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There’s this world, the world of Power Peoples! In this world there are little heroes and multiple villains. I am one of those heroes. I am Animal Guy. This is the story of my ally and I during our first adventure together so sit back and relax because I’m about to take you into the world of Power Peoples!!!
POWER PEOPLES
By: John Zella
The Meeting
One day in a town in a kingdom that was ruled by the Pillow Peoples, an evil race, was in the middle of a drought and the Pillow king and queen refused to send any water. The villagers wanted to overthrow the Pillow People for not sending water for them.
About a week after the drought started, a tired farmer rushed into the southern gate of the town with news that a legendary warrior was coming from the south to defeat the Pillow Peoples and restore balance to the kingdom. Everybody cheered until a knight rode in from the northern gate of the town saying that another warrior from the north was coming to stop the Pillow Peoples rein of terror. Then everyone freaked because -almost- everyone knows that two trained warrior can’t work together unless they are known to each other. What they didn’t know was that they were, well from the north anyways, you see the farmer was so tired that it was hard to understand him. He really said warriors, and they were Animal guy and Flare. The other warrior was Wormzilla. They were to meet at the abandoned building on the outskirts of town.
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Meanwhile, Animal and Flare were headed towards the building. Flare started. “Are we there yet?”
“No for the four hundredth ninety-seventh time!” Animal exclaimed.
“Now you’re counting!”
“Nah, I stopped at three hundred. I’m just guessing.”
“Oh, okay. But seriously, how much farther?”
“If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times! We get there when we get there!”
“Okay! That’s it! You’ve asked for it!”
At that moment, a fight broke out between the two ‘legendary warriors’.
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In that moment in the evening and into the night, the twosome arrived at the meeting place.
“Whoa! What happened to you animal?” Zilla questioned.
“I don’t want to say.” Animal said in a paranoid tone.
“So I will.” Said Flare in a satisfied tone, “I fried him when he snapped at me.”
“Ha ha ha ha, now that is funny!” he said as he balled up on the floor, crying because he was laughing so hard.
“Oh hardy har har, very funny,” Animal said in an aggravated tone, “Now shut it before I rearrange your face!”
“Burn worm boy, burn!” Flare said enjoying the feud.
“Stop it,” said Zilla, “Lets just get to the plan!”
“Fine, so here’s how it’s gonna work,” said Animal, “When we get to the fortress, we’ll surround it and set a shield around it to prevent them from getting out or attacking us, then we…”
“Now wait a minute,” said Zilla, “Why do we need to do all this complicated stuff. Why don’t we just barge in like with movies?”
“For two reasons. One is that this is a book, not a movie. And two is that complication builds suspense for the readers.”
“Well, who says anyone’s going to read it? Yeah, think about that as I quit. You’re being too much of a leader.”
“Maybe that’s because I am.”
“Shut up, I’m out of here.”
“I’ll tell you the plan as we go along.” Animal said.
“Got it.” Flare said.
The Battle of Lincerton
As they traveled, Animal told Flare the plan for the town of Lincerton.
“Why must everything we do have to include blowing something up? I mean there was the cookie jar, the cake and when you tried to break into my room to find my stash!” Flare asked in a curious tone.
“Hey, would you rather get attacked from behind or blow something up?” Animal demanded.
“Well, if you put it that way, then I…”
“Ssshh! Someone’s coming, hide!”
They both ducked into a tree and waited to see the passersby. What came by baffled them. They gasped silently as a whole army of Pillow People marched by.
“Do you think we can take them?” Flare questioned. “After all there’s only ten, twenty, thirty, forty….Okay, forget I asked.”
“I thought so. Hey do you know how much farther? After all, you’ve got the map.”
“Since when was there a map involved?”
“Oh come on, I gave you a dollar at that small village of, um, oh I can’t remember, but still, what did you spend the money on?”
“Um, promise you won’t hit me?”
“Fine.”
“A map of the kingdom cost one dollar and one cent and since I only had a dollar, I sort of spent it on ice cream.”
“You are so lucky you made me promise or you’d be on the floor in a bloody pulp.”
“Wouldn’t that constitute hitting me though?”
“Well no duh. I mean honestly, you really are acting retarded today.”
Slap! “That’s what you get for calling me a retard.”
“My bad dim-rod, you get really annoying, and hurtful, literally.”
Slap! “You know, dim-rod is hurtful to!” Flare said raising her voice.
“Well then stop hitting me!” Animal said even louder than her.
Right before the second fight between the two happened, they stopped because they heard footsteps.
