the
window and jumped out, just in time some motorsickle saved me on time. For some odd reason they knew me and offered me a ride home. But I wanted to go with him. So I said no. Just like that he drove off like that. So I decided to go to “MA PIZZA” and get a pizza. A saw mama in the car with the others and got inside. Although Colena was a ghost I could see that she was stealing my pizza.
SESSION SEVEN
Plans and Complications
Anthony Dai Agent Thompson interrogates us about the “PODOHIJSDZOHG;Oaih;H I DROAVVE EHDARER AND FOTAEGE I wNEED TOWAT WAIT” or the Cal gets caught on camera fighting an abomination incident. Nature walk thingy I totally remember. Totally. We went to the footage guy ned and “very quietly and politely borrowed some of his things” Caleb got a job at mcidontknowfastfoodchainorsomethingjobjobjobminimumwage king&Qway Huty’sbucks donuts hortons? Oh no!!!! The library is on fire!!! How will I get my favorite book “How to be a failure to everyone for dummies”!!!! Turns out a book wyrm is in the library and stuff happened. Use a person as bait, and snatch the book away from the bookwyrm while hes/shes enjoying his meal. Wait do snakedragonthingwyrmwaitisitawormorawyrm’s even have gender?
Caleb Mou Today I just got a job and went to a school library and got ran over by a car and also summoned a dragon.
Eric Zhang We head to the amnesty lodge and we meet a man who greets us and says he is on our side and is agent Thompson. Then he suggests a team building activity. Mama suggested to walk through the forest while Colena and Katie were fighting the whole time then we turned to Amnesty lodge. We think about showing the FBI agent the video and he might see it as a fake. We meet Cerd and we walk through the front door. We found a site that is constructed. We see the sign of an amazing bigfoot video and we hear a shout. Then we hear knocking and we see a floating computer that brushes past us. Then we see an Oscar and then someone says Curby Curby. Then Colena takes the computer and leaves. Then Ned stares at us then gets dressed. Then Ned pops open a bottle and says drink it and says it is an ancient drink. Xinag drops the pen to distract him. But it didn’t work.
My plan is to write the deaths of the monsters' minions and defeat it like that. Haven :Armory, Workshop, and Protection Spells.
Katie
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So me and Colena(the weird ghost that will randomly just start complaining) were fighting about HOW I THINK SHE IS NOT NEEDED IN THIS CASE BECAUSE SHE IS LITERALLY A GHOST but anyways we met a dude named agent Thompson and he wanted all of us to go for a nature walk. Of Course that didn’t stop me from losing the fight I was having so…. Of Course we obviously didn’t need her. In this case she is literally just a ghost that will steal all your food. Anyways we found out that agent Thompson was an FBI agent and he was investigating bigfoot. And it turns out he will be staying at Amnesty lodge for a while. But anyways we were heading back to Amnesty lodge when we saw lots of fire trucks heading to the center of town. And there were only about 3 fire trucks in the town and they were all heading to the same place. So mama decided we should follow. It seems they were going to the library… When we arrived at the library we saw it was… on fire!! But to be fair it was
pretty cool. Now we are planning how to kill/ destroy the book worm.
Btw we need
Infirmary!!!!!!!!!!!
What happened in today’s class. 1.In today’s class at the start we met Agent Thompson somewhere and we started to talk and ask him things.After a while we all went onto a nature walk outside to look for any monsters outside.When we were on the nature walk we learned that Agent Thompson is from the fbi and is looking for bigfoot on the loose.So then we decided to go meet Ned.Once we got to where Ned was we talked for a while and ended up robbing him and then we lied to him very badly saying that we didn’t rob him.After that we all started to return back to Amnesty Lodge but on the way back we saw 2 police cars driving to the center of the town so we followed them to the library which was on fire.Then we went inside to see what was in there and we found the book wyrm inside.
2. I think if you want to kill the book wyrm you will need to burn it with lava or fire or you can shoot like lasers or rockets at it and you or you can explode it with a missile and you can suffocate and drown it in water.
3.I would choose an infirmary because if someone is hurt we can heal them.,a lore library because we can read a lot of the books that you can investigate the mystery. , and an armory because we can make new powerful weapons that we can use to fight the monsters and we can keep a bunch of rare weapons in there so that all of them will be safe..
Why should we build these specific things? Anthony Dai
Well, to begin with, it’s a great matchup. The Mystic Library supports the infirmary, and the infirmary supports the Magical Lab. Now, why do these things go together? Well, first of all, the mystic library is overall a good building. Paired with these things, it can be used to its fullest potential. We can learn healing magic from the mystic library, and that will be really helpful for the infirmary. We can also learn protection spells1, and minimize the damage done to people and the surroundings while we experiment with the Magical Lab. The infirmary can also heal us if we forget to put on protection magic or if the protection magic is too weak.
Are they good on their own if one possibly gets overrun? The infirmary is just a good choice, probably the best out of all of them if we could only choose one. Imagine one of us is severely injured, with the infirmary, we could just throw the injured person in there and wait some time. The magic lab is just the physical manifestation of the sentence: “risk it for the biscuit.” The biscuit in this case is game-changing spells such as revival and possibly the ability to one-shot an abomination. The mystic library will help alot, because well, spells. Spells are also going to be a game-changer because we can conjure many important things such as fire, which harm some abominations.
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(im assuming the “protection spells” option is just a room with alot of protection and not learning to cast the spell on ourselves)
SESSION EIGHT
20,000 Leagues Under the Library
Anthony Dai I and some other people decide to go to fight the monster. We do thingymabobs such as distracting and attacking, then did another thingymajig. We saved some kids and then theres the kraken-squid-i-wonder-if-it-tastes-good creature that attacks our ship. I get grabbed by the kraken-squid-i-wonder-if-it-tastes-good creature and try to stab it with a pipe. I rolled a -2405207459287349827394 and almost die. I get saved by katie and the harbinger talks to me. I attempt to punch myself in the head to get rid of her. When it fails, I stab myself with the pipe for no reason. HY KIDS OA GO THERE TO BE SAFE AND NOT TDIDE!!1!! We find Nemo and Katie says: “Hi Nemo we are from the BLAAzqaeW FOrxce please kill us, thank you!” and Nemo actually tries to kill us but instead of killing us, he killed himself. Nemo was actually THE CORE /EPICLY COOL NAME/ WOAH IS THAT A GLOWING BALL or some weird ball of light. Katie touches it because whenever you see a suspicious glowing sun, you should definitely touch it. It may actually be a sun. The ship dissolves just like Katie did when she touched the glowing ball at a cool temperature of 6999 degrees celsius.I forgot who Dewey was. We return to our cozy lodge which is 6976 degrees lower than the glowing ball (woah im freezing to death) and do stuff. Katie fights a giant sentient mech which screeches in Africa and stops that blad- oh wait no I mean she fought the abomination in a limbo. Katie now wakes up at the telescope and remembers oiaejorf an oijoasijd but doesnt remember how long she was gone for.
Caleb Mou Today I REALLY didn’t do much I just distracted someone with a bottle and just awkwardly stood there then I saw my friends come out of a door to the public library.
Eric Zhang We arrived at the library and they distracted Dewey, then and surprisingly attacked him! I was confused but we made our way inside. When we enterdered we noticed something weird so then we realized we were in Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne. Then we saw some little kids. They were scared because there was no escape and we were being attacked by a squid. One of us decided to tell them to jump off then a kid said they already tried that. Then we got attacked by a squid and it took Anthony , but Anthony was saved by Katie. Then we evacuated up the second floor and led the kids through the “safety” door. Then we meet Captain Nemo and ask for traitor Katie confesses so he tried to kill her but he died instead. He became a glowing ball and Katie touched it which made it evaporate. We find Dewey but he is unresponsive. So we went to the lodge to recover.
Katie Chai
Something was attacking the ship. It was sinking!! We were busy getting all the kids out. Then all of a sudden…. A squid was attacking. They grabbed Anthony and I panicked and grabbed a rope to pull him out. We all ran up to the second floor. Then for some reason there was a person standing there named nemo. He said there might be traitors on the boat and I was like “were the blaze force” with no time to waste. Captain Nemo took out swords and tried to kill me. Luckily I crawled under his legs and started dancing and singing the Bruno song. As he sprinted toward me everything started going into slow motion. So I decided to grab his sword and just in time I cut his head off. After captain nemo dissolved he turned into some type of glowing ball of light. I was very curious about what it really was so I decided to grab it. As i was i started to disappear with it. And I was teleported to this white room. There I saw someone asking “w-what did you d-do” I was very confused then all of a sudden she started charging toward me. I tried to stop her with my hands then all of a sudden. She disappeared. The sky was dark and had stars everywhere. And I was lying on the ground. As I got up I recognized the place. I
was here on a field trip once! It was the Kepler Radio Telescope then I realized how long I have been here for?
What happened in class. In class all of us were in the library but then we heard something outside so we ran out and we found a monster called dewey. So we quickly thought of a plan to defeat dewey so then we thought of someone will distract it and then once it’s been distracted we will attack it.Then someone started to distract it and then we attack dewey.After attacking we beat dewey and then we went into the library and we found out that we are on the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues under the sea by Jules verne. Then we went out the library and found our crew members so we started to talk with them and interacting with them.Then we heard something so we went to investigate and then we found some little kids trapped.So we ended up saving the little kids that were trapped and then we got attacked by the squid.Then we all evacuated to the second floor after we sent the kids we saved out the door to safety.After that the blase force met captain nemo and nemo asks if there are any traitors on board and Katie says that she is in the blase force.Then nemo try to kill her and then nemo died.Then nemo turned into a glowing ball and when Katie touched it and it evaporated.Dewey is found by the medic and he looks like he drowned so they take Dewey away.Then we all return to amnesty lodge and they stay at the lodge to recover from what happened while katie was fighting a abomination inside of a limbo.Then she wakes up outside of the kepler Radio telescope.
SESSION NINE
A Temporary Peace
Anthony Dai Kaite is totally dead, TOTALLY dead (not foreshadowing). Ned does something about the lost and found I dont remember. Eason steals a car or something. We go on a nature walk with “extremely safe hills” and eric fall into an extremely safe hole in a mine shaft with a clicky dude. We create a dragon egg so we dont have to deal with a 30m by 30m creature in our tiny basement. Also “Matt, turn off my boo-womp inhibitors” “But Anthony thats insane I-” “Wait boo-womp? What the hell are you talking about” “You know that one sound in spongebob, it plays when they're sad.” “Is it like an acronym or like-” “It goes boo-womp” “But Anthony I don't know how thats going to help you” “DO IT” Eric does park ranger things. Katie is alive!1!11 What a surprise!!!! Colena and Mama find a mentally stable (believe me) person who was part of the blaze force before. Thacker is not okay. Hes not waterproof anymore. We should name him Paper. We find Katie and she doesnt spam WEA T ODL DONT TALKD ABOUT ABEI9UNRPO in the chat (1/694206942 chance!!!) Hornet people thing motorcycle thing idk gets attacked by a strange monster. Katie goes to dunkin donuts because why not.
