Axl cranked the car up and drove away, from still on the ground X. When the radio came on Ninjari Bang Bang came on. I knew because Kyary is legit wifey. Still it seemed strange that X had been listening to her at the time. It was sorta funny. Axl was nodding along to the beat as he drove. I noticed we were going ridiculously fast for no reason and I turned to Axl and he grinned back. I was about to speak when suddenly Axl did.
"Man, none of this feels real." Axl said with the same grin still looking at the road. I looked at him and then turned away.
"No kidding. Axl, erm do you know where you're going?" I asked upon reaching back into the city, it looked like it was started to get dark. Axl thought for a second before he stopped at a light.
"Pfffft. No. Aren't we going to your hipster brother's house?" Axl asked. I nodded. Then Axl suddenly stopped the car and got out, I was super confused. He then explained himself.
"You see, I have no idea where that is ya know? So you Rock."Axl said with a sweet smile. I was terrified at the thought of me driving. I'm a little scared of it to be honest.
"Well you see, Axl, I'm just gonna put this down on the table, I failed my driving exam five times."
"Pfffft. I'm already dead I don't care~!" Axl said with a laugh. I felt like he seriously wasn't joking. So not to waste more time I sighed and we switched seats, I was now in the driving wheel.
"This is gonna be a train wreck."
"Just remember, fuck the police." Axl said leaning back into his chair. I didn't regard that warning and I probably should have later on. But still that sentence stayed with me as I drove.
"You...alright." I said nodding somehow getting some confidence in the fact that I could drive. I took off like a maniac and Axl immediately looked over with caution.
"Awww naw I'm putting on my seat belt." Axl said to himself. I laughed at this, and to Axl's opinion it was evil laughter.
"I thought you said you were already dead?" I said musing back at what he said earlier. He laughed.
"Right...TURN DOWN FOR WHAT!" Axl said taking off his seat belt and sticking his head out of the window. I cracked up to my self, but still tried to drive halfway decent. Suprising we got pretty close to Blues' house without anyone stopping us, sure a black lady was about to beat the shit out of us because I cut her off, and sure she chased us down the road in a crazy chase, but hey we lost her eventually. Eventually... I'm pretty sure she got mylicence plate number, but flip her because this ain't even my car. Too bad X, huh? I snickered to myself at this.
Blues house was just a few blocks away, we were taking a side street with no one on it. Rushing down it, when suddenly headlights lit up the alleyway, It was a familiar car. I tried to look to see who it was, and I knew Axl saw before I did because he spoke first.
"HAH. Rock turn around." Axl said with a nervous laugh. I squinted to see a super scary scowl and pretty long blonde hair. It was Zero and I was paranoid as hell. So I started driving backwards at high-speed. Don't ask be how I did it. But I did it with my dying will on some reborn stuff. as soon as we got out of the alleyway I turned around and drove away like a maniac. I heard Zero trying to follow us. There was only one thing on my mind, I was gonna die.
Meanwhile in the background Kyary was still playing and it only increased my paranoia. This was my life right now wasn't it? Getting chased by a man with pretty hair who was a apart of the illuminati down the street, while having Kyary on full blast in the car, next to my Idol, fearing for my short 17 year old life.
Why was this anyways?
"Hey Rock you think If we get out the car and beat his ass, he'll stop chasing us?" Axl said absent-mindedly. I shook my head.
"N-NO...erm maybe...errrrr wanna try?" I asked. Axl sighed.
"We're gonna get our ass beat aren't we?" Axl says sheepishly. I pause for a second.
"I meaaaaan, maybe but we got this...I think..."
"Okay I'll snatch out his hair, like a black bitch on world star hiphop, you knee his nuts." Axl said with a sure smile. We were really going about this in the most bitch way we could. But there had to be a reason that Axl didn't want to directly fight Zero. I felt like I would soon find out. So with all the guts I ever had in my life, Axl and I stopped the car and suddenly got out.
Zero immediately stopped from where he was and got out the car and dashed towards us, I was so ready to just turn around and be like "HAH...NOPE" But I stayed right there. Axl as if taunting Zero did some break dance move that resimbled Duck King from fatal fury, When Zero saw that he stopped and did something strange like that back. I didn't know how to feel, it felt like it made the situation less, intimidating, if I had not believed that the Illuminati was gonna kill me I probably would've laughed at that point.
So Axl yelled at Zero.
"ZERO, YOU A BITCH, YOUR HAIR GOT SPLIT ENDS. YOU THIRSTY." Axl yelled across the street at Zero. I broke down and laughed at that point. Just why Axl? Just why?
