AMG Holiday Story 2016
Chapter One
Run, run, as fast as you can!
It was Thursday morning already, bright and early at about 7 am as each of the four respective taxis proceeded to drop off all four of the participants in the Awesome Mature Gaians Guild Punishment Game at the gymnasium. It was still another hour granted before their punishment would begin, however none of them truly knew just how much trouble they were to be in for over the next 25 hours. Indeed, once the clock would strike 8am, then the true Punishment would begin. Queentintin afterwards would vocally be the first to admit to anyone that their attempted coup was nothing short of a disaster. The one positive out of the whole entire escapade though was that angelic snow angel was seemingly being more generous to the four of them than Queentintin had expected her to have been. Indeed, the past few days hadn’t seen any rubbing of salt into the wound over the fact that Queentintin, Pink Fregia, faelove64, and Christmas Spirit Fairy had all lost the race against Lycanthropos. It was almost as if angelic snow angel had something far more sinister prepared in the background which she perhaps had created with the aid of someone like Lycanthropos as a means to get back at the four ladies.
As each of the four ladies made their way towards the entrance to the building which housed the gymnasium within which they would be locked inside of for a full 24 hours straight, faelove64 watched in annoyance as Asylum Renegade held a camcorder to her face, documenting this historic event within the guild seemingly for posterity.
“Seriously, get that thing out of my face” she cried out whilst trying to shove the camcorder away and knock it to the floor, but without success.
“Sorry, no can do faelove64. I’m under direct orders to document this as a warning to other would-be traitors in the future, not to challenge our
glorious leader or her trusted and highly valued underlings. And that order actually comes straight from Lycanthropos” Asylum explained as calmly as he could, given the circumstances surrounding this incident.
Making their way inside and up the stairs, they saw the entrance doors to the gym off in the distance across the giant hall, with a banner overhead which read “
24 Hour Punishment Tag Game for AMG Guild Members.”
Hazumu-san was sitting at a desk near the gym entrance with her laptop, making some notes and discussing with angelic snow angel about their plan of action for the game, and showing her some YouTube video clips of the platform tests which some of the guild members had set up the night before, and giving her the run-down of how they expected the game to progress. Glancing upwards, she waved the four ladies who would be the participants of this Punishment Game over to her.
“Welcome ladies. I’m glad to see that you each decided to join us here today, although to be completely honest, you really didn’t have a choice in the matter seeing as this is
your Punishment Game and no one else’s.” Hazumu-san grinned before continuing. “Alright, so here is a run-down of the rules before you go off to get changed in the changing rooms, of which the changing rooms are up one floor on the elevator over there and are located to the left as you get off the elevator.
Rule Number One: You must stay in the gym for the full 24 hours starting at 8 o’clock sharp this morning.
Rule Number Two: When a tagger enters the gym, the chase begins. Each tagger will have one minute to enforce their Punishment.
Rule Number Three: If you get caught by a tagger, you will be punished.
Still, I doubt any of you ladies have anything to really be worried about during this game” Hazumu-san added before glancing towards the elevator once more. “Anyway, that is all for now, so be sure to go and get changed upstairs.” She then turned her attention back to angelic snow angel who flat out ignored the four ladies who were about to get their punishment game as seemingly well-deserved.
Making their way grudgingly towards the elevator, the four ladies all got inside, unsure and unaware of just what the future had in store for them. Pink Fregia summed it up with “What do you suppose will happen during the game?”
“Who knows, but I doubt it will be anything too bad” faelove64 pointed out.
“Especially given how much of a soft hearted individual angelic snow angel is."
“Yes, however it was Lycanthropos who got to set everything up in this game, so we don’t know how lenient or harsh he will be towards us during this event” Queentintin added cautiously.
“In any event, let’s just wait and see what happens” Christmas Spirit Fairy noted. “There’s no point worrying about all these what-if scenarios now.”
**********After having changed into their track suits once again for the 24-hour game ahead, each of the four ladies proceeded to head back down to the entrance of the gymnasium, still unsure of what was in store for them, or how the gym actually looked after having been fixed up for this Punishment Game event.
“Ah good, you’re all back” Daffodil the Destroyer mentioned, having arrived whilst the four of them were upstairs getting changed. “Everything is all set-up and ready to go within, so if you would like to go ahead and make your way inside, we’ll get you ready to begin your 24-hour game of tag.”
