Caged Wings

Prologue: How it Began

It was a nice and bright sunny day in the small city of Brantford. It was a shame that some had to spend it at work.

In a grocery store on Icomm Drive, people shopped, others served costomers. Price Choppers was what it was called. Inside, a few girls were talking on the top floor in the employee's lunchroom. One was cleaning the table of the lunchroom, while the other was putting in clean garbage bags in the garbage bins.

They both wore blue work shirts with the name Price Chopper on an orange patch on the left sides. One looks up from her work, "Hey Carrie?"

Carrie looks up from the lunch table, "Hm? Yeah Kelly?"

Kelly then said, "What time do you work till?"

Carrie replied, "Ten."

Carrie had short redish brown hair and blackish brown eyes. She had an average build, standing 5,5 in height. She wasn't pale tonned either, just had a light dark tone to her.

Kelly smiles, "Yay! You get to close with me!"

Carrie chuckles, "I guess I do."

Kelly stood 5,4 in height. Fairly skinny and had shoulder length black and orangish hair, but mostly black. Her eyes were a dark blueish, not really noticeable at a distance. She also had braces and a peach tone to her.

Kelly ties up the garbage, "RORSCHACH!"

Carrie laughs and says back, "GAARA!"

Kelly laughs too. A thing they always did. Call out their favourite character's name to one another for laughs. Carrie's was Rorschach, a comicbook vigilante with a trenchcoat and moving inkblots on his mask. Carrie adored him.

Kelly's on the other hand, was an anime character named Gaara. He was a red headed emo as people called him with a tattoo on his forehead and the power to control sand. Kelly was crazy over him. But not as much as Carrie was for Rorschach.

Carrie finishes cleaning the tables. She then said, "I'm all done."

Kelly ties up the last garbage bag in the room, "I'm not....I just need to get the last one in the other room."

Carrie then said, "Okay, I'll wait for ya."

Kelly shrugs, "Okay."

They both go to the other room. Kelly get the last bin and digs in it. She gets pricked, "Ouch."

Carrie looks, "What happened?"

Kelly shrugs, "I dunno, something pricked my wrist."

Kelly looks inside the bin. Her face lights up as she pulls out a razorblade from the bin, "So THAT'S what was cutting my wrist!"

Carrie raises an eyebrow and then starts to laugh.

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Carrie and Kelly start to carry the garbage bags down the stairs, arriving at the front end of the store, where huge windows were visable.

From the looks of it, the place was pretty busy. The girls both drop off the bags at the first till. Kelly says, "Thanks for helping."

Carrie smiles and shrugs, "No prob."

In one of the isles, a tall boy was stacking shelves. He had short, dark brown hair. He stood around 6,1 in height and thick in width. He also had yellowish green eyes.

He worked in the grocery department. Someone calls to him, "Hey, Kevan. Could you go out and do carts?"

Kevan looks, "Okay."

He then starts to head to the front end of the store. Once there, he sees Carrie and Kelly.

Carrie smiles brightly, "Nash!"

Kevan smiles and gives a wave, "Hell-lo"

Nash was a nickname Carrie gave Kevan, Stood for Narly, Acrobatic, Sickningly, Homo. He had no idea how on earth Carrie came up with all that. It was also the last name of a wrestler which happened to be named Kevin Nash.

Carrie then said, "What's up?"

Kelly runs up to him and pokes him, "Poke!"

Kevan looks at Kelly with a raised eyebrow, "Uhh....apparently poking."

Kelly laughs, "Yay for poking!"

Carrie laughs.

Suddenly, thunder was heard from outside. The three look outside and saw the clouds going black and grey. Carrie says, "Looks like it's gonna storm."

Kevan agrees, "Yeah, it does."

A costomer goes up to the window, "W-what's that?"

Carrie, Kelly, and Kevan go right up to the window and look outside. They see a strange looking man with a black aura behind him. Carrie's eyes squint a little, "What the hell is that?"

Kelly blinks, "It wasn't there before."

Kevan's eyes widened a little, "I never seen anything like it."

Eventually a crowd was forming to look outside as well. The black aura was getting bigger and bigger. The man was really pale and his eyes glew a reddish colour. Carrie then whispers to Kelly, "Is it just me, or does that guy seem like he's possessed?"

Kelly looks at Carrie and whispers back, "I think he is."

Carrie nods, "I thought so."

As the aura grew bigger, people began to panic. Carrie and Kelly looked around. The thunder got louder and then there was a HUGE flash of red lightning. There were screams and murmurs all around. The aura soon turned into a giant circle.

It then was starting to form something, something big. It soon turned into a circular black thing with silver linings in a shape of an upside down star.

