Red Lightning Damnation

From the Jaws of Death

There exists a storm that unlike any other. It turns hapless people into beings with unbelievable powers. There are those who use these powers, to keep the peace, though others use them for more malicious deeds, and then there are those, who are driven mad by such abilities. All this waits for an upstanding, yet cowardly knight, who died centuries ago, and became the hero of Gallowmere. His name stands in the mists of time to this day: Sir Daniel Fortesque.

Double D (Aka Flashpoint) was having a date with Marie Kanker in the park. They passed a sharp blade sticking out of the ground, almost if something was buried there, but its tomb eroded away over time.

"Have you ever noticed that thing sticking out the grass?" Marie said wondering about how no-one had tried to remove it. It had been there ever since the storm hit it, when it seemed to be just a tiny rock in the ground but now, it had progressively risen out of the soil.

"I have." said Double D. "It got struck before me and Eddy were." He could remember every detail about what happen to him and Eddy that day…

He and his friends Eddy and Ed were planning a scam in the same park they were in and this was meant to be their best plan in a long time: Fake Devil Fruit.

"Devil Fruit! Stretch like Rubber! Just like Morphia the Catgirl!" Eddy yelled through a microphone. They didn't get any customers at all. Probably due to the fact that they just painted apples the colour of Devil Fruit and added spikes on some the more yellow ones.

"This isn't working at all!" Complained Double D, looking at how some of the paint was dripping off. "I really don't think selling cheap knock offs of fruit from an anime is going to attract anybody, apart the occasional one who'll just sell them on ePort for double the price…"

"Oh come on, Sockhead." Eddy said with a confident smirk. "Everyone wants superpowers, right?"

"Not through eating painted apples, I don't think." Double D replied back. Just then, it began to rain, the paint and glue fell off the apples and all over the stall.

"Skywater!" Ed shouted! "We must find Shelter!"

"Shut up Lumpy!" Eddy shouted over the din of the rain. Suddenly, a red spark of light barely missed Double D, striking a small metal object in the ground. Double D instantly jumped back, landing into Ed's back. "Quick, to my house!" yelled Eddy. The three Eds rushed to Eddy's. Ed sprinted farther than the other two, dropping Double D and forcing him to run.

"Courage, Edward, courage." he thought to himself. "I just wish I could run faster to avoid this weather!" Ed got inside first with a crash through the door. Eddy rushed too but tripped up over Double D's feet, the two lay sprawled on the floor, and that's when it happened. Ed watched in horror as the deadly burst of red light crashed down from the heavens and a loud, zapping and crackling noise killed the noise of the rain. Two figures lay on the road, both fried, and both crispy.

"Smeg." Ed mumbled in horror, as he went to go get his friends from being hit again.

That memory of his experience with the lightning haunted Double D's life forever, and the fact he battles with death every time there's a new super-psycho on the loose, AND that he even travelled through time and met his own son. The experience could've been too much to handle, but he persevered, and got to how he is now.

"Let's go." he said with a look of pain, looking down on the object, as he and Marie wandered away. He thought it was just a carving of some kind. "It's getting late; we should back to bounce for the show."

The night silently crept out from behind the light and as the park closed for the darkness, the formation quietly slept on. However, this night would not be like any other.

An unholy light wandered the skies. The kind of light you relate with Beelzebub, The Beast, The Horned Son of the Jackal, The Anti-Christ. It flew towards the moon, with it absorbing every particle of moonlight shone at it. Finally, it engulfed the moon, with two patches of it resembling eye sockets and a smaller one resembling a nose cavity. Dark Clouds appeared next, turning the usual summer night sky pitch black. Finally, out of nowhere, five rays of dark red light struck the earth, with the rock in the middle of the ring. Each ray was full of sparkling and crackling red electricity, incinerating plant life surrounding them. It then suddenly stopped as quickly as if it didn't even happen. A nearby graveyard has also been affected by the blast of light, as various rumblings in the earth were found. A hand shockingly burst out of the burial, followed by more of the undead. Each of these broken souls growled and screeched, using powers they didn't have in their lifetime. One could shoot ashes out of his palms, and it choked another corpse back to death, only for it to get up again due to the lightning.

At the Bounce, all was not well. Zombified hands had risen out of the club's floors. Flashpoint and Quarterback were holding them off. Along with Hector, Ami and Yumi.

"Hammer Arm!" Shouted Yumi, clobbering a corpse in the face, but it grew a new one in its place, looking exactly like Yumi's! Ami Blaze-Kicked another in the groin, moving the leg upward to rip the corpse in half. The two parts fell to the ground with a splat, spilling putrid yellow blood on the ground, before they got back up, spitting acid that nearly hit Ami's face, but was blocked by Hector.

"Where did these washouts come from?" he shouted over the moaning of the corpses. He rubbed his side, burning from the acid.

"And how do they have powers?" Quarterback roared, chucking one corpse into two others, shattering them to pieces, but they merged into one giant Zombified beast. "Someone smegging tell me that!" One corpse was going to bite Quarterback's head off, but Flashpoint zipped right through it and chopped it into slimy pieces.

"It must be that weather outside." he wondered. "Could it be a new storm?"

Back in the park, the demonic lightshow ended. All remained calm in this plague infested world, except one familiar object: the Blade.

