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Chapter#1; Tormented Past

By TheDarkNarrator340 | Posted: 24 December 2008

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Violence
Violence
Bad language
Bad language
This would be considered the first novel ever published, other than the one I'd just posted.

Chapter One: Tormented Past

It was somewhere in Alabama where there was a part of the town that looked like it was suffering from both the gas of the company's pipes, and inner, since the people inside of the ghetto houses were corrupt. The people there were very cruel and manipulative of others. There was a time the neighborhood was good and posperous, but after the horrible event that has happened in their past, the people have their faith and somehow started to become cruel and unfaithful, but there was only one person that was affected by the horrible truama far more than anyone else has been. Because this truama had a great deal with his parents, and changed his life forever. That person lived in the middle of the neighborhood, as it was very large and broken down. The person that lived in that certain house, was a person named Garbo. Garbo V. Kenwald 
"...Mommy...Daddy..." Garbo, who was now in his young teens, was having a very hard time forgetting about the horrible event that has happened to him a decade ago. An event that has somehow continued to haunt him for so long. His face looked innocent but filled with sadness and anger for what has happened to his own parents. 
"I-can't-believe-that-this-has-happened...why? Why like-this? Why?" He was so sad, he didn't know where to begin. His memories started to recall something that could explain it, but it was taking it's time inside of his small and less-known world; as it was telling the whole event all over like a story. 
"...Why?!" It then showed him images of the event ten years ago, as now it started from the beginning...the-day-when his parents were-killed-by-their-arch-enemy.
(Ten years ago...)
"(Crowd cheering for the heroes of their town)
"We sure are blessed to have such good people like them in our lives. Oh thank you so much." They were being greeted and respected by everyone in their neighborhood; honored as famous detectives that solved the great mystery of the scandals of their city and the company that has robbed them for so long of their money.
"It's them! Our-heroes! Look, they have a kid as well!! He's-adorable!" The people gather around the sidewalks, as they were being greatly admired and greatly respected from the people that has looked up them so much.
"Wow, they sure appreciate us very much. Never got this much attention at all..."
"Well what can you say? We'd managed to solve the great water scandal of the city's crisis. It was hard I'll say that, but it was done, for-the-people." Mike, nicknamed "Intel" was giving a modest comment about all they'd put into to put an end to such an horrible scandal that has plauged their town, only to fall victim to a horrible new case; a case that'll seal their fate and life.
"Sir!! Sir!! You won't believe this! This is very bad news!!"
"What? Is much worse than the scandal..."
"It's-about-Scandolf McBuck..."
"What?! Scandolf?! The "Scandolous-Murderer" of time?! How is this possible?! He's-in-jail!!"

