Bad Luck Rules Within

Bad Luck Rules Within

By Amar Vargas

I dedicate this book to my parents who encouraged me through Maple Leaf. Mainly my father who gave me ideas, suggestions, and feedback. To him I thank for helping me to get this book done. Thank You.

Mapleleaf Book Project

Brattleboro VT

2016

“Remember your dreams are as hungry as demons, just make sure you're feeding the right ones.” -Kushan Wisdom

At the Orphanage my friends and I were playing cards when a girl came up to us and wanted to play a game. She said it would be better than hanging out with her parents who were signing papers at the main desk. We all agreed to play tag.

My friend Tom said, “Girls suck at tag.”

The girl said, “Some might be bad at tag but we all don't suck at slappin.” She smacked him so loud it sounded like fireworks on the Fourth of July. I was the tagger first. I turned around and started counting to ten.

“Alenna come on” said her mom after the game.

“Noah, she does hit hard for a girl.”

“It’s your fault for being mean to her Tom.”

“Shut up Caleb.” My friends and I went back to the table and started talking about some pranks. In the night we met on the stairway we decided to start a fire. At first it was going to be a prank but the container that had fire in it, fell. It started to burn the ground, set off the alarms and burn the walls. We ran like chickens afraid of hunters. As fire blocked the stairway I saw my friend Tom, he was still in the fire. I heard him scream so I ran to save him but rubble fell and blocked my path. I tried to move it but more kept falling. Eventually Tom just dropped to the ground. Sam said

“Hurry up unless you want to join him.”

So I ran. When we almost passed the orphanage gate something black stopped us. It said “Are you Notas Fonos?”

I replied “Yes” even though my friends knew me as Noah. That name was never told to them because I thought it was weird.

“Your parents are in trouble,” said the shadow.

I stopped in confusion.

“I don't have parents.”

“You're wrong, they're alive, they lost you long ago.”

I was so confused I was speechless. The shadow then left. I started thinking that maybe the shadow meant for the container to fall to get my attention.

After the fire I had 3 friends left, Sam, Caleb and Tony. We were stronger as one, since Tom had passed. The thought of the black shadow kept coming into my head, for it reminded me of the parents I thought I had. Since my friends and I had no home now we lived on the streets. We had to gather every single penny we could just to get enough food for all of us.

Over night my friends got very sick, I didn't know how all I knew was something strange was happening. I heard a whisper, the black shadow was back this time and it didn't look happy. The shadow somehow levitated me, then took me to a ritual ground. I didn't know what was happening and why he was doing this. He left me there all alone. I was scared. I started hearing voices, they were getting louder and louder. When I paid attention to one of them I heard “Help me,” and “Free me.” Church bells broke the silence. They rang three times

“It’s witching hour,” I said. The voices came more rapidly and one of them caught my attention. It said “Help me son.”

I approached what I thought was the source of the voices, it was a stone that had some numbers carved into it that read 666. Caleb once told me that 666 is Satan’s seal. He also told me “There were seven major gods. The god of darkness, light, earth, water, lightning, fire, and wind. Their seal is known as the trinity of sevens. When the god of darkness betrayed them, he made his seal the trinity of sixes because he loved mocking the others (7-1=6).” As I was lost in thought something scared me from behind. I quickly turned around to see a hooded person. He or she said something I couldn’t understand, then said, “The legends are true, you’re the one.”

”What one?”

“The son of Gods. Your father is the god of darkness, I feel it in your presence. Your mother is the god of water, I see it in your eyes.”

”If you know so much about them can you lead me to them?”

”Your mother, yes your father no. He will change you, and He’s been trapped in a realm which we put him in.”

”Who’s we?”

“I’m sorry! I haven't introduced myself. I’m Logan the Windmaster. Now enough chit-chat let’s go see your family in the sky!”

“NO I want to see my father first!”

“If I bring you to him you must stay with him but he might try to change you.”

“Before you try to judge him I need to speak with him.”

“Fine let’s go.” We started walking somewhere.

