Well, like I usually do, I get bored of my stories disappointingly fast. But I read my reviews, and here I am again! This time you get to see what has become of the world. And you'll know what I mean..
Chaotic World
Chapter 3: Future
Grim woke up, feeling metal at his back, and the faint sensation he might be floating. His eyes fluttered open slowly. A giant disgusting worm-like creature. And a dark-skinned muscleman with straps over his bare chest was staring intently at him. They both looked vaguely familiar.
"Where am I?" he asked, straining. "Eris!" he yelled weakly. "Guess he doesn't remember.." said a voice he knew, it was on the tip of his tongue. "He's trying to fake us, he probably led the forces here!" said a very unfamiliar voice, it was deep slightly hollow sounding. "Manfred?" Grim couldn't place why, but that name stuck out in his mind. "Mandy." The cold voice replied, and he actually smiled as he finally recognized it. "Mandy the Merciless." And his vision became normal. As he remembered the figure that stood before him, from a hot summer day many years ago, looking into a crystal ball.
"But the other he was beginning to recognize, he had seen him somewhere before. "Irwin." He said for him, forming his mouth into a thin line. "Irwin… Irwin!" he was remembering now, and now he felt as if he could hug the muscular oaf, but when he tried to move chains tugged at his hands and ankles.
"Did you paint me gold while I was asleep again?" Grim was staring in bewilderment at his legs, which were gone, without his cloak and seemed to be painted in a shinny gold. Irwin and Mandy looked at eachother. "Grim, you've been that color for about 20 years.." Grim's eyes widened. "What?"
"Grim, you've been under Eris's control for 20 years.. We're in the middle of the war, and we were after you." She said grimly. "Do you think he really doesn't remember all this?" Irwin asked. Looking at him from the corner of his eye as he faced her. "I don't know." She replied flatly without looking away from Grim. There was suddenly a rumble, and Grim could suddenly hear sounds of laserfire and warfare outside. "Are Hoss and Lord Pain still okay out there? Or are we dead?" Mandy said, and Grim realized she had turned to a pair of four green eyes in the shadows. And a spider with an army hat on stepped out of the shadows. Jeff. He worded silently. "They're doing fine, but I wouldn't consider it winning. We were outnumbered in the first place, Mandy. And though we have lost very few of our forces, we weren't doing well from a start. Though we seem to be getting off to a good start where we are." Mandy nodded and glanced at Grim. Jeff noticed Grim and if it weren't Jeff, Grim would've sworn for a quick moment, that there was a glint of scorn in his eyes.
There was another loud rumble and rock fell from the ceiling. "They already owe us two headquarters, if they destroy this one. I'm gonna be pissed." Irwin said angrily. "Our main problem is lack of forces.. We've tried to contact some others that we know, even Nergal and his son." Jeff said and Mandy looked at the puddle of slime shallow around the front o her slug-like body. "If things go like they are, we could get anyone." There was another rumble and chunks of rock fell over a tunnel entrance across the cave from him. "Get Billy to clean out the entrance." Mandy said in a commanding tone to Irwin. Irwin in turn whistled loudly and yelled: "Billy! Rocks in the opening!" and there was a distant, dorky sounding. 'Wooohooo!' and Billy ran out from another opening near Jeff. "Rocks in the opening! Dog, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig," he repeated. He was wearing a pan over his head with a garbage can top strapped on with a "No Bugs" sign on it. He was carrying an oversized shovel and he began to unfill the entrance, throwing rocks haphazardly behind him.
Eventually he finished and stabbed the giant shovel into the ground. He wiped sweat off his head and started to chew on his arm stupidly.
Then he saw Mandy, an annoyed look on her face, and a mess of boulders and rocks massed around her.
"What exactly is going on here?" Grim found himself yelling loudly, having regained his voice. "Fine, Grim." She said dully in a monotone. "Let me tell you.."
"When you obviously agreed or something similar to that. Billy, Irwin, and me had been attacked by the couch and the TV. Which we now know had been tainted by Eris.
"We eventually escaped ofcourse, like the cartoon always lets us. But we couldn't find you. Billy wanted us to go back, but I knew we couldn't. We barely escaped Eris's Wrath. And when I looked back one more time, I thought I saw a skeleton, painted gold, was burning down Billy's House. He looked like you. I always told myself was wrong, and it always haunted my dreams, but I never told Billy about it while we were at my house for the rest of the time.
