Hi I not dead... LOL anyways I owe an explanation as to my absence for the last forever and a half. Last weekend my school's basketball team went to state, and I had to perform (yes I play in band). Then the rest of the time was taken up for homework as my teachers piled stuff on for the last two weeks before spring break. So now I am back with a double update: one to make up and two for this week. This is chapter one I will be posting the second chapter soon after. As always, don't be afraid to leave feedback on the story. Enjoy!
Cupa and I just looked at each other for a few minutes, "Just to make sure I heard him right,-" "Yea, that's what I heard too." Uhhh, ok then. I rub my hand over the back of my neck. I don't know how much sleep if any I'll get tonight, but oh well. "I am going to bed, and I'll just sleep in the living room upstairs, so it's not awkward." I start to get up, I turn around and ask her,"Are you going to come with me or what?" She raised an eyebrow, "In what way do you mean by that…" I look at my feet not realizing how wrong that sounded and didn't even notice it. She gets up and gives me a hug, "I'm really tired too. Can you carry me up there?" Before she expected it, I had already picked her up in bridal style and walked towards where we had to go. Over her giggling, I could faintly hear a 'Looks like somebody is getting lucky tonight' from one of the guards. I rolled my eyes as we made our way to the suite. I dropped her off in the bedroom. I left and went to find a servant. After a minute of walking, I see one. "Excuse me, could I get a bed of some sort, and a pillow, or something?" She nodded, saying that she would retrieve the items right away. I walked back into the suite. I still had the blue sword in my sheath on my leg. I pull it out and I study the aura emanating from the blade. I never really saw what it could do in battle, because the boy kept referring to a legend when I asked about the aura. 'The blade is only as strong as it's owner. The more powerful the owner, the more powerful the blade. However, the weaker the owner, the weaker the blade.' I never really got what he was saying, but I think that now I have a pretty good idea. As I collect essence, the blade picks up power. I don't know how I'm supposed to handle this much power. I am so deep in thought that I didn't really hear the knocking at the door. I put down the blade, and walk over, taking the items that I requested from the servant, and head back over. I lay out my 'bed' and lay on it. I soon fall asleep from exhaustion, both mental and physical. (In John's dream) I look around my surroundings. I am running between buildings, going off of instinct now more than knowledge. But these buildings aren't blocky, rather they are the opposite. I can't really describe it. Anyhow, there are these two men behind me, both equipped with guns. One, a pistol, another a machine gun that can tear chunks off of my flesh if I am hit. I run and I run, hearing the occasional zing of a bullet missing, but not by much. Taking a left and right, cutting through lawns, but nobody notices, because they are all at work. My name is John X. I am 13. And on the run for my life. I hide behind a building, readying a shovel for use that I found resting up against the side of someone's house. I hear shouts between the two men. Telling me that if I come back that they won't hurt me. Yeah, sure. Like that will happen. I hear one near the corner that I am hiding behind. He pauses for something, and I hold my breath. He takes another step, and I swing the shovel around. There is a clang with a slight crunch of what I guess to be bone. He is immediately knocked out. I grab his machine gun, and pick up the unconsicous man. His partner wheels around the corner to see me holding his man hostage. In my head, my inner humanity tells me that this is wrong, and I know it is, but my survival instinct is telling me to let this all play out. "Look kid, I'll cut ya a deal, I won't hurt you if you just come back with me," the man says with a gun in the air, more or less pointed at me. "No, I walk out, into a new life, and your man here doesn't lose his head." I say through a clenched mouth. I was the last one to escape the 'facility' where they do weird shit, stuff I don't even know about. "How about this?" he says, pulling the gun into a better aim, right for my heart. "No." I don't realize what I'm doing, but the next coherent thought is me yelling at him for the serum. After two flashes and bangs, the other man is laying on the ground. Here is what the serum does in short: you remember how and why you took it, if you want, but everything else is pretty much erased. He weakly hands me the serum, while trying to staunch the wound in his side that I put. I run and manageI bum a ride to the nearest city, inject the serum and begin my new life. As John, a kid who needs help. I wake up in a sweat. Cupa standing over me, along with two other people who appear to be medical staff. "John, you're okay! Oh thank Notch!" She hugs me tightly, like really tightly, as if she wanted me to kiss her right then and there. So I did, and I took my chances. Surprisingly, she didn't slap me when we pulled apart, but initiated the second. After the staff clear me for regular activity, Cupa puts on a serious look. "What was it about?" I look at her dumbfounded, I mean, I really was. It was as if…..as if I had a previous or second life. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." She strutted over to me, and said in my ear, "I'll tell you what my dream was about that first night, if you tell me yours." This peaked my interest. "Okay….. "So wait, you're saying that you shot…. somebody because they were going to hurt you?" I nodded, knowing that I looked green as a leaf. It wasn't as bad dreaming it, it was worse when you had to share it with somebody that is… a close friend. "Wow, that must have been a horrible dream, I hope that your theory is wrong about a previous life." Cupa was resting on my side as I lay on the couch. I was leaning up against the armrest and looking at her beautiful face. I also was playing with her hair, as I went through her hair, untangling knots because she wasn't wearing her she listened to my dream and me explain the things that I saw. I know that things in my dream that I saw didn't appear here, so I had to explain them. I shifted a little bit, "So what was your dream?" I chuckled, "I mean you seemed pretty spooked that first morning." She looked