THE UNDERWORLD

Chapter 1: Yuval, Never Meet your Superhero because it's Always a Disappointment

My day never normally started like this before, I woke up with breakfast in my bed. It was a sunny-side-up omelet. A movie was playing. It was about my favourite superhero, Merlin. "Mom?" I asked. "What's going on? I mean, thanks for the breakfast in bed and the movie, but what is going on?" "Isn't the weather crazy, Yuval?" Mom said from downstairs. "No. What do you mean? It's a gorgeous day," I replied. "No. You must be mad. There's a tornado going on and AAAHHHHH! It's going to blow down the house - TAKE COVER!" Of course, nothing like this was actually going on so I decided to go downstairs to see what was going on. I brushed my teeth, changed, and walked downstairs. I turned on the TV to see another movie. "Everyone remain calm. The famous superhero, Merlin, has appeared near the monster which the country calls the flying leprechaun-" I turned off the TV. "Mom be careful when you go out. You seem pretty drunk," I said. The only problem was that Mom hated alcohol, now I was worrying. "Tornado? Ooh yes, let's fight it!" Mom replied. "Tornado, tornado," Mom started chanting. What the heck is Mom up to? Is she having a seizure? I thought. Then I went to the phone and dialled 911. To tell the truth, I had never called 911 before so I felt a bit nervous as the phone rang. After the second ring, they answered "911, fire, ambulance, or police?" "My mum's having a seizure, so ambulance!" I answered. "Where do you live?" the operator asked. "I live at 56 Copplefield Boulevard," I replied. "OK, our clientele will be there in about 6¼ minutes." the operator said. "Thank you, and good-bye," I replied. I put the phone down and sighed. "Mom, are you having a seizure?" I asked. Though Mom had started running around the house chanting, "Tornado, tornado."

In 6¼ minutes, a siren sounded and stopped at our driveway. Some paramedics rushed out and knocked on our door. Less than half a second later, I pulled open the door. "Hello," I said to them. "Where is your mother?" one of them asked. I shouted behind me. "Mom, please come to the couch. Then we'll be able to escape the tornado." She listened to me! First time today. I turned back to the paramedics. "She's on the couch. Please come in."

Once we were all seated, the paramedics started testing Mom in all different ways, most of them I could've never imagined. I was never into medical stuff. I love reading Percy Jackson and fake sword fighting. Finally, a paramedic clapped her hand and said, "Well, Mrs ...-" "Mrs. Inehone." I said, "Mrs. Inehone is coming to the hospital. We have two options for hospitals. Westwood, and Fortford," said the paramedic. I've heard that Westwood was the best hospital in the whole Northern Hemisphere, if not the world so I said, "Westwood, please." "OK then. We'll load her into the ambulance and I suppose that you'd like to come with us." "Yes, please. Just give me a minute." "Sure."

I dashed into the dining room and grabbed a pencil and a scrap piece of paper. I wrote:

I took Mom to the hospital. I don't know when she or I will be back.

See you later Dad. Lots of love,

Yuval.

Then I sprinted to the door, put my shoes on, locked up, and ran to the ambulance. I went up the ramp and into the back. Three paramedics and Mom were also there. They shut the door and then the engine started. We drove down the street and my mind began to wander.

We pulled into the ambulance entrance of Westwood Hospital. A paramedic pulled open the door, lowered the ramp and we all came out. We opened the door and a moving floor met us. "Bet you didn't expect that," a paramedic said. I checked on Mom. She seemed to be asleep. That was relieving. Then we reached two gigantic doors It was the biggest elevator I had ever seen in my life. You know those service ones? Twice as big. A paramedic pressed the up button and the doors opened. She pressed 3B. The elevator hummed upstairs. Then the doors opened. We walked a few meters, then we reached the triage. The triage nurse asked a bunch of questions about my mom like: "For how long has she been acting strange?" I answered them all regularly. The triage nurse clicked and unclicked her pen and scratched her head. Finally, she said, "Take a seat in the waiting room. One of the doctors will be along soon." The paramedics left us there and we went into the waiting room. Since it was only about 10:30 am, there wasn't a big line. Well fine, there's always a big line at the hospital but this line was smaller than ever. I looked at the waiting board. Line: 20 mins.

