Part One: Tides of Shadow
That summer's eve started up normal enough. The sun was about to set, families were beginning to eat dinner, and it was starting to cool down. Strange thing was, there seemed to be an unnatural wind blowing, kinda like some kind of weird storm blowing in. Anyway, two friends were standing on the doorstep. One was shorter than the other and male. For the purposes of this story his name is Rayzer, he has short blonde hair, and almost always has a hooded sweatshirt on. The other is a wily female (aren't they all?) with brown hair cut short and swept over on to her left eye, and an almost all black wardrobe. Her name for this story is Umi. Rayzer felt a chill creep up his spine.
"Hey Umi, are you sure he really wants us up here this late? I have to get home soon," said Rayzer.
"Don't know. He said it was important," said Umi.
"Well lets go."
The unsuspecting pair of Rayzer and Umi entered the house and found a door that had the sign, "N.T.B.O.U.A.C. -- Not To Opened Under Any Circumstances."
"He's in there, isn't he?" said Rayzer.
"That idiot sure likes his privacy. Let's go," said Umi.
Umi grabbed the handle and swung open the door. Inside was the mysterious other boy's attic, a strange circle covered in runic letters and candles looked like something more than it appeared was going on. In a swift bit of darkness, a fluttering of a robe, came the other boy, Kane.
"If that's you Kailey, you'd better be blind or you're done like toast," said Kane.
"You're the blind one. It's Umi and Rayzer," replied Umi, with a rather sour look on her face.
"Umi? Oh sorry guys, bein' in total darkness with only some candle light tain't good for your eyes," said Kane, "Come on in."
Despite the horrid lighting, one could make out Kane's face under the hood. Blue eyes, blonde hair, that fell lazily over his right eye, sometimes touching his mouth, which had a sly curve to it at the moment. Rayzer and Umi walked into the attic, while Kane poked his head out the door and closed it quickly.
"I invited the two of you here for this soul reason: I have finally accessed a different world," said Kane, cleaning up his lazy speech for that moment.
"Have you been sniffing the Player's Handbook again, or have you finally lost it?" said Umi.
"As a matter of fact I have. A healthy dose of insanity inspired this little project. Also some research and contacts on said Kane.
"Look K, you seem to have lost it so we're just going to let ourselves out," said Rayzer.
"No one leaves till the ritual's over."
Kane sent an arm out from underneath his cloak and if showed some kind of strange deformity. His hand had become twisted from what it normally was, his fingers were longer, clawed and his hand showed large veins pulsing with each heart beat that traveled up his arm.
"Sorry that you had to see that. Eldritch experimentin' been gettin' the best of me as of late. But don't worry, just a localized infection," he said pulling his arm back in.
"I don't know what's worse, the arm or you used the word 'infection'," said Umi, still in disbelief.
"Oh no, s'not contagious, no, not at all. No idea how it happened though."
Kane started to mumble off into his own world when something happened in the circle. A small black void opened up and stabilized in the middle of the circle.
"Told ya somethin' would happen," said Kane, proud of his work.
"Whoa. What the hell is it?" said Rayzer.
"The spells I found called the material Shadow. Supposed to have somethin' to do with dimensional transportation or somethin'," said Kane, unconsciously waving the claw around. He realized his mistake and slid it back into the cloak.
"So what's this little bit going to do?" said Rayzer, squatting down near it.
"S'what's going to get us out of this borin' town," said Kane.
"You know that there are those of us that feel like staying here," said Umi.
Kane wandered over and put the arm near the fragment of Shadow. The fragment exploded and the shard went through the room. Suddenly everything was black, all they could feel was a cool breeze and the scent of rain.
END- Part One- Tides of Shadow.
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So this is my first Urban Arcana fiction. Leave the good ol' R&R's for my fiction from the guys who brought you D&D and d20 Modern. WoTC.