Title: 20 Different Ways To Rise With The Music
Character(s): All
Rating: K+
Genre: Varied; All
Summary: This is a series of oneshots concerning characters of the 39 Clues, written in stanza form, with 4 lines per stanza, as a way of telling each story. Characters will be randomly picked and are not in any specific order. Title is not definitive; I would welcome suggestions, as long as the title begins with "20 Different Ways…"
As of the moment, I am planning on having 20 Chapters, but this may or may not change according to reader feedback. And if you can guess which character corresponds to the chapter, I will review your story.
Multi-Chapter.
Chapter: 1/20
~ The First Movement: Broken Chords ~
The instrument screams
its first lament:
Of diamond tears
and crystalline fears.
His mind is torn -
A wreck, a mess,
Left devastated
by the instrument's lament.
How to pick up the pieces
Of a long gone song
Of a missing string
Of a voice that used to sing?
The music soars
A shining star
That falls and breaks
Crashing down to the earth.
He hates this, he does,
for there is nothing left
But a discordant harmony
and the pieces he can see.
No beauty stays
but awful music,
His poor, poor child –
An art now lost.
It is the final,
imperfect note
That stands still in air
vanishes without a care.
Still it lingers,
this caged feeling
the music will
forever trap him with.
Now he takes
silver that glints
Round his neck
and lays it down.
Silver thrown away –
a last goodbye
Then he turns
to leave it all behind.