I do not own Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King. If I did own the story and everything, it would be seriously screwy screwed. Beyond the word of screwy. Beyond screws in total.
Hallo, my name is DragonQuest. You can call me Mema, Emmer, Loser (the most often used name) ,or you can just call me what my relatives do at family reunions, "That One." I have scraggly brown hair with the occasional gerbil dropping mixed in and little ratty eyes behind blue glasses that totally don't match my usual attire of jeans and a T-shirt. My skin's as pale as transparency making me look like a runaway midget off a Tim Burton movie. I'm a foot shorter than my best friend, nine inches shorter than my second best friend, and six inches shorter than my third best friend. And that's all my friends and I'm a year older than all of them, but we're all in the same 'freshest' grade. On that astral chart thingy with those weird animal-like thingys I'm the bull-thing. On the Chinese one, I'm a monkey along with the rest of my primate cousins. I have no idea what blood-type I am cuz I hate needles and doctors and whenever I have to go the doc my dad lies to me and says he's taking me to the bookstore. The doctor's office isn't my first choice in a quality bookstore. Don't get all mad at me for being needle-phobic thinking I won't donate blood cuz of it. I can't donate blood: I'm under the weight limit. I'm not bulimic or anemic of any other mics, I just have an uber-high metabolism. Or all the fat I eat from the Chinese restaurant, Micky-D's, Burger King, and that fast-food place that does tacos, goes straight into my arteries and avoids the deflated balloons on my chest. Oh, speaking of tacos, I like chocolate dipped everything too. Chocolate sauce on tacos isn't as bad as it sounds either, same with orange chicken. Most people say I speak too softly, most people say I speak too loudly. I can laugh my lungs out at the same joke and still find it hilarous for eight-times in a row. Every teacher I have had has never noticed me until the last day of school when I emerge from the darkest, dankest classroom corner. The bookstore people hate it when I politely demand them to put manga on the shelves faster. My dad says I scare him when I get too excited and my ears start wiggling. Really, my mini elephant ears wiggle when I get too hyped up. My, mother's side, grandparents fear me.
My life's top eight heroes are: Adam Sessler, Blair Butler, Ace Ventura, Austin Powers, Jay Leno, that guy down my street that saved a cat from the gutter one time, my sane grandmother, and the poor blonde girl who survived dating my brother for over a year. Only to dump him later in a Wallmart. (I love telling that story...)
ANYWAYS, sorry for the random mema based introduction. I just put it up there in case anyone wants a clear picture of who is crazy enough to write this fanfic. By the way, I'm not crazy, just intelligence-restricted (which is a nice way to say the re and tard word. By using that phrasing I avoid hurting that idiot, my, feelings).
ANYWAYS (yeah, I switch from subject to subject like a bull-monkey on a vine), I know that you want a fanfic. And you wanted a DragonQuest fanfic which is why you went to this website and selected the DragonQuest section of this website. And you want a DragonQuest 8 fanfic which is why you went to this website and selected the DragonQuest section then clicked on a Dragon Quest 8 on this website. See how much I know about you already? I'm like psychic. Well, this is a fanfic. But it's my fanfic, and once you have clicked on it there is no escape. (insert evil clown laughing here). Unless you click on the X button in the corner. Then you'll never see this again. And then I'll only have my gerbils as company...
Ah-hem, anyways this fanfic is over the story of Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King. When I say that, I mean it's an abridgment. By the miserably writing me. And it's not a parody... Yup, I can hear the readers leaving now... ANYWAYS, you see, I love Dragon Quest 8 with all my shriveled heart. In fact...(calculating, calculating, calculating, calculating, calculating, calculating, calculating, calculating)... I've spent nearly 250 hours on the game. Well, it's not as much as a die-hard fan who lives the game would play...or is it? Anyways, that's a whole lotta time. Time I could have spent getting a boyfriend...but that would have just been a horribly disappointing experience. And I know disappointing experiences well. So, those nearly 250 hours were spent all in good time. Good time that I enjoyed fully. Dragon Quest 8 was my first...(blushes). As in my first RPG. And let me ramble to you, the first time I played through that game I was mesmerized. I played that game as soon as I could over the weekends and during school breaks I'd have Dragon Quest 8 crams.
