Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 21:42:26 GMT -6
:THE CAVE:
About twenty yards into the cave Nostalgia thinks “damn, this mini lantern works much better than expected.” When he entered he kept his gaze to the ground for a few minutes, checking for any possible footprints, human or animal. He sees no trace of anyone or anything with him down there, so he shines the lantern forward and heads deeper into the cave. Beginning to observe the surroundings. He realizes he has three gateways. Each leading to its own mystery and wonder for Nostalgia to explore. Nostalgia only employs middle men, so he grabs a flat rock, then takes out his knife. He carves “Right” and “Left” on opposing sides. He flips the rock and decides to go to the “Right: before it lands on “Right.”
While traversing the terrain, admiring the stalactites, wondering how he has yet to see a bat. Aren’t there always bats in caves? He heads down through the third gateway and realizes it is beginning to get a little tighter. Nostalgia has turn sideways and walk step by step as he holds the mini lantern with his right hand at his waist in front of him. About forty yards in, the walls give way to open space.
Nostalgia stops immediately, something is off. He looks down to see a pool of water. His eyes may be playing tricks on him due to the natural environment and artificial light of the mini lantern, but he swears he can see small sections of red swirling in the pool. Suddenly, a strange sound emanating only a few yards behind Nostalgia faintly echoes throughout the cave. He realizes his only option to proceed to his left. He knows one wrong move, and Nostalgia drowns today. The strange sound is getting louder. Nostalgia is tip-toeing across a ledge, so small, half his foot is hanging off the ledge. Nostalgia perks up when he hears the noise right behind him, he tries to only turn his head, but his foot slips, he falls. Nostalgia makes a last-ditch effort to grab the ledge, which he manages to do. Suddenly, the bats come in mass, they are flying throughout the entire open area. Nostalgia is getting bumped by three or four bats as he hangs on for dear life. Finally, one lands on his hand, as it flies off, Nostalgia loses his group and begins to drop. He thinks of Jenny and what could have been. SPLASH! Nostalgia hits the pool, unbeknownst to him, it is a whirlpool. Nostalgia is being pulled round and around. He is trying his damndest to grab ahold of something, but the surrounding environment is too wet to catch a grasp. Finally, Nostalgia takes a deep breath, stops fighting, allowing the whirlpool to take him. As the pulling finally stops about 45 seconds later, he notices he is in a deep pool of water. He is discombobulated from the whirlpool, he is turning every which way to find a way out. Nostalgia looks up and notices natural light through the water. Nostalgia, struggling to hold his breath, swims with all his might, it takes a good minute for him to reach to the top. He explodes through the water and takes a huge breath. He begins coughing as he slowly swims to the bank. He looks to see the exit of the cave.
Leonardo‘s mind going seven different directions. He decides to just take a seat and try to figure out what just happened. What did it all mean? He looks to his left and sees an Ancient Uto-Aztec statue seemingly placed there just to stare at Leonardo.
Nostalgia just stares the statue for a few minutes…
All of a sudden, Nostalgia’s mind is on fire. Faded memories pass in an instant. He sees fleeting images of his Muay Thai trainer in Thailand, the subsequent massacre weeks later. Ric Steiner, Perry Saturn, and Norman Smiley training him in his basement. His Dambe master is West Africa. Traversing the Tibetan mountain tops. Until…
Leonardo walks into the Atlantic City Comedy Club. He goes to the bar and grabs a Coca-Cola. He turns and heads towards the stage. He looks up and see’s Jenny Hunt doing her set.
