FREAK BIZ-NESS

OBEY DARK MY-........oh yeah wrong page

This is my entry for J-BIZ's character contest here Thought this contest was so freakin' fun, just had to gets ins ons its! Hope I stuck within the rules J, lets me know if I broke anything.

Also though this would be a good chance to add to the SHAMAN-MYTH story. You can find the story (and all it's typos) here=


On with the story.

OJCIEC: So what was it like?

MITO: You mean living with an manifestation of destruction that comes from your dismembered eye?

OJCIEC: Yeah that whole thing.

MITO: Pretty sucky actually. The thing raged all the times. Seething and growing. When I was in the city, a man tried to mug me. It took everything in me to keep the demon from killing him. Even though I was close to finding my other eye, I knew I had to return to my home. I was tired from traveling, and the demon was taking advantage of that.

OJCIEC: Pure evil.

MITO: I thought so too, but let me finish. The demon seemed to calm down in complete darkness, which was ironic since my home has no lights. What does a blind man need with lights. It would crawl around my home, playing in the shadow. The monster would fill the room sometimes, growing hundreds of heads. Sometimes it would be as small as a mouse. I could hear it all night and day, like a caged animal in my room.

OJCIEC: What did you do?

MITO: When I was rested, I knew I had to find some way to control the demon. At first I tried to command it, it would rage back at me. I tryed to keep talking to it, sometimes calm, sometimes forceful, it never even seemed to react to me. All it did was grown and pace the floors, like a caged animal. I tried to use my mind to control it. I would meditate, like Latif-Shaman showed me. I would do this for hours, with no change in the creatures behavior.

OJCIEC: How did you get control?

MITO: Luck. While I was gone all my food had spoiled. I had run out of canned food. I didn't want to travel far from home while the demon was still so sporadic. There was a theater a block away from my home. I got some popcorn from a vendor inside one day, and went home. From the moment the demon smelled it, he changed. Like a dog he would sit by me begging for popcorn. Damn, I can't even describe how much he enjoyed it. He would munch and crunch for hours. When I ran out of it he would not rage, he would whine and almost cry. I must have bought a thousand dollars worth of popcorn by the end of one week. I gave popcorn to him for simple tasks at first. Than more and more complex things. It is amazing what he could do. Form into almost anything, teleport, read peoples minds, the list goes on and on. I know it sounds strange, but he began to enjoy the challenges I gave him.

OJCIEC: Really.....enjoy?

MITO: It was during this time that I started to realize something. This "demon" wasn't evil. No more evil than an animal. I begin to realize that, well, he was even fun. He never spoke or showed signs of any form of real understanding.......but he did start laughing. A dark cold laugh at first, than slowly it became warm. It was like a childs laugh. He wasn't a demon, he was just different.

OJCIEC: Different.

MITO: Weird to say, but I started to think of him as a friend. I even gave him a name. I called him FREAK.



P.S I named my monster FREAK after my good friend Dr-Twistid's awesome little buddy. It was a twist of fate that he posted this memorial for his buddy around the same time I posted my first SHAMAN piece, and I thought it just fit.