Thursday, November 8, 2007

Fan-fiction: The war between Peter & Sylar

Introduction of characters’ special ability:
Perter Petrelli: (Power mimicry) Flight, Precognition, Manipulation of the space-time
Continuum, Spontaneous regeneration, Telekinesis, Telepathy,
Invisibility, Radiation manipulation, Superhuman strength, Phasing,
Electric manipulation).
Sylar (Gabriel Gray): (intuitive aptitude) Telekinese, Telekinesis, Freezing objects,
Eidetic memory, Liquefying solid matter.
Claire Bennet: Spontaneous regeneration.
Hiro Nakamura: Bends the space-time (Manipulate time, time travel, Teleport).
Noah Bennet: None.
Matt Parkman: Telepathy and control of brain functions.
Niki Sanders: Superhuman strength.
Molly Walker: Clairvoyance.

Action:
Peter was blacked out on the street at one night, he saw Mr. Bennet when he was awake.
Mr. Bennet said to Peter: “Now, Sylar is going to the Kirby Plaza to look for Molly, and Molly has the Clairvoyance power, so Sylar wants to use her power to find everyone who has special power and take away their powers as well. We need to go to stop him.”


Then, they went to the Kirby Plaza Building, New York City and look for Sylar, when they got there, they saw Sylar was just about to go into the Building where Molly was. So Mr Bennet took out a gun and tried to stop Sylar, unfortunately, Sylar turned around and used his telekinesis power to put Mr. Bennet on the wall before he shot.



Sylar asked Peter: “What took you so long? Haven’t I killed you before?”
Peter said: “Didn’t take.”
Sylar smiled and raised up his left hand pointing at Peter’s neck, and lift him up in the air with his telekinese power. So Peter could not move.
“You think I’m gonna let you ruin it all? Take all the glory? I would get the little girl’s power and find everyone else in the world, I would be become unbeatable. You can not stop me.” Sylar smiled.



At the meantime, Matt Parkman and Niki Sanders came down to the street with Molly from the Kirby Plaza Building. They were going to take Molly to a safer place. But, Matt Parkman saw Peter was held by Sylar’s power. He put out his gun and shot four times at Sylar, however, Sylar used his Telekinesis power again to stop all the bullets in the air,
“Your bullets can not kill me. What else do you have?” Sylar asked Parkman.

Meanwhile, Niki used her superman strength power to pick up a large rubbish bin and threw it to Sylar’s back. So Sylar was hit down on the floor and his power disappeared, Peter could move again, immediately, Peter used his Electric manipulation power to give Sylar a big electric shot and “You are not unbeatable, I can stop you.” Peter said to Sylar.


Sylar knew he could not beat Peter this time because he was injured and he was strong enough too. In his mind, he thought he could move a car and throw it into Matt Parkman to make himself an escape chance, however, Peter has the Telepathy power like Matt Parkman, he can read someone’s mind, so he flew in front of Matt Parkman in order to protect him. Sylar was surprised, he knew Peter could read his mind, so he did it another way. At same time; he threw the rubbish bin into Molly without thinking. Fortunately, Peter absorbed Hiro Nakamura’s power (Hiro’s power is able to bend space and stop time), so he used this power to stop the time, then he used the teleport power and took Molly to a safe place with Niki Sanders and Matt Parkman. After that, he disabled this power, and he used the same power (Telekinesis) that Sylar used on him before, he held Sylar’s neck.

Peter said to Sylar:”I will stop you whatever you do.”
Sylar was very angry, “No, you will never stop me as you never kill people, so you will not kill me.”
Peter said: “I am not like you, I am not a killer. My power is to protect the ones I Love.”
Then, Peter released Sylar from his power. Sylar knew Peter would not kill him, so he was not going to escape anymore; instead, he was going to kill Peter and took all his powers to make himself unbeatable.

Sylar saw a long piece of metal inside the rubbish bin so he used his Telekinesis power again to pick up that piece of metal and threw it into Peter’s body. Peter laid down on the floor and bleeding. He thought he killed Peter, in fact, Peter was still alive, because he has Claire Bennet’s spontaneous regeneration power. So he could recover from any wound. He stood up slowly and took out that piece of metal from his body. In a few seconds, the wound was recovered automatically. He was very angry this time, he gave Sylar another electric shot, and then, he grabbed Sylar’s neck.

“I will not forgive you this time; I will not let you hurt anybody too.” Peter closed both of his eyes. Yes, he can not kill anyone, also Sylar, but Sylar should be punished. He used his teleporting power to transfer Sylar to an isolated island where nobody can be hurt by him, with enough food and water for the rest of his life.

We dream of hope. We dream of change. Of fire, of love, of death. And then it happens. The dream becomes real. And the answer to this quest, this need to solve life’s mysteries finally shows itself. Like the glowing light of a new dawn. So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other. Our shared experience of the fantastic. And the mundane. The simple human need to find a kindred. To connect. And to know in our hearts, that we are not alone.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

TRANSFORMER

Sorry,Guys. I am apologzing for my fanfiction is a little long for you guys to read. It's six thousand long. But I really work hard on my story. I know you guys perhaps very busy at the moment. Could you please spend ten or fifteen minutes on reading my assignment?I am sure that you won't be disappointed yourself. Thanks!





Million of years ago, there was a planet called Cybertron in the universe. But we earthmen know nothing in detail about the life forms on this strange planet. In Cybertron, life existed in the form of sentient robots which could think and feel, called Transformers. We know the transformer race contains two clans: Autobots and Decepticons. Autobots are led by Optimus Prime and they wish for peaceful co-existence. Conversely, under the command of Megatron, all of the Decepticons seek conflict and universal conquest. Their main aim is to rule the whole universe completely. Then there is the Allspark, a kind of cube which can provide great power and energy for all of the transformers to survive. Therefore, Autobots and Decepticons in history fought each other in huge comic battle for rule of a supreme power—The Allspark, which feeds the life force of transformers. After that the whole planet, Cybertron, was destroyed by war between those who worship power, the Decepticons, and those Autobots who follow peace. Afterwards, the abundant resource of Allspark was on the verge of extinction. All of the transformers started to search for it endlessly. Finally, they decided to go to the earth, because they became aware that The Allspark source could be there.


Sam is a seventeen year old boy who is studying at high school. His father promises that he would get his first car if he can get an A grade in his oral presentation. One day, Sam is talking about the story of his great grandfather in the front of the classroom. His voice sounds quite confident, but his facial expression looks a little bit nervous. He takes his glasses out of his schoolbag very quickly and people can hear the quaver in his voice:
“In the National Arctic Expedition, 1897, my great grandfather whose name was Captain Archibald Witwicky, arrived at the Arctic Ocean with his sailors.”
In fact, Sam’s presentation doesn’t entice anybody to listen to it carefully. Everyone feels bored, such as Trent who falls asleep, and Chris who is staring out the window. But only Mikaela, who is the most beautiful girl in the class, seems to listen to his speech all the time. Sam holds his glasses up and says “These are my great grandfather’s eye glasses. I can definitely say that his adventure was out of the ordinary. And they did find a strange and big ……” Suddenly the bell is ringing; Actually Sam doesn’t finish his oral presentation. However, everybody disappears quickly.


After the presentation, Sam is walking along the road quite slowly. “I probably don’t know where to go, or what to do.
“Dad won’t buy a car for me now because I only got a B-. I was looking forward to having a car for quite a long time. Why do I always have this bad luck?” Sam looks like very upset.
In fact, his family is not very rich. And he can not buy whatever he likes. Actually he has already put his advertisement to sell his great grandfather’s eye glasses on the internet a long time ago.
“Oh, still no bids. No one wants my great grandfather’s old stuff. Even if he was one of the first guys ever to reach the Arctic Circle. “
As Sam walks along the road, he keeps thinking about these unhappy things. The sky becomes dark. Suddenly, Sam feels that there is something following him. There is a police car following him when Sam looks backwards over his shoulder. And this police car suddenly transforms itself into a gigantic robot. Sam gasps in shock having never seen anything like it before.
“My god, people are not gonna believe this police car can transform into a robot! “Am I dreaming?” Sam feels terrified and starts to run as fast as he can. And this huge robot is breathing down his neck.
“Bad dream! Please let me wake up.” Sam shouted at himself while running. He tripped and went down with a bump.
The robot speaks to Sam in a deep masculine voice:” I am Barricade. Are you username hotstud 217?” Where is online auction item number 21153?
“I- I have no ….idea what you are talking about!” Sam picks himself up and runs on.
“Where are your Ancestral Artifacts?” Barricade shouts at, Sam and following in his wake. Sam keeps running extremely fast and feels thoroughly tired. Suddenly he hears an enormous crashing sound like two cars meeting head on. He felt desperate and when a yellow Camaro suddenly stops beside him. He hears a voice say: “Get in the car quickly!” But he doesn’t recognize where it comes from. He jumps in hoping to escape the robot. Nobody else was in the car except Sam. He looked behind and there was Barricade no longer a robot but transformed back to a police car smashed on the side of the road. Can I ask who and what you are? Sam and speaks to the car. “I am the Guardian of Sam Witwicky. My name is Bumblebee. Do you want to make a friend with me?” Sam relaxes and says “Oh, yeah. I really need a car.”


