Grimm Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk

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Grimm Tales: Jack n the Beanstalk
　
Alex sits on his classroom as usual. HIs dealings with victor left him a bit discouraged. He never thought himself capable of such cruelty after so many decades. However, he must uphold his idea of being a modle person in the town and cannot let his anger get the better of him. He flips through the pages and opens it to the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. He reads the tale, wondering who will be the lucky candidate for this book. The bell rings and class begins with every one seated.


"Today Class we cover yet another well known fable, Jack and the Beanstalk..." He looks around holding his book. "The origions of course is debated but the grimm brothers did write about it. Its an old english tale about a boy, who as we all know traded the cow for money but for magic beans. What people did not know is that the boy had a sick n dying sister. He returned n found his sister dead a few days later since they had no money for medicine."

The class stays silent. "Years later the boy did marry and the mother passed away. He had a wife n child n the child became sick. He burried the beans and hoped they will give him help. A beanstalk grows and he climbs it, finds a castle, a giant, the goose, the eggs, blah blah blah. Well jack gets greedy, n tries to steal the harp despite his wife's pleas to stop." He looks around. "The harp calls for help and the giant comes. Jack climbs down and chops the bean stalk up and falls the giant onto jack's house. His lack of thinking ahead cost him not only his sister but also his wife and children." He closes the book. "So class, This time we shall do a double asignment. First page is on the evils of greed and how it drives us. The second is on any historical or myths related to a ladder to the heavens. I am sure the bible or Buddha can give clues."

As the class leaves there sits a young girl all alone. Stephanie Lowe, an emo now before she had problems. She tells alex her problem since the story of jack seem to hit home. It was about her father and his dealings with drugs. Wih that Alex has a new asignment, try n fix Steph's father. He gathers his book and locks his classroom door and heads out into the town. However, it seems Steph's father Troy would have more than just a talking to.

----some where in the bad part of downtown---

Troy walks through the streets carrying a breifcase with him. He makes sure not to look at any of the gang members who hang around the place. He knows them well but also he knows of a big hustler calling himself Chaos who likes dealing in anything from human slavery to drug dealing. He also knows that if Chaos found out he was selling drugs on his turf he would have problems of more than financial debt to be dealing with. He was to meet a client today, and with that goes into a broken down apartment complex and goes to room 32 on the 3rd floor.

As he walks in he finds Alexander standing against the opposite wall dressed in a black leather trench coat. He stops and wonders, but when Alex flashes a stack of 50's n shows he has no wires Troy comes in and shuts the door. They talk about the trade off and Troy shows Alex a suitcase full of cocaine. Alex tries not to get angry and tells Troy of a lesson on greed, then leaves the book open to jack n the beanstalk and goes to the bathroom. As he reads the book, he feels as if he was once living that life, as if it came to haunt him.


His cell rings. Its his wife Helen telling him Steph suddenly fell ill. The doctors think it may be sudden kidney failure and that if they had the money the surgery could be done within the week with no waiting period. Troy drops his phone, he needed fast cash and peddling drugs wouldn't be fast enough in this town, he would have to steal it, and only one place he knew close by with enough cash. He leaves the suitcase behind and leaves the book to go break into Chaos's place.

-----later that night----

Troy found the place, easy enough since any whore on the street will talk about it fr the right price. He follows the directions and heads around back so that no one will notice him. He can't find a way in, the first floor doors are all locked up and boarded up excpt for the front door. What he did not know is that Alex happens to have followed him and watched him from the roof tops. Alex whispers a little word and the fire escape ladders shake loose and land in front of Troy, forming a way up to the 3rd floor window where Chaos's place is.

Like Jack climbing the beanstalk Troy climbed the fire escape to the window and creeps inside. He hears Chaos ranting about how hes a bad ass, how he will bust a cap in any mutha who steals from him, and how he is not affraid of any one. Troy moves silently through the place, and finds the room where the cash is hidden. He is carefull not to take anything in big piles and only pockets the ammount needed for the operation. He quickly scurries out the window and leaves quietly.

Alex watched the whole event and makes the ladders go back up. No harm no foul. The operation paid for and everything is right with the world right? WRONG! Troy gets it in his mind that since Chaos is a big crime lord he obviously has a large cash flow coming in daily. Since no word was mentioned that any money was missing from his place, why not take a little more and just get things settled? So he decides to go back again, Alex following him and helping him with the fire escapes. Troy takes enough money to buy the house. It was a little more than the operation money but hardly noticable right?hah!

