The Adventures of Fred and Jack

(Main Story)

                                   Note:

           Seriously, after this, I don’t think I’ll ever have a good Christmas again…

                                  Ch. 1

           If there is one thing I learned this Christmas, it’s that I should never ever let Jack pick a Christmas tree again!

           The tree he got was slumped and the branches looked a decade old, “Perfect!” Jack said, well at least we only lost, hmm $100! Who did Jack buy this from? A scammer? I was FUMING, but, at least Jack paid it back a little later, still, I will destroy him when this is over, this was the worst of the things Jack has done, and trust me, there is a big list on that topic.

             And by the way, I really do not think that this tree will work, I will definitely go find a tree MYSELF, at least after im done destroying Jack, which I will do…

                     Top three things Jack has done

  3. Made me touch the blue stone, which sucked me into a game.

  2. Everything STUPID!

  1. Waste $100 on a dead tree.

          Before I exploded and Killed Jack, the ground rumbled and I stumbled and fell, the “perfect” tree did something I I never would have anticipated, the tree started to lose its stump, and it was replaced by two brown legs! And after that, it sprouted eyes, and arms, and then it started smashing at me, thankfully, missing, but, everything has a price, and in this case, the price was that the tree shook out its leaves and spikes, and some of it got lodged in me! So I had to run upstairs to grab a med kit, while Jack distracted the tree. 

          I tried to pull the spikes out myself, but it was stuck at the lower half of my body, so it was REALLY hard to get it out.

                                            Ch. 2

                By the way, I heard Jack wheezing and gasping, so im pretty sure I will have to intervene before he got smushed, so I made a plan, I grabbed the Christmas lights we were going to do put on the “perfect” tree, my plan was to trip it and then attack it with a hammer, I executed my plan, and it worked! For about 10 seconds, it tripped and fell! But again, the spikes fell on me… 

                “Ow!” I yelled as Jack pulled a big spike from my hands, just then, the morning news blinked on my phone notification, and when I read it, I couldn’t believe my eyes, I had forgotten about the “perfect” tree, and while I was busy getting patched up, it had escaped the rope I had tied on it, and it had reaped havoc on the town, and now everyone knew about the “perfect” tree.

                  I really did not want to be surrounded by angry officers, so I kept an eye on the window and the holes in the walls, (Don’t ask) to see if a police car would pull up.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Houses which are in current repair, the civilians who were hurt were immediately taken to the hospital, thankfully, the civilians were only minorly injured, after the mutant tree was done rampaging, it had retreated to a nearby cave 2 miles away, a group of policeman were sent to investigate, they reported of hearing a monstrous roar when they got in perimeter of the cave, hopefully we can find more information about this monster, for civilians everywhere, stay calm, do not panic, we are working on this situation.

Pg. 2-3                               Daily News

                     At first, I was panicking, because I had intended for the problem to be a one and done, I do it and I am finished, but now, sooner or later, everybody would find out it was us, and I didn’t want to become those people who live in the wild, especially with Jack with me, and with that tree living in a cave too, but then, I thought, it wont be much of a problem, right? Because I had damaged it, and then panic spread across my body, my eyes slid over to the hammer sitting on the table, unused, before I could could do anything else, the doorbell ringed, “Fred and Jack?” A muffled voice said from the front door, my heart stopped, had the police come to arrest us? I quickly rushed to the door, I slowly opened the door, “We are here to talk about the tree” and my eyes widened… 

                                          Ch. 3

             After the tension, I had invited them over to drink some tea, but they had declined, and after they said something that lifted 100 pounds off my shoulders, “the reason we came here was because we want you on our police team” A man from the group said, which I assumed was the captain, I heaved a sigh of relief, “wait what?”

             They explained that they needed us on the team because we were the only people who were there when then tree “spawned.” When asked why this was important, they said we might know some information the others don’t, I didn’t think we had much of a choice, so I just went along with it.

              By the way the teams policeman were looking at us, I don’t think they were very happy about 2 teenagers on their team, especially two who they had never met on good occasions, and who didn’t have any knowledge using guns.

                 The police car bounced wildly as we drove through the forest that was between the town and the cave, but what was originally going to be a 30 minute trip had turned into a 1 hour drive, since we kept having to reroute because we were being blocked by a tree, when we got there we found out the other officers had had a much better time finding routes, because they were already setting up, Jack stayed in the car, like the scaredy-cat he was.

                  “Hide here!” The police chief said, I hid under a bush next to him, suddenly, one of the officers coughed, everybody froze, and then ran to their bushes, a devilish roar echoed through the cave, followed by a big thump thump thump, a tree silloute lumbered into sight, the “perfect” tree.