A few weeks later, Bumblebee and Sam have become close friends. Sam could drive this yellow Camaro everyday. And everybody knows that Sam finally gets a car. One weekend, Sam joins a party with his classmates.
“The weather is great for this party. Nice car. Sam! I like it. Even if it’s yellow,” Trent smiles and speaks to Sam.
“Yeah, right! Beautiful, but I think it is perfect!” Sam’s eyes are constantly looking at Mikaela and his voice sounds like preoccupied.
“Perfect? I don’t think so. Sam! Come and have a drink. Tell me when you bought this car?”Trent asked.
Sam and his classmates are having a party near the lake, which is calm and tranquil.
After the party, “Hey! Mikaela? It’s Sam Wtiwicky. I was wondering if you wanted…. A ride, you know?” Sam’s voice sounds so nervous.
“Well, yeah….. I guess, so, are you like new this year? Mikaela asked while she got into the car.
“No. we’ve been at the same school since first grade,” Sam answered.
The car suddenly stopped. “No, no, not now!” Sam speaks to Bumblebee. “Don’t sweat it. Sam! Right? Could just be the distributor cap. Yep, that did the trick. My dad was a serious grease monkey,” Mikaela said.
“You know the whole distributor thing?” Sam asked.
“Yeah. Anyway, thanks for the ride, I think I have to leave now! Good luck with your car” Mikaela takes her bag out of the car and leaves.


“Whatis wrong with you? My friend?” Sam kicks the car while driving.
He is angry. Too much has happened in the last few weeks and he‘s very upset that Mikaela has gone.
“We have to go to see someone now. I am sure that you will see a great leader like you have never met before! But…”Bumblebee’s voice sounded confident. “But, but what?”Sam’s voice still sounds angry.
“That girl is really hot!” Bumblebee laughed and answered.
Sam replies nothing and his eyes are staring out the window of the car. The sky became darker and darker; Sam and his car gradually disappeared in the curtain of night.


Darkness set in when Sam and Bumblebee reached a deserted car park. A red truck is coming straight towards them. And there are three cars coming after this truck. The dark night seems to be momentarily lit up by the strong lights of these cars. Sam jumps out of the yellow Camaro, squinting a little at the bright lights. This time he experienced a good deal less anxiety as he watched these cars transform themselves into the robot humanoid shapes.
“They must be super advanced robots,” Sam mutters.
Then the red truck transformed itself into a robot and walks up to Sam, looming high above him.
“I am Optimus Prime,” the robot announced.
Sam looked up at this robot and a startled look passed over his face.
“Samuel James Witwicky? Ancestor of Archibald Amundsen Witwicky, Captain of the sailing vessel Discovery?” Optimus Prime asked.
“Y-yeah. Um, you speak English, too?”Sam asked.
“We have learnt Earth’s languages through your ‘World Wide Web’ as it is called,”He answered in a deep masculine voice.
“Are you aliens?” Sam is shaking his head slowly in wonderment.
“We are Automous Robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron,”Optimus Prime said.
And while he is standing even taller, said “Now let me introduce my colleagues to you. My first lieutenant: Jazz.”
Sam recognized that this car is a Pontiac Solstice, a light grey colour. And its high-powered speakers responded very loudly: “Greeting, terrestrial adolescent humans.”
“And our weapons specialist, Ironhide,” Optimus Prime continued.
This black robot peered down at his gleaming black shape and said in an excited voice “This looks like a cool place. Are you feeling lucky to meet us here, young man?”
And then, Optimus Prime singled out the mechannoid that had morphed from of their vehicles. “Our medical officer, chief emissary to the High Council of Ancients: Rachet.”
“You can call us Autobots for short,” Rachet‘s voice sounded very calm and polite.
Finally, Optimus Prime said” And you already know Bumblebee, Guardian of Sam Wtiwicky.
“Yeah, we are brothers,” Bumblebee said and dancing like a hip hop dancer. He keeps on dancing while he is speaking with this boy.



Sam is flabbergasted and asked “why are you guys coming into our world?” Optimus Prime answers: “Because we come in search of the Allspark- a supreme power that imbues us with the gift of spark, life and hope. The life force of all transformers. We must find the Allspark before Megatron does,” Optimus Prime’s voice sounds very serious.
“Mega, Mega what? Who’s that?” Sam asked.
”We were once close friends. He is the leader of an evil enemy, named ‘Decepticons’. Megatron lost his way. It was no longer enough for him to control himself. He wanted to control everything on our planet, even the whole universe. After a battle started, the whole planet, Cybertron, was destroyed by war between those Decepticons who worship power and us who follow peace. Afterwards, the abundant resource of Allspark was on the verge of extinction,” Optimus Prime said.
“But why do you tell these stories to me? What’s the relationship with me?” Sam suddenly interrupts while Optimus Prime is talking.
“About one hundred years ago, Megatron discovered that the Allspark was in the Arctic Circle, so he came to earth, and got it. However, he was becoming frozen in the ice. Afterwards, you great grand father, Captain Archibald Witwicy, and his crew of explorers stumbled upon Megatron's body in 1897. That was an accident to entangle our fates. Megatron's navigational system was unintentionally activated by your great grandfather. And Archibald's eye glasses were imprinted with the Allspark's coordinates on earth. So we can find the Allspark depending on its coordinates,” Optimus Prime responds.
“But how did you figure out the information about my eye glasses?” Sam asked. “EBay” Prime answered.
“Only the Cube, Allspark can reanimate our race, allowing us to energize all of the Transformers. That is why Megatron desires it. If Megatron or any other Decepticons find the Allspark before us, they will use the power to transform all of machines into robots on the earth. They will build a new army, and the human race will be definitely extinguished,”Rachet‘s voice sounds so worried about the earth.
“So Samuel James Witwicky, you hold the fate of the whole human race on earth. Are the glasses still at your place?” Optimus Prime asked.
“Yes! Come with me! “Sam responds very quickly.
“Autobots-Transform-Roll out!” Prime gives an order to everybody.



Sam went home with these new robot friends. Certainly he gave his eye glasses to Optimus Prime. These Autobots promised that they will make contact with Sam before they leave. He thought to himself: “I haven’t got any bids, but I make friends with these robots. No, no, they are not only robots. They are definitely heroes. Am I a hero too? Sam is lying on his bed and let his imagination run away with these Autobots .He becomes quite emotional and so excited because he hadn’t have a chance to meet these special friends before. Later that night, Sam turns over in his bed, he heard someone knocking on the door very heavily.
“We are the government, sector 7. My name is Reggie Simmons,” A man said and showed his license to Sam’ dad.
He pushed his way into the house without any permission. And a group of men, who were all wearing black suits, the same as their boss, all enter the house. “I’ve never heard about your organization,” Sam’s dad said in a shocked way. “Never will! Where is your son? Is your son a great grand son of Captain Archibald Witwicky? Simmons asked very quickly.
“Ron (Sam’ dad), there are lots of strange guys in the yard. They are nearly destroying everything!” Sam’s mom shouted at her husband.
Now some of the men are breaking the windows. And some of them are pulling all of the flowers out of the garden. They are looking for those eye glasses and Sam.
“Why are you doing this?” Sam’s parents are asking that guy.
Simmons answers: “Your son has an important relationship with some aliens. And these aliens were attacking the U.S. military base several days ago. Someone told us that your son has ever contacted these dangerous robots directly. It is about the security of this country. That is the only reason why we came here at midnight to bother you. Hi! My lady! You had better keep calm. We have currently got loaded weapons,” Sam’s mum seems to want to beat this man up while he is talking.
“What is this?” Sam asked.
He just came out of his bedroom.
“How are you doing? Son, Is your name Sam? Simmons asked.
“Yeah!” Sam answered in a low voice.
“Oh, good, I need your son to come with us,” Simmons is holding Sam’s wrist while he is speaking to his parents.
“Sir, I am asking politely. Now you two all back off from me,” Simmons shouted at Sam’s parents, as they try to rescue their son from Simmons’s grip. “What has my son done wrong?” Sam’s dad interrupted.
“We are going to find out. Now take this young man back with us,” This man shouted to his colleagues. Finally, Sam and his parents were all arrested by these men who come from Sector 7, a secret United States government organization, directly leaded by the White House.


Sam was taken into the Sector 7 cells, and he was compelled to confess how and when he knew about these alien robots, such as Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and other Autobots. After that he stayed in a room alone for nearly 24 hours. All he could do is to wait. Sam was restless. He was really worried about his parents. In the morning of the second day, two men took Sam out of his room and brought him before Simmons.
“Hi, Kid. I think that we got some misunderstanding between us. You must be hungry? Do you want some coffee and cakes?”Simmons speaks to Sam and his voice sounds polite.
He put his left hand on Sam’s shoulder, and a smile rested on his lips. Sam is really fooled by him, especially remembering his bossy attitude at midnight.
”Get your hands off me! Where are my parents?” Sam asked without any hesitation.
“Son, listen to me carefully. People can die here. We need to know everything you know. We need to know now! “This man became serious immediately and spoke to Sam.
Sam immediately felt afraid of this man and says “Ok”. “His voice sounds very low.
“But you must agree to release my parents as soon as possible,”Sam whined.
“Come with me, we will talk about your Autobots friends,” Simmons turns around and leaves the room without a backward glance. Sam follows hard after him brooding on the idea that “They might have known everything about these robots and me.”