Caleb Mou I GOT A DRAGOOOOOOOON and I also burned a lot of stuff at Katie's funeral I also saw an abandoned mine and the hornet nest got attacked and Katie came back.
Eric Zhang We came to Katie’s funeral. I was not sad because I was almost certain she was alive so I waited till they finished. Then we went to the magical library and we got a dragon egg with a lot of luck. Then I receive a call and I tell them just to leave and be gone ,but I realized I needed a job so I went to the radio and I met with the park ranger. In the morning she is not there but we hear she was attacked by hornets but she is fine.
Katie Chai
Since I was missing for a couple of days people thought that I was dead. A few days later people made a funeral for me. Someone came up and said “Katie was an amazing person. She was kind and sweet. This day should now be known as… KATIE DAY!” but some people were not clueless and knew that i was still alive well at least though. People started gathering and threw in all my stuff like textbooks, diary, and pictures. In a coffeen. They were going to burn it. While I was at the radio telescope I saw a park ranger security guard looking at me. Then I noticed that I wasn't supposed to be here. I started running toward this noise I heard from the fence. There was a lighter I had so I tried to burn the fence. Then I made a whole i ran through. I spent the night in the forest. The next day the others found out where I was and I was in the car heading back to the amnesty lodge. In the morning i was usually the morning person but today it seemed i didn’t get down that early. Someone came into my room and saw I wasn't there! I woke up in the outside forest the next day. I decided to go get some
donuts for the morning so I walked all the way there. Once I came, everyone started noticing me. They were all shocked to see me but I didn't even notice. As i came up to order my coffee they were surprised and said “Katie!?”i was really confused then all of a sudden it was on the news.
What happened in class.
In class we all went to Katie’s funeral because everyone thought she was dead even though she wasn’t dead it was just that she went missing for a long time so everyone assumed that she was dead.Then we all left the funeral and then we all decide that we should go for a nature walk because every time something happens so we started walking and soon we walked over a glass thing on the ground and when someone stepped on the glass thing it fell down and the person who stepped on it fell down with it.Then he saw something in there but when he shined it with a flashlight he saw nothing so then we threw a rope down to rescue him and then we finally pulled it up.Then we all decided that we should leave and we will come back here tomorrow to block up the hole so then we went back into the magic laboratory and someone wanted to make a pet dragon but it has a chance to work or fail.So me and everyone else agreed to do it then it started and we got a failure so that means we got something bad to someone.Then we all left with nothing because we failed to make a dragon then after one month Katie appears at the radio telescope then she runs.Then we all try and catch up but she runs into the woods and spends the night inside the woods.Then the next day the whole group arrives at the telescope and we find katie sitting there.After that we got katie and then we all went back home.The next morning we all wake up and someone notices that katie is missing again.Katie went out to the donut shop to get donuts and then a staff of the donut shop recognizes her and then tells everyone that katie is back.Then on the news all of us hears that katie is back and the attacks of the hornets. This is what we did inside class.
SESSION TEN
Kicking the Hornet's Nest
Colena Shan
Date: June 2022 Location: Crime Scene We’re investigating a crime scene, so should I put Detective in my name? Actually, I feel like I’m more likely gonna sabotage it than help, to be perfectly honest. *ahem* Alright, my brain is not working sufficiently enough to recall many details, tbh, and I even forgot the name of the Hornets’ pub, so, um, my bad, but I’m dead so DON’T EXPECT ME TO RECORD EVERY HUFF AND SNIFF! I DESERVE MY REST. I DIED FOR A REASON. Right. So I just hung around in the bar--invisible, mind you, so I could be both heard and felt, with this stupid Ghost Rule, but I was anticipating one thing: Chucking beer/vodka/wine/alcohol at some police officers. I had a vague memory of chucking it at government officials, but I supposed it was a dream from a bit ago, especially as I recall wearing stuff from the 1710s.. So. The crime scene. There was caution tape everywhere, an ambulance, a good deal of the police force in the small town of Kepler, and as we pulled up, I attempted to discreetly get off without arousing suspicion, luckily, the police were way too busy with their investigation, they didn’t pay much attention to the two cars pulling up. The Blaze Force followed, ignoring the tape (I may or may not have ripped a couple). I snuck into the bar, where a female officer was inspecting the pool table, taking note of the claw marks on the door. A male officer was there too, and I snuck around them, reaching the counter, where shelves with many bottles were. The male officer left to do something, and I seized the opportunity to grab the first bottle I found (some sort of whisky) and chucked it at the woman.
It went better than I expected. I hurled it with such force and accuracy that (yep, I was totally aiming for the head) the whisky bottle smashed the woman’s head from the back, so hard that her head was forced forwards and smashed into the pool table. Blood splattered everywhere, but I threw it from several feet away, so I was okay. I scrambled over the counter as the male officer came in again. [Excuse this interruption, but I just remembered the name of the Hornets’ bar. It’s called the Hornet’s Nest.] “Tina?” the male officer said. “Tina?” I stifled a laugh and yelled, “Leave this place! You are not welcome here!” The male officer tightened his grip on his gun. “Who are you? Show yourself! Did you attack a police officer?” I assume he assumed I was a kid, playing a prank--a horrible prank, really--and that he had no idea… I cackled madly (it sounded absolutely horrifying, totally). The male officer seemed to think I was hiding behind the counter, as he jumped onto the counter and leapt down, looking around. “Now, really, it isn’t funny!” the officer shouted. “Show yourself, kid!” “LEAVE!” I yelled. The officer named Tina groaned and stood up, slightly off-balance.
Anthony Dai We investigate the hornets nest. Why did I mistake rn for m. We talk with Jumbo and Mini plus some other bikers. We go to Ned’s creepatorium to see the footage at the hornets nest. We see a large man with a red t-shirt coming out of the woods. We see his face and… woah he kinda looks like cal. did call do it? theres no way right? and then after his entry people screamed and came running out of the building. Other classmates went to the morgue. There were claw marks on the bodies, hmmm seems like a random oversized bear…. man I hope it isnt a bigfoot shapeshifter who can suck people into spaces and also be cal on steroids. The shap- I mean the abomination arrives and we get attacked. Cindy chose >Run and sprinted so fast she could be named Usain “Cindy” Bolt. Cal fights Cal on steroids and does some oojgdaj,. Some sherrifs arrive and Katie screams A REST THAT MAN!!! Cindy fails to run away because the abomination is like Colena running to Katies location ready to plant a bomb in her basement. The abomination breaks the sound barrier but misses Cindy. Cindy alive what ok the when.
Caleb Mou I went to investigate in the hornets nest and then went to a morgue and met the shapeshifter and got sucked into a portal.
Eric Zhang We had an investigation at the hornets nest looking around. Then we decide to talk to some random bikers and for some reason attack the police. We then split up. I decided to go to the Creepatorium then we decided to destroy the video to not get caught. After we investigated some bodies and we got attacked by a monster we also then found a Bigger than bigfoot, bigfoot and Cal turned into a smaller bigfoot and wrested it in the end we ran as cowards.
Katie
After everyone had found me, the police officer was offering ME to become a police officer also! Of Course i could not refuse so I said yes. With the others there was a crime case at the bar so there was caution tape everywhere! As usual DUMB Colena just went right throught because no one could see her. She saw an old lady and for some random reason decided to break a bottle on her head then she fell over. And Colena made everyone hear it.Police came running and thought she was a kid that just ACCIDENTALLY came in. “Yo kid , come out you're not supposed to be here.” As they were coming closer Colena just walked slowly away but they couldn't really see her because she was invisible just a bit later the lady got up again and was like “ I felt like my head just went to california!” <<fast forward>>......
Later we had the footage that would explain everything! Colena was worried because NO ONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE MONSTERS. You had an option to look at the dead bodys( always entertaining.) or look at the footage. Most people decided to go look at the footage when they were looking. Colena couldn’t help but smash the video. Glitter surrounded her so everyone could see her. Everyone thought she was the one that killed everyone/ the criminal that was behind everything. But what they didn’t know is that it was Colena. <<FAST FORWARD>> After Cal and the others were stuck in this room with dead bodys. They heard the monster coming! Everyone started hiding. After a while they started trying to escape. Cal was beside the exit and made it but Caleb didn’t seem to come… END OF CHAPTER……
SESSION ELEVEN
The Chase
Colena Okay, I’ve lost track of the date…June 2022, two nights after the full moon. My location is…the Creepatorium Parking Lot.
Date: June 2022 Location: The Streets of Kepler So I’m running, er, driving, in Cal’s truck (maybe I should’ve gotten Aubrey’s instead, but Aubrey’s keys are nowhere to be found) and I speed down the road at 100 km/h (I am not converting to miles, thank you very much), probably earning myself some speed tickets (luckily, Sheriff Jefferson and Co. are busy investigating the monster’s whereabouts, although Ned Chicane thinks it’s me?!). I stopped Cal’s truck at the front door of Amnesty Lodge, made sure no one was around, and turned visible and heard, and all the glitter fell to the ground. I found a gallon of water (why Cal keeps that in his truck, I have no idea) and poured it on the glitter, causing it to slide down the nearest drain (or whatever those holes in the ground are called). I headed inside the Lodge and decided to chill on the roof (yeah, I have that privilege, as a ghost). I stayed gliding around the roof for like thirty minutes when I saw a weird static-y figure rush past. Moments later, a couple Hornets (with Hollis in the lead) and Sheriff Jefferson (with Eason and Eric chilling at the back of Jefferson’s car, Eason yelling “I have rocks!” while barefoot [well, he’s got socks, I guess]) zoomed after it. At the same time, I heard the door of Amnesty Lodge being opened and Katie bragging about a wonderful shot on somebody’s butt. Not something I’d brag about, but at least we get a break from Bruno crap for once. I slipped downstairs and saw Blaze Force (minus Eric, Caleb and Eason), plus some other Hornets in the Entrance place. Katie was playing with a rifle Sheriff Jefferson gave her. I decided to ask Jumbo, the big fat dude of the Hornets, about the night of the attack. “So!” I said loudly, gliding over to the Hornets. “What can you tell me about the night of the attack? What did the hooded figure look like?”
