Shell Study Guide – Sample Chapter Assignment
It was late one night while I was working at the lab with Dr. Jenkins, making the final
adjustments to our latest experiment, the Shell unit. Dr. Jenkins had requested that we should
order some take-out because this might take all night. I picked up the phone and ordered a pizza
for delivery, then returned to Dr. Jenkins to assist him with the unit. About thirty minutes later,
there was a ring from the doorbell and so I had answered it. It turned out to be Jack, the
delivery guy I was friends with. I welcomed him inside and told him to watch the experiment. I
asked Dr. Jenkins "Is the Shell ready for testing?", he answered very sarcastically, "Oh yes,
Edward. That explains why I'm still working on it, jackass." From that response, I took it in as
another dumb question asked. I walked over to pay Jack but he declined on taking the money.
So I asked him "Don't you need it, for your job?" He looked up at me and said in a rather shaky
voice "To tell the truth, I got fired three weeks ago. I'm not a delivery boy anymore." I then
looked down at the pizza box and then glanced back at him to ask "Then why the hell did you
order a pizza for us?" A few seconds later, he got up and started dancing, I knew what this
meant. You see, I have a lot of weird friends and what makes Jack special is that he thinks life is
a dream where a song for a musical can happen at any given time. He began to sing a song in a
confessional, apologetic manner.
Eduardo I must also confess.
That pizza I gave you
Has been in my car
For three weeks!
I apologize for not telling you sooner,
But I was ashamed
To tell you the truth.
Oh, I love the friendship
That you and I share....
Jack was interrupted by Dr. Jenkins. "Goddammit! I'm trying to concentrate boy! Furthermore,
that pizza tastes stale." Jack and I walked back into the lab as Jenkins was reassembling the
outer parts of the Shell unit, it was almost completed. I picked up my lab journal and jotted down
our latest course of experimental events. Dr, Jenkins finished the assembly of the unit, he stood
there with a wide grin on his face before he cheered "Done!" All three of us stood around this
model that rested upon the doctor's table, observing this abomination of nature. Jack especially
took interest into it, he had never seen something like this, but he had no idea how it works or
what it was for that matter. "How will you make it work?" Jack asked Dr. Jenkins.
"We will animate it using the elixir that we had made months ago.... the one we had to pry you
from."
Jack jumped at that statement and replied "Come on, that was one time!" Dr. Jenkins took a
large sample of elixir and had injected it into the neck of the lifeless body. Jack asked why the
doctor was testing this on a dead person before, but he never got a straight answer out of him.
This project from the start, was an attempt to bring his wife back from the dead, Dr. Jenkins’
dream was going to become a reality. We waited for the elixir to take effect and as we knew it,
the Shell unit started to move by itself and started to make eerie sounds. As I looked at Dr.
Jenkins, he was getting all nervous and sweaty from excitement. I then gestured to Jack and
whispered to him "Hey, if this works, it will be one stiff less to worry about." Jack chuckled as I
formed a cheesy grin on my face. Dr. Jenkins approached the experiment slowly, then it
suddenly leaped upright on the table. We all paused as we stared upon its face, which resembled
the face of Dr. Jenkins' wife, Jill. Jack got up onto a lab table and started to sing again.
The dead have risen,
To do as we please.....
Forever living,
Forever without death.
He was once again interrupted by Dr. Jenkins, who shouted "Jack, shut that mouth or I'll
sew it shut!" Jack started to kick lab reports off of the table which he stood on and picked up
bottles of various potions and sniffed them. One of which he began to drink a green, rather
viscous liquid compared to most potions. Dr. Jenkins turned back to the Shell as it stood there.
Jack seemed to lose interest in the experiment and said "Boring, I'll catch you later at the
movies." He was about to leave, but then the Shell finally reacted. Jill had leaped over Dr.
Jenkins and kicked Jack off of the lab table, seeing this filled me with a sudden shock of fear and
concern for all of our safety. Jack slowly got up, slightly dazed and spoke confused "What just
happened?" Jill landed in front of Jack as he struggled to move, she lurched forward as it was
about to attack him, I looked around for a weapon to use. I had spotted a gun on the lab table, I
picked it up and shot at the Shell in the back. It collapsed and fell to the floor while Jack was
shaking in fear, then he arose and chuckled again like nothing had happened. I called over to him
in concern "Jack, are you okay?" as he stumbled over to the table to lean on it. He had a rather
strange look on his face like if something was on his mind, then he glanced over at Dr. Jenkins as
the room grew silent. "Doc', I thought you knew what you were doing with this project." he said
with a harsh tone in his voice. Dr. Jenkins finally spoke after an awkward moment of silence, "Of
course I know what I'm doing. If I didn't know what I was doing, then I wouldn't have tried to
bring Jill back to life!" Another awkward silence filled the room, then I realized that the gun that
I was holding was just a stun gun, which means it's very unlikely that the failed experiment was
taken care of. After looking over the table, the Shell's body started to move again, Jack came up
to me and asked what's wrong.
