Previously on TTPADL:
With my duffel bag filled with essentials, I walk up to the pool, I take a deep breath, and then I transport myself to the UK, hoping for the best of luck.
The Two Parts of Ally Dawson's Life:
Chapter 12 (Day 1):
(Ally's POV)
I twist and my water form turns into my human form as I step out of the water. Thank god I'm a water person, otherwise I probably would have either died trying to do so, and I would have gotten incredibly wet and sick if I hadn't died.
Taking my phone out of my pocket, I look at the GPS. Apparently, I'm standing near the Thames River in England. Going onto the official Memento Mori Tournament page, I find the following address for it at a certain 3947 Willow Walk place in London.
Well, this calls for a taxi.
"Yo, taxi!" I yell out, waving my arm out. What? Oh yeah, I'm acting like I live in New York. Well, I still got a taxi. Good ol' NY ways…
"Can you take me to this address?" I say to the taxi driver, showing him the address. His eyes widen and his face turns a peculiar ruby red color.
"Don't you know that's where they hold the Memento Mori Tournaments?" He whispers in a clearly frightened tone.
"Um, yeah, I know. So, can you drive me there? I'll give you the fee doubled," I say casually.
He nods reluctantly, and I climb into the taxi. He starts to drive, and I look out the window, seeing all those beautiful colors. Huh, maybe a song could be formed out of that.
Just as I was starting to get really good lyrics, the taxi stops, and I realize that we've arrived.
"Thank you," I say, handing the money to him.
"Good luck," is all he says before he rushes off.
I look at my surroundings, and see a rich looking neighborhood. Somehow, this house is completely run-down, so it contrasts vastly with the rest of the huge and beautiful houses. I lightly tap the door, and it crashes down and breaks into pieces, and I take a step back in confusion.
"Hulloooo there!" A random guy says. I take another step back. When did he get there?
"Hello dahling. Are you here for the Memento Mori Tournament? I must say, we rarely get such… lovely dahlings for such gruesome events," Another tall guy says behind me. I whirl around, my eyebrows raised.
"Oh please. I'm sure it isn't that bad," I say casually in a bit of a bored tone. The guy starts laughing.
"Well well, we have ourselves an unshakeable one here, then. Well, that won't last," He says smiling. I roll my eyes. Geez, these guys are such prejudices!
"Now, if you want to sign up, tell me: are you an abnormis (1)?" The guy standing at the front door, or the remains of it, asks me.
I nod my head.
He disbelievingly tuts and motions at the other dude. Then the other dude puts his lips practically an inch above my own, and breathes in. I feel all my memories being wrapped into a bow, photocopied, and sent to him. So this is a memory reader? Because if he is, he has an interesting way to read memories…
"Woah woah wowee! We got ourselves here a good abnormis! I'm putting my money on her!" He exclaims.
The door guy reluctantly moves and lets me enter. The three of us, memory reading guy in the back, trot down the high-tech and vast halls. We go down so many hallways that I honestly think that I could get lost here, and then we reach an elevator door.
They move so I can step in it, and as soon as I do, the door closes and hurtles downward at such alarming speeds, and just as unexpectedly and quickly as it had closed, it opened to a ballroom full of people dancing. Wrong floor?
Then a red-haired, hazel-eyed short girl runs up to me and squeaks, "Excuse me miss, you're not in uniform." Uniform?
"Um, okay?" I manage to get out before she grabs a dress (2) from a rack that wasn't there before, and forces me into a changing room.
After I finish putting it on, I have to admit, the dress is stunning. If or when I get back, I better get to keep this dress!
Walking back out, I sit down at a stool. Suddenly, the fancy elevator door slides downward, a titanium door replacing it. Titanium bars cover up all the windows, and the disco ball that had been hanging down opens up to reveal a monitor, with the face of the memory reader on it.
"Well helloo to all of you! I hope you're enjoying this party, folks, but the night has just started! Now, I'm sure all of you are wondering what in the world IS the Memento Mori Tournament, and how does it work? Thanks for wondering, by the way.
The Memento Mori Tournament is quite the special tournament, which helps add to the huge reputation this has. Now, in this little game, you'll all be here for 4 days and 4 nights in this little ballroom partying it up, for each night will be celebrating close birthdays or actual birthdays occurring that day. Beware though, this isn't a tournament for who can drink the most or make love the most.
Every night, one person will be attacked by a special killer in the room we hire every year. You know, he's always requiring our bails for this time of the year? Anyway, the one person that gets attacked by our killer and DOESN'T die wins. And no, if you don't get attacked, you still lose. Of course, if 2 people win, then there's a special tiebreaker, but let's hope to not have that happen for the first time here… Anyway, good luck! And may fate be fortunate for you… (3
)" and with that, the screen turns black and goes back in the disco ball.