“Are you sure this is the way we are going?”

“I Know where we’re going, Noah.” When we got to the airport I procrastinated to get on the plane because I was afraid of planes “I didn’t know we were going on a plane!”

“Noah you’ll be fine.”

If I wanted to see my father I would have to face my fear of planes. So I took a deep breath and started to walk in the plane. The plane was kind of small but comfy I sat down. A couple minutes later it started to lift, I panicked at first. Then logan said

“Sit down, you’ll be fine!” He pulled me down into the seat I started to slowly calm down and eventually fell asleep.

When I woke up I saw an unfamiliar town Logan said “We’ve reached the city of fallen angels, a.k.a. HollyWood.” We got off the plane and started to walk to a mountain. “Are you sure this is it, where my father was trapped?”

“Stop talking I know where he was trapped, remember I helped put him there.”

He then placed a stone covered in symbols on a withered slab. He muttered some words then a spiral of black and red stripes appeared. “Foolish boy your father will corrupt you oh yeah and tell him I said hi. Have fun in Hell.” I was pushed into the portal.

After falling into a scorching hot place you would have thought that someone would have died but I didn’t. I felt very nauseous. Something approached me from the distance, it was a red figure that was wearing a black vest with a grey hood. It started talking

“Son! I thought I would never see you again. Those jerks put me here after you were born.”

“How do I know if you’re my father?”

“Notas have you ever tried to reverse your name before?”

“It’s not Notas it’s Noah now!”

”You haven’t answered my question. Anyways you’re “old” name reversed was “Son of Satan.I’m Satan.”

“So you’re my father.”

“Yes son,(he coughs) I need your help, I'm dying.”

“Since when does Satan die?”

“I’m not kidding I need you to turn people bad so I can rise to earth, heal and meet your mother. I miss her” (Satan starts to fake cry).

“Ok I’ll do it only because it’s a matter of family.”

Satan then opens the same color portal Noah got pushed into. “Make me proud son and take your ancient name with you!”

(2 hours later)

“Where am I?”asked Noah.

“You’re at my house,” said a girl.

“How did I get here?”

“I'm your “new” sister Alenna and you got here because my mom adopted you Noah.”

“I don't remember anyone going to the orphanage.”

“Mom and dad went and signed the papers five hours before the orphanage burned down. Remember I'm the girl who punched your friend for making fun of me? I think his name was Tom. But you didn't come home with us because we couldn't find you. We were going to come back the next day but the building was burned.”

“I don’t remember ever coming here. But I remember Tom getting punched.”

“It’s because I remembered what you looked like when I saw you. You were dead asleep on the sidewalk by the old book store. I told dad I

saw you and he put you in the car and when we got home he put you where you're now sitting. We also have to get ready for school in thirty minutes. Meet you downstairs.” I saw a pile of cloths over in the corner I reached for them when I saw the shadows demonic look and jumped back. When I blinked it was gone.“Deja-vu” I put on the cloths and went Downstairs to the bus stop with Alenna. When the bus came we both went onto it. No kids bothered to let me sit with them so I sat alone in the back. I started thinking of what my dad said and thought that these people are evil. It's going to be hard to make them worse. So I sat in the back. A girl came up to me and asked if she could sit with me I said

“Yes” as she was about to sit down I put tacks on her seat. When she sat down she jumped up and screamed. She said

“You jerk” then ran to the bus driver and told. Then the driver had me walk to school. “It was just a prank why did she take it too seriously” I started to hear my dad in my head

“Hey how’s your progress going”

“Gooood?”

“It better be your my only chance of getting back to earth anyways see you later.”

I saw a five year old kid in front of me and told him “You know santa is not real? your parents just buy stuff for you and say it’s from him.”

“Cool now i’m going to be bad all year and still get stuff for Christmas!”

His sister then walked over to me and said “You shouldn’t be killing little kids thoughts”

“I do it for another reason but I'm not allowed to tell you.” She then turned her head and walked away. When I got to school I went to my first class we were studying Cthulhu but I wasn’t listening I was watching the guy behind me because I must have put the tacks on his sisters seat. After class I was getting ready to go to the next one when I heard the principal walk down the hall. He grabbed my arm and brought me to the office.

