Chopping The Day Away

[Ash Williams]

Ash wakes ups from the rooster crowing at 6:00 and smell of breakfast coming out of the kitchen. He gets up slowly after a long night of sleep and feels groggy a bit. "Grr, why do mornings some time have to be a pain to get up." mumbled Ash to himself still yawning and having the case of morning hair. The man gets out of bed and walks over to his shirt hanging on the short left bed post then grabs it. He buttons up the shirt and goes to the mirror of his room then fixes his hair by slicking it back with his saliva. After fixing up for a minute, he walks out of the guest bedroom to go to the kitchen for some breakfast. Ash walks into the kitchen and sees Shirley cooking breakfast with Esmeralda helping too. "Ah, morning Mr. Williams. I was about to get John to wake you up or Gus drag you out of bed." chuckled Shirley seeing him looking a bit drowsy. "I already have coffee made for you guys in the dinning room and breakfast should be finishing up soon." continued Shirley which she was still focusing on cooking breakfast beef patties on the iron stove.

"Cool." responded Ash then makes his way to the dinning room. He walks in and sees John and Gus sitting at the end of the table near the window sipping on some coffee to get them more awake. "Morning Ash! Had a comfortable sleep last night?" said John in a welcoming attitude seeing Ash's appearance. "Yeah, better then sleeping out in those creepy woods." responded Ash sitting next to John. The sun hasn't risen yet making everything outside still pitch black. "Tell me about it." chuckled John at what Ash just said. Gus gotten into a grumpy attitude once Ash showed up making him quite through their conversation. "We gotta lot of chopping to do today since the cold season is just about to show up. With you helping us out, it would make things get easier having a third hand. My son today has to be busy here doing some chores around the barn since well be gone most of the day." said John taking another sip of his coffee. Ash also grabs a mug and pours some from a coffee pot. He begins to drink the coffee which is helping him feel less sleepy.

"More like sawing for me." chuckled Ash after taking a sip of coffee from what John told him which made him and Gus had a weird look on their faces by what does he mean. An awkward silence has fell on the room then Ash responds "Well, you'll see what I mean..." Shirley walks in with the food on a big tray and starts to set it out on the table. The men get relief seeing the delicious home made breakfast getting set up. It came with beef patties, fried eggs, grits, orange juice as a beverage, and some toast. "I need to call Thomas out from the barn that breakfast is ready." said Shirley walking out of the room then goes outside on the front porch ringing the bell.

"Thomas! Breakfast is made!" shouted Shirley to get Thomas's attention. "Ok ma, I'll be there in a minute!" responded Thomas from the barn front doors across the yard. Thomas runs over to the house and jumps on the porch bursting through the door then shutting it ready to eat. He walks in and sees everyone already settled down and waiting for him. They began chowing down on breakfast and started to have a conversation talking about little things. Esmeralda is sat next to her mother looking across the table at Ash with a curious look on her face. She didn't say anything to him last night but is having a shy manner around. Ash sees Esmeralda looking at him and he waves slightly back with his metal hand also having a grin on his face to look friendly. Esmeralda turns away quickly still being shy towards him.

They get finished eating which took them about twenty minutes to do so. The men doesn't waste any time and leave the dinner room to head outside of the cottage. It was a bit chilly outside and the sun is barely coming up over the horizon. Dew was on the ground still fresh and cold from the weather. They walk over to a tool shed next to the house and open the door to grab their gear. Gus starts taking a couple of Axes and John shows were Ash's stuff is at. The evil dead slayer grabs the chainsaw and shotgun that was with the holster off a big shelf hanging over a work bench. He begins strapping on his holster due to him having a prepared nature.

"I've seen a gun before, but never saw a piece of equipment that you have in your other hand." said John examining Ash's chainsaw. "Yeah, this is what I meant earlier by sawing. This baby here is my other replacement for my missing hand and yes I know that may sound weird but it gets the job done. It can cut ten times faster then your everyday handy axe." said Ash with a smirk on his face explaining to John about his chainsaw. They walk out of the shed with their equipment and it didn't take too long to get the wagon ready. Gus grabs a horse from the barn and sets it with the wagon. The men hop on the wagon and John moves the horse ropes to start going. They began to go down the paved road away from the ranch. The road was pretty long for a ranch to have but they eventually make it past through the front gate of the estate and into the dark forest.