“I knew I heard voices!” a Pillow Peoples scout troop of eight came into view as the twosome turned around; “Attack!” the Pillow commander yelled.
A fight broke out between the two parties.
“We shall destroy both of you!” the Pillow commander yelled.
Animal grabbed one of the Pillow scouts, flew up and dropped him into the blaze Flare had created. Afterwards, he transformed into a Veloceraptor! Then Flare used Mega-Flame punch to take out four more of them. Animal turned into a tiger, swiped one and scared the commander away with a deafening roar.
“Oh sure, that’ll teach them,” Flare chuckled, “I mean even I would’ve run scared from that.”
“Would you be quiet, I’m basking in the glory of sweet, sweet victory.”
“You sad, little, brain-distorted super-thing.”
“Would you shut it, what racism, if this happens sometime in the future, I’m blaming you!”
“You didn’t really just go there with me did you?” Flare questioned, “After all you will get shot if you did.”
“Oh yes I did, bring it on lady!”
The next scene might be too graphic for our younger readers so please enjoy a random tune while you wait….. Okay, I think it’s over.
“I’m gonna rip you to shred you to pieces and feed you to my lion friends!”Flare screamed as her two lions came into view out of the shadows.
“In your dreams Klondike! I’ll get you with my Megalodon Form!” Animal strained his voice so he could be heard over the noise of the blaze surrounding them.
Sorry! Still to graphic, I’m just gonna skip to tomorrow.
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The next day, the twosome decided to rest and nurse their wounds from their fight the previous day.
“I say we’d be fine if you would’ve stopped once my lions came.” Flare said while tending to her wounds as a cat would clean their self, “I figure you took it as a game with the puny hits you delivered.”
“Would you shut up! I’ll have stopped it early had I remembered that I had no access to water.” Animal declared, “Canny usage of the fire ring to cut me off, I personally couldn’t have done better myself.”
“Well you did get a good tear out of me with your Megalo-thingey until you needed oxygen. I mean hydrogen-oxide.”
“Yeah.”
“So are we going to do something today or just sit here?” Flare questioned,”I mean I’d love to do nothing but you’re who knows the plan.”
“Are you done ‘cleaning’ yourself?” asked Animal in return.
”Yes,” Flare said with a questioning tone, “Why do you want to know anyways?”
“Well, since you’re done ‘cleaning’ yourself and I’m done rubbing aloe all over myself, we’re going to go blow up the fort in Lincerton.”
“I got a realization that I missed a spot while ‘cleaning’ myself.”
“Too late, you already said yes.”
“I despise you!”
“Lets just go and get it over with; we can laze-around later.”
“Fine.”
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As they entered the town, they noticed people staring at them and murmuring amongst themselves. Suddenly, a hail of arrows fell down from the sky towards them. Unable to react, they were pinned down by their clothing.
“Whet the heck!” Flare exclaimed as she burned the arrows containing her to ash and soot. “Who ever shot those is dead!”
A pillow soldier with many medals came into view as another hail of arrows flew at them. “I shot them, problem with it?”
“Yeah, I do!” Flare exclaimed as she created a giant blaze that took in the arrows like a baseball glove.
As the blaze subsided, she was entranced to find the arrows still flying.
“The arrows have a certain magic that prevents their destruction,” the pillow commander announced in a tone of triumph.
Out of nowhere, most of the arrows- that would’ve certainly killed- were deflected away from the gaze of the fear-stricken Flare, but the one arrow that wasn’t shot down stuck fast in the arm of Flare, breaking the trance-like state she was in.
“AAAHHH!” Flare said as the arrow struck her.
The blood trickling down her arm was so thick, due to the wounds size, it seemed like a paste to everyone whom didn’t turn around. Whoever turned to see who was defending her and saw Animal.
“You’ll pay for that!” Flare screamed as she ripped the arrow out of her a
arm.
“Sorry, but I’ve got a problem with my friend getting wasted.” Animal asked, “Is that okay? If not I’m going to kick your carcass like a soccer ball!”
The increasing the wound to what now seemed like a gap continued bleeding. Flare threw the arrow at the chest of the commander. Her aim was true and it struck the commander in the chest with an angle that detached the heart from the veins of the commander. The arrow had such a force that it went clean through the commanders back to dispatch of yet another pillow soldier.
“Take that!” she said screaming to the dead commanders’ army, “We’ll take all of you on if you want to.”
The soldiers left the posts at which they were stationed to join the ‘not so glorious’ fight.
