Oh snaps! Is this the first story that I've typed that isn't in script formation? It's a miracle! And is this also the first one NOT to have Pandemonium in the name? ANOTHER MIRACLE!! I hope you all enjoy this one. I probably won't be finishing it any time soon. I'll give you chapters at a time though. ^_^
They all knew that it would be another day full of killing. It was just one of those days, and they knew it. They were all sitting around waiting for this to happen.
"I wonder how much we'll make today," exclaimed Alex while throwing a ball up and down.
"I hope we make a lot," replied Isabella.
"What's the point of making money? It's not like we have anything to spend it on," said Leah as she put her hands on her hips.
"For the sake of making money I guess," said Ruth while walking towards them.
"So you finally decide to show up?" asked Alex.
"I might need that ball today," Ruth said as she eyed the ball going up and down in Alex's hand.
"No, you'll make it all nasty," said Alex. "You can just keep it then," he said as he threw it across to her.
"It's not good to walk around her alone, you know?" Isabella lectured as Ruth walked closer and closer.
"They can't hurt me with my gate," said Ruth starting to throw the ball up and down.
"It's not always good to rely on your gate. It'll someday consume your soul you know," said Leah while putting her hands on her hips again.
"Like I care, in this world, half the people have already lost their souls. I would just join them," Ruth said reassuring that she wouldn't die any time soon. An eerie noise glided through the air as it made its way to them.
"Looks like they're here," said Alex pointing in a certain direction. Far off into the distance, they could see a mob of them walking towards them. All of them wobbling their way to them. It was like a mob of zombies walking towards them.
"This'll be easy today," said Isabella as her gate opened beneath her allowing her to float on a tower of water beneath her.
"Don't get too carried away now," said Leah. "We have to take some back alive to be studied on."
"Why would we study them?" asked Alex. "They had their chance at life and they lost it," he said as he stood there starring at them.
"It's like animal cruelty," Ruth said while opening up her gate. A red gate appeared in her eyes and she could see all of the invaders perfectly considering they were still a good mile away. "Looks like my eyesight still doesn't fail me," she said smiling. Leah opened up her gate next. It was a faded gate meaning that she wasn't using her true power.
"I'll go easy on them today," Leah said as pink flower petals started floating out of her gate. "My poisoned cherry blossoms will take care of all of them."
"I wonder why I even try on these," said Alex as he started to open his gate. Alex's gate was a pure white gate. It was the gate of gates. Through this gate, Alex could open any other gate thus giving him the ultimate gate. "What should I use today?"
"You should use destruction again," said Ruth as she threw the ball. The ball went straight through the first invader and also went through the next 13 invaders behind it and came to a stop after melting to a mere pebble.
"Only 13?" asked Paajci. "You usually get more than that." A huge wave of water rose up and swarmed towards the invader mob. Then the water turned to ice forever freezing the invaders in a glacier.
"Why did you freeze them? We're just going to have to kill them later now," Leah said as she sighed. "I'll finish those glaciers off." The petals started floating towards the mob and the glacier. Several petals glued themselves onto the glacier and exploded killing the invaders inside the glacier and the invaders around it. "Now that's what I call a mass kill," she said while patting herself on the back. Not too long after this, a meteor fell down on the invader mob nearly wiping them all out. They all stood up soot faced and covered in dirt and ash.
"Why did you use that one?" Ruth yelled as she shook off the soot.
"I thought it was appropriate for the situation," Alex said with a little giggle.
"So you used the meteor gate?" Isabella said as she stood up.
"Yeah, what was that all about?" Leah said in a steaming way as if she had just woken up from a good dream.
"I told you, I thought it was appropriate for the situation," Alex said again giggling. Isabella opened her gate and washed them all off. Then Alex opened a gate of wind to dry them off.
"Wow, we told them that we would try to do this with minimal destruction," said Ruth as she ruffled her hair.
"We failed at that," said Leah while crossing her arms.
"Weren't we suppose to bring a live sample back with us also?" asked Isabella as she opened her gate again to put out the fires around them.
"Yeah… I guess that was sort of my fault," Alex exclaimed as he put his hands to his mouth and started to do his evil laugh. They all gave out a loud sigh.
"I guess its okay though, the people are alright. That's all that matters," said Isabella in a hurried manner.
"We should go back to the base soon," said Ruth. She took out her phone and started rapidly pressing buttons.
"What are you doing?" asked Leah. She looked over Ruth's shoulder trying to see what she was doing.
"I'm trying to see if the boss is going to pick up his phone or not," she replied while still pressing buttons.
