A Tale of Many an Adventurer- Joe's Story

Chapter 8

Joebushy- Whoever said mist can't be purple lied. Just like they may have said bears can't have arrows sticking out of their bodies also lied. Whoever said I can eat 10 pies non-stop really lied. Badly. Anyway, on to the city of Neasmil!

Joe and his friends were still on their crude looking raft, heading toward Neasmil. It wasn't all made of rock, as was Exemap, but it was more wood. Wood, rock, and whatever else might be used to build a midevil house. The town was perfectly normal. But then again, didn't blurasp look normal when he died? But, in any circumstance, looks can be deceiving.

The town, unlike Exemap, was peaceful. Children could be seen from the dock, just playing games on the sidewalks. As the heroes landed, A few helpful looking men came over to help unload the little stuff they had ( Well, actually, they only helped with the tent, but that's all the extra stuff the team had). " What a nice place, what a nice atmosphere!" Chris exclaimed in a fake- happy voice. " What's on your mind?" asked Jake." Well, we came here for legandary weapons, and there were none on Exemap..." Chris answered. "Yeah, so?" Jake said. " It's just to peaceful here. I may not be a mind reader, but I sence something fishy going on here..." Just then, Chet reached into the ocean and pulled out a fish, and said, " Yeah me to. I'm real hungry!"

Everyone there was so happy. Neasmil could almost take the slogan The Happist Place on Earth from Disneyland. Everyone would just walk up to other people asking if they needed help. " Yeah. This is fake-happy," stated Chris later that day as they were sitting in their newly pitched tent. They had set the tent along the grass in a forest just outside of town. To get there, the heroes had to cross town. But it seemed to peaceful. Scary peaceful. All of the people smiled, no, grinned at them as they walked through town. " Neasmil had alot of robberies last time I was here," Joseph said, looking into the face of a grinning kid and jumping do to being freaked out. Joe seemed surprised by this comment. " Oh, yeah. Come to think of it, I don't know how you guys got here. Maybe you can tell me at the tent."

So, after Chris said about the freaks, they started their stories. First came Joseph's. He said it started in the morning of nine days ago. He saw the news report on the dissapearences, so he told his mom.

" As I was saying," Joseph started, " I told my mom about it. She asked me if anyone in our town had dissapeared. I didn't think so, but I didn't know for sure. Now, though, I know everyone that is here dissapeared that afternoon. So, I got my stuff ready and I started walking over the hill by my house to school. It had been a warm January day, about sixty degrees. The grass had an abnormally amount of dew on it, and when I got to school, I was soaked. Once I got to school I hurried to the bathroom to dry off, where I passed Chris getting a drink of water. Then, after I got dried off and went to class, the day went normaly until social studies, and I think that you guys in my class, Joe and Chris, saw it, too."

Chris then thought of something. " I remember that," he said. Joe did, too. " Yeah, that glow out of the computers. But other people saw that, too." Zach , Jake, and Chet looked at each other. Chet said to the three in the other class, " We saw it, too. But not just us. Alot of other boys, including John, Brad, Chris ( the other one), and Kevin. " Can I finish my story?" Joseph asked his friends.

"O.K., enough said. That was that, enough about school. That was all that happened there. It all started about the time I got home. My grandma had just brought me out to the pizza parlor in town, so I was pretty full. I went up to my room to lay down and watch TV for a while. I didn't intend to be up there long, but since my mom wasn't there and my Grandma was reading a book in the living room, I just had to wait it out. I didn't know It would be a while till I saw her again. So, I had just been watching TV for a while when I heard a voice. I didn't know where it came from, so I supposed the TV station I was watching had a mistake. So, I changed the channel, and I found an interesting thing, which was how radio waves work."

" And your telling us this why?" Zach asked Joseph. " Because this is he I got here!" Joe scolded Zach. " I wasn't asking you," Zach said to Joe. Joseph started talking again. " Well, Joe's right. Anyway, the room then went black just as I was watching the radio wave program. All the power went out, and I felt as though the world was imploding. I felt as though my bed was lifting away from under me. I starting spinning uncontrollably. Then I landed on a mountain, near Helioa."

This surprised the whole group. " Wait... it would of takin' you more than seventeen days to get to Exemap! But that's impossible!" Joe exclaimed. " Maybe... just maybe... The time here must go faster than the time on earth!" Zach thought aloud. Eveyone agreed. " Our parents must really be worried..." Chris said with sadness. " It's O.K." Jake said. " We were definatly put here for a purpose," Joseph said. " But let me talk! "So, I fell down the mountain. From the top. The very top. That night I found myself in the medical building, with someone over me. He- or she- didn't say a word. Then the person walked out. I got up to just fall down again. I looked at myself, and I noticed I was wearing armor. I had a sword in it's seith, and lying in my bed was a lance. I thought I must be a cavalier, a soilder. It was the coolist feeling. So, after I noticed that, I got up, no problem."