"AXL! WHEN I GET OVER THERE IMA FUCK YOU UP" Zero yelled back.
"COME GET THIS, I GOT MY DUDE ROCK WITH ME, HE GONE BEAT YOUR ASS" Axl yelled back with I hope was false confidence. This is the day I die isn't it?
"HAH...what?" I said looking at Axl in disbelief. Zero laughed from down the street. It kinda made me mad. Like really? Was I that much of a joke to him? That kinda hurt my feelings.
"We've got this. I got a plan." Axl said with a sure face. Even though I've only known him for about a day in a half, it's been real. I feel like I've gotta trust him, you know? I gather all the resolve and yell the best way I can.
"ZERO YOU A BITCH, RUN ACROSS THE STREET ALREADY, UNLESS YOUR SCARED." Axl yelled across the street.
All we heard across the street was, "Heeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the fuck naw." Yep, this was it, it was gonna get real. Axl stood next to me and started whistling. I looked over paranoid and he shrugged. I had about 10 seconds to compose myself before Zero actually got over to us. As soon as he did, with a nod I remember what Axl told me :
World star hiphop. We must be as ratchet as world star hip hop. That clicked and as soon as Zero was in grasping view, he tried to throw a punch, I toppled over to dodge it, and Axl disappeared from my side view. I dodged another punch from Zero by rolling frantically and I see Axl grab Zero by the hair and throw him onto our stolen car, the impact noise is loud and Zero shakes his head a little bit and tries to get up grimacing in pain.
That's when I try to knee him in the nuts, but he caught my foot. Then smirked at me. I was about to pee myself. Til my instincts take over and I throw an off guard punch, it was honestly the hardest I've ever punched in my life. I've never been in a fight before and it hurt the hell out of my hand. As soon as Zero let go I toppled on the ground. I looked over at Zero and he was bleeding from his nose. I wanted to feel accomplished but I was so sure he was about to get up forvengeance.
Axl ran over and banged Zero's head into the car door and as soon as it hit Zero's eyes closed. We knocked him out. Axl sighed.
"MAN! That was crazy." Axl said with a slight laugh.
"I'm still processing what just happened." I said
"World star hip-hop just happened." Axl said as he smiled and helped me up. I reached for his hand and got off the ground.
"Points for all little white guys across the universe." Axl said giving me a thumbs up. I got a little embarrassed and looked away. I looked at Zero who was out cold, he wasn't dead because he was still breathing so that was nice. Suddenly something came to my mind.
"Axl, how did he know where we were?" I asked. Axl thought for a second.
"Maybe there's a tracker of some sort on the car. Other than that, there wouldn't be a different way, he'd know...Lets ditch the car." Axl said with a shrug. I nodded in a agreement.
"Alright that's fine, I mean blues' house is just a few blocks away we can make it there pretty quick." I responded. Axl nodded. He then reached down to grab the back pack that was still a mystery to me. I picked up my school bag, and Axl took a deep breath and grabbed my hand and the next thing I knew we were skipping down the street. Axl started chanting,
"We're off to see the wizard~! The wonderful wizard of Ozzzzzzzzzz~!" Axl said in a sing-song voice. I smiled and continued in the next verse.
"We hear he is a whiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was~!" I chanted after him.
"If ever, oh ever a wiz there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because~!" Axl continued not missing a beat.
"Because, because, because, because, because~!" Axl yelled. We looked at each other for a second before saying the next line.
"Because of the wonderful things he does~!" We both yell in unison.
This continued down the street and honestly, It was the best. When we got to blues' house I felt a bit tired after skipping and getting into a fight so I was pretty short of breath. We rang the doorbell rapidly and annoyingly. We heard an irritated groan from inside of the house and I knew Blues probably ended up going back to sleep and just now waking up. Guy slept wayyyyy too much. Blues opens the door and he's got bed head and he's in one of his trademark 80s sweaters. You can't see his eyes but he's not wearing his sunglasses. Axl turns to me.
"OMG. Your brother is a hipster greaser." Axl says in almost amazement. Blues just looked like "Damned right"
"I thought we discussed this already." I said with a short laugh. Blues just looks at Axl. Then he walks closer to Axl and pokes his face, Axl looks a little thrown off. Blues smiled.
"Rock." Blues said suddenly with a grin. I looked up feeling like I was unprepared for what he was going to say. I didn't even know what he was going to say.
"Isn't this that dude that like...died a day ago?" Blues said staring at Axl.
"Yeaaaaaaaah." I responded. Blues nodded.
"Alright you guys can come inside." Blues said with a nod.
