Thankies to kingdomkey0703 for their review. Okay, here's chappie number two.
-miano53
Of Childhood Fears and Torture Sessions
Noon at Radiant Garden High School…
The next Monday (January 22), the Jenova Brothers were in the lunchroom sitting at a table near the KS group. Due to Kadaj's insistence, they began plotting for their new scam on the student population: selling "Mars rocks". As the few members of the KS team began eating, Yuffie asked, "Wonder where Ven is."
"Oh, he's in the JROTC room. Isa, Firion and Ven are in the JROTC now," Zack replied.
"Aren't you in it too, Zack," Zidane asked.
"Yeah, but I'm not on letter duty," Zack said.
"I thought Firion couldn't join the JROTC. He's a foreigner," Garnet said.
"Oh, his family's moving here to Radiant Garden to become citizens," Zack said to her.
On the other side of the room, Loz (dressed as an astronaunt) began searching under the tables for the so-called "Mars rocks". The "Mars rocks" was nothing but painted pieces of old, chewed up gum found under seats. When he arrived at the Jenova Brothers' table, he yelled in Yazoo's ear, "Space Cadet Loz has returned!"
"This is so stupid," Yazoo (also dress like an astronaut) muttered.
"Keep painting, Rembrandt and leave the munny making to me!" Kadaj (dressed as an astronaut with munny symbols on the shoulders) yelled.
He then hopped over to the archery team's table and said to Braig, "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, Braig. Mars rocks! All the way from space!"
Loz ruined the moment by flipping Braig's chair over to find more chewed up gum. Braig grabbed Kadaj and yelled, "Get away from me, space dorks, or I'll shove those Mars rock right up your big, fat…!"
He was interrupted by a horn blowing. The entire lunchroom saw the JROTC's mail delivery service enter. Isa, Firion, Ven and several other students entered, dressed in their military attire.
Blowing the horn and entering, Firion yelled, "The JROTC brings tidings from the great masses of water! Or in other words, we got your pen pal letters!"
"What are they doing here?" Kadaj said, mad.
"They're here to deliver the mail that our pen pals sent for International Studies," Yazoo said to him.
Firion and Ven gave the KS team their pen pal letters. The others did the same while Isa delivered mail to the Jenova Brothers. "One for you, 'Talk-Too-Much' Jenova Boy," he said, giving Kadaj a letter.
"And for you, 'Know-It-All' Jenova Boy," Isa said, giving Yazoo a letter.
"And for you, 'The-Retarded-One' Jenova Boy," Isa said, giving Loz a package.
The JROTC mail team kept giving out letters while everyone who received theirs began reading the letters. Yazoo read his from a Chinese girl named Xianglian. "Hello, Yazoo Jenova. Your town sound many good. I listen to learn more," the letter read.
"Isn't her command of the English language adorable?" Yazoo said, seemingly in love with the girl.
"Ha! Look at the head on this one!" Kadaj yelled, showing the picture of his pen pal; a boy named Soon Kim Song from South Korea.
"My name is Soon Kim Song and I'm from Korea. Is he screaming to get scammed or what?" Kadaj said to his brother.
Loz, happy, opened up the package from his pen pal; a Japanese girl named Aiko. The package was a music box. "Ooh look, I got a lunch box, but it's Japanese!" Loz yelled happily.
"That's a music box, Loz," Yazoo said.
Loz turned the handle on the music box and a small figure of a boy fighting a red…thing. The music was the final battle music of Mother 2 and Isa immediately recognized it. The Jenova Boys didn't and thought it was an Old World music box.
"Your pen pals tryin' to kill ya, Loz. Turn it off," Kadaj said.
On the other side of the lunchroom, the KS team saw Isa walking over to the Jenova Brothers. Recognizing the music, Zack said, "Oh no…"
At the Jenova Brothers' table, Isa asked Loz, "Excuse me, Retarded One…Where did you find this…music box?"
"Aw, my pen pal sent it to me," Loz replied.
Isa closed it, picked it up and…slammed it to the ground, breaking it. Yelling in Spanish, Isa angrily said, "A curse be upon you! Heed my words, Retarded One! Do not get involved with the Mother series, lest your pomegranates shrivel in the cold of the Dark Sea!"
As he yelled the last sentence, he walked slowly out of the lunchroom. When he was gone, the JROTC quickly followed out of the room. After the shock was over (as everyone saw what had happened), Kadaj laughed and said, "Wah-ha-ha! Good one, Lumpy! Whatever you did to Isa spared me the trouble of destroying that Old World music box!"
"Lucky for me a brought a spare. Yum!" Loz said, taking out one of his ancient lunches (a three month old lunch).
