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When I get a chance I'll record myself singing. Expect to see my entry in a day or two :)

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Does this count? It is photoshoped. I don't stand a chance against anybody im music.

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Ok so heres my writing entry. It's a serious piece. Flame if you will just shows you have no creative spark or intelligence. Enjoy.

RUN

She looks so beautiful asleep, peaceful and innocent. The way all children should be. I wipe the tears from my eyes and kiss her soft forehead, She stirs only a little. I place a folded note under the table lamp, whisper my good byes and tell her 'Daddy will always love you, I'm so sorry'

My wife, still asleep will find her own note in the morning. A cowardly way of explaining my selfishness I know but I can't face them and I will live with that for the rest of my life.
I take one more look around the house I had made a home with my family. The lightly coloured walls that breathed warmth into the house on a bitter winters day. The stained wood furniture that matched the flooring, the white leather sofa my wife worked so hard for.

I put my suitcase down and pull a picture from the wall, it's me, my wife and daughter on a trip to Prague. I smile and swallow the lump in my throat. I take the photo from the frame and place it in my inside pocket. With a soft click of the door I'm gone.

The street is bathed in black, broken only by patches of orange street light. Glancing next door I think of how I will miss the Sunday morning chats with Pete and having Lilly and Martin over for dinner every other Wednesday.

Racked with natural guilt I make my way down the rain soaked steps and to my car. I try to put my suitcase in the boot as quietly as possible. Holding the ignition key in my shaking hand I find the keyhole. I freeze, take a deep breath and turn it.

The car purrs into life and I leave Killington Road for the last time. No one is one the road at 4 am. It's just me, my thoughts and the glistening tarmac laid before me like a dark carpet towards a new life.

I watch the shops of the high street pass in a blur of contrast against the black damp night. I can't shake my daughter Kate's face from my mind. Her perfectly beautiful smile and her long, straight brown hair. Her hazel eyes look out at me from the depths of my mind, I think that hurts the most.

My wife Sarah barely comes to mind. Our marriage has been a sham for the last three and a half years. A bitter husk of the woman I married was all that lay in my bed alone right now. I reached Oak Avenue and pull the car to the side of the road. It stops with a crackle of warm rubber tires on wet ground.

Her bedroom light is on, I notice her sister Rachel's car is parked outside. I leave the car and jog up her drive way. Rachel's in the doorway already greeting me with a half smile. 'Hey' I whisper, the first word I have spoken in hours. 'She's up stairs' says Rachel. 'I made tea' leading me to the kitchen I realise she feels about as uncomfortable as I do.

The house seems so quiet, I can hear the patter of feet upstairs, but there is a eerie atmosphere as if the walls know what is happening tonight. Laura's kitchen is usually a warm and cosy place, decorated in a country farm style. Tonight however it feel cold, harsh and dark. 'I'm coming up alone in two days' Rachel said holding the mug of tea just under her mouth. 'Thanks' I said softly back. I can barely talk from nerves and guilt.

She shoots me a smooth look that's says everything may just be okay but I know it wont. She looks awake for this hour of the morning, Her red hair is still curled a the bottom and her grey sweater and blue jeans still look fresh on. She smiles again causing her puffy cheeks to swell just like her older sisters, the way I love.

I finish my tea in silence, it feels fiery hot against the cold atmosphere of the house. 'What time is Tom expected home?' I ask Rachel. '8 am sharp, Laura has left a note for him in the hallway'. It was never our intention to rip our families apart, if there was someone way to exist in our current situations without the pain then god as my witness I for one would do it.

'You've been great Rachel' I say as I hand her back the now empty mug. 'What are sisters for?' she replies. 'I can only apologise for what happens next' I say as I take my seat at the end of the breakfast bar again. 'Don't, like I said I will come up and see you guys in a couple of days, when the dust has settled a little'. She leaves the kitchen and heads up stairs.

I can't help but think that maybe I have it a little easier than Laura right now. At least Sarah was aware I wasn't happy. The only thing she thought keeping us together was Kate, and that was true until now. I just hope she understands when she reads my letter that clearly states I will come back for her.

I hear feet descending the stairs so I make my way to the foot of them. Rachel is down first followed by Laura. She puts her suitcase by the door and turns to me, the tell tale stains of her mascara show she has been crying. She silently walks to me and falls into my arms. I hold her close and kiss her softly on the head. 'Are you ready?' I whisper. She nods and kisses me. I let her go as she embraces her sister.

