12-10-2016, 05:13 AM | #1 |
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Week 1: Diablo (0-0) vs. deadman (0-0) - Diablo wins via No-Show
Season 7 Verses are due Thursday 12/15 at 11:59 PST. EXT 12/16 11:59 PST Voting ends Sunday 12/18 at 11:59 PST Verses may not exceed 64 lines Voting on 3 battles is required. If you win and don't vote the requirement you will not receive a victory. If you lose and don't vote the requirement, you will receive a one-week suspension. Topic: To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Good luck to both participants @Diablo @dead man
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12-12-2016, 06:59 AM | #2 |
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I watch from the edge of the tempered-glass ridge
- plotting revenge on the one that's kept me captive. If you've ever had fish that you've placed in a tank then I'll bet my back fin that they hate you for that! The same thing must happen at every store within the city "Take a look at this one, mom, isn't it pretty?" "I want this little fishy!" the young nominal gasps with sticky fingers insisting on prodding the glass. I shot her a glance that conveyed my contempt while gobbling gaseous bubbles to try and state my intent. I knew the way this would end once I'd heard the noisy one shout so I turned-tail and I left soon as she pointed me out! I loitered around the gravel bed and iridescent accessories avoiding for now the small fishing net from detecting me. Sensing the end was near I gulped, and dove down below, before I fled somewhat desperately into a shoal of my own. With the net closing in slowly, I sped up my speed, - I know it's ignoble but I'd sooner it was them and not me! I wasn't ready to leave, though my primary concern was that I'd seen so many deceived only to never return! With my fins peddling nervously, I turned right and I baulked to see my "friends" had dispersed, having realised I'd been caught! I was prised from the water open-mouthed at what had just passed where my eyes met the daughters holding me aloft in a bag. "I promised my dad I'd take care of you," the custodian lied. The polymer plastics properties choked my reply. With a roll of the eyes, I was free falling through the air and quick - plonking into a bowl on the side of a room that was garish pink. The human I shared it with often bleated and blared with all the usual superlatives like "I'll clean it, I swear!" Within weeks I was scarcely even glanced at as she passed & the over-feed from her parents started to gather in the tank. The gravel pit was blackening where algae sits on the rocks - she hasn't cleaned the glass in here since the filter was blocked. So I swim in a clockwise motion with my head up against the cell while thinking of what it would take to get out and save myself. I delved in the dainty dwelling, where I thought for a bit, and my impending fate propelled me even more than my fins. This dirty waters beginning to grate on my gills I swear the chlorine I'm swimming in's what's making me ill. Maybe by building up momentum and staying close to the right, I could escape it by tilting the fish bowl on its side? But with oxygen low in supply, once the water displaced, my only hope of survival would be a crawl to the drains. All it would take was the smallest mistake and that would be it! I really wasn't sure I would make it, so I sat dragging my fins. The gravel I'd kicked up began floating atop as I lapped up a drink, smacking my lips, and closely I watched. A froth of foam carried flotsam that grouped at the edge which the overseers' mom would sometimes remove with a net. I knew in that second what awaited me since if she presumed I was dead, I might just be able to live! The wait is horrific but I give my best performance to date and play dead implicitly, only blinking when sure that it's safe. Hours sprawl into days; A wry smile leaves from my mouth when the daughter exclaims "Mom, quick, Bieber has drowned!" Keeping my mouth closed, the fish nets shadow hits my face I feel it teasing me out of the water before it carries me away. With a splash I give my tail a flick and swim for my life having chanced on an escape tunnel within the pipe! In the distance behind, I hear a flush hissing at me, - and feel a wave whisking me by as I adjust diligently. This must be freedom I think to myself as I open my eyelids. If there's plenty more fish in the sea, here's hoping I find 'em... FIN! Last edited by Diablo; 12-18-2016 at 03:39 PM. |
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