This is purely a crack inspired story, so if you can't follow it or do not enjoy the randomness of crack stories, then just leave now. For those who do enjoy this sort of thing, then read an enjoy :P
My definition of a crack story = a story made purely by dreams.
Disclaimer; I own nothing besides my random original character. Thank you.
The image flickered for a moment before it cleared. It was unclear the location, but everything within sight was in flames. Not just flames licking at the sides or on top, but engulfed in them. In the town's main square a girl stood with a giant beast. The giant beast advanced upon the girl just as the girl stumbled backwards, trying to get away. As the two continued their little tango for a while, it gave time to really take time to look at the two of them.
The girl herself was nothing special in appearance, but not hard on the eyes either. Pale tan skin from head to toe with a few blemishes here and there, lower back length dirty blond hair that waved out at the ends, large blue eyes, and rather well endowed feminine figure. Not tough to look at, but certainly not super model material either. She had meat on her bones, giving the impression that she knows how to eat well, but not too much so. Tear streaks were in use upon her face, but as well as that, there were cuts and burn marks littering her arms and legs where the beast had attempted to take hold of her.
The beast was no looker. He looked to be around ten feet tall hunched over with dark green skin, two large black eyes, claws that size of its fingers, and teeth that looked as though they could've bit through a building without difficulty. Needless to say, if the two fought for real, there was no question who'd win.
After a few minutes, tops, of the two playing their game of cat and mouse, the beast finally got it's claws around the girl's upper body. A scream echoed over the roar of the flames as the beast dug its claws into her. Turning her large eyes towards the beast, she began to plead for her life. It wasn't unheard of for a demon such as this to grant requests.
"Please…" she begged in a whimper, trying to breath as blood gushed from all her newly formed wounds. The beast didn't seem to take this too kindly as she snarled in response. "Please, no. Stop, please" she begged more so, but the image began to flicker once again.
"Blood…order…your fault." the beast explained, though its words were difficult to understand as the sound and image flickered in and out. Coming back into focus the girl let loose another scream of pure agony, but it was cut off when the beast loosened it's hold on her a bit, a glowing symbol taking form upon the girl's upper back. A change started to take place on the girl, but the image began to fade. The sound was the last to go out, but what was heard made little sense.
"No! Stop…DON'T!" the scream echoed as the sound finally died out leaving the prince of the spirit world looking very concerned. Pressing the beeper for his little grim reaper, Koenma just continued to anxiously suck on his pacifier. A female's head popped into the slightly ajar door with a bright smile. Botan simply tipped her head at her boss as she came to stand obediently before his desk, holding her trusty oar by her side.
"Lord Koenma?" she asked, unsure what could be wrong with her boss for him to look so very troubled. Her boss didn't respond, just turned back to the screen behind him and pressing a few buttons on his remote. A gasp was heard as a freeze frame of the recording he'd received appeared on the screen, the last image received before it went out. The girl mid-change, struggling to get free as the demon seemed to only desire to wring the life from her small body. "Oh…my." she said as the situation seemed to click with her.
"It's coming." Koenma said as his sucking was the only sound left to bounce off the walls of his office. Botan was, surprisingly, shocked into silence.
-WITH THE UNKNOWN GIRL-
"Well, that's just weird." said a girl with short brown hair as she looked at her friend in confusion. Her friend pulled her fingers through her rather long blond hair with an uncertain look over her shoulder.
"Yeah…I mean, I don't remember most of it…but…" the girl trailed off with a worried look as she once again looked over her shoulder.
"But what?" the brown haired girl asked as she continued to remain seated with her friend in their class. Just an ordinary day, with another crazy dream.
"I just woke up feeling really freaked out, ya know?" she asked crossing her arms giving her a friend a you-know-what-I-mean look.
"Well it was just a dream, right?" she asked with a who-cares look. A nod from her friend made her continue. "So, don't worry about it so much." she stated with a bright smile as she turned back to the front, but didn't see her friend's expression after.
"Yeah…" the girl mumbled as she rubbed her stomach, feeling the ache of something. It seemed as though she'd been in a fight the night before, but there were no bruises or cuts to prove this. Sighing, she took notes and let the dream slip from her mind as class work took over her half asleep mind. By lunch time, the two girls had both forgotten about the crazy little dream that the blond had explained.
"Lockdown?" the brown haired girl said in disbelief as she looked at herself in the mirror for a moment. The two had just taken a small detour to the bathroom on their way back from helping a girl to the nurse's office.
"We'd better get to the closest class." the blond said in half uncaring mode as she seemed almost dead on her feet. It wasn't that she didn't care about the odd situation or how stupid it was, it was just that she couldn't wake her body up. She felt as though her entire body was shutting down from lack of food or something. Odd since lunch was less than half an hour beforehand.