Sam enters into a huge underground silo with Simmons. There are some people standing there. This group of people all wears professional suits, including some leaders of the U.S army, some officers of the U.S.Secretary of Defense and some officers of Sector 7. They are all waiting here to see Sam and Simmons. Sam found that a gigantic robot is standing in the middle part of the room. It is not hard for him to recognize that this robot had been frozen for quite a long time. And this robot is absolutely bigger than Optimus Prime. The robot’s whole body is a white colour.
“Dear god, what is this?” A female officer asked.
She comes from the Department of Defense. Everyone could not take their eyes from this robot. Neither could Sam.
“What you guys are seeing here is totally ultra secret things!” Simmons says to everybody in a high voice.
“We think when he arrived in the Arctic Ocean; this robot’s omnirange was disturbed by the gravity of the earth. He crashed into the ice. It was probably a few thousands years ago. We shipped this robot here in 1934. We called it NBE-1.” Simmons continued.
“Sir, I really don’t want to interrupt you. But it’s Megatron,” Sam said. Simmons turns around and looked at Sam.
“Yeah, he is the leader of Decepticons. It’s an evil enemy. My great grand father discovered Megatron and it was from a great time in mankind.” Sam’s voice sounds very confident.
Everyone's eyes fastened on this young boy.
“You can talk about this later. Young man!”Simmons interrupts.
“Now you guys are standing in the underground silo of Hoover Dam. We built this military base for keeping these two alien things: The Robot and the Cube. Americans have learnt advance human technology from investigating this robot, things such as an MP3, CD player, car and laser,” Simmons said.
“Two things? Have you got the Allspark here?” Sam interrupted.
“What’s the Allspark?” An old gentleman asked.
He comes from The United States Secretary of Defense, too.
“Allspark is kind of a cube that reanimates the robot race, allowing them to repopulate their world. This Cube can transform human technology into an endless power. Mr NBE-1 here, Ok.Megatron. He wants to use this super power to transform every electric thing into a robot, such as mobile phones, cars, planets, and so on. That is his plan,” Sam answered earlier than Simmons because he deliberately wants to embarrass Simmons.
Simmons gives Sam a dirty look. Sam pretends not to see his eyes.
“Are you sure about that?” A man interrupts Sam again and asked.
This man is an Air Marshal of U.S Airforce army. He seems to pay more attention to this alien robot.
“Yeah. I am sure. But you guys know where the Cube is, don’t you?” Sam asked.
“Follow me!” Simmons said. Every body follows him and then move into another silo.


This silo is obviously smaller than the previous one. The Cube was put into a huge glass box. Sam found that side of this cube has different totems. The shapes of these totems look like moons and stars. Simmons starts to introduce the Cube to every one.
“The American government put the Cube here in around 1934, too. They knew it was an alien thing, because the totem on this Cube is similar to that NBE-1. President Hoover was forced to build this basement to keep these two things in a secure protection. The thickness of this wall of is equivalent to four footballs. People and aliens can not detect anything through this wall,” Simmons points to the wall while he is talking. Sam now understands why both Decepticons and Autobots want to get his great grandfather’s eye glasses. However, at the back of his mind was the vague idea that a war was about to begin.


After this, the group inspected the cube and Megatron. Sam wasn’t to be released, because Simmons and other Sector 7 workers still thought that he had direct contact with those aliens before. Currently they could not judge whether those Autobots would harm human beings, or not? So Sam was put in the guardhouse again. On the other hand, Simmons and other Sector 7 officers already know enough information about Megatron and the Cube. They didn’t need to ask anything from Sam. Also, Simmons suspects that Sam may leak these top secrets to those Autobots. So Sam has to stay in this guardhouse alone for another 24 hours.

However, Sam still believes that his friends will come to rescue him out of this place. Actually it’s really hard for Sam to pass time. He has got nothing to do. No TV, no laptop, no food and no internet. Even his room doesn’t have a bed to lie on. There is only a table, a chair, and a small window on the wall. However, Sam is left unguarded.
“What are my parents doing? Are they going home now? What about Mikaela? Can I see her again? I won’t have any chance to see her again,” Sam murmurs. He feels so upset and leans over the table. Sam fell to thinking about his seventeen years’ life. If I could get out of here, I will definitely study hard. I will help my mother do the housework without any payment. I won’t steal my dad’s money to buy those adult magazines. I will bravely tell Mikaela that I like her. I will……………………Sam’s mind gave into fatigue and he fell asleep. In Sam’s dream, he sees that Mikaela is waving at him. And she is calling his name. Sam, Sam. Sam! Sam wakes up.
” Who is there?” Sam rubs his eyes and yawned.
“Hi! Man. Here I am.” Bumblebee put his head against the window.
“How did you get here? This military base was well defended, so there was little chance of taking it by surprise? “Sam felt a quiver of excitement.
“Because I am the Guardian of Sam Wtiwicky!” Bumblebee answered while he is opening the door.
“Come out! Sam,” Bumblebee speaks in very low voice.
Bumblebee uses his laser gun to open the door without force. And he is also afraid of somebody finding him doing this. Bumblebee and Sam creep about like two ghosts. They don’t want to make any noise to attract the Sector 7 workers here. They come to the lounge. It is a safe place.
“Tell me where the Cube is, my friend,” Bumblebee asked Sam.
Suddenly, the ground is quaking under their feet. Meanwhile, the alarm is sounding.
“What’s happening? Have they spotted us? It’s impossible. There is nobody here except us,” Sam said.
“Yes! It’s impossible. Just show me the way, Sam. We’ve no time,” Bumblebee looks around answering. His voice sounds very urgent.
“Alright! Come with me!” Sam starts to run while he is speaking to Bumblebee.




Bumblebee and Sam finally get into the silo. Bumblebee quickly reaches the Cube. And he extends both his hands toward it and swivels the bottom part. As for the Cube, it has begun the process of transformation by folding itself, sides and glyphs and symbols shrinking and contracting, becoming a steadily reducing succession of concentric squares, until at last it had shrunk to something that was no bigger than a football.
“Are you playing the concentric square game? Be quick, please, my friend!” Sam said urgently.
Suddenly, both of them heard that someone is broadcasting an announcement on the military base intercom: “Everyone must assemble in the Silo 1 immediately.NBE-1 has risen from the dead now. Urgent On this occasion, it was very noisy outside. Sam heard that scurry of feet outside.
“Take it. Sam. Let’s get out of this place quickly,” Bumblebee passed the Cube to Sam while he is speaking.
Suddenly, the neighouring silo reverberated with the noise of shooting. The ground was quaking tempestuously under their feet.
“What’s NBE-1?” Bumblebee asked. “
It’s Megatron!” Sam answered.
With that Bumblebee transforms himself into the yellow Camaro as quickly as flash. “Get in the car!” Bumblebee said urgently. The car door snapped open, Sam grasps the Cube and jumps into the car.


Bumblebee and Sam immediately screeched out of the silo. After a short while, they have pull up to the entrance of Hoover Dam. Lots of sector soldiers were guarding there.
“Stop that yellow Camaro. That boy is in the car!” A sector 7 officer shouted loudly at his soldiers as Bumblebee came near the entrance of Hoover Dam. Now all of these soldiers are firing at Bumblebee and Sam. However, no one could stop our two heroes. They quickly leave the Dam and arrive at the highway.
“Are you ok, my friend? “ Sam asked.”
Yes. I’m fine. Is the Cube okay?” Bumblebee responds and asked.
“Yeah. The Cube is in my hands,” Sam responds nervously.
“Earthmen’s weapons are not able to hurt us. Don’t worry about me. Those bullets tickle me. I suspect that Megatron must be resurrected. Also, those Decepticons have been observing our movements. We must go to see Optimus Prime as soon as possible,” Bumblebee is speaking to Sam while he is driving on the road.
“How did you guys find out where the Cube is? “Sam asked.
He feels more relaxed now.
“We investigated the exact location of the Cube based on its coordinates which were imprinted in your eye glasses,” Bumblebee answered.
“Oh, OK! Where are the Autobots?” Sam asked.
“They are hiding in the city,” His new mentor replied.
“I have sent a message to Optimus Prime. We have to give the Cube to him now. He is the only Autobot who has enough ability to withstand an attack by Megatron. Otherwise we will fail the whole plan if Megatron gets the Cube before Optimus Prime does,” Bumblebee continued.
“Why didn’t Optimus Prime come to get the Cube himself?” Sam asked curiously.
“Because I’m the most handsome guy among the Autobots,” Bumblebee laughed.
“Really? My friend. Several minutes ago, you told me that Optimus Prime is the strongest Autobot,” Sam said in a funny voice because he wants to embarrass Bumblebee.
“Um! You are not at embarrassing me, my boy. To tell the truth, I’m the smallest Autobot. It’s easy for me to hide somewhere. That’s why I came to rescue you. Not somebody else. Earthmen can hardly find me, can they? Bumblebee asked.
“But you are the bravest guy who I have ever met, “Sam said.
“You will meet braver very soon. Let’s rip!” Bumblebee responds while driving himself at full speed.


