User blog:Selenaroxx/Chapter 5 of my new book

Hey guys! Okay, so it's been a few days, but after revising Chapter 5, it's finally ready! Hope you enjoy, and remember to let me know what you thought; how you either enjoyed and/or thought it could have improved.

 Chapter 5: 

 

 Catching Up On a Game of Russoby 

 

'' “To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” ''

 

 ~Katherine Paterson 

 

 

“Any more game players?” A human slave asked, ringing a bell. In the monster world, since monsters dominated all and every single aspect, the only humans allowed were the ones who had discovered the area by accident, and had then been forced to either become a slave or die a long, painful death, for it is as they say, ‘curiosity killed the cat’.

“I’ll be joining,” A deep, vibrating, and powerful voice growls out in the darkness, and his voice only adds to the powerful thunder clouds of fear that metaphorically exist above the poor human’s mind.

“Alright, name and are you a regular?” The human asks, stammering a bit, and mentally slapping himself. He knew at this point that monsters took fear like a dog to bone; they took it as bait and were extremely attracted to it.

“I don’t give my name, but I haven’t been here in a while,” was all that the Operator spoke, but it was once more powerful and fear inducting enough to make the human contemplate running into the Marshes of Mortal Terror where the sights were corruptive enough to scar even the bravest of humans AND monsters for life.

“Well, if you aren’t a regular, you’ll need to pay five extra dollars to play, which brings us to fifteen dollars,” The adult says, but it was the wrong thing to say.

Bringing the adult to the back of the sign up board, He angrily barks out, “I DON’T PAY EXTRA MONEY!” before having his extra tentacles stab the human in the arm.

“Now, you can either give me the site location for the regular price, or I kill you. Which one will it be?” the Slender Man states in a threatening tone, making his tentacles hold the adult up by the collar and choke him.

“Must… charge… extra for… non-regulars,” The adult man chokes out, beginning to see red in his vision.

“Alright, you asked for it with your imbecility…” Fear Dubh says, mocking sadness before quickly and sharply stabbing the man in the stomach with his tentacles, having him pierce and cut through his stomach like a knife does to meat. Quickly draining the man of his fear-tasting energy, the Slender Man looks at the site location, and smirks when he sees the location.

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Finishing his descent down a worn down hill, he comes to a moon shaped clearing, complete with craters and soft dirt. Here, the moon is always quite evident, and the sky is surprisingly a sharp and cutting tint of ice blue, but seeing as it was in the midst of a world infested by monsters; it wasn’t truly all that abnormal.

There were monsters strolling around lazily and in a relaxed mood. The peaceful atmosphere that currently surrounded the clearing and official russoby stadium was the mood that always surrounded it right before the action.

As if cued, a sand hued Cyclops with a see through and wide hazel eye, a muscular build, and a small and curvy horn on his forehead abruptly bolts to a cream colored hydra with three heads, colored different shades of silver, gold, and bronze, or the metallic hydra to put it simply, and the Cyclops pushes the hydra down to grab a small snapdragon flower that was blooming on a blackthorn tree.

 With that action, the russoby game for 2012 after ten years had officially jump started, and the various creatures ran about, trying to get all the other snapdragon flowers and claim the title of ‘Official Russoby Master of So Year of ___’. When in theory, the game is a lot easier than actually going with it. The rules of russoby are quite simple: Gather all five snapdragons growing on various areas. The one that gathers all the snapdragons either by collecting it from the originating place or by taking it from other creatures is dubbed the official master, and the sweeter prize of winning was for sure, getting to use the mystical and ever so eluding ‘Epismia Stone’ or the ‘Wish Stone’.

 With completely smooth and shiny copper gold faces that went well with its pentagonal prism shape format, this stone possessed many capabilities, and one mere one was getting three wishes that would become permanent after seven minutes and only be broken if the wisher inadvertently contradicts him or herself concerning that wish.



 As the game progressed and now everyone was trying to capture the rest of the flowers for themselves from other creatures, the few sly loch ness monsters that were descendants of the ‘Great Loch Ness Monster’ and had the same abilities but had a more human like shaped body with webbed feet and hands, blue bodies, and glowing emerald green eyes summoned water as a cushion of transportation, and used it to have an advantage of another perspective to find the flowers..



<p style="text-indent:.5in"> For ages, the russoby games had never received anything but unfair playing when it came to the loch ness descendants, but they couldn’t do anything about it because even in the world where monsters ruled, there was still discrimination where all monsters were treated unfairly compared to the loch ness descendants and sea dragons. Water monsters had always had the upper hand in the world that resided below Earth but above Hell, and it was only due to the Slender Man that they hadn’t won every single russoby game and turned the monster world into their own little palace.

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Everyone knew that the Slender Man was, and would always be, the greatest russoby player in their monster world, but after a hiatus in playing and contact with the rest of the monsters for nearly forty years, the aqua elemental monsters had reigned in all the wishes and winning for themselves, thus making the area have a more ‘marine like’ atmosphere.

Of course, he was back now, and he always won.

Treading slowly, the Operator walks in the slightly foggy night, thankful for the slight weather that would help camouflage him to a certain extent. Lifting a slim, bony finger up, he points it at a few unicorns, and zaps a small but stinging sliver of cerulean blue fire at them, and it captures the snapdragon that they had just received, bringing it to the Slender Man.

