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Chapter 1: Silence before the storm
It was a normal day for Icealya. First period sucked, second one sucked, just all the way to the eighth. Luckily his friends could always pull him through, and in the two gap hours he had today he could always just go to the school library and go to his favourite site, Silkroad Forums. As always, a lot new posts in the General discussion, new quizzes, news articles and some random stuff was posted in the Off Topic Lounge, and probably Blackfox was back with a new account.
“Well, am I lucky today, he’s back once again!” he said with a smile. “He’s always so random…”
Rachelle, his friend who came with him was looking at him with confusion.
“Excuse me, but WTF R U Doing?” she reads out loud, seeing a lolcat with a funny face. “Aha, so that’s why you always go there, huh?”
“Yes, of course, I love these funny pictures” he said while still having a smile on his face.
“Damn, the bell.. well, let’s be off to gym class, huh?” Rachelle said.
“Yeah, why not, I’ll be stuck on SRF for ever if I wouldn’t attend classes…”
“Okay, today we’re going to play field hockey, soccer, basketball and badminton.” Gym teacher screams over the field. “basketball players and badminton players go to the gym halls, soccer and hockey stay outside! Now go where you want to go, and I want to see you busy within ten minutes!”
“Yeah, whatever… Let’s play hockey with a stokkiej!” Henri said. A typical joke they make, which means Hockey with a Stick-y. Well, it makes people laugh.
After PE he’s got another gap hour, so… “Off to the supermarket!” Icealya screams to his friends, while they all have class. After lighting a cigarette he walks away from the school, to buy some Oreo’s for Rachelle, some energy drinks for Henri and some salads for Denise. And some donuts for himself. When he’s back, he gives the stuff to his friends and then next class begins.
“Booooooored!” Icealya yawns after fifteen minutes. He puts on his MP3 and starts playing the tetris game that’s also on it.
One 35 minutes later:
“Finally, it’s over!! Finally free!!” he screams when he walks out the door. “Damn, that guy is boring… Well, I’m off, see ya’ll later “ “Bye,” they say. “See you tomorrow!”
When he arrives at home, he immediately goes to SRF to check out what’s new. “Hey, Blackfox is still here.” He laughed. “How does he do it? Oh well, SuicideGrl probably hasn’t spotted him yet, neither did cin, or anyone else, so I’m going to keep my mouth shut until the bitching starts,” He thinks with a smile on his face. “God, do I love SRF like this. It’s also funny that he keeps coming back, like a spirit or something that is bound to a certain place… or he just likes to annoy Sui and the other mods… Ha, always funny to wonder what his name is now…”
The rest of the day just rolled by slowly. He had to work around seven, so he went to work with the expectation on his mind it would have been a quiet day, as it was just a regular Tuesday, people have to go to work too, so only some seniors would be at the restaurant. But it turned out to be crowded, very crowded. The work just piled up, he had to do more and more things, run from one table to another, serving people their food and giving guests (“not customers, it’s not a freaking supermarket!” as Jack, his boss, kept telling him) their drinks. "Well well, it sure is crowded today, Jack. We’ll have to refuse people soon, or people will be waiting for a long time.” "Jack! Ice! Tell all the waiters and waitresses that we don’t have any salmon left, so if people order it, they can say it immediately, and people won’t have to wait to hear that we’re out of salmon” the chef said.
“Sure thing, we’ll make it clear.” Icealya said.
“Oh my god, it’s so late!! How long can people be still sitting at the bar?” Morrison complained. “And then you’ll see they’ll all get drunk and they will trash down the whole place!”
“Ice, Morrison, James, Cleo, kick them out,” Jack said. “You four have to go to school tomorrow again I think, so you can all kick them out and get changed, or else you’ll look like a train wreck tomorrow.”
“Okay, we’ll do it” they all agreed.
After doing some afterwards cleaning, they all got changed and made their way out. Icealya left behind the other three.
“Jack,” he said, while stopping for a while, “Thanks, see you again Thursday, and goodnight.”
“Later” Jack shortly replied.
Icealya got home, and wanted to check out SRF for some new posts. “Hey, Blacky still isn’t gone…” well, I think he’ll be gone soon.”
After that, he passed out, and didn’t wake up until he loudly got waken up.
"Ice! Ice! Is that you!?" He heared an unknown voice say to him.
The first thing he sew after he opened his eyes was a lime green blurr.
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Chapter 2: What?
“Icealya!? Icealya!?” the voice keeps saying. “Wake up, Icealya!”
“Wha wha wha?” Icealya said with an almost silent voice, while he is rubbing his eyes. “What’s -…?” he couldn’t even finish those two words. Before him, sat a Lime Hat Ninja Cat wearing a pair of glases.