The lunch bag tore and the contents melted through the floor like acid. "Goodness gracious, the nerve of Isa. Violating Loz's cultural experience," Yazoo said, cleaning up the mess.
"Never mind that! We gotta sell these Mars rocks and make some munny. We'll cash in on this thing if it kills ya," Kadaj said.
At the end of the day at the school's lobby…
Ven and Firion kept delivering letters to the student body while the other members of the KS team questioned Isa's behavior at lunch. "Why did he break Loz's music box?" Yuna asked.
"IDK, he just slammed Loz's music box on the ground and started yelling in Spanish," Tidus told her.
"That's weird," Yuna said.
"I wouldn't put it pass him," Zack said.
"Why?" Tidus and Yuna asked him.
"Well, he always had nightmares after playing…." Zack was about to say.
The bell rang and everyone began leaving for home. Isa immediately headed for his locker and he looked glad to get out of Geology. All the students began heading towards their lockers and head towards the lobby. Near the lobby, Firion blew his horn and said, "Got another package for Loz!"
Loz, who was nearby, ran over to him. "Looks like that Aiko loves ya," Firion said, gave Loz the package and left, blowing his horn in triumph.
Loz opened the package and yelled, "More mail from my pen pal, guys!"
He took out the contents and said, "Hey, look at this! I got a shirt!"
The shirt had the picture of a red…mass on it and Loz put it on. Zack and the KS team looked at the shirt and immediately griped. Zidane (who was there to meet up with them) said, "I-Isn't that…?"
"Giygas from Mother 2…? Yes," Zack said.
The instant Isa looked at the picture on the shirt, bad memories of when he was seven began flooding his mind. This is what he remembered:
He remembered sitting in the living room, playing the final levels of Mother 2. It was dark out and he stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish the final levels. He made it and defeated Porky.
But, he didn't expect for Porky to turn on what was called in the game the "Devil's Machine". When he did, a red figure appeared on the screen and it was quite distorted. Isa thought to fight it, but it was barely affected by Ness and crew's attacks. After about an hour of fighting it, Isa saw that the image changed to that of a red…baby.
"HOLY CRAP!" Isa screamed, throwing the controller down. He then ran out of the room and he saw Saïx play the game, beating Giygas within five minutes.
When he went to sleep, he had a nightmare that he faced Giygas alone. Seeing the images surround him and with Giygas telling him abnormal things, Isa was quite scared. He was about to use PK Thunder when he heard in his sleepy, "BOO!"
Isa woke up and screamed, "Don't kill me Giygas!"
He then saw that it was just his older brother, Saïx. "Giygas? Heh, at least this'll teach you not to play my games," Saïx said.
He began to walk out of the room when Isa, angered, screamed, "NOT AGAIN!" He then proceeded to bash Saïx in the head with a nearby claymore…
In reality, Isa was bashing Loz in the head with his Geology book. As the teen bashed poor Loz in the head, he screamed several curse words in Spanish. When he was done, Isa screamed in English, "Never again shall you torment me in my dreams! I shall have my revenge!"
Isa ran out of the school, leaving Loz beaten up. Loz then collapsed onto the ground and Zack ran over to him, saying, "Are you okay, Loz?"
"Isa hit me with a book, Zack," Loz cried, crying on Zack's shoulder.
"What did you do this time, Loz? Take his Mom's bra again?" Kadaj asked.
Loz was about to reply when Ven interrupted by blowing his horn. "Got a letter for Kadaj!" he said, giving Kadaj a letter.
"For me? It's from South Korea!" Kadaj yelled.
He then opened it and saw that 2,000 Korean bills fell out. "I'm rich! Stinkin' filthy rich!" Kadaj screamed.
The Jenova boys then left with Yazoo yelling, "This is foreign currency. Virtually worthless in its present state!"
After they had left, Zack said, "I'll go to Isa's house to make sure he doesn't go crazier."
"I'll go too," Yuffie said.
"Me three," Zidane said.
"I'll go then," Garnet said.
"Nah, I got to study with Luneth and Lea today," Tidus said.
"And I have choir practice," Yuna said.
"No can do. I got band practice," Demyx said.
"And I have to go home and cook dinner again," Vivi said.
"Okay. Then Yuffie, Zidane, Garnet, and I will go. See ya," Zack said.
Outside, heading towards Isa's house…
Zack, Yuffie, Zidane and Garnet walked towards the Noches household, chatting away as they walked. Within seconds, they saw Loz being dragged by the collar of his shirt by…a bush. They then saw the Jenova Brothers chase after him. "Hey! Let go of Loz!" Kadaj screamed.
