Realms Adjoined 02

It was a nice and peaceful Saturday morning.  So bright and tranquil…

…yet here he was, the Grim Reaper, walking up to Mandy’s house.  Billy had called him only moments ago, saying that it was urgent.

The only real reason that he was coming over, though, was because his scythe was missing, and he knew that Billy had something to do with it.

“I could have chosen chess, or checkers, or even Tiddlywinks,” Grim grumbled, making his way to Mandy’s room after he got to her house, “but no, I choose da Limbo.  It was a clever plan, and nice wordplay on where we were.  I still think that she cheated somehow.”

He made it inside of Mandy’s room, only to find Billy, in a panicked state, waiting for him.  In his wake was Grim’s scythe and a radio, the remains of the plasma lamp behind him, next to the closet.

“Grim!  You have to help!  Something strange has happened!”

“What is it now Billy?  And why do ya have me scythe?”

“It was all so horrible and confusing,” Billy replied, Grim taking the scythe from him as he did so, “there’s only one way that I can express to you what all happened.”

At that, Billy pressed the play button on the radio, a somewhat choppy R&B instrumental coming from it.

“Through song.”

“Wait,” Grim said, hearing the music, “where have I heard that before?”

“Shhhh!”

At Billy’s shushing, he began his retelling of previous events.

“It was very early in the morning,
Everyone still takin’ a snooze
So I, got on my clothes and I,
Went to go watch some cartoons

“And as I sat there with some cereal that was so very sweet and cruuunchy,
I saw a show with this overweight bear and big ‘ol pot of huuunny.

“It looked so good to me,
I just had to see,
If I could get my very own,
Jar of huuuuunny.

“So I came up with this plan,
And I know it’d succeed
BUT I needed another…
…Mandy was all that I need.

“So I went and got an electro ball and I then picked up your scyyyiyyythe,
And I made my way to Mandy’s house, running for my liiiiiyiiiiife.

“I got to her house and…went up to her room,
But as usual…she gave that look of doom
She told me to go but…I had refuuuuused
And then she grabbed the scythe, my body she’d bruuuuuise

“So I held on to the scyyyyyiythe
For my own dear liiiiiyife…”

“Umm, Billy…”Grim tried to interrupt, but Billy kept going.

“…and then when I let go,
She flew back to her own dow’
Yes it was her closet dow’
After she had let go,

“And then some shining light, came from that glowy ball,
And she accidentally smashed it, it was right beside her wall,
And the light went in the closet, weird colors in that door,
And she finally fell through, and I couldn’t see her no more.

“And I looked at that closet,
Nothin’ came from the closet,
So I went to the bathroom…
…and made a ‘Toilet Deposit’
And I went back to the closet,
She wasn’t inside the closet
I think I have lost it
I don’t know what caused it.

“She may be in that closet,
Gotta get her outta that closet
Grim let’s go to the closet
We gotta get her outta that closet…closet…closet…”

The music started to die down, Billy now latched onto Grim’s robe at this point.

“Billy,” Grim began.

“…closet…”

“Okay, that’s enough of that,” Grim shouted, throwing Billy off of him, “Now, by what you’re telling me, she used me scythe in unison with that plasma lamp over there, creating a portal through her closet?”

Billy went back and grabbed onto Grim’s robe.

“Uh huh.”

“Hmm…this seems similar to when you were sent to Valhalla, though no one seems to have come through the portal that was made…if I had to make a guess, I’d guess that she was transported to a new realm of some sort.”

“What do we do now?”

“Well, we could leave her wherever she is.”

“Grim!”

“Oh, alright.  I guess we should go and find her.”

At that, he pointed his scythe at Billy’s wrist and shot energy onto him.  When the light dimmed, Billy found a strange looking watch upon his arm.

“Oooooh, what’s this?”

“It's a special watch that I'm givin' you for this little trip.  It'll allow me to track ya with me scythe so I can find ya if'n you get lost...which I know you will."

He then pointed his scythe at her closet and, in a bright flash, created another portal in the doorway.

"It'll also allow you to create portals like this one in case we have to split up for faster searching.  Just remember that you have limited power to do dat, and it can only be refilled by me scythe.”

“Yay!  We get to go and search for Mandy!  Now we can rescue her…”

Billy reached down, rewinds the tape he had in the radio, and plays it again.

“…AND GET HER OUT OF THE CLOSET…closet…closet!”

With that, he runs through the portal that Grim made.

“…closet…”

Grim looked at the radio as it gave off that last echo.

“I think dat he’s been watchin’ way too much of that urban television.”

As Grim said this, he walked through the portal himself, all closing behind him as he did so.


*Meanwhile*


Dazed, Mandy slowly started to awaken.  As she stood, she rubbed her head and looked around a bit.  Everything looked normal enough…but still different.

“Ugh, where am I?”

She looked around for a little longer, taking notice of a suburban feel that overcame her.  She then took notice of a construction site behind her.  Looking at the billboard behind her, she read aloud the words:

Future Site of Peach Creek Estates

“Peach Creek, huh?”

She gave of a sigh upon realizing what just might have happened.

“All I wanted was some more sleep, and it seems as though I’m placed inside of an ‘eventful’ weekend…Billy’s going to pay for this one.”

And so, with her arrival in this new place, a new adventure starts for her.  One can only wait and see as to what encounters she shall soon have.

“Okay, seriously, you have to do something about how you’re ending these things.”

What?  I thought that was better than last time.

“I’m sure you do.  Keep practicing and someone might actually read this stuff you’re writing.”

Yeah, that’d be nice…well, anyway, make sure to stay attentive for the next chapter of:  Realms Adjoined.

“Oh yeah, this is going to be a loooong story.”