“There, I told you there was new shop here," he looked smugly at him.
He sighed…
“Okay, I get it Gary, but I swear when I walked passed here yesterday it was still a burnt out shell.”
“Maybe they worked fast”, he no longer looked so smug.
He looked at the building. A while back it had been a mortgage place. It had been burnt down in some accident; luckily no one was in it at the time. He looked now at the new building. Heck, it looked like it had just been built. All the windows were clean and new and there was not a sign of fire. It looked just like a new shop. He looked at the sign and saw bright blue lettering, saying: Toy Emporium Apart from that, it also looked bigger. No day work could do this, he sighed...
Gary was pulling at his arm “Come on David lets go and look inside.”
He sighed beaten “Okay Gary just stay by me, I have a bad feeling about this place.”
Gary ran inside ignoring everything David had said. David pushed open the doors and what met his eyes was amazing there were thousand of selves of toys from Lego to play-mobile but the biggest aisle had a big banner saying Let your kids have a glance at the past let your kids play with toys you may have played with, let them play with clock work toys as you did. He saw his brother in that aisle, he ran up to him “Hey Gary don't run off like that please.”
His brother looked at him annoyed “Sheesh David stop worrying about me I’m 13 for ---- sake and looks at these toys who would want to play with them and… suddenly David looked round and saw a grim faced man looking down at his brother, he looked very old but walked with a precise step he looked blind and deaf but he heard them talking. “Really! So you think these toys are not good enough, why don’t I give you a free one and by next week you’ll be back at this store the man smiled as if he had told a joke. He handed Gary one the toys, it was a pirate wielding a cutlass and what was scary about it he thought was it looked like it was grinning.
Gary looked round when David handed him the toy the man looking like he had accomplished something, David thought.
“I said I didn’t want it…” he replied angrily.
“Bu…but Gary the man gave it to you, the lease you can do is be more considerate.”
"What man? David, you're starting to scare me. It's only us here," Gary looked around wearily.
David looked around too. Gary was right, the man had vanished. Now he thought about it he never heard any footsteps.
“Well David say I do believe you, and I don’t this toy is now rightfully mine”, he then spun his finger around his ear.
“Bu.bu.but there was a man here I swear” David stammered.
“Whatever David I’m going back to the orphanage, and you can act freaky like this in here all day if you want, later” Gary pulled up his hood over his short spiky blond hair grabbed an extra toy and ran out.
David cursed him under his breath why his parents have too die in that car crash he could vaguely remember it all the blood all the glass his father had almost survived, but when trying to get him out his Father had suddenly had a heart attack dying on the spot.
David turned round to leave and saw all the clockwork toys grinning at him. He shivered his imagination playing tricks with him that all he thought, but why does it look like there moving. He started to run he had idea why he ran he was scared something about those toys was scary he looked at the time on his green strapped digital watch. It was 6:00 he ran for the door trying to open it, was locked he shivered he didn’t want to spend a night in here so he ran too the window trying to find a way out, Then he heard a noise that made him shake like hell a sound of a key being wound and then tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
And then he saw tiny feet moving out the darkness. This can’t be happening he thought this couldn’t be happening.
There were hundreds of them all grinning like crazy, and all wielding a weapon of some sort. He backed against wall and prayed for a miracle. Then David thought they are tiny, I can handle them so he picked up a baseball bat and charged at them and swung. He hit loads of them but when ever he hit them more came from selves to join them. Then he felt them climbing all over him cutting him everywhere his leg his head his arm. Suddenly just as fast they begun they stopped and fell down. David breathed a sigh of relief. He then smashed a window with the bat and ran out. He did not care if he cut himself now he did not care if he was late those things could have killed them why did they stop he needed to know that. He sat down and looked at him self they had cut him up bad his leg was covered with those little wounds so much so it looked like one big wound. He sighed and limped back to the orphanage.
Chapter 2
When David buzzed to be let into the orphanage, he wanted nothing more than to go get in without a big fuss, but no such luck. One of the workers saw him and immediately launched into a thousand questions thought David
“Are you okay? What Happened? Why are you late?” She looked really concerned.
David’s brain boiled. “Let me in, then I’ll say why I was bloody late and why I’m bleeding badly,” he grimaced angrily.
She moved away and then a sudden dizziness hit David. He felt like he could not move another inch. He wobbled slightly, and then the ground met his face. He heard a scream, and then fell unconscious.
When he woke up and looked around, he saw that he was in a bed. Next to him were chocolates and other gifts. He looked around and realized he was in a hospital. He went to grab a grape when he saw something. It was the clockwork toy that Gary been given and it was grinning at him. It moved closer, surely he imagined it. No, it was closer. David could no longer stand it. He screamed as loud as he could.
He felt a needle in his arm and relaxed.
“Your safe now,” said the bodiless voice.
David looked around groggily ad saw a nurse. She was quite pretty with long black hair tied up in a pony tail, innocent eyes and an affectionate smile. “What happened too me, how did I get here?” David asked.
She laughed and smiled. “Well what happened to you we’re not sure, but you lost a lot of blood causing you to faint. Your brother gave you some of his blood though, so now he's literally your blood brother.”
David grinned, it was a bad joke, but he had a nice nurse so he didn’t mind if her jokes were bad. Then he remembered about the toy and was about to ask about it, but it was gone; nothing there except a clockwork key. He was about too scream again, but the nurse put her hand over his mouth and calmed him down.
“Now what the heck is up with you? You looked up at that table and almost screamed again,” she said calmly.
“Clockwork toy, clockwork toy,” David stuttered.
The nurse sighed sadly and went to speak to the doctor. David must have hit his head quite hard. He seemed quite sane at first, but now the nurse wasn’t so sure. She needed to talk to the doctor to see if he could be let out.
