Day 10, Part Two
Naturally, I tripped halfway down... I suppose that's what I get for trying to eat pizza and walk down stairs. I had been wondering, should I just go grab another slice, or wait, when I tripped over my own foot, and fell face first onto the next step. I bounced and rolled all the way to the bottom, and collapsed onto a cold tile floor. Groaning, I sat up. I could hear Jackson racing down the steps after me.
"It's OK, nothings broken," I called.
"Dude, why would you be eating pizza while walking down 300 steps?"
"Everything's better with pizza, don't question my pizza methods."
Rolling his eyes, Jackson jumped the last few steps. He felt along the wall, then he pulled a switch and lights came on that illuminated the room. We were standing in a tile circular chamber, with 4 wooden double doors around us. They were placed in the main directions, North, South, East and West. Jackson chose the West door, and signaled for me to follow him. We walked in, and I took in a breath of shock. Inside were hundreds of weapons, all lining the walls.
There were assault rifles, pistols, sniper rifles, bows, spears, swords, daggers and a bunch more, but I didn't have time to look at them. We kept walking into another door and inside was a dusty glass case standing in the middle of a small room.
"This is it,"Jackson said.
"OK, they want to kill you because you found a dusty glass case?"
"Inside the case you dummy." Jackson walked over to the case, and lifted the top off. Inside, propped up on a special stand, was a super deteriorated, rusty blade. He picked it up gingerly.
"The legend says that about 300 years ago, men and women of powers walked the earth. Each who had powers had a specific and unique power, with a rarity of a few with the same power. All of the ones who had powers only used them in times of emergencies, and always to save lives, if they could. Anyways, one man grew tired of using his powers for good. He wanted to be destructive, so he decided to go out one night. That night, he destroyed everything within 30 miles of him. His power was special, and only he had it. He could manipulate energy and absorb it, then use it for whatever purpose he wanted. When he manipulated it, it always came out as dark energy, a type of energy so destructive it could destroy anything. He eventually put together a team of the most dangerous men with powers, the ones bent on destroying the world. One day, he was approaching a village. He came into it disguised, so he could buy weapons. Somehow, they discovered who he was, and attacked him. He destroyed them all, then burnt the entire village. What he didn't know was that one of the other most powerful humans with powers in the world lived in that village. And Troy, this is where you come in..."