<p style="text-indent:.5in"> Stomping their hooves in a disgruntled manner, they unhappily grumble, but when they see who exactly did the deed of stealing their snapdragon, they gasp, whispering in tones that clearly suggested shock, ''“Could that be? Is that THE??” ''to each other repeatedly.

With only three creatures actually having a snapdragon, the tension was escalating in the atmosphere and thickening rapidly that someone or something could actually slice through the tension with a tension slicing knife. They’re all just looking around, trying to find another snapdragon to take and gain.

As the loch ness and sea dragon creature spot the Slender Man, or a mere suit to them, they smirk in unison, and slowly head towards what they assume is an easy steal. Oh, how they were let down…

While the sea dragon trailed the Slender Man slowly, but taking big steps to be close to him, the loch ness descendant takes a counterclockwise semi circle to be in front of the Slender Man. Mentally thinking to themselves, “1… 2… 3!!!” , they then proceed to attempt to attack him and steal his flower..

Of course, seeing as they didn’t recognize the Slender Man, they didn’t realize that his special ability to feel motion within fourteen square feet of him would benefit him, and give him the advantage. Instead, ducking out of the way just a few seconds before the sea dragon orb of electrified water and the loch ness monster’s disease riddled ball of sludge, the Slender Man skillfully avoided the two opponent’s weapons, and seeing as the two weapons were both mostly composed of water, they did nothing to each other, and flew right through the other weapon and straight to the two water creatures.

<p style="text-indent:.5in"> The water orb exploded in the loch ness monster’s face, leaving a massive blister that was an ugly tint of booger yellow green and was abnormally shaped in the shape of the Elven Star. Meanwhile, the sea dragon didn’t get scarred any less abnormally. The mire that was filled with ailments hit the sea dragon just barely parallel to its nostrils, and while the rest of the body turned a sickly shade of lime green, the specific hit spot turned a deeper and darker shade of blood red with tiny dots of terra cotta intertwined and was shaped in a hexagram similar to that of the Israeli flag symbol.

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<p style="text-indent:.5in">          As the two sea monstrosities touched their own unique marks in shock, they looked at the Slender Man as if to say, “Who could have done this?” Meanwhile, while the two water creatures were temporarily distracted, Slender Man sneakily captures the remaining four snapdragons from them, thus winning the game.

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> Of course, once they realized that it was the Slender Man, they huffed in frustration that the king of russoby had returned, and so their winning streak had come to a close.

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> “And so, we award the Epismia Stone and the title of ‘Official Russoby Master of So Year of 2012’ to… Slender Man, is that you?” The official host, a jade green helephant wearing green and white body armor, incredulously asks, not bothering to hide the awe that his tone possessed.

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> Slender Man nods, and then by this point, every monster that had participated in the russoby game was whispering, “I thought he died…” or “That CANNOT be him, he got trapped in that video game for the humans, remember?!?!”, but of course, the few unicorns that had first recognized the monster that had left an impact on ‘Terra de mortui viventes’ were excitedly exclaiming, ''“I knew it! Who could NOT recognize The Slim One?”''

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> “Well, it most certainly has been a long time, so we should have a little catch up soon. But anyhow, the Epismia Stone is yours now for three wishes. Use them wisely,” The jade helephant says, handing over the golden stone gently, silently hoping that the Slender Man will make a wish to make their Monster Haven a place that resembles a little of every element. They’re all in for a little treat with his wish though…

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> “I wish you would all be my servants and do whatever I command,” the Slender Man said gleefully, knowing that the Epismia Stone had no control whatsoever on what the bearer wished for. The possibilities were hopelessly endless when it came to the Epismia Stone granting wishes…

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<p style="text-indent:.5in"> The mystical creatures all winced as they felt the magic of the wish granting stone grant his wish, and they all felt the magic reside into them, ready to force them to do whatever their new master ordered them to do.

<p style="text-indent:.5in"> “Why are you doing this to us?” A droopy and milk colored skinned monster that had a body similar to that of a human skeleton, had a face that only had nostrils and a small opening for a mouth, and had clear colored liquid atop its head that, when feeling strong anger, the liquid would ooze down to the face, turn into massive eyeballs asked both curiously and timidly.

“I’ll get to that in due time, Mr. Philosopher. Anyhow, I’ll be needing Elektor right now,” He said in an indifferent tone. Elektor, a creature composed of sunflower shaded electric bolts, stood up, knees trembling violently as he walked over to his new master.

“You are going to be able to do a great thing today! So cheer up, you’re supposed to be a ‘beaming sun’, and yet you’re all moody,” the Slender Man said with fake cheerfulness. Truthfully, he didn’t care one bit whether the ‘beaming sun’ was having the time of his life or not. He just wanted his work done, and if it meant being out of character, then so be it.

As the Slender Man opened a portal that would take them back to the mundane world, he remembered something and quickly turned around to say, “Oh, but I’m still all of your masters, and I’ll be back soon! Ta ta!” Then, he dragged Elektor with him into the mundane world, feeling gleeful for having left a fear in their eyes. It was what he did, human, monster, or inanimate object.