The four then took it as their cue to follow. The bush dragged Loz into the backyard and the six lost him. "Where's Loz?" Zack asked, looking around the snow covered yard.
Yazoo then saw a faucet dripping water. He turned it off and said, "Waste not, want not. That's what I say."
A rumbling sound was heard and the six fell through a trapdoor. "Aah!" they all screamed as they fell into the abyss…
About five minutes later…
Zack and the others woke up to see that they were in a torture chamber. Yazoo got up and saw that Loz was trapped in a cage. The area was lit by dim lights and there were pictures of the PK Mother symbol on the walls. There were also hundreds of weapons on the walls, scaring anyone who didn't know about Saïx and his weapon collecting. "Quake and quiver like a jellyfish, Retarded One!" the six heard Isa yell.
Isa was sitting on a throne above a set of stairs. Dim lights lined the stairs, making the area quite creepy. "For in the name of the Noches family, I will torture your flan until you cry like a little baby!" Isa screamed loudly.
"Slow down there, chief! Flan gives me gas! Ooh, how about one extra large supreme pizza, no mushrooms or onions, double bacon!" Loz yelled.
"Ooh! Let me have some ham on mine!" Kadaj yelled.
The group then headed for Loz and Yazoo said, "I think what Loz is trying to say is that if you're scared of something, I'm sure we can work it out."
"SILENCE!" Isa screamed and Yazoo tripped over his own foot.
"I see through this masquerade. Who knows? I know! Loz is in league with my worst enemy!" Isa yelled, throwing a metal figurine.
Yazoo picked up the figurine and Yuffie said, "It's Giygas."
"Oh no. It seems that Aiko's gifts provoke Isa and reawaked a long forgotten blood feud," Yazoo said.
"Yeah, you just got that now," Zidane asked.
Kadaj scoffed and said, "What's 'Werewolf' gonna do? Shoot us with staples again?"
That angered Isa and he began walking down the stairs, holding a claymore. Kadaj and Loz were laughing and they didn't see the claymore in Isa's hands. Using the blunt side of the claymore, Isa hit both Kadaj and Loz (after ripping him out of the cage) in the head, knocking them out.
"Aah! Isa no!" Yuffie screamed and was knocked out.
"Isa stop! We're friends!" Garnet yelled and Zidane and she were knocked out.
"Have mercy, Isa!" Yazoo yelled and both Zack and he were knocked out.
The six were tied up with rope and Loz was connected to a chain hanging from a contraption on the ceiling that had him hovering over a pool of goo….
When everyone came to, they saw that Isa began torturing Loz. "Talk, stupid!" Isa screamed, pulling a lever up and down.
"Hi, Isa!" Loz yelled.
"Talk I say!" Isa yelled.
"Hi, Isa!" Loz yelled, still happy.
"Talk!" Isa screamed.
"Hi, Isa!" Loz yelled.
Sadly, that went on for hours on end…
Around 6 a.m. next day, Saïx heard mechanical noises coming from the basement. The noise also came with a "Hi, Isa!". So, he went into the basement to check.
He was scared at what he saw. Saïx saw that his little brother Isa was torturing seven people. When he saw that the people were the KS team and the Jenova Brothers, he slowly closed the door and said, "Creepy…"
He was about to leave for work when he saw a letter that he missed at the doorway. Looking at it, Saïx saw that it was from a girl named Aiko and it was for Loz. So, he turned and headed for the basement again.
In the basement, Isa was exhausted from torturing Loz all night. "Please, just…just talk!" Isa yelled weakly.
"Hi, Isa!" Loz yelled, not tired and still very happy.
Isa then gave up and said, "Loz's fortitude is to be admired…."
Everyone else looked tired and Kadaj was sleeping, snoring the whole time. "For heaven's sake, Isa, this was all a great misunderstanding!" Yazoo yelled.
"Yeah! How were we supposed to know that you're a big pansy for being scared of an image on a videogame screen?" Kadaj yelled.
That angered Isa again and he gripped his claymore. The face that he made was scarier than looking at third form Giygas. He was about to bash Kadaj in the face when Saïx entered the basement.
"Isa! What are you doing?" Saïx yelled.
"Brother, I'm torturing those who want to bring Giygas back!" Isa yelled in Spanish.
Saïx sighed and said in English, "You really got to get over this Giygas thing. Giygas was just a misunderstanding from the creator of the Mother series. He thought that he was watching a rape scene but it was a murder scene."
"That's even worse!" Garnet yelled.
"Still, I have a letter from Aiko of Japan to Loz," Saïx said.
