Warped

Chapter 6

An Outcast at Outset

DISCLAIMER: Most characters do not belong to me; they belong to their rightful owners.

I woke up the next day to have a goal in mind, to reach The Great Sea before dusk. Unfortunately, the blade isn't done in time for me to take it with me. I went into Spark's room to wake him up to find that he fell asleep in a giant orange crate.

"Hey, Spark."

"You gotta get up so we can head to the Great Sea."

"Alright, give me 5 minutes"

I walked out of Spark's room and into the kitchen and grabbed some eggs. I was planning on hard-boiling them to get some scrambled egg whites later. Suddenly, I heard a cry for help come from downstairs.

"My mouth is on freaking fire" screamed Spark.

He was running around the lower deck with flames shooting out his nostrils. He eventually breathed out a wall of flames, burning a door without a handle. I quickly grabbed a bucket of water and tossed it at the dinosaur. The flames quickly dimmed, and he used his water jet to put out was left.

"Thanks Rocky"

"No prob".

"Don't eat those red berries, which are how I flared up in the first place".

I took a glance at the red berries. They were causing my eyes to water just by looking at them. Suddenly, Greenie scurried down from the deck seemingly like he saw The Exorcist.

"STORM WARNING!" he kept screaming.

I went up to the deck to see why, the clouds were jet black and powerful lightning struck everywhere. We had been above The Great Sea and the storm of the century had been happening. I suddenly got hit by one of the barrels on the deck and it knocked me overboard into the cold water below.

(Scene shifts into 3rd person)

Greenie and Sneaker were shutting the windows and trapdoors throughout the ship. Spark was getting everything on the top deck into the Storage Room on the ships lowest of five floors. And Slammer was quickly trying to retract the metal panes on the sides of the ship that were covering the cannons of the ship. Hider had been trying to make sure Spark's remote didn't get soaked by the torrential downpour outside. Creeper had been too scared out of his mind to do anything but hide in the Storage Room clutter. Eventually all the ghosts (besides Creeper) and Spark gathered in the Dining Room.

"WHERE's ROCKY!" shouted Greenie

Seconds after his cry, a bolt of lightning struck the ship and hit one of the jammed metal panes. The conduction of this metal made it go through the rest of ship, frying the electrical circuits and causing the ship to dive deep towards the sea below. Fortunately, it smashed into a tree instead of into the ocean, but everyone was scared to come out and notice where they were.

(Back to Rocky's whereabouts)

I began to hear the seagulls squawking and the waves crashing along the beach. I woke up to notice that I was on the island that I saw in the crystal. It was still late nighttime, guessing around 4AM, so way too early to go in the house. Despite the fact I didn't need to eat anything, I wanted to try catching a fish. Luckily, since I had my hoodie on from earlier, I had some things in my pockets, including a coil of rope and a small metal grapple on the end. Normally this would be used to climb high walls, but today it would become a makeshift fishing rod. I crudely tied a knot and used my knife to whittle a log into the actual pole. I walked around a little bit to find a forest behind the house. I walked in to the seemingly soothing and harmless forest.

And I was right. Crickets were chirping and heard the sounds of leaves rustling in the breeze. I noticed a tree that had several coconuts on it. I carefully climbed up, not wanting a repeat of the fall I had in the Mushroom Kingdom. Unfortunately, I lost grip yet again and slipped off, hitting a branch or three on the way down. I slammed the ground hard on my back. It hurt like no tomorrow but then a couple coconuts fell out of the tree, one nearly clocking me in the skull. However since I got what I wanted, I gave the tree a free pass. I walked back out of the forest to find the sun slowly started to rise. I had been in the forest for around an hour I guessed and walking over to the Pole & Rope. A nice thing about the knife is that its sharpness depends on what it set on. So I can make it sharper at the tone of my voice. I could easily cut open the coconuts now. I set one aside to be used as cup and cut pieces of the shell off another. I was able to use an extra coil to tie these outcroppings where the line was going to run through. All needed was to find some bait.