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Layza has a minion!
Skittlez the Spectrumvet
Skittlez the Spectrumvet
Layza
Legacy Name: Layza
The
Spectrum DarkoniteOwner:
bearycubAge: 15 years, 8 months, 2 weeks
Born: August 16th, 2008
Adopted: 15 years, 8 months, 2 weeks ago (Legacy)
Adopted: August 16th, 2008 (Legacy)
Statistics
- Level: 1
- Strength: 10
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- HP: 10/10
- Intelligence: 3
- Books Read: 0
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Unemployed
Hi! I'm Layza and at twelve, I have a job working at an organization called EON. We work at defeating evil monsters called demonics that are big, bad and most times, just plain UGLY! I have red hair, green eyes and love to wear this big trench coat my boss got for me on my first day on the job. I was picked off the street by a guy named Sticky.Note and I've grown fond of him. He's a the techie and loves to drink coffee. While he trained me to beat these monsters, I also met my senior, Daerien while training. He's a brave person and also ponders with me the amazement of how Sticky still drinks coffee even through the countless perils that befell him because of it. Once, Daerien and I were training, and StickyNote was on one of those black coffee binges. StickyNote was yelling at us to pick up the pace and spar harder. Then he had to go to the bathroom. When he came back he went right back to yelling at us, but after a few minutes he was on the bathroom run again. I couldn't help laughing my brains out in my head. After training, I told the boss about it and she said to tell Sticky to put cream in his coffee and his stomach will clear up.
Another time, we were on a mission to kill a demonic and we called StickyNote to tell him we were done, but he didn't answer. Soon, the boss called and said that StickyNote had to go to the doctor's because he had an ulcer from too much stress and the caffeine. So, Sticky had to stop drinking coffee. He went though horrible withdrawal until the doctor said he was good again. It wasn't pretty either. Sticky was cranky and made us spar for at least two more hours every day while he lied around the computer complaining he had a headache. I wish the doctor hadn't recommended him to go Cold Turkey. Or maybe that's what I got for laughing.
Well, anyway my partner Daerien is like my idol, even if I worried about his nonexistent sense of humor. I was out shoving snow so the van as well as the boss's car wouldn't get trapped and my fingers were going to freeze off and the wind would blow me away. Daerien was dragged out to help. "This blows." He said. "As in the wind. It blows." "Heh heh heh... ugh. What was that?" "Sparta." "What?" I asked. " You asked 'What is this?'" He said chuckling. "Haven't you seen that movie?" "Nooooo.....I haven't." I sighed shoving away more snow.
Well, a few months later, we were introduced to another new guy in our organization. His name is Scyrus and he's kind of odd, but all of us who joined our branch of amateur exterminators is bound to be odd. StickyNote said they did all kinds of tests on him until his skin became like metal and he got superpowers or whatnot. I tried to flick him once. My finger was bruised while he just stood there nonchalantly. He doesn't talk and usually wears this kind of far away look as if pondering the meaning of life . In a way, it's sort of creepy. On Scyrus's maybe, first week here, Daerien and I wanted to make Scyrus show some kind of emotion. We were tired of him being like a Jedi who never shows his thoughts. So, the two of us decided to pull a prank on him. When Sticky assigned Scyrus the room next to mine, I would sneak down to the kitchen and got that metal bucket I use to clean the floors. After dinner and after I got done washing the floor, I took the leftover water and made my way quietly up to Scyrus's room and placed the bucket full of soap water over the slightly open door. Then, I hid in the closet near the end of the hall to watch my victim. When the fateful moment came, I was ready to laugh my socks off, but when the bucket fell on his head, it literally FELL APART and the water just sprinkled on his head and dried in a second. I was going to freak because I broke the bucket and I thought Scyrus would come and kill me, but he just kept walking. I ended up having to buy a new bucket and Scyrus didn't even get angry. He just kind of turned his head in my direction and his lip sort of moved into a :I expression. Well, if you want to read more about EON and stuff check out my buddies' profiles. These here are short stories of my adventures that Daerien and I always talk about, but Sticky never puts them in his progress reports. I guess the boss doesn't want to hear about his sunburn or the puns I love to make. Well, enjoy!
