“ALRIGHT… CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT IN THE FIGGITY-FUCK JUST HAPPENED IN THE PAST TWENTY MINUTES,” a very freaked out Jim asked as he stood outside Lord Castron Lakarias's secluded woodland residence of alongside his fellow friends and two upper-classmen school peers.

  As Josh, John, Eric, Kyle, and Derek all stood outside of Castron’s Cabin with ‘shell-shocked’ looks on their palen, dirtied, and bloodied faces, Jim grew tired of their constant silence.

  “HELLO?!?! IS ANYBODY LISTENING TO ME,” Jim cried out as the others all looked at him. “I can’t be the ONLY PERSON here who’s totally FREAKED THE FUCK OUT about what just happened to all of us!”

  “No, Jim. You’re not alone,” Kyle said in a ghostly voice.

  “NO SHIT, KY-KY! I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!! You should be freaked the fuck out EQUALLY! You ALL should be after we almost got torn to fucking pieces by a… a… URGH… LOOK. I don’t know what the hell that ‘thing’ was back there. I really do--”

  “‘TWAS A VEXAN MAWL BEAST,” Lord Lakarias revealed from up on the front porch to his cabin.

  “A WHAAAA????” Jim asked after turning around to face the mysterious, old hermit.

  “A Vexan Mawl Beast… DISPATCHED BY THE VEXAN EMPIRE,” Castron elaborated.

  “Old Muh-Muh-Man Lu-Lucas?” Derek stammered out after pushing his crack glasses up the bridge of his ‘Mawl-Ash’ covered nose.

  “No,” Castron replied whilst shaking his head. “Castor Lucas is just a false identity that I created for myself when I first arrived here to Aeshlara… EARTH, to your people, so long ago. My TRUE name is Castron Lakarias and I hail from the faraway world of ‘GUARDINAS’, which is located in the Zagreus Galactic Sector.”

  “Uh… Am I still high?” Eric asked himself as he scratched the back of his Mawl-Ash covered head.

  “I think we all are,” Josh replied as he stared at Castron like he was some kind of ‘crazy person’.

  “Tis much to take in, I know,” Lord Lakarias nodded whilst resting both of his hands on his cane’s handle. “Realizing that your race is not alone in our vast and infinite Universe is quite the ‘shocking revelation’... BUT BELIEVE ME; There are far more worlds with their own indigenous life-forms scattered all across the intergalactic starways of the Known Universe… TWENTY-FOUR THAT ARE KNOWN AND CHARTED, to be exact… INCLUDING YOUR OWN: the ‘Milky Way’... Which is actually called ‘Saauda’.”

  “Is this old guy for real?” John asked the others with his dirtied brow scrunched.

  “LORD LAKARIAS! COME SWIFTLY!!!” Lady-Princess Ashanna suddenly cried out from within the Cabin.

  Castron’s eyes then widened as he immediately hobbled back inside his home.

  “GUYS, WE GOTTA GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!” Josh cried out as he turned to the others. “That guy’s fucking crazy!”

  “Nuh-No he’s nuh-nuh-not, Juh-Josh,” Derek stated, causing the ‘crazed-looking’ football player to turn his attention towards him. “He’s juh-juh-just… Old.”

  “THE HELL HE’S NOT, DEREK! Did you not hear the CRAZY LOON SHIT he was just telling all of us?!”

  “I did!” Jim erupted from off to the side. “He said something about ‘ingenious life-forms’ being scattered all across the galaxy… Or whatever.”

  “Get the cum outta your ears, Dingus, and maybe you’ll be able to hear better next time,” Eric crudely remarked.

  “RIGHT,” Jim sourly replied whilst giving a nasty glare to the stoner. “I just remembered that Old Man Lucas ALSO said that he was PIPING Erickson’s HOT AS SHIT Mom.”

  Eric’s eyes then widened as John briefly snickered from behind.

  Ignoring what Jim had just said, Josh turned to Kyle and asked, “What do you think, Gordon? You agree that Old Man Lucas is TOTALLY FUCKING CRAZY, right???”

  “Honestly? I don’t know what the hell to think,” Kyle shrugged. “The ONLY THING that I do think right now is this… ALL OF THIS is just some kind of a ‘hallucination’ caused by some DEMENTED ASSHOLE back at your BULLSHIT PARTY who spiked the Keg that I was drinking from.”

  Josh then looked at Kyle like he was crazy as Jim followed, “SHIT, KY-KY! I THINK YOU’RE ONTO SOMETHIN’, DUDE!”

