Story #6 : Fred, the Power Pointer

Fred, the Power Pointer

By The Power Pointer Brothers

Fred, the son of William and Julie Craigo, was an Amonorg. An Amonorg is a small creature the size of a mouse to us humans. They look a lot like us, just with rather large heads and a long pointed face. Fred was a larger Amonorg. He looked like a tennis ball with legs. He went on a long journey with a man named Josh. They were involved with the Great War of Oswasso. In his journey, his friend Josh turned to a dark path which nobody could follow. Fred tried hard to turn Josh's heart back to a brighter one. While he tried to change Josh, he was infected by the dark and was slowly changing. But, in the end, Josh's heart was changed, and he left as spirit. Fred then became great,as an Arignot. His new journey was to establish peace where it was needed. His first attempt would be at the planet Ponderus. There where jungles all over the planet, and it had many rivers of flowing water, fresh water. It was the only planet that humans could live on in the galaxy. There was a city called, Ori, a city of many people searching for the great noble cause, to become gods. They were failing at this, they fought others and killed those who did not believe in what they did. Fred's assignment, teach the people the correct way to become gods.
Fred chose to show himself in a male human form. This required him to use a substantial amount of energy, so it made him faint. When he woke up he was in a jungle, naked, for a few seconds he forgot who and where he was. When he remembered who he was, he created clothing out of things he found in the jungle. He was five miles north of Ori. He realized that we was back to his small Amonorg form. He did not understand this. It took him many decades to learn how to change form. He forgot how to change form, since he had woken up. He walked to what he thought was north, in search of the city. He had never been on thins planet. There were two suns which each had their own orbit. This planet was literally the center of the universe, everything revolved around it. Because it was the center of the universe, there was an immense gravity pulling every way. This made it difficult to walk.
He found his way to a small clearing. He looked up at the sun. "Where is north? Is there even a north here?" Said Fred. He was disoriented. He stood in the center of the clearing and looked all around. He tried to spot something that he would recognise. He found something. He chose a direction and started walking.
He entered a very thick part of the forest. The trees and other plants were so thick that he walked sideways and squose through the plants. He had to climb up trees to be able to pass the larger rocks. As he took a break on a branch, a large dart hit next to him. It looked like it was made by some sort of native. While Fred was distracted, he heard a twig snap. He turned to see what it was. There was a large dark blue figure that grabbed him and placed him in a pouch.
He tried to adjust his eyes so he could see where he was. He started to see edges of what looked like a shrunken head. Ten minutes later he started to hear a bunch of cheering. "Oaha! Yo dude, ya found zeh Borg? Oh man!" A voice called.
He was taken out and plopped down on a table. He rolled over on his back to see what was happening. He could see a large canopy of people overhead. They were the natives. He was terrified. A short man pushed people out of the way, so he could see Fred. He had a large amount of face paint on him. "Oooh. Yo man," The man said. He was the tribe leader. He put his index finger up his nose. He cranked it around, as if he were trying to tear it off. He retrieved the finger and rubbed it on Fred's chest.
"Aaaah! Oh, why on earth, you infidel!" Fred yelled.
The crowd got really excited and started to jump up and down. The leader calmed everyone down. "Shu shush!" He started, "You speaken engwish?"
"Yes," Fred said.
"Oh, yo be good sir with us. We, choose you friend in us." He put his hand over his chest, and gave a short bow.
Fred took a look around the room at the villagers. He could tell they were not cannibals. "Do you know where the city Ori is?"
"Uuuh! You seek teh land of Orie. They no be as us. You go dere and detray us. No!" He said.
All of a sudden, Fred felt his body change. His legs and arms stretched, his back stretched and he changed into a male human. The villagers were freighted. The leader exclaimed, "Evil!!! Bad JU-JU!"
"Don't be frightened. It is still me, Fred." replied Fred as he sat up. "I am here to help. I'm here to teach the Orians about peace."
The villagers heard this and they prepared for war with the Orians. The leader said "Lets go!"
"Why are you doing that? I'm here to stop them from killing others." explained Fred.