“Who the hell are you? I didn’t get the memo the Toothfairy looked like that!”
“No, Ice. I’m NOT the Toothfairy. It’s me, cin.” The cat spoke.
“Excuse me? You can’t be cin. First of all, I’ve seen pictures of him, you, him… whatever. Yes, you look like his avatar, but cin is at least human! Second, he would speak Dutch to me, not English, cause we’re both Dutch.” Icealya said.
“Believe me, I’m cin. But I haven’t been able to speak a normal dutch world since I got here, and for your information, you look nothing like your pictures either!”
“What’s that?”
“Look at yourself! You’re like, a polar bear with a blue music note on your stomach!”
“Say what?”
“There’s a mirror in the corner, look, you’re all white and fluffy!”
While walking towards the mirror, he looked out the window. Wow, was this room boring… just a bed and a mirror, and for the rest totally grey? What’s that all about. And outside it’s not very different.
“Damn, I AM a polar bear with a music note on my stomach!”
“Yeah, I kept telling you but listening to me? Oh no no.”
“But at least I’m a cub, so I’m cute and cuddly.”
“Yes, we’re both cute and cuddly now. But, where are we, why are we here and how can we get out of here?”
“Maybe we should first see if there are other people here in… whatever.”
“Well, I came across Mr.Bow, Starrie, Priam, XMoshe and heroo, and they looked nothing like humans either. Also, they couldn’t speak one word Dutch, or even their real life name.
And on thenext block I came across Vandango, Colourblind and gamef. I think this is really strange.”
“cin, tell me what you think. Because I think that you are also thinking what I’m thinking.”
“Well, I think that the members from SRF are here, and tha-…”
“Good morning, everybody!” they hear, and it’s coming from outside. “Welcome to my little world. This is OTLC, or OTL City, whatever you feel like using. You better get comfy here, because you’ll never leave. Bye now honeys, Blacfox peace out!”
“What?” is Icealya’s first word after 5 minutes. “What?” He mutters again.
“Come on, Ice. We are going to find out what’s happening, and we’re going to collect some people who want to help us. I think, because Holland and England are so close to eachother, this are streets, one street per country. And probably every state one street. So that would mean that Europe would be a neighbourhood, and that would also mean that we will have to go to England from here, then to Romania, California, Maine, North Carolina, Texas, Philippines and Australia, at least. There are a lot of Mods, so sure they will help us out.”
“Well, I’ll help you, because I want to get out of here. And I want my normal body back. This doesn’t walk very comfy, on four feet..”
“I hope we’re out of here soon too, because even though these four feet are uncomfy, I’m getting used to it. But I’ve got a bad feeling about this place, ever since I woke up.”
“Now that you mention it, yeah.. I feel that too… Oh, will people be able to recognize us with these looks?”
“I don’t know about you, but they sure will recognize this face of mine.”
“You were able to recognize me.”
“Because I know you longer then one day.”
“Oh, that’s right I guess…”
“Hey, that white wolf. Dango!”
“What?” the white wolf growls. “Oh, cin, it’s you. Finally, I was looking for a familiar face. And this is?”
“Icealya.” Icealya responds.
“Oh, hi, so you’re here too?”
“I guess everybody who comes regularly in the Off Topic Lounge is here, don’t you think? I mean, why else OTLCity?” Ice said, with a slight sarcastic undertone.
“Good point..”
“Stop the chatting you two,” cin demanded. “Dango, will you join us to stop this all and find the other Mods scattered across this City?”
“Well, of course I will, you know me! Oh, ColourBlind seems to be here too, and she is…-“
“A monkey!! How cute!” Icealya screamed.
“Yeah, she’s been with me ever since I woke up. Now she just rides on my back the whole time.”
“Well, let’s go find other people to help us out, shall we?”
“Shame that Bastet isn’t around anymore. I think she would’ve been of great help.” Icealya remarked.
“Well, she does lurk sometimes, so maybe she will come onetime or another..” cin said with confidence. “We’ll bump into her sometime soon”
“Ok… Well, let’s go!”
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Chapter 3: Walk the line.
On top of a roof from one of the houses in the Asia region, a blonde female warrior stood, looking over the town for familiar faces. When she saw one, she started following him by jumping from high point to high point, until she found out who it was. She started following a boy in a school uniform on a bike, to see where he was headed. Without a sound she shadowed his every move to see why he was riding around, because the suspicion started nibbling on her when she woke up and she saw her blonde hair and armour, and especially when she heard the voice of Blackfox coming from the street and the words he said, she didn’t hesitate for a moment, and she went on her way to see what was really going on.
