MERRY CHRISTMAHANAKWANZICA!

Wow it's been forever since I've posted anything! Long story short is that we got rid of our internet at home as it cost too much for now to keep it. We will be getting it back up soon though so maybe I can post more.

Nothing other than work going on here. Thankfully Karen got herself a new job and will be making some good money-we can use it. Good news though, as of Halloween, Karen and I are engaged. I had Kokomo, our dog for those not in the know, do the asking. I woke up early with her and put the ring box on her collar. In the box I had a note that said, 'Mommy will you marry Daddy?' and Karen said yes to her. It was very cute.

I finally did a new drawing though! I did another picture for my nephew. This time I stuck with what I know, and that's fantasy. I was definitely more in my comfort zone on this one. Drawing other people's characters makes me so nervous-I always want to make sure I do them right and not look like they have Down's or not look like the character at all. I roughed this one up over the weekend, and after a few more goes at it, I settled on this. I like it, with the exception of the cave walls. I totally flaked on them and I know they look like shit. I just didn't feel doing crag-lines and what not as I didn't think they would work out and not flow right with the picture. That and it would have taken forever to re-work that idea into the picture. Instead I vomited ink onto it and thus it looks like ass. Other than that though I love it. The wizard the only weak character in my opinion but still looks nice. I should have put some runes and stuff on his robes, but it's done. So without rambling on any further here it is:

Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday for whatever you celebrate!!

HALLOWEEN STORY!

Howdy y'all! I know I haven't posted anything in forever, but i haven't had a chance to while at work, and since we got rid of our internet at home i've had no chance to post anything. I've been watching a lot of horror/thriller/suspense movies the past couple of weeks and I want to post about some of them just haven't had a chance. BUT being this is the time of year for creepy, scary stuff, I felt I'd share a little something with anyone who's actually reading! Years ago I was starting an idea for a novel and have yet to ever get back to working on it, but I plan to. I re-worked my original prelude chapter to send over to Todd and his story contest at his blog and felt I'd post it here. Hope ya like it!
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The skies raged with lightning and the ground shook with thunder. Rain came down in sheets as Father Hennessy tried to find shelter from the storm in the desolate town. As he came upon a cemetery, lightning streaked across the sky giving him a brief glance of a building in the middle of the cemetery. He opened the gates and entered the burial grounds of the once thriving small town.

"I've got to get out of this storm," said Hennessy as he frantically ran towards the building. Halfway there he tripped on his robe, landing flat on his face. As he got to his knees, lightning struck again, and he found himself looking up at the most hideous tombstone he had ever seen. Atop it was a statue of a man in tattered robes, and as the lightening struck again he saw it wasn't a man, but a monster.

A hood half hid the monster’s face, but the features he could make out were a large, pointed ear sticking out from a hole in the hood, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth, with the incisors being slightly larger than the others resembling those of a vampire. Father Hennessy was about to get up when the ground shook causing him to lose his balance. He failed to notice a hand coming up from the ground, and as he tried to stand, it grasped his right ankle. He cried out in horror and tried to break free of the hands' grip, but it was no use. Hennessy kicked at the hand with his other foot trying to break the hand off his ankle. Then a second hand came up, followed by the upper half of the body to which they belonged. What he saw scared him more than he’s ever been scared before, it was the living embodiment of the statue.

“Lord help me!” screamed Hennessy, as the creature pulled the rest of it’s decayed body from the ground. As the monster pulled itself from the ground it released it’s grip on Hennessy’s foot, and Hennessy ran for the building in the middle of the cemetery. A smile appeared on the creature’s face as it stood up and followed after the priest. As Hennessy reached the building, he noticed that the door was bolted from the inside.

“Damn!” he muttered as he turned around and saw the creature lumbering towards him. He looked around for a place to hide, but found nothing. He ran in the other direction from which the creature was approaching. As he was running he heard something fly overhead, so he stopped short, sliding on the slippery ground. Before he could fall he was lifted from the ground by the creature. Holding him up by his robes, the creature’s teeth gleamed as lightning struck again. The last thing Father Hennessy ever saw were the creature’s fangs going for his throat and then a flash of light.

