He dreamed of London. Waking from the dream, Justin sat up and looked around his bedroom. The memory of the dream lingered in his head. He had been dreaming of the busy streets, of rain on the dirty cobbled roads, of the carriages that rattled past. He was dreaming of the bustling crowds, of the voices discussing the war with the far-off empire of China. He had been dreaming of the houses, filled to bursting with immigrant Irish, seeking to escape famine in their homeland, and finding life on the streets of the English capital harder than they had expected. He dreamed of hurrying to one side to be out of the way of the wealthy women who walked past, spaniel curls and pleated skirts gathered at the waists, emulating the style of Queen Victoria, who sat on the throne somewhere in this large city so far away from the mud in the alleys. He had been dreaming of the docks, thronging with ships, passengers travelling to and from the colonies to the far west, where they forged new frontiers, where men with dusty hats told tall tales of service by the side of Robert E Lee and Ulysses S Grant to the eager amusement of the east end ladies. He had been dreaming of learning to read, desperately and slowly, wanting to savour the works of the gentry, and hoping that he may be able to one day afford one of those printed tomes, perhaps even a little document of penny dreadfulls. He had heard much of a poet who lived in the colonies, a man called Poe, but Justin dreamed that his mother... his mother had preferred Dickens. He hadn't been dreaming. He'd been remembering. He could remember the musky scent of the streets, the taste of the air. He remembered the sound of the whistles of the Bow Street Runners, and the orange hue of the sunrise over the rooftops. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember his parent's faces. His human parents, not the father who had given him a new life. The faces of his birth parents were lost to the mists of time. Justin rolled over in bed, and looked at the window. His bedroom was too bright. The moon outside was full, and the light seared into his room, illuminating it in shades of black. He couldn't sleep. In frustration, Justin reached out with his vampiric powers, snatching the shadows that lurked in the room and pulling them up, covering the window with their inky blackness. Unsatisfied, he blanketed the room in darkness, willing every surface to be the shade of a starless night sky. He closed his eyes, and tried to sleep, surrounded in the warm cocoon of the shadows. He waited. And waited. Sighting, he dismissed the shadows, letting the moonlight filter back into the room. Groggily, he sat on the side of the bed, and accepted his fate; he couldn't sleep. He got up, and walked downstairs. He stopped at the refrigerator and opened it, recovering a container of milk. He poured some into a cup, heated the beverage, and drank a few sips. Stepping back into his room, he walked over to his computer and powered it on. He stared at the screen. He flicked through a few of his most-visited websites, until he felt extremely bored. He sipped his drink. On one website, someone had wrote a story. A piece of fan fiction concerning a movie he had recently watched. An idea struck Justin, this may be just the thing to cure his insomnia. He read for a while, and then changed his mind; he didn't want to read. He wanted to write. He opened up a document, and began to type a story. And this is what he wrote. teh sun was very hot in the morning on the little planet which is far away in the universe and it is morning there. the sun was very green and shone with greenlish light which woke me up. i knew that it was morning because the light was shining in my face. i woke up and got out of bed. "My name is josh" i said. and then i went downstairs. my mom was in the kitchen. "Josh" she said "i know that you have to go away now to fight the evil space empire because they are evil. but i wish you did not have to go" "i am sorry mom but i have to go on a journey" i said. "teh evil space empire kidnapped my dad who is an awesome space green lantern and i have 2 go and rescue him" "please be careful when you go" said my mom and she gave me cornflakes. "by the way u need 2 go an talk to da profesor oak because he has a special gift for u" OK i said and then i went. i forgot to say i was wearing black jeans and a black my chemical romance tshirt with this fishnet stuff on the arms and a black wristband with skulls and stuff on it and i have blue and black streaks in my hair and my eyes are deep like red like blood and stuff and i had a big japanese sword type thing and i live on this little planet somewhere far away in the galaxy. i wet to prof oaks house and he said 'hello josh' i said 'hello' and the prof said 'would you like to have a monster to fight with' and i said 'yes' then the prof gave me a big monster. it had black and red