I pointed at the body and backed up to the doctor's table. Jack turned towards me and said "You
sure told that thing who's boss." What he didn't know was that it wasn't dead, I yelled "Behind
you!" Then Jill grabbed Jack from behind, he started to cry for help. Dr. Jenkins yelled "Use the
plasma drill!", I pulled the drill off of the table and turned on the drill. As I ran over to save Jack,
the plug ripped out from the wall and I shouted "Shit!" Jill let go of Jack to retrieve a sword that
rested upon the next table. This sword was found with the original Shell that we based our
technology on, we had almost no idea how it worked, but we were told that it eats souls. Thinking
about that, it sparked idea for a future experiment, God knows what using it's sword will do. Jill
clenched the Shell's hand around the sword and lofted it high, freezing all of us into place, with
fear. She wailed ominously with a sharp screech as she lunged towards me, pounced and
prepared to attack. I lifted a nearby stool, then threw it at Jill, but there was no success. She had
sliced the stool in half, so I rolled out of the way, just narrowly evading the sword. The floor was
covered in blood, it wasn't my blood, but the stool's blood. Jack and I made a dash for the supply
closet and locked ourselves inside, temporarily while we thought up a plan. Jack then brought up
a clever idea, to contact my assistant for help. You see, my assistant has been known to have
battled these foes before, so he could easily take this one down. I pulled out my phone and dialed
his number, as in that split second, the phone that he was supposed to have turned out to be in
my pocket. But luck was on my side, he smashed his way through the brick wall and pulled out
his phone from my pocket. He threw it to the floor and crushed it with his foot, leaving the
buttons and broken plastic in the middle of the supply closet floor.I then decided to speak after
that unusual introduction, "Drake, we need your help."
"With what?" he asked.
"The experiment has gone horribly wrong!" I cried. Jill broke through the door, Drake turned
and noticed that it was the Shell experiment that I was talking about. He puffed out his chest and
shouted "Be vanquished, foul fiend!" as he rammed into the Shell out through the doorway.
Drake then walked back over to me and rummaged through his knapsack, pulling out some sort
of booklet with plenty of dirty fingerprints and yellowing pages. He held it out to me and smiled,
"Here's that book I was talking about, boss." He ran back into the lab to do battle with Jill.
Drawing out his sword, he leaped high into the air above Jill as she was anticipating his first
move. He forcefully pounded downward, driving her back while she blocked his sword. Jill
pounced forward again, this time Drake ducked under the blade as it got jammed into the wall.
He made his move by severing the arm of the Shell's body, warding her backward to avoid
Drake. Jill was still capable of fighting, despite the fact that the blood-like, neon blue-coloured
elixir used to animate her was dripping out from where her arm was. She tripped Drake and he
fell to the floor, leaving him open to be attacked. i finally decided to take action by distracting
her. I picked up a round bottle of antidote and smashed it against the back of Jill's head,Dr.
Jenkins then fainted, I knew I was going to get barked at for doing that. Jill turned towards me
and grasped her cold, lifeless hand around my neck. By doing so, this left her vulnerable as her
back was turned to Drake, so he used his sword to pierce through her chest, almost getting me as
well if it were another five inches. This was followed by decapitation, lopping off Jill's head and
the elixir spewed out all over the armoured body. The body toppled over after Jack waltzed over
and and nudged at it. "That was cool!" Jack exclaimed.
"All in a days work." said Drake. I asked him about the book and he flipped through the pages to
something he wanted me to see. He paused, stopped flipping through the book and let out a
hearty laugh, so I looked over the topside of the book to read the page. This page contained
information on the monster known as "Seaman", then I looked over the quote "Don't let them
form into large groups." I began to chuckle from that and then I took the book to find the page
on Shells (if there was one). After flipping through a dozen pages, I found a page with information
on Shells. "Well, here it is. An answer to our problem." I said. I read the page and here is what it
said:
A Soulstealer in the form of a soldier. It's body is a faded armour, brought to life by the
Corruptive Seeds, animated as a strong warrior. Can wield any of the weapons that are linked to
Soulstealing.
