Short+story+-+Issac+and+Paul

-English Assignment Short Story, Work in Progress, The Gate = Elements: Young Boy (Oscar), Ware-House, Middle aged woman = = Genre(s): Fantasy = ==== Oscar was roaming around the rough streets of New Cheshire, his long black hair swaying in the soft breeze of the afternoon. His square cracked glasses reflected his harsh surroundings as the winter sun rose on their desolate little town. He trudged along the broken pavements, not caring about the world, it didn’t care about him. ==== ==== He closed his eyes and lifted his head to the sky to feel the soft breeze in his hair, the only escape from reality. Oscar wasn’t very social; he’d rather spend his time dreaming about distant lands rather than the boring one he lived in. Although he knew they didn’t exist, it didn’t stop him from dreaming. A slow, ominous creek awoke him from his daydream and as he was brought back into reality he came to find a large broken down warehouse. ==== ==== Such a broken down building normally wouldn’t have come as such a shock to someone living in a shabby neighbour-hood like New Cheshire, but the fact it seemed to just come out of nowhere was a bit strange, even by Oscar’s standards. Oscar walked up towards the warehouse’ doors and stared at them for a while. Something, he didn't know what, was urging him to enter, something mysterious. An eerie light loomed from underneath the shabby doors as if to pull Oscar within, and as if under a trance he started to push it open. As the crack widened the ominous light enveloped him and it was as if reality itself was dissolving before his eyes. ==== ==== As Oscar began to open his eyes he found himself inside the warehouse, lying on the ground. How he got there he had no idea. The entire warehouse was empty except for an enormous stone tablet in an equally magnificent frame. Oscar slowly got to his feet wondering what had happened when he opened the door. When he thought about it he hadn’t seen the door he came through, only this immense mass of stone. Oscar started walking towards the stone tablet and on closer inspection he could see a thin slit through the centre. ==== ==== “This is a door!” exclaimed Oscar, “But how in the world did it get here?” Oscar took a few steps back to truly admire the sheer grandness of this stone door. The stone door had elaborate carvings all over it, depicting some sort of ancient tree. The frame had many intricate sigils and symbols engraved around the rim. ==== ==== All of a sudden a soft voice rang from the darkness, “Do not worry, I shall now grant you what you desire so much.” ====

“Who, who’s there?” said Oscar in a weary voice, “Come out and show yourself!”
==== “I have been listening to your deepest desires and I shall now give them to you, in return for one favor…” It was as if the voice was speaking directly to his mind. ==== ==== “What are you talking about?” Oscar yelled into the empty warehouse, “Let me out of here!” ==== ==== “Turn around” whispered the voice, and as he did there was a bright silver sword lying on the ground next to a magnificent sheath. Its hilt was adorned with gold and a ruby talisman that shone even in the damp dark warehouse, while the sheath had an extravagantly carved silver tip. ==== ==== “This blade will grant you the amazing life that you have always wanted and in return I only want you to do one thing for me,” whispered the voice again, while Oscar was admiring the beautifully forged sword. ====

“What is it you want?” Oscar said as he picked up the sword and its sheath.
==== “It is simple; all you have to do is open this stone door. I have been trapped within its boundaries for centuries and you can save me!” The voice replied. ==== ==== “Ok then, but you better keep your part of the deal,” said Oscar as he placed the sheathed sword around his waist and started to make his way towards the great stone door. ==== ==== “Yes, that’s right, just a little closer and you can finally free me!” The voice said, starting to sound irritated. ==== ==== “Gosh, calm down I am opening it now” said Oscar as he began to place his hand on the door, happy at the prospect at finally having an interesting life he probably would have done anything. ==== ==== As he pushed open the huge stone door darkness instantly started flooding the warehouse, smothering the little light that was left. A high pitched laugh filled the air. ==== ==== “Mwahahahaha!” Screamed the once calm voice, “You idiot! Now I am free and there is nothing anyone can do about it!!!” ==== ==== Oscar was blown back by the immense amount of black smoke that was flowing out of the door, enveloping everything. As the last amount slowly seeped out of the doorway it started to come back together to take the form of a woman wearing a pitch black dress that turned into smoke as it touched the ground, covering the entire warehouse base. ==== ==== “What the hell just happened?” Yelled Oscar with surprise as a scepter with a glowing green orb materialised into the woman’s hands. ==== ==== “You have just released the greatest evil this world has ever seen!” replied the voice in a malevolent tone. “Now, what was it you said that you’ve always wanted? Oh yes, something interesting, I’ll show you something interesting!” the mysterious woman said before lifting her arms into the air. ==== ==== As she lifted her arms into the air the entire warehouse began to shift and creak. The walls started to rip apart from the rest of the building and began to revolve around her. “You tricked me!” Yelled Oscar. ==== ==== “Did I?” Replied the woman “I gave you everything you wanted, excitement, power and in return you released me from that horrible prison!” ==== ==== Oscar got to his feet and removed the sword from its sheath, “I can’t just let you destroy the village.” Oscar began to run towards the woman, sword posed to strike. Suddenly dark tendrils erupted from the ground and pulled him back down, where his glasses fell and broke on the harsh ground. ==== ==== “I don’t think you have a choice” the woman said, laughing maniacally as she turned around. ==== ==== “I shall rule this sad little town and all of its pitiful residents” the woman yelled at Oscar, as if to add insult to injury. ==== ==== As Oscar watched the woman fire parts of the warehouse at the homes of New Cheshire he started to struggle against the tendrils holding him down, forcing him to watch the destruction of his home town. People were running away screaming and a quarter of the town was left in ruins. Even though Oscar liked to think himself indifferent to the rest of the town he couldn’t just lay there and watch her destroy it. He struggled against his restraints, trying to get at least one arm free. Suddenly a young townswoman ran up and dived onto the evil monster. ==== ==== "What are you doing?" The woman screamed as she held onto the monster,"Stop destroying our town!!" ==== ==== “Get off me you foul human being!” She yelled as she threw the young lady onto the ground and pointed the scepter at her. The end of the scepter started to glow just as Oscar managed to pull his arm free and grab the sword she gave him. Oscar pulled his arm back and threw his blade at the monster, stabbing her in the back. The evil woman froze, looking shocked at what had just happened and before she could do anything else, she started to turn to dust and disappear along with the stone gate and blade. Oscar slumped to the ground, exhausted from fighting the monster that had nearly destroyed their town. As he thought to himself about the events of the day, he could hardly believe what had happened. His eyes started to drift away as he passed out, no longer needing to dream of adventure and excitement. He had witnessed it first-hand. ====