“Martin why did you do that, why did you punch Alex?”

“Sir my names not Martin it’s Noah and I think your mistaken me for someone else!”

“Just be quiet and don’t talk.” He put me next to the guy I ‘punched.”

“Say you’re sorry and I want a real apology.”

If I was ever going to get out of this room I would have to make a sincere apology so I took a deep breath and said

“I’m sorry, I now know what I did was wrong and i’m sorry, can I go to class now?”

“Sorry you have I.S.S.”

“What is I.S.S.”

“In School Suspension” I guess I was wrong about the apology thing. When he walked to his desk and sat down I got up and ran as fast as I could out the room and down the hall.

“Wow this school is like a maze!” Eventually I out ran him and found my way outside. I kept on running looking back and fell into a girl named Beatrice.

“What are you doing?”

“What does it look like i’m doing” I got back up and ran again. I ran down to the burned orphanage and sat exhausted.

A familiar voice started to fill my head. It was my father “Hey it might be a bad time son but meet me at the ritual ground, I’m back. The kid you made evil told this friends santa’s not real and they also started a rampage, because of you, because of them I got out and now I’m BACK!” I saw Beatrice over the hill coming my way.

“Noah why did you run from the school….Ok you don't have to answer that but at least consider coming to church with me.”

“What's church?”

“It's where you learn about this force called God.”

“Hey Beatrice I have something….” Beatrice heard the news from a passing van, it said “Something big and evil has gotten into the city we need help. Who...” We heard a BANG from behind. We turned around to see a building falling. I saw my dad thinking he was an all powerful one. We decided to run and approach him.

“Dad why are you doing that? I thought you were going to see Mom.”

“You idiot, You think I really want to see her? I don't care about her, I don't care about you. Can you not tell I used you? For my will not yours.” My face started getting so red and mad, I was about to try to beat him up. I heard a familiar voice from behind me. It was Logan and some other people. A girl from that group came over and said

“I know you're mad at your father but don't kill him. We banished him because we do not kill. Plus it's risky for you to kill. You might start liking it and change, besides you are his son you know. But instead of killing him we must banish him. My son Jevon never understood that. He tried to attack your father when we went to banish him the first time. But your father stabbed him in the stomach with one of his long black claws. Just in case you’re wondering my name is Samantha” a man behind her said

“Yah before Jevon died he said “ you idiots this will happen again and it’s your fault for not killing him” We all missed him after his death in front of us that night”

I said “You guys don't understand we need to kill him or this will be an infinite cycle. He will escape, you guys will put him back and he will escape again. You get the idea right?”

Beatrice said “He is right I might only see him once but know the next time he is loose something worse could happen.”

“Killing him will prevent more deaths. We can end this now by killing him.” said Noah

“But killing is against our code”

“Your code is to save lives and that's what you're going to do and if you won't help me then leave and don't call yourself defenders. While you’re at that you might as well join him were he belongs. Make your choice”

“Fine.” I started to run again with the other guys. We made a plan to defeat satan for the last time. Logan and Samantha ran around him with very strong rope while me and the other guys made a distraction. When they were ready we got him mad by saying he was a jerk who will never rule this earth. He started to chase us and tripped over the rope. Logan called down his angels to hold him down there were millions of them he tried to move but he was pinned down. Here came the worst part, killing him. I would feel to bad to do it myself so I had Logan do it. I turned my head while he put his sword threw his head. But that made things worse when he stabbed him. Millions and millions of black wisps came out. The sky darkened and I knew the end of the world was coming as satan rose again, he was not dead. I knew a sacrifice was going to be made if we wanted peace so I started to approach my dad and said,

“Hey if you stop this I will go with you as a sacrifice!

“Fine son.”

“My head is not fogged. You’re not my dad. Dads raise their kids. I was raised by my friends. You were not there for me like real fathers