eyes and blue and black spikey hair and it had like about 7 arms and could turn them into guns and stuff. it was totally scary and had big teeth. "that is a very cool monsr" i said. the prof oak said 'it is my latest xperiment and you can have him if you want but u must bring him back some day!!" i said ok an took da monsta an we both went 2 da space port where the rockets were. i spoke to da man at the port an said dat we need 2 use one of da rockitts 2 go into space so we can fight the evil empire. he said ok. then i got on the rocket an we went into space. the rocket started to blast of and there was lots of rumbling and the rocket shook. then it went into space. "ok" i said "We are in the space. now we need to go to the other space where the evil empire is!" so we went there. ON THE WAY 2 the empeior space the rocket ship started to run out of fuel so josh went to another planet an stopepd there. he got onto the planet which was a dessert planet and he wet into a space bar where a lot of aliens were. when he got in there he asked where he could talk to someone who had the fuel. in the bar he met an old man who totally had messy hair and a big cloak and a sword and stuf.f "Wat is your naem?" asked josh "My name is aragorn" said the man "That is a cool name" i said "My name is justin" "hello josh" said aragorn. then he said that he knows where they keep the fuel for the space ships. it was in a cavern's place far outside the city but it was guarded by the most evil dragon thing in a billion universes. Actually just forget this bit, i don't think aragorn should be a dude. and the dragon thing is dumb. just pretend this bit never happened. okay so we're back at the bit where josh is landing on the planet again, ok? I set the spaceship down on the planet. There was sand all over the place. Lots of sand. Sand was underfoot and floating through the air. I had to wear this cloak type thing over my eyes to keep the sand out of my face. The monster stayed on the ship so that he wouldn't scare people. I went out of the space port and walked around the little town for a while until I seen a space pub. There were lots of aliens inside the pub. It was very smokey and very loud because people were talking in lots of other languages and I couldn't understand them all. There was lots of noise but it wasn't very good, I walked up to the bar and asked them to put on some Marilyn Manson instead. I walked up to one of the dancing girls who were around the parts of the bar. There was one and she was dancing around a pole. She was almost totally naked and danced back and forth slowly with the music. I sat down and watched. She smiled at me. "What is your name?" i asked. She smiled and slowly took off her bra. "I am aragorn" she said. "would you like to come back to my place?" josh lay back on the golden bed and aragorn lay down on top of him. she had long gold hair that flowed all the way down and she smiled at him. the bed was made of these long curving gold things that looked like branches. they were in the treetops of aragorns home, which was an elven village in the middle of the trees. she was an elf so that is where she lived. it was peaceful and very soft music was playing. she had wore a long gray robe and had taken it off so now she was wearing nothing at all. she kissed him. he kissed back. then they kissed. it was very hot. aragorn started to moan as josh put his thing into her wet place. they moaned. she was totally moving around and stuff and her breasts were very nice and stuff. Her eyes were like bouncing heavy orbs of wetness that blinked like deep pools of wet moisture. "oh" she moaned "Oh yes oh yes justin thats perfec. the next morning aragorn woke up and got up. Josh woke up and looked out of the window. the virilian sunset smeared across the vibrant horizon like a bowl of fruit. josh wished he was back at his home planet but he knew he had important things to do. "Let me come wit you" said aragorn. "I have to get revenge against the evil empire too." Josh shook his head "You cannot come with me. you are a girl and I need to protect girls because I am a hero." Aragorn stood up, "But I am a strong girl. And I can look after myself. And the evil empire ruined killed my pet dragon when I was a child and I want revenge on them. In my home village we used to raise dragons, but the empire was scared of dragons because they can breath fire. One time, a platoon of our dragons destroyed their giant space station. After that they came to my village and killed all the baby dragons, even the one I had as a pet! For that reason I must find them and destroy them all!" "Okay you can come too" said Josh. So aragorn got up and moved silently across the floor like she was gliding or flying or something like the brides of Dracula in that Dracula movie, only except she was walking. And she walked into her changing room and when she came out she had long