Re: My First Piece of Literature
Dream Island
The captain and his friends attempted to escape from the island, but there were some whom were holding them back, keeping them tied down to the inside of the island. They could not fight them, except for the captain -- Jack, who could sprout large, unbreakable metallic tentacles, with silver hands and the ends, that had immeasurable strength, but had a mind of their own. with these tentacles the captain could defeat any opponent, but whenever he uses it he becomes a little more under their control and loses little more of himself. Jill was hung by her wrists in the dungeon, with the captain in a cage forced to watch as the creatures began to eat Jill and the caged Mukkur, who are completely denseless, when suddenly Jack's tentacles burst out, him trying to control them as they destroy the cage, freeing him. He then kills the blob monsters that were eating Jill and Mukkur and begins to free them, but he loses control over the tentacles, and they begin to reach for the captive's throats. Just before the tentacles throttle the prisoners, the captain's will returns and an inner conflict begins, between the captain and the tentacles. The captain is very slowly losing, as the tentacles reach toward Jill and mukkur and as if in slow motion, the captain simply watches with horror.
Then suddenly, a voice is heard coming from the only stairs leading out of the underground prison. "You shouldn't change sides you know, they --(he indicates Jill and Mukkur) --might get hurt." "I.. had to use them.. to save Jill.. but I can't... stop them much longer.." the captain responds, desperately, as if begging the voice for help, but with no idea who it is or even if it's even coming from a human or some sort of creature that has learned English. "Well then, looks like you need a hand eh?" Suddenly the evil scientist, who created this island and everything on it bursts into the room and grabs the captain's tentacles. "What?! you.. you... YOUR THE ONE WHO PUT US HERE?! HOW DARE YOU?!" the tentacles alter their path and begin to reach for the scientist. " I am not here to hurt you, but to help you escape. I have seen the error of my ways, and intend to use my strong influence with these monsters to aid you in your retreat." the scientist explains "but then what do you want from us?!" The captain booms angrily . "Want from you? one simple request: that you take me with you. I cannot live here among these monsters anymore, It would drive mad." Jill stirs. "mmmn" The captain is startled, and cries out "Jill!" He then turns back to the scientist. "How do I know I can trust you?" The scientist pushes against the tentacles with all his might "would ya mind calling these things off for me first?" The captain focuses, and finally manages to tame them and draw them back in. "Thank you." He says, clearly out of breath. Then he simply reaches into his pocket, and grabs a keychain. he searches through it, finds one, and lifts it up. The captain recognizes it instantly: "This is the key to your locks. On this keychain there is every single key you will need for this island, including this" He holds up a shining silver key, the ignition to the only boat on the island. "Without these, there is no hope of escape. Would I do this if I wanted you dead?" The scientist throws the keychain to the captain. "... Very well then, you can come with us. but one wrong move and ---yes yes I am aware." the scientist cuts in. The captain nods, then undoes the others' locks.
Jill begins to wake up, having been unconcious and the three of them climb onto Mukkur as he carries them all out of the prison. Mukkur skillfully avoids all the creatures on the island. They reach the boat, and the scientist and captain jump onto the deck and head for the to get the boat going, but the instant that they set foot on the deck, Jill and Mukkur run back out into the island, yelling "we forgot something!" The captain and scientist look at each other, and silently agree that they can't leave without them so they decide to wait. They sit on the boat, as it bobs slightly in the waves, listening to the sound of the ocean, but staying below the walls of the boat so as to avoid being seen because while they do now have a way to fight the monsters, it is not an easy thing to do... "So we may as well introduce ourselves if we're gonna die here" the scientist states. The suddennes of this statement catches the captain off guard. "We are not going to die, as long as Jill comes back soon. "Still I'd rather know your name. Here I'll start: My name is Henry." "Jack" "Nice to meet ya." Silence for a few tense minutes until footsteps resonate through the ship. Jack looks at Henry, who walks out to the deck. There are two panther-monsters on the deck of the ship. Henry liesurely walks back.. "Two panthers. This could get bad." says Henry thoughfully. "If we try to fight them the noise will draw more, but if we don't fight them then we'll never be able to leave and Jill will never be able to get back on..." Jack responds; "Well, it looks like we have to fight... but we dont need to kill them all, just throw them overboard okay?" "Right. how much longer should we wait for Jill?" "Until we hear from her. Even if she can't make it back, Mukkur will, and he'll take us to her." "What good would we do if shes already in trouble?" Henry asked. "We will do what we can, Henry." Jack answers quietly, but strongly, as though whispering a command. They grit their teeth, glance briefly at each other, then charged straight onto the deck.
Jack notes Henry's surprising fighting skill despite his proffession, and the creatures seem less inclined to actually hurt him than Jack, perhaps because they have feelings for their "father" of sorts. The two men fight with everything they had, and throw as many of the monsters as they possibly can overboard, but everytime they killed one, another appeared. They were fighting a losing battle; their bodies getting worn out, gaining more and more wounds, and the monsters never stopped coming. The battle continued on like this for what felt like hours, until eventually a powerful and angered roar erupt from the nearby shore. The roar was backed by so much emotion that it struck fear into the hearts of all, and the creatures fled. Suddenly Mukkur was standing at the ramp to the boat, and growling as if anxious. Jill was nowhere to be seen. Jack panicked while Henry tried to figure out what was wrong. "Mukkur where's Jill?! What happened?! What did you go back for?!" Jack screamed these questions fearfully, but Mukkur simply turned, pointed with his head at the mountain in the center of the island, and crouched down, as though ordering Jack to jump on. Jack mounts, and calls to Henry "get on, we're going back for Jill!"
Henry jumps on and Mukkur takes of, sprinting across the island at full speed, they reach the mountain within minutes and Mukkur continues to climb up the steadily inclined path that leads to a cave entrance and sprints down the cave, until suddenly coming to a stop next to a crack in the wall. The crack is about four feet long from end to end, and about a foot tall. Jack and Henry get off of Mukkur and look around, not noticing the crack. "Mukkur where is Jill?! Why are we here?!" Mukkur simply growls and points at the crack. Jack moves to look in the crack but Henry stops him. "Wait, let me see this. I have a feeling I know what this is..." He says this grimly, and Jack is unsettled by the tone. He peers inside for a long minute. He looks away as if in pain. "We cann't go in there."
Mukkur's expression turns from rage to grief, and Jack simply puzzles. "What? Why not? What's in there?" Henry slumps and shakes his head. "This is the abode of my most devilish creation. It likes to entrap its prey like a spider, keeping them alive for weeks before killing them. It will kill and eat any human without regret, and particularly likes children." Jack's face pales. "What... you can't mean.." "Yes. Unfortunately, it must have Jill on the menu." Jack's face distorts with a mix of grief, rage, and pain. Suddenly, he charges at the crack, his tentacles come out, and they begin to shred the narrow opening of the crack into a wider tunnel for Jack to fit into. Mukkur follows, and Henry calls out "If you must fight it, don't let its tail touch you! It's venom is a strong sedative!" Jack doesn't seem to respond, he simply continues down the tunnel at as fast as the tentacles can take him. Jack finally breaks into a massive room, More than 40 metres across in either direction and 60 metres tall. There is a single massive spiderweb that takes up the space around the whole chamber. Far away at the top of the chamber a large blood red colored.. thing is hanging on the web. It looks like a 20-foot-long-dragonfly with a lobster's carapace and a scorpion's stinger tail. Meanwhile, scattered throughout the web are hundreds of skeletons, hanging in coccoons all over the web. In the very middle, is one that seems to be struggling...
