Rabk- Part 7

Rabk

Part 7

The Jungle Beast

As the ship went through the ocean, many monsters were encountered. The monsters ranged from one as bad as 'She' to aliens that were shaped like poodles. When the ship had almost exited the most dangerous part of the journey, the came to an island. Compared to Circe's island, it was large. It had mountains in the middle, surrounded by jungle areas, and on the edges of the island, tall cliffs stood, keeping the beach from touching the jungle. Odysseus gave the order to land. Rabk went up to him, worriedly. "Why are we landing?" "We need food" replied Odysseus calmly. "But why couldn't we wait until we get out of this monster-infest area of the ocean?" Odysseus looked at him seriously. "I don't know when we are going to see land next, so we are going to get some food, even if it means facing another monster." Then Odysseus walked off the ship, following his men. Rabk came soon afterwards, though he was reluctant. After walking around on the beaches of the island, the men found a small cut in the cliff which led to the jungle above. This passage was guarded be some natives to the island, who were wearing feathered hats and holding spears. The guards made a strange call up the passageway. Soon, more natives came down the passage an looked at Odysseus's crew. Odysseus's men put their hands up as the natives walked around them and studied them. As they did this, a horn from the jungle sounded. The natives looked up, then all ran into the jungle again, even the guards this time. "That was weird" said Beowulf "Most tribal natives would have taken prisoners." , but nonetheless, the search party went into the jungle. The party found a large bounty of fruits. They found apples, oranges, and grapes, but mainly found bananas, which were stacked up on primitive alters all around the island. As they turned to head back to the boat, they heard a terrifying roar. They tried to move a bit faster in the direction of the boat, but suddenly, another roar came, and this time it was right behind them. As they turned, a large gorilla appeared from out of the jungle. Backing away, Odysseus's men pulled rifles from their bags. As the monster grabbed for them, Odysseus shouted "Fire!". The monkey fell back, swatting around his face like a person would when flies would hover around them. He roared a loud, angry cry. Odysseus turned to Beowulf and Rabk, and with a sense of urgency in his voice, said, "Go." Rabk tried to question the orders, but Beowulf was already pulling towards the jungle entrance. When the two of them got to the boat, the group of men in charge of watching the ship looked up casually. "Get ready to go!" said Beowulf. They started to get up, but when a roar came from the forest, they started moving much faster. Another roar came from the very top of the cliff. "They're going to have to jump!" said one of the crew members. Rabk was confused. "But they'll die," he said. "Not necessarily," replied Beowulf. As another roar came, small figures started shooting off the edge of the cliff. As the men watched, small parachutes deployed from the specks. The men hit the ground and started running for the ship. Odysseus and two other men were the last to land, and as they started to run, the Gorilla landed behind them, causing a mini earthquake. When Odysseus was on, he yelled "Go!" , and the rowers started rowing. The gorilla got to the shore just when they were out of reach. In his anger, the beast ripped a palm tree from the ground and threw it at them. The tree missed them by a long shot. As they sailed off, Rabk turned to Odysseus. "Rifles? and parachutes?" "Hey, in this world, even ancient Greeks can have rifles."

To Be Continued...