"Looks more like texting to me," said Alex.
"These new phones that they gave us are so useless! They don't call anybody!" Ruth said as she threw the phone on the ground. The phone cracked open
"Great, now you broke it," Alex said picking it up and opening another gate on it. It was a green gate. It was the gate of time. The phone slowly started to revert to how it was before she threw it.
"You have to stop using the gate of time," Isabella said in a lecturing tone. "If you keep using it, bad things could happen."
"I know, I know," said Alex in a panicking tone. "It's one of my favorites anyways."
"We really should be getting back now though," said Leah. "If we don't get back soon, it's going to be night time. It's bad to be out this late." She untied her hair allowing it to fly through the air. They heard another mob of invaders coming from a distance.
"Yeah, let's leave," said Alex as he opened another gate. This gate somewhat lacked color making it a clear gate.
"A clear gate, that means nobody has it yet," said Isabella. "What gate is this?"
"This is the gate of teleportation. I'm pretty sure nobody has it yet, because I made it up just right now," Alex said in a happy tone.
"I wish I had the gate that allowed me to be creative and make gates of my own," said Leah.
"It's actually a little bit bad," he assured her. "Because I have to use my creativity to open gates, it means that I have to think about which gate I'm going to use. Now like all of you who can just open your gate and stuff comes out. I have to think exactly of what I want to come out of my gate which is another gate in most cases." A gate appeared in front of all of them. "Everybody walk through before me, or else it'll close early," he said pointing towards the gate.
As everybody walked through the gate, Alex looked back at the mob of invaders in the distance. "I won't let you hurt anybody anymore. You can all rest in peace," he said as he shot a small white orb towards the mob. The orb expanded and absorbed everything that it touched. It was an orb of destruction. Then he walked through the gate as it started to fade away.
They all appeared in the base tired and exhausted from all the fighting.
"I see that you failed to bring back a sample," said the boss as everybody stiffened up and turned around to see that he was standing right behind them.
"Yeah… About that," Ruth tried to start explaining.
"I used the meteor gate today," said Alex smiling back to the boss.
"Ah, what am I going to do with you four kids? I couldn't even protect my own children from becoming invaders, yet I have four gatekeepers that insist on using the most unorthodox gates," the boss said as he put his hand on his head and closed his eyes.
"We're sorry if we're this so called "unorthodox"," said Leah trying to be sarcastic.
"We're gatekeepers, we'll never be able to turn into invaders. Even if we tried," Paajci said in a giggly tone. They were all a little more relaxed now. They walked towards the lounging area.
"It's nice to know that the boss thinks of us as his own children," said Leah in a happy tone.
"Yeah, it's like we have parents again," said Alex.
"It's said that gatekeepers become gatekeepers because they came from unhappy households. All of us grew up without parents in the house. What made it so you got the ultimate gate?" asked Ruth.
"I don't know, I just remember that I saw all these weird zombie people coming after me. Then I just kept wishing that they would all disappear. That's when my gate manifested. I thought that it was a curse at first, but then I figured out that I'm the good one and they're the bad ones."
"I think my gate manifested when I was around six years old. I was playing a game where you throw the ball into the cup. I was horrible at it, but then I just kept practicing and practicing. And pretty soon, it was just natural for me to never miss any shot or miss whenever I do anything," said Ruth while she threw a cup over into the trash bin.
"My power manifested not too long ago," said Leah. "My power manifested when these people were trying to mug me. The only thing that I had with me at the time was a single cherry blossom petal. They tried to steal my purse, but I these petals just kept flying out of nowhere and knocking them around. And pretty soon, there was a mass of petals around us and there was a strange fragrance in the air. All of the guys trying to mug me just started falling down and I started to get scared. Then they became invaders and I was really scared. There was a really bright light as I passed out and when I woke up, I was here."
"My power manifested when I was about to drown in this river," said Paajci. "The water started to swirl around me and then I started to float to the top. I woke up on the beach with 15 invaders surrounding me. I tried to remember what happened to me and that's when my gate opened and water started slicing up the invaders. And that's how I got my gate."
It was getting pretty late that night as they kept talking. They all talked about how they gained their gates. Gatekeepers are born when kids around a certain age are abused, neglected, or maybe even lack love. Gates are black holes that slowly eat away at your happiness. Using a gate can be useful, but over-using a gate could cause in losing your soul and forever being trapped on this world as a wandering spirit. The gate of gates is excused from this burden. The gate of gates does not eat away at their souls. The gate of gates has the power to solve the problems of the world.