Azrian Short part 1
Azrian Short
It was dark, cold and a torturous day. The air was strong, thick almost like you could cut through it with a butter knife. Everyone in the room was either dieing or dead.
“Wake up class, its only a video.” Yelled at the teacher as she slammed the yardstick on her desk. Shiv and Snoozer were in the back row watching the movie with red eyes. The movie was the life and death, of a snail, and not one person was interested. Shiv put his head down, only to have Snoozer punch him to wake up because now the teacher was handing out detention slips. Shiv was sitting up straight when she walked by, she did not hand him one, which made him sigh in relief when the bell finally rung. Shiv jumped onto the table, and kicked the door open and they were out in the small lawn near C building. Snoozer followed and bowed his hat to the teacher for an apology. They ran passed their old friends near L building and ran into K building not stopping until they slid into the tables. Cyrus came to them and lifted them up.
“Mike you know I don’t like you doing that” said a nice sweet voice was heard, Allegra came and hugged Snoozer and put a kiss on his cheek.
“You know I like to be called Snoozer” he said as he hugged her and picked her up. Everyone sat at the tables and started to eat the cafeteria food, when Longshot tossed Azrian rations down on the table. Snoozer pushed his burger to the side and grabbed some of the rations and slowly opened the package. It seemed like another ordinary day, when the bell rang for 3rd period and everyone went to class. The teachers in the hallways were giving Shiv dirty looks, which Shiv did take notice but said nothing. During class his teacher told him to stay when class was over. The bell rang, Shiv stayed behind and Snoozer went to his English class. When Shiv entered the class later than usual, he looked angry, and when he sat down he gave a cold stare to Robbie, who turned around when he didn’t receive the high five he presented. Snoozer didn’t need to look at him, he knew he was mad, and he knows in time he will calm down. When the bell rung once more, everyone jumped up and rammed towards the door. Shiv stayed in his seat with the same look, and they were off to K2. Snoozer kissed Allegra, and waved a quick goodbye as he left for his locker. Snoozer walked up the stairs to L building and grabbed his skates. He saw a note and he looked at it, it was a threat letter from one of the usually thespians so he crumpled it up and tossed it over his shoulder. Then he continued to move back to the hang out when he heard yelling from K2. He ran in and was knocked down by Shiv who continued to walk away. Allegra and the others came and picked up Snoozer, who asked what was going on.
“We don’t know, he just suddenly yelled at us, and walked out.” Said Megan as she watched Shiv knock over a few people at where the nearby lockers. Then he started to run and jumped the fence.
“Crap” yelled Snoozer as he placed his skates on and sprinted after him, Cyrus and Longshot followed to make sure he was going to be ok. Shiv had a huge head start, and was exponentially faster than everyone else, including Snoozer who was flying down the street trying to keep up. Snoozer got a phone call.
“Hey, do you have any idea where the hell he is going?” asked Cyrus as Snoozer stopped at a red light and spun around gasping for air. He couldn’t figure it out, he just couldn’t put it all together.
“I have no clue” he finally replied as he sat down and leaned his back against the wall. His chest was tightening and he opened the lid to his pills and took one. He looked straight to see the large tower hovering over the city, the abandoned hospital that was closed for over a decade. He stared at it then got on his feet, and dropped his bag on the ground. He waited for the green light, and bolted down the street towards that tower.
Shiv was walking in the small neighbor hood surrounding the tower, the area was supposed to be empty, but people were sitting in the streets, sleeping on the roofs, and some even running away from him. It was strange here, a little odd, Shiv noticed it was particularly colder here, and barely any sunlight came through the dark clouds. He saw his breathe and he zipped up his jacket because of the cold.
Snoozer was skating down hill, he remembered he had no brake so when the fences isolating that tower was approaching he leaned in more. As his speed increased he jumped, his body was over the fence, but his skate hit the top, and he was on the ground, and was knocked out.
