The boy sat at the edge of the creek, soaking his feet in the cool water. a scowl was plastered on the boys face as he nonchalantly pulled at one of his hair stalks. This boy was known as Eddy. Now 15 and still very short for his age, Eddy hadn't changed much, still always striving to scam the kids, and although he had gotten better, very few of his plans worked. The biggest change for the leader of the Eds was his hair, no longer having only three stalks of black hair, Eddy now had a shaggy mess of fairly short, black hair, with three long, thick stalks sticking out.
"Another day, another bruise," Eddy said as he lifted his leg out of the water and looked as his bruised shin.
Man, for a little guy, Jimmy could kick pretty hard if he wanted to.
Eddy let out an angry sigh as he slowly laid himself down on the grass, minding all the bruises that covered his body. He stared up at the full moon. It was so bright, Eddy could see everything around him perfectly. Eddy checked his cellphone, it was 8:30. He probably should have got going, but decided to stay a little longer.
"I can't believe it didn't work, it was flawless...I mean, who doesn't like chocolate...and we even used real chocolate damn it! So what if it was a little melted and didn't taste too good 'cause we used the wrong ingredients, it was still chocolate," Eddy thought out loud. "And how does bad tasting chocolate equal getting a severe beating?" Eddy angrily slammed his foot into the water, causing at least a gallon of water to splash over his body and face.
Eddy reached up and wiped the water and sweat off his face, it was actually really hot for spring nighttime.
The day had been horrible. Eddy had gotten up to see that he knocked his clock off his nightstand when he had a dream and busted it. Because of missing the bus, Eddy had to book it to school in fairly hard rain. The teacher gave him a detention for being late. He failed all his tests. And the teacher made him write a report in detention because Eddy didn't pay attention. Then Kevin, his goons, and the kids beat them down for selling the home-made chocolate. And he couldn't get a date for the upcoming dance.
'Could today get any worse.' He thought to himself.
That's when the wind kicked up, causing the water to slam Eddy with a large wave, as if mother nature was giving him a 'yes'...or so he thought.
'...s--t...' He cursed in his mind, that had to be the craziest, most random, and unluckiest thing that he had ever seen; a gust of wind causing a big wave, that's just plain weird!
Eddy felt something soaking on his stomach. Without even looking down he reached for the object and brought an ugly-ass green mask up to his face.
"Man, this thing's uglier than shovel-chin," He said as he inspected it.
It had lifeless, round eyes carved where they should be, a somewhat poorly carved mouth, and long piece of square wood starting at the top and stopping in the middle.
"How's this stupid thing even supposed to be put on your face?" Eddy questioned as he brought it closer, "There's no straps."
Eddy nearly had a heart attack when the strange mask came alive and suctioned-cupped itself to his face.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPHHHHH!!" His muffled screams echoed through the night as he stood up and clawed at the expanding piece of wood.
Eddy was just quick enough to grab the sides before they wrapped fully around his head. His screams grew louder as he peeled the wood off his face, stretching his skin to painful proportions.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" His screams became clear as he finally managed to rip the strange object off his face.
His screams died down as he stared at the mask, sweating and painting. His heart beat almost painfully off his ribcage; he had never been so scared in his whole freaking life.
"Holy s--t!" He cursed in a strained voice as he stared at the powerful object in his hands.
Eddy's shocked face slowly contorted into a face of anger as he glared at the green object. He cocked his arm back and let loose, hurling the mask far away, a satisfying splash coming from the middle of the creek. He turned around and brushed the dirt off his shirt.
POW
Before he could even take one step, he was knocked down as something very hard smashed into the back of his head.
"Uhhhhhhhhhh..." He groaned as he picked his face out of the dirt.
Eddy rolled over, snatched the object up...and hollered like a little girl as he stared at the green object in his hands.
"B-but how?!" A hysterical Eddy questioned as he stared at the mask, "I threw you into the creek you freaky piece of wood!"
An odd glow suddenly flashed over the mask. Eddy didn't know why, but he felt like it was taunting him to try it again. Eddy looked at it and shook his head, then took off in the opposite direction.
'Please be awake, please be awake, please be awake!' He thought frantically as he took off in the direction of his friend's house.
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Here's my first chapter of my first ever re-write. I wanted to re-do this story because I really like the idea and with my better writing skills I thought I could do way better than my last draft.
So, there's some weird things in here. It's nighttime because in the Mask comics I've read and the movies, the character either finds the mask or tries it on for the first time at night, so I thought I'd continue that theme. And Eddy can be out at that time because, just like in the show, their parents aren't around a lot, so at this time, he can do whatever he wants. And the wind causing the wave, I was using Ed, Edd n Eddy logic when I thought that up.
The story will still be episodic, but will have continuity, and now I'll have occasional multi-chapter areas. This and the next chapter (Might be third too, still not quite sure.) are linked, after that it's singular adventures until the next big adventure.