"Though dreams don't usually come true, in my heart, I really thought it was you, though I always convinced myself otherwise. But a year later, when it struck my house, I knew it was you. You stood next to Jack 'O Lantern as he strangled both my Mother and Father, laughing maniacally. I wanted to kill you, right then and there. You had betrayed me when you were supposed to be my friend forever, even if you didn't like it.
"I tried, that night, among the flames as you turned to leave. I almost would have died if it wasn't for the firefighters rescuing me from beneath the burning beam. And when I got out of the hospital, Billy and I moved to another house, Irwin's. Which fortunately you never destroyed.
"In about a month I started school again. Nobody saw you, Eris, or any other of her lackeys for years. It eventually came time for Billy and I to go into highschool. I had never forgotten that day. And during my first semester I remembered that one fateful summer day so long ago. That's how I had been turned into that disgusting, worm-like creature in that future of ours you showed us.
"And it came back to me, how I had seemingly discovered a way to be immortal. I took chemistry and philosophy to help me find out what I need. And It took me until the following year as a sophomore to find it out. And I had to wait a few years, I knew you were always lurking in the shadows, and on the edge of my mind. And I knew you weren't finished, I knew Eris hadn't gotten rid of you. You would come, and you did, along with Meteor, Skarr in his robot, (From that one episode.) and what I feared most. Eris in a giant suit of golden armor. She had devastated the surrounding area, she was striking all of Endsville. And you and your pals were taking those small things with it. And I knew, if anyone would do anything it would be me.
"It was my senior year and I silently slipped out of the classroom to put the formula to use in the Chemistry Room, which luckily had been evacuated. I put the formula together, and drank it and said the magical words, which I have heard you say before, to bring my little 'clone' to life. "Boom shakalakalaka, boom shakalalalaka."and I knew what had happened to myself. And I took advantage of my immortality to challenge you, along with the army, and you weren't the only one they fired at. But I lost miserably. You were the one who had done it, presumably pleading with your "queen" if you could finish me personally.
"I woke up in the front yard of Irwin's house, where they were staring at my worm-like, and battered body.
I knew I wouldn't die, unless you wisened up and remembered that you needed to find out the polar opposite of cinnamon. But you began your rule of the world that day. And it's been 6 years since then.
"We are the Rebellion, and we are slowly growing everyday. Though when that happens, our casualties usually bring us back to the original number..
"We eventually got Hoss, who had combated Eris aswell, suffering a defeat worse than mine, and he could have died. Not being immortal, he was one of the first who joined the Rebellion.
"And Lord Pain came to us from his plane to check on his masters. When he found out you were one of the people he was supposed to protect you from. He could have gone right then and there and blown Eris into the sky. But we convinced him to join the Rebellion, where he could eventually battle Eris, and you aswell. Because he was the one who got you where you are, if it wasn't for us, you'd be a bunch of golden bones on the ground.
"Then there was Jeff, he had been fighting against surviving the entire time. He eventually found us in our first headquarters, Irwin's old house, which was run-down and dusty, but Eris's forces never looked into it. But anyway, he had taken refuge in the house, and we almost killed him, if it wasn't for Billy recoiling backwards in fear, screaming. That I noticed it was old Jeff. He happily joined the Rebellion, we had to keep Billy from killing him, but times in battle have earned Jeff some loyalty from Billy. And we've managed to toughen him up alittle too.
"And lately we've been trying to gain the aid of Nergal and Nergal Jr., we have not been very successful, though we have got the consideration of his young adult son. Because with their Underworldly powers, we thought we could've had a chance of winning with them. And Nergal could gain us a nice few comrades with his mind-control.
"But now, recently, as of a day or two ago. We captured you, and chained you hear, restricting Lord Pain from touching you. And after the battle subsided that went on following your capture. We were planning to have you stoned to death.
"I've started to recobnsider, but I'll have to talk it over with Lord Pain. Because I'm not sure I can trust that you have been in a trance or such. So we shall see..
Grim lay there, his vision unfocused, he was just staring straight ahead. Even after Mandy had left with Irwin and Jeff to join the battle. And even after Billy fell asleep, snoring loudly. He stared ahead.
"What……… Have I done……"And he looked down, a single tear escaping from his eye sockets and dropping to the floor.
Though little did he know, Billy was watching him, concerned, through one squinted eye.
Well, Grim's been a bad boy lately. But anyway, Grim fans, don't kill me for making Grim so evil and stuff. He really wasn't, I can't tell you now. But things shall be explained, later on. Mwuhahahahaha!
But now, since I'm working on this story again. I am also working on a Teen Titans story. Let's just say it has a long first chapter, so, I can't do two that fast. And I'm gonna try to work on my other stories again too.