Post by DS|ushabti on Nov 18, 2006 21:43:58 GMT
ok it sucks so far so don't giggle
A Grim tale
Chapter 1
My new friend
“Come on boy, come on hurry it lad” my grandfather shrieked while hammering his scythe off the old creaking wooden floor board “HURRY LAD!, I told you last night that we had an early start to-” he said as I amble out of my room “early? This is early? It’s the same time I have been woken up for the last two weeks!” I shrieked
“Now lad don’t be getting cheeky to your grandfather now”
I didn’t answer
I have had a lot of early wake up calls, yes it got on my nerves all the time and not having a proper breakfast didn’t help, I felt tired even longer. This was all because I had to learn to use a new spell my grandfather had been showing me, Crows wing!, they where wings that would allow me to fly faster than many birds, well they should have been crows wing but 2 days ago when I thought I could do it by myself but I couldn’t, it came out as pixy wing and when your families in the business there in you shouldn’t have pixy wing that’s for shore.
You see my family were all out casts. All around the world in every town there would be a Grim reaper or as we just called them Grims. He would keep death in order in there little town or big city. He Grim for Cobe city had a son which is my father so I’m the grandson of Cobe city Grim reaper.
My name is Danny and I have brown hair that is a bit long and I have a black cape that goes to my knees. Have a black top. My black baggy trousers have big grey piece round the bottom of the leg that goes up to the knee. I also have a pair of black boots that my Grandmother got me before my grandfather became the cities grim she could not bare it so she moved, I wish to se here again so very much. My eyes are hazel and I’m smaller that a lot of people. I’m also 14 years off age.
That morning I got up but I was not happy about it but I did, I got dressed and staggered into the sitting room/ kitchen/ dinning room. I sat down at the table and my mum walled over to me with a poorly made clay plate with 1 slice of bacon and half a slice of toast. My mum put her hand on my shoulder “sigh, I’m sorry son it’s all we have left could you …? No it’s too scary, just eat up” I knew what my mum was going to say she was going to send me into town to get food. I smiled at my mum the looked down at my so called breakfast but I wasn’t complaining I gobbled it all up and washed my plate. I then went outside to see grandfather.
When I opened the door a great gust blow into my face and it smelt of a mixture of ash and carbon witch told me at dark magic was at work but I took no notice to it and walked up to my grandfather who was standing at the end of the path. The weird thing about our house was the garden. We where very poor and didn’t have much utensils but we always could afford to by gardening tools somehow because our garden was magical it was the nice most beautiful garden. “Well lad? You coming or what?” my grandfather said with a yawn. I know I didn’t have a choice so I followed him over the hill behind the house.
On the way up the hill I could smell Carbon and ash in the air, that normal meant there was magic happening normally it would be black magic if it’s carbon. I looked around but couldn’t see anything, but I did see Cobe city in the distance.
When we got there my grandfather started to speak
“Right lad were here to get those stupid pixy wings of you back and replace them with big Black Hawk wings and with that you may fly to your hearts content” he said with smile, I liked that last part.
“Did u bring the staff Danny?” my grandfather asked me “yes I did” I replied, I pulled out 2 small wooded stick that looked like there where just pulled of a tree or picked up off the ground. I put one in each hand and held them out, “now you do remember what to do?” my grandfather said “yes I do” I replied, I then bashed the 2 sticks together and they both morphed together and turned into a well crafted staff made of wood that was beautifully designed, my grandmother gave it to me, I really miss her. “Good now that we have that done let’s begin”
After about half an hour of trying to get the wings to transform I was getting weak and powerless, I didn’t have as much of the magical energy my dad and grandfather had so I got tired very fast, but the wing never appeared.
Well Danny, you have not done it again, I don’t think you are trying, and if you are you must not be powerful! You don’t have what you need to be a grim” my grandfather said “I’m really sorry” but by the time I had said that my grandfather was walking down the hill. I knew he was disappointed in me, I felt so bad. I started to turn my staff back into two twigs and I put them in my bag.
I started to make my way down the hill.
I sat there on the out skirts of Cobe city sitting on a small wooden box.
As I sat there on the small wooden box and I was sitting wishing I could go into town but I could not none off our family because if people saw use they would think we would bring death to there family and there self.
After a short time I looked at the ground and saw the grass started to blow in the other direction and looked up and what I saw was amazing I saw a magic run orb which was a orb with smoke coming off it, when I felt the smoke go past my nose I smelt burning ash and carbon and when I smelt it I new magic was at hand.
