Originally posted 11-11-10
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Murdoc's eyes shot open as a loud and harsh banging noise erupted through the whole mansion of Kong Studios; disturbing the late afternoon's peaceful silence. It was even loud enough to be heard in Murdoc's Winnebago.
"What the 'ell is that!" Murdoc yelled outloud as he rose up halfway from his bed. Murdoc had gotten no response so he layed back down while rubbing his temples.
"Damn 'angover" he groaned then tried to fall back asleep.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
The noise kept repeating itself over and over again. Finally in annoyance Murdoc opened his bloodshot eyes, whipped off the blanket that covered the lower half of his body, knocking down many empty beer bottles in the movement, and stormed out of bed while paying no mind that he was only wearing his white briefs stomped out of the winnebago to find the culprit that had awaken him from his peaceful afternoon slumber. With each step that he took he would grumble things that were vulgar and unintelligent, he kept on walking while he listened to find out where the noise was coming from. His ears had led him to the living room area of the mansion, Noodle and Russel where both sitting down on the large cerulean colored couch that was perched in the living room quarters.
Noodle held her golden-rod colored acoustic guitar on her lap, she would every once in a while strum to make different chord sounds for a new song, after some good sounding chord strums she would occasionally write down the notes that she had played on a notebook that she had resting on the arm of the couch next to her. Russel was resting his chin on his arm with a bowl of popcorn on his stomach while he was watching various music video on the XXL-Large screen plasma television, every few minutes he would yawn in boredom. 2-D was no where to be found.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Murdoc growled as he heard the banging noise start up again. He then knew where the orgin of the noise was coming from... THE KITCHEN! Murdoc quickly stomped his feet to the kitchen to see 2D standing in front of the the dishwasher, a large wooden hammer in his hand. 2D stared at a loose bolt that was protruding out from the top of the dishwasher, he then started to hit the top of it again.
"Now what the 'ell do ya think your doin'?" Murdoc grabbed yelled again as he grabbed 2D by the shoulders and shook him violently.
"Oi, Muds! The dishwasher's bolts were loose so I wus jus' tryin' to fix it thassall', Honestly Muds!" Said 2D in a squeaky voice as Murdoc continued to shake him even harder.
"You stupid' good fer' nuffin' smuck!"
Noodle and Russel both sighed over the yelling. They could hear every word that Murdoc yelled clearly as if he were talking to both of them face to face. Noodle got up from her position on the couch, collected her guitar and notebook and started to walk to her room that she could play some guitar rifts in peace.
"Ey girl, where you goin'?" Russel asked Noodle as she walked away.
"To my room. So I can write more song." Noodle said half-heartily. A little bit of silence finally overcame Murdoc's shouting, then it started to commence again. Noodle looked at the entrance to the kitchen then she let out a HMPH! and continued to walk to her room. Russel groaned at the continuing commotion and then turned up the volume on the television.
"MEEP! I'm honestly sorry Muds! I'll never doit' again!"
C R A S H ! ! !
Russel growled and turned up the volume up on the television to the maximum amount.
"You stupid' eff'! When I'm done' with ya' yer gonna' ave' your own bolts in your head hammered in!"
C R A S H ! ! !
Russel got up from his spot on the couch and decided he would go to his room, hopefully up there Murdoc's loud mouth would be at least muffled a little bit. Just as Russel took a step 2D came running out of the kitchen and hid behind Russel's enormous form.
"Hey now man! quit bein' so stupid and knock this off!" Russel yelled at 2D who was shaking in fear. Murdoc came out of the kitchen as well, his face was flushed red with anger.
"There ya're! Move outta' the way ya' lard arse!" Murdoc stood in front of Russel tapping his foot impatiently while his mismatched colored eyes stayed focus on 2D.
"Calm down Muds! 2D stopped the damn poundin' you can quit bein' all pissed off now." Russel stated bluntly.
"Looky 'ere fat ass either ya' move or I'll kick your ass too!" Murdoc glared at Russel.
"Pfft, I'd looove to see ya' try lil' man... I would kick gladly your ass Brooklyn style. Now just leave 2D alone and get back to what you were doin'... Russel scoffed then twitched when he saw that Murdoc was running around in his briefs. "So... Uhhh... Exactly what were ya' doin'?"