[Ash Williams]

They rode down the winding road that lead deep into the forest. Still, the woods was dark with many trees blocking the sky as the sun rises. The weather didn't look as cloudy as it was from yesterday when Ash arrived. He relaxes a bit in the back laying down but sat up with his back on the right side of the wagon's plank. It was a quiet ride since the men got their talking done back at the ranch and they were now deep in their thoughts thinking about stuff. Ash is still thinking about is there anyway he can meet Omni again and try to confront him to send him back to his home. For now, Ash is going to have to deal with the things he was thrown in the mix. Besides getting home, he was thinking about what John said yesterday about him surviving in the woods. Were those demonic creatures part of Dracula's army or were they common to the land?

This makes Ash want to say more questions to John as the wagon slowly moves with the horse. "Okay, sorry to break the silence but who is this 'Dracula' guy you speak of?" questioned Ash looking at Gus and John sitting on the seat of the wagon. They turn around slowly with dread looks in their faces. "Oh boy, don't you even get me started on that discussion." said Gus in his old tough voice. "Him and his army are nothing but a plague to this verse. They terrorize everyone that doesn't join their side. Evil is the definition of them." said John frowning at the topic they are talking about.

"You see, many years ago. Me and Gus lived in Darkshire which was a time that we were in constant threat. We did join the military when we just turned eighteen. Their were battles we witnessed and fought in trying to protect our will to live. I met my wife in the military when we were young. What times we shared when me and her had our backs. After one big tragedy we experienced on the battlefield, it made me think about something that has changed my life till this day was about having a family. Fighting felt like it would bring us closer to our ends then some of us might be forgotten in our graves. When we quit, we wanted to do something in the town but we still got constant fears and pointless political arguments that Darkshire was made of.  Now, we decided to belt our secluded ranch and raise our kids there so they won't have to go through the hell we had to face with." finished John telling the story about his old life.

"Damn, you been through a lot." replied Ash looking at John with a frown. "Hey, at least our ranch has changed our lives for the better." said John cheerfully and tries to stay in a positive attitude. Gus nods in approval what John just said. "Say, you have fought evil before right?" question the farmer remembering about Ash's origin. "Well yeah but now, I just want to go back to my old job and the life that I had before I cut my hand off." replied Ash having his hands behind his head to rest on. "Ash, I have heard from a wise man before telling me these words that gave me the courage to take care a family. You can't deny your destiny." quoted John about what Ash just said. "Yeah and my destiny is to be a store clerk also go to Jacksonville, Florida which was what I was planning to do before shit hit the fan." replied Ash having his eyes close and trying to rest a bit before they get to their destination.

Gus rolls his eyes at Ash's answer and turns around focusing on the road. John turns around as well since the conversation comes to a close. It took an hour to get to the end of the line. They arrive at the part of the forest they were going to cut some trees down and park in the working area. Ash has fallen alseep from the ride and the two secondaries jump out of the seat then walk behind the wagon to grab their stuff. "Wake up, sleepy head!" said Gus flicking Ash in the head hard enough to feel like a little punch. "Ow, hey!" said Ash rubbing his head a bit from Gus. He gets up and helps hand the stuff down to them. After handing them the tools to cut the trees with, Ash noticed weapons they took such as the two handcrafted bows with lethal arrows and iron swords.

"Can you hand us our weapons please?" questioned John seeing that Ash notified them. "Yeah, sure." replies Ash then hands them their weaponry. Ash jumps off the wagon with his chainsaw hand after getting their equipment out. They began to walk through the forest, trying to inspect a good tree to cut down. Gus finds one and begins to chop away at it. Also, John finds one after a minute when Gus started. Ash looks back at the two that have begun working. He turns around and sees a good size tree in front of him. The evil dead slayer takes off his metal hand and replaces it with his chainsaw hand. His old hand disappears into omnilium and Ash begins yanking the starter to activate his chainsaw.

After three yanks, the chainsaw begins to rev up with the motor being loud. This made Gus and John turn towards to Ash seeing him with his other hand causing a bunch of noise. Ash doesn't notice the two looking at him and begins to saw away the tree. It didn't take too long for him to cut deep in the tree helping his chainsaw to be guided with his left hand on the handle. The tree falls down after a minute of Ash sawing away. This made John and Gus stun at how fast Ash cut down that big tree when it would take a single person to do in a hour. Ash looks back at them and says with a smirk on his face "See, told you I was good at sawing."