If I'd said that I wasn't frightened at that point, I'd be epically bluffing. I mean seriously, knowing there was a chance you could be attacked by a SERIAL KILLER? I simply sucked it up, and remembered that I had a very powerful gift that I could easily use on them. Rubbing my water amulet for luck and soothing, I closed my eyes before heading back to the table of drinks and ordering an Avery the Reverend beer (4). What? I've drank before! Few times, but still. Plus, everyone knows one of the things that Belgium is famous for is beer (5).
So, for the rest of the night, I drank two cups of beer, danced with a few guys while keeping my senses since I don't get drunk easily, and I was checking my phone when the girl next to me randomly walked over to this guy with drinks, and flirted. Ugh… Can't these people get the drinks themselves instead of stealing from strangers?
I text Trent a little, yeah, he knows I'm doing it, when I randomly looked over, and felt like puking my drinks out. The girl who had flirted for the drinks was lying on the table, with her glassy eyes open, and lying down deadly still. I go over to check her temperature, and she's freezing cold. Like, maybe 4 degrees Celsius (6). Yeah, that bad…
I then noticed a huge gap in her throat, and it was practically dry… Oh god. The serial killer had struck tonight at the stroke of midnight, and he, or she, seemed to act like a vampire. Oh crap. What have I gotten into?
Author's Note: BUM BUM BUMMMMM! We're sort of getting into a climax for this sub-plot, as you can tell, and I hope you guys thought it was dramatic enough. So, did you guys see the connections to this tournament and 'Faces in the Crowd'? Please let me know what you guys think the connections were, and I'll let you know here if you were correct. Anyway, I apologize for not putting this up, but I sort of had a brain cramp on how to write the beginning nicely and smoothly transition to the climax. I just put that, so I'm hoping it was a smooth beginning to the drama. Anyway, I'M NOW OFFICIALLY ONE YEAR OLDER! At the same time that I turned that much closer to teenhood, Selena Gomez broke her teenhood and turned *sob sob* 20! I still remember when I was a little kid watching the first episodes of WOWP, and SG was so young... She's grown up so much! Now, since it's the 23rd of July, I'd like to shout out Happy birthday to a very special actor, DANIEL RADCLIFFE! Yup, our actor for 'THE Harry Potter' is turning older today. Anyway, number time now:
(1)- 'Abnormis' is Latin for 'abnormal'. So similar, the two words are.
(2)- ( . /product / 112002595-101812068/00045GR_ Ever _Pretty _Flowing _Green _Lace _Cocktail _Dress .html) Remove the spaces and check the link out if you want to! It's a really pretty and unique style, so I thought Ally should wear it.
(3)- Yeah yeah, I know, I did a rip-off of the Hunger Games Effie quote. I didn't want to use that though, I used to something similar, but different at the same time. Was my quote good, though? Or is the HG one better?
(4)- Avery the Reverend is a Belgian beer with 10% alcohol. I didn't want too much, so yeah, and plus, after reading a book, Can Love Happen Twice? by Ravinder Singh, I was inspired for Belgian beers. Of course, I don't own this beer.
(5)- Can Love Happen Twice had the main character saying that one of the things Belgium is famous is its beer, so I was inspired to put it in. I'm surprised though that Belgium isn't famous for its waffles since I remember in my 6th grade Social Studies class, pretty much everyone would rant about wanting to go there to eat their waffles...
(6)- 4 degrees Celsius is equal to 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah, I have no idea what temperature people turn when they're dead, but let's just say that they turn that temperature...
Now, all the reviews I got honestly made me feel SO happy! But first, thanks to Bree Renee for following TTPADL, and thanks to Queen-of-Immortal-Darkness for favoriting Always Gonna Be That Ally. Now, let's reply to those reviews, huh?
My reply to DrizzleofDark: Oh wow, I feel incredibly stupid now. Let's just say that Cassidy was in one of Ally's classes when they were in elementary school, so Ally used the paper with all the numbers and addresses from that grade to text Austin in Cassidy's body. Thank you for bringing that to notice!
My reply to idk: LOL, it's fine. :D
My reply to queenc1: Maybe she will, maybe she won't... (o_O)
My reply to Christianpunk: Thank you for recommending that! I'll try to check it out later. It sounds really cool though!
My reply to gothgirlbites: Nope, it's a bit more exclusive and not as actional as that, but it's intenseness and drama make up for it. I hope. We'll see, maybe I'll do that, maybe I won't. I'm really pondering what to do next at this point because even though it's a sub-plot, it's still really important to the story. To answer your question, nope, for me, the powers go with the soul, not the body. Thank you for the long review. :D
My reply to ThePurplePickle: Thank you! No, I think she's powerful enough. I think you'll enjoy the fire person though... And of course, a twist with the fire power and the person.. Thank you once again! That's exactly what I thought! For the rest of the characters, they showed them during some of their quirks, but for Cassidy, nada.
Alright, I don't have much else to say, so I think I'll just leave with this ending message: I MIGHT update again today, or possibly the 24th. If time really hates me, I won't update until the 25th... Hard to say at this point. So, until next time!
Yours Sincerely,
The Reading Wizard