A dreary lifeless town sits between two massive cities, this town lies still stuck in time and depression, never moving forward stuck forever in the dark. all the people are hideous and void of light due to the town's curse, their hopes devoid of substance. The sun never shines on this sad place I ly the moon is forever there. What is this place of no return called you ask? It's "grey gay" a town so small it might as well be a village it's not even on the map, and resident's so hideous they might as well be works of art, but one child hasn't lost his spark, born of darkness curing light, and hope a torch of the people's dreams. This boy's name? Henderson, Jace Henderson was abandoned by his parents in the grey day village when he was five to the "dreary orphanage of no hope" yes that's its actual name, anyway his dream will change grey day!
The letter
No hope orphanage is a baran soules place where dreams go to die and kids go to cry, within the orphanage walls is a dark cramped space. The children there have to share rooms with four other children each room more cramped than the last, besides this depressing fact, Ten-year-old Jace Henderson is jumping around excited about something very interesting. A letter just came in for him, and if your thinking well that's quite normal, well not for Henderson you see where he lives nothing ever happens. Everyone is so poor, sad, and dreary that no one has the time to send letters letters. In no hope orphanage, you can imagine they don't want them to be anything but dreary miserable and crying.
Once he sees what's inside his eyes light up in amazement and happiness He revived a letter from a special organization trying to provide kids around the world a chance to go on a field trip and not any field trip but a museum. But just as he hugged the letter close, around the corner is the director of the orphanage, he's a tall unkempt
grumpy old man with a sorrowful expression so low it's as if he bit a sour apple. He where's dirty black clothes and the only thing covering his balding white hair is a small top hat, his name is none other than Living.
As he looks on at Jace he notices something peculiar, one is smiling and the other is a little letter his holding with his left hand.
He bends his tall fragile back over to Henderson but is still twice as tall as the little boy. " boy what is it that has you smiling like that" he said sternly eyeing the letter in the boy's hand. Is it this that is bringing joy to a child to a place that no hope must go!" he said as he quickly and frantically took the prized latter from Jace's unprepared hands. "Hey, give that back!" " is that any way to speak to your superior Henderson?" he speaks with a pompous tone demanding authority this man's name is none other than (blank) and he hates Jace Henderson above all others because he brings light and joy to the darkness. He loves misery. He bathed in the tears of the dammed. "As the cold directed states on at the letter, it's surprisingly grabbed with speed and nimbleness. " it's mine and I'm going" jase screams out as he runs out the door hugging and squeezing the letter like his life depends on it. He runs out the orphanage and runs and runs until his legs grow tired, he opens up the letter when he thinks it's safe. A mysterious map that wasn't there previously appears on the floor. " hm I didn't see a map there earlier , it must of dropped" he says excited as ever. " let's see hear if keep going straight, make a left, than a right than a swirly thing I'll get there in ....3 hours" he says with a sigh "how am I supposed to get there. As his eyes peer along the snake-like journey he realizes that this path is heading out of his small town, they start to sparkle as he jumps up and down excitedly. I'm finally going outside I'm finally venturing out side grey day!" he says smiles painting his face. He starts to follow the maps trail until his feet can walk no more. "Dang it walking for 3 hours is harder than I thought!" However, just before he admits defeat to a resignation a sound so lively and piercing filled his eardrums. He follows the sound of whistling and murmuring and the exhaust of an engine,as the sound gets clearer he sees an I'll of trees and bushes so vibrant it'll put anything in grey day to shame. Passed those trees he sees the cause of the strange noise. A gigantic medal train as if carved from the heavens stretched for miles and surrounding this mythical site was people of all sorts talking and chatting amongst them selfs. Another sound makes its way through the rest. "All aboard the train of hope" the sound kept going getting ouster and louder harder to ignore " all abound the sound of hope!!" As he walked to this mystical train ready take him away from where he doesn't belong a stray tear made its way through his blue sparking eyes. Finally he walks over too the train ready to take off from grey day once and for all. Before he can make it to the golden ticket of someone standing in his way, he bumps his head on the massive behemoth of a guard standing in the middle of the train entrance. The guard is tall as he is far with long droopy hair flooring in every which way " please sir may I pass" he spoke in a surprisingly and peaceful voice "I'm sorry little boy" his deep voice as loud as it is somber. " I'm afraid I cannot let you pass without a letter", the boy smiles and replies in a cheery voice to contrast with the big guy's deep and somber one "oh is that all why didn't you say so," he says taking the letter put of his pocket. The man usually full of the composer crumples down at the site of this small letter. "Boy how is that you aqquired