As the creature finished it’s feeding, it looked around in disbelief and fell to its knees. It put its hands over it’s face and cried as it repeated to itself over and over, “No, not again. This can’t be happening again.” A bolt of lightning then struck the ground before him and he raised a fist to the skies and cursed at the heavens.

-STORY COPYRIGHT OF MYSELF-SO DON'T STEAL IT BITCHES!

FIRE IN THE HOLE PART 10-THE FINALE!!!!

Ok so here it is the end of the story. I failed miserably at my main intention, which was to put this out weekly. Todd gave me a good tip that I should have it finished and let it stew for a bit, then take a run through it and see how I feel about it. Then let it loose upon the world. Next time I write something I will do that, but I was looking to do this on the fly and kinda just run with it. Other than my outline of where I wanted it to go, I didn't get into the story until I started it. Time got the best of me, but I've got it done, learned a valuable lesson and had a blast working with the crew I chose for the story. The story of the greys was something I wanted to do for a long time, and this allowed me a great outlet for it and to be able to work with the 'Haps. So here we go, enjoy the ending!! And thanks again to Todd for letting me play!!
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“Big,” trembled Molly. “You and Peter need to get us all out of here as fast as possible. The things the lead alien-“

“Molly, he’s dead. Look,” said Big as he pointed at the tank. “Where were you, what did he do to you?”

“I don’t want to talk about it. We still need to get out of here though. There’s a strangeness here that we need to get away from, or we’ll be devoured by it.”

“Hey Big!” yelled Choopie. ”I found this panel over here on the other side of the tank. It’s got this button on it, I wonder what it does?!”

“Choopie, don’t push that button. Step away from the pa-“

Choopie pushed the button and the room exploded in red flashing lights and a really obnoxious alarm.

“What did you do that for ya little creep?!” yelled Hammerskold.

“COMPLEX IMPLOSION IMMENENT. COUNTDOWN 15 MINUTES.”

“Um, that’s not good is it Big?” asked Choopie.

“No, it’s not. We need to get out of here now!”

“Wow he just continues with the stupidity.” Muttered Hammerskold.

They all headed for the door that they came in from but it was locked. Trying the door on the side of the room they found that one shut tight as well.

“Why would they set the doors to lockdown mode? Wouldn’t they want to be able to escape?” asked Merrow.

“I think the idea was to not let anyone escape.” replied Big. “I believe we may be stuck down here.”

“No we aren’t Big!” called Choopie, back by the tank. “I found a door hidden behind the tank. There’s another panel thingy with a button. Can I push this one?”

They all ran over to where he was standing and sure enough there was a door. Big pushed the button and the door opened.

“COMPLEX IMPLOSION IMMENENT. COUNTDOWN 13 MINUTES.

“C’mon this has to be some kind of escape route.” Said Big.

The door led into a corridor with a slight incline. The flashing red lights were the only light source and the alarms were a little duller in the corridor. They moved as fast as they could. Hammerskold took point laser rifle in hand with Molly taking the rear still slightly terrified and constantly looking behind her. The corridor leveled out and eventually they came to a bend and they continued on. The ever present reminder letting them know every minute where they stood-currently they had 5 minutes left to whatever fate would befall them if they didn’t get out in time.

The corridor seemed like it went on forever and they were getting tired from the forced run to get out, well except Molly, who was still terrified. Finally they reached an end to the corridor. The good news-there was a door, the bad news-it didn’t seem like it was going to open, the even worst news-they were at the minute mark to get out. Frantically Big looked for something to open the door with, but there wasn’t any touch panel or buttons of any kind around it. Choopie went to slump down against the door and fell right through it.

“Big!” he said peeking his head back through the door. “It’s the outside!! We made it c’mon, there’s a crew here from BEDLAM!”

As the overhead countdown started its final count from 5 seconds they all closed their eyes and jumped through the door hoping the door would hold in the imploding complex.

Outside they found themselves outside again back near the hole they were sent to investigate. There was indeed a BEDAM crew there, having come to find out what happened to the team. They had cordoned off the area under the guise of a hazmat team so as to keep anyone who stumbled into the area away. Inside of a large tent Big, Choopie and Hammerskold were talking with the Chief, letting him know what had happened to them. What they had seen and encountered after being taken captive by the greys.