EON VACATION
So, my co-workers and I defeated that fat demonic, right? After we all returned to base, Sticky congratulated all of us we all laughed and had fun. Anyway, since we killed it, Sticky told us we get to go on a day trip to the beach. He told us we were set for lift off tomorrow. I was so excited I got my surfboard, sunglasses, swim trunks, flippers, goggles, sunscreen, everything plus the kitchen sink, y'know. I stuffed it all in the back of the van. But it nearly took up the whole trunk, so I need to see what I actually needed that still took up half the trunk. Darien's bag took up the other half of the trunk. And Scyrus, he took with him...um...nothing. I wonder how he's gonna do anything without even a pair of swim trunks, so I lent him one of mine. OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!!
The next day...
Today wasn't exactly how I pictured it while we were driving there. We were about to put our stuff down, when a huge fat guy puts his down on the same spot. We try the spot in back of him, but his hairy sun-burned back blocks the rays. Daerien gave the guy an "I'll cut you." look, but it seemed to have no effect because the was staring at his back. So, we had to move our stuff halfway across the beach because all the other good spots were taken. By the time we bedded down, we were exhausted and a good thirty minutes were wasted.
When all of us were just about ready for our fun in the sun, we found that Scyrus had gotten lost in our beach wide migration. That kid has the brain of a first grader, so finding him would either be hard or easy. Finds out it was somewhere in between.. It was a pain in the butt. I started out by calling his name like how a mom would call her lost child. It seems like ten other kids responded to my call. Darien grabbed my arm and we pushed through all the snack bars and ladies in bikinis and men wearing swim trunks until we found him playing volley ball with some guys. Daerien and I watched in awe as Scyrus slammed the ball straight in between two buff looking dudes.
After dragging him back to our spot, we watched as Sticky who already got sunburned, sat under his petite umbrella trying to fit as much as himself under it as possible. "What's up Sticky? You gonna dry out or somethin'"? Sticky looked up at us and said he remembered he had a whole boatload of work he forgot at EON since he was so excited about our vacation and now he was regretting it. "If I don't get all this work done for the boss, I'll be eaten ALIVE!" He cried out in despair. Daerien and I exchanged glances of "You're kidding, right?" Scyrus as usual, had no comment. Sticky said OH SHI-! "But we're on Vacation!" Daerien complained. "We ought to have at least some fun in the sun." Sticky, who was nearly in fetal position by now, looked up at us again with his best "Help me" look. So, all of us had to pack up, AGAIN, take our belongings halfway across the beach with Daerien firmly grasping Scyrus's wrist. But, just as this suckish day was beginning to close, my cell phone began to ring. It was from the boss. " Good Job with that extermination! I'll let you slackers have the day off!"
My jaw along with Sticky's and Daerien's dropped. We then migrated halfway across the beach to the same spot. Right now, it was about two, so we only wasted like.. TWO HOURS! When we reached our old spot, a lady and her seven children had already bedded down. We were forced to sit almost at the snack bar. Daerien and I set off immediately to the water with our surfboards like newly hatched turtles from our prison of horrible luck with Sticky to watch over Scyrus. Sticky said he didn't want to risk getting sunburn even if he was more crimson than a lobster already. I got on my surfboard and grabbed as many big ones as I could and Daerien not far behind. I opened my mouth and screamed "TOP OF THE WORLD!" not caring how much salt got in my mouth. I was having a good time and I was enjoying it.
Meanwhile
"What do you want to do now that the boys are gone, Scyrus?" Sticky asked after a while. Scyrus just continued to stare off into the nebula as if there was some hidden meaning in it. "Well, I'm going off to the snack bar which is like two feet away." Sticky chuckled. "Don't run away while I'm gone."
