Short Story -- One Line at a Time

[Tay]

Was feeling a little lonely around the forums lately (tho I'm not one to talk -- I have pre-finals and finals right now), so I thought I'd start a line-by-line story writing thread. Everybody can join in: each person posts a sentence at a time, and over many, many moons, we'll write the next great novel.

If you want to comment as we go along, feel free! But please do so in spoiler tags so that a person reading through the topic on-the-fly will only see the story itself.

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Once upon a time, in the land of Fuwanovel, a hero was born.

[kinghidetora]

Time had called into eternity for one such hero to appear, and by the call of justice for untranslated visual novels everywhere, he appeared.

[solidbatman]

His name was Batman, but quickly he realized he didn't know how to translate, so another hero appeared.

[Tay]

As fate would have it, Batman's role in this tale was not yet over; but we will get to that part soon enough.

[solidbatman]

Getting back on subject, the Fuwanovel hero appeared in shining armor, for the hero had the armor polished.

[kinghidetora]

It cost a pretty penny to have his armor polished--in fact, a whole savings worth--but it left the hero feeling highly of himself, and the polisher an extremely grateful man, who in a mere three months, would be found on the floor of an extravagant hotel suite, buried in a pile of money and dirty magazines.

[Tay]

To put it plainly, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

[zoom909]

Speaking of the worst of times, the hero would need that armor sooner than he expected: a terrorist organization was already planning his assassination, eager to replace him with an exact android duplicate who could translate with astonishing speed from Japanese into a language which bore a vague resemblence to English.

[shcboomer]

Sadly, the ploy was delayed due to some translation issues for the instruction manual on how to use the android.

[Eldin]

and then our hero found 20 dollars.

[kinghidetora]

"Perhaps," the hero thought, the 20 dollars in hand, "another polishing is in order."

[eclipsezero]

However, our hero's ears heard tell of a brilliant buffet being held at the King's mansion, with the entry costing only 20 dollars, it seems the decision would be tough.

[Beato]

He realized that his armor would once again be dirtied as he owned no napkin and regretfully had never learned to use a fork properly, but the smell of fried chicken beckoned him towards the palace.

[Rackshen]

Getting into the palace would be difficult, because the King, by the name of Aaeru the First, would only let nobles and their acquaintances join the buffet, not to mention Supreme General Ryoji and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tay with the loyal guards would be guarding it.

[eclipsezero]

There was one thing that could be used to bribe each and every one of them however, it was a very specific food item, called...the Cookie of the Dark Side.

teehee, get it? Dark side? Cookie?...I am unfunny, aren't I ;_;

[p4izanagi]

but the cookie of the darkside have a sinister effects..

[Down]

And thus our hero, set on having a feast tonight, went on his quest for the Cookie of the Dark Side, the growlings of his stomach resonating in his shiny armor.

[Tay]

Journeying thence for the space of about two hours, the hero happened upon an old woman, who called, "Good sir, have you a minute?"

[solidbatman]

"Nay old woman, I have not the time to waste upon thy wretched soul," he said in his most regal, knightly voice.

[kinghidetora]

"I weep for this generation," she said, "that a young hero such as yourself would deny an old priestess even a minute of his time."

[Luch]

He struck the most heroic pose mankind has ever witnessed and gave the old woman "the finger" while saying: "Your generation has left us enough problems already, I need not hear more."

[eclipsezero]

Changed original text because on second thought it was pretty damn stupid and unfunny. So yeah :V

The old lady merely smiled and walked away, saying something which sounded like "It's because of us that you are able to be arrogant like this these days, it used to be...", at which point, our Hero could hear no more, he thought perhaps something may have happened in the past he was unaware of.

[Mephisto]

Oh well, no use worrying about that now because quests are for pansies who have nothing better to do.

[p4izanagi]

and the hero decided to eat some ramen at ramen shop , but suddenly..

[solidbatman]

A giant dragon named Gangamamer appeared and screamed at the hero, "You cannot eat that ramen for I bought it a year ago and might possibly eat it 10 years from now!"