Talking "Hi I am a Stegosaurus"
Thoughts 'I'm not really though'
Writing/Phone 'Hey its ya boi'
Chapter One - What's This?
Our story begins on a hot friday afternoon in Western Australia, more specifically. A small suburban household on the outskirts of a mining town, this is where we meet our hero... well soon to be hero anyway.
''Finally home..." Olivia sighed out in relief as she pushes her way into her house and out of the thirty five degree heat. Olivia locks the front door behind her and kicks off her shoes, happy to be home after a long boring day at the local public highschool.
"Thank god it's finally Friday, I don't think I could have survived another day in that hellhole" She mumbled to herself as she makes her way to her bedroom.
Once in her room she grabs out her homework from her school bag before throwing said bag to the floor. 'Friday is always the best day of the week...' Olivia muses as she places the homework on her desk (making sure the annoyingly tall pile of homework doesn't fall over).
'Because the weekend is tomorrow!' Olivia let's out a happy squeal, letting gravity take hold of her as she falls backwards onto her queen sized bed, making some of the pillows bounce to the floor.
'No annoying teachers or bullies for two whole days' She thinks happily as she lets out a small smile. ' Mum will be home at six and my brother is at footy practise til five thirty. Just me, myself and I for a two hours...Now, what to do-
I mean, I should really start on my homework my idiotic teachers gave me...'.
Olivia rolls over and glances up at her desk on the other side of her room, where she tries to glare the homework out of existence… sadly it doesn't work.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..." Olivia groans out in frustration, dramatically flailing her arms and legs around childishly. '... I mean it's only math… It can wait'.
She sits up, with her back facing her homework (out of sight out of mind, am I right?) 'So, what to do? I could watch tv, cook, clean, play video games or go on the Internet'.
Quickly making her mind up, she got up from her bed and while also trying to avoid looking at her homework. She snatched up her MacBook which was charging on her desk, then made quick work to get back to the comfort of her bed. Olivia leaned against her bed frame, grabbing two pillows that lay next to her and stuffing them behind her back.
'I think I will assume the browsing position' Olivia then relaxes fully into the pillows, crosses her legs and opens her Mac book.
Olivia went to all the usual websites Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit. After maybe nearly two hours online and staying in the same position, she somehow ended up watching a girl play the flute with her nose.
'Gross...' Olivia was brought back to the real world by the buzzing of her phone... which she left in her bag. "Aaaaaargh... the one thing I always forget" quickly placing her MacBook to the side she went to her bag and pulled her phone out. Seeing the call was from her mum she answered.
"Sorry the demon spawn your are trying to reach is unavailible, please leave a message after the tone" Olivia answered in a dull monatone voice, replicating siri to a T.
"haha, very funny Liv, are you home or did you go to Claire's house?" her Mum answered with a chuckle.
"Yeah I'm home, Aaron will finish footy training soon so he will be home just before you" Olivia continued as she made her way to her bed once more.
"Sorry Liv, I've got some more work I need to handle here... I won't be home till late. Could you start making dinner again? Im pretty sure we have every thing we need to make pasta". "Yeah I can do that but...overtime again!?".
"No rest for the wicked sadly".
"Alright, I will message you when Aaron gets home. Love you" "Love you to honey, bye".
"...".
Olivia brought the phone down into her lap sadly… then places her phone down on her desk with a frustrated sigh.
Going back to her bed she continue scrolling through the internet, rather half heartedly this time. She went to her Facebook again to see if anyone posted anything new since she was last on... ten minutes ago.
She saw her friend Jordan updated her profile picture... Again. Last time it was a selfie of her scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, now it's a selfie of her and her family on top of the Eiffel Tower.
"I wish my family would go to exciting places like that" Olivia mumbled to herself, pouting childishly while thinking about their past financial situation. Her family had never had enough money to travel, the only interesting place Olivia has ever gone to was the beach that was half an hour away.
It didn't help that her Mum wasn't paid the over time she did, bills staked up fast and the mortgage wasn't going to pay itself. Plus a deadbeat dad that never paid child support didn't make matters any better. Life got real uncertain real fast when there was no money in the bank.
