Chapter 2
"Arnott, you seem fairly determined to acquire that HitroMeter. Am I not
correct?" says a voice from the shadows. Arnott stares at this man back
blankly as there are a couple seconds of silence. "Well? No answer. You
probably have no idea what's going on, and I'm not about to explain to you.
You will have to try to get the answers out of me." Arnott who had been
sitting in the light that shone on him, immediately stood up. "What in the
world was that thing??" He waved a fist at the man and then Professor
Height steps out of the shadows and begins to speak again. Arnott takes
his seat calmly, looking somewhat mesmerized by Height's presence. "Well
do you know that realm you entered? Yes I know about that realm you
entered. I have entered that realm like you, but unlike you I touched the
lights. When I write my novels, I think about life, and try to teach the
world my perspective on life, and I've entered that realm a few times. But
I was not able to resist, and you know what I did. See, there is a fine
line between greatness and insanity. You can take many of the greatest
novelists of all time, and do research on their lives and you'll see that
they were troubled and many eventually commit suicide. Well, slowly I am
losing my sanity as well, and with each book and each thinking session I
have been losing it."
Arnott then goes to away. "Ah, he has gone back. But he's safe, the
HitroMeter will be his savior. I just hope that no one else was captivated
by the HitroMeter. Or they could be in grave danger."
***
The world is black again. There is nothing left of it. All that remains
is the lights that are dimly lit. Suddenly, a golden glow ball that
floated in the air like a balloon, arose from a little boy and girl lying
on the empty floor. It whizzed around and lighted the area as it went
along. The world was no longer rooted with evil; it was no longer dark.
And the children that had been motionless on the floor were beginning to
stir. The life and color was coming back in them. Arnott was the first to
rise. Followed by a girl he had never seen before. This girl was
obviously as short as he was, since as they stood side by side, you could
stick a ruler on the top of their heads, and it would be level. This girl
was young, but obviously a Dirkenmire student as she dawned the school
attire. "Hello, who are you?" asked Arnott ignoring the light that was
around him. The girl was deranged. She began yelling, "Where am I? What
is this?" The girl clamored and repeated this over and over again running
around like a crazed maniac. Until suddenly she stopped and her eyes met
with Arnotts and she moved closer to him. She had become calm, and had
stopped her berate of "Where am I? What is this?" and said, "Who are you?"
But once she said that, there was only a short pause until she continued
her rampant cries of confusion. Arnott tried to calm her down, but to no
avail, so he gave up.
Arnott looked around the now brightly lit room, and went exploring. He was
stumbling along and something made contact with his foot. It was a
tranquilizer. And immediately, like anyone, he knew that this was the
solution to his problem, and that was calming someone down. He had
wandered far from the original room from which she had seen the girl, but
he was able to make it back easily with no mishaps. There was a sense of
familiarity in him that seemingly guided him back to the room.
He entered the room, but the girl was no longer on psychopathic rampage,
but now was approaching the lights on the far end of the room. Out of
instinct, he quickly ran over and yelled, "Stop, those lights will cause
you severe torment. You do not want to go there." But the girl would not
stop and there was a look in her eyes. Something that made her want to go
to the lights and forget anything that was around her. The girl pulled her
hand up, and extended it towards the light. But it never made it there.
For something solid as steel had knocked her down.
There was liquid spilling over the girl who now lay on the ground just as
she lay when she entered. He knew that if the liquid from the tranquilizer
had had just thrown were to come in contact with her skin for long time, it
would eventually kill her. The liquid in the tranquilizer consisted of
extremely small molecules that had the ability to seep through skin cells,
so if enough of the venom inside the gun were to enter through the skin and
enter her blood stream, it would immediately begin to poison the blood and
make it fallible and the vital organs would cease to function.
He kicked the gun away, but to his eye's horror, the liquid had already
begun oozing out and he immediately began to strip this girl of her
clothes. He began by taking ripping off her blouse and unstrapping her
bra. "That should do it. She should be fine now. There is no
tranquilizer liquid left. Now who is this girl?" Something in his mind
struck him. But in reality, the HitroMeter that had remained whizzing had
struck Arnott, and again printed letters in the smoke as it had done in the
Chemistry Classroom.
"Kimberly. This is her name."
"Kimberly huh? Cool name. Too bad you had to go through this. Too bad
you had to enter this realm. Now I must figure out how to get you out. I
love you."
