Chapter Four: No Use Running
"I am NOT marrying some psychopathic, ugly girl!" Sky said the very next morning. Afternoon, really, he had decided that there was absolutely no point in getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning. All last night after the encounter of the little elves he had pondered on what to do. One thing was for sure, he was not going to marry some girl. He was probably grow all old and ugly and his 'wife' would probably divorce him, leaving an ugly son who just got out of jail and planned to kill his father. Yep, that would be his life.
He had to make sure that didn't happen.
He got up and packed up a backpack full of essential items. (Money, sunglasses, radio, the important stuff.) and he threw it on his motorcycle-that-did not-exist.
"I'm outta here." Sky declared, and he left the farm.
He passed Celia's farm in a stomp, and caused Vesta to look at him with curiosity for a moment. As he walked, he also got a glimpse of Celia. She was sitting on the dirt, apparently talking to a carrot with a face drawn on it in marker. Definitely need to get out of here.
Finally he reached the exit to Forget-Me-Not-Valley. Before him was a road leading up another ridiculously long and annoying hill. He glanced down at the town one more time before stepping out onto the path.
Smack! He ran straight into the wall.
He flew onto the ground, his backpack flying over him. Sky began his series of very dirty words (he had alphabetized them last night) and blinked his eyes. He stood up and pressed his hand against the air and felt a solid wall.
"It's a GHOST! AHHH! I WANT MY MOMMY!" He screamed and ran to the nearest bush and hid. He hid there for at least a half hour and nothing happened. Finally, he took off his shoe and touched the invisible thing with his toe. He immediately recoiled, the wall was still there.
"It's an invisible wall! Hey! It's blocking my exit!" He kicked the wall with his foot, and as a result a giant pain shot into his toes. He yelped and hopped on one foot, clutching his foot. He then proceeded to punch the invisible wall with his incredibly strong fists. He looked like a regular boxing champion as he pounded on the wall.
Still, the wall did not move.
"What's the big idea!" He yelled. "I bet you're not such a tough wall! You just stand there, with apparently no reaction to my mighty attack! I bet your just a chicken, you probably are actually very weak. Yep, a regular weakling." Said Sky, insulting the wall.
The wall was still there.
Sky began his long list of very dirty words again. Last time he only made it to H, but he reached all the way to S before stopping. He turned around and found Takakura behind him.
"Umm…would you mind getting out of the way?" Takakura asked calmly.
"What's the point! This stupid wall is in everyone's way!" Sky said, pointing to the invisible wall.
Takakura laughed, and his laugh somehow reminded Sky of a glass of orange juice. Takakura laughed so hard that he was rolling on the floor. Sky watched him for sometime before Takakura wiped his mouth and said, "Son, you aren't going anywhere, any time soon, without a pass."
"A pass?"
"Yep, got'em right here." He took to little cards out of his pocket. In big purple letters the word GBA Link. One of them had Takakura's name on it, but the other was blank.
"What the heck is it?" asked Sky.
"This is our ticket to freedom. Almost everyone in town has one. Without it, you can't get pass the barrier and you are stuck in Forget-Me-Not-Valley forever."
Sky made an attempt to grab it out of Takakura's hand, but Takakura managed to get it out of his reach. "No way, sonny, you aren't getting one."
"But you have an extra one! Give it to me!" Sky gave a puppy dog pout, "Please?"
"I have an extra one, really?" He looked at the extra card in his hand. In a single movement, he ripped it in half, then into fourths.
Sky's mouth was open. His ticket to freedom, gone in a second. "But…but I need a pass!"
"Don't you know it's illegal to carry an extra pass around? Thanks for telling me."
"But…if no one has an extra pass, then how do I get one?"
"That's your problem. Well, I'm off to Mineral Town, see ya." And Takakura went right pass the invisible wall.
Sky was ready, though. Just a second after Takakura passed, he went to full speed and ran right after Takakura.
And straight into the wall.
"YOU STUPID, PATHETIC WALL! I'LL KILL YOU!" Then he revealed his hidden sharp knife (called a scythe) and leaped in the air. The scythe shined in the afternoon sunlight and time seemed to stand still for a moment as he struck the wall.
There was a great impact, and a ferocious wind came out of nowhere. In a flash of brilliant white light, the wall vaporized into thin air. Sky stood proudly, unharmed, on the ground and held his scythe in the air. Victory was his.
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Actually, all that happened was Sky landing face-first on the ground and the scythe falling in a tree. Sky looked up and spit dirt out of his mouth and nose.
Sky then climbed the tree and tried to reach his scythe. Unfortunately, the tree also happened to be the nest of the Killer Eagle, and eagle that kills all life forms in the area. Sky did not notice the dead squirrels, mice, and crows on the ground before it was too late.
Caw! Caw!
The sound of death echoed throughout Forget-Me-Not Valley. Sky was just reaching for the scythe when the Killer Eagle pecked him on the head. The eagle did this repeatedly until Sky was forced to retreat.
Now on the ground, Sky looked up at the Killer Eagle and the scythe right next to it.
"Well, let's send in the Marines." Sky muttered. He tried again, and failed. Then he tried once more, and failed. Finally he had a large lump on his head, two black eyes, and a bruised shoulder. He stomped the ground angrily and began to head back to the farm, disappointed.
Then he turned around, and saw the scythe glitter in the sun. Memories stirred in his head of all the good times they had together. Not only that, but the scythe was so…pointy…and…shiny.
Sky had a plan.
Sky went over to the mad scientist's house and knocked on the door.
"Go away." A voice said inside, Sky walked through the door.
Daryl was the typical mad genius. He had frizzy black hair and wore a tattered lab coat. On the coat was the picture of a pink bunny with flowers. This picture was stamped over every vial in the laboratory, and all over the walls.
"Is there something I can't help you with?" The scientist said, his eyes focusing on Sky with great intensity.
"Yeah, I need you to fry a bird with lightning." Said Sky.
"I don't know anything about lightning. I can't do it." Daryl said and went over to a large strange contraption.
"I knew you would. Can you do it right now?"
"I won't be able to do it within the next few minutes."
"Awesome, thanks. The bird is this Killer Eagle and the eagle is like…killer! What are you going to do?"
"I don't know anything about a Killer Eagle. If I did, I certainly would not summon a great storm using a lighting collector and zap the eagle to little bits."
"Okay, so do you need any help?"
"I do need help."
"Alright, well, I'll meet you there." Sky said and left.
Five minutes later, Daryl came walking up the hill with a strange contraption with many strange things on it. For some reason, Sky was drawn to a large red button in the center. It said 'Do Not Push'.
"Should I push it?" Sky asked Daryl.
Daryl shook his head. "You do not push it." Then, taking aim, he pushed the button.
Instantly lightning flashed across the sky (and Sky could see it even in the middle of the day.) There was a rush of wind as the Killer Eagle was killed and fell on the ground.
"Thanks a bunch, Daryl."
"You are not welcome. Hello." Daryl said and left.
Sky grabbed the beautiful scythe along with his backpack. With a sigh, he looked once more at his path to freedom and then grumpily went back to the farm.