When we entered inside it was just as strange as I remembered but with a few new editions. Like there was a saxophone that wasn't in the living room and few other stray instruments that weren't there before. His house plant was looking like it was on it's last legs. Blue's yellow and red plaid couch had a new cigarette stain on it, and I realize how much a neat freak I am for noticing that small thing. I avert my eyes. Axl and Blues plopped down on the couch and took a sip of a cup that had been sitting on the coffee table right by the couch. Blues spoke first.
"So Rock, wanna explain this before I make an ass of myself and ask ridiculous questions." Blues said simply. I nodded. Ah Blues' sense of humor.
"Well you see..." I started off.
In the best way I could I explained that all the crazy stuff that happened over the last day and a half. Which I almost couldn't believe half of it myself. Hearing myself say it out loud and try to explain it made me almost feel like I was telling some crazy story. I'm pretty sure it felt the same way for Axl it was so unreal. But this was happening and no one had anytime to sit someway and feel about it, well until now. When I finished explaining Blues put his head back into the couch and looked up at the ceiling.
"Little brother, I want to tell you that you're on something, but, I can't deny that you've got this look on your face that says this is serious. You guys can stay over here, whatever you need and all that jazz" Blues said looking me in the eye. Axl moved in his seat a little bit, but Blues looked directly over at him, I could Axl was a little bit intimidated by Blues.
"And you! You got my kid brother into this mess, I swear to god if something happens to him because of you, or this situation , I'm gonna fucking desecrateyour grave, open it, and take a piss on it. You got that punk?" Blues said with a face that would scare Kazuya, switching to over protective brother mode. Which in my opinion he needs to do more for Roll because boys and thirst. But hey whatever.
"Hey it's fine~! Rock is pretty about that life. He totally took a guy out on the way here." Axl said with a nod back to Blues. Blues then turned to me. I think looked down at my hand that was still mad at me for punching so hard. Blues turned away and then sighed.
"Alright. Well did you at least call Mom and Dad and tell them you're staying over here for a bit?" Blues asked. I shook my head.
"No, but erm...I don't know if I should...the phone might be tapped or something." I started. Bluessighed.
"Well obviously they don't know you're here yet, so call with my cell just in case alright?" Blues said. I nodded. Axl leaned back in the chair. I grabbed the phone and walked into Blues' kitchen. While the dial tone was ringing I listened to the conversation in the next room.
"So...like...how old are you again?" Blues asked.
"I'm 19 and 5 months." Axl answered.
"That's not that bad..." They're voices trailed off when Suddenly My mother picked up the phone.
"Blues, you hardly ever call. What's wrong sweety getting homesick finally?" My mom said in the most motherly manner as if she'd been waiting for Blues to call.
"No Mom, it's me Rock. I want to tell you that I'll be staying over Blues' house for a little bit." I said getting right to the punch. She paused for a second.
"That's fine dear! Lovely even, you never get out the house and to see you spending time with Blues, is always nice, can I talk to your brother by any chance?" She asked. I nodded to myself.
"I'll get him." I responded. I walked back into the living room and handed Blues the phone, he had a grin on his face while talking to Axl, but as soon as I handed the phone over to Blues he was like "Or naw" He grabbed the phone and then hung up and then threw it on the couch.
"Why don't you wanna talk to your Mom dude?" Axl asked a bit confused.
"Because she's just gonna preach to me and honestly I don't need that right now." Blues said.
"Mom just wants to love you Blues." I said with a smile on my face, I was sure I was taunting him. Blues sighed.
"Well it's like "Blues, all that hairspray isn't good for you, neither is smoking, make sure you use condoms, can I meet your friends? Do you have enough food?" and on and on. I mean I love the woman but Jesus Christ! She needs to learn that I'm an adult out here and I'm trying to do the best I can without her constantly looming over me. Ya feel." Blues said with a sigh. Axl tilted his head.
"I can't imagine a situation like that, it sounds kind of nice honestly." Axl said looking up at the ceiling imagining it.
"I guess it would, you never really had any solid worrying parents." I said with a sigh.
"Shoot, you can have mine." Blues said taking another sip from his cup. I was pretty sure there was tea in there.
"I meaaaaaaaaan if I could. She sounds epic. I met she's the kind of mom that will make you a cake if you ask." Axl said as if daydreaming.
"She's pretty busy, so is dad, but if we need them they're always there, with whatever we need or want. Blues if mom calls a bunch even with how busy she is, you know she's really misses you." I said looking towards Blues at the last part.
"Pfffft. Yeah I know that, but I like to pretend I don't. Comes with the cool guy routine, ya know?" Blues said with a snicker.
