by ManRock
Kyzeip ignored Rutilius and continued to look him up, the screen showed an old black and white photo of Rutilius along with his information. What caught Kyzeip’s eye was his rank that said “First Sergeant” and under that was his status that said MIA. Kyzeip said: “I was certain you lied about your rank but first sergeant, it’s a lower rank than commander but still a high rank, I thought it would've been lower”. Rutilius asked: “why are you doing this”? Kyzeip replied: “to be honest, I knew you were bullshiting me from the start, mostly due to the fact I’m spectacular about everything when I was in the dark cave. Besides I’m not interested in you, I’m interested in Jack the Gambler”. Tea said: “Jack the Gambler? dat sounds like a superhero”. Kyzeip said: “far from it, Jack the Gambler was in no way a hero, Ander you know what I’m talking about”. Rutilius said: “yes, I don't know anyone in army that hadn’t heard of Jack, he was in charge of executing captive Kreeton fighters, but he did it in a unique way”. Tea asked: “wat he do”? Kyzeip said: “he gave the captives a chance of avoiding execution but only for a temporary amount of time”. Kyzeip searched up Jack's life Gambling theory and continued: “this is what I’m looking for”. Rutilius said: “Jack’s life gambling theory, I never meet him but I would never expect him to be a theorist like you”. Kyzeip said: “he didn’t write it, the theory was named after him, I only have heard of this theory, now I think it could be useful to me. Jack Fattillo or otherling known as “Jack the Gambler”, like his nickname suggests he was a gambler and an extreme one at that. Jack had the authority to execute any Kreeton captive at any time he pleased. In his luck thrilling ways he turns the executions into a game of chance. He would lock a captive in a room that contained nothing but two drinks, one was poisoned and the other was not. Both were identical in every way, the captive knew one was poisoned, but only Jack knew which one it was, the captive was forced to drink one or face immediate execution. If he chooses the non poisoned drink he will be rewarded with six extra months in captivity. Jack would always watch the captives play the poison drink game, he loved to see the captive suffer when they choose the poisoned one”.
“For a long time the results were random, some would die on the first try and others will suffer later on. One captive survived four times in a roll, after living an extra two years the captive became extremely paranoid. The captive was so afraid of playing the drink game he chooses to die right away, ending his misery. But Jack wanted his game to be played so he rigged the glasses to be trapped in a boxes where only one can open and the other will be closed off. The captive had no choice any more, they had to pick one box and drink whatever was inside. The captive survived four times, they themselves thought they wouldn't be lucky enough to pick the non-poisoned glass again. The captive choses the left box and drank what was inside, the captive then started to choke and spit blood, in minutes the captive died. “For once Jack the Gambler was stunned by the outcome, because he never poisoned either glass, he wanted the captive to suffer a little longer for their incorporation. This was something Jack had seen once before, back when he was in training, executions were done by shooting. Four shooters would fire one shot each at the same time, making it hard to know who shoot the killing bullet. Jack the Gambler loved to watch these execution, he witnesses a strange coincidence one day, four shooters all fired at a captive and the captive fell to the ground dead. After an inspection it was found that all the shooters missed the captive, it was concluded that the sound of the guns firing stopped his heart, killing the captive without actually hitting them”.
“It was because of this Jack found out he can control the odds with fear. He changed the atmosphere in the prison to make the other captives as paranoid as the one that died from drinking the non-poisoned glass. As soon as Jack noticed more captives were dying from drink the non poisoned glasses he completely stopped poisoning the drinks and nobody knew about it except for him. The fear he put in the captive was so great some died from the first drink, some made to the fourth, but none have survived to the fifth try. From when the drinking game started, everyone had a fifty fifty chance of winning, but after that one captive that changed the game everyone had a one hundred percent chance of winning, but no one knew that. The most interesting part of this story is that Jack’s change didn’t affect the results the randomness of captives dyeing”.