A little while later, Daerien and I came back with bruises and scrapes. " I got at least twelve wipe outs." I said returning with our surfboards while Daerien clutched his side. " The last one I got felt like it coulda killed me." We found Scyrus sitting under the umbrella still staring into space, still as a rock. Sticky came back with four funnel cakes. "What happened to you guys? You look like a plane fell on you." "We forgot how to surf." I said dropping our boards on the ground. "I think I wanna go home." Daerien said, poking his wounds. "What's up with ol' Scy here? It looks like he's traumatized or something." But then Daerien remembered Scyrus does that on any occasion.
Then we packed up and finally went home. In the car, I sat shotgun just so I could poke Sticky's sunburn as he was driving. I heard him yell at me maybe two times and to stop poking him so he could drive. I wondered when was the next time we would get another vacation. I hope it's soon.
The Plot thickens
Moonlight shone through the crumbling ceiling of the abandon warehouse Sticky stated a demonic resided in. Daerien's monstrous snores disturbed the silent night. Even though Scyrus said nothing, I could feel him nodding off against my tired arm. The box we hid behind was damp and reeked horribly of an unknown odor, but the atrocious odor was the only thing keeping me awake. Just as I was about to join my co-workers in their luxurious slumber, my butt began to vibrate. I took my cell phone out the back pocket of my coat,flipped in open and held it lazily to my ear. "Brickhead! Do you read me?" StickyNote's concerned voice cried over the line.
"I'm not Brickhead!" I whispered crankily through the phone. "Who is this?" Sticky asked after a moment. "Layza." I said, disappointed he couldn't even get my cell phone number right. "Oh!" Sticky cried out in a surprised tone. "I must have dialed three eights instead of one! Well, anyway, Chickenleg, how are Brickhead and Angelwing?" "They both fell asleep." I said, pushing Scyrus off my shoulder and leaning him against the smelly box. " Can we come back to base Big Coffee? We haven't seen the demonic yet and and I don't I"ll be awake much longer either. "I traced the demonic to your exact location and it's closing in on you guys!" " That's what you said two hours ago!" I snapped, feeling as crotchety as ever. I slammed the phone shut and shoved it back into my pocket. Daerien was beginning to fall over, so I propped him up with my Uzi, hoping he wasn't dumb enough to pull the trigger in his sleep. Darien, Scyrus and I were all rather ragged from fighting the rest of the demonics previously hidden within the warehouse. The fatigue of the day was taking over and sitting idly but "taking cover" after so much fighting was like a person running around their neighborhood, coming home and eating a lot of food, but being told that they can't just relax.
Another hour passed and I was feeling the bags under my sleep-deprived eyes become heavier than they already were. But, out of the blue, a loud inhuman scream erupted in the dark. I snatched my Uzi from under Daerien's armpit and pointed it in the fading light,unable to see the enemy. Daerien's head hit the ground which triggered a kind of gurgling sound from him. "Did you find the thing yet?" The startled elf asked scrambling off the ground. "I heard it." My raspy voice whispered to him in the dark. Suddenly, another more bone-chilling scream filled the air that nearly made me wet my pants. A large form ever so slowly passed into our line of sight.
A giant shadowy snail-like demonic with long human-like arms passed in front of us which me the hair on the back of my neck stand up. As soon as it passed which seemed like a millennium, Daerien and I ran for our lives, trying to avoid the slimey substance it left behind. We ran as fast and far away from it as we could, even if it was going a mile a year. The both of us were safe, but in our frantic run, we forgot about Scyrus! "Come on,Daerien. You know you want to be the hero." I said coolly, partly nudging my co-worker towards the demonic. "N-no way,Layza!" He cried trembling. "Not in a trillion years!" We argued until the beast had fully ascended upon our sleeping comrade.