" He's managed to escape, but that's not the worst of the news, it's about what he did that's the real issue. He's managed to steal the "laser chip" and he's managed to get inside of the central control of the military base, all the way towards the "Satellite" room..."
"Holy-shit! What does he plan to do with such a device?!"
"He's planning on blowing up the city, using the lasers from the satellite from space..."
"Oh-god..."
"With that laser's power; it's enough to destroy not all of Alabama, but as well as the whole region. Even himself..."
"That-fucking-madman! He'll-kill us all!!"
"What should I do?!"
"Get units over towards the central command and do what you can to get in and stop him. Also, call-the-"Detectives" as well. This is time to put an end to him once and for all." Chief Macintosh became serious about his matter, as this was going to be a huge case to solve. One that not even the great detectives can solve. 
"What?!" Mike was on the phone back at their large house, when they heard news that Scandolf McBuck has escaped from Prison and decides to destroy the region in an act of revenge.
"I-see." 
"We need down you here as fast as you can. We got to stop as fast as we can, before many will suffer..."
"I'm on my way! Just hang in there." He hung up and told his wife that they have to solve as fast as they can.
"I-see."
"We'd got to get down there as fast as can, Eva..."
"But what about our son? We can't leave him here by himself..."
"Don't worry. I'd had Kayla come down and babysit him. She'll watch over him, while we solve this." Mike confident of putting an end to his arch-enemy before it's too late.
"Alright, we should get going as of now..."
"Daddy?" Garbo came down stairs with his teddy bear, wondering where his father is going.
"Garbo, daddy's got to solve another-case okay? I need to stay here and be a good boy for your neighbor okay?"
" Are you coming back?"
"Of course son, were going to solve another big case. Just stay here, we'll be back, we-promise." Mike making sure his son doesn't know about the severity of the case, to save him.
"Okay."
"Alright Eva, let's get going."
"We'll be back son, just stay here and be a good boy for us, okay? Love-you." Eva said, as they both were going out the door in order to stop their arch-nemesis and put an end to his sick and horrible plan.
"Mommy? Daddy?"
"Don't worry Garbo. Your parents are the greatest, they'll be okay. Now were going to play a game..."
"What-game?"
"It's-called "Be a good boy"; this is where you go to bed, while I sit and relax myself. Now, start!" Kayla trying to make her job easier.
The two detectives were driving as fast as they good, as the know is not in their essence.
" I'd hope were ready to stop him.", Mike confident as they managed to get to the central command of the military base. 
"Oh-right, attempt again!" Chief was trying to get his men into the central command, but they were being blown up for some reason, without knowing.
"What?! What's-going-on?"
"Sir, it turns out that there are land mines under there, rigged to blow."
"What?! Are you serious, so all of this time, they were just about ready to blow?! Damn, where are those those two right now when you need them?" Chief worried about not making it in time.
 The two detectives arrived the scene, as the police force was happy to see them.
"About damn time."
"Alright fill us in with the concrete..."
"That bastard rigged the whole fields with land mines, and now are blowing up to pieces everytime we attempt to near! This is upsurd!!" Chief Macintosh angered and feeling guilty for the death of his men. 
" What could is possibly mean? Surely there's a way to get pass them..."
" There must be some kind of style that he uses to do so. In my time facing off against other villains, I know and aware that they use some kind of style of setting up their traps. He must have some kind of style that no one would pay attention to, even if it was obvious." Mike then experimented, as he jumped in a diagonal order, where the mines were, but it didn't explode.
"My-word..."
"Chief, he set up them off in a diagonal order, in order to make sure that you wouldn't know and you would lose men before getting to him."
"Amazing...(He's-managed to find out in a nick of time, but I'm afraid there's a lot more that madman's going to use on them...)" Chief concerned for his elite subordinate.
"Chief, I'm-going-in and getting to-him. I want-you-to-back me up and do as I do, so that way, you won't lose anybody. Alright, we got to hurry, before it's too late." Mike then started jumping in a diagonal order, as Eva followed behind him, in order to get towards the front door. They'd kept on jumping in a checker-diagonal order so it's more around jumping on the white side, so that the mines don't go off. 
"Alright, got passed that part, now let's keep moving." Mike said, as they made it all the way towards the front door, and started running down the hallway, in order to get towards the madman behind everything. His mind focused on the task ahead, feeling that he must what he can in order to stop his arch-nemesis, with feelings of doubt rushing through his mind. 
"Well, it seems that he's passed that part real well. Well not matter, he'll-meet-his-next-challenge real soon." Scandolf, looking old and wrinkly with nodes all over him, as he was setting up his next trap already without them knowing.
"Wait? Something's not right...oh-shit-Eva!! Get-down!!" He yelled, as they both got down, as the laser from the wall, were shooting at mid-range, targeting the blood victim. His heart started to race, as he used his quick reflexes to act on the situation as quickly as possible. 
"Oh-great, now lasers, but not just ordinary lasers. These are similar to the lasers in space. These can even pierce through the person's bones; McBuck has them set up in some way, but what?" Mike's mind started to form something; he started to experiment by throwing a coin, but he cuts his finger first, place a bit of blood into the coin, and flipped up into the air.
"C'mon..." Suddenly the lasers targeted the one coin with blood stained, as they attacked it immediately. Before they realize it, the coin's steel plate reflected the laser's back at themselves, and destroyed there ownself from the result of it.
"Alright, that's was good planning..."  Eva amazed at his stature of figuring things out. 
"When I saw the way how they attacked us, I'd had to guess that it was blood-related and that's where I started analyze that it was blood based lasers and before I knew it, that's where I got the assumption that these were blood-based lasers. Once I'd figured that out, all I had to do was throw a coin, and before they knew it, they attack it. Deflecting their own lasers back at them, and...well-you-know..."