Rabk- Part 6

Rabk

Part 6

Revenge

As the ship ventured further into the ocean, a thick mist rolled onto the ship. The whole crew grew quiet. The air had an unpleasant fell to it. Fear was in everyone's eyes. The drama was too much for Rabk. He rolled his eyes. Strange rock formations started to come into sight. After about thirty minutes of this fear, the boat rocked violently from side to side. Several men fell down, and a the men looked around nervously. "What was that?" asked Rabk. "A monster," said Odysseus, pulling out his sword. Rabk looked around to see that everybody had a weapon out. Rabk quickly took drew his own sword, not wanting to be left out. As Rabk did this, the whole crew gasped. Looking to see what they were gasping at, Rabk saw a tentacle slowly crawling over the side of the ship, onto the deck. The tentacle seemed to be sensing, as if it was trying to detect movement. One man tried backing up as the tentacle came towards him, but the man stumbled and fell over a barrel. Immediately, the tentacle shot out towards the man, quickly pulling him over the side of the deck and under the water. The crew all ran to the edge of the ship and looked down. After a few moments, a pool of blood reached the surface of the water. The crew gasped again. As they stared, the tentacle shot out of the water and pulled another man overboard. Yells of terror took the place of gasps, and all the men backed away from the edge, forming a circle in the middle of the ship. "Stand your ground, men," said Odysseus, "If we stay organized, we can defeat this beast." , but of course, when the tentacle came up for another person, there was no organized attacks, just pure chaos. Rabk, not knowing what to do, looked to Beowulf for help, but all he could see in Beowulf's eyes was fear. "It's Her..." whispered Beowulf. Rabk scrunched up his eyes in confusion. "Her?" he asked. "She has no name, Rabk!" yelled Beowulf, "It's Grendel's mother, here to take her revenge on me." Beowulf then ran off, yelling, and joined the chaos. Again, the tentacle rose up out of the water. This time, She sensed Rabk first. As Rabk backed up, the tentacle moved forward at the same speed. Rabk turned and ran to the front of the ship, looking around frantically as the tentacle grew closer. Then Rabk realized that he had a sword in his hand. Rabk closed his eyes, turned his head away, and waved his sword aimlessly in the general direction of the tentacle. Suddenly, he hit something. He looked to see an oozing red cut in the side of the tentacle. The tentacle retracted for a moment, twitching, then reached out for Rabk again. This time, Rabk dodged the tentacle. The tentacle kept going forward and made a hole right through the front of the ship. Rabk stared for a moment, then ran off into the chaos. Soon afterwords, he heard Beowulf yelling. When Rabk found Beowulf, he was scratching at the floor of the deck, the tentacle rapped around his leg. Before Rabk could take any action, Beowulf was already off the side of the ship.Rabk immediately dropped his sword and jumped in the water after Beowulf. As he entered the water, he saw that the tentacle was actually the tail of a giant, hideous she-snake with a wrinkled head. The snake was smiling smugly at him as Beowulf writhed in her grasp. Rabk swam down lower into the water, his ears popping as he descended. Rabk pulled out his knife and stabbed into the back of the snake's head. The snake writhed in pain, letting out an underwater scream. Rabk had no time to cover his ears. He went straight for Beowulf and pulling him to the surface. Odysseus and his men grabbed them out of the water and immediately set sail. As Rabk and Beowulf sat there, gasping and coughing, Odysseus looked down at Rabk. "Your not so bad at this whole monster thing. You could make a decent living here." he said. Rabk smiled. He was safe... ...for now.

TO BE CONTINUED LATER ON...

The Story of a Sister

When I wrote my older sister's story, I tried to make fun of things that she liked, disliked, and wanted to do later in life. I kknew that this might make her mad, so I added some touches that were both funny and nice comments. I think she liked the story, but would like to revise the story so that I get tied to the cactus forever.

The Story of a Sister

The Story of a Family- Part 3

There was once a girl. This girl had a weird younger brother, a younger sister, a computer programmer as a father, and a mother with a Ph.D. in Horticulture. When this girl was 16, she wanted to learn how to drive, so she took all the tests she needed to take, but always procrastinated in learning how to drive, so throughout her life, she could only use public transportation. When she was 18, she decided to become a cook, so she went to work at a fast food restaurant. After 5 years of working there, she wanted to walk to Nebraska. She did. Unfortunately, her finches started to miss her, so they flew from California to Nebraska. When the girl saw them, she thought that they were trying to attack her, so she started to run away from them. They chased her all the way to Boston. When they got to Boston, the finches caught her and flew her over the Atlantic. When they got to the other side of the Atlantic, they got so tired that they dropped the girl and fell into the ocean themselves. The girl landed on a yacht infested with suicide bombers. The girl then grabbed a sledgehammer and hit all the bombers of the edge of the ship with it. Then a rat in a toy plane landed on the boat. The rat ran below deck and a mm long spider climbed out of it. When the girl saw the spider, she started running in circles and screaming. Then the girl’s younger sister came up from below deck and started laughing at the sister she had. After three hours of laughing, the younger sister jumped overboard. Two hours after the younger sister left, an anvil fell on the spider and the sister stopped screaming and running in circles. The girl drove the boat to Australia, where she crashed on the beach. The girl searched the boat for supplies, but only found 50 sticks of dynamite, so she blew a hole through the Earth and came out in Greenland. She then found the remains of a blown-up plane and put it back together with 3 bottles of super glue. She hopped into it and tried to fly back to her home in California, but crashed in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She found her weird brother there next to a cactus and a jeep. The girl quickly tied him to the cactus and drove off in the car (This was her first time driving.). When she got to her home, she found her mother with two potatoes and a microscope. Apparently, her mother had discovered a way to keep potatoes from going bad. They decided to have a party, so the girl went down to the store, where she found her dad, but he no idea who she was, so when she got close, he ran off. She didn’t try to follow him. Instead, she just walked off and met one of her high school friends. He had become the leadership teacher at their old high school. He proposed to her, but when he did, she slapped him and walked off. She then found a playground with a swing set and swung on the swing for the rest of her life, and she was content.

