Curse it! Fix it! [Fumio]

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Flickering lights, ear-piercing screams, and a close-up of the decaying face of a rising zombie flashed across a screen. Shock sat cross-legged on the floor of her dorm, he face so close to the TV that she could have practically been pressing her masked face up against it. She was so mesmerized by the flashing images, but more so of this channel, which seemed to be playing horror movie after horror movie in honor of the fall season. It would more than likely not stop until the holiday was well over, but Shock was perfectly content sitting here all day if she could, if only to see the frightening monsters that so successfully seemed to be terrifying and tricking the people. Some she had even begun to idolize.

“Yes! They are very scared now, now you can trap them in the hallway! That will catch them off guard!” Shock was speaking loudly to the TV, and yes… to the zombie instead of the humans. She was most certainly going to cheer on the zombie in this situation.
Her eyes widened however, as the frame flashed to the man, who picked up an axe and readied himself near the doorway. “NO! DON’T GO IN THERE, ZOMBIE! THAT MAN IS GOING TO RUIN YOUR TRICK! HE IS GOING TO CUT YOU TO PIECES!” She had stood up and was yelling now, biting her lip as the zombie has begun to rip his way through the door and the man pulled the axe back. She didn’t get to see the rest, however, as the screen had suddenly clicked and gone dark.

“AHHH NOO! WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MONSTER?!” Shock was scrambling around the box, which she had named the ‘cursed box’. Well, it certainly seemed cursed, the way you could see scenes and people inside of it. She had only thought that crystal balls could do that, the kind that witches and evil gypsies might use.
She didn’t know what was wrong. The box still seemed unbroken and square. She saw some buttons and started mashing them anxiously, but they did nothing. So much for problem solving. She tried to shake it a little and tap it, but that did nothing as well.

“ACK! SOMEONE BROKE THE CURSE! WHY WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING?” She was scrambling around her room now, wondering how on earth she was going to see the monsters now, when she suddenly noticed a number and instructions written on a note by the TV; A repair number. She picked up the phone. She knew you were supposed to speak in it to people, because she had seen the suits doing that. She guessed that since the note said to copy the number into the phone, she should start pressing the buttons? Still, it took a few tries for her to figure out what she was doing, before she could get the full number in correctly.

A voice started speaking something about leaving a message and beeping, to this the girl only replied in a shout, “THE CURSED BOX IS BROKEN, I NEED IT TO BE FIXED RIGHT NOW! BRING IN YOUR BEST WITCHES AND DARK WIZARDS TO MY ROOM, DORM 6!” Then she slammed the phone unnecessarily back onto the desk. Now, all she had to do was wait, but boy- what was she going to do without her new-found addiction? By now, had the zombie been tricked by the people, or was he clever enough to outsmart them and trick them instead?

[Fumio Yoshi]

Fumio was about to leave the dorm on another call about a cheesed up iron, when his cell went off. It was the office calling him to let him know of someone requesting their best witches and dark wizards to fix the cursed box in Dorm 6. The turlte in human form sighed deeply and turned down the hallway. Due to the even numbered room, it meant it was a girl, and he had a track record of saying the wrong thing to girls, and this one was asking for witches. Another of the no technology period shifted.

It didn't take him that long to get to the dorm room, though he stopped just outside the door and leaned back on it as he got a clean form from the bottom of the pile, moving it to the top and start filling in the info he already knew. His best guess Cursed box meant the television, though it could also be the microwave. It did heat things up with no heat and caused mini lightning storms if one left a ball of tin foil in there. Then there was the vent of the central heating and air. It blew in hot and cold air in from a place that they couldn't see. Maybe the roommate had a laptop for their schoolwork and the caller accidentially broke it looking at the captured souls of the cursed box. Guess he really couldn't know what he needed to fix until he knocked.

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Shock ran to the door and held up her hat with one hand to keep it from flying off in her frenzy. The witches and wizards must be here; they could use their magic to teleport so that they got here really quickly! Without another moments hesitation she threw open the front door, and found herself staring up at a taller, older boy with dark hair who seemed to be holding a piece of paper.

“Are you a dark wizard? You don’t look very scary at all! Hmph,” She commented in a bit of disappointment, her voice slightly muffled from behind her mask. She had imagined that the wizards would be large, powerful and intimidating, with much creepier appearances and flowing dark robes and eerily glowing, empty eyes, but this boy just looked like everyone else she had seen around here. She pointed to the paper in his hand, “Is that your spell to fix the cursed box? Did you not memorize it…? Oh well, just fix it and hurry! I can’t see the monsters anymore!” She leaned forward to try to roughly pull at his arm so that she could rush him into her room.

"There, you see? The curse was broken! Quick, read your spell, dark wizard!" She gestured to the dark-screened television and then pointed hurriedly at his paper. If he didn't fix her cursed box fast, she was going to be all kinds of upset.

[Fumio Yoshi]

Just as Fumio was about to push himself off of the door, the surface he was leaning against flew open behind him, causing him to fall flat on his back. The thud of his head on the floor was soon followed with the snarky kid. She then pointed to the paper in his hand asking if that was a spell. And this was going to be a fun one. As he rolled over to stand up, he spotted what was broken. Television, of course it was.

Standing up,, he walked over to the screen and looked around the front. Didn't seem to be damaged. No smoke, no water pooling around it. Normal things he saw when those not technologically enabled first view the television. When he saw she was starting to become upset, Fumio just turned around from the television and bent down some to talk to her. Since she was just a kid, he wasn't going to use the speech he normally gave. He would just play along with her. Let the teacher at the school show her what electricity was. "Ok, it might take me a little bit to see how the curse was broken. I promise the ritual won't take long. But if you would like to watch, I suggest sitting back on the couch while Fumio the Malicious cast his dark magic."