Cyrus and Longshot were at the street corner when they eyed Snoozer’s bag. They called their friends back at school and told them what was going on. When everyone started to fear the worst, Cyrus told them to remain calm. He looked at the ground to look at more wheel marks on the streets; he saw a faint mark leading down the street. He didn’t know where it was headed, but they walked down. The tower stood above everywhere else, but something was different, something odd and out of place Cyrus stopped and looked at the tower that caught his attention.
“You don’t think they went there do you?” he asked only to see Longshot with Snoozer’s Ipod in his head. Cyrus knew that little is known about why that tower was abandoned, and even less of what has happened to the people in it. They stopped walking and headed back to school to figure out a plan.
Shiv and Snoozer were still missing and hours passed. Shiv was at the base of the tower and looked at the glass doors, he kicked it shattering the glass. He walked into the dark building. Snoozer finally woke up with a cut on his head, and sat up. He opened his eyes to see a man with a staff and sunglasses standing before him. The man came closer and picked up Snoozer who was in shock. Snoozer’s sight became blurry and he passed out again.
Nightfall came, and everyone still hadn’t heard of the fate of their friends. Cyrus and Longshot were getting irritated. They met up after the Robotics meeting and said they were going to clean up everything. Everyone believed them, and left shortly after the school closed. Cyrus and Longshot grabbed their backpacks with their supplies and headed down to the abandoned hospital. They were going down with skateboards at full speed when they saw an explosion on one of the middle floors. They looked at each other and sprinted towards the fence.
Moments before the explosion Shiv was next to the window and was sent flying through the glass and falling through the air. As he was falling he looked down, watching as the ground came closer and closer. He closed his eyes, expecting to die a horrible death. Snoozer came running along the street and slid, catching Shiv before he hit the ground. A man landed where Shiv fell, and his fists were metal and very sharp. Snoozer and Shiv stood up; Shiv was cut and breathing hard. Snoozer’s clothes were burned and destroyed.
“This day just sucks.” Said Snoozer as he wiped off some dirt from his jacket.
“Yea but this has to be done.” Shiv replied as the man with the bladed hands came running at them.
“What exactly are we doing here, besides getting killed?” Snoozer snapped at him as the man with the staff appeared behind them with a grin that made Snoozer grab Shiv and they bolted out of the way.
“What is with him?” asked Shiv, as he had to jump over people in the streets.
“Well its kind of a long story, you see it starts out when I woke up in a nice room and there well there was these girls surrounding me. I told them that I was dating someone and walked out to see him on the balcony with his staff in hand, I didn’t think much of it, but the staff…” Just then the man was in front, and his staff split into two separate pieces, both ends on fire. Snoozer pointed and finished his sentence “did that!” The fire was so hot, that the flames were green, and the man threw them spinning at Shiv and Snoozer. They pushed each other out of the way, and slid on the ground.
“Who is this guy?” Shiv yelled as the pile of flaming wood burned where they were standing moments ago.
“Honestly I don’t know, ill just say flame head or something.” Snoozer said with a smart-ass tone.
“Why, because of the fire?” Shiv said joking around with Snoozer. That made Snoozer a little mad for stating the obvious so he decided to have the final say.
“No, because his head is orange.” He said as they were both standing and cracking their knuckles. They both started to walk closer and closer to Flame head, both preparing to fight, with Shiv cracking his neck, and Snoozer was rotating his shoulder. Flame head remained still with his arms out, still grinning when his friend with the bladed fists appeared behind him. Flame head moved his arms towards him so fast, that Snoozer barely saw, and he wondered what was going on, when he felt heat behind him, he turned and ducked as he saw the fire staffs coming at him in the air. It caught his jacket and he put out the fire before it spread to the rest of his clothes. Flame head caught the fire staffs and started to juggle them with such precision, he didn’t even have to look at what his hands were doing.