"...Meh... Sleepin'..." Murdoc grumbled under his breath.
"The hell man? its 3:30 in the afternoon man! The hell are you sleepin' now?... Man you need a hobby or something... Practice more bass ya' crazy ass ..." Russel Said in a shocked voice.
"There ya' go Muds!" 2D popped his head out from behind Russel. "Maybe your crabby because your stressed or summfink, playing some new notes on your bass will make it all go away! And we will get new music! Donnat' sound fun?"
"Looky here! I am Murdoc Niccals! The leader of the band! And I don't need either of ya' two tellin' me what to do! I am gonna go play bass kuz' I feel like it!" Murdoc yelled at the two then spat in a attempt to make himself look like he didnt care, he then spun on the heel of his foot and stormed back to his Winnebago, once he got there he slammed the door shut.
"Play bass Murdoc! Play bass Murdoc! Feh! Maybe I don' wanna' play bass right now! Ever think bout' that you stupid dopes!" Murdoc grumbled to himself as he threw himself onto his bed to try and sleep again.
After a few minutes sleep hadn't come so he lifted himself up and sat on the ground.
"I ain't crabby...I'm jus' bored!... And I would love to make more rifts but right now I jus' dont have any inspiration thas' all..." Murdoc let out a heavy sigh and layed on the floor of his room in a semi-fetal position. "I need more then just inspiration... "
Being bored with just laying on the floor and with nothing else to do Murdoc got up from the ground and started to rummage through his room, maybe he could find some old nic-nacs to preoccupy him (or maybe he can make a bigger mess so that he would actually try to clean something up). He found a few objects, mainly some old copies of PLAYBOY, old alchohol beverages, a few broken CD cases, some pornographic magazines, and some worn out empty condom boxes. Just when he was about to give up looking for anything of interest from the other useless attempts something interesting turned up, a old black notebook, the front page was covered with a thick layer of dust.
"My my...Now what do we 'ave here?" Murdoc grinned at the new found object and blew off the dust particles, he recognized what it was instataniously; It was his old notebook that he would write lyrics in from his old band days before made the Gorillaz. He started to look through all the old pages with excitement, as he kept flipping through the pages something fell onto his lap from the back of the notebook, he looked down to see a long chain that looked as if it led to a pendant. He followed the indentation of the chain to the last page in the very back of the notebook, there on the last page where the chain had led to was half of what seemed to be a pentagram if it had the other corners attached to it, in the middle part of it was a small bloodstone.
"Well now...I 'avn't saw this baby in ages! So this is where I put it all along!" Murdoc looked at the pendant sitting on the paper fondly, as he moved it away he saw under neath it some writing that was in his own sloppy hand-written style.
"Whats this here? Hmmm... Use this pendant and spell to summon a fair maiden daughter of Agrat-Bat-Mahlat whenever you are in doubt...Or need something of imagination...or... DIVINATION? kuz' Agrat-Bat-Mahlat is the succubus ruled of the morning star that symbols divination... If ya' ever decide to use this Murdoc USE WITH CAUTION THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES...Hmmm..." Murdoc read out loud to himself the old personal warning that he had left himself long ago. "Hmmm... If I'm 'spose to be so cautious with this thing why is it only summoning the daughter? Meh... Doesn't matter... The point is this is exactly what I need for a time like this! Sweet Satan I will get my "imagination" back TONIGHT!"
Murdoc smirked at the though of what the succubus would look like, hopefully she would be literally "HOT AS HELL" or even "SEXY AS HELL". And because she was a succubus meant that he woulnd't have to do any sort of work or charm to knock boots with him, after all thats her nature. With that Murdoc placed the pendant in his briefs for safe keeping, he then tore the page that held the incantation to take a better look at it.
"Alright lets see here... ... N-naca...Ro...Roth? Bat Agrat bat Mahlat..." As he read the incantation the bloodstone on the pendant glowed, but nothing happened. Murdoc looked around bewildered. "Hmph...I'll jus' do it right later in the basement near the entrance to hell...Right now I am thirsty anyways."
"OUUUUUUUUUUUUCH! WHAT THE FUCK?"
