Trouble Truffle

Trouble Truffle Chapter 1: Return to Abnormalcy

2005-11-01T14:23:35Z

Just as a warning, i am starting this at work.. so it'll most likely be all sorts of not complete.. but that doesnt matter since i have all month. :D will continue with more.

"Feed your dog, Quincy! You still have to get up and get ready for school. I don’t want to come up there!"
Quincy sat up and rubbed his face, "No, I don't want you to come up here either!"

Pushing a few blankets off of his body he stretches and puts on his glasses. "Feed your dog," he mumbles in a mocking tone. "Don't make me have to come up there! Gah, she is so daft." He then stood up on his bed and jumped on it a few times. 'How much longer do I have to live like this.. With her moody ruling way."

Quincy jumped on his bed while thinking back. He used to have a more normal life. His mom and dad still happily married. He attended school by the southern shore, but since the divorce. Since his mother won the custody battle and took him deep into the north. Where its season is about as varied as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's either cold or colder. But at least out of all of this he still was able to get a dog and make a few friends. All of this though, seemed very fake and not at all to his liking. He missed being able to have seasons and see everyone he knew so well.

It also doesn't help him very much that he, in a quick way to put it, is very unlucky and stuff like this is all too common for him. When he was just four he scared his father so bad, his father had a stroke and was hospitalized for a long time. His father never fully recovered to his former self and later reduced himself to beating on Quincy's mother as a way to calm himself for his shortcomings. The abuses lead to their divorce. All because Quincy wanted a scary mask for Halloween and scared the life out of his father. Other unlucky things that happened because of his include the accidental death of previous pet's, a lifeguard drowning, causing a teacher (to remain un-named) commit themselves and a few other extended stays anywhere he wasn’t. Quincy's lifestyle wasn't anymore lucky. He often ate to comfort himself. So he is a bit overweight. He basically is exiled by most of his family since he caused so much accidental trouble. But since people are pretty oblivious to themselves, he though he was pretty cool and normal.

"Stop jumping on your bed!" quincy's mother shouted from his partway open bed room door. "WAH!" He jumped off course and landed on the floor in a heap. Panting he looked over at her. "Wha..." She smiled, "Your egg's are getting cold too. hurry up." He staggered to his feet and leaned onto a nearby dresser. Pulling open the drawer he looked over to his mother said "I'll be down real quick."

She closed the door and he heard her weight shift on the stairs as she went down them. He rubbed his hands through his hair and sighed, "Yeah, life could be getting back to normal."

Downstairs his mother placed a fork by his plate of scrammbled eggs as he stepped into the room. Just as he sat down the door bell rang. "Oh, I think you'll have to really hurry, those are your friends." his mother said. "What? This early?" he mummbled while snarfing up his eggs. "It's 8:15." Replied his mother.

"8:15?... I'm gonna be late!" He dropped his fork and ran to the front door, grabbing up his coat and slipping his feet sloppily into his shoes, his books tucked somewhere in his rush as well. He opened the door to the slightly flustered faces of his two friends. One Peter St. Peter the other Katherine Chloride. "You want me to serve another detention!" she snapped and stamped her foot onto the houses threshold. "I'm not gonna do it anymore! You'll have to repay me!"

Stuttering he fell back, not expecting her to be so openly pissed off, "Ka-ka-Kathrine... I'll make it up to you!" he rushed in that statement and clapped his hands to his forehead in a praying motion. She huffed and hit his head with a loose knuckle sandwich. "I do have a lot of homework" she chuckled. "Anything! I'm really sorry." She laughed, "Ha! Like I'll trust you with that. I'm not going to risk tranishing my GPA with your half grasp on education." "HEY!" whined Quincy. She turned and walked back to the sidewalk. "Let's go!" With that she started to run towards the school. Peter shrugged and started to run towards Kathrine. Quincy pouted again "Wait for me!" and chased after the both.

Life for him seemed to be going on the upside, he had new friends that weren't to aware of his unluckiness, a new school that he hasn't yet demolished and a student body who thought he was just the "new kid". Little did they know the true horror that could befall them at any moment. For an example, Quincy's previous school had been set on fire 3 times, a wing completely destroyed and all of the windows replaced on more then 10 ocassions. And lets not forget what happened to the gymnasium. I'm sure the P.E. teacher will never forget.

The three arrived at school late.

"I would expect better from you, Miss Chloride." The teacher gave a scowl, "A young lady shouldn't be so chummy with young boys. This is what it gets you." The teacher looked over at Quincy then at Peter.

"I'll be friends with who I want to be friends with." Kathrine muttered under her breath.

"You each have detention after school today. If you are trady you will be given a harsher punishment." The teacher put his hands into his pockets, "Now, it is time for learning. If I hear any chatter from the three of you today that isn't about a question for the class, you'll wish you were mute."

The teacher slapped his legs together and marched the three back into class in a military single file line.

Luckily for Quincy he had spent some time in military school (Another school marred by him.), so the drill sargent for a teacher wasn't such a scary thing. But Peter and Kathrine didn't like it nor know how to deal with it besides following the rules and hoping not to get on his bad side.

Unfortunatly, this teacher has no good side to be won on to.

The day went on as the school schedualed it to go. English then math. P.E. followed by the lunch hour. After that they went to a basic science class and then a language class. The last class of the day was a chorus class that basically turnd into a free period. Now at this point, it would be when Quincy, Peter and Kathrine would walk home. If it weren't for the detention they earned.

Walking back to their homeroom they were rather quiet. Peter and Kathrine already knew Quincy felt guilty enough. No point in rubbing it in his face.

They opened the door to their classroom the teacher at the desk smiled and pointed at the desks. "You may all take a seat in your normal places. You may do homework or read the class text. You may not talk or leave the room, unless it is an emergency. Your detention will start when you are seated and will last for 1 hour. If you do have any questions, please raise your hands in order to speak."