“So do you understand why I looked this up”. Rutilius said: “to once again try and make me feel bad about my ways”. Tea said: “I’s thought U’s wanted two scare me’s, it’s working”. Kyzeip thought: “both of you are wrong, I was giving you both an example of how powerful the mind is compared to the body. In both the shooting and poison drink game, both victims set their minds to believe they were going to die so much, it caused a strong nocebo effect”. Tea asked: “da fucks a nocebo”? Kyzeip replied: “it the opposite of a placebo effect”. Tea gave Kyzeip a confused look, Kyzeip explained: “a placebo is a fake medication told to be real to create positive effects, which can heal the body. Than that would mean a nocebo is a fake medication told to be real to create negative effects, as I just read it can cause death if done right”.
Rutilius said: “hold on a minute, I just realized something, if Jack the Gambler was the only one that knew about the poisoned glasses, then how are you able to read this information”. Kyzeip replied: “after the Neo world treaty, Jack Fattillo revealed his secret to the game after he retired, the information he gave out is popular among psychologists. If you're not interested in this stuff I suggest heading back to the academy, this library only closes on holidays, so that being said I plan on staying here till morning”. Tea said: “yo dude, I’s goanna agrees with bro, there isn’t not much fun in a library so let's head back”. Tea and Rutilius left Kyzeip to do his research, on their way back Tea asked: “yo grandpa dude, why U’s lie about da ranking, U’s ain't not proud of it”. Rutilius replied: “no, I’m afraid I was never the man I was meant to be in my time. You see my father was the commander, it was because of him I gained such a high ranking in the force. If anything had happened to him, I was the one who would be in charge of the troops. I wanted to be just like him, I would spend hours studying by his side, but it was all for nothing in the end. As you can imagine, during the great war travel was very deadly, it’s wise to have a few Slayers in our troops to handle any Broots that may come in our way. My father was ordered to send reinforcements to another location, the distance would take less than a day of walking, but my father refused to be cautious. He ignored to bring any Slayers along the path and marched our troops into an invasion, our man wasn’t trained to fight Broots and many died including my father”.
“We lost almost seventy percent of the reinforcements, I than was in charge of making the next move. I had to choose between falling back on our orders or continue to deliver less than half of the reinforcements to the location. I choose to follow orders and charge what was left of my troops, I didn’t even have the time to say my blessing. Because of the Invasion we were ten hours late to the battle field and our side had lost. I could see corpse decorated on the ground like confetti, all my gut feeling told me to go back, but I needed to know if any of our men were still alive. All I can say is that I should've stuck with my instincts, as we entered the field the body's lying on the ground start to stand up. I looked at their faces and saw the eye of those Savages, it became clear to me that I lead my men into a trap. We were unprepared, the Savages were using all the guns they picked up from the fallen to shoot at us, I couldn't fight back, I was weak, all I can do was retreat. I ran for hours and I can still hear shoots firing behind me, eventually I came across the tree of death that created the invasion from before. I looked back and couldn’t see any Savages chasing me, but I can still hear them in my head, I was frustrated, I couldn’t think straight. That's when I kicked the tree of death, I kicked a hole that swallowed me into the darkness and you know the rest of that story”.
Tea said: “fuck man dat sucks, and not da good kind of suck”. Rutilius r
eplied: “you really do have a one track mind”. Tea said: “nah dude I’s don't think of trains I’s just think of sex all the time”. Rutilius replied: “that's what I… oh never mind, if you don't mind me asking what kind of life did you have before you died”. Tea angrily replied: “I’s told U’s I ain't not dead, I’s lived two party and I’s goanna keep on partying when I’s return two my’s body”. Rutilius said: “okay I see, you don't need to get flustered about it”. Tea replied: “flustered? I's a man, not no woman”. Rutilius replied: “actually you are a woman right now, you're even grabbing your own breast”. Tea said: “fine, point four U’s, U’s wanna touch’em, they ain't as good as real ones, but they better than nothing”. Rutilius replied: “absolutely not”. Tea said: “come on, I’s no U’s want it”. Rutilius said “no”, but tea kept chasing him with his overgrown breast all the way back to the academy.
