CHapter III

Now that they were away from the city the Old man is give Pickles the foods, which was not pickles for once, as the two of they stops. pickles is asked him "what is your name' and the old man swordsman shook his head. "You don't remember me." he asked sadly? Pickles shook his head. The old man shakes his head. "Inbelievable. I am your uncle Colbi. " And Pickles shook his head. "No my uncle Colbi is dead from being sent away from when I was young," and the old man shook his head very strongly like "Your father is lies to you on that for I am alive!" Though Pickles was shake his head in disbelieve the old man pulled his back hair so Pickles could see his face and it was he!

Shock and aweshock!

Then Pickles was happy He was reunited with his family again. He said "your name should be a more different name from than what it is." And his uncle swordsman said "well then what it should be?" Amd Pickles said "I dunno something to do with vegetables or something like my name is." That's is stupid!" he said "Why would I do that?"

And Pickles said "Because My Name Is Pickles." "So your name should be sound like it goes."

The old man uncle shook his head. "There are more important things to worry about right now." Pickles stood up again. "No there isn't! If you don't have names that history will remember then what is the? Your name is now Colbiflower."

Colbiflower threw his hands up. "There is no reasoning with you is there boy?" Fine! You can call me whatever it is you want now can we go Please now!"

The two of they crept away like shadows made of dark shadow and. In time Pickles asked Colbiflower "why my father lied to me about your living?" but His sword uncle shook his head. "He did not know I survived I. was as dead as dead things are. It was only luck is make me alive still.

Young Pickles made a thinking noise like hmmmmmm and then scratched his noggin (that means head) "so what's happens to my family my mother and father and two old brothers?" They went through the fields into the other fields and then some shrubs and stuff before they reached the city well not the city but the city wall. All the whol etime Colbiflower was had his sword handle in his hand looking this way and that way and the other way, for signs of monsters or something.

There was empty at the gates. That isn't right! Pickles thought to himself. There should be more people around the city. Colbiflower stayed low to the ground like and told Pickles to also stay low like a worm. When they reached the street that is bey ond the gate his swordsman uncle got a magic cloak of invisible out of thin air and said "Put this around you it should be good for you." And Pickles did and it was perfectly perfect. Then Colbiflower pulled another magic cloak out of thin air and put it around hisself and they sneaked through the city. He put a finger to Pickles's lips and pulled the cloak over his head tugging on Pickles's cloak to follow. Pickles was amazed at the city sights he had never ░▒▓████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ like a ghost town was there instead of the big city it was supposed to be was there. Colbiflower pulled him to the side off the road where there was a dark something that appeared. It was an ugly thing that scard Pickles like someone took a bunch of his older sisters old dolls and glue them together. Except this was with monster parts. the thing was Half man and Half boar and Half hound with evil tusker tusks and a sniffy nose.

Pickles sees his uncle v.e.e.e.e.r.r.r.r.y s.l.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.w.l.y.y r.a.i.s.e.d h.i.s c.l.o.a.k and pointed to a sort of cubby hole for Pickles to hide in. He used his magic invisible cloak to hide and was disappeared from the sight. And so Pickle v.e.e.e.e.r.r.r.r.y s.l.o.o.o.o.o.o.o.w.l.y.y was went over to that corner to hide.

but as he did so a wind blew from somewhere and went passed. Pickles is hold onto his invisible cloak but the ManBoarHound raised his head toward Pickles. It looked toward him and grabbed a really nasty looking axe. When he saw it Pickles shrinksed even smaller but it was snoutily looking for him with its nose. Pickles could feel his heart hammering like old Granpa Jaem used to do with his cup when he had wanted more ale, but he forces to breathe himself. The nightmare creature came closer from the road to where Pickles was and opened its mouth and started drooling. It was discussting. Just when Pickles thinks he's a goner of a sudden the monsterhowled in pain and Colbiflower flings up from his cloak to slice it with his sword the sword! The sword diced it up into smaller pieces and the evil axe dropped from the hands that couldn't hold it now and before the monster could make more noise with its howl Uncle swordMaster cut it's throat and it fell.

When his Uncle Colbiflower showed up Pickles was like "WOAH that is so cool! I wish that I could sword like that." And then the monster fell and he actually said "WOAH!" And Colbiflower looked up and he shouted Pickles's name and pointed behind him! But his normal person name and not his hero name, so we don't care about that. But Pickles turned anyway. and there was ANOTHER MONSTER! But this one was different because it was half person and maybe only a quarter wolf or something. But it reached out to Pickles and grabbed his magic invisible cloak from him and snarled really mean like. And Pickles grabbed a stick from the ground near him and yelled in the monsters face he definitely didn't act scared because he knew he was hero. And what happened is the monster thing was so shocked at Pickles yelling that he just stood there and Pickles killed it with his hero sword powers, he didn't scream and the monster didn't trip on Pickles's cloak and accidentally stick itself with the pointy stick because that's not what happened. But the monsters wer dead and that is a yay for Pickles!

Colbiflower rushed into the down the next to Pickles and got his magic cloak back. He said "Are you alright?" And Pickles nodded and looked like a hero he definitely didn't squeak because that's not what heros would ve done. And he put the magic cloak back on Pickles and he said "we don't know what they are but these monsters have been runnign around and killing everyone. "They over ran the countryside near here this morning. Including your house. "I'm sorry."

Pickles was very very sad now, and his Swordsman Colbiflower tugged on his arm. "We need to move now .I don't know how many of those things there are but if there are more then that's bad for real.

Meanwhile the unknown man was crying because he was frustrated. Voices were yelling at him and they wouldn't not stop any, The man yelled at them to stop talking but they kept yelling at him. So he said "WELL if they won't stop then I will make them stop by burning their home to the ground.!."


One must always ask how close an author is psychically to any character they create. I would like to think that Pickles here is a sort of direct representation of a portion of my psyche, but only in the most nonrepresentational manners. This abstractly concrete portrayal was a direct product of a class I took on the study of visual culture and language, and is perhaps an opus in the discussion of how our continuously evolving cultural outlooks influence us as we face the terrors of whatever zeitgeist of our times is most prevalent.

Sorry for disappearing for so long; I fell down a rabbit hole that I'm putting the finishing touches on. I'll be back to the serious stuff just as soon as I have a clean draft, promise! More on that other project as it moves closer to looking pretty.

Thank you for reading.

-JT