“Where on earth is he going?” she thought. She decided to stop him and talk to him, and ask him why he was so carelessly biking around. “Stop!” she commanded. The boy immediately stopped. “Evan, what’s going on, why are you biking around so carelessly?” she asked him.
“B- b- b- because… Blackfox said that we should get comfortable here, so…..” he was able to bring out.. “But who are you? And how do you know my name?”“Don’t you recognize me? It’s me, ¤¤¤¤.” She said.
“Ooh, now I see. So you look like your avatar too, right”
“*sigh* it seems so, Evan, it seems so… Oh, where were you planning on heading for?” she asked him.
“I don’t know. I saw the street name saying Philippines, so I think I’ll head for a street where I can find some people.”
“What? Philippines is abandoned? How about BrokenSaint, bladecarlo, mahumps, greeneye, Rakion, or anyone else there?”
“I think they all left, ¤¤¤¤.”
“Evan, I want you to come with me to the America District, where we’re going to find other people who may have got some information, or can help us. Did you hear Blackfox’s voice too?”
“Yes”
“We’ve got to talk to him. And maybe things will get bad, so I want to group up with as much people as possible, because with more people we stand stronger.” She said convinced. “Well, come on, Evan. Let’s go find some people.”
Meanwhile, in Europe:
“ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!” cin heard, while walking, seeing an arrow stuck in the wall right in front of him.
“MrBow, my man,” cin smiled. “What’s up?”
“What’s up?” the little man with a big shiny bow said, “What’s up? It’s that you’re leaving without me!”
“Oh, darling, how could I ever forget you?” the cat smiled. “I just though that you needed some more time to think, when I spoke to you earlier you were totally wild, I couldn’t take you with me if you were the most confused of all of us. And you said you needed some more time to think about this all.”
“Well, I’m done thinking, and I’ve decided to come with you, even just to protect the little ones…” looking at colourblind, and Icealya, while ColourBlind was sitting on Icealya’s back, eating a banana.
“We’re not little! They shouted at him. “We’re just a bit younger!”
“Okay, okay, you’re not little, I give up.” He smiled.
“MrBow. Will you stand there blabbing all day or will you hurry up and come with us?” the big white wolf growled, now carrying both Icealya and colourblind on his back. “Come on!”
“Ah, Dango. Yes, I’m coming, I’m coming!”
“Ah, here’s another street,” Icealya remarked. “Lithuania?!” he almost fell of Vandango’s back. “We’re lost, aren’t we, cin?”
“Nope,” cin smirked. “This is actually a nice opportunity. Who lives in Lithuania?”
“Santa?” “Naomi Campbell?” “Tarzan?” “Big Bird?” ColourBlind and Icealya asked in turns.
“No, you dummies!” he slapped them over the head with a big fan. “deep.in!”
“I knew that!”
“Sure you did,” Vandango chuckled.
“deep!! Deep!! Deep!” ColourBlind and Icealya shout.
“I don’t think he’s still here, cinny. He probably already went berserker and went to look for others when he came here…” MrBow stated.
“No, I know he’s still here, I can tell. Look at the walls. Real deep.in art. Nobody could’ve made such an artwork better then deep.” Cin said.
“It’s still wet!” ColourBlind shouted.
“How did you know?” Icealya asked.
“Because I touched the wall and now my banana is blue…” ColourBlind said sad.
“Well, then he must be still here, don’t you think?” Vandango said.
“cin, what do you think? Cin, cin, cin!?” cin, who has been quiet for a while, woke up from his daydream. “Come again?”
But he runs away, and takes a big jumps through an open window on the third floor. “Please, come over here!” he shouts to them.
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Chapter 4: Powerless
“Jump through the window!” cin shouted.
Immediately ColourBlind jumps off Vandango’s back and climbs over the drain to the third floor. “Come on! It’s easy!” she shouted.
“For a monkey it is!” Icealya shouted annoyed.
“Don’t get me started on the whole monkey thing, Ice! Coming from a polar bear’s mouth!”
“Do you want to make me angry?”
“Well, if that makes you shut up and get over here, yeah!”
“Shut it you two! Vandango, do you think you could reach it if Icealya wasn’t on your back?” MrBow asked.
“I think so. If cin can do it, I can probably do it too.”
“Ice, get off and come with me.” Said MrBow, while tying a rope to an arrow.
“Okay, okay…”Ice sighed, being a bit frustrated that MrBow made him shut up.
MrBow shot the arrow right next to the open window, he picked ice up and the rope just shortened, making them land on the window ledge.
