A Whole New World
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:03 pm
Hello everyone! Before I start this Fan Fiction of mine, I'd like to make a quick little introduction since I'm new here.
I actually just found out about this web comic on Monday,and spent a good while reading every single comic strip their was. I really enjoy this Comic, which led to something I always do. Whenever I get really into a story(like a TV show or a book) I have the habit of creating a fan fiction in my mind with myself included. Over the last few days I have had this story brewing in my mind, and I decided to share it with you all.
A little back story before I begin, the story will take place in January, after the bit with King and Pete(a long with the role playing with Peanut,Grape,Max, and Tarot though it isn't important.) Also, for the most part it'll be 1st person, but i may use 3rd person to better explain certain situations.
Rubric:
Italicized words are a characters thoughts
Bold Words Are used when a character is yelling or a loud sound is heard.
***** a Line of stars will indicate a change in the story, be it a different scene or character
(A/N -text here-) This is an Author's Note, used to explain something to the reader.
With all of that out of the way, let the story begin!
**********
"Mom I'm home!" I yelled as I entered my house, But there was no reply. I guess she's out doing errands. I went into the kitchen and saw a note on the counter.
"Andrew & David,
I went out to do some shopping, I'll be back home to make supper so don't ruin your appetite! Also, I let Rufus outside so make sure to let him in.
Love,
Mom"
Reading the note reminded me that my brother, David, hadn't walked home with me. I wonder where he ran off to... I opened the backdoor and let in my dog Rufus, a 2 year old Golden Retriever; he immediately started jumping up and down excited to see me home. "Hey Rufus! Want some fresh water boy?" I said happily as I grabbed his water bowl. He responded back with a few barks and a quick 360 turn (which meant yes!)
******* 23 Minutes Later *******
"Hey I'm Home!"
I Came down the stairs to see my brother coming in from the front door.
"Save it, Mom's not home." I said bitterly, though regretting the tone after saying it.
"Good, then I can do my little experiment!" He said walking to his room.
I grabbed his arm, stopping him. "Where were you? Mom told you, we had to walk home together."
"Chill out, your a Freshman now, you can walk home on your own. It seems like you got here perfectly fine anyways" He said smugly.
"Yea, and your a Senior and your suppose to be responsible!" I let go of him. "Wait, experiment? You have chemistry homework or something?"
"Pfft, you know me better I hate chemistry. Here let me explain, I was in Pre-Calc and we had a Substitute and I decided to just take a little nap.I was freaking tired... Anyways I had this crazy dream, that after school let out i had gone to this old bookstore and the owner just handed me a book. I went home and I did some sort of spell or something, I can't quite remember, it gets a bit fuzzy after that..."
"So your saying you didn't walk home with me because you were sleeping?" I questioned him.
"No, let me finish. After school let out I did exactly what I did in the dream, it had felt so real I just had to see what would happen. I almost crapped myself when I actually found the old book store! I went in and the old guy said he was closing down and he had only one book left that he couldn't sell and he said I could have it. It looked just like the book I saw in my dream!" He opened his book bag and pulled out a rather large leather bound book.
"And now your going to become some great wizard or something?" I asked, trying hard to believe my brother.
"Well... I don't know, the last part of the dream is hard to remember. All I know is that after I did something with he book I remember feeling a lot of excitement and adrenaline."
******* 15 Minutes later In The Basement *******
"No No, No No!" David said, getting angrier.
"No wonder he couldn't sell the darn thing, all the pages are unreadable. It looks like it was dunked in a toilet over and over." I said looking over his shoulder. He kept flipping through the book and suddenly stopped.
"Wait, these pages aren't messed up!" He said happily. " Hmm, 'Astral Jump', apparently that's the name of this spell. Hey could you stop breathing down my neck, it's a bit distracting." He said looking to me.
"Fiiiiine..." I replied annoyingly. I went over to the corner and slumped down into a beanbag chair. I really doubt this is going to go anywhere but it's a lot better then watching reruns on TV.
******* 6 Minutes later *******
"Ok that should just about do it!" My brother said happily, looking down at his work. Apparently he had to draw some sort of diagram for this 'spell'.(A/N Visual aid for the Diagram:http://jameswaites.ilatech.org//wp-cont ... ptagon.gif)
"What is this for exactly?" I asked.
"Well, from what I can understand, it is some sort of teleport spell. You need this....drawing, to do it. You place something inside of it and chant a few words and bam! Teleportation."
