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Entirely new story, no returning characters, no returning concepts |
| [Introduction]
OK, once again we'll make a story where anything goes provided it's rated PG and it makes logical sense
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| This Earth is not the only Earth in existence, there are many alternate Earths, each taking a slightly different path then our . This is a story of an earth with NO Human Beings on it, there were many other animals on it, even ones extinct on our Earth like Dinosaurs and Mammoths and Fantastical Creatures like Dragons and Unicorns, but Humans for some reason or another never evolved. Instead all the Animals of this Earth evolved to intelligence, and all Animals built the civilization together, this did not mean they lived in peace though, Carnivores still preyed on the Herbivores even though they were civilized, and the Predator Mammals looked down their muzzles at Herbivores, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Insects. One city in the country of Cardinia was undergoing the building of a new massive Cathedral, many builders came from all over the world for work building this cathedral. One of the builders, a Gecko named Vinnie Taylor brought his family over from they're tiny Island of Matadoria to escape the crushing poverty, Vinnie's sticky feet were great at climbing without the risk of falling |
| As Vinnie climbed to the snaffling he was assigned to, there his partner, a chameleon named Louie was hard at work mixing the cement. "There you are Vinnie," He says as he sees him, "Ready to help lay the bricks?" |
| "Ready as I'll ever be." Said Vinnie as they started laying bricks Louie had come from the same Island, Matadoria, they spoke often about the Tropical Sun and Tropical Fruits they left behind for this cold Northern City. "So...How's your Kids doing?" "Doral started school here one week ago." Said Vinnie "And our younger kid still hasn't hatched yet, we have no idea yet if it will be a boy or a girl." Doral meanwhile was not having a good time at school, most of her classmates were Felines or Canines who looked down their muzzles at a Reptile like Doral, she had no friends and missed the Friends she left on Matadoria |
| The young lizard is in a situation in which she sees no way out, a young dog and a young cat looks at her with their muzzles watering up. "What do we have here?" Said the dog. The cat says "Lunch." (Author's Edit: Hertz, In the last addition I refer to Doral as she and her do you not look at pronouns when you read?!) |
| Doral, in a moment of sheer terror, screamed and her scream blew the cat and dog against the wall. Seeing what she had just done, Doral waved her hands around and books started flying off the shelves |
| (What is this? The animal version of Stephen King's Carrie?) Doral is amazed on what she has done, the cat and dog stood up and ran away from here in sheer fright. "When did I get this power?" Doral said to herself, then teachers and school faculty came in looking at her like some kind of freak. |
| Doral went over to the school wall, climbed it and leaped over it, she didn't know where she was all she wanted was to flee. Then, a Car stopped in front of her, the Car opened, inside was one her new neighbors, Mr. Cactus, the Horned Lizard. "I'll take you back to your house." Said Mr. Cactus. "Mom said I should accept rides from strangers." Said Doral "I;m not a stranger." Said Mr. Cactus, "I'm your next door neighbor! I run the bakery and always give you a broken cookie when you visit." So Doral got in the car, and Mr. Cactus did indeed take her to her house. "Mrs. Taylor." Said Mr. Cactus, "Your Daughter is gifted." "What do you mean?" Asked Eloise Taylor "Every 100 years, some very special Beasts are born with special powers." Said Mr. Cactus "Doral here is one of them." |
| Vinnie and Louie are hard at work laying bricks on the platform over the altar when his cell phone rings "Excuse me." Louie keeps a lookout for the foreman "Hello?" Vinnie says as he answers the phone, "Eloise, can't talk long. Mr. Monitor doesn't allow phone calls. What do you mean Doral is gifted?" |