"Yeah…," her friend said with a curious look in her direction. Obviously she was grasping that something was wrong with her tired looking friend. Walking out of the bathroom rather cautiously, the two stopped before the class which was closest. "Aw man! Mr. Winkle…" she whined as she stared hatefully at the door.
"Yeah, but…the lockdown is-" the blond started but was cut off by her friend.
"I know, okay? Geez." she grumbled as she knocked on the door. The teacher came over, glancing slightly through the glass at the two girls before opening the door.
"Bethany Wright and Adel Blake, what were you doing in the halls?" Mr. Winkle asked looking at the two girls as though they'd done something horrible.
"Mrs. Blake sent us to take a classmate to the nurse-" the blond girl began as if to explain the entire thing to him, but was cut off by her more awake friend.
"-And we were just on our way back when the lock down started." the brown haired girl finished with a smile towards the teacher.
"Very well, then." he said as if inviting them in were the most difficult thing in the world to do. "Take the seats in the back, but do be quiet." he instructed as he took up his post by the door once more. The girls strolled to the back of the room as the light from the hall was cut off. After a few seconds of darkness, the room was easily seen in by the small amount of light coming in through the crack of the door.
"You look dead, 'del. What's up?" Beth asked as she looked at Adel with a look of pure worry and confusion. A light smile came to Adel's face then.
"Just tired. Wake me when it's over?" she requested with a sleepy smile, but before her friend could agree she was out like a light.
-ADEL'S DREAM-
"Your fault…" came the demonic voice from her previous night's dream, but this time when she looked for it, nothing came at her. Blinking, she was surprised to find herself laying on top of the monster. Placing a hand on the thing, her eyes widened as the beast seemed to become more shriveled up. Continuing to watch, she didn't understand what was happening to the monster. Why was it vanishing? Soon, however, she had nothing to look at as she monster seemed to evaporate into the ground. Pulling up her hand to see if she were going to start doing that also, she fell backwards in surprise at the growing red claw marks coming through her skin.
"What's…going on?" she mumbled as she jumped to her feet and looked about at the perfectly fixed town. Her home town was perfectly back to normal. No flames, no destruction, just her standing in the middle of the street of the town square.
"Adel…Adel?" came the voice of her friend out of no where, but when she turned to look for her, the dream faded.
-BACK TO REALITY-
"Hmm?" she asked as she blinked awake to darkness, but she didn't connect the dots as she looked to her friend.
"The lockdown is about over. Figured you'd want a few moments to fix your hair before the lights came back on," Beth explained with a grin of mirth. Adel blinked at her tiredly as she felt her hair, but wasn't let down when she found that her hair was a complete mess. Pulling her fingers through it, it took her a couple minutes to fix it, but when it was fixed, she pulled it all up in a pony tail.
"Anything interesting happen while I was out?" Adel asked as she looked from her friend to the rest of the class, who all seemed pretty bored out of their minds.
"Not at all." Beth said as though being awake during the lockdown had been the most boring thing she'd ever done in her entire life. A giggle escaped Adel's lips as she laid her head back down on the table, but unlike what Beth said, the lockdown stayed going for the remainder of the school day.
The two only got out of school with parental supervision, as if some sort of terrorist were on the loose at their school. Once at home, Adel curled up in her bed, wondering what all the weird dreams were about. The next day being the weekend, she didn't bother cracking open her books, just passed out.
-ANOTHER DREAM- (these may or may not happen a lot)
No dreams plagued her subconscious that night, but it was clearly on her mind as she tried to understand what was going on. She dreamed of fields of flames, of glowing claw marks, and of giant monsters out to get her. These were nightmares, but they did nothing to frighten her, just went over the facts of her previous dreams.
Suddenly, in the middle of wondering what the glowing mark was, a bright light blinded her from her right. Turning towards it as it dimmed, she was rather surprised to find herself not in her usual field of flowers, but in an office. Blinking, she took the seat the man offered to her without much difficulty. Too zoned out and confused to dispute being ordered around by what appeared to be a teenager with a binky.
"Miss Adel Blake, correct?" the teen spoke with more coherence than Adel would've thought possible with that thing in his mouth. Though, she just raised an eye brow at him as she looked around the room quickly taking it all in before looking back at him.
"Yeah." she answered with a look of and-your-point-is.
"I'm sorry to have disrupted your dreams this evening, but I really needed to speak with you about the matter of what happened to your recently." he explained staring knowingly at Adel as she stared back at him in confusion.