at me, "Are you sure you want to hear it, I mean it is pretty gross considering what we now know. But it will explain everything." Something that was as weird as mine? I doubt it, "Sure, but I want every single detail. Don't leave anything out." She bites her lower lip, then begins, "Ok, well I was in a room a lot like the bedroom, where you and I were uh, having sex on the bed." She blushes when she says it. "It was feeling so blissfully good, the feelings that I were having inside of the dream were ones that I have never felt before." She stops for a few minutes, then it dawns on me why she tried to run when she woke up. "You found it really odd how you were doing it with a guy that you had only seen once. And that's why you tried to leave." She nodded and I continued, "Well, I know that I am not ready for that yet, I mean I'm only 16 and I would really like to know the person more than just use them." She smiled and then kissed me. "I think I can call you my boyfriend right?" She said with a small voice. "I don't know. Maybe it depends on what you get from this!" I kissed her again, this time it was very passionate, and it wasn't short. "When you two are done making out, I have some news for you." Both of us broke away from surprise, only to see the king standing there. "DAD!" Cupa exclaimed, "Don't sneak in on us like that!" The king shrugged at this, "Well I need to inform that John will be going into combat today, using the skills that he learned yesterday, and Cupa and I will be watching." Before I could even blink he was gone again. I pick up my blade that has that blue aura around it. Looks like I may have to use it after all. I was in the shower, getting ready when Cupa walks right in, naked. I open the curtain to inspect what the noise was and that was when I saw her. She was expecting me to look, and I immediately get right back in the shower, "Sorry I didn't see you there, Cupa," Suddenly, I feel arms wrap around me from behind. "It's okay John." she says as she rests her head on my shoulder. I turn around to face her, the water is still on, so we are both wet. Just keep your eyes above shoulder-level John, you can do this, I thought. That's when we started making out, nothing more, but making out. I enjoyed every second of it. A few hours later I am standing in my arena prep box, readying for battle. I don't know my opponent, but oh well, I'll find out soon enough. I make my way over to where I'll stand to start the battle, in the middle of the arena. A thundering boom comes from behind a door on the other end of the arena. I unsheath my blade, holding it in a ready position. Suddenly the doors explode for a lack of a better way to describe the bits of metal raining on me. I see in it's place a creature in its place, with four arms, and four blades. It was roughly about 3 blocks tall, but it was like a weird blue color. It charges right at me like a spider, really, really fast. I sidestep the first blade, then bring my own to cut off the lower left arm. It screams in agony, distracted for a few moments, that I take to throw the blade that is in the chopped limb as far as possible. I look back at the creature. It walks up to me, and swings the upper left blade, at my neck. I kneel down, and put my own blade upright to block the other blade, but instead I cut off the other arm. Now only with two arms, the ones on the right side, the beast screams, "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," (pronoucned: ee-ur-ah) In a flash the beast runs around, and slices me in the leg. Blood starts to pour out, and I writhe in pain. Limping rather noticeably, I get back up to where the beast was waiting. It pounds its foot-hoof thing into the ground, once, twice, three times before charging at me. The blades that it holds out are held out, as if it intends to impale me with them. I soon start running towards it, ignoring objections from my leg. When we get close I slide on my knees, then I swing the Legendary blade around, cutting the other swords in half, then cut the stomach of the beast open as it passes over me. 15 blocks later, it falls over, dead as a zombie. I use the sword as a staff to get up, and barely make it over to where I was dropped into the arena before I drop to the ground. I can barely hear what is going on around me. I see a lot of green in my vision, but no real details, I hear my name being called out. The next thing I know, I wake up in a bed somewhere, vision clear now, and look around. My sword is still attached to me. My clothes are all here, save for my pants. There are many empty bottles of what appear to be some sort of red fluid sitting to my left. Cupa is sleeping in a chair, orange hair disheveled. She is wearing some sort of t-shirt, and jeans. I wipe my face, seemingly crusted with dirt and blood. Oh, right. The fight with the beast. A monitor of some sort, powered by redstone probably, starts blaring. Two nurses run into the room, to see me getting off the bed. Cupa wakes up at the alarm, and sees my intentions. "John, no! Not until your leg heals, in about one hour or so." I pause, then sit back on the bed. "John? Can you feel this?" a nurse says as she taps where the wound was. It now looks like that it was never there. It stings a little, so I nod. "Looks like your nerve endings have been growing back very nicely." She says with a smile. I give her a strange look, "What? When your king is human, and lives for a long time, you tend to learn a lot about the human anatomy. And don't even take it that way, young man. I know that was what you were thinking, I raised three young male creepers myself." I look at her with shock because she read my mind, she and smiles and leaves. Cupa sat next to me to keep me company for the next hour, until I am released from the hospital. We walk through the main hallways of the castle holding each other's hand. Share a kiss every now and then. We headed up to our room because we had nothing to do. Suppertime came around, and I nudge Cupa awake. "MMmmm," she mumbles, but then gets up. She rests her head on my shoulder as we walk down to the main dining area. We were intercepted by guards, "King Chris requires your presence in the throne room, Sir John and Milady Cupa." We follow the guards into the throne room where the king is sitting at a table, where a feast has been laid out. "Come! Come! Eat to your heart's content!" the king says rather joyously. We sit down, and that is when everything about today gets really interesting….