They all walked to their seats and then proceeded to wait for the time to pass. Peter did his homework which he would've done at home anyway. Kathrine read th class text. When there is nothing else, it doesn't seem like such bad reading.

Quincy sat there. He was too lazy to read and to tired to do his homework. So he looked out the window towards his house and neighborhood. He liked it here in a bunch of little ways. Like having a mailbox at the end of the driveway or the convenience store (known as the 'ReadyMart') on the way to and from school. He liked the town , besides the bitter weather, for the mot part.

As he sat there looking out the window, maybe only 20 minutes had passed. The sky had faded to a dim blue and purple. The sun was setting and it looked pretty romantic. Not that it matter exactly to him. His house was getting harder to see as the minutes passed. How dark was it going to get? Wasn't it like 3:30? It doesn't get that dakr at this time of day.

"Uhh.. Mr. Baulkula.. " Quincy muttered and raised his hand.

"Quincy, wait for me to call on you. what is it?" Mr. Baulkula replied.

"Isn't it like.. 3:30?" Quincy asked.

"It is..." Mr. Baulkula looked at his wrist and pulled up his sleeve. His digital watch read 3:28 P.M. "It's 3:28 P.M. Quincy, why?"

"Because it's like night outside.. " His expression showed his slight concern for the darkness of the sky.

"Wha?" The teacher looked out the window and saw the sky all dakr with blues and purples. At this point Peter and Kathrine had looked up and looked out the window. The teacher looked at them.

"This is nothing to wory about. Just getting darker then normal. I'm pretty sure it's been predicted to have the sun set early today.. The season is changing."

'Changing?' thought Quincy. It seemed like a forever the same wintery season since he moved there.

"No. I think this is something else.." He said standing up. "I think this is an emergency and we should all be dismissed."

"The sun setting early is not an emergency." the teacher snapped back.

Then suddenly the sky grew really dark and then the sky birghtened. the lightness engulfed them for a few seconds. Then the ground began to shake and the lightness turned red and then regain the normalness of an average afternoon atmosphere.

"What the hell was that?" a startled Quincy asked.

"This is an emergency. I am going home. You are all dismissed." The teacher put on his coat and hat. He stood up and walked out of the classroom.

A few moments passed and the three looked at each other.

"What in the world is happening?" Kathrine asked.

Peter looked at her and with a sarcastic tone in his voice, "You ask that like we know whats going on."

"What else am I supposed to ask?" she moaned annoyingly. "Whatever is going on.. Something.. Happened."

"Really. I couldn't tell. Thanks for clearing that up." He barked back.

As they were yelling back and forth at each other, Quincy had already ran out of the room, right after the teacher left. Quincy felt whatever happened, happened near his house. On his street, by his mailbox. Something strange was happening.

He ran pretty far for his weight and how much he isn't in any kind of shape. Making almost to the ReadyMart. That's where he stopped for a drink. He figured, running so much, he owed it to himself.

Upon entering, the door beeped signaling he came in. From behind the counter the usual employee wasn't there anymore. In fact, who was this person behind the counter. Quincy looked and just shook his head, he's got to be dreaming up stuff now.

He walked back to the glass doors and opened it up. Grabbing a plum soda, he walked to the counter and waited for the clerk to help him.

"Ok, that'll be $1.19" The clerk held out their hand and Quincy just stood there. When did the regular clerk get whiskers, a horn and scales?

"Kid, $1.19." The clerk stated again.

"Ca-Ca-Can.. Drip... Drink.. I.. You.. Wa.. Was.. Huh.." Quincy stepped back and then slowly left the store. Once outside he looked back over his shoulder, the clerk thing looked at him, pretty confused. Quincy then started to run again, back to his house, where it should be normal. Right?

Not so right. As Quincy ran towards his house, all sorts of other weird things were happening that a lot of the neighborhood didn't seem to totally notice. It was like nothing happened to them. Why was Quincy seeing this. He pressed his right hand into his chest as he began to cough, he was really out of shape.
"Al..Mos..Te..Ho..Me..Eh.."He panted out loud.

"Quincy!" He heard a familiar voice. He looked over his shoulder and saw chasing after him was Katherine and Peter.

Quincy looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened "Weh..We..Watch out for that snake!" He panted out in a raspy voice pointing behind them.

"We don't know what you-" They were cut off as a giant green snake slithered past them down the street. The two stopped and fell back. "Whoa.."

Quincy also stopped at this point. What in great good google was going on? He fell onto his knees and coughed.

Peter and Katherine walked up to him and sat down. "Ok. That's not normal." Katherine mumbled.

Quincy huffed a chuckle. "Yeah. Not very usual."