| "Mr. Cactus says she has super powers!" Said Eloise "And Doral said she has the power to move things with her mind!" Meanwhile far far away...An enormous black dragon is looking through his crystal ball. "Once again..." Said the Black Dragon "The Cycle begins anew." "Cosmos." Came a voice, it was a dainty Black Unicorn Mare "Yes Nightshade..." The Black Dragon replied "Do you think this years Cubs will be particularly good for the contest?" Asked The Black Unicorn "They should be Nightshade." Said Cosmos "I have particularly high hopes for this Young Gecko. Meanwhile Mr. Cactus was still with Doral and Eloise "My Grandpa was one of the Gifted Beasts 100 Years ago." Mr Cactus said |
| Mr. Cactus says "I wasn't sure or not that it was one of his fantasy stories but he said he went through a contest with several other gifted ones ran by a black dragon." Doral says "Fantasy or not, did he said he won the contest?" |
| "No," said Mr. Cactus. "He did not win. He said if he had won then we would all be wealthy and have statues put up to honor us. We would ride in a fancy carriage and live in a big house with a wall around it. But he didn't win." Doral shrugged. "I don't think I would want to live in a house with a wall around it." "And we would have had servants," said Mr. Cactus with a faraway look in his eyes. "And all the women would want to marry us boys because we would be so rich." "Sounds like you haven't really gotten over the loss." "Well, it was his loss, really, but you can see how it affected us." "I think your grandfather made a mistake ever telling you about it." |
| "Tonight at midnight." Said Mr. Cactus A Black Unicorn Mare will come to take you to the contest. "Do I have to?" Doral asked "Yes." Said the Horned Lizard That night the whole family stayed up till midnight, a Black Unicorn materialized in their den The Unicorn was unlike anything Doral had ever seen, she had arms and hands with which to grasp things and four legs instead of two, Doral did not know what a Centaur was. "I am Nightshade." Said the Unicorn "You will come with me." And with that, Doral followed and they traveled through time and space until they were in a big cave with many other young beasts all were Doral's age more or less, they were all beginning puberty "Young Ones!" Came a big booming voice, The Young Beasts looked up and saw a Massive Black Dragon standing on a ledge above them "I suppose you wonder why you're here?" Doral asked "Well all of you have been summoned for a contest...This contest will determine who is fit to join the League of Super Beasts." Some of the larger Beasts looked happy, but Doral wasn't sure. "To everyone who wins the contest." Said the Black Dragon "You will be granted a place on the League...If you don't you will be stripped of your powers." "What do we have to do to win?" Asked a Young Lion Cub "You will all be sent to another world from March until December." Said the Black Dragon "Before the first snows fall you must find and capture the Beast of this other world...To win th contest you must find and capture..." Cosmos unfurled a banner revealing the picture "...A human!" All the Cubs gasped "Eww!" Gasped a skittish young Peacock "Humans are so...Icky!" "Tomorrow you will be teleported to the other world, there you will meet some contacts, on a tropical island where no Humans live, they will use a mixture of science and sorcery called Mirage to turn you into near Human Like creatures so you can blend in and catch your quarry...Note you will merely look like Humans you not actually be humans...You will transform into your Beast forms under the light of the full moon...And the contacts will slowly get you acclimated to Human Food...Humans are omnivores they can eat both plants and meat but they're food is more rich and fattening then anything you can find here." "I don't want to be a Human...: Said the Young Peacock "And I certainly don't want to get fat on Human Food." "Stop being a wuss." Said the Lion Cub as he shoved the Peacock into a mud puddle |
| Nightshade says "Blackmane, this is a contest not a free-for-all. Now apologize to Proudwing for your rude behavior." Blackmane says "Sorry, sorry your a wu..." The Black Dragon boomed "BLACKMANE?!" Blackmane says "Sorry." The Unicorn helped Proudwing up "I know how you feel about humans, but we all face things we don't like. I once helped a troll despite we hated each other, but we ended up as friends in the end." |