Jumbo immediately started crying. I don’t know why, but the scene was mildly hilarious. I stifled a laugh as one of the other Hornets said, “Aw, look, you made Jumbo cry!” I ignored him and said loudly, “So can you tell me anything?” The Hornet scowled and made to punch me, but obviously, his fist went right through. The Hornets stared at me in shock. Jumbo even stopped crying. I stifled another laugh. The Hornet whipped out a knife and threw it in my direction. I got out of the way, even though I knew it couldn’t hurt me. Some guy barged in and yelled, “Didn’t know you talked to boring people!” at the Hornets. I turned and saw the older brother of Calvin (the guy who saw the monster in Kepler’s Institute of Excellence’s library, and the captain of the school’s debate team), named B-something or the other. He was wearing what people unlike me (and when I say unlike me, I mean creatures and beings who see the world much more differently than I) call, “Cool” stuff, and acting like a “cool” person. “You’re not welcome,” I said. He ignored me as one of the Hornets protested, “She made Jumbo cry!” “Everything makes Jumbo cry,” the guy retorted. He left the Lodge, slamming the door behind him. Well, that was weird. The Hornets gave me a very suspicious look before walking away.
***
I found the Hornets later, looking at a ditch. Sheriff Jefferson and Hollis and the other Hornets who were chasing the monster appeared. “Oh, look, it’s the weird girl,” said one of the Hornets as I walked up. Seriously? Weird? I thought I’d be called abnormal, or creepy, but weird? What makes me weird besides the fact that I’m a ghost, half-dead, knows a rather odd secret, and the fact that I helped a woman lock a mad man dripping with black goo in the Lodge’s Infirmary? Just then, Katie came, pretending to blow nonexistent smoke from her gun. Something told me she did the exact same thing when she shot somebody’s butt. “Hey, Katie, these guys are calling me weird,” I said. She lifted her gun, looking excited. “Want to shoot one?”
“Whoa--whoa!” one of the Hornets said, as Katie casually started pointing the gun at each of them in turn. I started laughing, feeling extremely pleased with myself. “Shoot in the hole!” Eason was running towards us (where the hell were his shoes?). “Yeah, do it!” said one of the Hornets, who seemed very relieved when Katie pointed the gun down the pit. “No, shoot a Hornet or something!” I said. Just then, we heard Hollis yell, “HORNETS! Get here! Quick!” “Quick, do it! Before we have to go!” one of the other Hornets said. “Alright!” Katie said unhappily, and shot a bullet into the hole. We heard a grunt of pain. Sounded VERY human. “Uh-uh--we have nothing to do with this,” the Hornets said, and they ran off. Katie laughed and called them cowards.
***
After unsuccessfully trying to persuade Sheriff Jefferson to jump into the hole, it was night, and Katie, Eason, and I returned inside the lodge, where I was informed of the day’s events. Apparently, some stuff that jumped out to me were: Caleb went missing, Eason chucked some rocks at the monster (who Cal said could shapeshift) before getting Aubrey’s car flipped over. Despite Katie’s many protestations that went like, “Excuse me, it was skill!”, the Blaze Force said that Katie got blessed by luck and managed an accurate shot on the monster’s butt. “Also, Katie shot someone in the pit!” Eason decided to say. “Like, after we got back!” “What?” Cal said, confused. “Yes!” I said. “She shot down the hole, she probably shot CALEB!” Okay, yeah, it wasn’t Caleb, but I did not feel Katie wielding a gun was a great idea, and I really wanted Sheriff Jefferson to confiscate the shotgun from her. “Yeah!” said Eason. “I think Caleb was down the pit, she shot Caleb, and--” “That’s it!” Sheriff Jefferson snapped. He yanked the gun from Katie, who unsuccessfully tried to tug it back. “HEYYYY!!!” Katie complained.
“See, she’s not even denying it!” I said, trying not to laugh, and acting as if I felt very somber because Caleb was shot. When really I was not. Sheriff Jefferson seemed to believe me and Eason and gave Katie a very stern lecture that lasted approximately 34.52 seconds and left the lodge. A brief silence followed, broken by-“So what are we going to call this thing?” Cal said. After many debates of “bigfoot-are-bad”, Cal said, “NO!”, which would’ve saved a lot of time if he said that earlier, and I, after a long pause, suggested, “What about the Shapeshifter?” “Well…I guess that would work…” Cal said slowly. “That’s what Thacker would’ve called it.” “Ah, why don’t we go down and find out?” I suggested, standing up. “AHEM!” Louisa interrupted me, flashing me a warning look. “Maybe-” CRACK! “What was that?” “The dragon hatching?” I yelled. “Yeah, you put a dragon in my fireplace!” Louisa complained. [sound of a net crashing to the floor] “Not the dragon! It’s from the basement!” someone said. “I’m going to see!” Katie and I yelled at the same time. Predictably, I got there first, as Katie had to push open doors, also wasting time by punching those that were particularly stubborn, while I just glided through the floor. Lol. I saw Thacker destroy his prison-hospital-bed-cage-thing. “LOUISA!” I screamed. “THACKER’S BREAKING OUT!” “Cal, I have to tell you something!” Louisa yelled. She took a deep breath and said superfast: “I-actually-went-to-the-Quell-for-two-months-to-find-him-with-Colena-and-um-he’s-a-bit-mad-so-we-lockedhim-up-in-the-infirmary-don’t-kill-hiiimmmmm!” And Thacker jump to the ceiling as everyone came down. Thacker, dripping in black goo, leapt for Cindy, who screamed, “WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE MEEE?! ALL THE TIME!? EVERY SINGLE EFFING TIME! OWW-” “Yeah, that’s not fair!” I yelled at Thacker. “Get someone else!”
Wow, Thacker actually listened and leapt back onto the ceiling and pounced on Katie this time. Sweet. Eric, Eason, and I roared with laughter. Cal ran forward and swatted Thacker real hard, and Thacker flew up to the ceiling, smashed his head, and collapsed on his gooey bed. “O-Oh…I think you killed him,” Louisa said. “Get him some medical help!” I said. “No point, his heart’s not beating,” Louisa said, rushing over, then proceeded to swear old-fashionedly. Katie, Eason, and Eric stepped forward to “help”. Louisa got Thacker on a clean bed, and Katie held out her hand, and ordered, “Scalpel.” I swear I heard her mutter, “So I can get his heart out and replace it with a Bruno machine.” Honestly, I’m half-surprised. I’m not surprised because Bruno machines are nonexistent, but I am rather shocked by the fact that Katie knows that scalpels are often used in heart surgery. Luckily, Cal, who chose at this particular moment not to be a stupid idiot, said, “Why?” Eason pushed Katie roughly out of the way and Eric found the heart-shocker thing. Eric “shocked” Thacker back to life (please excuse me, I was a monter-hunter, a mythbuster, not a professional doctor, so I may have got all these terms completely wrong). “Oh…good…great.” Louisa sighed. Thacker rose, about to attack again, but we (EXCEPT Katie, she is not getting any credit) managed to subdue him. Upstairs, we heard on the radio (or was it the phone? I effing forgot) that Caleb had turned up at Dunkin’ Donuts. Why people turn up at the Donutplace is beyond me, and I really don’t remember agreeing to go to Dunkin’ Donuts, but five minutes later, I found myself there, and Caleb greeted us from a table large enough to seat all of us. Also, I’m fairly sure this is irrelevant and thus unimportant, but I vaguely remember Katie saying, “Mommy” to Louisa, and Louisa getting annoyed. I think Katie also managed to get Louisa to buy food for all of us (“Mommy, buy us food”-- “I’ll buy as a friend, Katie, don’t call me that, by the way, i-it’s awkward,”-- “MOMMY”), food I didn’t touch, as I’m a ghost, and food I felt no desire to eat. Caleb said that he’d recently been talking to Louisa, like, five minutes ago. We all said, “Impossible”, and realized Caleb must’ve been talking to the Shapeshifter.
“I don’t get it,” Louisa said, frowning, “firstly, I was at Amnesty Lodge, just in case Thacker did anything, and because I was tired…um…also, how did Thacker manage to destroy the nets?” “Eason,” I said. “He’s cursed. Also has good luck. The Ritual in the Magic Lab.” “So…” We figured that when Eason got good luck, something bad happened right after. “But what good luck did he get before Thacker broke free?” somebody asked. I didn’t say anything, but I knew. We had persuaded Sheriff Jefferson to confiscate the gun from Katie. Yes, I helped, but Eason was the first to say anything. “...wait!” somebody said. “I just realized--you know when we told Katie we burned her stuff at her funeral, she said, “Fine, okay,”? What if it was the Shapeshifter? She did escape later…” “And it made eye contact with me, and transformed into me to kill the Hornets,” Cal said. “Well…who knows how many people the Katie/Shapeshifter saw and made eye contact with?” “And in the woods,” Eason interrupted, “the Shapeshifter smiled at me evilly and was looking me directly in the eye!” Caleb then brought up that he’d found himself at a hotel with cameramen. “Did you see anything strange?” I asked. “Some…Shapeshifter?” “I don’t know,” Caleb replied, “but…I-I did see some sort of static-y figure sitting on a chair…and then I saw doors…or were they portals?...leading to the Telescope…the woods….um.” “So maybe the place Katie ended up?” I said. “Maybe.” “And the Shapeshifter spawns at the same places,” I continued. “Also, static-y?” Cal leaned in. “When the Shapeshifter didn’t have a form, he looked a bit fuzzy-ish, like TV static, y’know?” I nodded. “Fuzzy. Static. Okay, cool.” “We should agree on some secret code,” said Eason. “To figure out if we’re talking to the Shapeshifter.” “What about ‘bigfoot is bad’?” suggested Eric.
Cal began protesting at this, and everyone else was discussing possible secret codes when I yelled, “Shut up!” Yeah, I could be more polite, but it’s not on my top list of priorities, never was, never has been, never will be. “We should just ask questions after a long time of seeing each last,” I said. “If we discuss it now, the monster’ll never know,” Eason said. “Not if it’s listening right now,” I replied. There was a brief silence, and I think one or two of the Blaze Force gasped very dramatically. “I think we should ask questions the Shapeshifter doesn’t know, like, ‘What was the first monster we fought together?’,” I continued. “That way, the Shapeshifter shouldn’t know anything. And make sure they’re different questions each time.” It was a good plan, and everyone agreed. We were just sitting/standing there in silence, when I decided to ask a question that had been preying on my mind. “When did Louisa make eye contact?” I asked. Nobody replied, not like anyone knew the answer. We stayed there, quietly eating our Dunkin’ Donuts stuff, lost in thought.
