June 20th, 2006

By the time we were done the sun was about to come up.

"Oh man that was something." I said exhausted, "I think I'll turn in for the day." Tara followed me inside, "Ahem aren't you forgetting something Brian?"

I turned around and looked at her, "Oh yes where's Jason and Cree?"

She laughed. "Don't worry about them; they're off having their own little fun. Now it's our turn."

She pulled me into her room and closed the door gently, "Do you prefer to look now or wait for me to get undone?"

I stood there not saying a word. She raised her eyebrow and slowly slid her strap off her shoulder.

My hands began to clam up but I didn't do anything. She took my hand and led me to the bed.

"You know Brian you are a very tense person, we need to undo that."

I gave off a fake laugh, "You're absolutely right!"

Before I could finish she had her hands wrapped around my chest. I tried turning around but she held her grip on me.

"I thought you were a shy person Brian."

I tried not acting like it, "What are you talking about, I can be social…just not around other people."

She smirked and turned me around. I saw that her right strap had fallen all the way down exposing her right breast.

"Do you like what you see?" I slowly nodded my head.

"If you want we can double that."

I gritted my teeth knowing that something would go wrong soon. As she undid her other strap I couldn't feel my face anymore from my teeth gritting.

She led my hand onto her chest, "Brian you look like you've never done this sort of thing before. Is there something wrong?"

I took in a big breath trying not to ruin the moment, "No I'll be alright."

She took my hand, "If you want to stop just let me know and we can finish up some other time."

I rubbed my nose, "No let's continue."

She gave me a kiss of reinsurance. At first I was on top of her but I slowly made my way underneath her so she was on top now.

Slowly I brought her down onto me, "Have I ever told you what a beautiful girl you are Tara?"

She giggled to herself, "No Brian, I don't believe you have."

Just as I was about to slip off her shorts Jason burst into the room, "Brian you have to come take a look at this!"

I sat up with Tara behind me, "Jason what's wrong? This had better be good."

His face looked paler then normal, "Trust me, this is worth looking at."

I put my shirt back on and walked outside where Jason and Cree stood. I held my breath in hesitation and looked at Jason.

The time read 5:56am and we had officially had our first encounter with tragedy. Apparently someone or something had come onto shore and dismantled Axel leaving his head by the fire. I tried covering my nose from the stench given off but it only seemed to leak through my nose.

"Brian, who or what would've done this?" I tried not thinking about it and continued looking at the head. I noticed that the bigger eye had been completely ripped out.

I told Jason we'd have to discard the head back into the ocean.

"Don't be looking at me Brian! I know what I'm talking about when I say this is out of the question!"

I tried to remain calm at the moment, "I realize that this is more of an inconvenience to me then it is to you, but he was still a friend to both of us. He even took out of his time everyday just to get food for us and keep us alive!"

I found a tear slowly making its way down my face. "We have to carry out this task before it becomes impossible."

He looked at me with disgust, "Don't expect me touch it." It didn't take long for me to lose my cool.

"Jason you must realize that even though it's disgusting that we too are in the same condition as he was. We haven't been able to bathe since we got here. How do you think it'll affect you? It won't at the slightest!"

I could sense a lot of anger building up in him, "See there you go again trying to make things sound like they aren't so bad!"

I started laughing back and forth, "Do you realize that you could've been the one dismantled! How many times must I tell you that you're one of the luckiest people on this island! You have shelter, food, sunlight. Most people only dream about this!"

He held back his next thought and went back into the hut.

Tara and Cree came up to me, "We'll help make sure you get that thing thrown away."

I almost agreed with them when I had a better idea.

That afternoon I took the head and rinsed it off in the ocean, a lot of the blood was already dry so I wouldn't have to worry about any leaks. I made a little shelf next to my bed and put the head on it. Jason hadn't spoken to me since earlier in the morning. He was off in the water kicking waves around. I had asked him if he wanted some lunch, but he wasn't hungry or in the mood to eat.

Its amazing how someone's attitude can go from brighter than a Christmas tree to down into the sewers. I knew something was bothering Jason and I needed to find out soon.

Throughout the day I found myself yawning over and over on several occasions. True it had been a long day, up to this point we have all been up for nearly thirty two straight hours, and it was only 3:45 in the afternoon. I tried asking Jason if he would like to share something with me but he only shrugged and walked off.