| As Proudwing cleaned the mud off his feathers, Doral went up to him. "Us Smaller Beasts should stick together...Against Predators like Blackmane." "I suppose." Proudwing said bashfully he didn't want to reveal to this sweet Gecko Girl that Peacock were omnivores and would eat a Lizard if they could." They were all led down a dark tunnel...Then everything went black. When Doral woke up, she was in what looked like a bed in a tropical inn, she felt feverish and her forehead was being dabbed by a White Mouse in a Nurse's Outfit "Ah! You're awake." Said the Mouse Nurse "Just in time for your first meal of human food." "Oh geez..." Said Doral The Mouse Nurse lifted a lid off a covered dish "What is that?" Doral asked sniffing "A Human Sandwich." Said the Nurse "Pastrami on Rye with a sour pickle." "What kind of Animal is a Pastrami?" Doral asked as she poked the sandwich |
| "Usually it comes from a cow," the nurse said. "Of course, sometimes it's from different animals." "It's um, different, looking," said Doral. |
| "What about my Peanut Butter sandwich?" Asked Proudwing. The mouse just giggled. "Peanut Better isn't a meat, it's from ground dried roasted peanuts mashed into a pasty substance." |
| When Doral and Proudwing had finished their sandwiches, Nurse Mousie asked if they wanted her to read them a story. "We're not babies!" protested Proudwing. "But we can't read either," said Doral. "Yes, read us a story." Nurse Mousie pulled a bright yellow book off a shelf on the wall that contained about a dozen books and some toys. "This one is about the little engine that could." "Could what?" Proudwing asked. "Shhh!" said Doral. "Let her read the story." The gecko and the peacock were asleep before the mouse could finish reading page two of The Little Engine That Could. |
| You're probobly wondering why neither Doral nor Proudwing could read, they were both born in third world countries, Doral on the tiny Island of Matadoria and Proudwing from a Peafowl Tribe in the Jungles of Dalaam. When the Nurse Finished the story, "That story should give you some understanding of the task you must do...You must persevere in order to win the contest." Just then there was a roar from outside "That sounded like Blackmane." Said Doral darkly Blackmane was attempting to eat a young Sheep Contestant "I love Sheep!" Said Blackmane The Sheep turned around and shot a blast of ice from her hands, freezing Blackmane in his tracks "She...She can create ice?!" Doral exclaimed "Almost all of us have a different power." Said Proudwing "I generate storms of thunder and lightning...Blackmane can generate fire even surround his body with it turning him into a Leoline Torch." Cosmos' voice boomed from everywhere "There shall be no eating the other contestants!" The Young Sheep panted "That was horrible...Yet...Also kind of exciting." "Who are you?" Doral asked "I'm Mary Woolton." Said the Ewe "born and bred in Cardinia |
| "Is that place famous for something?" Doral asked. "I think I've heard of it before, from somewhere." |
| "Cardinia is located between Pakenham and Tooradin," said Mary Woolton, "and it has a population of 449." "Pakenwhat and Torawho?" said Doral. Mary looked sad. "You haven't heard of them either? Oh, I feel so rural." "Don't worry about it," Proudwing said. "Doral and I are from third world countries and can't read." "Oh, I can read!" Mary said. "I love to read!" Nurse Mousie came in. "You all begin your training classes today. How to catch a human. I hope you pay attention and learn your lessons well. Wouldn't want to send anyone to electroshock therapy, would we?" "Say what?" said Proudwing. "If you're slow with your learning, we'll set your brain burning. Doing poorly at school? You'll get zapped 'till you drool." "So harsh!" Mary Woolton said. Nurse Mousie shrugged. "We don't have the resources to support fools who refuse to learn. Either study hard or hardly study, it's your choice, but you'll have to live with the consequences." |
| "We will also start your transforming into near Humans, who will only turn back into Humans under the light of the full moon." Said the Mouse "The transforming process will take three days." Nurse Mouse then broke Blackmane out of is ice prison "I'm going to say this right now." Said Nurse Mouse "Every Human is to be captured ALIVE and ideally with a minimal amount of damage!Any contestant who kills a Human is automatically disqualified from the tournament!" |
