The Seagull and Me ~Episode 1~
By : Daniel Mulcahy
(This story and its characters are entirely fiction and are not based on any people (or animals) or events....)
Part 1
Christmas finally came after days upon days of waiting.
The day I was finally waiting for, not for the presents and all that...but mainly for the food.
I starved myself by having no breakfast as I was determined to finish all that came on my plate.
The wait for the dinner started to become longer and longer as the day went by and soon my stomach started to make...unique...noises.
"I'm soooo hungry....." I said to myself as I waited and waited.
I could smell the dinner as it was being prepared and to keep my distracted from it, i started to hum in my head.
Suddenly, as I was humming, a big bang was heard hitting the kitchen window.
"Weirdo..." I thought to myself
We all looked out it to see a seagull lying on the ground. It suddenly jumped up and started to look at us, before flying at the window again.
It continued to bang against the window, trying to get in, for some strange reason.
Soon though, after awhile it gave up...It just stood there on the ground looking up at us, then it begun to look at me for awhile, before it eventually flew off.
We continued to wonder why it kept banging against the window trying to get, but we soon forgot about it....as dinner was finally ready.
Ham, turkey, spice beef, carrots, peas and potatoes....hhhhmmmmmm
I finished it all and washed it down with a glass of wine, hehe it was the holiday season...
"Ah that was goooodddddddd" I said and let out a huge burp to prove it too.
I finally got up from the table and headed for the sofa to sit down and relax from that bloated tummy of mine.
But as I sat down I started to hear rumblings in my stomach. I headed upstairs to lie on my bed and relax, hoping the pain would go away.
But sadly it didn't and I felt my stomach starting to do cartwheels.
Realizing that I couldn't make my way down to the bathroom, I opened my bedroom window and threw up outside it.
Once i opened my eyes from throwing up, I looked down to see that seagull, covered in my vomit.
"Oops...Sorry...Mr.Weird Seagull… hehe"
It looks up at me with what looked like demonic eyes.
"Are you ok? I said sorry...you shouldn't have been ther..."
All of a sudden it jumps at me and starts to pick me
"ARGH! What the F***! CRAZY SEAGULL!!"
It continues to peck at me madly as it comes into my bedroom
"Argh! Not the eye! ouch ufff....argh! HEY!!!!! DON'T PECK AT ME THERE!!!!!!!!! That's too far below the belt!!! Damn seagull!!
I grab the seagull and wrestles it to ground. A few seconds later, the seagull picks me up and throws me against the wall.
It then, out of nowhere, pulls out a pair of numchakus and swings them around.
"What the hell? What kind of seagull are you??"
It stands there ready to jump at me.
"Hehe, guess its time to try out all those gifts I got for Christmas!
I pull out 2 pistols and fire matrix style at the seagull but it deflects all of the bullets.
The seagull then jumps at me but i jump out of way grabbing one side of numchunk...
I then swing the seagull around 360 and throw him back out the window.
Pissed off at it, I jump out after him into the trees...We both pull out 2 swords each and we jump from tree to tree clashing blades wildly.
I cast fire magic and light the trees ablaze to try and stop it.
We finally jump off the trees out off the cliff and begin to fall into the ocean while attacking each other.
Suddenly I attack the seagull and push myself off him with my blade and fly against the cliff wall.
I drill my sword into the rocks and hold onto it to stop myself falling.
"Phew...lucky that worked..."
I look up at the seagull flying above me as it looks down at me.
I hole onto the sword with one hand and take out a pistol with the other hand and begin to shoot at the seagull who flies around and deflects the bullets.
At that moment, the seagull kamikazes into wall making me drop off it along with my sword.
Half of the cliff is destroyed. I grab my sword, which is falling down, as i continue to fall.
I look around for the seagull as I fall.
Suddenly it pops out of nowhere and hits me! Sending me flying across the sky onto the land at the opposite side of the sea...
I get up slowly and stand...
"Ouch....!"
I regain focus and begin to stand there waiting for the seagull to come.
It finally lands down a few feet in front of me, facing me.
We stare at each other as the rain starts to lash down on.
A gale starts to pick up and the lighting wildly crashes down around them.
As we look at each other we start to power up.
Electric sparks start to come of each of us as we both focus our energy.
We both knew that only one will survive this intense battle...
Part 2
The rain started to beat down harder as we both stared into each others eyes.
The storm became wilder as the wind could be heard whistling through the leaves blowing in the air.
We slowly prepared to charged at each other as we both begun to take our blades out.
The thunder cried out and the moment the lighting striked down, we both rushed at each other, clashing blades.
The ground around us begun to tremor as we both pushed each other away.
The seagull jumped back and cut the tree next to it and it begun to fall down towards me.