“Alright so your new name is Juggler, sorry for the mix up.” Said Shiv as he stopped walking towards him. He continued to juggle the staffs, and threw it one of them, he controlled it with his hand movement curved it towards Shiv knocking him off balance and into the wall near him. The man with the fist grew impatient for his turn and ran towards Shiv ramming his fist through the wall as Shiv jumped out of the way, the wall cracked, then fell apart. Snoozer was dodging the flames and was being taken down another street, as Shiv was being chased down another, the friends were separated once more, and were being hunted down by killers.
Through out the area buildings were being destroyed, smoke cloud rose, yelling was heard, Cyrus was watching all of this when he stood on the fence where they were climbing to get in. They watched as the explosions split off in different directions moving around the main tower. He didn’t like any of this, and the fact that he couldn’t reach anyone because the cell phones were inactive in this area, so they were on their own. Cyrus jumped down, and landed perfectly, Longshot on the other hand landed on his back and stayed in that position until Cyrus picked him up. They set off into the area when it started to snow, in Southern California, which made no sense to them. But when they saw the other side of the fence, it was not snowing there, something was going on, and they didn’t like it. The flaming staffs were chasing Snoozer as he jumped, dodged and ducked his way towards an old parking garage that was close to 6stories high. He ran inside it, sheltering him from the snow. He hid behind a pillar, and he listened as the juggling chaser, had passed him. He took a deep breathe when all of the sudden the saw the staffs circle him and tie him to the wall, they were connected to his hands by a string, that was now cutting through part of his body. The man appeared in front of him, and he pulled the strings more, the pressure was too much for Snoozer, he yelled. The pillar side he was on started to creek. The next thing he knew, he was inside the pillar and fell down into hole. The man ran after, but only to see Snoozer’s face vanish into the darkness.
Shiv had taken an alternative route, but when he saw Snoozer run into the garage he too decided it might be a haven. But he started to run up the stairs to the 3rd floor, when he saw other people standing near fire pits, he joined them hoping this would hide him from the enemy. He stood next to the fire, and started to warm him hands when someone’s hand grabbed his arm, and pushed him back. He looked around to see everyone in the area glaring at him, eyes were glowing a strange yellowish color. He didn’t think it was a good thing, so he started to back up slowly when one of them ran towards him and slammed his fist into Shiv’s right side of his face. Shiv grabbed his cheek and started to get angry about this whole situation. He kicked one of them down, and elbowed another, and punched a third. He was knocking them down one by one, showing no mercy, but he was also getting a good beating as well. When all of the men were knocked down, he sat down laying his back on the wall, with a cut up eye, and a bruised body, he was desperately gasping for air. But he was not alone for long, within minutes more people were surrounding him with the same eyes glowing and he stood up.
“You really know how to give someone the unwelcome feeling,” he said as he removed his jacket and tied it to his waist. He stood placing his hand on the wall and looking at all of them with rage in his eyes, rage that could easily be seen. He punched someone in the chest, but his hand was stuck, as if it was lunged through the body of the other person. He saw his arm outlined with a dark color, and it was shaped into a blade. His other was also changing, and he looked around, with an unpleasant smile that could give an ordinary person, shivers down the spine.
Longshot and Cyrus were walking together when they were stopped by a person standing in the middle of the road, wearing a muscle shirt, and sunglasses that covered almost all of his face. He stood there, and Cyrus hand placed his hand in front of Longshot, he did not like the looks of the man standing there. He flinched when the man raised his gloves and bright blue spikes appeared between his fingers, about a foot long, and the tips looked extremely sharp. He threw them, spiraling into the air, Cyrus quickly pushed Longshot aside, causing him to lean on the outside wall of one of the shacks, Cyrus was leaning against another as the spikes landed where they were standing, and dissipated. Longshot looked at Cyrus who looked at him and looked terrified.
“Get out of there” Cyrus yelled at the top of his lungs, but Longshot didn’t move in time, something had grabbed him from behind and he was pulled into a trap door within the wall, and the wall slammed shut before Cyrus could take a step foreword.