Acting more casual and cool than usual, Quincy brushed his fingers through his sandy amber hair. "I'm going to my house. I'm worried about my mom." He turned away and started to walk again, this time, watching out for snakes.
"We're gonna come with you!" Katherine demanded and jogged up beside him. Peter followed suit and cleared his throat. "Um, what if more stuff like that happens?"
"Well.. We will figure something out. Ya' know?" Quincy tried to sound firm. But he didn't.
As they approached Quincy's drive way he took a sigh of relief. "Oh good. My mailbox." He patted the tin box with his hand and smiled while peeking into it.
"What did you just say?" Peter looked at him, a bit concerned. "You're not worried over.. A mailbox.."
"Oh, no. I'm waiting for a parcel.. Yeah.. Worried it might of been damaged if it was delivered today. But it looks like it didn't come. Ha-ha.. Heh.. Hah.." Looking totally non-suave, Quincy looked away and started up his drive way.
"Your house looks like it wasn't affected.." Katherine said, trying to cheer up an obviously nervous Quincy.
He looked at her, "I see that it looks okay. But What about inside. What about my mom.." Quincy looked away from her and jogged up to the side entrance. "Mom?"
He took the doorknob and turned it around until the door came loose. He pulled it open and stepped in. "Mom?" He took a few more steps in and set his bag on the floor.
Walking through the mud room into the kitchen, he finally saw her and came running in. "Mom!" He wrapped his arms around her and she gasped a little. "Oh.. Quincy.. Hi.."
Quincy looked up, "Something going on?"
His mother nodded her head and looked back to her front. There in the kitchen sat a Monster-man and about 5 of his cronies.
"They want to.. Uh. Buy the house." she muttered. "For their summer vacation get away."
"What? No! I won't let them! I like this place and that mailbox way too much!"Quincy cried out.
"Mailbox?" Peter and Katherine solemnly stated.
"Uh, Quincy.. How can we refuse.. when we're dealing with.. Monster-men.. Who.. Are bigger than us. They are scarier then anybody else. They probably don't even care to negotiate with us.. I bet this is pissing them off like crazy and there is nothing we should do to aggravate them." His mother said, trying to reason with Quincy.
"We should get something if we're just going to be okay with this!" Quincy marched over "You're going to give us something, you're not jus-"
The monster-man leaned over and ate up Quincy in one gulp.
Quincy's friends and mother gasped in horror. Here this monster-man ate Quincy up like he was a bite size snickers bar.
"Holy hell!" Screamed Peter. "That was fucking crazy!"
Quincy's mother turned to Peter "Watch your language! Google forbid me to having to tell your parents about anymore then what just happened to my son!"
Peter turned bright red in embarrassment. Katherine on the other hand, was crying at this point. She fell to her knee's sobbing "He was the most worried out of all of us! He was so worried about you. who would of thought he would of been eaten by a monster-man!"
Peter hugged her "I would of guessed him getting hit and killed by a giant snake.. but not eating eaten whole. And alive. And by a monster-man."
Quincy's mother nodded "There isn't gonna be anymore problems. You can have this house." With that she took up the other two kids and backed out slowly.
Meanwhile, inside the monster-man quincy was still semi-alive. the monster-man swallowed him whole!
"Man! Dark!" he coughed. The stinky cesspool of inner bowel-dom completely turned his stomach. Damn, this monster sure was big on the inside.
As he shifted his weight around inside a slipped and went under and he seemed to fall for quite some time. Was he dying? Is this was dying felt like? Complete helplessness as he stumbled downwards in a monsters organs?
Nope.
Soon he realized what was going on. He fell out. Yes, out. And landed in a thump. He was in a place, that wasn't inside the monster-man.
"What?" Brain aneurysm.
And suddenly his head exploded into a million little brain pieces. His lifeless body fell backwards onto the plush green grass knoll he landed on. Brain matter and blood soaked the blades of grass. Dandelions were more like Suckelions.
Everything soaking with his blood for just the few moments before his body lifted back up and brain matter and blood shot back into the place were his head was before it completely exploded.
He screamed."What in the world!" He touched his head "I think I just died. But I'm not sure. Am I really dead and this is limbo or am I like. This is crazy!"
He started to run around in circles. "What is this. NOT FAIR!"
He sat back down. "Ok, I'm not going to let that happen again.. Just chill out Quincy."
"Hello!" a soft happy voice chimed into his ear. He looked over his shoulder. There was a smiling face of a girl her head nuzzled right next to his. In fact he nearly kissed her while turning towards the voice.
His vow to remain calm? Nope. He wailed out and fell back. Bang! There popped out an eye and then, Zap! It popped back in. "WHOA, whoa.. wha.. whoooo.. Ok. Hey.. Please don't scare me.. It seems I am very unstable here.. I seem to.. keep falling apart and coming back together."
"It seems my father has picked a groom for me." She said in a shy timid way, approaching him slowly. Her nearly clad in nothing body approaching him. All she wore was a loose gingham dress knotted once behind her neck. Long blond bangs fell in front of her face covering her left eye. Leaning forward two cat like ears and a tail tipped up from behind her.
"GROOM?" He busted out in a falsetto.
She nodded. "I've remained her for many years, waiting for the time when my father would send down the man I was destined to marry!"
"But your father just ATE ME!" He still spoke in a surprised falsetto.
"Ate you? That's normal. He can't do much besides that. That's how I got here." She smiled.
"Uhh.. I'm sorry but NOTHING has been normal for a while. Nothing is normal with almost getting hit by a giant snake. Nothing is normal with having monster-men trying to take your house away. Nothing is normal with being EATEN by said monster-men. AND Nothing is normal when your head explodes and comes back together! Frankly, besides you being part cat and proposing to me, this is the most normal thing to happen to me!" He huffed and grew red in the face. "I don't mean to be yelling but I am scared and confused and I have NO idea what is going on!"
"Well, we can go back. Since you're here, I can go back outside and marry you."She pulled out a magical cell phone and paged her father. "It'll take just a bit and we'll be back to your home."
"What?" He looked at her wide-eyed.
"Hi Daddy! I'm okay... Yes, I met him... I want to marry him! Please bring us out!" she exclaimed.
She hung up the phone and smiled and wrapped her arms around him. "We're going out!"
"Uh.. Wuhh..." He nodded, at this point, he just wanted to see his mom and friends again. "Ok, I'll go with you." He closed his eyes and waited to be brought back.
"What are you doing?" She asked while looking at him.
"Uh, waiting to like.. I guess fall back up and be thrown up?" He said it like he had done it before. Well he did, but it was for coming in. Not entirely the same.
"No.. We've got to go to the door. I just could leave without letting my father know. He has to put the doorknob on the other side of the door before i put mine in or else this little universe will collapse. And as you can already tell, it's fraying at the edges enough already!" She tugged on him to come with her. She pulled out a marble oval shaped doorknob.
Leading him along a long path through grass and finally to a staircase that lead up for almost forever, she started up it and Quincy stepped up behind her and started up the stairs.
The further they went the more strange things became. the ground below them faded into the black. the stairs became clear and floated in place. Far in the distance a wooden arced door became more clear. As she approached it you could hear it creak and then a loud clinking noise as the doorknob was placed by her father on the opposite side. She jumped up the last few stairs and sunk her doorknob into place. Click went the lock and the door swung open.
"Let's go!" She held out her hand and they stepped out into his kitchen and fell down in a heap.
The thud was loud enough to get Quincy's mother's attention. "What was that?" she said turning her head back towards the kitchen. Peter and Katherine looked as well. It had been only seconds since they willingly gave the house to the Monster-men and started to leave.
"Quincy!" his mother called out. She ran over to him and gave him kisses and hugged him tight. "OH! My boy! You're okay!" She just looked at him and smiled.
The girl who appeared with Quincy went unnoticed. "Eh-hem." she cleared her throat and crossed her arms in front of her chest. Quincy's mother ignored her, still only focused on her son. The girl stood there and snarled "Let go of my Husband!"
Quincy's mother leaned back. She looked over to the girl and gave a long blink. "Your Husband?" She stared back to Quincy's mother, "Yes, MY Husband!"
She plopped down and took him away into her arms and stuck out her tongue.
"Quincy, you married this.. Gir.. Heh.. Uhh.. You're married?!?" His mother exclaimed.
"No.. I think I'm engaged.. But it happened so fast. I don't know what's going on. I thought I died. My head just exploded." He touched his head and sighed.
"When I was eaten. So many strange things happened. I am not entirely sure what's happening." He said as he pushed himself away from the cat girl. "Who are you, what are you? What's your name? What do you want with me? What's going on?"
She paused and looked down, realizing her father and the entire kingdom just landed here without any notice.
"Let me explain. My name is Roxanne. I'm from another planet that is mostly run over with scary deadly creatures, monster, demons and anything else that isn't like you or I. My Kingdom was in need of a King. My Father is ailing and needed me to marry someone who is respectable, strong and able to care for me. All of the princes on my planet weren't at all good. Most of then were greedy. In end my father sent out probes all throughout space and decided to wait until the perfect person was found.
A while back, you happened upon an ad in the back of a comic book for cool prizes. That was a probe my father sent out and found you. when you returned the coupon, it sent the signal that you excepted the offer, my hand in marriage.
When my father arrived and ate you up, he was only setting up the completion of the arrangement for you and I to meet and become engaged."
Quincy sat stupefied by her statement. "No. I mailed away that coupon thinking I was going to get a cool prize.. Like something I could use.. Like a magic kit.. Sea Monkey's.. More comic books.. Not an Alien Bride."
Quincy's mother looked at him 'YOU MAILED AWAY FOR THIS!?!" She hit him over his head.
"MOM!" he yelped and bent down, holding his head.
"DON'T HIT MY FIANCE!" screamed Roxanne. She leant her body over his and protected him.
Quincy's mother grew red in her face, "Your FIANCE is a 14 year old BOY!"
Roxanne barked back "I AM THIS 14 YEAR OLDS, 13 YEAR OLD BRIDE! We are engaged! There is nothing you can do to deteriorate this agreement. He even AGREED when we were still in my Father!"
Peter and Katherine just sat back there. Peter more or less, falling for this cute alien cat girl. Katherine was going insane with jealousy. She wanted more or less to torment Quincy, not have some alien girl do it.
Katherine jumped up. "You can't marry Quincy!"
Peter also jumped up. "Yeah, you can't just say you are! Quincy doesn't look like he wants to marry you anyway!"
Roxanne looked over towards Katherine and Peter, "Be quiet. This doesn't concern you." Her cold stare sent shivers down their spines.

