Authors Note: This is my take at a more darker and mature approach to one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. Some material might be offensive. If you don't like don't read. My OC description and Bio will be at the bottom. I just couldn't find a natural way to describe my character without breaking the natural flow of the story. Also sorry about the long wait for the second chapter of Lily's Gambit. I had a bit of a writers block because I couldn't make up my mind on which direction the story should go but I'll try to get the chapter out at the end of the month. Here is what I'm working on now it's not done yet.
"Normal Speech"
'Normal Thoughts"
Onomatopoeia*
"Demonic Speech"
'Demonic Thoughts'
(Alex's POV)
"Alex."
"Alex."
"Wake up, Alex."
I opened my eyes to see my twin in my bed looking at me. *Groan* "Mandy, why the hell are you waking me up. The best part of the weekend is the privilege of sleeping till late in the afternoon." She just rolled her eyes and got out of bed, "As much as I would like to stay in bed, Billy called and asked to see if we are coming over to his house so that we can celebrate his hamsters 10th birthday." I made my way over to our dresser so that I can change out of my pajamas when what she said caught up to me, "Wait, 10th birthday, how is it still alive? Isn't the maximum of years a hamster can live being 5 years and even then that is when you raised that hamster to be the healthiest that it can be." As she finished getting dressed she replied, "Exactly, I want to go see if Billy is exaggerating or that we need to take a trip to the vet to get him euthanize." *Sigh* You know Billy is going to be unbearable once he finds out. The last thing I want to spend my weekend is to hear his constant crying." As I finished putting my clothes on I felt Mandy hugging me from behind. "Come on, you know his parents will get him a new one as soon as they hear him bawling his eyes out. Besides the hamster might be already dead by the time we get there." I just turn around and raised an eyebrow, "If that is what you expect than why are we going?" She just rolled her eyes at me, "Our parents don't have work today and I don't feel like dealing with their nonsense." That got me to laugh, "Hahaha, that makes much more sense. Why don't you go and get our bikes ready while I go tell our parents were we are going." She just turns around and scoffs as she made her way out of the room, "I don't understand why you should. Its not like they will care." I just scratch the back of my head at her usual attitude.
As I made my way toward the kitchen I could hear our parents on their phones talking to their coworkers. As I made my way towards the fridge it started to get real quiet. As I took out a bottle of water and turn around I saw my mom and dad looking at me and sweating nervously as they looked at me. 'Man look how pathetic they are.', "Mom Dad, Mandy and I are heading over to Billy's, so hurry up with your business calls. The usual list of chores are on the fridge, hurry up and finished them, and then stay out of the house we don't want all that hard work too be wasted because of you all. I'll call you when I'm heading back from Billy's so that you can come inside and make dinner." They just started to nod their head as fast as they can. My dad in his infinite stupidity try to lighten up the mood, "Sure thing champ. Is their anything you and Amantha need while were out." I just looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "If you wanted more responsibilities I guess you can start by doing the grocery shopping early this month but I expect the receipt so that I know you are not wasting money again." This caused him to flinch inward as I made my way outside toward Mandy.
When I finally got outside I saw Mandy standing near our bikes tapping her foot with a scowl on her face. "Now don't give me that look. I had to make sure that our parents did their chores and that they stay out of the house when their done. On the side note our father tried to be cute, so now he is in charge of getting groceries this month." She stopped tapping her foot, but still kept her scowl on her face, "Did you tell him that we expect a receipt. I hopped on my bike and handed Mandy her helmet, "Of course I did. You will think that an Accountant will be able to handle money better." She just put her helmet on and hopped on, "That is usual the case but I don't think that an accountant would spend most of their time at the derby." After Mandy hopped on her bike we made our way to Billy's. As we pulled up to Billy's house I can see him playing with his toys in the front yard.