Kevan finally said, "What in God's name is that?"

Carrie's and Kelly's eyes widened. They both said in unison, "It's a gate!"

Kevan looks at them, "A gate? A gate to what?"

Before anyone got to answer, the ground began to shake a little. People shouted, "Earthquake!!"

People began to run. Carrie falls, but Kevan catches her, "Woah!"

The gate began to open. Massive wind blew from it. Things began to crawl out of it as the aura was sucked out of the possessed man and he then fell and died before he hit the ground. Carrie's eyes widened as she shouted, "Run!"

Kelly began to run as did Carrie, but she looked to see Kevan still staring outside. Carrie grabs his wrist, "Come on!"

Carrie pulls Kevan until he began to run with her. The three run in the nearest isle as the people around them scrambled about. Kelly looks back at Carrie and Kevan, "Where should we go?"

Kevan then said, "Let's go to the back. Seems to be the safest."

Kelly nods, "Okay."

She leads the way towards the meat department. They turn and and go into a pair of grey doors. They all run to the very back of the stock room. The three stop and look back. They hear screaming, but then everything goes silent. Carrie, Kelly, and Kevan all step back into the end of the hallway, near the box room. They all hear heavy footsteps on the outside of the backroom.

Kelly whispers, "What's going on?"

Carrie replies back in a whisper, "I don't know, everything went quiet."

Kevan then said, "Listen."

They listen and hear the footsteps come closer. They all back into the very back of the box room. The three began to get a little scared. The air became thick and cool. The smell in the room was foul. Kelly covers her nose, "Good God! What's that smell?!"

Kevan and Carrie cover their noses too. Kevan says, "Man, that reeks!"

Carrie looks and sees a shadow of a giant figure. She whispers, "Guys?"

They look and see as well. Kevan looks around and taps Carrie, "Over here...."

He nudges toward the machine that crushed the boxes. They all hide behind it. The figure finally appears. Everyone's eyes widened. Kelly went to gasp, but Carrie covered her mouth. Kevan whispers, "What the fuck is that?!"

The figure was a hideous looking creature carrying a club with spikes. Carrie's eyes widened even more. She whispered, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that was a fucking troll! That explains the smell!"

Kevan shakes his head, "No way! That can't be!"

Kelly takes Carrie's hand from her mouth and whispers, "It is! There's no mistaking it!"

Kevan takes another look at it, "Well, whatever it is, there's no getting around it."

Carrie looks around, and then sees the lifter machine. Carrie whispers as she points to it, "How do you work that thing?"

Kevan looks, "What're you going to do?"

Carrie moves a little, "Just come on."

The troll then sniffs the air and looks towards Carrie, Kelly, and Kevan's direction. Kevan then points to a button and whispers, "Okay, thats how you turn it on and this here is what steers it."

He shows Carrie the buttons and the levers. Kelly comes to them, "What do you have in mind?"

Carrie then said, "Watch and find out."

Carrie then turns to Kevan, "Help me with this thing. Turn it on and help me push, you got it?"

Kevan nods, "Okay."

Carrie then said, "Not until I say now though."

The troll then goes closer. Kelly then said, "This is weird."

Carrie nods, "I know."

The troll came right in front of the machine. Carrie shouts, "NOW!"

Kevan turns on the switch and helps Carrie push it. They ram it right into the troll. It growls and crashes into a bunch of boxes and lands on it's bottom. Kelly shouts, "RUN!"

They all run towards the furthest door. Then they stop dead in their tracks and see a bunch of small greenish beings coming towards them, snarling. Carrie shakes her head, "You gotta be kidding me!"

Kelly shouts, "Goblins!"

They all walk towards them. The three turn and see the troll was up. Kevan steps back, "Shit! We are soo fucked!"

Carrie shakes her head, "Not yet!"

Kelly looks around, "Any bright ideas?"

Carrie shakes her head and says nervously, "N-no."

Kelly then says, "Are we fucked now?"

Carrie nods, "Y-yes!"

Carrie and Kelly both scream and each grab one of Kevan's arms. They all close their eyes. Carrie opens one eye and sees a room beside them. Carrie pushes Kelly and Kevan in, "In here!"

Carrie runs in after them. They close the door. Carrie, Kelly, and Kevan all push the door shut and held it closed with all of their might. The goblins began to bang on the door and tried to push it open. Then the troll stomped through the goblins towards the door.

Carrie and the other two hear its footsteps. Kelly shouts, "Brace yourself!"

They all close their eyes tight as the troll went to push the door open. They all go flying back as the troll punched the door open. Everything then went black......