Anthony D Caleb ends up in a mysterious hotel after going in la rifte au chocolat. We chase the bigfoot and fight him. We also go to the hornets place and talk with Jumbo and that small guy I forgot the name of. The hornets are thinking that Colena is the glitter ghost. The mineshaft that I totally remember. We then research the bigfoot/shapeshifter/cal on steroids and thanker thing that I also very remember?? Eric saves him or something and Eason is cursed. Caleb is at Dunkin Donuts… Wait wasn’t there another person that suddenly went missing and went to dunkin donuts? We have met the shapeshifter before and he was actually… … …
Caleb Mou I got sucked into some kinda portal and then went to a hotel. Then I got out via monster and then I was at Dunkin doughnuts then we were figuring some stuff out.
Eric Zhang I went in the car with Cal and we were flipped over by bigfoot. Then we got chased by Cal on steroids to the portal and Eason saw him but Cal on steroids left us. Then we met back and they shot a shotgun in the hole I fell in. Then we went to the Infirmary and we found Thanker he fell so I repulsed his heart and stuck a syringe in him to make him sleep. We learn that Eason was cursed and we realize that the shapeshifter was pretending to be Katie.
Katie Chai
Alright so soon after Caleb appeared in some weird hotel room. Ya but anyways no one cares about him so lets get on to our group. So we were hunting down bigfoot and for some random reason sheriff Jefferson trusted ME with a gun. Very odd because i would rather kill Caleb then bigfoot but i can’t say that because well Caleb is not here with us. So with us we had an option to either ride with me and sheriff Jefferson or with Cal. Most people decided to go with Cal but boy you literally made the wrong choice. So I was just holding a gun out the car window. You know nothing suspicious going on. We saw bigfoot and well I missed my shot… And Mr. grumpy sheriff said that if I miss again then he will take the gun but that is totally not fair because me and the gun were meant to be. Next shot bam i hit him. Now here's the fun part about Cal's car. Well, Bigfoot flipped his car over but no one got hurt. We went back to Amnesty Lodge <<FAST FORWARD>>
We found this huge hole after a while and everyone wanted me to shoot in the hole to see what happend. After I shot it I heard some type of scream which was really weird. Someone faced a flashlight in the hole and there was literally blood. Had a shot someone? Sadly someone took the gun from me and brought it back to the police station. It was probably some type of animal. <<FLASH FORWARD>> We now have a new monster. The shapeshifter. Turners out that the shapeshifter was here longer than we thought. People were so clueless. Here's the story. When I was back at the telescope, whatever place I was going to the woods and staying the night there. So once the shapeshifter had found out my location they shapeshifted into me! So the Katie they put in the car, put in my room, and escaped was really actually the shapeshifter. And I was actually in the woods and I was also the one who went to dunk and donuts in the morning. All we know so far about the shapeshifter's real form is that it's really fuzzy and small. So we saw the shapeshifters before and just didn’t know…
SESSION TWELVE
A Secret No More
Anthony Dai We found Ned's car or something, and I don't remember bla bla Martial law. Caleb insisted that we tell sheriff TheMan or some dude about the gateway. We keep trying to stop him, and eventually lock him up in prison. The dragon hatched (timing) and we kindly borrow some of Agent Thompson's pictures of Sylvain. Both of our inmates escaped. Caleb and that one metally sane person. The shapeshifter yelled (in neds body) HEY GUAYZS LOOKIES AT THEIS PORATL I FOUND PORTAL 2 THE THE HEHHEHHAHAHA!! Good job shapeshifter.
Caleb Mo I escaped the prison and then we agreed not to attack each other and then I learned about the monster. Then Pigeon came and we had a pizza. Then a mob came running to the lodge and among them is a fraud that almost died. Then Kalvin and Sherif went into the portal.
Eric Zhang We found Ned's abandoned car and the hornets declared war. Caleb tried to rat us out to the FBI many times so we decided to take the prisoner. Then the dragon hatched and freed Caleb. When he did we found out Thacker escaped. Then we heard on the radio Ned planning to get people to attack us.
Katie chai
Apparently caleb is dumb enough to literally expose us to everyone and is blackmailing use. Mama and Cal drove away for no reason whatsoever. Because Caleb was going to expose us we decided to trap him and hatch the dragon egg in front of his face sadly we couldn’t kill him though. The shapeshifter turned into ned and it seemed that the person i got an autograph from was the shapeshifter! Soon after Ned/ shapeshifter went on the radio and exposed the portal to sylvain! He told everyone in the town to go meet at the portal but after we decided to go on the radio to and say that it was a trick! I was the one singing, we don't talk about bruno in the background. When we got to the portal oddly enough we saw 2 Neds. One was sitting on a balcony and relaxing, the other was going up the hill with the other people to get to the portal. I decided to go to the one at the balcony and say WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU LAZY BITCH! Yes I was that angry that I said that-. But happily he decided to move his lazy but. After someone's kid *accidentally* went through the
portal! And the parents too! We were shocked that it's dangerous in Silvain but they still decided to go. So we had to go to.
SESSION THIRTEEN
The Battle Begins
Anthony Dai We prepared our defences (woah tower defense game) and the wave (woah tower defense game 2) began. AAAAAAANTHOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNY the harbinger says calmly. I had a comically large spoon since my childhood but I threw it away. It is now in the creepatorium. Ned drives me there because “its just a dream”. I gain 689238749823749 tough bhecause i mm good og od and we ambush a pizza driver??? The wave went through and bombarded the portal. This is how we actually leave when theres a fire in the school. We chased the shapeshifter into the portal.
Caleb Mou I escaped the prison and then we agreed not to attack each other and then I learned about the monster. Then Pigeon came and we had a pizza. Then a mob came running to the lodge and among them is a fraud that almost died. Then Kalvin and Sherif went into the portal.
Eric Zhang I was in the lodge but I decided to call Pigeon to look at the hole I fell in. At the hole I got armed with a shotgun and rifle then Pigeon says the blood was from the Mothman. I listened to her rant until we split and I came to an angry mob that was coming at me so I dropped my guns and said I meant no harm so they turned around. Then I read the room and ran to the portal. Apparently the chief’s son came and went through the portal so we followed.
Katie Chai
We chased the shapeshifter through the portal and also Calvin Jefferson also went through the damn portal and so did his father.We went right through the portal to sylvain! We got caught and had been handcuffed by these things with an evil sheep thing. Colena and Anthony went to this place where everyone puts all their prized positions and touches this crystal thingy or whatever it is i don’t really care. And for some random reason Anthony brings out his huge spoon and decides to take a bit of the crystal like it was a gummy. Eric meets up with his partner Pidgeon who is convinced that Mothman is on the loose. We also ambushed a pizza driver which was enjoyable to see. We found out that the shapeshifters
mob began to show up and prepared to defend me ofcourse.
SESSION FOURTEEN
Through the Portal
Anthony Dai We arrive at the Sylvain. People can see the harbinger now woah!!!!! The Quell (iforgor) is basically at the city now. People are starting to leave because a war is going to start. Blue people defend and red people attack. We attack the red people because red people is red and the red is the. Hubert was the shape shifter so the when. We were arrested (i wasnt) and I was at the roof of the crystal place. Colena and Eason touch the crystal again (great idea). I EAT THE CRYSTAL (greater idea) and it tastes like either oreo or i forgot. The seeker is dead.
Eric Zhang Once we pass the portal we see the harbinger confused that Anthony was not lying. We walk in the abnormally open city and find people placing their most prized possessions. We see different ribboned police and for some reason attack the red one which is Hubert’s army. We get taken in and explain and realize Hubert is the Shapeshifter.
SESSION FIFTEEN
Seeking the Truth
Sorry, I lost track of the date. It’s summer, and boiling hot. That’s all I know. This is the last time anyone will have been to or left Sylvain. This is the last time we will be called Blaze Force Most of us will still live be around to swear another day, though, don’t worry. And yes, MOST of us. Can you guess who’s going to die?
Entry of Colena Shan
“The seeker is dead.” Very funny. I mean, what did you expect? You hide her in the “safe place”, and she gets killed. Meh, who cares? Now you focus on getting the killer. “Hey!” I yelled. “I think the Shapeshifter who killed her might be here! In this room!” Mortimer snaps his fingers and calls for a temporary lockdown of the room. BANG! BANG! BANG! THUD! Four doors slam down, trapping us in the room. I scream at Mortimer, “Ask each of these officials a question only they would know the answer to!” Mortimer gets up and approaches the lady with a bored expression and a book in her hands. The bored Sylvan said, “Is this really helpful, Mortimer? It’s the day of the apocalypse. The apocalypse.” “I STILL WANT TO KILL WHOEVER KILLED THE SEEKER JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!” I yelled at her, while my brain screamed, And then the rest of Sylvain! And maybe Kepler too! “Laws still matter,” Mortimer said. “They mean something.” The woman sighed and said, “Is there anything you know that I don’t?” “Yeah,” said Katie, but I said over her, “We’re just trying to find out if you’re, like, the real you.”
Mortimer looked unsure of himself, but cleared his throat and said, “What did you get me on the day of my wedding?” A brief pause. “Flowers,” Katie said, like she knew the answer. “Shut up, Katie,” I snapped. “Nothing,” the woman said, with the faintest trace of amusement. Me and Katie started laughing. “Still bothers me to this day,” Mortimer grumbled, shaking his head, and walked up to the big bearfolk guy, who looked all muscle and no brain. Kind of like Katie, but bigger. The big Sylvan raised his eyebrows and said, “Why does Mortimer get to ask all the questions? What makes him more trustworthy than us?” “Momma asked him stuff earlier,” I said, “and he answered correctly.” “What if you’re all Shapeshifters?” Seriously? “Well, you don’t. And we know for sure there’s one, and nobody has said anything of there being another one, or ten,” I replied. “Okay, just kidding,” the big guy said, and Mortimer asked him (OF ALL THINGS), “What is six times six?” I rolled my eyes, laughed, and thought, Such a stupid, pointless question. Katie apparently felt the same way, because she“EXCUSE ME?!” Katie screamed. I half expected her to yell some number that was not 36, probably 600 or something, but Caleb beat her to it. “It’s 66, stupid! So easy!” Caleb cut in.
“You’re as stupid as Katie,” I told him. A muffled “Bruh” came from Katie’s direction. The bear dude narrowed his eyes at Mortimer and said, “Twelve! What kind of stupid question is-” He probably finished with is this, but I didn’t hear, since most of us just began laughing. “He is who he says he is,” Mortimer declared, “All good.” Then he approached Hubert. “Uh…Hubert?” Hubert stared at him. “The impostor!” Eason whisper-shouted. “Shut up, we don’t know,” I said. 20 seconds of awkward silence. “Well?” Katie said loudly, ending the silence. “What did you promise on the day of our wedding?” Mortimer said finally. They’re married? Oh, well, what should I expect? My life is never, ever, going to make sense. “Now I know this is going to sound a little suspicious,” Hubert said, “and I suppose that is why you chose the question but I promised I would save you no matter the cost.” “Really, huh?” I said skeptically. Mortimer hesitated, then said, “Well…he is right.” That can’t be, my brain said, the Hubert gave us an evil smile earlier…… “Were you preparing for war recently?” I asked him. Hubert frowned. “I’ve been preparing for war all my adult life.” “Right…but were you ordering any, say, red troops around? Recently? Like today?” “I’ve been here the entire time,” Hubert said, looking confused.
