This is my first story, or at least, the revised addition. The old one will remain in my archives to be future viewed by anyone who desires it. I've decided to just delete the other chapters and repost.
Prologue
The night was dark and silent. Footsteps echoed in the surrounding space of a dark-haired girl. The ice cream still smeared on her lips indicated her recent celebration. Merrily, she was humming a happy song, completely unaware of the predator stalking her in the darkness. As it neared her, it made quiet movements. The girl stopped under a streetlight and her humming subdued. She thought she felt a presence nearby. She looked around, her fear rising. To avoid being spotted, the creature flew into the air and hovered above her, just outside of the glow of the light. The streetlight flickered, and the girl looked up. She screamed after seeing the two glowing red eyes. As if her outburst was a trigger, the figure shot down. She moved out of the light and the figure came crashing to the concrete. She looked at it as it started to rise. It was twitching. The figure looked like a shadow, but it was whole. In its right hand was a huge sword. It bared no physical characteristics, only that it was a three dimensional silhouette. It stood up to a full height of seven feet. The head was covered in a spiky mess of what could have been hair.
The girl could look at it no longer, she turned around and ran for her life. The shadow, now aware of the movement, shot after her. She ran as fast as she had ever in her life, but that wasn't enough. The figure was gaining, rapidly closing the distance between them. She may have had a chance if it was running itself, but it was flying. Soon, she made it to the end of an inlet made by two houses and a fence. She was trapped.
Jumping or climbing her way out was impossible, all of the sides around her were too high. She looked back, the shadow was now at the entrance, slowly hovering its way to her. When it got into swinging distance, it raised its sword. She looked into its evil, red eyes, she saw her entire being erased from existence. A tear escaped her eye when the shadow's sword started to quickly come down upon her.
She closed her eyes, afraid of meeting her fate. The clang of metal and a spark of light made her jump. Two seconds had passed after she thought she was dead. She opened her eyes to see another shadow figure with a sword of its own, keeping her attacker's sword from coming into contact with her.
"I don't think so, why don't you fight me, instead, Shadow?" the second silhouette said, maliciously. It sounded like a boy.
Her defender pushed his sword against the attacker's and their swords parted. While the aggressor shadow was recovering from the parry, the defending shadow kicked it hard in the abdomen. It was sent sailing and eventually hit a tree, leaving the area stripped of bark. It recovered and shot toward them, holding its sword so that it could perform an upward sweep. The second figure raised his left arm. Flames shot out of his hand and the attacker was vaporized. The girl looked at her savior only fearing that he would finish her himself. Finally, he turned around to see her cowering.
He walked toward her, and she backed against the fence and started whimpering.
"Don't be afraid, you're safe now", the figure said calmly, silencing her. The clouds subsided and the moonlight illuminated them both. Her savior was just a young boy no older than herself which had to be 14. He loosened his hand and his sword vanished, leaving behind only a slight mist behind where it had once been. He just waved the mist away.
"W-who are you, and what was that thing", the girl asked, still terrified.
"That's not important", he replied. Something in the distance roared and he continued, "I have to get you out of here, more will be here soon, where do you live?"
"Just down the street, it's a blue house, with white shutters", she answered. By now her heart rate had stabilized.
"Alright, hop on my back I'll take you there", the boy said. The girl hesitantly did as she was told and climbed onto his back.
"Hold on tight", he said. She squeezed his neck as he took off into the air. Her first thought was that he was flying, but, after they descended and went back up again, she concluded that he was jumping very high.
"There it is", she said they started to come back down. He managed to land in the yard. The landing wasn't exactly graceful, nor was it too rough. She climbed back down and he escorted her to the front door.
"Here we are", he said. She started to walk to the door when she suddenly spun around and threw her arms around him.
"Thank you", she said gratefully, a tear in her eye. The boy was shocked for a second, but, returned the hug.
"How can I thank you", she queried after she finally let go.
He shook his head and said, "It's alright, your safety is all I care about." He smiled and before she could say anything else, the wind picked up madly and he jump from sight.
"I was hoping to at least get his name", she said, let down, as she stepped inside the house.
In the sky above the young warrior was floating with his arms crossed. He was staring into the faces of at least another one thousand shadow creatures.
"Well, let's get this over with", he said, summoning his sword and flying forth to attack.
For those of you who have already read the original, I'm afraid to inform you that the story's plot itself may be changed.
