Pumpkin King
By: Bobby D
Disclaimer: Tales of Symphonia and its characters, universe, etc, etc is not mine…otherwise I'd have money, and prestige and various other shallow things
Intro: This will be my first ever fanficton on the internet, please go easy on me (at least for the first few chapters :p ) and r and r if you will! Other then that, enjoy!
Chapter 1-Halloween and a Portal
"What a fine day this is!" I thought to myself "Such a warm Halloween, usually it's so cold, but with global warming, anything is possible (that pertains to weather)!" So…Hi, I'm Bobby, I'm 16 if you wanted to know, and currently I was enjoying a pleasant Halloween, I know, I know "A 16 year old on Halloween! Preposterous!" Yeah, well I enjoy free candy, and if you don't well nuts to you! Anyway back to me, I live in a nice quiet town in Canada, and enjoy the free health care…
Yeah…Anyway I think it's time for a description of you're hero, I have black hair that's runs to my neck and curls naturally to the side in nice little waves, which some girls said they hate me for, I wear glasses and I'm of a different nationality then you, kind of. I'm aboriginal if you wanted to know, a nice mocha color if I do say myself. And I enjoy the finer things in life, namely candy, and fruit and nice clothes…which is a bit weird.
Well let's get this story started, shall we? It was a nice fall day in the last day of October, Halloween, and I was dressed as the pumpkin king, or that guy from sleepy hallow, take your pick. I was wearing a pumpkin on my head and had all black clothes, and a awesome cane with the Grim reaper on top and also a cape, which I think is the crowning achievement of my costume (how can you go wrong with a cape?). Anyway, me and my sister we're walking down a deserted street, apparently a bunch of people were ritually murdered…at least according to the talk of the school.
"I could do without the pumpkin," I remarked to my little sister, the only one who would come trick-or-treating with me
"Well then you shouldn't have worn it then!" she pretty much yelled at me,
"Well, someone's a little grumpy!"I remarked a bit irritably,
"It's because of you! You won't stop whining!"
"How dare you, I do not whine…I, uh, shut up!" that sounded weak even to me.
"Anyway, aren't we supposed to be getting candies?" That was so subtle,
"Don't change the subject, Bobby." Never mind, not subtle at all,
"Hey! What's that? It's shiny!"
"I thought I told you not to change the subject?"
"No really! It's a shiny…thing! Ooh, looks so cool, like a portal. Seems pretty sophisticated for a Halloween decoration don't cha think?" I mused
"Don't touch it, Bob! It might break, or something, it looks pretty flimsy."
"Don't worry; I'm just going to take a peek at it, jus' a quick look…"
I crept closer to the shimmery portal, if that's what it was; I was tempted to call it just a shiny bed sheet, artfully hung of course. "Hmm, looks pretty… just a touch, go on, just a light touch, don't look back…"
"Hey, that wasn't me talking!" I mentally said as I looked to the side and saw lights dancing, it's sound like their singing…
"I guess a touch wouldn't hurt." I slowly moved my hand toward the light, but something stopped me, a feeling…I was forgetting something… MY SISTER! I looked back despite the desire to keep going. What I saw was horrifying. My little sister was a dried husk, the dancing lights were moving around her, they we're pulling out a green ethereal substance from her. It would be beautiful if it wasn't so horrifying. Suddenly the lights stopped and turned a deep and dark red. There was a screeching noise as they rushed at me, I screamed as they pushed me into the light and I heard them say
" You should've just went in, it would have been so much easier for you, now you shall become what you pretend to be!" There was a flash of light, and all that was left in that empty street was a dried husk and some dead leaves.
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So that's chapter one, or the prologue if you prefer. I hope you enjoyed it and I'd like it if you'd read and review…tell you what, 3 reviews and I'll continue, even a simple "nice" would be good. I think the next chapter will be done in bout a day or so, maybe 1000 words of how I come out into Symphonia and how I deal with my rather unfortunate circumstances.