My Novel!!!

Hey guys im gonna be posting a novel im working on in chapters on the site so here is the first chapter i havent decided on a title but it will be decided soon! Enjoy!


Chapter 1- A Meeting.

The sound of the air-conditioning was all Ethan could hear. He couldn’t sleep. He looked to the duck print on his lampshade. Why had mum not thrown it out years ago? Ethan thought, he was 15 for god’s sake. He looked around the room and saw his pet dog walk into the room, woof softly once and then clicked away in to the corridor. He was reminded of a poem he wrote at school:

The creeping dark,
A look of fear,
A scream,
No more hope,
No more courage,
Monsters of dark and evil,
Suddenly a ray of light,
Warmth against my skin,
A dream.

This has to be a dream he thought. He walked in to the kitchen where his dog was scratching softly at the door, after he let the dog out he looked around and saw the computer on. He sat down on the chair and looked at the glowing screen. All of a sudden a MSN window popped up and someone wrote:

Vanessa: Why did u tke so long I was watin here for like 40 mins
Ethan: hoo r u?
Vanessa: I represent the Overwatch.
Ethan: hoo r they
Vanessa: that’s on a need to know basis, all u need to know is that u hav been selected for their game.
Ethan: what game?
Vanessa: im porting u now
Ethan: what????????
In a flash and a slight stinging sensation, Ethan was gone.


He woke up on the ground. It was hard. He spat out the dirt in his mouth and opened his eyes. He saw lots of people lying on the ground with him with their eyes wide open and looking very panicky. He slowly got up and immediately was pushed down by an invisible force. A voice came out of nowhere and said “You will stay there until you are instructed to move” he looked to a girl that was lying next to him, she seemed very calm for someone who was imprisoned by an invisible force in a unfamiliar world. “What’s going on?” he asked her.
“Standard start of the game procedure, it happens every time” she replied
“You’ve done this before?
“Yeah heaps of times, I’m so good they keep picking me”
Ethan was bewildered. “So what is this game exactly?”
“Every year on the 5th of the 5th they pick 20 individuals and pit them against each other in teams of two, in this area, which they call The Arena. You can use anything you find.”
“Sounds fun”
“Not if you lose, the losers are… well they return to our world, but different. But don’t worry about that.”
“ummmm… I’m new at this so…”
“Sure! I’ll be happy to be your partner! Just one thing.” She said with a serious look on her face.
“What?”
“What is your name?” she laughed, amused at the worried look on Ethan’s face.
“Ethan and yours?”
“Julie”
“Just who runs this game?” Ethan enquired
“All I know is that they call themselves the Overwatch” Julie replied with a shrug.
They heard a crackle as the voice started again “Confirm the person on whom you are teaming up with by shaking hands” A wave of handshakes rippled through the crowd. “We will port you to different locations around the arena. When you are being ported try not to sneeze or cough as this will most likely disembody your mouth or nose. Porting in Three, Two, One.” Another flash and sting and they all were gone.

“I’m really starting to hate that” said Ethan as he got up off his ass.
“You learn to get used to it” Julie said “They port us to different locations every hour. Looks like were in the crags, dammit they have to give us the worst one first off.” She was already up and surveying the landscape. They were on a rocky crag surrounded by mountains, the mountains looked like they went up for eternity or at least until they hit the stars. “Don’t pay attention to them, they are only illusions.” Julie said when she saw Ethan gawking at the massive pillars of rock. “Oh” he said looking a little downtrodden.
“Let’s move. We have to at least find a cache before the hour is up” Julie said. She looked expectantly towards Ethan for the question about caches, but it never came. When Ethan saw that she was looking at him funny he said “What? My Dad is in the Army”
“Oh really!? Mine too! Which one?” She exclaimed.
“Australian”
“Huh? I’ve never heard of them…”
“What army are your parents from then?”
“Carmillion”
“Wait a sec… what do you call your planet?”
“What kind of question is that?”
“Just answer it!”
“Terrathia” Ethan’s jaw dropped and he suddenly realised that despite her humanoid features she did have traits that were… different. She had slightly pointed ears and I lithe figure, like that of an elf in the fairytales. Her skin glowed ever so slightly, so that you could only see it if you looked closely. “You… from… huh?” he stammered quite unintelligently..
“Whats the problem? Didn’t you know that the contestants were from different planets? Or are you some kind of xenophobe?” She asked suspiciously.
“No… it’s just… my planet, earth, has never contacted sentient beings from other planets” Ethan said. And then Julie’s jaw said a happy hello to the rocky ground.