Other parts of The Story of a Family will be posted later on.

Story Written in November, 2009

The Story of a Father

After writing a story for my younger sister's birthday, I found that I liked writing short stories for my family. My family, especially my dad, encouraged me to write more of them, so for every birthday, I write about a different person in the family in the stories. The next birthday after my sister's was in the next month, so I wrote this story for my dad.

The Story of a Father

The Story of a Family- Part 2

There was once a man who married a woman with a Ph.D. in horticulture. They had 3 children, two daughters and one weird son. After he had his kids, he spent all his time making a travel itinerary program. After years of working on it, he finally finished, but when he tried testing it out, the program glitched and blew up every plane on the face of the planet. He spent two years in prison for this crime. While in prison, he wrote Pride and Prejudice 2. When he got out of prison, he went and took a toy airplane and his youngest daughter’s rat and let the rat fly away in the plane. He then disowned the family duck and sent it off to the Philippines. He then decided to take a vacation from life with his weird son, so they went to Belize. They had a great time, but when they were catching a train back home, the man forgot his son. When he was home, the man read the news to find that his eldest daughter had blown a hole through the Earth, so he left his house and bought his wife two potatoes and a microscope. His wife immediately started doing tests on the potatoes. The man soon got bored with his wife doing tests, so he went for a walk. After wandering for a while, he found his younger daughter and she sucked out all of his memories and programming knowledge. She then ran off. He wandered some more, bewildered, until he got to the grocery store, where he met his eldest daughter, but he didn’t remember her, so he ran off. Afraid that she would follow him, the man ran all the way to Alaska. In Alaska, he found a small village where he settled down in and started a new life as a fisherman. After a couple of years, his son found him in the village. No longer weird, the son talked to his father, reminding his father about his whole life and on what he had missed while in Alaska. Then the son brought him back to their old home, where the man’s wife came out to greet him. The man remembered everything upon seeing his wife and the two of them lived to a nice old age and loved each other always.

The other parts of The Story of A Family will be shown later on.

This story written in September 2009.

The Story of A Young Girl

Starting at my younger sister's birthday last August, I decided to make a group of stories that are connected. The main family in the story is loosely based on my family. This first one was the first one I wrote. I didn't have a present for my sister, so the day before her birthday, I wrote this as a present.