“Ok so the leader of the greys had telepathic and telekinetic powers, but the part I don’t get is what happened to Molly?” asked the Chief. “What happened to her and why is she still scared? Was he really able to send her to the other side?”

“From what I can gather Chief,” explained Big. “I don’t think so. I can’t believe they would have the power to do that, otherwise we would have all had similar fates once he figured out we were going to be any kind of trouble. Thanks to Merrow though we were able to turn the tables on them.”

“Speaking of Merrow, Big, she really saved the day. Good thing you had her with you.”

“Yeah, she’s something else huh Chief?” asked Hammerskold as he looked outside the tent where Merrow was sitting and talking with Molly.

“Well, I’m glad everything turned out ok. It’s a real shame that the greys complex is destroyed. We found no trace of it at all, with the exception of the hole which blew out debris from the implosion.”

“Somehow Chief,” said Choopie sounding strangely retrospective. “I don’t think that’s the last well see or hear from them.”

Outside the cordoned off area a figure walked off muttering as it did so, “They can’t keep me from my hole, one day I’ll find out what went on here.”

FIRE IN THE HOLE PART 9!

yeah this is way late!! sorry i've been swamped and our internet at home blows(not sure how much longer we're going to keep it really). ok so originally i was going to just wrap it up here, BUT i decided to extend things a smidge just cuz i've been having computer problems and time issues. looks like this is going to stretch out into another part or so as i wanted to break up the way thing went with this next part.
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The grey with the device in its hand started towards Merrow, but before it could do anything she touched both Big and Hammerskold on the shoulders.
“You’re both free of his hold, I had been waiting to do this but only got it to work now.”
She then reached over and touched Choopie as well and then flew up to the top of the tank. Hammerskold began firing at the greys, but they seemed to have some sort of force field surrounding them, so he switched tactics and aimed for the beasts instead. Big found a computer setup on the side of the tank. He went to it and saw that it was linked to the main server of the compound. Choopie looked for some kind of weapon and saw that one of the beasts that Hammerskold took down had a club of sorts. He ran over and picked it up, having a little trouble as it was a little big for him.
Creeping up behind one of the greys he swung at its head. Expecting to hit the force field he was surprised to find he connected and sent the little alien flying. The other two greys looked at each other then turned their attention to Choopie, before he had a chance to do anything he was lifted into the air and started to flail around. Getting a grip on himself he threw the club at one of the greys and knocked it out, but he was still being held up by the other one.
“Your attempts at escape are futile, you will never be able to get free from here!!” Boomed throughout the room as more beasts and a few more greys came in from all sides.
“Big, I hope you have some idea what you’re doing over there!” yelled Hammerskold.
“I think so….this system is just so, for lack of a better word, alien.”
“Well hurry it up we’re-“ he was cut off as one of the beasts swung at him knocking him clear across the room, he managed to hold onto the gun and fire at the beast until he hit the wall.
Meanwhile Merrow was busy at the top of the tank trying to find a way in.
“What do you think you’re doing up there little nymph? There’s no way into here if that’s what you’re thinking.”
“Not looking for a way in, looking to make sure there’s now way out.”
“What?!”
At that she placed her hands on the top of the tank and started chanting. The fluid in the tank started to swirl around as her chanting got louder. Her body started to glow brightly and the lead grey started to squirm as much as was possible inside the tank. Figuring out what was happening he started to scream filling the room with a cacophonous roar, changing to a slow gurgle. The fluid in the tank kept swirling around him then it started entering his body through any possible orifice it could. The greys and beasts fell to the ground from the telepathic screams, Choopie finally free fell to the ground as well.
Hammerskold, Big and Choopie all stared in awe at the brightly glowing Merrow and her magic assault on the lead grey. Soon all the fluid was gone from the tank, the lead grey looking like a more bloated, stretched version of itself. It clawed at the tank as its eyes grew enormous. Screaming again, the gang covered their ears then the grey imploded inside the tank refilling it with fluid and body parts.
“Aw gross, that’s just….aw man, I just threw up in my mouth, that was just wrong on sooo many levels!” said Choopie.
Merrow stopped glowing and let go of the tank then she fell towards the floor. Hammerskold ran over and caught her looking down at her as she passed out. The greys and the beasts all seemed to be out cold, Big tried to check if they were dead or not but was unable to tell.
They all turned at a sound behind them which sounded like a loud pop, and floating there with a look of terror on her face was Molly…..