Eason gasped dramatically, and I went on, “Well, okay, here’s the thing. We, um, strongly believe the shapeshifter as you…so…I think he might be around, looking like you.” “Handcuffs!” Mortimer called, pointing at Hubert, who didn’t resist when some Sylvans approached him with handcuffs. “I’m not saying-I…I don’t believe the one we were just talking to is the bad guy,” I said quickly. “But…the handcuffs would help us tell the difference, right?” “That was my thought as well,” Mortimer said. “Well, I hope he doesn’t come after me,” Hubert said, looking bored. “Well…if he sees you…well, he can turn into you, just saying,” I said.
Sylvain We’re allowed to ask questions, so I asked the room at large, “Where did the Seeker die? And who had access to her rooms?” A young Sylvan man approached me. “I can answer that,” he said. “I was the one who brought the news of her death. She died in her quarters, near the Heart of Sylvain. We believe the killer infiltrated her sanctuary and…killed her, presumably disguised as someone else.” “Ahem!” Katie said loudly. “I am asking questions too! A veeery important one for you.” I rolled my eyes as the Sylvan said, “...yes, of course?” “Where is the kitchen?” Katie said dramatically. “Shut up, Katie, you’re not going to eat, you’re gonna starve.” “I have a question-” Caleb began. “YOU DIDN’T ANSWER ME! WHERE IS THE KITCHEN!?” Katie roared.
“Um…” “Don’t tell her,” I urged him. Katie whipped out her blunt pocketknife and pointed it at the Sylvan. “Tell. Me. Where. The. Kitchen. IS!!” Katie yelled. I yanked the pocketknife from her and snapped, “Don’t tell her where the kitchen is.” “Oh…um…uh…why not?” the Sylvan said hesitantly. “‘Cause she’s a piece of trash, and she’s going to trash the place.” “Wait…I’d like him to answer this, actually, please continue, Katie,” Mortimer interrupted, suddenly beside us and frowning. “I just want to eat something!” Katie yelled. “The…kitchen…is,” the Sylvan began awkwardly, his eyes darting left to right, like he was looking for a place to escape, “...is…on…this…floor?” “Hold on,” I said, instantly suspicious. “What’s your name?” “Max,” he said promptly. “Well, I have a question for you,” I said, “if we asked you something Max knows, would you be able to answer?” “O-of course,” he replied. “Okay…” I said skeptically. “Where’s the kitchen!?” Katie yelled. “I-” “You’re hesitating! You don’t know!” Katie screamed.
“Wait…” I said, but before I could say You’re the Shapeshifter, “Max” yelled, “Frickin’ Blaze Force!” and turned into a cloud of particles. “Knew it!” I yelled. [Later, me and Katie would quarrel for ages about who found out about the Shapeshifter first. I said it was me, Katie said it was her for the Kitchen question. I argued that she sounded like she was simply trolling, plus she was pretty dumb with an IQ of lower than an idiot’s--43.] My crossbow was suddenly loaded and I shot it straight at the Shapeshifter. It hit somewhere in the middle of the cloud of particles, and the particles didn’t turn into anything, and I yelled for my team and Katie to fire. Eric and Xiang hesitated and Cindy leapt forward with a drawn scabbard from the random pile of weapons we handed out. The sword had a couple weird engravings on the hilt, which is a random and useless fact, and Cindy used it to slice at the cloud, successfully getting it to scream in a rather odd way, and the particles started floating to the other part of the chamber. We followed it, and Katie whips out her nonexistent gun that does existent damage and fires at the cloud. “WHAAAT?” we all yelled, clearly overreacting. “WHERE THE [redacted] DID YOU GET THAT?” “Po-lice station!” Katie said with a superior tone as the goat dude were like, “WHAT WAS THAT?” “YOU LIAR!” I yelled as I recalled a random time when Momma told me that those goatfolk had only ever seen guns on movies from Earth, and that Louisa totally snuck them out to movies to watch them. Anyways, that thought stayed in my head for five seconds, and then it was replaced with all the obscenities I’d call Katie when this fiasco was over. Or maybe I’d call her some of them during the battle. No time like the present.
Caleb declared, “I’m going to do the gun thing!” and Katie protested, “YOU CAN’T COPY ME!!” as Caleb yanked the gun from her and used his superior gun skills that far surpasses Katie’s (she only shoots straight ‘cause she has a guardian…angel that is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper patient and pities her) to fire at the cloud, causing an even louder scream. Now all the goat dude were clapping (poor Hubert had difficulty doing so with handcuffs) as Katie wailed, “That’s not fair though!” “Katie, just because you suck at using a gun-” I broke off at another scream from the cloud, and Katie grabbed the gun back, glaring at Caleb as Eason tossed his spear like a javelin at the particles. (Meanwhile, the person who made things the way they were was huffing, “Katie gets a free gun, let’s not talk about fairness right now.”) Eason was clearly just as successful as Caleb and gained another three screams to help deteriorate our hearing. The particles scattered as Lucas stared while Caleb yelled at him, “SLAP IT, SLAP IT! EAT IT!” The particles, seeming to sense some peace or something, got together and drifted past him. “Anthony!” Great, the Harbinger’s here. She began saying some crap that I tuned out, and advised Anthony to ignore her. “Instead of breaking down this door,” Anthony said, falling onto the floor. “I’m going to have a mental breakdown. BECAUSE OF YOU.” Then he began screaming, “I LIKE TO DRINK ORANGE JUICE!! I LIKE TO GO BRUSH MY TEETH-” “That’s probably precisely what she wanted,” I muttered. The particles drifted through the door and we heard, “AAAAAH! I LIKE TO DRINK ORANGE JUICE AND BRUSH MY TEETH!!” I yelled, “I’m going to shoot it!” mostly to make sure nobody would get in the way.
And Katie, of all people, just has to say, “You can’t shoot it! You have no gun!” Seriously, is she blind or what? “Yes I can!” I snapped back at her. “I’ve got a crossbow, you dumb or what? Oh, yeah, you are.” We knocked the door down. My second bolt hit the cloud of particles that was now Hubert and it screamed and coughed. Mid-scream, Eason chucked another spear at it, and the spear lodged into his chest, then it dissolved into particles and drifted down the hallway. We charged after the particles, all except Caleb, who stayed back to help Anthony (although he did shout encouragement and swear at the particles), who was currently screaming something along the lines of Brushing your teeth is good for you after consuming food. Me, Eason, and Katie fired repeatedly at the particles, preventing it from being reformed. Eric had his gun out now, and hesitantly fired a bullet. We quickly noticed the cloud becoming smaller, and I took it as a good sign. I also noted that we were being led deeper into the palace rather than further out, but heck, anyplace is good when I kill this guy. We sped down a spiral staircase, the air getting cooler with every step we took. Eventually, we came into a room that was bathed in an ethereal glow. I continued shooting at the Shapeshifter as it headed closer to the Crystal. I stopped firing for a couple seconds, and my companions did the same. We all watched as it turned into the Seeker.
Sylvain “STOP!” she yelled. “Wait, wait, I can explain!” A crossbow bolt zipped past her and a spear sunk into her shoulder. “Okay, sure, go ahead, explain,” I said, rolling my eyes.
“You should be dead!” one of my companions exclaimed. “Yes, yes, I did…” the Seeker said. “I faked my death.” “Why?” I said, not believing a word. “Because I knew they were going to listen to you,” the Seeker replied. “Okay, listen, Seeker, why-why did you pret-why did you act like the Shapeshifter? You were a cloud of particles. Very shapeshifter of you,” I said. “Because…” the Shapeshifter hesitated. “Um…it’s been me the whole time! It’s…the power of my birthright.” “Let’s shoot it!” Eason shouted. I also didn’t believe a word, so I said, “Alright! Why were you elected Seeker?” “Can we kill it now?” Eason grumbled. “I…I wasn’t elected, it was forced on me,” the Shapeshifter said. “I never wanted any of this.” No, I don’t think you want Blaze Force to kill you. Too bad, that’s going to happen. Eason asked if we could kill the Shapeshifter now, and I said, “Okay. Name one responsibility you’ve had to have.” “Um……um…I…” “She’s hesitating!” Katie yelled. “...I seek…” “HESITATION! HESITATION!” Katie screamed. “...I seek the truth…and…I’m in charge of leading my people…to…I needed to start a conflict with your world…”
“OH? Why?” I snapped. “...they wouldn’t listen to me!” “Okay, bullshit,” I said. “You were--I mean, the Seeker was elected Seeker because she was supposed to, according to a prophecy, “lead the Sylvans to a bright future” and not “start a war with another world or planet”. Alright, everybody, kill it!” Katie and Eason yelled a weird noise that I’m assuming was their battle cry, so I barely heard the Shapeshifter yell, “WAIT!” before I fired three bolts at it, one after the other, as Katie shot most of her bullets and Eason chucked his spear. The particles turned bright yellow and exploded. The Shapeshifter was dead, and Eason took extra pleasure in attacking the air with a bat. Eventually, something fell on the ground, and I raced to get it before he did, but he beat me before I even took a step. Probably nothing anyways, but I was already plotting to steal it. Apparently, it was something that belonged to “Gregor” and could probably affect the results of stuff we made in the magic lab. Eason slipped it in his pockets and we stood there awkwardly for a while.
Sylvain “Is…is it time?” a hesitant voice came from behind us. I spun around alarmingly fast (and luckily, I didn’t trip) and said, “Who-” It was the Seeker. “Bruh!” Katie exclaimed. The Seeker was sitting cross-legged on an orange-red pillow and appeared to be meditating, although in my experience, meditating doesn’t include being invisible to a bunch of mad teenagers trying to kill a cloud of particles.