“Oh well... it looks like you’re the first of your planet’s inhabitants to see an off-worldly sentient being then”
“Not that anyone would believe me…” Ethan said with a sullen look on his face. Julie decided to leave the subject and change to another one.
“Right! Now we need to find a cache! It should have instructions, food and, if were lucky, a weapon or two” she said brightly. Ethan’s bad mood was instantly lifted.
“Weapons?” he said.
“Weapons.” She replied
“Cool” Ethan crooned and he was instantly off towards a particularly ominous looking mountain. “So whats a cache look like then?” He called over his shoulder.
“Just like what you’re about to trip over” She called back.
“Huh??” he said just as he tripped over what looked like a white plastic container with The Overwatch inscribed on the front. “Hey! Look what I found!” he yelled to Julie. She just sighed and walked over to him. “How do you open it?” Ethan asked.
“Touch the symbol on the front” She replied. He poked the symbol and the box unfolded to reveal a pack of rations, some instructions and a small box that looked as if it should contain a ring. “Whats this?” Ethan asked.
“I… don’t know” she said curiously.
“Well, let’s open it!” Ethan said with a burst of enthusiasm.
“Wait! It might be a trap!” Julie said. But it was too late; Ethan opened the box and out spilled a rainbow of multicoloured gases which span around in what Ethan thought looked like a Care Bear in a blender. Eventually the gases decided to settle down and form a tall man in a tuxedo with a large childish grin on his face. “Hello!” He said with a humongous amount of enthusiasm. “I am Persues Grigolos Hondel, but you two can call me Percy!” Ethan and Julie just stared. “I am a Helper and I am here to… well help!” He said with a smirk on his face that could lift the spirits of even the blackest hearts.
“Hey Julie can I talk to you for a second?” Said Ethan
“Yeah” she replied. Ethan walked away from Percy with Julie by his side, Percy just continued marvelling at the new world he was in.
“He could be trouble” said Julie.
“He seems friendly enough” Ethan replied.
“Well… the Helpers are supposed to be silent and obeying…” Julie said with a suspicious tone in her voice.
“There is one way to find out”: Ethan said “Percy! Could you pick that rock up over there and bring it here?”
“Only if you do something for me” he said with a wink.
“Well that settles it, there is a flaw in The Overwatch’s program.”
“This is one good glitch though” Ethan said “So can we keep him?”
“I… I guess so” Julie said.
“Right! Let’s hit the road then!”
“Oh and you totally know where you are going” Julie said with sarcasm dripping like syrup from her voice.
“Oh yeah… So! Where are we going?” Ethan asked.
“That way.” Julie said as she pointed towards a dark, ethereal forest downhill about 5 Kilometres from where they were standing
“Oh” Ethan said, and then under his breath “Why is it always the dark, evil and smelly forest”.

Too much letters...

Good idea.

What's with you Joseph are you like illiterate or something??? I put a lot of work in to this and you bag it because it is wordy...

I cbs reading it, okay? It has too much words. End of discussion.

Try make a big bucky book which the world can read!!!