[Ash Williams]

Ash and the rest of them continuously cut down tree after tree in the woods. The evil dead slayer helps John and Gus a couple times if they came across a tough tree. It's been hours since they started working but with Ash's help, the work area is starting to clear out with the trees. After cutting up the trees they think that's enough, the men begin to cut the trees down into pieces of fire wood. The total of trees they got down was around six. Some were a good size, others were small and easy to saw up with Ash's chainsaw. They begin putting up the sliced wood in the back of the wagon making trips back and forth with arms full of wood. It took twenty minutes to fill the wagon up with wood but John believes that isn't enough and they have to cut down one tree but at least a huge one.

"We should cut down one more that's pretty big just to be safe that we have wood for a while." said John with a concerning look on his face at everyone. Gus and Ash nods an agreement and they go deeper into the forest having their bows on their back and swords holstered. Ash keeps an eye out on any fishy business if they were being followed. The woods was silent with them as they hike farther away from their wagon. After seven minutes of walking, they come across a big withered oak tree that looked it had to be there for a really long time. "Ah, this is perfect. Ash you may start sawing away first." said John examining the tree and feeling the bark on it. Ash walks up pass Gus and stands next to John looking at the tree as well. The plant was filled with many branches and roots growing out for anyone who liked climbing big trees, this would be their kind of tree. Ash starts to yank the starter a couple of times to get his motor going.

His chainsaw hand activates and Ash revs up the chainsaw making a bunch of noise and the machine blowing out some exhaust each time he moves the chainsaw's blade. The evil dead slayer gets close to the tree puts his chainsaw up against it. When his tool touched the tree's bark, he puts his left hand on the handle to getting ready to begin sawing. Ash starts slicing away the tree's bark but the wierd thing about this tree is that it was hard to try to cut through then all the regular trees they didn't have a problem. He didn't even got depth yet in the tree after a minute of sawing. "Damn. This tree is a fighter then the othe-" grunted Ash taking his tool out of the tree to rest his arms but his sentence was cut off by the sight of the tree oozing out with green liquid where he was sawing at. The trees limbs start to move around a bit on their own and the tree by itself starts to turning around towards the group with the roots coming out of the ground.

The tree was creeping the men out and they started slowly backing away from it. "I think we messed with the wrong tree." said Ash with an uneasy look on his face to the others. They see the tree done turning around and shows them a big horrific bark face that looked unhappy. The tree roars at them which made them start hightailing back to the wagon. Of course they have weapons but it looks like it would take a lot men to put down this disturbing plant monster. Roots of the tree starting to move out of the ground and was giving the thing friction. The tree starts crawling across the forest towards the men that upset it. They arrive back at the wagon but more tree like creatures come out of the forest in front of their ride with angry demonic faces. This whole situation made the horse startled and making whining noises in fear.

These creatures weren't the size of the big oak tree but were tall as 15 ft actually having wooden legs to walk on with roots as feet. Their heads looked like the top of a tree was cut off leaving them flat-headed. They had two big branches as arms but having prickly ends to them making their limbs lethal. Ash and the rest get surrounded by the moving trees having no where to escape. "Looks like we have to fight our way out then." said Gus with a scowl on his face drawing his sword and placing it in his hands. "Right then." replied John calmly getting his bow out and loading a arrow in it quickly. Ash revs up his chainsaw hand and whips out his boomstick from the holster saying with a confident manner "Let's turn these guys into paper."

[Ash Williams]

Ash makes a sprint towards one of the smaller tree creatures and same as the others. He swings his chainsaw hand at the same time when the monster does the same with it's arm. From having a chainsaw, Ash didn't had a problem sawing through one of the tree's branch which made it gush out tones of green blood from losing a limb. The tree screeches from the pain and slams it's other branch at Ash which made him tumble on the ground a bit from the sheer force. Ash gets back up and starts running again back towards the wounded living tree still pouring amounts of blood from it's amputated branch. He shoots his shotgun once to stun the tree and gets on the limb before it leaves the ground after slamming at the floor. This makes the creature start swinging the arm around trying to get Ash off but he puts up his shotgun and leaps right off from the violently shaking limb.

The evil dead slayer lands his chainsaw blade in the middle top of the head. Another loud painfully screech can be heard from the tree that Ash was fighting. He begins to saw his way down splitting the face of the creature open and the rest of the body. Ash gets covered in the green blood from all the sawing he just did on the tree and the corpse splits in half falling on the ground. Gus is working on trying to kill one by a couple of swings at the spiky tip of the tree's limb. The farm caretaker does manage to cut off one tip but gets an a defensive position with his sword as the monster uses the other normal branch. Him and the tree both clash which Gus tries to hold his ground with his teeth gritting as he starts to get pushed back from the tall wooden beast. Ash helps him by firing his shotgun at the tree's branch forcing it to move away from the sword. Gus uses all his might and slices half of the limb making the creature's gore come out.

