Diary Of A Kaote - part 2 (638 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (View user info) at 2005-09-08 15:19:58 EDT
Ed nursed his beer. He hadn't even wanted it. Why he was at karaoke, he didn't know. His roommate had made a big production of meeting him down here tonight and making fun of the singers together, but the jackass was now half an hour late. Ed should have known something like this would have happened. Every time Gary made plans, he inevitably screwed them up.
They hadn't even had any lemons cut for the Corona. What a shit bar. But what could he expect for an on-campus establishment. It was going to be lame. He couldn't believe they still had karaoke in the 21st century. People standing up on a rickety stage, bleating out of tune to old disco hits. It was kind of sad if you really thought about it. And yet, the place was packed. Mostly with the students under twenty one, desperate to be part of the bar scene. They crowded around the wooden tables, under the poor light, leafing through the plastic books of song titles, ready to make fools of themselves to their friends' amusement.
A skinny kid was doing a decent job at crooning a Frank Sinatra bit at the moment. Ed was half paying attention, half eyeing the group of girls who were paying their tab beside him. Dressed mostly in black, they were a goth brigade of college wannabe's. When one of the girls stayed behind, he was not surprised to see a pentagram on the end of her necklace. Even better - Wiccans.
She must have notice him staring at her jewelry with a look of displeasure because she made a little coughing sound to raise his eyes to her level. She gave him a well practiced face of arrogance.
"It's a pentacle, which is the symbol of Wicca. I'm not a Satanist."
"I know," said Ed. "If you were, the star would be pointing down towards hell. It would be making out the form of Baphomet, not symbolizing the five elements of Gia."
Ed wondered if her mouth could drop open any farther.
He took another sip of his beer and studied the girl. Not bad, she was pretty cute. Her hair could use another dye job pretty soon, the black was showing the brown roots. But it was long and thick, somewhat curly. She was pale, as all good goth girls were, with a slight frame and some impressive curves hiding beneath her sweater and long pleated skirt. Ed tapped in and saw that she was a journalism major with a single mom, and a love of Tori Amos. Chaos had its perks. Yeah, she would do for some conversation.
"Hi, I'm Ed," he said, introducing himself.
"I'm Jenna," she said. "You surprised me with all that. You didn't strike me as a practitioner."
"Me, oh no. I'm not."
"Oh, you're not Wiccan?"
"Eh, no. Actually, me and the Wiccan persuasion usually don't get along."
"What, are you some kind of uber-christian?"
"Fuck, no! I'm..."
Both of them were startled by a horrible rendition of a U2 song. After a moment of regaining their senses, both laughed and turned back to the bar.
"Wow, that was butchery," said Ed.
"Yeah," agreed Jenna.
"So," said Ed. "We were talking about you."
"Oh no you don't! Why don't you get along with Wiccans?"
(Why the fuck not?)
"Because I'm a Chaos Mage, and Wiccans tend to like natural order. I've run into trouble before with them."
"A Chaos Mage," she said skeptically. "Like, you worship Chaos?"
"No, that would be stupid. But I believe in it, I kinda have to."
"What exactly does that entail?"
"Life is Magick, Magick is Change, Change is Chaos."
"That seems a little too overly simplified."
"The only constant in this reality is change. We are a constantly evolving world, even though we are a reality build on Order. We merely have to reach out and effect that change as we see fit."
"Yeah, but there are physical laws."
"This coming from a Wiccan."
"Maybe in faith, but I don't believe in Voodoo."
"Hey, I've seen Voodoo at work. You wanna talk about some dark arts, shit! Anyhow, most Wiccans think since I work in Chaos, I work in evil. Chaos is above such things as petty as good and evil. It is a cosmic force. A building block of reality."
"Okay, let's say I buy it so far. So what?"
"What do you mean, 'so what'? I'm a Chaos Mage. Been one since birth. It can kinda scare me sometimes," Ed said, taking a swig of his beer. "I've seen shit that would destroy the minds of normal mortals, and done things that would send most atheists running for church."
Jenna grimaced. "See, now you're just making stuff up."
Ed proceeded to tell her all of the information he had gleamed from her using his powers. She grew increasingly pale with each sentence from his mouth.
"... Oh, and last semester, you slept with your roommate's boyfriend. You really didn't want me to know that one, which of course, is why it popped into my head."
Jenna started backing away from him, her face a mask of revulsion. He got that a lot. Most people, as much as they wanted to believe in magic, when faced with Real Magick, freaked the fuck out. They instinctually knew they were dealing with something supernatural, something beyond the normal confines of reality. And that primal part of them told their larger self to "run."
