Shock
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[b]I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down![/b]
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Post by Shock on Jun 28, 2007 23:16:56 GMT -8
This is the first fic I've done that is not TNBC. This is a Little Shop of Horrors fic, and...well, just read and figure it out for yourself. Look What I Found! Prologue: A Dangerous Discovery“Laura! Laura, can you go water the plants?” My mom called back to my room. I shut my book with a groan. It was rather ironic, since it was a book about carnivorous plants. I exited my house to my backyard and stared at all the greenery. It was a calming place, my mom’s garden. Or maybe I was just weird that way. I shrugged and started to water the many plants with the garden hose, tucking my book in between the branches of a nearby tree to keep it out of the water. Once they were all watered, I stared, feeling bored. Then I started going through and pulling off dead leaves and twigs. I might as well, I had nothing better to do. I had just finished plucking the weaker babies off of the only plant that was mine; an airplane plant, and was moving aside my mom’s huge ivy to see if there was anything behind it. “What the-?” I frowned as I came across a plant I had never seen before. It was tiny, and looked almost like a flower bulb, but it had a slit in it like a mouth. I picked it up in its little terra cotta pot and went back to my book, flipping through it. The closest thing I could find to it was a Venus fly trap. Even that didn’t really look like it. Maybe it was a new breed. I checked the copyright date on the book. It was about five years old. I tossed it over my shoulder in frustration. “Stupid out of date book,” I muttered, looking closely at the little bud. It was really cute to me, but I knew mom would probably say it needed to grow before it would be "cute." My mom was all about the big plants. She had almost thrown out the gigantic ivy I had just moved because when I first got it, it was hardly sprouting and almost dead. I helped her bring it back to life. I decided to keep this little plant to myself. I snuck to the back storage building that was actually my own private garden room and put the strange thing near a window. I was still highly annoyed that I didn’t have a name for it. Oh well, I’d figure it out later. “Laura! Suppertime!” Mom called. I didn’t know, as I headed back to my house, how much I would eventually despise that simple phrase.
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 6:30:05 GMT -8
* clap* Bravo!! It is awesome!! Is that girl in the story based on you?? Is the mom in the story based on your mom???
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Post by Shock on Jun 29, 2007 8:53:25 GMT -8
Well, the "I" in this story is based on me, or what I think I'd do. The mom is kind of based on my mom and grandma. (Grandma is the only one that says suppertime. Really, she does.)
Chapter 1: Why Won’t This Thing Grow?! I sighed, again spending another pointless afternoon watching the little plant I had found nearly a week ago. Nothing had changed. It was still exactly the same as when I first found it behind the ivy, which had grown even bigger, as though taunting my efforts. I glared at the plant.
“Why won’t this thing grow?!” I demanded angrily of no one. I was ticked. This just proved that my mom was a better gardener than me. “I’ve done everything! I watered you, I pulled off dry bits of leaf, and I even stole plant food from my mom! For god’s sake, I even caught bugs for you! Isn’t that what carnivorous plants eat?” I banged my head down on my table where I was keeping it. It hardly took up a corner of it.
“I feel like pulling my hair out!” I growled furiously, clutching my blonde hair in my fists and giving a slight tug. Why wouldn’t the stupid plant grow? I pulled out the project I had been working on lately. My brother had a baby girl, and I was making a blanket for her. It was really cute, and I had found it tucked away in my mom’s closet. It was basically the top, middle, and bottom, and I was just sewing them together. I turned my CD player as loud as I could stand it, and played Evanescence’s Haunted. It wasn’t long before I started to get bored. Still stitching, I glanced at the plant. Suddenly it didn’t look so good. It wilted, its bud falling on the table.
“Great,” I muttered. “I killed it. Wonderful. If Mom ever finds out, she’ll never let me live it-ow!” My head jerked down as I stabbed the end of my middle finger with the needle. “And apparently I can’t sew either…” I glanced back at the plant as I heard a small sound.
Its bulb had lifted back up off the table, and almost appeared to be looking at me. I put my head to the side, and so did it. I laughed.
“How cute!” I muttered. Now it seemed to be staring not at me, but my pricked finger. I looked from the plant to my finger and back again. I took a guess at what it wanted, and I was pretty sure I was right.
“Do you drink…blood?” I asked it, feeling rather stupid talking to a plant. I was shocked when it opened its mouth slightly in response, like a baby bird asking its mother for food. “Wow, I have a vampire plant!” I laughed. It made a little groaning noise as it craned its stem towards me. I took that as a definite yes. I looked at my finger. Like most of my injuries, the blood had come out quickly and was trickling down her finger. Well, it was doing no use there. I dangled my finger over the plant. I let it catch the drops from my ridiculously small injury until it looked happy, then put a Band-Aid over the prick. The plant definitely looked healthier.
“Laura! Time to come in! You have school tomorrow!” Mom called. I smacked my forehead.
