Kwok's Wok: 2012

"But on a Wednesday in a cafe, I watched it begin"

Well, I thought I needed some more original works. Well, there is a reason why this short story isn't that great. First, I wrote this in seventh grade on a Wednesday in a cafe in Hong Kong. No joke, I wrote this story at a Pacific Coffee Company with an iced mocha with a double shot of chocolate. Second, my writing skills aren't that great, and did I mention seventh grader? or maybe eight grader.. not sure, but here is "The Will of Time"

Book One of The Seigan Series: The Will of Time by Ethan Kwok

The world shakes when I walk by, volcanoes erupt and the earth quakes. It is I, the great and powerful Timeothy. He is Father Time's evil twin brother. People think that Father Time controls time, but Timeothy did away with him years ago. Timeothy now controls the universe. He tried to kill Father Time, but since Father Time couldn't die, he stole his powers and locked him away in a secret dungeon. You may think that Timeothy's goal is to take over the world, but no, that is not the case. He merely wants to destroy a will.

The will belongs to a man who has been missing for a long time. His name is Ling Fong. He was a fisherman in Southeastern China for a long time, all his life. He was a poor fellow, never became very rich. He got married when he was twenty-three and his wife conceived a girl when he was thirty. They lived a mediocre life. One day while at sea with his family, he and his daughter disappeared. His wife was found unconscious on the boat. During questioning, the wife, whose name was Ling Ti, kept screaming in gibberish. Eventually, they took her to the nut house, where she lived the rest of her days. What happened to Ling Fong and his daughter? Well... that's what this story is about.

Ling Fong and his daughter, Ling Mui, had no idea where they were. They could speak to each other, but they knew something was extremely wrong. What they didn't know, was that while they were swimming, they were swept into a whirlpool portal. It immediately disappeared with them. They were taken to Timeothy's palace in a galaxy far away. Ling Fong soon realized he had the power to do things to Earth. At first, he picked some fruit and teleported it to him, for they were very hungry. Then, more serious things happened, he stole several billion dollars and put them in a Swiss account, he stole the White House and positioned it near them, and he spinned the Earth so fast, it was a whole year ahead in one minute. Timeothy was visiting Father Time in prison when he felt the universe spinning faster. He immediately went back to his palace and found Ling Fong and Ling Mui. He killed Ling Fong, but Ling Mui found an exit portal and escaped. Timeothy cursed his bad luck. He immediately erased Ling Mui's mind, but unfortunately for him, he erased a different Ling Mui's mind. What Timeothy didn't know was that Ling Fong wrote an account of where he was and what he did, and put it in a document in is will. It drained some of Timeothy's power and FDNA (Foreign DNA) along with it. Timeothy went back into his palace and took a nap, even though he was immortal he needed to sleep.

Ling Mui awoke in a different place, but she knew she was on Earth. When she was in Timeothy's secret world, some of his power rubbed on her. Now she could speak any language fluently and she had the ability to sense danger. What she didn't know, was that she had more powers that were stored in a dormant part of her brain. She knew her father was dead, and she wanted to locate him. She walked for miles and miles and realized she was in the United States. She wanted to change her name for fear of Timeothy, so she changed her name to Lucy Lim. She eventually arrived in Los Angeles. She realized she still had millions of dollars on her from when she stole it from a bank from Timeothy's palace. She knew it was wrong to use the money, but she had no choice, where else could she get money? She was starving, so she went to a Chinese restaurant. She bought some dumplings and gobbled them up quickly. She ordered some more and after eating her tenth dumpling, she noticed a handsome man staring at her. He approached her and introduced himself. He told her his name was Rob Deline. They talked for a long time and eventually he gave her his number. Immediately, Lucy bought a cellphone and wanted to call him, but she thought that would be awkward. Instead, she forged an I.D. and a passport. She found a motel and decided to spend the night there. She took a shower and fell asleep as soon as she touched her bed.

Lucy decided to call Rob and he answered with a pleasant greeting. He invited her on a date and she accepted. That was the beginning of their wonderful relationship. Lucy loved Rob and Rob loved Lucy. After three months of dating, Rob proposed. They got married a month later. It all looked so perfect. Lucy gave birth to a boy, and they named him Ken Ling Deline. Rob asked for the reason of naming his middle name Ling, but Lucy told him it was a random name she thought sounded pretty. Ken was born into a good home. What Lucy did not know was that Ken was born with a supernatural power of his own, the power to control certain minds. In this case he could control Merc, Timeothy's aid. Ken did not know he had this power until he was 22. The family prospered and was at peace.

