On the way home from a party, a number of police pulled up behind me, and I asked "Are there any problems, sir?"
"Yes, the young and foreigners are not allowed to wander the streets at night. You will now be arrested and sold into slavery." the policeman walked off laughing leaving me to the mercy of the slave traders.
I finally arrived at the slave house and was locked in a prison for the time that I would be sold into slavery. That night just happened to be the night when slave masters would be coming to buy slaves.
My love that I happened to find at the parties of which I had been attending walked up to me and said, "I will buy this slave."
"Thank you for buying me out of slavery," I said.
"I wish that was what I was doing," my love, Cronima replied.
"Cronima, what do you mean?" I asked.
"I bought you for my dad and he will have to decide what will happen to you," she replied.
"Oh," I said as I sank into despair.
"I will ask my dad if I can marry you. Zedd, you mean so much to me. After you get done with your seven year sentence to slavery, I am sure my dad will grant you freedom, and allow us marriage." Cronima emphasized.
When we arrived at Cronima's parents house we asked her dad, Barbane, about the whole marriage thing and Cronima's dad agreed to the terms they presented to him, but with the stipulation that I must win the position of top servant starting from the very bottom of which there were 7 levels. I agreed with all the stipulations placed, and immediately began my work as servant of Barbane.
The first level of servitude to Barbane, involved working his fields, which was very strenuous and took a lot of hard work. As a powerful villain of the universe he needed every plant possible to make concoctions and whatever was needed to increase power and money.
At his breaks when nobody was watching Cronima and I would sneak off and go walking through the paths in her father's garden. We would sneak out far into the woods to be hidden, because the penalty for the lowliest of slaves was great for kissing and love of people who were not.
Levels 2-3 had to do with the yard around the mansion of Barbane. I advanced clear to level 4 which brought him into the master's house, first as floor washer in my first year. Finally after 5 years of waiting and being a cook for 3 years of them, I reached level 7 which presented him in the position of helping the members of the house. I gained popularity amongst the slaves and Barbane for the amazing strength he developed. Barbane especially admired his great powers he was obtaining. He received the position, of level 7 because he caught a mistake that Barbane made and if the mistake was not pointed out, Barbane would have been forever in shame and disgraced throughout the universe. Luckily he caught Barbane's mistake and Barbane was saved the shame of loosing a battle with superheroes on a planet, when he was hosting the Universal Villain's Convention of which he was nominated to run for in the nearest universal elections. As a servant of the level 7 rank was placed in charge of meeting the needs of Cronima.
Cronima began to grow impatient with her dad about me, and told him, "I want to free Zedd now."
Her dad said, "No, I don't think he will ever go free. Do you realize all that he has done for my name and house? I am now the most feared man in the universe and it is because of the help of him. I want him to stay here till he dies, and that is the way it will be."
Exasperated with her father, Cronima went to me and told me, "I am going to go and find Goldare and he will present me with the Z lettered Staff that you had him keep for you all this time."
Cronima knowing how her dad was, didn't expect him to allow for me to go in the first place, so she relayed messages from me to Goldare and had him, Baboo and Squatt do as I had asked from them. They built up my Z lettered Staff so that it was the most powerful weapon through out the entire universe.
Cronima told Goldare, "Zedd wishes for his Z lettered, prepare to leave, we are leaving my fathers house tonight and will go for our marriage after the escape."
As Cronima received the Z lettered Staff, she quickly took it to me and instructed "Go and attack my dad now, pay him back for all he has done to you."
"That I will gladly do," He replied.
I barged into Barbane's room shooting a bolt of lightning at Barbane throwing him to the floor. Zedd turned around and was running out, but some how Barbane was not dead; Barbane jumped up and drained his powers into one big explosive. I not facing Barbane, was about to be hit, were it not for Cronima jumping in the way of the explosive, I would have been dead. Instead Cronima fell to her death.
Enraged at the death of my only love, I turned around and electrocuted Barbane to his death. I then ran back to Cronima and tears poured down his face, I was contemplating death for myself, but at that moment I remembered my revenge upon Rita, my brother, my parents and my whole town. I was now ready to have that revenge. I had my revenge upon Barbane-it was everyone else's turn now.