"This is it man. Steady, here it comes. Rawr, ahh, No No No. boom." I just sat on my bike dumbfounded on how a 14 year old boy can naturally destroy his toys in a care free manner. Billy not knowing that we pulled up continue to play with his toys. "Ahh, stop attacking us mister monster. We only wanted to be your friend. Doh, I'm sorry. Lets make up." *Smooch* I just stared at him with a disturbed expression on my face as he made his toys kiss. Next thing I know is Mandy made her way over to Billy with a magnified glass that was laying around and started using it to melt one of his toy soldiers. "And that is when the monster started to melt the soldiers brain with his heat ray vision." As I finally made it over I could see Billy look heart broken I was about to cheer him up he started to pull out some more toys, "Aw, he had a wife and two kids." I just patted Billy on the back as Mandy continued to melt the toy soldier. "Don't worry Billy he is better off now. Besides his wife was probably sleeping with his best friend." He just wiped his big nose onto his sleeve when he finally realized we were here. "How are you two doing, Alex and Mandy?"
We just looked at each other on how oblivious Billy can be. Mandy being her usual self decided to get to the heart of the matter, "You will take us to see Mr. Snuggles." Billy just looked at us confused, "Mr. Snuggles?" This almost caused me to blow a gasket, "Yes, Mr. Snuggles, your hamster. You called us early in the mourning on a weekend because of him." He just stood their confused as he tried to think, something that I wished he did more often. "Oh yeah, Its his tenth birthday." then he leaned close to us and whispered, "That like a gillion in hamster years." This caused me and Mandy to roll our eyes. I decided to get to heart of the problem, Billy are you sure that he is 10." He just bobbed his head up and down, "Yep, Mr. Snuggles was coughing real hard and this red stuff was coming out. So I ask my mom and according to her that was happening because he was turning 10." After hearing that I looked over to Mandy in disbelief. After seeing my expression, she asked if we could go see him which he agreed.
Billy lead us through his house so we can see his hamster. All three of us looked inside the cage to see Mr. Snuggles in the wheel walking as if he had a broken hip. After seeing the sad display Mandy couldn't help and commit that Mr. Snuggles looked as if he was about to die soon. Billy took his hamster out of the cage and ask if we want to see him perform a trick. Mandy Immediately denied but I was curious if Billy was capable of teaching an animal to perform a trick, "Sure Billy, as long as its not play dead, because I feel like it will be hard press to see if he is playing or not." This caused Mandy to hit the side of my stomach with her elbow. He just hold Mr. Snuggles in his hand and said two words, "Kiss, Kiss", that made the hamster looked as if he was reliving a war. Nest thing we knew with incredible strength that we know the hamster didn't possessed, he jump out of Billy's hand and bite him on the nose. This made both me and Mandy's eyes to go wide eyed. Billy just hold his hands out as if he was a magician that performed a magic trick. "Tada." The situation was so bizarre that Mandy couldn't help but point out, "That was more of a bite than a kiss Billy." When Billy finally pulled the hamster off his nose, I saw the hamster started to breath heavily, This caused me to want to put the little guy out of his misery, "Hey Billy since its Mr. Snuggles 10th birthday why don't me and Mandy take him for a ride on our bikes. This caused Billy to be excited, "Really you hardly let anyone near your bike." Mandy just nodded her head in my direction understanding what I was trying to do. Billy after calming down said, "Okay let me go find Mr. Snuggles portable cage, then he will be ready to ride."
As soon as Billy put the hamster down the room gotten noticeably eerie as the entire room had a red tint to it. Next thing I saw straight up made me believe in the supernatural, it looked as if souls were filing up the room swirling around. Next thing I saw was that the souls were gathering into a singular point. When all the souls in the room filled the singular point a giant pillar of light shot towards the heavens. All three of us just stared at it until Billy got impatient, "What is it?" Surprisingly it was my sister that answered, "I don't know?" Then the light crashed down on itself. Where the light was a dark shadow. Next thing that happen caused Billy to run and hide somewhere in his room, all of the shadows in the room started to converge into the the one shadow that appeared. When I saw that all the shadows were together to form a figure, I pulled Mandy behind me so that she wouldn't be in the figures direct line of sight of the figure.