Zoe grabbed her neck were her half of a pentagram was resting against her throat
"You alright Zoe? Whats wrong? Do you want me to pull the car over or something? Gotta be honest gal we are almost to your house so I don't think you can wait for a break now"
"Oh! Its nothing Jess... My neck just got really hot all of a sudden, so dont worry." Zoe smiled at her friend.
"I get it, I get it! I have the heat turned up in the car too high, its okay to ask me to turn it down you know. Here I'll open a window for you." Jess stated merrily.
Zoe narrowed her eyes at her cousin.
"No... Thats not exactly what I had in mind I just- PLEH!" Zoe's words were cut off because the wind from the open window blew her black a purple hair into her mouth.
"Ooops! ." Jess pressed a button to put the car window shut once again. "Sorry bout that gal... But on the bright side you look silly so you can make everyone in your household laugh."
"What are you talking about Jess?" Zoe raised a brow then looked into the car mirror, her fringe was sticking straight up.
"Wow! I look like a wild woman of the forest!" Zoe made a small giggle as she took off her glasses really quick she then simply shook her head, her fringe instantly fell back into place like it wasnt even touched. She started to play with her pendant again.
"Gawd I hate that thing that you wear around you neck!" Jess grumbled.
"Why so?" Zoe asked
"Ummm lemme think... Because its the sign of the devil! DUH!"
"Your not even really religious at all so dont you pull that crap with me!" Zoe rolled her eyes.
"Whatever! Just because I dont go to church doesnt mean I am not religious!" Jess stated proudly.
"And that fact that you have pre-marital sex? And drink? And smoke? And use the "lord's" name in vain?" Zoe smirked. Jess stayed silent for a few minutes.
"Like your some kind of saint girl..." Jess stated blandly.
Zoe pretended not to hear her cousin's comment. The sun was shining brightly, the sky was clear, she was finally coming back home from college, and itw as time to start a new life, She wasn't going to let things get in her way.
She stopped daydreaming once they had gotten to the driveway of her home.
"Well here you go gal! I will see you soon! Call me when you come back to the cities so that we can hang out okay?" Jess said quickly
"Yeah of course! Thanks so much for giving me a ride back home!-" Before Zoe could finish her sentance Jess's car sped away like a bat out of hell.
"Well fine don't say Good-Bye..." Zoe glared at the road with malice then turned back to look at her home just seeing it now after a year, she missed it terribly.
"Hey sis! Welcome home!"
Zoe was greeted by one of her younger brothers who ran up to her then gave her a bear hug that made her feel like her eyes would pop out of their sockets. She grunted in pain, which made her brother put her back down.
"Okay... Seriously do you have to piss me off as soon as I come home?" Zoe groaned.
"Oh shut it!" He scoffed lightly. Zoe gave him the evil eye.
"I am going to ignore you... Starting now." Zoe stated bluntly.
"Now hush up. Please do me a big favor and take my other bags, I can only carry this one on my shoulder, Thank you!."
"Whatever."
Codell grabbed the rest of of Zoe's bags that were on the ground and proceeded to walk towards the entrance of the house.
"Bitch..." He mumbled as he dragged her bags across the ground.
Zoe simply rolled her eyes and winced again in pain . Her pendant was burning her throat. She grasped it in one hand and used the other to rub the injured area.
It never did that before. Maybe she was allergic to the metal in the pendant, I'm allergic to nickel and copper, so maybe its just a reaction or somthing. Zoe thought to herself. Even if she was allergic to it she was still going to wear the thing, she loved it! The thing was special to her even though it was missing the other half.
"ZOE! Come on and hurry your ass up you black and purple fairy! Your the only one with free hands so hurry up and open the door! Your bags are heavy!"
"I am coming Codell! And dont you swear at me! Jeez...!" Zoe called out to Codell. What was more irritating was the fact that he called her a "Black and Purple fairy."
"Yeah whatever! Just hurry up! I want you to cut my hair now! You promised me that once you moved back home that you would!" scoffed Codell
"...You only help if theres something in it for you then huh? How come you never let me cut your hair ten months ago when I first started beauty school?" Zoe narrowed her eyes irritably.