Taking her suitcase I head back out towards the car and load the boot once more. I watch from the drivers seat as she says her goodbyes to Rachel and heads for the car. Inside she is quiet for a while. 'We are going to be ok' I say trying to install some confidence in her. 'I know, it's just harder than I thought. I want to be with you so much it's just I can't believe this is actually happening'. She rubs the patch on her finger where I ring once was.

'It's tough I know but we both know this is the only way we can be together. No matter what people think we have each other and that what's important' She smiles and kisses me on the cheek.

'What about Kate?' I swallow hard, her name causes the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. 'I'm coming back for her in a few day's it's been arranged. I can pick her up from Paul's'.

We finally reach the motorway and leave the county behind on the voyage to our new life. 'Will he come for you?' I ask. Laura is silent for a moment. 'Yes' she whispered in reply. 'Rachel won't breath a word of where we are though' she added. I nodded and took her hand in mine, she squeezed hard 'I love you' she said 'I love you too' I answered, suddenly with those words the cold harsh aura that had been drowning the events was removed and replaced by a warm buzz in my stomach.

It was dawn by the time we reached the lake house we planned to lay low in for a while. The pale light of the cold morning bathed the half wood half brick one story building. Surrounded by wood's and next to a frozen lake the house looked like it had been striped from a scene on a postcard.

I gently shook Laura awake as I pulled the car up on the driveway. 'We're here' I said, She looked around at her surroundings sleepily. There it was again that warm gentle smile that seemed to make everything seem normal and natural about our situation. We both got out and made our way round the side of the house facing the frozen lake.

Holding her round the waist she leant back into me as we stared out across the clear almost glass looking sheet. 'This is it' she said, 'The start of me and you'. This time it was me that smiled the warm smile as she tilted her back towards mine 'To us' I said 'To us' she echoed as we embraced in a passionate yet gentle kiss.


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Took a lot of time and stress, as my computer shut itself down about 7 times whilst making this.

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It is a mutant fruit.

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At 5/20/09 09:12 AM, 2534 wrote: Can I be a judge?

No, sorry. We already have 3 judges. Maybe next year.


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At 5/20/09 02:51 PM, CryogenChaos wrote:
At 5/20/09 09:12 AM, 2534 wrote: Can I be a judge?
No, sorry. We already have 3 judges. Maybe next year.

alright then


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Something I made a while ago.

Fourth Annual Newgrounds Idol!

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Something else I made a while ago.

Fourth Annual Newgrounds Idol!

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At 5/20/09 06:29 PM, JaY11 wrote: Something else I made a while ago.

This is so awesome it hurts.


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At 5/18/09 03:51 PM, flashwarrior wrote: I'd rather buy a t-shirt and some stickers from the store rather than put in a lot of work for them.

Then maybe you shouldn't post in the thread? I'd join but it looks like you have to have some sort of internet-savvy talent, or just some talent in general, the latter of which I lack. Good luck competitors!


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And we're on day...um, three? Four? I've lost count. Anyway, we're on another day!


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If Bolo posts a submission, all us litfags are fucked.


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At 5/21/09 03:23 PM, CryogenChaos wrote: And we're on day...um, three? Four? I've lost count. Anyway, we're on another day!

Ahh we're only aloud to enter once? I guess I'll enter which ever 'shop you think is better.

Personally I like cooking scorpion

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Time for me to bump this.

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As the people of this thriving metropolis we call Earth tunes into yet another speech from out ruthless leader, blissfully unaware of what he stands for, and what he's willing to do to get there, we prepare for our final stand.

Their television sets flicker on and he begins as always, "We are well on our way to destroying all evil things on this Earth. The sociopaths, the psychopaths, the sadists. These are the people that are helping destroy this world we made. The one you all live in. We created this for you."

These are the one we call our 'leaders'. The ones who want to eradicate anyone slightly different, the ones who wish for the purge.

"The purge is coming soon, pick up your arms and prepare to destroy the..."

His voice cut off and the screens went dark. Suddenly a hooded figure appeared on the screen. In a deep, crackly voice he spoke, "Natural selection does not mean you exterminate every last dangerous thing on the planet : It means you purge the weak, the unfit, the foolish.
You."

That was our cue. As I propped myself on the edge of the roof I heard my comrades bickering amongst themselves. No time to wait for them, I bent my legs and sprung pushing myself into a shape like a straight arrow. I was coming at the ground quickly. Right before I hit the ground I pulled myself up and hit the ground and rolled.

