It's Istanbul, was Constantinople, It's Istanbul, was Constantinople, It's Istanbul, was Constantinople, so if you've got a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul. Even old New York was once New Amsterdam, why the changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way! It's Istanbul, was Constantinople... (Yes, that's a real song, I just wanted to put one of my favorite songs up there, it's called Istanbul by They Might Be Giants)
Has anyone noticed this fic has been getting weirder and weirder? Stereotypical characters for mysterious figures and the main character has Split Personality Syndrome.
Now, I know the past couple of chapters have been short, but... you'll see... and chapter 19 is up there for a reason I think I know but am not sure yet.
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Chapter 21: History Revealed, New Friends Found, and a Watcher Discovered
Clash's party was heading back towards the Window to meet back at the inn, but then Clash looked above the Window. "It's Omega!!! He's coming back, get ready for battle!!!"
"No!!!" Ashley shouted, "Don't!!!"
"Why not?" Asked Clash. "He's an enemy now."
"Just wait for him to land..." Ashley said, hoping he would come down soon.
"What aren't you telling us?" Rob asked, starting to get angry. Ashley ignored him, because Rob was always a hothead.
But Omega and Brian never got a chance to land. He didn't see it, but a gigantic tornado was coming up behind him, and soon sucked him up.
Everybody started running, but to no avail, the whirlwind grabbed them all.
(Author's Note: Now skipping ahead to several hours later)
Brian and Omega opened their eyes. "Where are we? 'It looks like some kind of swamp, Brian.' Well, I know that, but still, where are we location-wise? 'Now's as good a time as ever to tell me your history. I'd tell you mine, but I don't have one, as you know.' Fine, but I'll think it in case anyone's listening."
'It starts with my parents, I don't remember their names and I don't care. They hated me and my sister, Julie, who'd be about 13 now. My parents were abusive. After Julie disappeared, I ran, afraid that they'd killed her and would kill me too. I spent the next several years on the streets, living off anything I could steal. After a few years, I wasn't able to eat or find shelter from the rain for about a week. I just kept walking, hoping to find something, until eventually I collapsed in front of an apartment complex. I woke up in one of the apartments, with Jake and Rob there. They said they lived there and found me outside, then they offered me food, which I hastily accepted. Soon they found out I was homeless, and said I could stay with them. I was always very talented and soon found a job and helped to pay for the rent, and was able to go to school again, although I was several grades behind. I also learned very quickly and was soon up to the school level I should've been in, a sophomore. Through the year, Jake and Rob also took in others with stories similar to mine. Cole and Kate were already there when I showed up, then Ashley, then Daniel. We all became friends, it was almost impossible not to, and had some good times. But then, a year later, I disappeared and ended up in the Pokemon world. And that's the end of the story. 'No it's not. How'd you change into this body?' Well I... 'You're afraid of whatever happened, aren't you?' More than you'll ever know...'
Their thinking was interrupted by the sound of a twig snapping. They looked behind them just in time to avoid being sliced in half by a large iron broadsword, which looked similar to Omega's Justice Blade, but a little less mystical-looking. "Holy Crap!" Omega shouted. "What are you trying to-" but the sight of their attacker shocked him so much that Omega never finished his sentence.
He was a large, reptilian person (Author's Note: He's not a person, but I can't really think of another word). He was about 8 feet tall. His scaly skin was red, except for his stomach and the inside of his neck, which had natural white plates. His neck ended in a dragon-looking head. His eyes were black slits inside orange pupils. And his tail was about five feet long. But still, he looked human, and his build was also humanoid. "There's nothing holy about you, Demon," he said in a firm voice, "I've never seen anything like you, but there's no way you can beat me!!! Prepare to be vanquished, evil one!!!"
"Whoa, hold on, buddy," Brian said, drawing his Blade, "you've got it all wrong!" But the reptile person wasn't interested in listening, he lunged forward with his blade drawn and performed a quick slice that Omega and Brian barely managed to block.
They both tried to perform a slash, the reptile man downwards and their blade upwards. They locked blades, and they used all their strength to manage to push the reptile man back, leaving him open for a split second. In that moment, they sweep kicked one of his legs to knock him down onto one knee. Omega then put his blade to the reptile man's neck. 'Don't kill him! He's a good guy!' Brian urged. 'Don't worry,' thought Omega, 'I'm gonna make us like an honorable hero.'
"I could easily kill you right now, with one flick of my blade," Omega said, looking down at the reptile man.