such a letter!" he says with astonishment touching the wax of his words. As he says this more and more people are attentive to the situation, they stop there chattering, there murmuring even the engine that pure so continuously seems to have come to a complete and udder stop. " did you hear that scrappy looking hot with long hair has the letter of hope!" a grizzly looking man says with a long black beared with fancy attest says starting at the letter like it's made of diamonds. This time a professional man with a business suit starts to spack his voice polite and anxious "my good sir" he says to Jace "ill pay you one million dollars for that letter". Jace Henderson usually knows what to do, he usually does the best he can do in most situations but this was more than just shocking. Completely ad utterly dumbfounded and shocked to super he stands there in sound silence. He can't even fathom making that much in his life when he was in the grey day, 1000 dollars was. Mere fantasy is just a dream you'd say to another knight. More of the people each of them. Nothing is more fancy and exuberant than the last, each with its bid, its price. Two million! three million!! Five million!!, one billion!!!" the voices kept going and growing louder, the more they spoke the more money they said, and the bigger the price to be placed. "That's quite enough, all of you!!" the gigantic man usually somber spoke with menacing anger, have started up at him not knowing what to say or do at this moment. " you shall not take the boy's hope away! His destiny is not to be caught!!" His voice echoed threw the beautiful forest scaring away the birds from the trees. All the people previously surrounding them had promises of fortune and quickly stood back fear gripping them right from this man. He then looks on at Jace changing his tone back to somber and peaceful " boy, you may pass with care" he speaks just loud woufg for him too as he walks the people around the train are shaken from there stupor, they try to walk towards the hot as he entered the trains staircase entrance. I erd by a long bloody red ribbon rug. "You shall not pass" the man referenda the entrance budding the many many people trying to it to ice before the train. As he boards the train with shaking steps the tall burly man has more work to share. " boy" the man says in a dark tone " guard your hope with all your cost!it is your destiny, your fate your very soul!". Jace finally makes it to the train entrance as the doors clothe his last sight is of the big bearded man defending the team from the strange people., his final and last destination will be hopefully museum of Ancient Artifacts.
The field trip
As he makes it out of the train he sees a bustling and unfamiliar sight that filled him with joy. People all around are busy as can be smiling from ear to ear and chatting exuberantly. As he sees this he takes a moment too look up and is astonished to see the Museum of Hope and in items. The Museum was incredibly large and incredibly long it pieced the course above. "That thing a bigger than the entire grey day combined he says excitedly. Many many many people came out of the train and crowded in front I the museum. People push and scramble about each other. "Let me through" a pompous feminine voice makes its well known, "stop pushing you to whine full cow" each voice wanting a chance to step in. Alright alright everybody just calms down one of the guards posted said. "The suner you lot form a line the sooner we can get you entry" eac guarded sounded as if they swallowed a bunch of honey and spoke in a gurgly voice. as time passed the line to the museum finally came sea, by just sheer chance he was in the start of the line. As he came inside the place he grew even more astonished than he was outside. everywhere, as has as the eye can see is structures of gold and silver, all ancient. It was as if he entered a magical land, you electronic machines that he'd never even heard of before. Makes their way onto the view. As they walk in people Jace sees people poisoned to make sure nothing goes wrong. These people wore lab coats as if they were researchers or scientists of some sort, one was a lady as tall as she is petit, she had pale skin and held a serious expression everywhere she looked. The other was a smaller fat man who smiled as if he was about to laugh, he had dark skin and shoulder-length hair, and huge silver goggles holding the hair up. They both led two teams of people into the museum. Jace ended up with the tall serious lady that smiled as often as one of the People from grey days, which is not at all. Right this way, you are our guests of honor" she says promptly
right before leading the group to her respective zone. As the grip walks being directed by the woman A beautiful and massive ancient-like structure surrounds two double-double doors, yup eight massive doors. He makes his way in as the light clears looking at a beautiful sight full of blue and pink liquids in files. Fog like most filled the room guiding the people every which way, as if a pixie blue a magic Pipe all over a lab. As the water woman presents each fantastical object, each more tantalizing than the last. She says "No touching any of the items and if you steal anything it'll be the last thing you do" her tone filled with grave finality and promise misery "Anyhow right this way" the room filled with fears and magic-like gizmos until he sees something that takes his attention. A small swirly blue glass veil with a lid that says "Hope come your way" As Jace stares at this vile in pure amazement the starry lady takes notice. "I see you interested in hope water"
"What?"