“Why are you alive?” I demanded loudly. “Shouldn’t you be dead?” “I don’t understand,” she replied. “Okay, sorry, weren’t you killed?” I said. “Was I…killed?” “Yeah, where’ve you been?” I asked. “If I were killed, everything would be much more simple, I suppose…but I do not believe so, no,” the Seeker said. “I’m meditating before the Council, I was told somebody would be sent for me, is that you?” “Yeah!” Eason said enthusiastically, and he did a good job of pretending we were, although I’m not sure if he thought what he said was true. “Hold up,” I said slowly. “Who told you that?” “Mortimer,” said the Seeker. “BRUH!” Katie exclaimed. “Why weren’t you present at the Council, then?” I snapped. “Why did someone come and say you died?” The Seeker stood up. She raised her hands, and the crystal’s light tripled in brightness. Wish I had some sunglasses. Then she lowered them and the room went dim. “I was chosen for my connection to the Heart of Sylvain,” she said, “and it’s all I’m good for. The one trick I can do.” “So…what’ve you been doing?” “I was told to ask a question and I’ve been using all my power to ask the Crystal what to do,” the Seeker replied.
“And…have you gotten an answer?” “NO!” she said. “I’ve never gotten an answer…not once. In fourteen years, has this thing ever spoken to me?” “Well…has it spoke to anyone? I mean, it’s just a crystal.” “Heh…well, they said it spoke to my predecessors, but maybe they were lying,” she replied. “Hard to know.” “Why don’t you eat a bit of it?” I suggested. Anthony did that and he got quite a vision. “What?!” “Eat it,” I repeated, as my friends burst out laughing. “How?” “Spoon! Just eat it!” Eason said. “In my experience, that’s how you get visions or something,” I huffed. “Oh, well, I suppose, at this point-” “You might pass out,” I interrupted. “Oh…no, I don’t think I’m going to do that,” the Seeker said quickly. “Alright, coward, suit yourself.” “We have our answer, if our planet were alive, ever, it is no longer,” she said. “And if my people have any future…it is not here. On Sylvain.” “Well, they’re not coming to Earth!” I said. “End of discussion.” “I know where they can go!” It was Eason. “They can go underground and die!” “Pardon my friends, they’re ridiculously stupid,” I muttered.
We decided to do a quick vote.
Yes = Let Seeker meet up with Mortimer and Hubert, knowing she’s going to tell them to make a move on the portal. No = Refuse or persuade her to keep the Sylvans here KILL HER Katie’s was the only Yes vote, and we all spent thirty seconds yelling at her, “WHAT THE HELL, YOU ARE SO DUMB, GET A BRAIN!” Katie was persuaded into either help us or get shot herself, so she started reloading her gun (incorrectly at first, and she took two full minutes to reload it), Eric raised his, Eason grabbed his spear, Cindy waving her scabbard uncertainly, Xiang and Lucas at the side, just watching nervously. I reloaded my crossbow. “You…you don’t need to. Why can’t my people come to your world?” the Seeker managed. “THEY NEED TO DEAL WITH THEIR OWN PROBLEMS AND NOT HAVE SOMEBODY TO RUN TO!” I roared. “I’ve an idea, weird Seeker,” Eason said, “you give us all your gold and we’ll let you come to our world-” Katie rudely cut him off with, “ALSO WE DON’T LIKE SHARING!” “What profit do we get from it?” I demanded. “We are already harboring some exiles. Would your people like to meet up with them? Friends or something?” “We can’t force ourselves upon your world,” the Seeker said. “EXACTLY.” “If…if you don’t want us there, we will stay…”
“Alright, great, everybody shoot her!” I ordered, and I fired. I missed, because I felt myself being possessed. Are you kidding me? “You were reborn in the light of the crystal?” the Seeker asked me. “Yeah,” I said dully. “Very foturnate for me,” she said. Eason raised his spear and I yelled, “YES, THANK YOU EASON!” and he thrust the spear. It hit the Seeker, and he said, “Oh, and unfortunately, I was not reborn.” The Seeker sighed and slid back to a sitting position. Her eyes were closed. “She’s dying!” someone cheered. The crystal went out.
Sylvain We sprinted up the stairs to find Caleb and Anthony (who by now had stopped screaming toothpaste and juice-related nonsense) staring outside. They turned to us and saw our expressions (I believe we looked extremely pleased with ourselves) and I announced loudly, “WE KILLED THE SEEKER!!” We marched out of the palace (still wearing broad grins from our latest achievement) and noticed that the Quell’s smoke had nearly taken over the edges of the city. Hubert wasn’t leading them, but we saw a bunch of people marching and we heard plenty of shouting, although none could possibly be as loud as me. They were heading for the portal. Louisa and Cal were suddenly in front of us, and I was like, in a sing-song voice, “I killed the seeker! I killed the seeker!”
“Great,” Louisa said, and I noticed that she and Cal were both dragging two people in chains-Calvin Jefferson and Sheriff Jefferson. They both wore small pieces of Sylvan fabric and looked VEERY confused. “Hi, guys,” I said casually, “I killed the Seeker.” “Why are you glowing?” “Colena, are you an alien?” “Yes, yes,” I said. “Duh.” “Oh, you killed the Seeker?” Louisa said, sighing. “‘Cause they just told me they did. There was a whole thing--” “We found the Seeker meditating at the bottom of the Castle and so we killed her, right, guys?” “Yeah!” Caleb said, despite not being there. Eason and Katie nodded enthusiastically. “Alright, then, I’m going to assume you had a reason for that,” Louisa grumbled. “Oh! Yeah, ‘cause she was being annoying, and stuff, see, and talking about bringing the Sylvans to Earth…and…pretty much.” “Riiight,” Louisa said. “So they were gonna-never mind, it probably doesn’t matter now, what with the Shapeshifter-” “We killed the Shapeshifter!” I interrupted. “You’re welcome!” “Well-that’s-you sure? You got proof?” I explained that we basically killed the cloud of particles. “Listen…we gotta get the heck out of here,” Louisa said. “Like…this place is going down. We got to get to the portal.” “Okay, cool,” I said. Caleb echoed, “Cool.”
There were some feeble attempts to get Katie left behind (“Katie-hey, look over there, a Bruno!”) but all failed as we moved through the refugees towards the army. I reloaded my crossbow as we made our way through the mass. Somebody blew a horn and I saw the army stop moving and get into battle position, spreading out. “They’re attacking! They’re attacking! It’s finally happening! The humans are finally attacking us!” the refugees hissed. “I approve,” I muttered darkly. “But I don’t think that’s what’s happening.” The portal crackled with power and Hornets, people of Kepler in general, some Amnesty Lodge residents, and Aubrey stepped through.
The Portal They spread out in a semi-circle in front of the Army of Sylvain. At first, I was confused. Shouldn’t most of them be screaming their heads off, completely insane? But apparently Aubrey’s sleeves were ripped, and I guessed that every human through must’ve gotten a piece of Sylvan fabric. They were brandishing weapons, but not really using them. “Traitor!” I hissed. Caleb and Eason started chanting, “Traitor” under their breath. I screamed, “GET THE HUMANS!” The refugees quieted for a second, and I bellowed again, “GET THE HUMANS!” The army was listening. With no leader in sight, some of them crouched down, about to“Nobody can get through this portal with weapons!” I just about heard Aubrey’s order. “Hornets, die!” Eason said, trying to sound like Hollis (and failing miserably). “How’re we playing this?” Hollis spoke.
“You tell your people to die!” I explained. “Tell them to die? My people?” Hollis said. “Yeah!” Caleb, Eason, and I yelled. “Stab him!” Caleb added. He told us to F off and marched off. “We’re keeping the weapons!” I heard a Sylvan soldier shout. “There’s probably a trap on the other side.” Murmurs of agreement rose from the army as Aubrey said, “It’s not a trap! It’s just the only way we’re willing to let you through! There’s a town, they’ll welcome you, they’ll feed you just like they looked after me.” “SHUT UP EXILE!” roared another soldier. “Nobody looked after you!” Caleb shouted.
“Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill them all!” Eason and I chanted. The sky darkened a little, as the Quell moved closer to us. Anthony threw a handful of sand in the air. For NO REASON WHATSOEVER, except maybe the Harbinger being a bitch and bothering him again. THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENED CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS NOISE OR CHAOS. My chant was taken up by the Sylvans as they leveled their spears and charged. “F-fire!” Aubrey yelled. Guns went off. “LOOK THEY SHOT! ATTACK! ATTACK!” I yelled.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! [INHUMAN NOISE] “Hey, guys,” I muttered to my friends and Katie. “We’re going to get the Sylvans to kill as many people as they can, let them through the portal, and murder them.” Everyone with common sense (that is to say, everyone but Katie) agreed. There were about 10,000 Sylvans, most of them refugees, but a good 3,000 were probably soldiers. There were 40 townspeople, plus Aubrey, whose eyes widened and yelled to her side, “Fall back! Fall back!” And I still wanted to help the Sylvans kill the people of Kepler. Oh well. The first Sylvans managed to surge through the portal, us following. They now turned confused, but not insane. Sirens blared in the distance, still pretty loudly. By now, I was invisible, and threw some punches just for the fun of it. “RUN! RUN! RUN EVERYBODY!” somebody yelled. “IT’S A TRAP! RUN!” People and Sylvans scattered into the forest, distant hills, literally everywhere. It wouldn’t take long for many of them to spread across the U.S.A., North America, America, then find out how to swim, then take over Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa. So maybe I would have to kill them all in less than five years.
Amnesty Lodge, Kepler
Louisa Flores led us away from the mass of fleeing Sylvans (I shot twenty bolts and hit most of the time some random Sylvan) to Amnesty Lodge. No, wait. She was leading us to Cal’s truck, where many people gathered, looking veery concerned. Aubrey was clearly injured, and the sight of it made Caleb’s face shine with glee. He also apparently had gotten his dragon. Cal was saying, “Well, that went bad.” “DUH!” I yelled. “Ohh…good, Colena made it,” Cal said. Caleb loudly announced, “I’m going to get something!” “Oh, good, medicine?” somebody said. “No!” Caleb said, looking as if they were as stupid as Katie. “I’m getting Doritos for my dragon!” Some of the people rolled their eyes and sighed while I laughed. “Oh…good,” Aubrey muttered sarcastically, “I got real worried about…what do you call that dragon?” “Potato!” Caleb said, quite forgetting about Doritos. “That’s the worst name I’ve ever heard!” Katie burst out. “YEAH! Katie Sucks would please her more, did you hear that?” I commented. “Why? Doesn’t make any sense,” Aubrey mumbled. “It’s a good name,” Caleb stated. “Save your strength, Aubrey,” Cal muttered. “Oh! Aubrey! Who shot you, I wonder?” I said. “H-hard to tell,” Aubrey muttered. “Oh, maybe it was us! Cool!” I said.