"Do it, then," the reptile man responded, closing his eyes and clenching his gigantic fists, "at least I'll die an honorable death. Fighting evil until the very end."
"No." Omega said, putting his blade back in the holder, "because I'm not evil. 'Here,'" Brian said, getting what Omega was doing, and offering the reptile man his hand.
The man grabbed it, and Omega helped him up, which was harder than he thought. "My name's Omega. And you?"
"I am known as Draco, the warrior."
"You know, it may sound weird, but I've never seen anyone who looks like you. Of course, I'm not from around here. Hell, I don't even know where I am."
"I do not blame you for not knowing me," Draco said, "because my species is very rare. I am a half-dragon, a mix between my mother, a sorceress, and my father, a dragon."
"So where are we?" Brian asked, trying to change the subject to get the image that popped into his head out.
"We are in the land of Mystara, where are you from, Omega?"
"Not around here, definitely," said Brian, "I'm from two lands, one called Kanto and the other one Johto." While inside thinking, 'Mystara... I know that land from somewhere, Omega. Could I be in that arcade game?' (Author's Note: You might not have played it, but one of my favorite arcade games has always been Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara)
"I have not heard of either of them. They must be far away, for I am a traveler. How did you end up here? Perhaps by magic?"
"Yeah, but not ours, if that's what you mean," then, when seeing the look on his face when he said ours, and remembering where he was, he added, "oh, I forgot to mention, I have a magical curse on me that has two minds in one body. The one that's talking to you right now is named Brian."
"I have never heard of a curse like that," Draco said, "but perhaps it is possible in your land. You are obviously lost. Would you like to come into town with me? I was on my way there, but I mistook you for a demon."
"Sure, I've got nowhere else to go. Besides, you never know, I might find information on my curse and why I changed from human to this." Omega said, then seeing Draco's look, he said, "yeah, I used to be human."
It took them about an hour to get to town. "That's the bar outside of the town and- what the Hell is going on?" Draco shouted.
There were twenty people gathered around two people they couldn't see outside the bar, beating him severely. There was a child outside the group jumping up and down with glee and shouting, "yes, yes! Show no mercy!!! Beat him wike a dwum! Hahahaha!!!" The child then turned over his shoulder to see Omega, said, "oh, cwap, he found me." And ran down an alley..
"He knows something, but that guy comes first," Omega said.
Draco said, "you're very kind. Help the man, I'll get the child." And then he ran down the alley.
"All right, break it up," Omega said, running towards them.
"It's another freak! Kill him!!!" One of the people shouted. And then they ran towards Omega.
Omega put on his most evil face and said, "come get some, boys!!! 'Don't kill them.' Fine."
(Author's Note: I don't even want to write this down. Needless to say, he beat them severely)
Omega stood around the people, unconscious, then went over to the two figures and were surprised to see they were, "Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi? 'They're from another game, right, Brian?' Yeah, we'd better find some way to help them, they're hurt pretty bad. How'd they get here? 'I actually don't blame the people for attacking them, they probably look like some sort of monster to them.'" They were badly cut and bruised.
"The sign says the bar's also an inn. Let's get them inside."
He put Fox over one shoulder and Falco over the other and carried them into the emptied out bar (he knocked all the customers out). "We don't rent rooms to your kind," the bartender said hatefully.
Omega gestured towards his blade in its holder with his head. "Well, you rent rooms to us as of now, or I'll put them down and so help me..."
"Free of charge." The bartender said quickly, putting on a nervous smile.
After depositing Fox and Falco in their room, Omega went back outside just in time to see Draco, carrying the child, who was kicking and screaming in protest.
"The little brat bit my claw," Draco said, "not that it did any damage. As far as I can guess, he's some sort of dark elf half-breed."
The child yelled, "first, I'm not any part Dark Elf. And second, I can speak fow myself, mowon!!!" (Author's Note: You might have noticed that sometimes he speak like a small child, with the w's instead of the r's and l's, and sometimes he doesn't, well, I only do it when I have any idea how to spell the "accent")
"Do you two want to speak with him?" Draco asked, "because he doesn't want to talk to me."
Omega nodded and Draco dropped him. The child could have been easily mistaken for a Dark Elf. He had very dark, almost pitch black skin, very dark brown hair, and pointy ears. He was about two and nine tenths of a foot. Omega also noticed why Draco said he was a half-Dark Elf, he growled at Omega and Brian, who saw he had four fangs on the top of his mouth (one on each end, and smaller ones where the canines should be).
"Kid, you're going to tell me everything you know, NOW!!!"
"Not in a million years, Omega!!!"