I played the game and talked to my dad at the same time, played the game and listened to my brother complain about his non-existent girlfriends, played the game and pet my gerbils at the same time, played the game and IM my friends at the same time, played the games and ate chocolaty orange chicken at the same time, played the game and did home-o-work at the same time, played the game and told stories about my uber intelligent-restricted brother to anyone who would listen at the same time, played the game when I was sick and could hardly wheeze out a breath at the same time. Dragon Quest 8 brought me something to look forward to and I could use to escape from the horrors of school. Then when I completed the game I went nuts. I thought the game was also in book form so I searched bookstores looking for a Dragon Quest 8 novel or manga or light novel or picture book or ANYTHING. Then it hit me that of course it wasn't a book and it wasn't as popular as I had hoped around my nick of the woods. It couldn't be a book cuz well, DUR, silent hero syndrome. And it wasn't very popular because...well, everyone I knew just wanted Final Fantasy. (sigh) Yeah, I'm not brave enough to take a hack at degrading Final Fantasy by saying something like "Final-Fantasy-is-not-all-that-great-as-people-say" in a long rambling way, cuz I know people would kill me most foully for that.
ANYWAYS on to talk about the fanfic. As stated earlier it is an abridgment as in I'm going to write out the entire story. (take bets now on if I'll finish writing it or not) But as you can see from the title of this fanfic "Dragon Quest 8: The Search for Dhoulmagus" (I suck at names, and I know with a title like that it's not gonna get a lot of attention, poo-hoo me) that this part is not gonna go over the whole story. I'm gonna split it up. I don't want like, a hundred chapters (hundred bucks on me not getting that far) on one fanfic. Anyways, it'll make me look like I've written more with spread out parts of it. Yeah, I'm the type of person who would do that (har har har). ANYWAYS, enough of my rambling, I have explained my purpose. Now, if you wish to do so, you can read the first chapter of the story. Now, I'm not hoping for lots of views cuz I know this idea to write out the whole story is totally lame and unoriginal. But I need at least a few people to give me some writing tips here and there. I'm not only writing this out of my love for Dragon Quest 8, I'm also doing it to improve with writing. And since the Hero is gonna talk in this story, the script is gonna be a little different. Not to mention, I'll add my own random thing here and there to see if it'll get anyone's attention (for my first couple of chapters though I'm gonna follow the game closely, and not add anything real big). So if someone could give me a few pointers here and there I'd be grateful and I'd give you a big "THANKKEE MUCHLY!"
FINAL WORD: The hero's name is going to be...(drumroll)...Keal (and don't worry, I'll force him to talk). Why such a weird name as Keal? Well, I think it's better than the others I thought up, Meacle and Adache (yes, fantasy sounding aren't they? I'm a fantasy novel addict, I blame my beloved Dragon Quest for that. Go Tamora Pierce and that other lady who writes the Quickening Series!) While I personally like those names (a little bit), I decided on Keal for one reason. And here it is:
A, J, K, M, T, Y
It's a short-hand version of the alphabet! What do those letters stand for? If you're not a Dragon Quest fan you probably have no idea. Anyway, Dragon Quest lovers? Can you think of any Dragon Quest 8 character who's name starts with K? Ha, I thought so...Wait, OH CRAPDODDLES. I just remember one...(one hope shot down)...Oh well. I'm sticking with Keal unless anyone out there has any other suggestions. Now, I'm leaving this empty-pit to go explore some other Dragon Quest fanfics. I suggest you, anyone reading this, to do the same. Buh-byes for now...or if you're gonna read the next chapter of this I guess it's not farewell yet...(watery, hopeful eyes) I'd feel ever so grateful if you'd give the next chapter just a little look-see!