Once I saw the orb I stood up and looked at the town I knew I was not allowed down but I wanted to see what was down there even if I was risking my life.
I ran down the large hill to the town.
I looked around for a while till I heard the sound of boots pounding of the cobbled streets, running was a girl down the street she was a bit cool well to me she was. She had long black hair and it all straight. She wore a dress that went to her knees and a black pair of trousers, the bottom of the dress had long tassels and it was tied up with a white ribbon tied at the back. She wore black shoes that were made from leather, they looked like they where expensive.
She counted to run thought the town and I wondered why but then my question was answered for me I saw the police were chasseing her and when I saw them I covered my self with my cape and hid behind a pile of rubbish on the ground.
I followed them and when I went another route I saw her standing by the fountain. Then I herded the police and it did not look like the girl had hurt or stool something from anyone so I helped her I hid in the dark and shouted “she went that way, round by the bakers” the police then said “thank you” and they ran the opposite way to the bakers.
I then turned round and the girl smiled and I smiled back then she pulled a small bottle out that had been tied in the white ribbon that was around her waste and pored out a drop of the green liquid into the fountain and smoke rolled out of it and like a blanket she grabbed the smoke and drew it round her and when it rolled away she was gone.
The police came back round to see if the girl was now there but she wasn’t but I was I turned around and the darkness had disappeared and they saw me, I stood there in shook and then I ran round the other side off the building and then through a ally way, past the bakers, and Mr Molls house I knew it was because my grandfather took care of him when I was very young and he brought me with him to watch because he said I might be the Grim one day for my dad might move town, I ran past the park and into the hills I was so scared.
I had been walking for while now, I just kept going, there was never an end, no city, no lakes any noting just fields and hills,
I waited a few moments then I went into the small village not far from here because I knew I could not got back home thought the city again so I walked to the next town.
It was a small town called Koi lake village for all the Koi fish in there lake which was very strange for the Koi fish are not meant to be found in this country. I didn’t think the locals would know who I was so I just walked in panting from getting chased and then walking that journey.
The first thing I saw was the smiling faces of all the individual people in the town, I glad I wouldn’t be the grim for this town they all looked so happy it would be hard to do.
I wondered for a bit then saw the house that was marked with the words BAKERS in big bold letters. I stuck my hands in my pocket and pulled out some coins. There was a lot in my hands so much I could buy food for my family to last 1 week. I wondered where it came from but I didn’t mind I just walked in and bought things from shops called
MACDONALDS BUCHERES
THE ROSSES FAMILY STORE
FOOD AND WINES (SALE)
EVERTHING FROM COWS STORE (milk, cheese, butter)
I go lots of thing and I put them all in the one sack. I sat on a wall in the streets wondering how to get home fast witch would be hard for to get home and not go through the town is a long route. I jumped off the wall and went round the said of it. I was pulled into the wall and there was that girl that I helped get away from the police, she had pulled me through the wall.
“You helped me so I think I will try to repay the favour sometime” she said
“Well … thanks”
“I’m Erika”
“I’m Danny”
“Ok, ill let you go for now” she smiled
“What do you mean?” I asked
“Come to my house tonight and about midnight it’s over the old raspberry bush hill near Cobe city, there will be a small cottage with a tower behind it” she then walked out the back of wall and ran up the hill I followed her but went up the other hill to my to go round the long way.
Erika turned round and saw me walking the long way round the hill and ran up to me, I turned round and saw here running toward me. She tripped up a lot because of her long dress but when she finally got to me she opened her mouth to speck but she was a bit tired from running down the hill and tripping up all the time so I wated for her to speak
“So, where are you heading you can’t live in the mountain because you would never come to Cobe city if you came from there?”
I smiled
“I come from the planes just outside of Cobe but if I was to enter the city I would be captured and I need to get home!” I said with a sigh “well come on then” she gave me a very cheery grin like she had something planed that I wouldn’t like, she grabbed my arm and pulled me down into the city and then into the fountain “WHAT! Why are we sitting in the fountain?!” I said “well I need water for my potion to work!” she replied.
She then pulled out the bottle I saw earlier and she dropped a small drop in the fountain the first thing I saw was smoke in front of me then when it faded I was sitting in a puddle on the ground out in the plains.