"Scyrus!" Daerien called out which instantly woke him." Even though Scyrus showed no emotion, I could see beads of sweat forming on the guy's forehead. Scyrus unsheathed his sword and went eye to eye with the human snail demonic. When the snail finally decided command his slimy arms toward Scyrus, Scyrus swung his sword, amputating both of them. Then, the sword went through the snail and even pierced the shell. Then the mass exploded into red jelly like stuff. Darien and I weren't hit, but Scyrus wasn't so lucky. He was covered in the stuff and smelled horrendous. His eye just sort of twitched.
This was a warning, EON. You will fall to us! -COSMOS Executives
"A pretty slow warning." I joked, but Daerien and Scyrus had already left. So, I swept up the piece of paper to show to StickyNote as soon as we got back to base.Daerien started up the van and headed for home. I, on the other hand, headed for a little place known as Cloud Nine.
The sound of glass shattering and an alarm carried off by the wind. Scrambling across a barren cornfield the blood rushing to my head. I wondered where I was. The smell of smoke was thick in the air and the sky pitch black. I try to get to my feet, but stumble. A demonic thirty feet high towers over me. Someone is riding on its head. A person in a black suit with an eye patch. I look past the hostile figure and see a something burning. The base! I hear once more the faint cries in the wind until an earthquake shakes the scene. The demonic obscures my view with its hand and in that hand were three people I knew very well, struggling with blood dripping under them. Daerien stops struggling and cracks open one strained eye."Lay...za." He chokes."run." I have my Uzi. I pull the trigger. No more bullets. The demonic's hand crushes them. Blood. THEIR blood lands on me.
" NOOOOOO!" I open my eyes. "LAYZA! Get up!" Daerien shakes my shoulders violently. "You alright? We're right here." " Just had a nightmare." I said sitting up. I was in bed and the sun shined into my unwelcome eyes. It looked a little past twelve noon. "Well anyway,"Daerien continued. " Sticky looked at the sample on Scyrus's shoe and he's having the lab guys look at. He thinks it's something used to create new demonics. If so, we might be in some trouble." And with that he left and I sat there awkwardly, waiting for another day of work.
The effects of the red slime
To congratulate our hard work, Sticky let us get a movie from the movie rental store near our base. I was sort of sick of all the romantic comedies that Sticky had made us watch whenever we got rewarded for killing a demonic. My eyes swept the western and adventure sections, when Daerien flew at me from the side of the aisle with a DVD in hand. He grinned. "It's called Saw." The box had the word Saw on it and a graphic picture of a foot and a few dead bodies. "Oh heck no! You know I hate those kind of movies. Then you'll make me watch the whole series until I can never sleep again!" "Oh come on, Layza. You just don't watch this because I made you watch The Grudge." "But you also made me watch The Grudge 2 and The Grudge 3." "Do you really want to watch another crappy RomCom?" "Ugh, I can't stand anymore of those. Fine, I 'll only watch the first one." When we got back to base, Daerien turned off all the lights and made us watch the movie. We sat in TV room with the largest television. While Sticky and Daerien sat on the couch, I sat in between them on the carpet floor behind the coffee table so I could duck behind it to shield my eyes. Daerien turned on the TV and the movie rolled. IT WAS GRAPHIC. I mean, I have killed many demonics and it was graphic, but I think I nearly fainted or at least looked away for half the movie. The mask of the antagonist, Jigsaw was still fresh in my mind when I went to bed late that night. Those eyes and swirls on his cheeks, then there was the creepy smile. I couldn't get it out of my head. It killed me every time I thought of it. When Darien took out the disk from the DVD player, I nearly wet myself when he uttered the words."Yo Layza, I was talking to Sticky during the movie and he said there are five more Saw movies." I bolted, but bumped into Scyrus who had just finished taking a shower and was wearing some obviously laid out loose fitting pajamas with a dinosaur on the shirt. "oh, Sorry Scy. I just finished watching Saw and man was it graphic." Scyrus just looked down on me for a moment with his signature look, the water of his still wet dark hair dripping onto me, then went around to the cafeteria. "I guess robots have to eat too." I mused, but then I noticed red spots on the carpet in the shape of Scyrus's bare feet where he had been standing before.
Oh snap.
