The Red Perspective

I woke up. I took a hard glance at Marly, my best friend in the entire world. He was still asleep like he always is, red all over as usual. Jerry, the god, turned on the sun. For those who don’t know, when the only good god in the world, which is Jerry, presses a button, the whole world lights up. That is the signal for everyone to wake up. Everyone woke up, including Marly. Marly and I hung out with some others, and it was nice. Everyone was chilling, just like any other day.

All of a sudden, Jerry opened the gigantic gateway to our city. We saw below a view of the flat square fleecy ocean and the woody island.  When that happens, it always means that the bad gods are going to come and pour their deadly poisonous acid into some of us. The nights are longer when the bad gods come. Suddenly, Jerry took the thin, clear walls off of some of our houses, including mine, and took us to the island. On the bright side, they took Marly’s group too. Jerry set us on the edge of the island quickly with no care at all.

We were about to go to sleep when a big furry Kraken, down in the ocean, looked hungrily at us. When I saw it, I started chanting, “Oga Boga Oga Boo” repeatedly, so it wouldn’t attack us. The Kraken jumped out of the flat downy sea and tried to snatch us from below. Luckily, the Kraken missed us just by a hair. Then it became even more determined to eat us. I started chanting again “Oga Boga Oga Boo.” It growled loudly and jumped up with its fierce claws. It missed again, all because of my chant. The Kraken went back to its presorted food. We went to sleep to store up on energy for the long night ahead. I fell asleep wondering why the Kraken wanted to eat us since it had presorted food. 

I woke up to loud noises, the type that always summon the bad gods; those loud noises the bad gods always like to move around to. Some of the bad gods were already there. Right next to me were the big towering bottles of acid that they were going to pour into some of us. One of the others from Marly’s group tried to dive into the ocean for safety. I didn’t know who he was. Jerry used his elbow to help knock him into the ocean, but one of the bad gods put him back up on the island. How weird was it that Jerry used his elbow to assist that guy?

A lot of the bad gods started swarming around the planet, mostly around the island we were on. Ten people had already died from the deadly acid by then. All of a sudden, I saw a bad god reaching for Marly. I started chanting again, “Oga Boga Oga Boo,” but it didn’t do anything this time. The bad god started to move Marly towards the bottles of deadly acid. So, I chanted even louder, “Oga Boga Oga Boo!” But the bad god poured the acid into Marly anyway. It was almost like the bad god couldn’t hear me. I screamed as loud as I could, “Please stop, I will do anything!!!! NO!!!”

As the bad god poured the deadly acid, I saw another bad god, talking to Jerry. He looked directly at me and said, “Hey, this cup looks defective.”

 “Yeah,  well, it’s just a red solo cup I got from the grocery store. You can throw it away if you want,” Jerry explained.

 “Ok,” the other bad god replied. He threw me into a big square whirlpool with a white clear film lining it. It also had other species in it. 

While I was in the whirlpool, I realized that my peers and I couldn’t control our surroundings. All that chanting I had done was useless. No one could hear me and it did nothing. When I tried to beg the bad god not to take Marly, it did nothing because the bad god couldn’t hear me after all. When that other person from Marly’s group tried to dive into the ocean for safety, it was just Jerry accidentally knocking him with his elbow. I couldn’t control anything, and my existence as a person — or as that bad god said, a cup — is powerless.