“Well thank you. I think you repaid me” I said. “See you latter” I said as I walked up the hill I staggered up the hill knocked over wooden box I had been perversely sitting on. I walked up to the front door of my family cottage.
The cottage was small and petit.
I wedged open the old creaky door and walked into the sitting room.
My mum was sitting in the same spot she always was, on her arm chair by a roaring fire.
My dad was out and my brother was locked away in her room like she was nocturnal. There was a reason for it, it’s because she was nocturnal was a weird bat creature, he looked normal well excluding the claws and undersized bat wings also he had large hefty fangs.
“Hello dear” said my mum with a big smile on her face. I smiled and said hi then walked to my room.
Before I could open the door the flames on the fire where blowing towards the door.
“Oh there late again, oh well better get dinner finished then” she got up and went over to the small wooden table with cut vegetables on it.
Then my uncle and father came in and they new how to make an entrance all the lights went off and my uncle would sneak over to the table then the lights would relight again. “Ahhh that was a good night tonight, 5 deaths! Ha.”
“It was a good night dad” said my father. I stood for a second with the heavy sack on my back.
“So lad, how’s those hawk wing coming along then?” my grandfather asked me “um I haven’t tried again” I replied
“Oh that’s not a good thing, you should always be trying!” he said
“I’m sorry ill try again before bed”
“Now that’s the right thing to do, anyway what’s in the bag?”
“um, some food I got from town”
“TOWN! Why where you down there! If you where caout there you would be killed my the 3 brother or turning into a street light, do you want that”
“No grandpa but I wasn’t in Cobe!”
“Where then lad?”
“I was at Koi lake village, everyone there thought I was normal, and they where so nice and -”
“Wait! Why where you there? And how did you know about it?”
I didn’t want to answer that question; I felt like if I did I would be kicked out the house or fed to my brother!
“Well I could smell ash and carbon and followed it” I lied; I knew it was not the whole truth, and I knew I would pay for it. “All right lad, that believable, but I still think you should have told us before you walked off like that!” my grandfather said
“Ok I will” I said while smiling, I knew he didn’t believe me but I didn’t care I just was happy to get away from the conversation.
I put the bag down and went to my room.
Chapter 2
A night from home
I sat on my bed and looked out the window “do I go and find that girl? And If I do how do I get out of here?"
thats it so far
A Grim tale
Chapter 1
My new friend
“Come on boy, come on hurry it lad” my grandfather shrieked while hammering his scythe off the old creaking wooden floor board “HURRY LAD!, I told you last night that we had an early start to-” he said as I amble out of my room “early? This is early? It’s the same time I have been woken up for the last two weeks!” I shrieked
“Now lad don’t be getting cheeky to your grandfather now”
I didn’t answer
I have had a lot of early wake up calls, yes it got on my nerves all the time and not having a proper breakfast didn’t help, I felt tired even longer. This was all because I had to learn to use a new spell my grandfather had been showing me, Crows wing!, they where wings that would allow me to fly faster than many birds, well they should have been crows wing but 2 days ago when I thought I could do it by myself but I couldn’t, it came out as pixy wing and when your families in the business there in you shouldn’t have pixy wing that’s for shore.
You see my family were all out casts. All around the world in every town there would be a Grim reaper or as we just called them Grims. He would keep death in order in there little town or big city. He Grim for Cobe city had a son which is my father so I’m the grandson of Cobe city Grim reaper.
My name is Danny and I have brown hair that is a bit long and I have a black cape that goes to my knees. Have a black top. My black baggy trousers have big grey piece round the bottom of the leg that goes up to the knee. I also have a pair of black boots that my Grandmother got me before my grandfather became the cities grim she could not bare it so she moved, I wish to se here again so very much. My eyes are hazel and I’m smaller that a lot of people. I’m also 14 years off age.
That morning I got up but I was not happy about it but I did, I got dressed and staggered into the sitting room/ kitchen/ dinning room. I sat down at the table and my mum walled over to me with a poorly made clay plate with 1 slice of bacon and half a slice of toast. My mum put her hand on my shoulder “sigh, I’m sorry son it’s all we have left could you …? No it’s too scary, just eat up” I knew what my mum was going to say she was going to send me into town to get food. I smiled at my mum the looked down at my so called breakfast but I wasn’t complaining I gobbled it all up and washed my plate. I then went outside to see grandfather.
