Not So Secret Origins
By Joe Rover
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The night air was cool with a slight February nip to it. The streets were busy with people heading towards their various Friday night activities. Street lights were starting to come on and the city was switching to its nighttime wonderment. The building lights made the city look as if it were made of stars while the darkness of the uncultivated land outside the city made it seem as if the city was an island...alone in the world, the only place left on Earth. And through all this, I could almost feel the might of Neo-Geo Mountain like some giant more powerful than the mechanisms of man lurking and waiting.
This “box set” book contains the teaser stories from the Wizard of New Town, Life of Ace Journeyman, and Dogboy Reborn series. Find out how it all began for Max, Ace, and Joe.
Wizard of New Town: Max wakes up to discover the modern world is slowly merging with the past. Soon he learns he was chosen to stop it.
Life of Ace Journeyman: While trying to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance, Ace discovers his special powers.
Dogboy Reborn: Joe’s been retired from heroing for five years, but evil never rests and he must once again take up the Dogboy mantle.
Any fan of magic, mystery, and science fiction will be glad they joined Max, Ace, and Joe as they begin their journeys.
Buy now and take part in their adventures.
Joe Rover
One day while on a field trip, I was bitten by a radioactive writer. Thus, I was granted the proportional imagination and typing speed of a writer. I also found that I could stick notes to walls and developed an early warning “grammar sense.” Eventually, I learned that with great action verbs comes great sentences. From that day forward, I was The Somewhat Impressive Writer-Man!But really...Joe Rover is the pen name of an author who spends his time writing many family-friendly fictional stories. “Joe” has been a journalist, computer programmer, photographer, and graphic designer. He is currently studying digital animation and business.He has won many awards, such as the "Magic Holiday Thrills" contest and the "Write to Rank" Orange Belt round.
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Not So Secret Origins - Joe Rover
Wizard #1, Ace #1, Dogboy #1
Joe Rover
Published 2018 by Marshall Jefcoat
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Copyright 2018-Present by Marshall Jefcoat
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For All those who dare to dream
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Beginnings (Wizard of New Town, #1)
Journey to Neo-Geo (Life of Ace Journeyman, #1)
Rebirth (Dogboy Reborn, #1)
Thank You
About the Author
Beginnings
A Wizard of New Town Story
Joe Rover
Published July 2016 by Marshall Jefcoat
Distributed by Smashwords 2018
Copyright 2016-Present by Marshall Jefcoat
Dogboy symbol Trademark 2017 Marshall Jefcoat
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Coming Soon-ish
Journey to Neo-Geo: A Life of Ace Journeyman Story…
February 16, 2012, 10 miles outside of Newton City…
Wow, 2012, I was only 18 at the time. Fresh out of high school and on my way to my internship at Neo-Geo Mountain. I had zero interest in the world of geology or archeology but the internship was college credit nonetheless while I figured out what I wanted to do. Besides my best friend, Glen, was into that stuff, sort of. He was more interested in the romantic side of archeology, you know, exploring caves, finding ancient treasure, solving the mysteries of the past. He was in for a rude awakening once he found out how dirty, and exhausting, real archeology work was.
Upon disembarking the bus, we were greeted by the site supervisor, Dr. Richter. Welcome to the Neo-Geo base camp. This is where you will eat, sleep, and categorize. You will be spending eight hours a day out in the field or in the lab; but don’t worry, you’ll be able to go into town on Friday nights.
Whooo!
someone shouted. Party!
The crowd tried to suppress a laugh with varying degrees of success.
Y-es…
said Richter, putting his hands behind his back as if he was a military general. We’ll start today with a brief history of Neo-Geo.
That brief history lasted five hours. I’ll give you the short version. The mountain was formed the normal way of lava and plate tectonics over millions of years. The city of Newton (originally called New Town) was founded in the 1800s (give or take) as settlers moved west from the East trying their hand at ranching or gold mining. Newton was close to a river, before the water treatment plants and dams and such, and Neo-Geo housed many precious gems such as gold and diamonds. But soon the residents found that Neo-Geo wasn’t your typical mountain. The gems were…different. A mixture of ruby, quartz, emerald, and lapis lazuli stone created strange effects, according to legend of course.
The story goes that these minerals caused people to act differently and gain abilities beyond normal people. Then one day everyone in town simply vanished. But people didn’t stay away too long, the temptation of new land and gold was more powerful than superstition and Newton became the booming metropolis we now know.
Over time scientists discovered the strange properties of the ruby, quartz, emerald, and lapis within Neo-Geo, which is how it came to be called Neo-Geo (as in new geology, and it also rhymed really well). Science admitted that there was something odd about the mountain but Science still will not admit to anything supernatural. And that is basically why we are there: to study the rocks and figure out why they are different and maybe reproduce it. Richter is also curious about why the original settlers just vanished.
***
I stared at the ceiling of our cabin as Glen finished in the bathroom. The cabin wasn’t the greatest but at least it had lights and running water (not to mention a bathroom, I was not looking forward to trekking across the camp in the middle of the night to use the toilet). I’d been watching the ceiling for so long that the wood was starting to make a pattern…one of Sandy’s face smiling at me.
Glen then came in babbling about something; it took me a second to come out of my daydream. He was using some kind of green-tipped brush on his hair. You’re doing highlights again?
I asked.
My roots where beginning to show.
He pointed at his brown hair. His mixture of dyed green and natural brown hair always made me think of a meadow. All he needed was to plant some flowers. Gotta make a good impression.
Dr. Richter seems like the guy who’d appreciate a green and brown haired kid. And elephants love to have dinner parties with mice, I thought. Glen said a quick good night
before literally jumping into his bed. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was out…and not long after that, snoring.
Years of campouts, sleepovers, and the like had made me immune to his snoring. I took one more look at the Sandy pattern in the ceiling, rolled on to my side and turned out the light.
***
Go towards the light,
a voice said. It sounded a lot like Glen’s.
I was in a long corridor. It had a pattern of thin lights that ran along the sides, floor, and ceiling. At the other end of the tunnel was a bright light.
Go towards the light,
the voice instructed again.
I started towards the light. The light got brighter and brighter until it covered me. I saw flashes of rubies, quartz, emeralds, and lapis. Flxintaoajcslsdfot,
the voice said. It was trying to tell me what the strange mixture of minerals was, but it came out as gibberish. The light then faded and I stood in space. It wasn’t the boring old space you see from a telescope; this was the kind of space you see from like NASA satellite photos with all the colors and lights. The strange voice continued to speak in gibberish. Suddenly it was as if a trap door opened and I began falling through a tunnel of strobe lights.
I then fell out of bed.
I stood up and rubbed my head. Glen was still sound asleep. It was light outside. Sleeping in, Glen?
I said. So much for a good first impression.
I opened the door and walked out into a lush land of plants, animals, and colors. This was not the dusty desert that I’d been at hours before. The place was completely transformed. If it hadn’t been for the massive mountain nearby, I would think I was in OZ or something. In fact, Neo-Geo was the only thing I recognized.
The colors seemed brighter and…cleaner than normal. The sounds were like music; as if everything was singing a song in harmony. The sound seemed to be coming from everything. It was like everything had its own song but that song harmonized with the big/main song.
Journeyman, Ace Journeyman,
a voice said softly, like a summer breeze. Ace.
I then felt someone shaking me and the voice become more urgent.
Ace!
Now it was Glen.
I gasped as if I’d been holding my breath for ten minutes and sat up. I was back in the cabin. Glen and some guy where there. About time,
said Glen. Thought I’d need to get a bucket.
"Dr. Richter wants to