It was dark, cold and a torturous day. The air was strong, thick almost like you could cut through it with a butter knife. Everyone in the room was either dieing or dead.
“Wake up class, its only a video.” Yelled at the teacher as she slammed the yardstick on her desk. Shiv and Snoozer were in the back row watching the movie with red eyes. The movie was the life and death, of a snail, and not one person was interested. Shiv put his head down, only to have Snoozer punch him to wake up because now the teacher was handing out detention slips. Shiv was sitting up straight when she walked by, she did not hand him one, which made him sigh in relief when the bell finally rung. Shiv jumped onto the table, and kicked the door open and they were out in the small lawn near C building. Snoozer followed and bowed his hat to the teacher for an apology. They ran passed their old friends near L building and ran into K building not stopping until they slid into the tables. Cyrus came to them and lifted them up.
“Mike you know I don’t like you doing that” said a nice sweet voice was heard, Allegra came and hugged Snoozer and put a kiss on his cheek.
“You know I like to be called Snoozer” he said as he hugged her and picked her up. Everyone sat at the tables and started to eat the cafeteria food, when Longshot tossed Azrian rations down on the table. Snoozer pushed his burger to the side and grabbed some of the rations and slowly opened the package. It seemed like another ordinary day, when the bell rang for 3rd period and everyone went to class. The teachers in the hallways were giving Shiv dirty looks, which Shiv did take notice but said nothing. During class his teacher told him to stay when class was over. The bell rang, Shiv stayed behind and Snoozer went to his English class. When Shiv entered the class later than usual, he looked angry, and when he sat down he gave a cold stare to Robbie, who turned around when he didn’t receive the high five he presented. Snoozer didn’t need to look at him, he knew he was mad, and he knows in time he will calm down. When the bell rung once more, everyone jumped up and rammed towards the door. Shiv stayed in his seat with the same look, and they were off to K2. Snoozer kissed Allegra, and waved a quick goodbye as he left for his locker. Snoozer walked up the stairs to L building and grabbed his skates. He saw a note and he looked at it, it was a threat letter from one of the usually thespians so he crumpled it up and tossed it over his shoulder. Then he continued to move back to the hang out when he heard yelling from K2. He ran in and was knocked down by Shiv who continued to walk away. Allegra and the others came and picked up Snoozer, who asked what was going on.
“We don’t know, he just suddenly yelled at us, and walked out.” Said Megan as she watched Shiv knock over a few people at where the nearby lockers. Then he started to run and jumped the fence.
“Crap” yelled Snoozer as he placed his skates on and sprinted after him, Cyrus and Longshot followed to make sure he was going to be ok. Shiv had a huge head start, and was exponentially faster than everyone else, including Snoozer who was flying down the street trying to keep up. Snoozer got a phone call.
“Hey, do you have any idea where the hell he is going?” asked Cyrus as Snoozer stopped at a red light and spun around gasping for air. He couldn’t figure it out, he just couldn’t put it all together.
“I have no clue” he finally replied as he sat down and leaned his back against the wall. His chest was tightening and he opened the lid to his pills and took one. He looked straight to see the large tower hovering over the city, the abandoned hospital that was closed for over a decade. He stared at it then got on his feet, and dropped his bag on the ground. He waited for the green light, and bolted down the street towards that tower.
Shiv was walking in the small neighbor hood surrounding the tower, the area was supposed to be empty, but people were sitting in the streets, sleeping on the roofs, and some even running away from him. It was strange here, a little odd, Shiv noticed it was particularly colder here, and barely any sunlight came through the dark clouds. He saw his breathe and he zipped up his jacket because of the cold.
Snoozer was skating down hill, he remembered he had no brake so when the fences isolating that tower was approaching he leaned in more. As his speed increased he jumped, his body was over the fence, but his skate hit the top, and he was on the ground, and was knocked out.