FIRE IN THE HOLE PART 8!!!

ok so working on this all at once didn't happen. i needed to rework this part a few times as no matter how many times i wrote it, it was hard trying to incorporate everyone and not single anybody out. unfortunately that happened, but only because the events dictated it. that and the newest silent hill game kept dragging me away from the computer(sad part is it wasn't that good of a game, but i needed to beat it). anywho's here we go, 2 more parts left after this!!

“MOLLY!!!”

All four screamed and tried again to break free of the hold put upon themselves, but with the same result, nothing.

“What have you done with her?” asked Big. “How is it you have the ability to get her to ascend?”

“Ascend? Is that what you think I did? No she didn’t ascend, quite the opposite, she descended.” The creature chuckled, well more like chortled, as it was more of a laughter filled with fluids.

“What do you want with us? If we’re that much trouble why not just get rid of us all then?”

“I’d like to vote a firm ‘no’ on that Big,” said Choopie.

“What do we want of you? You would have found that out had you not escaped from the lab. We’ve been collecting specimens from this planet, and while we’ve have ample supplies, our encounters with those of your kind have been oh so rare.”

“Our kind? What’s he mean by that?” questioned Choopie.

“What I mean by that little ‘Goatsucker’ is all the different mystical or mythical creatures this planet has hidden amongst its dark corners. We’ve been trying to find more of you but have had no luck. The humans are fine but our attempts at alteration have been mostly failures. Our enforcers, we have been able to almost perfect, but we still have errors in the DNA of our subjects. We had hoped to try and see what we could do with any one of you, but then you had to go and cause that trouble I spoke about.”

“Yes we’ve come to understand that that is one of your reasons for being here, but there’s never been any proof of your existence. Let alone that you have set up shop under our very noses.”

“We have been here for longer than you think. While you’re government thinks that we come here in our ships, it’s the opposite. Our ships aren’t taking people into space they’re bringing them back underground.”

“And what of the ‘hole’ we found? What’s the significance of that?”

“Hole? What hole?”

“The one found in what we call Washington State?”

“Oh, yes. While it can be considered a hole, it’s evidently a poorly hidden vent.”

“Vent? What for?”

“So many questions, but I’ll humor you anyway. We need to exhaust our various duct work somewhere. It can get very stifling down here with all of the things we are in the process of doing.”

“That doesn’t explain how come people have experienced with regards to them.”

“Well we do release various radiations and waste at times from the vents. Some of what we use in our experiments can cause different effects upon your kind.”

“Now it makes sense. You said vents-how many are there?”

“It matters not just know that the problems with your atmosphere aren’t just your doing.”

“What?”

“Our little question and answer session is over I’m afraid. We’ve finished readying our other lab for you.” A door opened to their left and more of the beasts entered the room along with a few of the greys one of which was holding some sort of device in its hand.

“I believe you’ll be a lot more cooperative this time and to convince you to do so we have a little something special for the pretty little nymph here.”

FIRE IN THE HOLE PART 7!!!

