Boredom is scary!

"Hi hi! This is Tulu again with my daily hello! I see another city to explore! I'm so excited. Oh, but I need to free up my hands if I want to play with everyone."

With those words, the orange haired Tulu let go of the city in her hand, allowing it to crash into the hapless city below. A cloud of dust shot out as the two masses collided, covering everything for several hours. When the dust finally somewhat settled, the scene revealed Tulu standing there with her eyes closed before a massive city of horrors. Finally, several seconds later, Tulu opened her eyes and looked around.

"Ah! My new city! Bad ice cream city! You can't just destroy entire cities like that! You need to at least wait for me to finish playing!"

Tulu scolded the city that she dropped before grabbing the city again and lifting it back up. Despite the absurd sight, Tulu showed no signs of struggle as she held a massive chunk of rock in her hand. Beneath the city was a mess of rubble with a clear crater making the mass of the city in her hand clear. In spite of the obvious mass of the writhing chunk of rock, Tulu showed no signs of strain in her body and the ground showed no obvious displacement from the weight. It was as if the weight of the city simply didn’t exist.

Tulu frowned somewhat as she looked at the destroyed ruins of the city—rather the former city. With an expression as if a child having their favorite park suddenly closed, she cried out, “I was looking forward to exploring the city. What do I do now?”

Even ignoring that Tulu herself caused the destruction of the very city she wished to explore, Tulu’s habit of destroying things meant the city was unlikely to have lasted long in the first place. Even so, that did not stop Tulu from pouting as she slumped to the ground. Gripping the dirt beneath her, Tulu looked down at the ground. Moments later, small droplets splattered upon the road as Tulu sniffed.

“My entertainment is gone. I’m going to be bored again. I don’t want that. I don’t want that. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be bored again! If I’m going to be bored, I should just destroy everything.”

Tulu let out a scream that pierced the skies... literally. A wave of dust blasted away from Tulu, the ground shook, the clouds parted, and the wave rapidly crushed everything in the path.

“Why? I came here to play with everyone here, so why are they not playing with me? A game is only fun if everyone is playing, right? So why aren’t they playing? Do they not want to have fun? Isn’t it boring to not have fun? Hey, why aren’t you all playing with me?”

Tulu laughed maniacally as she rose unnaturally as if a marionette rising from being yanked. The small figure grasped the city in her hand tightly before flinging it in front of her, the city skipping on the barren land as it left crater after crater on the path it traveled. The little girl watched the destruction with a smiling face like a mannequin with a crazed smile painted on, but somehow with even less emotion than even that.

“Ah, this is so boring. I’m so tired of this. Let us just not do this anymore. I think I’ll just destroy this world and go back to sleep.” Tulu’s listless voice came out almost robotically. After a few seconds, Tulu turned to look at the screen and even though her lips remained locked in that smile, her voice came through anyway, “Hey, you are watching me, right? Send me some toys right now.”

With those last words, the screen went to black. Hushed whispers filled the room as the men tried to push the burden onto each other until finally the majority of the eyes fell upon a single group.

“The air force would be the fastest anyway.”

“Not as if we really need the air force.”

“They are the youngest branch anyhow.”

“As long as we don’t have to pay the price.”

Whispered words revealed the hearts of the men—so long as they weren’t harmed, any amount of sacrifice was fine. Perhaps the singled out group agreed as they were silent with one exception. A fist slammed on the table as one man stood up with a face twisted in fury.

“Are you saying my men are nothing but toys? Is this really how you lot think of human lives?”

Despite the angry howl, the other men seemed disinterested, as if ignoring the man’s words as little more than a child’s tantrum. After all, acknowledging the man’s words required acknowledging that their thinking was wrong. Better to act like the man said nothing. At least, until the screen turned back on.

“Hey, my toys aren’t here yet. It seems like you need some motivation.”

The orange haired figure held up what appeared to be a mountain—the object dwarfed the figure such that the proportions were simply too far beyond the realm of sensibility. Slowly, the mountain moved as the figure slowly span in place, gaining speed gradually until the entire mountain burst into flame, became a sea of molten rock, and eventually disappeared from sight when the figure threw the entire mountain in a certain direction.