Ed pulled a cigarette out of the pack Jenna had left on the bar counter. He called the Chaos to his finger tips and lit it just as time stopped in the room. He took a few puffs, grimaced, and snubbed it out. Leaning over, he tapped her three times on the forehead with his middle and ring finger, removing all memory of the conversation from his mind. It wouldn't do to have some Witch wiggin' out all over campus because of him.
Ed leaned back and coughed, bringing time back into forward momentum. Jenna almost tripped over a garbage can. He offered a hand.
"Hi, I'm Ed," he said.
User Reviews
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-10-26 13:44:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Bizarre.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-09-30 16:57:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-08-19 10:14:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Ditka (user info) at 2006-01-07 22:52:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Auto +2 already read series just giving author his due.
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2005-09-28 10:43:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Okay, I love your stuff, but I really have to admit that the spelling in a lot of places is getting to me.
If you go on to publish stuff, can I be your editor? I'm real finnicky and detailed when it comes to the inner workings of the English language. Waddaya say?
Submitted by algermetiphist (user info) at 2005-09-13 18:51:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No comment.
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2005-09-12 17:32:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Magic_Monkey (user info) at 2005-09-12 04:05:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Keep em coming !!
Submitted by Benny (user info) at 2005-09-11 23:11:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I liked the end a hell of a lot. Pretty cool power to be able to start the pickup conversation over again if the first time didn't go so well.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-09-11 02:25:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You're fucking kidding me. Now I'm really interested in this Chaos Magick stuff. I thought you just made it up.
Well, in a way it wouldn't surpise me, because Grant Morisson is one crazy Scottish bastard. He can be a good writer, but a lot of the times he gets carried away with himself. I find he's the type of writer that builds his stories high and fantastic and the stretch up and up and eventually collapse under their own weight, if you know what I mean. His arcs usually start off awesome and end up making no damn sense at all.
I like Warren Ellis much better.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-09-10 22:31:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
+2 points to thecaes. Yeah, I blatantly stole that from Warren Ellis. It was just too good of a concept not to use...
... Wait untill Grant Morrison appears. Supposedly he's suppose to actually practice Chaos Magick, so I wrote him into the story.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-09-10 17:50:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ed's looking better...but I'm still not sure how to take him...there's a certain inconsistency to his personality that I can't quite put my finger on.
Last installment, you mentioned him stepping through 'the Bleed.' Have you read any Authority?
Submitted by garcon_fou (user info) at 2005-09-09 21:08:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i love it
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-09-09 14:24:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sweet. By the way, generally speaking, if you just link back to the previous chapter in each installment, we can follow the links back. And that way we don't have a shitload of links at the top of each page, which can sometimes throw people off. That's just a suggestion, though. So, uhm, yeah. Good stuff.
Submitted by iradney (user info) at 2005-09-09 05:14:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i want to be able to do that....
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-09-09 03:07:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
By the time I'm done with all of this, it might as well be a novel. The 8 parts of "Diary" tie into the next four series, each with 5 to 10 parts each...
Submitted by GaidinCanuck (user info) at 2005-09-09 01:23:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by DarthAwesome (user info) at 2005-09-08 17:55:12 (#)
Ranking: 2
Honestly, right a fucking novel already.
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Seconded. Please do. (I even said please, so now you have to. :P)
Submitted by DarthAwesome (user info) at 2005-09-08 17:55:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Honestly, right a fucking novel already.
Submitted by Salvation_Jane (user info) at 2005-09-08 17:38:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:45:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:37:21 (#)
Ranking: 2
Good story.. but now it's getting more typical. Wiccan is overdone. And the fact that he spells "Magick" in a different way to somehow make it more real is trite.
keep working on them, though
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Call me pedantic, but I disagree that the alternate spelling of
magic is trite. I think it shows a distinct differentiation from
the common "magic" of others.
C'mon, people, this is good shit. Start rating!
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:40:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:37:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good story.. but now it's getting more typical. Wiccan is overdone. And the fact that he spells "Magick" in a different way to somehow make it more real is trite.
keep working on them, though
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:35:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome man...awesome.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:19:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:13:11 (#)
Ranking: 2
cool, what's the deal with no reviews?
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:13:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
cool, what's the deal with no reviews?
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-09-08 16:08:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
great!
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-09-08 15:24:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry, forgot the link to the first installment of the series...
http://www.ubersite.com/m/74709