"Where do you teleport to? I wouldn't mind being teleported to Florida."
"Well.... it doesn't really say. I guess you just imagine in your mind where you'd want to go and you go there."
I walked over to the center of my brothers chalk drawn diagram and sat down. "Alright Mr.Magician send me off to Florida! It would be nice to get a tan." I said humoring my brother. There's no way this is gonna work, I might as well humor him. I can't believe he'd get so worked up over some stupid dream.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
I nodded.
"Alright cool, make sure to get me a souvenir or something" He chuckled.
"yea yea yea, just get on with it already."
David sat down on the outside of the circle, looking at me with the book in his lap.
"Alright, all I have to do is say these words, jeez there's like a paragraph...Well I say these and it should work. Here goes." David took a deep breath.
He started chanting some strange words, as if they were a different language. He started off slow, obviously not knowing the words either, but he quickly picked up the pace. I was trying to see the words on the book but couldn't make them out. When I looked up I saw my brothers eyes glowing blue. I rubbed my eyes, and yet his eyes were still glowing, and his face had gone expressionless.
"David?" I stood up. "David!" I reached for his shoulders to shake him out of his stupor but I was stopped. I felt it again, there was... a force field of some sort going around the edges of the diagrams outer circle. "David stop it, this is getting weird!" I banged on the invisible wall before me, separating me from my brother. "DAVID!"
Everything went black, and I felt like vomiting.
******* Unknown *******
My eyes fluttered open, I was looking up into a blue sky. I shivered, why was I so cold? I sat up and saw myself laying a few meters off the side of a street in the freezing snow. I stood up and folded my arms up against my body.What the heck it doesn't snow in Florida... Then it dawned on me, that stupid old book and its spell had worked! Though I didn't go to my desired destination. I can't be far from home, this kind of looks like the neighborhood a few blocks away from our house. I'll just ask to use someones phone to tell David I'm ok, and sadly not in Florida!That idiot, can't do anything right...
I walked to the nearest house and rang the doorbell. The door opened up to an older guy in a tan suite with a older looking hat( A bowler hat? I couldn't recall) that covered his face surprisingly,(except that huge mustache on his face) along with a cane.
"Hello, may I help you?" He asked.
"Uh Hi. I was wondering if I could use your phone real quick? I need to tell my brother that I'm ok and that I'm on my way home." I asked politely.
"Of course, come in, It's right in the kitchen." He said opening his door all the way.
I heard the man snap his fingers, but disregarded it. (A/N Pete didn't have a phone in his house, or at least I don't imagine why he'd have one so he has to use 'magic' to make one)
I followed him through his house into his kitchen and saw the phone hanging on the wall.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it." I reached for the phone, but somehow I missed. I reached again and saw my hand just go through the phone. I looked down at my hands, and they were translucent! "W-what....what the heck !?"
"Is something wrong?" The old man walked over to me and saw me staring at my hands. "Oh My..."
"I-I gotta go!" I dashed toward the front door, but fell flat on my face after only a few steps. I looked down and my legs were translucent as well! I was freaking disappearing! "What the heck is going on!"
The old man came over to where I lay and looked down on me.
"I thought there was something strange with you. Your from an alternate universe, and since you do not have magical abilities your atoms are being pulled back to your universe." He said sounding intrigued.
"That's a good thing, right? I'll just appear back home?" I asked, hoping something bad wouldn't happen, like disappearing into nothingness.
"You see, that's the problem. Your atoms won't rearrange themselves back to your former self." He said calmly rubbing his chin.
Not what I wanted to hear!
"Are you saying I'm going to die?!" I was panicking.
"Well, yes. But I can certainly fix it." The old man snapped his fingers and a huge cloud of smoke appeared around me.
I couldn't help but cough and cover my mouth. "Your way of fixing is to make me inhale all this smoke?" I coughed. The smoke dissipated, I quickly looked at my hands hoping he had fixed it. Instead of hands I pulled up white paws. "W-what....." I was speechless. The old man pulled out a hand mirror, seemingly out of no where and held it up at me. I looked up and saw a black cat with white paws, white tipped tail and ears with a big white spot on my belly.
The old man pulled off his hat, and suddenly he had the head of a blue griffin.
"There is a lot I need to explain to you." He said lending me a hand.
*********************
Okay, well I hoped you liked it so far! I changed the story quite a bit while writing this, and I hoped I grabbed Pete's characters correctly. I'll probably start on the next portion tomorrow or Saturday. I'm open to all criticism, and I'd really like to hear your opinion on it so far!