                   It roared and smashed the ground, making a big gaping hole in the center, proving how strong the tree could be if it wanted to.

                 None of the officers ran, they started shooting at the tree, but it didn’t seem like it was doing anything, the tree let out another roar, which I guess was the end of that for the police, because they bolted out of there, I stayed and kept shooting, “your not destroying our town, you monster!” I yelled, but then the monster laughed, which I did not know it could do, I ran toward the car, and shook Jack awake, “huh?” Jack mumbled, he quickly realized the situation, he started the car, and just like that, we were out of there.

               The news the next day was crushing, everybody was panicking, if the police couldn’t defeat the “perfect” tree, no one could, but there was some slivers of brightness in it all, because we might have gotten a little more information on the tree, which could prove useful later on, but the bad thing is, the tree is technically in front of us here, so it could probably choose any time to attack, and that would be the end of us.

                                     Daily News

                Police force failed to capture and destroy the monster tree now known as the “perfect” tree, however, it did not all go to waste, because the police was able to find the fact that the tree might be very territorial, and can sense when people are close to it, throwing away any hope of sneaking up on it, the scientists who are working on this guessed that this beast was somehow in contact with a material that got it into this state, two residents of this town are the only two who saw the tree come to life, the police are currently interviewing them for any information they might have, everybody must stay calm, we will make this situation better before it escalates into a world threatening situation…

            Somehow Jack convinced me to go back, “ Were the only people who have experience fighting monsters!” He said, wow Jack where was that confidence when we were fighting the tree before huh? But I went along, since again, I had no choice, either I go, and the town, and Jack have a chance at living, or I dont go, and Jacks death is on my hands.

            As we approached the cave, we saw that the tree was already standing outside, as if waiting for us, I shuddered, did the tree know we were coming? The news did say it could sense people nearby, but then I saw the police team, they were waiting in the corner of the cave, when they saw us, they held up a finger, I understood, I stopped the car, and slowly and carefully closed the door, just then, the “perfect” tree jerked its head toward us.

                                        Ch. 4

                 I froze, thankfully, the tree didn’t notice us, and it turned its head back, I slowly pulled out my beginners gun, the police team did the same, but they did it too loudly, and the “perfect” tree saw them, it smashed the ground with its hand, sending the police flying, we started shooting, the tree kept smashing at everyone it could see, I had to stop shooting and run into a bush to protect myself from flying debris, just then I heard a roar, but it sounded a little pained, like when you cant get something you want, amplified by 100.

                I peaked out from the bush, and gasped, somehow the police chief had managed to cut the trees arm off, but instead of a lot of blood, it was just a stump, I guess we all knew we had to retreat now, because all of us ran toward the cars.

                The way back took much less time, because we had found the quickest route, and once we had found it, we could go back and forth with ease.

                   When we got home, everyone was treating us much better than usual, which was weird, apparently, news had spread that we were part of the police team that took the trees arm, everyone was asking us questions like, “how is it to be famous?” Or “How did the tree react to losing a arm?” This was all too much for us though, so we ran home and hid in our tree house for the rest of the day, which we spent drawing, doing fun activities, and talking about the “incident” And since the tree house had a bunk bed, we could just sleep there.

                 “Fred, doesn’t it disturb you that we are always the ones finding the monsters?” Jack said as he climbed in the bed, and to be honest it had, but I wasn’t telling jack that, so I said, “No, if that’s what it takes to protect the town, so be it.”  And  that ended the conversation.

                  After we had stopped talking, I looked at the stars, hopefully, that wouldn’t be the last time I did, but if it was, I wanted to relish every moment.

              The next days news was a little more cheerful than the last, it described the incounter like we were heroes beating just another beast, me and Jack beamed at the fact that they had also given us credit for it, they said that they were going for another attack, and anyone in the town could join, they also said they wanted us to help them again, and they would give the people who joined weapons, and they would give us temporary guns, I thought that maybe we could take another limb this time, or maybe even two.

                                   Daily News

                      The police force that was tasked with beating the tree succeeded in taking an entire limb from its body, for those who are intrested, here are the names of the officers, (Dan, Gabby, Hank, Reese, Shaffe) and two teenagers that were there to help them, Fred and Jack, the police are planning another attack for the tree, they say any citizen who helps will be rewarded, and they are asking for the help of Fred and Jack to help them once again, any citizen will be given something to defend themself, please try to help us attack this problem, and together we will defend against this tree.

                                        Ch. 5

                The next morning went by, and before long, we were supposed to meet the officers with the other people who signed up for the attack, and to be honest, I didn’t know the town even had that many people, and for some reason, they had hired mercenaries to fight too, I really think we could’ve done it without them.

