Chapter 15: The Sad Wanderer
Wandering through the forest, the unnamed wanderer was walking slowly, head lowered, in the wilderness reminiscing on his days as a weightlifter. He was constantly building his body up in preparation for tournaments and always competing against others in the Grand Weight championship. However, as hard as he trained, he never quite made it to the top. There would always be that someone that would outdo him in the competition, but one day, on that one fateful day. He had a chance, yes, an actual chance of winning the competition!
The day came of the tournament where he felt lucky. When the competition started, he beat all of his tough competitors one by one, slowly making his way to the top. He lifted those heavy weights like they were simple dumb bells. Eventually, the finals took place, he was in fierce competition with his opponent, each lifting heavier weights. The unnamed wanderer was a step away from winning, when suddenly, a monkey by the name of Chipper, somehow made his way into the room where the finals were taking place. He climbed up on the wanderer while he was lifting his final weight, but the monkey sitting on top of the weight, added too much weight to the dumb bell caused him to topple over and lose grip on the weights he was holding. The opponent ended up winning the competition in the end and the wanderer went to return to his car.
Upon leaving the building, he gazed up into the sky to see the stars out, and little did he realize one of them fell out of the sky and before he could do anything, the shooting star struck his car and it was completely destroyed. That brings us now back to the nearby forest he is now wandering through to make his way home. After thinking back to his misfortune, he looked up and saw the end of the forest with an ocean nearby that had a unattended-to rowboat. He quickly ran out of the forest, feeling much better, and took the boat for a spin, unfortunately, the boat was a trap! A trap set by the legendary octopus named, GelatinousOctopi.
While the wanderer was rowing, he noticed something different about the water, despite how dark it was, the water started twirling around and around, creating a huge whirlpool and GelatinousOctopi quickly shot out of the whirlpool and quickly turned towards the victim and faced him. The wanderer looked up and talked to the beast unhappily: "What do you want? I'm just trying to get back home!" but GelatinousOctopi loud out a large shriek, used his tentacles to crush the boat, and took the poor wanderer with him. The wanderer now lives in imprisonment in the lair of the GelatinousOctopi. No one knows about his whereabouts, and he was well provided with food, clothing, and a home. The monkey was also there with him and it turns out the monkey is also the right-hand assistant of the legendary beast. To make the long story short, they all become friends. The GelatinousOctopi rests in his throne with his doorknob which he claims as if it was a pet. This ends a would-be sad story about the wanderer, but he comes out with the best outcome for someone with the worst luck.
^ This story won the World of Fiction contest I entered in.
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