Doudy Alternate Ending
When Perry awoke from her sleep, riddled with unnerving dreams, she felt weak, like the weight of the world was resting on her frail shoulders. She buckled and sat, rigid, on the hard, gelid floor, praying that everything that had happened was a dream, or a hallucination or a horrible trick. It wasn't. The world was gone, her family was dead and she knew that despite her unrivalled efforts, she couldn't reverse what had happened. “DOUDY!” she screamed as she stepped out of the bunker and walked toward him. Doudy. The son of Earth’s very own Gleighton Goose, entertainer and legendary blockhead. Doudy wasn’t thick like his father but Perry still hated him. His intolerable positivity, his blissful naivety, the fact that he was oblivious to everything that was crumbling down around them. Perry wasn’t naive, she couldn’t just pretend that she was okay. The only reason that she hadn’t abandoned him in the post-apocalyptic badland that was their city was because she would be lonely. At least with Doudy, she had someone to take all her pent up frustration
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out on, at least she wasn't completely alone.
“Let’s go”.
“You don’t tell me what to do, you siren” Doudy hissed.
“Well I do now so get used to it” she said, concluding their brief exchange.
As he rolled his sage green eyes, Perry went on ahead. He reluctantly followed. To be truthful, Perry had no idea where she was going, but it was her initial instinct to leave.
She couldn’t stay in the place that had the audacity to take her beloved parents, brothers and friends from within her clutches. It felt as though the city was laughing at her. Punishing her for her selfish ways and for abandoning the people that needed her. And know she was abandoned, feeling exactly what they felt. On the verge of tears and with Doudy close behind her, she held her face in her hands and gathered her thoughts. She knew that her parents would want her to have strength for them and have strength for the place that they had all once loved together. Doudy and Perry walked silently for kilometres, out of the city, searching for a place that seemed more hospitable. A story uncovered itself in Doudy’s subconscious. A story about a forest that shield people from harm, a place that Doudy could only dream
about.
“We could try and find the Wonder Woods?” Doudy suggested.
“I can’t believe you actually think that is a real place. It is a myth Doudy, like dragons and unicorns” she slyly retaliated.
“Well, I am going to find it and I don’t care what you say so follow or don’t. It’s your funeral”.
Doudy smiled sarcastically and trudged off. Perry contemplated her options for a second. Follow the impotent fool with the long curly hair, or fend for herself and possibly prosper as the only girl left on Earth. So, afraid of losing her only companion, she ran after Doudy and grabbed him from behind. She wrapped her pale, thin arms around his strong chest and finally felt safe in someone’s arms, even if that someone was an incapable brute. He rotated his body so she was facing him and he put his hands on her waist and rested his head on hers awkwardly. He didn’t know what to do, but he stood there, with Perry, because he knew she needed him at that very moment. She began to weep and weaken at the knees. Doudy knelt to the ground with her and the two sat there, together. After what seemed like hours, Perry realised where she was and who she was with and she winced away hastily, falling onto her back.
“What do you think you are doing” she yelled at Doudy.
“Are you kidding, you are the one who practically accosted me” he said.
“I did not”.
“Ummm, yes you did”.
“Well, I don’t remember that” Perry said abruptly.
“But if we are going to find this forest or whatever, we’d best be going”.
Doudy knew that this was Perry’s way of avoiding the truth and a mischievous smile etched up his cheek as he followed her. The pair travelled for two days, eating only the small portions that Perry had packed in her bag, barely sleeping, and hiking through the remnants of the once untouchable planet that was the death of civilisation. As they ambled down a lonely, winding road, lined with trees that looked as if they could reach out and pick you up with a plethora of elongated branches, they realised where they were. They moved further down the road, walking faster, fueled by the excitement of what could be in these woods. Would it be a secret town that was protected from the end, would it be clean water and food, would it be all their loved ones, waiting to tell them that this was all a test. They would just have to walk. Doudy and Perry smiled at each other, the light of newfound friendship swirling in their eyes. Their gaze was shattered suddenly and they began to run. The road morphed into a narrow dirt trail, and the trees became bigger and more human like and a thin violet haze surrounded them. The path opened up into a large open quadrangle, encircled with noble Redwood Oaks, staring down upon them. Doudy looked around frantically. There was nothing there. The seemingly magical purple haze had lifted its luminescent veil and it was just a forest. “Just some trees. Just some dirt and just some idiots who were stupid enough to think it could be something more” Perry thought. Doudy was still scrambling around the trees, looking for something that was magical or unexplainable but what he was looking for didn’t exist. He sighed deeply and sat down beside one of the many intimidating trees surrounding them. Perry’s heart sank. She stood surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air. That was it.