Cyrus and Longshot were at the street corner when they eyed Snoozer’s bag. They called their friends back at school and told them what was going on. When everyone started to fear the worst, Cyrus told them to remain calm. He looked at the ground to look at more wheel marks on the streets; he saw a faint mark leading down the street. He didn’t know where it was headed, but they walked down. The tower stood above everywhere else, but something was different, something odd and out of place Cyrus stopped and looked at the tower that caught his attention.
“You don’t think they went there do you?” he asked only to see Longshot with Snoozer’s Ipod in his head. Cyrus knew that little is known about why that tower was abandoned, and even less of what has happened to the people in it. They stopped walking and headed back to school to figure out a plan.
Shiv and Snoozer were still missing and hours passed. Shiv was at the base of the tower and looked at the glass doors, he kicked it shattering the glass. He walked into the dark building. Snoozer finally woke up with a cut on his head, and sat up. He opened his eyes to see a man with a staff and sunglasses standing before him. The man came closer and picked up Snoozer who was in shock. Snoozer’s sight became blurry and he passed out again.
Nightfall came, and everyone still hadn’t heard of the fate of their friends. Cyrus and Longshot were getting irritated. They met up after the Robotics meeting and said they were going to clean up everything. Everyone believed them, and left shortly after the school closed. Cyrus and Longshot grabbed their backpacks with their supplies and headed down to the abandoned hospital. They were going down with skateboards at full speed when they saw an explosion on one of the middle floors. They looked at each other and sprinted towards the fence.
Moments before the explosion Shiv was next to the window and was sent flying through the glass and falling through the air. As he was falling he looked down, watching as the ground came closer and closer. He closed his eyes, expecting to die a horrible death. Snoozer came running along the street and slid, catching Shiv before he hit the ground. A man landed where Shiv fell, and his fists were metal and very sharp. Snoozer and Shiv stood up; Shiv was cut and breathing hard. Snoozer’s clothes were burned and destroyed.
“This day just sucks.” Said Snoozer as he wiped off some dirt from his jacket.
“Yea but this has to be done.” Shiv replied as the man with the bladed hands came running at them.
“What exactly are we doing here, besides getting killed?” Snoozer snapped at him as the man with the staff appeared behind them with a grin that made Snoozer grab Shiv and they bolted out of the way.
“What is with him?” asked Shiv, as he had to jump over people in the streets.
“Well its kind of a long story, you see it starts out when I woke up in a nice room and there well there was these girls surrounding me. I told them that I was dating someone and walked out to see him on the balcony with his staff in hand, I didn’t think much of it, but the staff…” Just then the man was in front, and his staff split into two separate pieces, both ends on fire. Snoozer pointed and finished his sentence “did that!” The fire was so hot, that the flames were green, and the man threw them spinning at Shiv and Snoozer. They pushed each other out of the way, and slid on the ground.
“Who is this guy?” Shiv yelled as the pile of flaming wood burned where they were standing moments ago.
“Honestly I don’t know, ill just say flame head or something.” Snoozer said with a smart-ass tone.
“Why, because of the fire?” Shiv said joking around with Snoozer. That made Snoozer a little mad for stating the obvious so he decided to have the final say.
“No, because his head is orange.” He said as they were both standing and cracking their knuckles. They both started to walk closer and closer to Flame head, both preparing to fight, with Shiv cracking his neck, and Snoozer was rotating his shoulder. Flame head remained still with his arms out, still grinning when his friend with the bladed fists appeared behind him. Flame head moved his arms towards him so fast, that Snoozer barely saw, and he wondered what was going on, when he felt heat behind him, he turned and ducked as he saw the fire staffs coming at him in the air. It caught his jacket and he put out the fire before it spread to the rest of his clothes. Flame head caught the fire staffs and started to juggle them with such precision, he didn’t even have to look at what his hands were doing.
