Chapter 4

The next few weeks were filled with the most fun that I had ever had in my life. I was always hanging around with my new friend Darkmaster, going over to his house almost everyday. I did get to beat on Joker when ever possible, which is always fun! Yeah, I went over to Darkmaster's house quite a bit.

"Mom? I finished my homework, can I go over to my friend's house now?" I asked my mother

"Sure. I would like to meet him though. I just hope your not hanging out with the wrong crowd. Be back at 6:00pm!" she replied

"Alright, thanks mom!" I said as I walked out the front door

While walking to Darkmaster's house, I saw some creatures ahead of me. A blue furred fox, a fox, a toad, a falcon, a rabbit, a dragon, and a furrie that looked just like DM, well one with white fur. Seeing the others for the first time, and being a bit jealous, I decided to greet them.

"Hey Darkmatster! Over here!" I shouted

At that moment the group burst into laughter.

"What? What's so funny?" I asked

"Ahahahahaha! Oh I haven't laughed that hard since Slippy ate that cockroach! Ya see kid, I'm not Darkmaster, I'm his brother Lightmaster!" the furrie said

"Oh, right sorry" I replied moving on

"You know, your kind of cute." said the blue furred fox

"Huh?" I spat

"Oh my god, dude, we gotta keep moving Krystal!"

"You'll never guess what just happened to me! Ok, so I'm walking down this street to your house right? When all of a sudden this group appears. And one of them looks exactly like you! Said his name was Lightmaster or something." I immediately told Darkmaster when I arrived at his house.

"So, you actually met Lightmaster? Wow, I didn't think you'd meet him so fast." he replied

"Yeah I met him. So is there any other siblings that I should know about? I mean, I already know about Lighmaster, and Nightshade, but, is there any more of your family that I should hear about?"

"Hmm, nah. Oh wait, there is Psycosis!" he said "but, he's gone off to college, so there's no worrying about him. So, do you know how to skateboard? I was just about to head outside to do some. You wanna join me?" he said

"I don't know how to skateboard, but I wouldn't mind learning how. Could you teach me?" I replied

"Sure, why not? At least it won't be like when Nightshade taught me! Man, he threw me down a hill just to teach me how to slow down! It was a really steep hill too!"

We went outside, he looked in his garage and found his skateboard. Then we went out to his driveway where he taught me how to use the skateboard. It took about two hours of training before we decided to take a break. I was a bit bruised from falling off so many times, but it didn't hurt that bad.

"Here, let me get you a soda." when he came back, he had two sodas. He handed me one and started talking again "Sit down Echie. Do you remember that one time when you were attacked by that dog?"

I took a sip of my soda then nodded "Yeah, why?"

"Well, I just wanted to say, well, um, that I'm sorry." he said almost relieved to get it off his chest

"Sorry? What for? You and the others have been real great to me these past few weeks." I said

"You see, I was right there. I could have helped you! And I was gonna help you, it's just that Potatokiller had that months issue of Game Informer. I was distracted. I'm sorry." he said

"That was you? Since I wasn't hurt at all, I guess I can forgive you. So let's see if I'm any better" as I got up and took the board, I couldn't help but remember that terrifying day.

When I was about four years old, I had no friends. One day, I had decided to go for a walk to relieve some of the stress that I had from not having anything to do. While on my walk, I started thinking about what kind of goals that I should have for myself. It was then that I decided to create the formula for world hunger. Along the way I saw an innocent little dog, its leash caught on a fence. Since I wouldn't have liked that, I decided to unhook the scared little creature.

"There you go little doggy" I said

But the dog only started to growl at me. Then the thought hit me. The dog hadn't been hooked up by accident, the dog was vicious. At that instant, I started to run. But that only made the dog angrier. Even so, I tried to sprint all the way home, but I couldn't. at the moment that I was at the end of the block, the monster was on me.

"Help! Help!" I cried in pain

But to no avail. The beast was biting at me, clawing at my very scales. Then I heard a noise; footsteps coming toward me. Then they stopped. Frantically I looked around, but saw nobody. After about fifteen painful minutes, the dog must have gotten bored of tearing me limb from limb. It got off me, and walked away as if nothing had ever happened. I went home, cut up and bruised. I still bare the scars from that very day.