Corruptive Seeds, is that what what supplies the power of life into inanimate objects? The
purpose of those 'seeds' is easy to understand by its name, to corrupt, to animate something with
some sort of evil ambition. However, the Shell reacts differently under the same influence, but
why? There were questions that only science could answer in this time. As far as I would know
about this, I had a lot yet to uncover. From all this thinking, I lost track of what was going on.
Drake and Jack were arguing in the washroom, I could hear Jack squealing "Dude, stop looking
at my penis!"
"Well sorry if you decide to turn while you're still going." said Drake.
"You threw your bag at me!"
The argument continued as I took notice in the Shell's sword again, still lodged in the wall. I
approached it slowly to retrieve the artifact, but Drake shouted "No, don't touch that!" He
marched up in front of me and continued. "Boss, if you touch that, you're going to become one of
the bad guys."
"Who?" I asked, confused.
"Hold on", he flipped through the book again. This time he showed me a page on a rather unusual
selection, known as the 'Soulstealer Clan'. "This is what the Shells and the sword are from." said
Drake.
"So how am I supposed to get this sword then? It is important for my research, Drake." He held
out his hands, "Give me your gloves." I put my lab gloves on his held out hands. Next, he
stretched his legs and held out his right hand at the sword. He ripped the sword out of the wall
and juggled it as he ran over to the lab table. Then he dropped it there and breathed deeply,
acting exhausted from doing that. "What's wrong Drake?" I asked.
"Boss, don't pick it up." he said breathlessly.
"What happened?" He took my hand and held it above the edge of the sharpened-looking blade.
I began to feel this ominous surge of energy in my forearm, it felt like when you get angry, the
tension that fills out through your entire body. This didn't last long, though, this energy was then
drawing away my body's energy. I began to feel lightheaded, weaker by the second, possibly
beginning to lose consciousness. He finally let go of my arm, allowing me to back away. I gasped
for air as Jack watched curiously, appearing as the odd one of the group. He looked at me and
said "You okay, Eddie?" You look like hell."
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jack picked up a bottle of the blue, glittering elixir and twisted off the lid. "I'm
sure thirsty!"
"Jack, don't drink that!" I yelled at him.
"Ed, I ran out of money and this is the best thing you guys got around here."
"That elixir is needed for experimental use only!"
At that moment, Drake was chugging a container of of the elixir behind Jack. Drake licked his lips
and dropped the container onto the floor, he belched as he had made his way over to me.
"That is quite some fruit punch you got there, boss."
"It isn't for drinking! It's for our experiment."
"Want a sandwich?" said Drake, pulling out a sandwich out from his knapsack.
"What kind is it?" I asked.
"Oh, ummm... There's some ham, mustard, cheese and peanut butter."
I held up my hand to decline the offer, "No thanks, Drake. I'm allergic to nuts." I winked over at
Jack and he caught onto the joke. He started to laugh and he lifted up the bottle of elixir to pass
it to me.
"Drink it, man." said Jack.
"Why should I?"
"Hey, boss! The doctor ain't here." said Drake from behind the lab table. "It's like he got up and
waddled his penguin body outta here."
"I bet he's ranting in his lab journal someplace." I said, uncaring.
Jack picked up another bottle of elixir and twisted off the lid, placing it in his mouth.
"Ah, what the hell!" I said, sucking back on the fruit punch-flavoured elixir. I took out my
sunglasses to put them on my gorgeous face (which I must say so myself), I then climbed onto
the lab table and held out my hand to Jack. He took my hand to climb up and I said "Jack, lets
sing the song."
"Which one?"
"Oh, you should know which one." I said before I made that cheesy grin on my face again. We
cleared our throats when Drake sat down on the lab stool.
I turned to Jack and asked "Ready?"
"Ready." he snickered as he raised his thumb as a sign of approval. Drake popped in a computer
disk and the music started to play. He exclaimed "Ready, boss." After the song introduction, we began to sing a tune like this:
We're two lonely guys
Livin' in a lonely paradise,
The true story lies
In these sexy guys.
"Hey man, we know how it is." Jack said confidently.
Because...
I got two kidneys
Under my skin.
I got them for work,
Got them for business,
Gimmie a break, man,
Here's my sunglasses, Dan.
I took off my sunglasses and wiped them off, then put them back on. Jack and I climbed down
from the table to lift Drake from his seat.
Oh, darling
My sweet old octopus,
If I weren't so lonely
I would make you into a purse.
Forget about childhood stuff,
I was only a kid.
Drake applauded and clapped with joy, for so I had said "That's it for now folks. Have a good
night!"
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