Should Have Let Me Die - Chapter 196

Power flooded into me as the fourth Gate burst open and I threw the handle up. I was able to get it three meters up and I ran forward, throwing my hands up. I pushed the fourth Gate wide open as I slammed my hands up into the rock, and I pushed.

The crowd had started to roar the second my hands slammed up, and that was all I needed. Plus, I could hear Ice Ice Baby in the background firing me up, so I flexed my arms and legs and emptied the fourth gate. When I shoved the block up, the ground under me cracked, but still held as the massive stone flue forward on a giant crying hinge that screeched from being open possibly for the first time.

As the rock reached the zenith of its motion, it slowed, the hinges screaming bloody murder and the crowd had gone dead silent. Then the screech stopped, and the rock froze, and for a moment I was considering If I should move from where it could possibly fall back to.

Then, like the world’s biggest old rusty barn door, the hinge opened with a squawk that ripped through the plaza. It was followed by the earth-shattering crash from the five-story tall rock slamming down. The white dust engulfed me, instantly turning me white, covering me with chalk dust like a group of kids just banged out fifty chalkboard brushes while running circles around me.

The crowd went berserk, like fucking mad! Like this was one of those videos where the guy does one little trick and they go bananas. I couldn’t see them yet, but it was like feeding time at the zoo, it sounded like the people were losing their minds. Suddenly, Wendy burst from the chalk cloud, covered in white, and jumping into my arms, setting off another massive cloud of chalk.

“That was so cool! You’re so strong, you made the other guy run away after you threw the mountain into the air!” Wendy said before peppering me with dry kisses.

It was weird to run my hands up her back and not feel the wings. I kissed her back, but our lips were caked with chalk, and the others were keeping back from us. I let her go, and we both stepped back from each other and thoroughly dusted ourselves off. It still looked like we had got into a bakery fight, but when the other came over cheerfully calling, I pulled Wendy back into another deep kiss.

“Thanks, I don’t think I could have done that without you here!” I said as we broke the sweet kiss, our lips no longer caked in chalk.

“What did I do?” Wendy asked with a puzzled expression.

“Just being here for me was all I needed to dig deep and push past my limits! When you and the other girls are around, I can’t fail, I just won’t stand for it!”

Wendy giggled softly as she laid her head on my chest, and I looked up to my laughing and grinning.

“How did you do that?! I would have shit my pants watching you do that! I shit you not, more than one giant shit themselves grunting along with you! Don’t believe me?! Look! BWAHAHA!” Cable said almost in tears from laughing so hard pointing over at the ground in the plaza where people had cleared out of.

“Holy shit, those are as big as a horse’s shit! It’s as thick as…they just left it there? What is wrong with people? Are they just waiting for a little person cleaning crew to come to pick up these elephant turds?”

All of the men were dying laughing, but Wendy didn’t understand what was so funny. Marly didn’t look impressed, but I wasn’t laughing. Were these people like animals? I didn’t want to start going on a witch hunt for the turd barons, but it was another thing that would have to be talked about.

I heard two sets of small footsteps and one large heavy and stupid stuped, like a clumsy ox. I turned to find a confused-looking Dickless and my in-laws. Dikalas had a couple bruises and the bit of hair he did have was pointing everywhere.

I would guess that Dickless thought that the high councilors were just a pair of small people. I could see it all now, Leana probably beat his ass, and then Grayson fried him with some volts. Good, the Thurman wannabe needed to be taught a lesson before he ended up like the original.

“Good to see you again, I see Dickless here has come and visited you to tell you about the rock?” I said as they got close. “Dickless, were you being disrespectful of your betters?”

“He was, and he was taught a lesson, and I see you were out here making my people make a mess of themselves in excitement! That rock had never been lifted, and as the founding Tri-Islands declared five-hundred years ago, he who lifts the rock shall be named King,” Leana proclaimed.

“Really? That’s all? I just flip this rock over and now I own the island?” I asked in disbelief.

“Haha, yeah, really! This works out well for us! We wanted to pass the position to you, but we didn’t know there was a monster inside of you! Good show! Don’t worry about the shit, the offender will come back later to clean up the mess when everyone has left, hehe. Happens more than we would like to admit, but it’s still quite the accomplishment!” Grayson laughed and told me.

Well, they weren’t animals, and I could see why they might want to wait till later. Whatever, as long as it wasn’t some poor dwarf scooping up those piles! Each one was like a wheelbarrow full and they were like softball-sized rabbit shit! What the hell were they feeding these people?!

I looked at my group and then back at the in-laws.

“Cool, I will pick my replacement tomorrow.  Time to go catch the last rays of the day on the beach with my family!”