black hair with fiery red streaks and purple tips and she wore tons of black eye liner and had black nail polish on and was wearing a black fishnet corset dress with tassle things on the arms and big tall boots and she looked kinda like a girl version of Gerard Way. "OMG you look so hot" i said. "thanks" she said in a voice "I will bring the space ship fuel to your ship and we can go to the empire now" In the cold chilly depths of space and with a cargo hold full of fuel Josh was piloting his ship through the dark emptiness of space looking for the empire. "we will need to find where the empire are hiding" said aragorn. "we should try to find one of the green lanterns to ask for directions." "They cannot help because my dad was a green lantern and the empire kidnapped him" said josh. "oh I am sorry" said aragorn "But maybe we should find someone who knows the directions. i know about an old man who lives in a cave and knows everything in the universe. Maybe we should ask him." The ship landed on a small planet which was very small, it was about the size of a small moon or something. Me and aragorn and my pet monster went outside. The vermillion sunset stained the sky a hefty shade of orange just like the blazing tinge of a vibrant ebony fruit bowl, which looked really cool and exciting. "I have found the cave" i said. We went inside the cave. It had sticks with fire on the ends on the walls and the light was very flickery and exciting. The cave was very dark and the floor was slippery because of the cave water. soon we seen a figure in the cave. he was sitting looking at a fire. i said "hello are you the wise old man who lives in a cave?" the figure turned around and i could see his face. his face was all pointy and looked like it had bone type plates on it, but they pointed up at the top, and his mouth was a little pointy too a bit like a triangle. He had very strong eyes and had a visor thing over one eye. he wore a big blue metal suit type thing and carried a big sniper rifle on his back. part of the metal suit had a big crack on the right of his face and his face was all cool and scarred on that side too. "why do thou disturbeth an old man?" his voice boomed. Josh gulped but stepped forward, because he was very brave and heroic and wasn't afraid of anything at all, not even of being spanked. "I am Justin and i need to know where teh evil empire is!" i said. "Oh art thou surest?" asked the old man. "The evil empire is not very easy to find. thou must be sure that thou dost understand thy mission well if thou wishest to go." "I wish to go" said Josh. "That is right" said aragorn. "josh is very brave and he is the coolest guy in his whole school. You should totally help him." "very well" said the old man and waved his hands up and down. "I wilst help thou, but thou must first pass a test." Josh gasped! "What kind of test?" the old man reached into his pocket and pulled out a little ball, and when he threw it at the ground a giant monster with fire coming out of its eyes and three heads came out. it roared out of all of its mouth at once. on its arms it had massive drills just like that monster in that godzilla movie. "if thou wish to have my help then thou must defeat the blood beast!" shouted the old man. I gasped! i was very worried and did not think i could defeat him. his skin was too strong for my sword to cut through and i had left my dads green lantern power ring at home. "what can I do?" i gasped. but then the monster that prof oak had given me ran forward! it jumped at the blood beast and the two of them strted to fight. josh's monster was leaping all over the cave in super speed, and was moving so fast that it looked like he was blurring all over the place. but the blood beast was really strong and could shoot laser beams from its mouth and it kept firing them all over the place. lots of heavy metal music and stuff was playing too. the good monster would jump up into the air and do lots of slow motion jumpkicks. but at the last minute the blood beast shot its laser breath through the good monster's chest! i screamed because i knew it was a fatal wound. the good monster fell to the ground. "ha ha ha" said the old man "thou canst not win!" but then the good monster slowly got back up. but i knew it couldn't fight any more because it had had a fatal wound and was bleeding all over the place. but then it roared like a beast and tore open its armour plate on its head to reveal a massive cannon inside its head. it was going to use its ultimate attack! it blasted the evil monster apart in a totally cool scene with lots of loud music and explosions. the evil monster exploded in a giant mushroom cloud. then it started to gush blood all over the place. the good monster collapsed and josh ran over to it because he knew that the ultimate attack had used up all of the good monsters fighting power and now it was going to die. "no don't