" I just don't know what I love most about you? Your stupid charm or your genius?"
"C'mon, we'd got to get there as fast we can; the more time wasted is the more time he's going to kill many." Mike said, as they continued their way towards the central command room, where they'll face off against their arch-nemesis, Scandolf McBuck. Still having some sense of doubt that he might not win this, but still came with confidence.
"So he'd even managed to get passed the lasers. No matter, the real test will begin for the both of them, and this time this'll seal their fate-for-good." Scandolf stood ready, as the detectives were busting through the front door, where they see that the satellite was about ordered to launch and eradicate the target.
"Oh-shit...is-that-the-laser?" Eva scared of such a horrible sight.
"Welcome, I was expecting the both of you. My traps were a little too much for those fools outside, but who would've thought that you two would be the one that actually destroyed both of them at once. I'm-impressed.
"I-suggest that you stop this mess and come clean, and then I"ll only rip out one of your lungs."
"..." Eva continued to look at the satellite lasers, as their about ready to blow. Scared and freigthened that they could go off anytime. 
"What if I refuse, oh great dectective?"
"I hope you'd wrote a letter to hell, cause that's where your going."
"Is that so?" Scandolf sound over-confident.
"End of the line, Scandolf McBuck. You won't win."
"Fools, you're already too late. Even as we speak, my satellite is already timed to launch as of now. By the time it's ten minutes, the whole city will be one huge crater, and then they will know a lot to know about-pain. My-pain..."
"You're the one whose going to be in a lot of pain." Mike determined to stop him, as he took off his shirt. He looked tall and muscular, with a scar that stretched through his chest.
"Eva, go over there and do what you can to stop the launch at all cost. I'll take care of this guy right now. Let's-hurry. Not another moment to lose..." Mike serious, as Eva went over to stop the launch of the satellite and the destruction of the state.
"You know you'll only lose; soon the whole city will be one huge crater, and you'll be dead..."
"The only one whose dead, is-you..."
"Curse-you. On-guard." McBuck took off his shirt, and he looked old.
"Is that how you plan to beat me? By making me sick. Sorry, take a lot more than that to...What?!" Mike watched, as McBuck started to grow immensely and started to look young as well.
"What's going-on?!"
"As I said, on-guard!!" McBuck charged at him, with his whole arm covered in black spots from the form that he's displayed.
"What the hell is he?" Mike moved out of the way, as he was getting caught off guard, from the bizarre attacks that he's getting from the fiendish man that plans to destroy the city.
"Am I too much for you, oh-great-dectecta-shit?!"
"..."
"Here's-something for you!!" Mike then clenched his right fist and hit him real hard in the gut, as he was falling over from the pain. 
"What the hell?!"
"I was only getting started!!" Mike then clenched his fist again and hit him in the gut again, as he was falling over and was badly hurt from the punch.
"Ack! You-son-of-a-bitch..."
"I'm going to say this one more time, give up right now, or get another dose of pain..."
"You know for a minute, I'd thought you were really good, but I'd just got a whif of your strength. I must-say it's pretty-pathetic..." Scandolf then step back and jerked his arm free from Mike's grip, and he charged up his arm from black cursed arm, and went for another hit right at his face.
"Shit!" Mike moved out of the way, as he didn't want to get from the punch that was coming right at his face.
"Had-enough you?"
"Don't worry, I was only getting started from here anyways..." He excited to see how much more of this fight it's going to turn out.
Meanwhile, Eva was doing her best to decyhper the code and do what she can in order to deactivate it however she could. 
"C'mon. I'd got to do something and I got to hurry, the longer I wait on this, the more it'll be around the destruction...(C'mon think. What do old wolves like him think about most? Wait..." Eva then used her knowledge and type in about anything that might be able to decyhper it, and she was getter closer to getting the password.
"Ack!"
" Of all the familiar places; this is it, this is where you go down. After all of these years of trying so hard to put an end to me, you still couldn't defeat at all, can-you?
"No, this is where it ends; and it goes a little something like this!!" Mike smirked, as he then went under Scandolf and did a upper cut. Breaking his jaw and sending up upward towards the air.
The battle was concluding, as they had only one minute left before the satellite is launched, sets it's target, and annihilate the whole region in a shower of lasers.
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Comments 
debbie reynolds
24 December 2008
Most Intense, harrowing, full of feelings, powerful,keep going with your great work, good luck.
arneon
26 December 2008
I like the idea of your story. You make use of scientific and supernatural elements that combine quite nicely in your plot. There are however a few things I would like to point out to you. Please I am not trying to be harsh, but if you hand in this piece to an editor this is what he would say.