  Looking over himself now, Jim continued, “If this really is, like, a ‘bad trip’ or some shizz then I bet I can FUCKING FLY… Or FINALLY nail Eric’s Mom!”

  “I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU IF YOU SAY ONE MORE THING ABOUT MY MOM,” Eric coldly threatened whilst Jim fearlessly waved him off.

  Squatting downwards, Jim chuckled, “HA-HA! UP, UP, AND AWAY, MOTHERFU-- AGH! OOMPH!!!”

  In a FAILED attempt to ‘fly’, Jim hung in the air for a half-second before crashing down in the dirt, flat on his face.

  “SERVES YOU RIGHT, BITCH!” Eric shouted as he proceeded to kick Jim in his nuts whilst he was down on the ground, causing him incredible pain.

  “Whoa,” John uttered as Josh clasped the sides of his head.

  “GUYS… FOCUS!!!” the All-State Running Back screamed, gaining everyone’s attention again. “We NEED to come up with a plan here!”

  “Wuh-Why?” Derek asked in confusion.

  “BECAUSE THERE COULD ME MORE OF WHATEVER THE HELL THAT THING WAS THAT ATTACKED US RUNNING AROUND ALL OVER THE FUCKING WOODS!”

  Staggering back up to his feet, Jim rubbed the side of his head whilst groaning, “Ugh… Shit. That sucked.”

  “There was… OR STILL IS a party going at my Parents’ Cabin, you guys,” Josh now said to Derek and the rest of the group. “AND, if there’s more of those fucking ‘MONSTERS’ out in the woods then whoever’s still at the party is in SERIOUS, LIFE-THREATENING DANGER!!!”

  “And why should we care?” Eric asked.

  “Yeah, Russell,” John agreed. “What’s that gotta do with us?”

  “ARE YOU GUYS FUCKING CRAZY TOO?!?!” Josh erupted at both Eric and John.

  “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” cried out a ‘distressed male’s’ voice from

  within Castron’s Cabin, causing the six human teenagers all to direct their attentions towards it once more.

  “Wuh-What’s guh-going on in thuh-thuh-there?” Derek asked nervously.

  “I dunno,” Kyle replied in a voice that trembled with fear of the unknown. “It sounds like someone’s getting their legs chopped off or something.”

  “OR THEIR COCK!!!” Jim cried out in fright, as everyone turned head towards him and glared.

  “Guys, come on!” Josh called again after another scream ushered out of Castron’s ‘Cabin of Horrors’. “We have to get back to my Parents’ Cabin in case more of those ‘monster-things’ are out there!”

  “I think that everything’s gonna be okay, Russell… STOP WORRYING,” John gruffly stated.

  “OH YEAH? What makes you so damn sure of that, John???”

  “‘CAUSE, RUSSELL… If there were anymore of whatever in the fuck that thing was out there then they would have already came.”

  “You don’t know that… NOT FOR SURE. You’re just saying that to make me feel better and NEWSFLASH, JOHN, it’s NOT fucking working.”

  Breaking away from the group now as he backpedaled towards the woods, Josh said, “I’m sorry, guys… But I’ve gotta go. If anyone gets hurt back at my Cabin then it’s gonna be LAWSUITS GALORE and my Parents are gonna have my head on a chopping block.”

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  With ANOTHER scream echoing from within the Cabin, Derek turned his head towards the old hermit’s mysterious dwelling again.

  “Guh-Guys, I thuh-thuh-think we should guh-go in thuh-there,” Derek said whilst gluing his eyes on the front screen door to Castron’s Cabin.

  “SAID EVERY FIRST PERSON to die in a horror movie in the past a HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS, Bentley,” Eric bluntly remarked.

  “Derek… WHY IN THE HELL would we go inside some weird old guy’s house that we don’t even know?” Kyle asked his stuttering best friend.

  “One, of which, has some ‘rando-dude’ GETTING HIS DICK SLICED like a Summer Sausage, fam!” Jim ridiculously added.

  Ignoring both Kyle and Jim’s qualms, Derek slowly started making his way towards the Cabin whilst he said, “It fuh-feels like suh-suh-something’s puh-pulling me tuh-tuh-tuh-towards it.”

  “DEREK, STOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Josh erratically shouted.

  “DUDE, DON’T DO IT,” Jim followed. “YOU’RE GONNA GET TURNED INTO A EUNUCH LIKE ERICKSON!!!”

  As Eric glared at Jim again, John let out a brief bout of chuckling, causing the stoner to turn a fierce look towards the loner… Who glared back more fiercely, causing the stoner to lower his head fearfully like a cowering dog.