In fact, what had been really happening as Sam and those other officers were conversing about the Cube; a tiny mechanical spider-shape was working its way around the perimeter of the whole military base. None of the passing workers noticed this tiny robot, named Frenzy, is the reconnaissance scout of Decepticons. He is able to transform into a mobile phone, mp3 or any other tiny electric production. As Bumblebee said, the Decepticons had been observing his movements all the time indeed. So Bumblebee did not see him or find anything out of the ordinary when Frenzy followed him into the Hoover Dam. And Frenzy found the exact location of the Megatron and perimeter of the military base. This tiny robot sent a message to all Decepticons after destroying the refrigeration system of the military base. So Megatron’s system was frozen over. Therefore, Megatron could be resurrected.


In Sector 7, those American soldiers are certainly not able to prevent Megatron’s rise from death. Megatron immediately transforms himself into a huge jet plane and flies out of the Military base. At the top of the Hoover Dam, all of the Decepticons: Blackout, Barricade, Starscream, Scorponok, Bonecrusher and Devastator, are waiting for Megatron. They had all received a message from Frenzy, their convenient little spy. Well before Sam and his parents were arrested by Simmons and his Sector 7 soldiers, Blackout and Scorponok had already attacked part of the U.S. military base in the Hoover Dam, trying to find where Megatron and the Cube were. But they were eventually repelled by the American Airforce. After their failure, Frenzy infiltrated the American Air Force and hacked again into the military database. This time he finds the map imprinted on Captain Witwicky's glasses, which his descendant Sam intends to sell on eBay for money. That’s the reason why Barricade began tracking Sam in the beginning.


Megatron transforms back into his robot humanoid shapes when he gets to the top of the Hoover Dam.
”I am glad to have been of some service, Lord Megatron,” Starscream said.
“Where is the Cube?” Megatron rumbled coolly.
“Humans and Autobots have already taken it before we got here” Starscream answered carefully bowing unctuously.
He was the Megatron's second-in-command, who led the Decepticons in his absence.
“You fail me. Starscream. Get the Cube back quickly!” Megatron sounds very angry with him.
“Where are they now, Frenzy?” Megatron is turning to Frenzy.
“My Lord, I will do a perfunctory reconnaissance of their position in a minute. I have put a tiny monitor into Bumblebee’s body,” Frenzy said.
Actually he wanted to fawn on Megatron.
“Bullshit. Get on with it, now!” Megatron was fretting with impatience.
“Yes, My lord. OK. I have spotted they are meeting in the central city right now,” Frenzy said.
“All Decepticons follow me! Let’s get the Cube back and kill off all of the Autobots!” Megatron gave a command to every Decepticon. With that, they all ttransform themselves into their original and fly up to the sky.

There was the usual traffic on the highway leading to the city, but not enough to dangerously inhibit the yellow Camaro. Inside, Sam once again always, was looking back behind them through the window. He was really worried that the Decepticons might catch up with them.
“Don’t worry, my friend. We will meet Optimus Prime soon,” Bumblebee said.
“Ok!” Sam turns his head back and answered.
Actually sweat was streaming down his face. About two or three minutes later, they arrived at a bridge. Sam could see Optimus Prime, Jazz, Ironhide and Rachet in the distance. He jumps out the car and run up to Optimus Prime. They are all waiting there for Sam and Bumblebee.
“Nice to see you again, Sam. We received the signal from Bumblebee. So we are waiting for you guys here, my dear friends,” Optimus Prime said.
“What are you going to do with this Cube?” Sam asks as he gives it to Optimus Prime.
“We have to destroy it as soon as possible. Humans can not protect the Cube,” Optimus Prime responds.
“Why are we fighting to save the human races? They are primitive and violent race,” Jazz interrupted.
“Were we so different? Humans are a young race. They have much to learn. But I still have seen goodness in them. You all know there is one way to end this war. That is to destroy the Cube. So if all of us fail, could someone insert the Cube into my chest? Would you agree to do this for me, my boy?” Optimus Prime asked.
Sam doesn’t know how to answer his question.
“Chests like mine or Megatron can destroy the Cube,” Optimus Prime continued.
“But by doing that the Cube will destroy you and itself,” Ironhide interrupted. “Sacrifice must be unavoidable. We do this because we do want to bring peace to the earth. We can’t let humans die for Megatron’s mistake. It has been an honour to have an alliance against the common enemy with you guys until now,” Optimus Prime said in very serious voice.
You may have another option, my old friend,” Megatron suddenly interrupted.
“Give the Cube to me, I can guarantee that your colleagues and earthmen will be very safe,” Megatron continued.
“I would never trust you,” Optimus Prime said, looking up and he takes a shot at Megatron as he flew over. But Megatron dodged this easily, laughing.



The battle starts. Both Jazz and Ironhide are firing at Megatron. They try their best to attack him. Optimus Prime takes this chance and passed the Cube to Sam. Sam shook his head.
“But- what am I supposed to do? I can’t ……..”Sam mumbled.
He feels so fearful now.
Optimus Prime cut him off and says: “Look at me, Sam. You are a solider now. Everybody is a solider until this is over. Get the Cube out of the city. As far away as you can. Don’t worry, my boy. Bumblebee will protect you. Otherwise, lots of people are going to die here. You need to be a brave man, Sam.”
Sam becomes strong when he hears these solemn words.
“No matter what happens, I am glad to know you and other Autobots,” Sam said.
And tears ran down from his face.
“We have to go, Sam!” Bumblebee said urgently.
Sam jumps into the car and leaves. Megatron tries to catch up with Bumblebee. Optimus Prime fell upon Megatron from his back. Both Optimus Prime and Megatron dropped from the underside of the bridge to land heavily on the pavement below. These two leaders are locked in a fight. Meanwhile, things star happening really quickly.Starscream catches up with Sam and Bumblebee. Bumblebee was taken by surprise and shot by Starscream. He is seriously injured. Bumblebee is no match for Starscream. He transforms himself into a robot shape. Thanks to Jazz who came to rescue them in time, they are able to stave off the repeated attacks by the Starscream.
“I can not protect you, Sam,” Bumblebee said in a low and urgent voice.
“You must find a building and hide yourself,” Bumblebee continued.
“I can not leave you! “Sam’s voice sounds anxious.
“Get away quickly; The Cube is the most important thing,” Bumblebee implored. Sam had nothing left to say that he had not already said with his eyes. Holding the Cube like the school football he had never been allowed to carry, he turned and ran as fast as he could.


A shadow loomed over him. It was Inonhide, providing cover. They hurried past cars that had been abandoned, past others that had been destroyed or were burning noisily. A pulse blast struck Sam’s bulky escort. The force of it blew Ironhide off his feet and into the side of a building on the far side of the street. Though Optimus Prime’s words echoed in Sam’s brain, he had no intention of stopping. Meanwhile, American airforces arrived and started to shoot at Scorponok and Bonecrusher. Rachet is fighting with Devastator. Jazz is in combat at the Starscream. Blackout and Barricade are swamped with those Sector 7 troops. Ignored by soldiers, agents, Deceptions, and Autobots alike, Sam runs into a narrow street.
“Boy, I saw you! “ Megatron said.
He shakes Optimus Prime off while he continues looking for Sam. Then out of the blue, his huge foot came down hard, only to miss Sam again.


Sam keeps on running fast.
“You are not going to get me; you are not going to get me!” Sam repeats and repeats again.
He finally gets to the roof of a building. The roof was empty, deserted, and undamaged. But his fingers fumbled with the flare, nearly dropping it.
“It’s over, give me the Cube. Boy!” Megatron said.
He gets to the roof too. Sam looks back. There was nowhere left to go. But Megatron is getting closer and closer to him. He took a look over the side, nearly vomited, and hung on to his small glowing burden.
“No, I won’t do it. I can’t jump down,” Sam murmurs.
“Give me the Cube!” Megatron offered his hand and said.
“I am never giving it to you,” Sam answered bravely.
“Is it fear or courage that controls you, young man?” Megatron asked.
He presses Sam close. Instead of pressing forward, Sam drew back step by step.
“I’ll never give you this Cube,” Sam answers.
“So stupid!” Megatron said.
He uses his huge feet slammed downward, digging into the roof. The flare flashed, once, striking the section of roof just in front of Sam. The rooftop crumbled, breaking away beneath him. Sam felt himself falling, falling, accompanied by broken statues. A figure flies up to the roof from below.