I heard my comrades crashing down besides me. I quickly pulled myself up and sprinted forward. The throngs of people watching the newscast from the street quickly turned to see us bounding into their midst, I pushed my way through as I heard the police sirens blare into existence and rip through the night. As I pulled a small object out of my pocket I hit the nearest police officer with it. Exploding into a fine, bloody mist I rushed through this with the voices of the commoners at my back. Most of them were expressing fright at the spectacle they just saw.

As I rushed through I glanced back to see how my comrades were faring. I saw three of them fall and kept running. I put all my energy into my arm as I saw a wall coming up, a blue spark glanced around my arm as I shoved it through the wall and it exploded into shards of brick. I saw my target in front of me, the capital building. I burst through the fourth floor window of what I assumed was an abandoned factory and hit the ground running.

As I sped towards the capital building I saw police converging on me on either side. In one glorious flash of light the police were obliterated and I kept going towards the capital building. I hit the wall still running and hit a person standing on the other side of it with the debris. As his body crumpled to the floor my comrades stepped through the damage I caused with a sort of resonating silence.

We slowly began our descent up the thousands of stairs to our final destination, me, Slovo, Erillis, and Heraldo taking the front and Gregory, Darner, and Kovals taking the rear. A security guard rounded the corner and aimed his gun, took aim, and fired. As all this happened I reached up and the bullet glanced off my fiery shield, a coil of my thoughts reverberated into my shield and sent a blast of fire ripping towards the security guard. As the fire made contact he was sent flipping backwards, crashing through a window, and plummeting to what I assumed was his death.

We continued our trek upwards through the spiraling staircase, vaguely hearing the din outside. Those were the rest of our troops, making a real shit-storm out there. I quickly glanced out a window we were passing, just in time to take in an explosion obliterate the ground, killing all the police around it. Those lucky ground troops looked like they were having a grand old time while we got stuck with the dull job. While they were out there causing mass mayhem and destruction we had a fixed target, and I hadn't seen but 4 or 5 people on our way to it. I could only hope the minister had more guards than this.

We had almost reached the top floor when the ground underneath us was blown apart by a flash of blue light, and Darner disappeared within. As I glanced down through the singed hole I witnessed a site I had never seen before. A bloody blue robot stood below us, with a large cannon pointed upwards, the smoke and debris doing nothing to take away from it's sleekness. Through all the thoughts racing through my head I hear Erillis yell, "Shit! Let's go, let's go!"

I glanced over towards him and nodded my approval, he nodded back. We raced up the stairs always narrowly dodging the great flashes of blue light ripping through every surface we were near. We finally reached the ministers office, in a poor state of affairs. Kovals had had his arm blown off and was carrying a finger with him. I can't quite say, but I believe I may have sustained 3rd degree burns on my legs and neck. We lost Gregory and Heraldo to this monsters cannon, and Slovo was lagging far behind. It seemed to me that Erillis was the only one left uninjured and he took charge. With a shout he yelled commands, "I'm gonna bust this door down, Kovals and Sid(me) aim inside and be prepared to start blasting. Kovals and I nodded our approvals and raised our arms.

Erillis began counting down, "Three... Two... One!" He blew the door off it's hinges with a single strike right as Kovals and I opened fire, the red and orange blasts getting lost in the smoke. We heard bodies crumple to the floor so we decided it was about time to charge in. All three of us, Erillis included, stormed the room. I saw a figure standing stock still in front of me and I punted him out the window. I heard similar sounds of combat coming from the other corners of the room. I couldn't find any more people so I stood and waited for the smoke to settle.

When the smoke finally fell to earth we saw that there was no one in the room and the people we had been beating had been dummies. My eyes widened and I yelled, "Jump, fucking jump!" We took off towards the window when we heard the robot downstairs begin to fire. I finally realized what he was doing. He was going to take this whole building down, with us in it!

I stopped dead in my tracks, for I knew my doom was imminent. I finally felt the body of the building crumple and begin tumbling downwards. After that, I knew only blackness.

I guess it's true what we said, you can only eradicate the weak, the unfit, the foolish, which is just what the government did on that night of July 12th, 2014.

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Okay, I finally got the guts to make a video. Video is crap, sound is crap, singing's crap. But I thought it was worth a shot, I really want the merchandise! :D

Terrible performance here.

Everything here is eatable. Even I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannabilism and is frowned upon in most societies.

