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CHOSEN ONE
By Bryan Shon
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Last updated: 2/29/00

I was an accountant for a real big industry, making good money, lived in a big fancy house. My life was good but something was missing...

_____This was my first trip to a big city and home for the trip was a penthouse in a fancy hotel. You couldn't see where the building stopped. The air was muggy and foggy. Cars were every where. This business trip wasn't what I was expecting.

_____I was tired the night of March 31, 2010 when I arrived at New York City. The flight was very long and I was supposed to get up early the next morning to meet a representative of the company. He was going to show me around the next day. It was so cold that the airport gave me chicken skin. I just called a taxi and went straight to bed in the hotel.

THE LETTER

_____In the morning I got the daily paper right at my front door. Along with the paper I got a mysterious letter. It was written in Old English text on very old and dirty paper and it had a wax seal. It looked like it wasn't even bleached. The date written on the letter was March 3, 2010. I opened it and it said, "Thou shall be the chosen one." "Creepy," I thought. There was no Sincerely yours or Yours Truly. I wondered if it was a joke, but I soon found it wasn't.

_____When getting ready to go out that morning I kept thinking about the letter. I started ask myself questions Is this a prank? Chosen one what does it mean? and Who would do this to me?.

THE LITTLE MAN

_____Upon exiting the hotel I felt a gush of wind and leaves blew up into the sky. Like magic he appeared out of no where. When I turned to my side I saw a little midget dressed in a wizard type outfit. With a similar letter like the one I got with this morning's paper. The letter had the same date, wax seal, and handwriting. His belt had several pouches and a leather sheath that carried a sword. The sword was clean and its handle was in the shape of a dragon's head. The dragon's head had ruby eyes that sparkled. He came up to me and said "Excuse me sir but this is for you." Then he handed me the letter and said, "Will you please read it?" The letter said, "Thou shall take this seriously, very seriously." A threat, I thought looking up to see that the little man was gone. That's when I asked myself more questions, Why is this happening to me? What does this mean?

SUBWAY STATION

_____Looking for him through the crowded streets with electric cars and hovercycles was useless because I couldn't find him. So I decided to go on and head for the subway station. I only walked a block or two when I saw the station with people coming in and out. You couldn't hear anything with all those cars honking, people talking, and yelling for a taxi.

_____I entered the subway station going down those long, steep stairs. The toll was $0.50. I thought that was kind of cheap because the fare for city buses at home on Oahu was a dollar. The subway car was crowded too with about ten people in it. It smelt like rotten fish and the seats looked uncomfortable.

_____There little man was with another letter in his hand just waiting for me. He welcomed me in and asked me to sit next to him. He handed me this third letter with the same kind of seal, dirty paper, and Old English text writing. The only thing different was the date, it was today's date. This letter said "Is thou ready for the test?" I turned and said, "What test?" to little man. The little man said "I'll tell you after lunch, your treat." I felt furious I wanted to punch him and send him flying right there and then. I wanted him to visit the moon.

_____The subway car stopped and everyone got out of the car. People were pushing and shoving to get out. One person jabbed me in the back with her elbow. When I got out of the car I didn't see little man anywhere. I decided that he went ahead of me and he did. He saw me and said "Hurry up chosen one I'm hungry."

LUNCH

_____From the station a pizza parlor was only a block away. We decided to eat there. When we sat down people started to stare at us. I said to the little man "Don't worry their just curious. It's no big deal." But I was really thinking that the people were staring at his silly custom. I asked him what he wanted and he said "What ever you want is fine." I said, "Okay." We ate pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. "It was good," little man said after we were finished.

TRUTH

_____"The truth is I am your test you must beat me to Central Park in a race, and my name isn't little man it is George the magician." He handed me a map with Central Park circled. People started to look at him odd, like he was crazy. "I'll give you a head start and if I catch you, I'll kill you. Run, run now!" "What about the pizza?" I said. "I'll take care of it there is no time." He said looking at his timepiece.

THE CHASE

_____I asked "Are you serious?" Then he replied "Are you curious about how a sword feels jabbed through your heart?" Then I said "No." I studied the map as quickly as I could. That's when he took out a twenty-dollar bill from one of his pouches to pay for the pizza and his sword. I ran out of the parlor and into the street. Screech!!! "Shit! I almost got banged," I said as a car almost nipped my thigh. Cars were everywhere on the street I had to get of the street fast if I wanted to live. It was just like high school on the cross-country team but there were no cars or people in your way. The sun was out and the skies were clear except for the fog. I was burning underneath my clothes I felt like stripping all of my clothes off because they were stuck to my body and my abs were showing. So I did, I took off my suit and I only had my under shirt and boxers on and a map in my hand. All the girls loved it because my shirt was wet and my big leg muscles were showing. I could hear George laughing too because he was right behind me. He was laughing so hard that his face turned red. I could tell he was having fun. The girls were chasing me too and George wasn't chasing me anymore he was chasing the chicks. As we passed a woman's lingere store more girls started to chase me. I decided to hide for a little while so I ducked into an alley. In the alley I saw George and the girls pass by.

_____When I got to Central Park I saw my boss with George and couple of chicks and a premiere of our next months magazine with me on the cover. "Boss what are you doing?" and "How did you get those pictures?" I asked. "Speech! Speech!" the crowd roared. That was the day my career boomed in the PlayGirl industry. It was all a trick to get me to Central Park with out a crowd. But it didn't seem to work!

THE END