Chapter One: How it all Began
Calvin and Hobbes were best friends for a long time. In fact, they had shared many different adventures with each other. Such as time-traveling to the past to observe dinosaurs, a duplication adventure in which Calvin made a duplicate of himself and the duplicate made duplicates. However, neither one of them knew that their next adventure was going to be the longest, most dangerous, and most exciting one yet.
Their next adventure started in the happiest place on the face of the universe: the Gold Saucer. Calvin and Hobbes were in the Wonder Square, playing games and trying to earn GP to earn fabulous prizes or to get a ride on the Speed Square roller coaster.
Calvin was playing a 3-D fighting game that copied his imaged and used him as a character to fight the people. For some out of reason, though, he could not get past the first fighter, which was a girl.
"ARGH! I LOST AGAIN! THIS IS SUCH A STUPID GAME!" Calvin shouted, kicking the game. He then turned to his friend, Hobbes and started to yell at him.
"YOU SCREWED ME UP! YOU MUST HAVE. THERE'S NO OTHER WAY I COULD HAVE LOST TO THAT GIRL!"
"Me? What did I do? I was just standing here," Hobbes calmly replied. "Just admit it. You stink…both physically and at the game." Hobbes loved to insult Calvin sometimes.
"I DO NOT!" Calvin replied, angrier than before. "YOU SCREWED ME UP! AND YOU'RE ONE TO TALK ABOUT ME SMELLING! YOU GET SO SMELLY; YOU HAVE TO TAKE BATHS IN THE WASHING MACHINE!"
"That's because I can't stand the way the bath tub smells after you've been in it!"
"BY GOLLY, YOU'RE ASKING FOR ONE RIGHT IN THE KISSER!" Calvin threatened, raising a fist to Hobbes.
Hobbes was about to prepare himself to fight, but stopped himself and Calvin. He said, "Wait! We can't fight here. If that Dio guy catches us fighting again, he'll throw us out of the Gold Saucer for good this time. Remember?"
Dio was the name of the man that owned the Gold saucer. Dio, Calvin, and Hobbes had a past with each other that wasn't too good. Whenever Calvin and Hobbes got into fights, they would happen to do it in front of Dio and he had gotten after them for it.
"Oh yeah," Calvin said. "Last time we rolled right in the Chocobo racing track and injured some Chocobos." He stood still thinking for a minute. "All right then, let's go to the battle arena! That way we won't get in trouble."
"Agreed," Hobbes said. With that, they both headed for the Battle Arena.
The Battle Arena was a place where people could test their fighting skills against monsters found throughout the world. However, sometimes they made special exceptions for people that wanted to test their strength against each other. This is what Calvin and Hobbes had in mind.
Calvin and Hobbes came to a room filled with chutes. These chutes were actually slides that took people to certain arenas throughout the Gold Saucer. There were a total of eight different arenas in the Gold Saucer. Finally, they found the one that was labeled Battle Arena.
Hobbes posed as a gentleman and said to Calvin, "After you, Calvin. Ladies first.
"You're gonna regret that after I'm through with ya in the battle arena," Calvin boasted.
After that, Calvin jumped into the chute. The chute acted like a slide. It would sometimes swerve to the left and other times, it would swerve to the right. Calvin would have enjoyed more if the fight coming up wasn't in his head.
After a couple of minutes of going down the slide, he finally arrived at the bottom. He heard Hobbes coming and got out of the way so Hobbes wouldn't land on him. 'The last thing I need before this fight is ol' bowling ball-butt landing on top of me,' he thought to himself.
Hobbes landed on the ground with a thud, but still looked ready to fight.
"Okay, fuzz ball! Get ready for the beating of your life…and no biting this time!" Calvin said.
Calvin and Hobbes walked to the entrance of the arena and were ready to rush up the stairs to the fighting arena when…
"LOOK AT THAT!" Hobbes shouted.
The entrance room was filled with dead people. There were about ten or eleven bodies lying on the ground. Chills were rushing down the spines of Calvin and Hobbes.