The seagull then begun to fly up into the sky.
I jumped to the side as the tree fell and quickly jumped on it and ran up it.
As I reached the top, I jumped at the seagull and swung my sword at it, but it easily dodged it.
As I fell to the ground, I turned around and looked up at the seagull.
It began to shoot down energy blasts at me.
I started to run to dodge them, running in the direction of a small stream.
While I ran towards it, I raised my hand and with that the water begun to rise from the stream.
I turned around and shot the water straight at the seagull.
The seagull started to block the stream of water as it pushed the seagull back slowly, in the air.
Without noticing, the seagull looked down the path of water that was pushing him back, to see me running up it.
It finally deflected the water away, in time to take its sword out again.
I jumped of the stream of water, before it faded away, and came down on the seagull with a overhead slash from my blade.
The seagull blocked it once again, but due to the force it was sent flying down into the ground below.
I continue to fall down from the sky and try to thrust my sword straight down on the seagull.
The seagull gets up and, moving so fast out of the way of my attack, it vanishes.
My sword hits the ground instead and is dug into it.
"Damn it!" I shout out as I try to take the sword out of the ground.
Without realising it, the seagull appears right in front of me.
"How the F***!"
At that moment, the seagull puts its two hands together and shoots a huge beam of energy at me, sending me straight off the edge back over into the other side f the canyon into the cliff wall.
I crash into the cliff wall and it begins to collapse, as I fall into the ocean below...
The seagull walks over to the edge and looks down, only to see the wild waves beating off the rocks and the falling boulders from the cliff across, falling into the ocean.
The rain begins to clam down more and more, eventually stopping.
A sinister smile comes across the seagull's face as it continues to look down.
But that smile is quickly wiped away as it a tiny white spark down below.
The seagull's eyes widen as it pulls its head back, only to dodge the up coming sword from below.
A few of its feathers fall of it as it was slightly caught by the blade.
The seagull looks up at the sword in the sky, and out of nowhere I appear right next to the sword in the sky.
I grab it and position myself so that my body is facing the ground below.
I start to spin around in the air, faster and faster, before leaving out a huge roar and throwing the sword back down straight towards the seagull.
The seagull is frozen as it looks up at the incoming blade and before getting a chance to move, the blade hits the ground, letting out a huge roar from the air and causing a huge explosion that almost destroys everything around.
The explosion continues to grow before everything around from miles is blinded by a flash of light.
Part 3
Everything remains quiet of the terrible explosion.
I finally fall down right next to my sword, stuck in the ground.
I stand there with my head down, listening to only the sound of the waves down behind me.
As I listen to them, I started to grin.
"Didn't think I would be that lucky now..." I said, as I pulled out my sword from the ground and looked up to see the seagull standing before me in what was now a barren wasteland.
It was huffing and puffing, exhausted from the battle so far...but so was I...
I started to walk slowly towards it as the rain started to come down again.
"Lets finish this you crazy seagull..."
I moved at it so fast that I just appeared right before it without it realizing.
I kicked the seagull right across the head and send it flying to through the air, hovering along the ground.
I chased after it and hit it straight up into the sky.
I chased after it again up into the sky, but this time it was ready as it blocked my attack.
It took out its two blades started to attack.
At that moment i pulled my sword apart to create two swords and begun to fight it in a fierce swordfight.
The moment we both hit the ground, we begun to move around so fast, we were almost invisible to the naked eye.
The only thing that could be seen was the sparks from our blades clashing.
The sparks started to come faster and faster as we both started to speed up until finally, blood was spilled on the ground.
We both stopped, and appeared with a distance between us and our backs turned to each other.
We stood with our swords in out hands, with the wind and the rain that was the only thing that was moving around us.
We stood...until the sound of blood finally hit the ground again.
Both of us were cut across the face and arm.
I smiled as I turned to face the seagull, who looked enraged at the scar on his face.
"Heh...it suits you" I said
It looked at me angrily after the comment...
"Hey don't lose your cool now....I'm enjoying this for a weird reason" I laughed.
The seagull went insane and charged at me again.
"Uh oh" I said with a grin as I jumped out of the way of the seagull's attack
It then sent a blast of energy straight at me, but I deflected it easily.
However, as I deflected it though....I didn't realise the seagull appearing to my side.
It attacked me and sent me along the ground. It charged at me as I kept rolling but I pushed myself up with one hand and was able to block his attack with my sword.
As I regained balanced, I stared at the seagull smiling.
The seagull stood there and it wasn't long before it went ballistic. It kept coming at me attack after attack.
The ground begun to shake after each strike and it wasn't long till the ground broke apart.
Lava begun to come up through the cracks as the seagull kept attacking me.
