Gatekeepers 2
Awakening of the Second Gatekeepers
Darkest-Knight88: Ah!!!!! (Rubs his head) Headache…
Fei: Here! (Hands him a cup of tea and a Panadol pill)
Darkest-Knight88: (nods, drinks tea and pops in the pill) Arigato, Fei-chan. (Spits tea out
in a spray) Fei-chan! You're not supposed to be back yet!
Fei: (nods, flustered) Hai! (Walks out)
Darkest-Knight88: Oh my…dear me, my test is tomorrow…
Bancho: (Pops out suddenly) Cheat in it then! Anyway, why is there no Bancho using the Gate?
Darkest-Knight88: (Collapses in his chair and weeps) God, what did I do to deserve this!
Disclaimer and Copyright: Gatekeepers are NOT mine. However any new characters that I create are mine, you understand? MINE! And if anyone wants this they will have to ask me.
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In Singapore...
It was a bright joyous day for everyone as it was Singapore's National Day (equivalent of America's Independence Day) and the fact that there was a "National Day Offer: 50% off" thing going around, it only served to make everyone happier and it also made the usual shopping crowds more congested.
"Huff, huff, excuse me, please give way…"
A thin teenage Chinese boy pushed through the large crowd, drawing murmurs and angry snarls from them. He wouldn't have cared less. Singapore was like that. Money-minded, business-minded and everyone here seemed to have an afraid-to-lose mentality. Not that he didn't have one anyway. He was one who would do anything for money; doing dares, eating weird stuffs, you name it.
He glanced at the Singaporean flags placed almost everywhere. (National Day. Right. As if anyone would care. All they think about now is the offer that's going around. Not that I have a problem with what they are doing anyway; that's up to their conscience to do it.)
"Hey. You're late." "As always."
He nodded towards the two boys that stood next to each other. One was holding a half-eaten pastry. The other was holding an "Advanced Internet Skills" for Webmasters book.
"Try to be more punctual next time, will you?" The taller and older one said as he kept his book in his bag.
"Yeah, Josh. Try getting here one hour before WE arrive." The other said while chewing what was left of his pastry in his mouth and swallowing it.
Nodding, Joshua raised his eyebrows and gestured to him with his thumb and index finger pressed together and drawing it across his lips "Spenser, don't talk when your mouth is full. And Sidney, is the cyber cafe still open?" Sidney only answered him with a tilt of his head and the hefting of his bag. Joshua shrugged and followed.
Spenser and Sidney, though brothers, were totally different. Spenser was the younger and more rugged one, mostly interested in girls (or rather, his girlfriend) and impetuous, mostly trusting on his emotions.
Sidney was the older, more mature (not by much though) one. Spending much of his time on the computer and the Internet, Sidney was of a gentler breed.
They walked together, cracking jokes as they crossed the street.
"I wonder if there's anything drastic that will happen today."
"Nah. Even if there was, the "people" will take care of it!"
The last sentence seemed ironic, for the minute the words came out of Spenser's mouth; a large tremor began to shake the entire road.
"And I thought Singapore was earthquake free…" Joshua said wryly
The earth began to shake, and huge cracks began to appear upon the asphalt road. Spenser began to try to make a break for it, but Sidney held him back.
"Something bad's happening, and I think you'd better stay away from those cracks."
'Those cracks' began widening into three main faults that formed a triangular pattern. (And we're caught in the middle of it. And are those weird creatures I see? Great day we're having...) Joshua thought as he saw the faults reveal something not...pleasant to the eye.
In each of the three faults, there was a monster slowly climbing out. The three of them huddled even closer together.
The first monster that climbed up and appeared looked like a biological vacuum cleaner, only thing its mouth had been lined with razor-sharp teeth and had four very nasty-looking claws instead of wheels.
Ew...And I thought Mom's vacuum cleaner was ugly...Sidney thought as he stared at the sight.
The second one looked liked an extremely mutated cow, with horns growing out everywhere and its colour weren't black, brown or white; it was a glowing slime green.
