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Glowing Embers & Blackened Ashes

Chapter 1 The beginning

A rough gasping breath can be heard under the soft blue glow of the oversized orb hanging in the inky black sky. A dark extended shadow stretches far out beneath her sprinting feet in the over grown grassy field. Her chest heaves to catch a breath, swinging her panicked head to whirl behind her with terror filled eyes.

Her hand brushes away the forming beads of sweat dotting her forehead. Several fallen strands of glossy ginger hair dangle over her peering golden eyes. Her beautiful smudged face softens when she catches my large worried eyes looking up into hers. Leaning her head down, she lightly kissing my forehead, pulling away to share a gentle reassuring smile.

Until hordes of galloping horses can be heard off in the far off distance. Her golden eyes fill with panic, franticly darting towards the ever-increasing rumble of the oncoming hooves trampling through the wind swept fields. Her head quickly turns to her side, before taking off into the tall thick grasses. My tiny hands cling tightly around the scared woman's neck. Her arm lashes out, roughly swatting away the razor like blades of grass slicing into her delicate skin. My closely held body jostles around as the women's feet stumble over the thick pushed down grass. Eerie dark clouds sweep the brightly lit circle overhead, bathing the ground below in ominous darkness.

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A sudden explosion rips through the air, erupting into a raging plume of flames bursting into the atmosphere. The golden field behind us roars to life with crackling waves of wispy grasses catching a blaze. The woman's terrified golden eyes peer in the vast darkness just as another explosion strikes to the side of us. The ginger headed woman frantically searches for an escape from the approaching raging flames.

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She quickly checks to her side, giving a small gentle smile, before hastily thrashing through the field as fast as her struggling feet could carry us .Turning my head to see a thick wooded area slowly rise up from the golden field's horizon. The running woman's breathing comes out in quick exhausted pants as the forest is coming into view. She glances down towards me, cracking a wide relieved smile .A single foot passes the lengthy grass, and onto the solid brown soil with the wooded area just mere feet ahead of us.

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That's when a streak of white lightning slices through the darkness causing the relieved woman's face to freeze in pure shock. The woman suddenly collapses to the ground, pinning my body to the hard dusty soil beneath me. My eyes squeeze tight from a sharp pain striking my head. Hearing loud cracking pops causes my dazed golden eyes to begin to gradually open, seeing flicks of orange and yellow flames dangerously dance around me. My hand slowly extends up to delicately explore my throbbing head, finding a sticky bright liquid oozing from it.

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An injured man suddenly emerges from the shadows, out of the woods. "No, Yuzuha!" The distraught man cries out reaching a shaky blood stained hand out for the failing ginger woman.

The woman slowly shifts her head to give me a small gentle smile with crimson stained lips under tearful pained golden eyes. Prying my clinching fingers from around her neck, turning away, roughly coughing with her last few weak gasps of air. "No, don't bother with me. " She struggles with her weakened body to fall into the dirt, and off of me.

The man urgently reaches out with a single bleeding hand to my tiny out stretched fingers. With his other injured hand he reaches to the other side of the wounded woman. Suddenly the thunderous sounds of impending galloping horses come rapidly approaching our location.

"Please…. reach for me!" The panicked man desperately claws into the dusty soil, stretching out his bloody fingers to attempt to feverishly grasp hold of something, pulling me closer to him with his other hand. A small hand slips out from the other side of the still women. Slapping a tiny hand down on our frantically clasping hands, giving out a small tender squeeze when a sudden blinding glow emerges from it, before everything flashes….

White…..and then to nothing…

My body abruptly jolts awake as my distressed golden eyes flutter open. My panicked chest heaves out, catching my lost breath, and my hazed surroundings begin to clear around me. Finding my startled head resting against my folded arms, next to my latest drawing. Quickly sitting upright, lifting my head to rest against my curled fingers, and allowing my bored golden eyes to cast out into the congested cafeteria. My lips turned down at the numerous brightly colored tables dotted across the vast room. Various groups of students claiming their tables, vainly trying to out shine their neighbors, but still remain hidden in the crowd of following sheep.

Leave…. You are in danger….

Kaoru, you must leave…..now…..

Hearing the silent warning linger into my head my body leaps from my chair causing it to crash to the floor…. Racing through the steel double doors to find my brother.

End of chapter 1

Surprise! This a snippet of the story that been haunting me for a while now, even, before "Back in our World." So I decided to unleash the story out on the computer, before it threw me into another writers block occurrence. So let me know what you think. I have a few stories wrapping up, most likely this one will be taking one of their places.

Thanks for taking a peek ;)Alimackatjac

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