I couldn't find Sticky or Daerien after I had run away from the notion of having to watch any more of those R rated slashers. I needed to tell them about Scy and that he was bleeding from the feet. or something. Normally, I would have just gotten him a band-aid, but this is Scyrus whose skin is as hard as metal and who hurt my good flicking finger for a good three days. Something was definitely wrong. In the meantime, I followed Scyrus into the kitchen to see if he was missing any toes.
I approached Scyrus, but felt kind of awkward since he could sense me from a mile away and was staring at me the whole time when I walked through the double doors. I was going to say hello when I noticed the sandwich he was holding was slowly being consumed in red. "Wait! Don't eat that!" I cried to him.
Another time, we were on a mission to kill a demonic and we called StickyNote to tell him we were done, but he didn't answer. Soon, the boss called and said that StickyNote had to go to the doctor's because he had an ulcer from too much stress and the caffeine. So, Sticky had to stop drinking coffee. He went though horrible withdrawal until the doctor said he was good again. It wasn't pretty either. Sticky was cranky and made us spar for at least two more hours every day while he lied around the computer complaining he had a headache. I wish the doctor hadn't recommended him to go Cold Turkey. Or maybe that's what I got for laughing.
Well, anyway my partner Daerien is like my idol, even if I worried about his nonexistent sense of humor. I was out shoving snow so the van as well as the boss's car wouldn't get trapped and my fingers were going to freeze off and the wind would blow me away. Daerien was dragged out to help. "This blows." He said. "As in the wind. It blows." "Heh heh heh... ugh. What was that?" "Sparta." "What?" I asked. " You asked 'What is this?'" He said chuckling. "Haven't you seen that movie?" "Nooooo.....I haven't." I sighed shoving away more snow.
Well, a few months later, we were introduced to another new guy in our organization. His name is Scyrus and he's kind of odd, but all of us who joined our branch of amateur exterminators is bound to be odd. StickyNote said they did all kinds of tests on him until his skin became like metal and he got superpowers or whatnot. I tried to flick him once. My finger was bruised while he just stood there nonchalantly. He doesn't talk and usually wears this kind of far away look as if pondering the meaning of life . In a way, it's sort of creepy. On Scyrus's maybe, first week here, Daerien and I wanted to make Scyrus show some kind of emotion. We were tired of him being like a Jedi who never shows his thoughts. So, the two of us decided to pull a prank on him. When Sticky assigned Scyrus the room next to mine, I would sneak down to the kitchen and got that metal bucket I use to clean the floors. After dinner and after I got done washing the floor, I took the leftover water and made my way quietly up to Scyrus's room and placed the bucket full of soap water over the slightly open door. Then, I hid in the closet near the end of the hall to watch my victim. When the fateful moment came, I was ready to laugh my socks off, but when the bucket fell on his head, it literally FELL APART and the water just sprinkled on his head and dried in a second. I was going to freak because I broke the bucket and I thought Scyrus would come and kill me, but he just kept walking. I ended up having to buy a new bucket and Scyrus didn't even get angry. He just kind of turned his head in my direction and his lip sort of moved into a :I expression. Well, if you want to read more about EON and stuff check out my buddies' profiles. These here are short stories of my adventures that Daerien and I always talk about, but Sticky never puts them in his progress reports. I guess the boss doesn't want to hear about his sunburn or the puns I love to make. Well, enjoy!
EON VACATION
So, my co-workers and I defeated that fat demonic, right? After we all returned to base, Sticky congratulated all of us we all laughed and had fun. Anyway, since we killed it, Sticky told us we get to go on a day trip to the beach. He told us we were set for lift off tomorrow. I was so excited I got my surfboard, sunglasses, swim trunks, flippers, goggles, sunscreen, everything plus the kitchen sink, y'know. I stuffed it all in the back of the van. But it nearly took up the whole trunk, so I need to see what I actually needed that still took up half the trunk. Darien's bag took up the other half of the trunk. And Scyrus, he took with him...um...nothing. I wonder how he's gonna do anything without even a pair of swim trunks, so I lent him one of mine. OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!!