"Peace, be fight ,YA!" replied the leader.
"No, peace means not fighting. War means killing others. Why do you know the word, peace as fighting?"
"The great Momagomi, said so!"
"Tell us the story, Joshyah!" said on of the men while looking at the leader.
"I shall, but I will at the tribal show tonight! But we we must show Fred Mateing!" said Joshyah.
"What is mating? I hope you don't mean make little versions of yourselves?" asked Fred.
"You will find out!" yelled Joshyah, "Let the Mateing begin!"
All of the adults formed two sides, one consisting of all females, the other of all the males. The male team spilt in half. Then a ball was brought out, clearly Mateing, it was a sport for the people of the village. The two male teams fought for control of the ball. When on of them got the ball over a certain line, he was excused from the game, and choose one of the females and took her away from the rest. Each set of male and female did not return from the jungle for at least twenty minutes. Fred, though he had an idea of what was happening away from the field the game was played on.
"Now, I will tell the story of Momagomi, " said Joshyah after the game was finished and food was brought out, along with musicians, each with his own instrument with many strings. "The story takes place many years ago," Fred was astonished that he was able to speak English perfectly. "Years ago in a far off land. The people of the Ori and our people were one people. We were called the Biologyasos. We were a happy people, one in harmony. But, there was a time when there was a controversy between the Yashooni, chief, and the people. Usually the people follow the chief no matter what he says. But, this time was different. A person came up with his idea and talked to the chief. His name was Dooanta. Dooanta met with Yashooni and told him the other idea. They argued for several minutes. Dooanta got kicked out and lost his home and job. He had no idea what to do. He gathered a group of people to rebel against Yashooni. After a year of controversy, the people were split in two."
"So," Fred said, "Which person was the start of your people?"
"Yashooni, was. He was the most loyal, he and his people. Dooanta was the one who rebelled and still does today. When the people left in the two groups, Dooanta took the land that we once had. The people of Yashooni had to leave to the land southward."
"But, what was the controversy that led the people apart?" Fred asked.
"Yashooni's cook came up with a recipe of a new food. They called it piska, or something."
"Do you mean pizza?"
"Yes," said Joshyah, "Dooanta knew that this food would take over the people. It would, at some time, control the peoples money pouches. Yashooni found out, after the first sample of the food, that he was right. He was not going to let it take over until it was properly tested. And it was. Doanta and Yashooni came together as representatives of their people. They were going to fight to make peace. We came to war and fought. Yashooni lost the fight. Today, we fight for peace in remembrance of Yashooni. So, in final, peace means to fight. How else can we make peace?" The people started to talk, each agreeing with what he had said.
"There is another way to teach peace." Fred said.
Joshyah and the tribe leader got their things together to study. They looked so intense, as if they were going to be graded. Joshyah, even brought an hour glass so they would know how much time would pass. Fred said "Argue, Astor Van Hoover!" and a book appeared in his hand. "People, I present to you the Great Book of Weather and The Clouds of Many Book! These holds the truths of peace," exclaimed Fred while he showed it to the people. "This book tells us how to reach the highest form of peace and enlightenment, Disneyland, the happiest place on earth." Fred spent the next three days teach the people about how to reach Disneyland. He taught them from the books of Honda and Toyota.
"We have heard and will follow this path. May we each have a copy of these sacred texts?" asked Joshyah.
"Yes!" Fred answered then wave his hand and a copy of each book appeared for each of the listeners. "But, you should understand that the books are not sacred, that would be a form of idolatry." He handed the booklets around the crowd. They were looking at the pamphlets, and started to talk amongst each other.
One of the people looked up and asked, "What are these things, and why do you call them bad?"
"Oh, sorry about that," Fred said. He did not know how far behind in technology they were. He guessed that they would have cars at least. "What is your name?"
"My name is Raymond, what do rub your head for?"
