INTRO

Screams. Screams that if you were listening hard enough you could hear echoing. Echoing in the tree's. Ringing for miles. Shrieks of absolute pain that seemed to be echoing from the heart of the forest itself. But the wind was also howling, and drowned out the terrible sound. And it was night. Nobody in the nearest town was awake or listening. Nobody was around to hear the screams lamenting a song of pain and suffering. Nobody yet noticed that Demelza Mason had gone missing from her bed.

Chapter 1 Fire & Ice

Seconds. Minutes. Hours. Days. Years. I lost all sense of time as I lay paralyzed by pain. Only now could I begin to think through the pain, try to understand what was happening to me. All I remembered was waking up on the forest floor, confused and petrified. A man was standing in front of me, an anxious excited mask upon his face. With a jolt, I realized that I recognized him. He was in town that day, in the same store I had been shopping in. He was incredibly good looking. He had pale, flawless white skin. He was chiseled and had a gracefulness about himself. He had curious eyes, they were brown, though I could have sworn I'd seen a hint of red once. He bumped into me and we conversed a bit.

"I'm Callum," he had finally said.

"Demi," I responded. The conversation reeled in my head as I stood wide eyed, watching him saunter towards me in the dark woods were I was very alone, and very afraid. I began to suck in breath, building a loud scream; he chuckled at that as he approached. He bared his teeth and gave me one last fleeting look before I felt his cold breath at my neck. His razor sharp teeth cut into me as if he were slicing through butter and a scream erupted from my lips. It was no longer a cry for help but a cry of agony and of terror. Fire seemed to blaze from the bite, scorch through my every vein and nerve. Tongues of flame licked up my whole body and I felt my heart racing, white hot. The screaming subsided to silence soon enough. There was no point. It didn't ease the pain and help was not coming to pull me out of hell's blaze. Even if help did arrive all they'd find was the pile of ash that must be what's left of myself. My thoughts turned to sorrow as I thought about my family. How cruel that I will just disappear, no goodbye's to my parents…to my two sisters. My oldest sister, Darien was about to have her first child, Parvati was about to graduate college. I'm only 18, only just graduated high school. They were both 4 years apart from me yet we were always so close. Something changed then. The monotonous pain receded from the tips of my fingers and toes. Though the fire raged on even hotter, I knew that thjis was it. I'm through with hell and off to heaven.

"I'm pretty sure you can hear me now that you're clearing up." My thoughts halted as I heard the other voice. I wanted to scream for help, but I knew that if I tried, I'd just shriek in pain again. I listened. "The first thing you should know is that you are not dead or dying. You're not exactly living either." I couldn't make sense of these words.

"You are entering the world of the supernatural, everything you know is about to change Demelza Mason."


Horrible? I know it starts off a bit dark but eventually it'll lighten...I think *DUN DUN DUUNNNN* and some familar faces will crop up. Should I continue or not? 5 Reviews for next??