Torture's P.O.V
I walked over to the mansion that the others now call 'SSS mansion' I saw Sonic and Shadow on the floor bleeding. I ran over to them and ask, "What happen to you guys?" Sonic says, "it's obvious. Eggman happened." I ask, "Eggman did this?" Shadow says, "Along with a some guy named.. what was it again, oh yeah. Josh the darkhog." My eyes widened. I ask, "Did you say, Josh the darkhog?" Sonic says, "yeah. He did. he was with Eggman. He looked mais badass than Eggman and way mais dangerous than Egghead will ever be. I think he said your name and Anaka's name as well. Do you, Anaka, and that guy have a history?" My ears go down and look down sadly. Shadow asks, "Are you okay Torture?" I say, "We do have a history. It isn't really very happy."
Sonic asks, "Do you... want to talk about it?" i sigh and say, "Well... yes. I needed to talk to someone about this but... I never told anyone because I never thought i could trust anyone with my past and well... one of my weaknesses." Sonic says, "We're here for you. We won't tell anyone and we will not judge you." I say, "Well... ever since i met you guys, you guys seemed pretty nice but I'm not sure." Shadow says, "We won't force you to tell us. You call tell us when you're ready." I say, "thanks guys.. hey, wasn't Silver supposed to be with you today?" Shadow looked nervous and says, "Well... here is the thing... Silver was captured por Dracula."
I ask, "WHAT?!" Shadow says, "he was captured por Dracula when we were busy dealing with Josh and Eggman." I say, "oh no. And we need him to fight Josh. We need his powers. And we have to defeat Josh today because what we need to weaken him is Silver's telekinesis to hold him in place. And your-" I point to Shadow and continue, "chaos powers. And since this is your last dia here before you go back to heaven, we NEED to do it today. No one else has chaos powers. At least not someone I know." Shadow says, "calm down. I'm sure there are other ways other than chaos powers to stop him." I say, "no there isn't! He's immortal and invincible except when he is hit por someone with chaos power and is powered and alive because of chaos powers. You're the only one that is alive because of chaos energy."
Sonic says to himself, "So that is why whenever I hit him he never flinched and got bruises. But when Shadow hits him, He grunts or yells in pain and blood came out of his wounds. And why after that one time he wanted to kill Shadow mais than me... Because Shadow is the only one that can hurt him and be a threat to him... oi wait a second. Torture." I ask, "What?" Sonic asks, "can't we just have him fall at a height that not even he can handle?" I say, "Well.. yes but it has to have someone that has chaos energy with him. So technically the person with chaos energy would weaken him but that also means the one with chaos energy dies as well. And I'm not sure you can have a body or continue in an afterlife if you die then die again."
Shadow says, "i remember Maria telling me about that. She read the... 'manual' for dead people. It said that if you die, then die again. There is no way you can ever come back in afterlife, heaven, hell, or the mortal world. You will cease to exist. The only thing that would be behind is the person's things and the people that knew that person and has memories with them." I ask, "Really?" Sonic says, "Yup... Also... we've watched Dragon Ball Z. It also states the same thing." I say, "um... okay." Shadow says, "And also it's a bit late to say this after you just freaked out but I do know someone else who can use chaos energy." Sonic ask, "What?! Who?"
Shadow says, "Remember my brother Sonic? Shade has the ability to use chaos. He is also powered por chaos energy and lives off of it. So even if I end up going to heaven again, you can always use Shade." I say, "Well at least that calms me down a little." Sonic asks, "So anyways what is this history with you and Josh the darkhog?" I say, "I... *sigh* okay. But you better not tell anyone else." Shadow says, "Whatever you say here, heaven will know it. So it won't really make a difference whether i do it or not." I say, "Just, Just do it." Shadow says, "okay." Sonic and Shadow both say, "Cross my coração and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye."
I say, "I don't know about that promise but okay. I will believe that you won't tell anyone." I then tell them the part of my life with Josh the darkhog.
*Flashback*
I call, "Russell! Look what I can do!" Russell turns around and looks down at me and asks, "What?" i conjured up a black ball. It wasn't big but it was still something. Russell's eyes widened and asks, "When did you learn you could do that?!" I say, "An hora ago. When I was exploring the woods again." Russell says, "Wait. Putting that aside, did you just say that you were exploring the woods again? As in, you went in there before and now you just went back without telling me and without anyone there with you?" I say, "...yes." Russell says sternly, "Torture! You can't go in there! It has dangerous, scary, weird, and unpredictable things in there! Don't you remember what i taught you about there?!"