Snap! The sound of a twig breaking under Ethan's heel. Crack! Another one snapped. Dammit! Why am I the only one that makes sound when I walk?! Ethan thought angrily. Percy and Julie walked without a sound across the leafy bracken. The undergrowth here was littered with odd looking leaves that resembled a pentagon.” Ethan!” Julie hissed “be quiet or who knows what we’ll attract!”
“The girl is right Ethan” Percy said “This wood is littered with creatures that will tear you apart; I hate to think what would happen should we meet a Warshal”

The author would like to take a few moments to explain the story of the Warshal. They lived on a planet not far from Julie’s and lived in relative peace with everyone. They were pleasant creatures until The Overwatch came in and shot three quarters of their population. In a desperate attempt for peace, the Warshal leader signed a contract with The Overwatch and genetically modified the remainder of their population so that they would be ruthless killing machines. The reason The Overwatch did this is not that they wanted warrior monsters for their game, but just because they really like torturing creatures that they consider below them. There was a point to this story but it has temporarily left the author’s mind. On with the story.

The band of three crept silently through the dank forest, well Percy and Julie crept silently with Ethan trying to stumble as stealthily as he could. They were walking for around an hour before they reached a clearing about ten metres wide with a raised platform of rock in the middle. On top of the platform sitting silently was a cache. “Percy, go get that cache for us” Julie commanded while eying the white box suspiciously.
“Why do I have to?” Percy whined as he looked at Ethan pathetically. Ethan shrugged as if to say: it’s a stubborn girl, what can I do? Percy walked cautiously towards the platform. As he opened Ethan’s stomach clenched in a mix of anticipation, fear and caution. Percy opened box and…nothing happened. All of them sighed in relief. There were a couple of maps and some food inside the cache. “Oh my god! I thought with a cache so obvious that it would be a trap!” Julie exclaimed. Not three seconds after she had said this and they started to walk toward the cache a small blue thing with more teeth than brains jumped out from behind the group. It was about a metre and a half tall with blue skin and a grudge against everything but it. “Dammit! An Orophin!” Julie cried.
“I’m on it!” Percy said as he proceeded run toward the thing. The evil little creature leaped toward Percy with a malicious grin on its round lumpy head. Quick as lightning with something extremely frightening on its tail, Percy pulled two long blades that looked like they belonged to an ancient samurai warrior out of apparently nowhere. Julie and Ethan stood there open-mouthed as Percy battled with this creature of the mind of someone who either should have been killed, put in an institute or hired as an evil creature creator for a company that wanted to pit people against each other in mortal combat. “Are you two just going to stand there?!” Percy said with strain in his voice.
“Oh!” Ethan jolted out of his daze, picked up a heavy rock and threw it at the Orophin. It hit the ground with a dull thud and twitched. “What is it doing?” Julie asked cautiously.
“I don’t know” Percy said as he poked the creature with his sword. A shape fizzled from the monster’s mouth. The shape writhed with static until it decided to settle down and take the shape of the most beautiful woman Ethan had ever seen. She had black hair, piercing blue eyes and a sharp face. She spoke like someone who had authority, knew it and used it to crush people everyday. “Well done, you have managed to kill the easiest monster in the game.” She said condescendingly.
“Who are you?” Ethan asked. She ignored him and kept talking.
“As you might or might not know each time you kill something or someone you will get a prize.” She said with a dark velvet voice “Unfortunately as this is the easiest thing to kill in this whole artificial universe, you will get a loaf of bread.” Ethan Pffted.
“Cheapo.” Julie said. Still the woman ignored them.
“Congratulations contestants! Love, Vanessa” The image fizzled out of view.
“Where have I heard that name before?” Ethan asked himself quizzically. They trudged on with Ethan holding the loaf of bread.

The trio hacked and swore their way through the now tropical jungle.
“Hey I wonder how much time we have…” Ethan began and suddenly interrupted by a flash and a sting which saw them hurtling through the ins and outs of the overwatches program until the game decided to plonk in the middle of a volcano. Ethan exclaimed his displeasure by screaming this as he fell onto the ground in the middle of the aforementioned volcano. “Aw shit”

When is Chapter 3

(PS i didn't borther reading chapter 1 and 2 anyway)

More bulky chunks of text!

Wat genre is this book?

let me guess... The Next 3 Years!111!!11

Wait Tim, did u write this in CW club right?

Ja. Chapter 3 coming up after hols! X3 X3

It's after the hols now... WHERE IS CHAPTER 3! The longer I have to wait, the better.

Your one lazy writer,