That night was no different from any other we had gone through. I didn't bother asking who would get the food. When the sun began to set I went out into deep water hoping to find something that might take Jason's mind off of this morning. As I continue looking around my mind told me that I had never seen him so down before. As I came back down I saw a pack of lobsters slowly crawling around me.

"Aw shit, this is not good!" My spear would finally come in handy and at once I put it against the floor of the ocean and jumped over the circle that had formed around me. Looking back I saw them heading for me. One of them extended their pincher claw hoping to get a piece of me. The one I didn't realize was crawling right onto my big toe. It was too late. Blood began pouring out of my toe. In the water it didn't hurt but by the time I was up onto shore and running through the sand as it stung.

I yelled for Tara to get something soft and dark colored. She didn't bother asking why. She came back with a handkerchief and wrapped around my toe. I could feel my heart right against my chest beating faster then a cheetah. When I calmed down I figured that food would wait and we would make the best of it. Jason however had different thoughts.

"So Brian you thought you'd be the hero again, eh?" He was the only one laughing when he saw what I did to my toe. "Looks like you aren't so heroic after all, instead you're a pussy."

The rest of us looked at him wondering what had been going on. I tried putting my hand on the last several events that really made an impact on us starting when Scott and Beraht made an unexpected visit to early this morning.

Jason continued on walking around me in a circle, "I wonder what it takes to make you realize that you aren't the only guy on this island. I know I'm not as strong as you. You can at least let me offer my assistance to you!"

I looked over at my spear which was on the floor of the hut.

"I see you still need your spear; well I think I may have found another purpose for it."

Cree stopped him, "Jason what's got into you! You've been acting like such a bighead since you got here. Why are you doing this to us?"

"What do you mean by us? Don't you mean yourself?" Before he said anything else I quickly thought of the time when he was standing outside the hut just after I had talked to Tara about not letting her into me.

"Jason, this isn't a competition. We're only doing this so that you won't have to work so hard. Do you understand?"

He gave off another phony laugh, "Don't you see what happens when you're put in charge? It only makes things worse! If you don't want anything…bad to happen I would suggest you let me take over."

I closed my eyes and began laughing in my usual voice, "A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You honestly think you can get over me to be leader. Why didn't you say anything before? I would've let you take over, I need the rest!"

He went and grabbed the spear, "If you cherish your life you will shut it right now! Bow down before me!"

I couldn't help but laugh, "You expect me to worship someone who's just as weak as everyone else around here?"

He took a step closer holding the point of it right to my head, "Brian I've put up with you being in charge here, now it's my turn!"

Just as he started to come back a boomerang flew by knocking the spear out of his hands.

We all looked over at a mysterious figure standing by the shoreline.

"My, Jason I thought you had matured. As for you Brian, I'm impressed at how brave you've been risking your life in times like these!"

I slowly got up and walked over to the figure, "What do you want with us?"

He tilted his head, "Why Brian, don't you know who I am?"

I looked over at Jason who had his arms crossed. I tried being sarcastic about it, "Well I don't seem to recognize your voice but if you sing then I could fake a couple of bars!"

"Brian honestly can't you take something like this seriously?" Tara asked.

Apparently I hadn't counted on him having powers. He took one swing of his hand and blew me back. A gust of wind came out us taking out half the hut.

"Sarcasm will you get you nowhere, I thought that was your main turn off. Am I right Mr. Dempsey?"

I looked up at the half destroyed hut, "Aw shit, I hope you're going to fix that!"

He looked over at it and said, "Restore-o, Build-us!" The hut was back to normal. "I was once your friend Brian, what ever happened to us?"

I rubbed my face and eyes trying to come up with a good guess.

"I'm not in the mood to fuck around right now, if you please just tell me who you are then we can cut to the chase!"

He cleared his throat, "Fine then, I am Lord Kicks-a lot-of-ass!"

Tara and I looked at each other and burst out laughing, "Are you fucking kidding me? You hold powers and yet your name is something stupid! It sounds like a kid's name!"

He said underneath his breath with his teeth clenched, "They always laugh at that, so embarrassing!"

Clenching both his fists he came up to us, "I have a proposition for you."

I sat up from laughing, my gut still hurting. "Oh sure what would that be? That we let you live here so that you can hide from a cowardly army!" He didn't speak.

I sat up and looked at him, "You're kidding, right?"

He shook his head, "I'm afraid not Brian, I am at war right now. I just happened to land onto your island and now I must ask of your hospitality for a while."

I adjusted my hat backwards, "When do you expect that they'll find you?"