  Ignoring the cries of his friends and Josh, Derek had already made it to the wooden staircase that led up to the front porch of Castron’s Cabin.

  “Aw shit… DEREK, WAIT!!!” Kyle called out as he immediately sprinted towards the Cabin.

  As Derek stealthily entered the Cabin with Kyle following him from behind, Eric, Jim, and Josh were all at a loss for words… Except for John.

  “Hm. Okay then,” John shrugged as he too started trudging towards Castron’s Cabin.

  Eyes widened at his former best friend, the now very irate Josh shouted, “John? JOHN, WHAT ARE YOU--”

  “AYO! WAIT UP FOR ME, Y’ALL!!!” Jim wailed as he too joined the ‘illegal entry’ inside of Lord Lakarias’s Home.

  “IDIOTS! YOU’RE ALL FUCKING IDIOTS!!!” Josh angrily screamed as both he and Eric watched Jim, John, Kyle, and Derek all enter the Cabin.

  “C’mon, Eric… LET’S GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE,” Josh stressed after turning to the teenage drug-dealer again.

  “Walking through the woods… WITH YOU while we try NOT to get TORN TO FUCK by anymore of those monster-beast-things???” Eric asked the distressed Jock. “NAH. I’ll take my chances with the others in Old Man Lucas’s ‘Sex Dungeon Cabin’.”

  As Josh dropped his jaw in shock, a disgruntled Eric made a begrudging walk towards Castron’s Home.

  With everyone having left him behind outside of Castron’s Cabin… In the middle of the woods… ALL BY HIMSELF, Josh felt an immense weight of ‘fear and terror’ fall down upon him, metaphorically flattening him in the Earth like a railroad spike.

  “URGH… DAMMIT!!!” Josh raged as he was the last member of the ‘mix-matched’ group of human teens to stomp towards and illegally enter Castron’s supposed ‘Cabin of Horrors’.

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  “AHHH!!! ARGH!!!! AHHHHH!!!” a badly injured Dexius Solas cried out as he laid on his bed cot in the one of two spare bedrooms within Castron’s Cabin.

  “DEXIUS!!!” Ashanna tearfully shrieked as she watched her protector/close friend writhing in pain before both her and Castron. “Dexius, tell me what to do to make your pain subside!”

  Looking down away from the Blue Guardian’s Mawl slashed chest and face, the Lady-Princess set her glowing turquoise eyes on his mutilated right thigh.

  Several bite marks from the Mawl’s razor sharp teeth riddled all over Dexius’s right thigh as blue blood gushed from grievous wounds.

  Princess Ashanna then pressed down on the wound with a blue blood-covered white towel, causing Dexius to let out another agonizing scream.

  “FORGIVE ME, DEXIUS!” Princess Ashanna shouted after causing the Lieutenant more agony. “I didn’t mean to...”

  “FRET NOT, YOUR MAJESTY,” Castron thundered whilst he too tended to Dexius’s ravaged body. “Everything shall be alright.”

  “Lord Lakarias… ARE YOU CERTAIN??? His wounds… They look--”

  “HE SHALL BE FINE, PRINCESS. His Pack… MAJESTY, FIND ME HIS SUPPLY PACK NOW!!!”

  Princess Ashanna then left Dexius’s side and ran over to the small dresser where his black Supply Pack was resting upon.

  “Dump out its components, Princess Ashanna… QUICKLY,” Castron stressed as the Guardinian Royal tearfully did as such.

  Flipping over the bag, Princess Ashanna and Lord Lakarias watched as the six Guardian Energy Shifters, the still jewel-sized Pyramid of Power, and a small velvet bag fell atop the dresser.

  “The bag… BRING IT TO ME,” Castron ordered as the Princess scooped up the small velvet bag in her hands and ran it over to the marooned Guardinian Scientific Explorer.

  “Here, my Lord,” Princess Ashanna replied as Castron took the bag from her, untied its golden drawstring, and dumped its contents in his left hand.

  Falling out from Dexius’s Supply Bag in Castron’s hand were seven, marble-sized ‘glittery stones’.

  Then, in one motion, Castron crushed the glittery stones in his hands, reducing then to a handful of dust.

  With his now ‘glittery stone dust’ filled hand held over the top of Dexius’s wounded body, the old hermit began to trickle it all over the Blue Guardian.

  Once the dust had touched Dexius’s wounds, they immediately started to burn and sizzle as if acid had been poured into them.