“Alright so your new name is Juggler, sorry for the mix up.” Said Shiv as he stopped walking towards him. He continued to juggle the staffs, and threw it one of them, he controlled it with his hand movement curved it towards Shiv knocking him off balance and into the wall near him. The man with the fist grew impatient for his turn and ran towards Shiv ramming his fist through the wall as Shiv jumped out of the way, the wall cracked, then fell apart. Snoozer was dodging the flames and was being taken down another street, as Shiv was being chased down another, the friends were separated once more, and were being hunted down by killers.
Through out the area buildings were being destroyed, smoke cloud rose, yelling was heard, Cyrus was watching all of this when he stood on the fence where they were climbing to get in. They watched as the explosions split off in different directions moving around the main tower. He didn’t like any of this, and the fact that he couldn’t reach anyone because the cell phones were inactive in this area, so they were on their own. Cyrus jumped down, and landed perfectly, Longshot on the other hand landed on his back and stayed in that position until Cyrus picked him up. They set off into the area when it started to snow, in Southern California, which made no sense to them. But when they saw the other side of the fence, it was not snowing there, something was going on, and they didn’t like it. The flaming staffs were chasing Snoozer as he jumped, dodged and ducked his way towards an old parking garage that was close to 6stories high. He ran inside it, sheltering him from the snow. He hid behind a pillar, and he listened as the juggling chaser, had passed him. He took a deep breathe when all of the sudden the saw the staffs circle him and tie him to the wall, they were connected to his hands by a string, that was now cutting through part of his body. The man appeared in front of him, and he pulled the strings more, the pressure was too much for Snoozer, he yelled. The pillar side he was on started to creek. The next thing he knew, he was inside the pillar and fell down into hole. The man ran after, but only to see Snoozer’s face vanish into the darkness.
Shiv had taken an alternative route, but when he saw Snoozer run into the garage he too decided it might be a haven. But he started to run up the stairs to the 3rd floor, when he saw other people standing near fire pits, he joined them hoping this would hide him from the enemy. He stood next to the fire, and started to warm him hands when someone’s hand grabbed his arm, and pushed him back. He looked around to see everyone in the area glaring at him, eyes were glowing a strange yellowish color. He didn’t think it was a good thing, so he started to back up slowly when one of them ran towards him and slammed his fist into Shiv’s right side of his face. Shiv grabbed his cheek and started to get angry about this whole situation. He kicked one of them down, and elbowed another, and punched a third. He was knocking them down one by one, showing no mercy, but he was also getting a good beating as well. When all of the men were knocked down, he sat down laying his back on the wall, with a cut up eye, and a bruised body, he was desperately gasping for air. But he was not alone for long, within minutes more people were surrounding him with the same eyes glowing and he stood up.
“You really know how to give someone the unwelcome feeling,” he said as he removed his jacket and tied it to his waist. He stood placing his hand on the wall and looking at all of them with rage in his eyes, rage that could easily be seen. He punched someone in the chest, but his hand was stuck, as if it was lunged through the body of the other person. He saw his arm outlined with a dark color, and it was shaped into a blade. His other was also changing, and he looked around, with an unpleasant smile that could give an ordinary person, shivers down the spine.
Longshot and Cyrus were walking together when they were stopped by a person standing in the middle of the road, wearing a muscle shirt, and sunglasses that covered almost all of his face. He stood there, and Cyrus hand placed his hand in front of Longshot, he did not like the looks of the man standing there. He flinched when the man raised his gloves and bright blue spikes appeared between his fingers, about a foot long, and the tips looked extremely sharp. He threw them, spiraling into the air, Cyrus quickly pushed Longshot aside, causing him to lean on the outside wall of one of the shacks, Cyrus was leaning against another as the spikes landed where they were standing, and dissipated. Longshot looked at Cyrus who looked at him and looked terrified.
“Get out of there” Cyrus yelled at the top of his lungs, but Longshot didn’t move in time, something had grabbed him from behind and he was pulled into a trap door within the wall, and the wall slammed shut before Cyrus could take a step foreword.