As each of the four ladies slowly made their way into the fairly large gymnasium, they noticed a few oddities. Firstly, a table and four chairs had been placed in the center of the gym, which they (possibly foolishly) assumed meant that they could hang out there and relax between taggers. Secondly, the floor had been completely covered in clear tarps which kept the wooden surface of the gym floor clean, but also made the floor a little bit more slippery at speed when running. Third, and most notable of all, was that to the right of the doors where the four of them had just proceeded to enter the gymnasium, was a raised platform with a ramp leading down from it, in addition to two sets of doors below the platform. The four ladies all assumed that this was likely where their taggers would be coming out to give chase to them.
Walking around the gym, they all noticed in addition the stage on the far end from where they had entered, as well as the elevated grandstand seating, even though the only people up in the grandstands currently were Asylum Renegade, fairy-phoenix, and Has A Cunning Plan, all of whom were operating cameras at various positions throughout the room.
After a few moments of looking around, they heard a sound which seemed to resemble two large metal pans being bashed and clanged repeatedly together, at which point Waffle King Richard, who was dressed as a gang supporter, walked out on stage from behind the curtain and flexed his arms. “Welcome to your 24-hour Punishment Game ladies! Come on now, don’t be shy! I need you all to come over here!”
The four ladies all hesitatingly began to make their way over to where Waffle King Richard was at the stage. They still were somewhat nervous and uneasy about what exactly the game had in store for them.
Waffle King Richard then took off his hat and brushed his hair to one side. “Urgh. Why do I have to get up so early in the morning for you slackers? Anyway, the 24-hour game of tag will start in a few moments at 8am sharp; but first, I have an additional instruction for each of you from Lycanthropos. So take what I have to say as if it is straight from the horse’s mouth. Christmas Spirit Fairy, you in particular! You’re well known for acting like a smart-arse; but today, just do as Lycanthropos commands of you, okay?”
Christmas Spirit Fairy rolled her eyes in disbelief and false shock. “Yeah, sure. Whatever you say
Waffle King Richard.”
“Anyway… Well then, let us begin the game, shall we?” Waffle King Richard then took a deep breath. “Good luck to each of you, as you are clearly going to need it. For the game begins in three, two, one…”
At that exact moment, there was a loud noise, as if there had been an explosion of air back at the other end of the gym where that raised platform was located. The four ladies turned in fright as they saw their first tagger get launched up from below the platform before the tagger proceeded to run down the ramp and across the gym floor towards where they were gathered. The tagger was dressed completely in black, including a mask which covered their face. The ladies quickly broke up to try and increase their odds of survival by not being caught. The tagger in question was also holding a giant paper fan, of which that tagger quickly set their sights upon Queentintin, managing to chase her down and whacking her several times with the fan before turning their attention towards their next target, who happened to be Christmas Spirit Fairy.
Christmas Spirit Fairy unfortunately could not keep a safe distance from the tagger, who managed to also strike her down, first hitting her in the back before doing a couple of whacks to the face, before the tagger then moved to their third target of Pink Fregia. Once Pink Fregia had also been whacked with the paper fan, the air horn was blasted by the official time keeper for this particular shift, Hidden Blood Blossom. The tagger then withdrew, running towards one of the sets of doors on the lower tier of the platform, at which point that explosion noise was heard again, and a second tagger was launched up from the platform before they came running down the ramp. This time the tagger was carrying a wooden ladle spoon, of which they went immediately for Pink Fregia, tapping her on the head given that she was the closest to the platform and hadn’t had a chance to recover from the paper fan tag just a few seconds before.
The tagger then turned their sights upon faelove64 and whacked her on the back of her head several times, before shifting on to Queentintin and hitting her a few times. Once the air horn went off again to signal that the one-minute chase time was up, the four ladies thought that that was it for now, and that there wouldn’t be any more taggers for a short while. Indeed Christmas Spirit Fairy mistakenly gave a sigh of relief, thinking that she could manage to catch her breath.
