The Darkside of the Brightside -Ruby Gloom- von FreakyPanda (RG X SB) ================================================================================ Prolog: Welcome to the Darkside of the brightside ------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: Welcome to the dark side, of the bright side Skull Boy’s POV: The streets of GloomsVille where quit as the nine of us walked them, we all just needed to clear our minds. But the walk was cut short when we herd a crack of thunder over head. All heads turn to Misery who had storms follow her on a daily basis, but she merely just shrugged not knowing where this storm came from. The clouds opened up and the rain pored down on us, and we couldn’t run back to the house because every time one of us toke a step forward or back Lightning would strike that place. A large bolt of lightning stuck just in front of me forcing me to close my eyes. I could feel the hot in tiniest of the bolt as it hit the ground in font of me and it seemed to last for eternity. When the heat died down I reopened my eyes only to meet another bright light only this one was different. There where two of them and they where move towards me at a pretty good click. When they where close enough I could see that they where coming from some type of machine on wheels and that a noise like that of same type of animal accompanied it. The machine wasn’t stopping and the noise was becoming more frequent and loader. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before, I didn’t know what to do. When it was right on top of me I forced myself to fall apart and my head just barley missed the two poles that I think held the wheels on. When it pasted I pulled myself together and adjusted my head so it would fit on my neck a bit better before taking in my surrounding. The ground I was like some kind of like a street or road but nothing like that of GloomsVille, these roads where smooth, hard and black and had a yellow line going through the middle. Then there where these odd poles sticking out of the ground like street lamps but they curved at the top and there weren’t any candles, the light was coming from seemingly no where. As I looked around I herd something coming down the road, looking over and I seen another one of those light boxes on wheels. This one had more lights on it that flashed red and blue it was also smaller and white unlike the other one and it made much more noise. It stopped about three feet in front of me and two metal panel came out from the sides. I backed up a bit when I saw two humans dressed all in a dark blue Stepped out. “Okay what are you doing in middle of the freeway, kid” one of the humans asked as he walked right to me “trying run some trucks off the road, that how ya get your Kicks!” I had no idea what he was talking about but when I tried to say that he toke my hand and started dragging me towards the white light box. “Your coming with us back to the station where your going to take off the mask and we’re going to call your parents.” I was little confused by how I was going to take off a I wasn’t wearing and how he was going to call my parents when I had none but I didn’t say anything as I struggled to get free. I did mange to get free at the cost of my hand coming off and I quickly focused getting my hand free after that. It was one of the best things about being a skeleton being able to move body parts that weren’t concede but it had it’s down falls like being able to fall apart easy. The human soon realized that all he was my hand and when he saw it moving he turned around and throw it back at me with yelp, though I think he would have done that anyway. I winced a bit at the pain that came when my hand collided my head, then bent down and attached my hand back to my wrist. “What Hell Is That Thing!” the Human yelled as he pointed at me. I was a little insulted the way he said ’that thing’. “I’m not sure, here let me try something” said the other as he got to his knees and held out an arm and started rubbing his thumb over his middle and index figure “Hey there little guy, aren’t you adorable” he started, as he slowly crawled over to me, talking in the same babyish way. I rolled my eyes at this Human for making a fool out of himself. What did he think I was a cat. I crossed my arms over my chest and gave the man a look that screamed annoyance. “Watch it Jeff that things got an attitude.” the other human called out. “don’t worry it harmless” the human in front of me yelled back as he stood up. When he stood I was only came up half way up his chest. He turned back to me and placed a hand on my skull. “see little guy we’re not going to hurt you” he said but a stranger putting their had on my skull was a wrong move in my books whether you mean harm or not. I grabbed a hold of his wrist and bit down hard on his hand until blood started to flow. The human pulled a way as he screamed in pain and backed away, the other human pulled out some sort of machine and pointed it at me. I tried to get a better look at it but it was all black and hard to see. As I toke a step close to see what it was but a load BANG! Sound and then the next thing I knew was that my arm hurt and I couldn’t move it. “Don’t move any closer or I’ll shoot agene” the one with the machine in his hand yelled. I looked around quickly looked around for some place to run to but the only place was be hide the humans. I then figure that it was harder for the human to hit moving target then one standing still. I started to run as fast could as shrivel bangs sounded from the barrel of the machine but I didn’t get this time. I was as far I could get away from the humans and their light box on wheels but there was now something large and noisy flying over my but I wasn’t going to stop and look at it. I soon reached the town or city as it seemed to be, and gave sigh of relief but it turned into a gasp of pain, my left arm the arm that was hit was starting to throb. I had to loss that thing flying over me. I duck into alleyway and tripped into a pile of boxes but they seemed to hide my from the flying thing since just kept going. I stood back up and placed my right hand over my wound, feeling the thick ooze of marrow run down it. “I’m alright” I whispered to myself “I need to fine the other” I turned around and walked out of alley and down the streets. I must have been walking for hours and still no sign of any of my friends just a bunch of people staring at me. Hadn’t they ever seen a skeleton before this was one weird place. But I really didn’t have the energy to say any thing about. I rounded another corner and caught sight of bright red hair and yellow and red stockings. A Smile sped across my jaw line as I tried to call out the girl’s name but my voice wasn’t working. Slowly I made my way over to then and I saw more and more my friends. Iris, Misery, Poe, Scaredy, Doom, Frank and Len but I forced on the red head. I was right be hide her and was surprised that no one had seen me yet, I tried to move my hand away from my wound arm but it wouldn’t move, I had to get my voice to work. “Ruby” I whispered, it was quite but when I seen here jump that little bit I knew she herd me. “Skull Boy” I herd her gasp, I smiled agene and started to pass out but Frank and Len came to my aid placing my arms over there necks, those when Len toke my left arm I hissed in pain. “Dude, what happened” Len asked staring at the dark red ooze on his handed. “Not sure, it happened so fast” I answered then pulled my self out of the odd position the brothers had me in. “but I’m fine” I didn’t really prove my point when I started to stumble as I started walking over towards Ruby. “No your not” Ruby cried as she grabbed my shoulder to help stabilized me. “your hurt and you can barley walk, let us help.” I looked into her worried eyes and nodded slowly. Frank and Len then stepped in front of me with their back facing me then they bent down. “take a forum hold of my shoulder and let us do the rest.” Frank stated and I did as I was told, not in the mood to fight with them. Panic started to flowed through me when the two grabbed my legs, hosting my on to their back. I hated being carried. “Where to now?” Len asked. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)