I look down and state, "That there has been many murder cases, there are many dangerous creatures, and it was told that a crazy/creepy man lives there and has a scary and dangerous creature as his pet and they could be anywhere and you wouldn't even know it." Russell says, "Exactly." I say, "but.. I met a nice girl in there a long time ago. I found her injured a long time atrás and I keep going there to take care of her since she refuses to go back into the city." Russell sighs and says, "I don't approve of this but I will go in there with you the seguinte time you visit this girl and I will see her for myself to see if she is actually trustworthy and seguro to be around." I say, "okay."
*With the 'nice girl'} the 'nice girl's' P.O.V
Torture came back with a somewhat old man. I ask, "W-Who is this?" Torture says, "this is my father: Russell. Father. This is my injured friend: Anaka." Russell says, "nice to meet you Anaka. But I'm actually here to ask a few questions." I ask, "What?" Russell asks, "For one, who are you parents?" I say, "My mother is called Andrea. And my father's name is Oscar. He lives deep in the woods." Russell continues, "which leads me to my other question. If you know who your parents are and you know where they live, Why aren't you with them?" I state, "because my father threw me out. And my mom... I don't.... i don't want to talk about her." Russell says, "that's fine. Oh and one last thing." I ask "What?" Russell asks, "Who is your father to other people?"
I say, "My father used to not tell me things like that so i never said anything .And he makes me go out in public for shopping or other things. Whenever I walk out of the woods, the people who saw me come out ask me if i was okay or safe. People always saw me go back in and out. I started to hear what they were whispering. They were whispering about my father. I always hear them call him the 'creepy/crazy old man that lives in the woods with a scary and dangerous creature as a pet.'" They both froze at that. Torture asks, "Y-Y-Your f-f-father is t-the man t-t-that is k-k-known to be insane?!" I ask, "What is the big deal?" Torture yells, "Because he is known as a mad man! An evil scientist! A person who should be locked up in jail and strapped in a very tight jaqueta {i don't remember what it is called so i just call it a very tight jacket}!" I say, "Don't say that about my father! Sure he can be... crazy at times, he isn't an evil scientist that deserves to be locked up in jail! He used to tell me all his plans on making the world even better! He isn't bad! He can't be!"
Russell mutters, "says the one who got locked out in the dark, out of the house, into the dangerous woods/forest por your own father." I ask, "What was that?" Russell says, "nothing." Torture says, "um... I think it's time to leave now. Bye!" Torture grabs Russell's hand and runs off with Russell. I sigh and say, "They're right. My father is a psycho path and he would never change. i know he is evil but he never commits to them. He isn't bad. My family isn't bad. even if they are abusive to me.... oh who am i kidding. They're one of the worst people i'll ever meet. I hope after this. Torture would still be willing to be my friend."
Russell's P.O.V
I say, "Torture. What will you do now that you know this? Will you stop being friends with her?" Torture says, "no! I-I can't! She may be the daughter of the 'maniac-of-the-century' but that doesn't mean i'll abandon her. She's different. She isn't like her father!" I sigh and say, "you really do have your mother's compassion." Torture flinches at the mention of his mother. I remembered how Torture hates to talk about Celena. I do too but I couldn't help myself this time. I say, "Look son, I don't want you to get hurt. If Anaka is the child of a madman, she would put you in danger and probably give you to her father. And her father is..." Torture sighs and continues, "a scientist. And scientists to test/experiments on other living things." I say, "exactly. I just don't want you hurt son." Torture says, "look dad. I know you care about my safety but she seems nice and I think I can trust her." I ask, "how can you be sure?" Torture says, "I-I... I don't know. Something in me just tells me to trust her."
I sigh and say, "Alright. If you believe you can trust her, we will give her a chance. But if there is a time where she accidentally/intentionally gives off hints on trying to hurt us, or turns on us, I'm killing her. Got that son?"
Torture nods and says, "yes. I get it." I say, "Alright. Well, I'm going back to the house. You're going to stay here right?" Torture nods and says, "I don't want to make Anaka feel abandoned por me." I say, "Well okay. And you have your phone right?" Torture nods and says, "yup. I will call you when I need too." I ask, "Then tell me. What is my phone number?" Torture states, "718-200-2465." I say, "Police." Torture says, "911." I say, "And your brother." Torture says, "432-256-2463." I say, "And your cousin: Blade." Torture says, "929-362-7648." I say, "Good. Now i'll be taking my leave now." Torture walks back into the forest. I think, "I have a bad feeling about this though. Maybe I shouldn't go home.. No. I have to continue doing work. Torture can handle himself. i just have to trust him." I walk back home.