"It's only a matter of time before they locate here. We must assemble an army as soon as possible! And don't laugh, I am ashamed to say I never had one, or was in charge."

I looked over at Jason and thought of a plan, "Hey Jay, come here a second, I'd like to speak to you alone."

The Lord seemed confused, but I signaled to him I'd be right back.

"Now Jason, I realize back there just happened to be a fluke. I think that if we can get you in charge of this then you'll forget about everything that had gone wrong between us."

It looked as though he was buying into it. "So what you're saying is that if I take over as commander that you will stop acting like you're in charge?"

I nodded my head, "And I will never make you go get food for us again.

He looked down at my toe, "It's a deal, and we're the new partners in crime!"

We headed back to the group where the Lord was throwing cards into a hat on the ground.

"Excuse me your highness, I've talked to my partner and we agreed that it'd be best if he was in charge of this operation. How does that sound?"

"Ok, fine! Where is this army you speak of?"

I looked over to Jason, "Well, as of right now we have the four of us, and I think I can get four more who will come in handy!"

We ended the discussion by assigning posts to all of us, Jason's happened to be watching over the island. (Yes of course it's still my island! I'm just taking a break at the moment)

My cell phone hadn't been working since I arrived, but that night I had a reason to believe that I could contact who I needed. As the phone started ringing I held my breath hoping for an answer.

Finally someone said, "Yes Brian, we're ready to help you."

I smiled and closed the phone, "We're about to kick some serious hard core ass!"

The Lord offered to get us food each day that he was in here and in return he could sleep in the hut.

It's not that we didn't want him helping; it was just his powers that would cause us trouble during the day. So I asked him not to use them until night when we were sleeping. We told him to go somewhere on the other side of the island.

Right now we just called him "The Lord of Stupidity" when he wasn't around. Though, when he was I would just yell out, "Lord" even though he didn't act like one.

During dinner I happened to ask, "So what brought you to this island in particular?" I also noticed that he had no mouth to chew the food. He sat there trying to figure out how to eat the food.

"Well um Brian, it was really interesting, you see, when I came down from Lacour, I had heard rumors from the people of my planet that your planet (Earth) was the strongest in the galaxy. I didn't want to use adults as you would say. It would be a terrible loss of energy so I narrowed down my search to people of your age and the results for the strongest came up from this island. Doesn't that sound fascinating?"

I wiped away some drool from off my mouth, "What! Oh yes that's really…fascinating, so how come you didn't just get some of your own people to fight for you?"

He finally got fed up with the piece of chicken and threw it into the ocean, "Curse this food! How's a Lord supposed to eat anything that has skin on it! Back to your question, the highest IQ of anyone on my planet was of course, me."

I looked in confusion, "How high was it?"

He took out a pill from a compartment in his cape, "Well it's a requirement that we have yearly IQ tests, the last one said I was around 50."

As I sat there eating I nearly choked on the chicken bone, "I don't know how much help we'll be to someone of your…intelligence."

He smiled proudly, "I know, it makes me feel good to have as you would say, people who are stupider then you on your side! That's why I'm glad to be a Lacourian!"

I tried to not laugh. "I think you'll find us to be great help…"

He smiled again and threw the pill into his (suction hole) "Wow that sure was filling, I think I'm turning in now. I got to be up early for training in the morning."

I sat there and watched him go into the hut and managed to knock his head against the top of the roof, "Blast this piece of contraption! How's a guy supposed to move around in these parts! As he got through the door he slammed it shut knocking it off its hinges. I knew he didn't mean to do it but it's one of those things that you don't worry about.

"Sorry about the door! I'll fix it in the morning!"

"Well Brian I hope you know what you're doing!" Cree complained.

"Don't worry, reinforcements are on the way."

She looked in confusion, "And, who exactly would that be." I shook my head, "You'll see it's a surprise."

Jason signaled for me to come over. I cleared my throat and went over.

"Brian, please tell me you didn't get Scott and Beraht to be the back-up!"

Again I cleared my throat, "Jason they are the only ones besides Lord Goofs-a lot who knows where we even are. We'll be lucky if they show up on time even."

He sighed and started to head back, "I hope you're right about that Brian, otherwise you'll wish you had chosen someone better."

I glared at him, "Jason must I remind you that you are in charge, you can at least thank me for me telling you who I got! Also you can try at least finding anyone else in this god forsaken island."

He lowered his head, "I know; I'm just a bit scared that's all."

I put my arm around him, "Don't worry, I am too."