Calamity Billy

Chapter 1: Odd Item from the Trunk

Billy knew he had to take a test that he'd certainly fail, in order for him to succeed he had to first go and beg for Grim's. Typically enough, Grim was enjoying his day reading the paper in the kitchen and having his morning coffee.

"Billy do you mind, I'm kind of busy" said Grim as he sipped his coffee.

"Grim, I got a huge history test that I need your scythe to help me make me smart" said Billy.

"There is no way I will ever lend you me scythe to you ever again" continued Grim.

"But school won't start for an entire hour, and the bus will be here any minute!" cried Billy.

"Sorry, but there is not going to ever be that chance for you, you'll just going to have to live with being stupid" laughed Grim.

Billy sighed as he headed off, then an idea hatched in his small tiny brain; why not get something from the Grim Reaper's own trusty trunk? That never failed Billy to find a device or an object he could use to bypass any problem that came his way. Billy immediately headed down toward the basement to find the Reaper's trunk.

"Grim's trunk!" laughed Billy.

At first the trunk seemed like it was closed quite tight, Billy did his best to try to open up the trunk.

"Come on, come on, open up you stupid trunk!" roared Billy.

Billy then noticed some tools his father left, Harold being the idiot he was just like his own son left them out in the open.

"Time to improvise!" laughed Billy.

Billy then started beating the trunk with the hammer, the hammer ended up breaking into tiny pieces, he then tried a saw to open it, it broke too, then he attempted to use a chainsaw, the chainsaw ended up making some odd noises then broke into tiny pieces.

"Ah nuts, I'll never get this stupid trunk open, and school's going to start and that stupid bus will be picking me up soon!" roared Billy.

In the fit of his tantrum, Billy slammed his fist on the trunk to which the trunk ended up opening right in front of Billy.

"About time!" laughed Billy.

Billy dived right into the trunk hoping to find the right kind of item to make him smart, or to at least bypass the entire test itself. As Billy continued to throughout all the magical items that came his way that were oddly helpful to him since he was too stupid to even know how to work them, he finally came across an odd bracelet of some sort.

"Wow, what the heck is this, it looks all shiny, I bet if I showed this off to the class, they may forget about taking that stupid test!" laughed Billy.

Then Billy noticed a red button on the bracelet, and a sign there as well that Grim had placed.

"Whatever you do, no one should press this button or an event known as the Calamity would indeed happen" said Billy "sounds like the kind of thing that'll get me out of this test!"

As Billy pressed the button, the bracelet shook, and suddenly the walls around Billy literally began to fall apart as if he were heading toward another dimension of some sort. Grim who was just noticing this happen rushed down toward the basement where Billy was.

"Billy what the heck did you do, you have revived the Calamity!" cried Grim.

"At least this will get me out of that test!" laughed Billy.

Grim indeed was quite angry with Billy, the Reaper was fuming with rage.

"Have you NO IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE!" roared Grim as flames came up around the Reaper.

"I managed to skip a test that I didn't study for!" laughed Billy.

"NO!" roared Grim, "You have caused the end of the world!"

"But isn't this like the sixth or seventh time you told me that?" asked Billy.

"Yea, but this time not even me scythe can help fix the world that you broke" continued Grim.

"Why?" asked Billy.

"Look around you!" cried Grim as the two were floating in space, "We are only standing on solid ground floating in an infinite amount of space, the Reaper's scythe is no good here!"

"Oh boy, I get to practice my diving lessons!" laughed Billy.

Billy indeed jumped right off the cliff and landed right back on the ground quite hard.

"Hey, what gives!" cried Billy.

"Maybe you should try that again" laughed Grim who wanted to see Billy get hurt.

"Okay!" laughed Billy.

Billy leaped off from the cliff, only to land in the same spot he landed.

"I'm going to try it again!" roared Billy as he was trying to challenge that cliff.

Billy did the same thing for about five or ten times or so which ended up boring the Reaper.

"Alright I'm getting bored let's go see if anyone else survived this Calamity" said Grim.

"I hope I didn't make Mandy angry that she wouldn't be taking this test" said Grim.

Indeed the floors started to pop up and form the way for the two, as they headed for the main door, Billy opened it only to find a statue of Mandy.

"Grim, what did you do to Mandy!" roared Billy.

"Hey now, this isn't my work" replied Grim, "besides, I really wanted to do that to her!"

"Everyone has become a statue!" roared Billy.

"Hey losers!" roared Mindy as she was the only one on the bus who hadn't turned into a statue, "How come I am the one punish with all of these mindless losers here!"

"Great, we found a survivor, unfortunately it had to be her" sighed Grim.

"I bet you had to do something with this, you loser!" roared Mindy as she came out of the bus.

"I'm sorry Mindy, I'll fix it, I promise!" replied Billy.

"There is only one place we can fix it, and that place is known as the Bastion" continued Grim.