You have to sharpen your usage of punctuation. THe double 
exclamation is not needed. The three dots at the end of your sentence should be avooided. Building your story around dialogue is confusing to the reader. Fragmented sentences that is sentences that does not contain subject object and verb should be minimised. What on earth does this line in your story mean - "..." In your dialogue what are you trying to portray by writing the words likd this - What's-going-on. If it is to portray something, your reader does not know what. Rather show the reader what you mean by telling him. For instance:
"What's going on?" the seargent whispered, anxiety in his voice.
Your dialogue feels unreal. When you write dialogue read it loud so you can get the feel of what the people are saying. 

"Were here chief, sorry were late." The two detectives arrived the scene, as the police force was happy to see them.
"About damn time."
"Alright fill us in with the concrete..."
"We'd tried to get towards the door where the central command is, but he's managed to rigged it with land mines, and they blow everytime we get near..."

In this dialogue the detectives did not need to say 'we're here chief.' THe chief can see them. They know they are late so this would be the entry statement. Your sentence following their apology makes no sense. It implies that the detectives oly arrived when the Plice force was happy to see them. You could try to change this sentence to read something like this:
The men were happy to see the arrival of the detectives. 
THe chief is angry and anxious and worried all at the same time. HIs help arrives and he scorns them with "about damn time" In the chiefs next sentence it seems like he is as calm as a summers breeze. You should keep his anxiety flowing, He's not going to calm down untill the threat is gone. You could try something like this:
"That bastard rigged landmines out there!"  he shouted, "three of my men are lying in pieces. Wwe can't get near him detective." He lowered his head as if ashamed of their failure, but anyone tha knew the chief, knew he was to proud to feel shame.

Your charaters are vague skeches. You need to fill them in more. Less dialogue and more painting. Show your readers whats happening through your characters eyes not their words. THere are ten times more information going through the mind that through your  words. I don't mean that you should describe the details of your characters tha is your choice, what I mean is your characters feelings, thoughts and who he is as a person should be highlighted more, and that highlighting should not be in dialogue. 

You need to show your reader what you mean. When you say he jumped in a diagonal order, what is he doing.SHow us through your words what this diagonal jumping is. 
Word use: Try to experiment with different words in you descriptions. For instance the villains all have different styles they use, some other alternatives could be - methods, approaches, techniques. 

"Chief, I'm-going-in and getting to-him. I want-you-to-back me up and do as I do, so that way, you won't lose anybody. Alright, we got to hurry, before it's too late." Mike then started jumping in a diagonal order, as Eva followed behind him, in order to get towards the front door
Unnessesary text: In the above sentenses you say Eva followed him to get to the door. Earlier on in your writing the chief described the landmines in front of the door, and that was the way to get to the villain. the whole conversation at that point to this sentence was about getting through that landmine to the door. What you are doing here is called repetition and this is frowned on, it is unnessecary and any editor will delete that sentence. 

Arneon - out
ChrissieJo
16 February 2009
thanks for your insightful comments on REVENGE. They led me to Chapter#1 and I must say this is an interesting story which captured my attention. 

I would like to know a bit more about Garbo and his parents. I assume there is more to come about the characters and that you might make then real so that we could know the drive / reason for what they do and how Garbo feels inside. 

You are good at the dialogue thing, so well done for that. Lots of great Ideas and actions packed in this piace so well done and I look foward to read more of your writing!
TheDarkNarrator340
01 May 2009
To be honest to god, this is the first story I'd ever created. I'd wanted to say that this is alright in the beginning, but after rewriting it, it sounds like something that I can definetely read, because there's a beginning. 
I'd wanted to knock Garbo's past out of the way, while leaving clues about his ancestors. This is considered by far my biggest introduction. The whole past thing was so long, that I ended up having to make three chapters worth in detail. The first attempt was probably about one page, but it wasn't descriptive. Overall, when I wrote and read Chapter#2, it was clearer in depth, because we see how his parents met their untimely end. 
By the way, don't hesitate to read the other chapters that recently came out. I need to get in touch with an agent of mine and the critiquing is what I need in order to send this work out already.

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