After 22 minutes, a doctor came and announced, "Marta Inehone." We stood up and walked to the doctor. He took us through the labyrinth-like hospital because you know, hospitals are big and there are so many different rooms inside the hospital, so I call it a labyrinth. We finally got to a room where the doctor clarified everything. Then he took us to a different room in a totally different wing. But when we got there, he said to me, "I'm sorry sonny, but now you can't go inside this room. I suggest you go home and keep in touch." I tried protesting but in the end, I trailed out of the hospital to the Everwood subway.

I took my Everwood Transportation card out of my pocket and tapped it against the machine. It dinged and let me in. I rushed down the escalator and onto the platform. A train was just arriving. I jumped onto it and grabbed one of the many seats. I love the Everwood subway because it always shows sports news. Apparently, the Everwood Clockers (the Everwood basketball team) were up 63-62 in a really important game. I watched and watched until I reached my stop. I ran off and up the stairs. Now, my stop is about 10 minutes away from my house so it takes quite a while to get home. I nodded at the stationmaster and went up the road. I turned the corner onto the next street absently wondering about the Clockers. Then a fist hurtled into my face. "Aw jeez," I muttered. I looked up. It was Merlin! My brain screamed, Ow! and What? Merlin doesn't exist. but there he was right in front of me with a fist raised and a wand drawn.

At this point, I bolted. Oh, Yuval, why did you do that? And now that I'm writing this story, yes, I should have battled him. There was a swirl of light in front of me and Merlin appeared again. I quickly glanced over my shoulder. People were running away screaming. Who knew that an invisible character in some fiction series could terrify so many people? I took my chances against him. I could run but I saw how easily he could keep up with me. Or, I could do the more dangerous option and try to please this idiot. I chose the reckless option. Trying to put as much contempt into my voice as I could, I said, "What d'you want?" "Your nose is gushing blood," he replied. I took my tissue from my pocket and put it on my nose but then it disappeared! "Hey," I said to him. "I can help your nose if you help me," Merlin said, "help me convert people to join my army." "Yeah, I see you're not very popular," I sneered. Merlin snapped his fingers and felt like I was on fire. I fell over and then, I fainted.

When I woke up about a minute later, Merlin was standing over me, holding a vial dangerously close to my face. I felt in my pocket for my phone. Damn it, I thought. I'd forgotten my phone at home. If I died, I thought. It couldn't be worse than this. I charged Merlin trying to distract him by kicking him hard in the shins. It didn't seem to hurt him but it got his attention. While he raised his hand, probably about to give me the fatal blow, I wrestled the wand from his hand and yelled, "DIE!!!!!" The wand had shot out a flame that seemed to have paralyzed Merlin.

Then something happened that turned my whole world upside down. Merlin yelled something like, "Sir Arbud, pro!" and the wand flew into his hand. Knives appeared from nowhere and started slashing my body to pieces. Now, the funny thing was, my body kept healing itself but the pain got worse and worse. He probably wanted to hurt me more and more until I collapsed again. Now, just as I was thinking it couldn't get much worse, it did! Well done, Yuval! You are the lucky winner of ... death! A rope appeared and started coiling itself around me. A club started hitting me on the head so hard I was surprised I wasn't dead. Or was I? Then, all the things attacking me vanished. For a split second, I thought I saw something that looked like a blue fire. Then it vanished too. Before I could even process what I saw, Merlin was back. "You dare attack me with my own wand and sentence me to a pain sentence? Well, I've spared you enough. See you later, Yuval." I noted that that was the first time he used my name. He picked me up and the sidewalk opened up into a pit of lava. Then, smiling, he dropped me into the pit of lava. That was the way I died. (Ha do you really think I died? What kind of book would that be?) When I was dead, I saw Merlin sitting in a dark house and talking to himself: "This time I will triumph. Last time there were heroes to stop me and now I have killed them all." Then it all went black.

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