When I opened the door a great gust blow into my face and it smelt of a mixture of ash and carbon witch told me at dark magic was at work but I took no notice to it and walked up to my grandfather who was standing at the end of the path. The weird thing about our house was the garden. We where very poor and didn’t have much utensils but we always could afford to by gardening tools somehow because our garden was magical it was the nice most beautiful garden. “Well lad? You coming or what?” my grandfather said with a yawn. I know I didn’t have a choice so I followed him over the hill behind the house.
On the way up the hill I could smell Carbon and ash in the air, that normal meant there was magic happening normally it would be black magic if it’s carbon. I looked around but couldn’t see anything, but I did see Cobe city in the distance.
When we got there my grandfather started to speak
“Right lad were here to get those stupid pixy wings of you back and replace them with big Black Hawk wings and with that you may fly to your hearts content” he said with smile, I liked that last part.
“Did u bring the staff Danny?” my grandfather asked me “yes I did” I replied, I pulled out 2 small wooded stick that looked like there where just pulled of a tree or picked up off the ground. I put one in each hand and held them out, “now you do remember what to do?” my grandfather said “yes I do” I replied, I then bashed the 2 sticks together and they both morphed together and turned into a well crafted staff made of wood that was beautifully designed, my grandmother gave it to me, I really miss her. “Good now that we have that done let’s begin”
After about half an hour of trying to get the wings to transform I was getting weak and powerless, I didn’t have as much of the magical energy my dad and grandfather had so I got tired very fast, but the wing never appeared.
Well Danny, you have not done it again, I don’t think you are trying, and if you are you must not be powerful! You don’t have what you need to be a grim” my grandfather said “I’m really sorry” but by the time I had said that my grandfather was walking down the hill. I knew he was disappointed in me, I felt so bad. I started to turn my staff back into two twigs and I put them in my bag.
I started to make my way down the hill.
I sat there on the out skirts of Cobe city sitting on a small wooden box.
As I sat there on the small wooden box and I was sitting wishing I could go into town but I could not none off our family because if people saw use they would think we would bring death to there family and there self.
After a short time I looked at the ground and saw the grass started to blow in the other direction and looked up and what I saw was amazing I saw a magic run orb which was a orb with smoke coming off it, when I felt the smoke go past my nose I smelt burning ash and carbon and when I smelt it I new magic was at hand.
Once I saw the orb I stood up and looked at the town I knew I was not allowed down but I wanted to see what was down there even if I was risking my life.
I ran down the large hill to the town.
I looked around for a while till I heard the sound of boots pounding of the cobbled streets, running was a girl down the street she was a bit cool well to me she was. She had long black hair and it all straight. She wore a dress that went to her knees and a black pair of trousers, the bottom of the dress had long tassels and it was tied up with a white ribbon tied at the back. She wore black shoes that were made from leather, they looked like they where expensive.
She counted to run thought the town and I wondered why but then my question was answered for me I saw the police were chasseing her and when I saw them I covered my self with my cape and hid behind a pile of rubbish on the ground.
I followed them and when I went another route I saw her standing by the fountain. Then I herded the police and it did not look like the girl had hurt or stool something from anyone so I helped her I hid in the dark and shouted “she went that way, round by the bakers” the police then said “thank you” and they ran the opposite way to the bakers.
I then turned round and the girl smiled and I smiled back then she pulled a small bottle out that had been tied in the white ribbon that was around her waste and pored out a drop of the green liquid into the fountain and smoke rolled out of it and like a blanket she grabbed the smoke and drew it round her and when it rolled away she was gone.
The police came back round to see if the girl was now there but she wasn’t but I was I turned around and the darkness had disappeared and they saw me, I stood there in shook and then I ran round the other side off the building and then through a ally way, past the bakers, and Mr Molls house I knew it was because my grandfather took care of him when I was very young and he brought me with him to watch because he said I might be the Grim one day for my dad might move town, I ran past the park and into the hills I was so scared.
I had been walking for while now, I just kept going, there was never an end, no city, no lakes any noting just fields and hills,
I waited a few moments then I went into the small village not far from here because I knew I could not got back home thought the city again so I walked to the next town.
It was a small town called Koi lake village for all the Koi fish in there lake which was very strange for the Koi fish are not meant to be found in this country. I didn’t think the locals would know who I was so I just walked in panting from getting chased and then walking that journey.
The first thing I saw was the smiling faces of all the individual people in the town, I glad I wouldn’t be the grim for this town they all looked so happy it would be hard to do.