The next day...
Today wasn't exactly how I pictured it while we were driving there. We were about to put our stuff down, when a huge fat guy puts his down on the same spot. We try the spot in back of him, but his hairy sun-burned back blocks the rays. Daerien gave the guy an "I'll cut you." look, but it seemed to have no effect because the was staring at his back. So, we had to move our stuff halfway across the beach because all the other good spots were taken. By the time we bedded down, we were exhausted and a good thirty minutes were wasted.
When all of us were just about ready for our fun in the sun, we found that Scyrus had gotten lost in our beach wide migration. That kid has the brain of a first grader, so finding him would either be hard or easy. Finds out it was somewhere in between.. It was a pain in the butt. I started out by calling his name like how a mom would call her lost child. It seems like ten other kids responded to my call. Darien grabbed my arm and we pushed through all the snack bars and ladies in bikinis and men wearing swim trunks until we found him playing volley ball with some guys. Daerien and I watched in awe as Scyrus slammed the ball straight in between two buff looking dudes.
After dragging him back to our spot, we watched as Sticky who already got sunburned, sat under his petite umbrella trying to fit as much as himself under it as possible. "What's up Sticky? You gonna dry out or somethin'"? Sticky looked up at us and said he remembered he had a whole boatload of work he forgot at EON since he was so excited about our vacation and now he was regretting it. "If I don't get all this work done for the boss, I'll be eaten ALIVE!" He cried out in despair. Daerien and I exchanged glances of "You're kidding, right?" Scyrus as usual, had no comment. Sticky said OH SHI-! "But we're on Vacation!" Daerien complained. "We ought to have at least some fun in the sun." Sticky, who was nearly in fetal position by now, looked up at us again with his best "Help me" look. So, all of us had to pack up, AGAIN, take our belongings halfway across the beach with Daerien firmly grasping Scyrus's wrist. But, just as this suckish day was beginning to close, my cell phone began to ring. It was from the boss. " Good Job with that extermination! I'll let you slackers have the day off!"
My jaw along with Sticky's and Daerien's dropped. We then migrated halfway across the beach to the same spot. Right now, it was about two, so we only wasted like.. TWO HOURS! When we reached our old spot, a lady and her seven children had already bedded down. We were forced to sit almost at the snack bar. Daerien and I set off immediately to the water with our surfboards like newly hatched turtles from our prison of horrible luck with Sticky to watch over Scyrus. Sticky said he didn't want to risk getting sunburn even if he was more crimson than a lobster already. I got on my surfboard and grabbed as many big ones as I could and Daerien not far behind. I opened my mouth and screamed "TOP OF THE WORLD!" not caring how much salt got in my mouth. I was having a good time and I was enjoying it.
Meanwhile
"What do you want to do now that the boys are gone, Scyrus?" Sticky asked after a while. Scyrus just continued to stare off into the nebula as if there was some hidden meaning in it. "Well, I'm going off to the snack bar which is like two feet away." Sticky chuckled. "Don't run away while I'm gone."
A little while later, Daerien and I came back with bruises and scrapes. " I got at least twelve wipe outs." I said returning with our surfboards while Daerien clutched his side. " The last one I got felt like it coulda killed me." We found Scyrus sitting under the umbrella still staring into space, still as a rock. Sticky came back with four funnel cakes. "What happened to you guys? You look like a plane fell on you." "We forgot how to surf." I said dropping our boards on the ground. "I think I wanna go home." Daerien said, poking his wounds. "What's up with ol' Scy here? It looks like he's traumatized or something." But then Daerien remembered Scyrus does that on any occasion.
Then we packed up and finally went home. In the car, I sat shotgun just so I could poke Sticky's sunburn as he was driving. I heard him yell at me maybe two times and to stop poking him so he could drive. I wondered when was the next time we would get another vacation. I hope it's soon.