SSam closes his eyes. He thinks that he is going to die.
“I got you boy!” Optimus Prime is speaking to Sam while Sam drops onto his hand.
Sam opens his eyes; he sees that he was lying in the palm of an enormous hand. He is familiar with this red color. He looked up, and finds himself gazing into the lenses of Optimus Prime.
“Hold onto the Cube,” Optimus Prime continued.
Suddenly, Megatron plunged downward chasing Prime. They both were falling toward the street together. They crashed on the ground heavily in one piece. Optimus Prime seriously injured seems unable to move anymore.
“Sam, you have tried your best to protect the Cube. I owe you life,” Optimus Prime said.
“No sacrifice, and no victory,”Sam answered.
“If I can not defeat Megatron, you must push the Cube into my chest. I will sacrifice myself to destroy the Cube. Get behind me,” Optimus said.
“Now it’s just you and me, Prime,” Says Megatron. Megatron is speaking when he picks up himself.
Optimus Prime is fighting with Megatron together. But unfortunately, Optimus can not defeat Megatron. In fact he clearly can not fight back.
“You still fight for the weak, that’s why you lose, Prime,” Megatron is shouting at Prime.
Optimus Prime was pinned under the wreckage of Megatron. But in this extreme situation, sector 7 troops suddenly come and fire at Megatron.
“Aim the Cube at my chest. Don’t lose this chance, Sam!” Optimus yelled at Sam.
“The merging will overwhelm both power sources and destroy it!” Do it now!” Optimus thundered.
Sam hesitated, then raised the Cube and advanced on the recumbent mechanical approaching Optimus Prime’ chest.
“No! “Megatron shouted at Sam. Suddenly, the ground shook as Megatron came closer.
“It is mine. The Cube is mine,” Megatron said.
He stooped low and wanted to get the Cube from Sam. With no idea what to expect, Sam used up all his strength to slam the Cube Allspark straight at the center of the Deception’s chest. It is magic. It’s a most incredible coincidence. The blinding flash that resulted blew him backward as Megatron’s overloaded spark exploded. Megatron took a step forward, another backward, shuddered once, and fell. He died.


The battle was finally finished. Except for Starscream, Blackout, Barricade, Scorponok, Bonecrusher and Devastator all have been killed off. Starscream transforms himself into a plane and lets out a shriek of dismay, whirles, and flees. Jazz and Rachet help Bumblebee to walk to Sam and Optimus Prime. Human soldiers surround these Autobots. Optimus Prime picks himself up again from the earth.
“Thank you, all of you. You are all brave soldiers. I think that we gained a lot of new human friends!” He speaks to Autobots; Sector 7 troops, the American Airforce and Sam. His speech was greeted by loud cheers.The battle is now finished, even though it caused great damage to this city. However, the human race has recovered their peace, and hope for the future.



It was a lovely afternoon on an ordinary day. The sunshine was still very beautiful. After school, Sam and Bumblebee are waiting outside of the campus.
“Are you sure that she will come with us?” Bumblebee asked.
“Yes, I am pretty sure,” Sam responds.
“Oh, dear”! Sam gets out his car quickly because he saw Mikaela came out with some girls.
Sam walked up to Mikaela and said “Do you want a ride? I want to introduce some new friends to you,” Sam’s voice sounds still shy.
In fact, nearly every American now knows Sam. He is a famous person. Mikaela certainly knows whom she is going to meet.
“Ok, but are you sure that your car is going to no problem?” Mikaela is asking while she is getting to his car.
“Of course!” Sam answers while he is jumping into the car.
They are going up a hill.
“Your driving skill has improved a lot, Sam” Mikaela said.
Sam replies nothing. He still feels so nervous and turns on the radio. The host is broadcasting that: “From now, Mr. President has ordered the Sector 7 to be dissolved. The remains of that alien are to be disposed of in the Laurentian Abyss, 7 miles to sea bottom, deepest place in the world. The freezing temperature will squash it flat and will leave no remains.”
The yellow Camaro is driving fast along the road.

Up the hill, Optimus Prime, Jazz, Rachet and Inonhide are standing right on the crest, with the whole world as far as they can see on all sides. They are waiting for Bumblebee and Sam.
“Are we really going to leave the earth, Sir?” Jazz asked.
“As you know, although Megatron had died, Starscream run off. I am really worried about if this dangerous guy will find more Decepticons and come back to the earth,” Optimus Prime answered.
“I revised my opinion of those earthmen, I start to like here, Sir,” Jazz said.
“Me too. The longer you stay here, the more you will like this place and those brave earthmen. But we must be anxious for their safety,” Optimus Prime responded.
“Look! They are coming,” Rachet whooped.
These Autobots descried that the yellow Camaro is coming.
“Hi, guys. It’s time to say our farewell to this lovely boy,” Prime is speaking to everybody.
These Autobots go forward to meet their friends. In less than the batting of an eyelid, they arrived. Sam and Mikalea get out of the yellow Camaro. And Bumblebee transforms into his robot humanoid shape.
“Nice to see you again, Optimus Prime! May I introduce my friend to you? This is Mikaela, “Sam’s voice sounds so excited. Actually he was positively bursting to introduce his favorite girl to his robot friend.
“How are you, my boy? And Mikaela! Nice to meet you!” Prime replies.
Nice to meet you guys, too!” Mikaela said.
“Sam, with the Allspark destroyed, we can not return to our planet. But now, we have to contact with any survivors of Autobots who may be taking refuge among other planets. And we going to find the remaining Decepticons, and kill off them. We will come back, because we have a new world to call home, it is the earth,” Prime speaks to Sam. Everyone is listening to him very carefully.
“I have something to say, Sir. I want to stay with this boy,” Bumblebee interrupted.
“Yes. That is what I expect to say. Your responsibility is to contact with us if you find any clue of Decepticons in the earth and protecting this boy,” Optimus Prime responded.
“Now, Autobots-roll out” Optimus Prime gave an order to his colleagues.
With that, they all fly up to the sky, disappears. Sam waves his hand to his Autobot friends. He feels so sad.
“ I believe that you guys will back to the earth,” Sam murmurs.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Wars

ACT ONE

“Wake up! Wake up Tintin! We are running late!” yells Snowy. “Hmmm…” Tintin manages to open his heavy eyelids after a late night drinking with his mates at Imperial Hotel Tokyo in Ginza. Tintin gets dressed, rushes for his part-time English teaching at university with Snowy. JP¥7,000 per month in the Great Depression is a good sum of money. Plus the salary for being a Belgian reporter in Japan, Tintin and Snowy are enjoying their comfortable and well-earned lives in Japan where far away from unemployment shot-up Europe.

“TAKE THE HONOUR TO DIE IN BATTLE FOR THE EMPEROR HIROHITO” a white strip of cloth with this sentence in dark red across the top of the entrance to the university. “My God! Where is the battle?” Tintin murmurs. “Maybe in Korea, maybe in Taiwan or China.” Snowy replies.

Tintin met his mates again in Imperial Hotel on that night. They are all foreigners from the West working and getting well paid in Japan. “I received a telegram from Mr Zhou a Chinese friend I met in Paris a few years ago urging me to go to Shanghai,” Tintin said. “Hahaha! Don’t be silly, Tintin. You will miss Sayuri in the elegant kimonos, her beautiful white make-up, her Tachitaka and Jikata.” Tom an American laughed. Tintin nods and agrees.



Before long, at university, all the male students start practising shooting and hand-to-hand combat in the soccer field while the female students were doing the first aid course in the lecture theatre. The teachers were all from the military. Shortly after, Tintin is informed to collect his take-home pay from the university. The militant empire changes all universities to army training bases. No university lecturers are needed. Tintin loses his teaching job. He has no other choices but to pack the trunk and leave for Shanghai.

ACT TWO

The ship that Tintin and Snowy are on first sets sail for Taiwan to pick up bags and bags of rice, then sets off for Shanghai. On the third day of the journey, Snow went out for his evening walk. “Tintin, Tintin there are many women on this ship going to China too!” Snowy hurries back to Tintin with this shocking news. “Really?! Japanese women on board to China.” Tintin wonders. On the fourth day, Snowy is sent to detect the suspicious ship. Surprisingly, he finds out the ship carries lots of condoms in its basement.

After five days journey in the sea, Tintin and Snowy arrive at the Shanghai harbour. “Are we really in Shanghai?” Questions Snowy. The Japanese soldiers stand along the harbour with guns in hands. Tintin and Snowy saw the exhausting Japanese women being pulled in the green Army trucks with Nisshoki (sun) flags in the front. The rice and condoms are moved into the last five trucks. The Japanese trucks carrying their soldiers, women, rice and condoms disappear from the harbour. Japanese women are going to the battlefield with rice and condoms. “This doesn’t make sense.” However, with the vanishing of the Japanese trucks, Tintin and Snow feel the wind blowing softly. The air smells fresh and sweet.

Tintin and Snowy are now in Shanghai, Paris of the East, New York of the West. After the refreshment in the Continental Hotel, Tintin and Snowy dress up and head for their first function at International settlement in the Shanghai Bund. “Tintin, I am feeling at home,” said Snowy. “Me too, Snowy. No more Nihongo!” The colourful European flags waving on the top of various western style buildings. The names of shops and streets are all in English. Everything here looks so familiar.

They arrive at the Shanghai Club where the British counsellor hosts an evening for the Shanghailanders, the residents at International Settlement. “ Good evening Sir!” The British waiter gives them a very warm greeting as they walk in. The magnificent sparling chandeliers are shining up the whole lobby. The golden tall pillars make the lobby look enormous and splendorous. “Good evening Mr Tintin! Welcome to Shanghai! I hope you enjoy your stay in China and let the world know we are waking up this eastern dragon and building her a better tomorrow!” The British counsellor Dawson comes to Tintin with a big smiley face. The moustache is dancing up and down happily on his fatty face while he is talking. “We are proud being the largest investor in China. We provide huge amount of loans to the Chinese government, involving in mineral, railway, shipbuilding and military industries. Shanghai has become the centre of international business…” His moustache keeps moving up and down when he carries on his talking.



