Day 2: Dead Dads and Fears

***Day 2: Dead Dads and Fears*** is a story chapter in the ***Everything Ergophobia Vol. 1*** anthology of stories appearing in *The Rage Knights: Red God* universe created by Khaliq Trevor X. This story succeeds the chapter Work and precedes the chapter, Day 3.

## Summary

Fearing he'd have to work at Fresh Panther following what feels like a major death, a young adult Damon Bradley avoids any mention of the retail kingdom however the more he tries to avoid it the more he's reminded of the store and its items as well as the sudden appearance of the flower-based Diseased known as Forget-Me-Nots. When one of the creatures steals Bradley's shirt, he chases the creature but winds up at the kingdom anyways. Before he's able to turn back home, he becomes trapped in an illusion that closes him off from the outside world, thus forcing him to stay at the kingdom. Bradley assumes this is simply the Diseased toying with his mind and instead of running, he adventures inside the kingdom.

When he enters, a *heavy weight* affects him, making him feel sluggish and guilty. He bears the feeling of his father's death once more and as he continues throughout the store's kingdom, he collapses. The feeling takes affect as a figure looms over him. The managerial queen and operator *Lenora Hunt*. Angered that he and his friends managed to escape her clutches on several occasions, Lenora wastes no time in bonding a uniform to Bradley's body with the spell of Seeming Family Death losing its power over Bradley's mind. As an associate, Bradley cannot escape the store no matter how many attempts he tries. Ragorias and Bradley attempt on several additional occasions to escape but are helpless to do so. Before long, Ragorias urges Bradley to contact the Rage Knights and have them save him from the store. During his "break", Bradley dials Hangi Bell (assuming Hangi would be the *wisest* choice). At the end of the "break", Bradley meets a nameless young woman whom tries to make him fall for her, instead he focuses on escaping the kingdom and watches the entrance of the store carefully for Hangi's arrival. Mid through the shift, Lenora realizes Bradley's sudden attentiveness is concerning and decides to speed up production of the store's duties such as increasing volume of customers and summoning additional cashiers for interactions. When the Forget-Me-Not returns to mock Bradley with his shirt, he grows angry and once again chases the Diseased, much to Lenora's anger whom tries to bring Bradley back to his designated position at the register. When Bradley reaches outside, he discovers the illusion is starting to subside. The environment around him alters once more. Lenora swings her axe after Bradley and battles him, but before long Hangi appears alongside Jessica Bree and engage Lenora in direct combat. The towering operator/manager queen summons superficial people to attack the trio of Rage Knights. This gives Bree enough time to escort herself, Bradley and Hangi out as they flee from incoming Superficial People but their escape is doomed when the nameless young woman follows beside them. Assuming her to be just another mindless summon or even Diseased, Hangi threatens to slay her with Warehouse Bully Odachi but the young woman reveals a much more imposing threat: The Twelve-to-Four Rage Knight Killer. A Diseased with the faces of the Rage Knights being crushed by various nameless superficial people. The nameless woman giggles as she conjoins into the creature and then this causes the creature to begin its mayhem of squashing them. Bree makes a run to the Instru-Mon where she powers up the ship and raises its guns on the Diseased as they takeoff. This leaves Hangi and Bradley dealing with superficial people summons, Lenora and the towering Diseased. Lenora laughs at their efforts as the duo runs past her and into the Fresh Panther Kingdom. Lenora expects nothing when the two Rage Knights devise a plan together: *use Fresh Panther's cold items* to freeze the creature's superficial faces. Hangi uninstalls the coolers and ventilations keeping the store cool and with Bradley's red magic has the cold air flow throughout the entirety of Fresh Panther and the surrounding area. This would in turn freeze over *everything.* Just as Bree destroys one of the creature's hands, the creature plunges into the store and just about squashes them. This gives the duo enough time to *blast* the creature with ice which effectively halts its movement.

With the creature under suspension, Hangi and Bradley make an escape via the Instru-Mon with Lenora giving chase. Before long the Forget-Me-Not, now mocking *Lenora* herself returns still with the shirt in its possession. Ragorias extends from the Rage Sword's blade and bonks the Diseased, stealing back the shirt as the group leaves the Fresh Panther kingdom. Lenora sits among the Diseased's frozen body and contemplates her next action in forming the perfect associate and Fresh Panther kingdom.

## Related Chapters

* Day 3
* Depressing Women and Arrogant Dudes
* Lenora and Draya Hunt for Damon Bradley!

## Disclaimer

* Managerial Queen and Master Operator Lenora Hunt makes an appearance in this story.
* This story has a Hangi Bell Vs. Lenora Hunt confrontation.
* This story has a Jessica Bree Vs. Lenora Hunt confrontation.

**Disclaimer***: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, they are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and solely for entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, events to come nor does it condone the very human evils the series itself is/was meant to advocate against.*