As she stood, solemn and defeated, in the middle of the quadrangle, Doudy walked towards her and pulled Perry into his arms. She stared into his deep green eyes, so deep you could fall into them and just smiled. She pressed her lips firmly against his and flung her arms around his neck. He drew her closer and felt her heart palpitating vigorously against his. Her long, auburn tresses flew into his face with a gust of wind, he was tired from days of intrepid searching but it didn’t matter in that very moment. Maybe the Wonder Woods gave people what they didn’t know they wanted, maybe they gave people what deserved. We choose the people we think we deserve and maybe there is more to life than that, maybe they didn’t know they needed each other until now. Who knows, but what they did know was that they didn’t need some kind of spectral force to make them happy, all they needed was each other.
out on, at least she wasn't completely alone.
“Let’s go”.
“You don’t tell me what to do, you siren” Doudy hissed.
“Well I do now so get used to it” she said, concluding their brief exchange.
As he rolled his sage green eyes, Perry went on ahead. He reluctantly followed. To be truthful, Perry had no idea where she was going, but it was her initial instinct to leave.
She couldn’t stay in the place that had the audacity to take her beloved parents, brothers and friends from within her clutches. It felt as though the city was laughing at her. Punishing her for her selfish ways and for abandoning the people that needed her. And know she was abandoned, feeling exactly what they felt. On the verge of tears and with Doudy close behind her, she held her face in her hands and gathered her thoughts. She knew that her parents would want her to have strength for them and have strength for the place that they had all once loved together. Doudy and Perry walked silently for kilometres, out of the city, searching for a place that seemed more hospitable. A story uncovered itself in Doudy’s subconscious. A story about a forest that shield people from harm, a place that Doudy could only dream
about.
“We could try and find the Wonder Woods?” Doudy suggested.
“I can’t believe you actually think that is a real place. It is a myth Doudy, like dragons and unicorns” she slyly retaliated.
“Well, I am going to find it and I don’t care what you say so follow or don’t. It’s your funeral”.
Doudy smiled sarcastically and trudged off. Perry contemplated her options for a second. Follow the impotent fool with the long curly hair, or fend for herself and possibly prosper as the only girl left on Earth. So, afraid of losing her only companion, she ran after Doudy and grabbed him from behind. She wrapped her pale, thin arms around his strong chest and finally felt safe in someone’s arms, even if that someone was an incapable brute. He rotated his body so she was facing him and he put his hands on her waist and rested his head on hers awkwardly. He didn’t know what to do, but he stood there, with Perry, because he knew she needed him at that very moment. She began to weep and weaken at the knees. Doudy knelt to the ground with her and the two sat there, together. After what seemed like hours, Perry realised where she was and who she was with and she winced away hastily, falling onto her back.
“What do you think you are doing” she yelled at Doudy.
“Are you kidding, you are the one who practically accosted me” he said.
“I did not”.
“Ummm, yes you did”.
“Well, I don’t remember that” Perry said abruptly.
“But if we are going to find this forest or whatever, we’d best be going”.
Doudy knew that this was Perry’s way of avoiding the truth and a mischievous smile etched up his cheek as he followed her. The pair travelled for two days, eating only the small portions that Perry had packed in her bag, barely sleeping, and hiking through the remnants of the once untouchable planet that was the death of civilisation. As they ambled down a lonely, winding road, lined with trees that looked as if they could reach out and pick you up with a plethora of elongated branches, they realised where they were. They moved further down the road, walking faster, fueled by the excitement of what could be in these woods. Would it be a secret town that was protected from the end, would it be clean water and food, would it be all their loved ones, waiting to tell them that this was all a test. They would just have to walk. Doudy and Perry smiled at each other, the light of newfound friendship swirling in their eyes. Their gaze was shattered suddenly and they began to run. The road morphed into a narrow dirt trail, and the trees became bigger and more human like and a thin violet haze surrounded them. The path opened up into a large open quadrangle, encircled with noble Redwood Oaks, staring down upon them. Doudy looked around frantically. There was nothing there. The seemingly magical purple haze had lifted its luminescent veil and it was just a forest. “Just some trees. Just some dirt and just some idiots who were stupid enough to think it could be something more” Perry thought. Doudy was still scrambling around the trees, looking for something that was magical or unexplainable but what he was looking for didn’t exist. He sighed deeply and sat down beside one of the many intimidating trees surrounding them. Perry’s heart sank. She stood surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air. That was it.
As she stood, solemn and defeated, in the middle of the quadrangle, Doudy walked towards her and pulled Perry into his arms. She stared into his deep green eyes, so deep you could fall into them and just smiled. She pressed her lips firmly against his and flung her arms around his neck. He drew her closer and felt her heart palpitating vigorously against his. Her long, auburn tresses flew into his face with a gust of wind, he was tired from days of intrepid searching but it didn’t matter in that very moment. Maybe the Wonder Woods gave people what they didn’t know they wanted, maybe they gave people what deserved. We choose the people we think we deserve and maybe there is more to life than that, maybe they didn’t know they needed each other until now. Who knows, but what they did know was that they didn’t need some kind of spectral force to make them happy, all they needed was each other.