Full description: "B 'e na h-uile dhi."
Long ago, this world began with a flood of light, a powerful force that opened thousands upon thousands of cracks in the surface of the world and then flooded through them, creating even more worlds. Not many worlds are easy to reach from one another, but there is one such world that exists as the opposite side of the coin to another. They call it . . . Wonderland.
She never meant to end up here, but somehow, she fell through a crack in the world and ended up in another. But this new world, she's heard of it before.
Now, dubbed Elysia Knight, she discovers she can hear the whispered thoughts of plants and bugs, and she is not the only one in her family to be able to do such a feat.
As the older cousin of Alyssa Gardner, she takes it upon herself to save Alyssa from what the fate she has read in the Splintered series.
But . . . it was never Alyssa's fate.
So I came up with this idea a while ago, and I hope that you enjoy it.
Warning(s): This is an OC-centric, AU fanfiction, so a lot of things will be different from the books. I really enjoyed the books, but that does not make them perfect - and there were definitely parts of the series that I disagreed with, or disliked, and I decided to change them in this fanfiction. I hope you don't mind, but if you do, I'd recommend you stop reading. Also, this is Morpheus/OC, so if you don't want to see him paired with anyone but Alyssa, this is not the fanfiction for you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Splintered; the book series belongs to A.G. Howard, and as do the characters. I do not own the song beginning and ending the chapter, either. I only own Elysia Knight and her story arcs and such. Anything different from the book, I own unless specifically stated otherwise.
Song of the chapter: "My Immortal" by Evanescence
Persephone
Daughter of the Night
Prologue
My Immortal
"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone."
In the beginning, I didn't - couldn't - believe this had really, truly happened, especially to me.
This is the kind of stuff that happens in fanfictions, not real life, stupid, I kept telling myself. And it only happens to interesting, beautiful girls who every guy falls in love with. Even if it happened in real life, it wouldn't to me. I'm just dreaming, and I'll wake up soon enough.
But then I started hearing the voices, the thoughts, started noticing the things in my new life that were a bit . . . off, and my disbelief and denial shattered, leaving my world fractured, splintered and off-tilt. That was when things started to get . . . weird, and I worried about my survival in this life, this world with the realization of the truth.
Because of that worry, I often concentrated mostly on myself, forgetting about my dear baby cousin in my need to plan things out, but all that changed when she came to me, sobbing and begging me to help her. She was almost hysterical, and it took me a great deal of time to calm her down enough to understand her and ask her what was wrong, why she needed my help.
Now, I do not believe that I am an especially selfish person (it is, of course, human nature to be somewhat selfish and, overall, concerned about one's own well-being, but I do not believe I am much more selfish than your average human being); I won't ever turn away someone who truly needs my help, or just help in general – no matter what is going on in my own personal life; I've always been that way, and I take pride in my ability to care and never turn someone away (but little did I know that it'd get me in trouble later on). But, anyway, my dear little baby cousin, she needed me more than anything else in the entire world; to be needed, wanted, required, necessary, it's the most incredible feeling in the world. It was something new to me, unfamiliar, but I found that I liked it.
And, perhaps, it was selfish of me, but after she came to me for help, I decided then that I would always protect her – I would keep her safe. I would protect her from anything and everything – even her own destiny.
I would become the Queen of that world if it meant that she would be safe, never have to face the destiny written on to the paper that led me into this new world.
But little did I know . . . it was never her destiny.
"When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
Ah, me... ah, me... ah..."
And that's the beginning of the story! I hope you enjoyed it!
I felt that "My Immortal" suited the Prologue rather well; I hope you agree with me and don't find that the messages don't coincide at all.
I really hope you guys enjoy Elysia's character, because so far, she's been kind of a b*tch to write; she's just so complicated and has so many depths to her that it gets kind of difficult to convey in writing. I've had a lot of practice with difficult characters - multi-layered and complicated ones, too - but Elysia is just another level to me. I do really hope that you enjoy her character, because if not I'm probably going to go off, wallow in my misery, and maybe shed a few tears (jk, jk).
But feel free to let me know what you think of the story in the comments, as well as answer the Question of the Chapter. I enjoy reading all of the comments that I may or may not receive.
Question of the Chapter: If you were in Alyssa's shoes, what would you have done concerning Wonderland and Morpheus?
Ciao!