Leonardo enjoys her combination of quirky, dry, and dark comedic style. Towards the end of her set, he decides he wants to meet her. He calls over one of the security guards. The security guard gives her name and puts out his palm, which Leo greases. As Jenny Hunt finishes her set, Leo gets up, still staring at Jenny, they lock eyes for what seems forever. The security guy call outs to Leonardo who then follows the security guard back to the green room. Jenny is packing her bag, ready to get out of there, obviously not interested in socializing with the other “comedians.” Leo approaches her. “Great set.” Jenny looks up at Leo and hides her smile. “Would’ve been better if there were some hecklers.” Leonardo laughs. They continue speaking as jenny finishes packing up. They leave the green then the comedy club, still in one flow of conversation. {MEMORY FADES}
Leonardo is sitting at the dining room table of the mansion deep in the woods of Jackman, Maine. Leonardo is sitting in front of a series of manila folders. These manila folders will unravel everything Leonardo knows about his parents, as well as himself. He looks at the first folder, labeled “Darwin’s Order,” he opens it to see the words Genetics and Cloning. He closes the folder. The next three have the names “Elizabeth Gold”, “Harry Gold,” and the last folder is labeled “Gabriel Gold.” Leo find the name catchy, so he chooses to open that first, as he opens it, he drops it to the ground. Landing on the table in front of him is his birth certificate, GABRIEL GOLD. He looks over at the last folder and reads “The Eye.”{MEMORY FADES}
A few months after Leonardo and Johnny became friends, they are sitting by the fence the woods, making up stories about what has happened in the woods. Johnny dares Leo to go over, which he does before Johnny finishes his sentence.. Leo runs off to take a piss behind a tree. While nature is calling, he hears two kids voices too deep to be in johnny and Leo's grade. Knowing bullies, he knows they will talk some trash before acting, so he calmly finishes his business. He looks and sees one boy much heavier than him, and he knows he needs to be taken out first. The other is a little taller and heavier than Leo, but Leo can tell he is just a follower. He looks around and finds a stick as thick as his wrist. He jams it in back of his pants than hops and grabs the branch of the tree and pulls himself up. He grabs the base and pauses for the right moment, the branch is only thick enough to support one quick two stride then leap before it breaks. He sees them finally separate, the fatter of the two is closer, to the left. Nostalgia shimmies around, takes his double stride and leaps, dropping right on top of the fatter one. As he lands on the heavyset boy, he takes out the stick and drives it into the forehead of the shocked boy. He instantly starts crying as the blood trickles over his eyes. He turns to attack the other kid, but he is already half way down the basketball court. Leo turns to Johnny, “I got your back. Always.” Eventually the teachers come, the principal and heavyset kids yell, the police come, and take him home. That was the first and last year Nostalgia was taught in the public or private education system. {MEMORY FADES}
Leonardo is watching his butler and father figure, Daniel Wadsworth discussing quotes of Sun Tzu such as “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”Mr. Wadsworth explains, anyone who does know one’s true self is always at a disadvantage. He explained that is why Gabriel felt so out of place his entire life until he finds out the truth. Leonardo looks shocked Mr. Wadsworth knows Gabriel feels there was more to his parents death. He is only at years old but is lightyears ahead of his age in maturity and intelligence, so. He explains he will find out the truth soon enough but not until the time which his parents determined. And only I know the truth. You will find no documentation anywhere Leo. You are welcome to try to beat it out of me sir. They share a laugh. Leo responds “Mr. Wadsworth, you are such a badass. You are ten times cooler, tougher,and better than Mr.Pennyworthy, I am going to call you Mr. Dimevalue from now on.” {Memory fades}
The Relic (Nostalgia) is in position. He was sent for a covert hostage recovery. The Relic notices an American soldier engaged with three hostiles. This soldier, just took down one man, now he engaged with 2 more hostiles. The Relic knew there would be a special Navy Seal team as cover for a separate mission to take out a local safe house of hostiles. He recognizes the extremely efficient and deadly soldier from the files on the “friendlies” is named Andrew Jackson The Relic notices a third come up from behind with a blade, and realizes Jackson is unaware of the impending doom. The Relic decides he must help his fellow American. He aims, takes a breath, exhales as he snipes the intended backstabber. As Jackson knocks down one hostile with a hard right hand, followed by a stomp on the face as the hostile hits the grounds. The Relic exhales and snipes the other hostile. Andrew Jackson looks up and sees The Relic. The Relic lets out one last short and takes out the downed hostile, then turns to the American soldier. The soldier salutes him, then the sniper stands and returns a salute, gives 4 fingers and the signal identifying which direction the other hostiles are positioned, before disappearing from the soldier’s view. {MEMORY FADES}
Leonardo is visiting the private home a wealthy Russian philanthropist. He was informed this man is one of the few breeders of the Caucasian Ovcharka. He walks into the backyard and sees about three very large, zoo-like enclosures housing the older dogs. They take a right turn down the path to one giant enclosure with seemingly hundreds of pups. The philanthropists’ assistant opens the cage and let’s Nostalgia in to pick his pup. He informs Nostalgia, the Great Horned Owl is going through some red tape, but he should have it within the next few months. Leonardo nods as he enters the giant enclosure. He is walking around when one certain pup is off alone…
Leonardo walks over to the pup. The pup immediately hops in his arms. He rubs the pup behind the ears, the pup licks Leo then jumps out of his arms and runs away. Leo picks up a stick and throws it towards the pup. The pup grabs the stick and runs in the opposite direction of Leonardo. Leonardo chases after him.