He opened it for Loz and a picture of Ness and crew beating Giygas was on it. "Ooh! I got another one!" Loz yelled.
Isa, after hearing the explanation, jumped up and began laughing maniacally. That scared Saïx (who usually is cold towards everything) and the others. "What are you laughing about?" Kadaj asked.
"Are you that stupid, Loudmouth? That creator guy was crazy, not me!" Isa said, untying the seven.
"Okay, if I help you fight that guy, will you stop acting like an idiot every time Giygas name is mentioned?" Saïx asked.
"We'll all help," Zack said, wanting badly for Isa to stop going crazy.
"We will?" Kadaj yelled, tired.
Saïx glared at him and he immediately said, "Oh, oh yeah. We will! Don't kill me, Isa's brother…"
The next afternoon…
The KS team and the Jenova Brothers headed for the Noches house and there they saw that Saïx had the game set up. "Aren't we supposed to be doing homework?" Luneth asked.
"Later. We gotta help Isa with his fear of Giygas," Lea said.
"Seriously, is not that scary when you think about it," Firion said.
"Yeah, the game making you think that you're performing an abortion isn't scary…Yeah, keep thinking that, Firion," Ven said, still quite scared of Giygas.
"Seriously, was the creator guy high or something?" Demyx asked, quite afraid of seeing the…"baby" in the background of the Mother 2 final boss.
"No, he was just crazy," Zack replied.
"The movie and book 'Beloved' was a whole lot scarier than Giygas…You had to deal with the evil reincarnation of a baby an American slave woman killed…" Garnet said, griping on the details of the book "Beloved" (by Toni Morrison).
After setting up their homework stations and turning on the game, the group saw that Saïx didn't delete Isa's file from eight years ago. "Huh?" Isa asked, confused.
"So Saïx didn't beat the game…" Zack said.
Isa had the main characters head towards the "Devil's Machine" in the game and the final fight began. After the first final fight with Porky, the fight headed to Isa, Ven and Demyx's worst fears; Giygas first form.
Looking at the screen, Yuffie said, "I don't see the 'baby'."
"I don't either. Can we do our homework now?" Luneth said, not caring.
After several minutes, the form changed to the second and everyone stared at the screen in shock. "How the heck are you supposed to fight a screen?" Kadaj yelled.
Isa's hands froze and Zack said, "Just don't think about it. Isn't not an 'abortion' per se. That's just the trolls talking. Just remember how much pain, suffering and sleepless nights you went through."
That motivated Isa but after twenty minutes of healing, attacking and defending, Isa was mentally exhausted. "You remember what Porky said, right?" Garnet said.
"Huh?" everyone said.
"He said something about calling out to that Ness boy's parents or something," Garnet said calmly.
"How can you be calm at a time like this, woman?" Isa yelled, panicking.
Yuna thought about it and looked at the screen. "Oh! You should have that girl pray or something. Prayer usually works in real life," she said.
Isa did as he was told and the form changed again. That scared everyone in the room and the text from Giygas didn't help. "What the heck does he mean by 'I'm happy'?" Firion screamed.
"IDK, but kill it now!" Tidus yelled.
"I don't know how!" Isa yelled, nearly crying.
Yazoo, taking the controller, said to him, "If these physical and psychic attacks aren't working, doing what Yuna says seems like the right thing to do."
Yazoo then had the videogame group use pray several times. The boss's form changed again and everyone saw the "baby" players only whispered about. "That's…not right," Vivi said.
He was then scared as he saw the text from Giygas repeatedly said, "Not right…Not right…!"
"How did he know I said that?" Vivi screamed.
"I don't know!" Isa screamed, very scared.
"Guys, it's just a game. Calm down," Luneth said, heading back to his homework.
"How can you be so calm?" Demyx said, sobbing.
"Just don't look at the 'baby'," Luneth said.
"Easy for you to say!" Vivi said, joining Demyx in sobbing.
After what seemed like forever, Yazoo and Isa defeated Giygas. "Yes!" Isa cried in triumph.
"See? It's not that scary," Luneth said.
"More like disturbing," Yuna said.
"Yeah, that was…wrong. What was wrong with that creator guy?" Tidus asked, now calm.
"He was just…mentally disturbed," Zack replied.
After accessing that the creator of the Mother series was plain crazy, the group went back to doing their homework. Sadly, Ven had nightmares about the final boss later that night…
Poor, poor Ven. About Giygas, I'm pretty sure most gamers know about him by now. I certainly do after seeing the final fight on Youtube a few times. I can just say that was the most…disturbing fight I have ever seen…If ya don't know, just check the Mother series on Youtube.
-miano53