Darkness ShroudEd by Joy
Chapter 1: The First Victim
KRACKAM! Thunder boomed outside as the children of Peach Creek slept peacefully in the beds tonight. Every last one of them calmly snoring even the Kanker Sisters somehow. Yes everything was just right except for one thing, a bird flying through the air caring something within its genetic makeup, the ultimate weapon of doom if ever there was one. Gently it flew through a window into a farmer boy's room. Rolf simply stirred as it landed on the edge of his bed. Suddenly a dark levitating liquid began to separate itself from the bird and form into a dark figure.
There stood the infectinous short humanoid creature hunched over with its thumbs, four finger (Two fingers per hand not counting the thumbs), and arms nearly touching the floor while its head twice the size of its body looked up. Its demonic eyes which look like they had been painted, glowed red as it stared up at the bed. Eagerly the three foot high demon-like thing stood over Rolf on all fours after hopping up the sheets and lowered itself down to his body. Rolf's body became aware a bit too late as the creature fused with the boy's figure. The bird awoke a few minutes later and flew out of the room.
"Ahh…." Sarah yawned and hopped out of bed taking care to put on her slippers. "Well, nice morning, too bad it rained last night though…ah wel, great day to go swimming!" she told herself and quickly got undressed. Putting on her day clothes she decided to give Jimmy a call and see if he was up to a day of aquamarine fun. "Yes, Jimmy speaking, who is it?" the boy asked from the other end of the phone. "Hiya Jimmy!" Sarah giggled and started folding up a towel. "Oh Sarah! Hello! Um, why'd you call? Am I to come over today?" "No silly, I was just wondering if you would go with me down to the creek for a swim." "Oh sure!" Jimmy replied excitedly, "Just let me go get my stuff ready! I'll be there in about a half hour okay!" "Sure thing!" Sarah exclaimed and hung up.
Meanwhile Ed had already gotten dressed and was currently working on a monster model. "Ah, Godzilla! You truly are a masterpiece! I'll put you right next to Baron o' Bief Dip!" he exclaimed excitedly and got ready the sponge in his wall to call up his friends (From the episode where they break Ed out of groundation ). "Yeah, get me Double-d and Eddy please." Ed smiled and waited as a ringing tone began to sound. "Double-d's residence, Double-d speaking. Eddy here what's up?" the voices sounded as the two others picked up their cans and talked into them. "Yo guys! Looks like it stopped raining, huh?" Ed replied. "Sure did, boy that was one heck of a storm wasn't it?" Eddy askedas he looked through a comic in his own room that Ed had lent him. "You can say that again." Double-d's voice sounded, "I just hate how it's always muddy after a storm but nature does need to run its course. So whatcha guys wanna do?"
"I was thinking maybe we could go cycling around town, you know, maybe stop off near the candy shop?" Eddy suggested while getting his socks on. "Sure! How's about we meet in the alley in a few minutes?" Double-d told them. "Sounds good to me!" Ed replied loudly and hung up. "Then it's a date, I'll be there in a minute." Eddy told his remaining friend and hung up. "Ok see you guys in a bit." Edd said to no one and hung up himself.
"Yo dude! How's about yo join me and Nazz here for a game of football?" Kevin asked Rolf as he walked by. Rolf simply shook his head and kept on walking towards Ed's house. "Wonder what crawled up his trousers." Kevin said and then threw the ball towards Nazz.
"Hm, well Plank look at that!" Johnny told his pal as he looked at the swimming hole from a tree, "Real fine day to go for a swim huh buddy?" Just then Jimmy and Sarah arrived on the scene and happily jumped towards the water. "Might as well!" Johnny said and took off his shirt to begin swimming.
"Oh where are they?" Double-d asked himself while patting his bike seat. "Yo Double-d!" Eddy exclaimed as he rode into the path between the fences which was very popular to the kids, "Where's Ed?" "He has yet to arrive." Edd told his friend sternly, "I wonder what everyone else is up to." "Probably just staying in their houses." "Well Sarah said on the phone that she and Jimmy were going to the creek/swimming hole," Ed informed appearing from nowhere.