Torture's P.O.V
I found Anaka sitting on an old looking bench. I walk over to her and apologize, "Sorry just running away like that earlier. I was just..." Anaka asks, "Afraid? Surprised that your friend is the daughter of a crazy scientist that is known to want to rule the world and making robots to destroy the world leaders?" I say, "uh... Something like that." Anaka says, "Don't worry. I understand. Most people before you that found me did the same thing. The difference is that they didn't come back here. I forgive you Torture." I sigh in relief and say, "Good. Anyways what do you want to do today?" Anaka says, "I remember how you always liked taking risks and always wanting action. But you always pushed away the feeling because I was too scared to try. I will try to do something risky and dangerous, just so you can have fun." i say, "You don't have to do that Anaka. It's fine. If you don't REALLY want to do it, you don't have to do that for me." Anaka says, "no. I want to do it. I'm too paranoid because of my father and those people out there. i ready to try something new. Maybe it could be fun."
I say, "Well... okay. If you insist on doing this. What do you have in mind?" Anaka looks nervous for a segundo and says, "maybe. I can sneak you inside my father's home.. correction; Castle. We could find something that I'e been wanting to find out about. He was working on something that he's bragging about. He's saying that it is the key to ruling Mobious. I want to see it and if we escape knowing what it is, you can worn the others. In fact, if we do find out what it is, maybe we can sabotage it and if others learn about it, they might respect you more. I still remember you saying that at your.. school, the other mobians bully you sometimes." I say, "Well.. you're right about it being risky. It really is. Are you sure you are willing to do this? This is your first time doing something dangerous. Do you want to dump it down a notch?"
Anaka asks while having her hands on her hips, "Are you saying i'm weak and can't handle something this dangerous?!" i panicked. I shook my hands in front of me and say, "no, no, no, no, no! That wasn't what i meant! I didn't mean for it to be offensive! I'm just saying that going in there is super risky and could get us killed! And. I don't live with him! If he finds out, I don't want you to be punished because of it!" Anaka says, "it will be fine! I'm willing to do it even if there could be a chance of that happening. I've dealt with it for a while already." I say, "Well.. okay. but I'm going to bring my father and cousin. You know, to be safe." Anaka says, "I'm okay with it." I took out my phone and called my cousin first.
{T= Torture, B=Blade.}
T: oi cousin!
B: oi Torture what's up?
T: I'm in the woods and I'm going to explore the castelo that can be seen from miles away. And since you are in the village for a few days, I was wondering if you would want to cadastrar-se us.
B: You mean the crazy psychopath's home?! Torture you can't go in there! Your dad made it clear that we should never go near it!
T: Oh stop being a scaredy-cat.
B: Well that's just how I am! I won't go in there!
T: You have a sword to protect us. And your the only one who knows how to use a sword. Your sword is the only protection we have!
B: Then don't go in the castle! I don't want you to die! Heck, I don't even want to die!
T: Oh come on, i met a girl named Anaka. She is the son of the psychopath. She told me that her father has something that can give him absolute power over all of Mobious. This could be our chance to be the heroes for once! And remember Blade: Your life isn't full without a little danger.
B: That is not a little dangerous! That is plain suicide!
T: Oh come on dude, just come along. i'll prove to use that it isn't.
B: *sighs over the phone* if you can get your dad and my parents to come along and say that it's alright. Then I will come along.
T: Okay then. I'll be at your place after i get my dad to come along.
B: uh.. bye.
{End call}
I grabbed Anaka's hand and we run of to my home. Anaka asks, "Is this where you live?" I nod and say, "yeah." I unlocked the door and open it. i say, "Go sit down on the sofá while i go talk to my dad." Anaka nods and sits down. Then grabs the TV remote and opens the TV. I walk upstairs and then knock at my father's door. Russell says, "Come in." I walked inside his room. To be honest, I've never been in his study room before even if i lived with him for the past 15 years. I looked around and saw a trophy. it had my father's name on it: Russell Dark the Dark hog. Not a very good name but it's not his fault he has a name like that. Now that i look at it closer. It looks like my trophy when i won the international spelling bee, where it had my name on it: Torture Dark the Dark hog. It wasn't my father's fault I had that name. My grandparents named me. Father wasn't very happy about that.
I shook my head. I think, "no. Don't get distracted por that! I still need to stay focused. I need to convince father to come with me to the castle." I walk over to father's desk, where he was drinking his coffee. Russell asks, "What do you need son?" i say, "I want you to come with me and Anaka as we go explore her father's castelo and look for a invention in his chambers." Russell spits out his hot coffee and asks, "WHAT?! NO! YOU'RE NOT GOING THERE! AND THERE IS NO WAY I'M GOING THERE!"