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At 5/22/09 04:05 AM, Rebbay wrote: Okay, I finally got the guts to make a video. Video is crap, sound is crap, singing's crap. But I thought it was worth a shot, I really want the merchandise! :D

Terrible performance here.

Good job Rebbay.


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At 5/22/09 04:15 AM, FurryDemon wrote: Good job Rebbay.

Aww, thank you :)

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At 5/22/09 04:05 AM, Rebbay wrote: Okay, I finally got the guts to make a video. Video is crap, sound is crap, singing's crap. But I thought it was worth a shot, I really want the merchandise! :D

Terrible performance here.

My ears liked that. So did my eyes. I hope you win!

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MUSIC!

Not a tremendously great example, as I was very drunk at the time, but the only one I got.

STORY!

The Party of Many Incidents

It was around the summer of 2005...looking forward to becoming the only one of my Dad's four sons to make it to senior year of high school, and addicted to wearing my kilt I got at Edinburgh, Scotland that year's spring break.

Three of my NJROTC buddies moved into a house that belonged to one of their brothers, and it was time to finally start throwing some long-overdue parties! With a cooperative older sibling at our disposal, we chipped in hundreds of dollars to get as thrashed as possible.

I know I'm missing some things, because some people either hogged all of one item, or I just never had an interest to drink it, but I know we wound up with;

2x 6-packs of Guinness
2x 6-packs of Shiner Bock (great Texan beer)
4x 6-packs of Smirnoff for the bitches
A handle of Smirnoff vodka
A pretty big bottle of Jaegermeister
Jose Cuervo Silver Tequila
Jack Daniels
Goldschlagger
handle of Gin
Thunderbird (which I didn't touch)
and probably some other shit I really honest-to-God can't remember...we marvelled at a full-freezer which contained no food, and a full fridge. (there might've been some cans of some really shitty beer.)

Fast-forward a bit, while everyone was doing shots, I started with the beer first...which, as I later found out was my first mistake. The Guinness tasted like shit, to be honest...I had a Guinness every-other pub I went to in the UK...specifically, I remember having a Guinness in London, Bath, Carlisle, and ...it was either Glasgow or Stirling, but either way, they malted it differently over there and it tasted great...but the bottle I had in my hand was very, dreadfully different. I tried to tough it up, and pretend I enjoyed it...I don't know why I felt I had to prove myself in front of them, but it was my first time drinking.

I finished that bottle, stupidly opened another one, and got down to halfway before I couldn't stand the shit anymore and needed something else. I crack open a Smirnoff and immediately get laughed at...it was a Smirnoff Black, and it tasted pretty good, but to spite them, I downed it anyway.

Finally, they said, "Don't you open another bitch beer! C'mere and take a shot!" they started me off on Goldschlagger; for those who don't know, the delightful concoction with flakes of real gold in it, that serve to get you drunk quicker by cutting your esophagus on it's way down. Sounds terrifying right? Instead, it was delicious and "spicy"...and I couldn't get enough of the stuff...I might've done two or three more before I insisted on mixing it up a little.

Someone suggested doing Jaeger Bombs, but we had no Red Bull...so we did a volley of straight Jaeger...from there someone mixed a Gin & Tonic, and after nursing someone else's while they were at the bathroom, I got my first Tequila shot.

I must've been feeling good, because I immediately loved the stuff. I was head-to-head with my Jew friend in who could take the most Tequila...by my final shot, which realistically was probably six later, I was doing the process all wrong...I think I bit the lime, took the shot, then licked the salt from my hand with a look of utter shit-facery.

...and so it began...I was hammered, and the tequila hadn't quite had a chance to fully get into my bloodstream. I didn't realize it, but I was about to become the most drunk I have ever become in my life, with near horrible consequences...

I recall I was jolly at first...staggering around in my kilt and black BDU top, wearing boots. I clomped across the kitchen to lean on the table, then clomped into the living room to plop on the couch. There were three women there, one my Jew friend's girlfriend, the other two sort-of up for grabs.

I'll just tell you now, I know nothing happened. Before I blacked out, one of the available women left for another party (lame) while the other accompanied my jew friend and his girlfriend in their bedroom. If I were sober, it would've been obvious to me what they were doing, and I would've gladly watched, as both women involved were hot.

Instead, I scrambled back to the living room, and there's my friend who just got out of Military Police training from the National Guard!

...Then I blacked out...