I wondered for a bit then saw the house that was marked with the words BAKERS in big bold letters. I stuck my hands in my pocket and pulled out some coins. There was a lot in my hands so much I could buy food for my family to last 1 week. I wondered where it came from but I didn’t mind I just walked in and bought things from shops called
MACDONALDS BUCHERES
THE ROSSES FAMILY STORE
FOOD AND WINES (SALE)
EVERTHING FROM COWS STORE (milk, cheese, butter)
I go lots of thing and I put them all in the one sack. I sat on a wall in the streets wondering how to get home fast witch would be hard for to get home and not go through the town is a long route. I jumped off the wall and went round the said of it. I was pulled into the wall and there was that girl that I helped get away from the police, she had pulled me through the wall.
“You helped me so I think I will try to repay the favour sometime” she said
“Well … thanks”
“I’m Erika”
“I’m Danny”
“Ok, ill let you go for now” she smiled
“What do you mean?” I asked
“Come to my house tonight and about midnight it’s over the old raspberry bush hill near Cobe city, there will be a small cottage with a tower behind it” she then walked out the back of wall and ran up the hill I followed her but went up the other hill to my to go round the long way.
Erika turned round and saw me walking the long way round the hill and ran up to me, I turned round and saw here running toward me. She tripped up a lot because of her long dress but when she finally got to me she opened her mouth to speck but she was a bit tired from running down the hill and tripping up all the time so I wated for her to speak
“So, where are you heading you can’t live in the mountain because you would never come to Cobe city if you came from there?”
I smiled
“I come from the planes just outside of Cobe but if I was to enter the city I would be captured and I need to get home!” I said with a sigh “well come on then” she gave me a very cheery grin like she had something planed that I wouldn’t like, she grabbed my arm and pulled me down into the city and then into the fountain “WHAT! Why are we sitting in the fountain?!” I said “well I need water for my potion to work!” she replied.
She then pulled out the bottle I saw earlier and she dropped a small drop in the fountain the first thing I saw was smoke in front of me then when it faded I was sitting in a puddle on the ground out in the plains.
“Well thank you. I think you repaid me” I said. “See you latter” I said as I walked up the hill I staggered up the hill knocked over wooden box I had been perversely sitting on. I walked up to the front door of my family cottage.
The cottage was small and petit.
I wedged open the old creaky door and walked into the sitting room.
My mum was sitting in the same spot she always was, on her arm chair by a roaring fire.
My dad was out and my brother was locked away in her room like she was nocturnal. There was a reason for it, it’s because she was nocturnal was a weird bat creature, he looked normal well excluding the claws and undersized bat wings also he had large hefty fangs.
“Hello dear” said my mum with a big smile on her face. I smiled and said hi then walked to my room.
Before I could open the door the flames on the fire where blowing towards the door.
“Oh there late again, oh well better get dinner finished then” she got up and went over to the small wooden table with cut vegetables on it.
Then my uncle and father came in and they new how to make an entrance all the lights went off and my uncle would sneak over to the table then the lights would relight again. “Ahhh that was a good night tonight, 5 deaths! Ha.”
“It was a good night dad” said my father. I stood for a second with the heavy sack on my back.
“So lad, how’s those hawk wing coming along then?” my grandfather asked me “um I haven’t tried again” I replied
“Oh that’s not a good thing, you should always be trying!” he said
“I’m sorry ill try again before bed”
“Now that’s the right thing to do, anyway what’s in the bag?”
“um, some food I got from town”
“TOWN! Why where you down there! If you where caout there you would be killed my the 3 brother or turning into a street light, do you want that”
“No grandpa but I wasn’t in Cobe!”
“Where then lad?”
“I was at Koi lake village, everyone there thought I was normal, and they where so nice and -”
“Wait! Why where you there? And how did you know about it?”
I didn’t want to answer that question; I felt like if I did I would be kicked out the house or fed to my brother!
“Well I could smell ash and carbon and followed it” I lied; I knew it was not the whole truth, and I knew I would pay for it. “All right lad, that believable, but I still think you should have told us before you walked off like that!” my grandfather said
“Ok I will” I said while smiling, I knew he didn’t believe me but I didn’t care I just was happy to get away from the conversation.
I put the bag down and went to my room.
Chapter 2
A night from home
I sat on my bed and looked out the window “do I go and find that girl? And If I do how do I get out of here?"
thats it so far