Characters!

2005-10-29T14:01:14Z

Woah, almost November.. I've decided a few things are going a certian way, such as who will be my main characters?

A long time back I started up with a comic called Trouble Truffle, where there were three main characters and then a whole slew of other characters. (images!)

Roxanne Body
Roxanne Head Shot
Quincy Freelandington
Peter St. Peter
Kathrine Chloride

Oh, so original names. Maybe? I don't know. All I know is these are some character's I made a while back and never seemed to do anything with them.. And they are easily the best characters I could use for my obvious plot hole storyline that I'm working with..

I'm not totally going with the first storyline i created

Quincy Freelington: Age 12; A soft hearted shy boy. He likes tatical games and is very chivarlous. He is slightly chubby and very short. He has a feminene face. Orange hair, pale tone skin, rosy cheeks, Green eyes. Thick eyebrows.

Peter St. Peter: Age 13; An odd child often ridiculed for his strange name. He is an adopted child and the adopting parents did not re-name him. His adoptive parents were very elderly when they adopted him and forgot to put him into school ontime, so he is a year behind all of the students that are his age. Lanky and thin, witty and well liked by adults. Black Hair, pinky tan complection, Grey-blue eyes.

Kathrine Chloride: Age 12; Daughter of the town famous Scientist. She is made fun of - so she is a bit of a tomboy. Still very girly looking, a rough and tumble flower. Just right height and waif body type, blonde-brown hair, brown eyes, rose colored cheeks and a soft melon tan skin tone. Her mother passed away while giving birth, so her father has always taken care of her. He is very over protective and spoiled her a little.

The Three have become friends through no fault of their own. Being outcasted simply drew them together.

The Town: The town in which they live in is nestled between two mountains. so the town faces rather harsh seasons of drought or floods. foggy in the morning, breezy all day long. the town is beyond the equator but before the poles. so it has four seasons. a summer, spring, fall and winter. the town is called Santickens and is located in the providence of Mapoli.

the stage is set, the players are ready, now the story beings.