{Time skip brought to you por my laziness to write their conversation}
Russell says, "I can't believe we agreed to this." Blade's parents and Blade himself says, "Me neither." We all had some items that we might need. i brought a first-aid-kit. Just in case something minor or major happens. Blade has his sword behind his back. I say, "Time to go in." Anaka asks, "What is with you?" I say, "I don't know what you mean." Anaka says, "You seem so.. calm. Even when we are taking a huge risk right now. How can you be so calm!? Why are you being so calm?" I say, "Well.. to be honest, I'm not calm. But I'm breathing in and out, I may seem calm but on the insides, I'm tense and ready for anything that happens. I'm trying to stay calm because when you are completely tense, you're destined to fail. You get to tense and worried that you won't know what to do when something unexpected happens. If you're tense, you lose focus, and make a big deal of small things and noises around you. I know this is a big threat so I need to make sure I do my best. Also, I remember you telling me there are some cameras. So if he sees me looking calm, he might send a surprise attack and I'll be ready and destroy whatever he would send."
Anaka says, "Well... okay. But how are you calm though? And yet, tense and prepared on the inside without showing it?" I was about to say something but then... we heard a scream. Anaka says, "That must be a poor sap who was caught in these forests, found por my father. They're being tested on with... things." I ask, "What kind of things?" Anaka lists, "Potions, injections, machines, weapons. Those kind of things. My father creates them, they test them on some people that were found in the wood for some weird reason." I say, "That sounds... dangerous."
Anaka says, "That's why my father wears protection and stays at a distance while testing it. If you are found, he will either test things on you, or kill you. I'm not sure which one is worse. Though the testing can kill you.. sometimes. I've seen bodies around the castle. He doesn't even bother to get rid of them. He just keeps them in some rooms. They are filled with bodies, dead bodies. If you open the wrong door, you might get covered with dead bodies that have dried blood, or liquid blood."
I ask, "What's the difference?" Anaka says, "the liquid blood means it is fresh. The person was just killed/murdered/slaughtered recently." I say, "oh... I hope I don't find any." Anaka says, "i don't know about you finding bodies, but you will definitely find blood. No matter if it's fresh or not. Father will kill them anywhere. He doesn't care where. I used to be afraid of seeing blood EVERYWHERE! But now i'm used to it. Though i don't think you guys are." Blade says, "I've only seen one dead person with blood everywhere on the body before, so I'm not used to it. So you're right. I'm pretty sure I'm going to freak out when seeing it." Blade's father: Jake and Blade's mother: Anna say, "We won't freak out though. We've seen a lot of this when we went to war. Anaka asks, "Wait, you guys were in the war?" Jake says, "yeah. So did Russell. That's how we met in the first place. We were surprised that we were family members."
Anaka asks, 'you didn't even know that you were family?" Anna says, "not ever family member knows each other. And some just forget about you." Anaka says, "I suppose that is true." Blade says, "Anyways... Anaka?" Anaka asks, "What?" Blade asks, "You've been in the castelo for the longest time, so can you tell us what we might run into that is the most dangerous and most likely to appear?" Anaka says, "well... my house is... somewhat like a certain.. game. It's called 'Spooky's jump scare mansion HD Renovation' So.. yeah. There are other things but those... things that come attack you all of a sudden. They are the ones that will most likely come. They will know who is the enemy. They just won't kill me since they weren't programmed to kill me, just mobians like you." Anna says, "I... I remember playing that game when I was younger. It almost gave me a coração attack. That was the main reason I stopped playing it. I remember after that, I just crawled into a ball and cried on the bed. I had nightmares for 4 months."
I say, "jeez, that game sounds really bad. How do you survive being in a place like that for your whole life?" Anaka states, "When you are raised por a crazy scientist that made those things in the first place, you tend to get used to things like that." I shrug and say, "I suppose that is true."
As we walked inside the castle, we saw blood everywhere. I almost had a coração attack when I saw a lifeless skeleton covered in dry blood everywhere on its body. Like jeez! That scared the living shit out of me! Anaka says, "Be careful around those lifeless bodies. They could get up and kill you if you get to close to them." When I heard that, I walked away slowly from the body. I say, "I'm really starting to not want to be here... What was that?!" Anaka says, "be quiet! if you are too loud, things will know we are here and come to kill us! And that wasn't anything dangerous! That was just a part of the floor you stepped on when walking away from the body."
Russell says, "Hey guys look at this thing." We all look towards him and see... blood. Russell says, "it is fresh and is warm. This has been here recently.... I don't think we should be in this room anymore." I nod and we all run out of the room. We heard footsteps from behind us. I ended up behind all of them. I couldn't run anymore. I collapse. The footsteps came closer to me. I could feel arms around me and carries me somewhere. I open my eyes slowly. I see I was in a room. A regular room. One that didn't have blood or skulls. I see someone leaning on the wall. She looks like a 48 ano old women.
Her eyes open and looks at me. The women smiles warmly at me and introduces, "Hello. I am Celena the icehog." My eyes widen as i hear the name. i ask, "Mother?"
TO BE CONTINUED!
