Cool Kid Saves the Cats
Chapter 13: The Arrow and The Storm
"Why? Why Cool Kid? Did you just not care for us at all?" Cool Kid looked up, in front of him was a little girl, she was covering her face with her teddy bear. Everything around her was surrounded by darkness. "My daddy says...you just didn't care about what happened to us….is that true mister?"
Cool Kid was silent at first, while he was trying to understand what was happening, but after a bit he leaned in. "Of….of course not little girl. I care a lot about everyone. I care a lot about you, about Cool Cat, about my partner, about Tyrone, about your dad…. I care a lot about everyone. Honestly." He places a hand on her shoulder and smiles warmly. She starts to cry louder.
"Then...then….then…" Smoke starts to come off of the bear slowly. The smoke suddenly erupted into a flame and half of the bear was engulfed in flame. The girl pulls down the bear and reveals her face to him. Her face was burned perfectly down the middle. The left side of her face was almost completely burned off, revealing most of her skull. Only small patches of flesh along with intense burn marks remain. Her eye still laid where it should, but a nest of beetles were swarming around her eye, eating the sustenance it provided.
"Then why did you do nothing while I burned?"
Her entire body erupts into flame, the fire shot straight into the air, and formed the shape of Cool Cat's head. The light from the flame reveals hundreds of bodies surrounded Cool Kid. They all starts screaming his name, and demanding why he did nothing for so long. Cool Kid falls to his knees, while holding his ears shut, trying to drown out the noise.
"Please...I'm sorry...I couldn't help it….I know I should have been there...please…." He looks up once again at the burning Cool Cat face above him. It's mouth starts to open, and skulls start to pour out of its mouth. They all hit Cool Kid and starts to bury him underneath them. Before Cool Kid gets entirely consumed by the bones, he hears one word escape the mouth of the giant flaming Cool Cat.
` "You"
"You"
"You"
"You"
"You….going"
"You...where...going"
"Do you know where the hell we're going Cool Kid?"
Cool Kid looks over at FaDoug then scratches his eyes and rubs his head. "I….I'm sorry, what was that FaDoug?"
FaDoug rolls his eyes then breathes in. "Do you know where we're going? You're the one who made us go driving around for the past 20 minutes. You haven't even said a word the entire time! You could at least be the GPS if I'm going to drive."
Cool Kid blinks then rubs his head again. "Y-you're right, I'm sorry FaDoug." He looks down under his trench coat and lightly feels the arrow he has hidden there. He doesn't know how the arrow works exactly, but he knows that it can bring people back to life as zombies, and that it vibrates when they're going certain directions. It's just a hunch, but he believes that it's trying to get back to its owner, and if they follow the vibrations, they'll find whoever was there in that alleyway.
"Okay, turn left here, then uh….keep heading straight. I'll update you more as we go."
FaDoug rolls his eyes again. "Okay sure, whatever. At least you're talking now."
Cool Kid smiles then lays back. What the hell? He thinks to himself. Those visions….they only happened to me when I was asleep. There's no way I fell asleep in the last 20 minutes….the visions are hitting me when I'm awake now. But why now? Is this because of Derek….or maybe the arrow? Shit...it doesn't matter either way I have to-
Before finishing his thought, Cool Kid hears a light tapping on the outside of the window next to him. He turns his head and notices a small crab holding onto the side of the car. It taps the window with its free claw repeatedly. Cool Kid looks at it then raises an eyebrow. The sound of the tapping becomes quieter and quieter, but the crab was still hitting the window with the same amount of force. Cool Kid couldn't hear anything, all sound was drowned out. Cool Kid looked over at FaDoug, and saw that he was reacting the same way: confused and worried about his hearing.
Cool Kid sighed, knowing that it wasn't just him going deaf was somewhat comforting. But now the question was, what was drowning out all the sound? Before Cool Kid could ponder this any longer, he finally got his answer.
A title wave splashed down onto the car from behind them, sending the car spinning through the water. They both fly around the car violently as it spins back and forth. Cool Kid reaches out and grabs FaDoug then pulls him close to him and tightly snuggles him. Whenever the car began to spin again Cool Kid turned his body so that only his back got hurt, leaving FaDoug completely unharmed. After a few minutes of crashing through the water, and several back bruises, Cool Kid, still holding onto FaDoug, lightly opens one of the car doors, then rushes out with FaDoug.
He swims above the now flipped over car and places FaDoug, them himself, on top of it. They both breath deeply and lay down for a rest.
"What the hell was that!?" FaDoug screams. "How the hell….I knew it was raining before but this!? How in the-"
"No" said Cool Kid sternly. "This is new water, not the same as the rain from before. And there's no way this could be natural, look". He places his non metal arm into the water and takes a drink from it, then spits it out. "Just as I thought, Ocean Water."
"What the hell Cool Kid? Why didn't you tell me you were going to drink Ocean Water? That's crazy! You could have just told me."
"That's not the point FaDoug. The point is that someone put this here, someone put this here to stop us. It's from an enemy. But who would do this? Who has this abili-"
"That would be me you little cucks!" They both look up, and see a man, or rather a mummy. He was wearing nothing but layers of white paper, the only visible part of his body were his eyes, which appeared to bulge out of his head.
"And uh, who might you b-"
"The name is Mikey you fuck face! Or rather, Stormy Mike! Now, how about we cut all the bullshit chit chat, and let's get to the killing!" He snaps his fingers, and launches a spear of water straight at Cool Kid and FaDoug.