Not quite…A few seconds later the platform launched a third tagger up, who happened to be wearing boxing gloves with the tag line "
Kickboxer" appearing on the screen behind the platform. This tagger immediately chased after Christmas Spirit Fairy before easily managing to grab her and hold on. A few seconds later, another two taggers ran out from the lower doors and headed over, taking hold of Christmas Spirit Fairy as the kickboxer fired a roundhouse kick against her rear end, knocking her to the floor. At which point the three taggers all left, leaving the four ladies out of breath and wondering what the next 23 hours and 57 minutes had in store for them.
“And we’re
only three minutes in” Queentintin observed.
“It stings like hell” Christmas Spirit Fairy commented, referring to where she’d just been kicked. Once she had caught her breath again, she then added “Do you think it’s okay if I just go home now and leave you three to fend for my honor?”
**********Meanwhile, backstage the five taggers who had just been out on the gymnasium floor, had taken their masks off and were eating some of the buffet items which the Guild staffers had set up for them, whilst both Waffle King Richard and Hazumu-san were putting some breakfast menu items on a cart ready for Waffle King Richard to take out into the gym for the four ladies who were busy serving their punishment game to indulge upon shortly.
“I’ll tell you one thing” MsMash explained as she picked up some cheese and put it on her plate. “Pink Fregia was cringing as I whacked her with the ladle.”
“I know. You should have seen Christmas Spirit Fairy though as both cocox_x and I held her for that hard kick to the rear from Ap_Y” XxAriaxX replied as she took several pieces of melon and a glass of champagne for her own breakfast meal plate.
**********Once the cart was ready with the breakfast items for the four ladies who were being put through their punishment game, Waffle King Richard wheeled it over to the door leading into the gymnasium whilst the sound of clanging pots was heard over the speakers within the gym, to signal to the four ladies that Richard was about to make an appearance.
However, the ladies at this point were somewhat jumpy and antsy, and thus they reacted to the sound of the pots as if it was the signal for a tagger being released into the room, and so they all jumped from where they were seated at the table in the center of the gym, and began running before they came to realize that in actuality, it was only Waffle King Richard making an appearance to ruin their livelihoods within this game.
‘Welcome to your Punishment Game!” Waffle King Richard called out as he started pushing the cart into the gym, before closing the door again behind him. Making his way over to the table, he set the cart to one side as the four ladies each gathered around to hear what he had to say, although they honestly didn’t think that at this point, he would have anything of value to offer to them in their current situation.
“I’ve brought you all breakfast” Richard explained calmly as he looked towards Pink Fregia.
“Really?” Queentintin asked excitedly, having become somewhat hungry from those three hard runs she had done a short while ago at the start of the tag game.
Waffle King Richard glanced between each of the four ladies as he removed his trusty hat once again and brushed his hair to one side. “Lycanthropos certainly likes to make sure that he takes care of the wellbeing of even the likes of the four of you. He
really is the living model of an angel, isn’t he?” He paused for a moment. “But before you all eat, let us of course give our thanks to Lycanthropos for feeding you layabouts.” He then gestured to the plates of food on the cart. “You can eat once you’ve given thanks by repeating after me. ‘Even the likes of us…’”
The four ladies remained silent, as if silently protesting having to praise Lycanthropos for some inexplicable reason in their minds.
“All together now” Waffle King Richard mentioned calmly. “Even the likes of us…”
With mumbling voices that were not at all enthusiastic, the four ladies all grumbled out a light phrasing of “Even the likes of us…”
“Get to eat…” Richard continued.
“Get to eat…” the ladies replied.
“…because of Lycanthropos.”
“…because of Lycanthropos” As the four spoke this, Christmas Spirit Fairy crossed her fingers secretly behind her back.
“Thank you Lycanthropos for being the amazingly kind and generous being that you are to us.” Richard at this point was rubbing it in, and making Pink Fregia sick to her stomach with all the kissing up that he was doing as Lycanthropos’ Yes Man.
“Thank you Lycanthropos for being the amazingly kind and generous being that you are to us” the ladies replied, at which point Waffle King Richard turned and made his way out of the gym, leaving the four of them in "supposed" peace to enjoy their breakfast. Although for how long they would be able to actually enjoy their breakfast, if at all, was anyone’s guess given they did not know when the next tagger was scheduled to make their way out onto the gymnasium floor.