"Alright we're all here!" Eddy exclaimed, "Let's go!" "Oh, Eddy?" Ed asked as they rode along towards the shopping area. "What is it Ed?" "I have an idea." "Well if it's as good as your idea to go see a movie let's hear it." Eddy commanded. "Alright, after all this let's go to that factory, you know the one past the trailer park?" Ed announced. "Oh yeah, sure we can go there lumpenstien!" Eddy agreed. Double-d was just happy to be out of the house. Suddenly they saw Rolf run by so fast that he nearly overturned their bikes. "Whoa Rolfy! What's your rush!" Eddy asked riding up alongside the foreign boy. Rolf mearly looked to his side at Eddy who instantly gasped. Rolf's pupils were red. As if annoyed that Eddy just kept staring at him Rolf pulled out a pole from the sidelines and rammed it into the bike's wheel.
"WHRA!" Eddy screamed as he went flying headfirst off the moving vehicle. "Eddy!" his companions shouted as they tried to catch him. "Oh no you don't jerk!" Eddy grunted grabbing Rolf's leg as he zoomed by and managed to trip him. Double-d and Ed finally caught up to the other two and Rolf was sent tumbling along the ground quite a few times. "Eddy are you alright?" Edd asked helping his friend up. "TAKE THIS FOWL DEMON!" Ed hollered and threw Eddy's wrecked bike into Rolf's back who was, by the way, already getting up.
The blue haired child instantly spun around and leapt at the other tall boy. "Wwreoituth#$!15on435!4o3n" Rolf said as he and Ed interlocked fingers and attempted to push eachother backwards. Somehow Rolf twisted the strong Ed's hand around and slammed his fist into his face. Ed was shot back at an immense speed and broke through a few fences. He then took off once again towards his destination. "Did someone get the gravy on the toast?" Ed asked dazed as he got back up. "Man, we need to find out what is up with Rolf!" Eddy announced. "Agreed! This is definitely not normal, even for someone of his personality." Double-d added, "Boys hop on we're taking a road trip!"
A few unseen eletrical outlets could be seen beneath the first layer of sand in the swimming hole's if someone could see through object. These electrical outlets led directly toward the cul-de-sac defense systems. Johnny, Sarah, Jimmy, and now Kevin and Nazz were swimming and fooling around everywhere near the water. If a spark were to be sent through there all the kids would likely be annihilated.
Rolf was by now running faster than a motorcycle in the wide open field. In the distance the trailer park could be seen as well as Ed's house in back of that. But Rolf wasn't heading towards either of them, instead he seemed to be heading towards the factory. "The Factory!" they all exclaimed at the same time. "If he gets in there with whatever's going on inside his body he could likely annihilate the whole cul-de-sac! Cause that has-" "The Peach Creek Defense Systems!" Eddy finished, "Ed full power!" "Roger!" Ed told him and sucked in a mouth full of air. Within a few seconds his breath was blowing them very quickly across the field enough to almost catch up with Rolf. "We got him!" Double-d exclaimed with a smirk as he lined up their paths.
Thump! With one high jump Rolf was on the back of their bike and struggling to push Eddy's head into one of the wheels. "Wy wn't eu weve mea awnone?" Rolf barked in a deformed voice his eyes stare straight into Eddy's frightening the shorter boy, "Stae owta da wae!" WHAM! Ed bashed his fist right into Rolf's jaw almost snapping it in two. "WRAHH!" Rolf cried demonically and slammed his foot into the middle of the bike breaking it in half. Ed and Eddy tumbled backwards losing acceleration quickly.
Meanwhile Rolf was still sliding along rather quickly with Double-d in the seat. "Syonara!" the foreign boy yelled actually forming coherent words before leaping high off the bike leaving the smart ed to speed towards his doom at the wall of the factory. Luckily Edd managed to sidesomersault off the one wheeled contraption before he had time to crash up. That didn't stop Rolf though, who had landed on the second floor of the factory and ran inside not even bothering to open the door. "Well," Double-d sighed in a mixture of fear and distress, "looks like I have to stop this!"
"Did you see that Ed! Rolf just smashed the back in half with no effort at all! And now Double-d's going into the factory alone, Ed come on!" Eddy commanded and the two took off toward the structure.
Rolf's eyes darted around with an expressionless face looking for something. "Wer is it?" he hissed as his pupils got extremely big allowing more light into them to make out the dull features of the factory's insides in the dim light. "Stop Rolf!" Double-d ordered arriving in a freight elevator, "You are obviously unwell, we need to get you to a hospital, you don't know what you are doing!" "O, I no exaktle wat I am doin, but u ar rite, Rolf does not no." he replied in his disfigured voice. "What! What do you mean Rolf doesn't know? You are him!" Double-d burst out approaching him further. "U no nothin, an u ar ded rong!" With that Rolf leapt at Edd, his footed pointed at his face. "AHH!"