“My science presentation! I forgot!” I was supposed to bring something from around the yard to class and show it, telling different facts about it. I smiled slyly suddenly and looked over at the now motionless bulb. For the first time I noticed a card attached. Audrey II, Do not Feed. Well, I thought, it’s a little late for that. I had already fed it and nothing happened. But it gave me a name for it and more importantly, I was getting an A in science tomorrow.
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 12:15:51 GMT -8
Nice.........Notice the word....."Carnivorous" Plant........Are you really an aunt??
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Post by Shock on Jun 29, 2007 12:31:28 GMT -8
Yes, I'm really an aunt, the blanket really exists(I never finished it) and yes, I did notice the word carnivorous plant. Now, onward!
Chapter 2: The Presentation When I got up the next morning, the first thing I did was check on Audrey II to see if it was still healthy. I made my way through the morning mist to my garden building, where I saw the little plant in the window. But when I went in, I noticed it wasn’t quite as little as before. It seemed to have grown about maybe a couple of inches during the night. I smirked. I made a plant grow overnight, which Mom had never done. But I also noticed something else. It was wilting again.
“Are you hungry again already?” I asked in disbelief. It simply opened its mouth in reply. I frowned. There was no handy accident, so I’d have to make one. I was not looking forward to that. But hey, it was my plant. I dug in my pockets for a moment, then produced a tiny pocket knife I never left home without. Biting my lip, I put a small slit in my index finger and held it above the plant. It snapped its bulb up and latched onto my finger like a hungry baby animal. I jumped back in shock, but my finger stayed in its mouth. I pulled up my lawn chair I sat on in my little building. It didn’t take long for Audrey II to let go, but even so my finger was throbbing.
“Twoey, that wasn’t very nice.” I muttered, staring at my finger. Lucky for me it was my left hand, so I could write at school today and remain pain free. I shot a reproachful look at the plant, but it was again motionless. “I now have a rude vampire plant. Holy crap!” I had just looked at my watch. “We have to go or we’ll be late!” I scooped up the plant and my school things, stuffed all of them in a backpack in my haste. Then I rushed off to school.
Later that day in science, everyone was gathered around my table. Or, more specifically, Audrey II. Everyone had the same question: What is it? All I told them was to wait for my presentation. Then someone came up behind me for a better look.
“What is that?” It was my biggest crush, even if I didn’t know it yet, Nick. He was kind of tall, with sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin, braces, and he was the guy in school everyone had a crush on. I couldn’t not answer him.
“It’s called Audrey II.” I answered in a cool, factual tone I always adapted when talking to him. That just stirred up even more talk among my classmates. I was a little nervous though, and not because of Nick. Twoey was eyeing the only boy with hemophilia in the room. Or it would be if it had eyes. In other words, when Matt started bleeding, it was hard to get it to stop. I made sure it was a good distance away from Matt.
“Class, take your seats. It’s time to begin the presentations.” The teacher came back in the room from talking with the geometry teacher. “Laura, why don’t you go first?” I grinned.
“Class,” I started. “Let me introduce you to Audrey II…”
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 12:47:31 GMT -8
I love how you brought Nick in there!!
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Post by Shock on Jun 29, 2007 14:35:48 GMT -8
Thank you! I had to have him come in with Twoey somewhere nearby because-well, it's important later. I'M NOT TELLING WHY! >.><.<
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 15:24:44 GMT -8
He dies? he gets eaten by Audrey II? He is like the Audrey in LSoH? ?
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Post by Shock on Jun 29, 2007 15:38:26 GMT -8
Nooooooo...not exactly...
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 15:52:22 GMT -8
He gets bruterly murdered? Tortured? Eaten then chopped into little pieces? Eaten very slowly? Strangled to death? Chewed in half?
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Post by Shock on Jun 29, 2007 15:57:04 GMT -8
*Cringes* Why would I do that to Nick?!
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 29, 2007 16:03:06 GMT -8
Oh.... ...Did I go into " Sadistic Usagi mode?" again......and I have no clue why you would do that to Nick!!! What is worng with you!? I thought you liked him!
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Post by Shock on Jun 30, 2007 18:47:19 GMT -8
Nothing's wrong with me and I'm not doing that! You'll have to WAIT to find out my plot of DOOM...uh, I mean sickeningly happy ending...>.><.<
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Post by Sailor Twilight on Jun 30, 2007 19:54:11 GMT -8
Your going to kill of Nick then you...Oh wait I bet you will have him proclaim his love to you then you both die!!! That is my guess!! or prediction..........
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Post by Shock on Jun 30, 2007 20:02:36 GMT -8
Noooooo...that would be copying the movie...what I have in mind is kind of funny at first...well, the way I tell him I like him anyways...*Laughing* I don't want to give it away for other people. PM me if you really want to know.
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