Tears of the Future.
Chapter One:
Tumbling Back in Time.
Holly flopped on to the living room floor and stared silently at the ceiling, it was something she liked to do when
she was alone, she found it most relaxing. She was currently home alone with the pets and waiting for the next bust to
roll by as she had made plans to meet up with her friends in roughly an hour. With a sigh she stretched and ran her
fingers through her hair, which was shoulder length and currently dyed blonde. On the floor beside Holly was a binder
full of paper in which she was writing another story in, however she had come to a stop because she had a very bad
case of writers block. Holly was deep in thought when a sudden sharp knock at the front door made her yelp in
surprise. The knocking soon turned into a rythm that only the closest of people to Holly knew. Slowly she climbed
to her feet and she made her way down the stairs to the front door, she paused looking at the door almost as if she
expected to be able to see through the wooden door to see who was standing on the other side. The continuing knocking
brought holly back to reality and she decided to just open the door to find out who out of the people who knew the
'secret' knock had come to pay her a visit. When she opened the door she was surprised to see her friend Chris standing
there, looking as if he had just run a marathon. she just couldn't understand why chris would randomly show up at her
door, and alone. Maybe he had gotten tired of waiting for her and had come to fetch her, but then that would be impossible,
she hadn't talked to chris in at least a week. If it hadn't been over a year since the last time chris had visited holly at her
home, she wouldn't have thought much of it, however, chris never did anything without a reason.
'Chris? what brings you here?'
she opened the door a little wider as to usher him in, but he refused to move and was staring at her with an almost
blank expression, that freaked holly out, but she wouldn't let him know it.
'I have something I want to show you.'
he replied, the most serious Holly had ever heard chris sound in all the years she had known him.
'Alright...let me lock up first. should I bring anything?'
Holly asked as she pulled her boots on and grabbed her keys, taking chris' silence as a 'no', she decided not to
bring anything, as it would just slow her down. Chris was already halfway down the street when Holly managed to
catch up with him, wondering what the hurry was.
'Where are we going?'
'you'll just have to wait and see.'
Was all Chris said in turn, he then turned and continued heading in a direction Holly usually never walked. Chris was
acting funny, and through years of knowing him, when he refused to disclose information was usually a sign that something
was up, or he was plotting to do something.
For almost half an hour the two walked in silence until they came they stopped at the foot of a large fleet of stairs, holly
looked from Chris slightly confused then up the stairs. She knew this place it was where a friend of her sister's lived, why
would chris bring her here of all places.
'What are we doing here? is it Kira?'
she puzzled as she followed the still silent chris up the many stairs, she began to get worried, maybe something had
happened and chris had been around, or what if it was just a prank? Holly was worring about all the 'what if's' to even
notice that they had come to the last step and now stood on the edge of the property. no one seemed to be outside,
the large yard looked even larger, and the tree didn't make it any better. for some reason the tree they had made Holly
want to cry all the time and she didn't know why exactly-she shook her head once and looked around once more as
if expecting to see someone.
'It's just here....'
Chris tugged on holly's elbow before dashing across the property towards a small building, Holly had been there
enough times to know that inside laid a sacred well, and that kira had once got trapped in it. Holly found herself following
chris, almost as if she was being lead by a string, she wasn't entirely sure if they were allowed there and knew it was very
wrong to be sneaking around someone else's property. Seeing that no one was around to stop them anyways, Holly went
after chris as he entered the building with the well, and the instant she did she felt a cold wave wash over her. she had to
sit down, it felt almost as if 'death' had touched her soul. She walked towards the well, grasping the side of it for support,
it was so dark and cold looking, almost as if it would swollow Holly up any moment. She suddenly felt a pressence standing
right behind her and she spun around, looking both shocked and glad.
'Chris..."
"DIE!"
Before she could react, chris shoved Holly, who screamed as she feel into the seemingly endless darkness of the sacred
well. It felt like she had been falling forever, eyes closed tightly, expecting to hit the bottom and injure herself or worse. Just
then she hit the 'bottom' but it was a soft landing, she should have hurt herself for sure, this only confused Holly more-things
were not as they should be today.
'what's going on?'
she wondered as she stared up at the well's walls around her, there were small groves for her to climb out and find out
what exactly was going on, and why chris had shoved her down the well and had he ment what he had said when he had shoved
her? She tried to think of anything she could have done or said or not done or said to make chris try and hurt her like that, she
subconciously pulled herself out of the well as she was thinking of all this and laid sprawled on the ground. she was staring at
the beautiful blue sky and a slight wind blowing through the trees-Holly sat straight up and was looking around at her surroundings,
the well she had just fallen into had been inside, not in the middle of a forest.
'Toto...I don't think we're in Kamloops anymore...'
Holly said to herself standing up and brushing the dirt off of herself, feeling incredibly edgy all of a sudden, maybe she had
died and this was some sort of after life? but she knew it couldn't be, for it seemed for too familiar.
"Why do I feel like I"ve been here before? where am I? and why am I talking to myself?'
She pondered, beginning to wander away from the well, looking up at all of the ancient and mystical looking trees.
she stopped under one and placed a hand on the bark of the tree, a sudden urge to cry washed over her and she didn't
understand why.
"What!? You're still Alive!? How can this be!? You should be Dead!"
Holly spun around to see Chris climbing out of the well and coming towards her with and souless look in his eyes.
'Chris!? what did I do? why do you want me dead?'
Holly asked with a pleading look in her eyes, for a moment it looked like chris had reconsidered as he stopped and
just looked at her with a tilted head. Chris then just waved his left hand in front of him and Holly was thrown through the
air, landing in a bush, she screamed in pain as she landed oddly on her wrist and ankles.
'Chris...'
Holly gasped, pulling herself from the bushed, but collapsed to the ground, her injured ankle couldn't take the pressure of her
weight when she had stood up.
'I don't know why you didn't die....but this time I will finish you off!'
Chris growled walking towards holly again, who closed her eyes and waited for Chris to reach her to make good on his threat.
She hung her head, tears rolling down her cheeks-glistening in the sunlight as they fell from her face to the ground. She knew
it was pointless to run, he'd catch her and it would only piss him off even more then he was with her already.
'Just get it over with....'
she said just barely over a whisper, Chris grinned darkly smelling and hearing the extreme fear on her, he would enjoy this, he
laughed at once to see her give up so easily without even the smallest of struggles.
'My pleasure....'
he replied, raising his sword over his head, and bringing it down with one swift swing of his arm....