"DUH! Because you just started then! But now that you graduated beauty college I will let you cut it! Be happy! I would never trust you with something sharp and pointy by my head at all!" Codell said plainly
Zoe ignored his last remark and trotted happily inside, she was greeted by her dog jumping on her almost knocking her off of her feet, but her mom and youngest brother were no where to be found.
"Hey Codell, wheres Mom and J.C.?" She gave Codell a puzzled look.
"Mom was gonna take him on that road trip to South Dakota for his golden birthday remember?" Codell stated rudely.
Zoe opened her mouth about to retort something back, but she decided that would be pointless and just continued to make her way towards her room.
"Hey! When are you going to cut my hair Zoe?" Codell Yelled to her.
"I will cut your hair later tonight after I do some things for myself first, please be patient for once in your life!" She yelled back at him
"Well why cant you just cut it now then?"
"Because I want to relax for a little bit, maybe I dont know... Start unpacking!"
"Yeah... Whatever..." Codell walked into his bedroom and slammed the door.
Zoe decided to ignore him. She opened the door of her room and breathed deep its smell. Her throat burned again/
"OW! You have to be kidding me not this again!" Zoe grabbed her throat and started to the rub the area that was harmed hopeing that it would soothe the pain.
"Alright then, everythins' set up perfect now, I even got the right atmosphere." Murdoc gave a toothy grin to the notebook paper that was in both of his hands, he then placed the pendant around his neck.
"Now...For the fun part." Murdoc caughed to clear his tar encrusted lungs. (Don't try this at home kids!) "Dear Sweet Satan this better work kuz' if it don't then I jus' wasted some valuable time that I could use for drinkin'!" Murdoc took a deep breath then started to recite the words written on his paper.
"Naca...Ro...Roth Bat Agrat bat Mahlat!"
A few minutes past with nothing happening, Murdoc was already getting inpatient. "What the eff' kinda shit is this? I said it all righ'!" He grasped the pendant around his neck.
"Naca Roroth Bat Agrat Mahlat!... NACA ROROTH BAT AGRAT MAHLAT RIGHT FUCKIN' NOW!"
The burning sensation on Zoe's neck became unbearable and to her surprise it began to glow. She grasped the pendant about to tear it off of her neck, but once upon touching it a deep pit appeared underneath her feet, and before she could even scream Zoe felt herself falling into a dark looked downwards towards where she was falling, underneath her was a white light. As she fell small grey orbs floated around her, like they were part of a wall. Without hesitation Zoe grabbed at one of the orbs, once she touched it a white door appeared and opened, she manuvered herself and her bag towards the door she then fell inside the door landing with a loud thud on her bottom.
"What...The...Hell?" The words pounded into Zoe's skull as she pulled herself up to stand. She looked around, the room that she was in was empty, the walls, floor, and ceiling went on forever as if there was no destination.
"How do I get out of here..." She said outloud to herself. "This is all just a dream... I will just pinch myself and I will be back at my house...Well here goes...OW!... Okay I guess i am not dreaming..."
THUMP THUMP THUMP.
The thumping noise that came ahead of Zoe made her look up from what she was doing, there stood a tiny black rabbit with large white beady eyes that stared at Zoe with a void of intensity, making Zoe feel very uncomfortable.
"Hey there little guy! Where did you come from?" Zoe smiled and kneel down to be at the rabbits level, the rabbit's large unblinking eyes continued to stare her down.
"Your so cute! How did a lil' guy like you get here?"
It continued to stare. No answer, not even a twitch like a normal rabbit would do.
"Good bunny?" Zoe began to reach her hand out to touch the rabbit's head,the rabbit continued to stay still.
"Are you even alive?" Zoe asked out loud.
The rabbit's eyes sunk inside of its head, it rose up on its hind legs, revealing a demonic looking face on its belly. Zoe retracted her hand and backed away. The rabbit's body began to expand and grow in height until it became two times bigger then Zoe's own height; the demonic face on its belly let out a shriek and began to come after Zoe.
Zoe tried to scream but only managed to respond with a small "eep" she spun around swiftly and began to run as fast as her legs could carry her. She ran straight for the door that she came from. She looked outside the door and saw that the only way out was down to the white light.