David tried to sleep, but all he could hear was his breathing and the slow tick tock of the clock. He could swear the clock was louder. Maybe he was losing it. He tried to sleep one more time and fell fast asleep. He dreamt he was back in the toyshop, but there were no windows and no doors. All he heard was tick tock, tick tock. Then he felt excruciating pains everywhere. He felt like he was being tortured and screamed, but no one heard him, he was alone. Then the torture stopped and the man came.
“Your mine now David, you and your brother belong to me.”
David felt his limbs stiffen and saw his hands were now tiny and painted. He gasped and saw the man as a giant.
David shot up. He was sweating. His dream had seemed so real. He had to get out of the hospital. He ran for the door, pushing the nurse flat on her face. He was sorry, but had no time to tell her, so he ran, but realized he was going nowhere. He looked round and saw that Gary had his hand gripped on his bed robe.
“Calm down man, you’re losing it. You’re here for your own good,” Gary explained reassuringly.
David stopped, agreed, and was about to walk back when he saw that Gary had the toy in his pocket, the one he had been given by the man. Its little hands were moving in a cutting throat gesture and then it mouthed one word, “soon.”
David opened his mouth too scream, but no sound came out. Standing beside him was the nurse and Gary looking unhappy. In the Nurses, hand was an empty needle. David was angry and started to feel woozy and once again, fell flat on his face.
Chapter 3
David woke up, but he was not in a bed, he was on a shelf. He saw all the toys. He tried to move, but could not. He looked down at himself. His red Adidas hoody was painted on and his pale blue eyes did not move, they remained open. His short brown hair, the thing he liked about himself, was just painted fast, no perfection. His jeans were also painted on. He felt something sore in his back and knew that his fate had been decided from the moment he set foot in that shop.
David looked around the shelves and saw kids from countless ages, dating straight back too when clockwork toys were first made, and all of them had the same sad expression. He could guess why.
they knew their was no chance for any of them. Just then he heard a loud sob from behind him he managed to turn round and saw a pretty Edwardian girl he could tell cause unlike Gary he tried hard in school. The girl was wearing a very lavish blue dress and was wearing silk gloves her hair was long and brown. She saw him looked at him
“Who are you too look at me like that? My father is very rich and… she stopped why are you dressed like that?
“Ahem, you stupid girl your Dad dead welcome to the 21st Centaury, you’re a toy and so am I so live it” David shouted at her.
“Well not much has changed then if this is different year woman and still disrespected she replied stamping her foot in protest.”
Oh great thought David she in a bloody huff. “Criminy girl woman are more represented than you think it just your annoying me like hell acting all high and mighty”
“My name is not girl she replied angrily it is Felicity Richardson and my father is a candidate for Prime Minister”
“Was corrected David he very dead now I think, anyway why were you sobbing?”
"This was an extremely expensive dress. My father purchased it from America. Now it is just painted on," she wept.
David looked at her “Coughvaincoughveryvaincough”
“Pardon are you trying to offend me?” She replied sternly.
“Well looks like Narcissus hit the nail on the head David replied sarcastically.”
“How dare you my Father is very…”
“Dead interrupted David.”
“I was going to say influential she replied annoyed
“Well he dead and influential can’t get any better than that.”
“Well don’t see what so happy about she snapped your parents are probably dead too”
“Happy do I sound happy I’m miserable and I rather face the fires of hell than be in this room with you and also yes my parents are dead, but they had more decentcy in their pinky than you have in your whole body David replied livid.
“Are you being funny, guys like you would kill for someone as beautiful as me?”
“That was then this is now”, replied David now getting totally bored of this girl who was like wallpaper, she was pretty but very boring.
Felicity just started to cry again “So what else had changed I guess woman have rights now…”
“They have rights yes, but I’m not going to tell you the whole of history you missed no way sister.”
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The lights flashed on lighting up the whole shop he saw young children and adults from various ages from Victorian straight to 20th Centaury. Then a voice loomed out of nowhere "Hello my children i gather that you had a good night. Slowly a the man he'd seen earlier walked out the shadows then walked up to the shelve he was at "Welcome David i am your master now you'll kill for me you'll do everything i ask."
"I am called Fatum Tempus i control your fate and time it self. I go back whatever centaury, year, month, and day i choose."
David tried to speak but his mouth couldn't move.
"No one could understand why i do this though David your smart so i'll tell you."
I was born in Ancient Rome, i was a inventor of sorts i discovered the skill of making things work by clockwork. Yes clockwork mechanism are that old, but it wasn't to happen no one trusted me i was trying revolutionise Rome to help my country."
i had just finished recallibrating the mechanism when the Emperor Legionare burst in demanding i quit all my work now or you will be consider a traitor and deciever of Rome. I was desperate and tried to explain the advances this could bring i told them this "You have to understand master legionare with this advance we could make the whole world our empire." He nodded and asked me to show more work it would have all been fine except for that one curious legionary. "Hey sir look at this now he screamed."
I knew then i was doomed but i couldn't fail so i ran to where the scream was. I had been crypt robbing a a dangerous thing but i had plans to make these bodies walk again. The problem was i wasn't ready to show these soldiers off yet. The clockwork mechanism didn't keep them mobile long enough i wanted these to be able to at least walk for five to ten hours i had discovered a way to get the blood running through the body again too so bodies wouldn't decompose. It was all going well I has some working as servants in other rooms. The legionares ran in and saw them "He pushed me against the wall and screamed at me saying that these were abomation unto Jupiter and even Pluto wouldn't except them. I tried to explain how we could do so much with these if i could just finish them he shook his head and spat on me.
He dragged me across the street accusing me of betraying Rome he took me straight to the Senate and demanded that i was to be made a non human. I was hoping the greed of Senate would understand my goal.
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