Resort Road
We were bouncing along in Cal’s truck, while Aubrey groaned about all the potholes Cal might’ve hit. We were now at Kepler General Hospital. Aubrey was lying in a bed, and I was enthusiastically telling her everything we knew. “So we killed the Seeker, and we egged them on to go for you, so like-” “She needs medical treatment too, she’s talking nonsense,” the doctor interrupted, pointing at me. I was at first going to yell at him, then remembered I was invisible, then realized he was frowning at Katie, who I was just behind. Caleb and Eason leaned against the wall for support, laughing, as the doctor continued, “Little girl, do you have a gun?” “Um…none of your business,” Katie grumbled, shooting Caleb a death glare that went unnoticed. “Great place, West Virginia,” the doctor sighed. “I NEED MEDICAL HELP!!” I yelled from behind Katie. “No!” Katie shouted. “Yes, you sure do!” the doctor said to Katie, and the rest of Blaze Force collapsed with laughter.
Waiting Room, Kepler General Hospital We were waiting for Aubrey, or the all-clear to go visit her, when Caleb noticed a cart with a defibrilator (if that’s how you effing spell it, I studied nothing on the subject of medicine and medical help) on it. A defibrilator was something that basically shocks your heart if it has stopped to make it beat again. “Get the wormhole out of Anthony’s brain!” Caleb exclaimed, earning us some very weird looks from the people in the waiting room with us. “What?” some of us said.
Caleb quickly explained that he figured out how to cure Anthony of the Harbinger: get rid of the wormhole by shocking him. “Anthony!” Caleb said. “Get on that thing, and I will shock you!” More disapproving looks. I shushed Caleb and Anthony was like, “Hey, Caleb, can you do it?” and dragged Caleb to the defibrilator. He got into position and I turned it on. Hey, I’m invisible, he never saw that coming. I turned the knob to 300 and Anthony flew backwards. Then I changed it to 3000. His head caught fire. “ANTHONY!” the Harbinger’s voice yelled. But it wasn’t the Harbinger. As Anthony spun around, he saw Katie standing there, looking pleased with herself. Now everyone in the waiting room was glaring daggers at her. “Hel-lo.” “Hel-lo,” I repeated behind Anthony. A doctor came out and glared at Caleb. “THAT’S NOT A TOY!” and yanked the defibrilator away. “DON’T CARE!” Caleb said. “I USED IT AND IT IS A TOY!” I bellowed. Aubrey came out of Surgery and we followed her to the Intensive Care Unit and we sat around her. Momma spoke, “I can’t believe…I can’t believe that just happened as badly as it did. I know we got separated but…what was your plan?” she asked me. “I’d love to know how you thought that was gonna help.” “OK!” I said loudly. “Here was our plan: We were going to get all the Sylvans to kill all the Kepler people who tried to resist. And then we were going to kill all the Sylvans that came through the portal. So yeah, we were planning to exterminate just about everybody, right, guys?”
“Yep,” Eric, Eason, and Caleb said immediately. Eason added, “Except we didn’t get to the last part. We’re going to exterminate them soon, though.” “That’s right,” I said. “Riiight…” “We’re smart, right?” I said. “You can thank us later. Or now.” Calvin and Sheriff Jefferson were there too, just beside Deputy Dewey’s bed. They were talking about stuff I don’t care about, but I’ll write it down anyways. “You just woke?” Sheriff Jefferson said, looking at us meaningfully. Dewey was saying, “It’s like a weight was lifted off my mind. It was like something was keeping me asleep, but now I’m awake!” “I think I know what happened,” I said. “I wonder who did it!” Eason said. “That was me, you know,” I said loudly, “and I’ll take credit for everything today, lol.” “But you won’t believe what I saw!” Dewey continued. “I think I might,” Sheriff Jefferson said grimly. “NO!” Dewey said. “There was a monster. A real monster.” “Don’t be crazy!” said Katie. “Crazy,” I echoed. “The whole place was a submarine, there was a bunch of little kids, and there were some other kids that were trying to drown the little kids,” Dewey said. “And they yeeted them out the door of the sub…and there were some sailors, and I drowned, and I was in a dark place-”
“NOBODY CARES!” Katie exploded. A doctor shushed her as Dewey continued, “And that girl there-” he pointed at Katie “-killed a pirate or somethin’? And took his buttons? And got to leave, but I didn’t. I had to stay there, for god knows how long. I’m going to tell the news-Ned Chicane’s gonna go out of business! They don’ come to his Creepatorium no more, they come to my monster museum! Oh, man!” He fell asleep. “Glad he woke up,” Sherrif Jefferson muttered.
Kepler “I’ve got a new name,” Eason said. “Instead of dumb Blaze Force, we’re Extermination Force!” “Okay, well…I quit. The mission is over,” Louisa said, sighing. “ALSO, BY THE WAY, I’M THE LEADER!” I yelled. “NO, I AM!” Katie shouted. And yeah, I basically won the short argument and now I’m officially leader. Oh, and I renamed it Murder Force. Some girl came over and tapped Eric on the shoulder. It was Pigeon. “Eric!” she hissed. “Eric, remember why I can down here?” “Moth man!” Eason said, as Eric was rolling eyes and didn’t bother answering. “Yeah.” Pigeon turned to look at Eason. “Moth man. And I think-” “He died,” Eason finished. “I think I found him.” “WHAT?!” Eric yelled, standing up. “HOW?!”
Pigeon pointed at a man in a cardigan who was wearing giant orange sunglasses, reading the newspaper for the day before, shaking his head. His leg clearly had a cast on it. Caleb started laughing his head off. “He had an injury on his leg!” Pigeon whispered loudly. We burst into laughter, as Eric, trying and half-failing to maintain a straight face, said, “Listen! If I came here, with an injury on my leg, would you think I was Mothman? How would you know?” “He’s got a cast-REMEMBER? REMEMBER?” Eric stammered a bit, then rolled his eyes. “The hospital’s the brightest place in town, ah? Hmmm?!” Pigeon said. “Don’t see anything-” “You’re right!” Pigeon said. “I can’t see his bug-eyes, no antennae, no wings, but-” “WHY ARE YOU SO DUMB!?” I yelled. “Look. I know. The wing part’s a flaw. But clearly, he’s hiding them somehow!” Pigeon whispered urgently. “HOW DO YOU HIDE WINGS FROM A DOCTOR?!” Eric snapped. He headed towards a doctor scribbling away on a clipboard and said, “Hey, doc, my friend here thinks that guy is a Mothman. Can you confirm he’s not?” “Mothman? No, he’s just a gunshot victim,” the doctor said. “Bullets in his leg.” I cackled loudly. I flashed back to when Katie had fired several gunshots into the hole. Inhuman noise. Pfft.
“OHH!” Eric said. He then walked to the “mothman” guy. “Hey, sir, did you by any chance get shot by many bullets-” “Hello!” the big-glasses guy said. “No idea what you’re talking about.” “Heard of Sylvain?” I yelled. “No…just reading the news, not that it has anything I don’t know anyways,” said the orange-glasses guy. “My name…is Ira Crane. And um, and blearrgh……[lowers voice] did it happen?” “What?” “The disaster.” “Oh, yeahh!” I said. “Totally! And I hope you live with the feeling of joy that you caused it!” “I-I didn’t cause it,” spluttered Mr. Orange Glasses. “I-I…my gift works by seeing things and I warn people, but…ah…someone shot me in the leg.” “I know who shot you!” Eric, Eason, and I said at the same time. “KATIE!” “That girl!” Eason said, pointing at Katie. “She’s the meanest girl ever. She has pocketknives!” “WAIT!” Ira Crane said, glaring at Eric. “Did you know I was in that hole?” “Yep,” I said, and Eric sort of nodded. “I knew when some Katie shot you,” Eric said. “Nobody came to check on me!” Ira Crane said. “LISTEN! COLENA WAS CHEERING FOR ME TO DO IT SO I DID IT-” “WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! WHO’S COLENA?” “SHE EVEN ADMITS SHE DID IT!” Eason yelled gleefully.
Ira adjusted his orange sunglasses nervously and stammered, “I’m just a regular human, minding my own business-” “THEN HOW CAN YOU SEE THE FUTURE?” “I DON’T SEE THE FUTURE, I SEE THINGS THAT MAY BE-I MEAN I SEE NOTHING!! I SEE NOTHING!!” Orange Glasses yelled. “J-JUST yesterday’s newspaper.” Eason reached for the glasses and with swift reflexes, Mr. Orange Glasses grabbed his hand. Eason slapped him with his other hand, and the glasses flew off his head. “WHY?” cried Ira Crane, as his eyes grew wide, antennaes growing swiftly out of his head, two large wings spreading magnificently to the sides. “I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU!” Pigeon yelled. “I WANT YOUR AUTOGRAPH, I LOVE YOU MOTHMAN!” Mothman limped across to the window and flew out the window, Murder Force roaring with laughter. And we sort of followed him out of Kepler, and we looked back at Kepler, a town forever changed by the amazing actions of I, and Murder Force. The adventure’s not over yet. Now for the list of people we will kill…
Anthony Dai The shapeshifter is in the room (according to people) and we question the council or something. Katie asks someone who obviously knows where the kitchen is, but they say they dont know. Hmmm I wonder if hes the shapeshifter, I really wonder. Caleb electrocutes me because funny and the shapeshifter changes into the seeker and tries to talk out of the incredibly g o o d situation. The real seeker is alive!!! Well, she was alive. We meet with Mama and the “others” The red army goes back to earth and they attack a towns blockade. Sylvainians are doing the j. The harbinger is FINALLY gone MY GOD SHE WAS ANNOYING and mothman or something revealed!!!!!
Session 15 Eason Wan
“The seeker is dead,” says Mortimer. “CLOSE THE DOORS!” he yells at the guards. As the guards close the doors.
