Disclaimer: Alright everyone. I've edited chapters 1 through 7 of GFA. They're a lot longer, with more material, better sentences, and new content. I plan on posting said edits though in groups of 10. Once we reach a multiple of 10, I'll post the changes. So... sometime between this and the next chapter. I am aiming for a minimum of 3000-ANs and prologue being the exception. This means that chapters-especially Tourist Trapped and Legend of the Gobblewonker-are much longer and better written. You're gonna love it!
nekolover3: Thank you! And if you're the same person who I talk to on Deviantart, thanks for drawing fan art of my stories!
Guest: Got it!
Hourglass Cipher: Alright. I'll take your vote into consideration.
Nina EverBlade: It would. Not to say the other ideas aren't, but it's a really interesting concept.
Luckygurrl12: Actually, it's not so much terrifying as it is depressing. Really sad, and while my original idea is not perfect now since a lot had changed when I wrote those chapters before it, the general idea of what I wanted to happen is the same.
Kidbuussister: Okay!
QueenKara671: I wouldn't agree with Mabel and say ALL ideas are good ideas.
RainbowCelin: My initial idea for the dark ending was planned out way before I wrote that far. It has changed from then, but the new idea is more sad now then dark. Really... it's pretty sad.
Lunar Moon Butterfly: Alright!
So this is the order we're going through. This chapter is going to be the Nightmare Realm, the next is the alternate scene of Weirdmageddon, the third being computer Bill, and the last being Ford and Elaine exploring the multiverse.
If the start seems familiar, it's because I took most of it from the very first chapter of the anthology. Everything from this and that are similar, except for the fact only Bill is there.
"Speaking"
Thinking
Floating. That's what I felt like. Floating, and... warmth. N-no, not warmth. It was... a middle ground. Warm, and cold, all at the same time. I blinked away the heaviness on my eyelids, lifting a surprisingly sore hand to my face and rubbed my eyes tiredly, pushing my glasses around. It felt as if my entire body, my entire being itself, was on fire. Burning, with energy that wasn't my own, and leaking out from inside me. Torching, and blazing away at my skin. Wh... why am I so... in pai-?
I was... not in my room. Or, better to be technical, I was not in a real place. If I had to call it, I would say a living nightmare would be the best term. A swirling sea of bright colors churned around me, with lightning crackling around and striking the meteors that drifted by. Gravity was... lacking. In fact, there was nothing holding me there in place. I myself was floating in the air, the oxygen rich with... the smell of burnt hair? The heck...? At least I understood that weightlessness sensation when I started coming to now.
"This is... this is just a bad dream," I mumbled. My outfit, a pair of green shorts and a dark blue tank top bobbed slightly where the fabric didn't cling to my skin, and my long brown hair flew up over my head. "Y-yeah. I'm just dreaming. Wake up, Elaine. Wake up. Wake up." I pinched my arm, but all I got was another ache to my already damaged bo-wait, what!?
My arms... th-they were burnt. Raw. Strips of skin, on them, and my legs, showed possible second degree burns. Scratches also littered them, with several large purple bruises to boot. My clothes were stained in red, and to my relief, it appeared as though my bleeding had ceased at the moment. Why the heck am I looking like this? Wh-why am I looking like I just came through a war zone!? I shook my head, trying to rid myself of worst case scenarios, and looked around again.
There was nothing else around for miles, and I rolled back and forth repeatedly while trying to maintain a normal position. I wasn't flipping, but I was very close to it. My legs would shoot out from underneath me, and I would swing my arms around rapidly like a madman to correct myself.
I was known for having many weird, bizarre, and twisted dreams. Losing my teeth was a common theme, and having them pulled out to reveal misshapen and bloody sets instead. Then there was the glorious one where the entire county caught fire, and I was in a desperate and tearful rush to escape before I too caught ablaze. This, though... there was no way my imagination could have created, have spurned... such a nightmare. And the pain. The pain was far too real to be considered lucid dreaming.
Small, wispy trails of crimson floated up from a few still bleeding gouges on my arms, having been stretched during my panic to stay upright. "O-okay... j-just focus, Elaine. Think. You're... injured, bloodied, and somehow able to breathe in a foaming mass of horror." It could have been worse, I suppose. "At least... at least I'm alone in here."
Now... to find a place to regroup. That would be hard though. My head was pounding, and with the blood continuously leaking from me, it was only a matter of time before I passed out. Taking deep breathes, I paddled through the cosmic landscape as if it were a swimming pool. You know, if a swimming pool held unconstrained weirdness at its purest form. Every breast stroke through the cosmos hurt, and in each passing second, I felt my body grow weaker and weaker. It wouldn't be long now. I had to rest. I had to find shelter. Bu-but where? Where would I go?
I couldn't exactly hear anyone or anything else either. The sound of lightning filled the air, crackling and bouncing off the meteors and blasting chunks of rock into the air. Swerving to avoid getting close to any hurtling boulders, I paused to lean against a small asteroid. "You... you got this. Just... it shouldn't be much long-"
A sound. Something... something other than the blasts of electricity. It was low, and almost like... growling. Like an animal. A very large animal, I thought, freezing at the idea. And by the realization of how I could now pick up on said sound, that meant I was close to whatever it was. "I-I need to move." Pushing away from the asteroid, I drifted backwards far enough to get a clear view of the endless space ahead of me outside of the rock-invested field.
And a clear view of the animal I had heard.
It was too far away to get clear details, but it was large. With long, tentacle-like arms snatching at the small meteors around it to support its weight, and composed of raw muscle that should have definitely belonged under one's skin. Those enormous jagged yellow fangs underneath a giant black eye with a yellow slit pupil, gnashing and chewing at... at...
It ate someone.
I-it had to have. I could see tendrils of blood floating around its twisted mouth, and several tongues-two, I think-slurping at the crimson liquid and whatever flesh was stuck in its maw. The eye closed, relishing in its meal before reopening. Its head turned around, and I paddled back slowly and cautiously. Please don't see me. Please don't see me.
I blinked, and the monster was gone. Just... vanished. "Wh-where did it go...?" I looked around, listening and searching for where it went. I-I had to know where it went. I had to get as far away from it in this swirling madhouse as fast as I could. If I passed out now from blood loss, then... then that was it. Game over.
A chill swept over me, and I shivered. "Eugh." Looking down at my left shoulder, I saw a glob of some sort of red and clear liquid drip down on me. With a shaking hand, I reached up and poked it. That's... saliva. I saw the faint string still attached to the slime, and let my head looked up.
There, clinging to four meteors surrounding me, was the creature. Its eye widened, mouth snapping open and shut as it circled around me, inching closer and closer. N-No! No, I can't... can't... my head was getting light, and the world began to darken around me. Can't... pass out... now...
My head hung limp, and my eyes fell closed. As my senses went into emergency shut-down mode, I felt something wrap around me, hooking under my arms and begin to carry me away. I couldn't open my eyes enough, but with the strength I could, I saw a small glimpse of yellow, darkening and brightening steadily. The color faded for a second, and it turned to look at me.
The last thing I could remember... was a large white eye, filled with confusion.
"Who are you, and how did you get here?"
There you go. This here's the starting point for this AU. Next update, we have the alternate ending for GFA. Originally... it was going to be a whole lot darker. But when I initially planned it, a lot of stuff in season 2 was written out yet. So things changed, and with that, so did this. My new plan is still dark, and there's a few changes, but the idea's still the same.
By the next chapter, I should have those updates done. I'll let you all know so you can check out 1 through 9. Not 10 though. I prefer to do that episode as one instead of doing it in two groups.
Until next time!
Angel
