Thoughts
"Telepathic communications"
Spell words
Flash backs
[Author's notes]
Sarah carefully looked at her reflection. Her magenta tipped brown hair fell neatly to her shoulders. The light pink tank top she wore stood out in contrast to her dark jeans.
Well I hope he asks me today. She thought, her brown eyes glazing over as she imagined them at homecoming. He's so perfect. She smiled dreamily, absent mindedly playing with her hair. Brandon Johnson, she mused, a perfectly plain yet exotic name. Perfect black hair, perfect dark eyes, perfect everything.
She paused in her thoughts when she noticed a shadowy shape in her mirror. She spun around her fist out stretched. Her assailant dodged and grabbed her arm, stopping its movement. "Are you trying to kill me?"
"Eclipse!," Sarah exclaimed, recognizing her friend.
Eclipse laughed and let go of her arm, stepping back. In her black tank top and dark jeans she resembled a fashionable ninja. "You were thinking about lover-boy again weren't you?"
Sarah started to deny it, but couldn't. Eclipse's strange blue-green eyes were hypnotic. They were always changing colors and intensity from their normal subtle blue to gray to green. When she looked you in the eyes it was like she could read your mind. "Yes." Sarah finally answered, trying not to look too guilty.
You know that can't be healthy for you." Eclipse comment casually leaning against the wall. Her black hair which was in a pony-tail as usual, seemed tinted with blue highlights in the light from lamp. "I don't know why you or any other girl sees in him. He's so… loverboy-ish. Nothing to be desired."
"Don't call him that."
"What undesirable?"
"Well that too." Sarah scowled at her, pulling on a black zip up hoodie. She watched as Eclipse did a hand stand.
"What ever you say Sakura."
"Who am I today?" Sarah asked, referring to her friends strange habit of nicknaming people on a daily bases.
"Sakura, from Naruto. And before you ask why it's because you're breaking hearts over one guy and…" She grinned evilly at her friend, returning to standing on her feet. "Well that and you've got pink hair."
Sarah chased her out of the room, Eclipse laughing evilly.
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"Has anyone asked you yet?" Sarah asked Eclipse as they ate their breakfast.
"Nope." Eclipse answered, dismissively taking an enthusiastic bite of her toast.
"Do you know why?" Sarah pressed her, daintily eating her cereal.
"Not really." Eclipse said, "I don't really care anyways so." She took anther bite of her toast. "Dish is good." She commented her mouth full.
"Well you have to have some sort of idea." Sarah pressed again as her curiosity raged. "And manners please."
"Maybe I scare them to much." Eclipse answered again, finishing her toast and starting on her orange juice.
"How?"
"Well, I am a witch remember?" Eclipse smiled evilly again. It had been a joke at school that since she worked at the Magyck Remedy Emporium she dapped in the dark arts. Of course every one knew that it was really a place that healed people and sold herbs and 'magic' charms, but people also were wary of Eclipse for other reasons. First of all her black hair and eyes were unusual here in town (as well as in most places.) Also she had the strange ability to walk silently, or so it seemed. She was always using it to sneak up behind people and scare them.
"Come on. You know no one actually believes in dumb stuff like that." Sarah said, missing the dark look that crossed Eclipse face. "I mean withes and ghosts? Yeah right." Sarah paused and collected her thoughts. "Seriously have you been dodging the ones that want to ask you?"
"Of course not," Eclipse answered, "I've been leaving in the middle of their sentence."
"Eclipse, that's mean." Sarah chastised her laughing. She got up and put her dishes in the sink. Eclipse smiled in return, also putting her dishes in the sink. Together they lapsed into a comfortable silence, Sarah drying the dishes Eclipse washed.
As they finished the doorbell rang. Eclipse left to go answer it as Sarah finished drying the last few dishes. When Eclipse returned she was followed by a boy.
"Hey Cody," Sarah said smiling.
Cody smiled back and nodded, his brown shaggy hair falling over his eyes. He shook his head to move it. "You're hopefully happy." He commented, "May I ask why?"
Sarah didn't even try to deny it. While Cody didn't have the same ability to guess what was on your mind Eclipse he could still see how you felt. Cody was always able to tell what someone was feeling just by looking at there aura.
"He can see a person's aura as plain as day." Eclipse had tried to explain, "Certain colors mean certain things and he's able to determine someone's mood from the colors."
"Hey Sakura you home?" Eclipse was waving her hand in front of Sarah's face.
"What?" She snapped a little harsher than she meant to.
"Wolf-boy here wanted to know why." Eclipse reminded her, not worried or fazed by her attitude.
"Wolf-boy?" Cody asked, smiling his crooked smile that seemed to saw he was part of the world while flipping it off at the same time.
"From the werewolf essay you did. She thought you were right about what they're really like."
"Oh…you think I'm right?" He asked turning to her.
"Of course I do." She paused for a second and broke out into the evil smile she produced so well. "I would know anyways since I am one."
They all laughed. "So Sarah, what's up?" Cody asked once they finished.
"I was wondering." She blushed, "If Brandon has a date yet."
"Lover-boy again?" Eclipse rolled her eyes. Can't you just-"
Eclipse my dad would like to see you at noon." Cody cut her off, "Anyways you asked me to keep an eye out for some strange people right?" Eclipse nodded to confirm this. "Well two came in this morning. I think my dad called them in." Cody's Dad was the mayor of Jackville.
"Go on." She prompted, her eyes flashing with excitement.
"Well I'm not sure exactly how you'll tell what's strange about them but it is odd."
"How so?" Sarah asked, catching Eclipse's eyes as she bounced up and down. "Hurry before she snaps."