I walked over to the mansion that the others now call 'SSS mansion' I saw Sonic and Shadow on the floor bleeding. I ran over to them and ask, "What happen to you guys?" Sonic says, "it's obvious. Eggman happened." I ask, "Eggman did this?" Shadow says, "Along with a some guy named.. what was it again, oh yeah. Josh the darkhog." My eyes widened. I ask, "Did you say, Josh the darkhog?" Sonic says, "yeah. He did. he was with Eggman. He looked mais badass than Eggman and way mais dangerous than Egghead will ever be. I think he said your name and Anaka's name as well. Do you, Anaka, and that guy have a history?" My ears go down and look down sadly. Shadow asks, "Are you okay Torture?" I say, "We do have a history. It isn't really very happy."
Sonic asks, "Do you... want to talk about it?" i sigh and say, "Well... yes. I needed to talk to someone about this but... I never told anyone because I never thought i could trust anyone with my past and well... one of my weaknesses." Sonic says, "We're here for you. We won't tell anyone and we will not judge you." I say, "Well... ever since i met you guys, you guys seemed pretty nice but I'm not sure." Shadow says, "We won't force you to tell us. You call tell us when you're ready." I say, "thanks guys.. hey, wasn't Silver supposed to be with you today?" Shadow looked nervous and says, "Well... here is the thing... Silver was captured por Dracula."
I ask, "WHAT?!" Shadow says, "he was captured por Dracula when we were busy dealing with Josh and Eggman." I say, "oh no. And we need him to fight Josh. We need his powers. And we have to defeat Josh today because what we need to weaken him is Silver's telekinesis to hold him in place. And your-" I point to Shadow and continue, "chaos powers. And since this is your last dia here before you go back to heaven, we NEED to do it today. No one else has chaos powers. At least not someone I know." Shadow says, "calm down. I'm sure there are other ways other than chaos powers to stop him." I say, "no there isn't! He's immortal and invincible except when he is hit por someone with chaos power and is powered and alive because of chaos powers. You're the only one that is alive because of chaos energy."
Sonic says to himself, "So that is why whenever I hit him he never flinched and got bruises. But when Shadow hits him, He grunts or yells in pain and blood came out of his wounds. And why after that one time he wanted to kill Shadow mais than me... Because Shadow is the only one that can hurt him and be a threat to him... oi wait a second. Torture." I ask, "What?" Sonic asks, "can't we just have him fall at a height that not even he can handle?" I say, "Well.. yes but it has to have someone that has chaos energy with him. So technically the person with chaos energy would weaken him but that also means the one with chaos energy dies as well. And I'm not sure you can have a body or continue in an afterlife if you die then die again."
Shadow says, "i remember Maria telling me about that. She read the... 'manual' for dead people. It said that if you die, then die again. There is no way you can ever come back in afterlife, heaven, hell, or the mortal world. You will cease to exist. The only thing that would be behind is the person's things and the people that knew that person and has memories with them." I ask, "Really?" Sonic says, "Yup... Also... we've watched Dragon Ball Z. It also states the same thing." I say, "um... okay." Shadow says, "And also it's a bit late to say this after you just freaked out but I do know someone else who can use chaos energy." Sonic ask, "What?! Who?"
Shadow says, "Remember my brother Sonic? Shade has the ability to use chaos. He is also powered por chaos energy and lives off of it. So even if I end up going to heaven again, you can always use Shade." I say, "Well at least that calms me down a little." Sonic asks, "So anyways what is this history with you and Josh the darkhog?" I say, "I... *sigh* okay. But you better not tell anyone else." Shadow says, "Whatever you say here, heaven will know it. So it won't really make a difference whether i do it or not." I say, "Just, Just do it." Shadow says, "okay." Sonic and Shadow both say, "Cross my coração and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye."
I say, "I don't know about that promise but okay. I will believe that you won't tell anyone." I then tell them the part of my life with Josh the darkhog.
*Flashback*
I call, "Russell! Look what I can do!" Russell turns around and looks down at me and asks, "What?" i conjured up a black ball. It wasn't big but it was still something. Russell's eyes widened and asks, "When did you learn you could do that?!" I say, "An hora ago. When I was exploring the woods again." Russell says, "Wait. Putting that aside, did you just say that you were exploring the woods again? As in, you went in there before and now you just went back without telling me and without anyone there with you?" I say, "...yes." Russell says sternly, "Torture! You can't go in there! It has dangerous, scary, weird, and unpredictable things in there! Don't you remember what i taught you about there?!"