The monster uses the other branch that gotten the tip cut off earlier and hits Gus to the side making him collide into a normal tree. He feels the pain from the impact and sits there a bit then tries to get back up to fight again. Ash was about to run over and help Gus until he hears John yell "Help me!" He turns around fast and sees John's bow knocked out of his hands which made him result to his sword but was getting outnumbered facing two of them that had arrows stuck in them by John. He quickly looks back at Gus getting overwhelmed by the choices. "Just go! I can handle myself!" shouted Gus waving Ash away to go help John as the farm caretaker runs back to the tree monster with his sword. Ash nods and quickly runs for John and the two attacking trees. John uses his sword to defend against one the branches that was about to spiked him but the second one helps out by raising it's branch about to smash John. The evil dead slayer reloads his shotgun and fires at the raised branch making the tip of it explode into bark.

This makes the tree that just got shot turned to Ash which made the evil dead slayer say "Yo, Woody! Let's go." The tree roars at Ash with rage and starts stomping his way towards Ash that made him have a smirk on his face. Ash puts up his shotgun and starts running towards the beast with his chainsaw hand. When the tree swings at Ash with the other branch, Ash slides on the ground that was littered with dead leaves which help him to dodge the swing and saw through the right leg of the tree as he passes between the legs. The evil dead slayer gets up and faces the tree's back as it fallen a bit from losing a leg.

Ash then slashes the tree behind causing it to split in half and be killed. Meanwhile, John still tries to fight off the monster chipping it away from the branches. He does manage to slice the tip of one of the limbs which makes the creature screech in pain. As it tries to attack him with the other one, John's quick reflexes helped him cut off another one making it raise both of the branches and looking at the damage it has taken. This gave John a chance to leap at the creature and strike at the center. He does and slices the tree in two halves falling to the ground gushing out with green gore. John and Ash meet back up after facing off the two trees.

They look back and see Gus still fighting which they join in to help him out. It only took a couple of seconds for them to take down the last remaining tree due to it being outnumbered. The only enemy that stands against them was the big oak tree from earlier. It roars loudly at the group that survived from the trees. "Well, one more to go." said Ash revving his chainsaw up as the group gets ready for another round. "Indeed." replied John having his sword in both hands. "Let's tear 'em a new one!" responded Gus with confidence ready to strike. They then started sprinting towards the big one which roared and lifted it's multiple branches in the air ready to make a move on the three men.

[Ash Williams]

They all charge with war cries towards the big demonic tree having their weapons ready. The tree moves the multiple branches and swipes away Gus and Ash but grabs John making him being tangled in the branches. He tries to break free from the grasp of the branches and does manage to slice some off. John can move a bit from the less branches that now hold him and gives him an opportunity to keep cutting away the branches. More of the limbs come after Gus and Ash they begin trying to cut their way through the many branches that try to get them. This is making them slow down and not letting them get close to the tree's hull body which is it's weakness. Ash keeps sawing with his chainsaw hand to any branch or root that try to get close to him. Meanwhile, John finally gets free from the grasp and falls next to the big monster plant then starts hacking and slashing at the main body. This makes the tree screech really loud which hurt their ears from the volume it was making.

John gets wrapped up from the roots and thrown to the side from the beast. He lands on the ground with a oof by how hard he impacted on the surface. The farmer drops his sword from landing and is in pain from the tree making him go airborne. Ash grabs his shotgun while him and Gus are continuously cutting down the infinite branches that try to grab them. He shoots at the tree which may it stun a bit giving Ash and Gus a break from the limbs. They rushed their way towards the tree to try to make damage to the hull. Roots come after them as they get passed the branches but they stopped again defending off from the roots. John gets up slowly and grabs his sword seeing the others in trouble with the tree. While the monster was focusing on them, this gave chance for John to strike again. He sprints towards the tree still in pain then tries to cut into the flesh of the plant which made it noticed John.