Here we go! This part ended up being longer, but man was it fun!
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Then the alarms sounded, followed by the room being lit up by flashing red lights. Once his eyes adjusted Big looked in the doorway from which they entered. Leaning against the opening was Hammerskold holding a large assault weapon. He stumbled in and hit the switch to the restraints on Big’s table.
“Big.”
“Peter.”
When he was free Big got up and freed Choopie. He looked over to where Merrow was and saw she was floating in the air, still glowing her eyes red as fire. Then he heard the hiss of a door opening and saw two beasts enter the room. Hammerskold raised his gun but stared in awe as Merrow gathered the liquid from the floor and launched it at the beasts knocking them back against the wall. Choopie ran over to where Molly was being held and lowered the field holding her.
They started to head through the door where the beasts came in and saw four more heading down a hallway towards them. Looking behind them they heard three of them coming through the blown open doorway.
“Molly see if you can fly ahead through the beasts and see what lies down that hallway, we’ll see what we can do here,” said Big.
“Ok.” She stayed as high as she could but the beasts didn’t seem to see her pass them by.
The rest of them backed into the room again Hammerskold firing down the hallway at the four beasts taking out two of them. The other two tripped over the others and fell on their faces, easily picked off by Hammerskold. Choopie ran back into the room and yelled at the two beasts coming though the other door and stuck his tongue out. Getting one’s attention it lumbered his way, but before it got too close he ran onto the dais that Molly was kept on. The beast lunged at him and he rolled backwards off the dais and switched on the force field, it’s arms getting severed at the elbows, falling to the floor at Choopie’s feet.
“Eww gross, but flippin sweet!”
“Merrow,” yelled Big. “If I can crack on of the other vats can you do that trick again?”
“Yes, Big I can. Just hurry as I’m growing weaker.”
Big went over to the monitors and saw that he could turn off the alarm from that station so he did so. He then lifted the large monitor and launched it at one of the fluid filled vats cracking it open. As the water poured out Merrow flew over to it, raised her arms and launched it at the beast like a battering ram. The beast flew through one of the windows behind it and fell with a loud grunt. The four then headed down the hallway that Molly flew down.
Meanwhile Molly kept on going trying to make heads or tails of all the intersecting corridors. She came upon a room split down the middle by a large wall interspersed with large windows. Slowly creeping under one she looked through it to see what was on the other side. There were a few of those greys standing on a raised section of the floor surrounding a large table. Upon the table looked to be one of the beasts, only it wasn’t as large and seemed more human than the others. They were poking and prodding it with weird looking instruments, but it didn’t move. She ducked out of the way as one seemed to look her way.
She heard something behind her and saw that it was the rest of the team. She lifted her finger to her lips signaling them to be quiet and pointed at the window. They crawled under it and Big looked carefully at what was going on.
“Looks as if they’re doing some kind of experiments and making those beasts out of people,” he said.
“Great cuz that sounds like a good thing,” said Choopie.
“Let’s keep going and see how we can get out of here.”
They continued on a little further and came to a large set of doors with symbols and strange writing on different parts of it. Everyone was exhausted but the need to continue pushed them on. Big went to one of the panels on the side of the door and hit the button to open it. They entered a dark room and couldn’t tell what was in it. The door slammed shut behind them and the room was lit up by a bunch of blue orbs in the ceiling.
The room was empty with the exception of some stairs leading up to an platform area still enshrouded in darkness.
“Come up the stairs, I’ve been expecting you,” boomed a voice that echoed throughout the room and even though they didn’t want to, they felt compelled to do so and found themselves walking anyway. As they climbed the stairs more blue lights lit the way. Once they got to the platform above a succession of lights came on and they all stared in awe as before them was a large glass chamber filled with a green liquid. Inside was a creature unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. It looked like one of the greys only much larger and more bloated. It’s large, black eyes had some sort of white film and its skin had a purple hue to its grey. It didn’t seem to move at all and it’s arms and legs seemed like they were withering away.
“I don’t appreciate the trouble it seems you’re going to cause us,” came the booming voice again. It came from the creature but it’s lips didn’t move, instead the voice was in their heads.
“We weren’t looking for trouble,” said Big. “We were trying to figure out the mystery of the hole.” He realized though that he couldn’t move his legs. The others couldn’t move either it seemed, with the exception of Molly. Who was slowly trying to inch away.
“Regardless, you already caused much trouble and we will not stand for it. You must be held accountable. We shall start with the spirit.”
At that Molly screamed hunching over and clutching her chest.
“What is it they say about your kind?” the being asked. “Oh yes, you’re only still in this realm due to something keeping you from crossing to the other side. Let’s remedy that.”
And as Molly screamed more she started to flicker, then it seemed like she was being torn apart until she just disappeared……

ERRRR.........

When Big was able to see again he realized he was in his bed back at BEDLAM. Looking around frantically he figured out that he must have been sleeping and having one hell of a nightmare.......THE END



NAH!!! Just kidding! Sorry the next part isn't done yet. It should be tomorrow though. And I will be doing the next few parts in one shot and will post them in succession a few days apart. There will be like 3 or 4 more depending upon how my outline fleshes out.