After the function, they walk along the Bund. The night is quiet and peaceful with light and pleasant music echoing. “What a beautiful night! Let’s have a walk in the park.” They decided. Suddenly, they are stunned. “NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED”, a sign is put up at the entrance to the Huangpu Park. Tintin’s heart is sunk. Poor little Snowy is so depressed. The wind blow chillily. Neither of them talks on the way back to the hotel.



At the reception in the Continental Hotel, Tintin received a letter from Mr Zhou and a parcel with two sets of cotton Chinese costume for Snowy and himself. “There will be a brown rickshaw with a red handkerchief hanging on the handle to pick you up at 8.30 at the hotel entrance.” The letter said.

The next morning, Tintin and Snowing put on the cotton Chinese costumes and are taken to a wooden boat in a small river at the countryside of Shanghai. There he
meets Mr Zhou one of the leaders of Chinese communist party. Mr Zhou studied Marxism in France, Britain, Belgium and German where he also became a student organizer in the Communist Revolution.

“Hello Tintin! Welcome to China! How are you, Snowy?” “Glad to see you Zhou. But we had an unpleasant time last night. No Dogs or Chinese Allowed in Huangpu Park” Tintin complained to Zhou angrily. “We know that sign, Tintin. Indeed, our people are treated worse than animals. I urge you to China to see our suffering and to tell the world the truth.” Mr Zhou says in a low but serious voice to Tintin. “The imperialist powers are raping our country, Japanese in the north and British together with others in the south. They rob our resources and kill our people. In the South, Shanghai is becoming the centre of international opium smuggling. In the North, our people are loosing their blood, their families and their home. China is in great danger. We are fighting for our freedom and for our country. Tintin, please let the world know the truth and let them know we need their support!”

Tintin and Snowy travel to the North with their heavy hearts. Bomb frightened, burning hut and hobos were everywhere. They then arrive at a Japanese controlled zone. There they find the Japanese women Snowy met on the ship. The women are working in the Comfort Station as ianfu (comfort women). At that night, Snowy sneaks in the Comfort Station. At the lobby, Snowy found two strips of paper on the wall: “EN-POWERE OUR SOLDIER, SERVE OUR EMPIRE BETTER”. Snowy also manages to take a photo of the Comfort Policy:


1. Only Japanese army officer, soldier and army employee with ID card allowed
2. Pay in full before collecting condom
3. Two Yen per ticket for the soldier, Five Yen per ticket for officer
4. Expires at the same day when purchase. No refund after entering comfort room.
5. 30mins allowed in comfort room per ticket
6. No alcohol in comfort room
7. Immediately out of comfort room when finishes
8. No condom No sex

The Japanese women are mourning for their torments. “War, terrible war! When is the end of the deadly war? Home, sweet home! When is the returning day to the happy home?” Tears are pouring down from their eyes.

Lots and lots of frighten photos are taken by Tintin and Snowy with great sorrow. Without any delay, the photos are sent secretly by telegraph to Herge in Belgium for publishing. The photos have also arrived in United Nations. Immediately, the world is shocked, furious and cried. The American volunteers to destroy the Japanese military factories on their home island. Chinese people were strengthened with the international support. The Japanese troops in China surrendered.



ACT THREE

The humongous ship sets out from the wharf in Shanghai. Tintin and Snowy are on their way home after saying goodbye to Mr Zhou. The ship is crowded with lots of people talking in different European languages. “Hello, Mr Dawson!” Tintin and Snowy meet the British counsellor on deck with a big surprise. “Hello, Tintin my friend! I am on my way home to London. I am required by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to witness to the Tokyo war crimes in China. I am so proud of Chinese people. There will be a party for the old Shanghailanders in the ship tonight to celebrate the Chinese victory. Please do join us.” The bulky ship carries the Europeans and their heavy costly belongings leaving China, departing for home where they haven’t returned for long.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Tintin in Korea

Tintin and Snowy were boarding a Korean Airlines flight to attend a regular session of the International Press Institute (IPI), as observers. Resting his head on the back of the seat with half- closed eyes, Tintin was thinking of Chang who was also flying to Korea from China to participate in the same forum. ‘I’m going to meet you soon’ he mumbled to himself with a big smile and his heart throbbing with great expectation. At the same time, Snowy was sitting in the corner of the cargo shivering with fear of imagining Koreans who eat dog.


At 5; 00 pm,
Tintin heard a knock at the front door,
“Sir here’s a message for you.” The tall and handsome uniformed bellboy said when he opened the door.
“Thank you.” Tintin shortly replied and opened the envelope-‘Welcome to Korea. How’s Snowy?’-
‘Umm it must be Chang’ he smiled.
Snowy still looked feel uneasy and refused to eat. “Come on Snowy, here’s your favorite meal” patting Snowy on the back Tintin whispered.
-Tin tin, you know, I reckon that I might die here- Snowy sighed faintly and closed heavily his eyes. “You look so tired.” “Be strong my old fellow.” Tintin said inspiringly


At 7pm,
Chang visited to Tintin.
“Wow! Chang!” “Tintin”! They tightly embraced each other.
“How are you Tintin?”
“How are you Chang?”
“We haven't seen each other for ages.”
-Wooah Wooah- -Hi chang- Snowy waged his tail intensely walking around them.
“Oh, hi Snowy,” Chang said delightfully, “you are still looking good.”
“You are really lucky guy, Snowy. Aren’t you?”
“What a nice sweet room! Chang said softly glancing around room.
“It’s especially for guests with pets.” Tintin said slowly. “Actually, Snowy costs me a lot.” “Ha,ha,ha,”
-What? That’s human- Snowy barked few times. -I absolutely didn’t want to visit Korea but you insisted that I come!-
“Let’s have a dinner.” Tintin said. “We can go upstairs, there is a good restaurant with fantastic night views.”
-Please, don’t eat any strange food. - Snowy sighed again quietly and turned around.
Live music in the restaurant put Tintin and Chang in a good mood.
While Tintin and Chang were enjoying their meal, three people (one looked like a European the rest of them were Korean) sitting opposite side their table kept taking sidelong glances at Tintin.
Then, European looked at his wristwatch and spoke in hushed tones.
“Be quick without any mistake.” “Got it?”
Then two of the men left their seats quietly.
“Okay, shall we move to the sky lounge to have a drink?” Tintin said after he and Chang finished the dinner
“Sounds good”.




“Cheers!”
“Cheers!”
“I’m really glad to be here.”
“Me too”
Both of them were quiet for a while as they recalled their past in Hukou.
Chang, by the way, what are those? Tintin broke the silence as he looked down at the neon signs Umm… Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge… oh, Yale over there”
“Those could be private English schools like in China” Chang said firmly.
” “Have you read the article? Chang continually and eagerly spoke to Tintin
“Well, middle class Koreans are spending up to 40% of their disposable incomes on English tuition.”
“Really?” Tintin seemed to be surprised.
“And the problem is, private language schools employ anyone who has blue eyes and fair hair,”
“What?” “It doesn’t make sense”
“So, even criminals, prostitutes and drug users could teach English here, as long as they forge the certificate.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’ve read the Korean Times.”
‘Umm… it’s unbelievable.” Tintin said doubtfully. “Anyway what time is it now?”


At 9:00 pm.
Meanwhile, sitting on the carpet in front of the window, Snowy merely looked down at the street. He got up and started to growl angrily when he spotted an advertisement for a picturesque dog’s farm with a luxurious restaurant. Then, Snowy heard something strange sounds. He pricked up his ears and carefully crept close to the main door.

“Bang!” All at once, Snowy was knocked down.
“Here’s a rubbish bin.”
“Be quiet!”
“Move! Move! Quick”
“Ueaps! Blood!”
“Shit,!”
“Move! Quick!”
Two men, wearing cleaner’s uniforms, hid quickly as Tintin and Chang got out of the elevator.
“Hey, Snowy” Tintin and Chang looked around the room searching for Snowy.
“Where are you?” Tintin whistled.
Tintin! Chang yelled “There’s some blood here.”
“Where?”
“Oh my goodness.”
“What’s happened to Snowy?.”
“Mmm.. let me think for a second.”
“Let’s call my Korean friend, he is a journalist, we need his help.”
Chang hurriedly picked up the phone.
“Wait! Please wait a moment.” Tintin said urgently. “Chang give me a second please.”
Tintin sat on the couch folded his hands in his lap and closed his eyes for a while.
Suddenly, he got up and asked to Chang. “Did you send this message to me this afternoon?”
“What’s this?”
“No, absolutely not.” Chang said anxiously looking over the message.
“Chang.”Tintin said determinedly. “I need your Korean friend.”
“No problem, Tintin.”