As the ladies settled down to enjoy their breakfast, they each elected to leave their shoes wisely on, just in case a tagger happened to come and spoil their mealtime. But as they bore into their food, there was no sign of anyone coming. Still, that didn’t mean that they were willing to drop their guard just yet.
However, the four of them would of course manage to scare themselves just as easily during their break from the taggers, given that faelove64 managed to drop her fork which landed on the metal lid which she had only taken off of her breakfast plate a short time earlier. The clanging noise created caused all four ladies to leap up in fright and start running, before faelove64 came to realize that it wasn’t actually the signal for the taggers being released, but rather just that her fork had fallen over.
“Oh, sorry about that. That was actually just my fork which had fallen over and hit the metal lid which I’d taken off of my breakfast plate a few moments ago” she explained, all the while watching Queentintin clutching her chest in shock and fright.
“Please, just promise me that you won’t do that again” Queentintin replied. “I doubt that my heart could take such excitement and horror at this point on a repeated basis.”
**********Whilst the four ladies were having breakfast, the next tagger was busy getting ready with stepping onto the rising platform and slipping on their mask ready for their turn. Sweet Moonbeam’s tag assignment was to strike with a kendo bamboo sword. Grabbing the sword, she braced as the platform suddenly rushed her up to the top, causing her to hop a little as it came to a stop, while the four ladies below turned to see that a new tagger had arrived, and ran off in fear across the gymnasium floor in the hope that they would not be caught.
Yet it was a quick run down the ramp for Sweet Moonbeam who then rushed towards the four of them. For some reason, the four ladies were keeping somewhat huddled together this time, and thus just making it easier for everyone to run the risk of getting caught by Sweet Moonbeam and her kendo sword stick.
Running around the table several times whilst chasing Queentintin, Sweet Moonbeam then switched her attention over to Christmas Spirit Fairy and began swinging the sword at her hips, causing Christmas Spirit Fairy to get down in a crouching position on the floor, whereupon the sword was used to poke and prod at her as she cringed.
Sweet Moonbeam of course still had plenty of time, and so she then switched to her next target faelove64, giving chase and tapping her a few times on the left leg, before once again turning her attention back to Queentintin. As she rushed towards Queentintin at the other end of the gym, Queentintin proceeded to grab Pink Fregia and held onto her, using her friend as a shield and thus allowing Sweet Moonbeam to attack Pink Fregia whilst seemingly sparing Queentintin in the process. After a few more whacks and prods against Pink by Sweet Moonbeam, the air horn was blast to signal an end to that round of the Punishment Tag Game, to which Sweet Moonbeam then made her way quickly back to the doors under the platform in order to go and meetup with the other taggers in the prep and buffet room.
As the four ladies regrouped at the table in the center of the room, Pink glanced over at Queentintin with a rather annoyed look upon her face.
“Queentintin, you used me as a shield back there, didn’t you” Pink Fregia asked of her friend.
“You must have just imagined it” Queentintin replied assuredly, hoping to get the subject matter dropped.
“But I’m pretty sure that you grabbed me to use me as a shield against that last tagger” Pink responded as she took her seat again to resume her breakfast.
“Don’t worry about it. It’s all simply in your imagination” Queentintin answered calmly as she took her own seat and resumed enjoying her eggs.
Unbeknownst to Queentintin, the film crew had already made a mental note to save that clip for the TV Special that would be aired at a later date.
As the first hour finally managed to wrap itself up seemingly peacefully compared to how it had started, the four ladies were all left at this point to simply wonder just what exactly the next 23 hours had in store for them with regards to this 24-hour punishment game of tag, and whether they would even manage to survive it with their sanity and well-being intact.
Meanwhile, Waffle King Richard was reviewing the schedule for the 9am hour, as well as talking with both angelic snow angel and Daffodil the Destroyer about what Lycanthropos had arranged to be in store for the four traitors with regards to the ultimate finale tomorrow morning.
**********What will the 9am hour bring our four lovely ladies in their bid to survive the 24-hour Punishment Game of Tag? And what might this ultimate finale that Lycanthropos supposedly has in store for them tomorrow morning be? And whilst we are on the subject of sanity, will Waffle King Richard ever be a sane person in his lifetime?
Tune in tomorrow as we advance forward to Chapter Two which will cover the 9 o’clock hour for the game, and find out the answers to at least some of your questions and concerns.
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