Eric Zhang We are told that the shape shifter is dead and gone. But we decide that the shape shifter is in the room. We decide to question the council for answers and Katie asks the servant which exposes the shape shifter swiftly they attack the shapeshifter and then continue to chase the shape shifter. Meanwhile Anthony and Caleb try to get rid of the Harbinger. Then the shapeshifter changes into the seeker but we kill it. We meet the REAL Seeker and she is alive and she tells us to flee but we kill her. I don't know why. Then we meet Mama and the others. Soon the red ribbon army marches through We meet up with Mama and the others The red army marches on the portal, we follow Aubrey leads some people through the portal to demand the Sylvanians disarm The red army attacks the towns folk's blockade Back through the portal, Sylvanians are scattering everywhere and we meet up with our team Aubrey is wounded, we take her to the hospital Anthony removes the Harbinger Aubrey makes it through surgery Deputy Dewey wakes upMothman revealed
Before we begin this AMAZING story let's just say (i’m the hero of all of this) but anyways it's your favorite again of course(Katie Chai) i know, i know no need to clap i know you could hear me all day but we have to get to the story so let's go……. Katie Chai,
So as we are in Sylvain and we were in this place(no questions asked please i know you can’t understand me by saying “in this place” but just be quiet). But anyways… we met up with some people blah blah blah. We thought the shapeshifter was in this room. And when those trashy others were doing god knows what i asked a question that only the people working here would know the answer. I asked the servant where the kitchen was. He was stuttering with his words and I knew he was the red imposter. Because
he would have obviously known where the kitchen was so why would he have stuttered with his words? Guess I'm the real hero here but why should I bother saying that(we all know it already and NO QUESTIONS ASKED). Anyways after we found out we decided to attack well. Because what's the fun of being a hero when you don’t kill them at the end. The shapeshifter really tried to escape though. After the shapeshifter turned into the seeker. And tried to keep her/his cover. But at the end we killed the shapeshifter and we didn’t really know she was actually the shapeshifter so later we saw the real seeker come which was really confusing. But then we killed her. Which was very very entertaining! Anyways after colena keeped saying to destroy humans as they walked through the portal to earth. I was just there confused. I was even in the blaze force
in the first place because we already know I am way too cool to be in it but yes that's my story on my side. So goodbye and maybe see you again.
Epilogue
Colena Shan I don’t have much time for this. I’m now back to monster hunter, most of these days anyway, and I have a lot on my mind. Let’s see what I can do. So basically, a couple days after the whole fiasco that I proudly claim partial credit for starting, Sunday morning, Katie’s at Dunkin’ Donuts again. I immediately call those who had been interested in killing her. I had recently bought a new bow (I totally didn’t steal it four hours after the shop closed), and some new arrows which I had sharpened a little. My plan was not as dull as just shooting her with a plain arrow, I had a whole thing planned. Caleb was the first to arrive, bringing his bright red dragon Potato (and no, the dragon did not look remotely like one, his reasons for naming his magical pet were “It’s a good name”). There were five of us involved (Caleb, Eric, Eason, Anthony, and, of course, me). The others arrived soon after and Anthony, who was the toughest of us by far due to some superpowers given to him by the Harbinger, grabbed Katie and brought her out to the back of the building. She obviously attempted to free herself, which failed miserably, then shoot Anthony with her stolen gun from the police station, except that I’d managed to sneak it from her. She then tried screaming, but Eric and Eason were wielding weapons and prevented the few people in Dunkin’ Donuts from helping Katie (they also looked like they were trying very hard not to laugh).
Caleb got his dragon to freak Katie out somehow, then we loaded her into the car. Yep, I sto-I mean I bought a new car with my money, and I climbed into the driver’s seat. Eric and Eason joined us and soon I was driving us all to Amnesty Lodge. By the way, I should mention I’m currently solid and heard, so anyone sparing more than just a brief glance at us would definitely notice the car driving itself. “Where are you taking me?!” Katie shrieked. Her question was ignored as we got her down to the basement, to the magical lab. First we deafened her, and that got her a lot less annoying. Then I shot her in the chest, and she died. Pretty dull, huh? No, I’m kidding. I shot her, yes, but not in the right place so she’d die. I wanted to inflict some suffering and took advantage of her silence to list every negative thing about her Bruno crap. Then we used the magic lab to cut her into pieces and remove the blood and gross stuff. Then I used the magic lab to teleport her pieces to a nearby grave the mayor had dug for her a…what felt like a loong time ago. I’m not done, though. I used the magic lab to rig all the radios again and yelled, “Katie Day is an official holiday!” Caleb, Eric, Eason, and Anthony looked at me (or the direction of the voice, rather) like I was crazy. I continued loudly, “BUT THIS TIME WE
WILL REMEMBER HER FOR HER STUPIDITY, HER IDIOCY-” and just about anything bad but seriously true I could think about her. And now we were off again, to her house. We’d stopped to pick up some explosive stuff, in case Potato wouldn’t help, and were now facing a fancy-ish cottage-222 KatieDumb Road. It used to be 222 Telescope Drive, but I had the mayor change it while I aimed a gun at his che-I mean when I asked very politely. Caleb got Potato to burn it down, but Potato got tired after blasting the fourth time, and we set off the explosives and there was a really satisfying noise of a house collapsing. And no, her parents died of shame, so nobody was hurt in the explosion, unless you count the stray piece of glass that barely grazed by shoulder. Maybe, in Katie’s entry, she is currently writing something different. I will assure you, that is either wishful thinking (we let her finish her journal before we killed her, just to have a good laugh about it afterwards), or she was somehow teleported to a different dimension where she actually has brain cells and things turned out quite differently. I searched through Katie’s house after the fire and explosion and found a single piece of paper-from her diary. Curious, I began to read, and since it had so many grammar and spelling mistakes I can’t bear to look at it for much, I copied it down in proper grammar and spelling,
Dear Diary, Bruno here. It’s the day before camp, and we’ve just got the message our teacher’s got COVID or something. Our sub is Art Goodfriend, and I think he’s dumb as hell. I wouldn’t be going if my parents didn’t force me!! And Caleb’s annoying, he’s going to bore us with his robotics talk. Oh, well, I will go and please them all with my lovely singing. I should go practice. -Bruno
And then, beneath that, something added from a different coloured pen, which made me think Katie wrote that some time after the original entry. Maybe a few hours, maybe days, maybe weeks, perhaps even months: P.S. I also went to get away from that Colena idiot, who clearly does not appreciate my lovely singing. She’s at Amnesty Lodge, though, and why should she go to the woods? Great, just my luck. Her work actually involves the woods, for ****’s sake.
I managed a laugh. At least she got three facts right: Art Goodfriend’s IQ was 22. And I didn’t appreciate her singing. And Caleb’s robotic talk is pretty annoying sometimes. One thing is more important though: Mission Accomplished: Katie Dead. After her death, the teachers at Kepler’s Academy of Excellence grieved for a while. Well, except for Mrs. Dunderhead what’s-her-name, who when I said, “Fuck off” to, thought it was Katie, and she was quite disturbed although not sad Katie was dead.
Sherrif Jefferson was mysteriously killed later (by m-I mean not by me), and so was Aubry, and actually Caleb gets the credit for that. I spent the next 5 months tracking the Sylvans and killing them off, one by one. Blaze Force was no longer Blaze Force. Momma left the group, and I renamed it to Murder Force, headed by me, and Eric, Eason, Caleb, Anthony, Cindy, Lucas, and Xiang were all members. Some of them killed off a few Sylvans, and when we killed around 5000 Sylvans, we shipped Caleb off to New York, where he really wanted to go. Last I heard, he attended a decent high school and nearly burned down the Empire State Building (I suspected Potato had a good deal to do with that, and I was confident he would not be caught, he told me while I was at New York, tracking a particularly adventurous Sylvan), costing the Empire State Realty Trust around $5.7 trillion and some parts of it closing for almost 6 years. Ridiculous, since the whole building itself took 1 year and 45 days to build. I guess they have to check the place to see the cause of the damage, although they’ll never suspect a magic dragon, will they? Eric recently told me his friend, Pigeon, the Moth-man fan, quit her job to find moth-man, and she had stolen the sunglasses from his house ages ago, with the belief it would help her find Mothman. Chances are I killed him, but she didn’t listen.
***
Months later… I started keeping a diary myself, writing about my crazy adventures, though I tried to make it sound as fiction as possible, so that police wouldn’t get suspicious if I ever “died” and they found it. Here’s my first entry: Dear Myself, because only I will read it, unless some super intelligent police finds this when I’m convicted of a murder I never did, Eighteen years old, already dead. Katie died after me, yet it is I that can still walk the earth, bother people, steal stuff, have fun in life. I can still do the world simple favours like killing annoying Brunos off. I’m back in Toronto, and my friends absolutely freaked when they saw me, and I told them I was a ghost, but we’re all good now. I stay in touch with my friends from Murder Force, and I often give Caleb good ideas on what to do next with Potato. That dragon needs something to do, and it’s usually burning down buildings. I think they’re going for the Chrysler building next. And why does he keep sending pictures of Rick Astley? Not funny, Caleb. Eric says Pigeon found Mothman with the power of sunglasses, but I’m not sure that’s true. And I think Eason’s a successful bomber. His income is what he can salvage from the target building’s wreckage. Meanwhile, Anthony’s got rid of the Harbinger. The shocker thing I used in the hospital helped a bit. Cindy’s doing okay, and so is Lucas, last I heard. Xiang…he’s mysteriously disappeared off the earth. All my friends are doing well. - The Living Dead
My death was the best thing that happened to me.
Anthony Dai After we removed the harbinger, I was finally free of all that torture and suffering I had gone through. Anymore and I would’ve gone insane.
Caleb Mou We kill Katie then we kill all the silveinians then I use my dragon and we kill the harvenger.
My last word for this class:
Epilogue Eason Wan Ok, so a few days after what happened with Mothman and the Sylvain - Kepler war, Colina randomly called me, Caleb, Eric, Anthony, to kill Katie. She told us to go to Dunkin’ Donuts at 11:00 AM sharp. I have to admit, I arrived 2 minutes late but who cares! So Anthony, the strongest of all of us, grabbed Katie, who started screaming and thrashing to escape. We threw Katie into the back of the car and drove to Amnesty Lodge. We then did a bunch of things to Katie that would normally happen in a very gruesome movie. Some of the blood landed onto my shoes, which were new. So much for a new pair of shoes. The next day, I went back to Amnesty Lodge and raided the whole place. For some reason there was no one there which was strange. I guess everyone just left after the public knew about the Sylvains. Right before I left the lodge, I pulled out a lighter, and set the lodge on fire because I was getting tired of looking at it. I hope there was a lot of cereal in there so Katie would get angry. Oh wait, I forgot we killed her the day before. So yeah, I’m going to continue living. I’m also going to end this off here because I don’t want to write more.
My epilogue - Katie Chai In my epilogue I feel the adventure was pretty amazing if colena wasn't in it. Of Course there is probably no way of getting her away. She is like a weed or a mosquito; they never go away! For some partes i would like differently like I would have liked to keep the gun that was “accidentally” shot in the hole. But for the most part I think it was good. What i would like to happen next is to send colena to a science lab to experiment on like who knows how dangerous that monster can be! I would also like to send Caleb to a therapist. He has lots of problems and because of that I can't understand most of the time what he is saying. And he has a problem of using swear words so much in some of the most tiniest sentences LIKE BOI SWEAR WORD ARE NOT
GOOD WORDS I UNDERSTAND ITS FOR THE STORY BUT YOU HAVE SOME PROBLEMS OF JUST THROWING THOSE WORDS AROUND TO MUCH. but that mostly it oh wait i would also like a tap of we don’t talk about bruno song but that's it
End of epilogue.