                As we entered the woods leading to the cave hopefully for the last time, I thought about how it might go, either the tree defeated us, and the town gets majorly damaged, or it works, and everybody goes back to work like nothing had ever happened, I hope its the second one.

             We got there and did the usual, start shooting, at first it looked like we had the upper hand, the tree looked overwhelmed, but then the tree got a lucky shot, which should NOT have been possible, since it only had one arm, then it got another lucky shot, and with every one, it looked like it was getting better and better, and we were getting worse.

                  Eventually, we were down to a dozen people left, and we knew this fight was over, everybody grabbed one person and pulled them into a car, and then we drove away before we could have any fatalities, back at the house, we looked out the window, there was nobody outside, everyone was either healing or hiding, me and Jack retreated to the treehouse and played some games and waited for the news to update, but it never did, so we just went to sleep, my heart pounded, the attack had made a devastating blow to the town, everybody now knew how dangerous the tree was.

                   While I was looking out the window, I saw a blue figure lurking behind a house, which was weird, because I knew the people who lived there, and I didn’t remember anybody there who looked like it.

                                                     Ch. 6       

                     I opened the door and looked out, the blue clothed person was inspecting something on the street, I looked closer, and it bent down and looked at something, then stuffed it in its coat pocket, then it dashed away, “wait” I yelled, but the blue figure was already gone, it had gone into the woods, I knew it would be risky, but I really wanted to know who that was, so I informed Jack and then we went into the forest to search for the figure.

                  As we went through the forest, we suddenly heard a rustling in the bushes, I turned around, and screamed, the blue figure put her finger to my mouth, and she put the other in her pocket, then pulled some kind of bottled water, and forced it into my mouth, and then she pulled out another bottle and then did the same for Jack, and then, my eyes got drowsy, and everything went black.

                  I woke up in the woods, I was tied to a tree, the blue figure loomed over me, closer, I could see it clearer, it was a girl, she was wearing a blue cloak and had silver wristbands, her cloak had 3 pockets, one in the middle, left, and right, “who are you?” She asked me, “I’m Fred, and this is Jack.” I pointed my head toward Jack, “Where are you from” she pushed, “How do I know you dont work for the “perfect”tree?” I pushed back, her eyes widened, “you know about the tree?” “are you an enemy too?” Just then, Jack woke up, “huh, wha-” I shushed him, he looked at me, then her, “you!” He yelled, “my name is P.P.P” she said, short for something you will never remember.”

                  We sat at the table next to the house, on the way back, PPP had told us that she was a witch with the powers of shapeshifting, she had given us a combination of something something and something to make us fall asleep, and her town was also destroyed by the tree, she told us that the tree she faced was the same one, in a different host, apparently the tree could take any host it wanted, as long as the host was still alive, and big.

                  PPP had accepted our offer to stay for the night, but she said she was going to leave tomorrow, but since the treehouse only had a bunk bed, she had to sleep in the house, which she seemed pretty happy about.

                  The next day the news had come out, but I was only starting to read it when 

I heard someone, I looked down the ladder, “Fred” it was the chief, I climbed down the treehouse, “What?” I asked, “I have something to tell you” He explained that some people had been taken prisoner  during  the attack, and that he wanted us to go save them, because apparently I was the most talented in fighting, “or the squishiest and most expendable” I thought, the next few minutes were the same, inform Jack, and go to the cave.

                  The cave had been redesigned since the last time we had been there, there was tiny piles of leaves there, and there were also Christmas lights and snow, so I guess that Christmas tree really wanted to live up to its name.

                    The caves inside was filled with tiny Christmas trees, “wow, the tree has done some work!” I thought, Suddenly, all of the “Christmas trees” grew eyes, then legs and then arms, and we were surrounded by tiny “perfect” trees, and for some reason my  first thought wasn’t “the “perfect” tree has babies?” 

                 I shot off the babies, and then I noticed a tiny sliver of light, there was a silhouette of a cage, and someone was carrying a lantern.

                “Psst” a voice said “save us” it was the prisoners, the prisoners whispered to get them free, “but I dont have a” I glanced at a silver key on the antique table next to me, the key!

                                                       Ch. 7

                  After freeing the prisoners, me and Jack ran to the car, and the prisoners sat at the back, after we got home, the prisoners had been returned to their home, and we went back to the house, but PPP was gone, and when I saw the news, it said this.

       Daily news: The monster has clones/babies

                   I don’t know how they updated the news so fast since I literally just got there, but since PPP was gone, I was really bored, PPP was the only thing interesting here.

