Three intense hours later...
Silence.
Dark, heavy silence that pressed heavily against his cheeks. Red craned his neck to look at the other three. All of them were in a peaceful slumber, tired out from waiting through the suspense. Of course, anyone would be tired from this mindless game. It was already hard trying to figure out the clues, and now 'they' were stopping the whole thing (provided they really needed to halt the game, seeing the length of time that passed since the last move) just to serve their ego.
Without warning, a red gloved hand rose unseemingly from beneath the blank tile a few feet away from him.
'Not again.....' Red groaned. ' How many times must we go through this before SOMEBODY decides to leave us ALONE?!!
"Shut up Red arghhh' Yellow mumbled as he turned over in his sleep.
'Yeah yeah....' Green yawned.
Red rolled his eyes. Ignoring the gloved hand that laid outstretched towards him, he laid down and closed his eyes...........
The trees stretched up high and thin all around him, like bamboo shoots, gathered together like innumerable prison bars.
All black, all dead.
Withered leaves littered the ground of the circular clearing in which he stood. But, withered leaves don't glow, do they? These do, like luminous soft candle wicks on a dark day. Still and silent, the woods seemed almost mute. Dark shadows seemed to move above in the background, casting everything into an eerie outline.
Out in the distance, something moved.
Red shivered.
Slowly, it came into focus. Squinting, he realizes that the object that he was looking at was actually the red gloved hands.....
Red blinked and watched as the red gloved hands dipped into a pool of inky darkness. Out it came again, now swirled in black as they inched towards him. Dark figures belonging to the unseen gloved hands began to merge and meld into one another. Becoming one, they moved in on him like a black tide. He opened his mouth, letting out a blood curdling scream of terror......
RED's Turn
'Oh my god. Is he dead? Is he alive? Hello???!!!!! Red!!!'
Something was shrieking from a distance. I opened my bleary eyes and raised my hands to rub my sleep filled eyes.
'Argh why are you guys so loud in the morning.."
''He's alive', Blue's relieved voice hovered about, midst away from my subconscious.
'OF course i am alive. Then what am i now? A demon waking up after a thousand years of sleep?'
Silence enshrouded the area.
'I told you not to worry about him'
'Come on he is our comrade'
'What nonsense...''
"Hey hey hey. Your comrade? Still here? Not deaf?'
I shook my head before putting my hands in my pocket. Suddenly i felt something crinkle. Paper?
No wait, too hard to feel like one...
I drew it out.
It was a card, just that it was unlike any card that i had ever seen. On the cover, it had four specific colors; red, yellow, blue and green. I got more suspicious. Isn't that the same color as our names?
'Red? Whatcha doing?' Blue called.
"Wait!' I hollered back.
Distracted, I turned the card over. The word BONUS, highlighted in streak red, jumped back at me.
I stared, dumbfounded. Now what the hell does THIS mean?
Squinting at the small letters below the bold ones, I tried to decipher it. With difficulty, i mumbered the fine text to myself,
" All players can advance to the square 20..."
A real bonus.
Great.
Now,
WHAT??!!!!
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