Hiya, Bella here. I know that I'm still Red Roses and I'm not stopping writing that but I am also writing this which is a much darker fic. Red Roses is sort of a light hearted funny kind of thingy but this is going to be more horror with a bit of humour and romance in it (I'm better at writing horror). Anyway, this is set before the Septimus Heap books and then through them and then after them. So it's about what the older characters were doing before they became what they were in the books. Please read and review. Enjoy.
Affliction
The shadowy shade of the forest, calling for travellers to enter the trees and become lost forever. Silhouetted against the black sky is the shadow of the full moon. The darkness accompanied only by the howling of a wolf, a sound was enough to set the heart of a young traveller racing.
"Hush" whispered a harsh voice,
"You're heart is beating so fast" said another
"What is it that frightens you so?" murmured the first voice
The traveller had frozen at the sound of the first voice that appeared to have no owner. The traveller began to back away.
"No, no don't leave us" the second voice said, coming closer now
"We just want..." the first voice paused, "to play"
The traveller was petrified, rooted to the spot with terror.
"Listen Levenia, I could almost dance to the rhythm of his heartbeat"
"Quite so. Tapity, tapity, tapity...tap"
The traveller heard sound of a knife being unsheathed. His survival instinct kicked in and he began to run. He had barely gotten a few feet when his path was blocked. In the light of the moon he could see one his tormentors faces for the first time. She was tall, with pale skin and light brown hair falling in waves down her back. She held long curved blade in her hand, this however was not what frightened the man most. It was her eyes, they were grey in colour but it was the way they narrowed when she looked at him and how the pupils were slightly vertical, almost catlike.
"Look at this Nera" said the woman named Levenia
The other woman came into the traveller's line of vision. She too was tall but slightly smaller than her companion. She had ebony curls and alabaster skin, her eyes also were slightly catlike but they were a sparkling green colour.
"W-what d-do you w-want f-f-from m-me" stammered the man
"We want to play" replied the woman named Nera
"What, pray, is your name?" asked Levenia
"G-Geoffrey" said the man, "Geoffrey Lonen"
"State of Office?"
"I own a barge and..." Geoffrey began
"You're a trader" cut in Levenia
"We don't like traders, do we" said Nera
"No. We most certainly don't" replied Levenia
"Well then, there's only one thing to do" stated Nera
With that Levenia put her knife against the man's throat, ready to strike. Nera got there first, placing her hands on the side of the man's face and twisting sharply. A resounding crack filled the air.
"Diner time" whispered Levenia
Very short opener but it's more of a prologue than a chapter. Like I said this is going to be a horror fic and after chapter 2 I upping the rating to M so that the violence can begin, I'm not writing it as M from the beginning so as to get people interested that don't normally read M rated fics. Anyway, can you guess who Marcia is? Can you guess why she changed her name? Please read and review. Thx.
Bella