1"In the case of Marty Seiber. Has the jury reached a verdict?"
"We have your honour. On the charge of third degree assault. We find the defendant...Not Guilty,"
There were many cheers. Marty hugged his lawyer and looked back at his friends and family. He was a free man.
Four and a half years later
Psymon put his arm over his eyes. The sun seemed to be brighter when your free. Psymon walked up to the road and saw a familiar face standing next to a car. "Zoe, well I didn't expect to see you about," Psymon looked at his watch. "Five minutes of me being free,"
Zoe shrugged "Well I am living back in Merqury City. So I realized you were about to become a free man. So I thought you'd might like a lift," Zoe then gestured him to come into her car. Psymon agreed and stepped into the passengers seat.
Of course Psymon was surprised of this. "Really your back in Merqury City. Why I thought you were going to live back in Sweden to get away from here?"
"Well after about a year after Moby's death. I just couldn't live there. All the dreams I had of us being together in all the different places. How I thought we were going to live in happiness. I kept reminding me of him. So the only way I could get over his death was moving away," Zoe continued to drive.
Psymon thought for a second. "Wait you left the place you were away from him. Only to move back to where he lived and you two lived together and where he died. To try to get away from memories of him? Man you are one strange person,"
"Well it seamed to make sense before you mentioned it," Zoe said in a kind of annoyed and sarcastic tone. When ever Zoe talked like that you were never sure if she was serious or not.
At that moment Psymon thought for a sec. "Well we didn't get a lot of channels back in prison. So how has the SSX circuit been going. Please tell me Griff crashed and died during some important race that was on national television.
Zoe shook her head. "There is no more SSX. After the second year you were in prision it was exposed that two racers were bribed by EA to lose the race. Then there was a huge investigation which found that there had been bribing in the SSX circuit for years and years. Then Hiro comes out of nowhere and exposes that he to was bribed but unlike all the new racers he turned down the bribe. After all this corruption the SSX circuit collapsed. And now everyone is started to remember us the original 19 veterans as the best snow boarders who ever lived. And of course Mac THE greatest. By the way where do you want to get let off,"
"So the SSX is no more eh! Good riddance. Hey could you let me off at the airport. I am flying back up to Canada." Psymon said as they headed onto the freeway.
Zoe smiled. "So you want to go see your son that badly huh. Have you actually seen your son? Or Elise for that matter. Cause Thunder Bay is a long ways away from here in Vermont." She asked him.
"Well the last time I saw her was about a year ago. She had to go to a business trip to New York so on the way back she came up to the prison and saw me in prison. She showed me a picture of my son and that was also the visit I proposed to her." Psymon informed her.
Zoe then had a very surprised look on her face. "What! I was never informed that you two were getting married. Don't tell me the invitation was lost in the mail." Zoe said also in that tone where you couldn't tell if she was serious of not. God Psymon hated when she talked like that.
He rolled his eyes. "Yeah well we figured it would be the best idea for the kid. And we were going to wait for me to get out of prison. Then we would figure out any plans. Don't worry you will be invited." Then before they could talk anymore. Zoe pulled up to the airport and Psymon popped out of the car. He then turned back and looked at Zoe. "See you later Payne and hopefully in the future we will both see better days," He then turned and entered the airport.
Epilogue
Psymon would later marry Elise. At the age of 47 because of all the stain his legs experienced during his of snow boarding he was bound to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Psymon and Elise both got jobs and created a nice middle class life in the city of Thunder Bay.
His son would later grow a liking to winter and speed like his parents but in a different way. He started to bobsled. He would travel to Calgary and train there every winter. Though it was expensive it paid off. Moby Stark would join a bobsled team that would win gold twice at the world championships, as well as a silver and two bronze. He would also win a gold metal at the Olympic games and a Silver at them too.
Psymon would be alive to watch it all. As well he would be alive to start watching the SSX riders one by one all start passing away.
Seeiah was the first one to die. She actually died when Psymon was still in prison. She died of cancer. A cancer she had been fighting her whole life. Which was the real reason for her bald head. It had happened in her home.
Next one to die was Luther who died of a heart attack. He was on top of a mountain when he had the heart attack. He was there alone with no way to call in a helicopter he would die and his body would be discovered days later.
Marisol would then OD on heroine. This wasn't anything new since he ex boyfriend and fellow rider JP had also OD. Her body was discovered in her LA apartment bathroom.
The Next one to die was a huge shock when Griff Simmons died of AIDs. He had never even exposed to the public ever that he had contracted the disease. His last two years of life he had sunk as much as possible out of the spotlight. He had moved to a small country in the middle of Europe.