According to recollection, I then proceeded to stammer incoherently about Jurassic Park, and how Velociraptors frightened me as a little child because they could open doors, and seemed unstoppable. I proceeded to propel myself past them outside, where I happily flashed everyone outside by pulling up my kilt, worn traditionally, and dangle my soft, unerect goods at them all.

After a hearty laugh, I turned around, went back inside, and attempted to do a couple of more shots. After my MP friend insisted I probably had enough, I somehow convinced him that I needed one more...I threw it back, he said something along the lines of "there. Happy?" and according to him, I nodded, got down, laid on my stomach, and passed out...halfway in the kitchen, and halfway in the living room.

Kilt Man Down.

Some time passed before my other good friend came out with the available chick. Apparently the "threesome idea" was sparking a little bit of drama in the bedroom, so she was taking a break or something. They laughed as I laid unconcious on the ground, and Johnny, being the good friend that he is, thought I was faking it...so it seemed perfectly reasonable in his inebriated state to test this by pissing on my back. Hair and shirt now soaked...I didn't budge. They laughed hysterically while Johnny puts his shit away, until I roll over on my side, throw up black vomit and roll back over on top of it, face down. (The vomit was probably black from the Guinness and Jaeger mixture, although I'm still not entirely sure why.)

Johnny and my MP friend drag my ass over to Johnny's bed, as I'm noticeably done for the night. As my MP friend is undoing my boots so I'm more comfortable, I woke up at that moment not knowing where I was in this dark room, feeling two people holding me up, and basically I just went into defense mode and started swinging. The MP friend grabbed my pinky or some shit, and got me in, what he referred to as, a blood-lock. I apparently exclaimed, "OW! Why the fuck does this hurt!?" He advised I calmed down, and I quickly did.

...After moaning for, what they said, was forty five minutes in Johnny's bed, I vomited black puke in the middle of it again. Because shit with Jew, girlfriend, and available chick were escalating after a second attempt at the threesome, Johnny was getting stressed trying to keep the peace. Returning to his room to check up on me, he was understandably pissed.

After dragging me to the living room couch, he began cleaning his bed...the MOMENT he got done cleaning his bed, I vomited on the couch. He drug me to a leather beanbag chair, and begun cleaning the couch...

...this was the only moment of the night AFTER the blackout, that I retained some memory...I vividly remember the texture of the leather beanbag sticking to my face...I couldn't move, I couldn't see, and I could only groan in pain as my body exhaustedly squeezed out more of that hideous black vomit. I tried breathing, and I couldn't...everything was going out, and I couldn't even breath, through my nose. It was at that moment that I thought I was about to die...

...Through my recklessness with drinking at "The Party of Many Incidents", I now have a decent vision as to what my limits are, and are reminded of the consequences of over-doing it, from that horrifying moment on the beanbag chair...people's muffled screams in the background, the almost suffocating leathery mass, and the feeling of utter helplessness and sickness...it was my first time drinking...and the last time I have ever drank that much. It's my goal to keep it that way, so as not to inherit my father's alcoholism, which even HE successfully recovered from.

Thanks for reading all of that.

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At 5/18/09 03:26 PM, CryogenChaos wrote:
- You may only enter ONE category.

Ahhh, fuck my life...I was so excited to contribute, I didn't read all of it...

I deserve the disqualification.

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I think I actually never ended up submitting this story into any competitions, so I'll just submit it. It's from mid-last year, I think. Old, yes, but I don't think it's half bad. How I think vampire literature should be done.

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A Note For Elizabeth

The streets of London were slicked with hardened ice, the sky was encased in a dome of storm clouds all day and all night. It had been like this for a few days now, and the families mostly kept to themselves. But the weather could hardly dampen their spirits, considering what time of year it was. Each house was decorated in crimson and emerald ornaments, each living room was home to small but fashionable Christmas trees. Even though the weather was the worst it had been in years, the spirit of Saint Nicholas was still shining strong. This was the norm of every house in London. Well, all except one. Mrs Welkes, and her eleven year old daughter, Elizabeth stood at their front window, gazing out into the darkened street, waiting for their beloved father to step over the threshold and greet them with warm smiles and open arms. They waited, but he did not arrive. They waited until the burning street lamp gave in to the cold outside, they could wait no more. They were disappointed, but not surprised by his absence.