Lucy was upset she couldn't tell her husband about her past and her current abilities, but what could she do? One day she decided to tell him, so she told her everything, from the boat to the palace to her father. She even mentioned her powers, and that Ken's middle name was her old family name. Rob was a bit silent, but he did not seem mad. Then he asked the single most important question.

"Is Ken affected?" Lucy was silent. She actually didn't know whether Ken had inherited her powers. She knew she had to find out, but how? She was so frightened by the fact that Ken had powers too. She wondered whether Ken had new powers she didn't have.

Ken felt something tingling in his brain, hef felt strange, very strange, he had quick visions of a weird place.It looked so foreign. He also felt like he was in somebody when he had the visions, like he could control them. He promised he would find the reason behind all this, but how?

Merc also felt weird that day. He would walk toward a place, but then he would go in a different direction. Merc as Timeohy's right-hand man, without him, Timeothy would not have been able to lock Father Time up. He served his boss full-heartedly, well almost full-heartedly, he secretly wished he had the power to control time. He wanted to rule the world; he secretly vowed he would over throw Timeothy and rule the world himself.

Timeothy was laying in his bed and was staring at the ceiling. He wondered what happened to little Ling Mui. He wanted to know really bad, so he checked The Book of Names this was his special book that had everyone's name in it. It could locate the person and gave a full identification. He checked the Ling Mui he brainwashed and he saw her in a nursing home, she was not very old, but yet she was there. Timeothy kept staring at her, he knew something was wrong, but he didn't know what. He stared closer and noticed he had brainwashed the wrong person. (Since the encounter with the Lings, Timeothy had been losing power. He could no longer brainwash.) He was furious, simply furious. He looked at all the other Ling Mui's in the world and could not find her. There was someone out there who knew who he was, his powers, his location. He summoned Merc and together they scanned through the six billion plus entries in the book for Ling Mui. This took quite a while, even with Timeothy speeding time and all. Eventually, 3 days later, they found their "Ling Mui" she matched all the criteria and look the exact same. Her name was now Lucy Seigan Deline, Seigan being her maiden name. Seigan, what could that mean? Timeothy asked the book to pronounce the name. The book pronounced it exactly right. "Seigan is Chinese for time", said Timeothy, "Let's go find our Ling Mui, Merc!"

Lucy knew something was wrong, really wrong, she could sense it in her through her power. She had to get her and her family to safety, but how? She had a plan, a great plan, she had to find out what power Ken had, so she asked him. Ken told her about the power to control someone's mind. He told her about the visions and everything. He once over heard that the guy's name was Merc, and the guy talking to him was Timeothy. Lucy was happy. Her plan would work accordingly.

Timeothy was quickly approaching the Deline residence when Merc stabbed Timeothy. Tmeothy screamed in pain, but the wound quickly healed. Merc, controlled by Ken, jumped on top of Timeothy and blinded him by rubbing some poison onto his eyes. Then Merc suddenly fell backwards and passed out. Timeothy ran towards Merc and also fell down and passed out.

Lucy suddenly jumped out of her house and immediately drugged Timeothy and decided it was time to end all the horror and fear in her life. She took Merc and thought to herself, “It is for the best that I get rid of this man so my son will no longer be able to control anyone.” She pulled out a weapon out of Timeothy’s cloak and strikes Merc with it. Merc immediately stands up and starts weeping. Lucy had struck him with a cancerous weapon. Merc now had cancer and had 7-8 months to live, and that is the last we hear about Merc. He went back to the palace, made some calls, wait, he didn’t have family... He didn’t make calls, and he traveled the world. Well, his world was Timeothy’s palace, so he traveled there.

Lucy was shocked. She had meant to hurt Merc, but never would have realized why as soon as she hit Merc, her heart would hurt so badly. She felt the biggest sense of fear and danger as of yet. The power that Ken had to control people had backfired. It had created an indefinite link between Merc and Ken. Ken now had cancer as well. Lucy thought things couldn’t have gone any worse, and usually when one sees that line, one knows it gets worse. Well, it does. Timeothy had awoke from his slumber and had killed Lucy’s husband, Rob. Lucy fell on the ground and started to sob furiously. Then she screamed out, “Ken, Ken, where are you?” She looked around and saw that Timeothy and Ken were both gone. Lucy ran into the house and was getting ready to go find them when everything went black...

<to be continued... or maybe not... CLIFFHANGER OOH!>

<what happened to Timeothy and Ken?>

<is Rob really dead?>

<why is the author’s teacher’s name used in this story?>

<why so many questions?>