"Oh, did I? Uh, never mind that. You need to find peace with the Ori. Where I come from there is a place we meet regularly. The place is situated on the cleavland rocks, there are lines of these two rocks. They are icons of worship called actors and actresses, refereed to as twins." Fred said.
"We will obey you!" Raymond yelled.
"No, that was an example of what not to do. You and the Ori need to become one like, like a PO box. You need to be like bloggers and put in your comments to unify the blog, or people in this case."
"What are you talking about?" Announced the chief.
Fred realized that they had no idea what these things were. He spoke, "Each midsummer night's dream, you need to go to the Ori and give them presents of peace. After three years you will be one people, the Biologyasos, once again. If you don't you shall be cursed with a plaque until you have repented and done the task I have given you."
"What should be our first gift to them. Oh Great Caren!" asked the Joshyah.
"First off, why did you call me Caren?"
"It means you our the great solver of problems. The Caren before you had a dream, a dream to solve our nose problem, snoring. In the dream, he walked to a great snoring canal. There he heard someone called Britney Spears, sing a song sounded like 'Shibby doo da wa cha!' She had tube that said carpet cleaner in right hand, and remote in other hand. There was a people box, a box where small people appear. She turned channel from a game of Matieng to a new game 'Whose line was that.' They had infomercials on our problem. He woke, and taught us. Then he died a year later." replied Joshyah.
"Well, I think you should create a song for the Ori. I will be back, I must go teach the Ori, which way to their village?" asked Fred. Joshyah pointed north. Fred, went in that direction. He traveled for three hours until he entered a clearing. He heard rustles in the bushes. All of a sudden five darts flew from several bushes hitting Fred in the chest, he felt fatigued and fainted. When he came to he was in his Amonorg form, and tied to a stake. He felt as if he was run-over by a semi-truck. He looked up to see one very tall person, completely naked, standing directly over him. Fred put his hand up to his head. He had a bad headache. He didn't know if he was conscious or dreaming.
"What is you?" The tall figure asked.
"Oh," Fred moaned, looking directly up at the figure. "I don't know. I think I saw Uranus.
The figure started to laugh, "You say you sea a planet? I once went to the head chief and asked him about the planets. He sent me on a many incredible stormquests."
"That's a likely story," Fred mumbled.
"What you say?" He yelled, "What do you last remember."
"I almost got run-over by a semi!" Fred looked around the room looking for someone or something.
"You know name of you? Or not? Eh?"
"What, are you Canadian?" There was a moment of silence. Fred looked around the room again. He looked back up at the man. "Did we meet?" He asked.
"What? But, are you ok?"
"Shall we meet?"
"What are you from, a cult?" The man was getting angry.
"Lets call me Chubbuck. Whats your name?"
The man looked around the room timidly. "My name is Zachary. I haven't told many people my name before."
"No, that's not your name. I'll call you Brother Seagull."
Suddenly another man came into the room. He was especially short. He looked up at the taller man. "Hey, Chiefster, what have you found about him?"
"I am worried. He talks oddly. He mentioned something about a semi-truck."
"What is that?" Asked the shorter man.
"Whats your name?" Asked Fred to the shorter man.
"Oh," He said, "I am one of the leaders. My name is Starse."
"Your name should be Tumor." Fred said. "My name is Chubbuck by the way."
Starse looked at the taller man and said, "What is your name then?"
"Oh," Said the taller man, "Uh, he called me Brother Seagull."
"He is odd," Said Starse.
"I once knew a man named iPod." A drop of sweat ran down Chubbuck's head. "Man, I am feeling ill. Do you have packet of Adult Stem Cells by chance? If you don't, that's fine."
"I don't know," Said Brother Seagull, "What do they look like?" He grabbed Chubbuck and pulled him off the steak. He ripped off his clothes and yelled, "Sha sha ho feo fetus, ago lanto!" Chubbuck suddenly grew to human size, but he was still an Amonorg. The other two men were pressed against the sides of the hut. "Oh," Brother Seagull said, "Maybe I should have done that outside."
"Oof, I am pressed against this raft river thing, a thing in which you raft down a river. Argh, we should name this thing." Said Starse
"The name should be, a River Raft," Said Chubbuck.
"Oh, that sounds good," Said Brother Seagull. "Is there any way that we can get out of this uncomfortable position."
"Well, cant you turn me back? If you can turn me to this, you can change me back." Said Chubbuck.
"It is not that easy. As you might be able to see, I cant move my arms."