'Life is ok-ish now, I have a Job. Mum is getting paid a bit more... we are gonna be fine, we don't need to travel ' Olivia reasured herself, then looked at her friend's facebook page enviously.
'It would be nice to be able to travel like that though... if only we could get enough money' She thought wishfully.
Getting back to reality she looked back at her macbook and was about to write a comment saying how amazing the picture was, when suddenly an interesting ad popped up in the corner of her screen.
It had a normal white background plus a little cartoon figure that sorta looked like anime chibi, the figure was wearing a black cloak. The cloak covered its whole body and darkened its face, the only thing that could be seen of its face was its large green glowing eyes. Which were drawn in a very realistic way compared to the rest of its body.
It was very cute in all honesty, it was also holding up wooden sign four times the size of the figure that took up the rest of the ad space it said:
Bored with your life?
What to make something of yourself, having fun while you do so?
Then enter the competition to go to the
Universal Sanctum!
Fun, Adventure and Mystery await for the lucky few!
-Click this link now to enter a Universal Sanctum near you!-
This Ad will close in-
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"I wonder if I should check it out?". Olivia Mused softly to herself
00:27
'It could be a camp of some sort, but what kind of name is Universal Sanctum?'.
00:24
'Might as well see what it is, it could be fun'.
00:19
'I will be really annoyed if this is just spam... but it looks pretty legit... well no it dosen't, but whats the harm?".
00:12
'I really hope this doesn't give my MacBook a virus...'Olivia then hovered the mouse over the ad and...
00:04
00:03
00:02
'Click'
As soon as Olivia clicked the advertisement it opened up a new window in her browser, as the new screen loaded some text popped up that read:
'UNIVERSAL SANCTUM Where Dreams Come True'
'Welcome to the Universal Sanctum website, before we can proceed to the exciting stuff please answer these questions truthfully and honestly. Just remember that if you answer the questions honestly the better the outcome for you will be!'.
Then it loaded up a small list of questions with enough space under each to answer, Olivia started to go through all of them and answered as honestly as she could... for the very simple questions which it displayed…
Question One: Sex - Male, Female or Other
Answer: Female
Question Two: Age
Answer: 15
Question Three: Height
Answer: 5'1
Question Four: Favorite Animal
Answer: Bat
Question Five: What Country You Live In
Answer: Australia
Question Six: Are You Bored of Your Current Life?
Answer: Yes
Question Seven: Do You Want To Go On An Adventure?
Answer: Yes
Question Eight: Sky, Land or Sea
Answer: Sky
Question Nine: Eye Colour
Answer: Hazel
Question Ten: Hair Colour
Answer: Brown
'Man, these are some really basic questions, if they are trying to find selected few to go on some...adventure? They are gonna have a hard time to pick if a lot of people apply' Olivia thought as she went through all the answers one by one. As soon as she finished all the questions a green 'continue' icon appeared. 'Well, let's try my luck' she thought as she moved the mouse and clicked the icon.
Two seconds later her laptop shut down and the whole screen went black.
"WHAT!" Olivia yelled out loud in anger.
Sitting up straight as she looked at her MacBooks screen in horror. "No no no no! This can't be happening!" Olivia shouted moving her mouse erratically and pressing down random keys on her keyboard, trying to make her MacBook do... Well, anything.
"God Dammit! I was barely able to afford this mac!". She quickly jumped out of her bed and went to her desk, accidentally knocking down some homework as she moved to place her macbook on her desk. She grabbed the MacBooks charger and plugged it in, she then pressed down on the power button. Hoping to reset it or at least do something.
'Moms gonna kill me when she gets back from work..' Olivia thought sadly in defeat. It had been a minute already, and with Olivia's inpatients the hope of her macbook starting back up was dwindling. She slowly sat down on her desk chair. "What am I gonna do now?" she mumbled softly to herself, letting her arms fall dramatically to her side.
A loud musical note sprung suddenly from the macbook speakers "Daaa! Daaaa! Daaaaaaaa!", "AAAaaahhh..ouch!".
That sound, was the sound of the MacBook suddenly turning on. Which then resulted in Olivia getting scared and falling off her chair to the floor like a disabled pigeon.