| "Ritual?" said Nurse Mouse. "What kind of ritual?" "You know," Doral said. "Like maybe chanting and dancing around a bonfire, throwing sacrificial objects into a pit, or maybe eating a special meal that enhances our spirituality." Nurse Mouse rolled her eyes. "Honey, this ain't a National Geographic Special. We're going to transform your bodies and teach you how to hunt humans. If you want to sing and dance about it you got to organize that on your own." "Did you just turn black?" "I'm a grey mouse," said Nurse Mouse. "In case you aren't up on your color theory, that's a mixture of black and white. I'm always whatever I need to be. Black, white, whatever. And that's good advice for you children, too. Be what you need to be. Did everybody hear that?" |
| After three days of slow transformation and getting acclimated to Human Food the new werebeasts were ready to go into the Human World and find a Human Groups of them would be sent to different countries "Blackmane, Mary, Proudwing and Doral." Said Nurse Mouse "You four will be sent to the United States of America specifically a town called Los Angeles." "That sort of looks like the city we moved to!' Doral said "Lots of Humans in Los Angeles." Said Nurse Mouse "So you should have no trouble finding someone before the first snows fall." |
| "But, um, how do we capture someone?" Doral asked. "You will figure it out," said Nurse Mouse. "Try the library. You'll find plenty of things there to help you out." |
| Soon the 4 ended up in Lost Angeles, Blackmane says "Here we are, where to first?" Proudwing says, "The nurse says we go to the Library." Doral says "Then let's go." They showed up at the Los Angeles Public Library and saw that the place is big with lots of books "Wow," Mary says "Look at all these books, I don't know where to start first." |
| "We'll ask the librarian," said Blackmane. "Hello, ma'am. Do you have any books on how to capture a human?" The librarian pushed her glasses back up on her nose. "Capture them? You mean like traps and pitfalls? That kind of thing?" "I guess so," Blackmane said. "Then look for books on military tactics, particularly guerilla warfare. Let's see... I'll find that number for you. It will be 399. That's on the third aisle." "Thank you." |
| "Wow Blackmane." Said Proudwing "That was surprisingly civil of you." "Typical."Blackmane sniffed "Because I'm a Carnivore you think I have no concept of manners." Doral gazed at the massiveness of the library and started to feel dizzy, hen they got to the escalator, that was the first time she ever saw an escalator and started to get vertigo. She felt she was going to faint but a pair of strong arms caught her "I got you!" Said a voice Doral looked up and saw a Human not much older then she was, he had large blue eyes and red hair and was sort of tall and thin "You sick Miss..." The Human said "Doral..." The Were-Gecko said "My name is Doral Taylor." "Doral." The Boy said "That's not a name I've heard before, my name Marcus." Mary looked at the young human very closely he didn't look like he could put up much of a fight...Maybe if they captured him they would when the contest in less then a day. |
| "I think our problem's almost solved," Blackmane said. "I remember an old saying about catching flies with honey - set the honey out, and flies come, and get stuck." "So, you're saying that Mary is the honey to this human's fly?" Proudwing whispered back. Blackmane nodded. |
| "Come with us, please," Blackmane said. Marcus looked at the four of them. "Why? What's this all about?" Doral smiled. "He's just making a joke. Who do you like better? Me or Mary?" "The other girl is Mary?" Marcus said. "That's right," Blackmane said, "and I am Blackmane and this guy is Proudwing." "Strange names. Are you Native Americans?" "No, our home is an alternate Earth where America does not exist." Marcus laughed. "What a strange group. Are you part of some kind of cult?" |
| "We need you to come with us." Said Blackmane "Sorry but I don't even know you guys,and I'm not buying for a second this alternate earth thing, you're welcome to share the truth over lunch." Marcus said "What are you having for lunch?" Mary asked, she was still internally an herbivore and couldn't stand meat." "I'm going to eat some pizza." Marcus said Mary had to think about that, she knew pizza could be either vegetarian or full of meat "Yeah." Said Mary "I can do pizza." As Mary and Doral followed the young human, a note fell from the sky and Proudwing caught it "It's a note from Nightshade." Thee Peacock said "She says we can't use one human collectively all four of us must catch one human for each of us to win the contest." |
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