Nate would then die of Cancer who he had very publicly been fighting for the a few years but it wasn't any use and he passed away in a hospital on his death bed.
Marty who had been charged but not convicted to assault later moved back to Europe and would be the only SSX rider to die snow boarding. He was doing some back country when one of the biggest avalanches that region had seen in a long time happened. It engulfed Marty as well it also killed 6 other people who were at the time on the hill.
Eddie would be the next one to die as his car crashed into a car parked car in Merqury City. The city to honour him build a statue of him holding a luge next to the statue him himself paid for of Brodi. The one of Eddie was built by the same man to make them look around the same.
Kaori would also then be involved in a car crash and died. It happened on a freeway outside of a major city. Though it would be a few days later until she finally died. After her death Mac exposed that him and her was having a secret relationship dating back to before she had gotten engaged with that one guy.
It would be a long time until Jurgen would die of Arthritis. He had been very sick during his last days. He died on his death bed surrounded by friends and family.
Hiro died not that long after Jurgen. Hiro died of the disease called Osteoporosis. Unlike Jurgen though he died alone.
After Hiros death there was only 5 SSX riders left. Allegra, Mac, Zoe, Elise, and Psymon. The next death would hit Psymon quite hard. His beloved wife Elise would have a stroke. Her second one. But this one would be the last. Psymon was very torn after her death. The only thing he had in his life was his son. He had never thought that he would have out lived her.
But he didn't get to see her again just yet. For Zoe would die of Cancer next. Now not only did he lose his wife he now he lost one of his only true friends.
It wouldn't get any better for Psymon as Allegra would die of a stroke. He didn't care about her much but it meant that the only one left was Mac the greatest snow boarder who ever lived.
But it wouldn't be long as Mac would die of cancer leaving Psymon as the last living SSX Veteran. When Mac died there was a huge amount of press. His funeral was this huge open church and it was televised live. But it was also put the spot light back on Psymon for he was the last living SSX Veteran.
Not long after Macs death there was a biography done about Psymon. Which told quite a bit about his early life, his life during the SSX circuit. The dark times of his life after the SSX circuit. And finally his years as an average Canadian family man all the way up to the present. Some of the things in it were.
"I never had any early memories of my father. When I was young I never knew why. It would be a little longer until it was exposed to me that he had been in prison." -Moby Stark, Pro Bobsled rider.
"I am the last one. I am 91, I never thought I would live this long. I smoked, I drank, I did some drugs in the past. I always thought I was a ticking time bomb. Never in all my years I would think I would make it passed 60. More back then, I didn't want to. I wanted to live life to the fullest and not die a old no good everyday geezer. A few things changed that. One was my son, the fact that I had a family. And second was me discovering the church. That all changed my life," -Psymon Stark, SSX Veteran.
Psymon would only live less then one more year until he died of a stroke the same thing that took his beloved Elise. But for Psymon the death came with open arms. He had died in his house when Moby and his wife was there. Psymons last words were "And to think I always thought Moby would die the wuss death... Not you... the black...one"
"Psymon Stark died this morning of a stroke. He was the last SSX Veteran alive. The last great snow boarder of the early 21 century."
A few weeks after Psymons death there was a stone wall created with all the SSX Riders on it in Merqury City. To honour all 19 of them. The riders who would go down in history as the greatest of the great. And no one would ever come close to the kind of tricks and speed they were able to do. On the wall was a plaque which read.
"The greatest snow boarders ever to live. The SSX Veterans, the undisputed Kings and Queens of the Mountain. Their rise to the top was quick but their fall was long. Many then spent their lives living alone as bums in the Merqury City Dump. Then rise to the top one last time. Which would last for more then their life time. "
The End.
Well there you go the last chapter of Merqury City Dump. I wrote the first part of the story quite a while ago. After a while I was informed form Bardic Jester that I was a really good idea. And so I decided to write it. The story was really tricky to write cause so was so many ways to go with this story. I decided to go with a somewhat small story and not a large one.
My first idea was that Brodi would die in the second chapter and not Moby. But after writing it I wasn't that happy with it so I wrote another version where Moby died. Still not sure I decided to go with the Moby died one. Also my idea was that Elise would have been to drunk to remember what happened the night before and would think she was raped and accuse Psymon. And then I would have a chapter full of people not wanting to get involved or pick sides and shit. And in the end Psymon would be convicted. But I decided that I would find another way to get Psymon in prison and then thought of the whole pregnant thing. The whole idea of having a epiloge of how everyone dies was one of my original plans. The fact that Psymon would out live everyone. Came at the last minute.
And if you liked this story I would recommend you read my new story I am writing with Bardic Jester called Life at the Top.