“Come on, Dango!” MrBow shouted down.
“Okay, here I come!” he jumped higher and higher, from one wall to the other, as they were in a small street where the houses across the street were very close to eachother.
“Why are we here again, cin?” Colourblind asked, while having found her spot on Vandango’s back again.
“I could’ve swore I felt deep.in’s energy coming from here,” cin said. “but it feels very weak. But I know for sure that he’s here.”
cin walked away, and everybody followed him step by step. To other rooms, down the stairs, checking out other rooms.
Then, after finding nothing on the ground floor, Icealya leaned against a wall, sighing, and not feeling well. Suddenly the wall behind him opened and he felt a lot better. The smell of smoke came from the opening, and he took a look inside as no one is near at the moment. The smell became stronger, and he came to a stairs. He was dying to go down and see who had cigarettes, but he also didn’t want Vandango, cin or MrBow to become angry with him because he left without saying anything. His curiosity won, and he walked down to see what or who was there. There he was, sitting at a table, drawing something. “Deep? Is that you?”
“Yes, little polar bear.” Deep.in responded, looking like Leonardo Da Vinci or something. Icealya now stood on his back paws, and deep.in noticed the music note on his stomach.
“Well well well, Ice. If that isn’t you, little artist.” Deep.in smiled.
“Ha ha,” Icealya laughed sarcastically. “The smell of L&M made me sure you were here, ya’ ol’ cheapy” Icealya teased. “How’d you get them here? I’ve been dying for one!”
“I had 10 packages in my pockets when I came here, they were lying around me when I woke up.”
“Could I have one, I have nothing to smoke here, and after one day of walking I’m almost dying.”
“Of course!” deep.in smiled.
“Thnx man.” Ice smiled, taking the cigarette.
When Icealya had just lit the cigarette, he heard the others come in, and they immediately smiled at deep.in.
“Good job, Ice, you found deep.in!” cin smiled.
“Well, I just followed my nose,” Icealya laughed.
“well, great job anyways. Excuse me for getting right down to business, but deep, would you like to come with us to find Stress, and to find out what the meaning is of this whole OTLCity stuff?”
“Hmm, I would love to, but I think that it’s getting dark here, why don’t you all stay tonight, and then we all go tomorrow morning.” Deep said, while looking out of the little window that comes out above street level.
“That’s a good idea, I think that we’re all a bit tired from the walking around the streets, so it would be good for us.” Cin agreed.
“There are some beds upstairs, and also some bathrooms, you can all go there and sleep,” deep said.
MrBow, Colourblind, Vandango and cin all walked up the stairs again, and Icealya followed them, but turned around to wait for deep.in to come with them.
“Are you coming?” Icealya asked.
“Oh, my leg hurts. Ever since I woke up it hurt like hell, it’s a miracle I could get here,” deep stated.
“Let me see that,” Icealya said.
“Ok, do you have something like a first aid kit with you or something?”
“No, but I’ll have a look, I’m good with stuff like this.”
While looking at deep.in’s leg, They started talking.
“It is so annoying, I feel so damn powerless here, yet the others have something they’re good at, cin can feel people’s energy and jump really high, MrBow has got his bow and arrows, Colourblind can climb, and Vandango has got like, and immense speed. What can I do in this polar bear body, except for looking cute and cuddly?” Icealya almost cried.
“Ice, come on, your time to shine will come soon, I can tell!”
“No, I can’t…”
Then the music note on his stomach started shining brightly, and deep.in’s leg started glowing in a blue light.
After a few seconds the light is gone as soon as it came…
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Chapter 5: I need a Medic!
“Okay… What the hell was that!?” Icealya asked.
“Beats me, but at least it was pretty, and very artistic, deep.in said. “Could have been a very, very nice artwork…” while he was rubbing over his chin, and he was imagining it all before his eyes; A big painting with an old man sitting in a chair next to a table, and a little polar bear holding his leg and a bright blue light shining. “Beautiful…”
“Okay, I’ll help you upstairs and I’ll put you in a bed, you really need some sleep…” Icealya said serious, with a confused look on his face about that strange vibe he just got from deep.in.
“Alright, alright, gees.. two hours in real life and you’re starting to look like my mother” Deep sighed.
Icealya helped deep.in get up the stairs and to a bed in one of the rooms in the house, and put him in. “You’re one heavy man, man.” Icealya sighed.
“Maybe you are just a small polar bear?” deep.in grinned.
“True there,” Icealya nodded. They both started laughing, and soon Icealya got deep.in to sleep, and found himself a bed to sleep in. this little dark room, well, it was the only one left, so he just took it. He curled up in the thin sheets and soon fell a sleep under the dim light which came from the moon that shone through the little window.
