I lay down on my bed and recalled the day I had just had. It started off like any normal day. You know, wake up, and go to school…. Except today I got… Well, you'll see. Let me start by telling a little about myself by describing my day. I woke up like normal moments before my mom called me to get up.
"Stuart you up?"
She yelled from the first floor.
"No."
I called back to her as sat up, rubbing my eyes. I didn't wanna get up because I was having an awesome dream though I couldn't remember what it was about. I got up and put a pair of jeans on along with a plain long sleeved shirt. Still slightly groggy I walked to the bathroom. I looking in the mirror I saw a 5'11" teenager looking back at me. His messy dark brown hair covered half of his face, only letting me see one of his brown eyes. I watched as the mirror me brushed his teeth but did nothing to fix his hair. During breakfast I watched the only thing besides new on TV worth watching…the original Pokémon show was on. (There it is …I am a nerd.) After a short breakfast my mom drove me to school. Slowly each class went by, first Math, then English, History, science and choir. I studied in all my classes that I didn't have anyone to talk to (Which is most classes because I don't have very many friends), though I would occasionally go off into a daydream about being somewhere else.
'Man this is boring.'
I thought to myself as the teacher went on about how to find length of side X on a triangle. Out of nowhere, she asked me,
"Stuart, could you find X for us?"
I had no idea what she was talking about. I looked up at the board to see a triangle with X on one side. I pointed to it and said,
"It's right there."
Not thinking my joke was funny, she gave me a disapproving look and proceeded to give me a lecture, so I zoned out again until the bell rang.
"Did you hear the news about the new Kingdom Hearts game coming out next year?"
I asked Tyler and Aaron as we sat down in the back row of our history class. These are my two friends. Aaron (Aka the Jew), who I met this year, was still somewhat of a new friend to me but he was pretty cool. He was extremely smart and loved music, whether it was singing or playing or just listening to it. Tyler has been my best friend since the first few days I was in high school. Tyler is a strange kid. That's probably why we get along so well. He can be a huge goof ball when he wants to (but I'm still a bigger one) or he can be serious as an army sergeant when the time calls for it. He can sometimes have a little bit of a temper, but it's almost always invoked because I mess around too much (insert Harry Potter Puppet Palls bother, bother, bother here). We are great friends who have tons of fun together.
We were supposed to be taking notes on some old writer that was not well known but still had very important works that no one has ever heard of; but I wasn't paying attention. I was too busy talking about something really important, video games.
"Yeah I can't wait for it. It's going to be so awesome."
Aaron replied. I watched at the one headphone he didn't have on dangled from the other one.
"When it comes over we have to have a game night or something like that."
Tyler suggested as, unbeknownst to us, the teacher walked up behind us.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your little conversation, but Aaron you're being called to the office."
The teacher said as he handed Aaron a piece of paper.
"Not again."
Aaron complained as he got up.
"What did you do Aaron?"
Tyler asked.
"Nothing…probably just work tying to get me to come in early. See you later."
Aaron shrugged before rushing out of the room. His work always was calling him out in the middle of school saying they were his parents. Aaron never seems too thrilled about school so he left every time they called. I didn't see Aaron the rest of the day, but it went by pretty fast. The bell rang and we met up at the usual spot.
"So are you sure you don't want a ride?"
Tyler asked as we walked to his mom in the car.
"No thanks, I'd rather not die. I think I'll be safer on foot."
I said. His mom didn't have the best driving record in the world. Even Tyler had to give a nervous snicker at this, because he knew it was true.
"See you later Tyler… I hope."
I said jokingly before setting off for home. I hadn't gotten a ride because my mom had work. I didn't mind going for a walk. I had just moved and still was looking for the fastest way to walk home so I was taking new streets. I sang along with my iPod as I walked to make the time go by faster.
"Link, he comes to town. Come to save the Princess Zelda. Gannon took her away, now the children no play but they will when Link save the day, HALLELUJAH!"
I walked down some strange streets and before I knew it I was in an ally that I had never been in before. I knew where I was supposed to be going and that it might get me there faster, so I went through it.
'I wonder what that smell is.'
I thought to myself as I past a dumpster. As I walked through the alley, a voice came from behind me.
"Hey that's a nice lap top you got there."
There were two thugs walking toward me. I looked around for help, or at least a way out, but I couldn't find anything. To top it off a third person had come from the other direction, although he was shorter than the other two.
'Fuck me'
I thought to myself as I tried to think of a plan. I recognized them. They had gone to my school until they got kicked out. I wasn't going to lose my lap top. I didn't care that it was a piece of shit, it was my lap top. Being a water polo player, I was in very good condition, so I charged at the shortest one to see if I could get away.
My mistake, I might have been able to get away if it weren't for the baseball bat he was holding. I tried to run past him, but I was hit in the face with a crack. I felt my lip split and I fell to the ground. They proceeded to kick me on the ground and take my iPod and left my broken pieces of laptop that had been broken when I fell.
"Oh shit guys, look who it is. It's that fag Stuart."
One laughed as they recognized me.
"Let's go Jay, I'm done with him."
The guy with the bat said as he kicked me again.
"You say anything to the cops and I'll fucking kill you and all your homo friends."
He threatened holding a knife to my neck before leaving. I felt so bad I just ran home. I wasn't sure what I should do. I had been in fights before but never one where I was threatened to be killed. I licked my lip and tasted the salty blood coming from it. I didn't even bother to try to stop it because I didn't care.