At 11:00pm,
Snowy had a splitting headache as he recovered from unconsciousness.
“Where am l?”
Snowy tried to lift up his head and have a look around
He could see some spots of blood on his forelegs and realized that he was a wearing collar which was connected to a leash that tied to a pillar
“What’s wrong?”
“Where is Tintin and Chang?
“Keep an eye on Snowy.”
“Why don’t you kill snowy?”
“Shut up!”
“You gonna sell Snowy aren’t you?”
“Watch the dog!”
“Shit!”
“I’ll call Tintin right now.”
Two men quarrelled beside Snowy while Snowy pretend to still be unconscious.
Sometimes later, Snowy opened his eyes and caught them nodding. He thought to himself “It’s good chance to escape”
Snowy quietly wriggled his forelegs to loosen managed to get it off. Then, he crawled carefully without making any noise and eventually, successfully got away.
However, Snowy didn’t know where he was.
He was exhausted and drifted off to sleep. In the meantime, Chang’s friend arrived at the hotel.
“Nice to meet you, I’m Tintin and thank you for coming.”
“Hello I’m Kim and I’m sorry to here what has happened Tintin, but don’t worry we’ll find snowy soon.”
“Thanks Kim.”
“Take a seat please.” At that moment, the phone rang.
Tintin grapped the phone.
“Hello, hello”
But the line went death.
“Kim, it needs to be advertised in the newspaper ASAP.” Tintin said seriously showing a picture of a man.
“Who is he?” Kim asked.
“He is a terrorist who seemed to have already got information about me.”
“What?” Chang claimed and said “let me see the picture……Mmm…looks familiar.” Chang scrutinized the picture for a while. “Oh! Tintin, this looks like that guy I saw just before.”
“Where?”
“In the restaurant”
Tintin hovered around the phone, keep thinking of his mission which was to find out the terrorist’s location. The phone rang again.
“I’ll get it” Kim said hastily.
Kim spoke in Korean language on the phone for a while.
“What did they say?” Chang asked, after Kim hung up the phone.
“Did you write something nasty about our culture of eating dog?”
“Umm… yes I once wrote about Asian’s food culture: eating dog in Korean, whale in Japanese and monkey in Chinese respectively to the ‘New Era’ which is a popular periodical in the world.” Tintin said helplessly.
“It’s revenge. They are threatening you to sell snowy to a restaurant.”
“But, Tintin, we don’t eat pet dogs.” Kim tried to explain.
“Yeah, I admit that we eat dog but a certain breed of dogs, not like snowy.”
“Anyhow, I think, someone has kidnapped Snowy to take my attention away from finding the terrorist.” Tintin said suspiciously. Meanwhile elsewhere in the city.
“Wow, look at the white dog over there!”
“Where?”
“Mom the dog seems to be hurt.”
“Please don’t touch it.”
“Are you okay?” The little girl looked at snowy carefully and said gently “open your eyes.”
“Oh, he’s still breathing! He’s Alive!”
“Oh, poor thing! The woman said sadly.
“Mom, we should take the dog home.”
“Well, okay then, but we should find its owner.”
“Mom, shall we talk to the police?”
“Honey, it’s better to call to the radio station.” “They can broadcast the details.” “Anyway, what happened to this dog?”
“Who’s its owner?” her mom murmured.
Early the next morning around 6:00am.
“Yes sir, I’ll do it right now.”
The terrorist was wearing black gloves and sunglasses after finishing the cell-phone call, He walked towards 63 building, the tallest building in Korea.

At the same time, Tintin got a phone call from Kim .He said that he had got information about the terrorists from readers and that the photo was of his English teacher at a private language school. He had taught the reader until last week in an evening class, which was located in 63 building.
“Shit, Snowy was tricked.” Tintin and Chang got dressed in hurry and ran to the highest building. Meanwhile, Kim also drove to the building.
“What are you going to do?” Kim asked. “Tintin I think it’s better to tell the police.”
“No, if the terrorist notices that we have found his location, he will destroy this building earlier than in his original plan.” Tintin said.
Chang you keep an eye on this exit and Kim, you just pretend to be a plumber and this….
Tin tin looked at the blueprint of 63 building as he told Kim what to do.

On the 39th Floor.
The terrorist entered the toilet and tapped to find a ventilation shaft. Tintin watched him from the surveillance screens on the ground floor ‘Okay, we’ve got him’
Five minutes later on the 39th floor
Kim saw the Tintin give him the ok sign.
Kim opening the door and talked to him
“I ah~ umm speak English not” Kim tried to explain he had to fix this toilet using gestures with few English words in order to let him get out.
Tin tin was hiding behind the door waiting for the terrorist
Tin tin heard the door open, and hit the man over head with a stick knocking him out.
‘Bang!!!’


At 8:00 am,
Kim said Snowy had been found and now he was at a vet’s.
Tintin exclaimed. “Oh! Thank goodness!”
On the way to the vet’s clinic, Tintin explained his mission: 63 building where the IPU meeting was to be held was targeted during the forum period. So the terrorist disguised himself as an English teacher to explore the building structure in advance. “It was piece of cake for him.” Kim said calmly. “Snowy!” Tintin yelled with tearing coming to his eyes as he hugged Snowy.
-Tin tin, where were you- Snowy was staring at Tintin for a while and slowly wagged his tail silently saying -please never write anything about different cultures again.-



Two weeks later, Tintin and Snowy were boarding a Korean airlines flight. Resting his head on the back of the seat with half -closed eyes, he’s thinking of cultural differences and Booming English study in the Asia region with a bitter smile, whereas, Snowy was sitting in the corner of cargo hold thinking about a little girl who saved his life with a big smile.





















My Fanfiction Spirited Away

My Fanfiction Spirited Away (haven't got a name yet)

Hi everyone :) Here's my fanfiction. It's so embarrassing having to put it here :'( It's around 2,400 words. Sorry, believe me, I already tried to cut some part off already = =" If you have time (and patience haha), please read it and please do leave me some comments, either positive or negative ones. I need someone to point out where I can improve (so don't be polite, just say it!)

By the way, at the beginning I said that I wanted to write about the first encounter between Yubaba and Haku, and Pear Jin suggested I could write a story about Yubaba and her baby too. This idea was very interesting so I planned to write about both Haku and Boh's (Yubaba's baby) stories. Unfortunately, I couldn't squeeze everything into a 1200-word fanfiction so there is only a story about Yubaba and her baby here :'(

“My baby!! Where is my baby!?!” A woman, dressed in deep blue clothes with a large glowing red ruby pinned on the middle of her collar, screamed in terror, breaking the silence of a peaceful morning.

“Calm down, Yubaba,” said another young woman in the room. “I saw Boh crawled outside. Maybe he just needed some fresh air” Raising her left hand, decorated with colourful jewel rings, she pointed out toward the partly open door without lifting here eyes from the sewing machine she was working with.

“YOU SAW MY BABY CRAWLING OUTSIDE AND YOU DIDN’T GRAB HIM!?!” shouted Yubaba. Lines and wrinkles on her face became more obvious as her face distorted with rage.

“Told you, he needed some fresh air. You can’t keep him locked up in this house all the time.” Her hands stopped moving now as she looked up to face her twin sister straight in the eye.

The two sisters stared at each other for a brief moment before Yubaba once again broke the silence. “It is not safe out there, Zeniba.” She spoke slowly, stressing each word as though to make sure they reach her only audience. “And you know that.”

The young woman merely shook her head when her twin sister rushed out the door. Yubaba’s hair that glistened in the early sunlight was ashy white. Zeniba caressed her long pony-tail unconsciously and sighed.

Unlike Yubaba’s, her hair was still jet black, as a girl this age should be. They had been exactly alike, like their own reflections in a mirror, before things changed. After that time, whenever Zeniba looked at her sister, she could only see the reflection of herself, in a hundred years to come.

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“Boh, sweetie, where are you? Sweetie…” Yubaba’s voice trailed off in despair. She had searched through their flower garden but her baby was nowhere to be seen. Doubtfully, Yubaba turned to the forest surrounding their house, not sure which way to go.

“Kohaku!” A thought came across her mind and she broke off into a run towards the faint sound of the flowing water.

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At the end of the forest where its edge met a sparkling river stood a white dragon with two golden-brown horns and an emerald mane. Her question poured out of her mouth as soon as Yubaba saw him.

“Kohaku, have you seen Boh?”

Before he could answer, Yubaba caught a glimpse of reddish liquid that merged with the tide near the river bank where she was standing. Shimmered by the gentle morning rays as it danced along the current, it created a beautiful ruby gleam. Yubaba’s eyes fixed on the crimson liquid as if she was in a trance. Then, her sense returning, she let out a high shriek and rushed up the river bend without further words with the white dragon.

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“Baby… my baby…” Yubaba murmured as she was running. Her memory flashed back to the first day of their encounter when the river brought the baby – covered in blood – into her arms. Each and every detail of what happened on that day was still fresh in her mind: how she ran madly to her house, holding the bleeding baby, how the warmth from him was fading away, how she desperately begged her sister to cure the baby, how she quietly refused saying he was dead.

“No, he’s still breathing!!” Yubaba recalled the conversation with her sister. “Save him…please, Zeniba.”

“He’ll stop soon enough, don’t worry. He isn’t meant to be here, nor live here.” She gave Yubaba a faint smile but there was sadness in her eyes, showing that it was not an easy decision for her as well.

“Please, Zeniba, we can’t have children and you know how much I’ve always wanted to have one,” pleaded the young Yubaba, her voice trembling. “Please save him, Zeniba, and I’ll never ask anything of you again.” She felt to her knees, sobbing silently.