Three friends meet at a bookstore to find books to read and get ideas from. all of them find books of all types and go to the front counter to purchase them. As they are being rang up the store owner comments on how he loves to see children so intrested in reading, that he gives them one extra book- no charge. he tells them how he knows he's too old to learn how to read and understand this mysterious book, and says "i leave it to you three youths to figure it out and make an old man happy and have faith in the new generation." so they thank him and are on their way.

As soon as they get back to Quincy's house they start debouring the books, learning more things and idea's. memorizing quotes and games, joking with jokes, and laughing over funny finds in the news journals. and then they get to the book that the shop keep had given them. it was a very old book. the letters were foreign and hand written. the bidning was sew on, jewels embedded the cover and gold foil accented each page. Illustrations of fanciful creatures and obscure lands. they attempted to read it,but failed at first. But quincy recognized some of the lettering and went to a book on his shelf. It was a tatical game play book for a made up game. He forgave that idea and started to decipher some of the text on the first page. After a while he figure the first page said something like this:

"this land is a dangerousland that only holds one horror after another, visitors be warry for making a mistake could bear serious consequences"

After just that part, Quincy advised they leave this book alone until they can face such problems. Kathrine agreed and the three went to sleep. During the night the three had no problem sleeping and fell into a deep deep slumber.

*****
Pine trees??? THOSE ARE LEAFY TREES!
*****

The morning came and peter awoke. He stood up and walked to the window. While looking out it he noticed something strange. all of the leaves had turned. He sighed, wishing that the seasons wouldnt of changed so quickly. Quincy awoke and saw peter standing by the window. He got up and approached Peter's side and then freaked out.

Peter glanced at him and is like "yeah -- the seaons change too fast."

Quincy speauls and shakes his head in an overwhelmingly exagerated way. "NO! NO! NO! THOSE AREN'T MY TREES!! PINES TREES ARE THE ONLY TREES THAT GROWS IN THIS TOWN!!!"

It was true being a town wedged between two mountains. a leafy tree is a rare commodity. the town was speckled with pine trees, holly trees, and prickly shurbs.

During all of the mommotion Kathrine woke up and threw her pillow at them and snapped "BE QUIET!" anmd lied back down in a big thump.

Peter rushed over to her and dragged her over to the window.

"LOOK!"

Slowly (after punching peter in the gut) she looked out the window and fell silent. -- "I dont know whats going on.... but im scarred..."

She went back to her bed on the floor and peter sat down next to her. Quincy remained by the window. -- " we need to get out of here... and find out whats going on."

Peter - "What do you mean here?? where is here?"

Quincy - "I dont know!"

Peter - "THEN how do you propose we get out of here???"

Quincy - "Well... I dont know."

Peter - "then what are we going to do?"

Kathrine - "let's pack up and go outside."

So they packed up all of the stuff in the room and headed outside. There they looked around and noticed everything had changed. the house they left that once was Quincy's home was now an Inn. They dodged the owner and didnt pay.

The streets were all large blocks that lied in a tiled pattern. They all walked quickly past familar but foreign archutechure. down an alley and out of the town. they rushed up a beaten path out into a grassy knoll. they all fell to their knees and gasped for breath. they started to look around the surrounding territory. there were mountains but they were far away from eachother. leafy trees scattered at the edges of the feilds. there was a lake and a path that followed out of the town and lead into a forest that was at the foot of a distant mountain.

Kathrine sat down and brushed her long hair back. -- "ok Is this a joke?"

Quincy - "It's less like a joke and more like a dream!"

Peter - "Your dream is giving me a HUGE head ache!"

They fell sileny. but something broke the silnce. a jingle. then a rattle. then a creak. then a jingle once more.

Kathrine - "what's that noise?"

Peter - "I cant tell.."

Kathrine - "Well... it's coming this way."

Quincy - "be quiet.. maybe the thing wont notice us.."

Peter and Kathrine nod and they moved behind a near by rock.

the noise comes closer and closer and then stops. the trio remains behind the rock. and after five minutes peter peaks out from behind the rock and looks around. as he slowly see's the area his eyes roll over the eyes of something looking back.

Peter - "WAH!!" he falls back.

Kathrine and quincy fall back to peter and take cover.

Stanger - " Well. you three are a very odd site.. what ever did you three do to end up looking like that?"

Kathrine - "look like that?"

She looked over her shoulder towards the voice and is baffled to see a human shaped bird, easily the creature stood six feet in the air and from head to toe was a bird. Long spindly legs, three fore toes, one rear toe (3 inch claws!) scaley skin along the skin of the legs. brown white and red feathers covering its arms chest and head. a large beak and nostrils around the skin like fold hear its eye. and its eyes were bright and large conveying a lot of emotion.

Kathrine was dumbfounded and stuttered " wha-what do you mean ' look like that?' why do you look like you do!?!"

The stranger laughed and chirpped and regained its stature, then repiled - "why i was hatched this way!"

Kathrine - "HATCHED?"

Stranger - "Yes. Thats not so strange. What's strange is the way you three look."

Kathrine - "We were all born this way - like ALL children are!"

Stranger - "Well, If all children were born the way you look, there's be a very large infant death rate."

Kathrine gasped - "THATS HORRIBLE!"

Stranger - "No parent would want such ugly offspring!"

Kathrine - "Were not ugly! maybe a little awkward looking -- but not ugly!"

Stranger - "Look, i didnt mean to offend you, but you guys just arent normal."

Kathrine - "Well, what do you mean?"

Stranger - "You three look like youve done some horrible unlawful thing ti look like this!"

Kathrine - "huh?"

Stranger - "I mean to look like that, the laws you would of broken would result in your awful apperance."

Kathrine - "you mean our appearance is a punishment to you?"

Stranger - "simply put like that wont encompass all of that would makd you three look like that. but i guess thats the easiest way to put it."

Kathrine - "well.. we didnt break any laws. we just woke up this morning and we were here."

Stranger - "what? come again."

Kathrine - "Were not from here."