die" said josh, but it was too late. he threw back his head and screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" the old man walked over to josh and said "thou hast bested the great blood beast and thou hast proven thy loyalty. thou canst find the emperor on the planet at the very middle of the universe." josh got up. then the old man said "but thou must be careful. it is dangerous to go alone. take this" and gave josh a small wooden box. josh opened the box and inside he found a little magical crystal type thing. it was very shiny and sparkled a lot and inside it had weird swirling blue and black fires. josh put it in his pocket and looked to where the old man was standing to say thank you. but the old man was not there. josh looked everywhere in the cave but the old man was not there! He had vanished!! so josh and aragorn went back to their spaceship. josh was sitting in the pilot chair when aragorn came in. josh was in a bad mood because the monster had died. aragorn sat next to josh and said "you are very brave and cool" but josh was very angry "its not fair that the monster died." "no but we fought the other monster and we won and now we can go and fight the evil empire" said aragorn but josh punched the desk and shouted "why did this have to happen to me? Why did the stupid prophecy say that i was the only one who could destroy the empire?" "It is because your awesome and cool" said aragorn "Yeah but look at all the trouble that causes to everyone else. my father was kidnapped because of me being the chosen one and then the monster died because i had to fight that monster. I'm totally strong and fast and a genius but i don't want any of that! Why can't I be a normal person! I'm too good at everything! it's a curse!!" aragorn felt sad for josh because of that and held onto him. then she started to kiss him. then we started to make out. Josh put the controls onto auto pilot and then started to make out keenly with aragorn. they were kissing all over each other and were even using their tongues. it was really hot and they started to take off each others clothes and then THEY HAD SEX!! when they were done josh looked out of the window and said "look we are at the planet in the middle of the universe." they landed the ship and got out. it was a very strange planet. the ground beneath them was purple and the sky was green. there were four moons in the sky and there was nobody about. the only things were these weird crystal type of rocks that were growing like plants. josh felt suspicious and took his sword out. "the empire has to be around here somewhere" he said. then they started sneaking around. they moved along one of the mountains and listened to the wind. it was too quiet. then from behind one of the mountains josh heard a sound. He jumped out from behind the mountain at what had made the sound. tied to a big crystal type rock thing was josh's dad. he was tied to it with ropes and couldn't speak because the empire had gagged him and stuff. but when he seen josh he tried to shout to him. but in front of josh's dad was a giant monster!! it had no feet and looked like it was made out of giant lumpy pudding. it was as tall as a skyscraper and had masses of tentacles sprouting from all over its body. in the middle of its massive body was two red eyes and a massive mouth full of very spikey teeth. it was horrifying. josh looked at it and screamed. it was.............. the evil space empire!! "ha ha ha" said the evil empire "i am glad you have come here. you have fallen into my trap. because you are the chosen one and now i can crush you!" Josh grabbed tight onto his sword and ran towards the empire. he jumped into the air and into the biggest fight of his life! TO BE CONTINUED!! "So what do you think?" asked Justin eagerly. Kero held the printed manuscript in his hands. His eyes swam over the story, often blinking in bewilderment or confusion. The two lads sat together at a small table in the dining hall, with barely half an hour left of the lunch break, when Justin had pulled the pages from his backpack and insisted that his friend offer an honest opinion. Justin beamed proudly as Kero read over the pages. Kero couldn't believe what he was reading. At times he struggled to prevent his jaw from dropping open. "An honest opinion?" he asked. Justin nodded, enthusiastically. "Is it good?" he asked, his eyes wide and bright. Kero bit his lip. "It's..." he answered slowly, carefully struggling to push each word past his lips, "It's possibly the best thing I have ever read." "Really?" exclaimed Justin. Kero nodded. He could feel guilty for lying later. The look of joy on his friends face was enough for now. "Can I keep this copy?" "Sure, sure!" chirped Justin, reaching into his pocket to grab a pen. "Let me sign it for you! I'm going to put it on the internet. Maybe someone will want to make it into a movie!" "Yeah. That could happen."