Johnathon Welkes was a successful man, a scientist respected amongst scientists. He was also a busy man, and he regretted the times that his work interfered with his family time. But they understood. It was hard for Elizabeth, but she was a good girl, and she was very understanding, and mature for her age. She had a lot of her father's determination in her, and it tore John up inside to miss seeing her grow up. Elizabeth, like so many other children in the area, went to a boarding school to study. She only came home for holidays, which seemed to be the busiest time of the year for John. It was 10 days until Christmas, 15th December, 1933, and John was hard at work, trying his damnedest to finish his research so that he could be with his family on Christmas. He had promised Elizabeth that he would be there for her. And she was so overjoyed to have the opportunity, for she had not had a Christmas with her father since she was five years old. Although she knew deep down that her father might be too busy, she couldn't help but pour all her hopes into his promise, and think that this year would be "the one".

Johnathon was working through the night, papers littered his desk, essays, documentations, diagrams, photographs, and there were even a couple of models of his subjects. I walked into his office at around midnight to see his pen scrawling madly across paper. I placed a coffee on the corner of his desk and peered over his shoulder at his papers. My eye caught one particular photograph that was so horrific, it still haunts me to this day. My reaction was of pure revulsion and fear, of such force, I knocked John's coffee cup to the floor. His pen stopped moving.
His head remained bent over the paper, "What?" he asked, with a tone of annoyance.
"Sorry, John, it's just that... that picture" I pointed at the foul, disfigured image in the photo, trying my best not to look at it again.
"Filthy beasts" He said. "they're human, but they've altered themselves. I don't know why, I don't know how, and if I don't figure that out soon, I'll miss Christmas again."
A sharp knock came from the door. John looked at his watch before muttering to himself "of course". He strode out of his office to answer the door. I followed him, still trying to get the photograph out of my mind. I was afraid of what these monsters might be capable of doing, but I felt that sticking close to a learned man such as Johnathon would be safest for me. I figured that the more I knew, the less I would fear, and I would be able to sleep without images of that photograph torturing me while I sleep. How very wrong I was.

John's colleagues had arrived with a gift that pleased him beyond doubt. They had brought him his specimen to study, dissect and analyze. He led them down to the basement laboratory, helping them navigate the 8 feet long crate through the building. The crate rattled and shook continuously, as if something alive was in there. I followed tentatively down the stairs, keeping my distance, a growing dread sat in my stomach, for I had made an educated guess that the thing in the crate was the same specimen as the monster in the picture. I shivered just thinking about it, but that reaction was nothing to the paralyzing fear I felt when I actually discovered that my assumptions were correct.

Once in the basement, the men used a crowbar to pry open the lid. They turned it over onto the floor, and I had a clear view of the creature within. Almost 8 feet tall, vampirous in appearance (according to descriptions in folklore, at least), battered and twisted wings were bonded to its side, limbs bound, mouth gagged. If it weren't for these things keeping it secure, I would have left then and there, out of the room, the office, the city, hell, I'd probably have been on a ship half way to America before the others realized I had gone. But even with the bondage, and the six burly men restraining the struggling monster, my feet were rooted to the floor with fear. I would have screamed, but my terror had robbed me of that, too. It was only after John stuck a needle into his specimen and dragged the limp body into a prison-like cell, that I found the strength to sit down, and get my brain functioning properly again.

I watched as John gathered samples from the creature, clippings off its wings, blood samples, saliva samples, teeth molds. He worked from behind the locked bars, which caused my stomach to turn, if the beast were to awaken, he'd be dead. But he worked quickly and efficiently, appearing calm and collected, while I sat in the corner, trying to stop my head spinning just thinking about the situation. He then lacerated the bonds holding the creature into place, and it slackened onto the floor. Although John didn't show it physically, he was relieved to get out of the cell and lock his specimen away. He put the samples under microscopes, he took notes, he mixed the fluids with chemicals, he took more notes. I had no idea what he was looking for, and by the way he held his head over his work, neither did he.