It rose out of the ground, revealing a golden handle with a ruby inserted into it. A skeletal arm in glove was holding said handle, and shoved the blade into the ground, almost as if it was trying to crawl out of the ground. A second arm appeared next, and the pushed down at the earth until a horrifying face emerged. It was skeletal, much like its arms, but it had one functioning eye, and no lower jaw. Its body was covered by medieval armour, with two velvet straps starting from the armour sprung halfway down the skeleton's arms. Two skinny legs encrusted with armour dug their way out of the ditch. The figure looked around as best it could with one eye.

"Where am I?" he mumbled. He tried to walk on his feet, but staggered around like a drunk and crashed into a statue of a Thorny Devil. It twitched for a moment, and then it spoke.

"What?" the statue said. "What do you want? Why did you wake me from my smegging sleep? I was having nice dreams about eating bugs!"

"I just want to know where I am, really." The skeleton mumbled.

"Well, you're in the town of Peach Creek. Where many have been struck by funny lightning that makes people even funnier." the statue replied. "Now will you get lost? I've been here for about, I dunno, eh, umpteen years?! Seriously, I'm a sodding statue, and the last thing I need is some smeghead asking me pointless questions!"

"But…" the Skeleton said submissively.

"But nothing!" said the statue "I don't care! I don't care if you're the great Sir Daniel Fortesque! I am trying to smegging sleep! If you want someone to help you out, check the museum over there, but leave me alone!" The statue soon froze back in its original position, leaving Dan alone once more.

"I suppose I should check over there…" he muttered to himself as best he could without a lower jaw. "But I know what happened last time I went to a museum… "He shook for a moment, and then rushed across the road and over to the old time building. "Right, if I am going to fit in with other people round here, I need a new lower jaw and a new eye, I can't stand eyepatches again!" He searched for a map of the building, and found an old tatty one on the floor, right next to a paralyzed girl soaked to the skin. "I'll give it back later." Dan said as he looked at the map. "Let's see, Relics, Literature, Fossils and Skeletons! That should do!" he mumbled excitedly, rushing towards the skeleton exhibits.

When he got there, a giant Megalodon skeleton was held by a set of metal parts and ropes, over a vast circular corridor, lined with many skeletons on the walls not yet affected by the storm. Dan strolled along the walls like he was at a supermarket.

"Too big." He mumbled at a big jawbone. "Too Sharp." he said, eyeing a Velociraptor's jaw. "Too small." he said as he saw baby Neanderthal skeletons. He then stopped with a smile. "That's more like it!" he muttered happily, picking up a decorated jawbone and sticking it under his giant overbite. He tried his new jaw out by pretending to eat mutton. "Perfect!" he shouted loud and clearly. He left the wall where he found the treasured jaw, apparently belonging to King Ramses.

He next dropped by the Relics to see if he could find anything for a new eye. He scoured high and low, until he eventually found something: A relic simply known as The Eye. Before he could take it, a mischievous imp snatched it right from its shelf.

"Get back here!" Dan roared, charging after the imp. The chase soon led back into the skeletons part of the Museum again, before Dan's sword did something irregular. It turned into a flexible thorny bramble, whipping the imp off its feet, before the sword returned to normal and Dan impaled it, earning him the eye. "Well, I think that's my lot for here, now to find someone to help me out." he said, not used to not mumbling anymore. Suddenly, a red light engulfed the arena, and various reanimated skeletons smashed out of their cases. Dan held up his sword, ready to fight, but then the Megalodon skeleton's ropes snapped, crashing into the floor and sending Dan flying on top of the containers. Water suddenly filled the arena as rocks crumbled down where the door was.

"I suppose I'm not going back that way." Dan said watching the ripples in the water. He heard a growling noise from the giant tank getting increasingly louder. Dan backed away from the edge of the container and held up his sword in fear. "Hello?"

The Megalodon Skeleton burst out of the water with a mighty roar, scaring Dan out of his wits, and his skin, but that deteriorated ages ago. It swam around into the pool until it sniffed Sir Dan. In an instant, the Shark charged at Daniel's side of the arena, but he jumped out of the way using his Bramble Sword, swinging on the rafters on the ceiling, leaping to the opposite side. The shark destroyed the containers on the wall where he was and roared again, and fired jets of water at Dan, and this time he didn't evade the attack. He fell in the water with the bloodthirsty skeletal shark, and sank slowly to the bottom. However the Shark grabbed him in its teeth and Dan struggled to get free, but then he had an idea.

"You think you got a tough bite, eh?" Dan gurgled mockingly, before using his new jaw to bite down on the enemy's serrated teeth. Many of them broke and Dan got free, before lifting his sword for the final blow, and then something bizarre happened as he clasped his blade. His arms vibrated at the force of an earthquake, turning his sword into a buzz saw, which cut the Megalodon's head clean in half. "I don't remember doing that before…" he said, as the shark roared and gurgled before its bones crumbled away and the water drained out. "Well, it saved me, and that jawbone packs one nasty bite!" Dan said proudly, holding his sword in a noble pose. He was about to leave, until two spotlights shone into the room. Policeman smashed through the glass roof and held their guns at Dan, with angry looks on their faces. Just then, the rocks that blocked off Dan's escape from the shark exploded from a dynamite blast, and in came Eddy's Dad, chief of the Police.

"Freeze, drop your weapon down and come with us, you are under arrest!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. As Dan looked around, more and more gun wielding policeman surrounded him, and he tried his best to prove his innocence.

"Uh, Smeg?"

Gargoyles' note: Hello everyone, I suppose you're here to read my note aren't you? No? Well just expect chapter 2 coming soon! Just like the original Red Lightning, five reviews are needed to make a new season.