" Then what?" asked Chet. " Well, " Joe said with a smirk, " I decided to see who the person was, so I went outside. The person ran around the corner, and I never saw him- or her- again. Then I started traveling, not knowing where to go-" " Go back a little," Jake said. " Oh, I never saw the person again." " What? " Jake said, " Of course you did." Joseph had a look of awe on his face. " Thanks..." He told Jake. Then he finished up his story; " Wow. That came unexpectedly. Anyway, then, a little into Helioa, I saw a shop. I figered that this being a mountain region, I would have to climb to get anywhere. So, in the middle of the night still, I walked up to it. A man came out and asked me what I wanted. I said climbing equipmen. He then told me that I must be strong to be going onto the mountains with no potions or anything, so then I thought. Then an Idea came to me. I told him how I didn't think I even knew how to use my weapons properly. He gasped at me and then he called for someone. A sword and lance warrior came out and walked up to me. " What chu' nee'" He had asked. I stared at him in awe. He had green armor, and he was completely immence."

"After some talking ( That I had only done to hear his voice", we set into the mountains. He was bringing me to a port town, just outside Neasmil." Joe asked him, "Why not go to Neasmil?" Joseph answered with, " It was, at the time, pretty much evil. But why It's so happy now I dont know. So, Once we got to that town, It was flooded. " No reason why, so i don' know why chu' don't just get on a bo' and leave?" So, I grabbed some food in the water then swam out and got on a boat, and just sailed off. I didn't know where to go, or where I was going. Then, three days later, I landed on Exemap, just to find Chris." Chris then made a mathmatical announcement, " Then you've been here for almost twenty-six days!" " Yeah, " Joseph answered, "I have."

"Right when I saw Chris, he ran over to me and told me his story," "Which I'll tell next," Chris finished. " Whatever," Joe said, " Can Joseph finish his story now, please?" Joseph continued his story, " So, we figured with us being in this world, which Chris told me was Kealato, we figured more people would be coming. Or at least the ones that saw the glow on the computers." "Wait- Amit saw the glow, too," Jake said. " Yeah, so did Jude..." Joe said. " It's possible..." Zach said. " I think we know what they've been up to," Chet said. " Me too" Joseph agreed.

" Anyway, We set up a tent. Then we went looking for anyone on the island. We were on the top of the mountain, Joe, when you stumbled nine days ago. We came down and we hit those wolves with all we had. We did see their eye's Joe. But you had just gotten into this show-" "Game," Joe corrected. " What on Kealato do you mean?" Joseph asked. " I got here through a game, Joseph." Joe answered. Chet butted in, although, he did have a good point; " That brings up another question, which is, how are all the ways we got in here connected?" " Nothing about that now." Jake said. Joseph was just about ready to finish up.

"So, after we saved your butt really bad, We brought you back to the tent. Then you woke up and-" " There's Purple mist everywhere!" A townsman came in, looking like he had a computer virus. He was almost being cloned in front of their eyes, but it was more of a shadow-type creature comeing in and out of him. He stumbled back out side, and the team followed. The man fell on his knees, looking almost identacal to the fallen soilder the team had fought three days ago. He fell onto his right sholder and fainted. But where he had just been knelt another being. A three dementional shadow. The light that reflected off it made it look as though it had purple streaks on it to show lines. Joe walked out infront of the team. He stared into the town of Neasmil. It was completly mutating. The buildings were haveing purplish mutations. The people were doubling. " This is even worse than Exemap!" Zach yelled over the screaming...

...From his teammates. "What... what is this?" Zach asked himself. Just then, he felt as though his heart was being punctured by an icepick. He gasped for air that wouldn't come. He fell backwards and closed his eyes for what felt like a secound... And then he opened them. It seemed the team had all woke up at the same time. " What the heck?" Chet said. They all got to their feet. " It's cold..." Chris said. " I feel like I was just hit in the head," Joseph told everyone. They were all a bit wobbly, but what came next they thought was a nightmare. The shadowy townspeople were attacking them.

The townspeople, the normal ones, were getting up the same time as the team. " Happy. Happy. Happy." They repeated this as though they where robots. They where still happy, even with the purple mists' destruction and the dark shadow people terrorizing the town. Team was looking from the town to the shadows. " What evil being could of done this..." Chet asked himself. Just then, the team realized their weapons were gone. " We can't defend!" Jake exclaimed. Joe was even more worried. They were done for. They couldn't even fight. And the shadow's where closing in. Then, they attacked.

Joebushy: I hope you like this chapter. All I do now is work on writing this. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. So now, from chapter 1 through chapter 8, I only have two reviews. I ask you, in the name of Kealato, to PLEASE review! I want to know what I need work on. My only reviews are from people I realy know, searo and chunkypuff3, so read their stories, to. Oh, Chris just turned 12, so he is no longer 11 ( no duh).