Wow...I can see why Dr Seuss didn't want to eat the green eggs and ham. Joshua's eyes widened at the creature right in front of him
The third one was a badly mutilated corpse tottering on two rotting legs.
Hmm...looks weak, like a single bash from my baseball bat could just knock it down...that is if I did bring it with me anyway...Spenser thought not-so confidently.
"Ah, man, this kind of reminds me of Independence Day, you know?" Josh said to the two beside him, referring to the movie.
"You don't have to tell us. We watched it last night on video". Sid and Spenser replied in unison.
"Yeah, well it's not like we can bash up these guys like what Willy did in the show." Josh sighed. The situation seemed hopeless.
Suddenly they felt a cold breeze blow past them. "Use your powers to save yourself! Open the gate!"
A girl's whisper could be heard in the wind. "What the...." Josh muttered suspiciously as he heard the voice. Sid almost lost his balance, as he too, was shocked.
Spenser had already fallen down to the asphalt in fear. "U...use what powers? Open what gate?" Spenser stuttered.
"You heard it too?" Josh looked at him in surprise.
"Me too" Sid nodded. "It seems that we have some sort of supernatural powers that comes in form of a gate..."Sidney concluded.
"Yup…But how do we use-" Josh was cut off by a blast of acid shot by the mutated cow which hit a building nearby.
"Hey, no one, I said NO ONE interrupts me like-" He was cut off again by yet another acid blast by the mutated cow, this time it almost hitting them. Josh scowled
"NOW this time this has gone TOO FAR!!!!!!!" His eyes were shining with bright blue rings in his eyes.
"I think I'll have green steak for lunch...Not that I'll enjoy it anyway." Joshua said as he brushed his hair that was blocking his view from his eyes.
Sidney, with a bright purple light shining from his eyes, replied tersely " I'll trash the vacuum cleaner"
"And I'll take care of the guy that never showers at all." Spenser said as he clenched his fist.
Josh placed his right hand over his other hand, the latter palms up and the former palms down while Sidney stood still as leaves around him started to whirl. Meanwhile, rocks levitated around Spenser as he looked hungrily at the zombie.
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Back at A.E.G.I.S Far East Branch…"What the heck? They're Gatekeepers too?" Kaoru exclaimed with surprise.
Shirei immediately stood up and said, "We're taking the new VTOL jetliner, the Soutien."
Everyone started running towards it except for Bancho
"But I want to watch the fight!" Bancho wailed.
Kaoru took in a deep breath and shouted as loud as a hi-fi which power had been amplified to the power of 1000, "BANCHO! THE JETLINER HAS TELEVISION, BAKA!!!"
Bancho cowered under the sound waves and meekly said, "Okay, okay, I'm coming"
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Back at Singapore...
A blue, humming globe had materialized between Josh's palms and it glowed even brighter even as he removed his left hand. Sidney now had a buffeting twister around him. And Spenser? He had melded the rocks together to form a huge twirling circular mass of rocks.
Josh drew back his arm and let loose with the blue glowing ball. When it hit the monster, its color suddenly withdrew, turning it black and white for a moment then returned to normal. The monster looked at itself then laughed with a "Muahahahaha! You pathetic humans are useless!" Josh merely smiled at him coldly. (We'll see who's the weak one!) He thought.
Sidney was now twirling his hand in the air, causing the ions around it to react into a bright crackling orb of electricity within his hand, eyes glittering with amazement at his own ability.
Spenser was now using the rocky ball as a basketball as he dribbled it on the pavement, causing deep cracks in it. "And now Michael Jordan is heading towards the basket..." he commentated. His eyes flashing with bronze rings within his eyes, he looked like some superhuman basketball player ready to take a shot.
Josh raised his hand out and started to make all kinds of violent actions with it. With each gesture, the 'cow' realized that its body was starting shift around, ripping out its vital organs and such. "So who's the pathetic one now?" Joshua called out viciously.
The white lighting orb in Sid's hand flared and a bolt of lighting shot from it shot towards the monster, electrifying it to the extent that they could even smell burnt flesh. "Oops. I think I just made it too well done."
