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A Strange Journey - Derek Days



The Prologue:

As luck would have it, the 21st Century’s greatest necromancers - have risen to spread their reign of terror over the world...

...To create famine and drought…

The necromancer felt society was responsible for their dastardly doings, he had been shunned and ridiculed. Of course, everyone else thought he was half insane, but that didn’t stop The Darkness. They had no code of ethics…

Not One, but Two! - typical atrocities included…

…and a sequel…

Two men who will go down in history, and hell as well, were just a pair of really nice boys who just happened to serve the wrong demon overlord…

They couldn’t be beat, possessing otherworldly powers and abilities - villains that personified death...

...The Darkness, no one else’s but ours...



The Beginning:

(Achilles)

A dyke’s juice dripping off the umbilical

Like Zeus kicking off some sort of mythical

Pitiful, kissing, stripping for the unwashed

Terrible, dire cost


The worst hated gods who perpetrated plagues

And Hades’ shades carrying blades

They’re cursed but dated though not yet sated

A manic-ed, panicked, serrated charade


(Achilles), dizzy, hit a lick

Outside a bar, a hilt in a brick


Quick Steel, old sword

Long ignored, sweet reward


Inner (enter), (a) city street

Monsters, glizzies, packing heat

Most leave, concede defeat

But A chilly(‘s) hour,

Close, but new graves and flowers


Beasts increased, mercury (Mercury)-deadly

Now deceased, like Freddie



Lightning Mother:

Lightning, never twice struck

Frightening, now, only ten is luck(y)

Thunderous zap and yow, the Lightning Mother’s back from hell

A blunderbuss, and another spell


Seven heads, eleven eyes

Heaven’s lead, leveling guys

Borderline schizo, sort of fine, uh, lips though

Quarter to nine, floor the fine, water and wine, hour to dine

Achilles, act quickly, greet neatly

Attack sweetly, “I think she likes me”

Lightning, never spiced up

Brightening, now, when only love(ly)

Wonderous clap and wow, the Lightning Mother’s back to tell

A generous, grand, smothering quell


Seven heads, eleven eyes

Heaven’s head, lucky Achilles.



King G-Dora:

King G, never one to back down

Or up, lest he be clowning around

How did Achilles, skinny, weak

Shimmy int-a Lightning’s meats?


King G, sights been set

(On) ahead (a head), smite, clean a threat

Informant, dormant till now

Morning, then hard hitting pow

Then Lightning, what’s up?, anyhow

(how) Exciting, strut, fresh cut

Quit it, go and get it

Grit it, lay low and set it

Dawn, where he at?

Darn, hair be - POW!

Splat.


King G, heads on pikes

Dead, yikes.



The Magnificent:

On the (tha) path ahead:

“Beware! Beast of dread

Yonder (Yon-da), leave instead”


No monster staying a threat

No longer breaking a sweat


An old man stood in the rain

Said “Oh man”, hooded restrain

“Refrain, or sustain flaming pain”


‘vice taken

slight’ shaken


But then The Magnificent!

Deflowerer of innocents!

The flowering omnipotent!

You stand no chance

I demand, don’t advance

You misunderstand, leave or I-I’ll

-I have business to attend for a while!



Bistro:

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the

Styx Bistro Bed and Breakfast Bar and Grill

Cafe Lounge, with views over our lovely river.


Where we offer you the finest of the finer things,

No obol needed, free of charge,

For the rest of your times here.


Entertainment, live, we have Prince G-Dora,

No, not that greaseball,

The Terrific, with Tartarus’ top tunes,

And a final gig from The Eye before he gets called up


We’d like to congratulate Lightning on her recent engagement,

And Morpheus’ new special, straight from the River Lethe.

Just lay back, have a good time

Enjoy the music...



All Seeing Eye of Darkness:

A real Sauron,

Mind sucking,

Leaving you a moron,


War on

The normal people

Turning cities into fecal


Evil

Or that’s what they say

Before they gave the okay

For a “Bomb’s away!”


Good

What do you say,

No need to fight, okay?

Now let’s just walk away...



Meta Critic:

Har har, but I’m the Metal Cricket

Rupture rhymes like a hydrolysate

What an amateur, you need a janitor

Reading this feels like a catheter


Is this a parody?

Doom must be lightened by your hilarity.

Your Beginning is dimming,

Lightning isn’t clicking,

King G’s a little different,

But the whole thing’s a “Magnificent”!


Hm, a D at best

Ha! Joking, I jest!

To say with respect

As an Iron-clad insect,

This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen, I need that River Lethe drink now.



Morpheus:

Drunk on the Lethe

Late to work and fast asleep

I’ll just tiptoe around…


“NO!

Behold Ol’ Morpheus!

Notorious for his slick, glorious

-hic- victorious… ness…

zzzzz”



DEATH:

Approaching the throne

Through a long stone path

Unknown bones littered and thrown

Cyclones of dust blown


“Finally, Achilles, we meet.

I am your ultimate enemy.

A noble fight has been destined now

Neither of us will leave untested, I doubt.”


Swords unsheathed, clinking on tiles

A fiery rage, roars ringing for miles

Fatal spear after fatal strike,

Faster and harder than the mortal eye.


“Ugh, close, Achilles!

Truly, an equal to battle me!

These are our final stands and poses

Here, can you outlast my blows?”


A most climactic exchange

Both, afraid to be tamed,

But finally, Death came.

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