The Plot thickens
Moonlight shone through the crumbling ceiling of the abandon warehouse Sticky stated a demonic resided in. Daerien's monstrous snores disturbed the silent night. Even though Scyrus said nothing, I could feel him nodding off against my tired arm. The box we hid behind was damp and reeked horribly of an unknown odor, but the atrocious odor was the only thing keeping me awake. Just as I was about to join my co-workers in their luxurious slumber, my butt began to vibrate. I took my cell phone out the back pocket of my coat,flipped in open and held it lazily to my ear. "Brickhead! Do you read me?" StickyNote's concerned voice cried over the line.
"I'm not Brickhead!" I whispered crankily through the phone. "Who is this?" Sticky asked after a moment. "Layza." I said, disappointed he couldn't even get my cell phone number right. "Oh!" Sticky cried out in a surprised tone. "I must have dialed three eights instead of one! Well, anyway, Chickenleg, how are Brickhead and Angelwing?" "They both fell asleep." I said, pushing Scyrus off my shoulder and leaning him against the smelly box. " Can we come back to base Big Coffee? We haven't seen the demonic yet and and I don't I"ll be awake much longer either. "I traced the demonic to your exact location and it's closing in on you guys!" " That's what you said two hours ago!" I snapped, feeling as crotchety as ever. I slammed the phone shut and shoved it back into my pocket. Daerien was beginning to fall over, so I propped him up with my Uzi, hoping he wasn't dumb enough to pull the trigger in his sleep. Darien, Scyrus and I were all rather ragged from fighting the rest of the demonics previously hidden within the warehouse. The fatigue of the day was taking over and sitting idly but "taking cover" after so much fighting was like a person running around their neighborhood, coming home and eating a lot of food, but being told that they can't just relax.
Another hour passed and I was feeling the bags under my sleep-deprived eyes become heavier than they already were. But, out of the blue, a loud inhuman scream erupted in the dark. I snatched my Uzi from under Daerien's armpit and pointed it in the fading light,unable to see the enemy. Daerien's head hit the ground which triggered a kind of gurgling sound from him. "Did you find the thing yet?" The startled elf asked scrambling off the ground. "I heard it." My raspy voice whispered to him in the dark. Suddenly, another more bone-chilling scream filled the air that nearly made me wet my pants. A large form ever so slowly passed into our line of sight.
A giant shadowy snail-like demonic with long human-like arms passed in front of us which me the hair on the back of my neck stand up. As soon as it passed which seemed like a millennium, Daerien and I ran for our lives, trying to avoid the slimey substance it left behind. We ran as fast and far away from it as we could, even if it was going a mile a year. The both of us were safe, but in our frantic run, we forgot about Scyrus! "Come on,Daerien. You know you want to be the hero." I said coolly, partly nudging my co-worker towards the demonic. "N-no way,Layza!" He cried trembling. "Not in a trillion years!" We argued until the beast had fully ascended upon our sleeping comrade.
"Scyrus!" Daerien called out which instantly woke him." Even though Scyrus showed no emotion, I could see beads of sweat forming on the guy's forehead. Scyrus unsheathed his sword and went eye to eye with the human snail demonic. When the snail finally decided command his slimy arms toward Scyrus, Scyrus swung his sword, amputating both of them. Then, the sword went through the snail and even pierced the shell. Then the mass exploded into red jelly like stuff. Darien and I weren't hit, but Scyrus wasn't so lucky. He was covered in the stuff and smelled horrendous. His eye just sort of twitched.
This was a warning, EON. You will fall to us! -COSMOS Executives
"A pretty slow warning." I joked, but Daerien and Scyrus had already left. So, I swept up the piece of paper to show to StickyNote as soon as we got back to base.Daerien started up the van and headed for home. I, on the other hand, headed for a little place known as Cloud Nine.