I actually just found out about this web comic on Monday,and spent a good while reading every single comic strip their was. I really enjoy this Comic, which led to something I always do. Whenever I get really into a story(like a TV show or a book) I have the habit of creating a fan fiction in my mind with myself included. Over the last few days I have had this story brewing in my mind, and I decided to share it with you all.
A little back story before I begin, the story will take place in January, after the bit with King and Pete(a long with the role playing with Peanut,Grape,Max, and Tarot though it isn't important.) Also, for the most part it'll be 1st person, but i may use 3rd person to better explain certain situations.
Rubric:
Italicized words are a characters thoughts
Bold Words Are used when a character is yelling or a loud sound is heard.
***** a Line of stars will indicate a change in the story, be it a different scene or character
(A/N -text here-) This is an Author's Note, used to explain something to the reader.
With all of that out of the way, let the story begin!
**********
"Mom I'm home!" I yelled as I entered my house, But there was no reply. I guess she's out doing errands. I went into the kitchen and saw a note on the counter.
"Andrew & David,
I went out to do some shopping, I'll be back home to make supper so don't ruin your appetite! Also, I let Rufus outside so make sure to let him in.
Love,
Mom"
Reading the note reminded me that my brother, David, hadn't walked home with me. I wonder where he ran off to... I opened the backdoor and let in my dog Rufus, a 2 year old Golden Retriever; he immediately started jumping up and down excited to see me home. "Hey Rufus! Want some fresh water boy?" I said happily as I grabbed his water bowl. He responded back with a few barks and a quick 360 turn (which meant yes!)
******* 23 Minutes Later *******
"Hey I'm Home!"
I Came down the stairs to see my brother coming in from the front door.
"Save it, Mom's not home." I said bitterly, though regretting the tone after saying it.
"Good, then I can do my little experiment!" He said walking to his room.
I grabbed his arm, stopping him. "Where were you? Mom told you, we had to walk home together."
"Chill out, your a Freshman now, you can walk home on your own. It seems like you got here perfectly fine anyways" He said smugly.
"Yea, and your a Senior and your suppose to be responsible!" I let go of him. "Wait, experiment? You have chemistry homework or something?"
"Pfft, you know me better I hate chemistry. Here let me explain, I was in Pre-Calc and we had a Substitute and I decided to just take a little nap.I was freaking tired... Anyways I had this crazy dream, that after school let out i had gone to this old bookstore and the owner just handed me a book. I went home and I did some sort of spell or something, I can't quite remember, it gets a bit fuzzy after that..."
"So your saying you didn't walk home with me because you were sleeping?" I questioned him.
"No, let me finish. After school let out I did exactly what I did in the dream, it had felt so real I just had to see what would happen. I almost crapped myself when I actually found the old book store! I went in and the old guy said he was closing down and he had only one book left that he couldn't sell and he said I could have it. It looked just like the book I saw in my dream!" He opened his book bag and pulled out a rather large leather bound book.
"And now your going to become some great wizard or something?" I asked, trying hard to believe my brother.
"Well... I don't know, the last part of the dream is hard to remember. All I know is that after I did something with he book I remember feeling a lot of excitement and adrenaline."
******* 15 Minutes later In The Basement *******
"No No, No No!" David said, getting angrier.
"No wonder he couldn't sell the darn thing, all the pages are unreadable. It looks like it was dunked in a toilet over and over." I said looking over his shoulder. He kept flipping through the book and suddenly stopped.
"Wait, these pages aren't messed up!" He said happily. " Hmm, 'Astral Jump', apparently that's the name of this spell. Hey could you stop breathing down my neck, it's a bit distracting." He said looking to me.
"Fiiiiine..." I replied annoyingly. I went over to the corner and slumped down into a beanbag chair. I really doubt this is going to go anywhere but it's a lot better then watching reruns on TV.
******* 6 Minutes later *******
"Ok that should just about do it!" My brother said happily, looking down at his work. Apparently he had to draw some sort of diagram for this 'spell'.(A/N Visual aid for the Diagram:http://jameswaites.ilatech.org//wp-cont ... ptagon.gif)
"What is this for exactly?" I asked.
"Well, from what I can understand, it is some sort of teleport spell. You need this....drawing, to do it. You place something inside of it and chant a few words and bam! Teleportation."
"Where do you teleport to? I wouldn't mind being teleported to Florida."