"Oww..." she groaned out loud while rubbing her butt which hit the chair leg on her descent to the ground.
"Ding! Ding!"
Looking up at the new sudden sound, she saw that her MacBook was back on. The screen was white and had black text on the screen that read.
"CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST TO APPLY!"
Pulling herself off the floor and plopping down into her chair, she watched the cartoon figure from before dance across the screen. It did the macarena, a bit of twerking and hit the woah before it started skipping off screen. A male Siri type voice suddenly came out of the Macbook's speakers.
"You have won a once in a lifetime opportunity, for adventure and fun! So get ready for a chance for your life to be changed forever with the help of the UNIVERSAL SANCTUM! Sanctum, sanctume". It repeated Sanctum a couple more times trying to make it sound like an echo.
"Wow...ok then" Olivia mumbles out in a condescending tone, 'I guess I'm luckier than I thought'. The cartoon dancer suddenly appeared again, did a cool backflip type dance… then, pointed up before being sucked into a purple vortex that appeared behind it.
"What... HEY!", Olivia finally noticed that the MacBooks camera was on. The green light that signals its on was glowing tauntingly at her.
Doing a weird type spasm movement with her body Olivia quickly tries to cover the camera with her hand... but got a small electric zap on her pinky finger instead. Flinching back her hand, She gasped out loud in pain and moves her abused finger into her mouth to try and ease the pain.
Not realising that the vortex had taken up the whole screen.
"Owww" She mumbled as she sucked on her zapped pinky finger. As she pulls her finger out to see the damage, her pinky starts to disintegrate.
"Aaaaaaa!" Olivia screams out in horror and disbelief, she quickly retreats backwards as her MacBook started to float above her desk, and a small purple vortex appeared in the middle of its screen and started to expand slowly outwards towards her.
Olivia's pinky finger was completely gone now, the virus like disintegration spread to her palm her fingers where cut off from the rest of her body now falling to the floor. Before they could reach the floor they had completly disintegrated, the dust of her fingers hitting the floor leaving a ploom of her fingers scattered in the air.
Olivia falls to her knees, gripping onto her forearm as she looks at her now gone hand. Her eyes tracking the progress that had now gone past where she was gripping her forearm, her left hand now only gripping dust.
Olivia falls backwards onto the frame of her bed, leaning heavily on it as she goes into shock, blanking out for a second. As she tried to follow the progress she realised that her arm is now gone. The progress now at her shoulder.
Feeling sick, she leans over to vomit. Only to fall flat on her face, as the connected to her torso is now gone. Only able to feel her neck and left arm, her arm now in the void where she chest once was.
Slowly tilting her head she sees a pile of dust where her body once was. Unable to move her head she realises she has now lost feeling in her left arm. Only Thing she was able to see was a purple vortex quickly consuming her vision.
"Ow my legs, finally home. Hey Olivia are you home?" The voice of Olivia's younger brother echoed throughout the house. Olivia opened her mouth to yell out, but only to realise the progress is now past her chin. Rendering her unable to speak.
Realising that no help was coming, tears started to fall onto the carpet. The tears didn't last long as her eyes where over taken by the progress.
Aaron put down his bag on the dining table, thinking Olivia wasn't home as she did't respond to him. He started to massage his aching legs as pre session had just started, Aaron was still getting used to footy training.
In Olivia's room the vortex was currently looking like A purple tornado as it sucked up the pile of dust that was once Olivia. As if in glee the vortex was bobbing up and down while acting like a vacuum sucking up all the dust but without the obnoxious vacuuming sound, the process being entirely quiet.
The vortex was entirely focus on sucking up Olivia's remains disregarding everything else in the room. Even though that was the case some of Olivia's homework flew up into the air due to the airflow.
Aaron heard the flutter of paper coming from Olivia's room, which was neighbouring his. Thinking no one was home he cautiously opened the door to his sisters room. Only to see a paper strewn across the room as if someone had left in a hurry, realising his sister wasn't home he listened to the beckoning call of his aching legs to go rest in his room.
Not noticing the black fumes starting go come out of his sisters mac book..
UPDATED BY EDITOR/BROTHER 07/12/2019