Chapter 13: Song From Long Ago
The next morning had arrived and Rolando continued to help out Increst in her training. Tea said: “aw man, dis is so not awesome, where's bro I's so bored”. Rolando thought: “just be patient Tea, if I know Kyzeip as well as I do, he's probably noticed the sun coming up and is heading back before the sunlight touches him”. In that instant the guys all heard Increst scream, they turned to her to see her open the door in front of Kyzeip. Increst said: “fucking hell gothy you scared me, where have you been you look awful, not that you were good looking to begin with”. Kyzeip replied: “ya right, I’m majestic as fuck”. Increst said: “sure you are”.
Rutilius said: “well, speak of the devil”. Kyzeip walks toward his bed to lie down and then he thought: “you guys were just talking about me right now, weren't you”. Rolando thought: “we were just wondering what you may have found out”. Kyzeip replied: “I might have found something useful, I'm not so certain about everything but I'm positive I will eventually”. Increst yells are Rolando: “HELLO, tin head are you fucking coming or not”. Rolando thought: “sorry I have to go, please feel free to share what you know with me later”. Kyzeip fell asleep right away and tea and Rutilius joined in.
Tea said: “oh ya, I’s fucking love dis place, yo bro, wat was U’s doing all night”. Kyzeip replied: “doing research online, did you not get the idea when I said was going to do some research all night”. Rutilius said: “come on you know what he meant, what did you find’? Kyzeip said: “the closest thing I can find about the dark cave was a Human story about the knights of the light barrier”. Rutilius said: “I'm not familiar with that story, tea how about you”. Tea said: “U’s no I’s no nothing”. Rutilius said: “I can't agree more with you on that”. Kyzeip said: “if you two are done chatting, I will explain what the knights of the light barrier are. As the story went a wandering prosopher was robbed in the middle of a forest by thieves. A kind hearted king on his travel stopped by to give the prosopher some food and clothes. The prosopher not only thanked the king but offered him valuable information. The king listened to the prosopher, the prosopher found the secret to the Kreetons black magic. He said he can find the secret bases drenched in darkness, he asked for some assistance and he can seal the black magic of the Kreetons. The king accepted the prosophers deal and created the knights of the light barrier to assist the prosophers sealing”.
“There's not much go off it, especially with all the bullshit magic talk, but it the only thing I can find that's related to the dark cave”. Tea asked: “wat da fuck does dat mean? do U’s Kreetons no magic”? Kyzeip replied: “absolutely not, for some long time humans actually believed we Kreetons could control when and where a tree of death can grow, which is a myth. That would be the black magic the prosopher was talking about, second he also said the area was drenched in darkness and we all know that's pointed directly at the dark cave. But the two things I found most interesting are the knights and the sealing process. It goes without saying that one of the knights of the light barrier would possibly be linked with the pure brain possessing Rolando. Next is the sealing, its never described how its done, but second most common myth Humans thought of the time was that Kreetons were as dumb as an animal. With that in mind it could be possible that the prosopher created the puzzle to open the door”. Rutilius said: “oh right, when I was trapped there's was no way out except for the door and the puzzle was the key”.
Kyzeip said: “unfortunately that was the best I can find, the rest I researched was psychology notes and I found out I’m somewhat insane”. Rutilius said: “was there really no surprise to that”. Kyzeip replied: “not really, but in the end I was able to see things in a new point of view and that's just the way I like it, I would rather be some insane geniuses than a reckless idiot”. Tea said: “damn bro U’s really need two get laid, I’s can't stand U’s passing up a chance with dat rocker chick”. Rutilius said: “why are you so determined to breed those Savages”. Tea replied: “cuz I’s always wanted two be like an awesome wingman, but I’s never have gotten da chance two be one”.