"W-W-What happened here?" Hobbes asked in a timid voice.
"H-H-Hobbes…I don't think we should be here right now," Calvin replied, looking as if he were about to pass out at any second.
"True. Shall we mossy on back to the arcade and settle our differences in a video game?" Hobbes suggested.
Calvin and Hobbes were ready to leave the arena when they noticed that three other individuals entered the room. One was a man that had yellow-spiky hair and was wearing dark-purple clothes. He also wielded a gigantic sword on his back. Another was a girl. She had long, brown hair and she wore a pink dress with a red vest. She wielded a large staff that looked to be made out of medal. The third was a stuffed moogle that was carrying a cat with a crown and a microphone around. They walked up to one of the bodies and examined it to find out that there was no sign of life.
"Who are those guys?" Calvin asked. "You think they know what happened?"
"I don't know and I don't care," Hobbes replied. "Let's just get out of here."
"Aw come on, Hobbes. I thought tigers dealt with this kind of stuff all the time."
"That's not true," Hobbes replied, seeming hesitant. "We tigers enjoy making a kill for food, but the sight of dead humans that were not killed by a tiger tends to make a tigers tummy queasy. Plus, we get so scared that we almost soil ourselves."
"Oh yeah? I thought tigers were brave and courageous creatures."
"Yes, but that doesn't include sticking our noses in other peoples business…especially if it involves dead people."
At that point, the man, woman, and stuffed moogle with the cat on its back started running up the stairs where the fighting arena was.
"Now, look," Calvin pointed. "Why do you think they're going up there?"
"Again: I don't know and I don't care," Hobbes said. "Let's just go."
"Aw, come on," Calvin pleaded. "Let's see what's going on. I want to know what happened."
"Um…Calvin, maybe we should just stay out of this one," Hobbes suggested. "This could get ugly."
"Come on, what if those three guys up there need help? We could rescue them and become heroes of a lifetime. We could even get lifetime passes to the Gold Saucer. We'll be famous."
"You can drop the 'we' stuff out. I'm not going," Hobbes said and started to head for the exit.
Calvin, however, was determined to make Hobbes go with him. After all, e needed a tiger to help him in case he got in trouble. He thought quickly and then he got an idea he knew would make Hobbes go with him.
"Okay…fine…stay here," Calvin began. "I guess I'll just have to find someone else to share all the beautiful women with."
Hobbes stopped in his tracks at the sound of the word 'women.' Calvin knew that women were Hobbes' main weakness. Especially young ones that thought he was cute.
"Women? Did you say women? As in babes in bikinis? Are they real good-looking babes?"
Only the most babelicious girls in the world," Calvin lied. "Oh, but you don't want to come, so what am I telling you for?"
Hobbes thought for a minute and finally said, "Well, I guess I'll go if it means we could become heroes. Heroes tend to get all the babes."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Calvin shouted and started to follow the three people that ran up the stairs just now.
When they get up there, they saw the three people looking over another dead body.
Calvin finally found the courage to walk up to them and ask, "Excuse me, but what's going on?"
The man with spiky, yellow hair spoke sternly to Calvin, saying, "Listen, kid, You better get out of here. This is no place for children."
Hobbes seemed to be convinced with this statement and started to walk for the exit again Calvin grabbed a hold of his tail to stop him from doing this.
"We're not going anywhere until we find out what happened! So you might as well tell us what happened, because we'll pull it out of you one way or another!" Calvin threatened.
"Um, Calvin," Hobbes whispered. "You do see that humongous sword he's got, right?"
"So? He sees that I have a tiger, doesn't he?"
"Yes, but your tiger does not want to die anytime soon," Hobbes said in a hinting voice.
"Listen, you two," the man continued, "I'm not going to hurt anyone, but if you don't get out of here, someone else might."
"Oh, what's the matter?" Calvin taunted. "Are you scared of Hobbes? Come on, fight him! Or are you to chicken?"
The cat that was riding the moogle walked whispered to the girl, "Cute kid. Not very smart, but cute."