Stranger - "i dont follow."

Kathrine - "yesterday we were in our town santickens and woke up this morning here."

Stranger - "well. Ive never heard of Santickens and ive been all over these lands. but i dont understand how you arent from here."

Kathrine - "neither do we."

Stranger - "Im sorry i cant help you figure this out but i can help you with dealing with things in this land."

Kathrine - "Well, thats kind of you.... err.. whats your name?"

Stranger - "Thats's right, Ive been blabbin and blabbin like a brainless fool. Im known as Edgar Benedict. Im a merchant and traveled everywhere. i know almost every law and know someone from every town in this land."

Kathrine - "I'm Kathrine Chloride."

Pater - "Edgar, my name is Peter St. Peter."

Quincy - "Quincy Freelington."

Edgar - "Nice to meet you three."

Kathrine - "The same goes for us."

Edgar - "So, this Country is called Romatze. That town over there ( the town they escaped from) is called Brown Town. This path is a main throughfareto the next town, Vice. Vice is a market town. You can get anything and everything there."

Kathrine - "Thats nice... But it doesnt mean too much to us... we dont have any money to spend at Vice.

Edgar - "Money?.... Spend? OH! you mean Loc's! We spend Loc's!"

[loc chart]
1 dollar = 100 locs
5 dollars = 500 locs
10 dollars = 1000 locs
1 penny = 1 loc

100 locs = 1 ree

1 dune = 5 locs (nickle)
1 sune = 10 locs (dime)
1 mune = 25 locs (quater)

Edgar - "understand?"

Peter - " We guess so.. But we cant do anything since we dont have any Locs."

Edgar - "Well you dont need many locs to survive. A few Ree's could let you live for some time."

Quincy - "a few ree?!?"

Edgar - "Ah yes. Most prices are never permante. we haggle to market the best price. and food is mostly caught by the person who will eat it. Clothing is the only thing that is expensive. since fabric is nearly impossible to make. our animals that produce the fibers are entering a dormant phase. so we must use plants that grow only in warm season."

Kathrine - "we;; good thing we have a change of clothing with us."

Edgar - " A SPARE OUTFIT!?!"

Kathrine - "well.. i have two spare since i have my pajama's."

Edgar - "you three are rich!"

Peter/Quincy/Kathrine - "huh?"

Edgar - "You three could sell the clothing you dont need for any price you desire! I'll give you 1,000 ree for your spare clothing!"

Kathrine - "a thousand ree?"

Peter - "thats a lot.."

Quincy - "It is.. but what if we could sell it for more?"

Edgar - " You could, But because of your appearance people might not want to deal with you."

Kathrine - "because we look like law breakers, right?"

Edgar - Nodds.

Kathrine - "Well thanks for the vow of confidence!!"

Edgar - " So, will you agree with my deal?"

The three nodd and sorted through their clothing to see what they will sell and keep. the boys easily sell two shorts and two shirts, but keep their extra underware. Kathrine though, sold her pajama pants a short sleeved shirt and a pair of shorts. Edgar gave them their 1,000 ree.

Edgar - "Very nice doing business with you three."

Quincy - "well, i suppose we'll spilt up the 1,000 ree evenly.."

Edgar - "i suggest putting most of your ree in the bank."

Peter - "Why?"

Kathrine - "theres probably robbers or thieves on the paths between towns."

Edgar - "not exactly."

Kathrine - "then what is it?"

Edgar - "Aside from being a merchant, people whol walk between towns are taxed for every +5 ree they carry."

Peter - "how much is this tax?"

Edgar - "1 ree and a mune (125 locs)."

Quincy - "WHAT?? why is it so high?!?!?"

Edgar - "Hello!? I did mention that we are in a dormant period!"

Kathrine - "but why tax us so high, for what reasons?"

Edgar - "The ree's taken from the taxing are directly used in processing clothing all year long. Growing plants in heat is expensive, and the government couldnt pay for all of it. so as we produce more fabric to be made into needed items, people will spend money either way - through a road side taxing or on buying the government made items."

Kathrine - "I see. so the rees cen keep flowing."

Edgar - "Exactly."

Quincy - "Well.. I guess we should go back to brown town and open a bank account."

Edgar - "I'll escort you, since... well... because of your appearance."

So the four headed back to brown town and went to a bank. The bank was where the bookstore was. they all stepped in and were imediatly greeted by a smiling face... of fur. It was a human shaped body but covered in fur and quills. a hedgehog banker? well. they were as surprised as they were frightened.

Banker - "Oh my. What a strange crew"

the bankers voice was high pictched but soft and quiet. the banker was a she and looked just as alarmed as the three friends.

Edgar - "Hello, I'm here to represent my three friends, as they open a bank account with your fine establishment."

Banker - she chuckled and blush as she looked at him "Stop kidding yourself Edgar. whats going on here?"

Kathrine, peter and quincy looked at edgar - jaws slightly dropped.

Edgar - "Oh Florence. I'm just having some fun. my friends need some humor in their life. I was hoping you;d play along to amuse them. but i see your all work and no play today."

Florence - "Yes. thats true. No one has come into the bank today. not for anything. so i need to meet my quota of opening new bank accounts.. although opening three wont meet that quota.. itll be beter then not opening any at all."

Kathrine - "Errm.. Hi... Florence? .. I'm Kathrine Chloride, and i would like to open an account."

Quincy - "so would I, under the name Quincy Freelington."

Peter - "would you be willing to open a third for a Peter St. Peter?"

Florence - Nodded "I'll be willing to help all three of you. But i can only make one account at a time. So Kathrine, will you please follow me?"

Florence took Kathrine into the back and started her account.

Quincy and Peter looked over at Edgar with cold black eyes.

Quincy - "YOU THINK YOUR FUNNY, DONT YOU??"

Edgar - "You guys need to lighten up!"