Things stayed the same after team 4 of a kind returned from Hadur. Maxizz was Maxizz, Increst was pushing herself to keep up with the team, Rolando became more comfortable with taking off his helmet, for about five minutes a day in secret, and Kyzeip continued to balance his training and late night researching. A month had passed and Kyzeip Kept making small progress with the dark cave and tea kept trying to help him to start a relationship with Increst. Rutilius had finally gotten used to the modern world and everything was going in routine until team 4 of a kind was asked to attend another cleansing mission. Without hesitation the team packed up and headed of to planet Medea.
Once arrived Maxizz said: “damn, it's even hotter here than Hadur”. Increst said: “I think the second fucking sun is closer around this time of year”. Rolando said: “no time for complaints, we shall for fill the quest at once, then we shall lollygag”. Rolando thought: “Kyzeip, are you planning on exploring the dark cave after the mission”. Kyzeip replied: “of course, I’ve been waiting weeks for this opportunity”. Rutilius said: “you have no idea how much he talks about it in his dream, he is obsessed”. Rolando thought: “I will not try to stop you, but I beg you please don't do anything that will risk your life, it's not worth it”. Kyzeip replied: “don't do anything that will risk your life, you choose an ironic time to say that, just look at Increst, she already shaking up for the mission”. Rolando thought: “I did not think that thru”. Kyzeip thought: “no you haven't”.
Once again team 4 of a kind was the last ones to arrive. This time they were tasked to inspect eleven buildings within a perimeter. Rolando spoke: “thy quest shall be complete in the fastest of time if we divide ourselves”. Increst said: “why the fuck do we have to split up, can't we just attack together at once”. Maxizz said: “these buildings are huge we'll be here all day if we did that”. Kyzeip said: “also there's a lot less room to spread out in, it will be easier for us to hit each other that way”. Increst said: “so we're all just going off on our own on this one”. Tea whispers something to Rolando’s ear, then Rolando said: “neigh, we shall lead in pairs, my lady, thy worked extraordinary by the side of brother Kyzeip, let us not break a good combination. As for that I and brother Maxizz shall fight together”. Maxizz said: “wait what are you sure about this, maybe a chance of pace, nobody like seeing the same trick twice you know”. Rolando grabbed Maxizz and went off to the left side of the buildings.
Tea said: “aw yeah, U’s can thank me four dat bro, now U’s two can go have some fun”. Rutilius said: “I'm going to go with Mr. Kandle, at least I will be away from the Savage for the time being”. Increst said: “you know what, this seems so much fucking better than I thought, let's get going already”. Tea said: “see bro, she's likes U’s, she’s was all like, ahh I’s so scared, but now she's like, oh yeah fuck me”. Kyzeip thought: “she was like this the last time we were on a mission, she's fine now but wait until we have to face a Broot, she'll be back to herself in no time”. Tea said: “dats even better, U’s can be da cool guy protecting
da princess and she be in your hands”. Kyzeip replied: “enough of that, this isn't the time or place to be getting distracted”. Tea sadly said: “but bro, I’s lookin out four ya”.
Kyzeip thought: “looking out, you just gave an idea, you can look thru the walls and tell me if there are any Broots in the area”. Tea replied: “oh I’s gets it, U’s want two impress rocker chick by being all psychic and stuff”. Kyzeip thought: “sure, I'm just going to agree with you until you leave”. Tea happily left Kyzeip and Increst to search all the rooms on the floor. Kyzeip and Increst carefully walked in halls looking out for any open doors, what they saw around them was like something out of a horror movie. Loads of personal belongings scattered on the floor, claw marks on the wall and blood stains covering bones of victims can be found everywhere. Increst said: “do you think that the treefuckers ate the body’s”. Kyzeip said: “if they haven't than there wouldn't be any bones all around us, we should be more worried about ourselves or we’ll become skeletons”. Increst angrily said: “thanks for lifting my fucking sprites, I feel so easy right now”. Tea showed up and scouted his report: “dis floor is clean, well scary monster like, not clean, oh I’s got why U’s call dis a cleansing”. Kyzeip thought: “keep looking and don't come back until find a Broot or checked out every single room and hallway, you got that”. Tea said: “oh I’s see, I’s leave U’s alone with rocker chick, C ya”.