"What happened recently…Nothing happened to me recently. I'm sorry, mister, but you got the wrong girl." she stated with a slightly disgruntled look. For some reason or another, she felt as though that by telling anyone more about her dream that it would somehow make it a reality. If it weren't one already. Somehow.
"Then, this-" he said turning around in chair to turn on the large screen behind him to the image he'd stopped it on most recently of the girl mid-change. "-doesn't look the least bit familiar?" he asked as she turned slightly in his chair to look at her. Her shocked expression told it all, but she seemed more afraid of the image than of it being known.
"I…I dreamed…" she trailed off as she continued to stare in disbelief at the creature on the screen. "I can't believe this. I just dreamed about a huge monster attacking me." she attempted to dispute the fact that she assumed of this entire conversation, but the teen seemed ambient about correcting her.
"That wasn't a dream, Miss Blake. That was a memory from the previous night. That monster, as you called it, really did attack your town after you." he explained with a sour look to his face. Pushing back his seat, he walked to her side, and he offered his hand to her. This wasn't something he usual did, but she needed to understand the truth of what was really going on with her body. "Take my hand, Miss Blake, and you'll see exactly what you're capable of." he stated with a knowing look.
"I know what I'm capable of. I'm a weak little girl with no athletic ability who enjoys reading. I think I know-" she ranted slightly, but was cut off by the man.
"If you know already, then you have nothing to lose or gain from trying." he challenged with a slight smirk on his face. Knowing he was right, Adel grunted in anger and did as she was requested. Taking his hand, she blinked at the warmth rushing her system, but what she noted next shocked and frightened her. Her wrist was glowing with those red claw marks under skin once more. Jerking back, she turned wide eyes towards the man, now slightly slumped, before her.
"What happened just now?" she asked softly as she stared at the man before her, who by then looked as though he were about to pass out. He held up his hand for her to wait a moment as he made his way back to his seat, where he collapsed into it.
"That, Miss Blake, was your body taking energy from me, along with anything else it found useful." he explained as he seemed to be rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Energy? Like what? Your blood or something?" she asked, obviously trying to connect the situation to something that she could grasp easier than something that made no sense.
"Not quite, but if your body lost too much blood then, yes, it would steal blood also. In your dream, you laid your hand on the monster, and within an hour he was completely wiped out. Correct?" he asked with a tired look.
"Well, yeah, but I figured he was just vanishing because that's what monsters do when they die." she explained waving her arms in disbelief.
"Quite wrong. That monster was a demon, a B-class demon in power. This demon your power completely killed in less than an hour was strong enough to destroy your entire town in less than five minutes." he explained as he seemed to debate something, turning back to the screen in contemplation.
"Why didn't it kill me before then?" she asked, but was kind of unnerved when the guy turned a look of complete confusion on her. "Well, I mean, I wasn't doing any harm to it before, right? It could've just cut my little head off…" she trailed off as she continued to stare at the guy in complete confusion.
"Right! Of course! Why didn't I think of that? He was trying to awaken it from inside you." he stated as he pressed a button on his desk, but within a second, Adel jumped and hid as another monster walked right in.
"Jorge, get the file on demons with the ability to steal energy, blood, anything just through touch." the teen ordered as he sat comfortably in his chair.
"Yes, Lord Koenma." the monster stated as he turned to leave, and when he was the door he turned, as if sensing eyes on him, but looked right past Adel as he continued on his way. It was as though he didn't see her at all.
"Miss Blake, no one can see you here, save myself. I'm speaking to your dream self, after all." he explained with a slight smile, but did not more than climb back out of his chair and pace the room. "I'm going to have to contact you again in the near future, but until then, just go about things as if none of this has happened. No need to freak anyone out." he explained with a smile. Before Adel could even open her mouth, she was sitting up in her bed holding her alarm clock and turning it off.
"Well…that was….different." she stated as she got out of bed with a stretch, feeling more refreshed than she'd felt in a long time. Walking into her bathroom, she took a long shower trying to understand what her dream had meant. Was she really some sort of demon like monster? Once dressed, she'd thoroughly talked herself out of believing such a hair brained idea as her being something other than a perfectly, weak human.
"Mrrow." a noise brought her attention from her just finished make-up, and smiled softly at her sleepy cat laying at the foot of her bed. Walking over, Adel ran her hand over her cat, scratching his neck for a second before turning to walk out with a nod.
"Just a dream." she said with a smile as she walked out her door for breakfast, but she left too soon to see what damage she'd caused. Her cat gave a soft, whimper before her heart stopped beating and she laid down dead in mid-breath.
Well, I'm gonna cut this chapter off here ;) sorry for the cliff hanger, but finals are calling for me. Just enjoy! Read and review, please.