"The only way out of this is for me to die!" Tears began to fill in Zoe's eyes, she wasn't ready to die, but at least she had two choices of how she would die, from falling or mauled to death by some mutant freak creature.
The rabbit's trudging footsteps were coming closer, Zoe began to shudder with anticipation. "...I rather die falling then this..." Zoe closed her eyes and jumped from the door, and let herself fall downwards.
"Well this was a effin' waste of my time!" Murdoc growled to himself while lighting a cigarette between his pointed teeth.
He took a deep drag and let out his heavy breath, grey smoke oozed from his mouth and nostrils as he began to walk out of the room. Just as he turned around to walk out of the room a huge hole appeared on the corner's wall, Murdoc turned to face the hole, his mismatched eyes stared in disbelief.
"What the eff' is this now-GAH!" Murdoc was cut off by a young woman with a large duffel bag thrown at him with brute force,his cigarette fell from his mouth as he was knocked off his feet.
"I-I'm alive!" Zoe raised her head up in shock to see herself sprwalled on someone's lap, she looked upwards to see the face of the person who broke her fall.
It was a black-haired man wearing no shirt, only black leather pants. His skin gave off a pale greenish hue, and as she examined his teeth Zoe noticed that each one of them was irregularly pointed.
"Who the ell' are you?" He demanded with agitation as he examined Zoe's face.
She had a silver, hooped nose ring on her right nostril. her lips were small, a deep maroonish purple colored lipstick smeared across them. Her hair was overly layered,the color was black and underneath you could see a deep shade of dule violet. Her eyes were rimmed with charcoal eyeliner.
Zoe began to convulse and shiver.
"Who I am? Who are you! I-i... The rabbit went evil on me!"
"Stop babblin' gibberish Doll Face!" Murdoc spat out in agitation. Zoe wanted to retort something back so that he would stop being so rude but she was still too shaken up.
Zoe lowered her eyes and looked to the ground. Murdoc scoffed and gave her an impish smile.
"Feh, yur' lucky your cute luv." Murdoc grumbled lightly. He grabbed his cigarette from the floor and placed it back in between his pointed teeth as he rose back up to his feet.
"Now I dont know how you got 'ere but you gotta leave!" Murdoc grabbed Zoe by the arm and started to escort her out of the room. As they made their way out of the room the abyss that had brought Zoe into the room appeared again.
"Now what the 'ell is going on here! Did you bring some lil' friends with ya?" He demanded, Zoe simply looked at him and shook her head back and forth rapidly.
Murdoc turned back around still hanging onto Zoe's arm to look at the new commotion. a roar came from inside and out emerged the demonic rabbit that had first terrorized Zoe before.
Zoe screamed in terror and clung to Murdoc.
"THERE IS IT! THATS THE RABBIT THING THAT CAME AFTER ME!"
Murdoc's eyes widened in shock at the sight of the creature that had just appeared, he held onto Zoe and opened the door to the room, he then hurried both of them out of the room and plied Zoe off of his chest so that he could shut the door, but before he could shut the door all the way the demonic rabbit's large paw pushed the door open again and began to go after Murdoc and Zoe. The demonic rabbit made a swift paw movement and started to claw at Murdoc first, Murdoc was too slow to be able to move out of the way, Zoe seized the opportunity and pushed Murdoc out of harm's way, if they would have waited any longer Murdoc's face would have been pounded inside out.
Murdoc looked around the room for any object that could serve as a weapon, his eyes led him to Zoe's duffel bag that was still around her shoulders, without haste he grabbed it from her.
"HEY! THATS MINE!" Zoe grimaced as he ripped her bag from her shoulders.
Murdoc ignored her and started to swing the heavy bag with as much strength as he could use, he hit the rabbit in the face on its belly, and with just one hit the rabbit dissapeared into black smoke leaving both Murdoc and Zoe staring silently.
Murdoc groaned and hung the duffel bag over his shoulder, he then lit another cigarette. He took a heavier then normal drag and released.
The smoke encircled Zoe's nose causing her to cough. Her coughing reminded Murdoc that she was still there.
"So... Mind tellin' me how the 'ell you got yourself in here luv?" Murdoc demanded as he took heavy drags from his cig.
