Well, people, Chapter II is up! Yay! Yes, I know, super corny, but hold on. I think it will get better...
Chapter 2
Pent walked of the machine and sat down on the floor. A tournament where I'll unlock my skills? Pent thought.
"Pent, we're walking… now!" yelled a guy from the other side of the arcade.
"Where are we going, Patrick?" said Pent, now standing up and walking with Patrick out of the arcade.
"You saw it too, I could tell by the way you reacted. I know where it is. It's in the basement of the mall," said Patrick, in an anxious voice. He was strangely more sinister than ever before, "It's time to unlock my power."
Pent and Patrick made it to the basement, where they looked at a sight greater than anything else. About 15 DDR machines were distributed evenly across the large room. The room was full with people in age ranging from very young and very old.
"Whoa…" said Pent, dumbstruck.
"Shut up," said Patrick in a superior voice, as the man they saw in the DDR machine come out of another room, "Listen."
The man walked over to the center of the room while everybody got silent except for a few whispers. Once the man reached his destination, the floor right next to him opened vertically and a microphone issued from the hole.
"Hello and Congratulations to all of the people who made it to this part!" said the man, his eyes eager with anticipation. "My name is Mr. Farlorne and I'm inviting you to become something you have always wanted to be."
He raised his hand and suddenly a strange blue glow exited his hand and collided with the floor. The floor suddenly became icy and slippery. Everybody in the room was dumbfounded and exited.
"Do you know how it's possible that I did that? It's the power that I've unlocked thanks to DDR. With practice, I can now control it without the machine!" said Farlorne, now putting his hands into his expensive blazer. "We're gonna have a tournament to see which one of you is the better one of all of you! We've selected all of you because you show potential. First up is the elimination round where we will who is truly good and who are just dead weight. The finals are after that."
Everybody suddenly became ecstatic. People were already lining up to the machines waiting for their turns to defeat their foes. Some men in suits came into the room and walked over to the machines while Farlorne said one more thing.
"Do your best, because if you lose, you will forget that you ever came here. Only the strong and willing will prevail. The last four people remaining will enter the finals. Elimination Round, start!"
"You might want to leave this machine because I doubt you will want me to kill you this early in the tournament," said Patrick, now becoming cocky and dangerous.
"Sure, whatever," said Pent, now walking to the other side of the room.
Pent waited in line for what seemed hours until it was his turn to begin. He got up on the machine and looked at his opponent. He was big…. Really big!
"Ready to lose, loser?" he said, chuckling in a obnoxious voice.
"No, but your mom is, 'tard!" said Pent sending him a dirty look.
The man in the black suit came up to the machine and chose the settings. He put the machine on Standard and chose "Roulette." The songs started to spin while the man pressed the start button. The machine stopped on Absolute by DJ Taka.
"Dude, I love this song!" exclaimed Pent, now getting ready to start.
The song started in a normal pace and Pent was getting Perfects and a few Greats. It was strange, though. Whenever Pent stepped on an arrow, he felt like power was surging through his body. I guess this what he meant when he said "unlock your power," thought Pent.
The fat guy, on the other hand, was having a bit of trouble. He was getting a streak of Goods and Boo, occasionally some Goods or Perfects.
Eventually, the song ended. Pent looked at the screen and saw that he got AA, while the other guy made a D!
"Yeah!" yelled Pent, screaming for joy.
"Crap!" yelled the other guy.
The guy in the suit took the fat kid to a room, exiting him from the other room. Pent looked at Patrick's direction and saw that he was still on the machines. I knew it…
Finally, the elimination rounds ended. Pent got taken to another room by a guard. The only other people there were Patrick and two other kids that he didn't know.
One of them was really tall and the other one was shorter but both of them were really thin. Mr. Farlorne met Pent with a hand and they both shook.