I look down and state, "That there has been many murder cases, there are many dangerous creatures, and it was told that a crazy/creepy man lives there and has a scary and dangerous creature as his pet and they could be anywhere and you wouldn't even know it." Russell says, "Exactly." I say, "but.. I met a nice girl in there a long time ago. I found her injured a long time atrás and I keep going there to take care of her since she refuses to go back into the city." Russell sighs and says, "I don't approve of this but I will go in there with you the seguinte time you visit this girl and I will see her for myself to see if she is actually trustworthy and seguro to be around." I say, "okay."
*With the 'nice girl'} the 'nice girl's' P.O.V
Torture came back with a somewhat old man. I ask, "W-Who is this?" Torture says, "this is my father: Russell. Father. This is my injured friend: Anaka." Russell says, "nice to meet you Anaka. But I'm actually here to ask a few questions." I ask, "What?" Russell asks, "For one, who are you parents?" I say, "My mother is called Andrea. And my father's name is Oscar. He lives deep in the woods." Russell continues, "which leads me to my other question. If you know who your parents are and you know where they live, Why aren't you with them?" I state, "because my father threw me out. And my mom... I don't.... i don't want to talk about her." Russell says, "that's fine. Oh and one last thing." I ask "What?" Russell asks, "Who is your father to other people?"
I say, "My father used to not tell me things like that so i never said anything .And he makes me go out in public for shopping or other things. Whenever I walk out of the woods, the people who saw me come out ask me if i was okay or safe. People always saw me go back in and out. I started to hear what they were whispering. They were whispering about my father. I always hear them call him the 'creepy/crazy old man that lives in the woods with a scary and dangerous creature as a pet.'" They both froze at that. Torture asks, "Y-Y-Your f-f-father is t-the man t-t-that is k-k-known to be insane?!" I ask, "What is the big deal?" Torture yells, "Because he is known as a mad man! An evil scientist! A person who should be locked up in jail and strapped in a very tight jaqueta {i don't remember what it is called so i just call it a very tight jacket}!" I say, "Don't say that about my father! Sure he can be... crazy at times, he isn't an evil scientist that deserves to be locked up in jail! He used to tell me all his plans on making the world even better! He isn't bad! He can't be!"
Russell mutters, "says the one who got locked out in the dark, out of the house, into the dangerous woods/forest por your own father." I ask, "What was that?" Russell says, "nothing." Torture says, "um... I think it's time to leave now. Bye!" Torture grabs Russell's hand and runs off with Russell. I sigh and say, "They're right. My father is a psycho path and he would never change. i know he is evil but he never commits to them. He isn't bad. My family isn't bad. even if they are abusive to me.... oh who am i kidding. They're one of the worst people i'll ever meet. I hope after this. Torture would still be willing to be my friend."
Russell's P.O.V
I say, "Torture. What will you do now that you know this? Will you stop being friends with her?" Torture says, "no! I-I can't! She may be the daughter of the 'maniac-of-the-century' but that doesn't mean i'll abandon her. She's different. She isn't like her father!" I sigh and say, "you really do have your mother's compassion." Torture flinches at the mention of his mother. I remembered how Torture hates to talk about Celena. I do too but I couldn't help myself this time. I say, "Look son, I don't want you to get hurt. If Anaka is the child of a madman, she would put you in danger and probably give you to her father. And her father is..." Torture sighs and continues, "a scientist. And scientists to test/experiments on other living things." I say, "exactly. I just don't want you hurt son." Torture says, "look dad. I know you care about my safety but she seems nice and I think I can trust her." I ask, "how can you be sure?" Torture says, "I-I... I don't know. Something in me just tells me to trust her."
I sigh and say, "Alright. If you believe you can trust her, we will give her a chance. But if there is a time where she accidentally/intentionally gives off hints on trying to hurt us, or turns on us, I'm killing her. Got that son?"
Torture nods and says, "yes. I get it." I say, "Alright. Well, I'm going back to the house. You're going to stay here right?" Torture nods and says, "I don't want to make Anaka feel abandoned por me." I say, "Well okay. And you have your phone right?" Torture nods and says, "yup. I will call you when I need too." I ask, "Then tell me. What is my phone number?" Torture states, "718-200-2465." I say, "Police." Torture says, "911." I say, "And your brother." Torture says, "432-256-2463." I say, "And your cousin: Blade." Torture says, "929-362-7648." I say, "Good. Now i'll be taking my leave now." Torture walks back into the forest. I think, "I have a bad feeling about this though. Maybe I shouldn't go home.. No. I have to continue doing work. Torture can handle himself. i just have to trust him." I walk back home.
