Prelude
The alternate dimension, the ghost zone, swirled around her in all of its glowing green expanse. She stood alone, solemnly looking out at the deathly serenity.
Suddenly a pain seared behind her eyes, and she saw a premonition of what would be.
She flashed her eyes open instantly. "No...!"
Gritting her teeth, eyes wide in horror, she took off at amazing speeds towards the gap in time, the gap leading to the tower that held an importance to all the timestreams, its importance and existence something that most people had no clue about.
When she arrived, there was no one there, the only thing remotely interesting or showing signs of life or activity was the swirling green viewing portal.
As she stepped into the dim stone room the portal swirled to a scene she never wanted to see.
The explosion tore up the building with a certain family inside.
She took a step closer, hoping to turn it off, but the screen changed again to show the orphan of that explosion on the doorstep of his used-to-be arch-enemy.
Again as she stepped forth the screen changed once more.
"I don't want these emotions anymore! Everything's so much stronger, it hurts to even breathe knowing they're gone! I can't take this anymore..."
The voice was painful to listen to, and all too familiar. The raven-haired kid was practically begging the man to do something.
She took another step and the scene changed again.
She couldn't watch, but she couldn't to look away.
Couldn't look away as her all-but-blood brother had his ghost half ripped out.
Couldn't look away as his ghost half, angry and hurt, betrayed, tore out the man's as well and merged with it.
Couldn't look away as the ghostly abomination murdered its former hosts as brutally and bloodily as it could muster.
Couldn't look away as it flew to the sky, with all intents of taking its pain out on the entire living, or dead, world.
She ran to the portal, changing the image to that of the one city that she knew he would go to first, and leapt through head first without a second thought.
This is... this is all my fault!
And the gauntlet-like watch on her wrist suddenly changed to read; DAY: 21/30, MONTH: 06/12, YEAR: 2007 AD, REALITY CODE: JiX0 # 4.54 # 5k10.
391 Words
Yeah, yeah, I know I have other stories (yeah, grand total of one). I'm taking a small break off Retaken (which I'm rewriting, anyway. I don't like it, it just screams SUE no matter what I try and do.) Instead, I was also thinking on writing-well, posting, I've already been writing it-a Ben 10 x Danny Phantom crossover with Dyanna from Retaken, and I've been working on the storyline for Retaken, as well as character development.
On the Internet, no one knows you're a cat.
Ta~