The Story of a Young Girl

The Story of a Family- Part 1

There was once a young girl who was the daughter of a computer programmer and a mother with a PhD in horticulture. When she was eight, she dreamed of flying the seas as a flight attendant, and this dream stayed with her over time, but unfortunately, in 2016, all the planes suddenly blew up for no particular reason. Although Miriam didn’t get her dream job, she looked to the future instead of dwelling on the past and hopped on the next train to Canada where she worked the next seven years for a potato farmer. For these seven years, she stayed in contact with all her family except her weird brother who had written her a small story for her ninth birthday instead of buying her something fancy. She stopped working on potato farm after seven years because she got a letter from Barrack Obama saying that he wanted to meet her, so she said goodbye to all her potato farming friends and took a bus to Washington D.C., but once on the bus, she was tied up and gagged, finding out that the bus was filled with Somalian pirates trying to start a ponzi scheme. After tying her up, the pirates threw the girl into the bus’s cargo area and drove off. When they took her out, she found herself in front of the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. The pirates dragged her in and sold her to some veteran suicide bombers. The bombers took her to a yacht and sailed off on there way to the Antarctic, but when they reached the Atlantic, Miriam’s trusty pet rat flew in on a toy airplane and set her free. The girl was so happy that she threw the rat up in the air where he got stuck on a piece of used gum. The girl then went on deck to find her sister being terrorized by a millimeter long spider, but the girl just sat, laughing at the arachnophobe sister she had. After three hours of this, she jumped overboard and swam across the Atlantic to Belize, where she found her weird brother wandering confusingly on the beach. She quickly tied him to a near by pole and left him there. She then got in touch with an old friend named Lippuner. She then hijacked a car and drove to Nashville, where she started a band with Lippuner. After2 years of being in a band and ten hours of blogging, she went to New York and jumped from the Empire State Building to Big Ben where she set the clock back three hours, messing up all of London. She then drove to the Philippines, where her family fed her so much that she looked like a hippo, but then her trusty duck stuck a pin in her, thus deflating her. The girl then went and absorbed all the programming knowledge right out of his head and became a horticulturist. She then met a man named Name and they married that afternoon. They had twenty-eight children and adopted five more, and live confusingly ever after.

Other parts of The Story of A Family will be written later on.

This Story Written in July 2009

Rabk- Part 5

Rabk
Part 5

The Island Castle

There was a large crash. Rabk, still with his eyes closed, doesn't want to see the damage on Odysseus's ship, the ship he is on. He heard a small splash and then a cheer coming from the ship he was on. He opens one eye, and seeing no damage on his ship, opens his other eye and joins the cheering. He looks overboard and realizes that the tip of the ship he is on is pointed and bronze. Captain Hook's ship has a large, nasty hole in it. Suddenly, a face emerges from the waters. It was Hook, himself. Apparently, Hook was knocked overboard be the impact. Odysseus comes up behind Rabk, putting his hand on Rabk's shoulder and laughing. "That was quite a strike, wasn't it, Rabk?" "Very nice," said Rabk, chuckling with relief. Turning around, Odysseus commanded that the ship do the same. Soon, the ship was turned around and sailing out of the river mouth, into the ocean. Rabk looked at Odysseus' crew. It looked like the typical ancient Greek crew, with the exception of a large beetle. Odysseus claims that the beetle was once a human named Gregor. After a half hour, Rabk remembered why he never went on boats. The reason spilled off the side of the ship unceasingly. When an island finally came into view, Odysseus' crew was anxious to land and take a few steps away from Rabk. When Rabk felt a bit better, he went over to Odysseus and Rabk. "I've never seen this island before." "Let's explore it!" said the adventure eager Beowulf. Odysseus shrugged. "Maybe we can find some free food. I'm starving. Odysseus kept his crew together in one group to avoid dangerous situations. After a while of searching, Rabk felt much better, but was starving now. The group found a large castle in the middle of the island. It was a nice looking castle which look like an overgrown Italian villa, but with lots of windows. As the group went the front door, Beowulf looked up at the tall mansion. "It's funny," he said to Rabk. "I would have thought that you could see a castle this large from the beach." Unfortunately, nobody in the entire crew didn't sense the obvious foreshadowing in this statement and went straight to the front door. As they looked into the glass front door, they saw a nice-looking, young lady who was weaving. When she saw them, she immediately got up and ran up to get the door. "Oh, come on in, you poor, weary travellers! You need rest and a good meal to fill you!" As the lady opened the door for them, she said, "I am Circe, and this is my island." Once again, nobody remembered what book she came from or what she did in that book. She led the crew into a large dining room with a high roof and Doric pillars. Stacks of cheeseburgers, fries, and soda were piled on a large table in the center of the room. The hungry men immediately rushed for them and ate. Gregor even had a pile of moldy cheeseburgers on the floor. The men's hunger drove the men to eat everything. After all the food was gone, the men realized that they were pigs. Unfortunately, it was now that Rabk realized where Circe came from. The witch then came in, herding the men into a pen that the men had failed to notice. After she had gotten them inside of it, Circe gave off an evil cackle. Then she noticed a bewildered man who was lying on the floor, looking at his hands. The pigs all squealed from behind her. If pigs could speak, they would have been saying "Gregor!" When all the humans had been turned into pigs, the bug, Gregor, turned back into a human. Hearing his friends' screams, he jumped up and attacked Circe and tied her up with a rope that was in arms reach. After she was secured, he thought about how strange that the rope just happened to be just in the right spot. As Circe screamed "Release me!", Gregor found a handy-dandy potions cabinet. Unfortunately, the potion labels were all written in a different language. Circe cackles echoed through the room. You'll never understand the labels! I wrote them in a different language just in case something like this happened!" Gregor turned around, holding a bottle. "This language is Russian. My native language is Russian." Circe's smile fade, but in a slightly annoyed voice said "Well, if you use that potion on you're friends, you will turn back into a bug!" Odysseus's crew squeal with horror. Would Gregor sacrifice his humanness to save them? The did not know, but with all the horrified squeals and with Circe's renewed cackling, Gregor became angry and said "Stop cackling! It's very annoying. Then he dumped the bottle he was holding into the pig pen. Immediately, the pigs turned back into humans, Gregor turned into a bug, and Circe turned into a pig. The men carried Gregor back the ship on their shoulders, cheering. And never again did any of the men take Gregor for granted.


