[FAJ] I'm finally going to try and get it moving again
by
Unlike with RECBT, I have enough FAJ ideas to carry a chapter. Here's a quick intro scene:
Latveria, home of Doctor Doom...
Inside Doom's castle, his young protege Dong Hwan slept like a baby. It was a tiring day of learning how to use sorcery to blow up gophers, but Dong was a quick learner in that. A blissful look of peace stayed on his face until a mysterious voice woke him up.
"Wake up, Dong Hwan..."
Dong's eyes opened and he sat up. He stared out the window and noticed that outside, in a field, a purple figure stood in the darkness. It was too dark to see who it was and Dong's eyes were extremely blurry from just waking up.
"Come down here, Dong Hwan..." the voice insisted. Following the words, Dong got up and shambled out his door. It took about a half hour for him to find his way through the castle, but eventually he found his way outside. Still in a stupor, Dong looked across the field and saw him.
It was some kind of demon bug man thing. His eyes glowed green and his bare jaw almost looked like a smile.
He told Dong Hwan, "Twenty-eight days... six hours... forty-two minutes... twelve seconds. That... is when Blackheart... will come..."
"Why?" Dong asked. Sleepy and almost hypnotized, he had a blissful, child-like grin on his face.
"To make South Town his domain..."
Dong was too out of it to be concerned. "What's your name?"
"My name... is Yoshimitsu..."
"That's a silly name," Dong laughed. "My name is Kim Dong Hwan."
"Yes... I know that..."
"I live in a castle now."
Yoshimitsu nodded. "I know that too... I mean, I did come here..."
There was a long, uncomfortable silence.
"Listen..." Yoshimitsu said, "I've got another appointment... I'll talk to you later..."
"Okay, Mr. Bug Man."
"That's Yoshimitsu..."
"Oh. I thought that was your first name."
"Huh?"
Dong weakly shrugged. "Yoshimitsu Bug Man."
"Just go back to sleep..." Yoshimitsu spun around and vanished into thin air. Dong Hwan, on the other hand, fell over in the field and passed out.
[---]
Hours past.
"Wake up, you fool."
Dong's eyes opened again. "Bug Man?"
Dr. Doom crossed his arms. "Doom is most certainly not a 'bug man'! Explain yourself."
"Not now, man. I'm tired."
Doom rubbed his chin. "As strange as this behavior is, whatever occurred is in fact a blessing."
"What do you mean?" Dong slowly got to his feet and stretched his back.
"Your room had been salvaged last night. By Garuda."
"Did he touch my REO Speedwagon poster?"
"I did not check. But your bed is nothing but a set of scraps now, boy."
"He's gone though, right?"
Doom nodded. "Yes. Strange as I ponder it. Garuda is driven to your essence. He should have smelled you out here."
"So why didn't he? I haven't bathed since three days ago. And even then, it wasn't in water."
Disgusted, Doom decided not to inquire more. "Just get inside."
[---]
Somewhere else, Garuda coughed up a wad of mucus. He blew his nose and tossed the used tissue into what seemed like an endless trail of snotty tissues.
Working for Hell had its perks, but they didn't have sick days.
Posted on Sep 26, 2003, 10:40 AM from IP address 66.66.42.236