Adventures with S&J

Steven stirred as the rays of the sun began piercing through his eyelids, he grumbled and shoved the blanket over his head.

He didnt like waking up in the mornings, he had yet to see a person who likes waking up to mornings. He tried to go back to his sleep, to no avail. Toss and turn as he tried, he could not go back to the slumber he hoped come back to him. 'Well if i cant get back to sleep i might as well get up and do shit.' He thought. He tumbled out of bed and groggily shuffled to the door, he glared at the sun, which was a bad idea. He clamped his eyes shut tight as he groaned.

While using both hands to massage his eyes, he continued his shuffle towards the door. He opened his eyes and let them refocus, just as he was about to leave his room he looked at the calendar on his bedroom door, the date was the 27th August 2087. He wore an expressionless mask until he saw whats written on the date. His face instantly had an ecstatic expression plastered all over it.

He looked over his bedroom. A generic nightstand, bed, vanity, window with no curtains and of course his favourite thing in his bedroom, the closet. He was proud he got that thing as messed up as it is now. Even his younger sister, Jocelyn was not able to get her closet as messed up as his, and she was the "Leave empty plate at table and get older brother to clean it" kind of woman.

'Enough about that.' he thought. He had to wake up her sister as they were going for the trip they anticipated most of the month. He walked to Jocelyn's bedroom, as soon as he went through the door, he stood still baffled. Her sister was not there. "Jocelyn? Where are you!" he yelled. "In here!" Came a muffled response from somewhere in her room.

"What the hell? Where are you!? You know you better come out of wherever the hell you are and ready up because today is the day!" Faster than his eyes could process she bolted out of her closet, said hello to him and ran to the bathroom just to slam the door. He stood there slackjawed. 'What the fuck? how did she do all that in like one milli- you know what fuck that i wont even try to understand.' he thought.

He walked up to the bathroom door "You better hurry up in there, I need to use it too." He said next to the bathroom door. "Alright!" came a response behind the door. 'Might as well make breakfast, though i do not know how to cook anything other than eggs and bacon.' He thought. "Well, eggs and bacon it is." he mumbled. As he went to the kitchen, he smirked as he thought about the trip. "Heh, this trip is gonna be amazing." He said to nobody in particular.

  ------

After eating breakfast and finished washing themselves up, they proceeded to pack up their things for the one month trip. While all he needed were an automatic autoreloading railgun, his old faithful glock, the essentials for hygiene and clothes, Jocelyn has 2 duffel bags full of who knows what. "Whatcha got in the bags?" He asked her. "I have clothing, toiletries, toothpaste and brush, towels, Hiking gear, and some snacks." Came her response.

"Well im glad someone knows what to pack, why do you need the hiking gear anyways?"

"You never know when they come in handy."

"Eh, alright. Lets just get on my truck and get this trip started."

She followed him to the garage where his old pickup was parked. They stuffed their belongings on the bed of the pickup and put the lid over it. He tried to start the vehicle, TRIED. "What the hell happened to this damned piece of crap again?" He said. "Did you check the fuel gauge?" She asked. He went over to the dash and when he got a look he facepalmed. There was no fuel on the thing. "Fuck, this thing eats fuel like the fatass it is. Luckily I have some gas over here somewhere.." He trailed off as he searched for the fuel needed.

After about four minutes he found them, refueled and started the truck, thankfully it was just fuel not some engine problems, otherwise that would mean they would walk. The garage doors opened up and they began driving to their destination, it was pretty far, a four hour drive approximately. As they got stuck in traffic He tried to start a conversation with his sister.

"Hey Jocelyn?"

"Yeah?"

"What are you planning on doing once we get to the destination?"

She went silent for half a minute before responding.

"I think I might go prank some people with my magical powers of being sneaky which you dont have." She smirked. He grumbled. "Hey I was wearing hard leather shoes on smooth tiled floor, does not count!" She laughed. As the ride continued, they gradually got bored and Jocelyn went to sleep. He stared at her. "Damn she gets to sleep and I get to drive? Not fair at all." He whispered under his breath. While still staring at his sleeping sister, he failed to notice a pure black hole burst open a few hundred foot infront of them. Once he looked back at the road his eyes widened as he slammed on the brakes, though at that point it was too late as they went through the hole.

Once Steven came to half his consciousness, he was at the foot of a mountain and a few feet away from him is the still sleeping Jocelyn and the bags we packed. "She sleeps like a rock if she wants to." he sighed. He began to study his surroundings. Nothing but hills and trees a couple of meters away. He looked up and gaped at what he saw. 'Did i just see a fucking castle imbedded in the side of mountain?' He asked himself. He shook his head and looked again, and sure enough, it was still there..Along with flying dots too small to recognise, probably birds. "We need to get up there. We only have approximately a day of food packed." He said to himself. "This was not on my to-do list on the trip.." He carried the duffel bags and his knapsack.

As he strapped his knapsack behind his back, he felt immense amount of pain as he tightened the bag. He grunted and unstrapped the pack and took a look at his back. "The fuck?" There was a bulge under his jacket and undershirt. He removed both clothing from his upper torso and looked again. He blinked a few times and thats when consciousness came in. "What the fuck? Why do i have wings!?" Sure enough, dark grey wings were attached just below his shoulders. He will have to worry about that later, for now, shelter and food.

He put his clothing back on and walked over to Jocelyn. As he neared her sister. He noticed a horn protruding from her forehead. Shaking his head he shook her sister. "Get up. Come on.. Get up!" Jocelyn bolted into a sitting position. "Finally you're awake." He sighed. "Are we there already? Thats pretty quick." She said groggily. He shook his head.

"Unfortunately, No. We are at the foot of some mountain with a castle built at the side of it." Amazingly she spotted the bulge on my back. "The fucks under your clothing?" She questioned. He countered. "Well what the fuck do you have on your forehead?" She was confused until she touched the horn that was there since we awoke here. "What..." She is still confused "Whats on my head?" he gave her a small mirror. A few seconds passed before she screamed. "What the fuck! Whats on my damned head!?" he shrugged. "Beats me. As soon as we awoke we had this. And to answer your question the bulge under my clothing are wings."

Jocelyn gaped. "Wow you get wings and i get a..whatever this shit is. So unfair!" She mocked an angry expression. Im the guy who cant read fake or genuine expressions. So I tried comforting her. "H-hey its not like i wished i have these wings and you wished you have a horn on your forehead!" She narrowed her eyes and smiled. 'Smooth move, idiot' He thought to himself.

"Lets just try to scale this mountain, its almost sunset. Do you have your hiking gear with you?" She nodded and took the items mentioned out. "Alright, lets scale this until we reach the castle on the mountain." As they started scaling the thing, they were halfway there but the sun was gone, as they continued, they stumbled upon a small cave.

"How about we try to camp here? I have the neccesary tools to make a campfire." Jocelyn said.  "Seems like a good plan. lets just hope nothing is inside the cave we are gonna bunk in now." Entering the cave. there were various rats and the occasional bat that flew out into the mouth of the cave. As Steven was setting up the sleeping bags he looked outside. The moon is now shining along with stars. "We better get some rest, we will need it tommorow." Jocelyn nodded as she started the fire. Soon he heard light snoring coming her way.

He stepped out of the cave and looked at the castle a few hundred meters above them. Lights were on the castle. 'So there is civilization there.' He thought. 'We are gonna ask for directions on how to get back to our home. or at least the damned general area, if not then at least find a decent enough shelter in this place.' With that he turned and went back to the cave just to miss a creature too dark to recognise flying just above the cave entrance. He lay down on his sleeping bag. Soon he was asleep with his sister.