The dark master (5 ratings) by Taylor Marie
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I kept glancing at the clock while I played my Mazecrawler game on the
computer. Maybe Randy forgot that he was supposed to come over with a brand new
game. Or maybe he was just late, like usual. I was thinking about calling
when I heard my Mom holler, "Dennis, Randy's here." A second later he came
blazing into my bedroom and whipped off his backpack. "Check this out," he
said, taking a package out of the pack. "'Realm of the Darkmaster,'" I read
off the cover, "I've never even heard of this one." "Me neither. But I
found this really neat little store over on Sixth Street and the guy in charge
told me that this was the coolest game ever made! It's the test version, so he
gave it to me free! C'mon, let's play!" Randy is in sixth grade with me and
he's probably the number one computer freak in the school. If anyone could find
the coolest computer game in the world, it would be him. I popped the disk into
my CD ROM drive and waited for it to install. But instead the screen went
completely black. Then a face slowly began to appear on it. The face was
thin, pale and completely hairless not even eyebrows and the way it seemed to
be looking right at me gave me the willies. "I am the Darkmaster," the face
said, "and I challenge you to enter to my realm, if you dare. Click on the
green shield and you will be taken on an amazing adventure, but beware: there
is only one-way out.
Are you smart enough and brave enough to discover the secret?" The face then
started to laugh, which made the hairs on my neck stand up. I was about to
suggest playing something else when Randy clicked on the green shield icon.
Then lightning struck my room. That's the only way I can describe it. A
sudden flash knocked me over and the next thing I knew, Randy and I were on our
hands and knees in some kind of a hot, stuffy, stone room. There were lit
torches and I could see picture writing on the walls. "Egyptian hieroglyphics!"
I said. "This is totally nuts, but we're inside a pyramid!" But he was too
busy screaming to hear me. I turned and saw what he was screaming at. Leaning
against one wall was a mummy case, and the lid was creaking open! When it
opened all the way, the wrinkled bone-bag inside raised its head and looked at
us! We ran into each other at first but then toward a passageway that led
out of the chamber. From behind us we heard footsteps...the mummy was chasing
us! We kept running until the passageway split into two. "Which way?" I
asked, but our decision was made by the gray, scurrying thing that came out of
the passageway on the right. "Eeew, a rat!" Randy screamed. "I think it's
only a mouse," I said, "but I still don't like it. Let's go the other way."
After going on for what seemed like ten miles, the passageway ended in front
of two huge wooden doors." This one," Randy decided, though I think he was just
guessing. It took both of us to push the heavy door open. Next Page Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2001 Taylor Marie, sffworld.com. All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the author. The author has submitted the work in accordance with and in agreement with the following Submission Guidelines.
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