The "creature" in the cell started to come around as the drugs wore off. It got to its feet, head almost touching the ceiling, wings had barely enough room to unfold. John had his back turned, and had no notice, so did a few of his colleagues, who were also conducting several small scale experiments. But a couple of others noticed too, and they looked very afraid. The vampire yelled, a long, agonizing, almost wolf-like cry. It rattled the bars of the cell and batted its wings furiously.
"Mi ala fa'hra shi omar!" It yelled. " Mi ala fa'hra shi omar!"
John was now staring at the creature as it repeated this phrase at the top of its lungs. His pen scrawled across parchment, but his eyes remained fixated on the beast. What were these words it was speaking? What language? What meaning? I looked over at Johnathon, he sat there with his papers, pen still flailing madly. When we came down to the basement, the desk and equipment were all neatly organized, now, after the short time while John and his men worked, his desk was as messy as the one in his office, paper strewn everywhere, he had books opened all over the place, and now he was intently observing the conscious daemon's actions. He was writing frantically, absorbing every movement, every action processed by this creature's mind. A full psycho-analysis was unfolding before my eyes, and he sat there writing, mimicking the phrase under his breath, "Mi ala fa'hra shi omar".


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We had been in the basement for hours, but I seemed to be the only one in the room at a loss as to what to do. There came a point where I could take it no longer, my still silence and observations were driving me mad. I got to my feet and shuffled back upstairs to make beverages for John and his team. From the small office kitchen, I could still head the monster's cries. I didn't want to go back down there, so I took as much time as needed to prepare the tea and coffee. Several minutes passed, as I waited for the water to boil, when I noticed a loud crash from below. The lights went out, I could hear some yelling and grunting from the basement, of which I couldn't distinguish man from beast. I stood fast, rooted to the spot, waiting for some indication to move. I waited a few more minutes, listening intently to the sounds beneath me. Were they... dead? I couldn't hear anything any more, such was the sudden, intense silence. No voice or movement could be heard, I was isolated in the darkness, fear starting to consume me, consciousness confusing real with dream. It was all real, no I wasn't imagining things. I was brought to my senses by the sound of slow, heavy footsteps climbing up the stairs.

The footsteps were moving closer and closer. I could hear them just outside the kitchen door. A faint candlestick glow came through the doorway, it was Johnathon.
"Oh, thank God" I said, and I followed him back out into the hallway. "What happened?".
"They had given the specimen its tranquilizer, opened the cell to take it out, but it failed to react to the shot, and it lashed out and attacked them", his voice was shaking slightly. "Three... maybe four of them were badly injured. When the vampire lashed out, he also knocked out the power generator." John went into his office and got his pen and paper. He scrawled something down and folded up the paper. He handed it to me and said "Can you do a favour for me? Take this note to my daughter, Elizabeth, and then come straight back, we need to sort this mess out".

John walked with me to the door, then I ran down the street. As soon as I turned the corner, I unfolded the message and read, "Dear Elizabeth, I won't be making it home for Christmas this year. I am truly, deeply sorry. With sincerest apologies, your father."
I folded the note up, regretting the situation John was forced into. He was like a small, innocent creature, being boxed in by an 8 feet tall carnivorous bat. I started running again, his house wasn't very far from his office. The note was crumpled in my hand, my grip on it was unrelenting. I came to a halt outside the house, doubled over to catch my breath. I lifted a fist and knocked on the door. I saw little Elizabeth peer through the curtains of the front window to see who I was. She opened the door to let me in.
"Hello, Elizabeth" I said kindly. "I'm sorry I can't stay this time, I'm just here to give you this note from your father". A tear rolled down my cheek. It tore me up inside to bring such devastating news to such a young, innocent child.
"Thank you, Mr. Dawson" she said, and she began unfolding the note. Her lip trembled as the news hit her. She looked up from the paper to say something to me, but I had already started running back to her father.

I approached the office to find that the electricity had been restored. I walked through the open front door, and called out, "John!?"
"I'm in the basement!" He yelled back.
I crept down the stairs once again, afraid of what I would find there. The room was pretty messy, quite a bit of blood on the floor, and John stood over a table, strapped to which was the vampire. There were 3 of John's colleagues also standing over the creature, the others, I noticed to my horror, were locked in the cell, piled on the floor.
"Are they... dead?" I asked.
"No, they're unconscious. They should come round soon enough, but I'd prefer that they were dead. They were bitten by the specimen, and if my research is consistent, they have been infected with a virus which will latch on to their brain, release toxins into their blood. They'll have to leech off the blood of others to keep their blood oxygenated, to stay alive."
"So, how's this one staying alive?" I was revolted by the thought of the werewolf-like disease John was speaking of.
"These wings here", he said, indicating to the large black wings sprouting from the creature's back, "they're grown over time, due to a genetic alteration from the infection. The wings create a blood stimulation that produces a hormone which balances against the decay. A lot of people who get this disease will die shortly after, because they can't replenish their blood."
It was disturbing, yet hauntingly tragic, how precise John had been with his research on the existence of such an aberration of nature.

