Agon: an orgin story, Part 1

China ( 3 months before "NOW" )

"...And here we have the Great Wall."

"Yeah I can see that," I thought.

Cue tourists taking tons of pictures. Cue the rambling tour guide and ACTION. That is exactly what happened on that trip to the Great Wall. The Tour guide blabbed, tourists took pictures, and the Tour guide talked some more.

I sighed and leaned on the wall. When I had been told I was going to China this was not what I expected. Just then my principal stomped up to me.

" August Summers..." he yelled "Get off of the wall!"
" But sir I'm not on the wall."
" Then stop leaning on it!" he finished, and gave me one last look, before stomping off to yell at some other guy stepping out of line. Principal Chalmers is a weird man. Imagine if you will, a short, bald, pudgy man, somewhere in his sixties, who waddles when he walks, and then you have our principal. He also has some anger management issues. Some kids in our school say he once got so mad he turned green, either that or he needed to puke.

In fact speak of the devil. "August Summers, that is the second time you have been leaning on the wall!"
"Actually sir it's the first."
"And how is that" he said, grinding his teeth as he waited for my answer.
"I never got off of it the first time. So technically it's the second you caught me... sir." he grunts and walks away.

Funny story why I'm here in China, being yelled at. You see earlier in the school year the high school won a raffle for tickets to China, but when we won the school realized it was only for one homeroom. So they held another drawing to see which class would go and my class won. It was supposed to be for the teacher and students, but our principal tagged along to "supervise". Though I think he's really here because, lets face it whens the next time he going to get a chance to go to China?

Anyway Principal Chalmers ( I wonder what his first name is. ) leaving left me alone to study the wall. I could not believe the pain and suffering it took to make this wall. I wonder if it really ever kept China safe, but as I was studying, I noticed something, a loose brick. I looked around, strangely there was no one to see what I did next. I started to push on the brick. I can't explain well, but it felt like something was calling me. From inside the wall! I kept going with my task of pushing that    @#$%-ing brick, an entire section of the wall swung open like a door, revealing... a man.

BEGGING,

SWEARING,

THREATNING,

To a stick of wood. "Please, please, please give it to me."

Then the stick spoke. "Finally a prophet more worthy than you." meaning the man I guess. Not the prophet part, the worthy part. Then red lightning leaped out of the stick and hit me! I t the most painful moment of my life. The electricity flowing through my body, coursing through my vein. Shocking what felt like every part of my body. Then the man leaped onto me, and pulled me out of the lightning's arc. I started to thank him, but he started yelling and going crazy. "You, you stole what was rightfully mine. I am going to find you and kill you!" he then ran out of the wall. I stood there a moment, stunned by what just happened. Then I came to, looked around to see if anyone had saw that, then ran out of the room... also.