"Well, I cant see anything to do." Said Starse, "While we are sitting here, can you tell us anything about you, Chubbuck?"
"I will try to remember. Who are you people?" Asked Chubbuck.
"Well, we are the Ori." Said Brother Seagull. "Our people are small. We have many traditions which are even strange to us. We take the women and make children. If the child is a girl, we have a feast."
"Sometimes we even do it when it is a boy." Said Starse.
"Oh yea," Said Brother Seagull, "Anyway, after the children are made, we have a feast with the women."
"Ah, that sounds nice." Said Chubbuck, "You must really like each other."
"No, we don't. When I say that we have a feast, I mean that we eat them."
"We are cannibals." Said Starse.
"Oh, ok. Whatever that means." Said Chubbuck. "What caused you to have these beliefs?"
"Oh, well. Many years ago, just after our people split in two, there was a mystical asteroid that landed in our land. Because of it, we do what we do today."
"How can that make you go eat people as a tradition?" Asked Chubbuck.
"Uh," Said Brother Seagull, "It was the media. Anyone will believe the media."
"Ah, that is true." Said Chubbuck. His head was pressed against the ceiling. It was hard for him to see a thing. He noticed that he was slowly expanding, three inches per second. "Oh, I am so happy that you make these huts so strong. It appears that the hut is just stretching as much as I am." Brother Seagull and Starse were in a lot of pain. They felt like they were being pressed thin. "So," Said Chubbuck, "Why are your people all naked?"
"Well, ow." Said Starse, "The fashions were getting terribly odd between the boys and the girls. The boys were growing long hair, and the girls--ooow!"
"They," Continued Brother Seagull, "They were taking testosterone for breakfast. Things were getting odd, all right, ow."
Starse continued, "Because of this oddness we had to make a change. If we unclothe ourselves, then we could tell who was what."
"And because of our traditions," Starse said, "tradition of cannibalism, we needed to be able to tell gender. Ahh! Why do you keep expanding?"
"Ow," Said Chubbuck, "I have no idea. Brother Seagull was the one who changed me with some mystical spell. Owww! I am just as uncomfortable as you are, if not more."
An hour had passed, and the hut was very thin. It was so thin that you could see through the walls at the three guys inside. The whole village of twenty people surrounded around the hut. The hut, at this point, had a diameter of around 346 feet.
"Aaarrgh!!!" Chubbuck yelled. "What a stupid hut. Your people are helpless. They have been gathered watching us for half an hour now."
"Well," Said Starse, "That one kid tried to pop the hut with a pin, and that didn't work."
"So, why is your village so small? I can only could around 15 or 18 from my view."
"Our village has 22 people in it." Said Brother Seagull.
"It is so small, because of that darn cannibalism tradition. We get hungry and we eat. That is why there are no weak thin people in the village, we have already eaten them." Said Starse.
"You need to work on that problem," Said Chubbuck.
All of a sudden there was a strong wind that blew from the East. The hut lifted off the ground and bounced several hundred miles. Each bounce, the hut landed on a poor little chicken, and then landed on a huge tree stump.
"Oh my, goodness! The poor little chickens!" exclaimed one of the watching women.
All of a sudden the eldest member of the village, who was called Car Pool, ran to the hut and said "Oh, how stupid was that! Why did you have to go and do that Jack! I always have to fix your mistakes my apprentice, what am I going to do with you?"
Car Pool began chanting a phrase that sounded like he was saying, "Can you call my husband a goddess! "
Fred started shrinking each time the phrase was said it took an hour for him to return to regular human size.
Then Car Pool did a gesture with his hands and Fred took on the form of a male human.
"Thanks," gratefully said Fred "It was getting crowded in there," as he and the others got out of the hut.
"We are hungry, bring out the women!" yelled Starse.
"No, don't do that!" exclaimed Fred, "You guys need to stop eating each other."
"What should we eat then?" asked Starse
"I know you guys should start eating the fruits in this forest. Are there any edible ones near by?"
"What is your favorite fruit to eat?" asked Brother Seagull.
"I love apples!" replied Fred. As Fred finished saying this, there was a great rumbling in the ground. The stump that the hut had landed on started glowing, and then from it grew a fully grown apple tree with ripe red apples.
The villagers started praising and bowing at Fred. He was chanting "Power Pointer! Power Pointer!" in a methodical rhyme, almost as if the where drums.
"What is a 'Power Pointer?'" asked Fred.