Peter - "Look. we've had a lot to deal with today. dealing with a difficult time of opening a bank account would of been just one more thing to drive us up the roof!"

Edgar - "well.. It was funny to me."

Meanwhile ...

Florence - "so, your full name is Kathrine Margot Chloride?"

Kathrine - "yes."

Florence - "Margot is such an old name, where did you get it from?"

"Kathrine - "My father named me. Margot was my mothers name.." she fell quiet and looked down.

Florence - "... I'm sorry dear. We all have a loss in our life. others have ones that hurt more then anybody could ever imagine. but if anything your father must of raised you right, as your a fine addition to our society."

Kathrine - " thank you.." She looked back up and smiled, her face bright red.

Florence - "well all i need is a signature and the amount you wish to deposit at this time."

Kathrine signed the contract and gave Florene $330 ree. she keeping a few ree to herself.

Florence smiled - "Alright. ill go deposit this in your safety deposit box and you be sure to get one of your friends to come into my office."

Kathrine nodded and went into the main room.

Quincy - "so?"

Kathrine - "I have an account now. One of you two can go back."

Peter - "by all means quincy, you can go."

Quincy nodded and headed back to the office Kathrine came out of.

Peter - he looked at kathrine and noticed that her face was red and frowned a bit "Kathrine, are you ok?"

Kathrine - jumped and covered her face "AHH, yeah!"

Peter - "it looks like youve been... crying?"

Kathrine - still covering her face "no no no no!" she chuckled and kept her face covered "Really, im fine, i was just asked a rather embarassing question that she'd only ask a girl!"

Peter - "OH, one of those questions."

Kathrine - her eyes narrowed and she jabbed peter really hard in the arm "NOT ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS!!!"

Edgar - He began to laugh uncontrolably.

Peter - he rubbed his arm "Owwww... why do you always hit me?"

Kathrine - "UHH! no reason! you just always make me by.... UHH.... Making me so mad that your need corpal punishment to teach you a leason!"

Peter - "Obviously its not working, as you continue to hit me all the time."

Edgar - He wiped tears from his eyes and smiled. a full breath of a sigh.

Quincy - He walked back into the room and thumbed peter to go back to the office.

Peter disapeared back into the office.

Quincy - he looked at edgar and saw how he was recovering from a laughing fit. "did i miss them fight again???"

Edgar - he just started to laugh even harder again.

Kathrine - "MISS... US.... FIGHT.... AGAIN????????"

Quincy - "WAH! i mean!!... Whats wrong with edgar.... He's out of breath i guess... NOTHING at all about something being funny.. NOPE!"

Kathrine - "Thats better.*scoff* miss us fighting. hemff!"

Kathrine and Quincy stodd quiet for the time while Peter was in the office.

After a few moments Peter returned and saw that Kathrine and Quincy had a fight, but he knew beter then to say anything about it.

Peter - "well, im all set. lets all get a move on."

Florence - she emerged from the back of the bank and sealed the vault doors. she turned around and walked out into the front. "I personally thank you three for opening a bank account with us. this bank is in every town. You can get your money from this bank in everytown, it takes a little while though. we have to write out money notes that get sent to the original bank, and then transfer the moeny there after youve recieved petty cash.. It all works out. But this isnt something you have to worry about too much."

Edgar - he bowed and took florence's hand and placed a soft peak on the back of her hand. "No, thank you for serving us today. well. beter you then Gerdy. Now that lady needs to learn how to be nice!"

Florence - She blushed "Oh my. Edgar. you certainly know how to treat a lady. Everyone except Gerdy. I dont know what she did to make you dislike her so much. but it must of been something!"

Edgar - "Well, she's not here, so lets not think about that." he leaned in a bit.

Florence - she cleared her throat and looked to the children.

Edgar - "OH MY-Y-Y!!! - Look at the time!! we really must be leaving now!" Edgar then turned right around and started to herd the three out the front door.

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Prota-Prota, The sexy Cat merchant
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The three and Edagr had just left brown town and were on the pathway to Vice. Unfortunatly Edgar couldnt baby sit the three forever and decided it would be best if he parted for the time being.

Kathrine - "I dont understand why your just leaving us!"

Edgar - "My time is Ree's, and being with you.. is.... well... not very fruitful. The only Ree's ive made is.. none actually! You three have made this my least profitable ventures of all!"

Peter - "But you bought our spare clothing! that should make you plenty of money!"

Edgar - "not quiet. I have to find someone in your sizes to buy from. and children dont have that kind of money... i could sell the clothing as expendable fabrics, but if im lucky maybe a noble lady will come by with her spoiled child thats about your size."

Quincy - leaned over and whispered to kathrine "THIS is a true meaning of a mean market"

Kathrine - shrugged.

Peter - "well... go if you must. I suppose us three will be fine on our own... i doubt anything will want to come near us.. well, besides the taxers."

Edgar - Nodded "your right peter. Now i must be on my way. I must increase my profit! you three stay to this main path, itll take you to vice, there you can get what you need while on this journey of yours."

the three children waved good-bye to Edgar as he left in the distance.

Kathrine - "Well.. i never would of suspected him of yelling at us.. over loosing money."

Peter - "All adults have the same thought process, income.income.income."

Quincy - chuckled "Yeah, sounds like my parents alright. they always get mad when i had spent all of my allowence."

Kathrine - "Lucky! my father never gave me an allowence. he always told me a child shouldnt worry over young debts.... he's such a weirdo."

Peter - "Eh. at least your parents are commatose part of the time."

all three of them chuckled a bit and decided to start towards Vice.

The path was a long one but a pretty straight forward trip. edgar had told them at any forks in the road always head to the left, and thatll take you to Vice.

After an hour or so of walking Kathrine stopped.

Kathrine - "Im so tired. lets stop and rest for a few minutes..."

She sat down on the grass and wiped her forehead off, she was sweating. all of the chilren were sweating...