When the figure finally formed what I saw shocked. For their is only one being that this person could be only one person, the pale horseman, the last being, the GRIM reaper. Luckily as soon as he appeared his attention was more focused on the hamster. I looked at my sister to see if she was also seeing this. I saw that her faced has paled completely. The room was so tense that you can reach out and touch it, but Billy being Billy somehow manage to ignore the tension. "Ooh, ooh, ooh, look look, look, its Santa claws!" I soon as I heard that I gave myself a facepalm.
Mandy being the fallen angel as she is sought out to correct Billy, "That's not Santa you idiot that is the grim reaper." He just looked at the skeleton up and down, "Oh, do I still get presents?" 'It is official, Billy is too stupid to live and the 14 years that he been alive was nothing more than a miracle of the highest caliber.' It seemed as if this is the first time that he has to explain what he is doing, "Uh no, I'm here for the hamster." Of course this is the moment we're the reaper has to deal with Billy. "Yay, you brought presents for Mr. Snuggle." The grim reaper just looked at Billy as if he was an idiot, "No, I'm taking Mr. Snuggles away." The response he got was probably the one he wasn't expecting, "To the north pole." The reaper must have the patience of a saint because he went going to elaborate further, "No I sorry to say that it's curtains for Mr. Snuggles." Billy just looked at him confused, "You got him curtains?", This caused me to automatically pat the grim reaper on the back out of pity, as he fends off his form of a headache.
Mandy decided to give the grim reaper pity, "Sorry about Billy, he is an idiot." The grim just looked at us exasperated, "Look kids I got a job to due and you aren't making my job easy. Besides why aren't you scared. I'm a walking skeleton, Mon." As he was trying to get us understand the severity of the situation, Billy mistaken his scythe as a hockey stick and stolen it to play around. As I was about to tell Billy off an ingenious idea took form. Which caused me to pull Mandy close so that I can whisper to her, "Do you trust me." this caused her to look at me questionably but she nodded her head. "Good, distract Billy." Before she could question me further I went up to the grim reaper, "Look mister, "Grim," mister Grim trust me I understand how much of an idiot Billy can be so lets just hang over here and relaxed, Can you drink or eat? "Yes I can," Ok I'll make us a pot of tea for you. I'm sure that it can get you to relax for a bit." he just nodded his head. I hurried up to the kitchen to make pot of tea in the kettle. When i came back with the pot of tea I saw that Grim seemed to settle down some. I quickly checked to see if the hamster was still alive. 'Good Mr. Snuggles is still kicking that will make my job a lot easier.' I got to the table that I left him with, "Here you go Grim one cup of tea." He thanked me and grab the tea from my hands imagine my shock when I saw him actual drink the tea and for it to not go through him and splash on the floor.
I just shook my head so that I can focused on what could be my stupidest plan yet, "Look Grim, I understand that you are a powerful being, one who was here before humanity." Grim just nodded his head in a pleased matter. "Which is shocking seeing that you can't take Mr. Snuggles. That shocked him enough to spit out the tea he was drinking all over himself. "What do you mean I Can't take Mr. Snuggles," he yelled at me as he wringed the tea out of his robes. I just took a sip out of my tea and explained it to him, "Exactly that, as you can see the hamster is still alive. Even then you are only entitle to his soul when he is dead." "Look, according to my paperwork soul is forfeited to me as of today." I just looked at him with a calm expression, "then someone messed up on the paperwork. Look if a measly hamsters soul is worth so much then why not play a game for it." Apparently that was the correct thing to say as he just looked at me smugly. "Are you sure about that, I have never lost a single game."
This caused me to smile, "Never did I. Billy, Mandy come here their has been a development." Billy came rushing over only to trip causing the scythe to fly into Grim's hand. Mandy walked over with one of her eyebrows raised. when everyone is at the table I started to explain what's happening, "Mr. Grim here decided to play a game for Mr. Snuggles soul. This caused Billy to get excited, "Yay a game. which game are we playing hide and seek, tag oh ah." I quickly covered Billy's mouth to stop him from talking. "Seeing that we are the one that is prohibiting Grim from doing his job, He will pick the game."