Torture's P.O.V
I found Anaka sitting on an old looking bench. I walk over to her and apologize, "Sorry just running away like that earlier. I was just..." Anaka asks, "Afraid? Surprised that your friend is the daughter of a crazy scientist that is known to want to rule the world and making robots to destroy the world leaders?" I say, "uh... Something like that." Anaka says, "Don't worry. I understand. Most people before you that found me did the same thing. The difference is that they didn't come back here. I forgive you Torture." I sigh in relief and say, "Good. Anyways what do you want to do today?" Anaka says, "I remember how you always liked taking risks and always wanting action. But you always pushed away the feeling because I was too scared to try. I will try to do something risky and dangerous, just so you can have fun." i say, "You don't have to do that Anaka. It's fine. If you don't REALLY want to do it, you don't have to do that for me." Anaka says, "no. I want to do it. I'm too paranoid because of my father and those people out there. i ready to try something new. Maybe it could be fun."
I say, "Well... okay. If you insist on doing this. What do you have in mind?" Anaka looks nervous for a segundo and says, "maybe. I can sneak you inside my father's home.. correction; Castle. We could find something that I'e been wanting to find out about. He was working on something that he's bragging about. He's saying that it is the key to ruling Mobious. I want to see it and if we escape knowing what it is, you can worn the others. In fact, if we do find out what it is, maybe we can sabotage it and if others learn about it, they might respect you more. I still remember you saying that at your.. school, the other mobians bully you sometimes." I say, "Well.. you're right about it being risky. It really is. Are you sure you are willing to do this? This is your first time doing something dangerous. Do you want to dump it down a notch?"
Anaka asks while having her hands on her hips, "Are you saying i'm weak and can't handle something this dangerous?!" i panicked. I shook my hands in front of me and say, "no, no, no, no, no! That wasn't what i meant! I didn't mean for it to be offensive! I'm just saying that going in there is super risky and could get us killed! And. I don't live with him! If he finds out, I don't want you to be punished because of it!" Anaka says, "it will be fine! I'm willing to do it even if there could be a chance of that happening. I've dealt with it for a while already." I say, "Well.. okay. but I'm going to bring my father and cousin. You know, to be safe." Anaka says, "I'm okay with it." I took out my phone and called my cousin first.
{T= Torture, B=Blade.}
T: oi cousin!
B: oi Torture what's up?
T: I'm in the woods and I'm going to explore the castelo that can be seen from miles away. And since you are in the village for a few days, I was wondering if you would want to cadastrar-se us.
B: You mean the crazy psychopath's home?! Torture you can't go in there! Your dad made it clear that we should never go near it!
T: Oh stop being a scaredy-cat.
B: Well that's just how I am! I won't go in there!
T: You have a sword to protect us. And your the only one who knows how to use a sword. Your sword is the only protection we have!
B: Then don't go in the castle! I don't want you to die! Heck, I don't even want to die!
T: Oh come on, i met a girl named Anaka. She is the son of the psychopath. She told me that her father has something that can give him absolute power over all of Mobious. This could be our chance to be the heroes for once! And remember Blade: Your life isn't full without a little danger.
B: That is not a little dangerous! That is plain suicide!
T: Oh come on dude, just come along. i'll prove to use that it isn't.
B: *sighs over the phone* if you can get your dad and my parents to come along and say that it's alright. Then I will come along.
T: Okay then. I'll be at your place after i get my dad to come along.
B: uh.. bye.
{End call}
I grabbed Anaka's hand and we run of to my home. Anaka asks, "Is this where you live?" I nod and say, "yeah." I unlocked the door and open it. i say, "Go sit down on the sofá while i go talk to my dad." Anaka nods and sits down. Then grabs the TV remote and opens the TV. I walk upstairs and then knock at my father's door. Russell says, "Come in." I walked inside his room. To be honest, I've never been in his study room before even if i lived with him for the past 15 years. I looked around and saw a trophy. it had my father's name on it: Russell Dark the Dark hog. Not a very good name but it's not his fault he has a name like that. Now that i look at it closer. It looks like my trophy when i won the international spelling bee, where it had my name on it: Torture Dark the Dark hog. It wasn't my father's fault I had that name. My grandparents named me. Father wasn't very happy about that.
I shook my head. I think, "no. Don't get distracted por that! I still need to stay focused. I need to convince father to come with me to the castle." I walk over to father's desk, where he was drinking his coffee. Russell asks, "What do you need son?" i say, "I want you to come with me and Anaka as we go explore her father's castelo and look for a invention in his chambers." Russell spits out his hot coffee and asks, "WHAT?! NO! YOU'RE NOT GOING THERE! AND THERE IS NO WAY I'M GOING THERE!"