Peter - "this is strange.. Its gotten really warm suddenly."

Quincy - he toppled over and lied on his back "Lets just sit for a while.. over there in the shade."

The three headed over to a singled out tree and sat underneathe it in the shade. brown and orange leaves scattered around them, Kathrine picked them up one by one and let them crummble as she balled her hands around them.

Peter - "Hmm.. an hour ago it was much colder.. i guess we must be heading south or something.."

Kathrine - "IMPOSSIBLE! we've been walking for an hour for one, we couldnt of past that must milage to head so far south that its warmer, and two the sun has been off to the left and back of us. we're heading north east. away from anywhere getting warmer."

Peter - "well. it could just be the weather... a climate can change instantly if it can."

Quincy - "i dont know. i dont care. i just want it to turn off!"

Kathrine - nodded and closed her eyes "im just going to nap for a bit... "

Quincy - yawned and agreeed "napping sounds like the best way to avoid feeling hot.."

Peter - "but... *YYYAAAAWWWWNNN* we.. have to go to Vi...ce..."

The three of them fell asleep under the tree. a breeze came by and leaves started to scatter on them.

Off in the distance another merchants cart appeared. The same creaking jingle was made with each turn of the wheels. An odd character was seated on the cart as it was drawn by some equine creature. The merchant wipped some sweat away and decided in this heat that it would be best to stop. A tree wasnt too far off, so the merchant headed towards it.

The three still remained nestled under the tree, leaves covering them up somewhat. the cart stopped and the merchant hopped down and dereined the equine. the merchant walked the equine over to the tree and tied the rope to a branch. The merchant then looked the the three children. and crouched down. picking up a near by stick, the merchant poked at quincy (being that he looked the most pokeable) and then quincy started to fidgit and batted away the stick and then woke up.

Quincy - sitting up and looking wide eyed at the merchant "Wh-who are you?.... what do you want?"

Merchant - "Well.. you three are under a tree i would like to sit under also. im not about to just sit where people are already are. i thought i would let you know. see if youd like to look at the merchandise."

Quincy - he had frozen, at first the appearance of the merchant didnt startle him, but after seeing her... it... talk, he was baffled and just stared.

Merchant - "Well. wake up your friends. you might know im here, but i do not want to threaten anybody."

Quincy - nodded and lent over to wake up peter and kathrine.

Kathrine - "what are you doing? its still hot and im tired."

Peter - "yeah. way to let us sleep through this heat."

Merchant - "good after noon you two, i just wanted to let all of you that i would be joining you under this tree."

Kathrine and peter sat quietly and looked at the merchant.

Merchant - "Geez. its like youve never seen a homual before. My name is Prota-Prota. if you guys like, you can look at my goods."

Peter - "your goods? your a merchant?"

Prota-Prota - "yes. I am. I sell cats. Theyre a rare creature that recently started to appear in this part f the world. a wonderful buy for anybody!"

Kathrine - "Cats? i hate cats."

Prota-Prota - "well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. i wont sell you anything you dont want. so please keep you.. *chuckle* pants on."

Kathrine - *HUFF!* Whats so funny if im wearing pants!"

Prota-Prota - "well, if you want to come off as i wish i were a boy, then nothing at all."

Kathrine - "WHAT?"

Peter - grabs kathrine "Please, just let it go kathrine, she only speaks for herself, she obviously likes dresses and is opposed to girls wearing pants."

Kathrine - "well, that should be all she has to talk about!"

Quincy - "well.. Im Quincy, *motions at peter* thats peter and *motions towards kathrine* thats kathrine."

Prota-Prota - "Pleasure meeting you three, thank you for letting me rest under this tree."

Peter - "so you sell cats?"

Prota-Prota - "Yup! Theyre very fashionable amoung the nobles! but the price is right for any class!"

Peter - "which is?"

Prota-Prota - "well, only 20 Ree. Thats a very fair price for a living creature, and it comes with a months supply of food, a collar, and a carrying cage."

Peter - "thats is a good deal, but i am sorry Prota-Prota, we couldnt purchase a Cat from you. we are short. and our trip would fair any better with a cat..."

Prota-Prota - "well, thats understandable. and like i said, i wont sell you anything you dont want."

Quincy - he had already gotten up and started to look at the cats, and looked rather mystified.

****NOT USING THIS WHOLE PLOT!**** will use character descriptions.

Woah, that's long like I said it was. But I'm not going with that storyline anymore, since I would have written myself back into the same wall I wrote myself into when I first wrote it. Instead it'll be more like these three kids are all hanging out in their kinda normal lives when some weird shit starts going down and the whole town becomes abnormal and people starts to normally co-exsist with the weirdness and now it's a story of them dealing with the weirdness.. And yeah.. Until they figure out how to lift the abnormal atmosphere...

In a sense, all havoc leaving the door wide open for some "obvious plot holes" that are meant to not get answered (I would gladly answer them for you, just not in the storyline.. Maybe in a handy "readers guide" of some sort.. Like a FAQ for the reader (Aww how nice!)).

noshino @ 2005-10-21T12:27:00

2005-10-21T16:43:03Z

few ideas:

secret government family of assasins. (they are not actually family memebers.. members include: mother (30ish and controling) father (mid 30's and charming.. in a tall dark and hansome kind of sauve way) brother (mid teen's and angsty. dating sister) sister (lower mid teens and insane.. really. she's the crazy one. and she loves acting out her strong attachment to brother))

sub plot: when secret government assigns them to their location, sister is furious when she is assigned to be the daughter and hates that she can not show her feelings for brother in an intimate way. she goes on a killing rampage and slays mostly helpless victims. (no names currently in mind..)

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Angels, demons, Hell things... Gods and aliens... a lot of mixed universes.. because the idea is "obvious plot holes"

oh and some ghosts.. naked ones.