"I told you," the man continued, "I'm not going to hurt you, but I'll drag you out of here if I have to. Along with your tiger."
"I don't think you can," Calvin proclaimed. "Hobbes, sick him!" he ordered.
Very timidly, Hobbes walked up to the three strangers and looked at them for a minute. During that minute, there was nothing but silence. Hobbes could tell just by looking a the man that the man was far stronger and more deadly then he could ever be.
"Um…h-h-how are you today?" Hobbes finally asked.
The man just stood there with his arms folded. He made it clear that he was not yet intimidated by Hobbes.
"So," he continued, "W-W-Would you like to settle this over a game of Chinese checkers?"
At this statement, the three strangers had broken out with uncontrollable laughter. The cat had to hand onto the ears of his moogle, which gave a yelp in pain, to prevent himself from falling off.
"That's a good one," the man finally said, gasping for air.
Hobbes just stood there with his head hung down in embarrassment.
"WHAT? HOBBES! WHAT"RE YOU DOING!" Calvin shouted. "YOU"RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE FEROCIOS AND DEADLY BEAST, REMEMBER!"
I think that the 'ferocious and deadly beast is kind of cute," the girl said, wiping tears from under her eyes.
Hobbes' head and ears perked up with this statement. He was also smiling from ear to ear.
"You'd better watch it, lady," Calvin warned. "Hobbes is a very dangerous creature! Why, just look into those killer eyes!"
"I am," she said sarcastically. "Those 'killer eyes' actually look cute."
By now, Hobbes was smiling from ear to ear. "Hoo-hoo. I'm feeling lucky today," Hobbes stated, all excited.
SNAP OUT OF IT, LUMP HEAD!" Calvin shouted, annoyed by this. "YOU'RE A KILLER, NOT A CHARMER!"
"You're just jealous," Hobbes said, still smiling. "Oh, what a babe."
"Listen, kid," the man finally said, "I'm not going to tell you again. You and your tiger need to…
He never got to finish his sentence. At that point, a loud voice came from behind them that shouted louder than a sonic boom because of the grand size of the room, "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?"
Everyone turned around to see a man wearing nothing but a pair of tight shorts with several guards standing in the middle of the room. It was Dio, the owner of the Gold Saucer. He was a built individual that was in love with himself.
"What happened in here!" Dio demanded. He then turned to the strangers, Calvin, and Hobbes and asked, "Did you guys do this?"
"No," the man said, sounding a little nervous in the predicament he was in. "We just walked in here not to long ago and saw these dead people."
"LIES!" Dio shouted furiously. It was clear that he was not paying attention.
"No, really! We didn't do it!" Calvin said.
Dio turned his attention to Calvin, looked at him for a minute, and finally spoke.
"Hmm? Calvin? Hobbes? You two again? THAT"S IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU TWO CAUSING TROUBLE IN MY PARK! YOU"RE GOING DOWN BELOW THIS TIME! YOU THREE, TOO!"
"Wait! Just listen to us!" the cat pleaded. "We're innocent, I tell ya!"
However, the guards were not paying attention as they seized all five of them. After capturing them, they dragged them into a room that had a giant hole in the middle of it. This was the hole that led prisoners to the Corel Desert Prison: A prison that was surrounded by a desert. There was no need for cells or bars down there. Once a person went down, there was no way to escape. If someone tried, the desert would swallow them up.
Dio pushed a button next to the door to open the hole. He then pushed another one that summoned five robots that were twice the size of the man with spiky hair. They all had claws in front of them. Each robot used their claws to clamp around the prisoners. One for Calvin, one for Hobbes, and one each for the three strangers.
"Now," Dio spoke sternly, "you will all pay for your crimes below."
"JUST LISTEN TO US, FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!" Calvin pleaded in an angry tone of voice.
But it was too late. Dio pushed another button and one by one, the robots jumped down the hole. The hole was dark, damp, and very unpleasant. This was the way it was meant to be; Dio was only warming them up for what was in store for them in the future.