"Well.... it doesn't really say. I guess you just imagine in your mind where you'd want to go and you go there."
I walked over to the center of my brothers chalk drawn diagram and sat down. "Alright Mr.Magician send me off to Florida! It would be nice to get a tan." I said humoring my brother. There's no way this is gonna work, I might as well humor him. I can't believe he'd get so worked up over some stupid dream.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
I nodded.
"Alright cool, make sure to get me a souvenir or something" He chuckled.
"yea yea yea, just get on with it already."
David sat down on the outside of the circle, looking at me with the book in his lap.
"Alright, all I have to do is say these words, jeez there's like a paragraph...Well I say these and it should work. Here goes." David took a deep breath.
He started chanting some strange words, as if they were a different language. He started off slow, obviously not knowing the words either, but he quickly picked up the pace. I was trying to see the words on the book but couldn't make them out. When I looked up I saw my brothers eyes glowing blue. I rubbed my eyes, and yet his eyes were still glowing, and his face had gone expressionless.
"David?" I stood up. "David!" I reached for his shoulders to shake him out of his stupor but I was stopped. I felt it again, there was... a force field of some sort going around the edges of the diagrams outer circle. "David stop it, this is getting weird!" I banged on the invisible wall before me, separating me from my brother. "DAVID!"
Everything went black, and I felt like vomiting.
******* Unknown *******
My eyes fluttered open, I was looking up into a blue sky. I shivered, why was I so cold? I sat up and saw myself laying a few meters off the side of a street in the freezing snow. I stood up and folded my arms up against my body.What the heck it doesn't snow in Florida... Then it dawned on me, that stupid old book and its spell had worked! Though I didn't go to my desired destination. I can't be far from home, this kind of looks like the neighborhood a few blocks away from our house. I'll just ask to use someones phone to tell David I'm ok, and sadly not in Florida!That idiot, can't do anything right...
I walked to the nearest house and rang the doorbell. The door opened up to an older guy in a tan suite with a older looking hat( A bowler hat? I couldn't recall) that covered his face surprisingly,(except that huge mustache on his face) along with a cane.
"Hello, may I help you?" He asked.
"Uh Hi. I was wondering if I could use your phone real quick? I need to tell my brother that I'm ok and that I'm on my way home." I asked politely.
"Of course, come in, It's right in the kitchen." He said opening his door all the way.
I heard the man snap his fingers, but disregarded it. (A/N Pete didn't have a phone in his house, or at least I don't imagine why he'd have one so he has to use 'magic' to make one)
I followed him through his house into his kitchen and saw the phone hanging on the wall.
"Thank you, I really appreciate it." I reached for the phone, but somehow I missed. I reached again and saw my hand just go through the phone. I looked down at my hands, and they were translucent! "W-what....what the heck !?"
"Is something wrong?" The old man walked over to me and saw me staring at my hands. "Oh My..."
"I-I gotta go!" I dashed toward the front door, but fell flat on my face after only a few steps. I looked down and my legs were translucent as well! I was freaking disappearing! "What the heck is going on!"
The old man came over to where I lay and looked down on me.
"I thought there was something strange with you. Your from an alternate universe, and since you do not have magical abilities your atoms are being pulled back to your universe." He said sounding intrigued.
"That's a good thing, right? I'll just appear back home?" I asked, hoping something bad wouldn't happen, like disappearing into nothingness.
"You see, that's the problem. Your atoms won't rearrange themselves back to your former self." He said calmly rubbing his chin.
Not what I wanted to hear!
"Are you saying I'm going to die?!" I was panicking.
"Well, yes. But I can certainly fix it." The old man snapped his fingers and a huge cloud of smoke appeared around me.
I couldn't help but cough and cover my mouth. "Your way of fixing is to make me inhale all this smoke?" I coughed. The smoke dissipated, I quickly looked at my hands hoping he had fixed it. Instead of hands I pulled up white paws. "W-what....." I was speechless. The old man pulled out a hand mirror, seemingly out of no where and held it up at me. I looked up and saw a black cat with white paws, white tipped tail and ears with a big white spot on my belly.
The old man pulled off his hat, and suddenly he had the head of a blue griffin.
"There is a lot I need to explain to you." He said lending me a hand.
*********************
Okay, well I hoped you liked it so far! I changed the story quite a bit while writing this, and I hoped I grabbed Pete's characters correctly. I'll probably start on the next portion tomorrow or Saturday. I'm open to all criticism, and I'd really like to hear your opinion on it so far!