The young sorceress examined her sister silently while contemplating the final decision. “I hope you know what you are asking for,” muttered Zeniba sternly. “And I hope you remember that this world has its rules. Whatever you get, you’ve to give something of equal value in return.”

“I know that.” Yubaba looked up, her eyes gleaming with hope.

Zeniba got to her feet and reached out for the ancient book from the shelf. The book of which she had been taking care for a long time while waiting for her sister’s power to awake. Written in it were thousands of spells that could magically grant everything it was asked for. She opened its black cover and flipped swiftly to the page she wanted before staring intently at her sister, trying for one last time to talk her out of it.

“I said you have to give something and I mean it. This is not gonna be like those times I cure a rabbit’s broken leg or a bird’s bleeding wing you brought back with you. You won’t just feel sick for a few days. It’s the life of this baby we’ll being back, and, even if I don’t know exactly what you’ve to pay, its price is gonna be extremely high. Are you sure?”

A determined smile spread across her flawless face “never been so sure, sis.”

“Well then, one last thing, Yubaba.” Zeniba’s voice flew with the gentle wind which began to blow stronger in their room. “It’s you I’m saving, not the baby, and I want you to remember that.”

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The last flashing light in the room vanished at the same time the whirling wind ceased. Yubaba was now holding a giggling baby tenderly in her arms with a beam on her face. Zeniba, on the other hand, was completely utterless, aghast by the appearance her own sister.

“Thanks a lot, Zeniba,” said Yubaba with the voice that even herself hardly recognised. Her sweet, soothing voice of an adolescent became hoarse like that of an old woman; Her silky black hair that had once resembled the colour of the darkest night sky turned ashy. It was as if all the youth had fled from her, left behind only wrinkles and lines on her face, proclaiming false days and nights she had never been through. “It’s alright, sis.” Silent tears ran down her cheeks but in her eyes shone the greatest happiness as though the utmost wish had been granted.

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A familiar cry from the green bushes nearby brought Yubaba back from the past. The old woman abruptly changed her path and pushed herself through the shrubs, only to find a little baby surrounded by a group of menacing Takuads – tiny monkey-like creatures with extremely sharp nails. They always hunted in group – to compensate their size – and often used their nails to make numerous cuts on their preys before patiently waiting for them to bleed to death.

There were visible wounds all over Boh’s body but none was fatal. As soon as he caught a glimpse of his mother, the baby tried to call her but his voice trailed away to be nothing more than a whisper. “Mama..”

“Sweetie!!!” screamed Yubaba, forcing her way to him, ignoring the enclosing Takuads. “Get away from my baby!” The aged woman, holding the baby tightly in her arms, whirled around and bellowed at the brutes which slightly drew back, obviously seemed to be taken aback by her sudden appearance and action. “GET LOST!!!”

Although she knew no magic, as her sister said she was not yet ready to learn them, there was bizarre energy floating in the air. The energy so intense and threatening that even the brutes like Takuads could sense it. After a moment of indecision, the confused Takuads reluctantly retreated. Not wasting any more time, Yubaba hurriedly headed back to her house where she knew her sister would be waiting.

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“Well done,” said Zeniba with a big smile on her face when she saw Yubaba entering the house. “I could even feel it awakening from here.”

Ignoring her sister’s praise, Yubaba held out her baby who was still crying from the bleeding wounds. “He’s not deadly injured like last time. Can you heal him?”

“Of course.” Her sister’s smile widened, handing the black cover book to her. “Even you can do it now.”

“Me?” asked Yubaba, astonished.

“Yes, I told you your power has awakened. You weren’t listening, were you?” Zeniba laughed merrily, her hand turning over pages to find the one she was looking for.

Looking nervously at the same antique book once brought back the baby’s life, Yubaba took a deep breath and began chanting the spell for the first time.

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“Here, sit down.” Zeniba offered her sister a chair after the baby chuckle filled the room once more. “I guess you’ll be feeling sick like this for a few days.” She closed the book and turned to place it back on the shelf.

“Thanks, Zeniba,” murmured Yubaba as she sat down. She was breathing heavily but her eyes fixed firmly on Zeniba, or rather the black book in her hand.

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The chilling night wind flew in from an open window and gently woke the young sorceress up. Zeniba stirred for a moment before springing out of the bed, feeling that something had terribly gone wrong. The room was eerily quiet and showed no sign of other lives apart from hers.

After lighting a candle, she quickly checked Yubaba’s bed and the baby’s cradle close by, both of which turned out to be empty. Zeniba swirled back, her eyes instinctively searched among the books on the shelf, looking for the only one she knew it was not there. Glancing swiftly around the room for the last time, Zeniba rushed out the door with a strong sick feeling in her stomach.

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The restless sound of the wave grew louder with the smell of the sea thicker in the air by every step she took. It had been a long walk from where she lived but Zeniba finally arrived. In front of her was a small bridge which connected the land and an enormous bathhouse. Although it was late at night, the lights inside the bathhouse were brightly lit and the white smoke was leaking out slowly from the windows.


“Beautiful, isn’t it?” A familiar voice behind her broke the silence.

Zeniba looked back and stared at her sister for a long time before asking with noticeable pain in her voice. “Why are you doing this, Yubaba?”

“I put all the effort in making this bathhouse, and it’s indeed very beautiful, isn’t it?” Yubaba repeated the question while her eyes were still lingering on the bathhouse. Embraced by the darkness of the night, the building, painted in red, resembled a dazzling, gleaming ruby. “It’s gonna be his home from now. Boh will live here and I can be sure he’ll be safe.”

“You stole the book and came all the way here just because of this thing, Yubaba!?”

“Oh, yes! Here is your book.” The old sorceress handed the book back to Zeniba who grabbed it skeptically. “Thanks a lot though I know you didn’t want me to take it. I’ve already memorised all the spells so the book itself is of no use to me. Hope these spells will become handy someday.”

“It’s not gonna do him any good, Yubaba,” snapped Zeniba. The book was clutched tightly in her arms. “You just changed the place to lock him up from our house to this bathhouse. Yeah, I know I told you he doesn’t belong here and those who share our world will not welcome him. But this is definitely not the way to strengthen or protect him!”

“He doesn’t have to be strong, just be safe with me is enough.” Yubaba looked back at the bathhouse once more, this time with the profound sadness Zeniba had never seen in her sister’s eyes. “One thing I haven’t told you, sis.” Yubaba mumbled silently as if talking to herself. “The price I had to pay for this bathhouse; He got his home now, so I lost mine.”

“What do you mean, Yubaba?” The question slipped through Zeniba’s lips not louder than a whisper. The hand that was holding the book stiffened with alarming fear.

I can’t stay here. I can't stay at our house, or anywhere else because I used my magic to give him his home. It's, like you say, something equal in return, explained Yubaba slowly. The bathhouse opens at night so I’ll be flying, wandering aimlessly in the daytime when everyone here is sleeping.”

“You’re out of your mind, Yubaba. I’ve always known you’re mad about this kid but I’d never thought you would go…this far…” Zeniba shook her head, not wanting to accept the truth.

“You’re right, sis. He’s the only thing I could ever wish for, and with everything I have, I’ll protect him,” admitted Yubaba silently.

“I know I can’t talk you out of it, but mark my words, Yubaba. This bathhouse will only harm Boh and you yourself, one way or another. I can feel something evil intensely from it.”

Though knowing that those words were spoken out of her sister’s anxiety, Yubaba merely smiled vaguely in return.

Far away to her right, where the sleepless sea touched the sky, a golden line began to form itself, softly, patiently across the horizon. The old sorceress observed it quietly before taking a step back from her sister, preparing herself for the very first flight.

“Zeniba, I don’t know what we’ll become and which roads we’ll take from now on,” sighed Yubaba. “But I’m sure that I’ll always make decisions for Boh’s sake, even if it means I’ve to threaten others, and maybe you’re not gonna like that.” Her words were softly spoken but a solemn warning could be clearly sensed. “I won’t like it but if you’re in my way to stop me someday, I’m afraid I’ll have to be hard on you, sis.”

“Don’t worry.” Zeniba grinned, waving away the uneasy feeling from her own sister. “Leave that for tomorrow to worry about and actually I think I kinda get use to it already. Isn’t that what you’ve been doing all this time, causing me endless troubles?”

Yubaba took another step back and a weak smile appeared on her face “By the way, you were pretty quick, sis. I didn’t expect you to be here so soon.”

“Well,” uttered Zeniba proudly, giving a heartfelt smile back in return. “I’m sure I could find you even if you crossed the line and entered the world beyond ours. We’re twins after all, aren’t we?”


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Arghh, finished editing at last! For those who read Pear jin's comment and is confused about what she said, she has been helping me to point out those confusing part in my fanfic and, with her very useful suggestions, I finally have an understandable ending haha. Thanks a lot, Pear jin! ;)

But if there's something that's not clear for you (any of you who are reading this), please please please do tell me. I'd highly appreciate that.


8 NOV: got Grace comment and edited again. I added only one sentence "Written in it were thousands of spells that could magically grant everything it was asked for." but I think it can explain what confused Grace. Thanks, Grace :)


Again if anyone finds any part confusing, please let me know. Thanks.