Spenser punched the rocky mass right through the undead corpse's body, leaving a large hole in the zombie's abdomen.
" Time to finish this" Josh cried menacingly. He cut an 'X' in the air with his hand and even as he did it, the monster cow's body expanded and blew apart in a huge explosion.
Sidney closed his eyes as he let loose the mini-tornado around him towards the monster. Once it had left Sidney, the tornado erupted with light as the lighting bolt was absorbed into it and even before the monster had known it, it had been sucked in "Bye, bye, and bye." Sidney sang as he heard the tornado subside. The only thing left of the monster was some piles of charred powder.
Spenser slammed his fist into the ground, opening an enormous gap in the ground, consuming the zombie within the ground and it closed up, leaving not even a trace of the crack which had been there only a few seconds before, much less the zombie. Spenser gave a lop-sided smile and growled " Game Over."
Still fascinated by the power that he exuded, he shook his head and took a look again. It was true. He and his friends had powers and he wondered what he could do with them. He was woken from his reverie by Joshua's exact same thoughts:
"Hey guys, look what we did! We pulverized those weirdoes and saved Singapore! Imagine what we could do with those powers! We could rob banks, get rich…" Joshua's eyes were literally shining with greed. Spenser had different thoughts what he'd do with those powers though.
"Chicks. Yeah, that's what I'd be able to get. Girls. Man, not even Ricky Martin, F4, Pierce Brosnan, or anybody else for that matter can beat me now!"
Joshua and Spenser looked at each other and nodded, a secret understanding sparking between them. Together they wrapped an arm over each other's shoulder and started doing the can-can, singing:
"Girls we'd get,
Cash we'll collect,
A little bit of wine won't be bad!
A little bit of games,
A little bit of fun!
We'll be the rulers of the world,
And we won't give up,
So you'd better beg for mercy before
We blow you up!"
Sidney had to laugh. Those two were one of the reasons why his life was so lively. He was about to call them over for a proper discussion about what to do with their powers, but a sudden sound of an aircraft landing caused them to look up.
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"They were even younger than us when we first was dragged into this war..."Ukiya noticed when they were landing only a few metres from them.
Shirei was the first to walk out and he addressed them in perfect English. "Young men over there," He shouted out "Are you the ones who vanquished the monsters just now?"
"Yeah." The eldest of the three replied hesitantly.
They didn't seem so nervous before they saw us. Weird. I wonder why...Ukiya thought as he saw the sudden change of moods.
"I am the commander of the A.E.G.I.S Far East Branch, an organization dedicated and funded by the United Nations to defend against extraterrestrial beings."
"Like those we just fought?" The shortest among them piped up.
"Not exactly...we've never faced these kind of...fully biological or seemingly undead monsters before." Said Ukiya who had came out of the airplane along with the other Gatekeepers with a Japanese accent.
"Who are you people?" The tallest one spoke up.
"We work for A.E.G.I.S and to help them, we draw upon the powers of our Gates-much like what u did-to destroy those monsters. And as I said, since those monsters are aliens that we haven't seen before, and you people have fought them just now, we will need your help."
Shirei drew himself to his full height and asked, "Will you join our party of Gatekeepers?"
"My name's Sidney. I'll be pleased to be one," Said the eldest of them.
"And my name's Spenser. I'm with my brother" The other one made a 'v' sign with his fingers.
"Joshua here...you're asking me? Well…Every mercenary has a price...you know..." The last one pinched his lip.
The two other boys groaned. "Sorry, he's a little crazy on the 'soldier of fortune' part. He wants to be one when he attains, no IF he attains adulthood." Spenser guffawed as he finished the sentence.
Specs, soon after hearing them, ran to the onboard computer, which was linked with the A.E.G.I.S database and keyed in some information.
He realized he had one gate missing though. Joshua's gate. However, Joshua's powers were strange and unfamiliar to him and the fact he had such mercenary tendencies...He sighed and told himself that everything would be solved very soon. However, Specs did not know how true his words were going to be...
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Darkest-Knight88: Still quite short though. I couldn't think of anything to make it longer. Flames and Reviews accepted.