"E-excuse me? I dont know how I got here! I just fell from my bedroom floor." Zoe cried, getting irritated at his voices rude tone.
" Oh I get it. Are all lil' goth chickies coming in the world from tryin' to summon a succubus?" Murdoc snapped at Zoe.
Zoe glared daggers at him. "Goth Chickie? The nerve of this guy!" She thought to herself. She kept trying as hard as she could to not to lose her cool.
"What are you talking about summon?... You 'SUMMONED' me here?" Zoe screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Ey now! Don't you shout at me!" He screamed back at her.
"I'm not shouting! I'M RAISING MY VOICE!"
"IS THAT ANYWAY TO TREAT SOMEONE WHO SAVED YOUR LIFE YA' TWIT!"
"I'm not going to TREAT you at all because you act like a jerk!"
"Looky 'ere! I coulda jus' left that freaky 'effing thing to eat ya! But noooooooo Poor lil' old Muds went out of his way to save your skin!"
Zoe wanted to continue argueing with the man so bad, yet she kept silent Upon him calling her a name tears began to fill in her blue-green eyes, but she refused to let them fall.
"Your right... I am sorry... I just don't understand the situation, I will stay calm, but I want to know two things..." Zoe wiped away her tears with her sleeve and looked him in the eye.
"Depends luv', What are your 'two wishes?" He said sarcastically and chuckled. Zoe continued to look him in the eye giving him her best 'I AM NOT AMUSED' look.
"Well... You said you summoned me here, I would like to know the whole story... If you do not mind." Zoe said as politely as she could.
The man let out a loud burp, he put out the now small cig out on his tongue then lit himself another cigarette, obviously he was nto listening to a word she had just said. Zoe's patience was wearing thin.
"Hello?" She said, trying to hide the agitation that was burning inside her soul. He simply exhaled some smoke then looked back at her.
"Wha' now?" he drolled.
"I just asked you a question!"
"Oh! Righ'... What was it?" He asked with no interest in his voice. Zoe gritted her teeth then let out a sigh.
"I said!... How did you summon me here in the first place?" She asked again not masking her agitation. The man just simply smirked.
"Well I was jus' so bored that I just used a lil' incantation to summon the a sacred succubuss' daughter so that I may have divination. Then you just fell through the rabbit hole, so I guess your the key to divination luv'." He walked over to Zoe to get closer.
Zoe cringed at the lustful face he had on and slowly stepped back away form him. He chuckled lightly at her cringed face.
"So... I'm just something for your entertainment?" Zoe's left eye began to twitch in disgust.
"Well I never thought of it like that now. Hehehe. But thas' basically all the story I got for ya' doll face." He smiled impishly and took another drag from his cigarette.
"How am I suppossed to get home?" Zoe shrieked in a high pitched tone making the man sneer.
"Well I guess you 'ave to go back the way you came! Back through the damn pit with ya' then, I wont stop ya'."
"There is no way I am going through there again!" Zoe stated, trying to calm herself down again.
"Well ya' can't stay here luv! Unless ya' plan to be a maid 'ere! Your not really what I had in mind for the spell to bring to me." yelled at her then spun on his heel to leave the room.
Zoe stared aimlessly at him leaving. Her whole body started to tremble and twitch.
How am I going to get home? She coulndt go back in the vortex! Where am I anyway? The man spoke with an accent... Am I in Great Britain? She could proubably buy a ticket to get back to America then right? Yes! Thats exactly what I will do! But that requires money...
Zoe rubbed her temples and sighed. She would have to see how much money was in her duffel bag. She grabbed for it. To her surprise it was not inthe normal place on her shoulders. It dawned on her.
"HE TOOK MY BAG! THAT BASTARD!" Zoe yelled to herself. She clenched her hands into fists then placed them at both sides of her hips and stomped out of the corridors that led into a hallway.
Ahead of her in the hallway was a elevator.
She clicked then button with an arrow poiting upwards. The doors opened with small rusted squeaks, she stepped onto the cement colored floors of the elevator and peered at the buttons options. She clicked the button that read "First Level". The elevator started to creakily move upwards.
"I am going to give that guy a piece of my mind!" Zoe gave herself a mental note.