"How do you know my name?"
"Um, wucky guess?"
"Spill it, kid."
"Stop cawing me that!"
"Why?"
"Because I'm six billion years older than you!!!"
"WHAT?!!!" Omega half-shouted out of surprise.
"My name is Junior, a name you will soon learn to fear!"
"That's it, boy! I'm going to scare some manners into you!" Draco said, trying to pick Junior up again.
Junior dodged the grab, and outstretched his hands toward Draco, who flew back about twenty feet and about fifty feet in the air. Draco would have hit the ground hard, but his wings outstretched and he landed to the ground softly. Junior then rushed at Omega, and did the same thing he did to Draco, only Brian and Omega hit the ground hard.
Draco tried to run at Junior, but Junior somehow saw him come up from behind, back-flipped over him, and disappeared in a puff of smoke, yelling, "the one person left in the inn doesn't know anything!!!".
Junior reappeared in front of his crystal ball. "That was cwose, I just should've purged instead of fighting those animal people." He said, wiping his brow, "I just wanted to have a wittle fun, though, and what are the odds he'd show up? Pwetty good, considering the others..."
"Are you two okay?" Draco asked Brian and Omega.
"Yeah, I'm good," said Brian, "and so am I."
"Alright. Did you save those two from the mob?" By this time the
"Yeah," said Brian, "they were attacked because they look different too. I got us a room in the bar there. Those two might be awake by now."
Sure enough, they were both awake when Omega and Draco entered the room. Fox jumped backward and Falco took out some sort of phaser pistol. "What the Hell are you and why are we here?"
"First," Omega started, "we're the ones who saved your asses, and he's my friend," he said, gesturing to Draco.
"Put down your weapon, Falco," Fox said. Falco didn't move. "Now."
Falco reluctantly put the pistol back in its holster. "That's right," Brian said, "we're friends. We're not going to hurt you. How'd you two get here? You don't belong in Mystara."
"Is that where we are? Last I knew, we were flying through Corneria, then we were flying over a land we didn't recognize, then our engines dies for no reason." Falco said, still staring suspiciously.
"It's becoming dark," Draco said, "we can talk about this in the morning. Omega and Brian rented this room for us, and all three of us are exhausted after this battle."
Draco and they went to sleep, while Fox and Falco wondered where the third person was.
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This ought to make up for my last short chapters, huh? Hope you liked it, but what happened to the others? Just to warn you, they're all going to have separate chapters for a while.
Has anyone noticed this fic has been getting weirder and weirder? Stereotypical characters for mysterious figures and the main character has Split Personality Syndrome.
Now, I know the past couple of chapters have been short, but... you'll see... and chapter 19 is up there for a reason I think I know but am not sure yet.
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Chapter 21: History Revealed, New Friends Found, and a Watcher Discovered
Clash's party was heading back towards the Window to meet back at the inn, but then Clash looked above the Window. "It's Omega!!! He's coming back, get ready for battle!!!"
"No!!!" Ashley shouted, "Don't!!!"
"Why not?" Asked Clash. "He's an enemy now."
"Just wait for him to land..." Ashley said, hoping he would come down soon.
"What aren't you telling us?" Rob asked, starting to get angry. Ashley ignored him, because Rob was always a hothead.
But Omega and Brian never got a chance to land. He didn't see it, but a gigantic tornado was coming up behind him, and soon sucked him up.
Everybody started running, but to no avail, the whirlwind grabbed them all.
(Author's Note: Now skipping ahead to several hours later)
Brian and Omega opened their eyes. "Where are we? 'It looks like some kind of swamp, Brian.' Well, I know that, but still, where are we location-wise? 'Now's as good a time as ever to tell me your history. I'd tell you mine, but I don't have one, as you know.' Fine, but I'll think it in case anyone's listening."
'It starts with my parents, I don't remember their names and I don't care. They hated me and my sister, Julie, who'd be about 13 now. My parents were abusive. After Julie disappeared, I ran, afraid that they'd killed her and would kill me too. I spent the next several years on the streets, living off anything I could steal. After a few years, I wasn't able to eat or find shelter from the rain for about a week. I just kept walking, hoping to find something, until eventually I collapsed in front of an apartment complex. I woke up in one of the apartments, with Jake and Rob there. They said they lived there and found me outside, then they offered me food, which I hastily accepted. Soon they found out I was homeless, and said I could stay with them. I was always very talented and soon found a job and helped to pay for the rent, and was able to go to school again, although I was several grades behind. I also learned very quickly and was soon up to the school level I should've been in, a sophomore. Through the year, Jake and Rob also took in others with stories similar to mine. Cole and Kate were already there when I showed up, then Ashley, then Daniel. We all became friends, it was almost impossible not to, and had some good times. But then, a year later, I disappeared and ended up in the Pokemon world. And that's the end of the story. 'No it's not. How'd you change into this body?' Well I... 'You're afraid of whatever happened, aren't you?' More than you'll ever know...'