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“Well, hurry up, hurry up! The monster could be hacked apart by now! His head could be rolling on the ground and everything!” Shock loudly replied with a last pull at his sleeve before scampering off and leaping to plop down on the sunken couch. She turned so that her legs were hanging over the edge and leaned forward as she stared at him intently, anxiously waiting to see his spell. What was he going to do? Was he going to cast a spell that summoned dark spirits and ghouls and cause them to fly to the box? Was he going to trap the restless souls back into the box to get it to light up again? Or maybe he needed more ingredients first; creepy things like rats and lizard eyes. Come to think of it, Shock didn’t really know what it took to make a curse. Sure, she had heard of them, but she had never witnessed an actual dark wizard like Fumio the Malicious perform one before!

“Can I help? Are you going to sacrifice something to make the curse work? Are you going to shoot lightning out of your hands and make things explode?” She chimed in eagerly as she eyed the cursed box, then the tall boy. How could would it be if he made the whole room explode and crumble into pieces?! She grinned mischievously at the thought.

[Fumio Yoshi]

Fumio saw the girl watching him intently and he looked around the television. hands gripping the top as he moved around back and forth. "Now lets see. The bat intake valve is fine. The ooze is at optimal levels. The Living Cronometic Display is intact. And the Casing of bone is undistrubed." It was at this point he looked behind the television and noticed that the plug had just came out a little. this caused his eyes to shut and he stood up and away from the television. Opening his eyes, he picked up his clipboard and wrote some things down, for the paperwork. as he was about to set the clipboard down, a thought came to him. He had to preform a ritual now to just push the plug back in. taking a deep breath he started swirling the clipboard around and making woooo noises.

As he took a stardard horse stance, he held the clipboard in front of him and then raised it above his head. "In the name of Deoxyribonucleic and the children of Fosmid. I compell the forces within to return to life. Recharge this Cursed Box with your only holy energies. Fumio the Malicious Commands you with the Seal of Morpholino!"He made a few leaps and twirls from his ninjutsu practice before knocking the plug back into place in full connection into the outlet with the clipboard. With a grand motion he pressed the power button and the screen popped back on to life. Standing back up he grinned and looked back to see the kids reaction.

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Shock stared intently as he began his checks, Oohing and exclaiming with a nod of pretend understanding after he had stated the conditions of the cursed box. Casing of bones, she knew it! And of course bats had been involved, and ooze! She wondered why no one in Halloween Town had ever had or made a cursed box before. Oh well; this one was hers now, and she wasn’t sharing with any other monster!

She kicked and swung her feet from over the edge of the bed as she watched him shut his eyes, then begin the summoning ritual. There was a lot of waving involved, and chanting of course as she had thought. Finally when he leaped forward, her eyes widened as the box jumped to life and the loud sounds of screams and growls had returned from inside. “YOU DID IT! THE CURSE IS BACK!” She leaped up and shot towards the cursed box, standing very close next to the screen. Yes, it appeared that the monster was still there; he must’ve outsmarted the man and evaded the trap.

She didn’t get to see it for long though, before the images flicked to a woman smiling and holding up a bottle of something as a voice spoke over her. Shock really hoped it was poison, because it was once again interrupting her view of the monsters. How did these annoying spirits get in here anyway? This was the 20th time that the same woman had come on here, and always the same voice and message. She was probably haunting this box.

“Can you take the woman with the bottle out? She never shuts up and every time she talks she blocks the way. I don’t care about what she is holding; she is ruining my view,” Shock turned to Fumio and pointed at the woman. She was sure that the dark wizard could do it if he tried hard enough.
The woman could go haunt some other place, like a graveyard or a broken down house. That's what Shock would do if she were a ghost.

[Fumio Yoshi]

Fumio took a look and saw the commercial playing. He was finishing the paperwork when she asked the question. "Well I could, but you really wouldn't want that. That's a commercial. They come on from time to time, pausing time for the monster and victims you were watching. That way you can get up, stretch your legs, get a snack, or take care of other needs. The breaks are short so you don't lose interest."

He walked over to the television and wrote down the serial number on the back for records. "Plus without those, the sorcerors who send these images to you would ask for alot of money. The pretty women pay to be shown so you don't have to pay."

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“A commercial?” Shock repeated in confusion, and then a thoughtful look crossed her face. Pausing time? That must mean that the ghost woman was no ordinary ghost; she could freeze time at will! And at the moment, she was choosing to freeze the monster’s time, over and over, so that she could hog all of the attention of the cursed box to herself. Wow! She had to admit that she had never come across these types of ghosts in her own town. She just wished that they and the dark wizards looked a little scarier than they were here.

“Money? That’s silly. Why don’t they ask for something really valuable to them, like souls or bones or bat’s wings…” Shock continued to ramble off a list of just about everything she could think of that she might have come across in Halloween Town. Things sure were different around here than the home she was familiar with. It was no wonder that she had never heard of this place before!
“-Wait, does that mean I was supposed to pay you with something too? Hmm…” What did you pay a dark wizard? She didn’t have any souls on her, or bats wings.

”Oh! Hang on!” Shock leaped off of the bed and dove to the floor beside her bed, where there lay a dark backpack. She fished around inside for a few moments before pulling something out and racing back. When she halted, a snake could be seen slithering around in her hands and beginning to coil around her arm. Thankfully for the girl it was a small one, and harmless.

“I caught it outside!” She grinned and without hesitation she held it out toward him, practically aiming to shove it in his face.