{Time skip brought to you por my laziness to write their conversation}
Russell says, "I can't believe we agreed to this." Blade's parents and Blade himself says, "Me neither." We all had some items that we might need. i brought a first-aid-kit. Just in case something minor or major happens. Blade has his sword behind his back. I say, "Time to go in." Anaka asks, "What is with you?" I say, "I don't know what you mean." Anaka says, "You seem so.. calm. Even when we are taking a huge risk right now. How can you be so calm!? Why are you being so calm?" I say, "Well.. to be honest, I'm not calm. But I'm breathing in and out, I may seem calm but on the insides, I'm tense and ready for anything that happens. I'm trying to stay calm because when you are completely tense, you're destined to fail. You get to tense and worried that you won't know what to do when something unexpected happens. If you're tense, you lose focus, and make a big deal of small things and noises around you. I know this is a big threat so I need to make sure I do my best. Also, I remember you telling me there are some cameras. So if he sees me looking calm, he might send a surprise attack and I'll be ready and destroy whatever he would send."
Anaka says, "Well... okay. But how are you calm though? And yet, tense and prepared on the inside without showing it?" I was about to say something but then... we heard a scream. Anaka says, "That must be a poor sap who was caught in these forests, found por my father. They're being tested on with... things." I ask, "What kind of things?" Anaka lists, "Potions, injections, machines, weapons. Those kind of things. My father creates them, they test them on some people that were found in the wood for some weird reason." I say, "That sounds... dangerous."
Anaka says, "That's why my father wears protection and stays at a distance while testing it. If you are found, he will either test things on you, or kill you. I'm not sure which one is worse. Though the testing can kill you.. sometimes. I've seen bodies around the castle. He doesn't even bother to get rid of them. He just keeps them in some rooms. They are filled with bodies, dead bodies. If you open the wrong door, you might get covered with dead bodies that have dried blood, or liquid blood."
I ask, "What's the difference?" Anaka says, "the liquid blood means it is fresh. The person was just killed/murdered/slaughtered recently." I say, "oh... I hope I don't find any." Anaka says, "i don't know about you finding bodies, but you will definitely find blood. No matter if it's fresh or not. Father will kill them anywhere. He doesn't care where. I used to be afraid of seeing blood EVERYWHERE! But now i'm used to it. Though i don't think you guys are." Blade says, "I've only seen one dead person with blood everywhere on the body before, so I'm not used to it. So you're right. I'm pretty sure I'm going to freak out when seeing it." Blade's father: Jake and Blade's mother: Anna say, "We won't freak out though. We've seen a lot of this when we went to war. Anaka asks, "Wait, you guys were in the war?" Jake says, "yeah. So did Russell. That's how we met in the first place. We were surprised that we were family members."
Anaka asks, 'you didn't even know that you were family?" Anna says, "not ever family member knows each other. And some just forget about you." Anaka says, "I suppose that is true." Blade says, "Anyways... Anaka?" Anaka asks, "What?" Blade asks, "You've been in the castelo for the longest time, so can you tell us what we might run into that is the most dangerous and most likely to appear?" Anaka says, "well... my house is... somewhat like a certain.. game. It's called 'Spooky's jump scare mansion HD Renovation' So.. yeah. There are other things but those... things that come attack you all of a sudden. They are the ones that will most likely come. They will know who is the enemy. They just won't kill me since they weren't programmed to kill me, just mobians like you." Anna says, "I... I remember playing that game when I was younger. It almost gave me a coração attack. That was the main reason I stopped playing it. I remember after that, I just crawled into a ball and cried on the bed. I had nightmares for 4 months."
I say, "jeez, that game sounds really bad. How do you survive being in a place like that for your whole life?" Anaka states, "When you are raised por a crazy scientist that made those things in the first place, you tend to get used to things like that." I shrug and say, "I suppose that is true."
As we walked inside the castle, we saw blood everywhere. I almost had a coração attack when I saw a lifeless skeleton covered in dry blood everywhere on its body. Like jeez! That scared the living shit out of me! Anaka says, "Be careful around those lifeless bodies. They could get up and kill you if you get to close to them." When I heard that, I walked away slowly from the body. I say, "I'm really starting to not want to be here... What was that?!" Anaka says, "be quiet! if you are too loud, things will know we are here and come to kill us! And that wasn't anything dangerous! That was just a part of the floor you stepped on when walking away from the body."
Russell says, "Hey guys look at this thing." We all look towards him and see... blood. Russell says, "it is fresh and is warm. This has been here recently.... I don't think we should be in this room anymore." I nod and we all run out of the room. We heard footsteps from behind us. I ended up behind all of them. I couldn't run anymore. I collapse. The footsteps came closer to me. I could feel arms around me and carries me somewhere. I open my eyes slowly. I see I was in a room. A regular room. One that didn't have blood or skulls. I see someone leaning on the wall. She looks like a 48 ano old women.
Her eyes open and looks at me. The women smiles warmly at me and introduces, "Hello. I am Celena the icehog." My eyes widen as i hear the name. i ask, "Mother?"
TO BE CONTINUED!