His next actions truly disturbed me more than anything he had done in the past. He produced a hacksaw from his tool kit, lifted one of the vampire wings off the table, and began sawing it off from the unconscious vampire. He held a jar to the base of the wing, collecting its viscous blood. He proceeded to do the same with the other. Then, he slowly raised the jar to his lips, and consumed its entire contents. And at that point, I realized. I departed the room in an instance, up the flight of stairs, out onto the street, as far from his as possible, for I knew that he was void of all human emotions.
From several blocks away, I heard a menacing cry coming from his office, " Mi ala fa'hra shi omar!"
And I knew that never again, would he see his daughter on Christmas...


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Old stories acceptable eh? Well I've got the perfect short for you. I submitted this to fourthperspective a long time ago, March of '07. Some readers there were confused by it... I'll let you know now that YES, it is complete. It is EXACTLY how I wanted it to be. Just don't read it too quickly, you might miss something. Though the judges have good heads on their shoulders so I imagine y'all be fine.

Anywho. I present,

Cause of Death

"COD?" asked Matthews.

Arch examined a piece of tissue under a device that resembled a microscope. He removed the dish after a moment. "Looks like cancer. Again."

"Jesus. That's the third one this week. The third," sputtered Matthews.

"Yeah... well... you know how it is. Slide 'im in."

Matthews pressed a button and the flat stainless-steel slab that the cadaver was lying on slid back into the cooling chamber. He looked over at Arch, who had his hands planted on his hips. "This was the last one right?"

"Yeah. Wanna go catch the game down at Rudy's?"

"Sure. Let's get cleaned up."

A few moments later, the men were strolling out of the clinic and towards the bar a few blocks away.

"I still find it hard to believe," said Matthews.

"Find what hard to believe?" asked Arch, who was distracted by a group of kids playing some street hockey on the road.

"That that was the third one this week. Last week we had two! I heard that South End had five last week Arch. Five!"

"You really find it that surprising?"

"Well, I don't know. I suppose it's just... just..."

"I know what you mean. But no one knew how dangerous they would be back then."

Matthews nodded solemnly. Then he spoke, "I guess it was just in style back then?"

"Still is! And the thing is some people really rely on the suckers too."

"Sad. Really. But I mean, my Uncle used them for like forty years and he died at eighty."

Arch snorted, "yeah, everyone knows someone who was a heavy user and didn't get touched. But the majority... the majority..." he stopped and picked up a discarded piece of packaging off the sidewalk.

Matthews eyed the package with a sort of remote horror. "The fact that you can pick them up in any old gas station is just... I mean with what we know they can do to you..." he said.

Arch started walking again and continued what he was going to say: "The majority of people end up like this." He tapped the surgeon general's warning on the package. A gruesome image showed scarred and mutilated tissue.

"It's amazing people still buy them, even with those pictures..."

Matthew's eyes lit up a bit, "why don't they just make them illegal?"

Arch snorted again. "Yeah right. That'd just make it worse, no doubt. You can't snuff out usage now. Not in this day and age."

Matthews was silent. Arch threw the package into a trash can.

"The ads didn't help either," Arch said after awhile.

"Oh no, I remember them as a kid. So trendy, so 'hip'. I wanted to be part of it but my mother always said no. Bless her heart."

The men walked in silence again until they reached the bar. Once there, Matthews turned to Arch and said, "hey before we go in, wanna split a smoke?"

"Yeah sure. It'll get my mind off of... you know."

Matthews fished a pack out of his pocket.

"These ones are infused with ginseng."

Arch produced a lighter. "Can you imagine that fifty years ago, these were considered dangerous?"

Matthews nodded in acknowledgment as his lit his cigarette. He puffed once, then said, "yeah... they had like, tar and cyanide in 'em"

"Crazy."

"So then, which Superbowl is on next Sunday? 94?"

"What year are you livin' in Matthews? It's 92."

"I knew that."

The day's work forgotten, the men entered the sports bar. They ordered some beer and the barman turned up the volume on the VisionProjector. By the next hour, they were having such a good time that neither of them noticed or were bothered when the cell phone rang, or when the man at the bar got up to go outside and answer it.

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I'm going to need a lot more than 8192 characters for this, closer to 8192 pages..

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At 5/22/09 11:16 PM, SolusLunes wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 14339
Can I has my trophy nao? :D

I think they have to be songs.


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