The pillow soldiers’ battle cry was drowning out all other noise and all that was heard was this, “We’re going to… if we … all! I ….. ‘disappear’!” Animal exclaimed, straining to be even half way heard by Flare.
“Got it!” she yelled in return as if she heard every word.
They tunneled down through the hard packed earth just as the soldiers ran where they were standing.
“Where’d they go,” said one soldier.
”I don’t know,” said another.
They searched and searched until they determined that the twosome had fled the area.
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Animal had changed into a mole to tunnel towards the fort while Flare hacked at the ground like her arm was a pickaxe.
“How much farther?” asked Flare. Her wound had been sewed up and immobilized to prevent it from re-opening.
“It should be right around here, I’ll check.” Animal said as he tunneled up to see where they were. “We’re in! Let’s go.”
They went up through the opening and found themselves not two feet from a wall.
“It would’ve been funny if you went up where the wall was. Then, you’d have a bump on your head the size of an ice cream cone. Mmmmhh, ice cream.”
“Would you just…UUUGGGHHHH… come on, we need to go before the scouts find where the tunnel is.”
“Okay I’m coming. Shish, you sound like my mother.”
“Well, I certainly play the part. I cook your food, wash your clothes, and patch you up because somebody thought that the home Ec. was a waste of time.”
“Well…. That’s what I have you for.”
“Imagine what you’d have to do if I wasn’t here.”
“Oh god you’re right! But still, since you’re here I don’t have to.”
“Whatever! Can we get on with it?!”
“Hey, you started it.”
“I really don’t care, and I wouldn’t want to fight me with one of my arms disabled though!”
“I never said I wanted to, just calm down.”
Animal started to talk to himself, “Calm down….Inner peace.”
“You sound like a monk on steroids.”
“Inner peace, Inner peace….. I know I do. Inner peace.”
“??.... Okay then. This is the first time you’ve ever creped me out.”
“NEAHA! I knew it would work! You hate it when you try to insult someone and they admit that you’re right so ha-ha.”
“Just to let you know, I’ve only stomached your food because I had to. Take your sandwiches for example. After all, I know how you hate to get your cooking skills insulted.”
“Is that on rye or pumpernickel?” animal asked as he pulled out two pieces of bread.
“Whichever I guess.”
“OK, so we’ve now come to the conclusion that your act is full of bologna!” Animal exclaimed while starting to make a sandwich “Let’s relish the facts, you’ve mustard up the worst act ever, and personally, I don’t think you’ll ever ketchup!”
“Now wait just a minute!”
“Oh, do you want some cheese with that wine?” Animal adds a piece of cheese to the sandwich and puts the other bread slice on it. “Just face it; I’m the king of comebacks so eat it!” Animal threw the sandwich at Flare.
She fell to the floor with her mouth hanging open, sandwich gone, “Good thing I was hungry, I should do that more often.”
“Cheap, skate!” Animal said as he used his arms for emphasis.
“Now that I’m fed, let’s continue.”
“Eh, whatever, you got me.”
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The twosome ‘borrowed’ two cloaks from some guards and made their way to the main room and the stability pillars.
“Are you sure that blowing these up will collapse the building?” Flare asked.
“”If this doesn’t work you can slap me,” Animal returned.
“Fair enough.”
They placed the dynamite around the pillars and before they lit the fuse that connected to them all animal pointed out, “Remember put up the shield after the fuse gets lit, not before!”
“Yeah-yeah. I got it.” Flare answered.
Animal lit the fuse, Flare put up the shield, and Flare spoke up, “what if this doesn’t work?”
“We run.”
“Ah, got it.”
The explosion made the entire fort’s walls bow a few times before finally breaking them. When the smoke cleared, they saw no fort, or even Lincerton for that matter.
“Where’s the city? I knew it wouldn’t work!” Flare exclaimed.
“You can blame me if you answer this correctly, okay?” Animal returned.
“Okay? Sure, I mean of course.”
“How much TNT did you put into the dynamite sticks?”
“I filled them just like you said.”
“No, I said to fill them only halfway, which tells me you didn’t pay attention.
“Shut up” said flare as she slapped animal guy.
“Oww, what was that for?”
“You said quote ‘well than you can hit me if it does not work’ end quote and that is what you said”
Animal slapped Flare back, “Technically it did work, the base is gone.”
“But the city is gone so…that means it didn’t work, idiot.”
“I never said that there wouldn’t be any bad effects and you didn’t ask, besides, it’s your fault so there.”
“No it isn’t, ‘YOU’ didn’t check my work, so……so…..uh……WHATEVER!”
They walked away from the wasteland that used to be Lincerton.
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