The next morning the first one to be up was Colourblind. Well, maybe not just Colourblind, but more his stomach. He got out of his bed, and went to look around in the house for something to eat, other then a banana. He went through the hallwaysm which were wide with big wooded squeaky floors, and big, strange paintings on the wall which resembled certain things from the good old Off Topic Lounge, pictures that have been posted, like famous FacePalms, and a numbers under it like how many times it has been posted, and the first time the FacePalm came to SRF. He looked his eyes out at the motivational and other pictures that people stole from sites like 4Chan. Then he came out in the kitchen, where he searched all the big cupboards over and under the sink for food. “Ahum” he suddenly heard, and it was such a big surprise he bumped his head while he was searching in a little cupboard. While rubbing his head he turned around to see who surprised him just now. There he saw Deep.in, with a cigarette in his hand, leaning against the doorjamb. “If you’re looking for something to eat, check the drawers on the right.” A bit ashamed Colourblind turned to the drawers, and managed to pull out some chocolate, bread, fruits, and other things.
“Thanks” Colourblind said to deep.in, while handing him a bar of chocolate. An awkward silence fell between the two of them, then Colourblind quickly ran up the stairs to give the others something to eat too, because they must have been starving by now.
“Dango, Dango, look what I found! Chocolate! Sugar! More stuff!” Colourblind almost shoved a chocolate bar up the big white wolf’s mouth.
“I see, Colour, and thank you, but I’d rather have something like, bread or meat or something…” Vandango responded, still half asleep.
“I’ve got that too!” Colourblind said ecstatic, “eat as much as you want, I bet you’re starving, aren’t you? I sure am! So how’s it going now, in your wolf body, eh? Eh? Eh?”
“And that will give you a cut off from anything with sugar in it…” Vandango said sarcastic. “Now go and annoy the others with your morning wood, I’m not an early bird.”
“Okay Dango, I bet the rest is much happier with all this food!” Colourblind said with a touch of anger in his voice, and ran out to wake up the others.
“I need a shower…” Vandango said, and crawled out of his bed. He walked over to the bathroom and stepped in the shower. “Pretty damn hard to do something like this with paws in stead of hands… well, then I’ll just use my mouth then..” He bit into the taps and turned on the shower. “rhou shee, is ish wowki…” he said to himself with the tap in his mouth. “Ah, this feels damn good.. I might start liking it here, and I could get used to it living as a wolf…” he thought while he enjoyed his shower. When he stepped out again, he shook himself off, and he was near dry again. “Phew, good morning sunshine!” he said to himself in the mirror, and walked out.
Meanwhile Colourblind went out to Cin, Mr.Bow and Icealya, and at least they were happy with what he provided. They all three took the food thankful, and they felt energized again, after a day no food, who wouldn’t?
After all getting a shower, well, except for Cin, he did it himself without water, they were good to go again and walked downstairs, where Vandango was talking to Deep.In. “Good morning,” they all said to each other, and they started into a conversation.
“I guess we could better head out so we can get on with this trip, and all get out of here.” Cin finally said.
The others all agreed on him, and it turned out that Vandango and Deep.in made a crutch for Deep.in so he could walk with them. Vandango would also support him, so they wouldn’t have any delay and could be on the other side of the Europe District before the end of the night. They all stood up and went for the door, which was pretty big for a house like this. “Don’t judge a book on the cover” Deep.in said. “These houses here a pretty big on the inside, but on the outside it’s just like a little cottage.”
The others nodded. Deep.in reached his hand in the pocket of his coat, and took out a little key. He then opened the big door, and in came the fresh wind blowing in their faces. “Ah, that feels nice.” Icealya said. “Great. Now let’s get on with it!”
They walk out the door, and land in Lithuania Street again.
“So, where are we heading now?” Colourblind asked, back on her place on Vandango’s back again.
“I want to get to Bulgaria Street, where we will start looking for TacticalMedic. I bet he can do something about Deep.in’s leg, and maybe on our way we could search for Stress, as another moderator in our group could come in handy.” Cin said straight forward.
“Okay then,” Mr.Bow said, “What are we waiting for then?”
And on they went, with a new member in their group in the search BlackFox’s hideout.
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It's been a while, but I hope you all will like this chapter. I'm not all sure about it, but hey.. It's been a while since I wrote on the story, so I guess it faded a bit from my mind... Sorry...
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) I spoke to him a while on msn, he is just the perfect person to be part of this story.
And I love it! 
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good luck 
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