I looked around my room for something to distract me and I noticed I had left my TV on from this morning or so I thought. There was something weird about it. I turned it off and lay down on my bed but it turned back on. I sat up and stared at it. It was on with a blank screen that gave off eerie silver glow. I walked up to it to see what was wrong when out of nowhere an arm shot out. I was so startled that I couldn't move and nearly jumped out of my skin at the same time. I fell back hitting my head on the bed post knocking myself out.
A few seconds later I woke up, dazed and confused. I saw a man standing over me as I sat up on my bed. He wore strange clothes and a cape with a collar that wrapped around like a scarf so I couldn't see his face. But the thing that got most of my attention was his eyes. They were like bright red cat eyes.
When he looked at me it was almost like he was looking through me to my soul, as cliché as that may sound. I had no idea who he was or what he wanted. All I knew is I couldn't look away from his eyes. I looked at him and said in the bravest voice I could muster,
"You're not going to rape me are you?"
He just looks at me as everyone does when I say something really stupid (Which happens a lot) and said,
"Really Stuart, really?"
He rolled his eyes and went on
"Stuart I'm here to offer you somthing."
He sounded sincere, and though his eyes looked menacing, he didn't seem to be a bad person… Or whatever he was. Even though I couldn't see his whole face I could tell he was smiling.
"What kind of offer?"
I said, less scared than I probably should be.
"Have you ever dreamed of having adventures with your favorite heroes?"
I looked at him, rubbing my head. I had a rather large lump on it which began to throb.
"Here let me take care of that."
The man said as he pointed his palm at me. A flash of green light made me look away. I continue to rub my head. The lump had disappeared along with my cuts and bruises. I watched the man with a confused face, completely forgetting I was having a conversation with a complete stranger who had no shirt on. He then proceeded to walk over to my movie and game shelf and inspected it with catlike curiosity. He seemed to find something that interested him. He then looked back at me holding a movie in his hands and said,
"So you like Spider-man… interesting. Now can you say you've never wished you could meet him or even... Be him?"
"What are you talking about? How did you do that?"
I asked, a little aggravated, and suddenly I remembered how he came in my room through the TV. He ignored me and said,
"Have you?"
I answered yes because I had and I wanted to get some answers. He then told me that he could go into any story or picture (TV, movie, video game, photo, book, artwork, and anything I may have forgotten as long as it has a story or at least description). This made me worried and almost completely convinced me right there and then to say yes. I asked where he got the power and he said he was a kid like me who was given the power in nearly the same exact way. The next question I asked was why me. He gave me a very strange answer that made me worry. He said that if he didn't make me stronger he along with myself would probably die, but never told me in what way this would save me or from what. From what he saw of me he knew that I would be his successor, not because I had all the right qualities, but that I was meant to have these powers. I really had no choice even if I didn't what the power so I agreed to accept the powers. He then proceeded to tell me the 'You Probably Shouldn't/Should' of the power.
"Number one: Anything and I mean anything that happens in the story happens to you in real life. Like dieing or getting super powers so you probably shouldn't let anything bad happen to you. It like the old saying goes …(tries to think of a old saying but fails to think of one) dieing is not good. The only thing that will go back to normal for you when you end up leaving a story is you will revert to the age you were when you entered it.
Number two: You shouldn't let the characters in the story know they aren't real. They don't seem to take it too well when they learn their whole life is a lie. I'm not saying all of them will freak out on you, but it's best not to try it. Though if you do accidentally let one of them know and they do freak out you have to leave right away and that leads me to
Number three: If you go back into as story you have been to before don't expect anyone to remember you because no human can change a story permanently. It's not as much a rule as a fact because the story will go back to normal after you leave as if nothing had happened.
Number four: To avoid having an awkward situation by make a cover story before you before anything else. Make sure to keep it simple to so the story characters don't ask any complicated questions.
Number five: Immortality is impossible for anyone in the real world. Everything from the real world will die one day and there's nothing that can stop it. You can increase your strength and maybe even make it so you live longer than a normal human but you will die eventually. On another note, you can't bring people back from the dead using stuff you get from a story. The only way for them to come back is if it's their story and it's meant for them to come back. There are certain loop holes in this however but I would avoid trying it,
Number six: Try not to be a villain in a story or become an anti hero. It is more just because it will kinda fuck with your head. It's really up to you to take my advice or not to.
Remember these are not rules, there more like guidelines. I won't force you to follow them but they are for your own safety. Speaking of safety, you really shouldn't bring any one with you or even tell them that you have this power. You could lose them in the story or even get them killed and it will be your fault. That and you don't want the government involved trust me."
I agreed to the rules and he stood me up grabbed my right hand. It went up in what looked like emerald green flame.
"What the fuck?"
I shouted as I saw this. He didn't let go even though I tried to pull my hand back. His hand had a vice like grip on mine and would not let go. I suddenly realized that my hand wasn't burning.
"Sorry for got to warn ya. Don't worry, you'll be fine. This will just take a second."
He chuckled, then, with a bit of a jerk, he let go. I looked at my hand, and even though it was on fire only a second ago, it was fine except for an odd green glow that stayed for a few seconds after.
"I probably should have told you that that was going to happen. Its ok I was just transferring the powers to you. Don't worry your getting out of a lot of hard work because of me."
I looked at him then he asked me,
"So what would you like to do first?"