Well Troy payed off the house, and some info got out that Chaos is missing some money. He wanted to find out who stole it. He couldn't pin it on Troy exactly but at the same time he didn't wanna just look away from any possibilities since Troy came into big money and payed for his girl's operation and got his home fully payed for. Troy claimed it as an inheritance but whos that gonna fool for a while? Well Troy waited a few weeks and decided to go for one last heist just to settle all his debts n call it quits, just enough money to set them up for a while on easy street.
Well Alex had enough, he wanted to help Steph out, and hoped that Troy would of read the story more carefully. Looks like he will have to learn the hard way. As Troy sneaks in as per the way Alex helped him, Alex enters the place a few seconds after and sneaks off to Chaos. He sees chaos is a 6'3 mulato with a heavy build of 230lbs of lean muscle and top of the line clothes to match. However it was time to change things. With book in hand and one hand pointed at Chaos he begins his little speech. "Tyrant man, slum lord king, here my spell shall take wing. Like the story that has been retold, so shall you take a part in this fold. A giant to be to chase a Jack, a Giant you'll be till I turn you back..."


Chaos begins to change, his muscles expanding, his jacket and wife beater stretching and tearing, his pants tighening. His shoes ripping, his watch snapping off. His skin turning an olive green, He began to look like an ogre until his body finally stopped at 8ft tall and at 600lbs with his head bumped the ceiling. He was a giant, though not as big as the one from the tale he looked the part. Alex then turns his attention to Troy, and does a similiar change. "Foolish man, hollow man, greed is your art, now through greedy hands shall you do your part. Like foolish youth who saught to be king, now this tale you shall bring..."Troy doesnt notice how his body gets scrawney or how he suddenly has this urge to steal more money then what he wanted.

Alex leaves the apartment and walks out. Troy begins to take lots of money, filling his coat pockets, his pants, his shoes, and his backpack till they cant hold no more. Just as he leaves, he runs into Chaos's girl named Goldie. She was called goldie cause she was an ebony goddess with gold dyed hair, gold clothes, gold makeup, and gold jewlery. She starts screaming with some drunken slurrs and Chaos comes stomping into the area. Troy panics and pushes Goldie out the window, as she falls to her death Chaos catches up only to see Troy shimmy down the fire escape.

Just as he reaches the bottom, he sees Chaos punch the walls out of the building and starts climing down the walls one movement at a time. He looks around and finds a gold glock next to Goldie's dead body. He picks it up and fires a shot at Chaos's shoulder. The giant loses his grip and falls into the alley out cold. Troy; panicing drops the gun and runs home as hard as he can. Alex steps out and walks past the corpse of the woman and looks at the Giant. "Poor ceature, cheated by science. Poor man cheated by fate. Rise up anew, a man once more, to take revenge on a man who is no longer poor...."Chaos begins to revert to his old self, his memories some what intact. His old shape having trouble moving from the gunshot wound to the shoulder but he gets up, and takes the gold glock. He begins to go to Troy's house.

-----at Troy's place---

Troy begins to celebrate his newfound wealth. His wife and daughter looking a bit worried. He did not care, he had money now. More than enough to make everything go his way. What he did not count on was Chaos showing up busting the door in. It all went so fast, the first two shots took the life of his wife n daughter, while the third came from behind as Alex emerges over the dead Chaos.

"I told you...I told you that greed always comes at a price...." Alex looks a bit dissapointed, as usual. Troy begs for it not to happen, and with that Alex sighs, he hates to see a family torn apart. He puts his hand on Troy's head and whispers a chant that sounds like old celtic. Everything goes dark, hazy, as if falling into a deep trance, last thing Troy sees is Alex standing above him.

-----back at apartment 32----

Troy awakens on the musty old couch in front of his suitcase and the fairy tale book Alex left there. He breathes heavy and begins to wonder if it was real or if it was all a dream. He notices Alex is still in the bathroom and nothing much else happened. His cellphone goes off, and hears that it sits wife talking about Stephanie. She is going to her first piano recidle n was reminding him he needs to hurry.

He sighs in releif and runs out of the apartment, completely forgetting his suitcase and his meeting with Alex. As for Alex he walks out of the bathroom while whiping his hands with a wetnap and picks up his book. He eyes the suitcase and makes it catch fire as he leaves the room. The building catches fire a few minutes later, causing a comotion in the neighborhood. All the while Alex walks over to Chaos's place and walks right into the place.

Alex looks right at Chaos and smiles,"Hello Chaos, you may not know me but I am here to collect...."
　
　
next tale :goldilocks n the three bears

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hey guys sorry if there isnt much muscle growth. I could not find away to make it work right without taking away from th eodern day twist. that and i didnt want it to lead into a sexual thing so i tried to keep it clean and simple with some growing and shrinking/reverting.