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Leonardo is sitting in the Head Advisor’s office as he excitedly waits to pick his classes. Instead of the very attractive older blonde woman he was expecting, two men in black suits are standing before him. The taller man says… “Mr. Gabriel Gold, I am Mr. Webb, this is Mr. Bourne.” Leonardo has not heard that name come from anyone else’s mouth but Mr. Dimevalue. He is wondering which government or private sector they could be with. Mr. Webb, “Fear not, Gabriel, your secret has been known to us before you were born. We were your parent’s “handlers”. You are a man with special genes, your parents were a duo that could never be duplicated in their line of work or in life. Your parents had you tested before most parents, and your intelligence is…scary… to say the least. We know everything about you. We know everything surrounding the deaths of your family. We know about the incident with Johnny. But we are not here to discuss the past. We have made sure the ones that took the lives of your parents’, never found you. But now it is time. Mr. Wadsworth informed us the moment he told you the truth surrounding your existence. Gabriel, You are the future. You can make right, all the wrongs that were done to your parents’ and hopefully continue their revered well by the handful “in the know”” {MEMORY FADES}
Jenny and Leonardo are sitting at a “Goth” bar, The Craft, of which Jenny is a regular. Leo has been here with her a few times. She loves the scene, and he loves her, so he stays despite wanting to poke out his eyes and eardrums during their time there. Jenny is over with a few of friends, while Leo grabs their drinks. Leonardo turns to his leftt and notices several men and women dressed out of place. He surveys the room and realizes there are at least 6 hostiles in the bar, probably more in disguise as the “Goth” crowd. Nostalgia picks up a beer bottle in each hand, as he slowly makes his way through the crowd to Jenny. He notices red dots throughout the room, and realizes he needs to act now. He chucks a beer bottle across the bar, past the bartenders’ head and into a few bottles of high end Vodka. The loud burst of all the bottles causes everyone to turn their gaze to the bar. Nostalgia feels a presence behind him, he immediately turns, grabs the arm of the assailant, twists and breaks the wrist while driving the knife into the assailant’s side, then slides him down to the ground. “LEO!” echoes throughout the bar. Leo looks up in a mix of terror and rage to see two men grab Jenny. Her friends try to stick up for her, but the guns of the assailants scare them away. Nostalgia is in action now. He grabs a soup bowl and spoon from the table as he passes, he throws the bowl at one of the assailant’s holding Jenny. He immediately turns to his right and drives the spoon through the eye of another hostile as he hears “WTF,” he knows he hit his target. Nostalgia leaps onto the bar, by this time the crowd is frenzied, rioting to get out of the bar as shots are fired towards Nostalgia, each just missing. Nostalgia gets to the edge of the bar and jumps, the top of head breaking open as it smashes the hanging red and white wine glasses, as he lands, he connects with a knockout punch to the back of the guy he just hit with the bowl. Her grabs Jenny with his left hand, spins, and clotheslines the other assailant. As he does, a bullet hits his shoulder, but without missing a beat, he kicks the assailant in the face, knocking him out. Jenny smartly decided to run into the ladies’ room a few feet to her left. Nostalgia knows she is safe, he sees 6 men and women spread throughout the bar. Nostalgia runs into the ladies’ room. He sees Jenny trying to break the window, so he walks up and does it for her. He takes off his shirt and wipes the glass shards from the bottom then helps her up and out the window, with a grunt of pain from the bullet wound in his shoulder. He hears the door open as Jenny falls outside, Nostalgia quickly runs and kicks through the door, knocking out two of the assailants. Quickly he returns to the bathroom as shots head his direction. He heads into the middle stall. He hears two more sets of footsteps approaching. As the first stops at the first stall, the second continues to the last stall. Within a matter of seconds, they begin firing. As Nostalgia hears the gun to his left click, he kicks the door open, which hits the assailant. He pounces on the man to his right, grabs his head, and breaks his neck instantly. He picks up the dead man as a shield and heads towards the now reloaded last assailant. Nostalgia lunges the dead body towards the assailant, the weight of the dead man takes down the other assailant. Nostalgia heads out the door as he hears…. “WE FOUND YOU ONCE RELIC, WE WILL FIND YOU AGAIN!” Jenny is huddled behind the dumpster, hears this and thinks “WTF.” A few minutes later, and 2 more bloodied bodies, Nostalgia runs up to Jenny. “Time to go.” Jenny shrieks at Leo “WHAT IS GOING ON LEO?” “WHY DID HE SAY ‘WE FOUND YOU ONCE RELIC, WE WILL FIND YOU AGAIN!” Nostalgia responds “Jenny, I love you, I swear I will explain everything. But we must leave now. There will be more. Jenny grabs Nostalgia’s hand as he surveys the surroundings, finding their safest path out of there.”
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3 Hours Later:
Leonardo is leaning against a tree, no idea how far from the Cave he has travelled, but he is exhausted mentally and physically. He does not remember whether or not he grabbed his “Black Hole” backpack, but he doesn’t have it. All he has is the Ancient Aztec Artifact. He looks up at the night sky and locates the North Star. He checks his surroundings and notices a tree, with a branch layout where he could spend the rest of the night. He makes his way over to the large tree. Climbs up the widest branch, pulls himself up, leans back against the bark. He takes out the Ancient Aztec statue and stares at it for a few minutes, before safely tucking it away. He plots his way back to Bakersfield, or at the very least, a main road. Leonardo closes his eyes.
OOC- Some of these flashbacks will lead to further CD stories. I Did it this way because wanted to work on Nostalgia's secret past, and finish the cave mystery. So hopefully some of you enjoy.
OOC- Some of these flashbacks will lead to further CD stories. I Did it this way because wanted to work on Nostalgia's secret past, and finish the cave mystery. So hopefully some of you enjoy.