Their thinking was interrupted by the sound of a twig snapping. They looked behind them just in time to avoid being sliced in half by a large iron broadsword, which looked similar to Omega's Justice Blade, but a little less mystical-looking. "Holy Crap!" Omega shouted. "What are you trying to-" but the sight of their attacker shocked him so much that Omega never finished his sentence.
He was a large, reptilian person (Author's Note: He's not a person, but I can't really think of another word). He was about 8 feet tall. His scaly skin was red, except for his stomach and the inside of his neck, which had natural white plates. His neck ended in a dragon-looking head. His eyes were black slits inside orange pupils. And his tail was about five feet long. But still, he looked human, and his build was also humanoid. "There's nothing holy about you, Demon," he said in a firm voice, "I've never seen anything like you, but there's no way you can beat me!!! Prepare to be vanquished, evil one!!!"
"Whoa, hold on, buddy," Brian said, drawing his Blade, "you've got it all wrong!" But the reptile person wasn't interested in listening, he lunged forward with his blade drawn and performed a quick slice that Omega and Brian barely managed to block.
They both tried to perform a slash, the reptile man downwards and their blade upwards. They locked blades, and they used all their strength to manage to push the reptile man back, leaving him open for a split second. In that moment, they sweep kicked one of his legs to knock him down onto one knee. Omega then put his blade to the reptile man's neck. 'Don't kill him! He's a good guy!' Brian urged. 'Don't worry,' thought Omega, 'I'm gonna make us like an honorable hero.'
"I could easily kill you right now, with one flick of my blade," Omega said, looking down at the reptile man.
"Do it, then," the reptile man responded, closing his eyes and clenching his gigantic fists, "at least I'll die an honorable death. Fighting evil until the very end."
"No." Omega said, putting his blade back in the holder, "because I'm not evil. 'Here,'" Brian said, getting what Omega was doing, and offering the reptile man his hand.
The man grabbed it, and Omega helped him up, which was harder than he thought. "My name's Omega. And you?"
"I am known as Draco, the warrior."
"You know, it may sound weird, but I've never seen anyone who looks like you. Of course, I'm not from around here. Hell, I don't even know where I am."
"I do not blame you for not knowing me," Draco said, "because my species is very rare. I am a half-dragon, a mix between my mother, a sorceress, and my father, a dragon."
"So where are we?" Brian asked, trying to change the subject to get the image that popped into his head out.
"We are in the land of Mystara, where are you from, Omega?"
"Not around here, definitely," said Brian, "I'm from two lands, one called Kanto and the other one Johto." While inside thinking, 'Mystara... I know that land from somewhere, Omega. Could I be in that arcade game?' (Author's Note: You might not have played it, but one of my favorite arcade games has always been Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara)
"I have not heard of either of them. They must be far away, for I am a traveler. How did you end up here? Perhaps by magic?"
"Yeah, but not ours, if that's what you mean," then, when seeing the look on his face when he said ours, and remembering where he was, he added, "oh, I forgot to mention, I have a magical curse on me that has two minds in one body. The one that's talking to you right now is named Brian."
"I have never heard of a curse like that," Draco said, "but perhaps it is possible in your land. You are obviously lost. Would you like to come into town with me? I was on my way there, but I mistook you for a demon."
"Sure, I've got nowhere else to go. Besides, you never know, I might find information on my curse and why I changed from human to this." Omega said, then seeing Draco's look, he said, "yeah, I used to be human."
It took them about an hour to get to town. "That's the bar outside of the town and- what the Hell is going on?" Draco shouted.
There were twenty people gathered around two people they couldn't see outside the bar, beating him severely. There was a child outside the group jumping up and down with glee and shouting, "yes, yes! Show no mercy!!! Beat him wike a dwum! Hahahaha!!!" The child then turned over his shoulder to see Omega, said, "oh, cwap, he found me." And ran down an alley..
"He knows something, but that guy comes first," Omega said.
Draco said, "you're very kind. Help the man, I'll get the child." And then he ran down the alley.
"All right, break it up," Omega said, running towards them.
"It's another freak! Kill him!!!" One of the people shouted. And then they ran towards Omega.