To Be continued Later on...

Rabk- Part 4

RABK- PART 4

Setting Sail

"You mean that you're Odysseus?" asked Rabk excitedly. "The one and only." said Odysseus proudly, but frown soon afterwards."But there is something that you should know. A god has a grudge against me, so we might run into some trouble." Rabk frowned, but Beowulf smiled and said "Hey! It's not like we don't run into any trouble in this world already." Odysseus grinned. "Then let's get ready!. Here, Beowulf. We need this food for the trip." Beowulf looked down at the list and said "I bet we can find these. C'mon Rabk!" And then Beowulf turned an went off into the city. Rabk followed as the went to where Rabk thought was the supermarket, but the store had been converted into an open market, with rows of stalls and stands. Beowulf disappeared into the infinite number of shops with Rabk trying to keep up. To Rabk, the whole place seemed like a maze. The place was very crowded and it seemed like a dark mist was following Rabk everywhere he went, so he couldn't see 5 feet in front of him. He tried going up to a stall that said "MAPS", but as he walked up, he realized that all 6 of his wallets had been taken, so he made his way deeper through the marketplace, where a dozen people came up to him and asking if he wanted a watch. One even asked him if he wanted a sun dial. After about 30 minutes of searching, Rabk finally found an exit. He ran to it, but he tripped over a crate and fell on his face just outside of the market. Beowulf was standing in front of him and cheerfully said, "Oh! There you are! I've been looking for you everywhere. We got to get back to the ship now!" They went back to the ship, and Odysseus almost immediately told them to set sail. They sailed down to the mouth of the river, but as they exited, a cannon fired at them. Beowulf, Rabk, Odysseus, and everyone else on the ship turned to see a large pirate ship with Captain Hook standing in the front. "No one gets away with insulting Captain Hook, boy." Hook fired another shot from the cannon next to him. It took some of the oars from the rowers. "Turn the ship around!" said Odysseus. "Let's get him!" Rabk looked at Beowulf, worriedly. "What's he doing?" asked Rabk. Beowulf shrugged and said "I'm not the ancient Greek naval strategist." The ship was now turned and Odysseus said "Now go straight for him!" The rowers rowed as fast as they could, and Captain Hook looked as confused as Rabk. As they reached Hook, Hook and Beowulf's eyes widened and Beowulf started laughing. Rabk looked at Beowulf, amazed/confused. Rabk hid his eyes as the ships were about to collide, and then the ships hit.

TO BE CONTINUED...