  “AAAAAAHHH!!!” Dexius shrieked in a blood-curdling way as steam/smoke began to rise out from his ‘acid sizzling’ wounds.

  “What the hell are they doin’ to that guy???” Kyle asked in a careful whisper as he and the others secretly peeked in the room whilst Castron and Princess Ashanna tended to the ‘half-dead’ Dexius.

  “YO, DUDES! This is, like, some straight up ‘occult shit’ like the Illuminati… Or the Church of Biology,” Jim remarked in response to the Blue Guardian Warrior’s ‘torturing’.

  “Don’t you the mean ‘the Church of Scientology’?” Josh asked Jim from behind.

  “The whaaa???” Jim replied, causing Josh to scrunch his brow at him.

  “God… Just shut the fuck up, Jim,” Eric groaned as Dexius continued to scream out in utter pain from within the guest room.

  “Wuh-Wuh-What are thuh-they duh-duh-doing to huh-him?” Derek asked as he and the others continued to watch Castron and the Lady-Princess tend to Dexius’s formerly ‘life threatening’ wounds from his battle with the Mawl.

  “Nothin’ good,” John replied with his brow lowered. “I’m gonna put an end to this shit… MOVE.”

  As John started to push his way past Derek, Kyle, Eric, and Jim whilst Josh stood alongside his left, something else was happening in the guest room.

  Something… TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.

  Rattling on the floor like ‘vibrating cell phones’ were the other six Guardian Energy Shifters.

  With each being individually colored Red, Green, Yellow, Gold, Black, and White, they all started glowing brightly… VERY BRIGHTLY.

  “John… WAIT,” Josh said as he grabbed onto the towering loner’s left arm.

  Looking down at Josh’s hand, which was clasped around his bicep and tricep, John looked his former best friend dead in his eyes whilst ordered, “TAKE YOUR FUCKIN’ HAND OFF OF ME.”

  “NO, JOHN. I’m not gonna let you go off and get yourself killed for some guy we don’t even know.”

  “I said, take your FUCKIN’ hand off of me, Russell… OR ELSE YOU’RE GONNA BE SCREAMING LOUDER THAN THAT GUY IS.”

  Whilst John and Josh argued with one another outside of the guest room, inside of it the Guardian Energy Shifters suddenly, all at once, began to levitate in mid-air.

  “Guys, come on. This isn’t the time for this,” Kyle stressed as he tried to stop John and Josh’s argument, but it was futile.

  “LET GO OF ME!!!” John raged loudly, garnering the attention of both Castron and Princess Ashanna from inside the guest room.

  “Huh?” Princess Ashanna huffed as John torqued his left shoulder, causing Josh to trip over his own feet and FALL INTO the guest room door.

  CRASHING THROUGH THE DOOR head first into the bedroom was Josh, who was stopped from falling on his face by Derek, who grabbed him by the back of his shirt.

  “AIYEEE!!!!” Princess Ashanna shrieked as the guys all now looked towards her with their eyes widened.

  “PRINCESS ASHANNA! YOUR MAJESTY, TIS FINE!” Castron shouted over both the Guardinian Royal’s and Dexius’s screams. “They are just-- HUH???”

  Looking past the still currently shrieking Lady-Princess of Guardinas, old Lord Lakarias finally noticed that the six other Guardian Energy Shifters had risen in the air all by themselves.

  ALSO noticing this was Derek, who stared at the brightly glowing Energy Shifters in sheer curiosity… AND FEAR.

  “YO! CHILL, Y’ALL!” Jim erupted as he held up his opened hands towards both Castron and Princess Ashanna. “We come in peace! DON’T CUT OUR DICKS OFF!!!”

  SUDDENLY, spit-firing towards the teens in a ‘flying V’ formation were the six Guardian Energy Shifters… WHICH COLLIDED WITH THEM IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.

  With each member of the group of socially mix-matched high schoolers getting their own energy shifter (and color), they all were immediately thrusted down to the ground FLAT on their backsides.

  “Oh no,” Castron then gasped as both he and Princess Ashanna watched the separately colored light energies that pulsated from the ‘G’ Sigils that were grafted in the energy shifters glow brighter and more radiant in their collective shine.

  “PRINCESS! SHIELD THYSELF!!!” Castron warned as he turned both himself and Ashanna away from the six human teens and the bright glowing energy shifters.

  Once the shifters had reached their full, one hundred percent brightness, a massive explosion of combined light energies then consumed the six in its blinding, bright radiance.

  All that could be heard after… WERE THEIR SCREAMS.