"Double-d, we're here! Oh man I sure hope we're not too late!" Eddy exclaimed, "Man this place still gives me the creeps, especially what happened when the blackout occurred (My other fanfic: Blackout)." "Eddy, Double-d must've gone after Rolf! I'm heading up there!" Ed informed Eddy and began to hop on various objects up to the second floor. "Um….okay, what about me?" Eddy thought to himself, "Well I could always look at some things on these here computers." Eddy flipped on a screen and saw a layout of the cul-de-sac and everything within a fifty mile radius of it. "Holy crap!" the boy exclaimed as he saw how some things were connected, "It doesn't take a genius to figure this out, all these wires and stuff flow right underneath the cul-de-sac! If a power surge goes off here it affects the whole area!" Quickly Eddy flipped on a communicator and shouted into it, "Ed, the cords for this place run under the cul-de-sac, if the cords get shocked or anything it affects everything else!" Thinking at these words Ed remembered his sister went to the Swimming Hole. "Sarah's at the swimming hole!" the dumb one cried and leapt up through the freight elevator.
WHAM! Rolf was thrown back a bit by the strong boy, but still managed to keep his balance. Ed spotted Double-d who the foreign boy eagerly picked up and ran towards some generators. "NO!" Ed shouted and chased after him. He jumped and grabbed ahold of Rolf's leg causing him to trip and throw Double-d a bit away. "You Me NOW!" Ed cried and threw himself at his opponent. Rolf did the same and they grabbed eachother's throats in midair. Still wearing the emotionless face Rolf rocked Ed back and forth while his opponent's grip had no affect at all on him. "What are you!" Ed croaked. "A Rovado." Rolf replied as Ed's eyes began to bulge, "An I doo not hav tim fer the lieks of u!"
"Yo Ed? Are you still there!" Eddy asked hesitantly over the intercom, "Big guy? Oh great if you don't respond I'm comin after you!" A few minutes passed and still no answer. "Fine be that way, I'm comin!" Eddy rushed up the steps to the second floor and found both of his friends lying on the ground with Rolf approaching a set of generators. "GUYS!" Rolf probably knew that Eddy would be no problem whatsoever and continued towards the generators. In one swoop of his leg he snapped an electric cord out the wall and threw it into one of the generators.
KRZAP! Electricity immediately escaped from the cord and shot through wires toward the Swimming Hole. At that instant Double-d woke up and realized what was going on. "Eddy you read me that generator's label, I'll see if I can shut off the path of the electricity!" he commanded hopping over the railing into the computer seat below and bringing up the scematics for Peach Creek. The short leader immediately ran over to the generator and said, "45201!" "Okay!" Double-d responded and began to type rapidly.
"What the!" Eddy asked himself as he saw Rolf crumple to the floor while holding his hands to his head. A dark hunched over figure with two points at the back of its head seemed to grow from Rolf's side and detach itself from the boy. It opened its blood red eyes and spotted its next victim, Eddy. "Wait a minute, you're the Rovado aren't you!" the leader of the eds suddenly realised and dodged the creature's tackle, "Well, boy, I'm gonna kick your butt!"
"Oh come on! There!" Double-d said to himself hesitantly. He had finally found the point the electricity was at and had managed to issue a command to send to current right back into the generator. "Eddy! I've sent the electricity back to the generator, get away from it!" Double-d however did not know what his friend was up against. Currently the Rovado was trying to fuse into Eddy's head and was being partly successful. Ed dove at Rolf and knocked him away from the generator, then grabbed Eddy and the Rovado in different hands and began to pull them apart. "Ahh!" Eddy yelled as the Rovado and him seperated. "Abosrb this!" Ed ordered at the creature hatefully and threw it into the generator.
Ed grabbed Eddy and Rolf and jumped off the platform just as the generator exploded vaporizing the short creature upon impact. "Well, that's over!" Edd sighed as he rested in his seat. Boy was he mistaken, it was anything but over. Beyond anyplace anyone in Peach Creek could ever begin to imagine, forces of great power were watching and plotting for the day when they might put their plans into action. As for now though, the eds had been labeled as targets, real threats.
Well I hope everyone liked the introduction pilot episode of sort. This story will take the eds across their world and maybe some others. There will be more Rovados and much more adventure. So see ya all later