Several men, with their eyes wide in terror, dove for any sort of shelter they might find no matter how futile it might seem. Fortunately, despite being a foreign entity with no real regard for human lives, Tulu’s aim proved accurate as a streak of burning light seared the air far above the room where the men stayed. Despite the distance, the room quickly turned into an open air conference as the sheer force of passing tore open the building.

The men who did not react in time simply disappeared or melted away with what one could only describe as an act of god. Not even those who reacted in time were safe as proven when one man howled in pain as a glob of molten rock splattered onto his leg, blowing off his leg even as it cooked into a charred crisp.

Cries and screams filled the air. A flaming figure stumbled and collapsed past the hole where a door once stood. The stench of burning flesh soon permeated the air in the aftermath of all the destruction. A massive line of destruction scarred the ground almost as if a giant beam just vaporized everything in the path, but with additional destruction to the surroundings. Everywhere even remotely close to the line of destruction shone brightly from the flames.

A young man remained calm as he crawled out of shelter and patted himself down as he handed a handheld device to the medal adorned man who was so furious only a few minutes before. With some whispered words, the buff man nodded and held the device to his ear.

“I need a full squadron of our bravest. Have them sortie immediately at the coordinates...”

The young man went to the next person, whispering to each person, continuing until each person nodded in confirmation. Once the man received confirmation, he reached for a safe, unlocked it, and revealed the contents. Several packs of ice lined the bottom of the safe and a projector sat on top. Taking the projector out, he placed it on the floor, pointing it at a relatively blank wall before distributing the ice packs to those in the room. Despite the disaster, the men had more important things to do.

Less than a minute later, the projector emitted an image onto the wall. Once again, an orange haired figure appeared.

“I’m so glad you all decided to hurry and send me toys. Now I don’t have to be bored! I can’t wait for my new toys to arrive!”

Tulu giggled for a moment before she sat down and hummed while waiting for the arrival of her toys. A few minutes passed and Tulu looked up before waving.

“My toys are here! What game should we play first? Maybe we should start with—“

A rain of lead and explosions interrupted Tulu as several black “birds” opened fire and kept pouring out their ammunition. The barrage continued until the birds nearly struck the ground and only stopped when they returned to an ascent. Yet, despite this desperate attack, Tulu simply patted her dress down and stood up. Taking a deep breath, Tulu scanned the skies before opening her mouth and firing her own barrage of destruction at one of the birds.

In but seconds, the wing of a bird flew off and a dark object shot into the sky before a white cloth unfolded and the object, a pilot, slowly drifted towards the ground. Tulu smiled and shouted, “I got one! I can’t wait for it to arrive!” Tulu danced a little as she awaited the arrival of her gift. The birds returned for another volley, but as usual, Tulu showed no signs of harm. Finally, the pilot arrived close enough that Tulu managed to nab the pilot’s leg.

A scream erupted from the pilot while Tulu looked puzzled at the leg in her hand. Tulu brought a finger to her lip as she mused, “It came off. Maybe I should put it back on?” Looking at the leg in hand and then the pilot, Tulu nodded and stuck the leg into the pilot’s chest. Admiring her work as the pilot’s screams quieted, Tulu nodded to herself as she murmured, “This is actually pretty fun. I wonder what other parts come with this toy.”

An arm came off, an arm reattached on the hip, a leg came off, the leg found itself stuck to a shoulder. Parts came off, parts went on. With the pilot screaming and sobbing all the while, Tulu played with her new toy until the toy stopped screaming and went limp.

With her first toy going limp, Tulu happily shouted, “Oh, it broke. Next one then!”

The next victim faired no better as they became a a fleshy seat for Tulu, then the next became Tulu’s new horse until it succumbed to the bleeding from the rearrangements. Soon enough, there were none. Yet, Tulu seemed to glow as she happily crawled into her new bed, whispering, “Night night.”

And with that, the projection went to black. The men watching took no action, just watching in silence.

Author notes:

(I had to rewrite this four times. Third time, the text went insane as per the cover.)