                  At least until I heard a thump, thump, thump, I looked out the window, the perfect, tree had came,  I quickly took the potion PPP had gave me in case the perfect tree ever came, she said it would make me strong enough to battles the tree head on, I had thought, well that’s, cool, I guess, wait, what about Jack? Jack had apparently also given a potion, so we headed out to fight the tree,  

                   When the tree saw me, its eyes turned abnormaly red, it started to expand, its eyes bulging, its arm growing bigger, until it was bigger than a house. Me and Jack jumped into battle, it thrashed at us, and when it hit us, it knocked us back, but it didn’t hurt, so we just got back up and kept fighting, suddenly, Jack screamed, I glanced at him, stunned, the arm fell from Jacks arm, falling to the floor, the tree, following, also fell, its eyes returning to normal, the impact to the ground was followed by a large crash! I was REALLY surprised, was that it? Then I realized something, on the bottom of my arm, it was bleeding, hmm, I guess the potion wore out, but I wasn’t going to waste that moment, I put my hand on the body and waved to everyone.

                    We planned to throw the tree back in the woods, thinking it would compost, so that’s what we did, we also added a bucket of dirt to compost faster.

As I looked at the tree, I noticed something, the place where I had dropped some blood on was starting to glow blue, but I didn’t really think about it, since it was a monster.

                       It had been three days since the tree had died, after, PPP had returned to give us a potion just in case, she also said the mayor had invited her to become a true civilian in in the town, and she had said yes! Even more exciting, I now had a witch to protect me from danger! That night we had started building a new room for PPP, but after 3 minutes, PPP got bored, she  just made a speed potion and shapeshifter into a fox, then proceeded to finish it in a minute, she then teleported a bed from the house to there, and then fell asleep, I was stunned, then I shrugged and walked over to the bunk bed, good night, I guess.

                        “Hey Jack,” I whispered, “what?” Jack asked, “Let’s play a game,” “Okay, how?” “Name a thing, then I try to make a riddle about it, and you answer the riddle!” “Okay,” Jack said uncertaintly, we played the game until we slowly drifted off to sleep, a good day indeed.

                       The next day I was awoken by a big ka boom! I shot up, and looked through the window, “no, this cant be.” I stammered, the tree, it was back, bigger than ever, I glanced over to the potion, sitting on the table, I took it, quickly drank it and threw it on the floor, I didn’t even wait to see if it shattered or not, I ran outside, PPP and Jack were already fighting. It looked like Jack had taken his potion too, and was currently distracting the tree by dodging it, while PPP, in bear form, tried to rip through its tough bark with no hope of winning, the police and the citizens were all in the fight, I decided to join in the fight, I jumped at the trees face and started bashing at it.

                    The battle raged on, with no sight of a win, and then, the tree started to summon babies, and suddenly everybody was panicking, they were hiding and running back to their houses, we hid behind a bush, PPP transformed back, which could’ve thrown away our location, because it made a big plasma blast, and if the tree saw us, we would hiding in a big pile of debris.

                          “I have one question, did you drop any blood in the trees body?” PPP asked, “Uh” I stammered, I think some of it had dropped in the body, but what did have to do with anything, “You dropped it in, which also included the remain of your potion, which was just enough to revive the tree, and give it powers!” PPP whispered, glaring at me, the tree turned around, and destroyed the bush, really? We raced back in battle, which motivated everyone else too, their were bullets, shovels and spoons for some reason that were hitting the tree, I ripped through the tiny babies, then it started shooting real Christmas lights out of its mouth! Which was really disgusting, but I tried my best to catch the lights and throw them away from people, the tree just kept hitting people, so I used all my strength and pulled its arms together, but it had one last trick, it started to get hotter, first the body became warm, then hot, then BURNING hot, until I couldn’t hold its hand anymore, the tree cooled down the moment I let go, its mouth curled into a malicious grin, 

                     I rushed back to the house, careful not to trip over the potion bottle, I grabbed an axe and raced outside to find a stick, then I went to the fireplace in the house and lit the wood, I went back outside, there was a significantly less people fighting, I lunged and hurled the stick, it landed right where I wanted, the eye, it roared in pain, I figured now was the time and started hacking at the trees legs, or roots, whatever, eventually, the leg was injured enough that the tree fell, and threw its shards at Jack, a satisfying ending, guess I dont need to destroy Jack then, he is already destroyed, I glanced at a tiny sliver of blue light floating away, PPP noticed it too, she came to me and Jack, took our arms, and forced us against our will against our will away form the celebration, “what your problem?” I asked, PPP said, “The tree will be able to reincarnate as long as it has not been destroyed, it will be living in a spirit of smoke unless its contained, here,” she pulled out a jar, which was way to big to be in her pocket.