"Never knew there could be lava here?" I thought.
The seagull charged at me once more, and sent me flying through a fountain of lava.
The seagull stood before the lava, exhausted from its assault.
But once it looked up, its eyes widen.
I came walking through the lava with a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
The seagull took out a pistol along with its blade as well and we both ran at each other shooting.
We deflected the bullets until we finally were in close-quarters combat, trying to attack with our swords and shooting at each other at the same time.
We stayed close to each other blow after blow and shot after shot, but we both didn't land one move on the other, only slight scratches.
We both were finally able to point a gun at each others head after all the fighting, but when we tried to shoot, we were both out of ammo.
We threw our guns away and attack frantically with our swords once again.
The seagull finally got the advantage and was able to disarm my blade from me.
It then came down with one overhead slash to finish me off, but it failed as I caught the sword with my hand.
As it tried to cut through me as I pushed the sword away, blood started to run down its blade from my hand.
After a long struggle, I was able to break the sword in two and throw the part I had at the seagull.
The seagull tired to block it and as it did, its half of the sword shatter.
Part 4
As we stood there looking at each other after the struggle, we both focus our energy once again.
Tiny rocks begun to rise as we both stood preparing for what seems to be the last round.
When we both reached our peak, we charged at each other in hand to hand combat.
Blow after blow we landed on each other, but not one of us was going to give in, and we continued to fight as lava begun to shoot out from the ground once again.
As we made distance between ourselves, we started to shoot energy blasts at each other, dodging each and everyone.
As the ground started to crack once again, we both charged at each other preparing to attack with a energy blast.
As we fired, both our blasts connected with each other and we stood there in deadlock continuing to let off our energy into our attacks.
It soon became a struggle once again as we to overcome each others blasts that were now both pushing at each other.
The ground started to brake and rise up into the sky as lava begun to shoot out everywhere.
The wind begun to rage around us causing hurricanes as the storm grew fiercer and water from the ocean begun to rise and create typhoons. Lighting started to frantically shoot down around us as we both kept up our attacks.
The struggle became harder and harder as we both pushed ourselves to the limits until finally both our blasts caused a huge explosion once again.
It wiped out everything around us, and a huge flash stretched out miles, radiating the whole area...
The lighting continued to strike down and the typhoons kept growing...
As the smoke cleared around the area, both of us were left flat faced on the ground.
We stayed there, lifeless, until finally I started to wake up.
I looked up to see the seagull in the same state as me.
I smiled as I looked and slowly tried to get up.
As I stood, I looked once again at the seagull to see that it wasn't moving.
I let out a sigh, as I turned around and walked to my blade that was left on the ground, struggling to keep my balance.
As I picked it up, I began to walk away from the area...
As I walked I heard a faint sound behind me...
I looked over my shoulder to see a small dagger flying towards me.
I ducked just in time from the dagger, which just caught a tiny bit of my hair.
The seagull slowly got up laughing, in a strange...seagull laugh.... sort of way.
I looked at the piece of hair that fell to the ground, with my back still facing the seagull.
The seagull continued to laugh, but suddenly stopped as it saw tiny rocks around it beginning to rise.
It looked at me and saw me shaking.
"You can, attack me all you want, cut me, stab me, everything...
But you DO NOT! TOUCH THE HAIR!!!"
I turned to the seagull with my blade in my hand.
"NOW YOU PISSED ME OFF!!"
I moved so fast at the seagull, it couldn't keep up, and I sent it flying straight up into the sky.
I then let move a scream as I glowed a white glow and suddenly disappeared.
The seagull continued to fly up in the sky and looked around.
Suddenly about 100 me's appeared around it and one after one we charged at him at the speed of light, cutting through him.
After all of us attacked, I disappeared and reappeared up above it.
I came flying down and gave it one final slash as I fell to the ground.
I looked up as the seagull came crashing down onto the ground.
I looked at it as it lied there. It looked up at me, with the last of its energy and, and saw its feathers slowly floating down around us.
It then, finally, stuck its hand uo into the sky looking at them before it closed its eyes.
Its hand slowly fell down and the seagull lied before me, lifeless...
The wind and the typhoons slowly calmed down and pasted away as I stood there.
I put awhile my sword and kneel down, picking up the seagull.
I slowly walked it over to a single tree, that somehow surived all the chaos...?
I dug a hole under it and placed the seagull in it.
I then searched around for what remained of its sword and placed it on top of the grave.
"Good bye Mr.Crazy Seagull..." I said quietly as the sun begun to crack through the clouds and shine down on its grave.
I turned around and walked away, back home, to try and explain to everyone why I have all these scratches, and why the land behind us is now like a barren wasteland....
And also why a small piece of my hair is missing...
The End...