The roots tried to focus on him too but gave a bit of slack for Gus and Ash to move. They reach the tree then start trying to do immense damage by stabbing, sawing, and shooting too. This makes the tree start to spew out even more green blood spraying on them and getting dirty. Screeching of the tree was made even more from the amount of damage making every root and branch swing violently. Suddenly, the tree starts to swell up and looks like it is about to blow. The men kept making war cries while killing the beast and being covered in it's gore not really paying attention to what's happening to the tree. A kaboom happens with the tree making limbs, roots, and bark fly all over the place especially making the sky rain with it's own blood. "Aaaah!" screamed Ash from flying back from the explosion and so did the rest. They land on their backs covered from head to foot in green blood.

"Grr. What in the bloody hell happened?" said Gus sitting up trying to figure out what happened to the tree. John sits up too and tries to wipe the gore off his face. Ash gets up quickly then realizes what just happened and started cheering "Woo! Yeah baby! Take that bastard!" The other two were still sitting on the ground and sees that Ash was the only one standing back up celebrating. This puts a smile on their faces and a bit of laughter which Gus and John joined in with Ash. From a day of victory for surviving, they all grab their equipment and finished the work for today. The men get back on the wagon and ride off into the afternoon with a lively conversation about today.

[Ash Williams]

They finally get home after a long brutal day of chopping and sawing for wood. The family was mostly outside getting work done on the farm. Shirley was outside carrying a tool from the shed and was about to go into the barn until she sees the men pull up with the wagon soak in green blood. She runs quickly to the wagon as the men get out and start walking behind it. "Oh my God! What happened to you y'all?" said Shirley worried about the men and sees them covered in disgusting stuff. "Honey, let's just say that we ran into problems when we were about to come home." said John looking back at Shirley shocked at them. "Well, you boys better clean up before dinner because I don't wanna lose my appetite with that stench of yours." said Shirley realizing how nasty they smell and she tries to cover her nose.

It took twenty minutes for them to clean up in the cottage and bath themselves. Right when they got finished washing up, it was already sun down and Shirley got finished making dinner. Everyone joins in the dinner room after a long day then feasts and talk about what happened today. Thomas was really fascinated about his dad's story and how they fought off the wicked demonic trees that tried to kill them. After dinner was done, Ash decides to walk outside of the cottage and hang out on the porch a bit. He sits in one of the rocking chairs and starts collecting his thoughts thinking about this maybe his life for now on. While being in his thoughts, Thomas comes outside seeing Ash sitting there. The evil dead slayer turns his head seeing who came outside.

"Hay, Mr. Williams. Sorry to interrupt but I remember that you promised me to talk about your hand. I was wondering if you could tell me that story before I have to call it a night." said Thomas thinking that maybe it wasn't a good time to be asking Ash about that due to what kind of a day he spent. "No your fine kid, I don't really mind telling you that story since you are old enough. Also you don't have to call me Mr. Williams, just call me Ash." said Ash rocking in the chair with his metal hand. Thomas sits down next to him in another rocking chair looking at Ash. It only took a couple of minutes telling Thomas about his origins and what happened to his hand.

"Gee Mr- I mean Ash. I didn't know you had to face evil like my father did when he was in the military trying to fight of Dracula's army. This is something I haven't told my parents yet but I would like to join the forces back at Darkshire and become a hero. I don't want to live on the farm for the rest of my life. In fact, I want to explore the Omniverse and go to the other verses that I hear legends about. Ash, you do sound like an inspiration for me since what you done in your life." said Thomas looking out over the farm while he was expressing his feelings. Ash hasn't really inspired someone by what he did before which really changed him how he thought what happened to him.

"Ash, I'm not afraid if I have to lose any limbs or eyes. I want to have a legacy and change these dreadful lands into a livable environment that is free from fear." continued Thomas then looks back at Ash. When Thomas talked about not being afraid to lose anything, this makes him look down at his metal hand in front of him then balls it up into a fist. "Y'know what kid, I haven't heard anything like what you said before coming out of a fifteen year old. Your brave kid and I respect you on that. I ain't going to discourage you like maybe what your mom and dad might say to you but hey you may have the guts to do it." said Ash looking back at Thomas. "Well, it was nice talking to you Mr- Dang it I didn't again! Anyways, thanks for listening to me Ash." said Thomas smiling fondly about Ash hearing his feelings then goes inside to go to bed.

Ash does the same too after ten minutes of relaxing. He was the last one to be awake at this time of the night and heads to his bedroom to get some shut eye. Maybe this Omniverse isn't bad after all. It's brought me to some good people but it has brought me to bad people too. I guess I been brought here for a reason to these nasty lands. To get rid of evil like I did before I been put into this mess. Hell, I could become king again.