Cody laughed before he answered her. "Well it's hard to explain…" Suddenly he caught sight of the clock which read 11:32. "We've gotta go. I'll tell you when we get there.
"Let's go." Eclipse said racing towards the stars. Catching Sarah's confused look she said, "I've been looking for certain people a while now, and I need my sweatshirt."
Sarah nodded even though Eclipse had already disappeared up the stairs.
"No." Cody suddenly spoke up, scaring her a bit. She gave him a puzzled look. "No, Brandon hasn't asked anybody yet. Although there is a rumor he will later tonight."
Sarah smiled as Eclipse came down now sporting a black hoodie. Swiftly the trio left, none of them noticing a shadowy figure that disappeared down a dark alley as they passed.
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"The Winchesters." The mayor mused as Sam and Dean walked through the door.
"Yes sir." Sam answered respectively. Both he and Dean were wearing blue jeans and a nice shirt to accompany it. His was a light blue while Dean's was an off olive green. Over his shirt Dean still had his jacket on which concealed the gun he had grabbed from the trunk of the Impala. "I'm Sam, and this is Dean."
Dean nodded in acknowledgement as he continued to subtly search for threats and escape routes in the room.
"Well Bobby hopefully wasn't exaggerating about you guys." He gave them a stern look. "He said you guys have dealt with a lot of strange stuff, even stranger than normal for a hunter. Is this correct?"
"Yes," answered Dean, sitting down next to Sam.
"Good. Now before we began would either of you like a drink?"
Dean nodded and asked for a beer. Sam just asked for water.
"Now I hope Bobby told you what he did for me and my wife a while back, right?"
"Not the full story. He just told us it was a poltergeist." Sam answered him, shifting slightly in his seat.
"Yeah it was. It lived in our old house near the old Kuromitsukai place." The Mayor frowned in disappointment at the memory of losing his house.
"The what?" Sam interrupted him.
"An old family's estate that sits about a mile out of town. Most of the family was tragically murdered there about twenty years ago. Only the daughter survived. She was around four or five at the time."
Sam and Dean took this with silence which made the mayor nervous at first then he remembered exactly what they did and dismissed the feeling. "Well as I was saying my wife and I lived in that house for a bout a year until things got really bad. Our furniture was moved around when we left the room, the lights would flicker all the time, and the temperature dropped. Then the thing attacked us one night. Bobby showed up the next day and spent two days researching and trying to figure out what was wrong. Finally he told us that to fix this we had to burn the house. So we did. He told me that there was a body buried in the basement cement and that was why we had to fix it."
"So has anything strange happened beside the deaths?" Sam asked getting down to business as the mayor took a drink form the glass on his desk.
"Not really, although…" The mayor trailed off and looked quickly away.
"What?" Dean asked, noticing the shifty atmosphere that came with the answer.
"Well just this past month, month in a half maybe, Eclipse Kuromitsukai showed up again."
"The girl who survived?" Sam took the questions over again.
"No actually it's her daughter who showed up." He let his sentence trail off into an uncomfortable silence.
"Why?" Dean asked, shifting to a more comfortable position.
"Well her mom called me and told me she's been having trouble since they moved to a big city. Max told me she can't switch her job just yet and wanted Eclipse to be happier. So she sent her here to live with an old family friend. Although she moved in with a friend from school now."
"So this happened around the same time that the attacks got worse?" Sam pointed out, his face thoughtful.
"Yeah I guess they have gotten worse this past month. Bobby said it sounded like vampires." He quickly added, making him seem like he wanted to change the subject.
Sam opened his mouth to answer but was interrupted by the door opening. Three teenager trooped in, two girls and a boy.
`One of the girls had blonde hair with pink tips. The other girl was tall with black hair which was tied back in a ponytail. Behind them stood a boy with shaggy brown hair, who was staring at him curiously.
"Sorry for the intrusion sir." The black haired girl spoke up, "We've got your drinks." She held up a water bottle to prove her point.
"Why didn't Carry bring them in?" The mayor asked, referring to his secretry.
"She was busy and asked if I woud Carry them in." The boy spoke up. "Sorry Dad."
"And she sent all three of you?" He raised an eyebrow questioningly.
"No. I was curious as to who you were talking to so I force Sarah and Cody here to come so I wouldn't get in trouble on my own." The black haired girl spoke up, giving the maayor a look.
"We're sorry for the intrusion." THe girl Sarah spoke up, nervously looking between everyone.
"The beers for him." Sam said pointing to to Dean.
"THen that must mean this is for you." The black haired girl said. As she handed him the bottle thier fingers brushed aending a shock wave up Sam's are. Breifly a look of shock crossed her face berore she narrowed her eyes in an anger so intense it mad Sam dizzy. He tried to look away but her gaze held him still.
"Thank you kids." THe mayor spoke up, causing the black haired girl to turn away.
THe trio started to leave, Saraah in the lead. The black haired girl brought up the rear. She paused right before she left, glancing back at Sam. For a moment black flames seemed to dance along her skin. Before Sam could check if he really saw them she had left and closed the door behind her.
"So, about the victim." Dean spoke up, taking a drink of his beer. Sam took a tenative sip of his water, his mind whirling.
"Well..ah..?" THe mayor seemed flustered agian. For a moment he seemed unsure of what to do before he picked up the phone and asked Carry to send her in. Once he had finished he turned to Sam and Dean. "None of this leaves this room, understand?"
The boys nodded, then waited for a few minitues in the tense silence. Suddenly the door opened and in walked the black haired girl.
"This is Eclipse Kuromitsukai." THe mayor siadm, neverously pulling at the neck of his shirt.