Car Pool stopped chanting and bowing, and stood up and said "There once was a man. He sought to find the one great power. But on his journey he found something surprising to him. There was not one great power, there were many. But which one would he choose to follow? That is where his job came in. He became The Power Pointer."

"But why am I the Power Pointer?"

"The prophecy of the Power Pointer says that that tree stump will bring forth what ever fruit the Power Pointer says. So that makes you the Power Pointer!" explained Car Pool.

"Well, then maybe we should eat, I am hungry. Everyone, take an apple!" commanded Fred.

The village stopped there praising of Fred and each member picked an apple. After each had eaten an apple, theirs eyes started to glow. Then they all looked at each other and said, "Why are we still all naked, we should not have taken up such a foolish tradition?"

They then ran into the jungle and made themselves clothing. They then returned to the tree to listen to Fred. Car Pool asked Fred, "Will you tell us a story, oh great Power Pointer?"

"Yes," answered Fred, "Have you ever heard the Legend of Sir Joshua?"

"No," they replied. Fred told them the legend, he then ate an apple from the tree, his legs started to tingle.

"Why on earth do your legs look like that?" Brother Seagull asked while pointing at Fred's legs.

"Holy Scottish Kilt!" Exclaimed Fred. There was a bright flashing coming from his legs. Many colors shone which nobody had yet seen. The ground started to shake and give forth bright light also. A small child by the name of One Tooth came over to Fred. The child had his thumb in his mouth. He looked up at Fred and said with power, "You are a great soul. You have given much to this people. We have a great knolege of greed, shelglessness and temper. We still have much to learn and to learn from. But dont worry, I will take over thy stead." The child turned towards his little sister. She was pulling a large bowl looking thing along with her. "Fred," The child said, "This is the Passive Pensive. With this you shall teach us your final bidding."

Fred picked up the Passive Pensive and turned to the people. He looked into the pensine and touched the bottom. A clear liquid started to apear out of nowhere. There he could see what he would become, and what to teach the people. He could see past, present and future. He cleared his throught and said to the people, "You are the begining of a great legacy. You have seen the Prophesy of the tree. This day shall be known as Apple Day. Both Scotsman and the Irish shall be known as Brother. The Egyptian shall become as pharos and pass away. You people have become one people. You shoud go and join your brothers. Just as a crossword puzzle gets compleated a new one comes again. Knowlege is power, and power in knowlege. You will not see me for some time. I bid thee welcome to a new day, and I say farewell."

Car Pool yelled, "But who will lead us then?"

One Tooth walked forward and said, "I shall lead people to greatness, just as the great Fred has done. I will lead you, the people, to greatness. But, you will need to have patience. I am still young. You will have to wait until I have more than one tooth." One Tooth turned towards Fred and said to him and the people. "The spirit, even the great spirit has let something known unto me. You know, dont you, Fred." Fred noded, he had seen it in the pensive. Suddenly the light coming from Fred's legs got really dim and his legs started to grow wider and taller. The rest of his body began to glow too. The village was getting scared. They didnt know what to do. They feared for their lives.

"Fear not," Said One Tooth, "The prophesy is at hand."

Fred yelled in pain. Everyone turned to look at Fred. What was happening. Fred's abdomen started to lengthen to ten feet. Because it was so long he fell over forward. His abdomen was like a snake. His arms up were lifted up by his snake like abdomen. Suddenly his legs changed form. He grew two more knees per leg. There was a loud cracking of his leg bones as this was happening. His toes molded together as one and grew two feet long to a sharp point. His feet were like the poisonous end of a scorpion's tail. His two tail-like legs lifted in the air and hunched over as if they were ready to strike.

One tooth watched this with much anticipation. He knew what was happenig. As this was taking place he too began to grow.

Fred, at this point, was still growing into a new form. There was a crackling sound followed by a sharp ripping of skin. Fred was yelling louder than before. His arms suddenly fell off. Blood was porring from both wounds. But, something else was replacing them. Two skin-made bubbles started to inflate out of the two arm holes of his shirt. They started to form something human like. At the ends of them hair started to grow, then eyes and ears. He now had two heads for arms. They both started to blink and breath. They looked up at Fred. His left head said, "Hey there, my name is Freshile." And the right head said, "My name is Fredoodle." Fred was going out of him mind. What is happeing here. Why did he have two more heads. It was hard enough to have one.

One Tooth at was growing older. He now appeared to be the age of 23. He was a man now. He was very muscular and tall. But, he still only had one tooth.

Fred's head started to hurt. He could feel the absense of his arms. He wanted to grasp his head. Freshile said, "Oh, sorry that hurts. That is why we are here." Fredoodle said, "We are your suport group." Two thorns pierced through Fred's scalp. They suddenly turned and pointed straight up. They grew to one foot in length. When Fred oppened his eyes they both fell out. But, he could still see. The back of his eye holes were lit up by a yellow glow. He started to smile. He was getting stronger.

"Oh my gosh!" Someone yelled.

In the middle of Fred's back something was trying to break out of his skin. There were eight bumps on his back, two rows of four. His skin was stretching and streching. He was waiting for the skin to break. Suddenly it did. Eight black and hairy pole-like things shot out of his back, straight up in the air. They reached the height of twenty feet. They each suddenly bent in two places and each bent to touch the ground. They were like eight huge spider legs. They began to lift him in the air. He was like nothing anybody had seen before. Both rows of teeth melted together, until he had only two teeth. One on top, and one on bottom. He looked down at the people. The village shrunk to the ground and tried to hide. Fred bent his spider legs and jumped into the air. He could fly, using his two heads like rutters.

The adult One Tooth stood up among the people and said, "Behold, THE AMMONZAH!"

THE END