"That's so mean" Axl said with a laugh.
"Blues has too much pride to get kisses and love from his momma" I said making the kissy face at Blues. Blues threw a couch pillow at my head he missed and then I threw one right at his face. Blues scowled. Axl just shook his head. Upon looking at Axl there was something that I wanted to ask Axl.
"So, what's in the backpack anyways? The one that you grabbed out of your room?" I asked. Axl sighed.
"Oh nothing much, just some creepy Illuminati stuff I compiled about a month ago." Axl said as if were nothing. Blues and I both exchanged glances.
"AXL! That's probably why they're gonna kill you! What is the stuff anyways?" I asked. Axl giggled. This through me off. Blues facepalmed.
"Well Rock you see, the stuff in here, merely is just strange letters and objects I got for a month straight, with a few documents and some sort of contract. I didn't take it seriously, I just nodded and ignored it, never brought it up to Red, X, Zero or anyone else. I never signed any contract joined, up or nothing. I just sat there thinking it was a prank played by a fan or something. I mean they send me ridiculous stuff all the time." Axl said scratching his head.
"So what does it say? I think you should definitely go through and read all of these, tonight. From what it sounds like you don't have a lot of time." Blues said.
"Your right, which is why I knew I had to go back to my house and find this stuff before they realized where I kept it all this time. This definitely has a part to play in all of this." Axl said regaining seriousness. I nodded. Together we grabbed the first letter. Blues closed the window and shut the blinds and honestly I don't blame him. I got a bit shaken up when I saw a big all seeing eye on the envelope.
I examined the letter and saw that it had some kind of chant at the bottom and directions to read the letter outloud. Suddenly Blues spoke.
"No one read any of these letters out loud." Blues said almost abruptly. Axl nodded.
"Axl, did you read any of these out loud?" I asked. Axl shook his head.
"I'm actually kind of superstitious when it comes to this kind of stuff, even those stupid chain mails." Axl said, eyes focused on the paper.
There was a detailed message on how to carry out a ceremony that would change your mortal soul, giving you everything you ever wanted or needed, giving you everything, we as humans go after, True Acceptance, Popularity, Strength beyond words, looks that would blind those who are un-beautiful, Love that would outshine god itself, Wealth that anyone could imagine, and a long list of other god like attributes.
I will not tell you the directions that I saw on the sheet, they're too vulgar and disturbing for anyone's eyes and to this day I can't bring myself to think about them, for every time I do I cringe. The worst part was, the letter had come with everything needed to carry out the ceremony.
One thing I can tell you about was a human heart, In a refrigerated case, still beating, still attached to nerves. It made me go light-headed. But even a beating human heart was still weak to the rest of the things that came with the letter. I wanted to forget what I saw. It looked like Blues and Axl weren't reacting to it. I knew Axl had probably already reacted to this and accepted it. I just didn't want to be here right now.
Seeing all these things made me feel only one feeling.
There really was a devil. There must really be a Satan. For someone to really believe this, for someone to really have taken all the time and cut out a beating heart. Only truth could drive someone to be so nonhuman. I was really feeling light-headed. But still none of us said a word.
We went through the next letter.
It was directions to kill a virgin child with two of the ceremonial weapons that came with the first letter. There was a child's picture enclosed, with a name and a location. I really hoped that the child was still alive. Afterwards, it had instructions to drink blood from the child after the murder was committed. It also had a side note to have no shame, the Illuminati would give protection and stated that no one would ever find out. It granted deception from satan.
Listed on the back was another chant, that was to be said over the child's blood, with a pit of mystic fire, that also came with the first letter.
There was a week or two gap with in the next letter's date, and it occurred to me that they figured that the first two letters had been ignored. This time there was a threat, in so many words join us or die. I noticed that Axl didn't open this one before hand. In fact all of the letters after the one about the child Axl completely hadn't opened. I looked up as if to ask Axl the question, but words just couldn't come out of my mouth. I was just too shaken up. This was real. I didn't know what I wanted to do at the time but it really hit me at that very moment, this was real. Blues cringed.
I looked up at him.
Blues shook his head. None of us could maintain eye contact. It was a mutual silence in the room.
That was until, we heard glass break in the back of the house. We all simultaneously hopped up. We heard foot steps and obviously something was going to happen. I was scared I paused in my stance, we didn't wait for them to come into the room, whoever it was. Blues grabbed a Knife from the table, Axl grabbed a lamp. Which would've been funny if we weren't scared for our lives. Blues nudged for me to grab something. I ran into the near by cabinetand found a hammer, good enough.