The sound of glass shattering and an alarm carried off by the wind. Scrambling across a barren cornfield the blood rushing to my head. I wondered where I was. The smell of smoke was thick in the air and the sky pitch black. I try to get to my feet, but stumble. A demonic thirty feet high towers over me. Someone is riding on its head. A person in a black suit with an eye patch. I look past the hostile figure and see a something burning. The base! I hear once more the faint cries in the wind until an earthquake shakes the scene. The demonic obscures my view with its hand and in that hand were three people I knew very well, struggling with blood dripping under them. Daerien stops struggling and cracks open one strained eye."Lay...za." He chokes."run." I have my Uzi. I pull the trigger. No more bullets. The demonic's hand crushes them. Blood. THEIR blood lands on me.
" NOOOOOO!" I open my eyes. "LAYZA! Get up!" Daerien shakes my shoulders violently. "You alright? We're right here." " Just had a nightmare." I said sitting up. I was in bed and the sun shined into my unwelcome eyes. It looked a little past twelve noon. "Well anyway,"Daerien continued. " Sticky looked at the sample on Scyrus's shoe and he's having the lab guys look at. He thinks it's something used to create new demonics. If so, we might be in some trouble." And with that he left and I sat there awkwardly, waiting for another day of work.
The effects of the red slime
To congratulate our hard work, Sticky let us get a movie from the movie rental store near our base. I was sort of sick of all the romantic comedies that Sticky had made us watch whenever we got rewarded for killing a demonic. My eyes swept the western and adventure sections, when Daerien flew at me from the side of the aisle with a DVD in hand. He grinned. "It's called Saw." The box had the word Saw on it and a graphic picture of a foot and a few dead bodies. "Oh heck no! You know I hate those kind of movies. Then you'll make me watch the whole series until I can never sleep again!" "Oh come on, Layza. You just don't watch this because I made you watch The Grudge." "But you also made me watch The Grudge 2 and The Grudge 3." "Do you really want to watch another crappy RomCom?" "Ugh, I can't stand anymore of those. Fine, I 'll only watch the first one." When we got back to base, Daerien turned off all the lights and made us watch the movie. We sat in TV room with the largest television. While Sticky and Daerien sat on the couch, I sat in between them on the carpet floor behind the coffee table so I could duck behind it to shield my eyes. Daerien turned on the TV and the movie rolled. IT WAS GRAPHIC. I mean, I have killed many demonics and it was graphic, but I think I nearly fainted or at least looked away for half the movie. The mask of the antagonist, Jigsaw was still fresh in my mind when I went to bed late that night. Those eyes and swirls on his cheeks, then there was the creepy smile. I couldn't get it out of my head. It killed me every time I thought of it. When Darien took out the disk from the DVD player, I nearly wet myself when he uttered the words."Yo Layza, I was talking to Sticky during the movie and he said there are five more Saw movies." I bolted, but bumped into Scyrus who had just finished taking a shower and was wearing some obviously laid out loose fitting pajamas with a dinosaur on the shirt. "oh, Sorry Scy. I just finished watching Saw and man was it graphic." Scyrus just looked down on me for a moment with his signature look, the water of his still wet dark hair dripping onto me, then went around to the cafeteria. "I guess robots have to eat too." I mused, but then I noticed red spots on the carpet in the shape of Scyrus's bare feet where he had been standing before.
Oh snap.
I couldn't find Sticky or Daerien after I had run away from the notion of having to watch any more of those R rated slashers. I needed to tell them about Scy and that he was bleeding from the feet. or something. Normally, I would have just gotten him a band-aid, but this is Scyrus whose skin is as hard as metal and who hurt my good flicking finger for a good three days. Something was definitely wrong. In the meantime, I followed Scyrus into the kitchen to see if he was missing any toes.
I approached Scyrus, but felt kind of awkward since he could sense me from a mile away and was staring at me the whole time when I walked through the double doors. I was going to say hello when I noticed the sandwich he was holding was slowly being consumed in red. "Wait! Don't eat that!" I cried to him.
Pet Treasure
Pet Friends
Stickee.Note
Best bud
Fyusha
:0
Maeyukii
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Daerian
Huntin' pardner.
Scyrus
Co-worker