Why is hope water the most magical water that fills any splashed with, hope beyond measure, it's the only cure for concurring the dreary and it's said that it may be able to beat the
" Jace was confused but He shook off that thought, for now, the only fact that mattered was it could cure the people of Grey da. As the rest of the group walked with the woman Jace asked if he could use the bathroom. She responded with a paragraph of twists and turns "Down the hall take a left, make a right, take an elevator in a staircase going sideways" As the group kept going on their Mary way, Jace walked back towards the water of hope, sneaking ever so slightly and slowly. Finally he pears of the glass vial, light shining down from above with heavenly grace as if it was destined to be there from a great force. He picks it up slowly making sure none spills over until a sound loud and alarming sound through the room. He triggered the museum's alarm system and it echoed every which way. "As pockets away the vile of water it shrinks down to fit his size "Whoa, cool," Jace says before he's interrupted. "You, you took something from the museum didn't you?!" He backs up and prepares to run. "You broke the one rule! you disobeyed now we're gonna youse your bones as our exhibit! prepare child of destiny!!"
He runs and runs as fast as he can passing all the tantalizing Sotho and gizmos trying to lure and distract him. He shakes it out of his senses focusing only on the exit at hand but before he makes it to the double doors he is interrupted by the other professor the one that wore goggles. " my good sir what is it that has you so eager in this museum of hope ahaha!!" He crouches down and slides through the mana feet out the double doors as he slides through he enters a dark tunnel with magical waves flowing out and around. "Ahhhh" he yells flying down the slide until finally he sees a light at the end of the tunnel. Gliding three enroll falling down on solid ground, ouch he says rubbing his head. He looked around the place where he just ended up, darkness and misery sounded in his view fog covering a sign. As the clearest words make their way into focus, "Grey day, looks like I'm home" he says with an exhausting and disappointed sigh.
On the way back home
Ten-year-old Jace is running around town causing a ruckus every which way. His black death hair flowed in the wind covering his crystal blue eyes peering each way. He runs past a dark corner and enters what should be a residential streetway but is replaced with zombie-like people looking as sad as they are pale. Jace looks back to see three mysterious dark figures chasing after him just enough to be out of view from the moon's gaze "Can't they just leave me alone, I'm just trying to save this dreary place!!" he says aggravated as he runs into what would be a busy street. As he does so people lazily try to sell their products "Breeeeeaaaaaddd, get you to breed here" one of them groaned out. More and more merchants do the same each with their product to sell. " no thank you, but here have some water!!," he splashes the ancient mystical water of hope at the hopeless citizens after who k he becomes more exhausted, running away from his pressures and pouring water at everyone he looked. His running however is fruitless for as he pears over to his horizon nothing but a Dead-end stares back. He stands there hopelessly, watching for his reapers to catch up with him. The cold blue-lit moonlight reveals their mysterious faces, each one more hideous and angry than the last, and each one has a bone to pick with Jace Henderson.
One of the kids spoke to the leader perhaps, in a menacing voice, it was so deep and foreboding it was as if a grown man spoke from behind the boy. " return which once was to where it shall belong, to where you took from or face the king's wrath!"
Once the child spoke have could do not but stare in dumbfounded frightened gaze "I'm sorry but- I don't have a clue what you mean"
They all start speaking in unison as if they were setting up a play or performance. " return which once was" "Return which once was!!"
Jace stumbled pack, these seemingly normal kids are much more sinister than anticipated, he finally gets out as they encircle him. Running as fast as his little legs can Carrie, he never looks back. "how dare he hope to where it shall not go... this isn't over child I will destroy your hope once more!! a mysterious evil voice booms crackling and chuckling his figure dark and evil with horns sharp enough to kill he mocks poor little Jace. This voice then slowly but surely reveals him self as (lived ), otherwise known as the king or the devil. As Jace makes it back home running for his dear life, the people otherwise dreary start to notice his predicament. The sounds of the people full of hope and life "Jace, what's got you so troubled" a concerned old lady spoke, yeah what's got you so down?" An elderly gentleman spoke. " I know what'll cheer up" one of the merchants spoke "Free bread!! Get you bread" he spoke with excitement and energy. "M-maybe some other time thanks"Jace runs back home to find that the leader of the orphanage has just been replaced, this time a sweet kind man who treats everyone with care, that is the story of how Jace saved his small little town.