Suddenly we heard louder footsteps. They'd come out of the hallway. We peered around the corner to see long flowing hair. I shuttered. It was Zero again. He was bleeding from his head, I'm guessing from our last encounter, but this time something was different about him I just couldn't put my finger on it. But at this moment all I saw was red. This was someone who went through the ceremony. This was someone who had successfully became apart of the Illuminati. Just looking at Zero made me disgusted. I was sure that Blues and Axl felt the same way.
With out a moment of hesitation without any words, Blues lunged at Zero, So did Axl, with his lamp. Zero didn't move until they reached him. He smiled and just simply avoided Blues, making him fall on his face, and he grabbed Axl's lamp and broke it in half. I snuck around the chaos that was happening to see if I could get a hit from the back. After all if we could just knock him out again we could escape again right? And maybe make a plan? That's what my optimism told me.
I snuck behind Zero while he had Axl and tried to swing with my hammer only to get stopped, kneed in the stomach and thrown across the room. It hurt but only for a fleeting second, it was like my body was telling me that I couldn't afford to feel pain right now. Too much was at stake. I helped myself off the ground. I looked over Zero's way again and Axl had been punching Zero's way, But Zero caught it and threw Axl into the wall. It was a DAMN moment. It made me feel like we wouldn't get lucky like last time. I noticed Blues went to another room. This confused me but I knew he had a plan. I got up to buy time for blues.
Zero and Axl had been going back and forth and Axl looked like he was getting tired, so I grabbed a piece of the broken lamp and came at Zero, this time I got a hit in, right across his head. The wound he got from us earlier opened back up and Zero cringed. Axl took this chance to grabbed Zero by the arms, and got him in a perfect lock.
"Get an extension cord!" Axl yelled. I scrambled around the room and saw a stray one by the door. We tied Zero up with it as if we just caught a wild animal. Blues came back in the room with a gun. I paused for a moment, but then realized in a situation like this, it was needed. Once Zero was tied up all the tension left out of me. Zero stopped struggling and just looked irritated. Blues walked closer to Zero with the gun and spoke.
"Alright, so, how are you~!" Blues said in a sarcastic tone aiming the gun right at Zero's head. This was literally something out of a movie.
"Eat a dick." Zero said relentlessly. I could see th
"Look asshole, you just came into my house, wrecked my window, didn't even take off your shoes, pretty sure you flung my little brother across the room. Like what?" Blues said letting his anger show. Zero sighed as if he were getting scolded by an adult.
"Zero, how could you do something like this?" Axl asked silently. Zero averted his eyes.
"You wouldn't understand, someone who could see the blessing that was before you." Zero said without looking at Axl. Axl just smiled to himself.
"Zero, all I saw was a curse. All I saw was defiling every moral that you used to stand for, all I saw was evil." Axl said directly at Zero with complete sincerity.
"You were chosen, you were one of the special ones. Why didn't you just accept it, we wouldn't have to come to this." Zero said as if Axl were dumb and being extra.
"I'll never accept something like that. If I get riches beyond dreams and the love of my life, or whatever the fuck else! I want it to be because I worked hard for it. I want it to be because I actually was successful, or because people actually like me, I want my own power, not the devil's ,not god's not anything this creep as fuck fufu organization can give me. Because I'm my own man. I'll sell my soul for no one." Axl said without blinking.
"You'll die your own man Axl. Cause you're gonna die again and this time it'll be at his hands." Zero said with a layer of spite that wasn't there before.
"No, fuck that. I'm gonna live again, and when I do, I'm exposing this shit, but first off I want to take a murderer out of this world." Axl said full of malice.
"So what? You're gonna kill us? We'll resurrect. The messiah will save us." Zero said confidently.
"You disgust me. You're not my ride or die Zero. When did you stop? When did this start...but that's behind us now. Isn't it?" Axl said almost dryly.
"You supposed to die that morning. This was already supposed to be behind me. Axl I don't know why you're alive, or what you're actually gonna do about but we'll kill you, that teen-aged dude over there, and that hipster guy, just cause I don't like him." Zero said with a smirk. I was sure he was referring to blues.
When we looked at Zero again he was gone and all that was there was the trademark all seeing eye.
To be continued.
Man what the fuck? This story over here doing the most. Ah well. Update yay? Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah bizooooooi. I'll try to get the next one out soon cause I felt like I stopped this at a stupid spot. I feel you guys' reactions to this story. I feel you guys in general. Thanks for all that good good. Welp I'm gonna go to work now. Peace! Keep it gucci errrybody and
remember next time someone does something stupid say :
"Where they do that at?" and keep walking.