Omega put on his most evil face and said, "come get some, boys!!! 'Don't kill them.' Fine."
(Author's Note: I don't even want to write this down. Needless to say, he beat them severely)
Omega stood around the people, unconscious, then went over to the two figures and were surprised to see they were, "Fox McCloud and Falco Lombardi? 'They're from another game, right, Brian?' Yeah, we'd better find some way to help them, they're hurt pretty bad. How'd they get here? 'I actually don't blame the people for attacking them, they probably look like some sort of monster to them.'" They were badly cut and bruised.
"The sign says the bar's also an inn. Let's get them inside."
He put Fox over one shoulder and Falco over the other and carried them into the emptied out bar (he knocked all the customers out). "We don't rent rooms to your kind," the bartender said hatefully.
Omega gestured towards his blade in its holder with his head. "Well, you rent rooms to us as of now, or I'll put them down and so help me..."
"Free of charge." The bartender said quickly, putting on a nervous smile.
After depositing Fox and Falco in their room, Omega went back outside just in time to see Draco, carrying the child, who was kicking and screaming in protest.
"The little brat bit my claw," Draco said, "not that it did any damage. As far as I can guess, he's some sort of dark elf half-breed."
The child yelled, "first, I'm not any part Dark Elf. And second, I can speak fow myself, mowon!!!" (Author's Note: You might have noticed that sometimes he speak like a small child, with the w's instead of the r's and l's, and sometimes he doesn't, well, I only do it when I have any idea how to spell the "accent")
"Do you two want to speak with him?" Draco asked, "because he doesn't want to talk to me."
Omega nodded and Draco dropped him. The child could have been easily mistaken for a Dark Elf. He had very dark, almost pitch black skin, very dark brown hair, and pointy ears. He was about two and nine tenths of a foot. Omega also noticed why Draco said he was a half-Dark Elf, he growled at Omega and Brian, who saw he had four fangs on the top of his mouth (one on each end, and smaller ones where the canines should be).
"Kid, you're going to tell me everything you know, NOW!!!"
"Not in a million years, Omega!!!"
"How do you know my name?"
"Um, wucky guess?"
"Spill it, kid."
"Stop cawing me that!"
"Why?"
"Because I'm six billion years older than you!!!"
"WHAT?!!!" Omega half-shouted out of surprise.
"My name is Junior, a name you will soon learn to fear!"
"That's it, boy! I'm going to scare some manners into you!" Draco said, trying to pick Junior up again.
Junior dodged the grab, and outstretched his hands toward Draco, who flew back about twenty feet and about fifty feet in the air. Draco would have hit the ground hard, but his wings outstretched and he landed to the ground softly. Junior then rushed at Omega, and did the same thing he did to Draco, only Brian and Omega hit the ground hard.
Draco tried to run at Junior, but Junior somehow saw him come up from behind, back-flipped over him, and disappeared in a puff of smoke, yelling, "the one person left in the inn doesn't know anything!!!".
Junior reappeared in front of his crystal ball. "That was cwose, I just should've purged instead of fighting those animal people." He said, wiping his brow, "I just wanted to have a wittle fun, though, and what are the odds he'd show up? Pwetty good, considering the others..."
"Are you two okay?" Draco asked Brian and Omega.
"Yeah, I'm good," said Brian, "and so am I."
"Alright. Did you save those two from the mob?" By this time the
"Yeah," said Brian, "they were attacked because they look different too. I got us a room in the bar there. Those two might be awake by now."
Sure enough, they were both awake when Omega and Draco entered the room. Fox jumped backward and Falco took out some sort of phaser pistol. "What the Hell are you and why are we here?"
"First," Omega started, "we're the ones who saved your asses, and he's my friend," he said, gesturing to Draco.
"Put down your weapon, Falco," Fox said. Falco didn't move. "Now."
Falco reluctantly put the pistol back in its holster. "That's right," Brian said, "we're friends. We're not going to hurt you. How'd you two get here? You don't belong in Mystara."
"Is that where we are? Last I knew, we were flying through Corneria, then we were flying over a land we didn't recognize, then our engines dies for no reason." Falco said, still staring suspiciously.
"It's becoming dark," Draco said, "we can talk about this in the morning. Omega and Brian rented this room for us, and all three of us are exhausted after this battle."
Draco and they went to sleep, while Fox and Falco wondered where the third person was.
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This ought to make up for my last short chapters, huh? Hope you liked it, but what happened to the others? Just to warn you, they're all going to have separate chapters for a while.